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Jealousy, Confusion, Romance: Part III

Ayu and Nina were now always around Kaji and Tsujiai, along with Yuta and Maya. People, mostly girls, were always jealous of the two girls. They would always glare at the fighting 'couples'. Nina and Ayu were together with their friends while Kaji and Tsujiai were talking amongst themselves.

"Nina, you and Ayu have been close to Kaji and Tsujiai," Satomi started.

"I guess we have," Nina said as she took a quick glance at the two teenage boys.

"Yeah, so, since you two have been around each other lately, do you know who they like?" Erika asked with a slight blush and played with her thumbs, avoiding their gazes. Nina thought for a while, and said,

"Sorry, we don't. But we can ask them if you'd like,"

Satomi and Erika looked at each other, "You don't have too. But it would be nice to know and interesting," Sonomi said as she nodded to both Ayu and Nina, who nodded to both of them.

"Okay, we'll ask them later,"

"But promise not to tell them that we wanted to know, okay?" Erika said nervously. Nina just giggled and Ayu smiled and nodded. "Thanks,"

"Just out of curiosity, Erika, do you like –"Ayu was interrupted as Kaji and Tsujiai walked towards them with bored expressions.

"Hey, Ayu, how long do we still have till class?" Kaji asked as he leaned against the wall.

"Hmm, 20 min. C'mon Kaji, you should have known that already,"

"Well, I don't have a watch,"

"Get one,"

"Don't want one,"

"It's the only way so you don't have to come to us to check the time,"

"I'm just killing time,"

Ayu sighed; she can never win against Kaji when they were fighting about useless stuff such as now. Erika and Sonomi just stayed quiet as they talked. Nina stood next to Tsujiai who just crossed his arms.

"Let's go," Tsujiai said as he uncrossed his arms and walked away.

"See ya, Satomi! Erika!" waved Nina as she went along with him, Ayu and Kaji. They replied by waving as well.

"They get along very well," commented Satomi as Erika agreed while bobbing her head up and down. "Wonder when they will ask them? About time that they'll get together," Erika was again agreed. The two proceed to their own lockers for their next class, though they have a lot of time.

As Kaji, Tsujiai, Nina and Ayu were walking down the crowded hallways, they bumped into Yuta and Maya, "Hey, Maya,"

"Huh? Oh, hi guys," Maya greeted with a smile.

"Wanna come along with us?" invited Ayu as she waited patiently for the reply.

"Where?"

"The hang out," answered Nina.

"Sure. C'mon Yuta," she said as she grabbed Yuta by the back of the teenagers shirt and dragged him along. He just muttered with annoyance, "What a troublesome woman," Maya just chose to ignore his comment.

As the group passed the hallways, they heard disturbing comments from their schoolmates, "Did you hear?" a student asked his friends.

"What?"

"Y'know Kaji and Tsujiai, didn't they say that they'll never get girlfriends? Well they have now," Ayu and Nina frowned at the comment.

"No way! Who are the girls?"

"Those two new students,"

"Those girls? How can they get their attention so fast when their new!"

"Dunno. A lot people saw them hugging at the mall,"

While the conversation went on and comments were interrupted, Ayu and Nina's expression got sadder. The two boy teen in front of them, looked over their shoulder and took a glance at them. They, too, heard the comments, but they ignored them, unlike the girls who listened to them.

'This is a bad idea, getting along with them was not the way things were too be, when we got her, We're only here to forget two people,' Ayu thought as she walked but since she was deep in thought, she bumped in Kaji, same with Nina to Tsujiai. Unfortunately, as the two girls thought, the boys stopped, letting the girls bump into them.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Nina asked as she put both her hands on her nose.

"Just ignore them," Was the only reply from Tsujiai and the two boys continued to walk. The girls had to smile at their worry for them, but they frowned again as they thought. Maya looked worriedly at them and looked at Yuta with the same expression. He just shook his head.

At the Tree

By the time they arrived at the tree, Ayu and Nina slumped down on the tree and sighed. "Finally here," Ayu said as she sighed afterwards.

"Tell me about it,"

"Were you girls tired?" Kaji asked as he sat up in the grass and turned to them. Tsujiai just looked over his shoulder, his eyes sharp.

"No!" they answered immediately. The boys eyed them suspiciously. Yuta was about to say something about how stress they were in right now when Tsujiai cut him off,

"Listen, if you girls have any problems, can you at least tell us?" he asked harshly and kept his eye on Nina's expression.

"And why would we do that? We've got Maya and Yuta to talk too,"

"And that's meaning you don't trust us?" Kaji said as he narrowed his eyes at Ayu.

"Well, in our problem, yes, we don't trust you," Ayu replied as the guys eyes were flaming with anger. The tension between them was really intense and uncomfortable.

"Exactly, what is your problem? At least tell us what it is about," Tsujiai reasoned as he still kept his expression, though his tone of voice softened a little, yet, Nina didn't notice that his tone change a little.

"Fine, you wanna know?" Nina looked at Ayu who nodded and turned to face the boys again.

"Our problems are you two," Ayu replied as she nodded to the two boys.

That's it, they crossed the line. The boys' eyes were now dangerously killer eyes. Kaji's soft eyes were now narrowed dangerously. Tsujiai's calm and cool eyes were now full of anger.

"And how did we get in your way?" Kaji asked as his voice was rising.

"Well, you only asked us what it about," Ayu answered, her voice rising in anger.

"True, but we didn't do anything to make you girls mad," Tsujiai said,

But Nina corrected him, "Wrong. We're confused. But if you continue this conversation, then we'd get mad,"

"Oh yeah? It sounds like you're already mad,"

"Let's not get into this," Ayu said as she put a hand to her face and closed her eyes.

"No! We have to talk about this. What did we do that made you girls confused and angry!" Kaji asked angrily now, Ayu winced at his tone of voice. Maya and Yuta turned away so they didn't hear the conservation.

"Look, it's our problem. We don't want more people coming into, okay?" Nina said defensively. They were too tired to continue this on. Out of all of the fights they've had, this was the most serious one they've had.

"C'mon, class starts in 10 minutes," Maya said quietly as she stood along with Yuta. Ayu and Nina stood after but were easily pinned to the tree behind them by Kaji and Tsujiai. Ayu was pinned to the front of the tree while Tsujiai took Nina to the back of the tree and pinned her there, since there was no room.

"Look, you can't keep your problems to yourself," Tsujiai said staring into her light brown eyes.

"Exactly, that's why we're gonna talk to Maya and Yuta," Nina answered casually.

"Kaji, can you please move? It's getting really hot," Ayu said as she felt herself go hot. Kaji blushed, embarrassed and let his arms slide. He looked the other way with his left arm on her waist. Ayu didn't really mind.

"AAHH! HOW DARE YOU!" girls screamed. They all turned their attention to a bunch of girls who staring wide eyed at the couples, "Get your hands of Kaji!" Ayu and Kaji sweatdropped. The tension between them disappeared.

"What do you mean? I don't have my hands on his! His arm is around my waist!" Ayu argued back. Kaji flushed red and put his arms back down to his side.

Meanwhile, Tsujiai and Nina were still behind the tree and Tsujiai let his arms slide to his side. Since it was quiet now. He put his arm at the side of Nina's head.

"This really is weird, you know that Nina,"

"Yeah, we first met by fighting. Now we're always around each other," Nina finished. They were staring at the huge tennis and baseball, separated, field.

"Come on, class is gonna start," Tsujiai said as he walked on again and went back inside the building, followed by Nina. They ignored Kaji, who was being mobbed, and Ayu who went with them as well.

"That was pretty intense," Yuta muttered to Maya while walking to their next class.

Their next class was math, which Nina had a huge problem on. Of course, Ayu excels at it, well, most of the classes she excels in.

"Ayu," Nina whined, "I don't get this problem. What is X? I don't get it! I tried finding the problem by using this calculation. But it doesn't work!" Now, she was really frustrated. Ayu checked her calculations.

"No wonder why! You've got this wrong," Ayu said as she pointed out a problem in Nina's worksheet. Nina sweatdropped. Kaji and Tsujiai snickered. Unfortunately, Nina heard and childishly stuck out her tongue and turned to turn her attention back to Ayu.

"Oh, I get it. Thanks Ayu," She whispered. Ayu just shook her head and smiled.

Lunch

"Did you ask them yet, Ayu?" Satomi asked as she took a bite of her curry rice with her chopsticks and looked up, chewing her food.

Ayu shook her head, "Sorry, guys. We had no time to ask this morning,"

"Don't worry about it, ask them after their clubs today,"

"Come to think of it, Tsujiai is the captain of the boy's tennis team. And you're the captain of the girls tennis team, right?" Erika asked.

"Yup,"

"Wow, you must be so good! It takes a lot of time being a captain, and you're new and you're already the captain!" Erika said in awe. Nina giggled and said,

"Ayu always joins the tennis team wherever she is and ends up being the captain every time!"

"Gosh, Ayu. I didn't know you love tennis," Satomi said.

"And isn't Kaji the ace player of the baseball team?" Erika asked again.

"We didn't know that," Nina and Ayu said at the same time, Erika and Satomi raised their eyebrows.

"Really? I thought they told you everything," Satomi said as she looked at Kaji and Tsujiai. Ayu and Nina looked more confused. Satomi continued, "So they didn't say anything about themselves?"

"Yeah nothing at all. We just go to their house and sometimes ours. We've seen their rooms but never heard of them being such good players. No wonder why their so popular," Nina said as she took a sip of her soda. Erika's and Satomi's mouth dropped open.

"You went to their house and their room!" Erika whispered in shock. No one really went to their house or their room, except their friends, but not girls.

"Yeah, so what's the problem?" Ayu asked. The two looked at her with shocked expressions. Ayu and Nina drank their soda. This is the chance and they said together and slyly,

"Yup, they like you a lot,"

After they said that, Ayu and Nina spat out their drink. Everyone look at them, Satomi and Erika couldn't help but snickered. They glared angrily as they wiped themselves. Kaji and Tsujiai walked over. Ayu and Nina blushed.

"What happened, Ayu?" Kaji asked as he helped clean.

"Nothing, just a little misunderstanding,"

"About?" Tsujiai asked.

"Boys,"

The boys accidentally knocked the girls food in surprise, but really in anger. "Kaji!"

"Tsujiai!" They scolded.

"Sorry," They nervously back away with both their hands in front of them as Ayu and Nina approached them.

"We've got them," Satomi smirked to herself. Erika opened one eye,

"Wonder what's gonna happen to them,"

"Time will eventually tell,"

"We said we were sorry!"

"Sorry doesn't cut it!"

They heard the couples argued.

"And why didn't you tell us that your ace players!" They heard Ayu say angrily.

"We didn't think you'd be interested!" Kaji's reply.

"Helloo! I'm the captain of the girls tennis team and I won the competitions!"

"I didn't know that,"

"And you Tsujiai! Why didn't you tell me that you were the captain of the tennis team!" Nina scolded in a playful manner.

"…." Tsujiai just crossed his arms and looked the other way. An anime vein appeared on Nina and she said,

"That's it! You die!" Then they heard screams and yells and finally Ayu and Nina seated back down with Satomi and Erika.

After class, the girls, including Yuta, decided to watch Tsujiai and Kaji train in their place, the tree. Ayu didn't have to train since she won the competition and the tournament was three weeks away. They watched from both fields. Kaji already, in practice, strike 5 boys out and Tsujiai kept on winning the practice match and they'd train them. They didn't even stop for break, when they did, it's only for about 5 or ten minutes and they'd continue. They knew that the boys were training hard for their competitions to come.

"Wow, their really good," Nina muttered as she watched Tsujiai.

"No, duh. Their better than good," Ayu stated and watched Kaji back away from Akiho as she held the soda of bottle and wipe of his sweat from his forehead. Ayu smiled yet anger was filled in her.

They watched for a while until they finished practice. They head down to the baseball and tennis court. Maya went with Ayu to the baseball field. And Yuta escorted Nina to the tennis court.

"Hey, Tsujiai!" Nina called out in the stands. Tsujiai directed his attention to the voice.

"Huh? Nina, what're you doing here?"

"Watching you practice," It was already sunset. Tsujiai blushed, he was practicing and without knowing that she was watching him.

"Whatever," he said with a blush and turned and walked. Nina paused, Yuta covered his ears.

"AAHH! YOU'RE SO RUDE!" Yuta nearly fainted and the rest of the people in the tennis court shivered in surprise of the loud voice.

Baseball field

"Kaji!" Ayu and Maya yelled. Kaji looked at the place his name was call out.

"Were you there the whole time?"

"Nope, we watched from the place we hang out," Ayu said as she pointed to a high place and saw the tree.

"Ohh,"

"Hey, today's Friday, wanna go to the mall?"

Kaji started to get worried but he didn't show it, "Yeah, how about later and we can catch a movie,"

"Sure,"

Akiho was nowhere in sight, Ayu got suspicious but then shook it since she was not near Kaji anymore. "Umm, I've gotta go to the back into the school to found a teacher,"

"Why?" Maya asked as she crossed her arms and looked suspiciously at him.

"He wanted to talk about it privately. Later!" He quickly left.

"That was pretty weird,"

"And look, he left his stuff," Ayu said after Maya and picked up his bag.

"AYU!" Nina called.

"Oh, hi Nina. Found Tsujiai,"

"Yup, but then he quickly left and he left his tennis stuff as well," Nina said as she pointed her thumb behind her shoulder. Ayu and Maya looked at her side and saw Yuta carrying his and her things.

"They might be in the classrooms," Yuta mumbled.

"Nina, let's go there. Kaji said he had to talk with one of the teachers. We can give them their stuff there and go straight to the mall,"

"Okay, Ayu," Nina said and got Tsujiai's tennis stuff and went with Ayu back inside school.

"We'll meet you at the front of the school gate!" Yuta called out. Ayu and Nina nodded and smiled and waved.

Hallways

"Where are Kaji and Tsujiai?" Nina asked as they walked down the empty hallways. Ayu shrugged, not knowing where they are. The sun was almost setting and the hallways were already kind of dark and the color of the sunset, orange.

"Better found them and return Kaji's baseball stuff,"

"And Tsujiai's tennis stuff," Nina added.

Ayu noticed something, "They might be in the classroom, cause the doors slightly open." When they opened the door, Tsujiai's and Kaji's stuff fell to the floor and the door hit the back of the wall. Kaji, Tsujiai were in there, but kissing Akiho and her friend. Kaji quickly pulled away and eyes widened as Ayu was there. Tsujiai was already staring at the crying Nina, "It's not what you think," they said. The girls' only shook their heads as tears fell to their faces and Ayu said,

"It's not like we care,"

"It's not our business as well," Nina said. They couldn't take it anymore and ran out.

"Thanks a lot, Akiho," Kaji said with anger. Tsujiai glared at the girl.

"With pleasure," The two teenagers ran out and chased after the heartbroken girls.

It was raining heavily outside but the girls didn't care. They separated for their own time. Ayu was under the tree that they first went to and sat down. She was leaning on the tree with her head up, facing the top of the tree. Tears falling down her face but she didn't bother to wipe them.

Nina was sitting down in the stands where you could clearly see the tennis court. Her was back against the next step. Both her knees in front of her and her arms resting on them as Nina laid her head on her arms and silently cried. She didn't care if it was raining hard. She was staring down at the ground with hurt, sad eyes. But her eyes were now empty as she thought of nothing.

Kaji finally found Ayu, and went up to her. She glared at him as he approached. She was really wet and her hair was down to her shoulders and waist. She was really beautiful. He went close to her. "Stay, away, from, me," was her only cold reply. She was passing him already but Kaji grabbed her from behind and hugged her tight. Ayu was squirming, "Let me go! Please!" More tears fell and she sank to her knees, while Kaji went down as well, but was still holding her.

"Please, listen," Kaji said softly. Ayu had enough. She hated to be weak in front of people. She wiped her tears and her expression now was a confident one. She stopped crying and squirming.

"Whatever, Kaji. It's your personal life, I don't want to interfere with it," Ayu said in a cool voice and got loose from his hold and stood. Kaji felt hurt at her words.

"Ayu?"

"Hmmm?"

"You know that Akiho blackmailed me to kiss her,"

"Was it your first?"

"Ah."

"Hmm, whatever. Well, let's find Nina. She's probably is alone in this rain. You find Tsujiai. I'll found Nina and we go separate ways," Ayu said as she walked away to find Nina. Kaji took a look in her eyes, they were blank, no emotion at all. He started to worry.

"Let's meet back here when we found them."

"Hmm," Ayu walked off and Kaji frowned.

Nina

Nina was still in the stands in the same position. Tsujiai was running and looking for her. He saw a figure in the stands and walked over. He saw tears dropped to the ground but she made no noise at all.

"Nina,"

She winced that he was here.

"What do you want?" She asked, not wanting to look at him.

He bent down in front of her. He put his hands on hers but she quickly pulled away from his touch. "Nina -"

"Why'd you leave your girlfriend? You haven't told me anything about this or your girlfriend before. But why now? Why did I have to catch you kissing her?" Nina said as more tears fell to from her voice and looked up. She was crying a lot, she asked him those questions, hoping for an answer. Her eyes sad and desperate for answers. He looked sadly at her.

"She's not my girlfriend! You already know that I hate being around girls!" He said, his voice rising. How could she misunderstand him? Those questions she asked him that was the way she saw him? The whole time they were around each other, he thought that everything was fine, but it was the exact opposite.

Nina stood up, more tears falling, "Oh, so you hate girls! Then why are you always around us then?"

"Because your more different then them!"

"Oh? So you think we're weird!"

Nina couldn't believe it, first, she witness a kiss she hoped she hadn't known. But if she hadn't known, then he'd be lying to her. Second, he thought she was different. He was only using her to keep the girls away?

"You were using me?" she whispered.

Tsujiai's eyes widened. How did this all happen? She had mistaken him for everything! If this is the way she sees him, then he has to change that. "Why would I be using you?" He was now angry and stood up.

"If I were to die, will you miss me?" Nina said as she looked directly into his eyes. He was about to answer but Nina continued, "If I were to leave, will you love someone else and didn't know I'd return? Will you find another girl when I'm with someone I didn't want to be with?" Her last question she thought to herself. There was a reason she and Ayu moved to this school. And Maya and Yuta knew the secret and watched over them saw they can find true love other then force.

Tsujiai had enough, he grabbed her shoulders and puller her in a tight hug, "I'd miss you if you'd die, I'd die along with you! I'll never find love if you leave. I'll never find anyone if you were to be forced to be with someone! I'll stay with you," Tears were now falling down his face. He never cried in his life, but now he did, he wanted to tell her that he loves her, but in this situation was too much for him.

Ayu watched the whole time they did and heard every word. She smiled to Nina. But she knew that Nina was too dense to tell that Tsujiai likes her. It was really hard to tell what Tsujiai was thinking.

A hand was placed on her shoulder, "Sorry about what happened back there, Kaji," She gave him a weak smile.

"Don't worry about," They walked over to Nina and Tsujiai.

"C'mon, Nina. Yuta and Maya are waiting for us," Ayu said as she walked beside her. It was still raining.

"Umm girls?" They stopped and looked at them.

"What?"

"It's raining. And you're soaking wet," Tsujiai said casually.

"We know. We love the rain!" Nina said energetically and smiled.

'Glad everything back to normal,' the boys thought as they watched the girls twirl around the rain.

"So, have you ever been kissed?" Kaji asked. Ayu and Nina stopped twirling and faced them with a smirk on their face.

"As the matter of fact, we have." Ayu answered. She and Nina smirked more as the boys mouth dropped and eyes wide.

"They were so hot! Not really kissing. But making out!" Nina said energetically as she dance in the rain.

"WHAT!" The girls ran to the front gate while yelling,

"Just joking!"

The boys sighed a relief and ran after them.

"WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!" Yuta screamed at the two girls smiling face.

"Just forgot the time," Ayu answered as Nina grinned.

The guy came after, panting heavily, "Oh, and this guys were taking too long," Nina said.

"Let's go to the mall. I've been dieing to see this scary movie!" Maya said as she walked beside Ayu and Nina, who's expression froze. The guys behind them backed away.

"NO WAY!"

Next Week

Everything went back to normal. They ignored Akiho the whole time and thought of nothing that happened last week and enjoyed themselves. They were in their homeroom and were around Ayu's and Nina's desks.

"Man that was some movie!" Yuta said as he leaned on Nina's table.

"I know," Tsujiai agreed.

"Dude, the girls were screaming so loud that everyone was only afraid of them not the movie!" Yuta yelled and laughed along with Tsujiai and Kaji. They were unaware of the dangerous aura surrounding them. Next thing you know it, the guy stopped laughing and they had bruises on their face.

"Alright class, settle down! I've got good news! On Wednesday, we're going on a class trip to a lake but you'll be staying in a cabin with seven other people. The cabin is pretty big and there are 6 rooms. You can do anything there; there will be tennis, baseball, basketball, swimming. Anything you want for a week!" Mr. Mikami said. The class cheered. "Now here's who will with whom,

Maya, Yuta, Satomi, Erika, Nina, Ayu, Kaji, Tsujiai in Cabin 5

Akiho, Katrina, Fred, etc. In Cabin 3," And so on. Ayu and Nina high five each other.

"We're in the same cabin!"

"And with Kaji and Tsujiai," Maya reminded with a wink. They froze. It's going to be crazy in cabin 5, not to mention noisy.

Hong Kong – Ayu's and Nina's old school

"Looks like we're gonna meet Ayu and Nina there, after all, Riko," a boy with dark blue haired said.

"Finally, it's been long. Let's greet them, shall we, Sako?" Riko said as he smirked.

I finished this chappy! Yeah! I'll start writing the next chappy if you reviewers and readers review me and support me and I'll update soon!

What's gonna happen next:

Chapter 8 – Familiar Faces

Ayu and Nina along with their friends have a wild time in the field trip but they received a note, which told them to meet two people at the lake at night. They hid this from everyone, except Yuta and Maya. Kaji and Tsujiai woke up at the night and followed the girls and found something disturbing. Ayu and Nina are frightened by this.