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The sirens from the police cars blared hollowly across the school field ten minutes after the school catastrophe. The news reporters came in afterwards, swarming with questions and perplexities.

" I'm so sorry." The secretary apologized, trying to shield her eyes from all the camera flashes. "Ms. Naruto is unavailable right now for interviews. Would all of you please leave this instant."

"Wait," a reporter shouted across the tight-packed crowd, holding a microphone straightly across her. "Is it true that Ms. Naruto already called in the school securities thirty minutes before the incident happened. Does that mean she already expected this or maybe, she knew who did it?"

The secretary stared at the crowd, suddenly stunned into silence by the question. She hesitated for a second and replied sternly. "All of your questions will have to be answered soon after Ms. Naruto arrives."

Meanwhile, the students were all in the school resting rooms, putting towels on their heads to dry themselves. They were all vexed by the calamity, and were discussing about it.

" Who the hell pulled out such a crude joke on us?" Taka implored angrily, clutching her grip on a can of pop. Her bright, red hair was red and fiery as ever.

Misha moaned gravely to herself and held up her skirt. "My skirt is ruined, and it costs me my whole month of allowance!"

"Hey, does anyone know where Zoe is?" Misato suddenly brought up the subject as she looked across the room to find no signs of Zoe. "She's been gone ever since the explosion happened."

All of them readily consented. "I know, and I swear she was there when the accident occurred."

Zoe on the other hand, was in the nursing room at this moment. A mix of sorrow and happiness crossed her mind. She was too troubled to confront the fact that her somewhat "childhood sweetheart" that she never had feelings for came back to haunt her. Further more, she was glad that her childhood best friend came back to her life. She studied him closely after seven years of departure and became conscious of how much he had grown. His light, baby-blue eyes were now dark and warm, his jet-black hair was as dark and moody as ever.

He was helping her by drying her hair with a towel. "So how are you? I…couldn't stop thinking about you all these years and well, what I really need to tell you is that I-,"

His sentence was broke off when they met each other's eyes. Tears swelled up her bright, emerald eyes. All of the bright and innocent memories flooded back into her mind, how happy those days were and how much she had longed for those moments to come into her life again. She gently rested her head on his shoulder and placed her arms around his back. "I'm just glad that you're back," she whispered silently. His heart skipped a beat as her breath from her whispers travelled down to his neck. He blushed a little and was too, grasping her within his arms.

Kouji quickly put the remote control back into his backpack after he heard the blaring of the sirens. Just as he opened the janitor's closet and planning to make a run for it, he abruptly slammed himself onto a hard body. He pushed himself off the ground and looked up to see a huge guy with a tough looking face staring unsympathetically at him.

Ms. Naruto came out behind the big guy and smirked cruelly at him. "Do you really think that you'll get away with vandalizing the school like this? You are sick beyond compare Mr. Minamoto, for pulling out such a crude joke to satisfy your frustrations."

Kouji felt offended by her word yet deeply, he couldn't have agreed more. His face flushed with resentment and regret. He wanted to just crawl back into his little hideout in the janitor's closet and burst into tears. The big guy, which was supposedly the school security grabbed him by the arms and pulled him away from Ms.Naruto just when he wanted to make an attack on her.

"Take him to the police outside right now." She instructed, "and let everyone in school see who's the despicable little fiend that created this loathsome prank of his."

It was the most depressing and humiliated day of his life. He had never felt so bad before. Everyone looked at him with scorn, the news cameras won't stop flashing in his eyes and his family was later on, called to the police station.

"Sir, what's going on? Why are you taking my son here?" Mr.Minamoto ask with concerns.

"I'm sorry that I have to break the bad news to you," the police officer said. "Your son was sued for vandalizing the school hall with fire works and caused a lot of injuries for other students in the school."

"HE DID WHAT!" Mr.Minamoto burst into rage. He stood up from his chair and turned towards Kouji. "Explain yourself young man! Why the hell do you have to do such a thing?"

Kouji uncomfortably shifted himself from his seat and looked away. He bit his lips unnervingly to hold back the emotions that were washed upon his face. He felt the pairs of eyes that were fixed upon him, but he made no efforts to look at them.

"Well," the police officer begun, " you might as well just explain yourself young man. They pressed a lot of charges against you."

Mr. Minamoto violently pushed himself up from the chair and stormed out of the office. Kouji made no attempts to gaze at him; he simply turned away.

"Well, what are you planning to do with him sir?" Kouichi asked with uneasiness.

"We'll decide after he goes on to the court." He replied.

Kouichi looked bitterly at his own brother. "Kouji," he thought to himself, "how am I gonna help you now?"

Zoe got home, she was unaware of her surrounding; all she could think about was Kouichi. "What should I do? Am I just gonna force myself to love him?"

"Zoe!" a cheerful sound chirped out from behind. Zoe wheeled around to see Misha in her pyjamas. "Where were you today? You've disappeared right after the police came to the school this afternoon."

Zoe groaned irritably as she slumped herself on the couch and threw her book bag on the wooden floor. "Long story."

Misha giggled sweetly and slumped herself beside Zoe, "Were you somewhere alone with a boy?"

Zoe quickly straightened up from her back and shoved a cushion onto Misha's face. "Misha! Shut up! Stop being so sick! For your information, I'm still a pure virgin and I'm not planning to have it until after marriage!"

"Hey! I never said that you did it with a guy!" Misha threw a cushion back at Zoe. "Besides, you're the one who thought about it that way! And look at you, you're blushing already!"

"Am not!" Zoe insisted strongly, and then she felt the heat from her cheek. "Well, actually, I was kinda alone in the nurse room with a guy…"

"Ahhh! OH MY GOSH!" Misha screamed in astonishment, her eyes widened. "What happened?"

"Well, I was trying to push through the crowd when that incident happened. Then I found my way into the nurse room and he was there, shirtless…and I remembered that I accidentally felt and landed on him on the floor…and he helped me dried my hair…and I ended up throwing myself onto him and hugged him…and…"

"OH MY GOSH!" Misha screamed even louder. "You did it with him didn't you? Does it really hurt a lot? Was there blood on the nurse bed? Did you check that if you're pregnant or not? And did he-,"

"MISHA NAMI! I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH HIM!" Zoe screeched from the top of her lung.

"Well, how can I be sure that you're not lying?" Misha attempted to make her last joke before Zoe began a huge cushion fight with her on the couch. They both giggled and screamed until Mrs. Nami came into the living room, crossing her arms over her chest while frowning.

"Mrs. Nami!" Zoe exclaimed in fear. "I'll clean up this mess right now!"

"And while you're at it," Mrs.Nami said, "clean the kitchen for me will you?"

Zoe nodded obediently and scurried herself up from the couch and began picking up the cushions. She wasn't a bit vexed knowing the fact that she got used to being treated like a servant all these years by Misha's mom. Everything changed after Kouichi left and after kindergarten. Her mother died from cancer. Her farther abandoned her, leaving her to deal with a great amount of debts from gambling like crazy. Since her father was missing and she doesn't have any relatives, she was sold to Misha's family as a servant for them. Even though life was harsh for her, she still found the strength to face it and be thankful for it. She felt that she had all the blessings that she'd ever needed already, because she was blessed with such a wonderful friend like Misha who'd never treated her like a servant but as a sister.

Kouji arrived at the Judge's office with his stepmother Kosaka. He'd no idea why she brought him here, yet he had a bad feeling about this. He gave a quick glance at her, and looked away.

"What's she trying to do now?" he thought to himself.

"Kouji," Kosaka finally spoke up to break the silent atmosphere. "You know as much as I do, that you are ruining your father's reputation like that."

Kouji didn't bother to reply. He rested his head on his arms that were folded behind his neck while closing his eyes. She looked sternly at him, her lips curled into a slight smile and she sighed. "Which is why I'm going to do this. Don't blame me if you think that this is unjust, because I'm doing this for you and your father's sakes."

Kouji opened his eyes and glanced at her, he quickly held back his curiosity to ask her what she's trying to do this time again. They met each other's eyes, she grinned confidently at him. A scorned expression emerged from his face; he knew that she's up to something no good again. The office door flung open by the secretary, she flashed a bright smile to them and gestured them to enter.

"Kouji," Kosaka bent down a bit to face him eye-to-eye. "We're going to talk to Mr. Takawa, the judge who's going to be dealing with the case."

Kouji clenched his teeth with resentment; he had a pretty good idea about what she's trying to do. They both sat on the chair, facing Mr. Takawa, he smile at them. He was slightly overweighed with a face that looked very innocent and weak. Kouji watched in bewilderment as Kosaka pulled out a cheque from her purse and handed to Mr. Takawa. "Mr. Takawa, if you can help Kouji, you can keep this."

Mr.Takawa looked doubtfully at her and frowned. "I'm sorry madam, I don't accept bribes. Please take it back."

Kosaka nodded with a smile and added a few more zeros onto the cheque. This time, his greed finally deceived him by showing itself in his eyes. Kouji glared with anger and surprise, as he'd never felt so sick in his stomach before.

It was a dark, depressing, rainy afternoon in the city of Tokyo. The winds echoed hollowly across the land, prospering and flourishing the city with the coldness that could be felt within the hearts of many people during a long winter. Zoe struggled within herself to balance as the freezing rain and air tried to blow her and her umbrella away. She held the groceries tightly in her chest while pushing her way through the gusts of wind. It reminded her very much of the time when she had to push her way through the screaming crowd and ended up in the nurse room. She gave a deep sighed as the warm vapour drew out from her breath. She looked across and suddenly saw a dark figure sitting on the park bench without an umbrella.

"Who's that?" she wondered to herself as she walked toward the dark figure's direction. "Poor guy, he's gonna get a really bad cold like that."

Kouji sat silently on the bench. Raindrops violently strike on him with an immense vigour, sending chills through his spine. His body was numbed with pain, but he made no attempt to care. He despised himself, despised the way everything turned out, and most of all; he despised his family for spoiling him all these years. Why didn't his family just let him get the punishments that he deserved from vandalizing the school? He clenched his fists feeling the whiteness of his swelling knuckles, a cold breath suddenly escaped from his mouth. He abruptly looked up to see a radiant -looking figure, holding on her yellow umbrella in front of him. "Hey, are you alright?"

Zoe drew herself closer to see the scornful Kouji Minamoto in front of her. Her eyes that were once filled with concerns turned into a rage of fire. "It's you!" Her chest hauled up and down like a coiled spring as she remembered all the injuries and damages that he'd created through his unmerciful hands. For the first time, Kouji stood up and looked at a girl with a decent expression. Zoe backed a bit as Kouji took a step closer to her, he suddenly felt like that the only way that he can feel better right now is for her to punch him once again. Zoe felt a bit scared to his unpredictable attitude, she gulped a bit, feeling detached from reality as his hands gently pressed against her shoulders. He drew his cold, tender lips on her blushing cheeks and she quickly came to her senses and threw her fist right at his cheekbone; he fell back and collapsed on the hard wooden bench. Zoe gasped and was about to make an escape when he pushed himself up and pulled her hand and hauled her onto his chest. With the very last ounce of strength in her body, she fought desperately to resist his tight grasp around her. She screamed and moved violently as his arms grew tighter and tighter around her. She stopped and gave up as she heard the soft sobs that whispered out from his breath and traveled to her neck. She lost her grip on the yellow umbrella and it dropped gracefully onto a puddle of rain, sending splashes of water onto her bare knees. The sun peaked through the clouds and the rays of light shone through the gloomy sky. A beautiful streak of rainbow flew out from nowhere. By now, the sky cleared up, it was the most miraculous moment Kouji had ever felt. Tears blurred his visions and he let out a soft sob.

Zoe listened to his sobbing, knowing that he was crying. She rested her head uncomfortably and emotionlessly on his shoulder. "Kouji, you're such a freak."

Well, that's it for now! Sorry that I didn't update for so long. I was so busy with my summatives that I only slept for an hour and a half every night to finish up everything. Anyways, would all of you please send me a review? Please, I promise to make the next chapter a good one okay?