Oh god, it's been what like a year since my update. Thanks for the review that was encouraging. I hope you guys don't totally hate me now. In any case I kind of am Johnny's crazy now like with Koikke Teppei especially. (He has my birthday:)
Well I can't say I have an excuse like a terminal illness or an amputation of both arms or anything but oh well. Yeah so here it goes, what is this chapter six or something?
Conflict rekindled and the appearance of Seta Soujiro
Kaoru flinched as she tripped on her swollen, wrapped ankle in between her pre-calculus class and her Japanese literature class. She leaned against the lockers for support as a familiar red head saw her and started to approach her.
"Listen, about last night, sorry about you know, what I said." He bent his head and scratched the back of his head.
"No worries, it was nothing," Kaoru replied who had seemingly forgot the bulk of the conversation anyways.
Kenshin, who cheered up almost immediately then inquired, "So, how's the ankle?"
"Alright I guess, I'm still going to practice,"
"Are you kidding? After all I said last night, you're still going!" he almost shouted.
"What the hell is your damage, it not any of your concern. You even apologized for the stuff you said." She grumbled.
"No I apologized for the way I said it not what I said."
"Yeah, whatever I'm going to class, later" Kaoru dismissed him walking as straight and even as she could to prove her point.
"Stubborn, infuriating woman." Kenshin through his hands up and turned the other direction.
Kaoru was sitting once again at the lunch table eating her poorly-made lunch. Misao, Tae, Megumi and Tsubame were all sitting together chatting amiably, when a passerby knocked Megumi's books off the table.
"Hey watch it" Misao yelled after the rude student.
"Hey Kaoru, what's with your ankle? Did you sprain it?" Megumi asked when she noticed the swollen appendage as she reached for one of her calculus text books.
"It's only a light sprain, no need to worry about it." She replied as she stuffed her mouth full with what looked like oyster crackers dipped in yogurt.
"You should get it looked at." Misao said, looking at Kaoru with intense disgust as she masticated something as equally horrid.
"Kaoru-sempai, is that why you tripped this morning in the hall way?' Tsubame asked timidly. The other occupants of the table turned their attention to their captain immediately.
"You know me always clumsy; I can't go a day without tripping on a normal day." Kaoru replied jokingly laughing it off. This seemed to convince Megumi and Misao as they soon turned to other topics. Tsubame just stared worriedly.
"So anyway, my cousin is transferring here next week. He's wicked baseball player though, he's so fast you can hardly see him!" Misao excitedly began.
"Yeah? What's his name?"
Kaoru had tripped twenty more times that day at a minimum and at each loss of balance her ankle seemed to get worse and worse.
Even so she jogged excitedly to the gym to start her practice. As soon as she entered the gym however; Saitoh stood ominously in front of the entry doors. Kaoru looked up at him clearly confused.
"Kamiya you will not come within thirty feet of the gym for the next two weeks you understand me?" he yelled. "Your ego's getting the best of you, there is no way you are playing with that ankle, and I thought you were smarter than to pull this kind of stunt!"
"But, kantoku," Kaoru tried to interrupt but was soon hushed by an intense glare.
"If I catch you doing anything besides healing for the next two weeks, not only as your team captain position being stripped your benched for the season, got me?"
"Yes sir," she replied inwardly fuming. 'I'll kill that Kenshin!" she thought murderously.
It was only Kaoru's third day in suspension and the lack of exercise endorphins were starting to get to her. Lucky for Kenshin, she had not seen him and did not have the opportunity to chew him out.
Since her current schedule left her without any after school activity she was currently watching the baseball practice, without much interest... Several other students were there mostly girls watching the batting practice commence. There seemed to be one boy in particular that seemed to be catching everyone's attention.
He hit ball after ball: groundballs and homeruns. His jet-black hair could be seemed underneath the protection of his helmet. In between pitches he suddenly turned in her direction. Kaoru who had the sometimes awkward skill of meeting complete strangers in the eye, did not fail to catch the bright blue orbs, an almost mirror of her own.
He had a soft smile which broadened when he caught her eyes. He winked and turned back to the fast ball that he hit straight out of the park, as if to say "This one's for you."
Kaoru watched the ball sail out of the neat grassy field and smiled for the first time that day, which unfortunately turned sour in one millisecond as a yell came in her direction.
"Oi, Kamiya! No practice today?" Kenshin yelled taking a seat next to her.
"Yeah as you didn't know you little snitch." She caustically spat, grabbing her books and stalking down the bleacher steps.
"Whoa, what are you talking about?" Kenshin asked in utter confusion.
"Himura, you're dumb enough don't play stupid, you told Saitoh about my ankle now I'm suspended for the next two weeks."
"Hey, wait" he briskly walked trying to catch up with her pace."I didn't tell anyone." He tried to convince her as he tripped on a tree root of the Seigaku campus.
"Yeah then how did he find out?" she bit out.
"Slow down," he grabbed her wrist.
"You know, and to think I actually thought you were kind of nice, carrying me home, and here you are backstabbing me."
"Hey, I didn't do any such thing, though I think your coach was completely correct in his command." Kenshin said in mock calmness.
"Excuse me, I don't think you should be touching that lady in such a manner." A truly collected and smooth voice rang out, referring to the fierce grip Kenshin still had on Kaoru's wrist.
Kaoru turned to yell at him about 'not being a damsel in distress and to mind his own business, when she caught sight of the homerun-hitting stranger.
"Yeah, well don't let looks fool you she's no lady," Kenshin said as he angrily released her hand. "Careful buddy she's known to dump boyfriends because of her own agenda."
"Go to hell Himura, you don't even know me so don't assume that you do." She glared at him fiercely.
"You're a selfish brat, do you know that." He matched her death glare with one of his own.
"Excuse me but lady or not she shouldn't be treated in such a fashion. I'm sure she has her own reasons." The blue-eyed baseball wonder interrupted again.
"Yeah, well give me your opinion in a couple weeks, later Kamiya." He replied coolly with a hand over his shoulder.
"Old flame?" he asked good-naturedly.
"Hardly, more like evil adversary." The baseball wonder chuckled and stuck out his hand.
"Seta Soujiro, I just moved from Eitoku. Somewhere in Kaoru's mind the name clicked.
"Hey, are you Misao's cousin?" she asked grinning to finally meet her best friend's favorite cousin. "She's told me all about you!"
"Nothing to embarrassing I hope," he replied jokingly.
"Well I can say she did let the one about the Mayonnaise slip during lunch yesterday." Soujiro blushed a shade of pink the Kaoru found irresistible adorable. She heard small murmurs of 'Misao' and 'payback' cascading from his gorgeous mouth.
In fact after surveying him, Kaoru found him to be one of the most attractive men she has ever met. His ebony bangs fell loosely over his ocean blue eyes, as the rest of his hair seemed perfectly groomed even after hours of baseball practice. His build was neither overly muscular nor scrawny and he was a little taller than her.
This caused Kaoru to blush as Soujiro looked up to meet her gaze once again. "Can I inquire as to whose company I'm enjoying in any case?" he asked in a princely manner grinning.
"Kamiya Kaoru" she replied trying to make her voice sound as confident as it usually did.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you Kaoru-san; I hope to see you more often in the future."
"Uh, definitely!"
At the Makimachi household, where a dinner was being held to celebrate the arrival of the Seta family into their district, Soujiro whispered to Misao discretely, "What do you know about Kamiya Kaoru?"
Misao smirked, and whispered back "what don't I know about Kamiya Kaoru would be the better question."
"So you're friends with her?" he asked excitedly.
"The best"
"Well is she, you know, available?" he blushed as he said this, feeling incredibly awkward.
"Yeah, but your not the only one that wants to date her, but you've got a good shot because everyone else is to afraid to go for it." She said as she stuffed another chopstick full of food into her mouth.
Not knowing what this meant, Soujiro just blinked. "Anyways," Misao continued, "as your cousin I have to warn you, she's really into her sport, so she's gets preoccupied."
"What does that mean?" Soujiro asked confused.
"It means you've got to completely swipe her off her feet if you want her to spend anytime with you."
"No problem, by the end of this month she'll be head over heels for me." He replied confidently.
Misao eyed her cousin wearily. 'One minute he's insecure and the next he's the playboy of the century, how weird' she thought. She moved on to more 'important' topics such as the Adonis personified basketball player that was Shinomori Aoshi.
Tsuzuku
Well I think that was pretty long considering I haven't typed anything on in ages. Anyways I've kind of been on a j dorama craze and I highly recommend Hana yori dango with Matsumoto Jun from Arashi, and Kurosagi with Yamashita Tomohisa from News.
Don't get me wrong anime is great, but if you some anime characters come to life j doramas are the best. The best looking actors are from the Johnny's News, Kat-tun, and Kanjani8 and Wat, though not Johnny's per say has Koikke Teppei!
Ok I'm not crazy; a lot of anime gets made into dramas too.
Well I know you guys probably hate me for not updating but I guess better late than never right? I was kind of frustrated with vball because of the stupid politics and crap and my school team is going to suck this year for reasons out of my control and namely some extremely competitive and evil bitches that blame everyone else but themselves.
Yeah well okay enough rants thanx to the review from aoshi-misao basketball fan. Special note I'll add aoshi soon when I update next.
