Okay finally chapter four is up! – FreeTheSoul888
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Chapter 4:
Since the day classes were officially over all the students were allowed to spend the rest of the afternoon doing their own personal things and this is where the romance really begins...
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Keiko & Hyoga:
Keiko decided that for the rest of the afternoon she would spend her time practicing her swimming. So she said goodbye to Teresa and walked towards the indoor pool. She went into the change rooms and got into her favourite bikini which was a dark purple colour. She dived into the water and allowed herself to lye on her back and float aimlessly on top of the water unknown to her that someone would soon be joining her.
Hyoga quietly walked into the pool room as well and watched Keiko in all her peacefulness. Wow Keiko sure looks like she is relaxed. He thought to himself. Keiko heard what he said and jumped in surprise to see that someone else was there.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry I'll get out of here if you want to use the pool now." She said quickly as she blushed, and was about to get out when Hyoga stopped her.
"No it's okay you can stay here too after all you were the first one to get here so you deserve to stay." Hyoga jumped into the water and swam over to her.
Oh no! He's actually coming over to me what should I do? She asked herself as Hyoga edged even closer to her. She moved back and ended up right against the wall of the pool.
"Why are you backing away from Keiko?" He asked with a look of hurt in his beautiful blue eyes.
"Well um... I'm not used to swimming with a boy that's all." Keiko answered. Hyoga looked at her and began to laugh and it was then Keiko's feelings who were hurt. "Don't laugh at me you jerk! Tons of girls have trouble swimming with boys!"
"I wasn't laughing at that it's just kind of funny to think that a girl as tough and as cute as you would be afraid of anything." Hyoga answered as he began to slowly decrease his laughter. Keiko gave him a confused look and then out of nowhere began to laugh herself so the two of them just stood there in the pool laughing for no real good reason.
"Okay now that I got that out of my system how about we have some fun?" He asked as Keiko also began to stop laughing.
"Fine by me but what exactly do you have in mind?" Hyoga suddenly got an evil smirk on his face which gave Keiko an uneasy feeling. Hyoga dunked his hands into the water and then splashed Keiko.
"You're so going to wish you never did that!" She exclaimed and then the two of them started a splashing fight in the water. It lasted for what seemed like hours when the two of them finally decided to give it a rest so they sat side by side on the ledge of the pool.
"Don't you just love the water?" Hyoga asked out of the blue. Keiko smiled at him and nodded her head.
"You know why I came in here? I came in here to practice my swimming and diving techniques but instead I almost drowned by all the water you were splashing at me."
"You like to dive?"
"Yeah diving is one of my favourite hobbies besides photography. My favourite dive of all though is the Swan Dive (go figure)."
"I love that dive too." Hyoga said with amazement at how much they had in common.
"I'll show you how I do it if you want because I do it a little bit differently." Keiko asked.
"That would be great." Keiko got off the ledge as Hyoga slid back into the water and got into a better position to watch Keiko do her dive. Keiko is so hot in that bathing suit of hers. Keiko was almost at the end of the diving board when Hyoga said that and was so shocked by what he had thought that she lost her balance and fell of the board. She plummeted straight towards Hyoga and landed right on top of him! When she emerged from under the water and gasped for air she realized Hyoga wasn't there with her and she began to panic.
"Where are you Hyoga?" She asked as she looked around her surroundings. Oh no what if I caused him to drown from landing on him!? She asked herself. If he dies I will never forgive myself! She was about to dive under water when something grabbed her leg and pulled her under. She opened her eyes to find Hyoga right in front of her.
"How could you do that to me!?" Keiko yelled as the came out from underneath the water.
"Come on Keiko it was just a little fun don't get so excited."
"I AM NOT EXCITED!" Sheesh Keiko is just as bad as Ikki when it comes to taking a joke. "Excuse me?" Hyoga looked at her.
"Did I say that out loud?"
"No you didn't I read your mind, okay there I said it I can read people's minds!" Keiko yelled and got out of the pool and grabbed a towel and started drying off. Hyoga came out shortly after she did and put his hand on her shoulder.
"So you heard everything I've ever thought?" He asked.
"Well not everything I could never get deeper into your mind I could only read things like your favourite colour and things like that." She answered, her face still turned away from his.
"So you heard me say that you were... hot?"
"Yep." She started walking away but Hyoga stopped her before she could go.
"Why didn't you tell any of us, especially me?"
"Well I thought that everyone would consider me as a freak but since everyone seen my wings I guess it doesn't really matter anymore huh?"
"Keiko listen I would have never thought of you as a freak, and Keiko."
"Yes."
"Would you go out with me on Saturday?" The question took Keiko by complete surprise so she just stared at him. "I see." He was then about to leave when Keiko was the one to stop him.
"No, don't go. What I meant to say was I would love to go out with you on Saturday." Keiko smiled at him and he smiled back she grabbed his hand and the two of them walked out of the pool room together.
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Teresa & Shun:
Shun stood near the fence and watched as Teresa jumped over one fence after the other. Her hair wildly flying in the wind and even though sweat poured down her face from the heat of the sun Shun still thought she was radiantly beautiful. Teresa noticed Shun staring at her and couldn't help but blush as his eyes followed her every move.
"Teresa is that guy distracting you because if he is just say the word and I'll trample him." Helios asked as he glared at Shun.
"You will do no such thing he is just minding his own business so leave him alone okay now let's try the next jump." She replied and steered Helios in the direction of the next jump. Helios reluctantly turned but not without giving a disgruntled snort. He reared his head and galloped towards the target and jumped through the air. Unfortunately Teresa wasn't exactly ready for the jump 'cause she was too busy looking at a certain green haired boy, so she went flying off Helios and landed on the ground with a large 'thud.'
Shun quickly jumped over the fence and ran over to Teresa. Helios was already standing worriedly over his owner. As Shun arrived Helios couldn't help but feel resentment towards him for he knew that if he wasn't there distracting his mistress then she would have been prepared for the jump and she wouldn't have gotten hurt.
"Are you okay?" Shun asked worriedly as he held Teresa's chin and kept her face at level with his. After a few moments of waiting Teresa gradually opened her brown eyes and looked into Shuns bluish-green ones.
"Yeah I'm fine thanks for asking." She answered as she tried to get back up. But as she put some wait on her right foot a huge stream of pain flowed through her body and she collapsed back onto the ground.
"What happened?" Helios this time asked.
"I think my ankles broken."
"We'll have to take you to the nurses' office right away." Shun said and proceeded in the process of picking Teresa off the ground but was stopped by Helios. "Hey I'm trying to help her."
"I wouldn't trust this guy with getting my oats let alone taking you to the nurse."
"Helios let him help or else you won't get any oats at all." Teresa warned as Shun gave her confused look. Helios snorted and moved out of the way for Shun to take Teresa to the nurse.
"If he does one thing to you anything at all I swear I will hurt him."
"Stop that Helios!"
"Um if you don't mind me asking why are you talking to a horse?" Shun questioned as Teresa began whining like a horse. Teresa snapped her attention back on Shun and blushed making Helios worry that his owner was catching a fever.
"Oh well um shouldn't we get going?" She asked, quickly changing the conversation. Shun nodded and started walking towards the school.
"Remember if he does anything at all just give the word and I'll be there to give him pain." Teresa shot Helios a look of pure terror which made the mighty being step backwards just by the look from her. Teresa turned her attention back to Shun and blushed at his touch.
'I am so glad that Keiko isn't here right now or else she would be teasing me non stop.' Teresa thought to herself as she kept looking at Shun. He noticed her watching him and looked her straight in the eyes.
"Do I have something on my face?" He asked as Teresa blushed an even deeper red.
"N-no it's just that um... well... you have really nice eyes." She managed to say until she realized exactly what she had just said. "I mean um I just wanted to say thank you for helping me hehe." Shun looked at her and then gave her a warm comforting smile that made Teresa's heart melt. She wanted to stay like that all day just him and her together.
"Hey Teresa there's something I've been meaning to ask you lately." Shuns voice said breaking into her thoughts.
"Yeah?"
'Would you like to go out with me sometime you know like uh on a... date?" Teresa was shocked by his question and just stared at him blankly for a few minutes processing what he had just asked her. Shun looked at her expression and dropped his head. I guess I'll take that as a no huh?"
"No, no that's not it what I mean to say is I would love to go out with you Shun." She answered with a dazzlingly sweet smile.
"That's great."
"But first how about you take me the nurse so she can take a look at my ankle?" Shun blushed and nodded and then ran off to the nurses' office with Teresa tightly wrapped in his arms.
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Lita & Brock:
"Okay how about this I call it 'Lita's Magnificent Noodles Supreme!" Lita was in the Home Ec. room with Serena giving her different kinds of food that she had prepared for their next class when Brock came barging into the room.
"Hello beautiful ladies what are you doing?" He asked with a smile as he walked up to Lita and smelled what she had just created. "Hey this smells good did you add a bit of lemon juice to add a bit more of a sweet aroma?"
"How did you know that?" She asked with utter amazement in her voice. Brock gave another dashing smile and responded.
"I hate to brag but I am the best chef in the world so I know everything about cooking." He answered. Lita immediately lost her look of amazement and was then replaced with a look of anger. Serena knew that look and quickly hid underneath the table.
"How dare you say that you are the best cook in the world. Have you ever even met anyone else who is just as good?" She exclaimed.
"Everyone knows that men are better chefs then women and so far I have never met a single guy who could beat me in a cooking contest."
"That is until now." Lita said as Serena decided that it was now safe to get out from under the table.
"What? Do you know someone who you think could beat me?" He asked. Lita nodded.
"She's standing right in front of you." She answered.
"You mean you think you can beat me?"
"I don't think I know I'm going to beat you and my friend Serena can be the judge." Serena perked up as she heard her name and smiled at the thought of getting food for something so idiotic.
"No way am I going to allow your friend to judge this contest not unless one of my friends can judge as well."
"Fine I pick a judge and you pick a judge now who did you have in mind?"
"I'll be right back with the perfect guy." Brock ran out of the room and left Lita and Serena looking after him. Serena walked up beside Lita and looked at her friend.
"Man Lita why are you fighting with the cute guy?" She asked.
"Well I must admit he does remind me of my old boyfriend." Serena sweatdropped as Lita continued. "But I refuse to allow him to say that men are better then women."
"Whatever you say I just can't wait to sink my teeth into your cooking." Lita smiled at her friend as Brock walked back in pulling a young boy behind him with black hair who was also wearing a red cap. The girls immediately identified the boy as Ash.
"Let's get cooking." Brock said and went over to the stove and started getting to work on his creation and soon he was followed by Lita while Serena and Ash stood there watching them get into their work. After about ten or so minutes the two of them finished their masterpieces and brought them over to the judges.
"Try this I call it 'Double Decker Chocolate Cake of Doom." Lita exclaimed as she put the cake down in front of Ash and Serena.
"That's a lot of words for just a simple chocolate cake." Brock said as he put his dish on the table. Lita glared at him and then put her hands on her hips.
"It's not just a chocolate cake it has lots of other awesome ingredients in it too." She answered and then looked at what he made. "What do you call that?"
"I call this my special vegetable broth." He replied and started distributing the broth into the bowls he had laid out. Ash started to dig into the food immediately while Serena slowly took her first sip. Right after that first sip her eyes opened wide and she started to dig in as well. Brock had a small smirk on his face as Lita glared at her so-called friend and waited for them to finish Brocks food so they could test hers.
"Looks like I'm going to win this." Brock whispered into her ear. Lita looked at him and smiled.
"Don't place your bet yet honey they still have to try what I made." She answered. "Okay you two time to try what I have created." She cut each of them a piece of her cake and placed it in front of them. They both took their forks and dug in and in seconds finished it. It was then Lita's turn to smirk at Brock.
"So who do you two pick to be the winner?" Brock asked with great anticipation in his voice. Ash and Serena consulted one another and then looked back at their friends.
"We have decided that it is... a tie." Serena answered as she grabbed herself another piece of cake.
"WHAT!?" Brock and Lita yelled at the exact same time and then glared at each other.
"There is no way we could have tied!" Lita exclaimed.
"You know you're kind of cute when you're angry." Brock told her as she blushed and as Serena giggled at her friend.
"How dare you change the subject you insufferable, egotistical..." She trailed off as Brock moved a little closer to her, "jerk."
"Would you like to go out with me Lita to like the movies or something?" He asked. Lita looked over at Serena who mouthed 'say yes' so Lita looked back at Brock and nodded.
"Um okay that would be okay I guess." Brock smiled at her and then took her hand and walked out of the room with her leaving a giggling Serena and a confused Ash behind.
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Rin, Rini, and Shippo:
"Shippo are you in here?" Rini asked as she made her way into the art room. She had been looking for Shippo all day and when Kagome had told her that he was in the art room she quickly ran all the way there. Now she was busy looking into all the rooms trying to find him.
"Oh Shippo that is so pretty." A female voice said as Rini ran towards the source of the sound. She burst into the room and almost fell over at what she saw. Rin that no good jerk who was also after her Shippo was sitting at a chair while Shippo had his arms around her.
"What's going on here!?" Rini exclaimed as she quickly walked over to Rin and Shippo and glared at them.
"I was just showing Rin how to make a clay pot that's all Rini." He answered as Rin got off of him which in turn ruined the pot immediately.
"Now look what you made me do!" Rin yelled as she pointed to the ruined pot. "The pot is completely destroyed now!"
"Excuse me how is this my fault?" Rini yelled back. Rin was at the verge of lunging at Rini and wringing her neck when Shippo thankfully stepped between the two.
"Okay that is enough you two there is no need for you to argue over something this stupid." Shippo said with a calm look on his face despite the fact that he was still angry at the two girls for fighting. "It was just a clay pot that we can always redo." The girls looked away from each other and crossed their arms.
"Fine Shippo I'll stop arguing with her now let's get started on a new clay pot." Rin replied as she got ready to make another pot.
"Hey what about me don't I deserve to get to learn about pot making?" Rini asked Shippo as she put on a sweet and innocent smile.
"Sure Rini if you want you can learn to." At this answer Rin's smile disappeared and was replaced with a frown.
"There's not enough room for her to also make pots." Rini glared at Rin as Shippo responded.
"I know that's why I am just going to stand here and instruct you two on how to make your pots." Rini reluctantly sat down in front of Rin as Rin as well reluctantly put her arms around Rini and moved her into the right position. "There that wasn't so bad now was it?"
"No of course not Shippo." Rini answered. I rather have Shippo's arms around me not some boy stealing twerp. She thought after and Rin's thoughts were exactly the same. The two of them stayed like that for awhile until it was time to stop the spinning of the pot and to wait until it's dry (hey I've never made a pot before so I'm just assuming that's what you do).
"Okay now all we have to do is wait till it's dry." Shippo reported.
"That's great Shipppppppppppppppppppo!" Rini yelled as she fell flat on her face. She picked herself up and looked at the person who tripped her. It was none other then Rin who was already holding Shippo in his arms. "You jerk I know you did that on purpose."
"Whatever do you mean Rini?" Rin asked with a fake confused look. Rini was tired of hearing Rin's sweet talk so she decided to do the only thing she could think of. She walked over to some of the paint cans and picked one up, she walked back over to where Rin and Shippo were and splashed the paint onto Rin and just barely missing Shippo. Rin was covered in bright baby blue.
"How dare you do that to me!" Rin yelled as quickly grabbed her own bucket of paint and threw it at Rini. Rini covered her head as she got ready for the paint to splash her but it never came. She slowly opened her eyes and gasped when she saw Shippo took the hit for her and was completely covered in pink and pink was Shippo's least favourite colour.
"Shippo! Are you okay!" Rini asked as she grabbed a wet towel and started to wipe off the paint Rin quickly joined her.
"It's okay you two it's only paint so it's not going to kill me." He gently pushed the girls away and proceeded towards the door. "I think I'll have a bath to wash away the rest of the paint. I'll see you two later okay."
"Sure Shippo we'll see you later." Rin said as Shippo walked out the door. As soon as he was gone Rin turned on Rini.
"Thanks a lot now me and Shippo will never get together thanks to you!" She yelled.
"Okay first of all good now I have a better chance of getting him and secondly if you hadn't tripped me I wouldn't have gotten angry at you so I wouldn't have thrown the paint at you and then you wouldn't have thrown the paint at me and Shippo wouldn't have jumped in the way to save me." She took a few breathes and then waited for Rin's answer. Rin opened her mouth to retort when Shippo reappeared through the door.
"By the way would you two girls do me the honour of going out with me this weekend?" He asked.
"Are you kidding? I loved to go out with you Shippo!" Rin exclaimed as she gave Shippo a big hug.
"Hello he asked both of us and my answer is the same as hers." Rini answered as she came over to the two of them. "Now you better go get yourself a bath before the paint totally dries on you." Shippo nodded and again left. Rin and Rini looked at each other one last time and then left too.
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Ikki & Lili:
Ikki punched the bag with all his might causing the bag to burst open and all the sand to fall out. Lili who was just taking a stroll throughout the school heard the bag rip open and ran to see what had happened. She walked in and almost fell over as she tripped over the now destroyed bag. She looked up and saw the cute guy named Ikki punching the new bag with all of his might.
"Whatcha doing?" She asked as she came over to him. He punched the bag one more time and then glared at her.
"What does it look like I'm doing idiot." He said coldly and then went back to punching the bag.
"Hey I was just asking a question no need for you to get all angry at me jerk." She answered and continued watching him punch the bag. He looked at her from the corner of his eye and couldn't help but admit that this girl was very beautiful with her long blonde hair that glistened in the sun and her beautiful sapphire eyes. But she was still annoying him while he was trying to train so he could not let it go without her being punished.
"Listen what will it take to get you to leave?" He asked. Lili just smiled at him and walked behind the bag.
"Why do you want me to leave so badly?"
"Because I'm trying to train and you keep getting in the way and distracting me now go or else my fist will be in your mouth." Lili however still didn't back down.
"I'd like to see you try." Ikki was shocked that this girl wasn't backing down. Mostly everyone he ever talked to (not including the other bronze saints and Saori) always broke down into tears or ran away with fear but here was this girl standing calmly before him.
"Fine you want to see if I can try okay then." He pulled back his fist and got ready to hit her. Most of the time Ikki tried to avoid having to hit a girl but in her case he would make an exception. He then lunged his fist at her and surprisingly she dodged it. She then quickly kicked him in the head making Ikki fall to the ground. He got up and rubbed his check with his hand and looked at her. "Where did you learn to fight like that?"
"I've been practicing all my life so no one can beat me." She answered. "Here let me take a look at that mark I left on you." She grabbed Ikki's face and examined the mark while Ikki blushed at her touch.
"I don't need your help okay now get away from me." He pushed Lili away from him and walked over to the door but Lili followed.
"Why do you try to keep me away from you? What have I ever done to deserve this treatment?" She questioned. Ikki sighed and glared at Lili.
"If I tell you will you leave me alone for the rest of the school year?"
"Maybe."
"Okay I just don't like you." He walked away again but Lili ran in front of him.
"I don't believe you for a second Ikki." She said. "I want to know exactly why you don't like me."
"You annoy me that's why okay!" He yelled because he was really starting to become angry. Lili's smile disappeared.
"You could have just said that from the beginning you know." She said with tears in her eyes. All she wanted to do was to become friends with him and here he was yelling at her. Ikki for some strange reason felt really bad for making Lili cry and for the arrogant Ikki that was a surprise.
"Don't cry over something this stupid." Lili looked up at him with tear stained eyes and glared at him.
"Well you didn't have to yell at me!"
"Fine I'm sorry about yelling at you and to make up for it how about we go out for ice cream?" He asked. Lili wiped away her remaining tears and look into his blue eyes.
"Are you serious?" She asked.
"Don't you believe in me?"
"Well it's just that you don't seem to be a guy who would ask someone out and you already proved you don't like me by yelling at me." She replied.
"I'm sorry for yelling you it's just that my friend Seiya annoys me a lot and I yell at him and when you were bothering me while I was trying to train you reminded me of him so I just saw red."
"Oh well now I understand." She said as she nodded. '"In that case then I would love to go out for ice cream." She gave him a smile and grabbed his hand and started to pull him towards the door. Ikki blushed and couldn't help but notice how much Lili reminded him of not only Seiya but also his sweet Esmeralda.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Lili asked snapping him out of his thoughts.
"I was just thinking about how much you remind me of someone." He answered.
"That guy Seiya right that's who you're talking about."
"No not this time."
"Then who is it?" Ikki stopped moving and lowered his head.
"You remind me of this girl I knew that I loved dearly. Her name was Esmeralda and we loved each other very much that is until..." He trailed off as he remembered that horrible day on the Island of Doom when his beloved Esmeralda was hurt by her father and then she left him because he became filled with hate. He felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and looked to see that Lili was standing in front of him.
"It's okay; you don't have to tell me the rest if you don't want to." She said and took his hand in hers again and led him again towards the door.
"Thanks be being so understanding."
"You're welcome Ikki." She said and then the two of them walked out of the school.
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Kaiba & Mina:
Mina walked onto the stage and grabbed the microphone. She looked out into the empty auditorium and clicked the ON button on the C.D player and waited for the music to start. As the song began she started to sing along with it.
I tried to kill the pain; but only brought more (so much more)
I lay dying; and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming; am I to lost to be saved
Am I too lost?
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
Main was so busy singing her heart out to the song that she didn't notice that Kaiba had just walked into the room. He looked at her and sat down in one of the seats and listened to her sing.
Do you remember me; lost for so long
Will you be on the other side or will you forget me
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming; am I too lost to be saved
Am I too lost?
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
Kaiba was enjoying the scene in front of him; and Mina still hadn't noticed that Kaiba was in there with her because her eyes were closed and she was listening to the music playing as she waited for the chorus to begin again.
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
My wounds cry for the grave; my soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied Christ, Tourniquet, my suicide
The music continued and she danced along with it and when the song ended she threw her hands up in the air and took a bow. She didn't expect to hear clapping sounds coming from inside the room and quickly shot her head up to see who else was there. When she saw who it was she immediately blushed as she realized it was Kaiba the owner of Kaiba Corp. She hopped down from the stage and walked over to him.
"How dare you watch me while I was practicing?" She exclaimed. Kaiba only smirked at her and got out of his seat.
"If it counts for anything I think you have a really good voice." That just made Mina blush an even deeper shade of red.
"Did you really think so?"
"Yeah for someone like you it was decent." He answered.
"You don't even know me so you have no right in judging me like that!" Kaiba just walked past her and was about to leave when Mina ran in front of him and stopped him. "Wait a minute, you own Kaiba Corp. right?"
"Yeah but what does that matter to you?"
"Well you probably know lot's of agencies in your line of business maybe you could introduce one of them to me?"
"You're dreaming if you expect me to do something like that for you." He said and started walking towards the door again.
"Oh so I guess you don't know any. I thought you were that great Kaiba who could get anything he wants; but I guess I was wrong." He stopped walking immediately and glared at her.
"Are you saying that I'm not powerful?" He asked. That wasn't exactly what she was saying but if it would get him to ask a talent agent then she would just say yes.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." She answered. Kaiba reached into his back pocket and pulled out a cell phone. He flicked it open and dialled some numbers, he turned away from Mina and spoke quietly into the phone. Mina tried to hear what he was saying but to no such luck. After waiting for a few more minutes he closed the cell phone back and looked back at Mina.
"I got you an interview with one of my agents. He wants you to meet him at the Tijune Café." Mina was so excited about the news that she jumped on Kaiba and gave him a huge hug making the cold and distant Kaiba blush (people sure blush a lot in this story huh?)
"Thank you so much Kaiba this means so much to me." She squealed as she continued to hug him.
"That's nice but can you remove your arms from around my waist?" He asked. Mina blushed and let go of him.
"Sorry about that Kaiba."
"Whatever Mina but I'm coming with you when you go to see him."
"Why do you need to come with me?" She asked.
"Because Pierre can be a little pushy and I don't trust him with you." He replied. Did he just look out for me? Mina asked herself. Nah I must be hearing things wrong. "Hey are you going to come with me or not?" Mina looked in Kaiba's direction and quickly ran to catch up with him.
"Thanks again for doing this for me." She said again.
"I only did it because I wanted to prove you wrong you know it's not like I care or not if you get the agent or not." He answered. Mina lowered her head and looked at the ground. "However, you're welcome." Mina smiled at him as they exited the school and went off to the Tijune Café.
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Rei & Marik:
Rei sat on a mat outside in the sun and concentrated on her breathing as she meditated. She saw fleeting images of Hera and her minions coming for another attack but she couldn't tell when they would be here. She was about to get more information about who would attack when Marik appeared.
"Hey Rei have you seen Yugi or any of the others lately?" He asked as he broke Rei out of her thoughts. She glared at him and stood up.
"You idiot! I was just about to figure out when Hera would attack and then you had to come and break me out of my meditative stance!" She yelled as Marik backed away.
"Don't yell at me I was just asking you a simple question and then you had to go and blow my head off!" He yelled back, the two of them yelled at each other for a really long time when Rei had, had enough.
"Okay this is getting us nowhere." Marik stopped yelling and tried to catch his breath.
"I agree with you." Marik replied. "Okay I'm sorry for messing up your meditation thing but you didn't have to yell at me 'cause I didn't know that it was that important to you."
"Okay I forgive you but I'm still angry that you interrupted me from my meditation." Marik couldn't help but notice how pretty Rei looked with a frown on her face and her long raven hair flowing gently in the wind.
"Rei why were you so interested in finding out more about Hera anyway?" Marik asked out of the blue. Rei gave him a quizzical look and answered.
"Well I needed to know so that I could make sure that we would be ready for it because I know for a fact that none of the others would take this seriously." She replied.
"I've been meaning to tell you I think you should be leader of your group and not Serena. She seems to be such a ditz who probably couldn't even lead her way out of a paper bag."
"Are you saying that Serena is a bad leader!?" Rei exclaimed.
"Well... yeah I guess you could say that." Marik answered. Rei's face became very red.
"How dare you say that only I can say that about Serena because I know her. Unlike you I bet you wouldn't even know a nice person even if they came up to you and said, 'Hi I'm nice want to be friends?" Marik just stared at her. All he wanted to do was get on her good side and all he did was get Rei even angrier at him.
"What does it take to make you happy?" He suddenly asked. Rei was taken aback by his question and just looked at him with her violet eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"All I wanted to do was come out here to talk to you 'cause you're really cute and you started getting all angry at me when I just wanted to know more about you!" He answered. Rei stared at him with shock, she couldn't believe how stupid she had been. She was yelling all this time at a really handsome guy and she didn't even notice till now. She lowered her head in shame while Marik regretted saying what he had just said. "Rei I'm sorry for what I said I just..." He stopped talking as Rei put her fingers to his lips stopping him from talking.
"Listen Marik, I should be the one apologizing I shouldn't have let my temper get the better of me and I'm really sorry about that." She said as she looked deeply into his eyes and he looked deeply into hers( yeah I know that is so corny but hey what can I say I love using that line). "I'm going to make it up to you for yelling at you. How about I treat you to lunch tomorrow and then on the weekend we can catch a movie?"
"That would be great Rei!" He answered. He couldn't believe how lucky he was just a few minutes ago he was totally pissing Rei off by him being around here and now she was asking him out on a date who would have ever expected that? Rei smiled at his answer.
"Okay then it's settled, well go out for lunch and then watch a movie." She exclaimed and linked arms with him. "Come on we better get going before the others start to wonder where we are." He nodded and then they walked towards the school. Unfortunately the plans of these happy couples would be ruined by an unexpected attack by Hera.
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Whoa that chapter really took a lot out of me so I hope you all appreciated it. Anyway the other couples will be introduced in the next chapter so until then me and Hoshimare bid you goodbye!
Disclaimer: Me and Hoshimare do not own any of the mention characters and we unfortunately never will now excuse us while we go cry into our pillows. Also we do not own the song it belongs to EVANESCENCE.
cat753: Thank you again for supporting us in our story!
Chapter 4:
Since the day classes were officially over all the students were allowed to spend the rest of the afternoon doing their own personal things and this is where the romance really begins...
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Keiko & Hyoga:
Keiko decided that for the rest of the afternoon she would spend her time practicing her swimming. So she said goodbye to Teresa and walked towards the indoor pool. She went into the change rooms and got into her favourite bikini which was a dark purple colour. She dived into the water and allowed herself to lye on her back and float aimlessly on top of the water unknown to her that someone would soon be joining her.
Hyoga quietly walked into the pool room as well and watched Keiko in all her peacefulness. Wow Keiko sure looks like she is relaxed. He thought to himself. Keiko heard what he said and jumped in surprise to see that someone else was there.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry I'll get out of here if you want to use the pool now." She said quickly as she blushed, and was about to get out when Hyoga stopped her.
"No it's okay you can stay here too after all you were the first one to get here so you deserve to stay." Hyoga jumped into the water and swam over to her.
Oh no! He's actually coming over to me what should I do? She asked herself as Hyoga edged even closer to her. She moved back and ended up right against the wall of the pool.
"Why are you backing away from Keiko?" He asked with a look of hurt in his beautiful blue eyes.
"Well um... I'm not used to swimming with a boy that's all." Keiko answered. Hyoga looked at her and began to laugh and it was then Keiko's feelings who were hurt. "Don't laugh at me you jerk! Tons of girls have trouble swimming with boys!"
"I wasn't laughing at that it's just kind of funny to think that a girl as tough and as cute as you would be afraid of anything." Hyoga answered as he began to slowly decrease his laughter. Keiko gave him a confused look and then out of nowhere began to laugh herself so the two of them just stood there in the pool laughing for no real good reason.
"Okay now that I got that out of my system how about we have some fun?" He asked as Keiko also began to stop laughing.
"Fine by me but what exactly do you have in mind?" Hyoga suddenly got an evil smirk on his face which gave Keiko an uneasy feeling. Hyoga dunked his hands into the water and then splashed Keiko.
"You're so going to wish you never did that!" She exclaimed and then the two of them started a splashing fight in the water. It lasted for what seemed like hours when the two of them finally decided to give it a rest so they sat side by side on the ledge of the pool.
"Don't you just love the water?" Hyoga asked out of the blue. Keiko smiled at him and nodded her head.
"You know why I came in here? I came in here to practice my swimming and diving techniques but instead I almost drowned by all the water you were splashing at me."
"You like to dive?"
"Yeah diving is one of my favourite hobbies besides photography. My favourite dive of all though is the Swan Dive (go figure)."
"I love that dive too." Hyoga said with amazement at how much they had in common.
"I'll show you how I do it if you want because I do it a little bit differently." Keiko asked.
"That would be great." Keiko got off the ledge as Hyoga slid back into the water and got into a better position to watch Keiko do her dive. Keiko is so hot in that bathing suit of hers. Keiko was almost at the end of the diving board when Hyoga said that and was so shocked by what he had thought that she lost her balance and fell of the board. She plummeted straight towards Hyoga and landed right on top of him! When she emerged from under the water and gasped for air she realized Hyoga wasn't there with her and she began to panic.
"Where are you Hyoga?" She asked as she looked around her surroundings. Oh no what if I caused him to drown from landing on him!? She asked herself. If he dies I will never forgive myself! She was about to dive under water when something grabbed her leg and pulled her under. She opened her eyes to find Hyoga right in front of her.
"How could you do that to me!?" Keiko yelled as the came out from underneath the water.
"Come on Keiko it was just a little fun don't get so excited."
"I AM NOT EXCITED!" Sheesh Keiko is just as bad as Ikki when it comes to taking a joke. "Excuse me?" Hyoga looked at her.
"Did I say that out loud?"
"No you didn't I read your mind, okay there I said it I can read people's minds!" Keiko yelled and got out of the pool and grabbed a towel and started drying off. Hyoga came out shortly after she did and put his hand on her shoulder.
"So you heard everything I've ever thought?" He asked.
"Well not everything I could never get deeper into your mind I could only read things like your favourite colour and things like that." She answered, her face still turned away from his.
"So you heard me say that you were... hot?"
"Yep." She started walking away but Hyoga stopped her before she could go.
"Why didn't you tell any of us, especially me?"
"Well I thought that everyone would consider me as a freak but since everyone seen my wings I guess it doesn't really matter anymore huh?"
"Keiko listen I would have never thought of you as a freak, and Keiko."
"Yes."
"Would you go out with me on Saturday?" The question took Keiko by complete surprise so she just stared at him. "I see." He was then about to leave when Keiko was the one to stop him.
"No, don't go. What I meant to say was I would love to go out with you on Saturday." Keiko smiled at him and he smiled back she grabbed his hand and the two of them walked out of the pool room together.
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Teresa & Shun:
Shun stood near the fence and watched as Teresa jumped over one fence after the other. Her hair wildly flying in the wind and even though sweat poured down her face from the heat of the sun Shun still thought she was radiantly beautiful. Teresa noticed Shun staring at her and couldn't help but blush as his eyes followed her every move.
"Teresa is that guy distracting you because if he is just say the word and I'll trample him." Helios asked as he glared at Shun.
"You will do no such thing he is just minding his own business so leave him alone okay now let's try the next jump." She replied and steered Helios in the direction of the next jump. Helios reluctantly turned but not without giving a disgruntled snort. He reared his head and galloped towards the target and jumped through the air. Unfortunately Teresa wasn't exactly ready for the jump 'cause she was too busy looking at a certain green haired boy, so she went flying off Helios and landed on the ground with a large 'thud.'
Shun quickly jumped over the fence and ran over to Teresa. Helios was already standing worriedly over his owner. As Shun arrived Helios couldn't help but feel resentment towards him for he knew that if he wasn't there distracting his mistress then she would have been prepared for the jump and she wouldn't have gotten hurt.
"Are you okay?" Shun asked worriedly as he held Teresa's chin and kept her face at level with his. After a few moments of waiting Teresa gradually opened her brown eyes and looked into Shuns bluish-green ones.
"Yeah I'm fine thanks for asking." She answered as she tried to get back up. But as she put some wait on her right foot a huge stream of pain flowed through her body and she collapsed back onto the ground.
"What happened?" Helios this time asked.
"I think my ankles broken."
"We'll have to take you to the nurses' office right away." Shun said and proceeded in the process of picking Teresa off the ground but was stopped by Helios. "Hey I'm trying to help her."
"I wouldn't trust this guy with getting my oats let alone taking you to the nurse."
"Helios let him help or else you won't get any oats at all." Teresa warned as Shun gave her confused look. Helios snorted and moved out of the way for Shun to take Teresa to the nurse.
"If he does one thing to you anything at all I swear I will hurt him."
"Stop that Helios!"
"Um if you don't mind me asking why are you talking to a horse?" Shun questioned as Teresa began whining like a horse. Teresa snapped her attention back on Shun and blushed making Helios worry that his owner was catching a fever.
"Oh well um shouldn't we get going?" She asked, quickly changing the conversation. Shun nodded and started walking towards the school.
"Remember if he does anything at all just give the word and I'll be there to give him pain." Teresa shot Helios a look of pure terror which made the mighty being step backwards just by the look from her. Teresa turned her attention back to Shun and blushed at his touch.
'I am so glad that Keiko isn't here right now or else she would be teasing me non stop.' Teresa thought to herself as she kept looking at Shun. He noticed her watching him and looked her straight in the eyes.
"Do I have something on my face?" He asked as Teresa blushed an even deeper red.
"N-no it's just that um... well... you have really nice eyes." She managed to say until she realized exactly what she had just said. "I mean um I just wanted to say thank you for helping me hehe." Shun looked at her and then gave her a warm comforting smile that made Teresa's heart melt. She wanted to stay like that all day just him and her together.
"Hey Teresa there's something I've been meaning to ask you lately." Shuns voice said breaking into her thoughts.
"Yeah?"
'Would you like to go out with me sometime you know like uh on a... date?" Teresa was shocked by his question and just stared at him blankly for a few minutes processing what he had just asked her. Shun looked at her expression and dropped his head. I guess I'll take that as a no huh?"
"No, no that's not it what I mean to say is I would love to go out with you Shun." She answered with a dazzlingly sweet smile.
"That's great."
"But first how about you take me the nurse so she can take a look at my ankle?" Shun blushed and nodded and then ran off to the nurses' office with Teresa tightly wrapped in his arms.
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Lita & Brock:
"Okay how about this I call it 'Lita's Magnificent Noodles Supreme!" Lita was in the Home Ec. room with Serena giving her different kinds of food that she had prepared for their next class when Brock came barging into the room.
"Hello beautiful ladies what are you doing?" He asked with a smile as he walked up to Lita and smelled what she had just created. "Hey this smells good did you add a bit of lemon juice to add a bit more of a sweet aroma?"
"How did you know that?" She asked with utter amazement in her voice. Brock gave another dashing smile and responded.
"I hate to brag but I am the best chef in the world so I know everything about cooking." He answered. Lita immediately lost her look of amazement and was then replaced with a look of anger. Serena knew that look and quickly hid underneath the table.
"How dare you say that you are the best cook in the world. Have you ever even met anyone else who is just as good?" She exclaimed.
"Everyone knows that men are better chefs then women and so far I have never met a single guy who could beat me in a cooking contest."
"That is until now." Lita said as Serena decided that it was now safe to get out from under the table.
"What? Do you know someone who you think could beat me?" He asked. Lita nodded.
"She's standing right in front of you." She answered.
"You mean you think you can beat me?"
"I don't think I know I'm going to beat you and my friend Serena can be the judge." Serena perked up as she heard her name and smiled at the thought of getting food for something so idiotic.
"No way am I going to allow your friend to judge this contest not unless one of my friends can judge as well."
"Fine I pick a judge and you pick a judge now who did you have in mind?"
"I'll be right back with the perfect guy." Brock ran out of the room and left Lita and Serena looking after him. Serena walked up beside Lita and looked at her friend.
"Man Lita why are you fighting with the cute guy?" She asked.
"Well I must admit he does remind me of my old boyfriend." Serena sweatdropped as Lita continued. "But I refuse to allow him to say that men are better then women."
"Whatever you say I just can't wait to sink my teeth into your cooking." Lita smiled at her friend as Brock walked back in pulling a young boy behind him with black hair who was also wearing a red cap. The girls immediately identified the boy as Ash.
"Let's get cooking." Brock said and went over to the stove and started getting to work on his creation and soon he was followed by Lita while Serena and Ash stood there watching them get into their work. After about ten or so minutes the two of them finished their masterpieces and brought them over to the judges.
"Try this I call it 'Double Decker Chocolate Cake of Doom." Lita exclaimed as she put the cake down in front of Ash and Serena.
"That's a lot of words for just a simple chocolate cake." Brock said as he put his dish on the table. Lita glared at him and then put her hands on her hips.
"It's not just a chocolate cake it has lots of other awesome ingredients in it too." She answered and then looked at what he made. "What do you call that?"
"I call this my special vegetable broth." He replied and started distributing the broth into the bowls he had laid out. Ash started to dig into the food immediately while Serena slowly took her first sip. Right after that first sip her eyes opened wide and she started to dig in as well. Brock had a small smirk on his face as Lita glared at her so-called friend and waited for them to finish Brocks food so they could test hers.
"Looks like I'm going to win this." Brock whispered into her ear. Lita looked at him and smiled.
"Don't place your bet yet honey they still have to try what I made." She answered. "Okay you two time to try what I have created." She cut each of them a piece of her cake and placed it in front of them. They both took their forks and dug in and in seconds finished it. It was then Lita's turn to smirk at Brock.
"So who do you two pick to be the winner?" Brock asked with great anticipation in his voice. Ash and Serena consulted one another and then looked back at their friends.
"We have decided that it is... a tie." Serena answered as she grabbed herself another piece of cake.
"WHAT!?" Brock and Lita yelled at the exact same time and then glared at each other.
"There is no way we could have tied!" Lita exclaimed.
"You know you're kind of cute when you're angry." Brock told her as she blushed and as Serena giggled at her friend.
"How dare you change the subject you insufferable, egotistical..." She trailed off as Brock moved a little closer to her, "jerk."
"Would you like to go out with me Lita to like the movies or something?" He asked. Lita looked over at Serena who mouthed 'say yes' so Lita looked back at Brock and nodded.
"Um okay that would be okay I guess." Brock smiled at her and then took her hand and walked out of the room with her leaving a giggling Serena and a confused Ash behind.
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Rin, Rini, and Shippo:
"Shippo are you in here?" Rini asked as she made her way into the art room. She had been looking for Shippo all day and when Kagome had told her that he was in the art room she quickly ran all the way there. Now she was busy looking into all the rooms trying to find him.
"Oh Shippo that is so pretty." A female voice said as Rini ran towards the source of the sound. She burst into the room and almost fell over at what she saw. Rin that no good jerk who was also after her Shippo was sitting at a chair while Shippo had his arms around her.
"What's going on here!?" Rini exclaimed as she quickly walked over to Rin and Shippo and glared at them.
"I was just showing Rin how to make a clay pot that's all Rini." He answered as Rin got off of him which in turn ruined the pot immediately.
"Now look what you made me do!" Rin yelled as she pointed to the ruined pot. "The pot is completely destroyed now!"
"Excuse me how is this my fault?" Rini yelled back. Rin was at the verge of lunging at Rini and wringing her neck when Shippo thankfully stepped between the two.
"Okay that is enough you two there is no need for you to argue over something this stupid." Shippo said with a calm look on his face despite the fact that he was still angry at the two girls for fighting. "It was just a clay pot that we can always redo." The girls looked away from each other and crossed their arms.
"Fine Shippo I'll stop arguing with her now let's get started on a new clay pot." Rin replied as she got ready to make another pot.
"Hey what about me don't I deserve to get to learn about pot making?" Rini asked Shippo as she put on a sweet and innocent smile.
"Sure Rini if you want you can learn to." At this answer Rin's smile disappeared and was replaced with a frown.
"There's not enough room for her to also make pots." Rini glared at Rin as Shippo responded.
"I know that's why I am just going to stand here and instruct you two on how to make your pots." Rini reluctantly sat down in front of Rin as Rin as well reluctantly put her arms around Rini and moved her into the right position. "There that wasn't so bad now was it?"
"No of course not Shippo." Rini answered. I rather have Shippo's arms around me not some boy stealing twerp. She thought after and Rin's thoughts were exactly the same. The two of them stayed like that for awhile until it was time to stop the spinning of the pot and to wait until it's dry (hey I've never made a pot before so I'm just assuming that's what you do).
"Okay now all we have to do is wait till it's dry." Shippo reported.
"That's great Shipppppppppppppppppppo!" Rini yelled as she fell flat on her face. She picked herself up and looked at the person who tripped her. It was none other then Rin who was already holding Shippo in his arms. "You jerk I know you did that on purpose."
"Whatever do you mean Rini?" Rin asked with a fake confused look. Rini was tired of hearing Rin's sweet talk so she decided to do the only thing she could think of. She walked over to some of the paint cans and picked one up, she walked back over to where Rin and Shippo were and splashed the paint onto Rin and just barely missing Shippo. Rin was covered in bright baby blue.
"How dare you do that to me!" Rin yelled as quickly grabbed her own bucket of paint and threw it at Rini. Rini covered her head as she got ready for the paint to splash her but it never came. She slowly opened her eyes and gasped when she saw Shippo took the hit for her and was completely covered in pink and pink was Shippo's least favourite colour.
"Shippo! Are you okay!" Rini asked as she grabbed a wet towel and started to wipe off the paint Rin quickly joined her.
"It's okay you two it's only paint so it's not going to kill me." He gently pushed the girls away and proceeded towards the door. "I think I'll have a bath to wash away the rest of the paint. I'll see you two later okay."
"Sure Shippo we'll see you later." Rin said as Shippo walked out the door. As soon as he was gone Rin turned on Rini.
"Thanks a lot now me and Shippo will never get together thanks to you!" She yelled.
"Okay first of all good now I have a better chance of getting him and secondly if you hadn't tripped me I wouldn't have gotten angry at you so I wouldn't have thrown the paint at you and then you wouldn't have thrown the paint at me and Shippo wouldn't have jumped in the way to save me." She took a few breathes and then waited for Rin's answer. Rin opened her mouth to retort when Shippo reappeared through the door.
"By the way would you two girls do me the honour of going out with me this weekend?" He asked.
"Are you kidding? I loved to go out with you Shippo!" Rin exclaimed as she gave Shippo a big hug.
"Hello he asked both of us and my answer is the same as hers." Rini answered as she came over to the two of them. "Now you better go get yourself a bath before the paint totally dries on you." Shippo nodded and again left. Rin and Rini looked at each other one last time and then left too.
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Ikki & Lili:
Ikki punched the bag with all his might causing the bag to burst open and all the sand to fall out. Lili who was just taking a stroll throughout the school heard the bag rip open and ran to see what had happened. She walked in and almost fell over as she tripped over the now destroyed bag. She looked up and saw the cute guy named Ikki punching the new bag with all of his might.
"Whatcha doing?" She asked as she came over to him. He punched the bag one more time and then glared at her.
"What does it look like I'm doing idiot." He said coldly and then went back to punching the bag.
"Hey I was just asking a question no need for you to get all angry at me jerk." She answered and continued watching him punch the bag. He looked at her from the corner of his eye and couldn't help but admit that this girl was very beautiful with her long blonde hair that glistened in the sun and her beautiful sapphire eyes. But she was still annoying him while he was trying to train so he could not let it go without her being punished.
"Listen what will it take to get you to leave?" He asked. Lili just smiled at him and walked behind the bag.
"Why do you want me to leave so badly?"
"Because I'm trying to train and you keep getting in the way and distracting me now go or else my fist will be in your mouth." Lili however still didn't back down.
"I'd like to see you try." Ikki was shocked that this girl wasn't backing down. Mostly everyone he ever talked to (not including the other bronze saints and Saori) always broke down into tears or ran away with fear but here was this girl standing calmly before him.
"Fine you want to see if I can try okay then." He pulled back his fist and got ready to hit her. Most of the time Ikki tried to avoid having to hit a girl but in her case he would make an exception. He then lunged his fist at her and surprisingly she dodged it. She then quickly kicked him in the head making Ikki fall to the ground. He got up and rubbed his check with his hand and looked at her. "Where did you learn to fight like that?"
"I've been practicing all my life so no one can beat me." She answered. "Here let me take a look at that mark I left on you." She grabbed Ikki's face and examined the mark while Ikki blushed at her touch.
"I don't need your help okay now get away from me." He pushed Lili away from him and walked over to the door but Lili followed.
"Why do you try to keep me away from you? What have I ever done to deserve this treatment?" She questioned. Ikki sighed and glared at Lili.
"If I tell you will you leave me alone for the rest of the school year?"
"Maybe."
"Okay I just don't like you." He walked away again but Lili ran in front of him.
"I don't believe you for a second Ikki." She said. "I want to know exactly why you don't like me."
"You annoy me that's why okay!" He yelled because he was really starting to become angry. Lili's smile disappeared.
"You could have just said that from the beginning you know." She said with tears in her eyes. All she wanted to do was to become friends with him and here he was yelling at her. Ikki for some strange reason felt really bad for making Lili cry and for the arrogant Ikki that was a surprise.
"Don't cry over something this stupid." Lili looked up at him with tear stained eyes and glared at him.
"Well you didn't have to yell at me!"
"Fine I'm sorry about yelling at you and to make up for it how about we go out for ice cream?" He asked. Lili wiped away her remaining tears and look into his blue eyes.
"Are you serious?" She asked.
"Don't you believe in me?"
"Well it's just that you don't seem to be a guy who would ask someone out and you already proved you don't like me by yelling at me." She replied.
"I'm sorry for yelling you it's just that my friend Seiya annoys me a lot and I yell at him and when you were bothering me while I was trying to train you reminded me of him so I just saw red."
"Oh well now I understand." She said as she nodded. '"In that case then I would love to go out for ice cream." She gave him a smile and grabbed his hand and started to pull him towards the door. Ikki blushed and couldn't help but notice how much Lili reminded him of not only Seiya but also his sweet Esmeralda.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Lili asked snapping him out of his thoughts.
"I was just thinking about how much you remind me of someone." He answered.
"That guy Seiya right that's who you're talking about."
"No not this time."
"Then who is it?" Ikki stopped moving and lowered his head.
"You remind me of this girl I knew that I loved dearly. Her name was Esmeralda and we loved each other very much that is until..." He trailed off as he remembered that horrible day on the Island of Doom when his beloved Esmeralda was hurt by her father and then she left him because he became filled with hate. He felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and looked to see that Lili was standing in front of him.
"It's okay; you don't have to tell me the rest if you don't want to." She said and took his hand in hers again and led him again towards the door.
"Thanks be being so understanding."
"You're welcome Ikki." She said and then the two of them walked out of the school.
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Kaiba & Mina:
Mina walked onto the stage and grabbed the microphone. She looked out into the empty auditorium and clicked the ON button on the C.D player and waited for the music to start. As the song began she started to sing along with it.
I tried to kill the pain; but only brought more (so much more)
I lay dying; and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming; am I to lost to be saved
Am I too lost?
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
Main was so busy singing her heart out to the song that she didn't notice that Kaiba had just walked into the room. He looked at her and sat down in one of the seats and listened to her sing.
Do you remember me; lost for so long
Will you be on the other side or will you forget me
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming; am I too lost to be saved
Am I too lost?
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
Kaiba was enjoying the scene in front of him; and Mina still hadn't noticed that Kaiba was in there with her because her eyes were closed and she was listening to the music playing as she waited for the chorus to begin again.
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation
My God my Tourniquet; return to me salvation.
My wounds cry for the grave; my soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied Christ, Tourniquet, my suicide
The music continued and she danced along with it and when the song ended she threw her hands up in the air and took a bow. She didn't expect to hear clapping sounds coming from inside the room and quickly shot her head up to see who else was there. When she saw who it was she immediately blushed as she realized it was Kaiba the owner of Kaiba Corp. She hopped down from the stage and walked over to him.
"How dare you watch me while I was practicing?" She exclaimed. Kaiba only smirked at her and got out of his seat.
"If it counts for anything I think you have a really good voice." That just made Mina blush an even deeper shade of red.
"Did you really think so?"
"Yeah for someone like you it was decent." He answered.
"You don't even know me so you have no right in judging me like that!" Kaiba just walked past her and was about to leave when Mina ran in front of him and stopped him. "Wait a minute, you own Kaiba Corp. right?"
"Yeah but what does that matter to you?"
"Well you probably know lot's of agencies in your line of business maybe you could introduce one of them to me?"
"You're dreaming if you expect me to do something like that for you." He said and started walking towards the door again.
"Oh so I guess you don't know any. I thought you were that great Kaiba who could get anything he wants; but I guess I was wrong." He stopped walking immediately and glared at her.
"Are you saying that I'm not powerful?" He asked. That wasn't exactly what she was saying but if it would get him to ask a talent agent then she would just say yes.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." She answered. Kaiba reached into his back pocket and pulled out a cell phone. He flicked it open and dialled some numbers, he turned away from Mina and spoke quietly into the phone. Mina tried to hear what he was saying but to no such luck. After waiting for a few more minutes he closed the cell phone back and looked back at Mina.
"I got you an interview with one of my agents. He wants you to meet him at the Tijune Café." Mina was so excited about the news that she jumped on Kaiba and gave him a huge hug making the cold and distant Kaiba blush (people sure blush a lot in this story huh?)
"Thank you so much Kaiba this means so much to me." She squealed as she continued to hug him.
"That's nice but can you remove your arms from around my waist?" He asked. Mina blushed and let go of him.
"Sorry about that Kaiba."
"Whatever Mina but I'm coming with you when you go to see him."
"Why do you need to come with me?" She asked.
"Because Pierre can be a little pushy and I don't trust him with you." He replied. Did he just look out for me? Mina asked herself. Nah I must be hearing things wrong. "Hey are you going to come with me or not?" Mina looked in Kaiba's direction and quickly ran to catch up with him.
"Thanks again for doing this for me." She said again.
"I only did it because I wanted to prove you wrong you know it's not like I care or not if you get the agent or not." He answered. Mina lowered her head and looked at the ground. "However, you're welcome." Mina smiled at him as they exited the school and went off to the Tijune Café.
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Rei & Marik:
Rei sat on a mat outside in the sun and concentrated on her breathing as she meditated. She saw fleeting images of Hera and her minions coming for another attack but she couldn't tell when they would be here. She was about to get more information about who would attack when Marik appeared.
"Hey Rei have you seen Yugi or any of the others lately?" He asked as he broke Rei out of her thoughts. She glared at him and stood up.
"You idiot! I was just about to figure out when Hera would attack and then you had to come and break me out of my meditative stance!" She yelled as Marik backed away.
"Don't yell at me I was just asking you a simple question and then you had to go and blow my head off!" He yelled back, the two of them yelled at each other for a really long time when Rei had, had enough.
"Okay this is getting us nowhere." Marik stopped yelling and tried to catch his breath.
"I agree with you." Marik replied. "Okay I'm sorry for messing up your meditation thing but you didn't have to yell at me 'cause I didn't know that it was that important to you."
"Okay I forgive you but I'm still angry that you interrupted me from my meditation." Marik couldn't help but notice how pretty Rei looked with a frown on her face and her long raven hair flowing gently in the wind.
"Rei why were you so interested in finding out more about Hera anyway?" Marik asked out of the blue. Rei gave him a quizzical look and answered.
"Well I needed to know so that I could make sure that we would be ready for it because I know for a fact that none of the others would take this seriously." She replied.
"I've been meaning to tell you I think you should be leader of your group and not Serena. She seems to be such a ditz who probably couldn't even lead her way out of a paper bag."
"Are you saying that Serena is a bad leader!?" Rei exclaimed.
"Well... yeah I guess you could say that." Marik answered. Rei's face became very red.
"How dare you say that only I can say that about Serena because I know her. Unlike you I bet you wouldn't even know a nice person even if they came up to you and said, 'Hi I'm nice want to be friends?" Marik just stared at her. All he wanted to do was get on her good side and all he did was get Rei even angrier at him.
"What does it take to make you happy?" He suddenly asked. Rei was taken aback by his question and just looked at him with her violet eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"All I wanted to do was come out here to talk to you 'cause you're really cute and you started getting all angry at me when I just wanted to know more about you!" He answered. Rei stared at him with shock, she couldn't believe how stupid she had been. She was yelling all this time at a really handsome guy and she didn't even notice till now. She lowered her head in shame while Marik regretted saying what he had just said. "Rei I'm sorry for what I said I just..." He stopped talking as Rei put her fingers to his lips stopping him from talking.
"Listen Marik, I should be the one apologizing I shouldn't have let my temper get the better of me and I'm really sorry about that." She said as she looked deeply into his eyes and he looked deeply into hers( yeah I know that is so corny but hey what can I say I love using that line). "I'm going to make it up to you for yelling at you. How about I treat you to lunch tomorrow and then on the weekend we can catch a movie?"
"That would be great Rei!" He answered. He couldn't believe how lucky he was just a few minutes ago he was totally pissing Rei off by him being around here and now she was asking him out on a date who would have ever expected that? Rei smiled at his answer.
"Okay then it's settled, well go out for lunch and then watch a movie." She exclaimed and linked arms with him. "Come on we better get going before the others start to wonder where we are." He nodded and then they walked towards the school. Unfortunately the plans of these happy couples would be ruined by an unexpected attack by Hera.
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Whoa that chapter really took a lot out of me so I hope you all appreciated it. Anyway the other couples will be introduced in the next chapter so until then me and Hoshimare bid you goodbye!