Utagaibukai
Peach Girl Fanfiction by Yohko.

Chapter Thirteen: Patching it Up

"Kairi!" Kiro ran into Kairi's room and jumped on his bed. Kairi sat up in pain as Kiro had jumped right onto him, and right on his still recovering bruise.
"What do you want?!" Kairi yelled at him, holding his left side and getting his wind back. "It's nine o'clock, why are you still up?!"
"That Momo chick you like is on the phone."
Kairi looked shocked, before he groaned and rolled over in his bed, "tell her I'm dead."
Kiro blinked, "dead?"
Kairi chuckled, "I'm sure she'll be relieved." He continued to chuckle until he finally realized it's truth and his face sadened.
Kiro raised an eyebrow at his big brother. Kairi was acting weird ever since he came home from school. As soon as he walked through the door, Kiro had run over to him and asked him if he could play Kairi's Playstation. Kairi never let Kiro play his Playstation, but today he said "fine" and went to his room. He never came out, and he never made a sound. "What's the matter with you?" Kiro asked, climbing over Kairi so he could lie down beside him.
"The four letter word that brings about the end to all men." Kairi replied, looking at him with a sort of big brother face Kiro hasn't seen in a long time.
"Food?" Kiro asked innocently as Kairi laughed. Kiro raised an eyebrow.
"No dumbo, love."
Now Kiro laughed, "you're starting to act like a bishonen."
Kairi didn't laugh.
"What?" Kiro didn't think it was that bad of a joke.
Kairi sighed and rolled over, "you're too young to understand."
Kiro shrugged and got off the bed. "I'll tell Momo you're busy." He walked to the door and looked back at Kairi, "well I may only be ten years old, but I can tell you really like this girl. Maybe you should take the call..."
Kairi didn't respond, Kiro assumed he had already fallen back to sleep. He closed the door and went back to his room. Kairi lay in bed, but his eyes were open. In a way, Kiro's innocence made more sense than most of what Kairi was thinking. Although Momo had treated him like total crap, but Kairi really couldn't blame her. The whole school hates her and her supposed friend is behind all her misery. And the only guy she ever cared about was too idiotic to notice her efforts. Momo didn't deserve what she was getting. Her bright smile was too pretty to be crashed in tears. And her kind heart was too precious to go on unseen.
Kairi sighed, regretting what he had said. He lazily got up from bed and looked at his mirror. There were images of super models posted all around, but the only one he was looking at was a year-book cut-out of Momo Adachi in her graduation dress, smiling. He looked at his reflection, silently, before putting his head down. A few moments later he looked back up with his popular grin on.
"Go get 'em, tiger."

"He's busy?" Momo replied, holding the phone cord nervously.
OP: "Yeah. He's on the John. Knowing him he'll probably be in there for awhile. Want me to leave a message?"
"Alright, thanks Kiro."
Momo put the phone down and looked at it for a minute. She had been building up the nerve to make that phone call for hours, and now he wouldn't even speak to her. She knew it.
"How?" She though to herself. "How could I be so selfish?" Her eyes became tear-filled as she grabbed her pillows and starting hitting her bed. "All I ever wanted was for Toji to like me! I didn't even stop to think about my real friends! Kairi was being the friend I always wanted and never had, but I treated him like crap and now I'll never hear from the dumb pumpkin again!!" She collapsed on her bed and fell silent.
"I don't care..." She said to herself and she got up from her bed. "I don't care if he calls me a beach bunny and hates me for the rest of my life, I have to apologize!"

Kairi walked down the street. He threw on black baggy jeans, a blank white t-shirt and a black hoodie, and he had jumped into his black Vans before leaving his house. "Fuck, what if she slams the door in my face before I get to say sorry?"

Momo sped walked down the street. She wore a black skirt with a gold and black striped sleeveless t-shirt. She had jumped into her black shoes and made her way outside as fast as she could. "What if he slams the door in my face before I get to say sorry?"

"I'll say it as soon as she answers the door."

"I'll say it as soon as he answers the door."

"I don't care..."

"... what happens..."

"... I have to apologize!"
"oof!"
Momo and Kairi had just turned a corner and bumped right into each other. They both fell back on their butts and looked up immediately to scream "Why don't you watch where you're going?!"
Kairi blinked, "Momo?"
Momo blinked, "Kairi?"
They both blinked at each other.
Kairi was the first to move, he chuckled as he got up and dusted himself off. "Someone's in a hurry," he held out his hand to Momo.
Momo blushed a bit before taking his hand as he helped her up.
They both looked at each other. Kairi always got lost in Momo's big bright eyes, and Momo was just dumbfounded. Suddenly they both realized why they were there and the both of them blurted out, "I'm sorry!"
Momo and Kairi looked at each other for a moment, surprised. Kairi smiles sweetly and Momo blushed, just as the both of them laughed. Relieved.

"So Toji stuck up for you?"
"Yes."
"Hmm... Sounds like there's still hope."
"Hm?"
After Momo and Kairi laughed for a few good minutes, Kairi had given Momo his hoodie and walked her home. Momo had invited Kairi inside to talk, and since it was pretty chilly outside that night she made them hot chocolate. "My favourite~!" Kairi said brightly as he smelled the sweet chocolate aroma. They were sitting at Momo's kitchen table on opposite sides, talking. Momo had explained why she had slapped Chi, and all the things she'd been hearing from the other students.
"Well," Kairi rubbed the back of his neck, "if he's still standing up for you then maybe he hasn't been completely brain washed yet. There's probably still hope he doesn't hate you."
"Maybe..." Momo looked down at her cup, a few marsh mellows were basking in the hot chocolate foam and a small stream of steam danced around her nose. She sat straight and very properly, both her hands around her cup, her back not leaning on the back rest, and her legs neatly under the table. "But he stopped me from punching Chi, I'm sure that didn't help."
Kairi chuckled, "Toji's a peace-keeper, Momo. He probably doesn't like seeing the people he cares about fight."
"But what if he cares more about Chi than me?" Momo looked up at him.
Kairi was leaning back in his chair with left arm resting on the backrest of the chair beside him, his legs were crossed with his right ankle resting on his left knee. He held the hot chocolate with his right hand and took a sip before putting it down on the table and shaking his head and smiling, "I doubt it. From what you've told me, and my experience as a guy, he's not sweet for her at all. I wouldn't be surprised if she was just another Sae clinging onto him."
Momo suddenly jumped up from her seat and slammed her hands on the table, "that's it!" Kairi almost fell back in his chair as Momo raised her fists to head level, "That's why Chi and Sae are together to tarnish my reputation! Chi wants Toji for herself!"
Kairi recovered from almost falling and raised an eyebrow, "I thought that's what Sae wanted."
Momo slowly sat back down in her chair, her hands rested on the table beside her cup, "it is..."
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Kairi waved out a hand as if to clear out what they were saying. "So you mean to tell me that BOTH Sae and Chi are ruining YOUR reputation just to win Toji?"
"That means..." Momo sorted out what Kairi was getting at and looked at him just as she realized what would happen.
"Momo, my sweet," Kairi put his hands over Momo's and smiled very deviously, "I say it's time we devise out OWN plan."