Last time, I left you with an epic chapter! This time, well, not so much. I finished the fight from the previous chapter and something bigs happens-hence the chapter name, "Trouble". But other than that, this isn't that epic of a chapter. Hope you enjoy! I had to add naughtyness in it for my own personal love for naughtyness. Why do you think I like lemon stories? Haha, but yeah, here's this chapter! R&R Thanks so much!

Hikari had gasped sometime between the contact of Luke's fist and Gill's nose. She shouldn't have stepped back. But then again, perhaps she could have been the one who was punched instead. The green grass had a puddle of scarlet fluid—blood.

"What the freaking hell are you doing?" Gill shouted, his hand cupped underneath his probably broken nose.

"No one talks to Hikari like that," Luke answered. His face was cross, although his voice quivered slightly.

Hikari's hands were folded and pressed against her chest. She didn't know what to do. Normally, she wouldn't be considered "damsel in distress" but it seemed that this time, she was.

"I didn't say anything wrong you stupid idiot!" Gill said, taking his hand from underneath his nose and balling it into a fist.

"Gill, no," Hikari said, her voice barely audible.

"I'm not going to let this damned looser take you away!" Gill said and with that, he punched Luke square in his left eye.

Luke staggered backwards, holding his wounded eye gingerly. The two men glared at each other, like their fight was to the death. Hikari held her breath. She wanted to move, oh how she wanted to, but it was like her feet were nailed to the grass.

"Shut up, she doesn't belong to you!" Luke lunged forward and tackled Gill to the ground. "What are you gonna do about that? In school, you always lost the wrestling competitions!"

Gill bit his lip angrily. "That was before Hikari was here!"

Gill then proceeded to slap Luke. Left right, left right…

"Stop it! Both of you!" Hikari screamed.

Luke got off of Gill, both with confused looks plastered on their beaten faces. Luke was sporting an eye that would soon be black, a cut lip, and red handprints across both of his cheeks. Gill's nose was crooked and dried blood formed at the nostrils. His clothes were soiled and he too had red marks across his face.

"Stop it," Hikari pleaded, her voice edging on hysteria. "I shouldn't be a prize to be won! I don't belong to anyone! I choose who I want to be with! Don't fight over it, please!"

"I'm sorry," Luke said, taking a step towards her, his arms outstretched for a hug.

Hikari turned her head away from Luke. She then proceeded to jog towards the entrance. When she reached it, Dale had caught up with her. Hikari groaned inside her head.

How the hell am I supposed to explain all this to Dale?

"Afternoon Hikari," Dale said gruffly, a small grin on his lips.

"Afternoon," Hikari answered quietly, hoping to avoid conversation with him.

"You were with Luke right?" Hikari nodded slowly. "Well, where is he now?" Dale asked.

"Umm, he's, uh, with… Gill." Hikari shut on eye tight, hoping it didn't sound as suspicious as it felt.

"What is he doing with Gill?" Dale asked, suddenly troubled.

"Umm, you know… Stuff," Hikari answered and Dale rushed past her.

Hikari hated herself for not sticking up for Luke. She hated herself for not telling Dale that Gill started it, for not treating Luke like she was in love with him, and for not coming up with a better excuse to save his sorry butt.

"Luke!" Dale gasped, rushing over to the grassy area with all of the intricate columns.

"Dad!" Luke said, his voice squeaked with surprise. "It's not what it looks like!"

Dale held his hand out for Gill to grab. He hoisted the mayor's son back on his feet and then examined his nose.

"Mhmm," Dale said as he reached out to touch Gill's nose.

Gill slapped his hand away. "Stop that. I won't have those grubby, sausage links you call fingers touch me!"

Dale ignored his rude comment although Hikari wished he hadn't. "Yep, it's broken alright. Luke…what were you thinking?"

Luke scowled at Gill who, in return, smugly stared at him. "I was protecting Hikari."

"And why did she need to be protected?"

Luke started to bounce slightly in place, the way little children do when they are about to whine. "Because Gill thinks that just because he's the mayor's spawn-" Dale narrowed his eyes at Luke, who rolled his in return. "Fine, the mayor's son, he gets to do whatever he wants to people! Hikari doesn't love him! I've been trying to tell you that, dad!"

Dale looked at his son, over to Hikari, and then at Gill. "You're grounded."

Luke's mouth opened, Gill sniggered, and Hikari gasped. "B-but, why?"

"You punched him and broke his nose! Now come on, you aren't leaving the house for a long time."

Luke hung his head and followed his father out of the Goddess Pond. If Hikari had just walked in on them, she would have laughed. It was a rather comical conversation. After all, Luke was twenty-two years old and his father had to drag him away and ground him.

"I can't believe you," Hikari whispered to Gill.

"What do you care? You're obviously in love with Luke! Go after him." Gill was dusting himself off, muttering about how his clothes were grass-stained.

Hikari walked over to Gill and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm not going after anyone. I follow my heart, wherever it leads me."

"And that's why I like you!" Gill shouted. Hikari was momentarily taken back and Gill cleared his throat. "Sorry… It's just that you seem so free! I wanted a girl like that to love me—you kind of remind me of my mom."

Hikari wasn't sure whether she should feel flattered or utterly freaked out. It was sweet, but she couldn't ever love Gill. She was too deeply in love with Luke to even think about falling for someone else.

She then felt the tears starting to come and she cursed at herself inside her head. "Thank you," she said quietly. "And…just give it some time, okay?"

Gill's eyes widened. He nodded. "Oh, really? Y-yes of course! I'll wait for you Hikari, I promise!"

"T-that's not what I…" But it was too late; Gill had shot off towards the pond entrance. "Meant…" Hikari finished to herself.

Luke was sitting on his bed, angrily muttering to himself. Grounded? How could he be grounded? He was twenty-two years old for Goddess sake! He groaned and flopped down on the bed.

Why didn't Hikari stick up for him? It was Gill's fault after all! Sure, Luke threw the first punch, but if that waste-of-space didn't show up in the first place, nothing would ever happen. Luke wondered if Hikari was allowed to file restraining orders.

She would never do that… She's too nice. Luke thought.

Then he thought about what she was going to say. I…what? Luke racked his brain to think of possibilities. Then his conversation with Julius popped into his mind. Feeling his face heat up, his eyes widened. His hands quickly flew to his cheeks and a grin appeared on his lips.

Hikari isn't in love with me is she? He thought.

"Luke?"

"Yes?" Luke's voice squeaked, the way it often did when he was embarrassed or nervous about something.

His bedroom door opened and Owen walked in. Luke noticed that his best friend's face was cross. Owen was a big, mountain of a man, with muscles twice the size of his own. He had spiky red hair to match his fiery personality. So, seeing Owen look timid, almost terrified, worried Luke.

"I need to tell you something, but I don't know how to put it." Owen clasped his hands together and went to sit next to Luke.

Luke patted his friend on the back. "It's alright buddy, I'm here for ya! Just come out and say it, I'm ready."

Little did Luke know that he was about to fall off of the bed in shock because of what Owen said…

"Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa," Hikari said, pacing around the room in shock. "You're…?"

Kathy nodded and smiled weakly. Hikari remembered when Kathy had gotten busted for that earlier, but she never knew they'd try it again. And this time, it had failed.

Hikari sat down and placed her head in her hands. "What are you going to do?"

Kathy's eyes welled up with tears. "I don't know! My father is going to kill me, I'm going to be isolated from the town, and now when they make birth control pills and condoms I'm going to be the reason they put warning labels on the packages!"

"That would be Renee's fault…" Hikari muttered. She then cleared her throat and sighed heavily. "Alright look, you made a mistake and you are not going to 'fix' it."

Kathy looked cross. "I would never. It is not this baby's fault."

Hikari nodded and smiled slightly. "And sure, your dad will be very, very upset with you, but he also will be happy you are making the right decision to have this baby. As far as the town goes, well, they accept Renee still don't they?"

Kathy nodded. "And Owen…"

"Did you tell him?"

Luke had crashed on the floor sometime after Owen's announcement. Kathy was pregnant? With his baby? He never thought his best friend would collapse under that sort of pressure. Even Luke knew that one was supposed to save one's self until marriage!

"Are you sure?" Luke asked, completely bewildered.

Owen nodded numbly. "She just told me… I didn't think it would ever happen. I was drunk and we were just messing around!"

Owen's breathing turned into rapid, sharp gasps. "What am I going to do?"

Luke stood up and placed a hand on Owen's shoulder. "Calm down. Everything is going to be fine. Just marry the chick and it'll all be fixed!"

Owen shook his head. "It's not that simple! What if she's so angry at me that she doesn't want anything to do with me anymore? What if…what if she's so mad that she doesn't want our baby anymore?"

Luke gasped. "No, dude, don't even say that! You two just made a mistake; it doesn't have to ruin your lives! Look at Renee and Toby! If I got…say, Hikari, pregnant, I would want our baby to be born and I would want to raise him or her."

Owen smiled weakly. "I guess you're right… Maybe I should just go talk to her. And Hikari, eh?"

Luke felt his face flush. "It was just an example," he muttered, hiding his face underneath his long, azure bangs.

Hikari had made Kathy some hot chocolate earlier in the evening. Chocolate always made girls feel better right? They were sipping it out of coffee mugs while curled up on the couch giggling about the boys of Castanet.

"How about Julius?" Hikari said, laughing.

Kathy choked on her drink and started to laugh. "Definitely a transvestite! I wouldn't be surprised if he and Toby had a thing going before Renee came."

Hikari roared with laughter.

"How about Luke?" Kathy asked, eyeing Hikari slyly.

Hikari stopped laughing abruptly as her stomach dropped and she felt her face heat up.

Damned hormones!

"Um, what about him?" Hikari wasn't looking Kathy in the eyes.

"It's obvious you two have a thing! Even if it isn't obvious to either one of you," Kathy said, smiling brightly at her cherry-red friend.

"Luke? No, I, us, together? Nah! We're just best friends!" Hikari insisted.

But Kathy didn't have time to respond because someone knocked on the door. Hikari's heart jumped into her throat and Kathy looked out the window with teary eyes. Owen and Luke had come to talk.

Kathy was a naughty little girl.. This just goes to show that even if you use protection, it doesn't always work. Story-line of Kathy's pregnancy based on my cousin's own story. Except her boyfriend left her after he found out.. Just wait till marriage okay people? It only makes an interesting story if it's IN a story-as in, fictional. Anyway, hope you liked it! And I wanted to show the developing feelings between Luke and Hikari. It's cute how much they love each other but don't know it yet! Oh and I wanted to thank everyone who is reading! I love you guys, you are my inspiration to write! And your all so amazing, I'm in your debt!