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Jou-chan – little missy

The Model Student - Chapter 2

Misao scratched her head, "well you see…"

"We are going to be spending the night here." Megumi finished for her.

Kenshin was just staring at her and it was making Kaoru fidget.

"Wow jou-chan I didn't know you had it in you!"

Kaoru looked confused, "wha?" Then she looked down at herself and cringed, 'I'm wearing tighter fitting clothes!'

Kaoru's eyes narrowed and she walked upstairs and slammed the door to her room. 'Misao, you traitor!'

Misao cringed as she watched Kaoru walk upstairs, she was in a tight situation.

"You guys can make yourselves comfortable, I'm going to talk to Kaoru." Misao said while jogging up the stairs.

She knocked on the door to Kaoru's room, it was the biggest room in the house and no matter how many times Misao argued that she deserved she couldn't help but mentally agree that Kaoru needed it more.

Misao opened the door and stepped in, all the lights were off and she could see the door open to Kaoru's personal dojo. Misao stepped up to the door and saw Kaoru doing kata from the Kamiya-Kasshin ryu, it was not a good time for her to talk to Kaoru.

Kaoru sensed Misao's presence and turned around, her arm supporting herself on her boken. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of Misao, "why did you bring them here?"

Misao looked down at her toes in a very not Misao like action, "they had nowhere to stay and Sano told their parents their staying at one of their houses so…" Misao trailed off.

Kaoru sighed, "Misao, you know I can't be mad at you for long." Misao looked up, she had expected that Kaoru would yell and planned lots of retorts but she never thought Kaoru would forgive her.

Kaoru walked out of the dojo and grabbed her phone that was sitting on her desk next to her black laptop.

"Hey Misao, are you hungry?"

Misao was speechless, Kaoru was acting as if nothing had happened.
"Yeah, if you order pizza I want pepperoni!"

Kaoru went into her huge closet and pulled out the baggiest clothes she had, a pair of sweats and a huge sweatshirt that could have been a dress and put them on

"Misao, how many boxes of pizza are we getting?"

Misao grinned, "Well Sano can eat a lot so I should say about five." Misao laughed when she saw Kaoru's eyebrows rise.

Kaoru picked up her phone and ordered 5 boxes of pepperoni, "It'll be hear in twenty-five minutes, I guess I should be a good hostess and go down there."

Misao's face brightened up, "you should really get on good terms with them! What did you do to make them hate you so much?"

Kaoru looked down at the ground at her blue flip-flops, "nothing." She threw Misao a 50 and walked down the stairs with her.

They all looked up and Tomoe sneered at her. Kaoru sighed, it was going to be like this. Kaoru put on a fake smile, "Well since you are guests in our home let's put aside our differences for now."

Grins spread over every face but Tomoe's. Kaoru started walking toward the glass door leading to the beach when Kenshin spoke up, "why Kamiya, I never knew you could be so civil."

Kaoru settled her hand on the door knob and when she spoke her voice was sad, "Kenshin, there are a lot of things you don't know about me," And she stepped outside

A shock reverberated through Kenshin; she had always called him Himura, not Kenshin the change was shockingly different.

Sano grinned, "Is there anything to eat?"

Everyone started laughing.

Kaoru P.O.V

I walked along the beach next to their house. The beach was privately owned so very few people had access to it. It was also were I did my thinking.

'What should I do? All the people who hate me are in that room, well except for Misao.'

"Ah, baka Kaoru, pretend to get along! They'll only be here for a short time." 'Do I always have to be enthusiastic?'

The water rushed up to my ankles and I shrieked, not too loudly though. It didn't matter, no one would rush out of the house after her. I groaned, I had forgotten to call my mother after I got home. Thinking of the repercussions of not calling her, I ran to the house, forgetting all about our guests.

By the time I got back to the house my feet were soaked from the water rushing to my ankles and my hair was sticking to my face from all sweating too much.

I slammed open the back door scaring everyone inside. As I ran up to my room Misao handed me a plate with three slices on it. I set the plate down and dived for my phone. It was blinking, I groaned, five missed calls from mother. I dialed her number and it was immediately answered with a yell, "Baka, I called you five times, how could you not answer or at least call me back before now!"

"I'm really sorry, I was tense about the guests that we have." Mother calmed down after that, "Life as a star can be stressful can't it?"

I laughed, "You don't know that."

Mother's tone changed, "Anyway, that's not why I called, I'm coming home tonight, and tomorrow we're going shopping!"

I coughed, "shopping?"

"Yes shopping, no more of those ugly clothes! It's a little thing we grownups like to call an intervention."

I frowned, "I wear those types of clothes when I'm not at school."

"Embracing fashion at school might help you get some friends."

"If they're only friends with me for my looks, I don't want any."

Mother grumbled, "Fine, the shopping trips put off but I'm still coming home! Even if your dad's not home yet."

"When are you going to get here?"

"Well right about now." I coughed, if mother was here now she would cause trouble. I rushed downstairs, only to be too late.

Normal P.O.V

Yuki had Sano in a head lock and was yelling, "And you thought you could take me on." Megumi had her hand covering her mouth in horror, Tomoe had a smile playing on her lips, Kenshin and Misao had burst out laughing and Aoshi was as stoic as usual.

Kaoru looked over the scene in mock horror then burst out laughing, "Mou, do you always have to cause trouble?"

Yuki gave her a wicked smile, "Hell yeah."

The night went on with everyone joking around and Kaoru felt like she belonged.

The next morning Kaoru's alarm was brutally smashed. She staggered out of bed and stared at her baggy, ugly school uniform. She had a tighter fitting one that was never worn and she actually contemplated wearing that one.

The last time she had worn clothes that were as tight fitting was in middle school, the day Kenshin broke up with her. Tears started to form in the corners of her eyes but she kept them at bay, she refused to cry.

She pulled on a uniform that was in its own rights still baggy but it was also tighter than the ones she usually wore and instead of clunky shoes she pulled on a pair of sneakers. She braided her hair down her back.

Grabbing her bag she slid down the banister and headed into the kitchen where breakfast was already made and Yuki was already eating.

Yuki glanced up as Kaoru entered and gave her a look over, "Better but not good enough," and went back to her coffee.

Kaoru sat at her spot at the table and listened to the radio while everyone came for breakfast. To her utter horror when finally everyone was at the table the D.J. announced, "Hey everyone next to brighten up your morning we're going to play 'Who's that chick' by Luna!"

Tomoe and Megumi grinned, "We love this song, and we even went to a Luna charity event yesterday!"

Misao gave Kaoru a knowing glance and Kaoru frowned. Yuki had a knowing smile on her lips. "Well I have to get to work and you all have to go to school but sometime I might buy all of us Luna tickets!"

Kaoru choked on her orange juice, "No!" she yelled suddenly then blushed, "I can't go, I have to study."

"Such a shame." Yuki said, shaking her head while leaving.

Tomoe looked disgusted, "You would pass up a concert to study?"

Megumi snickered and whispered a little too loudly, "What a nerd," into Sano's ear and Sano gave a knowing nod.

Misao was looking at her shoes with an again stoic Aoshi by her side.

But the worst for Kaoru was Kenshin, he looked disgusted like Tomoe but in his amber eyes hate was clearly shown.

Kaoru got up and headed to the garage, where she went into her least conspicuous car, a simple Honda. A, "Nice job on your new look," followed her out accompanied by bursts of laughter. The hardest part for her was hearing Misao and Aoshi's laughter joined in.

She got in her car and drove to school, contemplating revenge.