A/N: I tried to edit the first chapter, but nothing happened. I hope this chapter's turns out better.....

Sano: Heck, thanks a lot to you, Misao beated me up!

Me: (groan) Tori-atama AGAIN..?

Sano: What do you think?

Me: I swear, can't you just get out for once? I'm trying to think here!!!!

Sano: So?

Me: (groan).......

Megumi: Sano bothering you again?

Me: Take a look at him and me. What do you think?

Megumi: Oh.

Kaoru: (appears with Kenshin) Hey! Do you all know where Misao went?

Me: No....

Megumi: I didn't see her this morning either....

Sano: Well, I did hear her say something about seeing ice man....

Me: Lemme have three guesses....the first two are wrong, so the answer is Aoshi, right?

Sano: .....smarty ass.....

Me: WHAT DID YOU SAY!?

Kenshin: Now, now. Calm down...the two of you won't start a fight, right?

Me: (glares at Sano) If the baka shuts up, I'll be perfectly happy about it.

Sano: If the author goes to hell, I'll be extremely satisfied.

Me: WHAT DID YOU SAY, TORI-ATAMA!? YOU'RE GOING IN HELL IF YOU DON'T KEEP YOUR STUPID MOUTH SHUT!!! (The rest: sweatdrop)

Sano: All right, all right (mutters) Jeez, you sonofabitch.....

Me: EXCUSE ME!?

Disclaimer: Do I have to go through this? I don't own Rurouni Kenshin or its characters or its plot (which on this story, I'm not even bothering to use it) at all. (sigh) There, you happy?

Me: Oh yeah.....forgot. Mostly, I'll update probably......don't know about my stupid plans this week or the summer....

Kaoru: Counting on your mother, I'll say that you'll have time to update.

Me: True....

Kaoru: Then again, you have tutoring, and you have to go to your friend's home, and-

Me: Is that all, Kaoru? I'm starting to have some plans mixed up.

Kaoru: Well.....okay. But, can I have some time with Kenshin ALONE?

Me: Go ahead, I have nothing to do with this. All I need to do is begin this chappie.... (sighs)

Chapter 2 Aoshi's answer

Aoshi Shinomori, an icy, expressionless eighteen-year old, was looking at himself in the mirror, getting ready just so he can get through his day. Besides, the fact that he nearly stayed up until two in the morning, watching some boring old movie with his father.

"Aoshi!!!"

It was his mother.

"If you don't hurry up, you'll be late!"

"Okasaan, I'll hurry. What time is it?" he asked as he grabbed his school jacket.

"About seven fifteen. Your father and I have to work, you know,"

"I know that, I know that....."

Aoshi then ran out of the door before he even said good-bye to his parents when he ran off.

Shit, and I'm going to later than usual, thanks a lot to the stupid movie that I saw with my father, he thought as he made his way towards the next corner towards the gate of the school. Then he saw someone else was there.

It was Sanosuke.

"Well, well. If it isn't the ice block," he greeted Aoshi.

He loathed that nickname his friend gave him. When he was eleven, Aoshi became expressionless and he had an icy heart. With that, Sano and Kenshin were his only friends, so Sano gave him the nickname just so he can laugh. The only answer Sano got?

"...ohayou, you idiot."

Then he left to go inside the school towards his first period class. Besides the fact that he always was the first one to be in first period, he just did nothing but read a book. He was this close to being the most boring person anyone knew.

And then again, most girls fall in love with him just because of his looks.

Aoshi didn't want anyone to fall in love with him; he didn't even want to have a girlfriend. But there was one particular person in mind....

The bell rang for seven fourty-five.

Everyone then started to fill into the classrooms for first period to begin. Then he noticed Sano and Kenshin.

They're with the girls: Megumi, Kaoru, and Misao.

Misao...

He looked to see the young, energetic girl, who was chatting with tanuki and kitsune.

"Hey, Aoshi,"

Aoshi looked up to see Kenshin and Sano, standing next to his desk.

"Hello, Himura. Nice to see you, tori-baka," Aoshi scowled at Sano's sight.

"Well, apparently, I wan't too fond of what you said this morning, icy boy," Sano smirked. "I'm not that much of an idiot to Kitsune here...she might as well have some feelings about me, you know."

"Nice to know..." Kenshin muttered in a "sure....we get it" tone.

The three were about to talk about some other subject when they heard,

"NANI!!!!????"

Everyone at their class started at Misao, who was the one who screamed out the word. Even Aoshi, Sano, and Kenshin noticed.

"So," They heard Kaoru say. "So you take our little dare?"

"Dare?"

The girls looked to see Kenshin and Sano, who was with Aoshi. They had no entire clue to what's going on with the female trio.

"Oh...um...well..." Kaoru, Misao and Megumi said at the same time.

"I need an answer, not 'Oh....um...well...'"Sano said, tapping his foot impatiently.

Kaoru was the one to talk.

"That, we have to keep in a little secret. We won't tell you anything. YET,"

"Fine then," Aoshi said, which apparently was curious about what they said and annoyed at Kaoru's answer. "But, we will find out soon."

Misao giggled. Aoshi, Kenshin, and Sano turned to look at her.

"You'll see..."

Then the whole class resumed to what they were doing before they even heard what Misao had to say.

I wonder what their little dare was, Aoshi thought. I don't know, but it might have been Misao's dare....but what was it that made her a bit nervous?

"Yo, Shinomori,"

Sano snapped him out of his thoughts.

"You okay?"

".....what do you think baka?" Aoshi asked.

"So.....you didn't say your answer after that incident at first period," Kaoru was talking to Misao at lunch and she wanted to know what Misao had to say.

"....I dunno...it's not that I like Aoshi or anything..." Misao scowled.

"Oh, come on!" Megumi smiled gently. "The reason that we did that you had that crush on him in fifth grade! Since he became icy, we figured that-!"

"No, no, no, no!!!!" Misao exclaimed. "There is no way I'm trying to melt this guy's heart. The girls might get jealous of me!!!"

"So?" Kaoru and Megumi asked.

Oh boy, Misao thought. Kaoru and Megumi just can't give up....Guess I'll have to stick in. But I'm not going to use him AT ALL.

"Fine...I'll do it," Misao sighed.

"All right!" Kaoru and Megumi exclaimed, slapping high-five.

"But, there might be consequences to this, you know," she said slyly.

Both Megumi and Kaoru then got scared.

"One, I'm not going to use his as a toy. Two, it's just a stupid dare. Three, I don't even think about this guy!" Misao explained to them.

Both Kaoru and Megumi sweatdropped.

"There, you all happy?" Misao asked them.

"I still think number three's wrong," Megumi said.

"Doushite???"

"Because," Megumi smirked. "You DO think about this guy......you just don't admit it to us. You're probably embarrassed...right?"

"............" Misao started to bang her head with a book, "Kami- sama......dasukete, onegai....."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"You know, we have to know what the girls were talking about this morning,"

Sano was in the gym with Kenshin and Aoshi as they were practicing with their bokken before their usual class begins. Ever since the incident this morning, Sano and Kenshin were wondering about the "dare" that the girls were talking about during first period.

Wonder what got weasel girl excited? Sano thought. I mean, she has that crush on Aoshi Shinomori since she was little. Now, I mean, she's trying to melt his icy-self away, even though she doesn't tell both Jou-chan and Kitsune that she still has this crush on him. And, still-

"YO, SANO!!!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!"

"Eh?"

Before both Kenshin and Aoshi (he never really wanted to warn him in the first place) realized what was headed toward Sano, it just gave him a BIG smack in the head.

Actually, it made a HUGE bump on his head.

By that, he fell down, smacking headfirst towards the floor.

"Oh crap....." someone muttered.

Kenshin then shouted, "Someone!!!! Get the sensei!!!!!"

Megumi then came running in the gym.

"Oh my-! I'm sorry, Sano! I'm REALLY , REALLY sorry!!!"

"Errm...Megumi?" Kenshin asked.

"Yeah????"

"He's knocked out cold; not dead,"

Aoshi softly smirked as a volleyball rolled towards him.

Stupid idiot....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Later, in the clinic, Megumi was next to Sano when he woke up.

(groan....) "Where in the hell am I??"

Megumi sighed, "In the clinic, tori-atama. I'm sorry for smacking you with the volleyball at gym...."

"So, you threw the ball and gave me the HUGE smack on my head???" Sano smirked.

Megumi nodded.

"Ah....kitsune," Sano then wrapped his arms around her. "It's all right...I mean, even Jou-chan and koshii hit me with a certain object without knowing. It's not really your fault. If I had been more careful, then I wound have know."

"Oh, then smack Aoshi instead??" Megumi muttered.

"...." Sano was silent for a while. "Yeah.....next time, can you let ICE BOY take the hit?"

"And make Misao angry with you?" she softly smirked.

On second thought, Sano thought as a scary picture of Misao getting furious and beating him came to his mind. Let Kenshin take the hit from the volleyball.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After school was over, Misao took a look around her class.

No one but Aoshi was there.

Good, she thought. I'm safe to ask him without any embarrassment.

"Aoshi?"

Aoshi looked up to see Misao at the door of the classroom.

"........."

"So....um....can I ask you something...?"

"....what is it?"

Misao started to ask, but then, she paused.

"Misao? Are you ready to ask me yet?"

Then Misao blurted it out.

"Can you go on a date with me???"

There, I said it, Kaoru, Misao thought as if Kaoru was there. Are you happy?????

Aoshi looked at her if he didn't understand the question.

"Misao....?"

"Yeah?"

"Is this a joke or something?"

"Um....." Should I lie??? "Not really......."

"Aah......." I'm guessing that this was their dare to Misao. Asking me on a date.

"So?" Misao was tense to what his answer was.

"....all right. What day and time would you want this to happen?"

"Um...." Misao was now panicking. "Saturday?? About....ten-thirty?"

"Sounds fair enough," Aoshi smirked.

A/N: Aoshi accepted her "dare", so what happens next? You gotta foind out by reading!! Oh, and by the way, I would like to thank my first reviewer: indigochipmunk. Thank you sooooo much, you are VERY nice. Now, if the rest you meanies can review, I'll be very glad. Okay???? Goooddd.......