So, I made an outline of the plot for the story and it took up like over two freaking pages! And even then, it wasn't really the plot, it was more of the character outlines but still, I don't think I've ever needed to actually write down what roles the characters play in one of my stories! This one just so happens to be my so called masterpiece since I'm trying harder than usual to make it perfect. Now if only I could somehow re-write chapters 4 and five...
I can't remember if I originally gave Kenshin gold eyes in the beginning of this story so let's just say that I didn't ok?
Sorry it's taken so long to update (finals suck)! I'm also sorry if this story moves a bit faster than most of my other stories do (I tend to put a lot more information in these chapters). Oh, and once again, this story does take place at my high school but (as far as I know) CV doesn't have a big of a drug problem as I make it out to have! It's just easier to use my school as a setting since I don't have to make up a school of my own (when I do that, I tend to forget where class rooms and stuff are).
Also, I know a lot of you have been angered by the fact that Dark is portrayed as a drug dealer in this story. Let me say that he is a thief in both manga and anime sceries so I didn't think that this would bother you much. However, looks can be deceiving and you really didn't think I'd make him the villain did you? You'll just have to find out what bigger part he plays in this story's plot!
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Chapter 6
First Period – Math
Kat yawned and tried to stay awake. 'At least there's an assembly right after this. Thank god I don't have to go to biology for another hour!'
Kat glanced over at Austin and noticed that he was just as bored as her. He had a silver sharpie out and was currently coloring his pen. Kat wrinkled her nose at the stench coming off the sharpie.
"Ha! Silver," Austin whispered to Jason after he finished coloring his pen. Jason, who had been snoozing lightly at his desk behind Austin, cracked an eye open and sat up to stare at it a moment before recognizing what it was.
"Platinum," Kat corrected and earned a few glares. She glared right back, it wasn't her fault she was the smartest person in the class. 'If they would at least try I think they'd all have a chance at passing the class...'
Next Kat glanced at Danny, who didn't have his book with him. He looked up at her and smirked, thinking he was cool for not having brought his book to class. Kat scoffed and gave him a disgusted look.
The teacher assigned the class a few problems and Kat could hear Mike laughing from the row next to her. He was one of the stupidest guys in class and Kat could tell he was writing in the answers, taking wild guesses. 'Why this would amuse him enough to laugh, I will never know...'
"I'm bored, so bored..." Kenshin muttered from the desk next to Kat. He yawned and continued to stare at the clock.
Kat turned around in her seat to see how Dark was doing and noticed that he was fast asleep, book propped up to make it look as if he was reading. Kat couldn't help but smile at him; he seemed to be dreaming about something pleasant.
The teacher moved to write the homework up on the whiteboard and everyone who still did their homework wrote it down as soon as she was finished. The bell rang shortly after and Kat watched as Kenshin woke Dark. He leaned over and pinched the sleeping boy's nose shut, causing him to run out of air. Dark woke up fairly quickly and continued to curse at Kenshin for not just waking him with a tap on the shoulder.
Kat rolled her eyes, "Come with me to the biology room, I want to drop off my stuff."
Passing Period – Assembly
She could still hear Dark and Kenshin fighting when they sat down in the back of the auditorium with the rest of second period. Kat eventually had to sit in-between them and even then they continued to glare at each other.
"Any idea what the assembly is about?" Chris asked as he leaned forward.
Kat looked over her shoulder, "I have no idea. Does Mike?"
Chris rolled his eyes, "I haven't asked. You're the one sitting behind him."
Kat blushed and leaned forward to ask Mike if he had any clue what the assembly was about.
Mike yawned and scratched his neck, "I heard a comedian was coming."
"Is that all?" Kat asked. "I hope he's funny..."
Mike nodded and turned back to his friends. Kat leaned back in her seat and noticed that Kenshin kept glaring at Dark in the strangest way. Dark was listening on someone else's conversation and was either oblivious to Kenshin's glares or just didn't care. Kat sighed and decided that maybe it was best if she didn't bother either of them in fear of making the other mad.
Eventually, just as Kat was beginning to get bored, the lights dimmed and a fat old man walked out on stage to greet everyone. He was balding and his stomach hung over his pants. Almost immediately, he began to crack jokes about the crowd and Kat laughed half-heartedly.
"...Or how about the way girls always travel in packs to the bathroom?"
Kat laughed a bit harder at this joke. The comedian got the audience to laugh at a few more jokes before starting to end his performance.
"...I think the biggest problem today is racism. With rap and everything else influencing your minds..."
'Of course there was a catch,' Kat thought. 'Prepare to be bored...'
"No one ever says hi to one another anymore! I remember when I was young you'd say hi to everyone you knew while walking through the hallway. I want you to look at your neighbor and say hi. If you know your neighbor, then say hello to someone you don't know and tell them your name," the man said.
Kat looked around her and saw that she already knew everyone she was sitting next to. She was boxed in with her biology class so everyone knew each other pretty well. Kat sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Now I want you to hug the person you just said hi to, if you can't reach, then hug your neighbor!" he laughed when he noticed half the audience didn't move. "We're not going anywhere until you do! Now come on, hug your neighbor!"
Kat was about to turn around to hug either Mike or Chris, too afraid of what would happen if she hugged Kenshin or Dark but she froze when she felt something wrap around her. Kat looked down and was utterly shocked to see Kenshin and Dark both hugging her. Kat froze even more when she felt someone grab her from behind. Eventually Mike turned around and hugged her from the front.
"Uh..." Kat sat there completely bewildered. 'Who am I supposed to hug?!'
Kenshin was the first to notice that he wasn't the only hugging Kat. Dark was the next to loosen his grip. His violet eyes locked with Kenshin's and they glared at each other. Mike let go and so did Chris who looked just as bewildered as Kat. She glanced at them telling them she was sorry and a bit confused.
Kenshin and Dark ignored the other two boys who had been hugging Kat and continued to give each other nasty looks. Kat sighed at their behavior and stood up to leave. The bell rang shortly after and she was swept away from the two immature boys out into the quad.
Passing Period – Snack
"Yeah, Brian will never be a rapper. I mean, he can't even make a rhyme for cat!" someone joked as they watched the antics of a boy in a nearby group.
Kat laughed along with the group she was currently hanging out with and wondered where Kenshin and Dark had gone. She stayed for only about a total of three minutes before telling them she was going to get some food to eat. They nodded, showing they had heard her, before continuing to gossip about someone else.
Kat searched the halls of most of the buildings with the exception of the gym and soon found her feet carrying her in that direction. 'I wonder if Dark and Kenshin are fighting.' Kat brushed off the thought and pulled open the door to the gym. The hinges squeaked and sound waves echoed off the walls.
"Empty," Kat said allowed.
"Well what were you expecting to find?" someone asked.
Kat's heart jumped to her throat and she turned around to see a group of slightly familiar faces. "I was just looking for someone," Kat answered beginning to feel uneasy.
She spotted one of the boys in the group holding a rolled up piece of paper between his right thumb and index finger. With his left hand, the boy searched his pockets until he pulled out a lighter.
The person who had been speaking to Kat before blocked her view of the boy she was staring at and gained her attention, "You know what that is don't you?"
"Its marijuana," Kat answered a bit more boldly then she had intended.
The boy in front of Kat nodded in approval and called to the person Kat had been staring at, "Jim, hand me one of your joints will you?"
"No way, you know how much these cost!" Jim said.
Kat could see that he was smoking the joint she had seen him with only a few moments before. She found it a bit hard to conceal the look of disgust that flashed across her face. It came out as more of a smirk and Jim happened to be glancing at her at that exact moment.
He muttered a bit before fishing out a piece of rolled paper and a lighter, "I'm guessing that you'll repay me Cody?"
"Yeah, yeah just give the bitch her joint so she can hang with us," Cody snapped.
Jim flicked Cody off and lit the paper before handing it to Kat, "Enjoy." He glared at her a bit as Kat twisted the now smoking thing between her fingers. She hadn't noticed that everyone was staring at her, waiting for Kat to take her first puff. Stunned, Kat was just beginning to realize that she was going to be in a lot of trouble if anyone even saw her hanging around these people. She didn't even want to know what would happen if someone walked by and saw her with the joint in her hands.
"You didn't make Jim give that to you just so you could stare at it did you?" Cody asked as he stole Jim's joint for a quick puff.
'If I don't smoke this thing I'll be mauled but what happens if I do?! I'll be a stoner just like these guys for the rest of my life! I don't want to be a pot head but I don't want to be killed!' Kat hesitated a moment longer and saw that the joint had burned more than half way down and ashes covered her hand. Kat flicked the ashes off and raised a shaky hand to her lips. 'Here goes the rest of my life, better be worth it...'
A quick hand snatched the joint from Kat. She watched stunned as Dark took a long drag from it then extinguished it with his foot and pulled Kat by the arm out of ear shot from the group.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Dark hissed, looking as if he was about to spew.
"What do you mean what am I doing?" Kat asked. She glanced over her shoulder to see that the group of stoners was staring at them with confused looks, "You smoke too don't you?"
Dark paused, guessing what she was staring at, and then said, "Yes... but with you it's different."
"How is it different?" Kat almost screamed at him. 'Why am I getting so angry? I'm glad that he saved me!'
Dark was about to comment on how bad smoking was for a person but he paused and glared at Kat, "You know what's right and what's wrong, so why were you going to try smoking? To fit in? To be 'popular?' Do you really want to waste your life by turning out like them?! I expected better of you."
Kat's eyes were tearing up as they usually did when someone spoke to her in these tones. She used her shirt sleeve to wipe away the wetness and turned to leave.
"Don't give me that!" Dark yelled as he snatched her arm. "You can't run away from these kinds of things or try to hide what you did! These people saw you and they'll come looking for you as soon as they get a new supply. You've ruined your reputation by trying to be cool! So tell me, how does it feel?"
Kat wiped her sleeve across her face again to catch the now flowing tears and sniffled pathetically.
"Yo Dark, what's going on?" Jim called to him. "We were just giving your girl a joint. We thought that's want you wanted us to do!"
"FUCK OFF!" Dark snarled to them.
The bell rang signaling snack was over. The group huffed and muttered before extinguishing what ever they happened to be smoking and left.
Dark watched them go before turning back to her, "Saved by the bell..." He sneered, "We'll talk about this later." With that, Dark turned and headed in the direction of their next class, English, which was usually Kat's favorite but today she wondered if it would turn out otherwise.
'I really managed to screw up this time...'
After School – Kat's House
'Dark didn't come home with us as he usually does. I bet he's still mad at me... That's odd; I haven't seen Kenshin around either.'
Kat continued down the hall and as she passed the bathroom she saw Kenshin emerge, stark naked, with nothing but a towel in his hands to dry his hair. Kat's eyes slid a bit farther than they should have gone and she could feel her face turning a deep shade of red.
Little droplets of condensation clung to his smooth flawless skin. His chiseled abs stood out as one of the more prominent and interesting features. A flood of feelings bombarded Kat and she could feel her heart race.
Eventually Kenshin paused and lifted the towel from his face to glance at her. Golden eyes shone from underneath and looked her over in a more curious manner than anything else. Kat was surprised to see that he wasn't in the least bit embarrassed. Kenshin stopped drying his hair and wrapped the towel around his body. Kat dearly hoped that he didn't see the small look of disappointment that flashed across her face.
His golden eyes continued to stare at her until he finally said, "Forgive me, I wasn't expecting anyone else would be here."
Kat frowned when he said this and remained captivated at his new eye color, "Why do they do that?" She stepped forward and brushed his bangs away to get a better look.
He frowned, "Do what?" Then he noticed that she was speaking about his eyes. Kenshin's lips turned up in a small smile, "I have no control over their color. Mostly they change when I'm mad or angry, but on rare occasions they change when I'm... happy."
"Do you always get this happy from taking a shower?" Kat asked noticing how close she was standing to him and that he was more than half naked.
His amber eyes shimmered and he appeared thoughtful, "Actually, I've been at a meeting with Krad most of the day..."
Kat was about to ask why when out of nowhere a football collided with Kenshin's head and sent him to the floor. He had been knocked over with surprise more than force. Kat turned to see Dark in the hallway looking as pissed as ever, arm extended, proving that he had thrown the ball. Neither Kat nor Kenshin had noticed he had come home and both of them were fairly surprised to see him.
"What do you think you're doing?" Dark hissed. His temper was already shortened from both the 'assembly incident' as well as what had happened at snack and it was growing shorter by the second.
"Who me?" Kat asked but Dark shoved past her to get to Kenshin.
Kenshin looked just about as pissed off as Dark but his ferocity was cut down by the fact that the towel had slipped off him when he fell. Kat tried to hold back her laughter and ended up pretty much chocking herself to death while tears spilled down her cheeks.
The two men were completely oblivious to the fact that their antics were found hilarious. Kenshin spoke next after having found his towel, "What do you mean?"
"I mean," Dark leered, "What were you and my girlfriend doing?"
"Your girlfriend?" Kat asked having stopped laughing. "I don't think you ever asked me!" Kat marched up to Kenshin (who was now standing up) and slung an arm around his waist, "If you're going to be that rude, I'm going to make Kenshin my boyfriend!"
"So then you were thinking of being my girlfriend?" Dark asked.
This was obviously the wrong thing to say since Kat's mood seemed to take one eighty degree turn. Her grip on Kenshin's waist tightened to the point where he thought his ribs were going to crack. He wondered if she wasn't going to march over and smack Dark. Kat ended up saying nothing and dragged Kenshin past Dark into the study.
The door slammed and rattled in its frame. Dark blinked in confusion and then glared at the door. "Fuck!" he shouted and stormed off to vent his anger. 'I can't believe this is happening!'
Kat handed Kenshin a shirt and remained uptight. She was barely aware of him slipping it on and then dig around for a pair of pants. Kat sighed and eventually decided to take a shower herself to calm her nerves. Kenshin thought she was leaving the room for him to slip into a pair of pants and he shut the door after her.
Kat walked down the hall and into the bathroom. She shut the door behind her and locked it. Her feet stepped onto the rug and Kat shuddered. She hated the feeling of touching anything wet with her feet; it was one of her lesser pet peeves. Kat grimaced when she stepped onto the tiles of the shower floor, still wet from when Kenshin had been there, and reached over to turn on the water.
That's when Kat noticed something. Since she was usually the only one to use the shower, it always smelled the same way, like her shampoo and soap. Only, Kat realized that it smelled differently now, not like what she was used to. That's when she realized something else. 'It smells like Kenshin...' she thought. 'Not like that's a bad thing. It just doesn't smell like me anymore though!' Kat continued to sniff the air and wrinkle her nose distastefully.
She left her clothes on the counter and stepped into the shower, feeling a bit more relaxed as the warm water hit her skin. She fiddled with the temperature a bit and when she had gotten it just right, Kat continued to wash her hair.
When Kat stepped out of the shower, she noticed that it had returned to smelling like her. Kat reached for a towel but her hand gripped nothing but air. 'What happened to my towel?' Kat remembered Kenshin had used the shower. 'Did he use my towel?! What an idiot! Now what am I supposed to do?' Not liking the idea of getting her clothes wet, Kat decided it would be ok of she made a quick dash to her room taking the chance that no one would see her.
The lock on the door handle clicked as Kat turned it and she dashed out into the hall to her room. She felt something crack under her foot and in an instant pain began to shoot up her leg. "Ow...!" Kat gasped as she looked down to see a piece of pottery lodged in her foot.
"I'm sorry!" Kenshin exclaimed as soon as he noticed that Kat had stepped on a piece of the pot he had knocked over.
Kat grabbed at her foot in pain and wondered if she'd be able to get the shard out by herself. Panicking, Kenshin tore off his shirt and removed the shard with one swift tug. He then wrapped the shirt around her foot, "You haven't lost too much blood. Do you think you need to go to the...?"
Kenshin paused when he noticed that the tables had turned and Kat was now lying on the floor in front of him wearing nothing but his shirt bandaged on her foot.
Kat felt his eyes glide over her in one swift movement and she felt more naked now then she had just been in the shower. Her foot was killing her at the moment though so the feeling quickly left and her mind returned to her aching foot.
"Do you need to go to the hospital?" Kenshin finished his question. He noticed that the blood was beginning to seep through his shirt. His eyes flickered golden and he was beginning to beat himself up over her getting hurt.
Kat was still gripping her ankle as if the tighter she held it the less it would hurt. Kenshin noticed that her foot must be hurting a great deal. "If you don't say anything, I'm going to take you there..."
Kat growled, "I'll be ok."
Kenshin picked her up bridal style and began to carry her to his room. Kat was in too much pain to care where she was going and she didn't seem to notice where she was being carried to.
The front door slammed shut and Kenshin could hear Dark coming towards them. 'Shit...' Kenshin was walking through the doorway when Dark reached them. He could see that Dark was on the point of exploding with rage.
"Kat cut her foot on a piece of pottery," Kenshin explained before anything could happen. Dark continued to act as if he was about to do something drastic and Kenshin wouldn't blame him if he did. After all, from where Dark was standing, he couldn't see the cut on Kat's foot. Kenshin was shirtless and Kat was completely naked so it was a wonder Dark didn't just shoot Kenshin right when he saw them.
"Prove it," Dark managed to say.
Kenshin backed out of his room and turned to face Dark, making sure he could see his bloody shirt wrapped around Kat's foot. As soon as Dark noticed that Kat was really hurt, his anger washed away almost completely and he rushed forward, taking Kat from Kenshin who handed her over without a fuss.
"What happened?" Dark asked as he carried Kat into Kenshin's room.
"I knocked over a vase in the hall and Kat stepped on one of the pieces," Kenshin explained.
"Why is she naked?" Dark asked as he removed the shirt from Kat's foot. When Kenshin didn't reply Dark looked up to see him struggling with an answer.
"He stole my towel!" Kat growled. "There weren't any left in the bathroom so I thought I'd be able to just run to my room and get one. That's when I stepped onto the shard."
"Moron," Dark muttered. It came out more gentle than he had wanted it to and Kat looked up at him quizzically. "Let me see your foot," he said as he kneeled on the floor and removed Kenshin's bloody shirt.
He inspected the cut and smirked, "You got so worked up over this? I've seen much worse! Kat, do you have any Neosporin?"
"Yellow bathroom in the white cabinet," Kat managed to say. Dark was still inspecting the cut and the more he moved her foot, the more it hurt.
"Kenshin, could you go get the Neosporin?" Dark asked.
The red head left and returned in a matter of seconds. He uncapped the tube and handed it to Dark along with a few bandages then sat on the far end of the bed to watch as Dark applied the ointment and wrapped Kat's foot.
"You've seen worse huh?" Kat asked as the ointment began to numb her foot.
"Much," Dark assured. "That's what you get when you grow up with the wrong people..." with this he gave Kat a look that said he had still not forgiven her for earlier that day.
"Come on," Kenshin said as he picked Kat up, "we'll get you back into your room."
(A/N: Things were a little slow in this chapter (it was more of a filler than anything else...) but oh well! Hey, at least I got a new chapter up! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)