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Reoko sat in her desk, whistling happily. She had a wonderful time the previous night. "Baby baby I could have another baby!" She sang, twirling around in her spinning chair. Students walked past her, giving her a weird look as she greeted them as "5th period students!"
Susan heard Reoko singing her song as she walked in, and gleefully skipped over to her teachers desk. "Another kid?! Oh that's so wonderful!" She leaned down to hug her teacher.
Reoko's happy cheer suddenly disappeared and she glared at Susan with a menacing look. "Don't touch me." She said.
Susan sweat dropped, backing off and running to her seat.
As soon as Susan sat down, Reoko's cheer reappeared, and she continued singing and greeting students.
Takiko walked in, an extremely visible frown on her face. Rimundo stayed close to her, not saying anything, just staying close. Takiko sat in her new seat without looking at Reoko. Rimundo placed his hand gently on her shoulder. "Will you be alright?" He asked her. Takiko looked up at him and nodded. "Alright, wait for me after class."
"More like you will wait for me." Takiko tried to laugh, but it was a sorry attempt. Rimundo frowned before walking to his seat.
"Hey! No frowny-pants in my classroom today! I'm having a good day. Don't ruin it!" Reoko exclaimed, pointing at Takiko. Reoko stole a quick glance at Rimundo, then ran to her classroom phone, quickly dialing the office number.
"Hitsuboshi-sensei here…no, wait, it's too sensitive be talking about in front of students." She hung up, then ran out of the classroom, and down the hall towards the office.
Busting into the office, she exclaimed, "I thought you were going to switch Rimundo with one of Yukari's kids!?" Reoko looked a little bit angered.
The secretary smacked her gum loudly and gave Reoko a dull look. "We can't, end of story."
"WHAT?!" Reoko yelled, about to throw the secretary out the window.
"Just send him to the office when he does something bad."
Reoko just frowned. "You have ruined my day." She turned and walked back to her classroom. She thought about having a baby along the way, and instantly became cheerful.
"I'm back class!" She exclaimed, walking over to the board. She picked up a piece of chalk and began to write the days lesson on the board.
"What was that all about?" Rimundo asked.
The chalk dropped out of Reoko's hand, and she twitched a bit before bending down to pick it up. "It was nothing." Reoko lied, and continued writing the lesson.
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It was after class, and Reoko sat in her chair, watching her students. Takiko had been right; Rimundo was the one who had to wait for her. Takiko stood after gathering her stuff, and Rimundo moved closer to her. "Are you alright?" He asked, concern in his eyes. Takiko looked up at him tiredly.
"Yes, Rimundo…I don't want aunt Reoko to throw chalk or a radio at my head for bringing up family matters." Takiko winked at Reoko.
"Don't tempt me!" Reoko exclaimed, teasing them. "I might send Shiori after you to haunt your dreams for all eternity." She told them, nodding with a matter of fact look.
Rimundo grew pale, but decided to keep the mood light by grabbing Takiko, hugging her close to him. "OMG not that!" Reoko could see that behind the joke he was serious. Reoko laughed and watched as the two left the room.
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Reoko stood outside of Akihiro's gym office, which was located in the men's locker room. Sweaty boys that didn't know her thought she was a student, and blushed a deep red as they walked past her to their locker. "Oh grow up. It's not like I haven't seen a naked guy!" She exclaimed.
This only caused the boys to blush a deep crimson, and some refused to even look her way. Some boys whistled at her as they walked past her, snickering with some of their other guy friends.
Reoko sighed. It was so immature of them to do so, but they were only in High School. Reoko had a spaghetti strapped tank top on with a pair of mid-thigh shorts. Her hair was in a up do (like Riza Hawkeye's), and she had golden hoops hanging from her first pair of piercings, and then other type rings in the other holes in her ears.
Leaning against the wall, she sighed, holding her stuff closer to her chest. Suddenly she heard a bang from behind her, and turned to look back at who had caused the noise. A boy, a senior most likely, stared at her, a confident grin on his face. "Hey baby, how'd you like to have a nice time?" He asked.
Reoko gave him a bewildered stare, then laughed. "Me? Are you nuts?"
"No. I know what's good." He said.
Reoko sighed, turning to face him. "I'm a teacher you dimwit. Now back off before I give you detention for the rest of the school year."
The boy turned a deep red. "Teacher? Oh, um, sorry…"He muttered, quickly running off.
"Jerk…"She turned, to face a pair of emerald green eyes. "Oh, hey Akihiro." She said, smiling.
"Why are you in here?" He asked, a little annoyed as they moved for the exit of the boys locker room.
"Cause, I'm telling you, I want my car back!" She exclaimed as they walked out of the school building.
"Well, I need it."
"Then why did I have to give you a ride to school today?"
"I didn't feel like driving."
"Brat."
They jumped into her convertible, and she drove him home. He climbed out. "See you tomorrow Mom. You won't have to give me a ride home tomorrow." He told her, before walking into his house.
Reoko sighed, and drove herself home. Parking in her driveway, she walked to the front door. It wasn't locked. "This is…weird." She thought, opening the door and walking into her house. Removing her shoes, she looked into the kitchen, seeing the refrigerator door was wide open. She suddenly had a huge feeling that someone was in her house.
Walking back out into the main entrance hall where her stairs were, she called out, "Hello?"
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Shiori slumped sideways onto the bed, one side of her face against the mattress while she stared at the flat screen that hung against her wall. It showed the building they had been at just yesterday, cops everywhere, cleaning up the mess. They cleaned up the destroyed bits of building, and the bloody street below. Shiori knew who that was on the street. Just thinking about her made her start bawling. She'd found out when she had turned on the TV that morning during breakfast. Apparently her children thought it was better if they not tell her and Kyo.
Kyo was down there right now, claiming bloody mess. Takiko hadn't spoken to hardly anyone since the accident. Hikari used to baby-sit her while Shiori was off doing something.
Kyo must have claimed her, because suddenly Hikari's picture flashed up on the screen, her name written in bold with a made up age and birth year. Shiori buried her face into the bed, refusing to look at the screen.
"I know…I just wish that I could at least have been more prepared…I wish I could have been there for her in her last hours…"
Shiori, if you had been there right that second, you would have been the one to fall to a pancake.
"I know."
She said for me to tell you…that she was sorry. I believe she meant that she loves you.
This made Shiori drop to her knees and cry. Natsumi had to kneel down also.
"No, he's probably going to be down making funeral arrangements…" Shiori sobbed, leaning her forehead against the mirror.
"You got that from Lord of the Rings."
It's true, though. Why…why don't you go see your sister?
"I don't want to…"
Shiori, stop this NOW. You are SISTERS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! You are supposed to be there for each other! Don't you DARE make the same mistake that I did, or so help me, when this is all over, I will smack you! Or I'll get Reika to ask Takiko to beat you down with her Naginata, either one.
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Reoko walked around her house, searching every room. She jumped at every little noise. She finally checked her room, deciding that could be the only place whoever it was was hiding. Opening her door, she walked in, then closed it. "Hello?" She called again, walking forward.
"REOKO-CHAN!" She heard a strong deep voice exclaim.
She was suddenly tackled onto her bed by a strong body, and she freaked. "WHA?! WHO?!"
"It's me!" Her attacker raised himself off of her, but continued to look down at her with his hands beside her head. "Ookami!"
Reoko looked up at him, turning pink. "What are you doing!? Get off of me!" She exclaimed, trying to push him off.
He grinned, only leaning in closer. "Aw Reoko, you know that you missed me more than you know."
"Stop it! I swear I'll kick you!" She exclaimed.
His lips were only inches away from hers.
BRRRINNGGG!
The phone on the bed stand rang, and she let out a huge sigh of relief. She reached over for it, and answered it. "Hello?" She wanted to thank her savior, but couldn't at the moment.
"Hello Reoko." Reoko recognized Shiori's extremely tired voice.
"Hey Shiori. You need something?" She knew by Shiori's tone that she was upset. She glanced up at Ookami, who had an extremely annoyed look on his face.
"Um…yes, actually…would it be alright if I come over and…talk to you?" Shiori asked, still a bit unsure. "Oh yes! Please, feel free to drop by." Reoko kept her tone from sounding too needy.
"Hurry up." Ookami mouthed to Reoko.
"…um…alright…I'll be there in a second." Reoko was about to hang up, but Shiori continued. "And if there is someone there who is doing something that could make him convicted of something, tell them I am bringing my gun."
Reoko didn't dare say anything else except, "See you later."
She then hung up and looked up at Ookami. "See! A gun! A gun! She'll bring a gun!" She exclaimed.
"I don't care!" Ookami shut her up with a kiss.
"RAAWRGH!" She used all of her might to push him off of her.
A few kicks and punches later, Reoko was serving Ookami tea downstairs. "I didn't know you liked it rough Reoko-chaannn…"He said, rubbing his sore head. She glared over at him from the stove and quickly said, "I'm joking I'm joking!"
She then smiled, and turned back to the kettle. "You know, Sari wouldn't of been very happy about that…" She told him.
Ookami got silent. Sari had died a while back after having their one and only son. "Yeah…well, she would've wanted me to be happy and that's what makes me happy…"He muttered.
Reoko just rolled her eyes. Reoko suddenly became aware of the sound of an engine out side. Reoko glanced out the window and saw a metallic blue Mustang GT Shelby convertible outside, parked in the driveway. Shiori stepped out; she had been true to her word. Reoko could visibly see Shiori's hand going to the hilt of her gun.
Reoko sweat dropped, walking out of her kitchen. Opening the front door, she put on her best smile, and said to Shiori, "There will be no need for that." Originally, she would've freaked out and ran outside, waving her arms around with a teabag in her hand screaming, 'NO! PUT IT AWAY! PUT IT AWAY!' but she decided against it.
Shiori walked next to her, peering around the corner to see Ookami sitting at the table. As soon as she recognized him, she snapped her fingers and put the gun back in her pocket.
Reoko suddenly had an annoyed look on her face. "Who were you expecting to be in there? A real live criminal?!" She exclaimed, then smiled. Shiori didn't laugh like she normally would.
"Well, you sounded a bit too eager on the phone…so naturally I thought someone was here doing something you didn't like…and yes, I do consider him a criminal waiting to happen." Shiori told her.
Reoko sweat dropped. "He's not that bad…and I can handle myself when it's REAL danger. "She said, motioning for Shiori to have a seat at her kitchen table.
"Where's my tea Reoko-chan?" She heard Ookami call from the kitchen. "I'm thirsty." She heard him whine.
"I'm coming!" She exclaimed, walking into the kitchen to set up the tea cups. Normally Shiori would have made a snide comment to Ookami, but she said nothing, only stared at the table blankly.
"Is it fine if I take my bracelet off, Reoko?" She asked, not looking at her sister.
"Of course." Reoko told her. Shiori nodded and slipped the charm bracelet off her wrist, placing it onto the table. Immediately her human ears were replaced by her dog ears. She twitched them.
"Ah…that's better." Shiori whispered to herself.
Reoko pulled the hot tea off the stove, and poured the tea into the cups in front of Ookami and Shiori. After pouring herself tea, she sat down, and took a sip of it. "So, what did you want to talk to me about Shiori-chan?" She asked.
Ookami wasn't paying attention to any of this. He seemed to be lost deep in thought as he sipped his tea. Her question made Shiori tense up, her eyes widen and her breathing quicken.
"I can't really…find the words to explain it…Do you have a TV somewhere close by?" Reoko pointed behind her. Shiori nodded and stood, walking over to the TV. She grabbed the controller and turned it on, flipping the channels to the news. It still showed her daughter's death as the top story. Reoko couldn't see Shiori's face, but she could smell her sister's tears. "Kyo isn't home…he's down there. I couldn't bear to go. I thought…maybe…" Shiori managed to keep her voice under control.
Reoko got up from her seat, and walked over to Shiori. She put her arm around Shiori, and said, "It's okay Shiori, I'm here." Reoko patted her on the back softly.
This made Shiori turn around and start sobbing on Reoko's shoulder. Over and over Shiori tried to say something, but another set of sobs erupted from her. Ookami shifted nervously in his seat.
"Shhhh, calm down Shiori-chan. Take a few deep breaths." Reoko hugged her sister, patting her on the back. She was used to consoling people who were upset; her daughters could get quite dramatic.
Shiori did as she was told, probably realizing that she would have a heart attack if she didn't calm down.
"…do you want some sweets? They make everything better." Reoko told her, smiling slightly.
Ookami finished his tea, and stood from his chair. He took his cup to the sink then, looked back at Reoko. "I'll be in the office uh, surfing the web on the computer." He told her, walking from the kitchen.
Shiori nodded, letting Reoko guide her to the table and into a seat. Reoko went to the cupboard, looking for some sweets. Shiori was silent for a while.
"…When someone looses an item precious to them, they cry, right? But…after gaining something else…when they lose it again, they don't cry as much…after a while of repeating the process…they eventually sigh and go get that item again." Shiori spoke quietly. Reoko was about to say something, but Shiori interrupted. "But when a mother loses her child…she can't replace it. And even if she continually loses her children…she never sighs and decides to move on, thinking she will just make another to erase the loss in her heart."
Reoko was silent for a moment. "I understand what you mean Shiori-chan…but, I like to think that the child that has passed would want me to be happy. So, I stay strong for that child, and I live life to the fullest for them." Reoko said softly.
"I know…you are exactly right." Shiori said nothing more, but gently placed her forehead on the table with her hands over her head.
Reoko moved away from the cupboard and began to rummage through the fridge. She grabbed a Jell-O cup and a spoon, then placed it in front of Shiori. "It's all I could find…Reika's going to kill me later…"Reoko muttered the last part.
Shiori looked up, her eyes swollen and tired. She grabbed the Jell-O and started to spoon some into her mouth. "Mmm…good…yet I still haven't found a Jell-O better than Crin's."
Reoko smiled. "Well, is there anything else I can do for you?" Reoko asked.
Shiori looked at Reoko. "Can I borrow your sofa?" She asked.
Reoko raised her eyebrows. "Um…I guess." Reoko pointed tin the direction of the family room. Shiori muttered thanks and dashed in there. Wondering what in the world her sister was up to, Reoko followed a minute later. She found Shiori fast asleep on the couch.
Reoko sweat dropped. "I have extra beds you know.." Reoko muttered, turning and walking into the office. Ookami sat at the desk, hunched over to look at the computer screen. He didn't even have to look back to know Reoko was there.
"Hey." He said, his eyes still on the computer screen. "Sorry I kind of…came the wrong day." He mumbled his apology.
Reoko sighed, walking over and hugging him from behind the chair. "It's okay. You can't predict the future." She told him.
Ookami suddenly jumped up from his chair and tackled Reoko to the ground. "I knew you'd warm up!" He exclaimed joyfully.
Reoko then exclaimed, "Get off of me you-" She was cut off when she heard her husband's voice.
"What in the world? Ookami?!" Tero exclaimed, now angry. "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! NOW! MOVE IT! DON'T COME BACK!" Tero grabbed a random umbrella that was leaning against the wall. He threatened to beat Ookami with it.
Ookami jumped up and dashed out of the room, running towards the front door. "Ooo! An umbrella! I'm so scared!" Ookami exclaimed sarcastically as he ran into the kitchen.
Reoko sighed and stood up, looking at the fuming Tero. "Hey, I can handle myself." She told him.
Tero looked back at her. "Why are you still friends with him?! He does this EVERY time!" He exclaimed, running over to her and hugging her.
"I'm still here!" Ookami exclaimed from the kitchen table.
They both sweat dropped.
"Just calm down…"She told him as he pulled her close. He took a deep breath as he let go of her a little bit, but his arms were still around her waist. "What are you doing home so early?" she asked.
"Not many people have had recent brain problems." He told her smiling. "That and…I'm my own boss and I felt like we could spend a little more quality time together."
Reoko smiled at him. "Well, apparently we can't. Shiori's on the couch sleeping and…Ookami expects me to feed him." She sweat dropped.
"Well, then make Ookami leave, and…Shiori is a deep sleeper, right?" He asked, pulling her into a kiss.
Reoko pulled away. "We are not going to make a baby while Shiori is sleeping on the couch…"She told him, releasing herself from his arms and walking towards the kitchen.
"I'm hungry Reoko-chan!" She heard Ookami exclaim.
"Shut up." Reoko whispered to him as she entered the kitchen.
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Slowly, Shiori awoke. she knew she had been asleep for a couple hours...but how many to be exact? She could hear someone having a conversation in the kitchen. she thrust her legs over the side of the couch and headed into the kitchen.
Reoko looked up from where she was at the stove. "Good morning Shiori. Would you like some scrambled eggs?" She pointed to the pan with the spatula she had been scrambling the eggs with.
Tero sat at the kitchen table, reading the morning paper and sipping his coffee. "Good morning Shiori." He didn't look up from his paper.
Shiori's eyes widened. "WHAT?! MORNING?! HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN ALSEEP?! Oh and good morning to you too."
"Oh, um, for a while. I called Takiko and told her you were here so don't worry." Reoko turned back to the scrambled eggs, muttering "Oh snap, they're done." And then scooping them onto a plate. Taking the plate, she set it in front of Tero.
Tero looked a little annoyed that Shiori had fallen asleep and staid the night but, he didn't say anything.
"Can I get anything for you?" Reoko asked Shiori.
Shiori shook her head violently, still freaking out a bit.
"Shiori-Chan, calm down." Reoko laughed.
"Sorry...just...i got to get home and be with Kyo and my kids..." Shiori seemed worried, walking hurriedly to the counter and grabbing her bracelet and car keys. "I'll grab something to eat on the way...thanks for letting me stay over!" Shiori called as she hurried out the front door.
"Uh, bye?" Reoko questioned as she heard the front door slam. "That was weird." She sat down at the table, gazing at her husband.
"Mhm." He nodded, shoveling eggs into his mouth.
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When Shiori got home, she immediately called for Kyo. "Kyo! Kyo, where are you?" Kyo poked his head out of the pool room.
"Shiori, I'm right here, what's wrong?" Kyo asked, concern sweeping his face.
"First of all, why in the world are you in there?"
"Crin's here, she filled the pool with chocolate. I'm making sure she doesn't destroy something." Shiori nodded, fully understanding what he was doing.
"Second of all...I just wanted to make sure you were alright."
Kyo gave Shiori a funny look. "Make sure I'm alright?" He asked her. Shiori nodded quickly. "Why?"
Shiori looked down at her feet. "Last night i had a nightmare."
Kyo immediately sighed. When Shiori had first gotten Natsumi, she started having nightmares. She could never remember how, but she would remember him dying somehow. Kyo wrapped his arms around Shiori, pulling her close to him. "I am not going anywhere, Shiori. I wouldn't ever leave you." Kyo told her sternly while he stroked her back. Shiori smiled for him, but she couldn't believe him.
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Reoko sat at home, talking on the phone with her son Satoshi. He was rarely ever over at her house, or around the family for that matter. He liked his privacy and he liked solitude. His mate, Manami, was a successful business women, so he rarely saw her. Satoshi was a Tokyo U professor, and he was always busy with his class. Satoshi and Manami barely had anytime to try to have kids, let alone take care of one. So they decided it was best for them not to have kids at all.
Tero sat next to Reoko at the kitchen table, holding her hand as she talked to her son. He knew that it pained her to only see him once a month or less; she was used to having a tight knit family.
Reoko suddenly hung up the phone and sighed. "I miss him a lot Tero, I really do." She told him, sighing slightly. "He was the most behaved child I've ever seen. I guess I grew too fond of him." She laughed.
Tero shook his head and kissed her cheek. "It's okay. I miss him just as much as you do. You know he loves us very much." He told her smiling.
She nodded. "I guess its just hard since I see my other children at least every other day." She smiled wearily. "Well, I'm glad that we've decided to have another one." She told him.
Tero laughed. "Yeah, it's going to be fun." He told her.
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Reoko sat in her 5th period class on a Monday afternoon with her face head down on the desk as she drifted in and out of sleep. She heard movement around her and grumbled, lifting her head up. "Class? Already?" She mumbled, sitting up. She stretched her arms above her head yawning. She was supposed to be getting a new student today, even though her classroom was full. Apparently the office thought she was going to give up her desk. No way that was going to happen. She waited to see a new face walk in the door but never saw one. She shrugged that off as soon as the bell rang. "All right settle down class, settle down..."She told them standing up out of her chair.
The door suddenly burst open and there stood a boy of about 5'9. He was so perfectly beautiful it was as if he wasn't human. He had short black hair and stunning blue eyes. "I'm sorry I'm late. I couldn't find the classroom." He then smiled the perfect smile.
Reoko's heart melted at that smile, and she heard a few other girls sigh. "Oh it's okay, um, Katsu-san! I won't count it this time." Normally she would give someone a 2 hour detention for being late, but she was being really nice to Katsu. "Class this is Katsu Niiko." She told them.
Katsu walked over to her and shook her hand suddenly. "Pleasure to meet you, Hitsuboshi-sensei I presume?" He asked.
Reoko nodded. His hands are so soft! Her cheeks turned pink. "Pleased to meet you too." She pulled her hand away. She was about to tell him to take a seat, but then realized she didn't have enough desks. Her head suddenly swiveled in Rimundo's direction and she pointed at him. "Rimundo, get up from your seat, and stand up here. Bring your things." She told him, then turned back to Katsu. "Please, sit there Katsu-san."
Rimundo looked like he was going to argue, but Takiko turned in her seat to look at him. The look she gave him must have made him stop whatever he was going to say, because his jaw tightened and he grabbed his stuff, stomping up to the front of the classroom. Suddenly he turned to look at Reoko. "I guess I'll have to bug YOU the whole time, huh?" H grinned teasingly. Takiko shot him a death glare before turning her attention back to Reoko.
Reoko glared at Rimundo, then turned her attention back to Katsu. "You can take his seat Katsu."
Katsu smiled, and did as he was told, striding to Rimundo's desk. He looked down at his ring, which was still glowing from his previous handshake with Reoko. "Pink…"He murmured.
Reoko walked behind her desk, and faced the chalkboard. She picked up a piece of chalk and began to write stuff on the board, whistling happily. She saw Rimundo out of the corner of her eye and she snickered slightly. "Alright, these are the vocabulary words. Copy them down please. Rimundo, you can stay after class if you'd like to copy them down. Either that or just copy them from Takiko after school." She told him as she sat down at her desk.
Rimundo said nothing, only looked for long periods of time out the window, letting the sunshine warm his skin. The look in his silver eyes made him seem like his mind was somewhere else. Takiko would occasionally give him worried looks, but nevertheless continued to do her work.
About 45 minutes later, the bell rang for class to end, and Reoko exclaimed "Yippee! I made it through another 5th period!" She stretched her arms up in the air. She saw that many of her female students were crowding around Katsu's desk. "Hey!" She exclaimed in an irritated fashion. "Get out of my classroom! This is my free period!"
The girls looked up, some annoyed and some frightened, and ran out of her classroom. Katsu smiled at her as he stood from his desk. He walked over to her, holding out his work.
"Here Hitsuboshi-sensei. I finished all of the work you assigned us. Even the homework." He set it down on her desk.
"R-really?!" Reoko exclaimed happily. "Thanks!" She took the papers and began reading them.
"Bye Hitsuboshi-sensei." And with that he walked out of her classroom.
Rimundo on the other hand was still staring out the window. Takiko had tried to get him to budge but he didn't acknowledge her in the slightest bit, which caused her to sigh with disappointment and walk away. Reoko looked at him. She grabbed a ruler and tossed it at his head. It hit his head...apparently he had been way out of it. He didn't react. Growling, Reoko took out a box of chalk and started to rapidly throw it at his head, each hitting him and falling broken to the floor. After Reoko had run out of things to throw- she had considered throwing the globe at his head, but Shiori would get angry. Rimundo was like a son to her- and she settled for yelling, "ROUN RIMUNDO WAKE UP!!!!!" really loud. That snapped Rimundo out of his trance.
"Oh...oops...class ended. How long ago was that?" HE asked, a bit confused, but it quickly turned to amusement when he saw the broken pieces of chalk.
"ABOUT 25 MINUTES AGO!!!!" Reoko yelled. Rimundo threw her an apologetic look before he stooped down to pick up the broken chalk, the eraser, and the ruler. "And look, I broke all my chalk!" Reoko sighed and relaxed against the seat. Rimundo finished and walked over to her.
"Right now I have free period, I could get you some chalk to replace this." He motioned to the broken chalk in his hand. Reoko sighed and nodded, pointing to the trash can. "I'll be back after school to copy down the work." Rimundo called as he walked away and out the door.
Reoko grumbled under her breath, quite unhappy she had spent 25 minutes of her free period throwing chalk at Rimundo. She picked up Katsu's papers again, and began to grade them off one by one. She only had to skim through them a few more times before she realized that it was perfect. "This is weird...his handwriting is inhumanely perfect and...he's got perfect grades?" She muttered. "Not even Takiko and Rimundo are this good at English." She sighed, and was about to put Katsu's papers in the graded stack, when suddenly, Katsu walked in.
"Hitsuboshi-sensei?" He walked over to her desk with his schedule in his hand. "Where's the free period class?" He said, standing in front of her desk.
Reoko sighed, looking up at him. "Ha-ha you've got perfect grades and handwriting yet you don't know what free period is?" She held his graded papers up for him to grab.
He didn't look away from his schedule as he grabbed the papers and said, "No, we didn't have this at my other school." He said.
"Free period means that you can do whatever you want, such as hang out in the library and study." She told him, leaning on her desk with her elbows.
She suddenly saw Katsu's eyes light up. "Can I stay here with you and help you?" He asked, beaming.
Reoko sweat dropped. She usually went to the teachers lounge and surfed the web, or she slept during her free period. "Sure I guess." She couldn't refuse him. "Put her stuff anywhere..."She told him.
"Thank you Hitsuboshi-sensei!" Katsu ran around the desk to hug Reoko.
Reoko turned pink. "No problem..."Reoko replied, not hugging him back. It was kind of weird for her to have a student hugging her.
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AFTER SCHOOL:
Reoko glared at Rimundo as he copied down the work he wasn't able to copy down earlier. even as he did his work, he seemed distracted. he would suddenly pause, a troubled look would cross his face as he would once again continue what he was doing.
He had indeed bought her new chalk and given it to her, and had told her to try not to throw it at students. Reoko had sneered at him in return, making him laugh. but now she was anxious to get him out of the classroom.
Soon he finished, slamming his pen down and walking up to her. He handed the paper to her. but before he turned away from her, he asked her something.
"You are Shiori-san's older sister, am I correct?" He asked, a bit troubled.
"You would be correct." she answered, her eyebrows raising.
"...There are few things that i can't muster the courage to talk to Shiori about...but...i was wondering...it doesn't have to be now, but...maybe...i was wondering..."
"Spit it out Rimundo."
"If I could talk to you about matters that has troubled my mind for about..." He thought about it, counting in his head, "67 years." He finally told her. "Its not that i do not trust Shiori, i trust her more than anyone else...and i kind of trust my actual family...but...I can't trust my family with this. And I can't ask Shiori about it. And you seem like you would know about this stuff and not tell me what i expect from my actual family. I don't even want to consider what Shiori would say..."
"Rimundo you are babbling." Reoko laughed, seeing the blush rising up onto his face.
"Well...I am sorry. So, will you talk to me sometime? Whenever your free?"
Reoko leaned on her desk with her elbows, looking at him suspiciously. "I thought you didn't like me, but sure. Whatever. Tomorrow after school. I'll inform you if it changes." She told him leaning back in her chair, relaxing. "Got it memorized?" She giggled suddenly at her Kingdom Hearts joke.
Limdo smiled at her. "Opinions change. Thank you Mrs. Hitsoboshi." He then proceeded to turn and walk out of the room, disappearing into thin air as soon as the door closed.
She stared after him, and then sighed, muttering under her breath. "Weird child…even though I pick on him all the time…"
Edward here! Bwhaha I find this chapter er, amusing. Just review. I'm too busy reading Eclipse to bother with making a witty comment. -insert random witty comment here-
-Edward.
Oh yes, Eclipse...unfortunetly i won't get that book till next week. (so sad) PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!
-Alice
REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!