A/N: Finally! I am updating this story. sigh...I don't know how many more chapters I should write. All I know is that I need to make something big happen and the conclusion will be surprising. I don't know if some of you will hate or love the ending. Anyway, I guess that you'll all need to wait...Maybe until chapter 25? I won't go to chapter 30 or over though.

Chapter 10: Unrequited Love and the Plan

"Don't worry about me, Shuuichi-kun. I'll be just fine. I've walked home alone lots of time. Nothing happened to me," Mizuki said reassuringly. Except for the time that your fanclub surrounded and beat me up. She was almost out of the door when he grabbed her arm. He couldn't help that inside he didn't want her to go. Even if he knew that her brother would worry about her if she didn't go home soon, he wanted her to stay. Mizu looked expectantly at Kurama. "Was there anything else that you wanted from me?"

He nodded solemnly. "As a matter of fact, yes, there is something I want from you," he said, releasing her arm. He trust her not to run away. He turned away from her, sighing and running his fingers in his hair in a frustrated manner. "About today. When I called out your name, why did you run away from me? Am I that repulsive to you?" Kurama asked quietly. Mizuki, shocked that he asked that, turned away from his gaze and backed up a few steps.

No, no, you're not repulsive. Though if I said that, he'll just ask I tried to run away from him. I want to tell him that I'm not interested in him but I've never rejected any guy before.

"Were you afraid that I was going to tell you that I love you?" Her head drooped as she was deciding what to do: shake or nod her head? "Well, if you must know, that wasn't the reason I was chasing you. The real reason for that was..." Kurama paused a bit, trying to cover up his blushing face. He remembered that he saw her pink panties earlier. Mizuki raised her head and prompt him to go on. "Was...thatyourpantieswereshowing!" He said quickly. Her mind was slowly deciphering his words.

"...thatyourpantieswereshowing!" If I split the words apart, they say "that your panties were showing!" "AHHH!" Mizuki screamed in embarrassment. "I was running around the streets with my skirt hiked up! No wonder people were pointing and laughing at me, especially boys!" Worst of all, Shuuichi-kun saw them! Shamefully, Mizuki turned to face Shuuichi. He was still trying to keep his blush under control. "If that is all you wanted to say to me then please get out of my way, I have to go home," she said coldly. The idea of her running around in her underwear earlier was mortifying for her. Mizuki just wanted to go home and sleep the day away.

"WAIT! That's not all. Stop trying to get away!" Kurama half-yelled, grasping her arm once more. Unbeknownst to the two, Hiei was watching them from behind the door. He peered through the crack while listening to their conversation. He surveyed Mizuki with deep interest. So Kurama fell in love with that girl...How interesting. He's usually not interested in human girls.

Mizuki was angry and embarrassed. She couldn't fight back those feelings. She was angry at Fumi and at herself. At Fumi because she lied and at herself because she deemed herself to be so pathetic. How she wanted to lie down in bed and cry her heart out. The unhappy anniversary that was coming up...She'd always lock herself in her room and cry on the day of that specific anniversary. "LET GO OF ME!" She said in an emotional tone. Kurama was taken aback when he saw her crying. She looked...beautiful to him. Just so vunerable and so precious. He wanted to hold her and tell her that everything would be all right. He wanted to put a hand on her pink cheek and comfort her with a kiss. He wanted to see her smile and accept his lips. In reality as Mizuki were on her knees crying and sobbing, Kurama's hand couldn't quite make it over to her. It was shaking as it tried to get closer to her body. Even if to put a comforting hand on her shoulder, it hesitated. Maybe it would upset her more.

A pained expression passed over his face to be replaced with a false smile. "Mizuki-chan?" He said, kneeling down beside her and offering her a hand. Mizuki looked up at him with painful eyes. There it was again; vulnerability and beauty. Before she knew what happened, she could feel something warm against her mouth. She could see his closed eyelids and feel his lips. Why...Especially when I'm completely defenseless? Her eyes looked on in shock as they landed on the window. She suppressed a gasp; behind the glass window; Botan was gaping and staring at the two. She was slowly shaking her head then she ran off. Mizuki could tell that she was about to cry.

That night, Mizuki laid on her back and stared up at the ceiling. When she had finally got home about two hours before, her grandpa was waiting for her on the couch. He was worried to death about her. He yelled at Hiiro about how irresponsible for tricking her that morning. She was also scolding for being so late and not bothering to call them. After that, her grandpa pulled her into a death grip hug. She remembered what he told her, "You're my only granddaughter and I can't lose you! Do you know that this old man is losing more of his life because he's always worried about your well-being. That's why I didn't want you to go to a public high school. I didn't want you to be a teenage rape satistic or receive a phone call from somebody telling me that they found your dead body!" All she said was "Yes, Grandpa. I'm sorry for worrying you."

"Grandpa, I really am sorry. My life is not so perfect but I shouldn't worry you. I love you, Grandpa. I want you to live forever so you can see me graduate high school, start and graduate college, get married and your grandchildren," she said to herself. Ever since her parents died, her grandpa took her brother and her in. Whenever she'd cried at night for her parents, he was always there to hold her until she was asleep. He'd taught her things that she didn't understand. In his eyes, Mizuki and Hiiro were the only people that reminded him of his own daughter, Mizuki's deceased mother. Given to the fact that Mizuki acted more like her mother, her grandpa treated her like she was a precious treasure. Unfortunately, he loves her too much that he never wanted to give her away. He just wanted her to remain his little sweet granddaughter forever. Another reason why that he doesn't want her to interact with other people besides him and her brother.

In a dark corner of her dimly-lit room, the blonde-haired fangirl was fuming at what she had witnessed outside Kurama's house. My ideal boyfriend and that BITCH liplocking together! Unforgivable! Minamino Shuuichi is mine and mine alone! No one else can have him! HOW DARE SHE! She stood up and walked to her full-length mirror. Her tightened fist collided into the mirror, breaking it to a hundred pieces. Fumi wrapped her fingers around a large piece of glass. Without hesitation, she plunged into her bare stomach and carved out his name; smiling as she did so. "Don't worry, Shuuichi, I will help you get rid of that nuisance," she said, cackling into the dark night.

Even though, it was already one in the morning, Kurama couldn't sleep a wink. He kept thinking how brave he'd been when he kissed her. Still, he had remembered how he caught Hiei spying on them. After Mizuki left in a cab that Kurama paid for (because she was in a daze), he asked Hiei a question that has been killing him. "Hiei, How exactly do you know Mizuki-chan?" Hiei countered that question with a question of his own, "How can you trust that girl? She exudes a strange aura. A familiar aura...yet a very sinister one."

"I don't feel any kind of aura when I'm around her. I just feel remorse and longing when I'm around her. I feel remorse because I do things to her out of her will; like hugging or kiss her. I feel longing because she doesn't want me," Kurama sighed.

"You're getting soft over a human girl that's not even pretty to begin with..." Hiei said emotionlessly.

"Well, I apologize that the one that I love isn't as beautiful as your Ayane but that's who I choose," Kurama said, a hint of anger and sarcasm in his tone.

"I'm just warning you about my gut feeling. There's something suspicious about that girl. Just be careful when you're around her," he said. He turned and jumped out of the window to the nearest tree.

Kurama sighed and rolled over in bed. "No more thinking about this. I'm too tired." He clicked off his lamp and went to sleep.

­At Aoi Residence, Mizuki's room

You know, I wanted you to die by jumping out of the window to make it look like a suicide...So Kurama wouldn't be suspicious. That kitsune is always sticking his nose in other people's affairs. It seems like that I need you for something. Although, why I have to be stuck within your flat and weak body is something that eludes me. The reason of why I wanted to kill you in the first place? You're going to get something that's rightfully mine.

The once sad voice sounds mad now. Though I can still hear pain seeping through her voice. Who's Kurama? What am I going to get that's so important to her?

"Excuse me," a timid voice said, surprising Kurama. He turned around to see a girl with short brown hair and green eyes. She was smiling shyly at him. Oh, great, probably another one of my fangirls. I haven't seen her before. She's probably a transfer student. "Good morning. My name is Aoi Mizuki. Could you tell me where class A-2 is? I'm a new student here and I'm lost already," she said, giggling in embarrassment.

"It must be your lucky day. A-2 is my homeroom, too. My name is Minamino Shuuichi," he said, smiling at her. "I'll walk you there."

"Oh, thank you. If I hadn't bumped into you, I probably would've had to miss the whole day of school!" She said.

"Wouldn't that have been a good thing for most people?" Kurama joked. He knew that most of his fellow classmates were slackers and didn't care much for school. They only cared about the trivial things in life like seeing a hot new movie, buying the latest CD, discuss a popular video game and so on.

"Really? There are people like that? Well, I was homeschooled almost all of my life and never been allowed to leave the house much. I wouldn't know," she said.

That was the day that Kurama became so enamored with such a rare girl. The more time they spent walking and talking together, the more he noticed valuable qualities within her. She talked to him not because of his reputation as a cute guy or because he seemed to be the ideal type of guy, but because he's a nice person. She could see past his good looks and knows that he's a good person. That's why...why...He came to love her within just a few days.

A/N: Finally finished typing this story. Even though, this is supposed to be HieixMizu, there's more KurxMizu. There'll be more MizuxHiei later because there's something that draws Hiei closer to Mizu...What could it be? Who's voice delve within Mizuki, why does Hiei think that Mizu's suspicious, what's Fumi going to do to Mizuki and how's Botan going to treat everyone else from now on! You're going to have to find out later.