Has there ever been any, how do I say this, unusual history to a certain part of your school building? I mean the stories about the abandoned classroom, or the rumors about the bloody lounge room. You know, that weird and crazy story that doesn't catch anyone's attention until they're trapped in that room and someone disappears? Okay, so not anything dramatic like that, but anything in your school that oddly stands out. Well, apparently I had learned about my boarding school's special place a little too late, when I had already promised a certain someone that I was going to be there with them………

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Thou Shall Not Hate Winter

Ch.12 The Club Tea House

By: Sasali the Snowgirl

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I yawned loudly as I leaned against the tree that was shading me from the sun.

It was still summer, but me not having any family meant that I was going to have to stay in the school, which meant that they still served us those crappy lunch food. Somethings just never change.

"Tired?" The familiar squeaky voice asked beside me.

I smiled at my new roommate a little tiredly. Ayame been sold off and all was obviously going to have to stay here like Souten and me.

I looked around the deserted green field with a frown. It was a little too quiet for my liking………

"Where's everyone else?" I asked trying to break the silence.

Ayame thought for a minute before she literally had the light bulb on her head light up.

"I think Rin's visiting Kohaku" go figure " like Sango with Miroku in the hospital. Souten and Shippou are still getting there lunch, and the last time I saw Inu, he was trying to hide in the boy's bathroom from some girls."

I snorted at the last comment.

Kikyo had been following him non-stop, and I swear I even saw her trying to sneak into his room. I tell you, she's worse then Yura.

I felt a little sorry when I saw Ayame looking around with hopefulness shown all over her face. She was looking for Kouga. It was obviously the case of the one-sided love. Love is so hard to understand these days………

"Whose that?" Ayame asked suddenly, pointing at a small crowd beside the huge school tree not far away.

I looked up and I had no control over my shocked/bewildered/unbelievable expression that just flew across my face.

Word had already spread that Kagura was now been hunted down by her crazy ex-boyfriend who had been chased away by Sesshomaru's rabid fan girls the day before we came back. So what has become of the outcome, you ask? Kagura was now been guarded by Sesshomaru's fan girls since it seems that he has grown attached to her, in a way, who was now reporting what happened to the school principal.

Ayame took my response as something unexplainable and stood up, taking her empty lunch tray, and walked off without any more words.

I was used to her weird behavior by now after every meal. She had always left from the table early without any words and come back later a little bit more pale and the sound of the toilet flushing behind her. I really didn't think of it much though.

"What's up?" A cool voice stirred as I fell back to earth.

My other new roommate sat beside me with her lunch tray full of burgers. What was it with French and burgers?

"Hey, Souten?" I asked timidly. I had this question in my mind ever since that incident on the plane last night.

"Yeah?" Souten asked through a mouthful of burgers.

"Your brother worked here for some time now, right?" We found out that Souten really was related to Coach Hiten been his little sister. Which explains why she was now staying in my dorm room.

"Yeah" Still a lot of burgers.

"Well, does he know anything about the forest?" I blurted out, which I regretted.

Souten nearly choked on her burgers and spitted out the stuff in her mouth and took the orange juice that was on her tray. Insert my 'ewww' face here.

"What?!" She breathed out after been able to breathe again.

"I just………wanted to know" I muttered quietly.

She looked at me in this weird way then shook off any suspicions. Thank god for that.

"Have you actually seen the forbidden sign?" She asked as she gobbled up some French fries.

"Yeah"

"I mean up close" She said in a matter of factly tone.

"No"

"Then I guess you haven't seen the little letters, right?"

"………?"

"It says 'Forest of Love' on it" She said still not really caring about the subject that much.

O.O

I really didn't want to go on anymore, since I felt my self become suddenly weak.

"What are you guys talking about?"

I nearly jumped when Shippou sat beside me with a small thump. He was never good at making an entrance.

Souten glared at Shippou then stood up leaving her lunch tray on the ground.

"I think I just lost my appetite" She muttered out.

With that she stormed off with an angry aura building up around her. I was very glad that I wasn't the person Souten had trampled over when they got in her way. Man, that girl can be scary………

Shippou looked only mildly confused at Souten's odd behavior, but then his stomach growled and started to eat his lunch totally forgetting about Souten.

That kind of pissed me off.

"Shippou, aren't you even a tiny bit sorry?" I asked a little angry.

"About what?" He said gulping some pizza.

My face fell. He really had no idea.

"I mean about how you treated Souten" I said shaking my head.

"What do you mean?" He said though he looked more interested in the mashed potato.

"I mean how you ignore her and how- are you listening to me?"

Shippou put down his juice and looked at me innocently, though it was a bit different then Inu's for some reason.

"Anyway, don't you see it?" I urged on though it only made Shippou more confused.

"Huh?"

I breathed in and out, trying to hold on to my anger, but the velocity of how loud I had said the next thing proved that I had been unsuccessful.

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! SOUTEN LIKES YOU GOD DAMN IT!!!"

Maybe I was a little too dramatic………

I stood up in sheer hopelessness and stormed off in a very similar fashion as Souten had done leaving a shocked Shippou on the ground. But if I hadn't been too engaged in trampling everything in my sight, I would of seen Shippou's slow grin rising.

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I kept on walking/storming for about an hour to relinquish my anger with those old memories of my first heart-shattering dump. Hobo the dodo.

Stupid boys, they're so naïve, unresponsible, lies all the time, always with that lame pick up lines and most of all-

I was getting to the top of my anger when I heard a loud cheer from a crowd near the soccer field. That's when I realized that I had forgotten what day it was. The start off of the soccer championships.

Cursing, I dashed to the crowd to see the players in action and eager to see their moves and special techniques………don't even think about saying 'their hot body' now, since I'm not in the good move.

Like I thought, the game had already started when I got to the sidelines. (Un)fortunately, I had come to the game just when a certain someone had made a goal, which explains why the girls were cheering.

My eyes widened when I realized who was running across the field doing high fives with Kouga, with his sweat rolling across his cheek and his manly shouts made the crowd of girls melt.

Did I ever mention that Inu had a very nicely built body?

"Kagome, where have you been?" someone shouted over the loud cheerings.

I looked around to see who had called out my name, until my eyes had landed on Ayame and Souten who was having something suspiciously like tea on one of the seats that oddly stand out. Actually, it was more like a tree house, except it wasn't attached to a tree; four wooden thick beams with a neat looking ladder attached to it were supporting it.

I sweat dropped then shook it off thinking how the view must be so much better. Reluctantly, I climbed the ladder that swung a bit to my horror, and finally reached to the top. To my suspicions, both of them really were having tea in this well placed treeless tree house with their fancy pink china plates and blue picnic sheet on the floor. Insert my big sweat drop.

"Glad you could join us" Souten said, still staring out into the soccer field with a teacup in one hand.

"Ummm, guys, what is this place?" It was a nicely decorated place actually. It even smelled pleasantly of blossoms and Sakuras.

"My brother usually watches his team up here when he trains them. Since I'm his sister and all, he let us have some VIP pass to let us see from up here" Souten yelled the last part when Shippou had made a goal with his head, literally, and almost spelled her tea. Looks like she's not that mad at him.

"That's nice" I replied as I stepped over a teacup.

"Don't forget to take your tea" Ayame warned as she sipped some from her teacup, though she spitted it out the next second since it was still too hot.

"What?"

Tea?

"Look on the plate" Souten said, to preoccupied with the game.

I looked behind me to see a huge silver plate with the words 'MUST DRINK TEA TO STAY IN THE CLUB HOUSE'.

O.O

"Tea?"

"They think it'll bring good luck to the game, now hurry up and come over here!" Souten said more irritatingly.

Quickly, I poured some steaming tea in my cup, with a huge sweat drop on my head, and crawled towards my two preoccupied friends. I kneeled in one of the mats already set in front of the open window and looked out to see a perfect view of the soccer field.

It was already almost at the end of the game, and the 'White Huskies', with Inu, and the 'Black Wolves', the outsiders, were perfectly tied.

One of the outsiders had the ball and he was approaching the goal quickly with two of his men beside him. I noticed that we were short on two men, Kohaku and Miroku, that made me believe that the game was going to be called off from the start.

No one seemed to be blocking the outsider as he perfectly swerved passed Shippou and passed it to another outsider who had an especially dark tan. He made an incredibly fast kick that shot like a bullet and would have made the goal that would of made them the winner, if it wasn't for Sesshomaru's, the goalie's, spectacular kick.

I heard loud cheers from the sidelines and noticed the rabid fan girls waving the pom-poms that looked suspiciously like the ones from the cheerleaders and like I had thought, the pom-pomless cheerleaders were running at them very pissed off. While the rabid fan girls of Inu charged at them demanding that Inu was a better man. In the center, I saw Kagura looking, or trying to look, very bored, but her total attention was still on Sesshomaru. Though I don't blame her, since he was wearing those tight tank tops that showed off his muscles and he was sweating too. I never knew Kagura even thought about man………

The ball was perfectly in mid air and landed right in front of Kouga who was already in the middle of the field. They had strategically planned this out.

I distinctly saw Kouga smirk, and Ayame must have too since she blushed, and ran with the ball right in front of him. He swerved and dodged many attackers but he was too blocked off from the goal. He smirked again. Ayame blushed again.

He popped the ball up and did a perfect head butt, and the ball landed in front of non-other then Inu. It was all planned.

Inu looked around to see a perfect clear field since many of the outsiders have been too busy covering up Kouga and forgot about the captain of the team. Big mistake.

Inu punted the ball a few times before dashing off without many of his opponents even noticed him with the ball.

He swerved around some players easily enough and had rhythmically passed it around to Kouga many times before he was right in front of the opponent's goal.

It was like a slow motion.

Inu kicking the ball slowly with this sexy/determined look and the soccer ball passing the players easily as if they were standing still and went right to the goal.

Everyone held their breath when the goalie jumped to get the ball with both of his hands stretched out, and-

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-missed by two inches.

The crowd roared in happiness and the girls around me had gone completely berserk. Ayame was jumping up and down happily with her teacup forgotten on the floor tipped over, and Souten was yelling like crazy.

But what kept me quiet was him.

Inu was looking right at me.

It was surprising that he even saw me since the clubhouse was well hidden but he was looking directly at me with his violet eyes.

I knew what he was trying to say to me, which scared me a bit on how we were perfectly connected.

Before he ran off from the storming fan girls, he winked at me which mad me blush in ten shades of red.

He still wanted to, I mean, I OWED him a talk………

Damn it………

A/N: PURPLE DINOSAUR MUST DIE!!! DIE BARNEY! DDDIIIEEE!!! Sorry if I'm acting a bit *ahem* weird *ahem* but my cousin had came over, he was the one who made my computer spontaneously combust mind you, and watched Barney for 5 straight hours! He's only 5 years old! GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! MY INSANITY HAS REACHED THE POINT OF NO RETURN!!!