A/N's: WOOOOHOOO! Sixteen reviews for only one chapter! I'm so excited about this story! Really! Today, my inventive (and romantic) gears were running like crazy on couple scenes! Mainly Reika and Tsume, but a lot of Toboe and Sakuya too!
Okay, after my little blurb here, I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
As Long As I'm With You by Magical Girl Pretty Sammy-Chan
"Blue's pissed off at me," Hige gave a dejected sigh as he, Kiba and Toboe walked to school the next morning. It was crisp, calm, and humid as the leaves began to turn a bright orange around them. October was almost upon them. "I just know it."
"Why shouldn't she be?" Kiba eyed him accusingly, as if to show that it was all his friend's fault, "You did snap at her yesterday when she was trying to cheer you up."
"Jeez! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it," Hige chewed the inside of his mouth, not wanting to say more on the subject. Toboe, usually quite peppy, decided it would be better not to venture into the subject. "And what about Cheza?" Hige finally spoke up.
"What about her?" Kiba asked, his face turning slightly pink.
"OH PUHLEASE!" Hige yelled to the brown haired boy, "Don't pretend you don't have the hots for her!"
"I DO NOT!" Kiba stammered, his face turning strangely crimson.
"Ewww!" Toboe's face scrunched up, the small freshman finally speaking. "Kiba's got a girlfriend?! I thought you, of all people Kiba, wouldn't turn on me like this!"
"CHEZA IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND, END OF STORY!" Kiba yelled to the two stooges behind him as they entered the school gate, "Looks like we're here…"
"Hey…do you guys know where Tsume is?" Toboe asked, "He's usually pulled up on his bike by now."
"Maybe he's just late," Hige waved his hand nonchalantly, "You know him."
Just then, the roar of a motorcycle came whizzing around the corner and in front of the school gate. "See," Hige smiled, turning around, "I told you. GAH!"
It had been Tsume's bike that had pulled up in front of the school like it did every morning, but this time…it wasn't just Tsume riding on it.
"Thanks for giving me a ride," the passenger clinging to Tsume's waist and pushing her body close to his chuckled as she lifted her helmet. As the long gray hair fell, the group noticed it was Reika.
"No problem," Tsume chuckled, taking off his own helmet, "Baby."
"…" was all the four guys could say as they heard that. Then, finally, something inside them made them realize what had just been said, "B-B-B-BABY?!"
"WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAS HAPPENED TO THE VERY FABRIC OF THIS WORLD?!" Hige screamed as the three ran into school to see what was going on. "IT'S THE END OF SANITY AS WE KNOW IT!"
"NOW, THIS HAS GOT TO BE SOME SORT OF MISTAKE!" Kiba insisted to his panicked friends, "I'M SURE THERE IS A PERFECTLY GOOD EXPLANATION FOR THIS!"
"Extra, Extra! Reika Yukito soon to be Reika Hikota? Latest Gossip, front page!"
"…" That also made the guys stop dead in their tracks and think about what had just been yelled to them. "WHAT THE HELL?!" In a flash of lightning, the boys were over by the newspaper reporter and were hunched over the front page, Kiba holding the pages loosely, as though in shock. On the front page was a large picture of Reika and Tsume holding hands and walking in the halls…
"Tsuuume!" Toboe whined, "I thought he, of all people, would be the last one to turn to the dark side!"
"Wh…wha…what is…going on here…?" Hige looked as though his entire soul had been drained out of his body, the shock of Tsume getting a girlfriend overwhelming the poor single boy.
"N-n-now guys!" Kiba turned to his friends, one soulless, the other wailing his eyes out, "This-this picture! It doesn't prove anything!" Hige's soul returned to him for a few moments and Toboe stopped crying, "Yeah! He may have been just pulling her along somewhere! Or helping her up! Or something like that! This is probably just a rumor!"
"Yeah Kiba!" Toboe nodded, "That doesn't prove anything!"
"It seems this so-called story continues on page 3…" Kiba lightly licked his fingers and turned the page.
Once again, Hige's soul drifted out of his mouth and Toboe started to wail. "WHAT THE HELL?!" Kiba screamed.
"They-they're kissing!" Toboe cried as he pointed to the picture of Tsume and Reika planting a light kiss on each other's lips. "Oh Tsuuuume!"
"I...I don't…understand…" Hige whispered.
"GUYS!" Kiba grabbed Hige's shoulders and his soul was returned to him, "THIS DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING! So what if they kissed?! It was probably just an accident! They may have fallen on each other! You know how the press will do anything to get a story!"
"Yeah!" Toboe nodded, "That doesn't prove anything!"
"There's one more page," Kiba turned the page, and this time, Hige's soul drifted up into heaven and Toboe's tears could fill the Pacific Ocean. "WHAT THE HELL!?" Kiba quickly covered Toboe's eyes.
"They-they're making out!" Toboe cried, "Voluntarily!" It was true. In the picture, Tsume had Reika in a firm grasp and Reika was ravaging her fingers through Tsume's hair, the two lip locked and looking very hot and heavy. "Tsuuuuuume!"
"Wh-why…why…why…why…?" Hige kept muttering over and over to himself.
"HIGE!" Kiba shook him, but no use, Hige fell over, tongue out of his mouth and Toboe just kept bawling. "This is bad! REAL BAD!"
"Kiba-sempai?" Kiba's face grew hot and he turned around to see Blue and Cheza looking at him, Blue looking strangely at Hige. "Is something wrong?"
"Oh! Um…nothing, really! I wouldn't want to bother you with our problems!" Kiba reassured her.
"Are you sure that this one can't help?" Cheza asked.
"That's so nice of you Cheza," Kiba commented, "But we're fine."
"Oh wow! Look! It looks like Takeshi is making a move on Reika!" Kiba's ears perked up as he heard a couple of girls giggling and pointing to the path that led up to the school. Others had crowded around the path where Tsume had his hand around Reika's waist. It seems Takeshi Miratari, a boy in class 5 had sauntered up to Reika to speak with her, his friends behind him. Kiba immediately grabbed Hige's soul, stuffed it back in his mouth and then proceeded to turn off Toboe's water pipes. Toboe dried his tears and Hige stood up suddenly.
"Guys, trouble," Kiba pointed to the path and the five made their way over to see what would happen in the situation.
"Hey…you're new right?" Takeshi asked Reika, who was eyeing him suspiciously.
"Yes…" she told him warily.
"Funny how you already have a boyfriend," Takeshi commented, walking closer to her, "Although, with your body, I wouldn't guess otherwise."
"Are you saying that Tsume is only dating me because of my looks?!" Reika asked him bitterly.
"Not to be blunt," Takeshi shrugged, "I think that you're too good for him. But…" Reika squealed as Takeshi grabbed her hand and held her body close to his, "I can show you a good time if you want…you're easy right?"
"LET HER GO!" Tsume barked (no pun intended) and the entire student body looked at him, growling (I swear, no pun), "Let her go…NOW."
"Whatcha going to do about it?" Takeshi asked him defiantly and slipped his hand around Reika's waist. "C'mon babe."
"THIS IS WHAT I'M GONNA DO ABOUT IT!" Takeshi slammed into the crowd as Tsume's fist connected with his face. Blood spewed from his nose as Tsume stood in front of Reika, "You okay Reika?"
"I'm fine…" Reika nodded, "I'm sorry Tsume…I…I…" she brought her hands to her eyes, "I touched another man!"
"It's not your fault Reika!" Tsume insisted to her, trying to dry her tears.
"Oh!" A few girls blushed, "I wish my boyfriend was that considerate!"
"I wish I had a girlfriend like Reika!" The boys fantasized, "She's so loyal to Tsume!"
"There is SOMETHING up…" Kiba told Hige and Toboe blankly, "Reika's acting strange…and Tsume is acting even stranger."
"Well, people act strange when they're in love," Hige pointed out, "Right Kiba?" He nudged the blue eyed boy and Kiba felt himself blush.
"You'll pay for this!" Takeshi said to Tsume, "And that little broad too!"
"Her name is Reika!" Tsume told him, "Now get out of here!"
Takeshi grimaced and then ran into the school, followed by his posse. The crowd cheered and Tsume took Reika's hand and walked her inside.
"We'd better get in too," Blue told them, "Class is starting in fifteen minutes…"
"TSUME!" The three boys yelled to their friend, who was busy, turned around in his desk, talking to Reika. Every now and then, Reika would plant a light kiss on his lips.
"Huh?" he turned around, "Oh hey guys, what's up?"
"Hey guys!" Reika waved to them cheerily.
"Hey Reika," they lightly spoke, then Kiba grabbed Tsume's arm, "Tsume, we need to talk, NOW!"
"You're leaving Tsume?" Reika asked him, "But what will I do without you?"
"We'll only be apart for a couple of minutes," Tsume reassured her, "I'll be back soon my love."
"Oh Tsume…" Reika looked dreamily into his eyes and then kissed him passionately, making Toboe cringe in disgust. When they broke, Tsume ran his hand through her hair and then left with the three boys.
"So, what do you want?" Tsume asked, acting normal again once they were in a deserted hall. Tsume looked around a couple times, paused, and then nodded.
"What's happened with you and Reika?" Kiba demanded, "She's only been here one day and you're already calling her "my love"."
"We're in love," Tsume shrugged, "What's more to say?"
"Don't feed us this 'WE'RE IN LOVE' crap!" Hige insisted, grabbing his friend's shirt collar and shaking him violently, "HOW CAN YOU GET A GIRLFRIEND SO FAST WHEN I HAVE TO WORK AND TOIL FOR YEARS WITHOUT ANY PROGRESS TO SHOW?!"
Tsume looked at the enraged Hige, the puzzled Kiba, the depressed Toboe, and bit his lip. A small suppressed chuckle escaped him and then, he broke out, laughing so hard that he doubled over and tears were forming in his eyes, "You guys are too easy!"
"What?" Kiba asked, dumbstruck.
"It's all an act," Tsume explained, "Just to get our kicks."
"I knew it!" Toboe cheered, "Tsume would never really get a girlfriend!"
"Tsume," Kiba cautioned, "This'll never last. It'll become old news soon."
"That's why Reika and I spent five hours on the phone last night making up a schedule for the next two months before the dance." Tsume pulled out a calendar from his pocket and showed them the red and blue marks he had wrote all over the calendar, "Next week we're going to break up but get back together on a Saturday night. Then, at a dance party that we're going to publicize, we're going to sleep together and Reika's going to think that she--"
"YOU'RE GOING TO WHAT?!" the three boys interrupted.
"Oh don't worry," Tsume rolled his eyes, "You guys are going to come in before I even get her bra off."
"US?!" they asked simultaneously, "SINCE WHEN ARE WE PART OF THIS PLAN?!"
"Since now," Tsume rolled up the calendar and put it back in his pocket, "We're going to announce the truth at the dance, so it won't be forever. I'll keep you posted." He bowed to them and walked back into the classroom, leaving the three boys alone, wondering how in the world they had gotten themselves into this situation.
"Toboe…we'll handle this," Kiba assured him, "You get to class."
"But Kiba…"
"Kiba's right," Hige sighed, "You'd better get."
"Kay…" Toboe nodded and solemnly walked towards his class.
"TSUME HIKOTA AND REIKA YUKITO TO THE HEADMASTER'S OFFICE!" The announcement system bellowed, "TSUME HIKOTA AND REIKA YUKITO TO THE HEADMASTER'S OFFICE!" The class gave a low "oooo" and Tsume grasped Reika's hand and led her out of the classroom.
"You think we're going to get in major trouble?" Reika asked, "I wonder what we're in for."
"Making out on school premises?" Tsume asked.
"That's not a rule…" Reika murmured as they reached the office. The woman behind the desk looked at them, holding hands and she scrunched up her nose.
"Wait over there," she pointed to a couch and the two sat down. The woman continued to type on her computer and Reika smiled deviously. She put her head on Tsume's shoulder and Tsume, catching on, rested his head on hers. Reika's breathing became heavy and Tsume realized that she must be pretending to go to sleep while they waited. "I…love you…Tsume…" she whispered and Tsume smiled.
"I love you too, Reika…"
"That will be quite enough of that!" Reika woke up and looked up to see the Headmaster standing in the door, wearing a black suit and blue solid colored tie. He motioned them in and Tsume, still keeping a tight hold on Reika's hand, led her in.
"Yukito-san, Hikota-san…" The Headmaster looked at them, "I've heard that today… Hikota-san…you dealt a blow to a fellow student over Yukito-san here."
"He was violating her sir," Tsume told him, grasping her hand tighter. "I have a right to protect my loved ones don't I?"
"And these scandalous pictures in the newspaper…" the Headmaster commented, "This kind of relationship is not to be exhibited on school premises."
"What are you saying sir?" Reika asked.
"I want you two to stop this relationship at once," the Headmaster explained, "If we have to, we will take other measures."
"NO!" A fist collided with the Headmaster's desk and Reika looked up to see Tsume glowering at the Headmaster, "Never, Reika and I--"
"Are in love?" the Headmaster commented, "Please…every teenager thinks they're in love every day."
"DON'T MOCK MY LOVE FOR REIKA!" Tsume screamed and the Headmaster backed against his wall, "I LOVE HER!" Reika felt herself blushing furiously as she looked at Tsume speaking passionately about her, "I LOVE HER MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD! And don't…" he grimaced, "Tell me that I can't be with her…" He bit his lip, "Cause I can't accept that…"
"Tsume…" Reika spoke and then stood up as well, "I love Tsume as well! I want to be with him for the rest of my life! Please sir!"
"I've heard quite enough," the Headmaster cleared his throat and pointed to his door, "You may go. Moderate your public displays of affection if you're so obsessed on being with one another."
"Yes sir," Reika and Tsume said simultaneously and walked out of the office and back into the school halls. Tsume looked at Reika and smiled.
"That was some great acting back there," he praised and then noticed her cherry red face, "Something wrong? You got a fever or something?" he pressed his hand to her forehead, "You're burning up."
"It's just…the things you said back there," she tried to laugh it off, "They sounded so real…" Tsume paused, and blushed as well. "Funny huh? C'mon," she grasped his hand, "Let's get back to class."
"Thank you for being on time for the second time in a row…" Mizuki-sensei spoke to Toboe as he sat in his desk just before the bell rang, and the class giggled. "Toboe-san…"
"Yes ma'am…" Toboe pouted.
"Now class," Mizuki-san told them, "We have a new transfer student…" Toboe's ears perked up, "She's very excited to meet you all…"
"Ahh…" Toboe sighed, "I thought it was going to be a boy…"
"Her name is Sakuya Sakura and she comes from Kyoto," the teacher waved her hand to the door. "You can come in dear."
Sakuya stepped into the room with a broad smile plastered on her pretty face and cupid's arrow struck Toboe dead on. The girl had long light brown hair that she kept up in two high ponytails. The hair reached her elbows and she had shining brown eyes. She smiled at the class, "Hello everyone, please regard me kindly."
She's…the most beautiful thing I've ever seen…
"Sakuya will need someone to show her around for the week," Mizuki-sensei explains, "Who would like to be her guide?"
Toboe's hand shot into the air the second her mouth closed. Her guide for the week…perfect… Unfortunately, Toboe turned his head and saw that every other boy in the room had raised his hand. "UGH!" Toboe raised his hand higher, hoping, praying, that Mizuki-sensei would pick him.
"Hmm…so many of you…" Mizuki-sensei sweatdropped and looked around, "Then I suppose I will choose…"
"Excuse me Mizuki-sensei," Sakuya spoke up and Mizuki-sensei turned around to face her, "May I pick my guide?"
"Well, if you'd like," Mizuki-sensei shrugged.
"How about…" Sakuya surveyed the room, "You!" She pointed at Toboe and Toboe felt his heart melt.
She picked me, she picked ME! Maybe she likes me!
"You look so funny standing up with your hand raised like that!" Sakuya giggled and Toboe blushed as the class laughed. It was true, he was standing in his seat, his arm outstretched. He blushed as Sakuya sat down next to him and he smiled.
"Umm…I'm Toboe…Toboe Odakari!" He gave a slight wave and smiled, "I'll be your guide for this week…umm…this is our homeroom!"
"I know," she giggled once again and Toboe blushed, "You're so funny Toboe-kun!"
"Really?" he asked, blushing, "Oh, I'm not funny at all! Really!"
"No really," she told him, "You really make me happy!"
Toboe drifted off to heaven as Sakuya praised him, saying that he "made her happy" and didn't return to earth until Mizuki-sensei greeted him with a sharp smack on the head with her yard stick when he wasn't paying attention. "Ow…" he grimaced and Sakuya giggled again. She quickly wrote a note and passed it to him.
He carefully opened it and it said:
Eat lunch with me today? ;) You're so fun! I'm glad I picked you Toboe-kun!
Toboe nodded to her and decided that he had officially gone to "The Dark Side".
"Blue!" the girls surrounded her at the break time, excluding Manami, Yuri, and Chitose, who stood in a corner, angered at the attention Blue was getting, "Where'd you get that necklace?" The girls pointed to a blue angel necklace that rested around Blue's neck, "It's too pretty!"
"Oh…" Blue blushed, "It was in my desk…I don't know who gave it to me…"
"That's so romantic!" The girls swooned, "Who do you think gave it to you?!"
"I…I don't know…" Blue blushed again, then giggled, "I hope that a certain person gave it to me…"
"Who?!" the girls asked her, "Oh I know! It's Hige right!? You have a crush on him, right?"
Luckily, the boys were outside playing football (soccer), so Hige didn't hear that, but that didn't stop Blue from blushing and looking around to make sure that Hige hadn't hear them. "Well?!" They all loomed on her.
"Umm…umm…" Blue blushed and then looked up, "No way! Like I'd like him!"
"Blue darling…" The girls looked around to see Manami motioning toward her. Blue shrugged and then walked over to the three girls. Manami smiled, "Hey…let's go talk over here, kay?"
"Sure…" Blue shrugged and followed the girls into another hall. Once they had arrived, Manami smiled at Blue.
"So…you like Hige right?"
"Eurrg…" Blue blushed once more, "I already told you, I don't like Hige!"
"Oh Blue darling," Manami chuckled, "I can see right through you…you like him…right?"
Blue paused…and then…slowly nodded.
"I knew it!" Yuri laughed and Chitose giggled with her.
"How would you like to get him to ask you to the dance?" Manami asked her, "I can work my way under his skin."
"Manami…" Blue smiled, "You would do that for me?! Thank you!"
"Hey, what are friends for?" Manami asked and put her arm around Blue's, "Let's get back to the girls."
"Hey Kiba…" Hige came over to Kiba while the rest of the guys played football, "What's wrong? You haven't played all day… Tsume just kicked a goal and screamed, 'FOR REIKA!' He's starting to creep me out…"
"I wonder if Cheza got that necklace…" Kiba bit his finger worriedly, "I put it in her desk…"
"What?!" Hige asked, "You got Cheza jewelry?!"
"It was just a Welcome present!" Kiba insisted, his face turning crimson, "I hope she got it…"
"Ugh…Harada-sensei's calling us in," Hige pointed out, "Let's see if Cheza got the necklace...you Casanova…"
"Hige!"
"Hey Cheza!" Kiba waved to Cheza as he came in, "Did you get it?"
"Get what…?" she asked him, "This one did not get anything…"
"The necklace?!" Kiba asked, "You didn't get it? I put it in your desk…" Cheza blushed furiously and Kiba worked quickly to cover his tracks, "As a welcome present you know!"
"This one will check!" Cheza excitedly opened her desk and saw – "This is not this one's desk…"
"Hey!" Blue shouted, "Who put this book in my desk?" She pulled out a journal and began to read, "Kiba-sempai was very nice to me today… This one was made fun of, but Kiba-sempai looked out for me. This one should try really hard to be like the other girls who are so pretty and nice. Kiba-sempai would probably like them more than me. I think that I li--"
"ACK!" Cheza ran over and snatched the book, "That is this one's diary!" She looked in Blue's desk and saw all of her stuff in it! "And this is this one's desk!"
"Then…" Blue looked at her necklace and Kiba looked at it as well, blushing.
"Ack!"
"Kiba-sempai got me such a beautiful necklace…" Cheza blushed.
"Oh…then…I guess it wasn't from him…" Blue sighed and started to unclasp it. Kiba was sweating bullets the entire time.
"Hige…save me…please…" Kiba whispered. "Everyone will think that I like Cheza! A huge scene's going on! I just thought that she would find the necklace, thank me and then that would be it! I'm in trouble, save me!"
"Wait?! Why me?!" Hige asked incredulously.
"Remember that time in the first grade when I got the glue out of your hair?!" Kiba grabbed his friend's shirt collar, "REPAY ME!"
"Ack…" Hige looked over at Blue and then sighed, "Wait Blue! I got you that necklace!" Blue looked over and blushed at Hige's remark, "As a welcome present!"
"You…you did Hige?" Blue asked, smiling, "Thank you so much!"
"Then…" Cheza whispered, "What about this one's necklace?" Kiba looked over at Cheza and felt his heart shatter as he saw tears running down her cheeks. She then bolted out the door and ran down the hall, her silver tears flying from her eyes.
"Cheza!" Kiba called and ran after her down the hall. He saw Cheza round a corner into a closet and he heard her slam the door. "Cheza?!" Kiba turned the corner and knocked on the door as he heard her sobbing, "Cheza…I'm sorry!"
"You do not need to apologize to this one…" Cheza spoke softly, "This one is being selfish…that's all…"
"No you're not Cheza!" Kiba sighed, "I'm…I'm sorry… I told you that I had gotten you a necklace and…well…I…"
"Psst…" Kiba's ears perked up as he saw Reika and Tsume motioning to him from the corner. Kiba quietly walked over to him and Reika grabbed his hand.
"Here…" she whispered and placed something in his hand and closed it.
"For keeping quiet…" Tsume smiled and Kiba opened his fist. He almost gasped as he saw a beautiful golden necklace with a star and two moon pedants. He looked up at them and nodded.
"Cheza…?" he called to her as he ran back to the closet. Reika and Tsume nodded to one another and ran back to class. "Cheza?"
"Ye-yes Kiba-sempai?"
"Can you come out for a second?" he asked her.
"This one would rather not…" Cheza whispered tearily.
"Then…I'll slip it through the door…" Kiba slipped the necklace under the door and Cheza's heart leapt as she felt cold metal touch her finger. She picked up the necklace gingerly and fingered it carefully in her palm.
"Cheza?" Kiba asked again and this time, the door opened. Cheza came out, smiling with the necklace around her neck. Kiba smiled, "You look beautiful."
"Thank you Kiba-sempai," Cheza smiled warmly, "This is the nicest gift that this one has ever gotten."
"We should get back to class, right?" Kiba took her hand, "We don't want Harada-sensei to get mad!"
"Right!" She nodded and walked with him, her golden necklace only less bright than her smile.
"I'm sorry Cheza-chan," Harada-sensei sighed, "I must have accidentally switched the desks while I was cleaning them. They've been switched back now."
"That's all right Harada-sensei," Cheza smiled and fingered her necklace once more. All the girls growled at her as she sat down and at the first possible chance, Erika leaned over to her and in a low whisper asked:
"Cheza-chan…where'd you get that necklace?"
"Oh!" Cheza smiled, "Kiba-sempai got it for me!"
And at the end of the day, every single girl in the entire school knew.
END OF CHAPTER! Glad you all liked it! Next chapter, TONS of ToboexSakuya at lunchtime and more of the rest of your favorite pairings!
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Until then,
Ciao for now!