Worlds Apart

Chapter 5- Enemy

Disclaimer: I own nothing! Except for Yoshiaki, Yumiko, Yumi, the idea for this story, and that weird porcupine/hedgehog fur ball thing I call Triscuit that sits by my bed.

Mountain Rain: Thankies to mah lovely reviewers! (both of them) They are, in the words of Georgia Nicolson, "Double cool with knobs". Now on to the story!

Lunch with Yumiko was amazing. I didn't have to mask who I was like I normally would have with my popular ex-"friends". I briefly wondered if all nerdy-lunches were this wonderful.

"Thanks," stated Yumiko, taking a bite of her sandwich.

"For what?" I asked.

"Fom sticklim mup fom me befom," she said, her mouth full of food.

"Heh, no problem. It felt good to defy the unwritten rules of popularity for once."

She stared at me and smiled. I asked her what she was staring at. "Wow," she started. "Behind that tough exterior, you're really just a geek at heart."

I grinned. Maybe I was a just a good-looking geek. Nah. Yumiko's smile never left her face while we finished our lunch. My eyes never left her face, oddly. Every time she looked at me I felt my face get red. That was weird. Really, really weird. Never in my life have I felt like that.

"So, um, are you ever gonna tell me about your parents?"

She looked up at me and grinned. My face got hot. "If you want to know so much about them, why don't you come with me after school today to visit them?"

"Sure."

When the last school bell rang, Yumiko and I took the old stairway on the other side of the school. This led us to a seemingly abandoned parking lot. A dark green sports utility vehicle was at the far side. We walked over to it, and the tinted window opened.

"Yumiko, who's that?" asked her mother. I blinked—Yumiko's mom was stunning! She looked exactly like her, except for the fact that her hair was a bit more blonde.

"This is a friend, Mom. His name is Yoshiaki." I bowed politely and said hello.

"Oh, a boy, huh? He's cute." Kaolla winked at me. I blushed and Yumiko scowled. "Mom, he's just a friend."

"Just a friend, eh? I remember when Kaolla and I were just friends…" said Keitaro. My face had gone way past the suggested amount of blushing in 10 seconds. Yumiko's face was completely red, also.

"Oh, you!!" she cried. Then we went inside the car. We drove for a while until we reached a small house. Yumiko and I stepped out, and Keitaro and Kaolla followed us. I wondered vaguely if I had just been kidnapped. It wasn't me who was the kidnapped one, however.

Once we were inside the house, I was led into the living room. Yumiko and I sat on one sofa, and her parents sat opposite us.

"So…Yoshiaki, what brings you here?" asked Kaolla.

"I wanted to ask you some questions."

"Shoot."

"Um, okay. How come Yumiko's surname is Takayama?"

Yumiko smiled sadly. "I can answer that. I was kidnapped when I was young. The couple who took me were enemies of Dad. They changed my last name and moved every so often to avoid suspicion."

"How come you never went back to your parents? You've got a perfect chance now!"

"Yumiko's captors know where we live. They keep tabs on us. If she ran away, they'd know where she was and then they would kill not only her, but me and Kaolla as well," answered Keitaro. He had a dark light in his eyes. Their predicament was too complicated for my simple mind. I didn't know how hard it would be for Yumiko to escape unscathed.

I was about to find out very soon. 

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I never really knew how many nerds there were in school. Quite a lot of them looked up to me. However, the entire population applauded me when I walked through the hallways with Yumiko at my side. Okay, not really applauded, but smiled and approved or whatever. It seemed I became more popular when I began hanging out with Yumiko. This is probably how politicians win elections.

Not everyone enjoyed my new friendship with Yumiko. My fan group was particularly ticked off. They were threatened when she came and invaded their "territory" (i.e., me). Yumi felt extremely jealous when she found that I was spending more time with Yumiko than I ever would with her.

At first, it was just stupid thing that jealous girls do. Y'know, like sending Yumiko nasty notes and trying to butt in on our conversations whenever they spotted us in the hallway. But that was only for a short time. Soon, their threats became real. Very real.

The sky was cloudy and it looked like it was about time for another downpour. Yumiko and I were walking to school. We were happily chatting until a rock hit me in the back of my head.

"OW! What the h—"

"Sorry, Yoshiaki!" called out a girly voice. I looked behind me and saw Yumi and two girls from my fangroup. I think their names were Ayame and Mitsuki. Or was it Mitsuko…? I had no idea. They all seemed the same to me.

"Idiots…" mumbled Yumiko. She seemed quite amused. Another rock came and would have hit her in it weren't for my absurdly large head in the way.

"Sorry again! We're not trying to hit you!"

I groaned. This was pathetic. "C'mon, lets go!" I whispered to Yumiko. I took her hand and ran the way to school. Ayame, Yumi, and Mitsuki/o gasped in anger and shock. Ticking them off was the highlight of my day.

No, that was the second highlight of my day. The real highlight was when Yumiko and I suddenly stopped in front the school and she sort of fell into my arms.

"Uh…. Y-Yumiko…." I stuttered. The slender girl's head was laid on my chest.

"Yes?" she looked up at my tomato face and blushed. "S-sorry!" she managed to say before she backed away from me and turned. "Guess we have to go inside now."

"Yeah, inside."

Unfortunately, we were never able to make it inside. Yumi, Ayame, and Mitsuki(or Mitsuko) had followed us. At their cue, a large group of fan girls whisked me away, leaving Yumiko in the hands of the evil Yumi.

"Stop it!" I yelled. They paid no attention. "Stop it now or I'll hate all of you forever!"

Like good little jealous fan girls, they stopped. "We're sorry!" the group squealed. It was amazing how high girls' voices could become. I growled at them and ran back to the front of the school.

Yumi was gone by the time I got there.

Mountain Rain: Dun dun dun! What's gonna happen next? Will Yoshiaki be able to save Yumiko? Or will she be caught in the clutches of the super evil (and super slutty) Yumi? Review if ya wanna find out! ^_^