*I'm sorry for the delayed update, but i have state testings going on! i've been studying like crazy! i hope you guys still want to read my story! T_T i know i'm a bad updater. i'll try my best to update as soon as i can, bit i'm sorry. i have to say that i'll update irregularly for a while now. until i get settle... I_I i'm sorry! a big cookie to all of my readers who have been reading my story still! :D

Kashino: i felt like i'm dead or something!

Ichigo: don't say that Kashino!

Caramel: hai! don't say that onegai desu!

Chocolate: i'm only doing this because you're Kashino's friend! Mousie doesn't own YP!

ALL: scary-

Chocolate: *_* what did you say?


Chapter Nine: ~Anger, Fighting, and Dejavu~

What Happened:

"Seriously? Again" asked an astonished Hanabusa-kun.

"Hmph!" was the only answer he got from Kashino.

"You need to control yourself and what you're saying," advised Andou.

Hinata glowered threats at Kashino before she said through her gritted teeth, "You better go and apologize again before something worse happen." if looks could kill, Hinata's glare would have slay Kashino into a million pieces; he would be dead cold.

There was nothing Kashino could do as all the girls teamed up and drag him out of the building and pushed him off the stairs.


Before Kashino Came: (Ichigo's POV)

I was running. I don't know where as the tears were blocking my view. Somehow, they don't want to stop. Phffft! Ouch! That hurts! At first I thought that it was a tree, but as I dried my tears, I saw a boy older than me with electric purple eyes and starlight silver hair.

"Gomenasai! Hontou ni gomenasai!" I frantically apologized.

"I'm alright," he said in a cold voice, "but are you? Ichigo-chan?"

"I'm okay! Wha-?" I stopped suddenly, "how did you know my name?"

"You're the new student after all," he tried to cover it up, but I can see through him. What an awful liar!

"What's you're name?" I asked him.

" Zero, Zero Kiryu," was his reply, "and if you know better, you won't be trying to talk to me again, for your sake, let's hope you don't."

"Huh? Wait what?" I asked, but he was already out of my sight.


Kashino's POV:

Where the hell could she be? Damn it! Why do girls have to be so sensitive? Is it just me or does it feel like dejavu?

I looked everywhere for that annoying girl, but she is nowher- wait, is that her voice? No way? She's talking to Zero! I've got to stop them, but just as I was trying to think of something, I came into eye contact with Zero. Sheesh! That boy just can't help himself can he? Oh well, he haven't seen her in twelve years after all.

Slowly, I approached her….. It'd started to rain….. Ichigo was soak. I held out my handkerchief, but she slapped it away.

"Go away, I don't need your help," she snapped at me.

"Hate to break it to you, but I have no intention to go back in this weather unless I want to catch pneumonia," I snapped back.

"Well, I hope that you do," she shot at me, looking at me squarely in the face. We were sitting on a mahogany bench; the only one that has a roof over it.

Involuntary, I saw Ichigo shivered. She didn't have a jacket with her. Goosebumps were unmistakably visible on her bare arms.

"Baka! At this rate you're the one who will catch pneumonia!" I yelled at her. Grudgingly, I wrapped my jacket over her shoulder.

"Where the hell is your jacket?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know that it's gonna rain?" she yelled back at me while snuggling closer to my jacket. Achoo! she sneezed delicately after a while. While blush slightly, she looked up at the sky and sighed. The rain won't stop very soon.

"Wanna make a run for it?" she asked me.

"Yeah, I suppose," I said uncertainly, but it's better than stay out here and so we did. We ran with all our might and reached inside the kitchen.

Both of us were cold, but I didn't mind. I was used to the coldness, but I suspected Ichigo wasn't. it was obvious for she was shivering like she was abandoned in Antarctica or something.

"Wait here, I'll make us some chocolate chaue," I told her and went to the stove.


Ichigo's POV:

Why does it have to rain! I really, really, hontou ni hate the rain! Buurrrr, I'm shivering like crazy….. What did Kashino said he was going to make? Chocolate…chocolate…. Something to do with chocolate. Ummmm! It suddenly smells so good in here. I definitely smelled choclote, milk, honey? And caramel…. My mouth is watering.

"Here," Kashino said, holding out a steamed mug full of chocolate. As I took my first sip, my whole body instantly warmed up. I tasted so good(imagine drinking hot chocolate on a cold winter day while snuggling up in a couch by the fire…)

"The chocolate contains antioxidants so it won't ruin you skin so drink up," Kashino said, "it'll really warm you up. After that we stopped talking, only drinking and gazing at the rain.

"Anno, Kashino-kun? Where is everybody?" did I really had to break the peaceful silence? Yes, yes I do. Way to go there, Ichigo-chan. (not really, she's scolding herself. *Ichigo*- Mousie-chan, that's really mean desu" gah! You're talking like Caramel! *Caramel*- that's because I am Caramel desu! Ahhhh! Gomenasai!)

"I forgot!" Kashino suddenly exclaimed, "today's the fieldtrip! We were supposed to leave right after cooking class!"


* another cliffie! i love them!

again, i'm sorree! hahaha, but please do review, it'll motivate me to write faster. after all i do get most of my ideas from other people. hehe :D