Who is He?

Chapter 7

Authors note: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm soooooooo sorry!! Please forgive me for taking so long to update! Like I told a reviewer who e-mailed me, I'm really sorry! I usually write stories in my spare time…and I haven't had any lately. I was also going through a serious writer's block! I'm very sorry again! I know, I know! That's what I said in my last few chapters too but you have to understand that I'm a very busy and lazy person. And that's not such a good combination! So please forgive me! And I'm really sorry to all those reviewers who started losing hope in me and hating me!! SORRY!!!! 

Disclaimer: Hahahahahahahhahaaa! Me own Digimon? Hahahahahahahahhaha!! Yea..right!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: I've decided that I now like Junpei and I have to stop teasing him! Poor guy always getting picked on…..HAHAHA! Yea right!

ReAL IMPORTANT NOTICE: Don't bother reading this fic if you don't like Junpei bashing. Thank you!

Also I'm not going to be adding Kouichi to the story. I decided from the beginning not to include him because it could mix up my plot. Sorry to all who were expecting him!!!!

Chapter six summary: After seeing what happened in Kouji's house Izumi decided to tell him what she saw. Unfortunately she's too scared to talk to him. Suddenly a chance to tell him pops up. Her new teacher, Tasuki decides to have a geography lesson outside. She spies on Kouji for a while and then tells him what she knows. He's angry with her for finding out but when they meet in Cappuccino park he reveals his past to her.

Story continues from there:

Kouji heard his mother crying again but didn't go to her. He was too shocked.

He heard her hitting herself.

"I should have known he doesn't like eggs!! I'm so stupid!! I'm a horrible mother!! I'm a horrible wife!!" Isao yelled.

She didn't know that Kouji was watching her secretly.

She grabbed the frying pan and tossed the eggs across the kitchen. The frying pan, which was still hot she used to burn herself.

The oil from the frying pan dripped all over her but she didn't care. She was too fed up with her life. She didn't care anymore. She grabbed a match and lit it. Kouji gasped as she let the match burn her. She lit another one and it burnt her too. Soon she was on fire.

Kouji ran into the kitchen and yelled, "MAMA!!! STOP! Mama!! Stop!!"

Isao looked at her son and frowned. She fell to the ground and Kouji screamed and stared crying. He ran out of the house and ran to his neighbor's house.  When his neighbor finally got there it was too late. Part of the kitchen was on fire and Isao was already dead.

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Back to the real story

As Kouji told Izumi all this she was crying and he was crying too. Izumi saw Kouji's tears. They just kept coming; they were rolling off his cheeks.

Izumi wiped her eyes and put a hand on Kouji's shoulder. He turned to her and hugged her. Izumi was shocked but she held him.

Kouji pulled away gently from Izumi. Izumi looked at Kouji. He was staring straight ahead.

"Kouji?" Izumi said.

Kouji got up slowly and started to walk away from Izumi. Izumi watched him go. She knew better than to try and stop him. He obviously needed to be alone after reliving that memory. Also she didn't want to go to him. It was just so strange that he told her all this and suddenly she was feeling very uncomfortable.

Kouji stopped walking then turned around and looked at Izumi. His tears were gone and he wore the same expression he always used to wear. "Thank you." He said then turned away and kept walking off.

Izumi just sat on the bench staring at her hands. She felt a mixture of sadness for Kouji, anger for his father and something that she just couldn't pinpoint.

She stared at her watch. "10:50." She murmured. Izumi decided she should go home now. She got up and headed home.

~~~***~~~

Izumi woke up to the annoying sound of her alarm clock. She woke up but stayed in bed. "I wonder if Kouji will come to school today. Probably not." She said sadly. Suddenly that feeling she had felt when he was hugging her came back to her. She blushed red.

"What's wrong with me?" she asked herself. Then she realized it. "Oh no! Am I? No way? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!"

She covered her face with a pillow. She suddenly felt the pillow yanked from her and stared up to see her mother watching her.

"Izumi? What in the world are you doing? Get up! You have school today!" Izumi's mother said.

Izumi jumped out of bed and got ready for school.

She was downstairs stuffing toast in her mouth when the doorbell rang. She froze.

"Izumi will you see who that is?" her mother called from the bathroom.

The doorbell rang again. Izumi got up and walked towards it. She felt her hands tremble.

"Get a grip Izumi! What would Kouji be doing here?" she said to herself sternly. "Okay...just open the door…Come on you can do it."

Her hand shook as it went closer to the lock. The doorbell rang again and she jumped.

"Izumi!" her mother said coming out of the bathroom. "Open the door."

Izumi stared at her mother then ran back into the kitchen. Izumi's mother mumbled to herself as she walked up to the door, turned the lock and opened it.

"Hi. Are you Ms. Orimoto?" someone said.

Izumi popped her head out of the kitchen realizing that it wasn't Kouji's voice. Instead it belonged to another boy who looked about her age, probably a year older. He was tall, had dirty blond hair, which was cut neatly so that it suited his face. AND speaking about his face! Man was he cute! Izumi flushed red when he glanced at her. "Ohhh….my…..goodness." Izumi whispered.

"Why yes I am. How can I help you?" her mother asked.

"My mother told me to give this to you. She said that you'd recognize it." The boy replied.

He handed Ms. Orimoto a jewelry box made of white marble. It was carved into the shape of a heart. Ms. Orimoto's eyes widened as she took the box

"What's your mother's name?"

"Kenryoki Shizuku." The boy answered.

"Kenryoki? That's Rei's last name…" Izumi mumbled to herself.

"What????!!" REALLY????" Izumi mother looked very happy. "OH My! I can't believe it! And the box too!! Tell her to come over right away."

"Actually she says that she'll be coming over at 4:00 because she wants to bring my sister and I with her. And since school ends at 3:00 for us it would be convenient."

"Sister? So it could be Rei! I never knew mom and Rei's mom knew each other…but then again I never did tell mom about Rei before." Izumi said.

"Alright then!" Izumi's mother said.

"Thank you." The boy said. He glanced at Izumi again and walked away.

"BYE!" Izumi's mom called out to him as she closed the door.

"Izumi! Can you believe this?" her mother asked.

"Who's Shizuku?" Izumi asked. And who was he??  Izumi thought.

"She was my best friend in high school. And now we've found each other! But how did she know where I live?" Izumi's mother said thoughtfully.

"Actually I think that I may be friend's with her daughter. Her name is Rei. Kenryoki Rei. Maybe Rei mentioned me and your friend figured it out…"

"Why didn't you tell me your friend was Rei? She always did say she was going to name her daughter Rei and I always told her that I'd name mine Izumi. That must be it!" Izumi's mother seemed very happy.

Izumi was walking to school when she heard someone calling her. She turned around to see Junpei running towards her.

"Oh why did I turn around?" Izumi said to herself as Junpei ran up to her.

"Izumi! Izumi! You have to help!" Junpei said panting.

"What's wrong?" Izumi asked.

"It's Mom! She's hurt!" Junpei said.

"What?" Izumi said. "Where is she?"

"Follow me!" Junpei cried as he ran off.

He led her to his house and ran inside.

Izumi followed him. She took a quick glance at the clock in his house. There was only 5 more minutes to 9 o'clock. She knew that she'd be late for school but this was important.

"Where's your mom Junpei?" Izumi asked concerned.

"Over here!" he was pointing at something on the ground.

Izumi raised an eyebrow.

"I thought you said your mom was hurt…"

"He is!" Junpei said.

"He?" Izumi said with annoyance.

"Yea! My pet ant, Mom is hurt." Junpei said looking up at her.

"WHAT?! Your-Your pet ANT?" Izumi said angrily. "I should have known!!!!"

"Yea! I named him Mom."

"You…You! Idiot!" Izumi said. She took out her mallet and walked toward him. Junpei stepped back. They both heard a crunching noise. Junpei lifted his foot. There under his shoe were the remains of Mom.

Junpei's face screwed up and he started to cry. "Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Mom's dead! Mom's dead!"

"You fool! IT was only an ant!" Izumi said bursting with annoyance.

Junpei kept on crying. Izumi decided to leave, but not before whacking him on the head with her mallet. She was going to be late for school and it was that idiot's fault! She heard Junpei footsteps behind her. She turned around to see that he wasn't crying anymore. He was staring at Izumi dreamily.

"Ugh!" Izumi thought. "Come on Junpei! We can't be late for class!"

Izumi ran back to school with Junpei following behind her.

Izumi stood in front of the classroom door. "At least it's Tasuki. If it was Ms. Akito then I'd be really dead."

She reached for the handle but the door swung open. Standing in front of her was Ms. Akito. She had a look of grim satisfaction on her.

Oh the irony… Izumi thought.

"I knew it! I can smell two late students from anywhere." She said loudly.

"Yes I'm sure you can." Tasuki said angrily from behind her. "Now would you please let them in?"

Ms. Akito snorted then moved aside for Junpei and Izumi to enter. Izumi walked to her seat. She noticed Mr.Jujo, the principal standing between Tasuki and Ms. Akito. Kouji was sitting in his seat staring straight ahead.

She turned around to Kazu and whispered. "What's going on?"

"Well apparently Ms. Akito knows something big about Mr. Jujo and is blackmailing him into letting her teach us again!! They both came in here and Mr. Jujo told Mr. Tetsuya that he'd have to leave. But Mr. Tetsuya said that he wouldn't! He said that he wouldn't allow a teacher like Ms. Akito to teach us. He said that Ms. Akito was a horrible teacher to us. And then Ms. Akito got angry and was about to punch Mr. Tetsuya but Mr. Jujo said that if she started fighting again then the school board wouldn't allow her to teach. Then she said that the school board wouldn't allow Mr. Jujo to be principal if they knew what she knew.

"Oh great!" Izumi said. "Now Tasuki will have leave!"

She stared at Ms. Akito then Tasuki. They were both staring at each other ready to fight to the end. Tasuki and Ms. Akito were about the same age. He was older then her by two years. They wouldn't look like such a bad couple. Izumi laughed to herself as she pictured the two of them on a date. Ms. Akito would destroy the whole restaurant!!

"I have the solution!" Mr. Jujo said.

"What is it sir?" Tasuki asked calmly.

"What?" said Ms. Akito rudely.

"You shall both teach the class together!" he said then ran out of the room. They heard a door slam and a car screech out of the school parking lot.

"Why that no good, stupid…" Ms. Akito began.

"Ms. Akito! The students! Do you want them to hear you?" Tasuki asked bewildered.

Ms. Akito stared laughing that dangerous quiet sort of laughter, which the students were all too familiar with.

"HA! Those, filthy spawns of the devil? They heard me say worse! Isn't that right Kaaaaazuuuu?" Ms. Akito said smiling maniacally down at him. 

"Y-Ye-Yes Miss!!" Kazu squeaked.

Tasuki stared at Ms. Akito. "Now, now Kazu. There's no need to be afraid when I'm here." He said bravely.

A few girls sighed dreamily as he said that.

"My hero!" Sally said quietly.

Ms. Akito rolled her eyes. "Take you your Accelerated Math text books! Turn to page 505! Do Numbers 1 to 100! Then take out your Accelerated Astrology textbooks! Read pages 45-68 and do questions 1-30 on page 52. Hand all this in to me by the end of the day! Any questions?" she said as she sat down in her chair.

Many of the students raised their hands.

"No questions?" Ms. Akito said. "Good. Begin!"

Tasuki stared at her in horror.

"Have you gone mad, woman!?!" Tasuki said with anger in an unusually uncalm voice. "Put your math textbooks away. Turn to page 38 in your Accelerated Astrology textbooks. Read page 38-42 then do question 1-5 on page 42."

He pulled the chair Ms. Akito was sitting in and she hit the ground. He sat in the chair smiling at her. "Any questions?"

A few students raised their hands.

"Yes Kazu?" Tasuki said.

"Umm I just wanted to know when this was all due."

"Oh. Well how about it being due tomorrow? I have a great lesson planned for all of you today on life changing discoveries made in the last century! We'll be doing a lot of work in this. Don't worry! When we're finished this Unit we'll take a trip to Tyrants Museum."

"You mean the new one with the virtual reality games?" Mana said excitedly.

"Yes that's the one! After all virtual reality games are part of great discoveries made in the last century!" Tasuki said smiling. "And it'll be fun!"

Everyone was whispering excitedly.

Ms. Akito stared at him with disgust. They started to argue.

Kazu started singing and Junpei joined in. Kazu then whacked Junpei over the head. They started to fight. Kazu winning, naturally.

Izumi glanced at Kouji. He was doing his work.

"Hey Kouji!" Izumi said cheerfully.

He turned his head slowly and stared at her.

"Heh heh!" Izumi said. THAT WAS SO DUMB! ARE YOU CRAZY??? She started to mentally scold herself.

Kouji turned his attention back to his work.

Why is he acting like this? I thought he might start talking more to me know that I know his secret… Izumi thought.

"So Kouji how was your day?" She asked. "Anything good happen?"

THAT WAS DUMB! She said to herself but kept smiling at him.

"My day has just started and nothing good happened…" he said.

"Oh. So did you-" she began.

"Orimoto shut up." He said looking at his work.

"Hai…" she said.

Kazu's fist hit her head and she turned around to kill him but then Junpei's fist hit her nose.

"Ahh! Owww! You morons!" she said as she cupped her nose with her hands. "My noseeeeee…"

"Ah! Sorry Izumi!" Kazu said. "I was fighting Junpei and I accidentally hit your head!"

"IZUMI!" Junpei cried loudly.

The whole class including Tasuki and Ms. Akito looked at them.

"Izumi! I'm sorry!!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! WAHHHHHHHHHH!!! IZUMI I'M A HORRIBLE HUSBAND!!" Junpei cried. He tried to hug her.

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!! Junpei! Get away!!!! Get away!!!!" Izumi said angrily.

Kouji punched Junpei square in the nose. Junpei fell to the ground unconscious.

Rei started to giggle but Tasuki looked at her angrily and she stopped.

"Mr. Minamoto!" Tasuki said.

"Good one Kouji!" Ms. Akito said laughing. But Kouji silenced her by looking at her. She backed away behind Tasuki.

Izumi realized that the only person Ms. Akito was afraid of was Kouji.

Tasuki somehow got Junpei to wake up then sent Kazu and Junpei to the office.

He turned to tell Kouji to go with them as well.

"NO! He stays!" Ms. Akito said.

"What? But that's not right! He hurt the boy!"

"So?"

"So??? So he has to go to the office!"

"You're not in charge of this class I am! You already sent two students down to the office without my approval now it's my turn! Kouji does not go to the office!" Ms. Akito said firmly.

"I won't allow- OwW!!!"  Tasuki began but Ms. Akito grabbed an apple sitting on Ms. Akito/Tasuki's desk (probably left for Tasuki…) and threw it at him.

"That's' how you want to play huh?" said Tasuki. He grabbed Junpei's school bag and started whacking Ms. Akito with it. Ms. Akito grabbed Kazu's bag and started hitting him with it.

The class watched the commotion. Some teachers from the other classrooms opened the classroom door and watched in horror what was happening. Students from other classrooms were watching as well.

"Thank you Kouji." Izumi said smiling. 

"I'm sure you could have taken Junpei on your…own. But…. I didn't do…it for you. I punched him…because…it was getting annoying…" Kouji said as he caught a stray pencil sharpener that was hurling towards him.

Izumi suspected her was lying because of the pauses while he was talking.

She smiled as she glanced around the classroom. Rei was running up to her.

"Hahahahahahaha! Good one Izumi! If Junpei wasn't so in love with you then we'd never get to see this."  She said nodding towards Ms. Akito and Tasuki who were now performing wrestling moves on each other.

Izumi laughed with her. "But I doubt Junpei liking me would have stopped them from coming to this. They really seem to hate each other!"

"Rei! Is your mom Shizuku?" Izumi asked suddenly remembering.

"Yea! My brother came over to your house today didn't he?" Rei said smiling. "Imagine that? Our parents were friends too!"

"Yea! What's your brother's name?" Izumi said trying not to seem too obvious.

"You can ask him yourself! See he's right over there by the door!" Rei said.

Izumi and Kouji both turned to see where her brother was standing. Kouji's face dawned into recognition when he saw Rei's brother. Izumi noticed this.

"That's…your brother?" Kouji said quietly.

"Yes!" Rei said.

"I—I—I didn't know he came to our school!" Izumi said surprised.

"Well he just started today. My dad and him were in France because my brother won this big academic competition." She said. "They just got home yesterday.

"Wow is he really smart?" Izumi asked.

"I guess so. He won it three times in a row plus four times for the sports competition too." Rei said.

"Wow…" Izumi said.

"Ha. I'm sure he'd be easy to beat in sports and academic competitions." Kouji said.

"Well he's really not easy actually. He won---" Izumi began.

"Yea I heard how many times he won. He probably only won because he was facing 2 year olds." Kouji said.

"Kouji. That's really mean!" Izumi said surprised that he would diss Rei's brother like that for no apparent reason.

"I bet Kouji could beat him!" Kazu said popping out of nowhere. 

"Kazu where did you come from?" Rei asked dryly. "And as much as I think Kouji is probably a superb person at everything he does….I still think that my brother could beat him."

Kouji stared at Rei and Rei flushed.

"WELL! We'll just have to see about that won't we?" Kazu said arrogantly. "Kouji! I want you to go challenge him!"

Kouji went back to his work.

"Kouji!" Kazu.

"See you know he's better than you!" Rei said still blushing and then adding quickly, "But I'm sure you're second best!"

It seemed obvious to Izumi that Rei still had feelings for Kouji and even though she liked him Rei must have felt she had to fight for her brother.

"He's not better than me." Kouji said calmly. He glanced at Izumi. "I can beat him. I just don't want to hurt his reputation…again..."

"Good one!" Kazu said to Kouji patting his back. "But what do you mean by again?"

"Nothing." Kouji said smiling.

Izumi wondered why Kouji was acting like this. Who was he trying to impress?

**Ahem, Ahem**

After all the teachers including the police and a few firefighters had separated Ms. Akito and Tasuki and the class settled down and the teachers and students went back to the other class rooms Tasuki decided that they all needed a break and let the class have some free time. Ms. Akito and Tasuki were just sitting at their desk glaring at each other.

"I can't wait to come to your house after school Izumi!" Rei said. "I've never been there before. But now that your mom and my mom found each other we'll probably be seeing each other more often now!"

"Yea." Izumi said. "So what is your brother's name?"

"You seem very interested in finding out what his name is." Rei said suspiciously. "Izumi am I right to suspect you of liking him?"

"NO!" Izumi yelled.

"Good." She heard someone mutter. "Izumi loves me!"

"Junpei stop listening to our conversation!" Rei shouted.

"Okay." Junpei said.

"SO get lost then!" Rei said impatiently.

"But...but…Kouji told me to…" Junpei began but then thought better of finishing the sentence and ran off.

"Wait!! What did Kouji say?" Rei called. "Dang it! Maybe Junpei was supposed to tell me that Kouji loves me!"

"Sure." Izumi said sarcastically. "Of course Kouji would tell JUNPEI to tell you he liked you out of everyone else in the class."

"Izumi! You're not helping!" Rei said angrily.

"Sorry." Izumi said not meaning it. "Why are you interested in him again anyways? I thought Tasuki was your one and only."

"Nah! That was before! This is now!"  Rei said. "And besides he's kinda old for me."

"Weren't you the one who said that one can never be to old or too young for love?" Izumi said growing angrier with Rei.

"Did I?" Rei said. "I don't remember. Anyways! Before we were so rudely interrupted! MY brother's name is Yuhhi."

"Yu-he…"Izumi said pronouncing it for the first time.

"Yup! Yuhhi." Rei said cheerfully.

******RING RING*******

"That's the bell! Time to go home!" Kazu shouted.

Everyone was packing their stuff, and then there was a knock at their door.

Ms. Akito rose to answer it but Tasuki got there first.

"Yes?" Tasuki said.

Tasuki turned around and called Rei to hurry up.

"Your brother's here Rei!" Tasuki said.

"OK!" Rei said.

Izumi tried get a glimpse of Yuhhi but winded up bumping into Kouji.

"Sorry." She said absent-mindedly. 

If she hadn't run off to try and get a better glimpse at Rei's brother she would have heard Kouji say, "It's okay Izumi."

Kouji frowned and went back to packing his stuff.

"Poor Kouji. He's suddenly felt an emotion other than hate for someone and now the person seems to be preoccupied with someone that maybe even more perfect than he is." Kazu said sadly to Junpei.

"Huh?" Junpei said as he took his finger out of his nose.

"You make me sick." Kazu said shaking his head.

~***~

Izumi was walking home while staring at her watch. "3:10." She murmured.

She was watching the ground and thinking of Yuhhi so she didn't realize right away when she bumped into to someone. It was Kouji again.

"Sorry." Izumi said cheerfully. "I keep bumping into you. Well bye!"

Kouji watched her run off and he turned and kept walking.

"Poor Kouji…If only Izumi's thoughts wasn't flooded with images of her and Yuhhi getting married then she would have realized that Kouji followed her and purposely bumped into her because he wanted to talk to her about something very important." Kazu said appearing out of nowhere.

When Izumi reached home she took a bath and quickly finished her homework. She looked through her closet to find something that would make her look good tonight. After going through all of her outfits she came up with a pair of dark blue jeans and purple T-shirt that had a pink heart in the middle. She smiled. When had she ever really cared about what boys thought of her clothes? All of a sudden she felt very conscious of herself. Everything about her was wrong! Her hair was too long and she really couldn't do anything with it! Her nose was too short. Her lips were too small. Suddenly every single one of her features had something wrong with them!!!

Izumi's mother walked in. she frowned when she saw Izumi's whole wardrobe lying on her bed. "Izumi! It's not such a big deal! You already know Rei? Why are you trying on every outfit to impress her?"

Izumi flushed. Her mother then understood.

"Ah ha! It's her brother isn't it? You're trying to impress him. Izumi you look fine! Don't worry about it. Just be yourself and if he likes you back then all's well but if he thinks…well opposite then too bad for him." Izumi's mother said.

There was a knock at the door and Izumi's mother ran downstairs. Izumi rushed to shove her clothes back into her closet and ran down stairs after her mother.

"Shizuku!" she heard her mother say as Izumi walked down the stairs. "I'm so happy to see you!!"

"Aya! It's good to see you too!" Shizuku said to Izumi's mother.

"Izumi! Come down here." She heard her mother call. Izumi walked to stand beside her mother. Rei was smiling at her and Yuhhi was smiling too. Izumi saw Rei's father was here too.

"Izumi. This is my best friend Shizuku!" Izumi's mother said.

"Nice to meet you." Izumi said.

"You too." Shizuku said. "This is my husband, Hiroshi. My son Yuhhi and you already know my daughter, Rei."

Izumi took turns shaking their hands. When she got to Yuhhi she blushed so deeply that she felt her ears heat up. Rei noticed this and tried to cover Izumi's face by pushing her brother out of the way so she could shake Izumi's hand.

"Hahaha." Rei said quietly. "You're so obvious."

"Thanks." Izumi said. "I hope he didn't see…."

"Probably did." Rei said still laughing.

"Great…" Izumi muttered.

"Izumi why don't you take Rei and Yuhhi upstairs." Izumi's mother said.

"Okay." Izumi said. Rei was walking on her left and Yuhhi on her right.

"This is my room." She said opening the door.

"Wai! IT's so clean!" Rei said. "My room is a total mess."

"Well maybe if you took the time to clean it once in a while." Yuhhi said.

"You're room isn't any better." Rei retorted.

Yuhhi smiled. Izumi melted. Rei rolled her eyes.

"Rei talks about you a lot." Yuhhi said. "She told me about how you were her first friend in school and all."

"Yes." Izumi said.

Rei noticing that Izumi wouldn't be able to think, decided to lead the conversation.

After a while Izumi's mother called Yuhhi to come downstairs. It seemed that she was very interested in knowing how he won that big competition.

Yuhhi left the room.

"Rei!" Izumi said. "Do you think he thinks I'm a weirdo?"

"Izumi…" Rei said uneasily. "I'll give you some advice. Don't get obsessed over my brother. He's total flirt."

"Rei?" Izumi said.

"He makes it seems like he interested in everything you say but really he's just flirting with you. Don't take this crush too seriously."

"Don't worry I won't." Izumi said.

Yuhhi came back in the room smiling. "So talk about anything interesting while I was gone?" he asked Izumi.

"Yes…No…Not really." She said.

Rei crossed her arms and looked at her brother angrily. "Yuhhi didn't I—"

"Yes, Yes I know." He said rolling his eyes.

Rei whispered, "I told you. He's a complete flirt." To Izumi when Yuhhi wasn't watching.

Izumi tried to remember what Rei had told her but every time he talked she felt like he really liked her.

Finally Rei and Yuhhi had to leave. Izumi and her mother said goodbye and then settled in for the night.

"I wonder if he really is a flirt…" Izumi thought while she lay in bed. Her mind suddenly switched to Kouji. "Kouji's not a flirt. He's more of a your-not-allowed-to-have-a-crush-on-me kinda guy…. but Yuhhi is so cute! But so is Kouji!" she sat up in bed. "What am I doing????? I'm actually comparing guys!! I've never done this before! How do I even know if Kouji likes me? Well he probably doesn't! And Yuhhi I just met him! I really don't know what he's like at all!"

"Izumi stop talking about guys and go to sleep." Her mother called out from the other room.

Izumi lay back in bed she closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep.

Who is this Yuhhi guy really? His great looks and charming personality sure has Izumi blushing! And what about Kouji? Why is he acting so different? And what was he trying to tell Izumi before she ran off? Why does Kazu keep popping out of nowhere? Why did Junpei have a pet ant named Mom?

You'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out! I can tell you the answer to the last question though! It's because Junpei's an idiot.

Bye! Keep R&R'n! Thank everyone who had enough patience with me to keep checking up on my stories!^____________________^