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WHISPERED BY THE WIND

(A Kurei x Fuuko x Tokiya Fan Fic)

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Hem hem... no Raiha and Fuuko involvements or affairs here, only the above mentioned and some JokerxNeon, RekkaxYanagi, GankoxKaoru and Raiha and Fuuko are only mere FRIENDS. Not that I hate Raiha... how can I hate him?! He's so HOT! Anyways, go on... don't mind my mindless blabber...

"'Kaasan, 'Tousan... I'm going to school now," Fuuko said while facing the pictures of her parents, who were smiling back at her. "Ja ne. I love you both." She then picked up her bag and stalked off her room. She closed the door behind her and sighed, then ran off down the stairs where Ganko was waiting for her oneechan to walk her to school before she goes off to her own.

It has been three long years since that incident happened. Her parents had bade them goodbye to go off at some party. It was a celebration with their parents' friends. Some sort of reunion. She can still remember them kissing her goodbye while she read the book her mother gave her for her twelfth birthday (which for some unknown reason, she wasn't even half-way yet). Her mother smiled at her and gave her a hug and a kiss at her temple and saying things that she should take care of Ganko and stuff that mothers usually tell their elder children. Her dad hugged her and she kissed him on the cheek, then they left. They had called at around two o'clock in the morning and said they were about to head home. She was scolded for staying up way late. So after she received the call, she went to sleep and decided to take a sermon in the morning...

...which never came.

It was written all over the news - a man and a woman died in a car accident. They slid off the road and down to the cliff. She was the first one to see it on the news while Ganko was still on dreamland. Tears fell right out of her eyes and Ganko shrieked. Fuuko rushed to her room to see her crying and embedded in cold sweat. Ganko told her oneechan about her horrible dream, but Fuuko confirmed it wasn't a dream... and they both started crying.

It was a good thing they weren't left without anything. In fact, they were left with so many. The house, which they thought to be theirs on rental, was actually theirs and theirs to keep. A huge insurance which can send Fuuko and Ganko off to Tokyo University for the next twenty years. A spare vehicle which their mother bought in case she needed her own means of transportation and not only that, the stocks that her parents had invested were named to the two of them which was worth over at least $100,000. Not a thing they were expecting of course because her mom and dad lived a very simple life, though they barely stay for dinner for they were always out on dinner, parties, meeting and sorts of stuff, but they had no idea that they were this grand to have left them something as much as this.

She then grabbed her keys and went over to pick Ganko's bag up and ushered her out the door. She then closed it and assisted her sister on to the car and drove off for school.

She dropped Ganko off, where her sister was greeted by a few friends which she knew of, and then kissed her in the cheeks. "Now, now, don't come home late, ok? Remember to call me when-"

"-ever you need anything. Hai, hai... wakatta!" Ganko said mockingly and stuck her tongue out while taking her back pack. Fuuko smiled at her and patted her head and sighed. Ganko closed the door and waved to her. "Well, I'll be off then!" Ganko and her friends waved as Fuuko went off.

After twenty minutes of driving, she finally arrived at her own school. Despite her having her very own car and all, she was not the popular girl-type. She was practically invisible for the school tagged her a tomboy (like she minded, though). She parked the car and took her bag and ran off towards her classroom and as always, it was a disaster with two boys fighting, students cheering and betting them on and they were screaming. Fuuko then tightened her fist at the sight of this and hit them both squarely on the head. "BAKA!!! Stop it already, will you?!"

The fighting then ceased, with a very scratched-up and bruised Domon Ishijima with a huge lump on his head and Rekka, holding the top of his head due to the pain. The students clapped and cheered Fuuko. She merely bowed at them and returned her gaze to the both of them, her hands on her waist.

"ITAI!!!" Rekka shouted and faced Fuuko. "What the heck was that for?!" Rekka glared at Fuuko, and her, merely dismissing it. "That's for fighting in class, HANABISHI! Remember, the teacher told you 'NO FIGHTING', okay?" She turned to her heel and Yanagi running to her ninja and healing him while Domon was lying on the floor, all swirly-eyed.

The teacher arrived soon. Fuuko commanded them all to stand up and greet the teacher. Then he started his lesson, to which Rekka paid no immediate attention to ("If it hadn't for hime, I wouldn't be attending this boring session," Rekka muttered to himself) and Domon snored at ("Oh Yes, My Darling Fuuko! Come to me!" the Domon-in-the-dream said and while in the classroom, he had the most silliest smiles one has ever seen, with drool attached to it). Fuuko and Yanagi, on the other hand, paid great attention to the teacher, with Fuuko, of course, with her usual arguing with him as to whether she agrees or not on some topics he is currently discussing. The teacher didn't seem to mind because when she starts questioning about stuff, the class seems to be more participative. He even seems to be thankful for that (except Rekka and Domon who continued to leisure off to their own world, to what they seemed she made worse than it already is). "No matter," Rekka muttered. "Only a few more seconds before--"

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

The bell rang and the class made a wild stand up for it. Rekka immediately approached Yanagi and kicked Domon on his face. He awoke groggily and muttering some words which they didn't understand quite clearly. Then they approached Fuuko and they went straight to the lawns of the school to their official picnic table under the Cherry tree, leaving the still dreaming Domon lying and drooling on the floor.

"Ah, darn class!" Rekka said while yawning and stretching. "How'd you two get to enjoy that crap he's teaching us?! I mean, come on!!!" he said as he made a grab for his sandwich and made a glomp for it.

"You just don't appreciate many things, Rekka," Fuuko said nonchalantly to him while eating her own sandwich and examining the back of the box of her own juice. "Rekka-kun, if you would only study harder, you would learn to appreciate it," Yanagi said while smiling at him. "Ne, Fuuko-san?" Yanagi averted her gaze to Fuuko who was now answering the trivia on her juice box. She simply nodded and almost jumped off as something loud grabbed her attention.

"MY DARLING!!! WHERE ARE YOU?! HOW COULD YOU LEAVE POOR DOMON ALL-" Domon was cut-off by Fuuko's clenched fist, sending him high above the skies and screaming the word 'alone' with an echo.

"Baka!" Fuuko muttered and Rekka released a fit of laughter. But then, suddenly, a huge horde of girls were shouting at the school gates as if a celebrity has just arrived. They were all shouting at the top of their lungs while some of them had fainted on sight. Rekka's laughing died and his face suddenly turned seriously irritated. "Tch, I bet it's Kurei and his cronies, again." Fuuko and Yanagi knew who he was talking about. It was his rich stepbrother, which he lived with nowadays, and his cutesy friends, namely Joker, Raiha, Neon, Miki and Aki. Miki was on their level and Aki was a sophomore. Kurei was also a graduate of their school and visited often because, since he is now a world renowned multi-millionaire, he partly owns the school and because he wanted to keep an eye on a certain someone. (A/N: Can't tell you yet!)

Joker acknowledged the attention the girls were giving and there were guys on the windows all checking out Neon, which she merely dismissed and started to pull Joker's pigtails into the school building and as she did so, many of the girls glared at her nad some of them, who obviously had focusing their attention to what was happening, kept on sighing not knowing that Joker was already gone.

Kurei had been sought after, too. Only that Joker kept them pre-occupied as always so he could get away as fast as he could. He is still in college but he already is as what he is now. Girls and ladies, ranging from fifteen (?!) to forty (?!?) was after him, and he was the talk of town and his face is on the cover of PRIME Magazine.

Rekka and Yanagi stared at the slowly disappearing crowd and went back to their own classrooms just in time as the bell rang. Fuuko was left behind because she had to fetch something at the library needed for a class presentation on her science class. She went off to the library and as she was not looking at where she was going because she was examing the list of possible books she could borrow for the presentation, she bumped off at someone, causing her to fall flat on her butt and him, still standing and holding a thick book. She stood up and brushed the dust off her skirt and bowed at him, "Gomen ne, I wasn't watching where I was going," and rised as she finished. He looked at her just above the book before completely lowering it. He stared at her and closed the book completely. She didn't like the way he stared at her. It was so scrutinizing and so discriminating. Who the heck does this person think he is? As her worried face turned into a irritated one, she started clenching her fist as he continued to stare at her. "Don't you know it's impolite to stare?" She was getting rather impatient and obviously, this guy was some sort of high-up-in-air-headed guy. Here she was, apologizing for bumping into him and all he did was stare at her degradingly?! She was about ready to punch him when he raised his book and walked off. She was so irritated at this guy's attitude. It was the first time she saw him and yet, she was already puffed up with him. She released her pent-up anger at the nearest wall, and huffed. She then straightened up and started walking to the library again and decided to do her project at the art room.

Kurei was silently reading some of the reports on observations made to the teachers and some students of the school and he was rather disappointed at some of his employees, and some reports on how Rekka managed to destroy one classroom with his fight with Ishijima. 'Have to tell mom this,' Kurei noted mentally and took off his glasses and leaned back on the chair. He thought of something and wallowed in the silence of his office. He was thinking about earlier, when he arrived. All the girls were screaming and shouting and Joker flirting with them and him ending up at Neon's mercy (like that's not a usual view) and Rekka getting all irritated at his antics of arriving at the school during breaks thinking that he wanted attention (which he didn't and like that's not a usual view) and the male students checking out the three sisters. Something bothered him though. Since he came back to Tokyo just three years ago, the Hokage and Uruha were there at the airport, even Rekka, were there. Welcoming him back to his home. He had just graduated from Dartmouth then. But there was something missing... she wasn't there. But how come? Ganko was there. He even carried her while buying her some clothes during his first few weeks of return to the country. He had asked the girl where she was but all the girl said was she was too pre-occupied with her studies right now. 'Yeah, right. Same excuses everytime I ask Ganko. No use asking her again when I see her.'

He knew of their parents' death, of course. Even though Rekka hated him so much, he still informs him of how things are back in Tokyo. Rekka personally called him when he knew of their death. He was in the middle of defense and examinations that's why he wasn't able to make it, but swore to make it up to Ganko and her sister. "Tch, which was three years late." he muttered to himself while staring at the clear skies outside the window of his office.

Their family and his were very good friends. But, unfortunately, their father died due to a cardiac arrest and leaving him with Kagerou, his stepmother which he grew fond of soon, and an idiotic brother like Rekka. It was a good thing that he was able to manage himself quite well, though since their father's death, all was set upon him, including their family firm, and he was only fifteen back then. Kagerou detested this but when he saw that she was being pressured by all the work and decided to share the work with her. She had no choice since he has every right to it, she agreed soon after.

But all this took his time away from his friends - the Uruha (Raiha, Neon, Miki, Aki and Joker) and the Hokage, which was mostly composed of Rekka's friends but not as stupid as he is, except the Gorilla (Fuuko, Yanagi, Ganko and Domon). He was close to all of them, except Rekka and the gorilla who hated his guts and the way he makes his moves on their darlings. He particularly got close to two girls on the Hokage but exceptionally close to one girl, which he is thinking of right now. He hasn't seen her face to face ever since he came back three years ago. When he came to their house, she wasn't there - only Ganko was left with Yanagi. when he came to the school, he was rather bothered by the horde of girls fleeting around him and when he turns around, she is gone. There could be no doubt she has seen him arrive; and that raised a question on his mind - was she avoiding him? He closed his eyes and thought what he could've done wrong that she avoided him that much for the past years. He still writes often back then, no doubt about that. He always sent her cards, e-mails and presents and stuff like that but he still doesn't know why she was doing this to him. He groaned inwardly and rubbed his temples. He felt like he was about to get a headache, when -

BANG!

His head shot up and looked up where it may have been. It sounded like someone had dropped something or hit something. He fixed himself up and stood up the chair and started walking to the door. Who could've done that? Making such noise is prohibited! And it seemed to him it was done on purpose because he heard a couple of less audible noises like the first one he heard and there was also hard stomping of feet. He twisted the door knob and stepped out of his office. But, there he saw no one. He sighed and saw that the library was just beside his office (A/N:aha, never did he took notice). He then decided to have a little observation around the school, and started walking to the stairs.

He was here down at the sixth floor of the school building. He saw the classrooms filled with students. Some had been sleeping and some had been chatting and the usual stuff. But his attention was caught when he saw Rekka in one of the classrooms singing (or reciting) some kind of thing he is getting from the book. He then saw it was written there as 'MUSIC 101'. 'So,' he mentally thought, 'the baka could sing. I would die hearing that!' He also saw some of the students covering their ears with all their might for a hope that they could survive Rekka's terror.

He almost laughed but decided not to and continued walking down the hall.

As he walked continuously down to the next building, which where all function rooms (music rooms, laboratories, AVR's, Media rooms, etc.) were found. He stopped to see what each room with a class was doing. One room was dissecting what seems to be a frog (A/N: Basic Bio...) and some girls who seemed to be grossed out with this experiment. 'She was never like that,' he said to himself and sighed once more as he continued walking.

Kurei continued to see the other function rooms and stopped at one room whose lights were open. It had said there 'ART ROOM' and so he proceeded inside. But there was no one there. He had decided to turn off the lights when he heard something moving in one of the closets. It seems to be looking for something. He dropped his hand and started walking towards the person, but before he could take a step, it seems like he was stunned. It was her, standing there. But she has changed - her hair was longer and she had grown taller and more slender. She was absolutely stunning! She was currently holding something and was brushing the dirt off it when she took knowledge of his presence. She stopped brushing off the dirt and stared at him. He stared at her, too. He swallowed hard, thinking of how much she has changed and took a deep breathe and muttered hello and made a slight bow. She hid the thing behind her back and bowed slightly back at him. She then rised and walked past him to her project. He walked to her and stood beside her. But, he didn't fail to notice that she was rather cold and distant. 'So unlikely of her to be like this,' he thought.

"Didn't know I'd come across you here," he said, pretending to be looking around the room. She said nothing. He became more tensed than he already is when he saw her. "Why are you out of class today?" he asked. She stopped for a bit, but carried on what she was doing. "I'm excused because I have to finish a presentation for the class. I will also have to prepare a defense for the interschool competition." She explained ever so briefly and so coldly. He stared at her as she continued to work. He pulled a seat and grabbed her arms and forced her to take her seat. He then cornered her into the chair and stared into her eyes. She was surprised at this and didn't hesitate to shout at his face. "What the heck do you think you're doing?!" She said as she tried to free herself from his grip. His hold was strong and no matter how much she fought it, he held her down harder until she stopped struggling... then he took a deep breathe and asked the question that's been bothering him from time to time now, "Why are you avoiding me?"

"I'm not. So let me go." she said, deadly serious.

"Yes you are. You didn't return my calls or letters. You're always not home when I visit. You don't approach me anymore ever since I came back." He stopped and loosened his grip. He sighed and rose from cornering her. she didn't speak and instead, picked up her things and headed for the door. But she halted as he was about to touch the knob and said - "people change, Kurei. You and I are not the same anymore. We're way out of each others' league." She stopped and turned the knob and walked out of the room. He tried to go after her but when he went to the door, she was gone. He assumed she must have ran. He combed his fingers in his hair in frustration and closed the room. He was now dead confused. How come she accused him of having change and not the same and being out of each others' league and stuff like that. Neon and the others didn't! There must have something that has happened that he doesn't know.

She was there in the rooftop. She had used the window so that he could escape Kurei faster and used the Fuujin (A/N: Madougu's still alive and kickin' it!) to send her up to the rooftop like an invisible elevator. (A/N: Its is only the sixth floor and all the offices in the seventh floor have their doors closed.) She sat there, toying with the pendant he gave her for her tenth birthday before he left all of them to study in U.S. He promised to write and call, which he did, but since her parents died, she changed. Back then, she was really one heck of a tomboy but now, she's what you can call a normal girl but still invisible to the popular people at school. She changed for her and Ganko's sake. She stopped having contact with him and focus on what's really important right now - her life, not her silly crush.

When she was thirteen, she had a peptalk with some of Yanagi's friends in the Mentor's Society and they all talked about crushes and love, to which Yanagi was quite uncertain of. It was also the time when Rekka had developed feelings for his Hime, despite the fact that they've known each other since birth and have been together their whole lives. She listened quite carefully and found herself to be interested and be one of those who got what they called "the symptoms that you have been bitten by a love bug". That was also the time when she realized she liked Kurei more than a brother and a best friend. That's when she realized it was something else also. That's when she kept in touch more often and was very happy that Kurei did the same. But all of that changed at that incident. When she had it figured out that she now had heavier responsibilities in life, she decided to stop the silly thing and carry on with her life and Ganko's.

"It was only an infatuation, nothing more." She muttered to herself, still staring at the sky and letting her element play with her now long and beautiful hair. She sighed, stood up and picked her things up and raised her head with eyes closed and the wind blew harder.

"It wasn't you who changed..." she whispered to the wind, "It was me."