Disclaimer: I do not own HYD or any of its character, but if I did I wouldn't want to share them cuz they are so kawaii!

Chapter 6: What are they hiding?

I ran through the halls with my hair flailing behind me thinking about how Hatsuhara was so much like Rui. As I approached the cafeteria, I could hear Doumyouji's bellows blaring through the doors hitting me in the face.

"Where is she?!"

I walked through the doors I quickly spotting Shigeru and F2 trying to calm that big idiot. The other students had all moved their tables farther away to avoid the backlash of his rage. They ducked their heads down and stared at the food in front of them chewing quietly hoping to go unnoticed.

I ran up to the table completely out of breath and panting. "Sorry, I'm late. I was busy helping out some new students."

"Why do you always have to waste your time helping people?" Doumyouji muttered.

I sat down next to him and looked at the enormous mounds of food that was piled before me. "That's because unlike some idiots I'm a nice person," I smugly grinned picking up my fork.

"That's my Tsukushi-chan. She's always helping others." Kazuya perked up with a piece of noodle hanging out of his mouth.

"Shuddup! And she is not your Tsukushi! Who said you could sit with us, anyway?"

Kazuya grabbed my arm and cowered beside me whimpering.

"Leave him alone. I say he can sit with us." I said looking into Doumyouji's eyes. I then turned towards Kazuya who was sticking his tongue out at Doumyouji in victory, "And you, can you stop calling me your Tsukushi, Kazuya. Doumyouji is my boyfriend." He lowered his head and continued to eat not saying a word the rest of the meal. I looked around the table and noticed that Susumu wasn't around. I had told him earlier to meet us for lunch. "Where's Susumu?"

"Oh. He's over there, but I think he's a little busy." Soujiro smiled pointing over to the corner of the room.

My eyes widened at what I was seeing. Susumu was sitting on the table surrounded by people. He cocked his head up, looked towards me rubbing his head tousling his hair, and gave me a little wave from across the room. I watched how easy it was for him to fit into the crowd. He had them all laughing. The girls fawned over him each vying for his attention.

"Makino, you're brother's way more fun than you. What happened with you? Are you sure you're related?" Soujirou teased.

I clenched my fist and raised it up mouthing if they wanted to die today.

"Tsuskushi, is it true there are three really good looking new students in your class?" asked Shigeru in an excited voice. "All the girls are talking about them. They say they might be even more good looking than F4!"

"WHAT?!" Soujiro and Akira both yelled in unison. They huddled together whispering about their plans. They threw out plans to squash their competition.

"Yeah, they are in my class. I dunno. They are quite handsome. I could see what the other girls are making a fuss over. I mean one of them kind of reminds me of these two playboys over here, but the other two seem really quiet."

"Who is this guy?! Is it true Makino?" Akira and Soujiro yelled from their huddle with sad puppy dog eyes.

I looked at them and with an evil grin and said, "Maybe."

This sent them reeling away with hurt looks on their faces. Akira fell from his chair and inched away from the table crouching on the floor poking at the ground with his finger. Soujiro bent down beside his friend and patted his head trying to soothe the poor boy's ego.

"You can be sooooo mean Makino." Akira whined in a little kid voice.

"Don't listen to her Akira-kun. I still think you're cute." Soujiro whispered into his ear.

The two grabbed each other into an embrace and stood up together. They held each other's hands and lifted them up towards their chests nodding in agreement. They stood there lost in the moment telepathically speaking to each other reassuring the other that their competition was nothing.

"Forget those two" Shigeru sighed nodding her head in disgust, "So have you talked to them yet?"

"Yeah. They seem nice. Their names are Lau Jin, Eto Fujio, and Tse Hatsuhara. I think they said they came from Hong Kong."

Shigeru looked up dreamily. "Their names sound cute alone. You have to introduce them to me sometime?!" Shigeru stared at me intently with a hungry passion in her eyes.

I backed away from Shigeru a little scared of what she might do if I refused. "Uuuummmm..sure Shigeru."

"I don't like you hanging out with these new guys," Doumyouji icily spit out.

I turned back at him realizing he had been silent during this entire conversation. "Don't worry. Remember you promised to always believe me" I nudged his shoulder reminding him of the promise he had made me after he saved me from the students dragging me from their car. His face changed as he remembered how his stupid jealousy had almost gotten me killed. I knew how to play my cards correctly to get him to back away. "I know I'm you're girlfriend, but I can have guys as friends you know. It doesn't matter what you think anyway. I can be friends with whoever I want!" Not giving him a chance to respond I got up and picked up my bag. "I have to meet some friends now. I'll see you later." I spun around and marched out of the cafeteria leaving Doumyouji with his mouth wide open stumbling to find something to say.

I didn't want them to know I was going to meet Fujio. Jin and Hatsuahara. I knew how intolerable Dounyouji could be when it came to me hanging around other men. Even around F4 he didn't feel completely at ease leaving me alone in the clutches of those two playboys, Soujiro and Akira, or Rui. I slipped through campus carefully making sure not to be spotted by someone who would report to Doumyouji who I went to meet. I walked behind the library building and could hear voices. Normally I would have ignored other people's conversations, but it was strange to hear students speaking Chinese.

"You saw it. You saw the way he looks at her. He smiled at her. He hasn't smiled since what happened. I don't even think he smiles for Hana. We both know why too. It's just a little too creepy how much they look the same." a mysterious voice whispered.

"I know what you mean. I almost couldn't hold in my shock when I saw her too. But he did smile and isn't that what's important. I can see how he changes around her. He almost seems like person we used to know. Let's just wait and see what happens. She might be good for him," the other voice whispered back.

I kept my back against the corner of the wall listening to all of this. I peered out to see who it was. Fujio and Jin? Who are they talking about? Does this have to do with Hatsuhara? Could they be talking about me? I stood there quietly for a moment not making the slightest movement afraid they would find me eavesdropping on their private conversation. I ducked out of my hiding place and decided to walk to the other side of the building as to not surprise them in the middle of their secret conversation. I ran up to them this time making as much noise as possible to announce my arrival.

Fujio and Jin stood next to each other and exchanged a nervous look before smiling at me. They stood in front of the steps of the building with their arms folded. Hatsuhara silently sat away form his two friends sitting on the ground leaning against the wall railing on the top the steps.

"Hi. Did you wait long?" I nervously asked while in my head I was screaming don't let them know you heard them talking. "No. We just got here, too" Fujio answered taking off his glasses and wiping them with his jacket bottom.

"Umm.well why don't I show you around."

I started to walk away leaving the other three boys to follow behind me as I took them on a walking tour of Eitoku. It felt awkward being around them after hearing them talking about me, but I pushed those thoughts out of my head. It wasn't any of my business to hear their conversation in the first place. I stayed ahead of them babbling nonstop like an idiot averting my eyes from looking at them when they asked questions. I started to feel a little guilty for being so cold since they were so kind towards me. After awhile I eased up and told myself there was nothing strange about them. As we walked I slowly started to see the differences in each of them.

Jin resembled the typical player. He had that messy casual look to him that made him quite irresistible. His dyed brown hair was styled in a sloppy way covering his eyes giving him an air of mystery. When I could see into his eyes, there was a look of mischief like you couldn't tell exactly what he was thinking. He left the top two buttons of his shirt unbuttoned exposing his chiseled chest. He walked with an air of confidence about him and talked the most out of the three. He seemed to be the on who spoke for the three. When he raised his hand to point towards a building to ask me a question I caught a glimpse of something on his chest when his shirt had been pushed open a little more by his arm being raised up. There was a tattoo on his chest over his heart. It was the symbol for eternity, which looked like a horizontal number 8. It was intricately etched into his skin with many fine lines wrapping around each other forming the symbol for eternity.

Fujio was quite the opposite to Jin. I would never have guessed he would be friends with someone like Jin based on the fact they looked like complete opposites. He was just as good looking as Jin, but in a different way. He carried himself with a more serious tone. He always spoke very politely, not like Jin who liked to interrupt in the middle of a conversation with a boisterous voice. Fujio was more reserved and appeared the most mature out of the three. He had straight black hair that was pulled back and tied. He wore the uniform properly with the shirt buttoned and tucked in and neatly pressed. Even with his jacket on you could tell he was also, quite well built and muscular. When he smiled he released a genuine openness about him that could not make you dislike him. When he was embarrassed or anxious I noticed he had the habit of taking off his glasses and fidgeting with them. As we walked along the pathways under the hot sun he took off his jacket revealing his ivory white short sleeve button shirt. I glanced at his shoulder and he too strangely had the eternity tattoo etched onto his right shoulder.

Hatsuhara was quiet and reserved. He rarely spoke during the entire tour to anyone. If he did speak it was usually in a whisper that was barely audible to Fujio or Jin. He remained always a few steps behind the rest of us looking around with a dazed far way look. The few times I did glance to look at him I turned quickly away since he was already staring at me with that strange look from earlier. I didn't bother to press him to talk to me, but I was used to quiet people because of Rui. Physically he was muscular and tall. He slouched a little and moved with a gracefulness about him. His black hair with bright red streaks was styled in a messy spiky way. It was unusual to see someone like him at Eitoku. Usually strange hair colors were not allowed because it was frowned upon by the teachers. Around his neck dangled the jade pendant held onto his neck by a thin silver chain. When he wandered away from the group for a moment I noticed he too had the eternity tattoo, but it was on the back of his neck.

As we reached the end of the tour we sat in the garden next to the fountain spitting out water to enjoy the cool breeze after all the walking. I took this opportunity to find out more about these mysterious new boys.

"So you all came from Hong Kong together. Why did your families decide to come to Japan?" I asked.

I noticed that Fujio became a little nervous looking like they didn't want to answer my questions. He took off his glasses and began folding and unfolding them.

"Oh we've known each other since we were babies. Our parents were friends, so we basically grew up together. We've been together out entire lives. Before we came to Eitoku we went to Holy Forest Academy in Canada. Fujio and my parents work for Haru's. When Haru's dad decided to move the business to Japan our fathers had to move too. Haru's little sister, Hana is at Eitoku with us too. She's a first year student. You should meet her? I think you would like each other. " Jin smiled at me making me feel a little uneasy as if he was hiding something. "Tell us about you, Tsukushi?" he asked trying to change the topic.

"Oh, there's nothing really interesting about me. I have a little brother, Susumu. He's a first year too. We live alone together, since my parents are away working somewhere else to pay for our tuitions. We stayed to continue studying at Eitoku. I work after school to help pay bills and tuition. My life seems pretty boring doesn't it? I sometimes I wish I had money like the rest of the students here, but I like my life." I got lost in my thought and continued talking about my life without realizing that they had completely thrown me off the search to find out more about them.

When I had finished telling them all about my life and family I didn't even realize how much time had passed. I was snapped back into reality when I heard my cell phone going off. I looked down at the little screen and read the text message.

"Tuskushi, meet me at the front gate. -Doumyouji"

I picked up my things and turned to Fujio, Jin and Hatsuahara. "Sorry. I've got to go. My boyfriend is waiting for me. I'll see you tomorrow."

From afar a girl a was running towards me. She ran towards us with graceful movements and her skirt flying up in the wind. I noticed that she too had red streaks running through her hair like Hatsuhara. She was a petite little girl shorter than me with a cute childlike angelic face. She had almost the same facial features as Hatsuhara, but more cheerful. She smiled warmly as she came closer to her friends. "Haru! Fujio! Jin! I was looking all over for you. You told me to wait for you after class!" She stopped in front of us and she looked at the three boys. "Who's this?" she asked turning towards me. When her eyes locked with mine her entire face changed. Her once cheerful smiling face turned serious and she just kind of stared hard at me with a look of shock on her face.

"Oh Tsukushi. This is Haru's little sister I told you about. Hana meet Makino Tsukushi. She's in our class and was nice enough to give us a tour of the school." Jin explained.

"Hello." She managed to utter out with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Hana's eyes looked at me questioningly. She couldn't stop staring dead at me with look of horror. Feeling a little uneasy by her staring I politely bowed. "Nice to meet you Hana. I'm sorry, I can't stay and chat, but I have to go. Bye." I turned away from the staring girl to get away from her weird gaze.

"Bye" Hatsuahara muttered under his breath once again giving me a little smile.

I was surprised by his sudden smile and utterance of words to me. The entire day he hadn't said a word to me except when he helped pick up my book that morning. I smiled back at him and waved. Walking away I glanced back for a moment at the four people still standing there. Hana looked towards Jin and Fujio with a worried look whispering something and they just nodded. Hatsuhara once again was lost in his own world ignoring them oblivious to everything. I walked slowly thinking about the strangeness of this day. Were they talking about me earlier? What are they hiding?