A/N: I'm really sorry, minna-san! -_-' I've had so many projects- I'm just glad I'll be able to work on my fanfictions more often because the homework and projects are getting lighter on my load. I'll try to finish this asap, I have a few ideas, thanks to Aidan for making fun of me so much I've decided that Ruki will now fight back! Hanyaaaa!

         Ruki was tossing and turning on her bed. She couldn't sleep. What Melody told her at school just played over and over in her mind.

         You know, Ryo was all he ever talked about ever since he dumped me but believe me he still likes you. In fact, I was jealous. Now I see why he likes you so much! You look rough; you are rough, just like him! Looks like I have competition! Watch out, I'm tough, too.

She then sat up, not able to even catch a single wink of sleep.

Kurumon tiptoed towards her. "What's wrong, Kuru?"

She looked at him. "How the heck did you get here?"

"I opened your door, of course, Kururu!" Kurumon then pointed to her bedroom door, which was opened just enough to fit Kurumon's butt in there.

"I…" Ruki looked at her alarm clock. 4:50 am. "Oh, nothing."

"Are you worried about Ryo, Kuru? You should be, because he's starting to like Melody more."

Ruki looked at him, slightly wide in shock. "But…How did you know?" But then again, why do I care?

Meanwhile, in Melody's room…

Melody sighed in satisfaction. "What I said hopefully went to her head. I want a challenge! And I'll prove to Ryo-Sama that I'm strong! Even much stronger than Ruki Makino! That' why I need to get her jealous! I need to prove to Ryo that I'm much, much, much better then Ruki!" She looked at her calendar in the dim moonlight that shone on it. "It's our day for the girls to give chocolate to the boys they like, as friends, or as koibitos (mates/crush/something like that)!"

Melody then went in the kitchen to cook some chocolate.

Back at Ruki's house…

Ruki got up and started to make three batches of chocolate: one for Lee, to thank him for loving him, one for Ryo, because even as hard as she tried to forget about him, she still loves him, one for Takato, because even though he's a hard-headed goggle-boy who cries a lot, he taught her a few things, but still, it didn't change her much. And one for Kurumon, because he was complaining about why he didn't get chocolate and he's a male as well.

Kurumon was looking curiously at the bowl of flour placed in front of him and away from Ruki. He pushed the bowl towards Ruki, but then she pushed it back in the same spot it was in before. Kurumon did it again, and Ruki had the same reaction. Kurumon, assuming it was for him and him alone, jumped in the bowl, causing a cloud of flour to rise, making Ruki cough. She glared at Kurumon, then grabbed him. She held him with both hands as she waited for the sink to fill up. She placed Kurumon in there and told him not to splash in it or his chocolate will be given to Renamon instead.

Well, yeah, since Kurumon wanted the chocolate, he obeyed this time.

Ruki smiled as she got the chocolate ready on time before she had to leave for school.

Ryo came into the kitchen. He saw Ruki decorating some chocolate hearts that were all shaped like a heart and about an inch thick. She gave the first dried one to Kurumon who ate it while he was still in his "private pool, slash bathtub," and he saw Ruki wrap it up.

"So, who you giving the chocolates to?" Ryo asked, hoping he'd get one, considering there were two left, but then again, she might give it to Takato instead.

Ruki just gave him a death glare. "Why do you wanna know, anyway, Akiyama?"

Ryo blushed, then just walked towards her. "Because, I just wanna know. Like I said, I'm sorry." He leaned closer and closer to her.

Ruki wasn't aware of his action yet. "Why?"

"I regret it…breaking up…loving Melody…I regret the whole thing…" Ryo said as he was only millimeters away from her lips.

Heat went up Ruki's face. She was frozen. She couldn't move away.

Just the Kurumon jumped out of the sink and yelled, "Good bath, good bath, good bath, Kururururururu!" and shook his whole body clean, causing Ruki and Ryo to get wet and snapping them back to reality.

Ruki shook her head, mentally yelling to herself not to fall for him, but part of her said that she loves him…

Ryo was blushing, then bowed. "Sorry, Ruki."

Meanwhile, in Melody's house…

Melody was happily humming to herself, happy because she finally got the competitive Ruki Makino out. "This is the time to test their love for one another…" Suddenly, Melody gasped. Something felt wrong, but she couldn't put her finger as to why. She felt something different in her room. She ran there, and sitting there was Kurumon, pigging out on the chocolate Ruki had given him.

"Kurumon! What are you doing here?" She asked. She picked him up, making him drop the chocolate onto her bed. Melody placed Kurumon back down and picked up the chocolate. He only chewed and nibbled on the top part, letting her read most of it. It read, "To: Kurumon, From: Ruki."

Melody looked at Kurumon. "You came over here from Makino's house?"

Kurumon nodded as he jumped up and took the chocolate by his mouth and landed on the bed, eating it slowly, taking his time eating the chocolate.

Melody smiled. "Kurumon, did she make one for Ryo-Sama?"

Kurumon nodded.

Melody sighed. She sat on the edge of her bed and put Kurumon, who was eating oh so happily, on her lap. She looked down at him. "I gotta get them back…"

Kurumon stopped nibbling and looked up at her. "Kuru? Doushite? Why? Why d'ya hafta bring them together if you love Ryo-San?"

Melody smiled. "When you start to love someone, if you love them so much it makes you cry, you'll let them follow their real koibito. Ryo-Sama was meant for Ruki-Chan, I saw it in his eyes. Months after we were together, Ryo never ever stopped talking about Ruki. Everyday, he would compare what I do to how well Ruki can do it. Whether I liked it or not, I could still tell- even his eyes showed it: He loves Ruki. I attracted him by skill and pure luck and charm. I wanted to break up with him for being a two-timer, but I realized that he was confused. He can't tell who is for him to have as a koibito; Ruki-Chan, or me. I thought about it. Night after night, I realized that all the evidence made a straight path to Ruki. I know she loves him, so I'm trying to get them back together."

Kurumon bit off some more chocolate.

Melody giggled. "You can't eat all that in one day! The chocolate she made is as big as you and still is!"

"Wakaranai dakedo (But I don't understand), Kuru. If you want Ruki to love Ryo, then why are you getting in her way, Kurun?"

"It's simple. I still love Ryo and I want to make sure that Ruki loves Ryo just as much as I do, maybe even more, which is better. If Ruki loves Ryo, she wouldn't give up so easily on leaving him with me. I need to make sure that Ruki truly loves him before letting him go."

Kurumon took a bigger bite out of his chocolate. "Then why is Ruki-Chan with Jen, Kuru?"

Melody laughed. "She's confused. She knows that she wants Ryo, but at the same time, her heart leads to Jenrya-San. It's like with Ryo-Sama."

Melody picked up Kurumon and shoved him into her PE bag. "You stay in there." She also put her PE clothes behind him to make sure the chocolate wouldn't stain. "And don't talk or move. It'll attract the class." She put all of her stuff in her backpack, picked up her two bags, then headed towards school.

As she approached her home classroom, she saw a big group of girls crowding around someone. "Oh boy, looks like Ryo's gonna have some trouble stuffing all that in his backpack after school…"

Ruki, however, was just sitting in her chair, blushing. Lee was on the other side of the room, looking at Ruki, wondering what's gotten her so wrapped up in something.

Kurumon was wiggling in Melody's PE bag.

Melody bonked Kurumon on the head. "Hey, stop it!" she said.

This got the attention of the students.

Melody blushed. "Uh…um…heh, heh…Well, I have a…uh…Furby in here! Yeah! My Furby just won't seem to shut up! You can uh…go back to what you were doing now…"

Everyone did. Melody peeked in her PE bag and poked Kurumon. "Don't move around a lot!" she hissed at him.

"Gomenasai, Kuru…" he whispered back.

Meanwhile, Ruki was just staring out the window. How did Melody know? How did she know? I thought at first when I was with Jen I would love him more and I would be happy. I was wrong. I still keep thinking about Ryo…

"That's b'cuz you love him, otherwise, you wouldn't have made all that yummy, delicious chocolate just for Ryo!"

Ruki looked away from the window and on her desk. "Kurumon?" she hissed, "What the hell are you doing here? How did you know that…?"

"Let's just say I can read minds, Kururururu. And Melody brought me here. She gave me a note to deliver to you. See? A pretty pink bow, too, Kuru!" He turned around with his back towards Ruki and looked behind him. Tied around his neck was a pink ribbon with a note attached to it.

Ruki took it, then looked around in the class, then took Kurumon in her lap to prevent him from going anywhere and to make sure he doesn't get seen.

The note said:

Makino-San,

I hope you're ready for a little competition! We'll meet at lunch. Bring your chocolate. We'll have a few competitions to see who gets to have Ryo for the keeping. I know you're thinking that you don't like Ryo, but face it; you don't love Lee-San in the same way. It would never work out. Our first competition is to see who's the fastest to give Ryo his chocolate by the end of the day. Don't even think about trying to give it to him before lunch; it won't work. Trust me. :P

Signed,

Kamakura Melody

PS: RYO WILL BE MINE!!!

Ruki was furious! Does she really think I'll give up that easily? I'm a tamer! Tamers don't give up so easily! I'll show her! She took out a piece of paper and started scrawling a bunch of Hiragana letters on the paper.

Kurumon was looking at it. "Are you trying to make the note big enough so that she can't read it? Then why are you writing it to her, Kuru?"

Ruki, however, was too furious to answer his ridiculous sounding questions. She folded the note, tied it to Kurumon, then said, "Run over and give it to her." Ruki reached in her bag. "And this is for you. If you want more for lunch time, come talk to me, okay?"

Kurumon's eyes went wide. "Kuru!" Kurumon grabbed the parcel, and ran off towards Melody.

Melody was talking to her friends, who were basically gossiping and talking about how well she and Ryo make the perfect pair- one of the many obvious things girls talk about (which is why all my male friends don't understand when I say, "It's girl talk!" they ain't into the stuffs).

Melody then sat down when she caught a small glimpse of Kurumon. She took Kurumon and whispered, "Did she write a reply?"

Kurumon opened his package- a creampuff, what else could it be? He then chowed down and at the same time, showed her the note.

Melody opened it. She was surprised at the size of the writing, and she suddenly smirked when the note read,

This is war, Kamakura!