Some of my reviewers told me to slow down the process, so half this fiction, people are going to be mean and talking about homework. The reason for making some people mean is because a person suggested it was too floaty and lovey dovey with the " I'll protect you thing. So please don't be unhappy if I change a few things. I tend to try and take my reviewers advice. So I would just like to say thank you to the people who gave me positive reviews and also told the truth about what they thought. Hehe, I bet the person who was anonymous wouldn't have expected this. Well, since the person didn't leave their identity, I can't contact them for thanks, sooooo, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, by the way, thanks for your honesty and suggestion. I appreciate your honesty. (I'm not saying you other fans aren't honest). Well, please enjoy! Oh, to answer the question that one of the reviewers asked about who's falling on love with who. Well, it's one of those stories where you don't know till a certain period in the story. This is almost the plot of the story, but another more interesting plot takes place in here. I'll tell ya later. * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Kaiba woke up earlier than Miho as usual. He thought to himself for a few moments. " *sigh* I wish I weren't so naive. Then I could let go of the fact that I might not really love Miho. She's just so heart warming. She's like the goddess of extreme wonderful happiness. She can't help but try to make people happy. I can't do anything, but try to ignore her until my heart can finally see the truth. (A statement to slow down the story, oh, but something might still happen between the two, but not telling.) Kaiba knew that Miho didn't have the same feelings for him anyway.
"Hi, Kaiba! I can't believe that you're up this early!" Miho said jumping down every few steps with a wonderful smile that he couldn't ignore. At least not today. She had seemed so happy today. He didn't want to break her spirits yet. " did you already make breakfast or?" Kaiba then paused kinda speechless being interrupted by his thoughts. Then he answered "No,but I can make it ri.....". Miho interrupted, and said " I can make pancakes if you like." Kaiba then looked down at Miho and said " No, that's fine, I'll just make toast and put butter on it." Miho's smile suddenly disappeared from her face, for she had never encountered a person who turned down her cooking. She then said turning around to the stair case with her hand on the rail "I'll go wake up Mukuba, ok." Kaiba then said " Uh, yeah. Could you stay up there with him for a half an hour so that you can bring him to the bus? It's his first day of school." Miho nodded her head, yes. Then she went upstairs to Mokuba's room. Miho knew what that was... It was a rejection.
Kaiba needed to do this for his own sake. He felt selfish doing this, but it was only necessary until he could talk to her as a friend, the way he really felt. He wrote a note and put it on the fridge and left to go to school. The note said:

Dear Miho,
I will be picking you up from school early today. If you happen to have a club that has after school hours, I'll wait for you by the front of your school. My little brother's school should be right next to yours. He's only going on the bus today, because every time it was his first day of school our mother would have us take the bus. The rest of the school year you can just walk him to school.
Kaiba
Mokuba was ready for school and the bus was there. Miho waved good bye to Mokuba on his first day of school and didn't move until he was out of sight. She said to herself "Are you aware of what you make me feel? Right, now you make me feel like I'm invisible. Like I'm not real." She then walked to her school. When she got there she saw Joey and remembered what she had decided. "Hey Joey! I know you don't really like math, but I thought that if you need to improve in math and understand it better, than I could enter us both in the Algebra club and I could help you through it. As soon as I see some improvement I'll let you stop the club. Is that all right?" Joey hesitated seeing as he didn't like math, but he said " Sure." "Great, I'll sign you up today.'

MEAN WHILE, AT KAIBA'S SCHOOL
(Students whispering) Kaiba was walking through his school when he heard a group of boys talking about Joey Wheeler from Sakura Institute. "Pst, did you hear about Joey Wheeler?" One of the other boys said "Yeah, He has a girlfriend now." Another boy said "I heard that they kissed in the cafeteria." Another boy said " Yeah, I know. Joey does seem to make a fast one on the friends of his that are girls. Now that I think of it. The new girl at his school is the only girl who's his friend." Kaiba then got furious from these rumors that he wanted to believe were lies. Being the usual calm Kaiba that he usually was and said " I heard that Joey beat up a person for spreading rumors about him." Then the students stopped talking about Joey and Miho and changed their attention to a different subject. He knew the rumor wasn't real and he didn't care, but he just wanted to make sure that no stress came to her for being Joey's friend. He knew that the rumors would eventually move to her school, but her was trying to stop the infestation even thought he knew that it wouldn't work. Of course he had practically given up on Miho, but he still had the right to protect her. "I'm not about to have her life ruined after the way I treated her this morning."

AFTER SCHOOL
Miho picked up Mokuba and they waited in front of Miho's school. She was staring off to space and then she felt a tap on her shoulder and she looked back and saw Joey there with the first very serious looking face he had ever made in about a couple years. Miho turned to Mokuba and said "I'll be right back, just don't go with any strangers or accept anything from anybody." Mokuba nodded his head yes. Miho and Joey went to the side and Tea had to tie her shoe. "Hey, kid, could you hold my drugs so that I can tie my shoe. Mokuba screams and says "HELP SHE'S EVIL!" Ellen the Tea exterminator appears. "Come on Tea, you know where your going, jail." Tea tries to look surprised "Wha, what did I do?" (Ahem, back to the point. )
Joey gripped Miho by the shoulders and said " Have you been hearing the rumors that have been going around the schools?" Miho replied with a worried look "No, what are you talking about?" Joey then said " They've been saying that we're boy and girl friends and stuff. Are you going to let them do this?" Miho was obviously in shock she was staring at Joey and her eyes were filling with tears. Joey knew she was trying to hold them back when she forced a smile to come upon her face. But it was too damn hard to hold them back. A tear rolled down her face as she still smiled. Being Miho's friend he decided he needed to help her hide the tear even though his mother always told him it was always ok to cry, but sometimes you didn't want to be seen crying in public. So he raised his hand and put his hand under the tear that had fallen to the mid part of her cheek. He wiped it away. Then she looked up at him as if he made her day. What happened during the morning with Kaiba made her so depressed that morning and now this big dilemma. She then fell in Joey's arms and then she felt like crying about everything because she felt invisible, unwanted. She hated herself for not being good enough. She felt like Joey was the only one there who could make her feel better. He may not be the most intelligent person on the face of the earth, but he knew his different emotions well and right now she felt a flood of blood rush to her head. Her cheeks were red, but unnoticed. She wanted to stay that way forever, but Kaiba said that he would be there early. She let go of Joey and said "Thank you for telling me." then she turned away. When she got out from the corner, Kaiba was standing there with Mokuba ready. She walked over and said "I'm sorry I had to finish up a club." It was an excuse. Kaiba knew, he saw all and heard everything that happened, but he decided not to tell her so that she wouldn't have to worry about one more thing.
They walked home and Miho had no homework. She decided to read a book in the living room with Kaiba to get her mind off of what happened today. Kaiba would notice these little grunts every few seconds. It either meant she was having too many distractions from reading or the plot was so boring that she was unwilling to sound quiet. She finally couldn't take it. She closed the book and sprang furiously from the couch. At the point where their bodies met Kaiba spoke up with the book confortably in front of him " I'm sorry about this morning, I was in a hurry and I needed to take a physics test. Miho paused and then she walked up stairs silently. Kaiba thought to himself " I know what that was, it was a rejection. He then thought back to the morning. "Ah It's only even.

__________________________________________________________________ Authors Notes: More reviews please. I appreciate the support!