A/N: What in the world happened to Van?  I'll leave that to your imagination.  Anyways, I couldn't stand him waiting for Hitomi forever.  Sorry, dillan, I'm leaving his head attached.  At least for now.  *cackles* after Hitomi and Dilandau burn Allen alive, I might need a new enemy.  Oh, and spoons is taken from extreme days.

I'm Not Iseult

Ninth chapter: Winter Formal

Hitomi screamed, falling back on her bed.  Aidana rubbed her back, sympathetically.  Celesi sighed.  "Come on, Kanzaki.  You know Dilandau won't see anything but you.  You don't need a dress to stun him.  You'd amaze him in slacks and a nightshirt."  Hitomi didn't respond.

Sakura was playing spoons with Syaoran.  The way the game works is you have a spoon in your mouth, and you hit the person as hard as you can on top of the head.  They then pick their head up from the table, and do the same to you.  The person who gives up first loses.  Although all girls cheat, Syaoran was doing well.  She'd say, one two three, tapping Syaoran on the head, then Eriol who was standing behind Li would happily wap his head with a spoon.  But Syaoran was determined to win. (it's hysterical.  Everyone should rent extreme days just to see that scene.)

Hitomi sat up.  "Doing all right, Syaoran?"

Syaoran moaned, picking his head up.  "I'm fine.  I'll last longer than she does."

Hitomi walked back to her closet, and started ripping things off hangers, not even looking, just viciously pulling them off, a look of determination the closest thing to emotion on her face.

Aidana sweatdropped.  "Girl, maybe you should spend a little time away from Dilandau.  You two are beginning to act exactly the same: mental."  Wasn't that the intent?  Aidana shook the thought away.

Hitomi came up with an empty closet, and she climbed in, standing on all her clothes.  She had piled them up so she could reach the roof.  Celesi's jaw dropped as Hitomi moved a panel, and started squirming, working her way up into the whole.  A bunch of prom and wedding dresses fell down.  Hitomi shrieked "Yes!" then her shriek changed as she fell down fifteen feet.  And the closet floor wasn't that strong.

Below her room, Dilandau was pacing.  He heard the shriek, and looked at Dillan anxiously.  Dillan just shook her head.  He knew his sister well, and knew it would only be a matter of time until Hitomi was either happy or forced into wearing something stunning.  When the floorboards cracked, he raised an eyebrow.  Now this is more Hitomi style.

Dilandau caught his girlfriend, both coughing up dust.

"Ahem."

Dilandau's crew all stood up, from their various lounging points.  Mr. Kanzaki was home.  "Thank you for catching my daughter.  You will put her down, and you and your friends will leave."

Dilandau embraced Hitomi, and put her down, and rushed out the door.  He'd be back at ten.

Mr. Kanzaki waited until Dilandau and the others had disappeared.  Then his scowl turned into a smile.  "You can't even last a week?"  Hitomi smirked.  "You ain't seen nothing yet!"  Mrs. Kanzaki shook her head.  Sakura's squeal of triumph was heard.  The Kanzaki parents rushed upstairs to see their daughter dancing around a bright red Syaoran singing Turkey in the straw.

Aidana patted Mr. Kanzaki on the shoulder as she walked out.  "One day, your daughter will just go out and buy a dress like a normal girl.  That day hasn't come yet."

Mr. Kanzaki smiled.  Aidana had brought his daughter out of her life of computer identities and musical choreographies.  She was actually a social girl with a boyfriend.  The guy was slightly psychotic and had twenty followers, but he still cared for his daughter.

Hitomi smiled at Aidana.  "I found it.  Remember that pink shirt on Sarah in save the last dance?" 

Aidana rolled her eyes, but nodded. 

"I found my older sister's black dress like that." 

Aidana's smile disappeared.  "You have an older sister?"

Hitomi nodded.  "She wore it last year to her freshman parties.  But she grew out of it, and asked me to store it for her."

Aidana grinned.  "So you plan to glitter?  I thought you'd go with something that burned."

Hitomi's eyes sparkled.  "Oh, but it glitters red.  I thought Dilandau would like something like that."

Allen brushed past Hitomi, roughly brushing her shoulders.  Hitomi shoved him with her hands, but he walked by without a word.

Both girls shrugged, and talked about the dance again.

That night, Kanzaki stood just outside the door, awaiting Dilandau's arrival. 

Dilandau, dressed in a red sleeveless shirt and shiny black pants walked up to the door.  He saw Kanzaki, and began sweating.  "Sir."

"Punk."

"Excuse me?"

Kanzaki nodded.  "My daughter is to be home by eleven sharp."

Dilandau argued, "But it ends at twelve thirty!  The earliest we could get out and back would be one!"

Hitomi, her longer hair brushing her shoulders, kissed her father's cheek.  "Ok, now that you two have made your death threats, and realized I'll be back at midnight, can we go, daddy?"

Her father brushed a kiss against the top of her forehead.  "I didn't get to the death threats." He complained.

Hitomi shrugged.  "Well, daddy, there's spring formal in a few months.  You'll just have to prep better next time."

Kanzaki walked back into the house.

Hitomi allowed her self concious to appear.  She turned, and asked nervously, "Do I look okay?"

Dilandau pulled her into his arms, looking into her eyes.  "The dress looks great on you, but you could be in sackcloth and look hot."

Hitomi giggled.  His hands were tickling her bare back.  "So are we going to walk there, too?"

Dilandau grinned wickedly.  "Oh no no no!  Arrive at formal on foot?  How dare you underestimate your best friend."

Hitomi rolled her eyes.  "That's right, Aidana's doubling.  Who'd she pick?"

Dilandau raised an eyebrow.  "You're kidding me, right?  Who does she drag everywhere?"

Neither the limo or the Miguel in a tux surprised Hitomi.  Nothing surprised you where Aidana was concerned.  Aidana was surprise.  You got used to it after a while.

At the dance, Allen had Krai on his arm, but seeing Hitomi on Dilandau's still made his blood boil.  They'll pay.  They'll both pay.

With Dilandau's group of friends, Hitomi didn't even see anyone she didn't know until she and Dilandau had walked away from the group to slow dance.  Dilandau had gone to get some punch, and left Hitomi standing in a crowd with couples slowly circling.

Allen appeared behind her.  "We have a dance after all, Kanzaki."

Hitomi's threat was no more than a hiss.  "Don't make me hurt you in such a public place, Schezar."

Allen's arms slid around her, his hands sliding up and down her bare back.  Had it been Dilandau or Van or the seven, she would have laughed it off, saying it tickled.  With Allen, she felt like he was trying to—

Her ugly thought went unfinished when Allen pressed his lips against hers, his tongue demanding entrance into her mouth.

She bit his forceful tongue and raised her arm.

SLAP!

Everyone who heard that sound turned to see what had happened. 

Allen glared at her.  "I'll be back, bit--" 

a crack to the back of his head as Dilandau slammed his elbow into his head kept Allen from completing that insult yet. 

He smiled.  "Where were we?"

Hitomi smiled, and leaned against him.  "Slow dancing."

Dilandau dropped the glass onto Allen's head, the thin glass splintering as it hit his forehead, staining his precious blonde hair purple.  "Right." He slid his arms around her.

Aidana watched from across the room.  She smiled.  "Players never learn, do they?"

Celena shuddered.  "Him?  Learn?  We are talking about my brother aren't we?  I'm not confused, am I?"

Celesi hugged her new roommate.  "Nope.  Look, Gaddes is back.  I'm glad you two have split your company from him."

Celena shrugged helplessly.  "He's my only family, and Gaddes didn't want me getting on Allen's bad side if I didn't have to."

Aidana smirked.  "Well, at least Celena has some excitement.  Living at home doesn't always have its perks."

Dilandau had Hitomi home by eleven.  The party got dull, and if she was to sneak out, better if she was home during some point of time during the night.

Hitomi acted very tired, kissed her father goodnight, told Sakura that Dilandau wouldn't be over later(liar!), and went to her room.

She peeled her dress off, and in a slip, contemplated what to wear.  She finally decided on a sleeveless spaghetti strap silver shirt that had a longer length, but was looser, and floated.  She wore tight royal purple pants.

When she quietly drifted downstairs, and heard the single click of Dilandau's fingernail on the door, she opened it to see him wearing a maroon tank, and baggy silver pants. 

Hitomi smiled, and locked the door behind her.

They broke into an italian restaurant, and Dillan in the kitchen cooked them some manicotti.  After that, they went to the dance club, Cliques.  After three hours of dancing, Hitomi tired, and settled to cheering Aidana on, who was doing her version of a battle, outdancing anyone.  So far the only person who hadn't challenged her was Van.

When they finally got Van on the stage, they realized it was a fair challenge.

Hitomi now realized that Van and Aidana tended to miss nights out at the same time.  She smiled.  They make a cute couple.  I'll have to compliment Aidana on her taste.

A/N: Now what?  Remember when Hitomi was making out with both Van and Dilandau?  I think the only person Aidana hasn't made out with is her brother.  Anyway, next chap done XD