R&R Please! Especially since I was sooo nice and put up 20 pages all at once
That afternoon, Tala went out and bought a whole bunch of personality test books home and makes his butler test him. Sitting at a table, in his expensive black silk robes, Tala impatiently rushes the butler to start the questioning on the tests. The butler sits next to him with an open book and pencil in his hand.
"Hurry up! If there are more questions, hurry up and continue asking them!" Tala urged impatiently.
"Ok, ok, ok… Master, this question is the following. Inside a café, there is a couple. The guy says to the girl, 'You are a…' There are 3 choices ok? 1-is a cute person. 2-person I don't understand. 3-annoying person." The butler looks at Tala. "Please respond."
"Annoying person. Childish! Next question, next question." Tala answered leaning forward with his elbows on the glass table that overlooked his indoor pool.
"Fine, annoying person." The butler confirmed, making a mark in the book. "Ok. Next one. If your girlfriend is walking very intimately with a guy, then what would your reaction be? This one has 4 choices…"
Tala stares angrily and his butler. "My girlfriend is together with somebody else, then what the hell are you guys doing!"
"We… we are… ugh! Master, this is what the book is asking. Let alone you don't have a girlfriend now."
"WHAT! Then that means if I do have a girlfriend, you would just let her get together with someone else!" Tala asked slamming his fist into the table.
Butler nods his head without thinking, then quickly corrects himself before he gets yelled at even further by Tala.
The butler quickly shakes his head. "No, no, no. , Master. Please!" Tala reaches for his wine glass, taking a big gulp of the expensive red wine. "This is what the book is asking, ok?"
Tala puts the wine glass down and grabs the book from the butler's hands to look at the cover. "What kind of a crap is this?"
"You bought them all." The butler muttered quietly.
Tala stares at the butler with a strong urge to hit the man. "HUH? You have a death wish, do you?"
The butler quickly got Tala's attention back to the tests. "I'm asking questions, just asking questions. Fine, the question is, if your girlfriend – " he points to the book as if to say that he has nothing to do with the question, "this is being asked by the book, asked by the book – is walking very intimately with a guy, then what would your reaction be? There are 4 choices, a bit more. 1-no feelings. 2-really want to know the truth but is afraid that other people will see that you care. 3-admit that you can't bear it. 4-don't ask about it. Please respond."
"I don't want to answer." Tala muttered looking away coolly.
" Master. You can't not answer." The butler protested getting fustrated.
Tala looks at the butler with an irritated expression on handsome face. "You're telling ME what to do!"
"no, it's just that this way we can't measure a precise answer."
"Two, two then." Tala replied annoyed.
"Two. Ok, then that is… really want to know the truth but is afraid that other people will see that you care."
Tala looked over at the butler with deadly turquoise eyes and the butler quickly looks away, knowing that he said the wrong thing.
"Did someone ask you to repeat it again?" The butler looked extremely uncomfortable under Tala's cold gaze. "Next question." Tala demanded.
"Ok. The question
is… Which type of girl are you fascinated by? There is also 3
choices. 1-neat and tidy type."
"Who would like that
type! Are you a idiot?" Tala interrupted.
"You just don't choose that choice, ok? Anyways, 2-careful and won't be restrained. 3-strong willed, stubborn temper. Please respond."
"Strong willed, stubborn temper. Eh, hurry up, hurry up. The result." Tala demanded.
"Oh, you are type F person." The butler responded.
Turning another page he looks up the choice for personality F. Finding it, the butler reads it then with wide eyes reads the passage again.
The butler stares at Tala in shock. "Master. You should just fire me. I don't dare read it."
Tala grabs to book away from the butler's grasp angrily. "What!"
"Master…"
Tala reads the passage for the personality type and Kira's words rings in his head again.
Flashback
Kira scoffed. "Perfect?" She eyed him up and down. "This is called perfect? I hate your stupidity! I hate your icicle eyes! Hate your 'I'm god" attitude! From the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU! You are the stereotypical type of person that every hates the most! I HATE YOU, HATE YOU, HATE YOU!"
End of Flashback
Tala gets angry from reading the book and remembering Kira's words, makes a move to tear the book apart. "This is…"
The butler reaches out his hands to stop him. "Master, don't be annoyed."
He turns a couple of pages. "There is something for you to consult to in the back."
Tala reads quietly for a few seconds. "For your suggestion, first, start from changing your appearance. You should always put a smile on your face." The butler shakes his head when he hears this. "Wear more clothes that are cute." The butler makes a face and looks Tala over. Your attitude has to be friendlier around people which will then be able to change your socializing relationships."
Tala finishes reading and he and his butler both look at each other and look away. The butler sits in his chair not daring to make any comments at all.
The next day, Kira is slowly walking down the road in school when a voice calls out to her.
"YO! Hardworking virgin!" Enrique called out.
Kira looks up and turns left and right to see who is calling out.
"YO! Hardworking
virgin!" Enrique calls again, this time louder.
Kira looks
around again and quickly runs over to the grassy area where Enrique
and Johnny are sitting underneath a tree.
"Can you please stop
calling me that?" Kira asked angrily.
"Fine. Forget
it. Come and have a drink." Enrique smiled.
"It's so early and you
guys are drinking wine in school?" Kira asked in disbelief.
"We're adults. What's wrong with drinking a little wine?
Come. Have a seat." Enrique urged, pouring Kira a glass of
wine.
Enrique pats the spot between him and Johnny indicating for Kira to sit. She walks over and sits down. Enrique hands her the glass of wine that he just poured and Kira took it from him hesitantly.
Kira looks at Enrique then at Johnny and back again. "You guys keep on talking. Don't mind me."
"I feel that it's because MingMing is coming back." Enrique said to the red head, continuing whatever they were talking about. Kira looks up at the mention of MingMing's name. "No wonder Kai's attitude has been a bit weird recently."
"Moreover, I heard that MingMing has been selected to be a travel agency's public image ambassador. There are posters of her all over the streets now." Johnny added.
"I want to ask what's this MingMing's relationship with Kai?" Kira questioned.
"MingMing was Kai's first love." Johnny explained as a matter of factly.
"Huh? First love?"
"From all the back in kindergarten." Enrique added.
"Because Kai is a quiet person since he was young. When we were small, we felt that he was sort of autistic. Don't you feel that even now, he seems to be a bit autistic?" Johhny asked.
"When we were young, the four of us would always play together. He would always sit in a corner and never smiled. If not, then when we are playing happily, he would suddenly throw up. Then he would continue to cry. At that time we were all still young. How are we supposed to know what to do?" Enrique explained to the black haired girl.
"But MingMing, who is three years older than us, would have lots of ways. Ever since she showed up, every time that Kai cried, she would bring Kai off to some place. When they cane back, Kai would have stopped crying. Moreover, from then on, his situation got better and better." Johnny added.
"We felt that it was MingMing who, bit by bit, pulled Kai out of his shell."
"MingMing is really quiet amazing. If it wasn't for her, I think Kai would have been sent to some mental institution now."
'My head really hurts. It seems like I've been hit by someone with a hammer. So, Kai has been waiting for MingMing's phone call.' Kira thought to herself.
Later that night, Kai is once again standing in front of a huge poster of a beautiful girl with short aqua-marine colored hair. As Kira is walking by, she sees him standing there staring at the poster. Kira slowly walks closer to him and Kai's cell phone beeps as he receives a message. Taking out his phone, Kai read the following message: "Kai, I'm boarding the plane. See you in 17 hours. MingMing."
A big smile breaks out on Kai's face after he finishes reading the message. He turns around with the smile on his face and sees Kira right behind him.
Kai stares at Kira with a big grin on his face for a few moments before speaking. "You look very pretty tonight." Kira looks at him and then looks down, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Suddenly he reaches out his right hand to brush back her hair and bending down, he kisses her lightly on her left cheek.
"Good night."
He walks away staring at the cell phone in his hand while a stunned Kira stands rooted to the ground.
Sitting down in front of a boutique on the street, Kira reminisces about the event that just happened.
'Was that really Kai Hiwatari? Is this his dream or my dream?'
The next morning, a tired Kira walks into the classroom, dragging her feet.
Mariah deliberately talks loudly to Hilary as Kira walks into the room. "Look, MingMing Teng is on the magazine's advertisement."
Kira's attention got caught at the mention of MingMing's name and she stops walking and stands next to her desk.
"Wow… She's so beautiful. I hope that I can become a beautiful person as MingMing." Hilary said in an amazed tone.
Mariah turns her head over to look at Kira. "MingMing is as different as night and day compared to a certain someone."
"Right. One is so noble and elegant. The other is so sloppy. And can wear the same clothes for two days straight." Hilary agreed.
Kira looked down at her own clothes when she hears this comment.
Hilary and Mariah looked at each other with looks of disgust on their face.
"Didn't she even change her underwear? That's so nauseating!" Mariah commented, wrinkling her nose in disgust.
Kira turned around and looked over at them and they quickly look away and pretend to do other things.
Meanwhile, outside in the grassy area, Enrique and Johnny lie on the grass when Tala shows up. He taps Enrique and who looks up with a smile. Enrique then nudges Johnny. Johnny looks up to see what's going on and gasps at the sight in front of him. Both of them are staring up at Tala who is standing in front of them in a semi-tight bright yellow Lilo & Stitch shirt on. A very uncomfortable looking Tala sits down on the grass.
"What kind of shit are you wearing?" Johnny asked snidely.
"Where did you get that kind of clothing?" Enrique asked almost worried about the blood-red heads sanity
"What? Is it really that hard to look at? I think it looks pretty good." He looks over at Kai. "Kai, what do you think?"
Kai smirks and doesn't say anything. Instead, the cell phone that Kai is holding in his hand rings.
Kai quickly answers the phone. "Hello? You're here? Ok. I'll be right over."
Getting up from the ground, Kai breaks out into a run.
Tala gets up and calls after Kai. "Where are you going?"
"Ming's here!" Kai shouted back to the slim red head.
Enrique and Johnny both get up from the ground as well.
"Where?" Johnny called out, but got no reply from the already far away Kai. Instead, they just follow Kai.
Kai ran over to where MingMing is waiting for him and when he gets close, he stops where he is and stands there staring at her back. MingMing turns around and notices Kai standing there and a bright smile appears on her face. Kai starts to slowly walk over to her. Meanwhile, B3 come up behind Kai and Tala was about to walk over to MingMing, but Enrique stops him and points to Kai as if to say, "Let him go first."
The blue-haired girl smiles happily and wraps her arms around Kai's neck. "I missed you!" Kai smiled softly and wrapped his arms around her slim waist.
At this moment, Kira is walking a couple of feet away from them and looking over carelessly as she sees MingMing and Kai hugging which makes her stop in her tracks.
"You've grown up. You're so mature now." MingMing commented pulling away.
"I really missed you."
Kai said.
A stunned and shocked Kira stood there looking over at
the scene that was unfolding in front of her. B3 run over to
where Mingming and Kai are standing to greet her.
"Hi! Haven't seen you in a long time!" MingMing greeted brightly.
"MingMing, long time no see." Tala greeted, now standing on Kai's left side.
"You've grown up." She takes a look at his childish shirt. "You've changed a lot!"
"You know how he is. Always do crazy things." Enrique laughed.
As B4 and MingMing are standing around talking, the students around the school stop and whispe among themselves.
"It's MingMing Teng! It's really MingMing!" a student exclaimed.
Kira slowly turns around to see a crowd of people gathering behind her and looking over at B4 and MingMing.
"Look, she really is very beautiful. So beautiful." Another girl commented wistfully.
Back over at where B4 are standing, MingMing just finishes hugging Enrique.
"Didn't think that this time you come back, you'd become so much more beautiful and have so much women charisma." Johnny commented smirking.
"Thank you." MingMing smiled at the compliment.
"When did you get back? I saw the poster. It looks very good." The blonde commented.
"She's still living where she used to." Kai replied monotonously.
MingMing nodded her head.
"Let's find a place and have a drink." Tala proposed.
"Ok." MingMing agreed.
"Let's go." Tala replied, slinging an arm casually around MingMing's shoulder.
Johnny puts out a hand to stop Tala from walking. "We can go have a drink. But can you please go and change out of that crap your wearing?"
Enrique and MingMing laugh while Tala grinned playfully shoved Johnny. Kai on the other hand suddenly became very somber and quiet.
"Let's go, let's go." MingMing urged.
Tala and MingMing walk off with Johnny following behind.
"Kai, what are you standing there staring blankly for? Let's go." Enrique urged Kai.
Kai reluctantly followed Enrique while Kira is still standing to the side.
'There really is someone like that in this world. I am really so different from her.' Kira sighed.
At a pub, B4 and MingMing are sitting in a private room and drinking.
"Cheers!" The five old friends said, clinking their glasses together.
"I'm so happy that we are once again getting together. Are you guys still the same as before I left?"
"What's there not to be the same about? Johnny is still changing girlfriends every week." Tala laughed.
"Enrique too." Johnny
protested, but also laughing.
"I am not. I'm not like
you." The blonde denied, pouting, only getting a round of laughs.
"Tala, how is your sister?" MingMing asked.
"She got married last year. She's living with her husband in Russia."
"Really? But you were so close with your sister. You must miss her a lot. Especially since she's living all the way across the Asia." MingMing consoled. (A/N They live in Taipei, Taiwan)
"You don't have to worry about him. There is a girl now that is just like his sister that showed up. Her name is Kira Tagoshi." Enrique informed the aqua-marine haired girl.
Tala raises his hand to hit Enrique but Enrique managed to dodge the redheads fury. "Idiot! How is she like my sister? There is a big difference!"
"Really? I feel that she exactly like her." Johhny joined, smirking.
Kai sat there not talking and acting more quiet than usual.
Johnny looks over at Kai. "Kai. Why aren't you saying anything? Why are you silent? MingMing is back."
"I know. She is right here." Kai replied, opening his crimson eyes a little.
"This guy has always been like this. One moment he's happy, then his mood would change." Tala reported.
"I remember that Kai has been like this since he was young." MingMing nodded in agreement.
"I am not!" Kai yelled quite loudly.
Everybody quieted down and turns to look at Kai's outburst.
"What's wrong?"
MingMing asked with concern laced in her voice.
"Ming, why did
you have to take this kind of a photo? Don't you feel that
it's too revealing?" Kai pleaded.
"Is it? I can't see anything." Enrique joked.
"She only took a picture of this." Tala made a frame with his hands around his face.
"Kai, aren't you a little bit too up-tight?" Johhny asked sarcastically.
"This is only my job." MingMing soothed the now upset Kai.
"How can you be like any ordinary model? I just don't like that you are doing this."
MingMing gets up and walks over to kneel down in front of Kai. "I'm very happy that you are always thinking about me. I like you the most!"
She puts her hands on his face and pulling him close, giving him a kiss. Kai sat there with a bit of a surprised expression while MingMing pulls away. B3 start yelling and protesting good heatedly and are jealous that Kai is the only one that is getting a kiss.
"WHY! WHY! WHY!" Enrique asked, pouting with an adorable hurt puppy look, his baby blue eyes also seemingly hurt.
"Let's all have a toast." MingMing proposed picking up her wine glass.
"This is uncalled for!" Tala protested, picking up his glass reluctantly.
"Fine, fine, fine." Enrique agreed, also picking up his glass, along with Johnny.
Meanwhile, Kira is home having dinner with her parents. Kira is still thinking about the events of that afternoon and didn't have any appetite. Mrs. Tagoshi looks at Kira and sees Kira pushing her peas around in the bowl.
"Why aren't you eating?"
"I'm not hungry." Kira mumbles.
"But this fish costs $8 per pound! You… you should at least eat this fish." Her mom protested.
"I'm not hungry." Kira repeated again.
Mrs.Tagoshi looked at Kira and then back at the dish of fish only to find that it has gone missing.
"Where's the fish?" Mrs.Tagoshi asked surprised. She looks over at Mr.Tagoshi and sees him eating the whole fish. " EH! You… you… you can't eat your daughter's fish!"
"No, let me tell you. Young people these days, they don't understand anything. Don't know how to cherish things, you know. They don't eat this, they don't eat that. In the old days, we had a very tough life. Where did we have so much things to eat?" Her dad lectured with his mouth full.
Mrs. Tagoshi nodded her head in agreement.
"Our family was so poor that I had to go sell my blood, do you know?" Mr. Tagoshi told Kira.
"In the end, because of a
loss of blood from donating too much blood, I had to stay in the
hospital! Do you know that?" Her dad continues eating
the fish. "The next time you buy this, don't buy ones with so
much bones." Her dad commented.
"Then you shouldn't keep on
eating it. This way your blood pressure will increase.
Your fat will increase. Then you would have high cholesterol
and have to be admitted to a hospital. Living in a hospital
would need money." Kira's mother protested.
"Anyway, Kira is not eating this. So we shouldn't waste it. It's $8 a pound!"
"Then you give me half to eat." Kira's mother demanded, grabbing half of the fish.
Kira looks over at her parents sharing the fish and thinks to herself, 'Her father is a big corporation's president. My father is selling blood! God! I really can't compare to MingMing Teng. I better not think about it too much. And I also shouldn't think too much about the B4."
The next day at school, as Kira was slowly walking, a boy walking down the stairs shouts out to her.
"Kira!"
She stops to look up and see who was that's calling her.
"Kira, it's me! Daichi Sumeragi! Wait for me." The short red head yelled at her.
He runs down the stairs and over to where Kira is standing.
Daichi points to himself. "Kira, it's me! Daichi Sumeragi! Do you remember me?"
Kira thinks for a few seconds and then finally realizes who he is. "Daichi? You're my classmate from middle school! What are you doing here?"
"I transferred over. My family owned a lot of farming land. Then after my dad sold our ancestor's land, I became instantly rich. My dad was afraid that I would be too much of a hick so he sent me here to study. Now we're schoolmates again!" Daichi said excitedly.
"Right! We haven't seen each other for a long time! I'm so happy your going here!" Kira replied with the same amount of enthusiam, grabbing Daichi's hand excitedly.
"Same! I was so nervous at first going to a university like this, but when I heard people say you also went here, I felt so much better!" Daichi grinned.
"Right. With me here, you…" Kira's smile broke and as she remembered that she has been red tagged by B4. "I think that you would be better off not speaking with me." She finished.
Daichi grabbed Kira's wrist anxiously. "Why? You're the only one I recognize here! Moreover, you've been looking after me since when we were young. How can you tell me not to speak to you! You can't not look after me!" Daichi started whining.
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll look after you. Let's go." Kira answered having no choice.
Daichi starts looking around him as he walks with Kira. "Wow! This place is really amazing! There must be a lot of celebrities kids here!" Daichi exclaimed in awe.
"Maybe. But I don't recognize any of them."
Daichi walks over to the edge of the terrace they're standing on and looks down, "Hey! Who are they? Are they movie stars?" he asked pointing to the B4.
Kira looks down and notices he's pointing to the B4.
"You four guys!" Daichi yelled waving at them.
Kira quickly covers his mouth with her hand. "Don't call out! Let me tell you. If you want to safely past these couple of years here in this school, then you better not have anything to do with them. Do you understand?"
"Why?" Daichi asked confused.
"Don't ask, let's just get out of here before they see us." Kira urged as she dragged him away from the balcony terrace.
She quickly pulls him along and out of site from B4.
During lunch time, Kira is sitting alongside the river while Daichi is going to buy lunch.
Daichi ends up bringing a whole tray of food with him, "Kira! Time for lunch!" He called motioning her over to a picnic table beside the river.
"Thank you. Sorry for the trouble. Letting you treat me." Kira turned around, walking over to the table.
Daichi puts down the tray between himself and Kira.
"You bought too much!"
Kira exclaimed looking at the overflowing tray full of food.
"It
doesn't matter. This way we have more variety." Daichi
answered with a shrug.
"So? Even though your family has money now, you can't be this wasteful." Kira reprimanded.
"Don't worry about it!" Daichi answered with a grin, handing her a pan pizza in a mini pizza box.
"Thank you." Kira replied, accepting the box.
"Actually I really cherish the memories of when we were little." Daichi admitted.
"But now you've changed so much, but I'm still plain old Kira." Kira joked.
"How am I different? I'm still the same Daichi you used to know!" Daichi protested.
"Hey, do you still go to drink bubble tea at that shop in front of our old school?" Kira asked suddenly remembering the little shop that was set up in front of their middle school.
"I almost asked my dad to buy it!" Daichi exclaimed.
"Why would you buy it?"
"To get them to set up a stand in front of our house of course!" Daichi grinned.
"You're so weird!" Kira laughed.
"You want drink some? I can call them to tell them to come over."
"No." Kira replied pushing him playfully. She pauses suddenly, and faces the river. "Meeting an old friend again – this feeling is so nice. It's this kind of feeling that this cold school lacks." Kira sighed wistfully.
"What are you talking about?" Daichi asked, completely confused.
"Nothing. I'm just really happy right now, that's all." Kira smiled, taking a bite of her pepperoni pizza.
Unknown to Kira and Daichi, a pair of deadly turquoise eyes glared at them, the face snarled with evident anger on his face,
"What are you looking at?" Enrique asked the red-head.
"What are you looking at?" Enrique asked, still with no reply, the turquoise eyes still fixed on something below them beside the river. Enrique followed Tala's deadly gaze only to find a Kira laughing happily with some other short dark-red headed boy.
After lunch, Kira and Daichi walk over to their lockers.
"Kira, what number are
you?"
Kira stops in front of her locker and starts spinning her
combo. "Oh, I'm #150. What about you?"
"I'm #174."
"Huh? 174 again?" Kira asked, remembering that was Tyson's locker.
Daichi smiles and walks over to his locker and opens the door. Upon opening the locker, he finds a red tag hanging there.
"Huh? Why is there
a red tag here?" Daichi asked, picking up the tag.
Kira snaps
her head around to look over at Daichi with surprise on her face and
thinking to herself, 'Why did Daichi get red tagged! Could
it be because of me?' She wondered frantically.
"Oh! Is it like a welcome card that is used to welcome us new transfer students?" Daichi asked happily.
Kira ignored Daichi, wondering what the hell Tala has against Daichi, and what he was planning to do.
Meanwhile, said red-head is out in the field playing soccer all by himself. Bending down to pick up the soccer ball, as he sees Kira running full speed at him from the corner of his eyes, her twin braids bounding behind her. He stood up straight and looks at her.
"What exactly do you want! You big jackass! Daichi hasn't even seen you before. What did he do to offend you! SAY SOMETHING!" Kira asked, stopping in front of him, just barely screaming the last part at him.
"YOU IDIOT! It's all because of you! You ditz! Don't you get it?." Tala yelled back at her, with equal venom.
He raises the soccer ball about to boot it, but Kira grabbed the soccer ball away from him, once again getting his attention back to her.
"What are you talking about? What does it mean it's all because of me! And why should I let a idiot like you talk to me like that?"
Tala points to himself mockingly. "I'm an idiot? What about that guy you were hanging around during lunch? He's a genius huh?" Tala spat back sarcastically, with a hint of jealously creaping into his voice.
"Daichi?" Kira asked,
now confused.
"Yeah! That brat! I want to see which one of you
hicks get forced to withdraw out of this school first." Tala said a
smirk gracing his face.
"I want you to take back the red tag that you gave him!" Kira demanded glaring daggers at the cocky red-head.
"You must be kidding! I, Tala Ivanov, from birth till now, have never been ordered around by anyone!" Tala scoffed at the ridiculous idea.
"Well, why don't you start now?' Kira asked, moving closer to him, as crimson eyes glared at turquoise ones. Kira glared at him confidently, even though he had the height advantages, seeing as he was a good 6'3 while she was only 5'8'
"No!" Tala sneered, pushing her away from him.
Kira stumbles back from the force of his push and falls on her ass. HARD. Tala stops walking at looks down at her in surprise.
"You dare push a girl? You shouldn't deserve to be called a man than!" Kira screamed at him, now really pissed off.
"Serves you right! Who told you to hang out with that nerd! You guys just wait to die!" Tala threatened, walking away.
Kira jumped up all of a sudden, her pain forgotton, and gave him a good jab on his jaw, not being able to reach up any more, considering the fact that he was a good 7' higher than her.
"You idiot. Why are you willing to do all this for that dork?" Tala sneered, rubbing his jaw.
"Because I care for him! And I'll do whatever it takes to help him!" Kira screamed, as Tala's eyes widened at her answer, but he thanked the gods that his back was facing her, or she would have mocked him even more about his shock.
The next day, Daichi is being bullied by two guys with toilet pumps.
Daichi was on the ground trying to stop the toilet pump that was aimed straight for his face. "What are you doing!" He demanded.
All of a sudden, Kira runs over and kicks one of the guys on the ankle away from Daichi.
"Go away!" She yelled, kicking the second guy away as well. She pulled the toilet pump from Daichi's face, and pulls him up. "Daichi, are you ok? What! Hurry up and run, hurry and run!" Kira shouted, pulling him up as five more guys started chasing them, including the two she dirty kicked.
Oblivious of the commotion that's going on outside, B4 and MingMing are sitting inside the school's café and chatting. Tala hears the commotion but doesn't do anything as he continues to sit there with his arms crossed, seeing as he was still extremely angry at Kira, and her little punch that actually gave him a slight bruise. Who knew that little peasant could punch that hard? Tala thought, slightly amused.
"If there were a whole pile of women that were after me, then I would take each one, one at a time." Johnny smirked.
"That's why I keep saying you're a monster in a human form." Enrique declared, laughing.
"Not like your much better!" Johnny laughed, punching Enrique casually on his arm.
"Then what about Kai? You still don't have a girlfriend?" MingMing turned to a silent Kai.
"No." Kai replied quietly looking down at the coffee table.
"Why not? A guy is better off with a girlfriend. When you have a girlfriend, then you can become a true man." MingMing stated.
"MingMing, you're going too far. You know that Kaii doesn't have a girlfriend because…" Enrique laughed.
He breaks off what he's about to say because Kai suddenly looks up and stares at him coldly, as if threatening him to go on.
"Never mind, pretend you didn't hear anything." The blonde finished, laughing nervously.
"How about this? Let me introduce a model to you to be your girlfriend, ok?" MingMing looked back at Kai.
"Don't bother." Kai replied, not even bothering to open his eyes this time.
"I knew you were going to say that.But I can't help but tease you. Because each time that I tease you, you have this weird expression. But you can't be serious with other girls. Because you are my and only my Kai." MingMing stated with a playful wink to Kai.
All of a sudden, a guy walks up to MingMing.
"Welcome back MingMing!" the guy greeted.
"Hey! Haven't seen you in a while Lee." MingMing greeted the Chinese guy.
"You're getting prettier and prettier." The Lee guy complimented.
"Not really. Anyways, let me introduce you guys." First she turned to B4. "This is Lee Laan. The Laan Children's Hospital's CEO's son. And these four guys are…"
Lee interrupts her. "They are the very famous B4. How are you? Is this your boyfriend? You guys seemed so intimate before." He turned to Kai.
Both Tala and Enrique started glaring at the guy for that last comment.
"You mean Kai? No. We've been good friends since when we were young. It's sort of like we're sister and brother."
"Really? But you too really look like boyfriend and girlfriend. So it's only sister and brother?" Lee kept asking.
Enrique sees the tension and decides to change the topic. "This year's spring break is to Hawaii, right? Did you guys see the poster?"
"Hawaii again? That's so not creative, I've been there only a couple hundred times already." Johnny complained, catching on to Enrique's plan.
"Someone as beautiful as you, only B4 can be worthy of you." Lee complimented MingMing again.
Enrique and Johnny glare at the guy for changing the subject back again.
"If he isn't your boyfriend, then it must be Tala." Lee inquired, still not getting the message.
Tala doesn't say answer, but instead holds up a red tag and waves it in front of Lee's face casually, not even bothering to look up.
"MingMing, I'm really sorry. I still have class. I have to leave first." Lee excuses himself, seeing Tala's silent threat.
"Ok, buhbye!" MingMing replied cheerfully.
Lee walks away and MingMing sits back down in her chair. Tala looks at MingMing then over at the silently brooding Kai.
Meanwhile, Kira and Daichi are still being bullied outside.
"Go away!" Kira screamed pushing a guy out of her way.
"Daichi!" She pulls the
garbage bag filled with leaves off his head, "Are you
ok?"
Suddenly, a whole bunch of students are running towards
them with water guns.
"They're catching up! Hurry and run!" Kira cried desperately noticing the water guns.
"Help!" Daichi cries out helplessly.
"DON'T RUN!" The students shouted.
As a dirty and ragged looking Kira and Daichi are running away, they pass the poster that is stuck on the bulletin board regarding the Spring Break vacation to Hawaii.
Kira runs back towards the poster. "Hawaii! The place that I dream of going for vacation! I promised that I will go at least once in a lifetime to Hawaii! WHAT? $5,000! This school's spoiled kids! They're so wasteful! I saw on the newspaper that it only costs $1900! $5,000 can take you to the South Pole!" Kira shouted.
"Kira, there are so many people chasing us, is it really appropriate to be researching this now!" Daichi asked desperately.
"They're here! Hurry up and run!" Kira urged, coming out of her trance.
A very moody Kai walks very quickly in big strides away from B3 and MingMing. Enrique sees Kai like this, and quickly runs up to him, but Kai just keep on walking away angrily. MingMing notices the mood that Kai is in and just stares at his angry figure. At the same time, the students that are bullying Kira and Daichi catches up with them.
"Don't run!" the students shouted
Kira and Daichi ran around the bend of the well-cared for brick road and B4 and MingMing stop as they see them being chased by a mob of people who were taking this as a sport.
"What are they doing?"
MingMing asked staring in shock at the scene that was playing out in
front of her.
Looking back to see how far the guys bullying them
are, Daichi suddenly trips and falls down on the ground.
"Hurry up! Daichi, are you ok? Daichi!" Kira shouted running back to the short red-head.
She looks up at this moment and notices B4 and MingMing standing a few feet away and looking over at them.
'Why is it that when I'm at my worst that MingMing Teng sees me!"
At this moment, the students catch up with Kira and Daichi, and use their water guns on them. B4 and MingMing stand aside and look on as Kira and Daichi squat on the floor getting soaked by probably what was dirty water.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Kai demanded loudly, glaring at the students spraying Kira and Daichi.
Kira looks up in shock, thinking 'Kai Hiwatari is helping me! I can't believe this…'
Meanwhile, Kai has walked over to stand between the students and Kira. With Kai standing there staring at them, the students quickly start backing away.
Tala slowly starts to saunter over to where Kai and Kira were. "Kai." He turns around and stands face to face with Tala. "Do you know what you are doing right now?" Tala asked in a low, deadly voice.
"Tala, you should refrain from going too far. I think that's enough." The blunette stated calmly.
"What's the meaning of this?" the red-head demanded.
Kira, who was still sitting on the ground, looks from Kai to Tala.
Tala's eyes widen as he looks down at Kira and then over at Kai, "Don't tell me you like her!" He laughed in disgust.
'Please. Don't deny it.' Kira pleaded silently.
Kai remained silent, and just kept on staring at Tala.
"Why do you insist on helping her? Don't you even care that you might get kicked out of Bakuten U. because of her?" Tala asked, seeing red already.
When Kai still didn't answer, Tala suddenly grabs Kira by her arm and pulls her up.
"Get up!" Tala ordered angrily.
Kai, on the other hand, grabs hold of Kira's other arm and now she is stuck between Kai and Tala, as if she was the rope that they were playing tug-of-war with.
"How long are you going to protect her!" Tala asked with a tug on Kira's left arm.
"Are you telling me what
to do?" Kai asked, now seething with the same amount of anger as
the red-head, tugging on Kira's right arm.
"Let go of her!"
Tala ordered.
"I don't want to!" Kai spat back.
"It hurts!" Kira screamed looking at Tala, "You let go! Tala, you bastard! Let go!"
Tala lets go and at the same time, Kai also lets go, so poor Kira falls to the ground on her butt. Daichi quickly crawls over to where Kira fell flat on her ass.
"Fine." Tala glared pointing a finger at Kai. "Kai Hiwatari. I'm going to have nothing to do with you from now on!" Tala sneered as he storms past Enrique and Johhny, pushing them away roughly.
"Tala!" Johnny called out, deciding to go after his fuming friend, lest he do something stupid in his rage.
"What's wrong with you? Why did it become like this?" The remaining blonde asked, walking over to the blunette.
Kira sat on the ground still staring up at Kai in shock when MingMIng walks over to her and crouches down next to her.
"How can someone get this dirty? Come one, let's go inside and clean you up k?" MingMing declared with a kind smile, pulling Kira up on her feet and leading her into a bathroom
In the bathroom, MingMing was wetting a handkerchief by the sink and trying to explain B4's behavior.
"I hope you don't mind. They are not bad guys. Just that sometimes, they can go too far." Mingming explained.
Kira stared at MingMing, thinking silently, 'She is so beautiful. Long eyelashes. Almost like a doll's. It's hard to believe that we're both humans. There's such a big difference between us. Her skin is almost glowing."
"Here, use this to clean your face." MingMing said, handing her a hankerchief.
"Thank you." Kira accepted shyly. She then looks at the hankerchief. "This is Chanel's handkerchief!" She exclaimed in surprise.
MingMing starts talking to Kira as she wipes Kira's dirty face. "You got such a strong reaction from Kai, this is the first time that I've seen it. I think he really must like you."
Kira's eyes widened dramatically. "Huh? It can't be! Kai doesn't like me! He likes you MingMing!"
"Really? But I always feel that one day Kai will leave me." MingMing replied with a sad smile.
'Why is it that when MingMing talks about this, she has the same sad expression as Kai?" Kira asked herself, thinking.
"Come, you're dirty over here too." She starts to pull leaves out of Kira's hair. "A girl has to appear clean and pretty. Because you don't know when you'll meet up with your prince charming." MingMing smiled brightly.
Kira starts cleaning her face, and looks down and gasps in amazement, "Wow! Your shoes are really nice!"
"Really? I also like them a lot. When I was in France, I heard a saying. Everyone should have a pair of beautiful shoes. Because this pair of good shoes will bring you to very beautiful places." MingMing replied grinning at Kira.
'MingMing Teng is simply a very kind and pretty girl. Even though she and I live in different worlds, she's still really good natured and sweet. She's completely opposite from Mariah and Hilary, those bitches. She's the true example of a high class woman.' Kira thought to herself.
Afterwards, Kira goes and finds Kai on the rooftop as usual.
"Thank you very much for
just now." Kai slowly turns his head and opens his eyes, his
gaze falling on the black haired girl, her face and hair now
completely clean. "But I'm so sorry. Because of me, made
you and Tala had such a big fight."
"It's not your fault.
I was feeling a little annoyed at the moment anyways." Kai
explained, closing his eyes once again and facing the open school
campus below him.
'Why? Why did you save me just now? You even sacrificed yourself for me!' Kira asked herself.
Kira stares at Kai with her an anxious face.
"Do you want to say something? If you have nothing to do, then stay here."
Kira looks over at Kai and is a bit surprise at his words.
That night, Tala is sitting in his indoor Jacuzzi and reminiscing on the events of what happened in school that day.
/ Flashback/
"Get up!" Tala ordered angrily.
Kai, on the other hand, grabs hold of Kira's other arm and now she is stuck between Kai and Tala, as if she was the rope that they were playing tug-of-war with.
"How long are you going to protect her!" Tala asked with a tug on Kira's left arm.
"Are you telling me what to do?" Kai asked, now seething
with the same amount of anger as the red-head, tugging on Kira's
right arm.
"Let go of her!" Tala ordered.
"I don't want to!" Kai spat back.
"It hurts!" Kira screamed looking at Tala, "You let go! Tala, you bastard! Let go!"
Tala lets go and at the same time, Kai also lets go, so poor Kira falls to the ground on her butt. Daichi quickly crawls over to where Kira fell flat on her ass.
"Fine." Tala glared pointing a finger at Kai. "Kai Hiwatari. I'm going to have nothing to do with you from now on!" Tala sneered as he storms past Enrique and Johhny, pushing them away roughly.
/ End of flashback. /
Meanwhile, Kira and Kai are still on the rooftop with Kai sitting on the ledge and Kira sitting on the ground leaning against the wall.
'I don't know why but I don't feel so good. But I'm still here, I've sat on the roof for a whole night, with this guy who is dead silent and doesn't like to smile. Is God telling me some sort of message?' Kira thought to herself.
"Dawn is coming soon." Kai announced, breaking the silence, but still stared intensely at his cell phone.
'Does he wait for MingMing's phone call everyday like this?' Kira wondered.
She gets up and walks over to Kai who was still looking at his cell phone.
"You really don't talk much, do you know that?" Kira asked.
"There are times when I talk even less that you haven't seen yet."
"Oh. Am I disturbing you? Since I've been here a whole night if I have."
"It's ok. You don't talk a lot. You're not detestable."
"Thank you." Kira said with a smile, knowing that was about as much as she would get from the cold blunette as a compliment.
Suddenly Kai got off the ledge.
Kira looks at something that he's holding. "What's that?"
He didn't say anything but just smiled lightly at her.
"You should hurry up and run now." Kai told her, quickly walking away himself.
Just then, there was a loud popping noise and fireworks were sent flying into the dark sky.
Kira covers her ears quickly and runs a few feet away, "Hiwatair, are you crazy? Do you know what time it is, you are setting fireworks!"
She pushes him on his shoulder. "Setting it off without warning me first!"
Kai silently gazes up at the sky. "When I was young, a friend told me that when dawn is about to come, all the angels would go and pay their respects to God. If you set fireworks then, you can call out to them. Then the wishes that you make will be especially easy to come true. Have you ever heard of it before?"
She shakes her head and they both turn back to look up at the fireworks.
"It's so beautiful." Kira said in awe.
She turns her head back to look at Kai and sees him with his head down, making his wish.
The next day, back in school, Kira is following directions on a small piece of paper.
Kira read out loud from the paper, "Behind the school. The tree across from the fifth light post. Then it should be here. Daichi!" She looks around. "There's no one here" She commented, before yelling again, "Daichi!"
All of a sudden, Daichi jumps out from the bushes wearing a helmet with two tree twigs stuck on it and holding a bunch of tree twigs in his hands as well.
"Kira!" Daichi called out.
"You scared the hell out of me! And why are you dressed like this anyways?" Kira asked.
"It's simple, if I dress up like this, then those monsters won't find me." Daichi proclaimed triumphantly. Kira sighed, rolling her eyes, since Daichi was attracting more attention dressed like that.
Kira kept staring at him before holding her head, heading towards the mahogany benches to sit down.
"Kira! What's wrong?" Daichi asked, worried, taking a seat next to her.
"Nothing. I'm fine." Kira assured, giving a weak smile.
"Are you having a heat stroke?" Daichi asked, not reassured at all, fanning her with some loose pieces of paper.
"No, really, I'm fine, I'm just a little tired." Kira replied, pushing his hand away gently.
"Then… oh yeah! Are you going on the trip to Hawaii during spring break?" Daichi asked, his usual enthusiasm back again.
No, you need $5,000 to go. And besides, our family could live three months on that money." She shook her head somewhat wistfully, before perking back up again. "I'm not going." She replied with a slight smile.
"Then do you want to go on a cruise for three days?" Daichi asked with a huge smile on his cheerful face.
"Cruise around the island for 3 days? Your family has a cruise ship?" Kira asked, somewhat amazed.
"No. My dad originally wanted to rent a stream boat and go traveling back home. But the people in the country said that it was not extravagant enough so my dad decided to rent a cruise ship instead. That way it would be more elegant, more extravagant. We were going to visit my mom's hometown, but the fortune teller said that my dad can't be near water in April, therefore my dad and mom can't go. So there are two empty seats now. So… I feel that it would be fun if we both can go. What do you think Kira?" Instead of finding an excited Kira, he looks over and find Kira flat on her back on the ground, unconscious.
"Kira!" Daichi yelled, kneeling down beside her, shaking her arm futively.
Later, a sick Kira is lieing on her bed with a thermometer in her mouth. Pulling the thermometer out of her mouth, she looks at it.
"Let me see." Kira's mom insisted, grabbing the thermometer out of Kira's hand with ease.
"How many degrees?" Her dad asked, sticking his head in her room.
"Oh god! 38.6 degrees." Kira's mom exclaimed.
"So high?" he looks at Kra, excited for some odd reason. "Good! The higher the better!" He nudges his wife's arm "I can't believe that our Kira would have a fever! From young till now, she never even had that many colds. People say that only crazy ones, or stupid ones, would not have colds and fevers." The sick Kira has an all too familiar exasperated look on her face. "This proves that my daughter isn't stupid! Ha ha ha! This is so great!" Her dad exclaimed, laughing excitedly.
"What kind of saying is that! But I have heard people say that people who are in a relationship are more vulnerable to colds." They look at each other as a realization comes to mind. "Could it be that our daughter… is in a relationship?" Mrs. Tagoshi exclaimed excitedly.
"Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!" The happy couple exclaimed, jumping to their crazed conclusions as usual.
"What? Don't jump to stupid conclusions. Especially since I'm too sick to protest right now!" Kira said weakly, coughing as she did so.
"That's right, she still has a high fever." Her dad remembered.
"Then let her get well first. Come, come. I just made a bowl of chicken soup. You feed it to her slowly. I'm going to work." Kira's mom said quickly, as she strode out of the room.
"You go work." Her dad agreed.
Mom starts to walk out the door.
: "I'll take care of this…" Her dad said, sitting down beside Kira's bed, picking up the bowl of chicken soup eagerly.
Mr.Tagoshi scoops some chicken onto the spoon and puts it into his mouth. All of a sudden, Mrs.Tagoshi walks back into the room and catches him eating.
"Huh! How can you steal your daughter's chicken soup!" She yelled, her voice traveling to probably even the neighbors houses.
"The smell is so good though! I just couldn't resist the temptation!" Mr. Tagoshi protested.
"Besides, all we eat is carrots everyday. I'm not a damn rabbit you know!" He kept whining, taking another sip of the soup as he did so.
"Of course you're not a rabbit! Look at your bald head!" Kira's mom exclaimed angrily.
"My head's not bald! It's just thinning! Besides, a bald head is better than looking like a donkey like that jackass next door!" Mr.Tagoshi protested, knowing he was going to look sooner or later.
"You aren't a donkey either! The problem is that your daughter is so sick now, and you are still eating her only bowl of nutritious chicken soup!" she takes the bowl from her glutonous husband and puts it on the table beside the bed. "Don't you have a conscience at all! Don't you know that our family is very poor! All our money is spent on her expensive, elite school fees and our house. Don't you want to go through this difficulty together?" Mrs.Tagoshi demanded, on the verge of crying, which her husband knew was always his downfall.
"Is it really that bad? So bad that I can't even eat one mouthful of chicken soup?" He demanded.
"Of course not! But if you eat one mouthful, and I eat one mouthful…"
"Can you both stop arguing?" Kira screamed. "Can't you two just stop arguing for ONE day so I can get some sleep so I can get better?" She demanded.
"Sure." Her dad muttered, standing up.
"It's all your fault!" Kira's mom screamed at her husband, slapping him on his arm.
"Ok, ok." He agreed, head bowed in shame.
: "You go work!" She demanded.
"I'll go work. I'll go do something." He said, walking out of the room.
"Really! There's only one bowl of chicken soup and he still steals it." She bends over Kira.
"Kira. Mommy has thought it through. If you feel that it's too stressful, then you don't have to go study in that elite school anymore."
"Really!" Kira asked, her eyes widening.
Mrs.Tagoshi nodded her head solemnly. "Mommy really has thought it through. I feel that you should just directly go out with this guy that brought you back home, Daichi Sumeragi. That would be much faster."
Kira rolled her eyes, fliping over to her side away from her mother and pulls the blanket over her head.
"It could be that we can even save the money we spend right now for that noble school! Kira, don't you think that what Mommy said makes sense? I feel that what I'm feeling isn't bad."
Back in school, Johnny and Enrique were lying on the grass out on the school grounds. Tala walked over and Johnny raised his hand in greeting while Enrique gives him a high five. He sat down and Johnny and Enrique both look at him questionably.
"Are you ok? I heard that Kira was sick." Johnny informed the other red-head.
Tala quickly turned his head over with an anxious look on his face. "What! Poor, ugly Kira is sick?" He asked, his demeanor still the same, arrogant one he's known and feared for, yet his eyes undoubtly flashed worry and concern.
"What are you so nervous about?" Enrique teased with all-knowing eyes.
"I am not. How was I nervous?" Tala pouted slightly, looking away with a semi-glare. Johnny and Enrique smile as if too know something. "I'm just surprised that she got sick so easily." He said with a glare shutting both Johnny and Enrique up.
Later that afternoon, Kira is sleeping in her bed with a towel over her head to cool down her temperature. She slowly wakes up and turns over on her side, and she notices her dad sleeping in the chair next to her bed. A devious Kira reaches up with one finger and pokes her dad in the cheek. At the same moment, Kira's mom came home from where ever she went.
"I'm back!" She called out. "You… you… you… who are you!" She suddenly cried out.
Kira and her dad look at each other and wonder what;s going on outside her bedroom.
"Why did you come to our home! This is our home! What do you want! You… you…" Kira's mother sputtered.
Kira pulls her blanket off and gets off the bed as her dad quickly gets up to open the door.
"Are you a thief? Thief!" She yelled, having a firm grasped on Tala's arm.
Kira notices the familiar spiked red hair and cried out in surprise.
"Why did you come to our house!" Kira demanded.
"Kira, you know him?" Her mom asked, surprised.
She quickly lets Tala go and runs back over to stand next to Kira.
"Hey! What are you doing in our home? Behaving like a hoodlum! Look at the way you look! With the weird two spiked head! Blinking icicle eyes! Just looking at you once and I know that you aren't a good thing!" Kira's dad proclaimed, moving closer to Tala, trying to threaten him with no avail, especially since Tala towered over Mr.Tagoshi by a couple of inches.
"Right! Mommy, Daddy, this is the guy that bullied me into catching a cold!" She accused, pointing a finger at him.
"You dare to bully our Kira! You have courage! No family upbringing! No one to control! No manners! Do you have a father? What is your father's name!" Kira's dad demanded, now furious. Kira's smiling happily at the fact that Tala is being yelled at. "I'm going to call and tell your father."
"My father is called Dimitri Ivanov." Tala replied coolly, his turquoise gaze fixed on the slightly overweight man in front of him.
"HUH!" Mrs.Tagoshi exclaimed, leaning forward, as if she couldn't hear the name.
"What? You too ashamed to say your father's name clearly?"
"I can't hear!" Kira's mom mocked.
"My father is Dimitri Ivanov." Tala all but yelled.
"Dimitri….Ivanov…"Kira's dad whispered, his eyes exponentiating.
Suddenly, Mr. and Mrs. Tagoshi both drops to the floor on their knees as if all of a sudden the strength was released from their legs.
"Mom, Dad, you two are so embarrassing. Why are you kneeling down for?" Kira's protested.
"We're not kneeling down. Our legs got soft." Mrs. Tagoshi muttered, slowly coming up from the floor.
"He… he… Dimitri
Ivanov." Her dad stuttered, his expression instantly changing.
"Has one telecommunications company." Here mom explained, leaning
on her husband for support.
"Two television stations."
"Three oil refining plants."
"Four semi-conductor companies."
"176 international franchise hotels. All 6 stars."
"17,845 twenty-four hour year round super franchise shopping mall… This Dimitri Ivanov?" They demanded.
"Yes. But at this moment, my father isn't in Taiwan. So it could be that you won't be able to use a phone to reach them." Tala said coolly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Eh, no problem." Kira's dad laughed nervously.
"Your father of course isn't in Taiwan." Kira's mom smiled kindly.
"THE Ivonov heir came to our house!" Mr.Tagoshi exclaimed, grinning excitedly.
"Then what should we…" Mrs.Tagoshi looked at her husband.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. We…" Kira's dad began, bowing his head to Tala.
Mr. and Mrs. Tagoshi quickly ran into their bedroom, leaving an embarrassed Kira standing alone with Tala.
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