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Chapter Ten

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Kagura pulled her truck into the dormitory driveway and ushered her friends into the building to see her room.

"Hey guys, the people next door have gone off on a pre-graduation road trip so their room is free. I talked it over with the dorm monitors and they said it was fine for us to borrow it for a while."

"Is the monitor a member of your fanclub Kagura?" asked Yomi

The athlete just laughed it off.

"Anyway so two rooms, we'll split up into groups of four ok?"

"I'll go with you moron," said a smiling Tomo.

"Why do you keep calling me that Tomo?" asked Kagura as she playfully hit the wildcat's head.

"Two reasons, one, it's been a while since we've seen each other, so I have to say it extra just to keep my average up and two, you're a moron." Tomo replied with a smirk.

"Don't worry about it Kagura," said Yomi. "It's just an idiot wildcat's way of saying she missed you."

"Aww ain't that cute?" Osaka said with a smile.

"Little Tomo missed her Kagura?" teased Kaorin.

The wildcat turned red and considered laying a Yomi-style uppercut on the girl, it was lucky for Kaorin that Tomo had grown up enough to consider these things.

And after all that consideration, Tomo hit her anyway.

"Tomo! You didn't have to hit her that hard!" said Chihiro. "Kaorin? Are you ok? Oh my God Tomo you knocked her out! Lets just get her into a room ok?"

"Sure not a problem," said Kagura who felt a rather sorry for the girl. Tomo could hit pretty hard when she wanted to.

Although, the athlete wasn't one to pass up a convenient opportunity and helped Osaka and Yomi carry Kaorin into the room next door to theirs.

'Ah Chiyo, you're gonna love me for this.'

"Since Chiyo and Sakaki aren't here yet why don't you four just get settled into that room? I'll give the idiot wildcat a talk and then we'll bring some ice over ok?"

"Hurry Kagura her eye's changing colour," said a worried Chihiro.

Kagura grabbed Tomo's hand and dragged her off into the other room.

"Tomo, Tomo, Tomo, you really didn't have to hit her that hard you know," the athlete said as she took an ice pack out of the freezer.

"She stepped into my punch," said the wildcat apologetically.

"She did not Tomo, you took a step towards her and hit her in the face!" Kagura said with a laugh.

"You're just as bad!," Tomo said. "She's lying in there with a black eye and you're standing here with that ice melting in your hand while chatting me up."

"Hey, I'm not!" Kagura stated before she realised that Tomo was just teasing her. "Come on you," she said before dragging the smirking wildcat over into the other room.

Kaorin had come to and was now sitting on the bed glaring at Tomo as soon as she walked in the room.

"Oh, you're up Kaorin… sorry about before," said the wildcat, holding out the ice as a peace offering.

Kaorin accepted it and smiled a little.

"It's ok Tomo, I should have know that teasing you was a dangerous thing to do."

The girls then settled in for a bit with Kagura serving drinks and just catching up with her old friends.

No one mentioned or questioned why her hand was still attached to Tomo's.

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About an hour later, Chiyo, Sakaki and Maya who had been released from his cage, walked up the stairs and into Chiyo and Kagura's room.

Noticing that no one was in yet, but Kagura and Tomo's bags were in the room, Chiyo called the athlete's cell phone.

"Hey Chiyo," she said. "Where are you guys?"

"In our room, where are you?" Chiyo asked while smiling at Sakaki, motioning for her to put her bags down and take a seat.

"We're in the room next to ours. Geez Chiyo I was wondering what was taking you so long. You could have told me you were taking her around for walk around campus."

"Kagura we're in our room…"

"Take your time ok Chiyo? Let us know when you get back. Oh and remember we still have that thing later, so don't tire her out too much ok?"

Chiyo could just hear the winking and nudging in Kagura's voice and blushed despite herself.

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Kagura hung up her cell phone and explained to the rest of the girls who were sprawled around the room. The most sprawled of them all was Osaka who quickly fell asleep on one of the beds.

"Chiyo and Sakaki have gone off for a walk round the campus, they'll meet us here after a little while."

"They probably wanted to stretch their legs after all that time sitting in that car," Yomi observed.

"Yep, that's probably it," agreed Tomo with a smile even though she was sitting so close to Kagura that she heard the phone-call conversation very well.

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Sakaki gave Chiyo a questioning look as soon as she hung up the phone.

"Oh, they're umm next door at the moment."

Before she could shoot off into a nervous rant about why it would be best to stay in the room for a little while, Sakaki beat her to it.

"Would it be ok for us to stay here a little bit? Maya's a little tired after being in a cage for so long, I think he just wants to get used to his new environment."

Chiyo just flashed her a bright smile.

"That's fine. Would you like a cold drink and a snack?"

"Oh it's ok, we had a meal on the plane. I'll take you up on the drink though."

Chiyo-chan went off to grab a can for Sakaki and herself before taking a seat next to the older girl.

Maya jumped up and sat on Chiyo's lap.

"He must have missed you too." Said Sakaki.

Chiyo-chan stroked his head and smiled.

"Well we did have a few good moments back then. Didn't we Maya?"

"Meow."

"Just like we did?" asked Sakaki.

"Just like we did," Chiyo-chan confirmed.

"I'm glad you and Kagura asked us all to see you graduate. It was very generous of you."

Chiyo-chan blushed.

"Oh no, not at all. Actually there's also another reason I wanted to invite you over."

Sakaki smiled encouragingly at the young Mihama, who she was sitting rather close to and waited for her to go on.

"You see the swim team, did very well with their, you know… swimming, and umm.. there's this.. ball.. thing.. coming up soon and I don't know how you would feel about that.. or me.. or going to that with me.. and what I'm trying to clears throat.. mumble, is that.. would you.."

The door flew open and suddenly, there stood Tomo smiling and pointing at them. She took a step forward and closed the door behind her not bothering to move her arm from the 'pointing position'.

"Hello lovebirds," she cooed with a smirk. "Thought I'd come to check on you and see what.. you .. uh oh," she finished up saying as Maya gave her a rather unfriendly look, leapt off Chiyo-chan's lap and started walking towards her.

The authentic wildcat was probably taking her cues from Sakaki and Chiyo-chan, neither looked very happy to see Tomo in the room.

"Ok, well I'll be going now…"

"Tomo what are you doing over there?" asked Kaorin who was poking her head out the door of the other room.

Tomo shot an apologetic look at Chiyo and Sakaki.

The youngest one of the three sighed and stood up.

"Hello Kaorin. Tomo just caught us as we were putting our things away. We're back from our walk now."

"You carried your things with you the whole time?" asked the ever-suspicious Kaorin.

"No, uh we left them in the car at first," answered Sakaki who was now standing at Chiyo's side.

"Oh ok," Kaorin said finally relenting.

Tomo did look like she felt rather bad and mouthed 'I'm really sorry,' at the other two. The wildcat was fond of making waves but she didn't mean to spoil their moment.

Chiyo-chan smiled at the girl and shrugged. She was about to follow Tomo into the other room when she felt a hand on her arm and Maya wandering around her legs.

"If you want me to," said Sakaki softly, "I'd be happy to go to the ball with you."

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