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Chapter 11:
"Non-stop Humiliation"
"Stupid Yahiko..." Sanosuke grumbled under his breath, his grip tightening around the steering wheel as he ran over an old rag left out in the middle of the street, imagining it was Yahiko's head. The movie had ended a few minutes ago, but he was still pissed about Yahiko ruining the ending. Megumi had suggested that they look for him, but Kaoru insisted that he most likely got a ride from someone else, truthfully, she just didn't want to be in the same car as him; she already had a headache and she wasn't tempted to make it worse.
Sanosuke could have cared less if Yahiko had gotten a ride or not. If he was still there, Sanosuke was just gonna leave him, come rain or snow, he wasn't about to give that brat a ride home after what he did at the theaters. Sanosuke smiled, thinking of all the multiple ways he could make Yahiko's life a living hell. He snickered evilly to himself and Kaoru and Megumi exchanged puzzled glances.
"Uh, Sano?" Kaoru said, and he quickly snapped out of his thoughts of sticking Yahiko's head in a toilet and turned to his friend in the passenger seat of his car, "It's the second house on the left." Kaoru pointed out the house that Sanosuke had been to about a million times due to Saito's numerous parties and he turned into the driveway and parked in back of Saito's black Chrysler. "Okay, thanks for the lift," Kaoru said, opening the back seat's door and stepping one foot outside, "I'll probably call you later, okay Megumi? Bye!"
"Hey, Kaoru," Megumi called, making Kaoru pause in front of the passenger window to hear what her friend had to say, "sorry Kenshin couldn't make it and that Yahiko was being such a horrible replacement. I think you should give Kenshin a call and see how he's doing. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear from you. Oh, and before I forget! It's your turn to see the book! Enjoy!"
Kaoru blushed as Megumi shoved the book, her hands suddenly becoming as slippery as ice when they got hold of the Bible and it almost fell out of her hands. After gaining control over it again and making sure Sanosuke didn't see even a tiny glimpse of what was inside, she waved at them as Sanosuke sped away.
Alone in her driveway, Kaoru sighed, looking at the book like it was some kind of drug, a drug she was somehow very tempted to use. Slowly, she inched her way inside, tiptoeing to her room as if she were some armed robber with a sack full of money, and quietly closed the door. As soon as she was sure that her brother, Saito, wasn't planning on stopping by her room, Kaoru cracked open the book, wincing a little at the obscene pictures at the random page she had selected to look at. She made a face, and got up to go to her dresser.
Pulling out a pair of rubber gloves and a pair of tweezers, Kaoru slipped on the gloves and picked up the tweezers in her hands, too afraid to actually have proof that she had touched such a perverted book and she went back to it, turning the page ever so slowly as if it could crumble with just the slightest touch. Squinting with one eye and closing the other so she wouldn't really be able to see what was on the pages, Kaoru peeked out at what she had earlier been so curious to read.
'I can't believe I'm reading this!' Kaoru thought to herself, still only half looking at the book, holding it away at arms length from her body. She didn't want to see any sort of detail whatsoever that the book had, in fact, she even considered closing it and just stuffing it in her backpack. 'How can people look at this stuff?!' she thought as she continued flipping through the pages, 'It's so weird! And perverted! God, this is so wrong! I'm just gonna put it away and no one has to know that I have this sorta thing in my possession... Just close the book before someone sees you with it already! Whoa! Hey! What the hell is that?!'
Kaoru brought the book closer to her face, actually opening her eyes all the way to look at the photo in front of her. A/N: GASP! It was a strange picture of well... she couldn't even figure out what it was and she turned the book upside down, to the right and to the left to try and make sense of it. No such luck....
"Hey Kaoru, you know where the TV remote is?" Saito asked, suddenly barging into her room without even so much as a decent knock. Curiously, he glanced around her room in search of the missing the remote and his focus fell on some book she seemed to be reading with quite some interest. "What are you reading?"
"Uh... it's nothing! And what are you doing here?! Get out, Hajime!" Kaoru ordered, immediately slamming the book shut and she threw a pink pillow at her brother, but Saito quickly put his hands up to cover his face from the oncoming pillow attack, "Get out of my room! Find the damn remote yourself! Get out! Get out!"
"Okay, okay, take it easy!" Saito said, putting his hands up in surrender and as protection from Kaoru's cushion rage and he slowly moved closer, "Haha! Yoink!" Laughing his head off, Saito grabbed the book right out of her hands and ran to the other side of the room. Her eyes as wide as saucers, Kaoru frantically jumped up and down from the ground, trying to steal it back from her nosy brother and yelling any kind of protest she could think of, but he was about a head or so taller than her so the effort was useless. In her haste to get the book back before he saw what it was, she tried hitting him in the stomach, but he never faltered.
Laughing at her weakness and vertically challenged body, Saito tossed the book from one hand to the other in mockery.
"Hajime! Give that back! NOW! I mean it, Hajime! Give me that!" Kaoru shouted, jumping up to try and reach the book that he was holding over his head at arms length. Saito was laughing, luckily not looking inside the book as he held it away from her. "I'm serious! Give me that book! Come on! Give it back or I'll...!"
"Nanananana! What're you gonna do?! Tell Mom and Dad on me, huh?! You can have it back if you can take it from me! And don't call me Hajime!" Saito taunted, laughing even harder as Kaoru jumped on the bed and tried to grab it from him again, "You're not gonna get it that easy! Ow! Hey!" Kaoru kicked him in the shins with all her might and he instantly dropped the book to the floor with a groan. While he was distracted, Kaoru grabbed the book off the floor and started hitting him over the head with it, shouting all the while, "You suck! You suck! You suck!"
"Ouch! Cut it out!" Saito yelped, covering his face again, "Okay, I'm leaving! Jesus! I'm outta here! You're so crazy sometimes! Just stop with the hitting already! Jeez, you like, need some kind of anger therapy or something, Kaoru! God, I need a cigarette..."
Saito held onto his aching head, limping from her room and out into the hall, cursing all the while about crazy-out-of-control-little-sisters-in-need-of-anger-management-classes. Rolling her eyes, Kaoru didn't even breathe until she was positive Saito was out in the hallway and no longer a threat. Just as a precaution, she still held the book over her head, just in case he decided to run back in and try to steal it again because there was absolutely no way she was gonna let him see what she had been looking at. Kaoru didn't put the book down until she was sure Saito was back in his own room and as soon as she heard his door slam closed, she relaxed.
Setting the book down on the bed, Kaoru looked at the clock on her dresser beside her bed. It read 9 o'clock PM. She wasn't sure if it was too late to call Kenshin or not, but she figured that because of the drama of the whole unfortunate bathroom incident, he was probably still awake and worrying about it. Shoving the book in her backpack, Kaoru picked up the Mickey Mouse phone and dialed Kenshin's number and patiently waited for him to pick up.
"You think Yahiko got home alright?" Megumi asked Sanosuke.
"Don't worry, Fox. He's a big boy, he can take care of himself," Sanosuke said, focusing on the road in front of them as he steered the wheel to the right, turning onto a nearby empty parking lot off the side of the road, "He ruined the movie anyway..."
"Well, yeah, but still...," Megumi began, and finally taking notice that he had parked the car, she looked around at their surroundings, "Hey, I know this area! This is the parking lot of my friend's school! In fact, she called me a while ago telling me about some guy that brought her over to Make-out Point. Apparently, the guy was trying to make the moves on her and she told me that she yelled at him and told him not to leave his own car! That Sayo cracks me up sometimes..."
"Uh... haha... imagine that... eheheh... erm...," Sanosuke laughed nervously, trying to act innocent as he remembered the recent date he had with the Christian school girl that had ditched him in the middle of the date and called him a brute, "Anyways.... so........... um... Where'd the nickname, 'Lover Boy' come from?"
"Lover Boy?" Megumi asked quizzically and then suddenly remembering the embarrassing nickname Mina had given him over the phone, she nodded her head, "Oh right! Yeah, about that, you see... uh... Mina's crazy! Yeah, that's it! She's got this problem, where she yells stuff out of nowhere... Yeah, she's crazy..."
"Uh huh. Riiiiight..." Sanosuke said, not at all believing a word out of her mouth, "You're talking about Terete Syndrome, right?"
"Um.... sure!" Megumi lied, flashing him a heart-melting smile even though she had absolutely no clue what on earth he was talking about, but she decided to agree anyway, "Yeah, Mina thinks that me and you are like boyfriend and girlfriend or something... she's got this problem where her mind gets carried away with her sometimes, so yeah..."
"You don't think we're boyfriend and girlfriend then?" Sanosuke asked, narrowing his eyes at her and Megumi gave him a surprised look. That she was not expecting. 'Okay... what's after the second step? Let's see... Play hard to get, did that. Do damsel-in-distress mode, did that too. What comes after that? Ah! I don't know! I don't think I've ever gotten that far before! Shit! He's looking at me... Um... repeat steps one and two!' Megumi thought to herself, taking in a deep breath, 'God, I hope I'm not blushing...'
Sanosuke wasn't sure, but he could've sworn he saw her blush.
"Well, I don't know..." Megumi said as she tried hiding her face with her hair, "Are we?"
"Does this answer your question?" Sanosuke asked as he leaned forward, cupping one side of her face with his hand and he moved closer to her. Megumi could instantly feel a change in the air, not a bad change, but definitely something she wasn't used to, and she watched him shift closer to her. Parting her lips a little, she closed her eyes and waited for the feel of his mouth against hers. His lips weren't even an inch apart from her's and slowly he closed his own eyes.
HONK! HONK!
Sanosuke and Megumi jumped away from each other in surprise at the loud sound coming from behind them and Sanosuke whirled around to stare at the car in back of them, shielding his eyes with his hand so that he could look past the high beam head lights of the rude disrupting car. 'Whoever it is, they better have a good excuse for interrupting!' Sanosuke growled and he and Megumi stepped out of the car, standing in front of the trunk to look at whoever had interfered with their so-close-yet-so-far kiss.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Don't you think you two love birds should find a room or something?!" Yahiko yelled from the window of his grandfather's car, an annoying grin on his face and he burst out laughing, "Motel Six is just around the corner, you know!"
"Yahiko!!!!! You little shit!!!!" Sanosuke practically screamed at him, shaking his fist at the devious guy, who was still laughing like a hyena, "If I ever get my hands on you, you're gonna regret the day you were born!!! Get your ass outta that car right now so I can rearrange that ugly face of yours!"
"Oh shit!" Yahiko shouted, quickly shifting gears as he tried to back the car away from the raging Sanosuke coming straight for him, but the car magically didn't seem to want to move, "Uh oh..." Yahiko did not have exactly have too much time to get his car repaired, especially when a very unhappy Sanosuke was only about a few feet away from him.
"Work with me, you damn machine! Come on wheels, don't fail me now! Yeah, come on! Get moving!!!" Yahiko quickly slammed his foot on the gas pedal, getting away just in time before Sanosuke could yank open the car door and pull him out into the street. Yahiko knew very well what trouble he'd be in tomorrow at school for interrupting, not once, but twice, of Sanosuke's action and he was glad that he was able to get away this time.
Speeding away as fast as the law allowed, Yahiko drove his grandpa's car home, turning back once in a while to check if Sanosuke was following him. When he saw no sign of the spiky headed rooster, Yahiko relaxed, breathing a sigh of relief once he realized he was home free. But not for long...
A few minutes later, still going about sixty miles per hour in fear that Sanosuke was chasing him, Yahiko was pulled over by a local police officer on his night shift. Yahiko groaned, pulling the car off to the side of the road and watched the policeman get out of his car. Walking over to Yahiko's window, flashlight in hand, the officer flickered the light into Yahiko's eyes, practically blinding him, and asked him what he was doing going sixty miles an hour on a speed limit of thirty.
"I was just in a rush to get home, sir," Yahiko tried to explain, but the policeman was already writing a ticket down, "Ah! Come on! Can't you let this slide, just this once?! I'll be very careful next time that you don't catch me! I mean, that I don't go over the speed limit! Please!!!"
"Nope, sorry, can't do that," the officer replied, shaking his head from left to right, "I'm gonna have to write you a ticket for actually doubling the speed limit. It's my job to catch guys like you that... Hey! Have I pulled you over before? You look kinda familiar..."
"Uh... No, sir, I've never gotten pulled over before," Yahiko said, curious as to how on earth the officer could know him, "maybe you saw me on the street somewhere... I dunno..."
"Hey! I know! You're that guy on the internet! The dancing guy, aren't you?!" the officer exclaimed, suddenly remembering the exact location that he saw the boy before, "Yeah! You're him!!! Boy, are you an idiot!"
"Oh no..." Yahiko muttered, looking up to the sky as if to talk to God himself, "When will this nightmare end?!"
A/N: It seems Yahiko is quite a disruptive little guy, huh? Yeah, I think so too. ^_^ Up next, what will happen when Sano sees Yahiko tomorrow at school? Check in next time for, "Bittersweet Revenge!"