A/N: Before anything else, let me remind you, I DO NOT OWN YAMATO NADESHIKO. Of course, you know it. :)) Just in case. :))

In the previous chapter: Everyone is trapped in the Nakahara Mansion during the first day of their senior year because of the large audience of girls that each of the four guys attracted. In the midst of everything, suddenly came an always unexpected visitor, the landlady. Her sudden appearance is just as immediate as her retreat. Good thing, she did not forget to offer a hand to everyone.

No Longer

Chapter 2

Warm Up

"Woah! Good Morning!" Yuki teased as they alight the helicopter through the ladder that was suspended from it. They preferred descending at the roof top so as not to get more attention though they know quite well that going to school in a helicopter is enough to get the attention of the people. But at least, it is safer at the roof top. Only few people goes up there and if ever there would be (those really pushy on seeing them) they would still have the time to hide themselves, though they do not know where.

"What's good in the morning?" Kyohei weakly inquired as he dust off his pants.

"That was obviously a sarcastic statement, Kyohei," he pouted, somehow irritated that he didn't get his humor.

As soon as everyone has safely alighted, they finally bid their knight-in-shining-armor a 'goodbye' and a 'thank you'.

"I feel relieved! At least, I arrived school as a whole. Nothing torn apart from my body," Ranmaru declared while examining his arms and feet.

It was still kind of early in the morning so it is not quite a surprise why there are still few people in the campus. And aside from that, most students, girls, headed straight to the Nakahara mansion rather than to school. And since they were fetched by a helicopter, they were not immediately followed. They took the chance, then, to go to their respective rooms.

Their classrooms are almost next to each other since all rooms are lined up according to year levels.

They passed the first classroom and Takenaga was off. Then, two other rooms and Ranmaru said his 'see you later' too. The third to part away was Yuki, his was 3 blocks away. The last two walking alone in the hallway, then, were Sunako and Kyohei. That was because Sunako's classroom was the farthest from where they are walking and Kyohei's was before hers. As Kyohei came to pass his room, he casually patted Sunako's head and was about to enter the room when he felt like paying a second look to Sunako. "She seems so quiet since a while back," he recalled.

As he landed his eyes on Sunako, he cannot determine how and why he could not immediately take away his gaze from her. "something has changed?" he asked his self.

He followed her by his eyes, she passed by the first door of her room, then the next door… wait! "She just passed by the next door! That's the last entrance to her room," he announced to himself.

He was about to take a step when he saw her enter the next door after the last flap to her room. "What? Why did she entered the wrong door?" he asked himself again.

As he approached the door where he saw Sunako entered, the sign read 'Science Laboratory', and just at that, he figured it out, wy she was excited to going to school and stuff. Just then did he remember that Sunako's classroom is next to the science laboratory, her sanctuary second to her room.

He stopped by the door and stared a little while longer at the signage as if reading it carefully and wishing he read it wrong. When he took off his gaze, he reached out for the knob. As when he was about to turn it open, he heard some shattering of the glass and a woman's voice scream softly in pain, obviously not wanting anyone else to hear her. Kyohei was alarmed and entered immediately.

He searched the whole room for who owned that voice and saw Sunako kneeling by the shelves and twitching in pain. His swift movement was obviously worried. When he was nearer, he tried to put his cool composure so as not to make Sunako get the wrong idea. "Get the wrong idea? What idea?" he echoed on his thoughts.

He kneeled beside the injured girl, "Idiot!" Kyohei started.

The room was not sufficiently lighted. The fluorescents were off. The only thing that let them see is the light from the hallway that pass trough the door Kyohei forgot to close.

Sunako, not expecting anyone else to be in the same room, turned to the direction of the owner of the voice and eyed, whoever that was, curiously. It was just a normal thing, yes, but not to Kyohei's point of view though. He felt something weird that even made him twitch slightly. After realizing what happened to him, he blinked three times analyzing the situation and as to why he reacted that way.

"BRIGHT! It's so bright!" Sunako started complaining, trying hard to save her sight from the too much radiance coming from the brightest creature she knows.

Only then did Kyohei zapped back to reality.

"I-Idiot," he stammered. And without second thought, he reached out for Sunako's wounded hand that she could no more hide because she's using it to cover her eyes.

"No! I am not wounded," she lied.

"Can you not learn being a better liar next time?" he mocked, getting a hold of her hand now.

"I-I'm fine," she lied the second time.

"Your stupid lies won't work on me,"

"Who told you I'm lying?" she questioned back as she resist Kyohei's hold on her wrist.

"Your wound tells me," he plainly said while examining her injury.

"It talks?" She irritably and sarcastically asked as she tried harder to loosen the guy's grip.

"It doesn't have to," he answered in a plain tone while his left hand stiffens its grip on her right and his other reaching to his pocket for a handkerchief, "I say you go to the clinic," he alleged in a rather demanding tone than concerned.

"I don't want to,"

"You don't?"

"I don't."

"So you would rather die than to be with Hiroshi and the others?" he was forced to give her an ultimatum which would not even work to children of four years and below.

"Okay. I'll go," she whispered, surprisingly obediently just like a four-year-old or younger. (Kyohei sure knows how to manipulate her. )

"You go there after I'm done first aiding it, understood?" he said as if really talking to a child.

"Okay."

He then, started wrapping his handkerchief around Sunako's wound to at least stop its bleeding. It sure seemed a bad cut on the back of her right hand just below the thumb. They were both too busy with the first aiding that they did not even realize their very close distance, "hey! You're not doing it right!" Sunako whined.

"I'm the one doing the bandaging so you shut up, okay?" He complained back.

"I'm the one being bandaged, okay?" she whimpered as irritably, he just stayed quiet.

Both of them were not tearing their gaze away the bandaging being done. He was half way when she cried, "Hey! Wait a minute! This is my handkerchief if I'm not mistaken."

"Eh? Really?" He calmly asked looking into Sunako's direction, and the girl unintentionally did the same. As their eyes met, they finally realized how close they are to each other. They could even feel each other's breath, plus their lips almost just a strand away.

3 seconds flat, Sunako could already feel the plotting geyser of blood in her nose. And Kyohei was anticipating the same thing, so before anything else happened, he pinched her nose and covered her eyes, losing grip of the bandaging he's almost done with. The bandaging is no more good after it fell, its now loosen, meaning he has to do it all over again. And he sighed for that. But on the positive side, at least, he saved the laboratory… or not?

Right after he removed his hands from Sunako's features, thinking that doing so would be fine by then, the sudden spurt of blood from her nose covered the whole laboratory instantly. He too, of course.

That was the reason why Sunako lay on the clinic bed and Kyohei sat on the chair beside it. The bandaging of the girl's wound was better now, thank god. He did not need to do it all again. The nurse did. It was also a good thing that the nurse assigned that time was a guy so he was LESS harassed before Sunako got attended.

"Silly creepy girl… all this trouble only because of a small piece of cloth? Tss. Really, really silly," he thought to himself.

He continued sitting there quietly, at first staring at the patient whose back was facing him, then to the window beside. He then realized that it was almost time for class and that he needed to get back to his room as soon as possible to avoid having to meet the other girls in the corridor. He stood up at that and was ready to leave the cubicle separated with the others by curtain walls when he recognized that his uniform was still covered with blood. Good thing that when everything happened, he hasn't let gone of his bag. And better, that he's always prepared with an extra uniform or two. This is one time he is very proud of himself.

Without second thought, then, he took out a uniform and started undressing inside the curtain-walled cabin. He has already completely got rid of his shirt when the patient he thought was still asleep, started screaming as if he was a ghost.

He was frightened at that and didn't know what to do. If anyone hear the scream and barge in the cabin and saw him undressed, it's his death. He was in a total panic mode that he could no more realize his actions. He covered her mouth with his hand, pinning her hard on the bed. He looked really anxious and traumatized in advance, "SSSSSHHHHH! SSSSSHHHHHH! QUIET DOWN PLEASE! QUIET! QUIET!" He begged hard as softly as possible.

"MMMM! MMMMMMHHHM!" Were the only sounds coming out from Sunako.

"PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEEEEASE QUIET DOWN. I'LL BE PLEASE," he was then already looking intensely at her, begging harder. But when she would not listen, he started dressing as fast as he could. And just on time, the curtains opened at the same time he was done with his shirt. There were large obvious beads of sweat on his temple. It was the nurse, less bad thing, he's a guy, the same nurse who attended to Sunako, "what's the matter?" he panicked.

"uh-uhm.. uh.. s-sorry for that, she was just screaming in pain, I-I poured her wound alcohol.. s-see?" He convinced as he saw the bottle of alcohol by the bed-side table and grabbed it.

The doctor's brows arched up in suspicion and sort of disbelief from his excuse. First, the alcohol bottle is closed and second, Sunako's wound is conservatively bandaged.

Reading the nurse's thought, he immediately reasoned, "s-she has another wound… Y-yeah! S-she has another wound… in her… uhm… nape!" and he knew that sounded foolish. The nurse turned a questioning look at Sunako. She just looked back at him. Kyohei broke out, "H-how do you expect her to confirm my statement if she is in deep pain?" No one else talked, he did, "and… 'silence means yes'. Yes?" [insert A/N: 'Yes?' there means a 'Right?']

The nurse's still eyeing him suspiciously. But at least, he's retreating back. "I guess that worked," he assumed to himself, "that was close." He sighed, a loud one. Then he turned to the stupid patient, as to how he could best described her, and gave her daggering looks. But she was not paying attention.

"What's the matter with you? That was close, you little-!" He shouted as he approach her.

"Did anyone mention about being a better liar?" She teased and he was stopped. Not because he was strike by her joke but because she's smiling! Yes, she is. In fact, she's laughing. And neither him could not explain how and why all of a sudden, his anger was wiped away. And just then, both of them are laughing.

A/N: I remember saying in the previous chapter that I'll be updating maybe two to five days after the story was published. But there you go, the second chapter.

I also remember saying this line "Now, enough for the side stories. Let's get into the real agenda," but I just could not help it. Side stories are cute, aren't they? But I promise, the next chapter would really start the real agenda. So, please watch out for it. R&R please?

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