Ochita: I don't own it very muchly so!

Chocolate kisses

"We have a problem." Enishi stated as they turned down the street, deciding it would be safer if they all took the less shady rout. Then again it wasn't like they couldn't handle themselves in a bad position.

"Oro? They did not like us. I do not see the problem de gozaru yo." Kenshin stated.

Aoshi hit him back upside the head and immediately he turned back into Battosai. It didn't look like the event that just passed fazed the stoic man. Yet both Enishi and Kenshin knew that that wasn't the case. Inside, the ice eyed man was just as shocked as they were.

"I see it more as a...challenge." Aoshi said letting a small smile play across his lips. Something he rarely ever did unless extremely amused.

"A challenge? I suppose that's what we came for in the first place but not this type of challenge." Kenshin shook his head then continued, "All I have to do is play sweet for that little tanuki musume and she'll come crawling to my bed."

"Perhaps, as for the Itachi musume I'd say it will be just as easy." Aoshi smirked.

They both turned to Enishi who was deep in thought. He'd had his eyes on the red eyed girl. She was strange and if he was correct spoke in the plural for some odd reason. He didn't really understand what that meant but the way she had outsmarted him already told him she had more tricks up her sleeve.

"You're wrong, that little viper is extremely smart." Enishi spoke.

"Actually, if you're asking my opinion, she seemed to look a bit...naïvely upon us." Aoshi spoke softly thinking back to the face said subject had given them when inspecting them. It reminded him of a little girl snooping around her big brother's room and finding something of which was unknown to her small mind.

"I don't know if she is or isn't but she spoke fluently and that came as a big surprise." Enishi said.

"I think that you're sour for loosing to her." Kenshin snickered.

Enishi glared at him, then smiled, "She didn't outsmart me. I caught her in her trap."

"So, why then, will this be so difficult?" Aoshi questioned.

"Because it was the fact that she was too smart that allowed me to corner her in her own game. I switched languages on her and she spoke back, meaning she understood me." Enishi smiled.

"Why did it even matter? We knew they spoke Japanese." Kenshin snorted.

"They could have feigned ignorance like she did when I spoke to her while she was using German and walked back to campus. Then not only would it look like we were harassing them but it would've also looked like we were taking advantage of the fact that they couldn't speak the language."

"So?" Kenshin asked. He didn't really get it.

"Then no woman on campus would trust us." Aoshi finished.

"Oh."

"You're right; it looks as if we can't outsmart them if they have her." Aoshi sighed.

"And we obviously can't seduce them for some weird reason." Kenshin growled.

"Then how the hell do we get to them?" Enishi seethed.

"Perhaps we can get them to trust us." Aoshi said aloud, although it sounded as though it were something he would think.

"How?" Kenshin asked.

There was silence for a while. The wheels in Aoshi, Enishi, and Kenshin's minds were all turning. Some more than others. They seemed to run through every scenario in their heads and still didn't come out with an answer. They thought of it for a while until Kenshin said, "Maybe seducing would work, I mean, they are, after all, only women. And we've only tried it once-"

"Correction, you've only tried it once." Enishi smiled.

"Shut up!" Kenshin snarled.

"If I remember correctly, they live in our building." That simple statement made by Aoshi made both Kenshin and Enishi freeze. Then Enishi sighed, "And what? Knock on their door and ask for a cup of sugar?"

"It'd be a start." Even though Aoshi had said it in a stoic manner, his friends could tell he was just kidding.

"Maybe that'd help us find out what interests them." Kenshin suggested, "I mean, if we're going to live so close to them we might as well get something out of it."

"We have one week before classes start." Enishi sighed.

The three were now on campus and walking down the pavement on the small hills of dark green grass that formed in the center of the vicinity. It was warm but humid, the climate very close to that of England. The trees swished in the breeze and busy new comers were looking for their dorms. The boys all sighed when they got to the building in which they stayed.

"Well I guess we should get some studying in. We can't have that getting in the way of our womanizing." Kenshin smiled.

They all went into the building and up the stairs. They entered the room and Enishi flopped down on the couch. He shoved his hand in his pocket and took out the card that Aoshi had put together for him. It had all his classes on it. He read it over...

Interpretation of Shakespeare: piece of cake.

Marine biology: Easy.

Psychology: sounds interesting.

Electromagnetic physics: What the?

Calculus/Differential Equations on the Subatomic level: ....

"AAAAOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHIIIIII!!!!!!"

Gensou passed the football to Misao, Misao to Kaoru, and Kaoru back to Gensou. All of a sudden Misao threw the football down and shouted, "Of all the nerve!!"

Kaoru snapped as well, "And he dared to touch me and say that...actually that was pretty fast thinking on his part." She said putting a hand on her chin.

"Kaoru!" Misao shouted.

"Oh yeah sorry."

Gensou just stood there listening to her friends.

What are they talking about? We don't get it. Their tunes change faster then the radio stations on a road trip.

"Why the heck were they following us anyway? Were they really that desperate?" Kaoru growled. "What are we? Some last resort?" She shrieked.

Etsuya was quivering in his master's hair. Gensou just stared at the two. There voices almost seemed fogged as they continued their angry tirade.

"WELL??!!" They both shouted at her in her face.

Gensou stared at them. All of a sudden a black fan popped into her hands and she opened it. For her this was the universal sign for 'We're thinking'. She held it there beside her face for a moment then flipped it shut with one hand quickly.

"We're sorry, we lost you." She apologized scratching the back of her head.

(Kaoru and Misao facevault.)

"What do you mean you lost us?!" Kaoru shouted.

"We don't understand you. You speak so awkwardly, using Japanese words but they all have some code meaning." Gensou laughed.

"What do you mean 'code meaning'. And what did that white haired guy say to you anyway? The way he was looking at you! Oooooo it makes me so angry! Hitting on you when you didn't even know his name!" Misao yelled in anger.

"Hitting on us? He wasn't even within arms length of us." Gensou said staring at them confused.

(Kaoru and Misao facevault again.)

"You've got to be kidding me!" Misao shouted.

"Now, now, Misao she never went to high school." Kaoru said in a calming way.

"I still want to know what was said!" Misao yelled.

"We tried to convince him that we were foreign exchange students."

"Oh." Kaoru and Misao said.

While Misao and Kaoru pondered this Gensou ran at them and tackled both, sending all three of them into the sea. Misao and Kaoru resurfaced sputtering out water and Gensou poked her head up so that her eyes were above the water so she could se the two. Both growled angered, looking for their offender. Gensou leapt out of the water with a wild cry and tackled both of them again. Misao and Kaoru popped up again howling with rage until bubbles came up around Kaoru.

"Kaoru!" Misao giggled.

Kaoru blushed and said, "That wasn't me, Misao."

They turned to where the bubbles came from and glared...then lunged at it. They both grabbed Gensou and brought her to the surface. Gensou laughed and splashed them. Misao and Kaoru looked at her, then at each other, and began to laugh as well. They all started to splash one another, not bothering to take off there cloths even though they had their swimsuits on underneath. Gensou tackled either Kaoru or Misao once in a while and they did the same to her as well as each other. They chased each other around laughing and giggling idiotically like children. After a bit they all stumbled out of the sea, laughing.

Flushed faces, mused hair, and cloths stuck to their bodies indecently, all girls hoped on their skateboards and rode back to the campus. The skated past people of who now knew that they were girls do to the fact that their cloths now fit their forms. They zipped past girls who screamed only eliciting giggles from the three. They all stormed up the steps of their building, Etsuya, of who had crawled quickly back into Gensou's pocket after her dip in the sea, came out and skittered into his master's hair after she took her hat off.

"Gensou, open the door." Misao whined.

"Our key, we forgot where we put it!" Gensou said clapping her hands on her head which jarred Etsuya making him curl into a ball in her hair.

"Did you even take the key out of the room?" Kaoru asked concerned.

Gensou opened her fan again to think, then snapped it shut again.

"No." she smiled giggling.

(Misao and Kaoru sweatdrop.)--; --;

"Gensou!!!!" They both shouted.

"Gensou!!!!" Kenshin heard two girls scream.

He popped his head out of the kitchen with an 'oro?' look on his face despite the fact that he was still amber eyed and irritated having to listen to Enishi's 'I hate any form of math!' speech earlier today. Then they all voted him for making dinner, only because they themselves couldn't cook.

Kami-sama, last time Aoshi cooked we had to call the fire department because the oven blew up. Who puts 8 cups of yeast in a loaf of bread anyway?

Kenshin sighed as he heard the yelling and complaining continue. He walked to the door and opened it up. Guess who he saw across the hallway? He couldn't keep the grin of his face as he ran upstairs and banged on, first Enishi's, then Aoshi's doors. The first door opened showing Enishi, no shirt on and his hair slightly mused from taking a 'cat nap' as Kenshin called it. Then Aoshi's door opened showing him with a book in his hands and reading glasses balanced on his nose. They both looked down at the short red head with annoyance.

"Guess who lives across the hall?" Kenshin grinned.

Both Aoshi and Enishi turned to each other for a second, back at Kenshin, and then scrambled down the stairs and to the door. Enishi opened the door to see three girls, all of which were wet with their cloths sticking to them and two of which were bent over a door knob, the other trying to get their attention.

"I'll break the door down!" One declared.

Kenshin began laughing at that and all three girls turned around. They stared at the boys with disbelieve etched on their beautiful faces.

"Look what we have here." Enishi grinned from ear to ear leaning in the doorway.

"Need some help?" Kenshin asked.

The girl with the lizard in her hair just sighed and tilted her head down while she leaned casually against the wall by the door, "Nien." She murmured.

"What?" The tanuki girl asked her friend.

"Gensou, did you know about this?!" The itachi girl demanded.

"Nien." She repeated as she shook her head back and forth.

"Well, do you need help or not?" Kenshin asked feigning impatiens.

"Not from you!" The tanuki girl growled.

"Then how are you going to open the door?" Aoshi asked, a smile curving to his lips.

Gensou looked up at him and smiled crookedly, "Well they won't listen to us so maybe we'll just tell you. This isn't the first time we've been locked out and we carry a lock pick just incase so we truly don't need any help, but thank you for the offer."

"You're welcome." Enishi smiled, then he frowned, "What do you mean not the first time? Aren't you a freshman?" He asked confused.

"No We're a junior."

"Honto ka?"

"Honto." She laughed.

"Woah, that makes you...21 like me right?" Kenshin asked with his face contorted as if he were trying to find a way for that not to be possible in his head.

"No." Gensou stated confused.

"You're 21?" the tanuki girl asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, what do you mean you're not 21?" He asked Gensou.

"We're 17." She smiled.

The itachi girl saw the three confused faces that were looking at Gensou as if she came from a different world.

"She skipped high school." She said.

Gensou had gotten slightly close to Aoshi and asked shyly, "Can we see your book, onegai?"

He gave it to her and she looked at the cover and asked, "You like slow moving books full of complications ne?"

"Most of the time." He answered.

"War and Peace is a good choice. So is The Art of War if you want a recommendation." She smiled handing it back to him.

"GENSOU!!!!" The girls shouted at her and she jumped in the air about two feet.

"Hai, hai." She sighed as she went to the door and shoved a hand in her pocket and dug out a lock pick. She began to shove it inside the lock when Enishi asked, "You guys take a dip?"

At first Kaoru and Misao didn't understand, then they looked down at their cloths and both shrieked at their appearance trying to blouse out their shirts.

"And you have been taking a nap." Gensou said laughing softly.

Enishi looked down and saw that he was bare-chested and that his hair as well as the rest of him probably had that 'just rolled out of bed' look. A small ting of pink came to his tanned cheeks and he looked up to see that the other two girls smirking at him. But that didn't really upset him. He just smirked and said, "Thanks for noticing." Implying that she'd been staring at him.

"Well it wasn't hard to tell. We could tell what all of you have been doing." Gensou said tying to pick the lock quicker. She was only speaking half mindedly.

"So ka?" Enishi laughed.

"Hai. The red-head has been cooking rice and daikon radishes. The tall man has been reading and listening to classical music. You have been asleep for two hours but before that you were working on you're math. If there is anything else you'd like to know about your day or yourself in general by all means, please ask us." Gensou said casually.

The other two girls were snickering. The boys looked at the back of the short girl with utter disbelief. How had she known? Then Enishi grinned, "You three have been throwing a football back and forth, then you took a swim in the sea, after that you probably rode home."

"Oi, how did you know we'd been throwing a football?" Kaoru asked suspiciously.

"The ridges of the football are still imprinted on your palm. Also suggesting that the ball is to big for your hand so as to not risk breaking it you should get a smaller one." He smirked, then turned to Gensou and asked, "How did you know I was doing math before I took a nap?"

"The graphite from the pencil has smudged on your wrist. Math is usually the only subject you wouldn't use either a laptop or a pen for so we were assuming you were doing just that. Drawing up another conclusion, you wore your mind out trying to understand the subject thusly leading to your nap. That and you look like you just rolled out of bed. You got frustrated with the subject and broke your pencil too." Gensou replied softly, a small click was heard and the door opened.

Enishi narrowed his eyes, "How could you know that I broke my pencil?" He hated it when people knew he was frustrated with something, it was a sign of a potential weakness.

Gensou turned around and smiled softly at him, reached in her pocket and dug out a pair of tweezers. She grabbed Enishi's wrist and turned over his palm. There, inside the base of his palm was a splinter and she also pointed out that he had the yellow paint from the pencil beneath his nails indicating that he had dug them into the pencil in his frustration towards the subject. She carefully removed the splinter and reached in her pocket pulling out a band aid that was somehow magically dry despite the fact that she'd been swimming, and applied it to his palm. They all looked disbelieving at her that she could possibly notice something so small.

Then Enishi purred, "Will you kiss it for me to make it better?" looking at Gensou in a seductive manner.

He could see outrage written all over the other two girls' faces but Gensou was giving him a 'Huh?' look. Then she smiled and giggled, "Oh, we get it!" She then reached in her pocket and pulled something out and stuffed it in Enishi's hand. Something that was also magically dry. Then she waved at them all and walked inside. The other two girls were glaring at Enishi and stormed in after their friend, slamming the door behind them. Letting the boys see the nametags on the door which read, Kaoru , Misao, and Gensou Enishi looked down at what Gensou had given him. o0;

It was a chocolate kiss.

Gensou, Kaoru and Misao had all taken a shower and were dressed, save Kaoru who was still wandering around in a yukata. Misao and Kaoru both grabbed Gensou and sat her down on the couch while kicking a few books off of it so they could sit. They were ready to explain to her everything they knew about boys.

"Gensou, do you know what flirting is?"

"Of course. To flirt: (v.) 1 Trifle or toy with an idea. 2 to move with a jerk or jerking motion, to dart. 3 to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet. 4 to-"

"Whoa, whoa, stop at the last one, 3." Kaoru said.

"Yes, what about it?" Gensou asked curiously.

"Do you know how to flirt?" Misao asked.

"Hai...okay maybe...no not really. Uhh...you bat your eyelashes and stuff." Gensou shrugged and displayed the motion, batting her eyelashes and giving both Kaoru and Misao a big eyed stare.

Misao and Kaoru both put there faces in there hands.

"Let's try something else." Misao sighed.

"Do you know when someone is flirting with you, also referred to as being 'hit on'." Kaoru asked with a hopeful smile.

"We wouldn't know, we've never been 'hit on'." Gensou chirped.

"And there goes our lead." Kaoru sighed.

"Gensou, that white haired guy was flirting with you." Misao tried to explain.

Gensou giggled, "No he just wanted the chocolate in our pocket, he is very observant."

"Oh, please don't tell me you..."Kaoru trailed off as Gensou held up a chocolate kiss and said, "See."

Misao giggled and Kaoru sighed a mushroom cloud. Maybe they could get their friend to understand if they showed her somehow. They'd never get her to sit still long enough to watch a romance movie but maybe...

"Hey, I've got a romance novel!" Kaoru smiled.

"A novel! That sounds interesting!" Gensou grinned.

Kaoru ran up the stairs and went to her carry-on suitcase of which she took on the plane. This would hopefully work. She walked back down with her book, Diane. She sat on the couch next to Gensou who was on the other side of Misao. She gave the book to Gensou and told her to read the back. After she did her face was a flaming bright red as well as Misao's.

"KAORU!!!" Misao shouted.

"What? Oh as if you've never read one!" Kaoru accused.

"Well...I...oh forget it! I thought you were going to start with something small! She won't get half of that." Misao sighed.

"It's pretty self explanatory throughout the entire book. There's the good guy and the bad guy. The plot was just explained on the back. You understand don't you, Gensou?"

"My friend tried to get us to read one of these types of books. We're afraid we weren't very fond of it and stopped about half way through." Gensou said smiling apologetically and scratching the back of her head.

"Why didn't you like it!?" Kaoru exclaimed, "What's there not to like. It's got love, and suspense , not to mention se-"

"Whoa, whoa, Gensou just tell us what you didn't like about the book." Misao cut in.

"Well, it felt like we were sticking our nose into someone else's affair. It seemed a lot more private than the other books we've read. We mean, it was none of our business what those two people did in there time together." Gensou blushed as she remembered just how far she got into the book.

"Gensou, it's a novel, the characters are fictional, purely for your own entertainment." Kaoru explained.

"Hai, but still, we didn't understand...some things. We ended up looking up words in the dictionary that...well...when they were used in the context of the sentence, didn't make sense."

"Like what?" Misao asked curiously.

"Like some of the things you and Kaoru speak of. That and we didn't understand...other things." Gensou said her face now flaming.

"Oh, brother. She didn't take health!" Kaoru groaned.

"Do you know the facts of life? Tell me you do." Misao pleaded.

Gensou's face was bright red, "Yeah, sort'a. We just didn't understand all that other stuff the book threw into that...act. You see it didn't make sense so we stopped, we didn't even get into it that much and to tell you the truth we didn't really want to."

"What about love and romance. You can't tell me you don't understand those." Misao said as if it were the worst thing possible not to.

"Actually at the moment we seek no...male companionship besides that of our close guy friends." Gensou smiled.

"What?! No! Gensou you can't give up on romance." Kaoru screeched.

"We can't give up on something we never put any faith in to begin with Kaoru." Gensou laughed.

Kaoru put on a determined face. She grabbed Gensou by the collar and shouted, "You will have a boyfriend within the week, is this understood?"

"A friend that happens to be a member of the male gender?" Gensou squeaked out hopefully.

"Someone you can kiss, and not with chocolate." Misao growled.

"To the mall!" Kaoru shouted.

"You might want to change." Gensou smiled dumbly pointing out the fact that Kaoru was still in a yukata.

-o-; Kaoru sighs a mushroom cloud. "Hold her for me."

"Hai."

Kaoru went upstairs to get changed. She came down with makeup on in tight hip hugger jeans and a tube top. She looked as if she had a great deal of work ahead of her. She may be a tom boy but she'd never give up on romance or let a friend do so for the matter. Together Misao and Kaoru dragged Gensou out to the 'dreaded' mall. Kaoru explained that they were going to go clubbing on there way down the hall.

"Anou...we just turned 17 this July." Gensou said, "We're under age, we can't go into a club."

"We'll sneak you in." Misao sighed then growled, "You're a shinobi, something I know for a fact, you could sneak in easily."

"But...we can't dance." Gensou said softly.

"That's why you should've gone to high school. You'll learn, the guy leads you." Kaoru shrugged.

Little did they know that while they were saying this going down the hall someone heard them...three someones.

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