Okay the next controversial chapter of this fic. Now I hope I don't get a lot of angry reviews, just bare with me okay things will eventually get explained. I promise! Really! So yeah. Go Hana Yori Dango! (That came from nowhere.) Oh by the way, if anyone wants to donate money to the Buy Jade The HYD Gameboy Game fund, we are accepting donations at this time.

Disclaimer: I don't own Hana Yori Dango.

Warning: Cussing, graphic violence, and reasons why we shouldn't play truth or dare…(Plus something I'm sure Teresa will remember…)

Never Quite As It Seems

Chapter Nine

"One more point of contention,

I need some intervention,

Up close your fake intentions,

Betray my short attention,

Span the distance,

Bridge the border,

Beg forgiveness,

Round the corner,"

            -Song Quote!

            Now Doumyouji had said that it wasn't that big of a deal. Of course he was in a sort of moody streak when he said it. I quickly learned that it was a big deal. Or at least Doumyouji knew.

            "No, try another one on." Doumyouji shook his head at the outfit I was wearing. I was sick of going in and out of the dressing room.

            "Do I really have to get a new outfit?" I whined as I stomped back into the dressing room, having to try on yet another outfit.

            "Yes!" Doumyouji yelled from where he was sitting comfortably and had been for at least half an hour. I felt kind of weird because Doumyouji was way into this by now. I was so sick of clothes I was ready to just go naked if I had too. I tried on another outfit. This one consisted of a short black skirt and a navy blue button up shirt that was rolled up at the sleeves. I trudged out knowing he would just send me back.

            But Doumyouji didn't send me back. He looked me up and down in a way that made me feel like I was far more scantily clad then I actually was.

            "So?" I asked him.

            "That's the one." Doumyouji looked like he was a second away from drooling.

            "Hey you better not be thinking any weird thoughts!" I put my hands on my hips. My face was heating up though. I walked back inside the dressing rooms and took the outfit on, changing into my original outfit for the day. I took the outfit that Doumyouji had so obviously loved.

            I came back out and we purchased the outfit that I would wear that night at the party. Doumyouji had gone through my closet, making a big mess, before declaring I didn't have anything to wear. It was just stupid. I mean if anyone should have done that it was I, but I let him take me into town just stop him from throwing a tantrum or something. We got into the car as we left the place. I was glad we had finally just bought something.

            "You know, I don't think anyone is going to be paying any attention to what I'm wearing." I told Doumyouji, crossing my arms.

            "I will be." He said and then looked surprised that he had said it.

            "Like I said, don't be getting any weird ideas! I'm only wearing that outfit because of this party. Otherwise…" I trailed off, looking at him from the corner of my eye.

            "Yeah yeah." Doumyouji muttered. We pulled up in front of the house at around three in the afternoon. I got out with my shopping bag and went into the house to find Rui sleeping on the couch. Oddly Soujirou and Akira weren't playing video games. As I went up the stairs I learned why pretty fast.

            "Where's my blue shirt?" Akira stuck his head out of his room and yelled across to the hall.

            "Does this match?" Soujirou came out in a pair of black pants and a white shirt. I smothered a giggle into my hand.

            "Yes it does." Akira told him truthfully. I was trying hard not to start laughing outloud. I burst into giggles as I shut the door to my room. We weren't going to the party for several hours yet and those guys were already freaking out about what they were wearing? There was a knock at my door.

            "Yeah?" I asked. Soujirou opened my door.

            "Hey, what's Makiko's favorite color?" Soujirou asked me.

            "Blue." I answered. "Why?"

            "Okay just wanted to know." Soujirou closed the door. I started laughing again. It reminded me of prom night at Makiko's. A bunch of the girls all got ready. I had actually convinced Rui to go but he was practically asleep by the time we got to the dance so it wasn't the most amazing night I've ever had.

            This went on for several hours. Apparently Soujirou and Akira had to have a female opinion on just about everything they had on. I tried to keep a straight face but couldn't manage. This was interspersed with Doumyouji passing by my door in various states of getting ready. One stuck out in my mind.

            I had been going down for a snack, I was hungry after all. I was coming back up the stairs with a mouth full of cheese and crackers. Doumyouji came by without a shirt on and his hair was lying completely flat. In fact I thought that he was Rui for half a second.

            "D-Doumyouji?" Except it wasn't nearly so clear as my mouth was full of food. Very chic.

            "What?" He turned towards me.

            "Your hair…it's not curly!" I exclaimed, reaching up and touching it for reassurance that it was real.

            "It's wet." Doumyouji looked a little peeved as if he thought I were making fun of him or something.

            "It's cute." The words I swear popped out without any permission at all. "I mean…it's…you know…" I could feel my face get redder with every word.

            "You better not be getting any weird ideas." Doumyouji had a grin that was probably a mile wide on his face as he reached out and touched my nose with his index finger, before strutting (I swear!) off downstairs. If I thought I have ever blushed before, it was nothing to what my face looked like at that moment.

            At around five I decided to get ready. Akira and Soujirou were still going through outfits. I put on my outfit and started to make my hair look really nice. (I wasn't about to be shown up by a bunch of boys.) I wished I had a friend there that was girl because I didn't want to ask Akira and Soujirou about whether I looked all right. I decided that if I didn't, I really didn't care.

            I finally left my room to find that Akira and Soujirou had finally gotten in outfits that they deemed suitable. Doumyouji was somewhere still in his room. I went down and flopped down on the couch, waiting for the others. Rui was sleeping still.

            "Hey Rui, we're going to leave soon." I shook him a little. "Do you want to change?"

            "Make me." Rui muttered in his sleep before turning over and going right back into dreamland.

            "Hey how do I look?" Soujirou came down the stairs. I noted that his shirt was blue, which wasn't surprising.

            "You look fine." I beamed at him.

            "Fine?" Soujirou scratched his head. "That's all?"

            "No Soujirou, you're the hottest thing to grace the planet." I told him my voice dripping with sarcasm. He rolled his eyes at me. Akira came downstairs and sat down on an armchair.

            "How come Doumyouji takes so long?" Akira asked impatiently. "He has a girlfriend."

            "Hmm?" Rui opened his eyes. "Time to leave?"

            "As soon as Doumyouji gets down here." Soujirou informed him. Rui sat up and rubbed his eyes. That was extent of his getting ready. Doumyouji walked down the stairs and everyone who was sitting jumped up. Doumyouji was wearing a red shirt with a tie and he looked…well never mind.

            "Let's get going." Doumyouji told them. I was trying not to stare which was hard although I pretended I couldn't think of why. I decided I looked like a total dork at that point.

            "Hey Tsukushi, you gonna pick your chin off the floor?" Soujirou winked at me. I hadn't even realized my mouth was open. I closed it quickly. We didn't drive. (What a miracle.) We walked there.

            "How come you aren't driving?" Akira asked Doumyouji.

            "I don't want my car anywhere near a party." Doumyouji said looking very dignified.

            "Remember New Year's?" Soujirou grinned. "Your car was the party."

            "That's exactly why I'm not bringing it." Doumyouji explained.

            "What happened?" I asked curiously.

            "It's not a story for girlfriends." Akira stated. I rolled my eyes. I didn't really want to know anyways. We approached the F6 house where Shigeru had seemed to appoint herself the bouncer of the party. She stopped us at the door.

            "Oh it's you guys! Welcome to the party." Shigeru bowed slightly and gestured inside grandly. We went inside and Soujirou made a beeline for Makiko. I reminded to keep an eye on him just in case. Akira seemed to lose himself in the crowd and then I realized that I wasn't sure Rui had come in the door with us.

            Doumyouji and me ended up hanging out on a couch, talking to Tsubaki, occasionally Shigeru (When she wasn't throwing people out of course) and a myriad of girls who wanted to know if I was really Doumyouji's girlfriend. I bet they'd be pissed if they knew the truth.

            "Hey!" Shigeru jumped up at a blonde guy with blue eyes. "I don't know how you got in but it wasn't through the front door!" Shigeru drug the guy out of the party with a strength that I thought was pretty impressive.

            "That Thomas is so annoying! If I were Shizuka I would just get it over with and get a restraining order." Tsubaki shook her head.

            "I know! He's such a creep!" Shigeru agreed as she plopped down in a chair next to Tsubaki.

            "Tsukushi!" Makiko walked over to me closely followed by Soujirou. He looked like a dog or something. "What's going on?"

            "Just hanging out." I shrugged as she stopped a few feet a way. Soujirou was approached by someone and while he was distracted I could not help my curiosity. "So how's it going with Soujirou?"

            "Oh he's so cute!" Makiko exclaimed before going red in the face. "He's really nice too!"

            "I'm glad you like him." I smiled, happy for my friend. Soujirou seemed to appear right behind Makiko.

            "What are you guys talking about?" Soujirou asked.

            "THAT'S IT!" Shigeru jumped up, the same blonde haired guy had gotten into the house it seemed. Shigeru grabbed him and pushed him right out the door, turning the lock in place behind him. "I'm going to go check the backdoors."

            "Hello." Shizuka approached our group with Rui. "How is everyone?"

            "Good." Tsubaki told her. "We've had to kick out Thomas about four times already but I'm sure Shigeru will just call the police next time."

            "I'm sorry about that…" Shizuka bit her lip and I was surprised anyone could look pretty while they did that. Rui said something to her and she giggled.

            "Hi Tsukushi." Junpei's shy voice made me turn around to see him looking at me. Doumyouji put his arm around me I turned to give the curly haired boy a sour look.

            "Hi Junpei!" I decided that even if Doumyouji was going to glare daggers at anyone of the opposite sex that dared to speak to me then he could just do that. "How do you like the party?"

            "Aren't you one of Sakurako's friends?" Tsubaki asked him curiously. "I thought I saw you…oh that was around Christmas here at the party."

            "I've never met him." Sakurako approached us. "But no time like the present eh? I'm Sanjou Sakurako." Sakurako shook Junpei's hand.

            "I'm Junpei." Junpei introduced himself. Sakurako was already paying attention to someone else though.

            "Doumyouji! You look so great." Sakurako flashed a winning smile at him.

            "Hey Sakurako." Doumyouji sounded like he was greeting his executioner. Sakurako sat on the other side of Doumyouji on the couch even though there really wasn't any room.

            "Don't seem so excited to see me." Sakurako joked as she leaned towards him with a seductive light in her eyes.

            "Hey Sakurako, don't think that just because you live in this house doesn't mean I can't kick you out." Shigeru was smiling through the threat, which made it seem kind of scary on her part. Shigeru winked at me though. I knew she was trying to stick up for me and I smiled gratefully back.

            "What time is it?" Tsubaki asked looking around for a clock. Soujirou looked at his watch.

            "It's about a quarter to midnight." Soujirou commented. I couldn't believe we had been there for so long already.

            "Shigeru?" Tsubaki raised an eyebrow. "You know I want the others out of my party by midnight."

            "Midnight?" I asked politely.

            "That's when the real party starts." Shigeru explained to me. "This is just kind of the pre-emptive party for everyone else." Shigeru went off with a yell. Pretty soon people were leaving all around us till there was only Doumyouji, Tsubaki, Sakurako, Makiko, Soujirou, Rui, Shizuka, Junpei, Akira, Shigeru, and me.

            "So what do you guys want to do?" Tsubaki asked us.

            "Let's play something fun." Soujirou had a wicked gleam in his eye and I wondered what his definition of fun was at that moment.

            "The usual?" Akira asked. Soujirou nodded.

            "I hate playing Truth or Dare." Rui complained. Shizuka patted his hand comfortingly.

            "I get to go first!" Shigeru claimed right away. "And I pick…Tsukushi! So truth or dare?"

            "Um…truth." I wasn't feeling quite up for a dare yet. Maybe later.

            "How far have you and Doumyouji gotten?" Shigeru asked. My face went bright red. I had to think of something believable but there was no way I was telling anyone that we went really far.

            "Just making out." I lied. Doumyouji pulled me a little closer in a reassuring way.

            "That's because they're both dorks." Soujirou snorted. I rolled my eyes.

            "Whatever. I guess it's my turn. Um…" I scanned everyone in the room. "Sakurako, truth or dare?"

            "Dare." Looked like she was feeling brave. I tried to think of a good one.

            "Tsubaki? Where's your guys kitchen?" I asked. Tsubaki jumped up and everyone followed us into the kitchen. I opened up the fridge and pulled out what I was looking for.

            "An egg?" Sakurako guessed.

            "Yes but you have to put it in your mouth and crack it open." I explained. Sakurako made a disgusted face at me.

            "Ew…" Sakurako murmured before bravely putting the egg in her mouth, closing her eyes tightly as she cracked down on it. She ran over and spit out the broken over egg into the sink. "That was gross." She informed us. We all laughed at the face she was making. Then we sat in the kitchen playing a few more rounds. Then Soujirou got Doumyouji.

            "Hey Doumyouji, truth or dare?" Soujirou grinned at him. I could tell Soujirou had something planned already.

            "Dare." Doumyouji sounded like he couldn't care less.

            "Hmm…get Tsukushi's bra off." Soujirou probably had the most daring dare that whole evening and didn't even really know it. My whole face was twitching.

            Tell me that's not really the dare…I'm going to kill Soujirou and Doumyouji!

            "In front of everybody?" I asked. I was hoping that they would let us go into a room by ourselves so that I could just take the thing off myself.

            "He doesn't need to take your shirt off." Soujirou told me. Doumyouji had the weirdest expression on his face.

            "Alright! Go for it Tsukasa!" Shigeru cheered him on.

            "This game isn't that boring." Rui told Shizuka who stifled a giggle. Everyone was looking at us expectantly. Now normally this would have worked out fine except that day I had chosen to wear a black bra under my shirt because a white one showed up. The problem with my black bra was that its clasp was in the front and not the back.

            Maybe I can fake sick! Maybe I'll get lucky and everyone else will get sick!

            Doumyouji turned towards me and I gulped. I turned my face away as I felt his hands go up the sides on the inside of my shirt. I wanted so bad to be able to punch him in the face. He was having trouble with the clasp though. I thought he would never get that thing off but he did. I didn't realize how tensed up I was until it was all over with. I took my bra from Doumyouji, stuffing it in my small handbag that I had brought with me.

            Oh my god…that didn't just happen… I decided that I would never be able to look at Doumyouji again. I was completely mortified. The rest of the game was not nearly as eventful as that one dare had been. Tsubaki had to kiss Akira at one point, which ended with Shigeru cracking some weird inside joke and Tsubaki cracking up in the middle of her kiss. Junpei was frowning around at all of us as if were making fun of him, but we were including him in the game.

            I tried to give him a friendly smile but he sent me a slightly cold look back. Well fine, if he was going to be a total spoilsport than he could just be that way. I think we realized it was getting late until Shigeru yawned.

            "I'm with Shigeru, we're getting up early to make you guys all waffles so we should probably hitting the sack soon." Tsubaki remarked. It was really late and apparently it was a tradition for them to have us spend the night and make waffles. We got comfortable in the large upstairs sitting room where I had first met Tsubaki.

            Shigeru was handing out blankets to people. Doumyouji was fighting Soujirou for the couch, I rolled my eyes as Shigeru handed me a blanket.

            "Well that's the last of them." Shigeru told us.

            "I don't have one." Doumyouji looked up at her.

            "I gave one to Tsukushi." Shigeru explained as if this answered all questions. "Nighty-night." I felt like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. First the truth or dare thing (I was never going to play again) and now between Doumyouji and me, we only had one blanket? (A.N. is anyone else getting a bit of a Miroku vibe?)

            "Um…" Doumyouji and me looked each other in the face for the first time since the "incident."

            "Those two would probably get married and sleep in separate beds." Soujirou snorted. I glared at him.

            "Shut up Soujirou!" I snapped at him. Okay so I was a tad bit angry at the moment. Angry enough to violently hurt someone. Doumyouji had won the couch it seemed and I would rather just stay up all night then have to share the couch with him. We'd probably end up practically on top of each other. I knew I had to do it though. I miserably laid down next to him, putting the blanket over us.

            This was the most awkward position I have ever been in.

            I was so tensed up that I'm sure it was like sleeping next to a board. Doumyouji didn't to mind however. Someone must have turned the light off but I was too sleepy to really remember. We kept shifting though. It seemed like Doumyouji kept ending up closer to me while I kept trying to get away. I ended up in a very compromising position when I somehow got under him.

            "Doumyouji…" I trailed off angrily.

            "What? It's not my fault!" Doumyouji protested at me with what looked like in the bare minimum of light a very red face.

            "You guys are choosing now to do that?" Akira asked us sounding really tired. "Go to sleep!" I finally just turned onto my side and felt Doumyouji put an arm over me, probably so he would be comfortable or something. I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

            But I was woken up. It was still pretty dark outside when someone shook me very gently.

            "Tsukushi?" The voice was a male one that I knew. I opened my eyes to see Junpei standing over me.

            "Huh?" I rubbed my eyes a few times. "What?"

            "I need to tell you something." Junpei motioned for me to come follow me. I slid off the couch so I wouldn't wake up Doumyouji. I followed Junpei out into the hallway.

            "What's up?" I asked curiously. Junpei just stood there looking at me as if contemplating something to himself. That's when he seemed to make a decision. He grabbed my upper arms suddenly and kissed me. I flailed wildly.

            "Junpei!" I pushed him away. "I don't-"

            "I don't care." Junpei kissed me harder with a lot more force, pushing me up against a wall. I struggled against him.

            "Junpei! Knock it off!" I pushed as hard as I could this time. He fell to the floor. That's when I felt my legs being kicked out from under me. I started to get up but Junpei knocked me down. He pinned my arms down, kissing me again. I kept trying to lift my arms but it wasn't working.

            Junpei moved so that he could pin my arms down with only one hand while moving his other all over my body. I tried kicking but it didn't work. I had to get away. Tears started to well up in my eyes as his hand started to go up my skirt. I tried to move my head away from him but he was so much stronger. I had always thought I was pretty strong but it seemed I was wrong.

            I realized that I wasn't getting away. Junpei was going to rape me. I struggled desperately against it with all that I could. That's when something happened that even then I couldn't believe would happen.

            "Get the hell off her." The voice told Junpei dangerously before I felt someone actually throw Junpei off of me. I was a mess though. I turned my head, not moving from the position I had been in, to see Doumyouji beating the crap out of Junpei. Tears were still flowing from my eyes.

            Several people heard the sounds of the struggle and came out of the sitting room. Soujirou and Akira looked somewhere between surprised and horrified. Makiko rushed to try to help me up. I was too much in a daze though. Akira and Soujirou rushed over, pulling Doumyouji off of Junpei. Soujirou dragged Junpei out of sight for which I was grateful.

            "Tsukushi? Tsukushi what happened?" Makiko asked me. I was still crying. I felt like the biggest crybaby. I knew I was supposed to be tough but I couldn't help it, I was terrified, my whole body was shaking from the memory. My throat was so dry that I couldn't talk at all. Doumyouji picked me up right then, cradling me as gently as he possibly could.

            "D-Doumyouji…" I croaked out. He looked down at me with the most pained eyes I had seen.

            "Shhhh…I'm right here." Doumyouji sat down with me in his lap, cradling me in his arms, rocking me slightly. Akira and Soujirou were talking with the others but I couldn't make out what they were saying. I leaned my head against the warm body that held me, closing my eyes and wishing for it all to be a dream.

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            Yeah so…hmm…what does one say at this profound moment in time. I know! Just review and call Junpei a crap head. Or a rape head! Omigod, Teresa, Ruko!!!!!!!!!!!!

            Jade: TERESA!!! I have a wiggy wiggy for two, just me and you!

            Teresa: **Shaking her head** Why…why do you always make me come into your author notes?

            Jade: Cause it's fun!

            Favorite Line From This Chapter: "It's not a story for girlfriends." (What DID happen at that party???)