Author's Note: Sorry. This is a short chapter. I hope that the next one will be longer, although I can't guarantee anything.
Author's Note2: My friend Alexa is over right now and she is forcing me to tell you that she says 'hi.'
Chapter 5
A week later, Kyo was on board a plane to Nagasaki. He was sitting in Coach with the other teachers. Kyo thought that the new teachers for the dojo were very nice and friendly. Most of them were funny, too. They'd have to be enjoyable, though, for Mr. Randall to hire them, Kyo realized, after giving the matter some thought. There were four other teachers, since there were five levels of training at the new dojo.
Tani Hurotomi was the only instructor above Kyo in skill level. She was also the only female teacher that Mr. Randall had hired. She was to teach the fifth level at the dojo. Tani had long black hair and brown eyes. She wore an Indian looking headband and rather loose brown clothes. Kyo described her best as a hippie. She was very pretty, in his opinion, but he'd still rather have Tohru.
Miles Akojimi had black hair and green eyes. He obviously loved his job as he wore a different type of martial arts or some sort of fighting uniform every day. Miles was a few years older than Kyo and taught the second level students. He had a wife, a three year old daughter, and a five year old son who were sitting in the row behind the teachers.
Katsuro Osamu had greying brown hair and his eyes were an almost black shade of brown. He looked to be in his early fifties. Katsuro always wore a black bandana around his head. Kyo thought it was to hide the fact that the man was going bald. Katsuro taught the third level students. His wife and teenage son were sitting in the row behind them with Miles' family.
Juro Peterson taught the first level students. He had light brown hair and blue eyes. Juro wore a lot of black and didn't talk much. He reminded Kyo somewhat of Tohru's friend Saki Hanajima. Juro came from America, and his native tongue was English, but he spoke Japanese fluently, even if it be with a slight accent.
All of these people were sitting in the same row as Kyo was. Tani and Juro were sleeping, Miles was trying to eat a packet of peanuts but was having difficulty opening the bag, and Katsuro was watching the in-flight-movie, as was Kyo. We should only be flying for another half hour, Kyo thought. Nagasaki was fairly close to Tokyo, so by plane it wouldn't take very long to get there.
The plane landed and the five teachers got off. Mr. Randall had already rented five cars for his new teachers. They all got their luggage and headed in their separate directions. Kyo hadn't been behind the wheel of a car for a while. He'd always preferred to take the bus. But since he had to drive a car, he did.
He soon found his new house. It wasn't anything big. Mr. Randall had found the house for Kyo. The house was a small, light green, three bedroom, two bathroom house. Kyo had no idea why Mr. Randall had found him a house with three bedrooms, and Kyo had no idea how he was supposed to pay for the rent, but Mr. Randall told him not to worry about that, so Kyo didn't think about it.
He walked inside the green house and looked around. It had smooth, hard wood floors, plain white walls, and nice tan carpet in the bedrooms. The moving truck had apparently already been by the house because all of the boxes were already inside the house in their designated areas (except for the things for Kyo's room, which were sitting in the hallway, waiting to be placed in one of the rooms) and the furniture was placed in the appropriate rooms. The only thing left to do was arrange the rooms to Kyo's liking.
Kyo decided to chose and arrange his room first. He walked down the hallway, looking in each room, wondering which one would best suit him. His first choice was the master bedroom, which had a bathroom connected to it. But when he looked into it, there were already boxes in it. Oh well. I'll use one of the other rooms, Kyo thought. He had already chosen the second largest room and had decided that the other room would be an office, when it hit him. Wait a minute... If my stuff isn't in the master bedroom, then who's... He walked back to the master bedroom and examined the boxes and furniture in the room more closely. One of the boxes was labeled 'Tani's Books'. All of the other boxes were labeled 'Tani' and then what the box contained. Why is Tani's stuff in my house? Kyo wondered. Maybe the moving truck accidentally dropped her stuff off at my house. But then why would her stuff be in one of the rooms instead of in the hallway like my stuff is?
Just then, Kyo heard a car pull up in the driveway. He quickly got out of Tani's room and went back to his own. There, he began to take his things out of their boxes. The front door opened and Kyo heard footsteps coming down the hallway. Tani walked to his open doorway and stopped.
"I see your found the house, Kyo," Tani commented, leaning on the door pane. She took her purple sunglasses off of her face and placed them on her head with her free hand. The other hand contained a bottle of soda. She had obviously found the house first, moved her stuff into the master bedroom, and then went to get something to drink while she waited for Kyo to arrive.
"Yeah..." Kyo responded. "No offence, but I thought this was my house," Kyo said, setting down a shirt he was holding.
"Koji didn't tell you?" Tani asked, furrowing her brow in slight confusion.
"What was Koji supposed to tell me?" Kyo questioned, hoping that she would explain.
"Well, he could only find one apartment for rent in the area, that went to Juro since he's not the most sociable person in the world, and there weren't any houses small enough for just one person. So he found a house with enough room for two, and made us roommates," Tani explained.
"So that clears up what your stuff is doing in the master bedroom," Kyo said, picking up the shirt he'd set down earlier and hanging it in his closet.
"Did you want the master bedroom, Kyo?" Tani asked in a playful voice.
"Kinda," Kyo responded.
"Well, I guess..." Tani began, indicating that she might change her mind about the room. She suddenly changed her tone. "First come, first serve, Kyo. The master bedroom is mine," she said, dashing Kyo's hopes for the room. She smiled and walked to her own room to unpack her things. Kyo rolled his eyes and chuckled slightly as she walked off. This is going to be an interesting experience, Kyo thought.
Over the next few weeks, Tani and Kyo set up the house. They argued about everything. The two couldn't agree on which shelf to but the canned food in, what side of the room the T.V. should go on, who got which side of the office, where the kitchen table should go. Whatever it was, Tani and Kyo fought over it.
"No, the couch looks better over here," Tani said, dragging the couch to the location of her choice.
"Why there? That just makes the room look weird. Put it back where I had it," Kyo complained, trying to pull the couch back from Tani. But the woman was strong, and Kyo couldn't move the sofa with her objecting on to the other end.
"Kyo, I like the couch here," Tani begged.
"I don't care. I want it over there," Kyo responded, still trying to move the couch.
"But you got to organize the kitchen," Tani pleaded pathetically. "Just let me arrange the living room. I'll even let you set up your half of the office first and I won't change anything after you're done."
"You're pathetic, you know that?" Kyo asked, giving up. "Alright. You can arrange the living room. But if it looks like something out of a hippie movie, I'm changing it." He then walked to the office area, where he went to work positioning his desk and placing his necessities on it. He had difficulty moving the desk, as it was solid oak, but he managed.
After he had finally arranged his half of the office to his liking, Tani came over to see his progress. "Kyo, I'm done with the living ro- What have you done to the office?" she asked.
"I arranged it how I wanted," Kyo explained. "You said I could, and you said you wouldn't change anything once I was done. Now, I am going to unpack my books. You can arrange your half of the office, just as long as you don't touch anything on my half." And with that, Kyo walked to his room, leaving Tani to the room.
Kyo didn't have a large supply of books to unpack, so he finished doing that before Tani finished organizing her part of the office. He went to go look at the living room, to see what the hippie had done with it. As Kyo passed the office, he heard Tani's cries of frustration. She was having a difficult time moving her desk in around Kyo's things. Kyo continued down the hallway to the living room, chuckling slightly. He expected to find it like Tani's room was: full of peace signs and lava lamps. But it looked like a normal living room. It had a couch against the wall facing a T.V. against the opposite wall. Several chairs were on the sides. Tani had even placed a nice patterned rug under the coffee table in the center of the room. She didn't do a bad job, Kyo thought, admiring the newly arranged room. He walked to the office.
"You did a good job with the living room," Kyo said. Tani looked up from attempting to move her desk.
"Told you I could make it look good," Tani said, somewhat out of breath. She again started to move her desk with great difficulty.
Kyo realized that if he didn't help her set things up, she would be in the office for quite some time. "Here, let me help you move that," Kyo said, walking over to one side of the desk and lifting. Tani grabbed the other end and lifted as well. Together, they moved the desk to where Tani wanted it to be.
She let out an accomplished sigh when the desk was properly positioned. "Now I have to set up my computer," she said, walking over to one of her boxes. She realized that Kyo was still in the room. "I've got it from here, but thanks. I would have been here forever if you hadn't helped me," she told him, but keeping her eyes on her computer.
"No problem," Kyo replied, walking to his room. It was already messy. He had clothing on the floor and his bed was a wreck. Kyo decided to clean his room to get his mind off of Tani. Lately she had been on his mind a lot. He wasn't sure how to respond to that. He wasn't sure if he liked her as more than a friend or not. Kyo had tried not to think about Tani because he felt like he was betraying Tohru when he did so. But Tohru is with Yuki. It's okay if you see other women. You need to see other women, a nagging voice in the back of Kyo's mind kept telling him.
Kyo loved Tohru, he knew that was true. But he was still unsure of his feelings for his new roommate. It's okay if you see other women, the voice told him again. He shook his head to clear it of the thought. He still felt like he was betraying Tohru. He began to pick up his dirty laundry and place them in the clothes hamper.
And a special thanks to my reviewers!
Aria's Star: I can always count on you to be my first reviewer. You always have nothing but good things to say, so thank you very much.
ILOVEInuyasha07: It's Tohru, so yeah, she forgot. I wondered how many people would wonder about that, but most of them just figured it was typical Tohru to do so.
KittySand Katie: I agree. And I couldn't resist putting Kagura in at that part. I had fun writing that section because Kagura is just so crazy.
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