Disclaimer: Why do you torment me like this? I don't own Power Rangers.

Subplot: A student of Reefside High finds out exactly what guys have to go through to get a date with Kira Ford.

Note: This idea just hit me one day and it wouldn't let go. It was going to be a one-shot story, but it seemed to work so much better if I had Kim and Jason instead of Tommy and Hayley.

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Jack Swafford was doing fairly well, considering. Sure, his new principal kinda scared him, but that was what principal's were supposed to do that. Right? Still, it felt good to be back in Reefside. He had moved away not three years ago after his father had got transferred.

He had hated it. But being back here. Well, everything was going to be how it was supposed to be. Jack would fall right back into his proper place, being popular. He had hated being the new kid.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure stop beside him and open the locker next to him. It took a couple of minutes to register who it was.

Kira Ford?

Boy, she had grown up very nice. Jack knew that he was obviously ogling, but he didn't care. As he felt eyes on him, he realized that Kira had noticed him.

"Can I help you with something?" Kira asked him, annoyance growing as his eyes kept moving up and down her figure.

"Nope. Just looking." Jack tilted his head slightly.

"Well, take a picture. It'll last longer." Kira rolled her eyes and walked off with a huff.

"Don't even think about it man." A voice came from behind him.

Jack turned to find Derrick Mathews leaning against a locker. "What do mean by that?"

Derrick just shook his head in amusement. "You'll never even get close enough to kiss her."

"Come on, dude. Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt her." Jack replied, giving his childhood friend a look of surprise.

"Trust me. No one is worried about you hurting her."

"What? Does she had a very big, big brother or something?"

Derrick just laughed, as if Jack had asked the dumbest question since 'What does this button do?' and shook his head condescendingly. "Well, there is five reasons. First, there is Ethan James."

"Ethan James? The computer nerd?"

"The very one. He is the easiest to get past. He will tell you that Ford can take care of herself, but you still need to be very careful about what you say to him. There's a rumor going around that broke into the school records and changed one guy's grades just because he said something inappropriate about her."

"Okay, if you manage to get past him then you come up against Conner McNight." Derrick removed a book from his locker and gave a shake of the head.

That stopped Jack cold. "Wait. Conner McNight? Mr. Popular himself? Reefside High's own golden boy?"

"Yep. Believe it or not, he's become friends with Ford and James. Conner is very protective of Kira, overly-protective some people will say. And here is where most get rejected. Most crack under McNight's scrutiny. Some of the guys will go as far as say that Conner and Ethan get together and have them followed. But I don't know if there's any truth to that. If you can manage that, then you are very lucky." Derrick still couldn't believe it himself.

"You're joking, right?" Not Conner McNight. He was the one every popular and unpopular teenager aspired to be.

"Nope. Then there is Dr. Hart."

"Dr. Hart?" Jack had her class last period. She was hot and he had spent more attention on her backside then her lesson during class. "What is she her mother or her sister or something?"

"Or something. Dr. Hart is her guardian. No one except Kira, Dr. Hart, Conner, Ethan, and Coach Scott know the story behind that and they're not talking. And you would not believe how scary Dr. Hart can be. The woman may be short, but she can really put a fear into you."

Jack snorted. "I'll believe that when I see that."

"Believe what you want. Honestly, I don't think you'll make it past Ethan James."

"That's only three reasons."

"Right. Then there is Coach Scott. I heard that he knows like twelve forms of karate." Derrick shivered slightly with the memory. "That's just a rumor of course and you know how reliable they can be. But I've seen the coach work out and he could break you into several hundred pieces and not even break a sweat. Only one guy ever made it that far and Coach Scott scared him straight."

"Okay..."

"Then there is Kira Ford herself. She may not seem like it, but she's as tough as anything. I have heard some pretty crazy things about her. Very creepy."

"She just let's them censor her dates?"

"Oh, I don't think that she doesn't know. But it is an unwritten rule here that if you want to try and get a date with Kira Ford that you have to go through them. One guy went straight to Kira once and when he came back he wouldn't look any of them straight in the eye for a week."

"That is way too much work for a chick." Jack shook his head and shut his locker door. "Way too much." He muttered under his breath as he caught sight of the six standing together out in the court yard. Shaking his head, he waved to Derrick and headed to class.

"Geez, Mathews, you can lay it on thick, man!" A voice from Derrick's left said.

Derrick turned to the teenager. "Who said I was joking?"