"Kaori-chan." I groaned, turning over on my side. Why was he trying to wake me up? I was tired damn it. "Kaori." I wrinkled my nose, keeping my eyes sealed shut. I wasn't getting up, I refused to, and there was no way he was going to make me. "Come on my little love, wake up."

I clutched the pillow under my head, trying to ignore the incredibly sexy voice whispering in my ear. Why was he doing this to me so early in the morning? I was so tired and wanted to sleep, but I was getting so turned on hearing how sexy he sounded. How was it possible for someone to get turned on as soon as they woke up? Why me, why did it have to be me?

"Kaori-chan, breakfast is almost ready. We need ta head downstairs." he told me.

My eyes snapped open, I was pissed off. He'd woken me up and turned me on. Why couldn't he have just let me sleep and skip breakfast? Oh wait. Now that I thought about it, I knew why he wouldn't let me sleep in. He wouldn't let me sleep because he'd been woken up by someone. So he thought, that since he'd been woken up, that I should be awake too. How perfect and logical was that? I let out a frustrated breath and turned on my left side, facing Shinji. He tilted his head against his pillow and rubbed my cheek with his thumb.

"Ohayou love." he said softly, I felt my anger disappear. Why'd he have to be so sweet about this?

"Ohayou Shinji." I whispered, leaning my cheek into his hand. I smiled slightly, wishing to myself that I could still be pissed at him, but I knew I couldn't with how sweet he was being right now.

"Gomen fer waking ya up love, I didn't wanna." he apologized. I almost rolled my eyes, now that was a lie. I forced myself to ignore it though, I didn't want to fight this early in the morning with him.

"It's not a big deal I guess." I mumbled, scooting closer to him.

He grinned, placing his arm around my waist, and held me close to him. I smiled slightly, closing my eyes, inhaling his scent. I loved feeling him so close to me in the morning, it was really romantic in a weird kind of way. Just to wake up and have someone holding you, it was just something amazing to experience. Anyone who'd never had something like that, could never understand it. I kept my eyes closed, inhaling again. God, why did he always smell so wonderful? Like…I couldn't even describe what he smelled like, it was just such a sexy smell. I thought guys were supposed to be all sweaty and gross smelling…I guess not.

"So love…" I opened my eyes, looking up at Shinji, and kissed his cheek.

"Hai?" I asked sweetly, he chuckled at my tone. I must've sounded quite adorable to him. Score for me.

"Why do ya wanna go ta Kurosaki's school so badly?" he asked curiously, I shrugged a little.

"I've always wondered about these high school things, all the kids complain about them. I wanna know if they're as bad as the kids make them out to be. So…I thought it'd be nice to have a new adventure, see what they're like." I replied, he rolled his eyes.

"Yer too adventurous." he mumbled, I shook my head giggling.

"Nu uh." I said cutely. "A little bit of adventure never hurt…"

I stopped, lowering my head. Never mind, that wasn't a good thing to say. I'd just hurt my own feelings now, as well as Shinji's…I really needed to just stop talking all together. I was going to wind up hurting everyone's feeling one day if I didn't start thinking before I spoke.

"Kaori-chan…" Shinji started. I shook my head, stopping his words.

"I'm fine." I whispered, rubbing my arm. "I just…wasn't thinking about…yeah…"

I shook my head, confused with my own words and thoughts, and sat up in bed. I slipped out of the sheets and walked across the room to Shinji's closet. I went through his closet boredly, trying to find something to wear back to my room. I just needed a top maybe. It wasn't like I could walk down the hallway half naked…at least one of his shirts would be enough cover up for me. I grabbed his dark blue button up, pulling my arms through the sleeves. I sighed, buttoning only a few of the buttons, and felt Shinji's arms go around my waist from behind me.

"Kaori love?" I looked at him over my shoulder, he looked concerned. Why did I always worry him so much? How did I manage to worry him so much?

"Nani Shinji?" I whispered, trying to hide my sad tone.

"Don't be sad, ya didn't-"

"I know Shinji." I interrupted, kissing his cheek afterwards. "Can we just not talk about it?"

He nodded a bit, hugging my waist tightly. I smiled sadly and kissed his cheek again, before I managed to wiggle out of his arms. I walked out of his room, heading down the hallway, back to my bedroom. I looked around my room apathetically and finally forced myself to look through my dresser for something to wear for the day. I wrinkled my nose, going through the clothing without any real interest. I finally pulled out my light wash skinny jeans, bright purple off-shoulders top, and pulled my black and white checkered slip-on vans on my feet. I looked at my reflection, quickly brushing my hair out, and glanced over hearing my door pushed open. I looked at Shinji, smirking to myself seeing the grin on his face.

"Damn, can someone say beautiful?" he teased, I rolled my eyes.

"Arigato Shinji." I said sweetly, setting my brush back on my dresser. I looked up at him, tilting my head to the side. Did he honestly think he could surprise me with shunpo anymore? If he did, he was quite the dense one. "Hmmm?" He lightly ran his finger up my arm, staring into my eyes.

"Yer so beautiful Kaori." he told me. I felt my cheeks go hot at the compliment and licked my lips.

"If I had a Zanpakuto for every time I heard that, I'd own my own weapons shop." I said, sounding sarcastic.

He chuckled, gently pressing his lips against mine. I smiled into the kiss, placing my arms around his neck, and tilted my head to the side to kiss him better. As our lips moved against each other's, so many different memories were popping in my head. Both good and bad memories. I didn't want to think about those memories right now though, they were too hurtful. I kissed Shinji one last time and pulled my lips back from his. I opened my eyes, staring into his.

"Let's go eat…I'm starving." I groaned, he laughed in amusement.

He kissed my forehead before we walked out of my room and down into the dining room. The whole family had beat us there again, I wasn't really surprised. Even back in Soul Society I was always almost late, running late, barely late…I just was always late no matter what I did. Curse my old Taichou's habit of being late, he'd rubbed off on me. Now with Shinji distracting me all the time, it didn't really help me with being on time…he was such a frustrating yet sexy distraction. The thing that was distracting about our dysfunctional family, was their constant arguing, and that wasn't a good distraction at all. It was annoying as hell. I scratched the back of my head, taking a seat next to Rose.

"Ohayou Oni-chan." I said, yawning a bit. He chuckled, pouring some orange juice into a glass.

"Tired Kaori?" he asked, sounding amused. I shrugged in response, smiling when he handed me the orange juice.

"Arigato." I said sweetly, he nodded.

Shinji took the seat next to me, in-between Lisa and myself. I took a drink of my orange juice, smiling when Shinji nudged my side with his elbow. I giggled to myself, poking his cheek. He grinned at me, before he turned his attention to Kensei. Training, today was going to be so tiresome. I didn't feel like training today, couldn't we just take a break or something? We always trained nonstop, we barely ever got a break.

"So what's on the agenda fer today Kensei?" Shinji asked. Kensei took a quick bite of his toast and said

"Well, Mashiro wants to take break from training for today so I have no idea."

I smirked, mentally cheering because there was no training. My prayers had just been answered. I loved how Mashiro was able to manipulate Kensei the way she did. All she had to do was whine, throw a small tantrum on the floor, and bam! She got what she wanted. I'd always wished I was able to manipulate Shinji the same way Mashiro manipulated Kensei…then again. All I had to do was turn him on, and he gave me whatever I wanted…most of the time anyway. So I guessed I did know how to manipulate people pretty well…men at least…some men…maybe it was just Shinji. Shinji nodded beside me and turned his attention to Mashiro.

"Did ya wanna do something specific today Mashiro?" he asked, sighing.

I could tell that he would rather train than let Mashiro be in charge of what we did for the whole day. No one didn't really have any idea what Mashiro would be planning, she was quite the random person. She might be a completely normal grownup person and decide that she wanted to go out to eat as a group or go to some club later that night. Or she'd whine about wanting to go to a toy store, or the park, or to Pet Land. She could be grownup one moment, a complete and total child the next. Why couldn't she just stick with one personality rather than a billion? She tilted her head a bit, looking like a confused puppy, and hmm'd to herself.

"Yep!" she said after a moment, nodding in confirmation.

She didn't say anything for a few more seconds, and I could see Kensei was already growing frustrated with her. Just by the way his eyes were narrowing, and the way his lips twitched, the creases on his forehead…he was already getting annoyed. I swear, he was so short-tempered. He needed to chill for once, stop being so serious all the time. Being carefree was fun, Mashiro was proof of that.

"What'd you wanna do Mashiro?" I asked, hoping to keep Kensei from blowing up on her. I wasn't in the mood to hear all sorts of yelling right now, I still wasn't all the way awake.

"I have the whole day planned out." she said proudly, I could just feel everyone sweat drop. This couldn't have been good.

"Uh huh." Lisa said from behind her book. "And would you be so kind as to tell us what you have planned?" Mashiro hmm'd again and nodded.

"Yep, I'll tell." she said, sounding all energetic and bubbly. "Well, first we're going shopping." I smirked in victory, I'd been wanting to go shopping for a good couple of weeks.

"Urg." Hiyori groaned. "Do we hafta?" Mashiro nodded, smiling.

"Mhm." Hiyori crossed her arms annoyed, she hated shopping. Ok, hated is an understatement. She loathed, no, despised shopping. "There's a whole bunch of sales today in the mall, and everything's all pretty."

Hiyori groaned again but still nodded, knowing that Mashiro would more than likely throw a tantrum if she didn't agree. I glanced at Lisa, she looked a little happy to be going shopping. I think she just wanted to visit a book store rather than buy clothes though. I knew Rose and Love were in agreement with her on the bookstore thing, they wanted new manga of course. And I knew Rose would be visiting a music store with Shinji and myself, we three were the music fanatics out of the group. After the music store, I really needed to shop for clothes; I was running low on non-ripped clothing. Hiyori…I really had no idea where she went in the mall, I'd never hung out with her there. Kensei, he'd most likely be dragged around by Mashiro like he normally was. If he escaped from her, I knew he'd be checking out the self-defense store in the mall. He found the humans various weapons quite interesting. Hachigen currently wasn't feeling well so I knew he wasn't going to accompany us. He'd just sleep in bed all day, trying to get himself feeling better. I felt pretty bad for him being sick, poor Hachi.

"The mall sounds fine." Rose said, I took another drink of my orange juice.

"New manga." Love muttered, scratching his ear. Mashiro smiled, happy that everyone was in agreement with going to the mall.

"After that we're gonna eat." she told us, Kensei looked at her suspiciously.

"Where?" he asked, she smiled happily.

"Silly Kensei, if I told you it wouldn't be a surprise." she laughed, he narrowed his eyes at her. He better not start a fight with her…or start one of her whining fits.

"What after that?" I asked, trying to keep Kensei from strangling her.

"Drop our stuff off." Mashiro said, nodding to herself. "Night on the town."

I giggled, loving how she was being pretty grownup today. Clubbing, I loved it so much. I especially liked dressing up in some sexy outfit and getting Shinji's jaw to drop. That was always rather amusing to me, Rose didn't get amused about it though. So, unfortunately, I had to watch what I wore. It couldn't be too revealing or Rose would flip out, but it couldn't completely cover everything or I'd be pissed. I enjoyed watching Shinji's reaction to other guys hitting on me, I liked seeing him get all possessive. It was extremely hot, and I liked that he would be ready to get in a fight and kick someone's ass to impress me.

"Oh, but before that I wanna go to Pet Land!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms up in the air.

I sighed, shaking my head. Of course, she couldn't ever be completely grownup.


The pendulum swings back.

The story barreling towards the future will stop for an instant, so that we may peer into the past.

Though it was only the briefest of moments, its effects were wide-spread and long-lasting.


"Taichou?" I looked up from my desk, smiling when Youta walked in. I turned my attention back to the paperwork, saying with a sweet tone

"How are you today, Youta dear?"

"Quite alright, Otoribashi-Taichou." he replied, my sweet smile turned into an amused smirk.

From the way he'd just said that I knew that he'd learnt something of interest, and I needed to know what it was. There was no way I was going to let him keep any secrets from me.

"How are you doing Taichou?" he inquired.

"Fine." I replied, looking up from the paperwork. I could see an evil glint in his eyes, now I knew for sure that he'd found something out about Satomi. This was all too perfect. "Tell me what ya know."

He chuckled, knowing that I was good at reading people, and walked away from the bookshelf towards my desk. I stared up at him, watching him lean back against the desk, his palms planted on the desk. I tilted my head to the side, moving my side-bangs out of my eyes.

"A bunch of Kazuma's friends were talking." he told me, I nodded. "She'd told them something about how she was going to see Hirako-Taichou in an hour."

I nodded again, an hour huh? That would be the perfect time for me to interrupt their little make out session. Kazuma Satomi would be sorry she was messing with me and using my best friend to her own benefit. She was going to pay dearly…just not yet. Dragging out her punishment was far too much fun for me to pass up, and I hadn't had this much fun in a good while.

"That's perfect." I said, sounding mischievous. "Arigato Youta."

He nodded, happy that he could help me complete my mission. In the past few days, Youta had been assisting me in my plan of "Making Satomi incredibly miserable so she'll resign." He'd been a major help to me, it was good to have a skilled spy in the enemy's territory. While I was stuck in my office doing all sorts of paperwork and taichou shit, Youta was wandering the barracks, listening to everything people were saying. He'd heard plenty of people talking about Satomi dating Shinji, but it wasn't much help. They were all just rambling about how lucky she was to be with a taichou and all kinds of other shit. The real important stuff we got, was when he managed to eavesdrop on her friends. They always gossiped about some of the lamest stuff, but most of their conversations revolved around Satomi and Shinji. She just couldn't keep her mouth shut around them, and now I had all sorts of information. I knew he was taking her out for dinner on Friday of this week at seven, I was going to definitely interrupt that. Maybe I'd even let Youta in on the fun. I knew that she was seeing him in an hour today, I even had figured out what times she left the division during the day to go see him. It was perfect, these girls were helping me complete my mission…and they didn't even know they were screwing over one of their friends.

I had yet to get around to speaking with Shinji about everything going on with his little girl toy, but today was the day that I would. I knew I couldn't delay it any longer…and I just wanted to be a bitch and stop him from making out with her. I was thinking I'd wind up chasing him around Seireitei, but I was in the mood for a good hunt. A battle of shunpo tag, then I'd corner him somewhere. Most likely some division's grounds. If I didn't manage to corner him, I'd tackle him to the fucking ground and yell in his face to make sure he heard what I was saying. I wasn't going to let him hurt me like he had for the past two weeks. I'd woken up in a pissed off mood today, and I'd make sure it stayed that way. I went two days this week being heartbroken and miserable over him, now I was going to stay pissed.

"Taichou…may I ask what you're planning?" Youta inquired, snapping me out of my thoughts. I grinned, nodding a little.

"I'm going over there. Gonna interrupt their kissy kissy, smoochy smoochy time." I replied. He chuckled, looking insanely amused.

"I love the way you explain things Taichou, it's rather creative." I nodded in agreement, I was awesome at being creative. "Would you like me to accompany you to his office?" he asked. I shook my head, I needed him here.

"No, I'm really behind on paperwork right now." I complained, shaking my head to myself. "I really need to get caught up." He nodded, ruffling his hair.

"Alright, tell me how it goes won't ya?" he asked of me, I nodded.

"Yeah, fer sure." I said smirking. "I'm gonna wind up chasing him around fucking Seireitei most likely." Youta rolled his eyes, knowing I was the only person bold enough to chase Shinji around Seireitei, and grabbed a folder off my desk.

"Give him a punch from me then." he said, opening the folder. "I would myself, but you'd kill me if I did since he's yours to punish."

"Nah, I wouldn't kill ya Youta dear. You're my fav." I teased, he rolled his eyes again.

"Uh huh…Otoribashi-Taichou, have you read this?" he asked with a serious tone, I shook my head.

"No…what's it about?" I asked curiously, moving my head up.

"Urahara-Taichou's asking for volunteers so he can study reiatsu a bit closer. He's working on developing something called a gigai." Youta explained, I looked at him confused. "It's a faux body Taichou, he thinks they may come of use in the world of the living some time in the near future. He's having difficulties with creating it though since reiatsu is rather complicated." I nodded, licking my lips. "Taichous are able to assign this to their division members since Urahara-Taichou needs more than just one person, he needs to study all sorts of different reiatsu."

I grinned in amusement, Satomi wouldn't enjoy being stuck with all sorts of little pins and needles. This was perfect, and she couldn't go against a direct order from her taichou. She was just a fifteenth seat after all. Oops, did I say fifteen? I meant sixteenth, I demoted her yesterday. I felt a smirk come to my lips and took the folder from Youta. I had quite the number of people to assign to this…all of them Satomi's friends.

"Taichou?" Youta questioned, confused as to why I found this file interesting.

"The girls won't like their perfect little bodies being scarred Youta." I said, grinning evilly. Youta chuckled, understanding what I was saying.

"Of course not Otoribashi-Taichou, make sure you assign people to this who won't mind." he said, sounding sarcastic. I nodded in agreement, this was going to be good…very good.

"Mhm, we don't want the division angry with us do we?" I asked, chuckling darkly behind the folder.

"No, making enemies wouldn't be a smart thing to do." he joked, I raised an eyebrow in amusement. I glanced towards the clock, smirking to myself.

"I'm gonna head over there, it's about time." I said, signing Satomi over to Urahara's experiment thing.

"Ok, I'll make sure to deliver the order to the rest of her friends." Youta informed me, I nodded in thanks. I grabbed the order for her out of the folder and handed the folder with the rest of the orders to Youta.

"Have fun, they'll be pissed." I said amused, he chuckled.

"They'll listen to me, they know I'm your right hand." Youta said, exiting the office.

I chuckled again and followed him out. I walked down the hallway, plenty excited about what I was going to do to Satomi. Oh she wouldn't like this order, she wouldn't like it one fucking bit. Did I care? Fuck no. I smirked, heading towards the fifth division. I walked slowly, trying to waste a little bit of time. I wanted to do a little bit of thinking on what I'd say when I walked in the office. Maybe I'd just need to be a bitch…or I could be as sweet as honey. Which one would be better? I thought on this for a moment and decided it would be best to act all sweet and nice. I didn't want Shinji knowing how miserable I was making his girl toy, it would ruin all my fun…and he would know I was up to something if I walked in there being bitchy. He was already going to know something was up when I walked in there, I hadn't actually spoken to him in a good two weeks. Civilly I mean.

I stopped infront of the door to Shinji's office and slid it open without even thinking about knocking, there was no real point in it. There they were, lip locking like the first time. I felt anger and something like jealousy bubble up inside me, but I managed to keep myself calm. I wasn't going to ruin all my fun by getting pissed off, I'd been planning this for a while and I refused to let it blow up in my face.

"Eh hem." I coughed. They broke apart, eyes locking on me.

"Otoribashi-Taichou." Satomi exclaimed, looking embarrassed.

"Kaori…what a surprise." Shinji said. He looked nervous, very nervous. Good, the bastard deserved it. I continued smiling sweetly and motioned Satomi over with my index finger.

"I have an assignment for you." I said, sounding kind. She nodded, taking the order with trembling fingers. "Out."

She nodded again, looking back at Shinji once, before exiting his office without a word. I slid the door shut behind her and looked back to Shinji, our eyes locking. If he had been nervous before, now he looked like he was about to piss his pants. Even better. I shunpoed across his office, stopping right infront of him. He took a step back, bumping against his desk. I glared coldly at him, leaning closer to him.

"Uhh…Kaori. I thought ya enjoyed personal space." Shinji said, looking extremely nervous. I smirked, putting my hands on my hips in a teasing manner.

"Personal space isn't a biggie right now Shinji darling." I cooed, sounding dangerously sweet. He cringed a bit, my smirk widened. "I think it's time to have a little talk, nay?" He swallowed and I laughed watching him shunpo to the window, quickly jumping out. "You're not getting away that easily!" I shouted, following him out the window.

I landed in a crouched position on the ground and I shunpoed after him, chasing him across the fifth division's grounds. We were getting so many stares from all his division, but like it really mattered. Shinji was going to suffer the consequences of not talking to me about dating someone from my division, leading me on like he had, and confusing the shit out of me. Then hurting me afterwards, I couldn't forget about that! Oh, and not to mention him not noticing that the whore was using him. Was he fucking blind or something? I managed to shunpo faster than him and grabbed the back of his haori, pulling him down into the grass. He landed on his back and I jumped ontop of him, straddling his waist. With my hands on either side of his head, I leaned closer to him, glaring hard.

"You fucking asshole." I said slowly, sounding dangerous. He looked scared…ok scared was an understatement. He looked absolutely terrified.

"Nani Kaori?" he asked, trying to press his back even further into the grass. I smirked, leaning in closer to him and punched him in the face.

"You fucking jerk." I yelled, my fist making contact with his face again. "How the hell could you do this to me? You bastard! Didn't even ask to date someone from my division, you're screwing everything up. You fucking cunt! Now everything's off balance in my division, and it's all you're damn fault." I hit him in the face again and again, breathing hard. I finally stopped hitting him, trying to get the rest of my anger out without anymore violence being involved. "How could you fucking do this to me? Why the hell would you screw your best friend over like this? Fucking bitch!"

"Kaori." I glared harder at him, his eyes locked with mine. "I didn't think ya'd care, demo…now that I know ya do. Gomen." I felt anger spreading through my veins, I was still so extremely pissed off. That was the lamest apology I'd ever heard in all my years.

"I wouldn't have cared if you would've just asked me. I was already having a hard time controlling that fucking bitch, now it's even harder with you in the way." I said angrily, leaning my face closer to his.

He swallowed, still staring into my olive green eyes. I felt some of my anger disappearing, it'd been a while since he'd looked at me like this, and I liked it. I'd missed him looking at me this way, just the way our eyes were connecting right now, it was such an amazing feeling. I'd missed the emotional connection I shared with him so much, the way we looked at each other was something far different than the way other people stared at each other. We just…I couldn't understand it. He was able to calm me down though, just by staring at me. I was already feeling like my anger was fading away, but I didn't understand why the hell I'd missed this connection with him. He'd pissed me off, and I'd been angry with him for a good two weeks. So why the hell would I have missed having an emotional connection with him?

"She doesn't wanna fucking listen to any order I give her, she was already stuck up enough just because she's a noble. Now that she's dating a taichou, she thinks she can do whatever the hell she wants. Thanks a fucking lot Shinji." I scolded, narrowing my eyes.

I was trying to sound like I was still completely pissed off at him, even though I really wasn't anymore. He'd calmed me down without even doing or saying anything…great. I watched his hand come up, I clenched my teeth expecting a punch to the face, and he surprised me when he cupped my cheek in his hand. I stared at him, confused by his actions, what was he doing? He licked his lips, still staring into my eyes, and said

"Kaori-chan…yer my best friend. I didn't mean ta hurt ya. Gomen nasai."

I swallowed, wondering how he knew that he'd hurt me. I could've just been pissed off for all he knew. Instead of trying to say something, I nodded. I knew I wouldn't be able to get any of my words out without choking up. I hopped off him, crossing my arms. He got to his feet and pulled me into his arms, hugging me tightly. I almost hugged him back but forced myself not to. When he'd touched me…it felt like my heart had leaped out of my chest. Like…it had missed feeling his touch.

I was feeling so at ease in his arms right now, but I couldn't let him think he'd been completely forgiven. I had to let him know he was still introuble for doing this to me, for hurting me like this. I didn't think I could though. As much as I hated to admit it…I might've actually had feelings for Shinji, and that might've been why him dating Satomi had hurt me as much as it had. I finally put my arms around him, nuzzling my face in his chest, and inhaled his scent. He smelt amazing, had he always smelt this way? I heard him sigh as he placed his cheek ontop of my head and hid my blush feeling his fingers run through my short hair. It was weird for him to be so affectionate towards me, but I liked him acting this way towards me. It was different, but it was a nice different. Like…he was supposed to be acting this way only towards me.

I didn't know how long we stood there, a good fifteen minutes at least, but he finally released his grip on me. I took a step back, slightly sad that he'd broken off the hug. I looked up at him, wishing that I understood what I was feeling towards him, and he planted a gentle kiss on my forehead. I felt my cheeks go hot and lowered my head, letting my hair fall over my face to cover my blush.

"Gomen Kaori." Shinji apologized again; I nodded, rubbing my arm.

"No big deal." I mumbled, still rubbing my arm. "I need to get back to my office anyway, I'm drowning in paperwork." I heard Shinji chuckle and looked up at him. He grinned and patted the top of my head.

"Obviously, yer not that tall Kaori." he said playfully. I glared and kicked him in the shin. "Itai!" He hopped around on one foot, holding his shin, and I chuckled to myself.

"That's what ya get." I said, grinning in amusement. Shinji looked at me, grinning as well, and said

"We good?" I shrugged, putting my hands behind my head.

"I suppose." I said boredly, walking off in the direction of my division. "I'll see ya later, and Shinji?" I looked at him over my shoulder, his eyes locked with mine. "Be careful around that little whore."

I shunpoed off, heading back to my division. At least things had gotten better between Shinji and myself, but I didn't have any idea what I was going to do now. Those feelings had come back, tenfold. I didn't understand them before, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized how right Motarasu Kumo was. I really did have feelings for Shinji, feelings that I didn't want. I had no clue what I was going to do either. Having feelings for Hirako Shinji…oh great. He was one of my brother's friends, one of my friends, my best friend. How was I going to tell him I had feelings for him, there was no way I could. One reason was I had too much pride. The other, Satomi was in my way. Not for long though, I'd make sure of it. I smirked to myself, heading down the hallway to my office.

"Kazuma Satomi, you are going down."


Author's Note: And there's chapter nine. Haha, Kaori totally kicked Shinji ass, the poor dear. Isn't Kaori just plain awesome? No wonder you all love her so much...or maybe it's just me. I was especially happy to get this chapter out today after working so hard on it. Wanna know why? Huh, huh?! Well, it's my birthday so...yeah. Haha, I'm sorry if that made no sense. Anyway, FIVE REVIEWS=NEW CHAPTER!!!


CHAPTER TEN PREVIEW!

"You're hiding something from me." I could see Rose's eyes widen, I was right. "WHAT'D YOU DO!" I screamed, he shrugged in response. He didn't look all that concerned with it, just concerned with me knowing he did something rather than what he did.

"I just threatened Shinji." he said nonchalantly, my jaw dropped.

"You did what!" I yelled, not as loudly as before. He continued giving me the same calm look and said plainly

"I threatened him." I glared at him, looking as intimidating as I possibly could. I couldn't believe he'd threatened my prey.