"Well, excuse us," Recca said, voice dripping with sarcasm. "We just wanted to check up on our dearest friend, don't we, Domon?" He said this as he stepped closer to Fuuko and put his arms around her.

Fuuko frowned at this particular act but lost it when Domon tried to do the same. She gave the dumb oaf a quick, but strong nonetheless, punch right in the face. Domon backed away from her, big tears welling up once more in his eyes.

Fuuko could only roll her eyes as she pried off Recca's arms from her. "So now you see that I am well and alive so you two can go back to whatever dumb thing you were doing before," she said but stopped quickly because the two guys she thought she was having a conversation with were fighting over her half-eaten sandwich.

A large sweat drop formed at the side of her head. "Hey!" Fuuko shouted angrily. "I'm talking to you two!" Her shout was soon followed by two kicks in the boy's shins.

Recca, who won the sandwich when he punched Domon in the stomach, promptly choked when Fuuko had kicked him. "Hey!" he started, viciously beating his chest. "What's the big idea!"

Domon whimpered quietly, in the most pathetic way, of course.

"The big idea?" Fuuko repeated blankly. "The whole idea is, you two morons are eating my lunch!! Go buy your own!"

Despite the fact that Recca and Domon ate her lunch, Fuuko couldn't help but smile. Their boisterousness ways had somehow made her forget all the things that had happened in the past two days. Well, almost anyways. She was fighting an inner battle whether she would tell her friends about the stuff with Kurei as Domon and Recca were fighting a battle of their own. They were fighting over who started it. Fuuko's smile just grew bigger.

"Oh, Recca-kun," a sweet voice asked from behind Fuuko. "I was wondering where you went off to. Oh, hi, Fuuko-chan."

"Hime!!!" exclaimed Recca excitedly. He immediately went over to his princess and forgot about Domon.

"Hi, Yanagi," said Fuuko.

"Recca, you little runt," Domon started angrily. "Come back here and finish what you started. I refuse to look like a fool in front of my Fuuko's eyes."

Fuuko's left eyebrow twitched involuntarily and a right hand automatically shot to Domon's face once again. "Who are you to call me 'yours'?" she asked in a somewhat angry but really glad to hear that nothing has changed tone. "I belong to no one, idiot!"

Then her mind drifted towards a certain bastard who had proved her last statement wrong in a span of two days. Fuuko suddenly fell silent as Kurei's reminders had registered onto her mind once again.

"Fuuko-chan?" asked Yanagi, pulling Fuuko away from her silent reverie. "Are you all right?"

Fuuko automatically smiled at Yanagi. After all, there was no need to alarm her for no particular reason. And besides, Fuuko figured that the name 'Kurei' would be enough to send Yanagi into hysterics. Fuuko did not intend to die a horrible death by Recca's flame or Mikagami's ensui. Something clicked inside Fuuko's head.

She looked around them trying to find the most hostile member of the Hokage. "By the way, where is our resident Fridge Boy?" she asked Yanagi. When she looked, Recca and Domon were at each other again. Sweat drops formed at the side of the two ladies' heads.

"Mikagami-sempai?" Yanagi repeated. "Well, he said that he had some studying to do because he still has and exam to take later."

"So what you're saying is," said Fuuko, a vivid picture of what Yanagi's conversation with Tokiya had been like. "He told you that he had no time to waste on tracking down monkeys because he had more important things to do like studying?"

Yanagi's cheeks blushed a little and her expression was pure amazement. "Yeah, that's exactly how it went, Fuuko-chan," she started. "How did you know?"

Fuuko shrugged. "I figured that was what Fridge Boy would say."

Silence overcame them as they watched Recca and Domon fight. They both made no move to stop the two boys from fighting because from past experiences, they had learned that stopping those two was actually useless.

The Right Things

By saicho_18

June 2, 2002

"So Fuuko-chan," started Yanagi as they watched Recca and Domon go at it. "Why were you absent for the past two days? Are you sick or something? Do you need me to heal you?"

Fuuko could only smile once again at Yanagi's kindness and thoughtfulness. "No, no, I wasn't sick," Fuuko started. She had decided that she would not let her friends know of her current situation. She just had to go through the tests and get it over with. "My parents came home the other day and I had to pick them up at the airport. Of course, they were gone for quite a while so they told me to take a day off and spend some time with them."

"Wow, Fuuko-chan," Yanagi started. Recca's ears perked up when he heard Yanagi's voice. "Your parents must be pretty cool. I mean, I never thought that I would live to see the day that a parent tell his child to take a day off from school."

Fuuko only laughed at this statement. "Well, yeah, they are pretty weird now," she said. "They are kind of going through their mid-life crises so it's like having two teenagers inside the house."

"What?" Recca interrupted, rather rudely. "Your parents were here and you didn't even tell us? Well, you better give us some of the souvenirs they got for Domon and I"

Domon nodded his agreement, for once.

"You idiots," Fuuko started. "There are no souvenirs for the both of you. They didn't even get one for me." Well, except for that scoundrel that they brought back home for me to marry, Fuuko added silently.

"So where are they now?" Domon asked. "We should go visit them after classes, right Recca?"

"Of course!" exclaimed Recca. "And we'll bring my Hime for them to meet. I'm sure that they will just adore my princess!"

Yanagi promptly blushed.

"Uh, guys," said Fuuko. "You can't do that. They already left for Tibet. Just this morning, that is."

Domon and Recca's face fell. "They left already?"

"I'm afraid so, guys." Fuuko replied a sigh of relief released. "But I'm sure you're right Recca. They would have loved to meet Yanagi."

Yanagi opened her mouth to respond, but the school bell beat her to it.

"Well, there goes the bell," Domon stated the obvious. "We should go back to class. Can I walk you to your classroom, my Fuuko darling?"

Another punch met his face. "How's that for an answer, idiot?"

Another sweat drop ran at the side of Yanagi's head. "Well, Fuuko-chan," she started. "I think Domon was right. We should get going for class. Thank you for that lovely chat."

"No problem, Yanagi." Fuuko said, walking away from the tree. She headed back to her classroom, prepared for the boring continuation of class.

When she entered the room, the same weird stares still met her but no one had the guts to say anything to her. As usual, she ignored those stares and went to her seat.

After a few minutes, their teacher arrived and so begins the boring world of chemistry.

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Fuuko soon found herself walking towards the gates of their school. Kurei hadn't told her where he would pick Fuuko up so she figured that the gates would be the best place to start.

Fuuko waited at the entrance of their school for over ten minutes and still no limousine. Of course, she got bored so she decided to walk around the school grounds for a while. The students had already left the school except for a very precious few doing schoolwork.

She walked around in peace, schoolbag towed behind her. She stopped suddenly to look at her watch. Great, she should have known that Kurei doesn't keep his word. And to think that he was the one who was supposed to wait for her! The old git was more than twenty minutes late already.

"Fuuko," a familiar voice started from behind her. The voice betrayed the expression of surprise. "What are you doing in here?"

Fuuko turned around and promptly gasped as she saw who had greeted her. It was in fact the very last person she wanted to see.

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Prizes given out for guessing who that person is! Of course, the only possession that I have is my Harry Potter collection. Heck, this computer is only borrowed!

saicho_18 : slytherin ^-^

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