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Thanks for the reviews. I don't really want to make any reader feel bad for not reviewing. I am just kind of disappointed that hardly anyone wants to review. And I know that this plot is real old. I will try my best to be more creative. Chapter 8
Feeling the sizzling hot liquid traveling down his throat, Rukawa saw that Sayuri had poured the liquid into her mouth too. A dizzy feeling overwhelmed him and suddenly, he wanted to vomit. Trying to swallow whatever that he is about to vomit out back down, Rukawa put his head in his hands and started hugging his head because of the headache he had after drinking the liquid in the test tube.
"Why don't the two of you go and dance?" Yuki asked, appearing again with Mitsui. Both of them are sweating due to dancing. Mitsui looked at the test tube and took one to drink.
"What's that?" Yuki asked, looking at the test tube too.
"Alcohol. Strong alcohol." Mitsui said, after pouring down the liquid into his throat.
"Alcohol? Well, better not drink too much. There's still school tomorrow and alcohol sometimes will cause you to do some irrational things." Yuki said, taking a testing sip of the test tube alcohol.
"Don't worry too much. Just enjoy ourselves." Mitsui said, drinking another test tube full of alcohol. Yuki shook her head and sat down beside her brother.
"What's wrong with you, Kae-chan?" Yuki asked.
"Headache." Rukawa replied after a long while.
"I think we better go home." Yuki suggested.
"Let's go and dance. This song is a nice one. He can sleep in one of the guest rooms. There are plenty of guest rooms here. Sayuri, get Rukawa to one of the guest rooms." Mitsui said, pulling Yuki away for more dancing. Sayuri nodded and stood up. Not a very good drinker, Sayuri felt a little dizzy too. Sayuri scooped that half-conscious Rukawa up, placed one of Rukawa's arms around her shoulder and started dragging him out of the gym.
"Can you walk on your own?" Sayuri asked, feeling rather hard to get Rukawa out of the gym because Rukawa rather heavy for her. Rukawa did not reply but staggered a few steps towards the gym door. Sayuri support Rukawa with one hand on his arm to prevent him from falling while she herself walked in some sort of a zigzag path because of dizziness.
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After having some hard time trying to get up the stairs at the back of the kitchen, Sayuri and Rukawa finally made their way to the floor with all the guest rooms. They went into one and Rukawa fell onto the bed immediately. Sayuri sat on the other side of the bed, feeling extremely dizzy. His face flushing red, Rukawa hiccupped and tried to look at Sayuri. He managed to get himself up and started advancing towards Sayuri with his eyes narrowed, trying to see Sayuri.
"What are you looking at?" Sayuri asked; noticing Rukawa is getting closer and closer to her. Without replying, Rukawa kissed her on the lips. Sayuri's eyes widened and is too surprise to do anything. Rukawa slipped his tongue between Sayuri's lips before she could say anything else. Sayuri tried to push Rukawa away but after a few invalid attempts, she forgot about struggling. Instead, she gave in and started a little swordplay with Rukawa using her tongue. Rukawa moves away from Sayuri for a brief moment, as if considering what to do next. He leaned forward again and pushed Sayuri down into a lying position and started kissing her neck and licking her neck with his tongue. Sayuri ran her fingers through Rukawa's hair and suddenly decided she wanted to take charge because she flipped herself from underneath Rukawa to above him and started unbuttoning his shirt. Surprised by the sudden move, Rukawa looked blank for a moment before slipping his hands around Sayuri's neck and started untying the knot. Just as Rukawa finished untying the knot behind Sayuri's neck that held up the whole dress, Sayuri got his shirt off him too. The dress dropped, revealing a naked Sayuri.
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Opening her eyes, Sayuri stared at the ceiling. She turned to her side and was surprised to see a naked Rukawa lying beside her. Rukawa opened his eyes and caught Sayuri staring at him. Still not very awake, Rukawa got himself into a sitting position.
"Where am I?" Rukawa asked, looking at the unfamiliar surrounding around him.
"One of the guest room, I guess." Sayuri replied, hiding herself underneath the blanket and trying to put on her clothes under the blanket at the same time. Rukawa turned his attention to Sayuri who is trying her best to get herself clothed underneath the blanket for a while before he finally realized that he is naked and what must have happened last night.
"What did we do last night?" Rukawa asked, started putting on his clothes too.
"Not very sure. Just treat it as we fell asleep on the same bed with no clothes on and nothing else happened, okay?" Sayuri said, getting out from underneath the blanket in her dress. Rukawa nodded and started putting on his pants. Sayuri looked around the room and finally found a clock.
"It's seven o'clock. I'm going back to my room. Continue sleeping if you want to. I will get Mitsui to lend you a set of school uniform." Sayuri said before getting out of the room. Rukawa got out of the bed and started folding the blanket while staring into space. Walking across the room, Rukawa went into the bathroom and started splashing water onto his face.
The door of the room opened, Yuki and Mitsui walked into the room. Rukawa got out of the bathroom just as Yuki was about to barged in.
"Finally found you. This house has got so many guest rooms. Hisashi and I had been looking for you for several hours." Yuki said.
"Hisashi?" Rukawa mumbled, looking at his sister with questioning eyes.
"I will get you a set of school uniform, Rukawa. I think Sayuri might have a spare set of school uniform too, Yuki." Mitsui said, ignoring what Rukawa had mumbled.
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"Had you read the newspaper this morning? Rukawa Kaede is engaged with that bitch in the basketball team." A girl said to another girl. Ryota and Sakuragi walked past the two girls and overheard their conversation.
"Give me the newspaper!" Sakuragi shouted, snatching over the newspaper from the girls. Ryota and Sakuragi stared at the newspaper front page in disbelieve.
"Kitsune is engaged with that Sayuri!!!" Sakuragi exclaimed.
"They are engaged last night. No wander Rukawa Kaede left the gym immediately after practice. He usually stays back to practice after the practice." Ryota said. Just then, a limo stopped in front of them and Mitsui, Sayuri, Yuki and Rukawa got out of it.
"KITSUNE!!!!!!!" Sakuragi shouted and head butted Rukawa Kaede before anyone could react.
"Do 'aho." Rukawa mumbled, rubbing his forehead where there is a swollen lump.
"Sakuragi Hanamichi, why are you so angry?" Mitsui asked, puzzled. Sakuragi glared at Mitsui and hand him the newspaper. Mitsui looked at the front page of the paper and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Sakuragi asked, still fuming and glaring at Rukawa.
"You should be happy that Rukawa is engaged. It means that he is no longer an obstacle for you and Haruko is all yours." Mitsui said, smiling.
"He is not an obstacle, I am the tensai and I can always let Haruko realize that I am the one who truly loves her. The point is, by doing this others will thought that kitsune is just trying to make it easier for me to get Haruko to love me. I don't want that! And Haruko will be very sad and depressed if she knew about this stupid engagement thing. I don't want to see her cry!" Sakuragi shouted, and continued to glare at Rukawa.
"Ohaiyo!!!" Haruko's cheerful voice caused Sakuragi to jump in surprise.
"What's on the newspaper today?" Haruko asked, taking that newspaper in Sakuragi's hand and started reading the front page. She dropped the newspaper onto the floor, a mixture of shock and disbelieve written all over her face.
"Haruko." Sakuragi started saying, putting a consoling hand on Haruko's shoulder.
"Rukawa-kun is engaged with Sayuri?" Haruko asked, looking around at Sakuragi, Ryota, Mitsui, Yuki and finally Rukawa and Sayuri. Tears started to fill her eyes. Rukawa rolled his eyes and began walking away.
"Kitsune! Where do you think you are going? Can't you see that Haruko is very sad because of you?" Sakuragi shouted, stopping Rukawa.
"None of my business." Rukawa replied, continued to walk away. Seeing Rukawa walking away, Haruko started crying, tears rolling down her cheeks like streams.
"What do you mean by none of your business, Kitsune!" Sakuragi shouted, head butting Rukawa.
"Haruko, why are you crying?" Yuki asked, trying to console Haruko. Haruko did not reply but just kept on crying.
"She likes your brother." Mitsui explained, shaking his head.
"It's none of my business. I did not ask her to cry for me." Rukawa said coldly, rubbing his forehead.
"How can you say that, Kitsune!" Sakuragi exclaimed, ready to give Rukawa a punch in his face.
"STOP!!!" Sayuri shouted. Everyone stopped whatever they are doing and looked at her. Even Haruko stopped crying too.
"Sakuragi, you like Haruko right? Then why on earth are you so angry that Rukawa Kaede is engaged with me? You should be happy. If you don't want Haruko to be sad, you should console her instead of beating Rukawa up that will make her even more upset. Haruko, if you like Rukawa Kaede, tell him, it doesn't matter whether he is engaged or not. If he likes you, he can always cancel whatever engagement. Rukawa Kaede, how can you say such mean things? Do you know what you had said will hurt Haruko's feelings?" Sayuri started her lecture, all the while glaring at Rukawa.
"I agree with Sayuri. The two of you should not fight. Haruko, you don't have cry." Yuki said, looking at the three younger teens.
"Let's go to the gym, I think we attracting too much attention here." Ryota said, seeing a few teachers walking towards them. The rest agreed and they went to the gym. Inside the gym, they sat down in a circle.
"Well, as Sayuri had said just now, this problem can be solved easily. Kaede, do you like Haruko?" Yuki asked.
"No." Rukawa said, matter-of-factly. Haruko bit her lips and looked as if she is about to break into tears again.
"Haruko, do you like Sakuragi?" Ryota asked.
"I don't know. I treat him as my brother, my best friend." Haruko said, looking at Sakuragi.
"Now what?" Mitsui asked, sighing.
"Well, the problem started with Rukawa and Sayuri's engagement, right? So, we will just have to cancel the engagement thing." Ryota suggested.
"No." Rukawa said suddenly.
"You don't want to cancel the engagement?" Mitsui asked, looking at Rukawa. Rukawa's reaction is so sudden that everyone is in a shock mode.
"This has got nothing to do with the engagement." Rukawa reply.
"Huh?" Mitsui and Ryota asked.
"I think he means that with or without the engagement, the problem is there, so by canceling the engagement, the problem will still be unsolved." Sayuri said.
"Okay, so there is no solution to this problem." Mitsui concluded, rolling his eyes.
"Well, if Haruko realized that she likes Sakuragi, then this is solved. Or, maybe one day, Sakuragi does not like Haruko anymore then this is solved." Yuki said, smiling.
"How about the fox?" Sakuragi asked.
"Even if Rukawa Kaede suddenly realized that he likes Haruko, the problem is still there as long as you still like Haruko." Sayuri replied, looking at Sakuragi.
"I think we better get to our classes. Lesson is about to start." Yuki said, looking at her watch.
"Bye." Sayuri said.
"What do you mean by bye?" Mitsui asked.
"The first period today is gym class." Sayuri said, smiled and walked towards the changing room. Rukawa opened his bag and took out a crumpled piece of paper, which turns out to be his timetable and was slightly surprised because he did not remember ever having gym classes, and the reason for his absence in gym class is because he is either still getting to school at that time or at the rooftop happily sleeping. He put the paper back into his bag and started walking towards the changing room too.
"The two of them is in the same class?" Sakuragi asked, with a blank look on his face.
"You probably only know which class Haruko is in." Mitsui said, rolling his eyes. Haruko blushed and escaped from the gym. Seeing Haruko leave the gym, Sakuragi ran after her.
"So is this problem solved?" Ryota asked, confused.
"Don't know." Yuki replied, exiting the gym.
"Anyway, it's none of our business." Mitsui said, getting out of the gym too.
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In the girls' changing room.
"Oh! Look who's here?" A girl exclaimed as Sayuri entered the changing room.
"The bitch is here!"
"No! The Dracula is here. See the snakes on top of her ugly head?"
Sayuri ignored them and started changing into her gym clothes. Suddenly, a girl poured some gluey thing onto her.
"Oops, sorry!" The girl said with an amused smile. Walking towards the sink to wash away the gluey stuff, Sayuri tripped over someone's leg and fell with a loud thud.
"Oh! The big fat elephant fell down!" The girls started laughing and got out of the changing room. Picking herself up from the floor, Sayuri walked over to the sink and washed away the gluey stuff. When she is done with all the washing, she is ten minutes late for gym. Running into the gym, everyone looked at her as if she is an alien. The teacher glared at Sayuri.
"You are very late! Twenty rounds around the gym! The rest of you gather around me!" The teacher said. A few girls giggled as Sayuri started running around the gym.
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"Okay, there's still fifteen minutes left, select five girls and five boys and start the basketball match rolling. Sayuri, had you finished with your twenty rounds?" The sensei asked.
"Yes." Sayuri replied, wiping off the sweat on her forehead.
"Well join in the match then, you are a basketball player right?" The sensei said.
"Yes, sensei." Sayuri mumbled, walking onto the court.
"Ready?" The sensei asked, walking towards the center of the court with a basketball in his hand. The students mumbled a yes.
"The tallest boy and girl come here please!" The sensei said. Sayuri walked towards the center. Rukawa who also happened to be the tallest boy, walked towards the center too.
"When I release the ball, the two of you jump and hit it down." The sensei said, Rukawa and Sayuri nodded and looked at each other for a brief second before getting ready to jump. The sensei released the ball and the both of them jumped.
"Rukawa! Rukawa! Rukawa!!!!" The girls shrieked, cheering Rukawa on. Rukawa and Sayuri both touched the ball at the same time, Rukawa being stronger, forced the ball down his side. The ball hit onto the floor and a boy grabbed it and started dribbling towards the basket. The girls are crowded in one corner, all looking at Rukawa with dazed expressions. Sayuri rolled her eyes and started running towards the boy to stop him from scoring. Just as she was about to get to the boy, the boy passed the ball to Rukawa who is behind her. Turning around, Sayuri tried to stop Rukawa, but Rukawa managed to slip past her before she could even start guarding him. Chasing after him, Sayuri leaped up without thinking when she saw Rukawa jumped to shoot the ball. Rukawa stopped halfway and turned his body around to throw the ball towards the basket. Reaching out for the ball, Sayuri fall sideways and accidentally slipped and fell, twisting her ankle in the process.
"Are you okay, Sayuri?" The sensei asked. Sayuri tried to stand up but fell back down because of the pain of her sprained ankle.
"Someone carry her to the sickbay!" The sensei said. Rukawa, who is nearest to Sayuri, squatted down and scoped her up and started walking off the court.
"Continue!" The sensei said, blowing the whistle. The girls started talking among themselves and glaring at Sayuri as Rukawa carry Sayuri out of the gym.
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In the sickbay.
"It's a very bad sprain. She will not be able to do any intense exercise for a few weeks." The nurse in the sickbay said, wrapping bandages around the sprained ankle.
"A few weeks? But there's a practice match with Ryonan this Saturday!" Sayuri exclaimed.
"You cannot play in that match. It will worsen your situation. You can go now." The nurse said and left Sayuri to treat another injured student.
"It's all your fault!" Sayuri said, glaring at Rukawa.
"It's your own fault that you fall." Rukawa said, rolling his eyes. Sayuri glared at him and attempted to stand up on her own. She stood unsteadily on her not injured foot and started limping out of the room. Rukawa shook his head and slipped his hand under Sayuri's arm, supporting her to prevent her from falling and helped her to walk faster. Sayuri tried to shake his hand off, but Rukawa did not let go.
"I can walk by myself." Sayuri said.
"Yes, but I don't want to be blamed if you fall again." Rukawa said coldly, glaring at Sayuri.
"You actually cared whether you get blamed or not. I'm so surprised." Sayuri said sarcastically.
"Do 'aho." Rukawa mumbled. Sayuri glared at him but did not say anything. The two of them remained silent for the rest of the trip back to class.
Author: This chapter is very messy, hope the next chapter will make sense.
Thanks for the reviews. I don't really want to make any reader feel bad for not reviewing. I am just kind of disappointed that hardly anyone wants to review. And I know that this plot is real old. I will try my best to be more creative. Chapter 8
Feeling the sizzling hot liquid traveling down his throat, Rukawa saw that Sayuri had poured the liquid into her mouth too. A dizzy feeling overwhelmed him and suddenly, he wanted to vomit. Trying to swallow whatever that he is about to vomit out back down, Rukawa put his head in his hands and started hugging his head because of the headache he had after drinking the liquid in the test tube.
"Why don't the two of you go and dance?" Yuki asked, appearing again with Mitsui. Both of them are sweating due to dancing. Mitsui looked at the test tube and took one to drink.
"What's that?" Yuki asked, looking at the test tube too.
"Alcohol. Strong alcohol." Mitsui said, after pouring down the liquid into his throat.
"Alcohol? Well, better not drink too much. There's still school tomorrow and alcohol sometimes will cause you to do some irrational things." Yuki said, taking a testing sip of the test tube alcohol.
"Don't worry too much. Just enjoy ourselves." Mitsui said, drinking another test tube full of alcohol. Yuki shook her head and sat down beside her brother.
"What's wrong with you, Kae-chan?" Yuki asked.
"Headache." Rukawa replied after a long while.
"I think we better go home." Yuki suggested.
"Let's go and dance. This song is a nice one. He can sleep in one of the guest rooms. There are plenty of guest rooms here. Sayuri, get Rukawa to one of the guest rooms." Mitsui said, pulling Yuki away for more dancing. Sayuri nodded and stood up. Not a very good drinker, Sayuri felt a little dizzy too. Sayuri scooped that half-conscious Rukawa up, placed one of Rukawa's arms around her shoulder and started dragging him out of the gym.
"Can you walk on your own?" Sayuri asked, feeling rather hard to get Rukawa out of the gym because Rukawa rather heavy for her. Rukawa did not reply but staggered a few steps towards the gym door. Sayuri support Rukawa with one hand on his arm to prevent him from falling while she herself walked in some sort of a zigzag path because of dizziness.
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After having some hard time trying to get up the stairs at the back of the kitchen, Sayuri and Rukawa finally made their way to the floor with all the guest rooms. They went into one and Rukawa fell onto the bed immediately. Sayuri sat on the other side of the bed, feeling extremely dizzy. His face flushing red, Rukawa hiccupped and tried to look at Sayuri. He managed to get himself up and started advancing towards Sayuri with his eyes narrowed, trying to see Sayuri.
"What are you looking at?" Sayuri asked; noticing Rukawa is getting closer and closer to her. Without replying, Rukawa kissed her on the lips. Sayuri's eyes widened and is too surprise to do anything. Rukawa slipped his tongue between Sayuri's lips before she could say anything else. Sayuri tried to push Rukawa away but after a few invalid attempts, she forgot about struggling. Instead, she gave in and started a little swordplay with Rukawa using her tongue. Rukawa moves away from Sayuri for a brief moment, as if considering what to do next. He leaned forward again and pushed Sayuri down into a lying position and started kissing her neck and licking her neck with his tongue. Sayuri ran her fingers through Rukawa's hair and suddenly decided she wanted to take charge because she flipped herself from underneath Rukawa to above him and started unbuttoning his shirt. Surprised by the sudden move, Rukawa looked blank for a moment before slipping his hands around Sayuri's neck and started untying the knot. Just as Rukawa finished untying the knot behind Sayuri's neck that held up the whole dress, Sayuri got his shirt off him too. The dress dropped, revealing a naked Sayuri.
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Opening her eyes, Sayuri stared at the ceiling. She turned to her side and was surprised to see a naked Rukawa lying beside her. Rukawa opened his eyes and caught Sayuri staring at him. Still not very awake, Rukawa got himself into a sitting position.
"Where am I?" Rukawa asked, looking at the unfamiliar surrounding around him.
"One of the guest room, I guess." Sayuri replied, hiding herself underneath the blanket and trying to put on her clothes under the blanket at the same time. Rukawa turned his attention to Sayuri who is trying her best to get herself clothed underneath the blanket for a while before he finally realized that he is naked and what must have happened last night.
"What did we do last night?" Rukawa asked, started putting on his clothes too.
"Not very sure. Just treat it as we fell asleep on the same bed with no clothes on and nothing else happened, okay?" Sayuri said, getting out from underneath the blanket in her dress. Rukawa nodded and started putting on his pants. Sayuri looked around the room and finally found a clock.
"It's seven o'clock. I'm going back to my room. Continue sleeping if you want to. I will get Mitsui to lend you a set of school uniform." Sayuri said before getting out of the room. Rukawa got out of the bed and started folding the blanket while staring into space. Walking across the room, Rukawa went into the bathroom and started splashing water onto his face.
The door of the room opened, Yuki and Mitsui walked into the room. Rukawa got out of the bathroom just as Yuki was about to barged in.
"Finally found you. This house has got so many guest rooms. Hisashi and I had been looking for you for several hours." Yuki said.
"Hisashi?" Rukawa mumbled, looking at his sister with questioning eyes.
"I will get you a set of school uniform, Rukawa. I think Sayuri might have a spare set of school uniform too, Yuki." Mitsui said, ignoring what Rukawa had mumbled.
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"Had you read the newspaper this morning? Rukawa Kaede is engaged with that bitch in the basketball team." A girl said to another girl. Ryota and Sakuragi walked past the two girls and overheard their conversation.
"Give me the newspaper!" Sakuragi shouted, snatching over the newspaper from the girls. Ryota and Sakuragi stared at the newspaper front page in disbelieve.
"Kitsune is engaged with that Sayuri!!!" Sakuragi exclaimed.
"They are engaged last night. No wander Rukawa Kaede left the gym immediately after practice. He usually stays back to practice after the practice." Ryota said. Just then, a limo stopped in front of them and Mitsui, Sayuri, Yuki and Rukawa got out of it.
"KITSUNE!!!!!!!" Sakuragi shouted and head butted Rukawa Kaede before anyone could react.
"Do 'aho." Rukawa mumbled, rubbing his forehead where there is a swollen lump.
"Sakuragi Hanamichi, why are you so angry?" Mitsui asked, puzzled. Sakuragi glared at Mitsui and hand him the newspaper. Mitsui looked at the front page of the paper and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Sakuragi asked, still fuming and glaring at Rukawa.
"You should be happy that Rukawa is engaged. It means that he is no longer an obstacle for you and Haruko is all yours." Mitsui said, smiling.
"He is not an obstacle, I am the tensai and I can always let Haruko realize that I am the one who truly loves her. The point is, by doing this others will thought that kitsune is just trying to make it easier for me to get Haruko to love me. I don't want that! And Haruko will be very sad and depressed if she knew about this stupid engagement thing. I don't want to see her cry!" Sakuragi shouted, and continued to glare at Rukawa.
"Ohaiyo!!!" Haruko's cheerful voice caused Sakuragi to jump in surprise.
"What's on the newspaper today?" Haruko asked, taking that newspaper in Sakuragi's hand and started reading the front page. She dropped the newspaper onto the floor, a mixture of shock and disbelieve written all over her face.
"Haruko." Sakuragi started saying, putting a consoling hand on Haruko's shoulder.
"Rukawa-kun is engaged with Sayuri?" Haruko asked, looking around at Sakuragi, Ryota, Mitsui, Yuki and finally Rukawa and Sayuri. Tears started to fill her eyes. Rukawa rolled his eyes and began walking away.
"Kitsune! Where do you think you are going? Can't you see that Haruko is very sad because of you?" Sakuragi shouted, stopping Rukawa.
"None of my business." Rukawa replied, continued to walk away. Seeing Rukawa walking away, Haruko started crying, tears rolling down her cheeks like streams.
"What do you mean by none of your business, Kitsune!" Sakuragi shouted, head butting Rukawa.
"Haruko, why are you crying?" Yuki asked, trying to console Haruko. Haruko did not reply but just kept on crying.
"She likes your brother." Mitsui explained, shaking his head.
"It's none of my business. I did not ask her to cry for me." Rukawa said coldly, rubbing his forehead.
"How can you say that, Kitsune!" Sakuragi exclaimed, ready to give Rukawa a punch in his face.
"STOP!!!" Sayuri shouted. Everyone stopped whatever they are doing and looked at her. Even Haruko stopped crying too.
"Sakuragi, you like Haruko right? Then why on earth are you so angry that Rukawa Kaede is engaged with me? You should be happy. If you don't want Haruko to be sad, you should console her instead of beating Rukawa up that will make her even more upset. Haruko, if you like Rukawa Kaede, tell him, it doesn't matter whether he is engaged or not. If he likes you, he can always cancel whatever engagement. Rukawa Kaede, how can you say such mean things? Do you know what you had said will hurt Haruko's feelings?" Sayuri started her lecture, all the while glaring at Rukawa.
"I agree with Sayuri. The two of you should not fight. Haruko, you don't have cry." Yuki said, looking at the three younger teens.
"Let's go to the gym, I think we attracting too much attention here." Ryota said, seeing a few teachers walking towards them. The rest agreed and they went to the gym. Inside the gym, they sat down in a circle.
"Well, as Sayuri had said just now, this problem can be solved easily. Kaede, do you like Haruko?" Yuki asked.
"No." Rukawa said, matter-of-factly. Haruko bit her lips and looked as if she is about to break into tears again.
"Haruko, do you like Sakuragi?" Ryota asked.
"I don't know. I treat him as my brother, my best friend." Haruko said, looking at Sakuragi.
"Now what?" Mitsui asked, sighing.
"Well, the problem started with Rukawa and Sayuri's engagement, right? So, we will just have to cancel the engagement thing." Ryota suggested.
"No." Rukawa said suddenly.
"You don't want to cancel the engagement?" Mitsui asked, looking at Rukawa. Rukawa's reaction is so sudden that everyone is in a shock mode.
"This has got nothing to do with the engagement." Rukawa reply.
"Huh?" Mitsui and Ryota asked.
"I think he means that with or without the engagement, the problem is there, so by canceling the engagement, the problem will still be unsolved." Sayuri said.
"Okay, so there is no solution to this problem." Mitsui concluded, rolling his eyes.
"Well, if Haruko realized that she likes Sakuragi, then this is solved. Or, maybe one day, Sakuragi does not like Haruko anymore then this is solved." Yuki said, smiling.
"How about the fox?" Sakuragi asked.
"Even if Rukawa Kaede suddenly realized that he likes Haruko, the problem is still there as long as you still like Haruko." Sayuri replied, looking at Sakuragi.
"I think we better get to our classes. Lesson is about to start." Yuki said, looking at her watch.
"Bye." Sayuri said.
"What do you mean by bye?" Mitsui asked.
"The first period today is gym class." Sayuri said, smiled and walked towards the changing room. Rukawa opened his bag and took out a crumpled piece of paper, which turns out to be his timetable and was slightly surprised because he did not remember ever having gym classes, and the reason for his absence in gym class is because he is either still getting to school at that time or at the rooftop happily sleeping. He put the paper back into his bag and started walking towards the changing room too.
"The two of them is in the same class?" Sakuragi asked, with a blank look on his face.
"You probably only know which class Haruko is in." Mitsui said, rolling his eyes. Haruko blushed and escaped from the gym. Seeing Haruko leave the gym, Sakuragi ran after her.
"So is this problem solved?" Ryota asked, confused.
"Don't know." Yuki replied, exiting the gym.
"Anyway, it's none of our business." Mitsui said, getting out of the gym too.
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In the girls' changing room.
"Oh! Look who's here?" A girl exclaimed as Sayuri entered the changing room.
"The bitch is here!"
"No! The Dracula is here. See the snakes on top of her ugly head?"
Sayuri ignored them and started changing into her gym clothes. Suddenly, a girl poured some gluey thing onto her.
"Oops, sorry!" The girl said with an amused smile. Walking towards the sink to wash away the gluey stuff, Sayuri tripped over someone's leg and fell with a loud thud.
"Oh! The big fat elephant fell down!" The girls started laughing and got out of the changing room. Picking herself up from the floor, Sayuri walked over to the sink and washed away the gluey stuff. When she is done with all the washing, she is ten minutes late for gym. Running into the gym, everyone looked at her as if she is an alien. The teacher glared at Sayuri.
"You are very late! Twenty rounds around the gym! The rest of you gather around me!" The teacher said. A few girls giggled as Sayuri started running around the gym.
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"Okay, there's still fifteen minutes left, select five girls and five boys and start the basketball match rolling. Sayuri, had you finished with your twenty rounds?" The sensei asked.
"Yes." Sayuri replied, wiping off the sweat on her forehead.
"Well join in the match then, you are a basketball player right?" The sensei said.
"Yes, sensei." Sayuri mumbled, walking onto the court.
"Ready?" The sensei asked, walking towards the center of the court with a basketball in his hand. The students mumbled a yes.
"The tallest boy and girl come here please!" The sensei said. Sayuri walked towards the center. Rukawa who also happened to be the tallest boy, walked towards the center too.
"When I release the ball, the two of you jump and hit it down." The sensei said, Rukawa and Sayuri nodded and looked at each other for a brief second before getting ready to jump. The sensei released the ball and the both of them jumped.
"Rukawa! Rukawa! Rukawa!!!!" The girls shrieked, cheering Rukawa on. Rukawa and Sayuri both touched the ball at the same time, Rukawa being stronger, forced the ball down his side. The ball hit onto the floor and a boy grabbed it and started dribbling towards the basket. The girls are crowded in one corner, all looking at Rukawa with dazed expressions. Sayuri rolled her eyes and started running towards the boy to stop him from scoring. Just as she was about to get to the boy, the boy passed the ball to Rukawa who is behind her. Turning around, Sayuri tried to stop Rukawa, but Rukawa managed to slip past her before she could even start guarding him. Chasing after him, Sayuri leaped up without thinking when she saw Rukawa jumped to shoot the ball. Rukawa stopped halfway and turned his body around to throw the ball towards the basket. Reaching out for the ball, Sayuri fall sideways and accidentally slipped and fell, twisting her ankle in the process.
"Are you okay, Sayuri?" The sensei asked. Sayuri tried to stand up but fell back down because of the pain of her sprained ankle.
"Someone carry her to the sickbay!" The sensei said. Rukawa, who is nearest to Sayuri, squatted down and scoped her up and started walking off the court.
"Continue!" The sensei said, blowing the whistle. The girls started talking among themselves and glaring at Sayuri as Rukawa carry Sayuri out of the gym.
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In the sickbay.
"It's a very bad sprain. She will not be able to do any intense exercise for a few weeks." The nurse in the sickbay said, wrapping bandages around the sprained ankle.
"A few weeks? But there's a practice match with Ryonan this Saturday!" Sayuri exclaimed.
"You cannot play in that match. It will worsen your situation. You can go now." The nurse said and left Sayuri to treat another injured student.
"It's all your fault!" Sayuri said, glaring at Rukawa.
"It's your own fault that you fall." Rukawa said, rolling his eyes. Sayuri glared at him and attempted to stand up on her own. She stood unsteadily on her not injured foot and started limping out of the room. Rukawa shook his head and slipped his hand under Sayuri's arm, supporting her to prevent her from falling and helped her to walk faster. Sayuri tried to shake his hand off, but Rukawa did not let go.
"I can walk by myself." Sayuri said.
"Yes, but I don't want to be blamed if you fall again." Rukawa said coldly, glaring at Sayuri.
"You actually cared whether you get blamed or not. I'm so surprised." Sayuri said sarcastically.
"Do 'aho." Rukawa mumbled. Sayuri glared at him but did not say anything. The two of them remained silent for the rest of the trip back to class.
Author: This chapter is very messy, hope the next chapter will make sense.