GIRLS OVER MOTORCYCLES

CHAPTER TWO: Robotic Love

"Ahh ahh I'm so utterly bored. I'm going to kill myself. Tell me why we bother coming to school again?"

"Because Nakatsu's dad is a stickler about skipping which is why you come. Sakurako comes to Boy Scout, I come to study and Tsukushi comes to show off." Yuki said silently as she ate her smoked salmon peacefully looking at the chemistry notes that had been made and delivered to her by Kusano Akira today, as weird as that kid was he was as much of a genius as herself. So Yuki paid him to take notes for her when she couldn't herself.

"You come to stare at Soujiro-kun." Shigeru muttered quietly as she cuddled into Nakatsu who kissed her forehead and lay an arm almost lazily behind her back.

"That could be true as well." Yuki said quietly looking around for a moment struck by the absence of everyone else.

"I hate being third wheel. Especially if there's no fourth or fifth wheels accompanying me." She said and Shigeru giggled and shook her head. Yuki was always so utterly boring. She wished Yuki could break out of her little boredom hole sometimes. It would be so much easier to be friends with her. Shigeru had only recently come back from New York to find such a huge change in all her friends. Albeit they all still welcomed her with open arms.

Though as usual her fiancé's arms had been the most comfortable.

"I'm going off to find them neh?"

"No you're coming with me." Yuki's face didn't betray her true emotions lying under at the sound of his voice and for that she was thankful. Although her heart beat faster at the mere pitch of his voice she would never like to blush like a complete idiot when it came to him. It would be too embarrassing.

"Ohh Soujiro-kun! You never come here!" Shigeru shrieked happily. If Yuki and Soujiro could end up happily ever after like Nakatsu and herself then Shigeru thought Yuki's little boredom personality problem would simply disappear. Still they'd changed a lot since childhood. When they were children Yuki and Soujiro couldn't keep their hands off each other while Nakatsu and Shigeru had been the ones fighting their fates.

Shigeru was almost sad that it had so easily changed around. Almost.

"It's because of a certain person's presence really Shigeru-chan. Otherwise do you really think I'd be able to stay away from you? You look really sweet today." He said bowing his head slightly and Shigeru giggled flirtatiously.

"You too. I bet you already have five dates lined up for today."

"Close...six actually." He joked but it was probably the truth.

"And now he'll be leaving." Nakatsu was annoyed with Soujiro who was quite shamelessly trying to flirt with his fiancé. Soujiro and Nakatsu didn't get a long at all Soujiro nodded his head with a smile on his face that barely concealed their rivalry. Nakatsu rolled his eyes and turned his head away from the couple.

"What the man said. Let's go Yuki." He said grabbing her hand. Yuki tried her best to remain normal but her heart wouldn't slow down for the life of her. Instead she came off as robotic. Her grip on his hand just right but in the wrong way. Soujiro grumbled, god how much he'd learnt to hate her still shocked him now.

They found themselves out in the courtyard of Eitoku and he slowed down at an empty spot and immediately let go of her hand. He would never hold onto it longer than was necessary.

"I need to talk."

"That much was apparent." Yuki said factually her face in it's usual thin lipped polite smile. His face contorted in disgust at the image in front of him. He hated her so much it was shocking.

"I really need to talk to our parents about breaking off our engagement." Soujiro said finally and Yuki's eyes blinked back at him in a silent response.

"All right then. Is that all you wanted to say to me?"

"I'd also prefer it if you didn't use your status to scare girls out of dating me."

"I wish I could say I did that but I really didn't. The first problem with that sentence is that you don't date them. You have one-night stands. The second problem is that I don't go around yelling you are my property or anything. They assume so by themselves." Yuki said somewhat bitterly but her tone of voice was still the same monotonous way of speaking. Her face hadn't paled at Soujiro's harsh words and neither had her hands and feet started shaking.

She was almost like a robot incapable of emotion and that was another reason Soujiro hated her.

He remembered a time when they were young when he truly felt something other than hatred for her but now...

"I'm never going to love you again." Soujiro said and Yuki's eyes drooped lazily and for once he thought he saw an inkling of an almost sad smile on her face. For most women he would have the urge to go out and comfort them but for this creature in front of him he felt nothing. He felt indifferent.

"I hope you never will. I ask not for anything in return nor an acceptation to my feelings. All I need is to be left alone in peace with myself." For a moment he was reminded of when he first saw her. A five year old girl standing all by her lonesome and not joining in with the rest of them in their games. She had been enchanting that girl in her white dress with the white ribbon in her hair that he'd later yanked out. It was the very same ribbon that he had around his neck now, tucked under his shirt.

He'd never been able to take it off so putting a pendant on it he'd said it was too priceless a thing to take off whenever he slept with different women.

"I'm leaving now." He said and she nodded.

"Please do." She bowed low and stood back straight up again and turned around and started walking away from him and all he wanted to do was slap her and ask her if that was all she had to say to him.

Instead he settled for walking away from her as well.

When Yuki turned around to glance at her one true love to see he was walking away without a second glance at her she smiled widely.

This was the way it would always be and it was neither of their faults. They could never return to how they were before. No one would know what had happened between the two and perhaps neither would the two. Why things like this ended up coming between the strongest of relationships was only a small thing.

She took a deep breath to calm herself down but slowly she felt her emotions taking over and the tears were threatening to leak out of the creases around her eyes. She ran as fast as she could trying enjoying the feel of the cold wind pushing them off her face sliding them away from her. She felt herself collide with a tree but she didn't care as she fell back onto the soft cushion of grass and felt her chest wrack with sobs her hands came over her mouth to muffle her sound and she felt herself pull her body up to curl up in a ball of sadness.

Yes how poetic. She wished she could say that there was some pathetic fallacy. That the sky was cloudy and it looked like it was about to rain, that it was raining but not even the weather pitied her. No it was sunny and away from her she could even make out Ayano who was now racing in the direction Soujiro had went in.

"Here." She heard someone say and toss her a handkerchief. She nodded gratefully and rubbed wet and probably now atrocious looking face on it.

"Arigato gozaimasu." She said bowing her head low feeling her long locks surround her face hiding it as the person leant down to look at her. She felt her eyes move upwards to get a look at the charitable person.

He didn't look familiar or famous with his curly hair and bored eyes.

"I don't know what happened to make one of the Babes of Japan break out into tears but it probably wasn't something fun. You're practically the only sane one of the four too so try and keep that around neh? It'll suck for everyone else if you don't." He said and Yuki felt her eyebrows furrow in confusion. Yes she was barely capable of hiding even the stupidest emotion of confusion right now.

"Thanks for insulting my friends jerk." She said quite seriously but he cracked a small smile.

"Anytime! I enjoy doing it really. Whenever you want to hear someone insulting your best friends just come here and there I'll be!" He grinned widely standing up again and walking away from her in a confident stride. Yuki shook her head as she blew her nose into the warm handkerchief again. It was faint but she could recognize the smell of soap and pepper on it. It was oddly pleasing. She felt her back slack against the trunk of the tree and watched him disappear back into the school where she'd probably never see him again.

If only things were that easy neh Yuki-chan?

A/N: What did you guys think? I enjoyed writing this chapter a lot. It was short and painful and yet somewhat sweet towards the end. It sucks for Yuki neh? I'm so glad I'd never have to be in her shoes.

Thanks a lot to all my readers from the last chapter but thank you especially to MythNLynx!! It made me really happy to see the review D Thank you a lot for reading and I hope you guys will comment on this chapter as well to give me your views. I'm sorry Tsukushi's not really in the plot yet but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a starring role because she completely does. D

Until Next Time Guys!!