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Chapt 2: Project?!

Rukawa Kaede was bored.

He could vaguely hear the teacher droning on and on about the history of Japan—about Samurais and feudal lords, which he decided, was not any of his concern since he was not planning to be a samurai in future. Perhaps if the teacher was talking about basketball players like Michael Jordan, he might just sit up and take notice.

But then again, he reasoned, teachers were too stupid to think up of such interesting topics to talk about. After all, their heads were even emptier than a basketball.

Ignoring the teacher as usual, he let his thoughts drift, while his eyelids droop. He had mastered the art of thinking with his eyes closed and with drool coming out of his mouth. After all, closing his eyes should help even more with his concentration, shouldn't it?

Sifting through his memories of the past few days to find something interesting to dream about, he was suddenly confronted of one with a wet moistened mouth stuck to his lips. At first thought, he was disgusted.

It was his first kiss and he had actually given it to a pig! Well, not exactly a pig, considering the fact that the girl in question did indeed have big, blue eyes that seemed to look right into his soul, black wavy hair that he would love to run his hands through, and red lips that tasted of—

Wait. Where did those perverted thoughts come from?

Shaking his head to clear his mind of unlawful thoughts and visions of lips, he decided that the kiss must have robbed him of his sanity. He was, after all, the Iceman, and besides the fact that it was the stupid kiss's fault, he could not think of any other reasons that would make him think of that girl. Or it could probably be the fact that there was nothing else better to do here, what with the sensei talking about some uninteresting idea of having a pair work thing whereby an intellectually challenged person would pair up with an intellectually advanced one to increase their EQ ... mashimoto fuji would pair with kenji naoki, Rukawa Kaede would pair up with Riko Irie—

What? Not another troublesome girl again...

Turning his head, he looked around for his partner, so that he could give her another one of his killer stares to warn her not to mess with him.

That must be the one... The one who is glancing at me..

Settling his face into his usual icy cool mask, he moved his eyes steadily up her face.

She looks familiar... just like...

Their eyes met.

The girl I kissed that day.

A/N: yippee!! He's taking note of her! jumps about happily blah not sure if he's too o/c in this chapt... review and tell me how to improve k!!