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Thank you Yun Fei, I hope u will like this chapter.

Icedwine: uh oh... I guess you will have to read to find out about that... anyways thanks for your review.

Warning: This chapter could be quite dark... lots of fighting and blood...

Chapter 11

I can't take them down by myself! Yuiiko thought in panic looking around frantically. She could their footsteps coming close behind her. Don't look back! She screamed inside her head. There must be a way to loose them. They are right. I am no longer that small scared little girl I use to be…

Yuiiko turned around a corner and ran into a dark alley. Not a wise thing to do if anyone was in her situation but she had a plan to teach those boys a lesson! She passed garbage cans as she ran along the alley way. When she spotted a long thick iron rod among some rotting groceries she picked it up and ran on.

"She must be stupid to come into the alley." Boy number one said.

"You are right Sukaza." The second boy, Maku said. "It's so much easier to get her here."

"And without people watching." Aio the third boy laughed. (A/N: It's better I name the boys rather than boy 1 2 3)

Yuiiko hid in a shadowy area watching those boys coming closer, as she thought they stopped looking around the dark alley that now split up into a cross alley way. Yuiiko smile softly watching them quietly. She couldn't beat them if it was the three of them together but if she gets them to split up. She will be able to get them one by one.

"Now what?" Aio asked looking to his left and right and then in front of him. "She could have gone anywhere."

"You take the left Aio." Sukaza commanded. "I will go straight and Maku you go right. When you find her bring her back here."

"Right." Maku and Aio said together.

"Let's go." Sukaza cried running immediately.

Yuiiko smirked watching three of them moving their separate ways. Everything was going as plan.

"Don't cry Haruko…." Youhei said softly passing her a handkerchief.

"Poor Yuiiko-chan…." Haruko sobbed in the hanky. She had started crying after hearing the tale Youhei had told her. "Poor Sakuragi-kun…. He must have work so hard to try winning his sister's heart again."

Though he could be dense sometimes. Youhei thought to himself quietly but said instead. "Don't worry Haruko, everything will turn out alright."

Yuiiko watched Aio from above when he walked cautiously down the alley way. He checked the empty boxes behind huge garbage cans to see if she would be hiding anywhere nearby. A small smirked appeared as she jumped down without any warning and even before Aio could turned around to see the sudden noise he heard, he was knocked unconscious by the iron rod.

Yuiiko had crashed Aio's head brutally blood splattered up her hair, face and uniform but she didn't care. She stood before her pursuer looking down at him emotionlessly. She had hit him so hard on the head blood gushed out like the water flowing in the river creating a huge puddle of blood around him. She bent over him, placed the iron rod on the ground and tore the sleeves of her uniform. She wrapped his wound on his head with it. If he continued loosing that much of blood he will end up loosing his life.

After seeing that his bleeding had subsided she picked up the iron rod and got up walking away looking for her next pursuer. This one that she had taken down will stay unconscious for a while.

Maku opened up the garbage holding his breath as he looked through it. If the girl was really hiding in here he had no idea how they were going to have fun with her if she spells like this. After failing to find her he shut the garbage can gladly and turned around. His heart almost stopped to see blood stained person standing behind him. When he realized who the person was it was already too late.

Yuiiko raised the iron rod and hit him on the head but this time her strike wasn't as hard, her pursuer only staggered slightly. She raised her hand again but this time Maku was ready for her and grabbed hold of her arm quickly pushing her to the other end of the alley wall.

Maku was speechless, at the sight of her. She was practically drenched in blood and her face remained so cold. There wasn't a hint of fear in her eyes. What happened to that sweet little girl they had approached five years ago? The teenager before him looked like a monster.

Without hesitation Yuiiko's leg shot up kicking Maku away from her. He let her wrist free as he staggered back and in a swift motion Yuiiko strike him out with the iron rod again. Maku fell to his knees staring at Yuiiko with wide eyes and for the first time, he felt fear as he watched Yuiiko's cold expressionless eyes, her hand raised the iron rod high in the air.

Maku then realized that they had already killed that innocent girl five years ago before he was knocked outinto oblivion.

"I will walk you home Haruko?" Youhei asked politely. "It looks like its getting dark soon and I want to make sure you get back safely."

He couldn't imagine anyone sharing the same fate as Yuiiko again.

"Arigatou Mito-kun…." Haruko sniff into the hanky.

"Tage, that girl is good at hiding…" Sukaza muttered softly after searching through practically all the garbage can huge paper boxes he could find in the alley way. "Might as well get back to see if the other two had found her."

Sukaza walked quietly back to where he and his friends split up. When he reached the cross alley way, he stalled immediately gapping at the sight before him. The girl they were pursuing stood before him, her left side of her sleeve torn but what gave him the chilling feelings were the fact she was drench in blood staring at him expressionlessly. Her long blood stained hair was moving slightly by the breeze. He noticed she was holding onto an iron rod stain with blood too.

"Teme what the hell…." Sukaza shouted.

Without saying anything Yuiiko charged after him…

It was getting dark but Rukawa ignored the time and continued practicing in the school gym alone. It wasn't the first time anyways. So he was not bothered by how late it was getting. It was always the same every evening though he had no idea that his evening was going to be slightly different that day.
"There are men hurt in the alley way…." Yuiiko whispered into the public phone. "If an ambulance is not sent they will die…."

Yuiiko staggered back to school dragging the iron rod with her. She couldn't go home not when she looked like a serial killer. Her mother was back from her business trip and it will only give her a heart attack by her appearance. A shower in school and change of clothes would be the best thing she had now. She entered the school front gates walking slowly into the school building glad that there weren't any students around.

"Come on Haruko," Youhei said guiding Haruko out the restaurant.

Haruko was still sniffing onto the hanky. She was taking the story pretty badly.

Youhei looked up to see police cars and ambulance not far off. He frowned slightly at the place wondering what the hell happened. Haruko however was still depressed at the tale didn't notice anything. They turned around the corner and saw Sakuragi in a distance. He noticed them too and ran towards them hurriedly.

"Youhei had you seen my sister? I saw her leave school but after that I don't know where she went and I called to her house okasan said she hadn't return." Sakuragi said in a rush and then notice Haruko. "Haruko-chan? Why are you crying?"

"I told her everything." Youhei said.

"Oh," Sakuragi looked down at Haruko who looked at him with teary eyes. "Don't worry Haruko. Yuiiko is a strong girl. She will be fine and I will find a way to win her heart again."

"She still cares about you, Sakuragi-kun." Haruko sobbed. "If not she wouldn't ask me to stop the fight between Mito-kun and you."

"You think so?" Sakuragi smiled slightly very glad at the news.

Haruko nodded.

"It is getting dark, we should send Haruko home." Youhei said.

"Right," Sakuragi nodded. "Not a good idea to let a girl wonder around at this time."

They walked away from the crime scene not noticing that two men were carried out by two stretchers towards the waiting ambulance.

Rukawa made a last dunk before he left the court to get a clean towel from his locker. On his way to the boys' changing room he tripped over something in the dark corridor and landed hard on the floor. He turned around angrily wondering who would be so stupid to leave something so huge in the middle of the corridor when he realized that it was someone sprawl face down unconscious on the floor. He recognized the very long straight brown hair even though he couldn't see the person's face he was positive that the person was Yuiiko.

"Oi…" Rukawa called putting his hand on her shoulder shaking her slightly and felt a sticky substance on his palm.

Frowning at the weird feeling he pulled his hand away and looked down to see his hand stained with what looked like almost dried blood. He quickly turned her around to see her hair, face and uniform stained with blood. Her right hand clutched onto a huge slightly rusty iron rod.

"Yuiiko…." Rukawa picked her up into his arms. "Oi, wake up…."

Yuiiko stirred in his arms slowly. When her eyes fully opened her arm which held onto the iron rod slash up swiftly towards the unknown person holding her. She still hadn't had her focus totally back yet. However Rukawa who was a swift as she was gripped her arm before the iron rod crashed down on him.

"It's Rukawa here…." He uttered surprised his voice could sound insistent.

"Ru…." Yuiiko blinked finally noticing the person holding her. Her arms which held the iron rod went limp in Rukawa's firm hold. "Gomen …. I thought you were…. Sudden reflexes…."

Her voice trail off unable to tell him more.

"I was who?" Rukawa asked urgently. "Are there people trying to hurt you again?"

"I took care of them." Yuiiko whispered moving away from Rukawa and noticed that she had stained his shirt with blood too. "Gomen, I dirty your shirt."

Her voice was so expressionless Rukawa wondered if she had a trauma so bad she forgot how to show emotions though Yuiiko always never shown any expression but with all those blood on her it will drive any girl to madness. It was driving him up his nerve and he was the ice prince in school.

"Are you hurt, the blood…." Rukawa looked at her carefully.

"It's not mine…." Yuiiko answered looking down the floor. "Most of them are not mine…."

Rukawa stared at her speechlessly as she fell forward into his chest unconscious again.

Sukaza cursed under his breath when he heard siren. He clutched his right side of his stomach where Yuiiko had stabbed him with her pocketknife, the knife still sticking in his body and blood gushing out. The fight he had with her was unbelievable. He stumbled slightly as he made his way into hiding.

He was much stronger than Aio and Maku of course, but to think a mere teenage girl nearly over throw him in martial arts he was really piss. He watched two of his friends being carried away into the ambulance. He was the only one who got away and he will find that damn girl again.

He remembered how she strikes him with that iron rod mercilessly her eyes cold and unmoving. He hit her back just as hard that thrown her to the ground. Thinking that the blow would have knock any girl out he went closer to her but he was so mistaken when her leg shot up whacking all the air out of him.

She got up slowly and charged again but Sukaza was faster than her grabbed her arm and pushed her to the wall trapping her pushing all his weight on her and trapping her legs too so she couldn't kick. He knocked her hand that held the iron rod on the wall countless of times to make her let go of it. When she finally did, he thought his quest was successful until he felt a pain on his right abdomen and looked down. She had stabbed him with a pocketknife. He backed away from her as she bent down to pick the iron rod again and it came crashing down on him harder than before knocking him unconscious.

"Even if I have to kill her I will…." Sukaza muttered to himself furiously.

TBC

Hope u are not disappointed that no one came to rescue her but she got out of that mess by herself, well not totally since now Sukaza wants to kill her... till next chapter.