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Heather
Rei was walking down the halls of TA academy.
She had such a fun time with Hotohori or Saihitei Sheishuku yesterday.
Just thinking about it made Rei smile. She couldn't wait to meet
him after school. If Minako found out about it, she would probably
blab to the whole world that she's dating the "WORLD'S HOTTEST
GUY EVAAAH!111".
'It's not a date!' Rei thought to her self, 'I'm just hanging out
with Hotohori, just get to know him more.'
"Well, If it isn't the royal highness herself," snorted a voice,
Rei looked up, she saw a girl slightly older than her, had dark
green hair tied in high pigtails, her dark grey eyes glared into
hers and crossed her arms, "I heard that you went out with
'The King of Juuban'."
"I never went out with Hotohori-san!" Rei replied coldly,
she turned away from th girl, "Get your facts right, Jimyoin-san."
Jimyoin Mitsuki, a senior in 'love' with Hotohori. If you call love
stalking someone and making a mini shrine in their closet. She's
been in love with him for so many 'years'. Even though Hotohori
transfered to Japan 6 months ago.
"Listen Hino," Mitsuki said, placing her hands on her hips, "If
you make ANY moves on him, I swear I'll make your life
miserable!"
"Whatever," Rei walked away, she was getting annoyed and
wanted to get away. Jimyion-san just crossed her arms and
walked away.
"Maybe your interested in your secret admirer," Kotono-buncho
said, suddenly popping out of nowhere.
Sarashina Kotono, the head of the supernatural phenomena
study group at the TA academy. She always tried to get Rei
to join her club, but of coarse, Rei doesn't believe in the
supernatural.
She is the closest thing of being Rei's friend in this school, "But
no one could get past the heavily gaurded gates of our school!"
She cried, acting dramatic, "Maybe your admirer is a Martian!"
'She's got a bigger imagination than Minako,' Rei thought,
listening to Kotono-buncho's rantings. 'Then again, her
so-called-theories are better than Minako's.'
"...And that's why I believe your admirer is a Martian,"
Kotono-buncho said, looking satisfied with her theory, she
looked over to Rei who seemed to be deep in thought,
"Rei-san? You okay? You should be honored that you are
going to be a Martian bride!"
"A Martian bride Kotono-san?" Rei said, walking over to
her locker, "Very interesting."
"I would be honored!" Kotono-buncho said, feeling proud,
"Tell me what the Martians look like Rei-san!"
One of members of the supernatural phenomena study group
went to Kotono-buncho and showed her a photograph of
something, "Uh... Rei-san, I have to go! Urgent business!"
"Sayonara Kotono-san," Rei waved goodbye.
It's true that Rei is starting to have feelings for Hotohori. But
Kotono-buncho is right, she has feelings for her secret admirer.
'I'm not falling for him!' Rei thought, denying herself, 'I'm just...
Interested on how he's able to go past the gates and place it in
my locker!'
Rei opened her locker. The sweet scent of heather intoxicated Rei's
locker. Rei's fellow classmates looked over to Rei's locker, they
sighed romatically. A white heather is in her locker.
"Oh how romantic!" sighed Rei's classmate, "I wish my boyfriend
would give me flowers every day!"
"Ano... What does a white heather mean?" asked Rei's classmate,
she looked at the beautiful and simple flower.
"I would prefer red roses over this stupid little flower," muttered
another one of Rei's classmate, she's clearly jealous.
"A white heather means two things," Rei said, remembering
what her book from Kaidou-san said, "It can mean 'Protection'
or 'Wishes will come true'."
"I wonder which one it is?" asked Rei's classmate.
"I bet it's protection! He wants to protect Rei-san from danger!"
Rei's classmate said, looking proud.
"No way! It's obviously 'wishes will come true'! He wants to
make her wish come true!" Rei's classmate said, daydreaming
her man of her dreams giving her flowers.
"What in heaven's name are you doing?" asked a nun, she had a
ruler and was ready to whip a student if they disobeyed the laws,
"You are all late for class."
(Author's note: Rei's school is a CATHOLIC school and the nuns are
very strict!)
"I'm sorry Sister Josephine," Rei bowed, she didn't want her classmates
getting whipped because of her, "An admirer gave me these flowers and
they were helping me figuring out what my admirer is trying to say."
Sister Josephine, the nun, sighed and shook her head, "I'll let it go this time,
Miss Rei Hino. Be glad Sister Maria isn't here, she would go berserk seeing
you all late for class."
"Thank you Sister Josephine," bowed Rei's classmates, they walked to their
next class. Rei bowed to Sister Josephine again and was about to walk
to her next class.
"Miss Rei Hino," Sister Josephine said, stopping Rei, "When you get flowers
next time, do it at your own time."
Rei blinked and smiled, "Yes...Thank you, Sister!"
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"I'm glad Sister Josephine didn't get you in trouble," Hotohori said,
listening to Rei's story, "But you don't know who your admirer is,
Rei-san?"
"I still don't know who he is," Rei said, looking down. Rei and Hotohori
are walking together downtown, looking for a good place to talk,
"Maybe I'll never figure out who he is!"
"He may be closer than you think," Hotohori said, looking at Rei
mysteriously, "Or he could be a psycho stalker wanting for your
attention."
"Shut up!" Rei said, shoving Hotohori playfully, "That's really creepy!"
"I'm just saying!" Hotohori laughed, blocking and protecting himself
from Rei's attacks, "Your pretty strong, Rei-san."
"Don't be so formal Hotohori," Rei smiled, "Just call me Rei."
"Fine," Hotohori smiled back, he looked at the flower shop, "Rei,
maybe we should check out the flower shop if we want to find out
who your admirer is."
"There's at least a thousand flower shops here Hotohori!" Rei
exaggerated, even though it is a good idea, Rei didn't want to
check ALL of them!
"But you want to find out who your admirer is don't you?"
asked Hotohori, "Isn't that want you wanted?"
Rei stopped walking. 'He wants to make my wish come true.'
she thought, thinking about the white heather. 'Could it be?...'
"Rei?" Hotohori asked, waving his hand in front of Rei, trying
to get her attention, "Rei? Are you okay?"
"Ah... I'm sorry Hotohori, I remembered I have to do something
back at home," Rei lied, she felt her cheeks glowing red, "I
promise I'll make it up!"
"Rei!" cried Hotohori, watching Rei run away, "Damn, what did I
do now..."
'All this time, Hotohori-san is my admirer,' Rei thought, she was
blindly running far away from him, 'But, he doesn't even know me
that well! Oh what should I do?'
Rei stopped running and looked around. Rei was obviously not in
downtown anymore. The streets was dirty and filled with potholes.
Biker gangs and punks was everywhere, glancing at Rei up and down
greedily.
"Hey gorgeous," A punk licked his lips, Rei looked at him with
disgust, "What's a pretty little thing like you doin' here?"
"Leaving," Rei said, walking away from the punk.
The punk grabbed her arms, "Listen gorgeous," he said in
a low dangerous voice, "Don't you ever walk away from me again."
"Don't touch me," hissed Rei, she pulled out her ofuda scroll, "AKU
RYO TAI SAN!" she cried paralyzing the the punk, his lackeys pulled
out weapons.
"Girly! What the hell did ya do to our leader?"
"WITCH WOMAN!" screamed one of the lackeys, he charged
at Rei, "YOU KILLED OUR LEADER!"
Rei swiftly moved to the side and pulled out another ofuda scroll,
"AKU RYO TAI SAN!" she cried once again, Rei was running out
of ofuda scrolls.
Each of the lackey took turns trying to kill Rei. Rei only
knew a little of Martial Arts, if she was Makoto she would
knock them out easily.
'What should I do?' Rei thought, dodging all the attacks, 'There's no
one out here who'll help me!' Each lackey grabbed Rei's arms and
legs, holding her down to the ground.
"Ya know," A lackey said, glancing down Rei's body greedily,
"I'll show ya a really good time, Now be a good girl and--"
Tasuki punched the lackey so hard that four of his teeth
was gone. The lackey was immediately knocked out. Tasuki
glared at the punks, who flinched at his glare.
"Tasuki!" Rei cried, she was happy to see someone she knew
right now, "Am I glad to see you!"
Tasuki grinned, showing off his fangs, "Heh, you look so helpless
laying down like that."
Tasuki glared at the punks, "If I see you touching her like that,
I swear, I'll kill all of you!"
"N-no way! That's your woman?" stuttered another lackey,
he is frozen in fear, "Oh man! We're sorry! We didn't know!"
"Tasuki isn't my--" Rei said, she stood up.
"Yea, If I see you around her again," Tasuki interrupted her, he
shook his fists making the whole gang run away.
Rei looked at Tasuki, "I am NOT your woman!" she huffed and
crossed her arms.
Tasuki wrapped his arms around Rei's waist,"Just pretend your
my woman until we are out of this neighborhood," he whispered
to Rei's ear, "YEA! IF ANYONE TOUCHED MY WOMAN
I'LL MURDER YA!" he shouted behind him, another gang
members flinched and ran away.
"Tasuki," Rei said, slowly removing his hands, "That's awfully nice
of you to do this, but I'll be fine on my own."
"Rei," Tasuki said, letting go of Rei, " You idiot, you weren't 'fine'
on your own! And what the hell are you doing here on this part
of the neighborhood?" Tasuki ranted, it's obvious that he was very
worried about her.
"To be honest I don't know," Rei said, looking around holding
Tasuki's hand, "I blindly ran away from Hotohori, I guess."
Tasuki smiled, he felt happy knowing that Rei isn't falling for
Hotohori, "You ran away from your perfect date, Hotohori?"
"I didn't run away," she muttered, "I finally figured out who my
secret admirer was."
Tasuki flinched, "Yo-you did?" he squeaked.
"Yes," Rei nodded, Tasuki felt his mouth dry, "All this time, it was
Hotohori who sent me flowers."
Tasuki sighed with relief, "Oh? Is that so? What makes you think it
was him?"
Rei looked at Tasuki suspiciously, "He recently sent me a white
heather and he wanted to make my wish come true."
"Maybe he wanted to see you happy," reasoned Tasuki, "You
did looked depressed in the morning." He looked up, imagining
a sad Rei.
"Why is it that everytime I'm deep in thought it looks like I'm
depressed?" Rei huffed, she crossed her arms.
Tasuki laughed. "How the hell should I know you weirdo?"
he teased, making Rei mad.
Rei and Tasuki have been friends since they have been seven.
It all started when Rei was minding her own business, trying
to make a sandcastle. When Tasuki, came along and ruined
her sandcastle.
They of coarse, fought. But, Tasuki's mother and Rei's
grandfather, stopped the fight and forced them to be
'playmates'. They've been friends ever since!
"You've known me for a long time Tasuki." Rei scoffed,
"I blame you for not telling me."
"What?" Tasuki said, "It's your fault you know!"
"Idiot fang boy."
"Bitchy witch woman."
They argued for what seemed like hours, even though
it was only around half an hour. When they stopped at
Rei's temple. Rei bowed goodbye to Tasuki.
"Rei," He said, stopping Rei, "I promise I'll protect you.
If Hotohori breaks your heart, I'llturn pretty boy
into mush!"
Rei smiled, making Tasuki blush abit, "Thank you,
Tasuki. You truly are someone I can rely on."
"Y-yea..." Tasuki stuttered, he looked hesitant and
wanted to tell Rei something, "I'll see ya tomorrow."
With that he was gone. Rei turned to the white heather,
which was slowly withering away. 'Protection,' she thought,
'Is Tasuki my admirer? Or is it Hotohori? What are you
trying to tell me heather?'
To be continued...
Author's note: Hmm...Is it Hotohori? Or is it Tasuki? They both been acting suspicious! Which one is it? I think I made this chapter uber long...Oh well, Find out in the next chapter of Flowers in my lockers! ALL PAIRINGS ARE A SECRET!