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Note: Italics, asides from the 'quoted' ones are thoughts. Underlines are English.

Chapter 2

Akemi smiled, thinking about the look Shiho had on her face as she left the house. Shiho was not happy, and she was quite the genius when it came to showing it. Well, at least I won't have to worry about her safety – even yakuzas would stay from that face. She laughed to herself at that notion, and went back into the house.

Shiho, on the other hand, wasn't half as 'cheery' as her sister. She was tired, tired, and sleepy. Not to mention, she was practically dragged out of bed and kicked out of the house - literally.

Why am I living in a dorm again? I live right 'there.' If our apartment were on fire, I would be able to see the lovely bonfire. That's how close the school and the apartment is, what's so hard to understand? She sighed. Besides, who would send their younger sister off to live with some 'random' guy, Shiho thought irritably as she walked around looking for her room. The fact that no one was at school yet didn't help her much either.

She walked around campus aimlessly, and it took her a while before she even found what seemed like a room – then she found more rooms just like it.

"This 'better' be it," Shiho muttered frustratingly.

The reason of her aggravation…? She had walked in circles around the dormitory a few times, but never noticed the odd turn that led to one of the dorm rooms – more precisely, 'her' dorm room. It was barely visible, how was I supposed to know there was a room there?

She didn't even notice the turn the first and second time around the building. What annoyed her the most, however, was the fact that she 'did' see it the third time around – it was just that she shrugged it off thinking it led to a damned broom closet. But by the 'seventh' time around, she figured why not.

When you go around the same place in circles for a very long time, there's nothing you don't notice 'and' check out. Other than that, the fact that school would be starting soon didn't make her morning any better – in fact, it only added on to the frustration.

As soon as she confirmed that this was indeed her room – the key 'actually' fit! She hastily opened the door, anxious to get at least a minute worth of sleep. As soon as she stepped in and looked at the room, however, all thoughts of sleep eluded her and she slammed the door back shut.

In regards to living with someone else, Shiho's theory was that when you live with someone like Akemi, who would constantly tease you all day, that's as worse as it get in terms of roommates. Shiho, however, found out that that didn't necessarily constitute as the truth – quite the contrary in this case. Hell, she kind of missed Akemi 'now.'

While she was contemplating this ambivalent relationship she had with her sister, Shiho semi-consciously made her way back to the entrance. Then she proceeded to walk back and forth as if to guard the area – at this point, missing the dorm manager was clearly not an option.

After a while of waiting, the impassive expression Shiho sported altered into an intimidating glare that threatened that if she did not find her target soon, she 'will' go and tear this place apart. Forget about getting any sleep now.

It was at this precise moment, the moment that she reached the pinnacle of rage, that she caught glimpse of the poor dorm manager. Honestly, 'she' of all people practically ran up to this girl and jumped her – if you understand how she felt at the moment.

She didn't even hesitate. She wanted out of that room and 'now.' "I want a room change… 'immediately,'" she demanded, stressing the importance.

The girl, obviously frightened, didn't think twice about obliging. She scampered around all over the place to find the list of room assignments but either due to fear or clumsiness, she wasn't very… 'efficient.' To put it bluntly, she was beginning to test Shiho's temper.

The dorm manager, name unknown, was apparently the naïve, timid, and well-mannered type. She was also 'very' clumsy, with a special emphasis on the word very. It really wasn't an exaggeration, just that wherever she went, ink would spill, pens would scatter, papers would fall over, and you would hear the word 'sorry' being tossed around frequently.

With that in mind and another few stacks of falling papers later,she finally made her way back happily; satisfied that she had found her room assignment sheet. She quickly flipped through the sheets before she became flustered again, "Um… There aren't any rooms left… The only reason yours was available in the first place was because someone moved out and…"

I bet I know why, Shiho thought as she tuned out the rest of the girl's incoherent rambling.

"…You might like him after you get to know him… Kudo-kun's actually really nice and," the girl continued on until Shiho cut in.

"I'll deal with this later. School's going to start anyways, sorry for the trouble," she said callously as she walked to class. The girl just blushed as she watched at her leave.

Shiho sighed inwardly. Some day 'this' was turning out to be. Now all she needed was this 'Kudo' guy to be in her class, she thought sardonically.

Ironically for Shiho, however, fate was a perfectionist and an overachiever as well. When something is to go wrong, it goes wrong thoroughly. But as the maxim goes, ignorance is bliss.

What happened...

It all, the school day, started with gossip and rumors about the new student. All the girls were eager to meet the 'new guy' that would be rooming with Shinichi-sama hoping that he would be just as striking and handsome, and all the guys were hoping for an average guy that wouldn't stand out as much. All this nonsense about the transfer student, however, ended as soon as he walked through the door.

It could have been the cold tone in his voice when he introduced himself or his apparently anti-social-to-the-point-of-being-deadly behavior that made him so unapproachable. Shinichi reasoned that it was the latter. The death glares and the apparently frustrated expression that screamed, Bother me and die, helped prove his theory.

As the new student possibly homicidal, introduced as Miyano Shiina seated himself next to him, Shinichi could briefly hear some guy mumble, "What's up with him?" Could be lack of sleep, he provided sarcastically in his mind.

All in all, however, class went on without a problem – with one exception. They were learning English during the third session, and Shiina who had spent some time overseas was bored. Being bored and sleepy was not a good equation, mainly because it always equaled sleep.

Oddly enough, it was always the students sleeping, causing no problems at all that caught the teacher's eye instead of the kids playing video games and destroying brain cells, or throwing paper wads. It was something Shinichi noticed as he reached for Shiina, shook him awake, gave him his textbook, and told him where to read.

"And when the girl was brought to him he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a spinning-wheel and a reel, and said, now set to work, and if by to-morrow morning early you have not spun this straw into gold during the night, you must die."

Shiina stopped reading and twitched in anger as it dawned on him what he was reading. He woke me up to make me read 'Rumpelstiltskin!' He was infuriated. But instead of showing his vexation, he sought retribution another way.

"You know, I appreciate your 'attempt' to enlighten me with 'childish' fairy tales, but you do know that Rumpelstiltskin was a 'narcissistic' 'midget' that thought he was 'so' smart that he was 'stupid' enough to sing his name that nobody would have known if he kept his 'big mouth' shut and ended up tearing himself into two over it, right? I don't know about you, but doesn't seem school-appropriate to me," she mentioned before he sat down. Shinichi desperately tried to suppress his laughter. Then the bell rang, but even though the teacher didn't seem to catch on to what Shiina was saying, it didn't take him long to figure out that he was being made fun of and stormed right out of the classroom.

It was right at this time that Kuroba Kaito made his untimely appearance. "Kudo," he yelled as he swung his arm around him. He paused, and smiled as he caught sight of the 'new student.' "Hey, that must be your roommate. Did you already talk to him?"

Shinichi shook his head to answer no, and Kaito smiled, "Good."

The detective arched his eyebrow quizzically, Good?

Shiina, on the other hand, having the habit of listening into conversations – although Kaito's loud voice helped too, stood up to leave. But not before muttering the word, "Pervert," to his roommate.

Shinichi looked at Shiina with a confused look. Pervert? What did I do? He heard Kaito stifle laughter and remembered what he had said earlier. Good? Wait, Kuroba stayed over last night and I left early this morning for practice. 'He' came late saying he had 'preparations.'

Shinichi twitched in anger before shouting, "Kuroba! What the hell did you do to my room?"

T.B.C

And 'that's' what happens when I 'attempt' to write a long one – it doesn't stay very coherent. Anyways, tell me if there was something you didn't understand something. I know I switched Shiho over to Shiina as soon as school started. As for Shiho being vexed all day, I tried to keep her in character outward appearance-wise as much as possible, but let me know if you ever think that she's starting to get out of character.

Oh, and here are the responses to the reviews…

PyroKid – Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to get that figured out.

Jackie G – Thanks. I'm trying to keep the storyline as original as possible. Especially since there are a lot of mangas out there with similar storylines.

SnowyKitty – I hope this one was a little better than the first chapter. It's twice as long. –Smiles sheepishly– Uh… I'll try harder next time?

joeshen – I know! I love it when cold characters make amusing faces. It's just 'so' funny.

wayupi – The storyline's kind of like Hana-Kimi, but Shiho's not going to an all-boys school. What's the fun of having her cross-dress if she doesn't have the problem of fangirls chasing her? –Smiles- She's my favorite character so I like to do that to her. Btw, I haven't read Hana-Kimi yet. Is it good?

Thanks for reviewing everyone!