Hey guys. First of all, I am so sorry I haven't updated. I've been busy. =/ Trying to revise/edit my completed book (that's not a fanfiction) and do this is a lot of work - plus I'm starting yet another book and I'm bushed... ;

Hope you enjoyed the latest chapter. I know I did. So.. yeah. Thanks for the reviews and words of support!!
–Ditox-chan


I wanted to avoid her the best I could, but something kept pulling me towards her. Tomoe was very excited about the two of us. I couldn't believe it at first, but the better I got to know her, the more I really began to like her. She wasn't just another face in the crowd. She was... different. She had a huge heart and a beautiful smile she flashed often. By the time my soccer game started, I began to think twice about Sanosuke's plan.

She met me at the doors after school. I gave her my nicest smile and she beamed with happiness. Not that she was dating the most "popular guy in school" as her friends were saying, it was because I wasn't trying to act cool around her. She was happy I was just being myself. She told me this as we walked down towards the soccer field, talking about nothing in particular but enjoying ourselves immensely.

She sat in the front bleachers, watching us with interest as we warmed up and punted soccer balls into the net. Enishi was not present. I had no clue where he was – but I no longer cared that Tomoe came to my game. She could come to as many as she wished. And me – well, this one will be at every one of her field hockey games, cheering her on with the loudest voice there is.

When the game was half over and Enishi still hadn't arrived, (we didn't need him, though. We were royally beating the other team.) I walked across the field and sat next to her a moment. "Hey, where's your brother? He's the only one missing from the team today, that he is."

She shrugged. "I'unno, really. He said he had other plans." She closed her eyes innocently and leaned forward on her knees. "He said something about takin' some guy out of his mind. Don't really know what he meant."

Well, that proved it. He knew - and he wasn't happy about it. Enishi would beat up anybody at any given time, but usually the whole school has heard about the crime first before the culprit gets his face beaten in. This time, no one one knew anything – except Tomoe, Sano, and I, of course. Nobody else needed to know. ..Well, except for Enishi, of course. But how had he figured it out? Maybe Tomoe had said something. I wouldn't be surprised.

We finished the game and won. She cheered and jumped for joy. She was excited. She didn't fake a minute of her enthusiasm. She was as vibrant and lovely as Kaoru-dono. Maybe I should call the whole plan off and just stay like this – just me and Tomoe. While we walked back toward school, she was saying things to me very happily, but I couldn't focus. I knew she was chattering away in her jovial tone as always, but it was if the sound was not reaching my ears. I was too busy thinking.

I did not sleep that night. The thought of "using" Tomoe was overwhelming. I felt morose. How had I allowed Sanosuke to talk me into such a horrible idea? Just thinking that I had at once thought that I would abandon a pleasing girl like Tomoe just for another was extremely distressing. Another sleepless night in my lonely home. Why had I let myself be persuaded into such a distasteful plan?

Come morning, I was destined to tell Sanosuke the truth. In just a day I had fallen madly in love with a different girl. I had taken the whole night to ponder what I wanted to do. I came across the thought that maybe I should just avoid girls until I get into college. At first I thought it was brilliant, but as dawn progressed I realized how much slower my life would move without, uh, women. But that's besides the point, that it is.

I staggered into school that morning, drowsy and my heart confused. I kept myself quiet throughout the day – I tried to seclude myself from others so that I had what little time left to think. I needed to sleep. I needed to apologize to Tomoe. I should tell her what we were doing. But I knew in my heart that if I did, it would only mess up the plan further.

I couldn't focus in class. I couldn't hear the discussions revolving around me or the instructions by the teacher. I was caught four times falling asleep. It's odd how teachers can be tutoring a class and focusing in on a book or chalkboard and still catch everything you commit. By lunch time, I'd dozed off in class at least once but, to my own personal surprise, was not caught even once.

I unintentionally gave the lunch clerk a few cents less than the actual price and almost gained a detention. She bapped me in the head with her little money-purse-thing and forced me to fish out the few quarters I still had hidden in the seams of my pockets. I got off easy, but she threatened me with detentions coming from all directions.

Sano had apparently seen the whole thing – to tell the truth, I thing pretty much every girl in the school had as well. You think some chubby lady like that one could be softer, but she had to shriek every word and then bat my brains out with a packet full of solid coins! I could still feel the bump pounding when I finally sat down – the giggles of the girls erupted in the surrounding tables. I wanted to plop my face into the chicken gravy. Lunch ladies are so abusive.

I was only given a minute to rest before Sano would come to the table, still laughing from the incident. I was tempted to throw something at him, but I think my arms would've fallen off if I had even tried. I've never tried so hard to stay awake before.

"Didn't get any sleep last night, I take it?" He said between snickers. "How's the plan going? Find any faults in the master scheme yet? And by the way – that episode with the lunch clerk – priceless, Himura. Priceless!" He erupted into another series of haughty laughter. I couldn't bring myself to answering him – It was hard enough forcing myself to sit up!

He waved his head in before my eyes a minute, pausing to look at awkwardly and muttering, "You look like you haven't slept 'cause of a girl. Bring all your heartbreaker problems to me, buddy!"

God. How did he do that?!

I explained my whole position to him after school. He was a little upset that his plan was backfiring. He told me to do so many things and I refused, but yet he had a solution for everything. "Dump her!"

And that, my friends, is how the birds eat the bees.


Hi guys... I really liked that chapter... I thought the humor was fun like that last sentence... I hope you like it too. Oh, um, might I ask when you review that you don't complain about Kenshin and Tomoe... I know everyone hates her and I know you want it to be Kaoru and I know that you detest her beyond all figures of the universe. And so you know, I hate her too so I feel your pain. xx; I'd appreciate it so much. Here's the scoop for my faithful readers:
- I'm trying to follow the Kenshin story. I mean, Tomoe and Kenshin, then Kaoru later and whateverrrrr, I've just put them all in like, the same time zone, in a school community... and if you've seen the Kenshin OVAs like Alendra has made me, you'd know something particular happens to Tomoe........so...yeah! XD No need for complaints, you'll be rejoicing soon!
-Ditox-chan