Yea! I got here to the next chapter! I'm updating like fire huh? Go me! I hope you really enjoy the story so far as much as I am writing it! I will hopefully update the next chapter today too because it's the graduation part and that is the…shortest chapter? Oh well, ENJOY! REVIEW!
Darklilwanderer
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"Don't even go there today Rena…" Kikari walked into the locker room to change back into 'Mya's' clothes.
Once again Kikari felt the way…well Kikari would feel around Kenshin mostly because she was remembering him. 'Damn Mya and her damn boyfriends…' Kikari thought glaring at the wall. 'Look for the boy with Brown hair and orange eyes that shouldn't be so hard I mean how many boys have orange eyes?' Kikari laughed as Rena and Mya put the remaining touch ups on her face.
"Go! Before he leaves!" Mya and Rena said in unison as they pushed her out the door toward the football players. 'Football players? Isn't that where…stupid, stupid memories! GO AWAY!' 'Kikari yelled in her head as she made her way over.
'Orange eyes…brown hair…and no sign of…wait there is Josh!' Kikari smiled and ran over to him while the boys let her through without complaining, instead they moved out of the way just to check her out.
"Josh Ignao?" Kikari asked smiling, she knew that some of the more 'immature' guys were making sighs behind her back, but by now…she was used to it even though it still really, really, annoyed her.
"Yes?" Josh almost sounded normal as if he really wasn't listening to the guy's behind her, he was hott she would give him that it was mostly the drop dead gorgeous orange eyes he had, but still…Kenshin was better to her so it really didn't affect her in the least, she was on a mission. And then for some odd reason she felt like someone was staring very, very hard at her right now…Mya most likely, didn't really feel like it was her, but…then again she didn't care, 'the mission' she thought before she pulled him aside by grabbing his wrist out of ear shot.
"What do you want?" Josh smiled at her and crocked his head.
"Do you know a Mya Temoko?" Kikari asked smiling back.
"Yes we went out. Why?"
"Well I just have to say a couple of thing to you about her…"
"Well make it quick because the longer you keep me over here the more these guys are gonna get jealous." Josh laughed lightly
"Don't worry it isn't much…"
5 minutes later
"So your mostly saying she wants to go out with me again? But she's to scare that I'll reject her? That doesn't really sound like the Mya I knew…"
"Well yes, but she's changed! She going for a real relationship now!" Kikari lied, but hey if it would work why not?
"Oh really? Then I guess I'll give her a shot again, who knows? I might even fall for her again. Oh have to go." Josh smiled as he looked over at the glaring team members. "They're gonna kill me." Josh laughed some more, but nervously.
"Oh thank you so much! This really means a lot to me! Oh and her of course!" Kikari was so happy, she had no idea on earth it was going to be this easy. Usual guys would put you through hell if you wanted to get together. "This is for a thanks!" Kikari felt so bad that Mya was going to use him that she wanted to make it up to him. So Kikari hugged him, she couldn't help it, it not many times you get to make up for leading a poor guy into something he would never want to do and him not know it, it was sort of like a future sorry. The only bad part was that she hugged him in front of the whole football team…poor guy, she didn't know that she was doing anything bad when she hugged him, but the part that bugged her the most was that, that stare she felt in the beginning was now
…gone…
'Weird' Kikari thought before she released the surprised Josh.
"Well I'll ask her tomorrow, don't tell ok?" Josh smiled and then took a quick look around to catch the glares and jealous looks as he ran off towards his team.
Kikari smiled at his retreating form thinking 'I've done my job…poor guy.' Afterthat she quickly walked back to the locker room, but she wasn't going to tell Mya anything, she doesn't break her word. 'And what was up with that 'somebody's staring at me' feeling?' Kikari thought to herself as she was quickly bombarded with questions from Rena and Mya as she started to change back into her regular clothes.
"So?" Mya asked impatient
"So?" Kikari asked back
"So what happened?" Mya smirked "did he fall?"
"Not telling" Kikari smirked and finished putting on her old clothes while throwing Mya's back to her.
"COME ON KIKARI!" Rena begged giving her the puppy eyes.
"Nope not working…" Kikari gathered her stuff and started toward the door.
"Tell me something!" Mya begged with Rena also giving her the puppy face.
"Fine! You will meet him tomorrow." Kikari spat out, but that was as far as she was going to go.
"And?" Rena and Mya asked in unison
"Period." Kikari walked out the door feeling happy for once instead of mopping around. 'Ah yes, this was her life before HE came into it, so it can be the same without HIM to right?' Kikari sighed and looked down feeling like the world disappeared around her. 'Not right' Kikari held her head up and let out a breath after she sucked air in 'I'm over that, I'm over that, I'm over that' Kikari repeated in her head until Rena appeared in front of her looking her straight in the eye. "What?"
"Well since Mya's out of ear shot, when you left I went outside to watch your magic, then out of the blue I saw Kenshin holding his head, it was rather odd because…he looked as though he was thinking a lot and didn't like what he came up with in the end, but as he held his head back up he saw you and started to stare in amazement, like he never thought you would be there in your entire life he started to walk towards you, but when you found Josh and pulled him aside Kenshin looked Pissed off and began to glare at the poor boy while stopping himself from walking any closer. Well when you ended your conversation and you hugged him Kenshin had a look of shock and disguise on his face then turned and walked back out the door he came in through. I just thought you would like to know because he seemed kind of out of it all day…odd…huh?" Rena smiled as Kikari looked at her in pure and udder shock.
"Wow…Rena I never thought you could be that observant, but thanks for the tip." Kikari smiled. 'Thanks Kenshin, thanks a lot! Now I'm going to worry about you! And now all I want to do is run to you and tell you what we talked about and that the hug meant nothing so you wouldn't have you worry about me! Dammit! Why?' Kikari begged herself for some answers, but only one answer came to her head…
No…she wouldn't…
"Why Dammit, WHY?" Kenshin yelled while kicking the locker repeatedly. 'Did she have to go and go that? What happened? And how come she just hugged him like that? She never did that to me…' Kenshin growled leaning on the locker with his hands deep in his pockets, his frown turned into a straight line.
"What's wrong Kenshin?" Eien walked over to his broken friend. "You've been this way for some time now what's the matter? And what about that girl?" Eien asked leaning on the locker next to him.
"Yea…" Kenshin turned away from him sulking.
"What happened? She didn't brake it off with you did she? If she did, gee she's a strange one." Eien laughed lightly.
"…" Kenshin look turned sad.
"She did huh? It couldn't have been that bad! You only knew her for about two days! You two weren't even girlfriend and boyfriend!"
"So? That means nothing to me! She was perfect…to me"
"Man…you fell bad, what did she look like again?"
"Ocean blue eyes, sky blue hair, milky white skin-"
"She sounds a lot like…one of Mya's friends"
"Is she? I know a Mya she set up our date, did she tell you anything about a Kikari?"
"Yea, she is one of her very best friends why?"
"What else did she tell you about her?" 'Maybe what she's hiding from me'
"That her parents died, she worried about her parents, that's about all I remember."
"That told me a lot…not…maybe I can talk to Mya about it do you think she'll tell me anything?"
"Maybe, I don't want to see her again anyways so don't pull me along."
"What happened between you two anyway?" Kenshin raised an eyebrow.
"Everything was going perfect until…" Eien turned away seeming regretful.
"What happened…" Kenshin demanded
"We broke it off, because we thought it was almost too perfect and that one of us was going to get hurt when somebody was going to have a change of heart, but…I did really like her…I really did." Eien looked down wishing they never did break it off.
"You shouldn't have done that" Kenshin glared at his friend "and what about Sarah?" Kenshin said staring off into space.
"Sarah? Oh I'm just dating her to get Mya jealous" Eien smirked
"Hey do me a favor…get Josh in here if Kikari's not going to tell me then Josh will have to." Kenshin smirked evilly.
"Sure" Eien smirked with him and went to get Josh.
Outside the locker room
"Josh come with me." Eien smiled warmly at him and showed him into the locker room where Kenshin was waiting.
"Josh?" Kenshin asked greeting him with a smile that quick fated into a frown as he remembered Kikari hugging him.
"Yes sir?" Josh smiled back
"What happened between you and Miss Kikari?" Kenshin asked plain and simple.
"Why? You don't have any right to ask me of what we where talking about!" Josh defended himself.
Kenshin growled, he didn't like it when somebody was keeping from Kikari's secrets "listen here I have every right to know." Kenshin tried controlling his anger.
"No you don't-"
Bam
Kenshin threw Josh into the wall as he held him up off his feet by the collar of his shirt. "Tell me Dammit!" Kenshin demanded.
"Kenshin clam down!" Eien hissed from the side.
"Not until this bastard tells me what happened to make her even touch him!" Kenshin growled his eyes never leaving Josh's.
"F-fine! We talked about me and Mya getting back together and the hug was just a thanks because I agreed to ask her back out." Josh hissed as Kenshin placed him down.
"Good." Kenshin smiled "thanks" Kenshin slowly walked out of the locker room, he had done his job.
"What the hell?" Eien growled, "What did she say?"
"What do you mean?" Josh asked rising an eyebrow. "I'm going to ask her out tomorrow Kikari told me that Mya liked me again.
"Really?" Eien sounded more and more weak and hurt. "You can leave now." Eien turned away and started to walk out the door before Josh stopped him.
"I'm sorry" Josh smiled before Eien continued to walk outside.
Back with Kikari, Mya and Rena
"What was that?" Rena asked surprised
"My ears are burning…someone's talking about me" Kikari growled
"What was what Rena?" Mya asked
"I thought I heard something like a bam" Rena listened but to no avail.
"Whatever…oh shit got go t-to dammit I mean…leave wait AH!" Kikari ran back into the locker room.
"What was that about?" Rena asked looking at the last place Kikari was "oh shit its Kenshin" Rena's eyes widened as she watched Kenshin approach them and she disappeared into the locker room where Kikari was to hide.
"What does he want?" Mya sounded pissed off, she was still angry with Kenshin for hurting Kikari. There was no way she was going to hide.
"Mya? Can I talk with you?" Kenshin asked smiling
"What about?" Mya figured she already knew the answer to that…Kikari.
"Kikari." Kenshin's smile fated more and more.
"What do you want to know about her?" Mya glared
"Look she hiding something, I don't know what, but…" Kenshin looked away "is she really who she seems? Or not?"
"When you see her Kikari is Kikari, when you don't Kikari is not Kikari. Picture her as two people, a dark Kikari and a light Kikari, you see the light Kikari with some dark, the one we all love, but then she has another side the dark Kikari which nobody wants to meet. That's all I'm going to say goodbye and think about it." 'She's afraid of hurting you Kenshin if she turns sides.' Mya thought before she went into the locker room.
'What?' Kenshin thought shocked at the new information given to him 'but…how can you be two people? The good side of her is her and the dark side is the one nobody wants to meet? Was that the Kikari saw at the dance when Lanna…was that her?'
Flash back of a Flashback
Kenshin's POV
"Lanna" Kikari held back her tears and turned her sadness into fury.
"Lanna…" Kikari's voice trembled she was so full of rage in her, she forgot Kenshin was there that or she didn't care.
"Listen I don't know who you are, but keep away from my Man." Lanna smirked, and looked at the girl.
"You fucking lowlife bitch, you know who I am, and you dare touch me? You're going to pay." Kikari said lowly as she stared at the ground. She smirked as she saw a black high heel and slid her fingers around it. Lanna looked down at her and became shocked as Kikari yanked on her ankle and pulled her down with her into dirt.
Kikari stood up gracefully, but her eyes as a cold blue fire. She looked down at Lanna "this is the way it should be, I hope your slutty dress gets as ruined as mine did down there." Kikari sneered as she stared into the chocolate brown eyes of Lanna.
"Your wrong I don't know who you are, but you seem to know me, I demand to know, who are you. Tell me your name." Lanna sneered as she stared back into the girl's eyes.
"You don't even deserve to know my name." Kikari spat "and if you did it would be the last thing I would want to hear coming out of your dirty mouth." Kikari bent down to Lanna level and kept her gaze in Lanna's "Bitch" Kikari hissed
Slap
Kikari slapped Lanna's face so hard, a bruise appeared faster than normal as Lanna fell to the ground from the force of the slap.
Kikari's eyes came back to normal, as rain started to fall lightly, then harder as she looked down at Lanna, looking like she just went through a hurricane with the dry dirt all over her dress that turned to mud as the rain fell.
End of Flashback of a flashback
'Was…that her?' Kenshin sighed and sat down lying back on the bleachers. 'I've never thought this hard about anyone in my entire life, but your worth Kikari, you're worth it as long as I get you back' Kenshin smiled as he thought about finally getting another kiss from her perfect lips. "Yea" Kenshin said to himself remembering her kiss.
With Mya
"So?" Rena asked Kikari since Kikari was in her own world biting her nails.
"Don't bite your nails Kikari…" Mya glared.
Kikari looked over to her in a stressed look "well? What did he want? Did he see me? Was he mad?" Kikari looked to her with hope in her eyes, even though she had no idea what she was hoping for.
"Well he looked pissed off at first, but then because of me he got confused…I think…I was pretty clear…that idiot, say the word Kikari and I'll shoot him for you! Breaking your heart is worth killing him over!" Mya smiled victory like while holding her fist up in Kikari's face.
"No that's ok, I'm over it! Really!" Kikari smiled warmly at her "but…" Kikari's smile quickly fated 'Stop smiling you idiot…you look so stupid…' her inside voice yelled at her. As her smile did quickly fate into a frown. Since when did she get an inside voice?
"Hey Kikari? You got your speech ready?" Rena asked looking at her palm
"Yea, it's dorky, but its what's expected…" Kikari turned away to leave before she realized Rena was still staring at her palm as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. "Rena?" Kikari asked rising an eyebrow.
"What?" Rena asked her still staring intently at her palm, and then she started to take her finger and touched it.
"What the hell are you doing?" Kikari glared at her
"I'm trying to read my palm dammit!" Rena continued to stare at her palm.
"But you don't know how!" Kikari said harshly
"I bought a book on it last week and studied it forever! Here miss. I-don't-believe! Let me read you're palm!" Rena stopped looking at her's and grabbed Kikari's hand and stared at it. "Interesting…very much so…" Rena smiled
"What dammit?" Kikari didn't really know why she was getting so easily mad at her.
"You're going to live a long life…and your love life is very interesting…" Rena smirked and then started laughing a little at first, but the more she looked at Kikari's hand the harder she laughed.
"WHAT DAMMIT?" Kikari hissed at Rena.
"Oh…nothing you would care about! You don't like this stuff!" Rena started laughing again.
"Just tell me!" Kikari sighed yelling wasn't going to work with her.
Rena stuck her hand out in Kikari's face and smiled "five bucks!"
Kikari sweat dropped and picked around her pocket for a five, why? She didn't know, she was just wondering what Rena was yelling at it for the hell of it "now tell me!" Kikari hissed as she placed a five in her hand.
Rena smiled and took the five quickly then took Kikari's hand. "This line is your love line" Rena pointed to a line on her palm. "Now it says your going to have another lover, but it will be awhile. That's all I'm going to tell you." Rena released her hand and walked away out of the locker room.
"Ookkk…that really helped me." Kikari raised a delicate eyebrow.
Mya smiled "You know what that means!"
Kikari shook her head in a 'no'
"YOU'RE GOING TO GET A BOYFRIEND!" Mya yelled happily
"WHAT?" Kikari yelled in confusion "B-but she said it wasn't until awhile!" Kikari said nervously. Here she was just barely getting out of a relationship, and then she gets another boyfriend?
"Come on today is our last official day of school, and tomorrow…graduation!" Mya squealed happily.
"Boyfriend?" Kikari was still in shock from the words Rena said "graduation? That's the last day I'll ever see-" Kikari cut herself off 'no, no, no not him, not him!' Kikari yelled in her head.
"What?" Mya asked slowing down her happiness
"Oh nothing" Kikari smiled back at Mya "I have to go to work…seems like ages since I've been there…" Kikari yawned
"Well ok, isn't this your last day of work?" Mya asked walking out of the gym with Kikari.
"Yup." Kikari said unhappily "then…I'll see you tomorrow…" Kikari drifted of as she walked away from Mya to her house. 'The last day I'll ever see him…'
As Kikari walked into her house she picked up the mail that came through the slot in the door and read though them. She smiled to herself when she saw on of the envelopes and opened it. "YES!" Kikari yelled as she ran toward the phone.
Ring, ring
"Yes?"
"This is Kikari Kino, I would like to order something ahead of time if you would please…"
"Ok…where do you want to go?"
"Florida."
"Oh ok, pick it up tomorrow at 9:00 ok? That's as late as it goes."
"Sure."
Hang up
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