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Chapter 2 Dancing Sushi

The next morning as he changed and headed out to the tennis courts for morning practice, Niou could swear that he could still feel the sting of the hit he had received from Hisame yesterday. He'd admit one thing…the girl could hit.

Really just what had been her problem anyway? One little kiss from when they were kids didn't warrant her basically slapping the crap out of him out of no where like that. That had actually hurt. And to top it off, she had taken off before he could say a single word back to her.

And after calling him a bastard…again! Niou defiantly didn't like the situation being ripped out of his hands like that. He was a little…annoyed. Yes that summed it up just perfectly. He was annoyed with having been hit in front of classmates and teammates alike.

Today though she would start attending classes and would be in the same class as the brat on top of it all. Good. That meant he could ask her just what the hell she was so hung up on and have an excuse for going through it all.

Settle it all once and for all. It had just been a little kiss. Nothing to get so upset about. Not in his mind really. Really Niou didn't understand girls. But his thoughts were quickly changed when he stepped out onto the courts that morning.

Kirihara, the little brat, was all worked up, complaining to his boyfriend, Yanagi, and his caretaker, Jackal. One would think that at seventeen the kid would have grown up and quit complaining like he did. Though Niou couldn't help but wonder just what had happened to cause him to complain this time.

The moment Niou stepped out onto the court Kirihara rounded on him with an expression that was defiantly anger. What had Niou done now to tick the junior off? "Niou-sempai how could you!?" Kirihara yelled at him.

Niou came to a stop a good distance away from the younger boy. Just because Yanagi and Jackal had a hold of him didn't mean he still couldn't break free and attack him. He had learned that lesson the hard way back in middle school.

"What are you talking about, bratling?" Niou asked, tone indifferent. "You know what! How could you take these!?" Kirihara yelled shaking a piece of paper in front of Niou's eyes.

Niou grabbed the paper to keep it still while he looked at it. It was a picture of Kirihara falling forward, arms thrown out in front of him, his shorts falling around his knees as he tripped. It was an embarrassing picture, though a funny one to Niou.

The scene had happened during their afternoon practice just yesterday. Niou's latest attempt to mess with the boy had resulted in Kirihara tripping and losing his shorts in the process to show his green boxers with dancing sushi rolls underneath.

Though what really caught attention was the Puri written at the bottom of the page. Niou frowned before looking back up at Kirihara, releasing the sheet of paper as he did.

"I didn't do it." Niou replied, jamming his hands into his pockets. "Liar!" Kirihara growled at him still waving the sheet of paper around. "Who else could have done it! And you're the one that's always saying Puri!" Kirihara yelled at the top of his lungs.

"What's going on here?" All four looked up at Yukimura walked up, Sanada hot on his tail. "Yukimura-buchou look what Niou-sempai did!" Kirihara said waving the sheet once more. Yukimura took the paper from Kirihara and looked down at it. For a moment there was silence before Yukimura looked up at Kirihara. "Niou didn't do this, Akaya." Yukimura told him softly as he handed the paper to Sanada.

Kirihara stared at Yukimura in shock. "B-b-but…!" Kirihara trailed off looking like he was about to blow his top. "Akaya, didn't you notice that Niou was in the background of that picture? It couldn't have possibly been him that took the picture." Yukimura told the junior.

Kirihara's jaw fell slack. He took the picture from Sanada and looked at it again. Sure enough, in the back ground of the picture was a very amused Niou with a smirk on his face. "He…He really is in the background." Kirihara said staring at the picture. "Told you I didn't do it." Niou remarked from where he stood.

"Well if Niou-sempai didn't do it, then who did? And who would frame Niou-sempai by putting his catch phrase at the bottom?" Kirihara asked looking up at Yukimura as Yanagi took the picture from Kirihara and gave it to Marui to get rid off.

"Someone who is trying to get him in trouble and start problems." Yukimura replied, his eyes flashing. "Where did you find that picture Akaya?" Yanagi asked his boyfriend.

"I had to go up to my classroom to put something in my desk before practice this morning and found it stuffed in my desk." Kirihara told them though he failed to see why that mattered at all. He was more concerned that there might be more somewhere in the school.

Niou though was busy thinking about who would want to, and would, go that far just to making things patchy between him and his teammates. Someone who wanted to get him in trouble, which meant someone who didn't really like him.

Someone who also had access to Kirihara's class that early in the morning. Well if they had access to his class that meant they too were in his class, which meant it was a second year.

The only two second year Niou knew were Kirihara and….Niou's frown deepened. Who else but for one Arekuruu Hisame. Niou had to admit…the girl knew where to hit, whether she knew it or not.

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Hisame looked up as a piece of paper was slammed down on her table hard enough to make the table shake, as she was eating her lunch.

She had started her first day of school pretty uneventful, easily making friends with her seating partner, Kirihara, but now, during her lunch, she had a slightly peeved Niou slamming a piece of paper down on her desk.

Hisame sat her lunch box down and leaned back in her seat to look up at Niou. She already knew just what he was about to say but she couldn't help poking fun at him like he had poked fun at her when they were little.

"Can I help you, Niou-sempai?" she asked putting a mocking little twist on sempai as she said it. Niou didn't look all too happy with her. Though he didn't too ticked off either. She concluded that he was probably more annoyed with the whole situation, rather then actually angry that it had happened.

Though it she pushed just right she could probably turn it into anger pretty quickly. "You did this didn't you?" he asked tapping the paper with one long finger drawing her attention to the paper in front of her. Hisame leaned forward to look at the paper, one eyebrow skyrocketing up as she did. She eyed the photo for a moment careful to keep the grin off her face.

She leaned back crossing her legs as she did. "Whatever do you mean, Niou-sempai?" she asked mockingly. Niou knew it was her who had done it. All of the dots connected and lead straight to her.

The evil little glint in her eyes and the soft curve of her mouth told him that she was just about to die of merriment at the moment as well. "You find this fun and amusing don't you?" he asked her. "Oh very much so." Hisame replied a smirk much like Niou's falling on her lips as she looked up at him.

"Anything that has you squirming like you are now is highly amusing and fun for me." she told him. "I am positively enjoying myself at the very moment." she added.

Niou eyed her. He didn't know rather to be impressed that as she had actually got one on him or to be angry that she was so openly happy about the trouble she nearly caused between him and his teammates. "The brat won't bee happy to find out it was you." Niou told her.

Hisame grinned at him. "He won't believe you. Kirihara-kun actually likes me unlike his mean, Niou-sempai. And besides it was one picture. No harm no foul." she told him. Hisame leaned forward lowering her voice even more so the nosy people trying to listen in couldn't hear her.

"Now you really might want to leave. A couple of batted eyelashes and just the right amount of crocodile tears and you'll have all of the girls in this class on your case in a second flat." she told him. Niou's eyebrows snapped up.

"Are…are you threatening to sick all of these girls on me?" he asked her. Hisame smiled. "You'd be surprised how over protective girls can be when the one targeted is the youngest of the bunch and seemingly harmless as a kitten." she told him.

Niou had to smirk. The girl knew how to play her cards and well at that. And the look in her eyes said she would carry out the threat too. "Even kittens have claws." Niou remarked. "You have no idea." Hisame replied.

"Niou-sempai?" Niou turned, Hisame peeking around him to where Kirihara stood looking at Niou in confusion. Hisame quickly improvised. "Oh, Kirihara-kun, he's awful!" she cried. Niou rounded on the girl to see that she was actually sniffling as she hung her head. Kirihara, instantly alarmed rushed to her side.

"Hisa-chan!?" he asked worried. "H-h-he came in here and a-a-accused me of taking this!" she told Kirihara gesturing to the picture on her desk. Kirihara blushed taking the picture and jamming it in his pocket before rounding on Niou.

"Get out Niou-sempai!" he growled at the older male. Niou stared in surprise at Kirihara before looking past him to Hisame who was smirking up at him through her bangs.

Well damn! The girl had gotten him at his own game. She was silently daring him to say anything that might make Kirihara attack him. In fact Niou could swear she was hoping he would just so she could get another laugh at his expense.

"Now!" Kirihara added as many of the other students still in the class turned to glare at Niou as well. Niou knew it was probably the smartest thing to back out gracefully and come back later with a plan. Niou gave Hisame another look before her turned to leave the classroom.

The girl was good. Clever, quick, and resourceful. Certainly someone he would have to keep an eye on. Niou smirked to himself as he walked down the hall. He had finally found someone that would keep him on his toes and entertain him.

And she wasn't bad looking at all either. He could get use to going back and forth with her. Well…as long as she didn't sucker punch him again. Now that was drawing a line in the sand. Next time she tried, he just might have to tackle her and punish her. Now that was appealing.

END

Kyandi: Wow…Hisame can be mean!

Hisame: Look how he treated me!

Kyandi: Point.

Hisame: And I'm only getting started!

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