Rain

Chapter 1 – Blood and Home

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"Alright everyone, it's lunch…time" Ton-chan never ever got to finish that sentence before everyone was gone.

"Ikki-kuuuuuuuuun, let's eat lunch together!!" Akito said as he hung onto Ikki's arm.

"Ugh, get away from me you fag!!!" Ikki screamed as he tried to shake him off his arm.

Everyone had gone up to the roof to eat like usual. Ikki had asked Kazu to get his lunch for him and ended up being stuck with Akito on the way to the roof, serves him right the lazy bastard.

"Nooooo, I wanna eat with Ikki-kun!!" Akito whined as he hung on tight to his arm, while being swung around the place like a rag doll.

"GET OFF!!!"

"Hey Ringo, shouldn't you go free your husband?" Emily said as she, Ringo and Nakayama walked up to the two of them.

"He is not my husband!!!!!" Ringo screamed, but her facial expression didn't quite match her words.

"Right." The two girls said at the same time, giggling the whole time as they took their seats on the floor and inspected each others bento.

Ringo huffed and puffed the whole way as she walked towards Ikki and Akito. She was 'secretly' very angry about this, or so she thought, the truth was that anybody could tell that she was pissed off.

Ringo sneaked up behind Akito and swiftly switched his eye-patch. Apparently, the two of them hadn't noticed she was there until she did that.

"Ah Ringo!!!' Ikki squealed as he moved to dive on her and 'reward' her for saving him but she just side stepped him and kicked him in the face when he attempted to look up her skirt while he was on the floor "worshipping her".

Agito shook his head as he looked at the bloody mess that was Ikki's face and muttered something along the lines of, "Fucking, stupid crow." And walked away to lean against the rail of the roof.

While everyone else ate their lunch and did their foolishness Agito stood by the railing and looked out at the city below him.

Agito, shouldn't we eat?

We had a big enough breakfast before we got here, besides you just wanna piss off the fucking crow.

That may be true but…still.

If we're good then Rika-nee should give us dinner, and if Ikki doesn't fuck up.

True, but maybe I should handle that huh?

Be my guest, but I think I'd rather stay for the rest for the school day.

Why? That's not like you…

I dunno, I just get the feeling that something's going to happen…

Ok…

Their little conversation ended with that as Agito continued to look out at the city, mapping out the different areas he could use to train with his AT and what not.

It was then, at the point that he heard someone scream. He whipped his head around just in time to see that some girl had jumped off the roof a couple metres away from him. It was Nakayama that screamed when she saw her.

Agito quickly looked down at the ground below them and could see the bloody mess she had become.

Suicide…

But why would she do that?! For what reason??

Who knows, it's not our business anyway, just forget about it.

Akito pouted inside his mind as Agito began to walk over to the group to hear what they were saying, they had moved to the spot where the girl had jumped.

As he reached them, he could only just barely hear them talking about calling a teacher or the cops. Kazu already had out his phone when suddenly another person burst unto the roof.

The girl had long Auburn coloured, curly hair that reached her knees and was in a low pony tail. She had green eyes and looked to be about Agito's height and probably the same age, about fourteen.

She ran over to the group and violently shoved them out of her way earning her many curses and insults.

But everyone went quiet when they watched the girl suddenly collapse to her knees.

"Hey, uhm, are you ok?" Emily asked stooping down beside her so that they were eye level.

"I AM I OK?? DO I LOOK LIKE I'M FUCKING OK TO YOU!!!!!" the girl screamed in her face, causing Emily to fall backwards unto her butt from shock.

The girl slowly got up waving Kazu's hand away as he offered it for help. The girl wiped her eyes and then suddenly turned a heated glare to the group.

"So you guys were here when she jumped?" She asked, in a surprisingly calm voice.

The group nodded, silenced by her deadly aura.

She seemed to tremble a little bit before exploding, "SO WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU STOP HER?!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!"

"HEY!!! Stop screaming and calm down, shit!!!" Agito was the only one brave enough to talk back to her, all the others were cowering in a corner of the roof.

"CALM DOWN?! CALM DOWN!!! YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN AFTER I JUST SAW MY SISTERS DEAD BODY AND AFTER I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MY PARENTS ARE DEAD, AND THAT THE ONLY LIVING RELATIVE I HAD LEFT HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DEAD FOR FOUR YEARS NOW!!!" the girls voice seemed to just shrivel up as she didn't seem to be able to scream anymore and just settled for cry her eyes out. She once again slid to the floor and buried her face in her hands as she continued to cry.

Agito, switch with me

What why?!

Just do it!

Alright, alright…

Agito switched the eye-patch and let Akito take over.

Akito knelt down beside her and said, "Hey, hey everything's going to ok alright. Maybe we should get something to drink; your throat must be dry. Then we can take you to the office, they're probably looking for you."

The girl looked up through her long bangs and nodded lightly, slightly confused as to why he was being so kind all of a sudden but she couldn't focus on that now.

Akito helped her stand and hurriedly grabbed a bottle of water form where they were supposed to be sitting for lunch.

"Here…" Akito handed her a bottle of water and watched as she gulped it down very quickly. "Feel a little better?"

The girl nodded wordlessly then said, "It's ok, I can take myself to the office; you don't have to go with me."

"But in times like these, you need friends don't you? It must be hard for you right, you'll need someone to talk to." Yayoi said with a smile as they followed her to the door of the roof.

"That's right, when I was smaller, and I was having problems with work or anything of the sort, I'd always look to my sisters for help. You should always have someone that you can go and talk to." Ringo pitched in as she walked up to her side.

"We could be those people for you!" Akito jumped up to her side and grinned at her with the most adorable look on his face.

The girl had long since stopped walking and simply stared at them as if they were crazy. "You're all nuts…"

They were about a few feet away from the door to the roof when it opened and Ton-chan came into view. She looked like a scared little rabbit as the wind blew up her frilly skirt and Onigiri dove to the ground to get a peek while Kazu, Buccha and Ikki turned their heads sharply, as if instinct alone told them to look.

"Aaaahh! No!!" Ton-chan tried in vain to keep her skirt down and the girl watch in amazement at how ridiculous the scene was. Soon she couldn't take it any more; this "white pig" was really getting on her nerves. She brought her leg up to her side and drove it straight into his stomach, cracking the floor under him.

The look on his face was precious and she couldn't hold back a sadistic smile as she watched him squirm around on the floor like a strange, deformed worm.

Ton-chan praised her and thanked her for at least ten minutes before actually getting to the point, giving her reason to believe it wasn't worth saving her. Meanwhile the wind blew about her skirt and the boys simply sat and watched for the whole ten minutes, really what was the oint in saving her then.

"Will you, get to the point please, sensei?" Ringo said rubbing her temples as she watched the chaos around her. "Why did you come up her in the first place?"

"Oh, that's right, I was sent to look for you Taishou-san. Ano…where is Taishou-san's twin?" Ton-chan asked with an innocent look on her face.

The girl stared at the floor for a moment as the entire group went quiet. There was a lot of tension in the air, and it made the hairs on the back of Ton-chan's neck stand up. "She jumped…" The girl's words were almost inaudible, but Ton-chan could only just make it out, of course that doesn't mean she understood it.

"She jumped? But where is she now, we need to talk to her. Where did she jumped to?" Ton-chan looked innocently around the group hoping for an answer.

The girl didn't seem phased by her ignorance, and simply pointed to the side of the roof that her sister had jumped from and said, "She's over there."

"Oh, well then I'll go call her!" Ton-chan happily skipped over to the other side of the roof, screaming loudly as the wind blew up her skirt, again, which made the girls sweat drop and the guys, well… "Maybe Ton-chan should get a skirt that doesn't flare so easily…" Ringo said darkly as the other girls groaned their agreement.

They all waited patiently as they watched Ton-chan look around for Hikaru. For a long time they waited and wondered just how clueless she was, but then she screamed and they all sweat dropped when she began to panic and screamed random things about rape and ran across the roof, probably heading to the front office.

"Come on, we'd better head back down there." Ringo said as she and the girls headed to the roof after the guys who had gone chasing after Ton-chan's skirt, well, all except Akito, he was just copying everything Ikki did.

The girl followed them wordlessly, taking a moment to glance back at the other end of the roof and glanced away again quickly, fighting the tears she felt were coming.

"Ah Taishou-san, we were afraid that you'd jumped as well!! Are you alright?" A teacher said as he ran up towards the group. He was the same one that was talking to them earlier.

"I'll be alright." She held her head down and her voice was low.

"Alright, I'm just going to straighten some things out, and then I'll come to talk to you ok." He seemed to be in a hurry as he dashed back into the staff room.

The group stood in silence for a long while. No one seemed to have a clue as to what to say to the poor girl. Akito was the first to break the silence. "So, uhm…what's you're name?"

"You already know my name don't you? You've heard it a thousand times today…" She seemed more pissed rather than sad and gloomy, Maybe she's one of those people that don't like much attention drawn to themselves…what do you think Agito?

I couldn't care less…

You're so mean!

It's wonderful isn't it?"

"But we don't know you're full name." Yayoi chipped in with a small smile as she leaned in to get a good look at the girl's half pissed, half sad face.

She seemed to hesitate for a moment before taking a deep breathe and saying, "I'm Taishou Kaoru, it's nice to meet you." She put on a smile for them, thinking that a little optimism couldn't hurt.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Kaoru, I'm…" Yayoi how ever was cut off when Ikki appeared between Akito and her, dramatically introducing himself.

"I am the GENIUS BABY FACE, MINANI ITSUKI!!!" Everyone seemed to have been ignoring him as her ranted and raved about hmself.

"AS, I was saying…" Yayoi had a vein pulsing in her neck as she spoke, obviously trying to hold back the urge to hurt Ikki. "My name is Nakayama Yayoi."

"And I'm Emily!!"

"Kazu here!"

"Onigiri, and as I price for giving you my name, I shall take my prize of…" He didn't even get to finish that sentence as Kaoru landed her fist onto the back of his head, knocking him out cold.

"I'm Akito!!!" All sparkles and flowers as usual, trying his best to stay attached to Ikki's arm.

"Booka…" Was what it sounded like as Buccha tried to talk around the noodles he was slurping down, bowl by bowl.

Kaoru giggled slightly at this. She was slightly surprised that she could manage a true smile at a time like this. She would have to thank them later.

The group continued to converse and Kaoru managed to get out a few more laughs and was smiling most of the time. The truth was that, she was normally never a gloomy person; she was either vexed or happy.

Her mood diminished, however, when the same teacher that she was speaking to earlier with her sister came to the door way and called her inside.

The group stood there waiting for her as they continued to converse, during which time Akito had switched back to Agito.

The group waited about ten minutes, and by that time, news spread through out the school and chaos ensued. The focus point of the chaos was near the back of the school, where paramedics and police officers had gathered at the scene. Students had run out of their class rooms to try and get a look.

Kaoru came storming out of the staff room suddenly, stopping a few feet away from them. She seemed to be in deep thought as she slowly turned toward them.

She sighed and walked back toward the front office and stood beside the door frame. She seemed really vexed and no one knew what to say.

"Listen, to me Child!! You expect to be able to find a place to stay on your own on such short notice, you need our help!" The teacher came out and seemed to be turn between two decisions. He kept looking at Kaoru, who wasn't paying him any attention then looking in the direction of the chaotic school. "Look, Taishou-san, I have to go, the paramedics called up saying that they need to talk to some one so I'm going to go, unless you want to come?" He seemed hopeful.

Kaoru simply stared at him with a blank expression, her anger seemingly melting form her face. He sighed and ran off with one glance back and a pause as if waiting for her to change her mind; she didn't budge; he began to run again.

Kaoru sighed heavily and felt her knees give in under her. She fell to the floor with a dull thud and heard the others crowding around her and asking her if she was ok.

"I'm fine, just a little dizzy." Kaoru said as she fixed herself into a proper sitting position and stretched her legs out in front of her.

"Hey guys, let's go and check out what's going on around the back!!" Ikki spoke up. Everyone agreed with a loud cheer as if they were going to a rally or something.

"But what about you Kaoru, are you coming?" Kazu asked as he realized that she hadn't made a move to get up nor did she respond at all to Ikki's proposal.

"You guys go on ahead, I'll be there shortly." Kaoru said evenly. She looked up and gave them a reassuring smile. She had a lot on her mind and was also very tired. They had all left and she sighed heavily. She would've just gone to sleep there if she hadn't noticed that there was still a presence around.

Kaoru looked up and saw that 'Akito' was still there, but his posture didn't resemble the way he was acting before, it was more like when he was acting all mean and grumpy. "Hey, can I ask you something?"

Agito looked down at her and said, "What?"

"You have a split personality don't you?" Kaoru paused for a moment to see his reaction. He looked surprised, a little, "If the other one is called Akito, then what's you're name?" Kaoru smiled at him, a small distracted smile.

Agito blinked twice before completely comprehending what she said. "…Agito"

"Well, it's nice to meet you Agito." Kaoru smiled up at him and he just couldn't seem to hold her gaze so he settled on staying quiet and looking away. For once Ikki came in handed as he stuck his head around the corner, interrupting whatever conversation she may have been hoping to start up.

"Come on you scaly wags!!! You'll miss all the fun!!" Ikki shouted wagging his butt in their faces from down the hall. A vein pulsed violently in both their foreheads and they both vowed to wring his neck when they got to him, the question now was who would get to him first.

Of course, that prize went to Agito and by the time Kaoru came with in arms reach of Ikki he was already unconscious and falling apart. Agito walked pass her, dragging Ikki's half dead body along with him and said, "Are you coming or not, Shit head?"

Kaoru didn't take lightly to that kind of language around her, even though she used it from time to time, so she retorted, viscously. Agito was blown away by her, not by her volume, even though it should've been what blew him away, but it was just how she carried herself, and how she made her sentences, she did it a way that just made you feel small and insignificant, and she did it so naturally too, like she was born with the gift.

Agito retorted back and they ended up fighting to entire way to the crime scene and somewhere along the way poor broken Ikki was completely forgotten in some lonely, corridor that nobody ever used anymore.

When they got out there, it was a lot more chaotic than they could've imagined. Their own shock silenced them. It was crazy; the grade advisor, Orihara sensei, was talking to some of the paramedics while ordering teachers around trying to get everything under control, students were trying to get around and under the crime scene tape, while cops tried to keep them back, the paramedics that were dealing with the body were standing out side the ambulance with it's sirens still blaring, adding more noise to the chaos.

Kaoru gritted her teeth and pushed her way through the crowd, trying to make it to where the paramedics stood by the ambulance. As she passed Orihara sensei, trying to make sure he didn't notice her, that's exactly what happened. He grabbed her hand and swung her around, eliciting a shriek from her as she swung around to face the paramedic. "Here, talk to her." And then he was gone. He moved way to fast for an old man, that's probably what was going through Kaoru's mind at the time.

"Uhm…" The paramedic seemed more lost than she was and didn't seem like he'd be finding himself soon enough, so she decided to bring him into the light.

"My name is Kaoru Taishou; my sister is the one that jumped."

"Ah, yes, well I'm happy to tell you that your sister is still alive, but, both her legs are broken, her right leg will most likely have to be amputated, she has a concussion, and she's in a coma." He kept a straight face as he listed off her ailments.

Kaoru nodded twice then looked up at him with a burning hatred that he did not deserve, and said, "So basically, my sister's a vegetable with one leg, fabulous."

Kaoru walked away before the man could get her attention and ran out of the crowd, shoving her way through. Kaoru ran for a long time, she didn't know how long, all she knew was that some time later she'd found a park and also found that her legs couldn't take much more so she plopped down on a bench and curled up into a ball, crying her eyes out, half distraught, half relieved.

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After all the teachers spent all their energy trying to get the students back into the class rooms, the principal announced over the intercom that school would be ending early for the day and that they could all go home.

All the teachers were frozen with shock and anguish as they watched all their hard work of getting them into the classrooms quickly go up in flames, almost literally.

The group walked as far home together as they could without splitting up, but soon enough it was just Ikki, Akito and Ringo left as they walked through the park.

"Hey, Ikki-kun, where do you thing Kaoru-chan went?" Akito asked him for the millionth time.

"You know, with how many times you've asked that question, I'd take a guess and say that you like Kaoru-chan don't you Akito?" Ringo teased him and pinched one of his cheeks with a wide silly grin on her face.

"Wah!! No, no it's not like that!! I just…" Akito trailed off as he looked away from Ringo and Ikki as they continued to tease him and noticed something in the distance.

Akito blinked and started walking towards one of the benches in the park. "Akito where are you going?" Ringo asked curious as to what he was doing.

"It's Kaoru…" Akito stopped just in front of the bench where Kaoru sat curled up into a ball. Akito moved to place his hand on her shoulder but hesitated a bit.

"Hey you! No need to fear, Ikki is here to save the day!! Here I give my fart of joy that I caught with my hand, may it dissolve all your displeasures!" Ikki just looked ridiculous and kind of scary.

Kaoru's head shot up instantly and Akito gave Ikki a, "you stupid piece of shit" look that he normally would've gotten from Agito. Kaoru looked around at the three of them and was about to get up and run so she could be alone when Ringo said while kneeling down in front of her, "Hey, don't worry it's ok. You don't have a place to stay do you? You can come and stay with us until you find somewhere else, how's that?"

Kaoru furrowed her eyebrows together and said, "How do I know I can trust you?"

"You don't, but you don't have any other option now do you? No worries we'll take good care of you!" Akito said chirpily.

Kaoru continued to stare at them for a while before sighing and said, "Is that really ok? Just for tonight…?"

Ringo stood up and clapped her hands and Ikki did a stupid victory pose and Akito just copied whatever Ikki did. Kaoru stared at them and had to at least chuckle when Ikki began to do victory dances and Ringo whispered to her that she didn't know him.

The four of them walked to the house and talked on the way. Kaoru didn't say much but she chimed in whenever she felt like. Kaoru found that these people where really crazy but they were fun, and the truth was that, she was actually feeling a lot better. I suppose, all I needed was some company huh?

Kaoru's thoughts strayed to her sister again and the smile that was previously decorating her features disappeared. Akito looked over at her and frowned slightly.

He ran over to the other side of the small group and popped up between Ringo and Ikki just as Ringo was about to give Ikki something she'd been planning to give him since the start of the day, you know, something romantic.

"Uhm…Ikki, here, I've been trying to…"

"Hey Ikki-kun, Ringo-chan, can I ask you something? Why don't we let Kaoru join Kogarasumaru, if she's any good at AT?" Akito spoke cheerily and he bounced up and down between them like a little ball of energy.

Ringo was so mad that he had disturbed her romantic scene that she just immediately said no without registering what he said.

"Wah, but why not?!"

"yeah, why not!?" Ikki was just repeating what Akito said with a big ugly pout before he registered what was said, then he said, "Hey, wait, Of course not!!" he dropped his voice to a whisper so that Kaoru couldn't hear, "For one, we don't even know if she's any good at AT, and three, she's a girl!! Girl's are just for support!!" Ikki probably would've continued if Ringo hadn't grabbed him and started strangling him in a neck hold.

"I'm sorry, what was that about girls being just support? Of course she can join if she's good Akito, go ask her." Ringo was twitching with anger and her voice was a little shaking; her expression really scared poor Akito while he watched Ikki gasp and claw for air.

"uhm…ok" Akito slowly stepped back making sure not to disturb her as if she was a great mountain lion having it's meal and he didn't want to disturb it, lest he become desert. Akito hopped over to Kaoru and noticed that she was still spacing out and said, "Hey, you ok?"

Kaoru seemed startled when she looked up at him. "Uhm…yeah I'm fine."

"Good, hey do you ride AT?" Akito asked hoping to hear what he wanted to hear, but what he did hear was quite shocking.

"What's AT?" Kaoru said, looking completely innocent. She nearly walked passed them before she noticed that all three of them had stopped walking and were staring at her. "Wah-what is it?"

"You're kidding right? How can you not know AT?" Ringo looked the most stunned out of all of them and couldn't even talk. "AT is the best thing that has happened to this world! With ATs humans can learn to fly, just like the birds do! AT grants us freedom to do whatever we want, whatever pranks we want to pull and…" Ikki was going to continue but Agito stopped him by shoving a random sock into his mouth and turned to Kaoru.

"What do you mean you don't know what AT is? You've never heard of it?" Agito looked at her with a scrutinizing stare.

"That's what I said." Kaoru was starting to get annoyed with all these questions, why couldn't they just tell her what is was and get it over with?

"Are you from Japan?" Agito asked as he stared at her, noticing one and two things about her appearance, One, her hair looked like it was naturally that curly, it looked almost bushy with how curly it was, two it had natural highlights as if it was burned by constantly being in the sun all the time, they didn't always have sunny whether in Japan. Three she had jade green eyes, hardly found in Japan.

"No I'm not, I'm form Italy, what does that have to do with anything?" Kaoru looked annoyed as she stood akimbo in front of him. It looked as if any wrong move by Agito would cause another fight.

Agito seemed to be lost in thought for a moment and didn't look like he was going to say anything so Kaoru took this chance to ask her question, "So uhm, what is AT anyway?"

It took about ten minutes for Ringo to explain everything, about emblems and about teams and the trophaeum, but when she was done Kaoru seemed to be lost in thoughts.

"So, yeah, that's AT, wanna see?" Ringo ask, "It's a lot easier to understand if you've seen for yourself. Agito…no I think it would be better if Ikki gave a proper demonstration." Ringo looked up at him hopefully.

Ikki grinned and shouted; "Well now it is time!! Behold my awesomeness!!" he put on his ATs and attempted to ride up a tree but he just fell back on his butt and got up shouting about how that was just a warm up all that jazz.

"He's really not this bad; he's just not being challenged so he sucks right now…" Ringo said with a sweat drop. Kaoru stared for a bit, she didn't know what to think but...that's…

Kaoru's thoughts were cut off as Ringo went on to talk about Ikki's new team. "The teams name is Kogarasumaru. We were planning on placing our team stickers on tomorrow; do you want to come with us since tomorrows Saturday?"

"Uhm…sure!" Kaoru put on a smile "and also, if it's alright, could you teach me how to ride AT?"

The three of them were blown away by her sudden request. Ringo was surprised and glad at the same time, Agito was miserable as usual, and Ikki felt far too much pride and God he knows why.

"Well, I don't know who would teach you…"

"I'll train her, I will teach her everything I know, she be second to no one, except me of course!!"

"Definitely not Ikki…" Ringo said, a vein twitching on the side of her neck as she listened to Ikki's idiocies.

"Maybe…no way…Agito…"

"Fuck no…" Agito barely gave her a chance to finish as he rode off into the distance announcing that he would be back later.

Kaoru huffed and watched him leave just dying to drive her fist into his face once she got the chance; he just pissed her off whenever he opened his mouth. Kaoru sighed to expel her sudden urge to kill and said, "But don't you ride Ringo-chan?"

"Uhm...well, no I don't ride AT, I'm just here for support!" Ringo was talking a little bit too loud to make it sound natural.

"Right, well then I suppose I'll just have to teach myself huh? Can't be too hard." Kaoru folded her arms and looked up at them. Ikki suddenly burst out laughing and Ringo gave him a dangerous look before giving Kaoru an apologetic one.

Kaoru furrowed her eyebrows and said, "You just watch! I'm gonna learn how to ride all on my own!" She started forward and stopped. She turned around and shouted after them to hurry up.

Wow, she gets fired up pretty easily doesn't she…? Ringo thought with a sweat drop as they walked the rest of the way to their house.

When they got there, Ringo explained to Ume and Mikan about her situation and that she was determined to start doing AT. At the dinner table everyone was talking and having fun except Ikki who was being hung over a small fire for trying to steal Kaoru's meat.

Ringo and Mikan were talking about what next to do to Ikki and Ume was showing Kaoru her doll.

"you see, I'm almost done! And just yesterday I finished making the last of one hundred and one dolls!! I decided to name her Hikaru!" Ume held up the dolls with a strangely twisted smile.

"Really…hmmm…" Kaoru was smiling up until that point. The mention of her sister's name made her mode fall once again.

"Kaoru-chan what's wrong?" Ume asked as she noticed that Kaoru had stopped smiling.

"That's my sister's name…Hikaru." Kaoru was staring at the floor and held her head down, her long messy bang hung to hide her face.

"Oh…" Ume looked a little guilty.

"She was my twin, as you all know, but she was the complete opposite of me, we were nothing alike. Most people would've guessed that I'd be the to jump, not her…" Kaoru sniffed and felt the tears building u in her eyes. She hurriedly wiped them away.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ringo asked as she crawled over to her side form where she sat tormenting Ikki after her had "accidentally" fallen on top of her and fondled her after freeing himself from the pole he was tied to, but now he was covered head to toe with rope except his middle area as he hung over a fire.

Kaoru looked up at her and smiled, she didn't see what harm it could cause, and they were obviously curious about it, even Ikki manage to stop whining and some how got over there, even though he was still covered in rope. "...yeah. Hikaru, she was the opposite of me. I was always playing in the mud with the boys, playing football or rugby, one of them, and she was always playing with her dolls trying to stay as far away from the mud as possible. I always wore all the dark colour and baggy pants and that stuff, while she wore all the pink frilly dresses and what not. But we were close, despite how different we were, no one know us better than we knew each other. We finished each others sentences and in grade school, whenever I had an English test, she'd substitute for me and whenever she had a math test I'd substitute for her. Those were the good days." Kaoru smiled at some fond memory before continuing. "She did ballet, I did karate, we both did gymnastics and swimming but I was better at gymnastics and she better at swimming, we both found that very strange as well as our parents, but hey, that's how it was. She loved Ballet, she couldn't live without, but now her right leg is going to be amputated…she can't dance like that…when she wakes up, she'll be devastated…"Kaoru sighed and sniffed a little before shaking her head and saying, "but anyway, enough of these sad stories…" Kaoru began to wipe away her tears again.

"Fucking cry baby…" Kaoru whipped her head around to see Agito standing at the door way to the living room.

"Gah!!! How long have you been there?!" Kaoru shouted in surprise when she saw Agito.

"Long enough…" He scowled at her which seemed to have hit a bad nerve.

"Really? Now if you would kindly remind me just who were you calling a cry baby?"

"I was referring to you," Agito stepped away from the door way, his body language suggesting a challenge.

"Is that so? I would've thought you were referring to yourself, considering the fact that your eyes are all red and puffy, what still crying over being rejected by Ikki?" Kaoru stepped forward as well, daring him to argue with her.

"Fuck you!! Who the Fuck would cry over that Fucking crow?!" She'd hit a bad nerve there apparently.

"You apparently."

"You piece of shit!! You wanna die!? I'll kill you!!" Agito looked like he was going to explode.

"Is that so, I'd love to see you try." Kaoru just looked calm and collected as she watched him with a sly grin as he continued to fume.

"I'm the fucking Fang King, I'll fucking kill you!!" Agito was about to launch a fang at her when Ringo slammed a frying pan over his head, knocking him out cold.

"Thanks." Kaoru said with a huge grin.

"You know, he could've killed you! You shouldn't play around with him, he's dangerous." Ringo said after she asked Ikki to drag him up to his room.

"Is that so, hmph. I'd love to see him try. He's lucky, any farther and I would've lost my cool, then it would've gotten ugly." Kaoru said all of this with a sly grin.

Everyone sweat dropped at this and wondered if she'd gone crazy after all that had happened to her.

They spent the rest of the evening planning what they were going to do tomorrow and then Kaoru helped Mikan wash up, which ended in just Kaoru washing up and Mikan going to play video games then everyone said good night and went to sleep. Most of them had sweet dreams, but not our main character, poor Kaoru; hardly got any sleep that night.

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