Author's notes: Konnichiwa! This is the revision of the last Love in Spring! I hope you would like this revised edition!

Disclaimer: I no own. You no sue.

Warning: I want to thank dear Slashy for the cute disclaimer! Okay…those who had read the original Love in spring, I know you would see some of the changes in the story… Hehehe… Also, some of the chapters may contain not-so-suitable languages, just to express the emotion of the character… I'll rate this PG-13, by the way!!

--------Love in Spring--------


Chapter 1: Why did I have to encounter?!


I ran fast up to the stairs that I nearly tripped. I mumbled a light curse absently, and grabbed my things that fell on the floor. "Oh God I'm late!!" I exclaimed. The bell rung clearly and my heart began to throb fast.

Please, please don't let me be late in my first day...!

At last, I'm at the place where I'm destined to, and looked at each classroom. I went to the 4-A class door and I searched for my name quickly on the piece of cardboard hanging there and there it was.

Kaoru Kamiya.

Oh, I almost forgot my introduction. I am Kamiya Kaoru, sometimes they call me Kaoru, but other people prefer to call me "Kao" because they are so lazy to say my whole name. Damn lazy people—except for my parents and friends, of course!

Bah.

I went inside my fourth year high school class. I looked at everyone and they were chatting about their vacation and anything else that I didn't care anymore. Good thing the teacher wasn't there yet. My eyes caught a familiar darn redhead, and I frowned. First day of classes, he is--!

"Kaoru-chan! Kaoru-chan!! Over here!!"

I turned my head around rather awkwardly and saw my best friend, Misao Makimachi. "Misao-chan!" I sat beside the chair where Misao's was, getting rid of the boy there who occupied the seat immediately when he heard Misao calling me to seat there. I hate those kinds of people. Good for them to receive nice kicking and punching, yes.

"We really are very lucky, Kaoru-chan! We're in the A section class!" Misao exclaimed.

I smiled at her. "We really are going to be lucky if THAT boy is not here." I mumbled, rolling my eyes. Oh, you still don't know 'that' incident, right??

Misao seemed to hear it. "Himura?" she mouthed.

I nodded furiously. "I still haven't forgotten what he had done to me when I was in Grade six! He's so annoying and I really hate him!!" I exclaimed, but in a whisper.

Sh. Here I am, remembering 'that' awful day when I really got embarrassed...!

Misao and I both looked at Himura Kenshin. That damn Himura Kenshin.

"He's cute and handsome... But he's very boastful and I heard he has lots of ex-girlfriends," Misao whispered.

"...that he played with. Don't forget that. He's a playboy!" I exclaimed but still in a whisper.

"Oh..."

"That's why I hate him. He treats us women like toys." I replied, decreasing the volume of my voice when I saw a middle-aged man walk inside our classroom with index cards on the right hand and a book on the left.

"Hello class. I'm your class adviser, Watsuki-sensei (disclaimer too! Hehehe). Please introduce yourselves one by one."

Misao held my hand, and I felt her cold skin. "Misao-chan, are you nervous?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.

"Very much, Kaoru-chan. I could feel my hair rising. I'm always like this if we introduce ourselves in front of the class—though I've been doing it for some years now!! I'm so weird…"

Soon, all of us introduced ourselves. Watsuki-sensei arranged our sitting arrangement, and I was totally surprised that my seat mate at my left is Himura Kenshin. "Why did it have to be me?!" I thought.

I sat beside Tae that was one of my friends. "Oh hello, Kaoru-chan! It's good that we're seatmates." Tae said.

"I'm grateful!" I said lamely. I looked at Himura secretly with rage and he was talking with the girls around him. "He's such a playboy. Why do I have to encounter him in my life?"

It was half day only. We were dismissed early.


While we were lining up to get down to the school quadrangle, I was chitchatting with my friends, Tae, Misao and Megumi Takani. I heard a familiar voice and it was Sagara Sanosuke—Sagara Sanosuke??!

Sagara Sanosuke is a real hot guy. He was the next heart throb of the girls. Many girls are dying and are crazy over him, and I'm one of them. I am really crazy for Sanosuke. Imagine--he's good-looking, cute, strong, kind, rich, everything that a girl wants from a guy.

I stared at Sanosuke, daydreaming that I was with Sanosuke in this beautiful weird place. We were holding hands, close to each other, and... That will be too impossible.

With all the beautiful girls around the school campus, he will be with this ugly, pathetic, tomboyish, talkative, not-so-smart rookie, and no poise girl?! Okay, enough exaggeration.

"Kaoru-chan, let's buy some coke first. I'm thirsty!" Megumi exclaimed, stroking her throat gently.

I nodded and turned to face Megumi. I was smiling while talking with my friends, and I saw Himura suddenly staring at me on the corner of my eye. I could see him. What's he looking at anyway?

We went down from the stairs and bought ourselves a refreshing drink.

I drank simple bottled water, and taste the sweetness of it even though there's none.

"Guys, I heard some news." Misao started, looking at me and winking.

I paused drinking the water in the bottle to look at Misao confusedly, raising my eyebrows at her.

"What is it?" Tae asked, knowing that I wanted to hear what Misao had known.

"Megumi, please say it. I have a loud voice!" Misao said and muffled her giggles with her handkerchief.

"I'm going to be blunt. Ken-san is going to be a superstar." Megumi said simply.

"NANI???!!! (What???)" I shouted and spit out the water I tasted in paradise (Really no poise at all).

"AHH! Kaoru-chan! Watch it!" Megumi exclaimed as she moved away from me with Misao laughing harder than before that she was crying already.

"W-what the hell did you just say?" I said, calmer than the first one.

"Kaoru-chan! You're shouting like you've just seen a devil or something." Misao said.

"I know! But can you repeat what you just said, Megumi-chan?" I said, putting the bottle water inside my bag.

"I said that Himura Kenshin's going to be a superstar. He already created a commercial for a shampoo brand and many more to go!" Megumi said.

"B-but why is he... Why is he going to be a superstar?!" I exclaimed again.

"Kaoru-chan, are you blind? He's cute, he's handsome, he's photogenic, he's kind, he's well-built, he's strong, he's rich, he's..." Tae said on and on.

"I didn't know that Tae could be THAT talkative." I murmured to both Megumi and Misao.

They nodded their heads.

"But Tae-chan is right. Ken-san has the charisma." Megumi said.

Since when did you and Himura become so close?

"Kaoru-chan, aren't you excited that your seatmate will be a famous superstar?" Misao exclaimed. "Maybe you can also ask him for an autograph and let the other girls be jealous of you!"

"No way!" I exclaimed. "Maybe you are the one who's excited." I mumbled. "I just hate him!" I then said and went out of the school with my friends calling me back.

I angrily walked down the road of Cherry Blossoms. Sakura. Why did Himura have to become so popular? He is already popular in the school campus—then outside too? You're kidding me.

The breeze blew my school hat, and I looked around. The Sakura were floating everywhere and it was breezy. It gave me a light feeling. "I suppose they still don't know why I'm so angry at Himura..." I whispered to myself as I put my hat back on when I caught it.

(NOTE: In Japan, when you call a person in the opposite gender, it means that he/she means something to you. So practically, classmates that are not so close with each other call each other in their surnames.)

Flashback...

It was Kenshin who said it.

Kenshin who?

Himura Kenshin.

While still in grade six, Tae had a crush named Enishi Yukishiro. Since Tae is one of my friends, I decided to make Yukishiro and Tae closer. I made friends with Enishi and told everything about Tae's beauty to Enishi.

Yukishiro has lots of friends--tons of them because he was so popular. What I didn't know was that Himura Kenshin is one of his best friends. Their group was the cutest boys' group, preferably, since Sanosuke is also there...

Himura and Yukishiro's other friends found out that Yukishiro and I have been talking with each other by phone and internet. They thought that I had a crush on him. But no.

Then that happened…

I went to Tae's house after dismissal. My two friends, Shura and Sayo were with me. We three were walking towards our home.

Shura said that she will accompany me to my house. I agreed, and Sayo joined.

"Don't worry, Kamiya, your dear Yukishiro Enishi will accompany you towards your house!" a very noisy voice exclaimed, with the voice's owner's friends laughing with him loudly.

Everybody knew the hot guy Yukishiro Enishi, and therefore, when they realized it was me who was Kamiya Kaoru, they looked at me and started gossiping.

Whoever that is--!?

I didn't turn around, but Shura and Sayo did. I asked who was it, and they said it was Himura Kenshin.

It's not that I'm easily tricked by his simple tease. It's just that the whole school campus know that I like that Yukishiro—when I didn't have any interest with him whatsoever. That time I was creating my image, and he destroyed it!!

My head spin in nowhere. I was going crazy!! I didn't have feelings for that Enishi!

"You're going to pay what you have done to me, Himura Kenshin!!!!!!!!" I angrily shouted on the top of my voice at the mountain during vacation.

End of flashback...


I scratched my head. "What did you do to me?! I'm not doing anything to you!!" I exclaimed. I continued to walk through the road where many Sakura trees grew. My thoughts about Himura had been washed suddenly by a strong wave. It was Sanosuke's image.

"Ah... Sanosuke..." I whispered, oblivious to the steps approaching me.

"Hai?"

My eyes widened, recognizing the voice. I turned around slowly, my eyes meeting the eyes I've been waiting for so long to stare at… "S-Sagara-san?!"

"Hey, Sanosuke's fine. You called me. What is it?" Sanosuke calmly said, smiling. He sounded like he knew me very well. He walked towards me slowly in small steps.

Before I could say something, a devil appeared suddenly. "Hey Sano! We agreed to go to the mall! Let's go now!" A certain Himura Kenshin said in an "airy" aura while looking at the both of us.

I bit my lower lip. "How dare he destruct my conversation with Sanosuke?" I thought. I lifted my head up and saw Himura staring at me with a bizarre feeling, and then turned his head quickly at Sanosuke.

"Is he eye catching at me? Well, I don't care about him!!" I mumbled.

But somehow, deep inside me, the feeling was changing. Is it true that, "The more you hate the more you love?"

This world really is vexatious for me.

Do I really deserve this fate, Kami-sama?


To be continued...

Koharu-chan's notes: Konnichiwa, all of you! Hope you enjoyed this super revised chapter with the help of the reviewers! I know it's a really short chapter, but the following chapters will be longer…! More coming soon!! Oh, and also, I have a blog! Just look at my profile and you'll see—and there in that blog, I will tell when I'll update my stories, and so on!

Ja ne.