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Chapter 9 Jun pei, Ishikawa, and Ren

Jun pei, having completed his delivery, waited in the shadows in the corner where he had seen his "brother" last time at the same time as before. Being the leader of his up and coming gang, the Black Cross, he wouldn't normally do something so trivial as to make a delivery. That's what the lower members of his group were for, but this was different. This delivery was unauthorized and unapproved by him, and it was supposed to be kept secret from him. He knew his second in command was trying to supplant him. He probably would be able to do it in a matter of years. After all, the boy was smarter and more skilled than he was. But he was not as dangerous yet. He laughed when his mind flashed back to the scene earlier with the other boy who was supposed to make the delivery.

Flash back to earlier that morning

"Sejj, have you made Ren's delivery, yet?"

"I was on my way to," he paused clamping his hand over his mouth. "I mean what delivery. I don't know what you are talking about."

Junpei smiled a devious grin. "What delivery? …What delivery?" He went over to the boy and pulled an envelope from underneath the other boy's shirt. "This delivery." He put his face into Sejj's face's inches away in a threatening manner.

Sejj pulled back, afraid. "Uh, I think Ren didn't want to tell you because it is a surprise for … for …" The boy searched for words. "For our operation." He smiled.

"Sejj, are you lying to me? You know I don't like being lied to. What is rule number one?" He got back into Sejj's face.

"Don't ever lie to the boss."

"Who's the boss?"

Sejj gulped. "You are." His voice was a whisper

Jun pei smiled and patted Sejj on the head. "That's right, very good." Then he quickly snatched an earring from Sejj's ear causing it to bleed and causing him to bend over double in pain. "Don't you ever forget it." His voice was threatening. He took out a handkerchief and threw it at the boy bent over double. "Here, clean yourself up. I've got a delivery to make."

He opened the envelope and read the paper. "Heh, heh, heh, so that's what this is all about." He put it back in and closed the envelope.

End of Flashback

He chuckled to himself. I need to remember not to let Sejj know too much about our operations. If he gets caught, he'll sing like a JPOP group. His thoughts were interrupted by a familiar high-pitched laugh. It was the two girls who had been walking with Ren the last time. Seeing that he was not with them, he came out of the shadows and headed toward the classroom. He saw the two people he was looking for walking together in the opposite direction, and he decided to follow them.

A few minutes earlier …

When class had ended, Ishikawa rushed to get his stuff together to leave before Yukari and her clone could assail him. Every since the previous exam, the two mind-numbing, witless girls would not leave him alone. He had gotten to the door when he heard someone call his name. "Ishikawa?" To his surprise the voice was not the shrill, annoying, whiney voices of the two girls, it was a beautiful, full, rich voice belonging to his teacher. He turned back to look at her. "Hai."

"Could you please join me in my office for a moment?" He nodded, and hid the smile that was threatening to take over his face. The two girls pouted and stumped away as he shrugged as if to say "What can I do?" When they had left, he grabbed her bag and items and motioned for her to lead the way.

"Thank you, Ishikawa." When they walked out of the door, he felt it. Someone was watching them. He looked back swiftly but just missed seeing the boy with the spikey green and blonde hair and a scar under his eye. She also felt it but didn't react as she saw him react out of the corner of her eye.

When they arrived at her office, she noticed the familiar brown envelope on the floor but she ignored it for the time being. He also noticed and saw her fail to react. He didn't know whether to be happy or insulted. He closed the door and set her items down.

"You can leave that open. What I wanted to talk to you about is my offer? Have you considered it?"

"Offer?" He looked confused.

"To become a tutor."

"Oh, yes. I have considered it."

"So? You don't need to worry. You will not be a tutor for my class. You can't get paid to tutor a class that you are taking. So if you are worried about tutoring a certain two people, you needn't worry." She smiled.

"No, I wasn't worried about that, but I'm glad. I'll do it. Will I get to work with you, though?" He was hopeful that if he did this he could spend more time with her.

"I'm not quite sure how it works, but here is the application. If you have time now, why don't you go by the Dean of Students office and complete your paperwork. I'll call and let them know you are on your way. Once you get in the system and you complete my course, I can recommend that you work on the special project with me if that's what you would like to do." She handed him the application.

I already have a special project that I am working on with you, but it would be nice to work on it out in the open. "Yes, that sounds interesting. I have time now. I'll go over there."

"Great. Ishikawa, do you have any plans for the future? I hope to help you as much as I can."

"Yes, I want to become the leader of my group." She looked at him with a puzzled expression. "I mean the head of my own company."

"Oh." She nodded. "What kind of company?"

"We'll be involved in a little bit of everything." He was purposefully vague.

"I'm sure you'll do it." She squeezed his hand. He almost fainted at the intimate gesture.

"Let me make the call, and you can go over there." She made the phone call, and he left. He stopped at the door and turned around, feeling emboldened. "I notice you don't wear your hair pulled up and the fake glasses any more."

She smiled. "Yes a friend convinced me that I need to be more honest about who I am. Besides I think all of my students know me well enough now to take me seriously even though I only look 14." She made a face at him.

"You look good like that." He left, smiling, thinking he was the friend who had convinced her to change her look.

Odagiri strikes again. She laughed to herself. She finally went to pick up the envelope when she saw that he had left behind the application. She picked it up and ran after him, calling "Ishikaw umph …." She had run into something or rather somebody at the door. She bowed her head and apologized. "Gomen." Then she looked up to see who it was. She recognized the boy who Ishikawa had said was his brother. "Oh, it's you. I'm sorry."

He smiled and bowed, kissing her hand. "No problem at all, sensei. It was my fault."

She felt uneasy since he was a good 6 ft tall and was completely blocking her passage through the door. "You just missed your brother. He left this behind. I was just chasing him to give this to him." She smiled at him. "Would you mind giving this to him for me? He's on his way to the Dean of Student's office."

He smiled at her, rubbed his finger down the side of her face and cupped her chin. "Anything for you sensei." He drawled getting in her face and taking the paper away from her hand. She backed up, made her way over to the wall behind her desk, and turned to her wall to look at the campus map.

"We're here, and this is where he is going. Do you know how to get there, or do you need directions?" She was pointing to the building they were in and following a trail to where he was headed.

"I'm sure that I can find my way there, unless you would like to accompany me, sensei." He moved to stand right behind her to look over her shoulder at the map and put his hand over hers tracing the route with her. She could feel his breath on her ear and his body against hers.

She was really uncomfortable and moved around the other side of her desk to the phone.

"Doesn't he have a cell phone? Why don't you give me his number and I can call him and tell him to wait for you."

She handed him the receiver from a across the desk and was ready to dial the number. He took the receiver from her and trailed his finger across her hand as he took it. He gave her the number, and she dialed. "Ishikawa, this is Jun pei. I'm here with your sensei. It seems you left a piece of paper in her office that you need. Sensei suggested that I call you to meet you somewhere to give it to you."

Ishikawa saw red when he heard Jun pei's voice and realized he was at Harrison sensei's office. He ran back as soon as he heard. "Don't you touch her. I'll be there in a minute."

Jun pei smiled and hung up. "He says he is on his way back to pick it up. Now, let's get better acquainted. I'm Jun pei, Ishikawa's oldest brother." He held out his hand. She looked at it and decided to shake it and introduce herself. Besides she had training in martial arts and could defend herself if need be.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Harrison sensei." That was all they had time for because Ishikawa had come rushing in at that moment out of breath. "Ishikawa, you didn't have to run all the way back. I'm sure Jun pei could have found and met you somewhere. I could have showed him on the map."

"It's okay. I needed to talk to my older brother right away anyway." He glared at the other boy, grabbed the paper in his hand and walked away. "Let's go." Jun pei bowed at the teacher and kissed her hand again.

"Nice to meet you, too, I'll be seeing you around." He emphasized the last part. Both she and Ishikawa grimaced internally, recognizing his words as a threat.

When they were outside of the building out of sight Ishikawa pulled Jun pei up by the collar. "What do you think you were doing? What the hell were you playing at? How dare you kiss her hand or touch her for that matter."

Jun pei just smiled. "Is that any way to treat your delivery man?"

"What do you mean my delivery man?" He pulled the boy closer to him by the collar.

"I delivered your little love letter to your favorite professor. How do you think she will react to learn that her precious Ishikawa is really Ren, her stalker?" He smirked at him.

He let the other boy go and turned around thinking. "Sejj …"

"Ah yes Sejj, he can't keep anything secret. He's a liability."

"What do you want?"

"That's more like it. Just because you are smarter than me doesn't meant that you can outsmart me." He thumped the younger boy on his forehead. "I'm the leader, and I call the shots from here on out. So this is what is going to happen. You'll concentrate on completing our operation to take over this territory first. Once you have finished that, then you can have this gaijin teacher and do whatever you want with her. No, forget that. I'm the leader. I'm number one. So when we finish the operation, I can have the gaijin teacher. When I am finished, you can do whatever you want with her. Since I'm the leader, I deserve the first of everything even your hot gaijin sensei."

"You won't touch her." He growled pulling the boy by the collar again close to his face. "You don't deserve her. Even I don't deserve her, but you wouldn't understand. You don't know anything. I'll agree to put our operation first, but you won't lay a finger on her or else ..."

Jun pei got into Ishikawa's face. "Or else what?" Then he pulled out Ishikawa's cell phone and started punching buttons. "Let's see, sensei was the last one to call you. So if I pull up your incoming calls and dial, I'll get her phone." He punched buttons, and then put the receiver to his ear and waited, motioning with one finger to wait. "Ah yes sensei, this is Jun pei, Ishikawa's older brother. I just wanted to make sure that you received his letter. I forgot that was the reason that I stopped by. Oh yes, he usually signs it Ren. That's his nickname. Yep, that's the one." There was a long pause. "I understand. Tell him you never want to see him again? That he's the worst. Okay, I don't blame you." The other boy stared at him horrified and grabbed the phone to listen. There was nothing on the other end. He laughed. "No, I didn't call her, this time. Next time I will, though."

Ishikawa swallowed. "Okay, everything just like you said." Or so you think. I'll let it go for now and make you think that you've won, but I have something else planned. I'll never let you have her or anyone else have her for that matter.

"That's what I thought. By the way, are there any more deliveries that I should know about?" He put his arm around Ishikawa and accompanied him to his next destination.

"No, none" that you should know about that is.

In a dark unmarked vehicle

"Another envelope sir." The man sitting next to him with a ponytail informed him.

"Where did it come from?"

"It was left at one of our businesses, sir."

"Open it, and read it."

It read:

"TENKAI, YOU THIEF,

I'M COMING TO GET WHAT'S MINE

YOU WON'T KNOW HOW,

YOU WON'T KNOW WHEN,

AND YOU WON'T KNOW WHERE.

REN"

"Boss, what do we do about this little ant?"

"Well, Kuroda called us to discuss a matter. Perhaps he has a little pest problem, too. We'll just have to see how this plays out."

At the Oeda House

"Boss this came yesterday. This time it came at one of our hostess clubs."

"They just delivered it this morning?"

Kyou rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh, no, I spent the night uhm questioning all the girls to make sure they didn't see anything."

Kuroda looked at him skeptically. "Hm, well read what is written."

It read:

"KURODA OF THE OEDA CLAN

YOU OWE ME,

AND I'M COMING TO COLLECT.

GIVE IN NOW, AND I'LL GO EASY ON YOU

REN

"Boss, give me the chance, and I'll make sure that this little punk doesn't rest in peace."

"Kyoutarou! Keep your voice down. We don't want Kumiko to know. Besides, Tenkai is on his way here. We need to be patient and find out if the letters, Kumiko's dreams, and our little raven are related. I don't believe in coincidences."

He nodded. "Sorry, boss."

(A/N) Okay, sorry to have a chapter that is mostly OC in it, but this was interesting nonetheless. Scary isn't it. If you hadn't figured out before, now you know that Imani is actually teaching her stalker. Wait until she finds out. Oh, and she gets a letter every week. Tenkai and Kuroda do not. After all, the boy is quite busy between school work, stalking his teacher, planning with the Black Cross and all. Okay, I'm going to veer off into a little bit of romance again. Bare with me.