Little Plans
By: Silver Teardrops
Disclaimer: Don't own anything so far. O.o what a shock!
______Chapter Two________
First class was signaled over and everyone moved to his or her second class.
Aoshi was thinking about his life, not really paying attention to the teacher talk about their project. Misao had been waiting for his answer yesterday at the restaurant but he was stuttering and
Still thinking what his answer will be. Thankfully he spotted his sister and another boy hand in hand, and somehow the Fates were on his side as Tsubame saw him and interrupted their rather intimate
Conversation.
"Shinomori-san?" The sensei made him jump up.
"Yes, sensei?" Aoshi replied stiffly. He rarely listened in class, but he was also rarely called out of the blue like that.
"I would like you to return back to the lesson, if you do not mind." That earned a few giggles from girls who thought he was cute and a feel laughs from his friends. He wasn't embarrassed, just a
Bit ticked off. He sat back in his seat, going back to what his answer will be next time.
"Shinomori-san." A whispered held his name.
"Huh? Himura-san?" He saw Kenshin whispering to him.
"You better start paying attention, the sensei looks like he'll kill you if you daydream again." Kenshin advise friendly. Aoshi shrugged it off, he didn't care if he got in trouble the worst he can get was detention for a week.
"So Himura-san, what brings you to our school?" Aoshi asked leaning on the desk to support his sleepy head.
"I was over seas with my father, Himura Hiko, and we just came back from the short business trip and he decided it best if I was to enter this school. I was a little behind in my studies." Kenshin
Explained while getting the sensei more ticked off by the minute. The two oblivious to the red-faced man continue their chat.
"Himura Hiko, that name sounds so familiar. Who is he and what does he do?" Aoshi contemplated. He knew that name but he just couldn't get it out.
"He owns the Sakabatou Company. He is a fairly good business man." Kenshin said just scribbling something on some blank sheets.
"Sakabatou Co.? That's like the richest company there is in Japan! Wow, no wonder." Aoshi mumbled. Just then a hand slapped on the two desks.
"Are you two finished with your Little Chat?" The sensei said hotly.
"Well, as a matter of fact, we are." Aoshi replied coolly, before the sensei could retort to him the bell rang, signaling the end of that boring class.
"You two, see me for detention today." He gritted out stomping out of his class to attend lunch break.
"I'm already getting into trouble, this sucks." Kenshin whispered to himself, but Aoshi caught it and smirked at him.
"It's a normal thing around here, everyone gets into trouble." Aoshi assured his newfound friend.
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Kaoru sat down at her usual spot already noticing the entire group already there, plus a new addition.
"Himura-san." Kaoru said with a little hatred hanging from each syllable. But being the happy-go-lucky kind of guy he over looked it and began to talk to the rest of them.
"Aoshi..." Misao said when she slid beside him. He stiffened. He hoped not here, of all places not here.
"Yes, Maki- I mean Misao?" Aoshi corrected himself as soon as he saw her frown.
"I was wondering if we can go have a chat now? By the lockers?" She asked, all the rest of the group were oblivious to the two of them, but Aoshi saw Kaoru eye him with a smirk.
"Now?" He stumbled for the right words.
"Hai, onegai?" She looked into his cold eyes and he couldn't refuse then. He nodded and both of the walked out of the cafeteria quietly.
Kaoru had seen and heard the whole ordeal, except she made no attention to the two of them. Misao was in for a reality check; she knew Aoshi didn't like her in that way ever, so this was going to be a long day. (She smirked because it was funny to see Aoshi stumble on words. He was usually calm and cool. Sorry if I let on that Kaoru did want to break Misao's heart ^^:)
"Kamiya-san." A voice brought her eyes from the closed doors to see purple eyes. She scowled at him. He also over looked that.
"We need to start on our Physics homework together soon." He smiled. She lifted her end of her lips a bit.
"We'll schedule a date where I'm free." He nodded and continued his talking to Sano. He turned back and saw Kaoru once again.
"Kamiya-san, may I ask you something." He said politely to her. She really wanted to gag and punch in his face for being that way, it was just not right for a teenager to be like that, but Aoshi was a different case.
"Sure Himura-san."
"Are you the heir to K. K. R. D?"
"Hai, I am."
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The minutes ticked longer, Misao kept pushing the question to him and he punished his mind for answers he knew he couldn't have.
"So? Do you have an answer now or what?" She said.
"Um...Misao, I don't like you in that way." He said finally getting coherent words put together. He waited for her outburst, for screams, for curses, but he found no reaction from her.
"Misao?"
"Aoshi...I don't know why...I've had a crush on you for so long. How can you not feel the same way too?" She asked tears in her eyes but she was determined to keep them there and not let them fall. She was staring straight into his eyes. He felt a little guilty for such a loss.
"I just can't. I don't think of you in that way, you are a close friend, yes, but I can't seem to grasp the concept of you being more." He said sadly, it was the truth, how it came out, he did not know.
"Then...we have to put this situation behind." Misao said after moments had passed them and she felt Aoshi being more uncomfortable.
"Misao..." He reached out to touch her shoulder but she recoiled from it.
"We can still be friends right?" She asked looking sincerely into his eyes.
"Aa, we can be." He smiled at her and she began to smile widely and took back her hyper appearance.
"So! It's settled, I'm not in love with Shinomori Aoshi and have a rather close friendship with him instead." She said aloud hoping he would agree. He did and nodded.
"Okay you go back to lunch I have to get my books for the rest of the day's classes." She gave him a smile and a friendly hug and watched him turn and enter the cafeteria. She wanted to be
Alone. Aoshi, how could he? He broke my heart to a million pieces just by saying those words.
"...But I can't seem to grasp the concept of you being more..."
Those words had stung her more than being kicked and punched for hours. She slid down on the lockers and cried into her palm. Rather to cry alone than in front of him. She wouldn't let him
See her this low. She cried, the pain of it all, the realization, the hints, everything fit in place. She was really blind to not see it all.
"Why Aoshi? Why did you have to make me fall for you?" Misao kept whispering through her sobs. It hurt her to know she can never be more than a friend. But she managed to smile under all
Her tears, at least she was friends right? She knew she had to clean up before she returned to class, she knew by the time she finished lunch would be over, besides she didn't have much as an appetite as before.
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"Takani-san, please pick your partner." Sensei nodded to her.
She was at the end of the list in roll calling and not much was left. She needed a guy to do the other part of the project and the guys left were, how do you say, not as pleasant? She then spotted Sanosuke hiding behind a book, how stupid of him. So she decided to get him, after all she needed him to pay back from running away from her all those times.
"Sagara." She said his last name and his face faulted, though no one could see it because it was behind a book.
"Alright then, you'll have two weeks to finish this project and to turn it in." Sensei was amused by the way Sano was scared of Megumi it was like a movie. Girl loves guy while guy is confused.
After a few more names were called and the remaining selected their partners the teacher regained everyone's attention.
"Ima minna-san, please get together with your partners and start on your assignments, the remainder of the class will be given to get a head start on it." The teacher turned around and began to erase all notes on the classroom board, she was used to cleaning it, and because she thought her students were good enough and didn't need the extra work to do.
"Sagara-san." Megumi smirked sitting beside him. Sanosuke sighed.
"Mou, let's just get this over with." He said sitting up and stretching.
"Alright, we need to do a research on some foreign land marks. Where do you want to base the location?" Megumi asked getting right down to business, she felt guilt enough already forcing him to be her partner.
"Um, I like Hawaii." Sanosuke dug inside his head for anything. All he knew about Hawaii was that it was sunny and a good get away during winter. He didn't even know where it was, Misao
Probably wedge the name into his skull.
"Alright. I heard of it. Hawaii=part of America. It's western." Megumi said looking it up in their book.
"Okay we got the place, what else do we got to do?" Sano said beginning to bite on his pencil. It was a habit he guessed.
"The notes she gave us were to find a main location, and then find 8 sites or landmarks that we have come fond with." Megumi wished they had chose Japan, because it was a lot easier knowing
The pretty sites were around them.
"So, I take 4 you take 4. Deal?" He asked he really didn't want to work with her at all, so better yet work on it but just not with each other.
"O.k." Megumi was a bit reluctant; she really wanted to research it together.
The bell rang and Sanosuke almost flipped over the table by running out at such a high speed.
"Jerk." Megumi muttered smiling a bit to herself.
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A handsome but ever smiling boy had gotten out of his car searching the place. So this was his new school. He went inside to get his uniform and texts and other necessities to present himself at school the next day. On his way out he caught sight a girl walking slowly down the hall. He heard her sniffling and saw her constantly rubbing her eyes.
"Excuse me miss." Soujiro made a false attempt to try to get her attention; so he resorted to the old 'bump-into-one-another' trick. She looked up forgetting her face was a disgrace to look upon.
"Gomen sir." She bowed and was down to pick up some of the things she held that had fallen. Soujiro went down to help her retrieve them also.
"Gomen, my name is Seta Soujiro. Yours?" He asked, while handing her a binder with the school emblem in the right hand corner.
"Makimachi Misao, I must be going, I'm a mess." She quickly turned and ran down the long hall and Soujiro heard only the light steps of her shoes hitting the floor. It stopped when she entered a door.
"You don't look a mess at all." Soujiro whispered smiling again; turned around and marched down the steps and into his car, he promised to find that girl tomorrow and befriend her on better meeting terms.
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Kaoru had found Sano hiding outside the side-door of the school when she was getting some books out of her locker. He seemed frightened by something, and being like his little sister she began to worry.
"Sano? Are you alright?" She asked as she touched his arm lightly to get his attention off the garden out ahead.
"Oh hey Jou-chan." He said regaining back his 'gangster' look.
"Quit it. I know something's up." Kaoru bit back at him. He looked flustered and then sighed. That was Kaoru for you-straight forward.
"It's Takani-san. I know she's your friend and all, but she's just, scary." Sano admitted and heard some contained laughter from Kaoru. She tried her best to stop the sounds from slipping and kept a serious face on, but she couldn't help it. She was near to rolling on the ground.
"Scared? Of Megumi? Why?" Kaoru asked. Sano was blushing, he hated when he was laughed at for revealing his feelings.
"I don't know she's too aggressive. I know she likes me, who wouldn't, but can't she get a hint and back it down a few steps. She is taking it far too seriously."
Kaoru thought about what he said, but didn't he know that Megumi was like that because she's been patiently waiting for him to ask her out for years? Damn, he was a slow guy.
"Sano, just give it time, and instead of running from her, take up her offers. You may start to like it." Kaoru said and Sano shrugged as he was pulled back inside, it was a little too chilly to leave a friend outside alone.
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She had P.E. next and was glad, because she liked to be active in sports; it was an exercise or a routine to her. She changed into the school P.E. uniform, which was a big sweatshirt and some small shorts, she didn't mind as long as she could run and jump in them. Boys had gawked at the girls as they filed out into the field. They were supposed to mingle with the boys' class and play sports together since it was another free day.
She didn't care for free day because all the girls who hated that class usually sat down and gossiped and she would be the few participating in the sports.
"Kaoru?" She looked to the voice and found Aoshi, and many of her other guy-friends behind him.
"Oh, it's a surprise you attended today!" Kaoru gushed, usually her group, mainly the guys, was too cool for P.E.
"It's no biggie." Sano busted in their talk. He was smiling at the other girls there, he didn't know the uniform for it until now, and vowed to attend everyday just to see them. Aoshi cleared his voice.
"Would you like to spar with us?" Aoshi asked meaning the guys behind him. She was the only known girl to take a challenge like that, and every guy respected her for that even loved her for it.
"Sure, I can kick your butts for the fun of it." Kaoru said passing the two. They snorted and followed suit.
"Who is my first opponent?" Kaoru stated as she picked up a bokken. She liked using it; she was in Kendo club after all. Everyone moved aside as Aoshi cleared his voice.
"Himura Kenshin." Kaoru almost dropped her weapon. He looked so good up in his uni-, what? She blushed crimson red and tried to get that out of her mind. This is a spar not a gawking game.
"Fine, you ready Himura-san?" She wanted to test how strong he truly was, he looked puny like a girl, like her. So she didn't doubt he had some fight in him as his eyes turned to a determined blue shade. He took a bokken also and then took their stance staring at one another.
Kaoru had a hard time figuring what he would do, she never saw him in a fight before, and neither had he. So he decided to break the observing and attacked first. Kaoru had fast reflexes and blocked it easily smirking egotistically to him.
"Not so far Himura-san?" He smirked at her and backed off. She then rushed forward wanting nothing more than to wipe that smirk from his face and he too also rushed forward. With all their strengths they swung. They had each other held in place, the bokkens preventing the other from entering and injuring themselves. When the impact hit it sent out a shockwave, it surprised Aoshi and Sano, who knew that Kaoru was strong but Kenshin worried them.
"So, your a skilled fighter." Kaoru observed, trying her best to get him off guard.
"So are you, that you are." He said casually as if he was not in battle at all. As he finished she did something he wasn't suspecting, since he thought he had pushed her to where she couldn't even move. She swiped her foot behinds him and that made him fall ungracefully to the floor but not before he swung his bokken to her leg and sending her to crash upon him. The winner: Truth is told, no one knew.
"Um...tie?" Sano said after witnessing the fall of both opponents. Kaoru huffed and blushed at the same time their faces were side by side, her hand on his chest and his around her waist. He held her there to lessen the impact of her fall, and she put it there as to prevent smushing him.
She quickly got off dusting herself. And having good sportsmanship she held her hand out to help him up. He rose and thanked her.
"Arigatou for the little fight. It was refreshing." Kenshin said smiling again. She blushed, what was this power he had over her? She couldn't even form a word any longer. So she shut up and nodded.
Aoshi noticed that Misao wasn't here, she had the same class, he wondered if she got in trouble, or that she was hiding from him. He wasn't sure.
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Tsubame was holding hands with Yahiko as they walked out of school together. He had offered to walk her home but she declined saying that her brother would already be waiting for her at his school. He nodded and then offered to walk her there and she had to accept since he had those eyes that made her do anything he asked.
"So what's your niisan's name?" Yahiko asked while savoring the feel of her soft skin in his hands.
"Shinomori Aoshi. You met him at the mall yesterday. As you've seen, he doesn't talk much." Tsubame said smiling up at him. He blushed.
"Do you have any siblings?" Tsubame asked.
"One, my neesan, Kamiya Kaoru. I think she's about your niisan's age." Yahiko thought about it.
"Okay, we'll see him there then." Tsubame said gleefully, Yahiko was really nice, not to mention cute.
AN: THis is the second chapter plese review I would love to hear your comments, and I did some reading over this chapter to check for mistakes, so I hope it's a lot better than the first chapter. So click that review button it means a lot to me! Onegai? Arigatou Minna-san.
By: Silver Teardrops
Disclaimer: Don't own anything so far. O.o what a shock!
______Chapter Two________
First class was signaled over and everyone moved to his or her second class.
Aoshi was thinking about his life, not really paying attention to the teacher talk about their project. Misao had been waiting for his answer yesterday at the restaurant but he was stuttering and
Still thinking what his answer will be. Thankfully he spotted his sister and another boy hand in hand, and somehow the Fates were on his side as Tsubame saw him and interrupted their rather intimate
Conversation.
"Shinomori-san?" The sensei made him jump up.
"Yes, sensei?" Aoshi replied stiffly. He rarely listened in class, but he was also rarely called out of the blue like that.
"I would like you to return back to the lesson, if you do not mind." That earned a few giggles from girls who thought he was cute and a feel laughs from his friends. He wasn't embarrassed, just a
Bit ticked off. He sat back in his seat, going back to what his answer will be next time.
"Shinomori-san." A whispered held his name.
"Huh? Himura-san?" He saw Kenshin whispering to him.
"You better start paying attention, the sensei looks like he'll kill you if you daydream again." Kenshin advise friendly. Aoshi shrugged it off, he didn't care if he got in trouble the worst he can get was detention for a week.
"So Himura-san, what brings you to our school?" Aoshi asked leaning on the desk to support his sleepy head.
"I was over seas with my father, Himura Hiko, and we just came back from the short business trip and he decided it best if I was to enter this school. I was a little behind in my studies." Kenshin
Explained while getting the sensei more ticked off by the minute. The two oblivious to the red-faced man continue their chat.
"Himura Hiko, that name sounds so familiar. Who is he and what does he do?" Aoshi contemplated. He knew that name but he just couldn't get it out.
"He owns the Sakabatou Company. He is a fairly good business man." Kenshin said just scribbling something on some blank sheets.
"Sakabatou Co.? That's like the richest company there is in Japan! Wow, no wonder." Aoshi mumbled. Just then a hand slapped on the two desks.
"Are you two finished with your Little Chat?" The sensei said hotly.
"Well, as a matter of fact, we are." Aoshi replied coolly, before the sensei could retort to him the bell rang, signaling the end of that boring class.
"You two, see me for detention today." He gritted out stomping out of his class to attend lunch break.
"I'm already getting into trouble, this sucks." Kenshin whispered to himself, but Aoshi caught it and smirked at him.
"It's a normal thing around here, everyone gets into trouble." Aoshi assured his newfound friend.
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Kaoru sat down at her usual spot already noticing the entire group already there, plus a new addition.
"Himura-san." Kaoru said with a little hatred hanging from each syllable. But being the happy-go-lucky kind of guy he over looked it and began to talk to the rest of them.
"Aoshi..." Misao said when she slid beside him. He stiffened. He hoped not here, of all places not here.
"Yes, Maki- I mean Misao?" Aoshi corrected himself as soon as he saw her frown.
"I was wondering if we can go have a chat now? By the lockers?" She asked, all the rest of the group were oblivious to the two of them, but Aoshi saw Kaoru eye him with a smirk.
"Now?" He stumbled for the right words.
"Hai, onegai?" She looked into his cold eyes and he couldn't refuse then. He nodded and both of the walked out of the cafeteria quietly.
Kaoru had seen and heard the whole ordeal, except she made no attention to the two of them. Misao was in for a reality check; she knew Aoshi didn't like her in that way ever, so this was going to be a long day. (She smirked because it was funny to see Aoshi stumble on words. He was usually calm and cool. Sorry if I let on that Kaoru did want to break Misao's heart ^^:)
"Kamiya-san." A voice brought her eyes from the closed doors to see purple eyes. She scowled at him. He also over looked that.
"We need to start on our Physics homework together soon." He smiled. She lifted her end of her lips a bit.
"We'll schedule a date where I'm free." He nodded and continued his talking to Sano. He turned back and saw Kaoru once again.
"Kamiya-san, may I ask you something." He said politely to her. She really wanted to gag and punch in his face for being that way, it was just not right for a teenager to be like that, but Aoshi was a different case.
"Sure Himura-san."
"Are you the heir to K. K. R. D?"
"Hai, I am."
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The minutes ticked longer, Misao kept pushing the question to him and he punished his mind for answers he knew he couldn't have.
"So? Do you have an answer now or what?" She said.
"Um...Misao, I don't like you in that way." He said finally getting coherent words put together. He waited for her outburst, for screams, for curses, but he found no reaction from her.
"Misao?"
"Aoshi...I don't know why...I've had a crush on you for so long. How can you not feel the same way too?" She asked tears in her eyes but she was determined to keep them there and not let them fall. She was staring straight into his eyes. He felt a little guilty for such a loss.
"I just can't. I don't think of you in that way, you are a close friend, yes, but I can't seem to grasp the concept of you being more." He said sadly, it was the truth, how it came out, he did not know.
"Then...we have to put this situation behind." Misao said after moments had passed them and she felt Aoshi being more uncomfortable.
"Misao..." He reached out to touch her shoulder but she recoiled from it.
"We can still be friends right?" She asked looking sincerely into his eyes.
"Aa, we can be." He smiled at her and she began to smile widely and took back her hyper appearance.
"So! It's settled, I'm not in love with Shinomori Aoshi and have a rather close friendship with him instead." She said aloud hoping he would agree. He did and nodded.
"Okay you go back to lunch I have to get my books for the rest of the day's classes." She gave him a smile and a friendly hug and watched him turn and enter the cafeteria. She wanted to be
Alone. Aoshi, how could he? He broke my heart to a million pieces just by saying those words.
"...But I can't seem to grasp the concept of you being more..."
Those words had stung her more than being kicked and punched for hours. She slid down on the lockers and cried into her palm. Rather to cry alone than in front of him. She wouldn't let him
See her this low. She cried, the pain of it all, the realization, the hints, everything fit in place. She was really blind to not see it all.
"Why Aoshi? Why did you have to make me fall for you?" Misao kept whispering through her sobs. It hurt her to know she can never be more than a friend. But she managed to smile under all
Her tears, at least she was friends right? She knew she had to clean up before she returned to class, she knew by the time she finished lunch would be over, besides she didn't have much as an appetite as before.
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"Takani-san, please pick your partner." Sensei nodded to her.
She was at the end of the list in roll calling and not much was left. She needed a guy to do the other part of the project and the guys left were, how do you say, not as pleasant? She then spotted Sanosuke hiding behind a book, how stupid of him. So she decided to get him, after all she needed him to pay back from running away from her all those times.
"Sagara." She said his last name and his face faulted, though no one could see it because it was behind a book.
"Alright then, you'll have two weeks to finish this project and to turn it in." Sensei was amused by the way Sano was scared of Megumi it was like a movie. Girl loves guy while guy is confused.
After a few more names were called and the remaining selected their partners the teacher regained everyone's attention.
"Ima minna-san, please get together with your partners and start on your assignments, the remainder of the class will be given to get a head start on it." The teacher turned around and began to erase all notes on the classroom board, she was used to cleaning it, and because she thought her students were good enough and didn't need the extra work to do.
"Sagara-san." Megumi smirked sitting beside him. Sanosuke sighed.
"Mou, let's just get this over with." He said sitting up and stretching.
"Alright, we need to do a research on some foreign land marks. Where do you want to base the location?" Megumi asked getting right down to business, she felt guilt enough already forcing him to be her partner.
"Um, I like Hawaii." Sanosuke dug inside his head for anything. All he knew about Hawaii was that it was sunny and a good get away during winter. He didn't even know where it was, Misao
Probably wedge the name into his skull.
"Alright. I heard of it. Hawaii=part of America. It's western." Megumi said looking it up in their book.
"Okay we got the place, what else do we got to do?" Sano said beginning to bite on his pencil. It was a habit he guessed.
"The notes she gave us were to find a main location, and then find 8 sites or landmarks that we have come fond with." Megumi wished they had chose Japan, because it was a lot easier knowing
The pretty sites were around them.
"So, I take 4 you take 4. Deal?" He asked he really didn't want to work with her at all, so better yet work on it but just not with each other.
"O.k." Megumi was a bit reluctant; she really wanted to research it together.
The bell rang and Sanosuke almost flipped over the table by running out at such a high speed.
"Jerk." Megumi muttered smiling a bit to herself.
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A handsome but ever smiling boy had gotten out of his car searching the place. So this was his new school. He went inside to get his uniform and texts and other necessities to present himself at school the next day. On his way out he caught sight a girl walking slowly down the hall. He heard her sniffling and saw her constantly rubbing her eyes.
"Excuse me miss." Soujiro made a false attempt to try to get her attention; so he resorted to the old 'bump-into-one-another' trick. She looked up forgetting her face was a disgrace to look upon.
"Gomen sir." She bowed and was down to pick up some of the things she held that had fallen. Soujiro went down to help her retrieve them also.
"Gomen, my name is Seta Soujiro. Yours?" He asked, while handing her a binder with the school emblem in the right hand corner.
"Makimachi Misao, I must be going, I'm a mess." She quickly turned and ran down the long hall and Soujiro heard only the light steps of her shoes hitting the floor. It stopped when she entered a door.
"You don't look a mess at all." Soujiro whispered smiling again; turned around and marched down the steps and into his car, he promised to find that girl tomorrow and befriend her on better meeting terms.
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Kaoru had found Sano hiding outside the side-door of the school when she was getting some books out of her locker. He seemed frightened by something, and being like his little sister she began to worry.
"Sano? Are you alright?" She asked as she touched his arm lightly to get his attention off the garden out ahead.
"Oh hey Jou-chan." He said regaining back his 'gangster' look.
"Quit it. I know something's up." Kaoru bit back at him. He looked flustered and then sighed. That was Kaoru for you-straight forward.
"It's Takani-san. I know she's your friend and all, but she's just, scary." Sano admitted and heard some contained laughter from Kaoru. She tried her best to stop the sounds from slipping and kept a serious face on, but she couldn't help it. She was near to rolling on the ground.
"Scared? Of Megumi? Why?" Kaoru asked. Sano was blushing, he hated when he was laughed at for revealing his feelings.
"I don't know she's too aggressive. I know she likes me, who wouldn't, but can't she get a hint and back it down a few steps. She is taking it far too seriously."
Kaoru thought about what he said, but didn't he know that Megumi was like that because she's been patiently waiting for him to ask her out for years? Damn, he was a slow guy.
"Sano, just give it time, and instead of running from her, take up her offers. You may start to like it." Kaoru said and Sano shrugged as he was pulled back inside, it was a little too chilly to leave a friend outside alone.
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She had P.E. next and was glad, because she liked to be active in sports; it was an exercise or a routine to her. She changed into the school P.E. uniform, which was a big sweatshirt and some small shorts, she didn't mind as long as she could run and jump in them. Boys had gawked at the girls as they filed out into the field. They were supposed to mingle with the boys' class and play sports together since it was another free day.
She didn't care for free day because all the girls who hated that class usually sat down and gossiped and she would be the few participating in the sports.
"Kaoru?" She looked to the voice and found Aoshi, and many of her other guy-friends behind him.
"Oh, it's a surprise you attended today!" Kaoru gushed, usually her group, mainly the guys, was too cool for P.E.
"It's no biggie." Sano busted in their talk. He was smiling at the other girls there, he didn't know the uniform for it until now, and vowed to attend everyday just to see them. Aoshi cleared his voice.
"Would you like to spar with us?" Aoshi asked meaning the guys behind him. She was the only known girl to take a challenge like that, and every guy respected her for that even loved her for it.
"Sure, I can kick your butts for the fun of it." Kaoru said passing the two. They snorted and followed suit.
"Who is my first opponent?" Kaoru stated as she picked up a bokken. She liked using it; she was in Kendo club after all. Everyone moved aside as Aoshi cleared his voice.
"Himura Kenshin." Kaoru almost dropped her weapon. He looked so good up in his uni-, what? She blushed crimson red and tried to get that out of her mind. This is a spar not a gawking game.
"Fine, you ready Himura-san?" She wanted to test how strong he truly was, he looked puny like a girl, like her. So she didn't doubt he had some fight in him as his eyes turned to a determined blue shade. He took a bokken also and then took their stance staring at one another.
Kaoru had a hard time figuring what he would do, she never saw him in a fight before, and neither had he. So he decided to break the observing and attacked first. Kaoru had fast reflexes and blocked it easily smirking egotistically to him.
"Not so far Himura-san?" He smirked at her and backed off. She then rushed forward wanting nothing more than to wipe that smirk from his face and he too also rushed forward. With all their strengths they swung. They had each other held in place, the bokkens preventing the other from entering and injuring themselves. When the impact hit it sent out a shockwave, it surprised Aoshi and Sano, who knew that Kaoru was strong but Kenshin worried them.
"So, your a skilled fighter." Kaoru observed, trying her best to get him off guard.
"So are you, that you are." He said casually as if he was not in battle at all. As he finished she did something he wasn't suspecting, since he thought he had pushed her to where she couldn't even move. She swiped her foot behinds him and that made him fall ungracefully to the floor but not before he swung his bokken to her leg and sending her to crash upon him. The winner: Truth is told, no one knew.
"Um...tie?" Sano said after witnessing the fall of both opponents. Kaoru huffed and blushed at the same time their faces were side by side, her hand on his chest and his around her waist. He held her there to lessen the impact of her fall, and she put it there as to prevent smushing him.
She quickly got off dusting herself. And having good sportsmanship she held her hand out to help him up. He rose and thanked her.
"Arigatou for the little fight. It was refreshing." Kenshin said smiling again. She blushed, what was this power he had over her? She couldn't even form a word any longer. So she shut up and nodded.
Aoshi noticed that Misao wasn't here, she had the same class, he wondered if she got in trouble, or that she was hiding from him. He wasn't sure.
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Tsubame was holding hands with Yahiko as they walked out of school together. He had offered to walk her home but she declined saying that her brother would already be waiting for her at his school. He nodded and then offered to walk her there and she had to accept since he had those eyes that made her do anything he asked.
"So what's your niisan's name?" Yahiko asked while savoring the feel of her soft skin in his hands.
"Shinomori Aoshi. You met him at the mall yesterday. As you've seen, he doesn't talk much." Tsubame said smiling up at him. He blushed.
"Do you have any siblings?" Tsubame asked.
"One, my neesan, Kamiya Kaoru. I think she's about your niisan's age." Yahiko thought about it.
"Okay, we'll see him there then." Tsubame said gleefully, Yahiko was really nice, not to mention cute.
AN: THis is the second chapter plese review I would love to hear your comments, and I did some reading over this chapter to check for mistakes, so I hope it's a lot better than the first chapter. So click that review button it means a lot to me! Onegai? Arigatou Minna-san.