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Four

"He brought Kenshin along? What, did he think he needed protection from me or

something?" Megumi hissed to Kaoru as they made their way towards where Sano

and Kenshin were sitting. "I guess brainy girls do intimidate him huh?" She scorned

as she gave Sano an evil look.



"I can't believe she brought that gu.girl with her! If she thinks that she can beat

me into being a good student, then she can keep dreaming," Sano whispered

furiously to Kenshin who only cocked his eyebrow then laughed at Sano's sour

expression.



"I swear you guys are in school but act like you're in kindergarten or something."

Kenshin said wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.

When they'd came close enough, Megumi and Kaoru stood in front of Sano and

Kenshin, a tense silence filling the large school library.



"Are you ready to start your lesson?" Megumi asked Sano professionally.



He stood up, clicked his dress shoes together and said, "Yes sir! I mean ma'am!"

making Kenshin laugh hysterically. Even Kaoru had to cover her mouth to keep her

own laughter in scared that Megumi will get mad with her.



Megumi glared at Sano then lifted her chin and walked to the other side of the

table to sit opposite him.



"Well since you guys seem to be hitting it off so fabulously, I think I'm going to go

now and leave you two love birds here to play," Kenshin joked and got dark looks

from Sano and Megumi.



"You said-."



"I said I'll only stay a while and I did." Kenshin interjected and quickly heads for

the door.



"Actually I have to go too," Kaoru chimed in seeing her chance to escape.



"Kaoru-."



"Sorry, I have to go," and before Megumi could persuade her to stay she bolted

right out the door without looking back.



Megumi felt like her cousin had betrayed her but decided to deal with her later.

She turned back to look at Sano and almost sneered at him but quickly masked

herself before she could.



"I guess we can start on your English," she commented as she took out her binder.

"Take out a piece of paper and pencil," she ordered sounding like Sano's elementary

school teacher.



"Don't have one," he said unconcernedly as he placed an arm behind the back of his

chair and drummed his finger on the table.



"Why not?"



"Because my mom didn't buy my school supplies yet." Sano replied sarcastically and

Megumi had to control herself before she really scratched out his eyes.



"Very well, I have some with me anyway," Megumi, muttered between tight lips.

"Here, now I'm going to read out several words to you and I want you to spell them

out for me."



"Honey, as much as I would like to sit here and play little spelling bee games with

you and pretend I'm 10 again, I've got better things to do." Sano said silkily his

eyes cold as ice.



"I'm not playing any games and I'm not pretending that you're 10!"



"Could have fooled me," Sano returned just as quickly.



"I ONLY." Realizing he was getting the better of her, Megumi forced her voice to

sound neutral, "I only want to see how good your spelling skills are then go on from

there," She explained.



Sano just sat there studying her when suddenly he gave her a bright smile making

her heart skip a beat for a minute. "Fine then, I guess you're the teacher," he said

good-naturedly making her wary.



"Okay, the first word is schizophrenic."



"Schi.what? Is that even a real word? Let me see that," Sano demanded as he

tried to pull the binder from Megumi's grasp.



"I can't believe you're trying to cheat and we haven't even started yet!" Megumi

accused knowing that her opinion of him wasn't wrong.



"Fine, let's continue then," Sano snarled and looked down at his sheet of paper

again.



"Schizophrenic, tutelage, amanuensis."



After about the tenth word, Megumi decided that it was enough and turned to

Sano who after a while leaned back in his chair again with a smug little smile on his

face.



"Are you done yet?"



"Here you go, all ten words." Sano said as he handed over the paper to Megumi.



She gave him a distrustful look, which he returned with a sweet smile of his own.

She quickly looked down at the paper to avoid staring at him because as much as

she hated him, she was still just a girl and he was a very attractive guy.



When she looked at him again, she felt like slapping him across the face. "What is

the meaning of this?"



Sano shrugged his shoulders, his smile getting bigger by the second. "I didn't know

what the hell you were reading to me so I decided to come up with my own list of

words.ten girls who I've dated that reminded me of you, all having the same

quality that I ended up dumping them for." When he saw Megumi's face light up a

bright red he couldn't hold back his laughter any longer and laughed out loud.



Megumi tried to tell herself to calm down, that he wanted her to get mad, he

wanted her to feel humiliated but it didn't work. "Y-YOU." She was so angry that

she couldn't even form the words she wanted to say to him so settled for glaring at

him instead.



"Well it seems like I have no more need to stay here and study for today so I

guess I'll see you later, ma'am." Sano yelled out like as if he was in the army clicking

his shoes together again.



He turned around and took a few steps when he heard the crunching of paper

behind him and ducked just as the paper ball flew by him.and hit the dean right in

the forehead.



"WHO THREW THAT BALL?" The dean yelled staring at the two occupants in the

room.



Megumi felt her heart had leaped to her throat and suddenly her knees wouldn't

support her anymore.

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~Aya~