Chapter 19: All is fair with Love and the foundation week!

Yukino sighed. Her life was in miserable shambles, all because she allowed people to pick on her. A defining trait of her's was kindness, she'd help anyone out. It also proved to be her curse. But ever since she transferred to this school, things started looking up. No one's been pushing her around, though she had to deal with guys hitting on her… being from an all girl's school, she usually stammered an ran the opposite direction. However today, it seemed wasn't her lucky day.

"Why don't you go out on a date with me miss?" the guy, a senior judging from his uniform, lifted her chin, he looked at her from head to toe and he had that disgusting smile on his lips. She trembled under their gaze. Yukino shook her head and took a few steps backwards.

"Nowhere to run." His accomplice grunted.

They were right, she was cornered and there were three of them and she was alone. Yukino hugged her bag close to her chest.

"Please don't touch me." She whimpered.

One of the guys grabbed her by the wrist. "Come on, today's the start of the fair. Why not go out with me? Ill treat yah."

She shook her head. "No." she said in a quivering voice.

The guy's face suddenly twisted into that of rage. "I guess ill have to force you then!" he lifted his hand into the air and brought it down with considerable force. The resounding slap echoed in the empty hall way. Yukino blinked, there was no stinging pain. Instead she looked up at the lean figure of a mage holding the man's hand by the wrist.

"And I thought all Geffen folk were educated." Lei spat in disgust. He threw the guys hand back. "Yukino, Run now. Ill catch you by the Ferris Wheel later." He told her with a serious tone.

The wizard rubbed his now reddening cheeks and snapped his fingers, the two other wizards behind him moved to both his sides. "A good for nothing Kunlunese kid eh? And I thought this school could go no lower." he said with a mocking tone. "Your girl's mine and there's hardly anything you can do about it.

"That's it, I'm pissed. Yuki, run NOW!" Lei looked seriously ticked off, he quickly leapt into into action. He launched his body into the air, fist aimed for the wizard's face. The wizard however caught his arm. He laughed "All that talk and no—" the wizard wasn't able to finish his sentence, Lie's knee had slammed into the bottom of his chin with enough force to send him bounding into his buddies.

Yukino couldn't move from where she stood, Lei too advantage of the situation, he quickly took Yukino's hands in his and the two sprinted out of the door.

Lei and Yukino managed to lose the three thugs easily. The two plopped themselves down on a nearby bench. After a few minutes of catching their breath Yukino decided to take the initiative, she stood up and bowed in front of Lei.

"Thank you." She uttered repeatedly. Lei scratched his nose. "It's no big deal really, you should sit next to me… People are starting to look you know." Yukino blushed and sat a few inches beside him.

"You could have screamed… I'm sure someone would have noticed." Lei said calmly.

"I'm sorry." she said bowing her head down.

"And you don't have to say 'I'm sorry' you know." he suggested with a warm smile.

"I'm—Ok." Yukino said in a Timid voice.

"And maybe you could smile too."

Yukino suddenly looked at him. "Huh?"

Lei avoided her gaze and stood up from his seat, he approached a guy selling ice cream and bought one cone. He returned and placed the ice cream cone in her hands. "I thought it mite make you smile." he said, and she did. She was about to lick the ice cream when she saw Lei sighing. "I can't eat this…" she finally said.

He looked at her in surprise. "Why?"

"It feels unfair that I'm the only one having one."

"But I don't have any more cash on me."

"I know you haven't had you breakfast yet."

Lei scratched the back of his head. "Well, Azami was kinda breathing down my neck, I think Rae told her that I thought up the plan for tomorrow's kissing booth… I had to leave. I think she would've beaten me to a pulp if I didn't."

Yukino leaned over looking at his face. "But still…"

"I'm not hungry." Lei said. His stomach however grumbled loudly.

"Your lying." The girl looked at him angrily, her lips curled into a pout.

"It's ok really."

Yukino brought the melting scoop to his mouth "We can share." Lei finally agreed and they took turns trying to consume the large scoop. It took them a couple of minutes but they finished it, but now without getting their robes stained.

"Lei…"

The boy looked at her. "Yep?"

"You've got a stain on your cheeks."

"Huh where?"

Yukino crept towards him and wiped away the vanilla stain with a handkerchief. "There." she said with a smile. Lei blushed furiously. The girl sat upright and quickly returned to her depressed state.

"I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble…" she uttered weakly.

"It wasn't that much trouble."

"You always stick up for me… and I haven't done much for you." Lei placed two fingers on her lips. "Don't say sorry again, you haven't done anything wrong! Next time scream and shout for help when I' not there." he told her gently. "better yet knee them in the groin." He winked.

Suddenly a group of girls, all wearing the same apparel, which were plain white skin tight micro shirts and purple shorts, marching together in a strait line stopped in front of them. The girl at the front blew a whistle. "Five minute break! Then another ten laps around the tower!" bellowed the leader.

All the girls quickly sat on opposite sides of Yukino and Lei. Before they knew it, they were being mashed together. Lei looked at Yukino nervously, his elbows were brushing against her breast and the other sweaty girls wearing skin tight apparel weren't helping wither. "Pretty cramped eh?" he breathed. All the girls suddenly stopped squirming.

"What did I do?" he wondered. All the women were looking at him. "He's Cute!" one of them said. Lei's eyes snapped open as all the girls tugged at his robes. "Got dibs on him first." Another girl said. "He said I'm pretty!" on of the girls exclaimed. "Now way, he said I was pretty!" claimed another. "His accent's so cute!" then another. Lei felt a lot of hands pulling his cheeks apart. "He's mine!" snarled one of the girls.

Someone blew a whistle. "Keep away from him!" Lei knew that voice all to well.

"Why Azami, something wrong? You want him too?" asked one of the girls.

Lei cocked his head to the side, why was Azami wearing the same clothes as these girls? Azami blushed furiously. "No… I know him."

"REALLY!" all of the girls asked n unison with wonder in their voices.

"He's… a roommate." she confessed weakly.

"Wow! How come you haven't told us!" some of the girls exclaimed. "It's unfair, keeping a cute boy like him to yourself!"

Azami turned crimson with embarrassment. "It's not like—" another whistle cut into the air. "Hey you two don't move!" a girl with an orange sash and handcuffs screamed in their direction, she waved a finger in front of Lei and Yukino. She approached the two and without a moment's notice she handcuffed them together. "What is this!" Lei asked in surprise, he lifted his hand pulling Yukino's up in the process.

"Don't take him away!" some of the girls begged.

"What did we do wrong?" Yukino asked in a timid voice.

"Both of you aren't wearing uniforms unlike them."

Lei scratched his head. "And that's a crime?"

The girl with the orange sash shook her head. "Of course not! But these are grounds for you two to be marriage boothed." she pulled out a piece of paper from a utility belt hanging from her side. She placed a finger on rule number eleven. "If a marshal catches a girl and a boy who aren't wearing uniforms that marshal may put them in the marriage booth cell… blah blah blah."

"There's no such word as boothed! This is unfair!" Lei argued.

The marshal grinned. "It's not unfair, these are the rules!" she laughed mercilessly.
"Unless you pay me a hundred zenny of course!"

Lei looked at Yukino. "Do you happen to have any money on you?" the girl stuffed her hands into her pockets and pulled out her wallet. "I think I spent it already…" she said in a hushed tone.

The marshal placed a hand on her hips. "Then it's settled! I'll lock you two up till five!"

"You can't do that!" Azami shouted. The marshal leaned towards her "Are you his girlfriend? If you are then you pay up!" the woman blurted out.

Azami shuffled her feet, she kept both hands behind her back. "I'm…"

Thanks, for the comments guys. It really warms my heart to know other people enjoy reading my work.

Oh, and this isn't supposed to be a story. The real version of this fic is supposed to be a Manga! But I still dunno how to draw anime so ill just use writing as my temporary medium. Hehe, I'm studying how to draw anime.