Who is he?
Author's note: WOW! It's been a long time since I updated, eh? Well I finally got time off my busy school schedule to write up this new chapter. This chapter took me 2 days to write up so don't be angry if it's a little rushed, it's just that I felt so bad because I left you all in suspense! Ah! Guess what? I won an award at school! The French award! Which is really quite surprising! I mean I dropped French but I won it anyways…!
Okay back to the story!
Summary: Rei and Izumi both like Kouji, which is just fine with the both of them. Junpei… is an idiot.
Story continues from there.
"Izumi, I really didn't think that you did like him but if anyone was going to be real competition for Kouji, I'd say it would be you. And I welcome competition. I just want you to know that I like Kouji and you can't stop me from liking him."
"I know!" Izumi said.
Rei smiled. "It's alright. We can like him together!"
Izumi smiled.
"Rei you're not really what I pictured you to be…" Izumi said.
"What do you mean?"
"I thought that you'd probably be yelling at me and telling me to stay away from Kouji….or something." Izumi said.
Rei smiled cheerfully. "Well you had me all wrong."
"Yea I did." Izumi said.
"Well I gotta go. Do you want a ride home? My mom is waiting outside."
"Sure." Izumi said smiling.
Izumi stepped out of Rei's car turned around to wave goodbye to Rei and her mom.
"Thanks for the ride! See you tomorrow!" Izumi called out. She hummed to herself as she walked up to her porch. She stopped suddenly when she saw a huge box (When I mean huge, I mean huge!) wrapped in pink gift-wrapping, right in front of her doorstep.
Her eyebrows furrowed as she wondered what it could be. She looked around the box for a card but found none.
"What the hell is this?" she said out loud. Suddenly the door opened and Izumi's mother stood at the doorstep.
"Izumi I thought that was- what in the world is this?" her mother said motioning to the huge gift-wrapped box.
"I don't know." Izumi said. "It's doesn't even have a card."
"Well lets open it then!" her mother said
Izumi and her mother tore the gift-wrapping off and lifted the large cardboard lid. They leaned forward to look inside and suddenly Junpei jumped out and kissed Izumi's mom.
Izumi screamed and Izumi's mother whacked Junpei on the head.
"Owww….!" Junpei said.
"Oh my…" Izumi's mother said shocked.
"JUNPEI! You kissed my mom!!" Izumi said angrily.
Junpei gasped. "I did?? I was aiming for you!"
"ERRR!!" Izumi took out her handy dandy mallet and hit Junpei across the face.
"Izumi I'm sorry! It's you I love not your mother!" Junpei cried.
"This is getting just a little to sick for me…" Izumi's mother said, still dazed and walked slowly back into the house.
"Junpei you've probably scared my mom for life!! Just get lost!!!" Izumi said angrily while she kicked the empty partly gift-wrapped box.
Junpei stared at her sadly then ran away crying.
"He's so strange…" Izumi said then walked into her house.
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The next day.
Izumi awoke to find her alarm clock ringing. She looked at the time and was alarmed to see that it was 8:59 am.
"8:59!!! School starts at nine!!!!!" Izumi said as she jumped out of bed. "Mooooommmmm why didn't you wake me up???!!"
She waited for her mother to answer her sarcastically or tell her off for being stupid, but no answer came.
"Mom?" Izumi said annoyed. She walked out of her room and into her mother's room to see her mom lying on the floor, bumps all over her skin, her eyes closed gasping for breath.
"Mom!!" Izumi shouted and ran over to her mother. "Mom, mom! What's wrong??!"
It was obvious that her mother couldn't reply so Izumi ran to the phone that was sitting on her mother's counter top. She called the operator and told her what was wrong. The ambulance arrived 5 minutes later and took Izumi's mother to the hospital. They asked Izumi if she wanted to come and she nodded, yes.
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10:00 am.
Izumi was sitting outside of the room her mother was in. She was in the waiting room hoping her mother was going to be all right. She got up as the doctor walked towards her.
"Is my mom alright?" Izumi asked the doctor. "What happened?"
The doctor put a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "She's fine."
Izumi breathed a sigh or relief. "What happened?" she asked again.
"Well you mother was suffering from a severe allergic reaction." The doctor said.
"Allergic reaction? The only thing she's allergic to are peanuts! And she makes sure to stay away from peanuts."
"Ah, yes well traces of peanut oil was found on her lips, which caused her to go into anaphylactic shock." The doctor explained. "She was lucky you were around to call for help."
Izumi frowned wondering how her mother could have eaten peanuts knowing that she was allergic to them.
"Well I got to go check on my other patients. You should just go home. We're keeping you're mom here until we're sure she's rested and fine." The doctor said walking off.
"Thank you." Izumi muttered.
Izumi walked out of the hospital and checked her watch. It was 10: 05; she could still go to school if she wanted. She passed by a police station and some convenient stores as she headed home.
"Well, I'll probably be moping around the house if I go home, so I guess I should get to school." Izumi said to herself.
She went to her house to clean herself up and then started walking to school. She was walking with her head down so she didn't notice the person in front of her when she bumped into him and fell on the ground.
"Ouch.." Izumi said rubbing her back. She noticed a hand in front of her face and looked up to see Kouji looking down at her, puzzled putting his hand out to help her up.
"Orimoto what are you doing here?" Kouji asked angrily as he helped Izumi stand up.
"Hello to you too." Izumi said sarcastically. Kouji blushed and looked down at the ground.
"Sorry." He said.
Izumi shrugged. "It's okay. I was just at the hospital-"
"Are you hurt?" Kouji asked.
Izumi could detect some concern in his voice.
She half-smiled. "No I'm fine. It was my mom. She had an allergy attack and she had to go to the hospital. Strange thing is, that she makes sure not to eat peanuts, which is what she's allergic but the doctor found peanut oil on her lips."
Kouji laughed. "Maybe she kissed someone would ate peanuts and the oil ended up on her lips."
"That's dumb! My mom hasn't gone on a date or found anyone else since she met my dad." Izumi said. "So someone kissing her is probably…right!" Izumi said suddenly. "That's it Kouji! Oh I'm going to kill him!"
"Kill who?" Kouji asked.
"Junpei!" Izumi said running towards the school with Kouji following close behind her.
"Why? What did Junpei do?" Kouji asked.
"He kissed my mom." Izumi said still running but stopped when Kouji grabbed her hand.
"He kissed your mom?" Kouji said wide-eyed.
"Yeah…" Izumi said blushing because he still hadn't let go of her hand. Kouji must have realized this because he suddenly let go and shoved him hands into his pockets and stared at the ground.
"Erm...umm…he...a…was inside a huge box in front of my doorstep. My mom and I opened the box and he popped out and kissed my mom. He was aiming for me though…" Izumi said also looking down.
If she had looked up she would have noticed Kouji's eyebrows furrow when she had mentioned Junpei wanting to kiss her instead.
"Then let's get to class." Kouji said. "You'll be able to teach him a lesson there."
"Yeah." Izumi agreed still looking at the ground. "Hey Kouji? What were you doing out here?"
No response.
She looked up to see Kouji running towards the school.
She glared at him as he ran but smiled when she thought of him holding her hand.
"Wait till Rei hears what happened." Izumi said to herself, but then thought better of it. "Maybe I shouldn't tell her."
She ran after Kouji and caught up with him when they reached their classroom door.
Kouji opened the door and walked in followed by Izumi. All eyes fell on them.
Izumi noticed that Tasuki wasn't there.
"Orimoto, Minamoto! Where have you two been?" Ms. Akito asked angrily.
"I was at the hospital." Izumi said.
"I was with her." Kouji said blankly.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Oooooooooooooo!!" the class broke out in fits of giggle and hoots.
"Shut up class!" Ms. Akito said angrily. "I will not tolerate any of that in this class!! Kouji, Izumi do not discuss your private lives in the classroom!!"
With that the class broke out with even more laugher and hooting.
"Kouji and Izumi sitting in a tree!! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!" Kazu said as he roared with laughter.
Izumi blushed angrily and glared at her classmates, but Kouji just took his seat unnerved by their taunts.
"First comes love!" Kazu continued.
More laughter.
Izumi took her seat beside Kouji and stared at her desk.
"Then comes marriage!!" Kazu crooned. "And…and...and then comes you know what!!"
The class was now turning red and a few students were on the floor choking as they laughed.
I hope they choke to death, Izumi thought.
The only ones that weren't laughing were Izumi and Junpei.
"Go Kouji!" someone yelled from across the room.
Kouji had his hands folded and his eyes closed but were smirking.
How can he think this is funny? Izumi thought to herself.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!!" Ms. Akito boomed. The class suddenly fell silent.
"KAZU! You have detention with me after school!!" Ms. Akito said angrily.
"Ohhhhh oohhhhhhh!" Junpei chuckled. " Kazu and Ms. Akito sitting in a tree!"
Everyone stared at Junpei disgusted.
"Junpei you're sick!" Came a few responses.
"You too Junpei! After school detention!" Ms. Akito said.
"Turn to page 950 in your Harvard University textbooks!" Ms. Akito said angrily. "Do all 85 questions and hand it in before recess."
Izumi turned around to Junpei. "Junpei you almost killed my mother!"
"I did? I'm sorry she's dead." Junpei said solemnly.
"She's not dead!" Izumi said. "When you kissed her she got an allergic reaction and had to go to the hospital."
"Junpei!" Kazu said angrily. "You kissed Izumi mom?? That's sick!"
Izumi hit Kazu with her mallet.
"OW! What'cha do that for?" Kazu said rubbing his head.
"For embarrassing me in front of the whole class!" Izumi said angrily.
"Oh." Kazu said. "But Kouji laughed."
"Because he's just as stupid as you are!" Izumi said blushing.
"I laughed because it was funny." Kouji said simply.
"Exactly! It was funny! Stupid but funny!" Kazu said. "The only reason you didn't laugh is because you really do like Kouji."
"ER! Shut up! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Izumi and Junpei said together.
"Jinx! Personal Jinx!" Junpei said dumbly then knocked on wood.
"I'm surrounded by idiots!" Izumi said.
"But you know you love us." Kazu said yawning. "Well maybe Kouji a bit more than the rest of us."
"KAZU!" Izumi said angrily blushing.
She turned around to look at Kouji and saw that he had his CD player on and was listening to a CD with his earphones on.
"Thank goodness he didn't hear." Izumi said to herself looking at her desk.
If she had looked up at Kouji she would have seen Kouji looking at her almost nervously from the corner of his eyes.
Well what do you think? I know, I know! It's such a short chapter, the shortest chapter I've done!
I guess you guy will just have to be patient with me…again! ^_____^
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