Reincarnation
by oronoda

*Copyright: Fushigi Yuugi is not mine. It belongs to Yuu Watase

Chapter 6: School (or Love Confusion)

Seihitei was ready to go home after school on Monday. His backpack was filled with his books and he was ready to catch the bus.

He had an odd day. His class had just elected him to run for President of Student Council for his senior year. It was a big deal and Seihitei was not sure if he wanted to take it or not.

While deep in thought in this matter, he was brought to, by a punch on the shoulder. Once again, he knew who it was, "Hi Carmella." He turned to face her bright face. She was wearing a scully hat on backwards and had a notepad in her hand and a pen in the other. Seihitei could not help but notice the way her hair curled around her hat in such a beautiful way.

"Seihitei! I have to write a report on the candidates for the school news paper!" she exclaimed happily.

"So I take it you want to interview me?" Seihitei asked with a smile.

"Yes," Carmella said. "Did you know in a recent poll, you are winning the election?"

"I didn't even say if I wanted to run or not," the boy blushed deeply. "I guess they all know I am more beautiful than Greg Roberts."

Greg Roberts was indeed the other one running. Carmella's smile vanished from her face when he said this. Seihitei saw this and likewise, his grin was gone, "I wasn't serious, Carmella."

Carmella forced a grin, "So are you thinking about taking the nomination?"

Seihitei shrugged, "I dunno. Would that make you happy?" He grinned sheepishly.

Carmella's face went pink, "I think it would make a lot of girls happy. Cuz a lot of the girls in school think you are hot."

Seihitei raised both eyebrows in the air as if saying, "I know." He paused, "Would that make YOU happy?"

Carmella's heart began to speed up. She forced another smile, "As a reporter I am supposed to remain impartial." She gave him a cheesy grin.

"Of course," Seihitei thought. "If I did run she would vote for Greg."

"If I ran would you vote for me?" he asked her giving her a serious look into her eyes.

To get off topic, Carmella said, "Many of our readers would like to know, where did you get such a curious name as Seihitei."

Seihitei sighed, "Its from some book my parents enjoy. But why are you skipping around my questions? I was asking you as simply a friend."

Carmella looked a little embarrassed and maybe a tad bit angry, "A friend wouldn't make fun of the guy she is dating."

"Dating?!" Seihitei exasperated. "What do you mean?"

"He asked me out and I said yes," she explained. "That's what happened."

Seihitei wanted to cry. The girl he liked was now taken.

Carmella looked at her friend, hurt that she had made him hurt and said, "Look, I gotta get going. I'll see you at martial arts class." She turned around and headed down the hallway. Seihitei watcher her go. Angry, he gritted his teeth and punched his locker. Why did this always happen, he thought.

When he calmed down a bit, he realized he had just missed the bus. He did not really feel like walking home and really wanted to talk to his mother. Slowly, he gathered up his things and walked toward his mother's classroom.

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School was over and Miaka sat at her desk as she waited for anyone who needed extra help. No one came. Well one person came; it was Jake.

"Sukunami-sensei," he said.

Miaka looked up, "Konnichiwa! You need some help?"

"Just a little on tonight's homework," he took a seat next to Miaka. She felt her heart speed up. However, she calmed down and helped him with his homework.

After they were finished, Jake and Miaka caught each others eyes in a very akward moment. Finally, Miaka said, "Oh yes, I almost forgot. I have your journal. You left it here last week."

Jake's face went bright red as Miaka pulled his journal out of the desk drawer. "You didn't read it did you?" he asked.

"Oh no!" Miaka lied. She handed the journal to her student, rubbing her finger. Apparantly, one of her students decided to be funny and put gum in her desk drawer. Her hand was all sticky.

"Domo arigato," Jake said. He noticed what happened to his favorite teacher. He sympathized, "Ms. Sukunami, you shouldn't let the kids in my class upset you."

Miaka whiped a tear away off her cheek, "I'm okay...really."

"I don't think they realize what a wonderful person you are," he said sincerely. "You are always happy, even when someone does give you a hard time. I really admire that."

Miaka tensed up. "Is he coming on to me?"

Jake noticed Miaka getting a little tense. He sighed, "I like you a lot."

Miaka looked at him a little bit in shock.

"I know this sounds crazy, but I feel like I know you," Jake replied. "Like, I knew you in a past life. And there is only one other thing that makes me feel that way, and that is my flute." He indicated his flute case.

"I-I-I feel that way too," Miaka stampered. She said this because it was the truth.

Jake's confused emotions sort of got the better of him. It confused him as much as Miaka, especially when he planted a kiss right on her mouth. Miaka took to it only because she was caught off gaurd. He held it there for about a few seconds, however it seemed much, much longer.

After pulling back, shocked at his own daring, he grabbed his backpack and his flute case and sort of mumbled a "Sayonara." And was gone.

Miaka, totally shocked that she just sorta kinda had an affair with a student, fell to her seat. Two tears fell from each eye and met under her chin. How could she tell Taka this? True it was not her fault however if she told anyone this, she would most likely get blamed. It was a complicated matter.

Miaka was unaware and Jake left too quickly to see, but a third party had seen what happened. This third party was Miaka's own son. Seihitei had seen the kiss and seen Jake's odd behavior. He saw his mom, alone, crying. This hurt him so much especially since he was always close to his mother and adored her incrediably. He also had a twinge of anger inside him. This caused him to chase after the offender....

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Seihitei found Jake heading home through an alley way. He called out to the person who made his mom cry.

"Hey!"

Jake spun around. "What?"

"We need to talk..."

"Huh? I don't even know you!"

Seihitei approached Jake looking a tad bit meancing. "Oh do you? My name is Seihitei Sukunami."

Jake's eyes grew wide, "I-I-I-I...."

Seihitei, although extremely pissed, waited for Jake to finish sputtering which he never really did, "...took advantage of my mom? Yes you did..."

"I just deeply care for her," Jake said. "I didn't even know I did it until after it was done!"

"Anyone, ANYONE who makes my mom CRY will pay!" Seihitei explaimed. His face was right in Jake's face. Jake cowarded down, like Seihitei was somehow higher than him.

Jake looked a little bit sad, "I didn't want her to cry."

Taking his index finger and proding Jake's chest with it cornering him into the wall, Seihitei yelled, "Listen, my mom is HAPPILY married with a SON! Doesn't that say something? Are you some kind of an idiot?! Some fairy flute boy?!?"

Jake now became somewhat defensive. "Fairy flute boy huh?! Listen! Maybe your mom is unhappy because she excepted my kiss! Your father must be some sort of jerk for not valuing what a great person she is!"

Seihitei's face was now red with anger, "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!?!" He swung his fist right at Jake's face. Blood squirted from Jake's nose on impact, thats how angry Seihitei was. Seihitei went in for another hit. Jake blocked it and with his hand that carried his flute case, with the edge, shoved it right into Seihitei's right eye. This hurt very, extremely bad. Seihitei fell to his knees holding his eye in pain. This gave Jake the chance to run away.

By the time the pain had subsided enough for Seihitei to get up, Jake was already long gone. A few tears managed to escape his eyes, stinging the one that was injured. They were tears of both anger and hurt. He got to his feet and continued to walk home.

On his way there, from one of the apartment windows called down, "Hey Sukunami!" It was Carmella. He looked up and Carmella saw the condition of his eye. "Hold on!"

A few moments later, Carmella had brought Seihitei into her house and was tending his eye. At first, Seihitei did not say much just let his friend fix his eye. Just let this care she was giving him sink in. That was until he actually saw how bad it was. It was pretty swollen, so much he could barely open his eye and the whites of his eyes were red, "Oh no! Look at this! I look horrible! Now no one is going to vote for me!"

Carmella grinned, "You have two choices: I could lone you my sunglasses."

"Pass."

"Or..." she left the room for a moment and came back a few moments later carrying a kaboodle full of make-up, "I could have fun putting make-up on you!" She smiled deviously.

Seihitei looked horrified, "I'll take the sunglasses."

Carmella handed her pair to her friend, "You are really conserned about your looks aren't you?"

"If that is what's going to get me to be class president," Seihitei said inspecting his eye in horror.

"Looks aren't everything," Carmella said solemnly. "In fact looks can be decieving."

"What made you say that?"

Carmella shrugged. "Here let me get you some ice." She came back a few moments later with an ice pack, "You know, I am sorry I snapped at you."

"Its okay, I don't care really," Seihitei said applying the ice whincing. That was like saying, "I am not a gorgeous human being."

Carmella sensed that Seihitei was lying through his teeth, "You know, I like Greg, I always have. And you don't have to lie, because I know you like me too." She smiled.

Seihitei slipped into super-deformed speechless.

"Its okay Seihitei," she said. "I care for you a lot. And I know you would treat me right. The truth is I care almost too much for you. Its like I don't trust me to be with you."

"I trust you!"

"But I don't. I would love to be with you maybe someday, something down inside says I do love you dearly..." Carmella did not like this serious subject so she switched, "What happened to your eye? Did you fall over a dumpster?"

Seihitei smiled a bit. Carmella's words hurt him almost more than his eye, "It was a fight. Listen, I better go. Mom will be worried." He gave Carmella's ice pack back and put on her glasses.

"You can keep the sunglasses," she grinned. "Are you trying to hide the fact you have been fighting?"

Seihitei spun his head around to look at her, "I haven't been fighting. I mean that this doesn't look like a fist. It looks more like a corner doesn't it?"

"Sure," she winked at him. Seihitei was sure that she could read minds.

"See you later, Carmella," Seihitei said. "Have fun with Greg tonight."

"Thanks," she replied. "You are just so kind, probably more kind than anyone I know. I couldn't imagine you fighting." She grinned sheepishly at that remark.

"I wasn't...." Seihitei sighed. "Okay I was...but it was for my mom."

"Mama's boy," Carmella muttered teasingly.

"Watch it!" Seihitei shot back. "I'll fight you as well!"

Carmella laughed. "Now go home to your mama..."

Seihitei gave her a look, "Now don't start."

Carmella shrugged, "Your mother is a great woman. I could see why you would fight for her. She is such a great person."

Seihitei grinned bashful and left his friend's house to go home.

When he arrived home, he threw his stuff aside. "Mom! I am home!"

"Welcome home hon!" his mother called from the kitchen. There was a quiver in her voice.

Seihitei approached the kitchen to see his mom making dinner. Well it looked that she had started but stopped in deep thought. It hurt Seihitei to see his mom in such a condition. In a swift action, he grabbed his mother from behind and hugged her. His mother took to the hug and he could feel hot tears hit his hands.

"Its okay, mom," Seihitei cooed like a father almost. "I am here for you."

Miaka grabbed Seihitei's hands clasping them shaking.

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Wow..that chapter was melodramatic. Sorry if it was a bit sappy.