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"H-He's enrolling into this school for about a month or so." Kari answered.

"That's not a nice way to greet an old acquaintance." Gilbert said with a grin across his beautiful face.

Kyoya walked closer towards the two with an unforgiving look on his face.

"You think I'm ever going to forget what you put her through?" Kyoya asked him, seriously.

"What I put her through? What about what you put her through?" Gilbert replied with the same grin.

Kari stared at the two blankly.

'Great, I had a fight with the twins and now I'm having one with Kyoya and Gilbert.' Kari thought.

Kari sighed and said, "...I'm not going to be a part of this fiesta."

Kari was about to walk away but Gilbert took her arm and pulled her close to him.

"You already were a part of it once you met me. You can't keep everything from Kyoya, Hikari..." Gilbert said to her.

Her eyes widened a bit from her response to him saying her full name. She pushed herself away from him.

"Y-you bastard ... you promised you would never say that! Ever!" Kari yelled at him.

'...Guess I didn't grow up after all...' Kari thought.

"We all make promises that we can't keep. Right, Kyoya?" Gilbert said as he faced him.

Kyoya snarled at him and replied, "What you're referring to had no control over my say."

"What are you two talking about?" Kari asked.

Gilbert smirked and answered, "When he promised you that he will always be there for you and then finally he left. Leaving you alone with me."

Kari's eyes slightly widened a bit. She had completely forgotten about that promise.

"...I had to stay here with my family," Kyoya replied, glaring at Gilbert, "I couldn't stay in America with Kari no matter how much I wanted to. I went along with my father whenever he had business meetings there, once he said that there were no more to attend to, there was nothing that I could do, no matter how much I wanted to do something. I couldn't."

Gilbert snarled at his remark. Then he thought of something that he knew would set him off.

"Didn't you promise to never let anyone hurt her either? What about that promise?" He said as he took Kari's arm and took off her arm warmer showing the bandaged arm.

"He already knows!" Kari yelled by trying to hide the pain of actually screaming as her eyes closed.

"Does he know it's by your father?" Gilbert asked, smirked at her, "You know I can't help being this way around you, Hikari. We were both born into the dark side of the world. I know you remember, Hikari. You loved me. I still love you. Why can't we go back to being badly in love?"

Gilbert smirked at his fail of a joke. Even more he did, seeing the pain on her innocent face which he remembered being the opposite. He remembered that almost everyone was afraid to speak to her because of how they both acted especially around each other. They both couldn't take such abuse from their family and from others around them when they did nothing wrong. So they decided to do something about that. This was once she couldn't see Kyoya anymore. He had forgotten that Kyoya passed on his promise to Gilbert which was to protect her while he was gone. In a way, he did continue to protect—his way. It was to cut everyone off but himself. They were like Hikaru and Kaoru, inseparable.

"Keep your hands off of her!" Kyoya said, trying to stay calm and obey the school rules by not punching him in the face.

"Why? She doesn't belong to you, you know," Gilbert smirked and tightened his grip on Kari making her squeal of pain, "All of this … is tainted by me."

Kari couldn't take this stupid drama anymore and stepped on Gilbert's foot with her heels that the twins made her wear. He gasped and released Kari from his grip. She was about to fall but caught her balance as Kyoya was about save her. He sighed and stood in front of Kari.

"Right now I don't care what her father did to her arm. Right now I care about what you have done to Kari." Kyoya stated intently, glaring at him.

"Acting like the heroic type won't get you anywhere. To act you must do. Isn't the right, Hikari?" Gilbert asked, tilting his head to catch a glimpse of her behind Kyoya.

All he could see was her eyes full of anger.

He chuckled and said, "I remember that look in your eyes. You used to give that to everyone ... but me."

Kyoya couldn't take this punishment he was giving Kari. He didn't want to break school rules but considering how many lines he crossed, he thought it was okay to break a couple rules every now and then. He was about to move his hand that shaped into a fist but Kari moved in front of him and punched Gilbert in the stomach.

"Will you shut up?" Kari yelled at him as he squinted his eyes.

He chuckled a bit as Kari shook her hand from punching him, it did hurt; she wasn't expecting it to.

"I've been working out. That might have been my growing six packs that you felt." Gilbert said with a smirk.

"Y-You dick..." Kari mumbled.

Gilbert quickly grabbed her chin and brought her close to his face.

"You know how big it is." He whispered with a smirk.

"It's not like it was forced upon me or anything." Kari whispered as she scrunched her eyebrows together still looking at him.

"Look on the bright side! You don't ever have to worry about losing your virginity." He whispered.

Kari snarled at him and kicked him where the sun don't shine. He released his grip on her and kneeled on the floor covering his injured part. Unfortunately the heel part of the shoe didn't touch him. He coughed a bit from how hard Kari had kicked him, she was always strong. If other kids picked on Gilbert she would beat them up. If they were picking on someone else, she would beat them up. If she was the one being picked on, she would still beat them up. She didn't like it when others were being picked on ... at least when they don't deserve it. Kari looked down at him and took her arm warmer back to put it on her injured arm.

"I know it might be hard for you ... Gil ... but think before you act." Kari said.

Kyoya slightly smirked and adjusted his glasses.

'That was bound to happen someday.' Kyoya thought.

Kari picked him up by his shoulders and brought him closer to her face, holding his chin as he glared at her. There was a familiar glint in her eyes that he noticed. He knew he was getting to her or at least the old Kari he knew and smirked.

"Don't you dare think that I'm not done with you." She said.

A smirk formed in the shape of his lips and replied, "I hoped you weren't."

Kari pushed him back a bit as she let go of him. He stopped himself from going back any further and then the bell rang. The kids walked out of their classrooms and the three stood there, glaring at each other. Three fangirls came by her and Gilbert, giggling about how cute he was and what not.

Kyoya walked towards them, facing the fangirls, who squeeled even more.

"Shouldn't you three be going to class?" Kyoya asked, adjusting his glasses.

"Y-yes, K-Kyoya-senpai!" They blushed and headed over to class.

"Let's go to class, Kari." Kyoya said and took her wrist.

Kari blinked and Gilbert took her other free hand. She stopped and looked at him which made Kyoya do the same. The two let go of her.

"I need to go to the office but I don't know where that is. Could you direct me, Kari?" He asked with a grin.

Haruhi walked over to the three. She noticed Gilbert and looked at him questionably.

"Hey guys. Who's he?" Haruhi asked, pointing to Gilbert.

"…He's my friend from America! He's staying here for a month." Kari answered with a forced smile.

"Yeah, we've been friends since we were little," Gilbert said as he put her arm around her shoulder, "The name's Gilbert. What's yours?"

"Haruhi," She answered with a smile and then looked at Kyoya, "Do you know him too?"

"...Yeah." Kyoya replied, glaring at Gilbert.

"Hey, Haruhi. Can you show me to the office? These two have something better to do, something called attending to class. It's ridiculous have you ever heard of that?" Gilbert joked around.

"...I never knew that you even heard of it before..." Kari mumbled looking down.

Gilbert heard her but no one else did. He brought her closer to him, tightened his grip a bit around her which made her eyes squint.

"...Actually, we all have to here." Haruhi replied.

Everyone sighed and faceplamed.

"He was just kidding, Haruhi." Kari said to her.

"...Oh." She replied with a slight smile.

"So, what do you say, Haruhi? Show me to the office?" Gilbert asked with a smirk.

"Sure! See you guys later." Haruhi said as she walked with Gilbert to the office.

"...I hope he doesn't do anything to Haruhi." Kari said in a serious tone.

"Relax, right now he just sees Haruhi as a boy. Plus, he's obviously more focused on you." Kyoya replied as he headed to class.

Kari huffed and followed him. They had the same class together.

"I'm not concerned if he likes someone other than me. I just don't want him to hurt Haruhi like he did to me." Kari explained, looking down.

"Haruhi's tough, I'm sure she can handle it." Kyoya replied.

Kari sighed and shook her head.

"I've always been tough, Kyoya. How did that save me when he attacked me like that? ...I just froze up ... I felt so useless ... I don't want that to happen to Haruhi!" She exclaimed as she stopped and put her hands in the shape of fists, closing her eyes.

Kyoya stopped and looked at her. He walked over and brought her into a hug. Kari hesitated but put her arms around him. She wasn't crying, she couldn't for some reason. She was just upset. A couple minutes passed and Kyoya lightly pulled her away from him and looked at her at arm's length.

"C'mon, we're late for class." Kyoya said as he had Kari follow him with a bright smile across her face.