Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Hot Gimmick, I'm just borrowing the characters...

Unexpected Love Chapter 2- Disaster

"I'm Ryoki, Ryoki Tachibana."

All of a sudden, everyone around the room started whispering to each other. 'So this is the guy everyone's been talking about, huh? Well I guess he is cute, although I'm not sure I go for the nerdy types, but in a way...'

"It's nice to meet you Mr. Tachibana—."

"No, call me Ryoki, all my friends do," he said with a sly smile, pushing his glasses up his nose and glancing around the room.

"Well, um, Mr—um—Ryoki, it's a pleasure to have you in our homeroom. Why don't you take a couple minutes and introduce yourself to your classmates?"

"Um, sure, Mrs...what's your name?"

"Miss Stanley, I'm substituting for your regular teacher, Miss Comstock."

"Okay, well, as you know, my name's Ryoki. My mom's the new principal here. We moved here from Tokyo, but my English is really good. While I was in Tokyo, I went to Kaisei Academy, an elite all-boys school. I would have gone straight to NYU, since I have been accepted 2 years early, but my mother wanted me to stay and finish school here."

"How interesting, well, you certainly are an instant celebrity, I'm sure you'll have no problems making friends."

"Thank you I—." The bell rang.

"Okay kids," Miss Stanley yelled over the din, I'll see you all tomorrow, have a nice day!"


"Can you believe how cute he is?" Akane said to her friend Lisa at the lunch table. "Ryoki is just adorable; I bet he's a great kisser."

"I know, and did you see all the girls fawning over him?" Lisa asked back. "I wonder which one is going to be the lucky girl."

"Who says there has to be just one? Well I certainly hope he notices me, I wouldn't mind going out with him at all," Akane said, fishing through her lunchbox. "Yuck, PBJ again! I thought I told my mom not to make me this anymore. Plus, it's not cool to bring lunches to school, that's elementary school stuff."

"Well, anyway, I bet you won't be able to get anywhere near Ryoki for the rest of the week, there'll be a circle around him 5 girls deep. Good luck catching his attention," Lisa said, taking a bite out of her apple.

"Oh, I will, mark my words. I always get what I want."


Hatsumi walked over to the tree where she had eaten lunch every single day for the past two years.

"Hey Hatsumi!" her friend Subaru Yagi yelled, ruffling his unruly hair. "Can you believe all this stuff about that new kid Tachibana? The whole school's a-flutter about him."

"Hey, Subaru," she said, walking over and letting her back pack drop with a thud. "Yeah, I can believe it, he's in my homeroom. I don't know, he seems kind of cocky to me."

"Well, any self-respecting genius would be. The guy's insane. I saw him down in the comp. lab with the teachers in there. Turns out there was this huge virus circling the computers and he nullified it in 5 minutes flat. He's amazing," Subaru said.

"Anyway, changing the subject, what classes do you have today?"

"Let's see, Mrs. Smith for English, Sñ. Jones for Spanish, and Mrs. Fritz for Bio. Ugh, I hate that class..."

"My sympathies, I had her last year."

"What classes did you have?" Subaru asked with a mouthful of sandwich.

"Gross, do you have to talk while you're eating?" Hatsumi said with a tone of disgust.

"Mmm grmm uumms."

"Whatever. I had Mrs. Huges for Chem., a free period, and then French with some weird guy with really bad breath. I can't pronounce his name for my life."

"Mmm gmm," he swallowed. "Mr. Alcantara?"

"Yeah that's it."

"What else is new with you?"

"Not much, I just remembered something I have to do. I have to go to the library and print up my friend's fanfic for her, she wanted me to read it!"

"Okay, have fun, I'll see you back at school. We have math together, right?"

"Right, talk to you later," Hatsumi said as she grabbed her bag and walked back to the school building. 'Well,' she thought, 'the day's almost half over, and then I can go home. I always felt so crowded here.'


The last bell of the day rang. 'Finally,' Hatsumi thought, 'I'm free!' She ran out of her last class and down the hall to her locker just as people were filling out of their respective classes.

"Hatsumi," Akane appeared next to her, followed by her friends. "I'm going to stay after school today and hang out; I want to catch up with everything everyone's been doing."

"Okay then," she said, putting books into her backpack. "I'll let mom know where you are and see you at home."

"Thanks a bunch. Oh yeah, isn't Daddy coming home today?"

"I think so; I'll let him know where you are, too. Okay?"

Suddenly Hatsumi got bumped from behind. "Hey, watch were you're standing!" yelled a kid behind her.

"You know, you should have really told that guy off, you've gotta be more assertive with people," Akane said. "Well, I'm going, I'll see you when I get home."

"See you later."

Hatsumi finished putting her books in her locker and headed downstairs to the library; there was a book there she wanted to check out. On the way she stopped in the guidance office and checked the college visits list, she didn't want to miss when Cornell came!

On the desk in front of her were some typed pages. It looks like someone's study pages, she thought, flipping through it. Wait a minute, these aren't study page, these are the answers to Mr. Warren's next economics test! But where did they find them? How did they get them? Hatsumi debated leaving them there, just letting someone else find them, but it was her civil duty to take these into the office and report them to the principal. 'What if Mrs. Tachibana thinks that I'm the one who stole them?' she thought, suddenly changing her mind. 'No, no, she'll just have to believe that it wasn't my fau—'

"What have you got there?" someone behind her said.

Hatsumi spun around. 'Uh oh,' she thought.

Author's note Thanks to everyone who has reviewed my stuff, I'm still in the making with this whole thing. I've been trying to get to get a category for Hot Gimmick but they still haven't. Anyway, I still have to read #4 so I don't know quite how far I'm going to take things, but I'll soon let you know. I should have chapter 3 up in about a week!