Chapter Four

Author's note: I'm so sorry! I am under a bit of writer's block, and I haven't had more than an hour every once in a while in the last week to get my lazy ass up and type it up. Well here's my next chapter. I hope it lives up to your expectations. Please review too!

A face devoid of love or grace

A hateful, hard, successful face

A face with which a stone

Would feel as thoroughly at ease

As were they old acquaintances-

First time together thrown.

-Emily Dickinson

Page 2, Selected poems of Emily Dickinson

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"Ooh! Ruki look at that dress! Isn't it gorgeous?"

"Not really Juri…it reminds me of something a prostitute would wear." Ruki replied, her lavender gaze eyeing the small piece of cloth displayed on the mannequin Juri called a dress. Ruki sighed inwardly wondering how Juri managed to drag her into the mall for a clothing expedition.

Juri rolled her goldenrod orbs as she went to a different rack of clothing, most preferably dresses that revealed nothing to the imagination. Her small hands shifting over the tops of hangers, looking for the perfect selection.

Knowing Juri would take a while Ruki turned in the opposite direction and informed Juri, "I'm going to browse around since I don't come in this mall very much, it's new to me."

Not looking up from her search for the perfect party dress, Jeri just replied with an 'okay' but Ruki had already left.

Ruki walked along the crowd of bustling shoppers, feeling a bit out of place. Shoppers passing by the dark clad youth stared at her in disgust or criticized her up. Gritting her teeth, Ruki stalked into the closest store only to crash into someone.

Ruki shrieked in frustration, causing the blue eyes of the person she bumped into to widen. Almost sheepishly the person got up dusting himself off and offered a hand to the violet-eyed girl. "Hey Ruki…"

Slapping away the offered hand she got up and grinded out, "Ryo…"

"Really can't you greet someone without sounding like it burns?" His perfectly defined pale face set in a grim line. His cerulean orbs gazed into the slanted violet depths of Ruki Makino, as if looking right through her.

"That's none of your fucking business Ryo-baka! And stop fucking staring at me like that."

Arching a slender eyebrow he replied in a sultry voice, "And what if I don't?"

In a fit of anger Ruki closed in on Ryo, her small height of 5'9 was nothing compared to his towering frame of 6'2. She threw common sense to the wind and glared at him with utter loathing, Her amethyst irises in slits as she was facing him, head held high. "You won't like the consequences…"

"Ooh. I'm scared, but I think I can handle your consequences." His gorgeous eyes darkened to azure, a mysterious glint reflected in his orbs. No one passing by seemed to notice the heated tension between the two rivals…

Ruki took a step back, glaring at Ryo Akiyama from under her long thick eyelashes.

"Let's take this outside then…"

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Okay I know this is short but I only had two hours, sorry! I'll try to make it better next time! Anyways I'd like to thank:

Selece, Christie, calica, OM, Bang, panterangel, Oriana Rogue, ALiSa (Who I'd like to thank a whole bunch!! She reviewed all my chappies! Yay!) Aurin, Felicity Derafine, Arabella Skydancer, Lynderia, Pyrokenisis

Thanks a lot guys!

^sage^