A.N.: I'm back… and updating… ^-^ I know, I know, you must be so sick of me babbling about things that are irrelevant to my fic, don't worry, throughout the whole fic, there won't be much notes at all… lol

Disclaimer: I do NOT own gensomaden saiyuki.


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Chapter II: No way.


Library. Yaone stared at the computer monitor as she listened to Kougaiji discuss things with a few people. She worked on the computer for a while, and then she heard Kougaiji heave a sigh.

"So tired…" Kougaiji muttered, as he relaxed his back and crossed his legs. He threw the paper on the table.

"So hardworking…" Yaone teased, without taking her eyes off the computer. Kougaiji smiled weakly and looked over her shoulder,

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing… just research. What's the fund raising for?"

Kougaiji shook his head wearily, "It's for the class page in the yearbook… I was assigned to help with both the groups who would be designing and in charge of the fund raising. Boring job."

Homura came into the library and sat at Kougaiji's table. Homura opened a book… but he didn't read it, instead he leaned forward and asked, "So… are you two going to the party next weekend?"

Kougaiji scowled heavily, "Look, why does it have to be a bar?"

"Why not? I mean, we're old enough, aren't we?" Homura grinned, as Kougaiji's scowl wasn't lifted. "Besides, it'll be fun. Loosen up. Why? Is your mother going to get mad?" Homura teased.

Kougaiji's face flushed, "Cut the crap." He growled.

Homura laughed, "You sound just like Konzen." He smiled broadly at Kougaiji's perturbed face and turned back to his book.


** Later… **

"Homura-san!"

Homura turned around, he saw Yaone squeezing through the crowd to get to him, "Huh?"

"I need your help." She said, catching her breath a little.

"My help?" Homura echoed, puzzled. "On what?"

"On convincing Kougaiji…" Yaone said in a low tone, "I can't persuade him to let me attend the party. Rinrei-san said to ask you for help."

"Oh… but…" Homura scratched his head, clueless. "I have no idea how…". Yaone's face fell. He stared at her, "Well… you could take revenge or something…"

"Revenge?" Yaone asked, bewildered.

"Yeah, you could also say 'no' to something that he want you to do…" Homura said thoughtfully, "Sorry… I really don't know…"

"It's okay… never mind… thanks anyway…"


* After School… Kougaiji's house *


Rasetsu-nyo looked at Kougaiji as he stared at the television. "Something wrong?"

"Yaone was asked to a party at a bar, by a friend… she wants to go, but I…" Kougaiji said in a monotonous voice, which trailed off at the end.

"Oh… the same one that your sister was also asked to attend?"

"Yeah…" he answered with the same tedious voice.

"Why not?"

"Eh?"

"If you're so worried, why don't you go with her?" his mother asked, as she wiped her hands on a towel.

"Mother, it's a bar."

"Why not? Loosen up, Kougaiji. It's just a party. See, if you're going, Yaone could go and your sister too."

"Mother, Ririn's underage."

"And you worry too much."

"Don't you?"

"Not really…" She said thoughtfully. Kougaiji sweatdropped. "Besides, you've done other reckless things than going to a bar." she reminded him.


* A little later… still at Kougaiji's house…*

Kougaiji stared at two phones: his own mobile phone, and his telephone. // Should I call…? // he thought. He was about to pick up the phone, and then it rang.

"Hello?" Kougaiji asked through the receiver.

"Kou?"

"Dokugaku? What is it?"

"Oh… yeah, right… um, we need another pair to come with us to the movies tonight."

"Tsk- first bar, now movies…"

"It's just a MOVIE, Kou. What's up with you these days? You're always locked up in your own world and doesn't come out."

"I dunno… have to ask Yaone if she has any plans…"

"Sure, I'll call you again later. Bye."

Kougaiji hung up, and dialed Yaone's number quickly. Yaone picked it up, "Yaone?"

"Kougaiji…?"

"Yeah, uh… we have plans tonight?"

"Not that I know of…"

"Oh… so, you want to go to a movie tonight with some people? They said they need another pair…"

Homura's words came flying into Yaone's head. She paused, then replied, "No."

"What…?" Kougaiji couldn't believe what she said. // First time she said 'no' to me... //

"I said, No." Yaone repeated firmly, while trying not to laugh at the idea of Kougaiji's face at that time.

"Why not?!" Kougaiji asked weakly, "I'll be the only bachelor there!!" he blurted out.

"You said 'no' to me about the party, so…"

"Please…"

"No. Besides, I'm going out too, you know."

"With…?"

"Hwan and Ririn… we don't know about Rinrei yet… out for dinner... then tomorrow, shopping."

Kougaiji scowled, then he sigh heavily. "Fine… then I'm not going…"

"Go on… Dokugakuji is expecting you."

"But…"

"Have fun. See you in school!" Yaone said brightly, and then hung up. Kougaiji gaped at the phone. He heard a faint giggle at his door. He saw Ririn standing there watching him,

"Dumped?" she teased.

"OUT!!" Kougaiji yelled and scrambled to shut the door.



** To be continued!! **


A.N: sorry, it's becoming like a Kougaiji- Yaone fic… -_-'' well… I'm narrating and it's based on real life, so… lol ^-^ R/R!! it'll be a whole week worth of updating until the party's over.


CHAPTER III: Kougaiji's got something very interesting to offer Yaone...