Summary: Rules of Attraction's spin off. Misao found herself in an awkward situation with an arrogant guy. What a shock to find that he is the new chemistry teacher. AM

p.s: Nothing much in this chapter, but nevertheless, read and review:P Enjoy.

Chapter 5

I am Misao Makimachi, I have been 17 years old for 5 whole months, and for the first time in my entire lifetime, I am told that I have a brother just now. A half brother, to be correct. And the great thing is, I have totally fallen head over heels with him. It's not hard to do so, after all, he is an attractive adult male that exudes a lot of pheromones. Any healthy young women would fall for him, especially a hormonally imbalanced 17 years old girl like me. Not only he is my half brother, he is actually my chemistry teacher. Oh, the horror! What a coincidence, my life should be mad into a prime time soap drama!

"He's your step brother ," my grandfather said.

"NOOOO….!!" the echoes of my screams ripples throughout the entire neighborhood.

My grandfather was taken aback by my response. Very taken aback. He took three long step backwards from and stared at me.

"Jiiya, are you kidding? Cause it's not funny," I said, exasperated, wringing my hands with anxiety.

"You don't remember the way you were always sticking to him like a magnet would stick to the fridge? You guys were so close back then," he stopped, and taking in the wide eyed look from me, he sighed .

"Maybe we should get out of the rain first, and I'll explain it to you," and jiiya pulled me inside the Aoiya. He grabbed a towel from somewhere, I hadn't noticed where, and wrapped around me.

As he sat me down on the chair and sat down a mug of hot beverage, he sat at the opposite of me, and looked at me as I took a sip of the hot chocolate.

And he begin telling me the story.

There's a reason why I've been raised by my grandfather. He have told me before that my parents were killed in an car accident, and I was lucky because I escaped from that car crash with my life. Since then I was under the care of my grandfather. I never asked any questions, and I never did because I loved grandfather so much and I feared if I asked too much about my parents it would hurt him.

"Actually, your biological father died when you were just a baby. He had suffered from cancer such a long time, but still it came as a shock for us. He was a good man, and he loved you and your mother so much. Your mother was content being a single mother for several years, until a man entered her life. He was a regular customer here, coming here once a week, and he has a teenage son with him. Being single parents, they clicked, and thus they fall in love. It wasn't long before he proposed, and your mother agreed. You were just 5 years old when she remarried." he paused.

I was five back then. I'm too young too remember. That must be it. I nodded for him to continue. He resumed.

"When you know you have an older brother, you were ecstatic. You revered him. Where ever he would go, you would trail along behind him, looking up to him with your huge sparkling eyes. You adored him so much. I think at first, he was annoyed by you. After a while, he got used to it. I think he finally started to adore you too." he smiled, as he reminiscence the good old days. I smiled. Even back then, I liked him so much. Funny.

And I knew what's coming now. "And then the accident happened,"

"Yes, the accident. It happened when the four of you were on the way back from a trip at the theme park. The car skidded and collided with a huge tree. Both your step father and your mother died. You suffered some head injury, and you were in a coma for a short period of time" jiiya said carefully. I raised an eyebrow. Questioning.

That's a shock. "I was comatose? How did the accident happened? What about Aoshi?" I asked. Jiiya looked reluctant to continue, but as I pleaded with him with my eyes, he sighed and answered my question.

"He was driving the car," jiiya said finally.

"He's the driver?" I exclaimed, shocked. How old was he back then? He was old enough to have a driving license? The age difference between us is large after all.

"He just got his license for a couple of months, but everyone trusted him. But then he lost control of the car, and hit a tree. He suffered major cuts from the broken glass. That's all. He's lucky. Physically, he had the least injury. But he suffered from guilt. He is the cause of the accident, and yet, he was left unscathed. He blamed himself, hated himself for it."

I took a sip of the hot drink and stared at the cup, thinking hard. It must be hard on him. The guilty feeling would be overwhelming. I could understand. Is that the reason why he left us? Is it? Jiiya continued his story.

"You were in coma for three whole days, and during that time, he never left your side. He prayed and prayed for your safety, and held your hand, as if by holding your hand, he could transfer his life to you. When you woke up on the third day, he rejoiced. The next day, he packed his belongings and left our lives forever. Until tonight. I wonder why left back then. And I wonder what made him came back," jiiya ends the story. We sat quietly, contemplating the story for a few minutes, before I opened my mouth.

"He's teaching at my school, jiiya. In fact, he's teaching my class" I said quietly. Jiiya raised an eyebrow, quizzical.

"Oh? He's a teacher now. Interesting. It's been 10 years now, I want to meet him. Could you please invite him to come here tomorrow night. We should have a reunion dinner together. Could you please tell him about it tomorrow at school?" Jiiya took my hands and grasped them firmly, looking straight in my eyes, asking me to do this important thing, and I just could not say no, and I nodded in agreement.

My grandfather has left me with such a daunting task, and I have no idea how to do it because suddenly my views towards him change. I feel he is not only my teacher, but a brother as well. A brother I haven't seen for 10 years. I feel even more awkward facing him today.

I had fallen for him even though he is my teacher, plus he is about a decade older than me. Back then those facts doesn't even faze me a bit. So what if he's a teacher? It's just his occupation, dedicating himself to educating young minds like me. There's nothing wrong with liking a teacher. And about him being ten years older than me, I always thought that age are nothing but numbers, and it doesn't really measure what's inside the person.

But now what? He's my family. He's the only close relative I have aside from Jiiya. The feelings I have for him are wrong. It's…incest!!

That particular word boomed inside my head, rising several octaves and repeating itself several times before it died. I feel sick to my stomach.

If I told him how I feel. If I told him I liked him, not as brothers or sisters, but as a man and a woman, how would he react?

He would probably broke his poker face and run away from me, screaming with horror.

I have no idea how to deal with this guilt I feel from liking him. And I have no idea how will this end.

Last night when everyone's asleep I crept out of my room in Aoiya and went to the Aoiya library where all the dusty books we own are stored in. Aside from books Grandfather also stored photo albums here. Apparently grandfather stored dust bunnies here too. I scrambled around scrounging for long lost photo albums in the dark. Finally after I was completely cowered by spider webs and my nose are clogged with dust, I found it.

Jiiya was right. There was an old photo of a wedding. The wedding of my mother and Aoshi's father. Inside the photo the four of us were grinning madly at the photographer. In one photo, mom looked gorgeous in the white wedding gown, and I sat on her lap, my arms around her nape, I'm kissing her cheek. On the other side stood Aoshi beside his father, both sitting stiffly with solemn faces but there's a twinkle on their eyes, shining with inner happiness.

I turned the other page, and there was one picture of him, looking super annoyed by something clinging around his neck. That annoying clingy thingy is me. He was trying to push me off, and I was trying to stick on him. I adored him, I could see from the shiny eyes that gazed upon him worshiping his every move. Even back then I like him a lot.

Another picture is where the both of us cycling, he's in front, looking emotionless as always, and trying to put a distance between me who's cycling furiously to catch him.

In another picture I have fallen asleep in his arms and he was taking me to my bed. My face laid on his shoulders, my mouth open wide and he was looking at me, an amused expression on his face.

We used to be so happy together.

Even back then he always puts this face in front of people, this hardened mask of ice, hiding himself behind it. When will the mask melt? When will he drop the poker face he has and let other people know the real him, hidden inside?

I guess I'll never know.

Since today there's no chemistry, I won't be able to see him unless I go up to his office and knock on his front door. I gathered all my strength and when the bell rings and it's time for lunch, I lurched up unsteadily as I walked towards his office.

"Hey, where're you going? You don't look good," Kaoru told me, as I was just about to walk out of the classroom.

I probably don't look too good, I feel slightly light headed and dizzy with the thought of meeting him, and I could feel the blood slowly draining from my body as if a vampire's sucking on me now. My lips are probably bloodless and my face's as pale as the whiteboard in front of the classroom.

"I need to do something important, see you at the cafeteria," I waved unsteadily at Kaoru. She narrowed her eyes, suddenly suspicious of me. I grinned at her, trying to drown her suspicions, but instead it ignites her suspicion even more than before.

As I walked slowly towards the administration building where his room is located I could feel like I'm submerged into an ethereal landscape, the lights shining down on me became so unbearable and made everything in my world glowing , I have to shield my eyes for a while. It was then when I bumped into something solid and I lost my balance and fell, sprawled awkwardly on the floor, all the breath knocked out off me.

"You really are so accident prone," I heard that familiar drawl, and looked up to say something in response to him. He is standing right in front of me. My step brother. My sensei. The one I have a crush on. I tried to open my mouth. To say something to him. But I couldn't move, I felt that all my strength have left my body.

"Are you hurt?" he knelt down beside me and took a good look at me. I felt a cool touch on my forehead.

He slipped his hands under my knees and back and scooped me up in his arms effortlessly. He held me close and kept his right palm on my forehead.

"You're burning up. I'm taking you to the nurse," and as I breathe in the scent of him and revel in the warmth of his arms, I feel myself slipping in the realm of unconsciousness.

To be continued…

And thanks for those who dropped a line:

R.Kay
thanks!

EcstasyOfSesshoumaru
I'll continue.. Okay okay…hehe

Hieigirl17
Thanks for being the only one who thinks that Yahiko scene as shocking. Thanks! Yeah. Even I think the Yahiko thing is shocking.

Fresco
It's all thanks to Aoshi. Only he can gave you the warm fuzzy feeling, hehe. Sorry for the typo's, I'll try to fix it, eventually. :P

Shika-kun'sKeba771
I myself don't know where this is going, I've making it all up week after week. Hehe. Just pray that I don't do something evil to them in the next chapter.

dragondemoness91
sorry to tell you, but I don't choose the pen name eevilfaerie just for fun, it's because I'm evil! Hehe. But seriously not all of my chapters ends with a cliffhanger. I think.

christina
I've yet seen the devil beside you drama. But I don't think this story's going to go that way. But I've seen Gokusen. Kyaaa for Shin Sawada:P

petite.ina
wow! Heh

icyblossom3
don't worry, I'll update as early as I can :P

prettyshinomori
really, yes, they are related. Will they be together? Even I don't know yet.

gwen
I never had a beta tester, hehe, sorry.