Author's notes: Now, without my usual bantering I present you Chapter 6 of Under one roof. Can't wait to see you're reaction to this Chapter 6…Oh my…
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// … // Character's thoughts.
( … ) Talk-talk…
* … * Background noise/sound
^ … ^ Actions
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// Stay calm, stay cool, stay calm, stay cool, stay calm, stay cool, stay safe, stay INTACT, stay INTACT, stay INTACT… // chanted Emi as she trudged behind Rukawa. Destination? Doom ummm- I mean classroom.
After a while, Rukawa who kept his eyes closed all the way, managed to enter the classroom without having to bump into anything on the way. Emi kept her head lowered and slowly entered the room. As soon as she stepped in, the room fell silent.
"Ahhhhh…how nice of you to join us , Rukawa-san," the sarcastic voice of the teacher greeted him. Carefully eyeing, the girl behind him, the sensei gestured her to come upfront. "And you are?"
Emi stepped infront of the class, bowed and introduced herself, "My name is Furuhata Emiiiii…aaaaahhhhh!!!!!!" Emi took a surprised step backwards as she saw a girl with brown curls lunged from her seat towards her.
The girl with arms outstretched and a very angry look on her face, managed to grab Emi's shoe. However Emi, with that one step back, she has unknowingly bumped into Rukawa, resulting in a flurry of hands and legs.
"Rukawa-kun!" screamed most of the female students in the class. The girl with brown curls quickly stood up from her position on the floor and aimed the shoe at Emi. Unfortunately it never landed on Emi's head but on Rukawa's instead. *Clunk* went the very solid leather shoe when it collided with Rukawa's mop of raven hair.
And once again the female students went, "RUKAWA-KUN!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let me at em'!!!!!!!!!!" howled the by-now very fierce looking girl. She quickly dived into the flurry of hands and legs, quickly followed by three other girls. The class could only look in a mixture of dismay from the sensei, amusement from the boys and concern for their beloved Rukawa-kun from the girls.
"Oiii, that's my sock!"
"Watch the face! Hey, watch it!"
"Owww!!! *bonk* There, see how you like it!!!"
"I feel sick again," wailed Emi among the chaos.
"Kill new girl! Kill new girl! Kill new- oh hey, Rukawa-kun!"
"Do'ahous," came Rukawa's reply. Immediately all struggling stopped, all was left was four very love-struck girls on the floor.
Emi could only watch in astonishment as she crawled out of the tangle of bodies and quickly stood up. // 'Do'ahou', the magic words…I see guess I'll store that for future information. Hey, where's my sock? Alright, gimme back my sock! // She looked around the class and was surprised to see that most of them are still staring at Rukawa. // What? Gee…give it a break…already…hey, that's my shoe! //
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Rukawa shoved his hands into his pockets and kept on his usual icy cold-mask. Suddenly, Emi was in front of him, her blue-eyes slightly laughing. He felt the familiar feeling of anger of being laughed at and quickly rose to his full height, staring down at Emi. Then, she did the unexpected, she waved her arms in front of him. // I'm not blind. Stop it. Just wait till I get my hands on you… 'Don't go poisoning Emi either' Hmmm, revenge is sweet…// Rukawa tilted his head down a bit and was surprised when a black object fell from his head. It plopped right onto Emi's awaiting palms. // A damn shoe? Since when…oh…I'll shut up now. //
"Rukawa-san, I suggest you sit down," the sensei suggested looking down at the four love struck girls. "You, you may sit beside him, since it is the only available seat we have," he ordered Emi with an exasperated flick of his palm. " Four of you, I suggest you get up and march yourself into the principal's office! I don't know what has possessed you students to act like this, honestly, picking a fight with Furuhana-san!"
"It's Furuhata-san, sir!" corrected Emi innocently from her seat. // What just happened there? Okay, must be the weather. My sock! // Emi's mouth fell open as she saw the girl with brown curls, gave her an evil smile and dropped one of her socks into the trashcan. // What is her problem? I'm half sockless…//
The day went by uneventfully as news of the slight scuffle involving Emi and Rukawa spread like wildfire.
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"Kaede, where am I suppose to go?" asked Emi as she followed him towards the basketball gym. She eyed her sockless foot, and glanced up at him. (No such thing as sockless? You get my drift? ^^;; Anyone care to help me?)
"Gym," he answered with a his chin. At times like this Rukawa thought about how he would want to just drop his ice-cold mask and talk like a normal person. Then again, that wouldn't be him, right? // We're going to the basketball gym for practice, since you're new here, you'll just have to stay put and listen to that annoying do'ahou's voice.//
Both of them arrived in front of one of the many entrances of the basketball gym, Rukawa slid the door open and entered. He quickly made a beeline for the changing room and left Emi to deal with her introductions alone.
Emi visibly gulped and was overwhelmed by the amount of eyes staring at her. She edged away from them slowly, not knowing the raised hand behind her back. *THWAP*
"HEY!!!" Ayako practically shrieked as she thumped Emi's back half-heartedly.
"Huh…*cough*…I…*cough*…who?" Emi coughed out as she turned around to stare at the Ayako.
"Hey, Emi right?" Ayako smiled as she wound her arm around Emi's shoulders. She guided the bewildered Emi to one of the newly acquired benches near the sides.
"How did you know my name?"
"Oh, news travel fast round here," Ayako answered as she eyed Rukawa who was by now warming up.
"…"
"Heard the wrestling match you had from a couple of Year 1 students,"
"Wrestling match?"
"Yeah, the one where you flipped one of the Ru-Ka-Wa girls into a wall!"
"Really?" Emi played along, wanting to know what just traveled around the school. //What's next me threatening them?//
"I can't believe you threatened those girls!"
"…" Shocked, Emi decided to listen for more.
"And where did you get a katana from?"
//Katana? Katana? Katana? Katana? I don't even have one! Time to get things straight.//
"You sure-"
"Wait, umm…"
"Ayako,"
"Okay umm, look Ayako. First of all, I need to get this straight with you, okay? I didn't throw anybody into a wall. No threatening. No katana. No nothing. Just rumours. Plain and simple."
"Oh…"
"Yeah…" Emi sighed as she finally let the truth out.
"So the part where you kissed Rukawa senseless wasn't true?"
"N-NO!!!"
"Just curious," Ayako murmured as she coughed to conceal the rising laughter in her throat seeing Emi's flustered face.
"I did not kiss anybody! No way! Nobody! Especially not him! Calm yourself down Emi. No use of hyperventilating. No…I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky…I see it every night and daaaaayyyyyyyyy…" Emi started to sing.
Ayako sweatdropped. //I wonder if what she said was true? Weird girl.//
"Hey Mickey what a pity you don't understand," Emi shifted songs as images of Rukawa ran through her mind. She didn't even notice that her voice started to sound scratchy because of her flustered condition.
"ORE WA TENSAI!!!!!!!!!" Sakuragi's voice boomed through the gym's surroundings.
"Oh my god! What happened to my voice!!!!????" cried a panicked Emi who mistook Sakuragi's voice for hers. (Hai, this girl is clueless. Tsk Tsk Tsk.)
"Hmmm?" Sakuragi's interest piqued as he approached Emi.
"That's not your voice Emi, NOT YOUR VOICE," Emi calmed herself. "After all, I can't imagine whose that hideous voice belong to, certainly not me."
"You! You, how dare you judge the Tensai's singing voice!?" Sakuragi heard the comment Emi made and had gone very, very angry. Sakuragi who was much taller than Emi stared down at her, shoving his hands into his practicing pants with a menacing look on his face. Brown eyes met blue ones and the world exploded.
In a tirade of angry cursing that would make the author herself ashamed. (:D Heee I'm like so ashamed! Heeee….)
Emi just stood there trying to translate all or any of his Japanese curses that the red-head had hurled at her. She was too scared to move. To her, this, this beast, exploded just because of one measly comment. (Hideous?!??! Yare yare.)
Ayako was too stunned to even move her hand, not to mention even use the mighty fan. She cannot believe that Sakuragi has just cursed out loud at a girl. A not so innocent girl and to think she didn't even know half of what Sakuragi was saying or should she say cursing? //Thank god Akagi sempai isn't here yet. I bet he'll go all Gori-commando on us. //
Sakuragi was boiling with anger. How he would like to just headbutt the girl. //Then again, Haruko won't like that very much.// He glared daggers at the pale Emi. She was trembling. //I suppose I'm a was a tad bit too mean…but that doesn't mean she can go insulting people's voice!//
Emi tried hard to not cry. She blinked several times and balled her knuckles. Her vision was clouded with tears. "I, I-*sniffle*," she started but was seized by a pair of hands.
"You what?!?!" Sakuragi snapped impatiently.
"I'm s-sorry!" Emi whispered terrified. She looked down as tears started to stream down her cheeks. (Yes, I admit she's such a crybaby…Heheh..for a purpose….BWAHHAHAAHHAH…)
"You're what?" Sakuragi responded harshly pretending not to hear. He didn't even notice the teardrops on the floor.//Hah...that'll teach you not to cross with me.//
"She said she was sorry," Rukawa's monotone voice declared. As soon as he said this, all heads turned to him.
"Kitsune!" Sakuragi's anger flared yet again.
"Do'ahou." Rukawa returned as if he was acknowledging the red head. Rukawa stepped beside Emi and leveled Sakuragi with a cool gaze.
"What's this? Your girlfriend, kitsune?" Sakuragi countered.
"Jealous?" Rukawa questioned. //I said that? I did. Okay…Damn it!…//
"Hah! Nyahahhahaha, I don't think so! Her?" Sakuragi snickered eyeing the crying Emi. He felt a tug at his heart seeing her crying. He felt a bit guilty for bullying the girl, but he had to keep the mean front up. For his pride.
Emi looked up as she heard herself mentioned. Her blue eyes glassy as her lip trembled. //I said I was sorry. No need to humiliate me in front of the whole basketball team! Get a grip Emi! You've been through worse before. //
Author's notes: Another cliffhanger? Sorry!!! Heeeeee….thank god today's Friday. Maybe I'll edit this later, kay? Ja! The fic is going too slow for my taste so expect a more faster pace in the incoming chapters. And Sakuragi fans? Please don't toast me alive and sorry for the slight OOC in Rukawa. *(;^^;)* In a few days I'll be free!!!!!!!! And oh yeah, the other players, would be appearing soon! Wait for it.
Review, minna! Please? *( -_- )*