(A/n: THANKS TO ALL THE WONDERFUL REVIEWERS! And fuck all the flamers!!! *Evil grin* Thanks Lil Washu for dedicatin' your 'Master' Chapter to meh! I can't remember if it's ch. number 5, 6, or 7. I suffer from CRS ya know. (Can't Remember Shit) Anyhoo, chapter 5 is up now! I think this chapter may conclude this story but I may drag it on longer. I don't really have a clue! Now, enough of meh blabbering! On with the show/story/thingy!!!! My tab key isn't working!! Ok, now it is. . . . ^_^' )



Skater boy | Chapter 5



Allenby blustered away leaving Domon and Rain alone. She went home to plot her revenge. The seconds that ticked away turned in to minutes then turned into hours. The nurse would periodically come in and check on Rain. Three hours passed by so quickly it was almost disturbing. A knock on the door came and the nurse told Domon he had to leave or go to the waiting room. "Ms. Mikamura will be out shortly." She said as she nudged Domon out of the door.

"But, miss. I want to be with her." Domon argued with her.

"No." was her flat reply.

"Okay, fine." Domon sat down in a chair and crossed his feet and blew his cheeks out, keeping his mouth shut and rocked back in forth in his chair. Five minutes died and someone came up behind him and poked Domon's cheeks, causing him to make a funny squeaking noise. His lips remained stuck out as he looked up trying to see who it was. "Rain!" he suddenly smiled. She smiled back.

"Your so weird, Domon. Lets go. I don't like hospitals." she looked around and grabbed his hand. They walked out the doors just chatting and made their way to the car.

"Do you feel like going to school tomorrow? I can stay at your house with you if you want." Domon's concern for her will being made her smile.

"Yes, I think I'll go to school. You see, to me, school is just a good way to waste time between the weekends. And if I don't go to school, I would get pretty bored! Besides, I couldn't ask you to miss it just because of me. I guess I just over reacted when I got mad at you. I'm so sorry." She looked at him.

"No way Rain am I going to let you apologize to me. I'm the one that should be sorry! I suppose my head was just up my ass when I decided to lie about us being broke up and all that. You were totally right. When it comes to things like knowing what I want, I do, in fact, have the short end of the stick." he paused to let all this sink in. He turned a corner and then added, "I'm sorry."

"Nope. None of us is to be sorry. It was nobody's fault. Just blame it on fate." she smiled at her idea on who to blame.

"Okay, yeah! Great!" he like the idea and figured, what the hell, "Damn you, Fate!" Rain laughed at his comment and grabbed his free arm. He pulled up to her house and they both got out and headed for the door. They swung the door open and found her father sitting there, waiting for them.

"Where HAVE you been?! I've been worried sick! You know to call me, Rain, when you know you are going to be late. It's almost one in the morning! How do you two explain yourselves?" Mr. Mikamura was furious. He looked at both of them. Especially Domon. He didn't trust him or his family.

"Yes, do explain to us why you two are so late." Kyoji, Domon's older brother, appeared from the hall. The sound of the toilet flushing could be heard in the distance.

"Well, um, we went to the skate park and lost track of time." he lied.

"Uh huh, and without gear and when the park closes at ten?" Mr. Mikamura's voice sounded annoyed.

"Um, we got, uh, free passes to try out the new, er um, arcade. They said we could stay as long as we want." Rain tried her hand in the lie. They didn't want her father to know about the mini stroke. Kyoji and Mr. Mikamura eyed them suspiciously.

"Is this true?" Kyoji asked Domon.

"Yes."

"Very well. Lets go. Mom and Dad are worried sick." he began to walk out the door.

"See you at school, Rain."

"Bye." she said softly and made her way toward her room.



-----Saturday-----



The G Gang were all hanging out at the skate park. Everyone was skating at once. It was as if they were practicing for an imaginary skating tournament. Rain is about to do a 360 when she spotted Allenby walking toward her with a skateboard in her hand and her helmet and pads were already on her body.

She walked straight up to Rain and put on a meek smile. "Uh, Rain, can you teach me how to skateboard? I figured this would be a good way for us to get to know each other better and solve our differences. What do ya say?" she held out her hand for a handshake.

"All right. I will!" Rain smiled.

"Yay!" Allenby exclaimed and attempted to hug Rain. Rain stopped her before she could.

"Ah ah! No hugging. Unless their your boyfriend/girlfriend, then you can. But the hugging your friend thing is way to preppy. Please learn to control that, will you?" Rain laid it out.

"Okay, sure." Allenby agreed and clapped her hands. "Well, lets get started."



About five minutes later, Domon detected Rain and Allenby actually having fun together. We skated over to them and asked Rain if he could have a word with her. She agreed and told Allenby she'd be right back. Domon pulled Rain out of Allenby's earshot.

"What are you doing? I thought you hated her." he said under his breath.

"I know but, she seems very sweet now. She asked me to teach her to skateboard. I think she's calmed down a bit. Look, I gotta get back to her. She really wants to learn to skate." and with that, she kissed him on the cheek and rushed back to Allenby who was sitting on her skateboard and looking at beetle shuffling across the pavement. Allenby noticed Rain's shoes and looked up and gave her a smile.

"What did he say?" She asked Rain.

"Nothing really."

"Okay." she kept a smile on her face. 'Gullible fool.' she thought evilly. (A/n: ^_^ Foreshadowing!)

Later that night, Allenby was walking with Domon and Rain to where ever they went. They were walking on a sidewalk of a busy street. They had to be careful because between the right lanes and left lanes, there was a something like a small river that was headed toward an electrical power plant. It rains a lot where they live so this river is pretty deep and the current is rather fast.

The sun was setting and the sky was illuminated with orange, pink, and purple. Dark, ominous clouds were above them. Allenby looked up and seemed to be the only one to notice. "Hey, it looks like it's going to rain. I-I mean-We should hurry up. Those clouds could burst any second." Her observation caused Domon and Rain to look up and sigh in agreement. Allenby was on the end, closes to the river, Rain in the middle and Domon on the other end. Silence filled their mouths and they didn't say anything for about five minutes.

"Oooh I can't wait to get home! I'm so cold." Rain crossed her arms and put her hands on her upper arms.

"Well, I'll just have to warm you up when we get there!" Domon would have wrapped his arms around Rain but he was to busy warming himself up with his arms, like Rain was. Allenby frowned. The sun was now completely down. Aside from the street lights and the car lights, it was black out. Allenby stopped walking.

"Hey, Allenby? What's wrong?" Rain and Domon looked back at her and turned around. Allenby threw her head back and laughed. She stuffed her hands in her sweater pockets.

"What's so funny?" Domon deepened his voice.

"Yeah, what could possibly be so funny? Nothing happened!" Rain put in her two cents.

Allenby quit laughing and slowly put her head down with a smirk lurking on her lips. "You don't get it, do you?" she snickered. "Do you really think that I would want to befriend you, Rain Mikamura? I hate you. I have always hated you. And I'm not going to just stand by while you take Domon further and further away from me-" she was cut off.

"Feeling's mutual." Rain said.

"Right. Anyway; and there is only one way to get what I want. One way for Domon to have no choice but to have me as his own." Her right hand began to rise from her pocket. "Kill you, Mikamura."

Rain's eyes grew wide and Domon attempted to protect her. He dodged toward Allenby but somehow she knocked him down. Allenby's hand was all the way out of her pocket by now and the funny thing was, the hand was holding a gun and pointing it at Rain's head. "Oh god." Rain breathed.

"I don't believe it!" Domon gasped. He made another lunge at Allenby and fortunately she wasn't so quick to strike him down. He pushed her legs with his body and she lost her balance. She began to fall down into the river, however, she managed to take hold of Domon's arm on her way down. They all let out a scream, Rain's the loudest. She heard a splash and she immediately ran to the edge of the sidewalk and looked upon the river where she thought they might be. Domon was doing his best to stay afloat but something, or rather, someone was holding his leg and he couldn't stay up long enough to keep his breath. He kicked his legs and waved his arms in the freezing water.

Allenby was holding herself down on a metal step on the side of the river. 'If I can't have him, nobody can!' was her last thought. She fought to hold on to his leg longer.

Rain began desperate for Domon's life. 'I must be crazy!' she thought as she jumped off the ledge into the river. She looked around underwater and saw Allenby holding Domon down and his kicks were getting weaker and weaker. She swam over to Allenby and socked her in the face. Allenby released Domon's leg and Rain, afraid to lose him in the current wrapped her left arm around his waist and using her right arm swam to the metal steps. She climbed up them and carefully placed Domon on the sidewalk. She put her head to his chest and it wasn't moving.

"Damn it!" she began to sob. Suddenly she remembered that he had his cell phone. She reached in his pocket and found it.

'Thank God it's still there!' she said to her self as she dialed 911. The ambulance soon came and they revived him. He choked up water and took gasps of air. His eyes were wide when he saw Rain sitting next to him in the moving ambulance, soaking wet.

"She saved your life. If she were to call us any later than she did, you might not even be here with us." The metic said as he saw he was awake. Domon looked at her eyes. They were closed. She moved slightly and he realized she was sleeping. He looked up at the ceiling and tried to remember what he saw last.

"Rains face." he breathed.

"What was that?" the metic asked.

"Nothing." he closed his eyes. That last image of her ran through his head. She had punched Allenby in the face and grabbed him by the waist. Then he blacked out. 'She really did save my life. I didn't think this would ever happen. I'm supposed to be the one saving her! Oh well. At least we may not ever see Allen-bitch again.' He said as he too fell asleep.



YAY! It's finally over! This fantastic story is done. Who knows. I may do an epilogue but I may not. Who really knows. I don't! We'll all just have to wait and see. TOODLES!!!!! (c) copyright May 2003. (Not really)