"Catching up on some late night reading?" Kaname's eyes widened like dinner plates as Yashiro closed the door behind him. His face looked contorted as if he was in pain but she knew it was from amusement. Probably the look on her face. 'I can't believe that I have to see him again, LIKE THIS! God, if I ever told my older brothers and sisters... oh god... I would never hear the end of it!!' He walked, more like floated, over to where she was lying pathetically and bended down a bit to see the title of the book. "A Tale of Two Cities?" He nodded, as if approving her choice of literature. Moko looked around, a bit confused on what to do. 'Just keep calm. I'm sure something good will come out of this.'
"Uh, yeah. It's a personal favorite of mine." Yashiro smiled gently. "As is mine." A silence that was quite awkward descended until Moko cut to the quick.
"So why are you here anyway? Not that I'm trying to be rude that is." Yashiro nodded again.
"Understandable, but please do not be suspicious. It's just that I needed to ask you a few simple questions. That's all." Moko looked at him with a 'Well, continue' kinda stare. "What do you remember exactly at the waterfall?" Moko looked down at her page and thought for a minute. "Not, a lot really. Why? Is it important?"
Yashiro seemed very happy about the lack of memory so she guessed it was a good thing after all. "No... No. I was just wondering. Miss Mogami wasn't very helpful either." He sighed as though disappointed and checked his watch. "Seems everything is a bit fuzzy these days." Moko arched an eyebrow and he lightly chuckled.
"Anyway I would like you to know that all the days that you missed will not be on your personal record and you will not have to make up any labs or field exercises." Moko eyes brightened and if she wasn't confided to a bed she would have been jumping. "But you must remember... you only missed about three and a half days of school."
Her happy moment was about to come to an end by the next sentence if his cell didn't ring. "Oh... hold on a moment please." He fished it out of his front pocket and answered without moving to a further away place or checking to see who the caller was. He answered with a crisp "Yashiro" and waited for only a couple of seconds before he let out a quiet sigh of irritation. After a couple more yes's he hung up.
"I'm very sorry about this... but what is more fitting? A kimono or a..." He seemed strained to say anything more and Moko didn't want to laugh. His face looking like he was about to sneeze. "A kimono or a cape? For a meeting that is." Moko's eyes widened so much that it passed dinner plates. Her mouth was put into a tight pucker like she ate something sour and her eyes started watering. A 'Who?' was all she could strain out.
"The Headmaster."
Yashiro could say nothing else as the young woman started to laugh very, very loudly.
Yashiro felt really embarrassed. He couldn't believe that he had to ask a question like that. 'Stupid headmaster and his weird taste.' He didn't know what to do with the woman in hysterics like this but he had to admit. It charmed him. When he first went to recruit her she had the most serious expression on her face. She didn't crack a smile of happiness when she heard the news just shock.
"I'm honored. Thank you very much."
Her voice and tone were very even, not a hint of happiness, just impassiveness. Now here she was, laughing because of something foolish. He cocked his head a bit. 'She should smile more often. That way she wouldn't look like a statue.' He noticed that the laughing had stopped, and snapping out of his stasis, he saw that she was now very red in the face.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed..."
Yashiro shook his head. "It's alright. I do not mind that you laugh, it is pretty amusing. It's just I really need to know or he'll have my neck." Moko looked at him with an impassive eye.
"Why should I?"
"Besides the fact that I'll be blamed for all eternity if I let him go to a meeting not dressed to his standards?" She held up a hand. "Please, do not explain any further." She thought about it for a bit when she nodded to no one but herself.
"A kimono. Since it is fall, a red one with a gold sash or a purple one, same color sash." He took no hesitation to call back the headmaster and told him what she just instructed. Moko could hear the cry of joy that was emitted from the ear piece. Yashiro hung up and tried to get the ringing out of his ears before smiling gently at Moko. "Well that's taken care of. Thank you very much Miss Kaname."
His voice and smile mad her heart beat faster. She really hoped it wasn't being shown on the stupid heart monitor that they attached to her for no good reason. The wild incessant beeping proved her wrong. Yashiro noticed that her face had turned a bit flushed and the beeping he started to panic.
"Miss... is something wrong? You're face its red and that monitor!"
"NO... NO I'M FINE!" Yashiro tried to lean in close but Moko threw up her hands to keep his own away from her face. "Please! I insist I'm fine!"
"But that' says it's going 130! Is that even normal?!"
"I don't know but I'm just fine!!"
Through their struggling somehow the button to call for the nurse got pushed. She came, as was her duty, but gasped at the sight of a man holding on to a woman, a student no less, and seemed to be pushing her back in bed while the other was screaming, face very red. Beat red, like a tomato. They both heard the gasp and both moved their heads mechanically toward the sound, mouths open also in shock.
It's safe to say that this once very innocent meeting for information had become something to be most suited best into one word. Awkward.
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Early the next morning
"Ahh, I must have slept..."
Waking up, trying to clean up the drool that appeared on her book, she sighed in disdain at the mess. Books filled with magic and demons were placed everywhere and her laptop was next to her in idle. Though Kyoko did exclaim that she was going to see Ren again, she kinda noticed one little tinny-tiny not even worth her acknowledgment problem. She didn't know how.
She spent most of the night looking up on the internet about demons and swiftly paging through her texts but not once did she see anything that would help her. (Though she did find an article that had a very nice spell combo but if you screwed up you had to deal with seven days of bad luck... and really sweaty feet, which neither sounded all that appealing.) Kyoko felt completely hopeless and lost and wish there was a faster way to get the answer she needed. She rubbed her eyes and decided to go to the snack room down stairs to get some food, not wanting to use the kitchen. Not wanting to look like a slop and thinking a walk would clear her head, she changed her clothes and put on some sneakers. She grabbed her cell phone and locked the door, wishing she had a spell to put some extra protection on it, just in case Sho decided to come back since he suddenly disappeared last night. On her way down she heard two girls gossiping, she would have moved on when she heard them say something that immediately caught her attention.
"I know something that could top that. Last night Sho charged his way up here as drunk as an American during football season and tried to force his way up to that new girl's room." She halted in her tracks and peaked around the corner. The two girls were waiting for the elevator so they wouldn't see her.
"Really? Why?"
"Who knows? I didn't think it was true but you can ask anyone on that floor! Security came up around midnight last night to pick him up. He was unconscious and had a beer bottle in his hand!" The other girl gasped. "Is Sho okay?"
"He didn't get suspended or anything. I heard from his friend he only got off with a warning and cleaning duty for the rest of the week."
"Oh, that's not that bad."
"No, he cleans the whole school. He even cleans after all training sessions." The other girl sighed unhappily.
"I wonder what happened. To think I thought he was cute."
"You and your morals! I'm still going after him and a lot of other girls too. They expect that this is some kind of set up." The other girl stared at the other with wide eyes.
"Who would go to such lengths to just do that?" The other shook her head. The elevator ding and they walked in.
"Who knows, but who ever his fan club suspects, lets hope that girl or guy has enough power to keep them at bay or they'll get hurt. Badly."
"I feel kinda sad for them."
"Me too..."
Kyoko stood still as the elevator doors closed. She couldn't move or speak. 'Sho has a fan club? SINCE WHEN?!' She gulped and looked at the door way at the opposite end of the hall. 'Ahh, stair well. Yeah that'll work.' (At this time her hunger was more important than some stupid fan girls.)
Taking the stairs was a great idea since the elevators seemed to be crowded by these girls. They were a frightening sight, many foaming at the mouth, yelling angry words at the iron boxes. She saw one banner that made her blood run cold.
"SHO FUWA FAN CLUB!"
"OH MOI GAWD! THERE SHE IS!!" A battle roar shook the beautiful building and its chandeliers. Once again, she ran as if her life depended on it which it did. Running as fast as her feet could carry her she sprinted down the pathway with the mob behind her. Things were flung at her and a very pointy high heel barely missed her ear.
'Oh come on! Why does this have to happen to me?! I don't even like that jerk! GAH!! THAT'S A TOMATO! THAT'S A WASTE OF GOOD...OH GOD THAT WAS CLOSE'
She knew that if she wanted to make this out alive she had to head for the deeper part of the woods. But she couldn't find any clear entrance. 'Oh man, the only good one is right near the school but by then I might have already been tomato splattered and stabbed through the heart by those stupid shoes! I can't see Moko looking like that?!'
She was running, fast down the hill, too fast for her liking especially since there were a lot of rocks in her way. 'Come on! Give me a sign! Anything!'
"There."
She didn't question the voice that suddenly appeared. Her legs some how propelled over the bushes and carried her faster than ever into the woods. As she ran, Kyoko heard the girls less and less until she couldn't hear them at all. Another turn and she collapsed onto the ground her legs not being able to hold her up any longer. She couldn't believe she basically ran about a mile trying to get away from those mindless zombies. Yeah, sure she was one of them at a point in her life but she got over it. So proves the saying 'It takes one to know one.'
Standing up, though a bit wobbly, and brushed off the dirt. 'Where did that voice come from?' Shaking the thought she looked around, hoping to find some clue to get back onto the main road. She started to shiver out of fear when she noticed a rock out crop a couple feet away. It was the same one that Kyoko was standing on when she fired her arrow.
Moko smiled and another demon like the last one came out of no where and was almost on Moko. Kyoko couldn't think. She pulled out an arrow and a bow. She aimed it at the moving demons head. "HUKADO #2 DRAGON BITE!" Without reciting it she let loose the arrow and it hit dead center. It disintegrated before it hit Moko. Kyoko jumped from the small rock that protruded out from the ground and landed next to her. "Hey are you okay now?" Moko looked at her with surprise. "Um, how did you..?"
"I have no idea."
Moko smiled. "Okay. Well we are tied again."
She put her stuff down on the rock and sat down looking at the little field in front and then the surrounding forest. If she was here then she must be exactly two miles away from the gym. 'The breeze sure is nice. Very nice actually.' She let her eyes drift shut as she felt the forest leaves rustle musically, the grass swaying in time and the power pulsing through her veins and her surroundings keeping tempo. She listened intently to this secret melody. A harmony seemed to come from itself, the light creating a dazzling affect. It was only in this moment of bliss finally hit her.
Her eyes snapped open, a light came through and a smirk painted itself on her face. It was like that forest in her old home before they moved into Tokyo. She stood up and inhaled deeply.
"I WILL FIND YOU!! JUST YOU WAIT!!"
She exhaled and giggled at her childishness. She looked at the surroundings; a maniac kind of grin plastered itself on her face. "Well, now that I'm here, I might as well enjoy myself. Now where to go?" It took only two seconds until she jumped off of her rock outcrop and started to run back into the forest did she hear it.
"So, this is she."
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So there we go. A nice long chapter. Well at least I hoped it was long. I am very sorry for the long wait. I promised that I would have in and blady blady blah. Well let s just say in this house hold things never go according to plan. Any plan at that.
So once again I bow deeply towards the computer to all of you who read this story and smile in strained hope that you all will still continue to read this as I try to make this into the best fanfiction I can.
Once again thank you for your kind words and urgings and will see you again in chapter 8 ^_^.
Until then!
~Mangaka-sensi~
