Rules of Attraction By EevilFaerie
Summary: Kaoru is the mischievous troublemaker, trying her very best to break every rule in the school with her best friend Enishi. Kenshin is the head prefect in the school, trying his best to catch rule-breakers with his sidekick Tomoe. Until one day…
Chapter 3KENSHIN'S POV
"My heart stopped, literally, when I feel something cool and slippery in my bag. "I was saying to Tomoe.
"Me too, when you took that thing from your bag. You know how much I hate snakes. And bats. And frogs. And rats. But the worst is cockroaches-" She let out a shudder.
"Yeah. I guessed he must have underestimate me if he think that I could get freaked out over that stupid plastic snake." I said. Tomoe just nodded.
We are heading towards the place we usually seat during the recess hour to eat, a certain corner of the school cafeteria. Suddenly I noticed every time we passed someone the person would laugh or whisper something to someone else. Some guy even winked at Tomoe. I realized that everyone is watching us, or to be more exact, at Tomoe.
What is happening?
"You sure you want us to do that?" someone said loudly to Tomoe when he passed us.
Tomoe raised an eyebrow. I scratched my head, mystified by their actions.
"I love your skirt," another guy said, who looked at her skirt and winked as he passed us.
"Kenshin, what's wrong with my skirt?" Tomoe asked me, quickly panicking.
She asked me to look at her skirt as she rotated around slowly. The reason why she's been stared at is very clear indeed. I gaped and pulled her away from the crowd near the school cafeteria. Everyone is pointing at her and laughing behind her back. Tomoe suddenly noticed that.
"Don't panic, but there's something on your skirt" I said softly.
"What? What is it? What?" She is panicking even though I told her not too. She grabbed my collar and shook me violently.
"Kick Me," I said, reading the sentence imprinted on her skirt.
"Don't worry, I will kick you if you don't tell me what's wrong with my skirt-"
"That's it. Someone's managed to write 'Kick Me' on your skirt with a white chalk"
Tomoe's face paled immediately when she finally realized what am I saying. She immediately begins to frantically brush the chalk dust from her skirt. She continued to furiously clean her skirt even though the chalk dust is gone. She stopped for a while before she resumed frantically to brush her skirt again, maybe because she is not very sure the chalk is gone or not.
"It's gone. Don't worry," I said, stopping her short.
Her face slowly turned red with embarrassment and anger. I swear I could see steams coming out from her ears. She is fuming, and I begin to back away from her instinctively. I have known her long enough to expect what is coming.
"KAORU!"she screamed shrilly, suddenly walking furiously towards our classroom.
"What?" I ran towards her, grabbing her hand, stopping her. She managed to drag me with her to the class.
"It's all her fault!"Tomoe muttered under her breath.
It's no surprise that Kaoru is responsible in writing that on Tomoe's skirt. But now Tomoe is not acting rational at all.
"I know, Tomoe. But I have an idea how to make them pay for this tomorrow" I whispered to her. She looked at me with interest.
"How?"
I leaned close to her ear and begin to murmur the plan to her.
KENSHIN'S POV
We walked in the class to see both Enishi and Kaoru sitting close to each other and scribbling something in their books furiously. Tomoe is now looking calm and calculative. She immediately calmed down and looked serene by the time I explained my way of revenge. She took a deep breath, straightened her posture and walked to her desk with extraordinary composure.
"Hi guys," she said to Kaoru and Enishi.
They whipped their eyes away from the thing they are writing and looked at Tomoe. I bet they are wondering what Tomoe is going to do to them. Tomoe just smiled her most dazzling smile. Enishi and Kaoru's jaws almost dropped open in astonishment, but they have an amazing talent of keeping their amazement short. They smiled back and turned back to their books. I narrowed my eyes. They look like they have …NO!
"Hey, don't you guys know how to do your work on your own?" I burst out, grabbing back my mathematic book from under their nose.
They don't even ask my permission to have my book. They are insufferable! I have this old fashioned quirk, I believe that copying other's work is unforgivable and people should try to do their own homework on their own without resorting to duplicate other's work. If they don't know how to do their homework, just ask me. I will explain it to them. But never copy my works. They should have to work on their problems on their own. They should have their own initiative to learn.
"Nah, we were just trying to solve this problem using your book as an example. The teacher's example are too vague" Enishi said.
I grabbed their book and compared them to mine. They have imitated everything exactly the way I have written in my book. I snarled and throw back the books at them and sat on my chair, stuffing the book in my backpack and zipped it shut. Enishi and Kaoru exchanged playful looks and I feel a warning alarm go off in my head. They are up to something again.
Tomoe's screams ripped through the noise from other people. Everyone's eyes are turned to Tomoe. She is still screaming her heads off, while backing away from her desk. She bumped hard to my desk and my desk just tilted over, spilling all my belonging on to the floor. She kept screaming.
"Tomoe! What-"I was about to ask her when I saw the a giant green toad under Tomoe's desk. I could see the slimy thing crawling on her textbook. I could see Kaoru and Enishi calmly surveying the scene.
They did it! They must have put the frog under Tomoe's table! And where did they get the frog?
"Shh, Tomoe, it's just a stupid frog." I said, taking the frog out by its slimy leg and tried to throw it away through the window.
Kaoru give me a dirty look and grabbed the frog from my hands immediately. She just holds the frog calmly and stuck a tongue at me.
"Poor frog, evil Kenshin is being rough with you right? Poor darling, did you sprain your leg?" she murmured and cooed at the frog.
It is so disgusting but I have to admit she have a strong stomach to do that. Girls don't have the nerve to even touch the frogs, not to mention cooing and stroking the frog like Kaoru did. Hell I don't even want to feel the slimy skin of the frog too. Frogs are disgusting creatures.
"Wibbit"the toad actually answered her.
She cupped the frog and took it to a cage behind the classroom. I nearly slapped my head for my stupidity.
Of course! It is the frog for the biology experiment!
Tomoe have stopped crying and screaming, but now she can't stop hiccupping. I gave her my mineral water and she gulped it down, trying to stop her hiccups.
"What kind of brother are you? What kind of person would play a stupid joke like that on her?" I yelled at Enishi. He shrugged.
"It's not me, I swear," he said, fluttering his eyelash trying to look innocent.
"Angel could just jump out from the cage and hide in Tomoe's desk all on her own" Kaoru interrupted us.
"Angel?"Tomoe asked incredulously, the expression of utter disgust stuck on her face. Kaoru actually named the frog Angel.
"My little Angel is a cute thing –"Kaoru defended the frog.
"It is gross!"Tomoe said to Kaoru. Kaoru rolled her eyes.
We just got absolutely nothing out of them from that moment on. I stared angrily at Enishi and he smiled at me, a smug smile I longed to wipe from his face.
Well, we'll see if that smug smile is still imprinted on your face tomorrow
KENSHIN'S POV
"Now please anyone answer this question please?" our mathematic teacher asked.
I look at the very hard mathematical problem on the blackboard. No one raised his or her hand because it is too hard, I could answer that easily. I am good in mathematics. I sneak a look at Enishi. He is still chewing on his pen and reading comic books. He probably would have no idea how to answer that question. This is my turn to get him in trouble. I took his right hand and stuck it up in the air. The teacher saw that.
"Yes, Enishi"He said, asking Enishi to answer that equation.
Enishi look at me with a deadpan expression. I did see him panic or sweating. He seemed unmoved by that. He stood up, walked to the front and took the chalk and answered the question. I gaped.
"Thank you Enishi. It is correct," the teacher said smilingly.
It is accurate! In fact he used a better way to solve that problem, a way I never used before. Enishi finished the task and wiped his hands clean of chalk. He walked back and sat at his seat.
"Now that's why I told you I did not cheat in the test," he said softly.
And now I truly did wonder. He tried to copy my homework every time he could and he never paid attention to the teacher when they are teaching. He never goes to tuition or extra class, and according to Tomoe he also never studied at home. Always sneaking out with his friends at night and sneaking back home at 3 or 4am. He always spends his free time trying to found out ingenious ways to make my life as a prefect hard. And he aced the last test.
Is he a sorcerer, lucky, cheater or just pure genius?
But still I have to find some proof that they did cheat.
Now I just have to vote for the latter.
KAORU'S POV
After the success of able to successfully shamed Tomoe yesterday, I feel good today. I have done everything Mr. Shinomori told me to do, and today I have time to spend on planning for the trip. Last year it's camping. What will we be doing this year? Another camping trip? That sounds boring. I pondered on that thought for a moment.
I could see two of my classmates entering the class. I actually came to school early and the class is still empty except for me. Enishi has left me alone, he has gone to the toilet. The two prefects are looking at me and whispering something. I knew them both. One of them I vaguely knew as Yumi is a beautiful girl and I hate to admit it, I am jealous of her beauty. The other girl is Kamatari, and I knew her well because I played a prank on her last year and she never forgives me for that till today.
Yumi looked at me slyly and bent near Kamatari and employed her famous stage whisper.
"Mr. Shinomori is crazy to pick them as our head of class. They are nothing but two useless idiots who cheated in their last test to be in this class. Especially that ugly girl -"
This is getting on my nerves I have enough of that cheating accusations coming from Tomoe and Kenshin. Now Yumi and Kamatari? And did they say that I am ugly? Of course I know I'm no beauty so I could understand it. But cheating?
I DID NOT cheat. Why doesn't they believe me! And who did spread these nasty rumors about us?
Enishi suddenly stepped in the class and approached Yumi in a blink of an eye.
"Look out Yumi, there's something on your hair,"Enishi said calmly as he sprayed something on Yumi's beautiful and glossy mane of black hair.
Yumi just yelped when she feel the wet stuff on her hair. She ran a hand through her hair and shrieked out loud when she saw her pink fingers. Enishi is actually holding a can of pink paint; I have no idea where he got it. Yumi ran frantically out of the class, probably heading towards the toilet. Kamatari followed her after she threw a dirty look at Enishi.
"I was going to use it on Kenshin, but now it's empty. Oh well I still have a bottle of fake blood and the extra strong glue…"Enishi sighed. I didn't really hear his words very clearly. I am thinking about what Yumi said.
"Why doesn't they believe that we didn't cheat? And why is it so hard to believe that we can be good class leaders? "I said, looking at Enishi. The accusations of cheating really upset me. And the ways they just underestimate my abilities just makes me…depressed. I am miserable.
"Because they still didn't learn the phrase, never judge a book by its cover?"
"But why? What did I do to deserve this? All I do was study…"
"Don't think about all this. All we have to do is show them. We have to show them that we can handle this responsibility, that we did earn that good result. We have to show them we can do it. Prove them wrong" Enishi said, ruffling my hair.
For once of my life, I didn't try to stop him ruffling my hair. Suddenly it feels great to have a best friend like him ruffling my hair. I feels comforting.
"You still have that fake blood right? I suddenly have a nasty idea. A very nasty idea." I said, suddenly cheering up.
Who said having responsibilities like being the class leader and so on would stop me playing pranks on Tomoe and Kenshin?
KENSHIN'S POV
"You know I have no idea how Kaoru managed to write 'Kick me' on my skirt" Tomoe said as both of us approached the school gate.
"I am baffled too. You have to be careful today not to make them suspicious. If not our plan will not work."
"It will. And I did notice a couple of cigarettes in her pack yesterday but I am too distraught over that snake to do anything about it."
"Great "I said, satisfied. Everything in my plan will work out just fine if we did not do anything until the recess time. After that Enishi and Kaoru will both be in deep trouble. And after this, I will have no more trouble coming from both of them.
KAORU'S POV
I slid a look at Tomoe. She still is concentrating on the last lesson before recess time. But she did look uncomfortable. She is fidgeting. It's like she feel something is not right, but she can't really put a finger on it. I hide my smile. This trick is working out just fine. Tomoe didn't suspect anything. Even after yesterday's mishap with her skirt she still made the mistake of not checking her seat before sitting on it. How dense could she be?
The teacher left us as the recess bell rings. Tomoe stood up and I could feel Kenshin let a loud gasp. He is sitting directly behind Tomoe, so he has a clear view of it.
"Eh Tomoe, you got blood on your skirt"Enishi said loudly with an expressionless face. Everyone heard what he said clearly.
Everyone in the class looked at her. I could see her face slowly losing its color as she whirled around and looked at her skirt. I sprinkled the fake blood on her seat earlier this morning. She didn't notice at all because Enishi distracted her and she just sat on the seat, not noticing anything unusual about it. The result is she looked like she stained her skirt with blood. And I know it is a girl's worst nightmare comes true.
"Nooooo!" Tomoe cried as she rushed out of the class.
I could see her tears of humiliation and suddenly I feel bad for her. I know if I'm in Tomoe's shoes I would want to kill someone for doing that to me. But now I hope she'll know that's what I feel when she accused me of cheating. The pain, the humiliation, the frustration, the disappointment and everything I felt when she point a finger at me for cheating. She has to pay for that stupid accusation.
"Both of you are going to pay, big time!"Kenshin said before going off to chase after Tomoe. I feel a little guilty now.
"Maybe we went too far-"Enishi cut me off.
"Don't worry Kaoru, she'll be fine."Enishi said positively. I nodded. Enishi is her brother, he would know her well and I hoped he is right about Tomoe.I hoped she would be just fine…
TO BE CONTINUED…
You know I feel bad about Tomoe, and Tomoe fans don't hate me! Tell me what you think of this chapter please?