School Chapter 8:

The Girls' Plot

Soon after Takashi left, the bell ending lunch rang, and Kisshu, Ichigo, Miwa, and Moe went back down the stairs to the school. They were all on edge, since they knew the girls were plotting something.

They got even more on edge when the next few classes were quiet. By the end of the day, the four of them were downright jumpy.

"It's too quiet," Ichigo said as they left the classroom.

"You're right, it's totally freaky how quiet it is," Moe said. "It's like the school is holding its breath for some kind of explosion."

"I know we left the classroom after the others, but it shouldn't be this quiet," Miwa said. "I didn't hear anything about an assembly or anything like that either. And there's no one around."

"What if they're hiding and going to ambush us?" Kisshu asked.

"I wouldn't put it past them," Ichigo said. "Maybe we should go back to the roof; if they're waiting outside, we can go out the back way. And we'll be able to see more from the roof."

"Okay," Miwa said. "Let's go."

They practically ran for the stairs to the roof. As soon as they got up there, they realized their mistake. What looked like half the school's female population was on the roof, waiting. When the four friends turned to run, they noticed they had been trapped. "We're trapped, aren't we?" Ichigo asked.

One girl stepped forward and said, "That's right, and you are going down, Momomiya."

"Why?" Ichigo asked. "Just because Kisshu's my boyfriend?"

"We need to make sure that you stop getting all the hot guys," the girl said. "It's not right that you get everyone. So you're going to go down, and there's nothing you or your friends can do about it. You can't possibly fight all of us."

Ichigo and her friends started backing away; the girl was right. There were too many of them to fight. Suddenly they got grabbed from behind, and all four of them felt their arms being pinned behind their backs. They started struggling, and Kisshu broke free, then spun and slammed his fist into the guy who had been holding him's nose, breaking it. As he turned back, he saw that Ichigo and Miwa had been knocked out, and another girl was about to knock Moe out. Kisshu grabbed her arm before she could knock Moe out, and twisted it behind her back, then dislocated her shoulder. Kisshu freed Moe, and said, "I guess it's just the two of us, Moe."

"We have to get Miwa and Ichigo out of here," Moe said. "I don't think we can protect them and fight at the same time."

"Yeah, but how do we get out? We're trapped!" Kisshu said.

Moe thought, then said, "Cover your ears." As Kisshu hesitantly obeyed, Moe screamed- a very loud, high-pitched scream that carried into the school. Everyone else clapped their hands over their ears as Moe continued screaming.

Suddenly the door to the stairs burst open, and the principal came out with a few teachers. Moe stopped screaming, gasping for air.

"What is going ON out here?" the principal asked.

"That girl gathered up a mob and decided to try to kill Ichigo," Kisshu said, pointing to the girl who had done all the talking. "And they trapped us up here so we couldn't get help. That's why Moe was screaming; she thought it would bring someone who could help us."

The principal turned to one of the teachers and said, "Go call the police."

The woman ran back into the school as another teacher went over to Ichigo and Miwa, who were still unconscious. The principal turned back to the girl who was obviously the leader, and said, "Miss Tarani, you are now expelled. I will ask the police to contact your parents, and you will be explaining why you thought it was okay to try to kill someone- even if the police have to interrogate you. Not that there's any good reason for attempting to murder someone, but depending on your answer, you might end up in jail for this. I am also going to figure out who else helped you, and at the very least, they will all be suspended for a month, if not expelled. I hope you all learn from this, that it's not okay to harm others, except in self-defense. This was obviously not self-defense."

The teacher who had been examining Ichigo and Miwa said, "Ichigo and Miwa should be fine when they wake up."

"Good," the principal said. "You stay here with them, I will take the rest of the students back downstairs." He turned to the students and said, "Let's go, all of you." They hesitated, and the principal shouted, "NOW!"

The students mutely followed him downstairs, and Kisshu and Moe went over to Ichigo and Miwa. The teacher looked up as they came over, and said, "They'll be fine, don't worry."

"K," Kisshu said. He looked at Moe, who was still a bit out of breath. "You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm just not used to screaming, much less for that long," Moe said.

"Well, it's good that you did," the teacher said. "I think the whole building heard that."

Kisshu noticed Ichigo and Miwa were stirring, and asked, "Ichigo? Miwa?"

The girls opened their eyes. "What happened?" Miwa asked.

"Moe got help after you two got knocked out," Kisshu said.

"I thought you were trapped," Ichigo said.

"We were, so I started screaming," Moe replied.

"Good thinking," Ichigo said. "Where are the others?"

"The principal took them back downstairs," the teacher said. "And the leader of that group is now expelled, and will be questioned by the police. I don't suppose you know why she was trying to kill you?"

"She and the other girls are mad that Kisshu loves me and not them," Ichigo said. "They all hate me because Aoyama picked me over them, and so did Kisshu."

"They're all idiots," Miwa said. "All they do is stare at Kisshu, which drives him nuts, but they don't get it."

"I hate them," Kisshu said. "They're creepy."

The teacher sighed. "Maybe the principal should set up some new rules," she said. "It's not good if the students don't work, for them and for us. If grades start dropping, the school will lose funding for things we need. I'll talk to the principal about that later, though. Let's go back downstairs."

They got up and went back downstairs. When they reached the front hall, it was filled with students- mainly girls. The teacher sighed. "I think I'll have the principal call your parents later; you should get home," she said. "It looks hard to get out the front doors, so do you mind taking the back way?"

"No, we'll be fine," Ichigo said. "Thanks, Sensei."

"Sure," the teacher said.

Ichigo, Kisshu, Moe, and Miwa headed for the back doors, and went out. They looked at each other, then Ichigo groaned. "We're late for work, Ryou's gonna kill us," she said.

"What if we explained what happened?" Kisshu suggested.

"Won't work, he'll just say it's an excuse and dock our paychecks again," Ichigo said gloomily.

"We'll come too, and if he docks your paychecks, he can go down," Miwa said.

"Okay!" Kisshu and Ichigo said.

"Are we teleporting?" Ichigo asked.

"Not here," Kisshu said. "Let's find somewhere else." He ran for the gates, followed by the girls. They ducked into an alleyway, and Kisshu said, "Grab on." The girls obeyed, and Kisshu teleported to the back room of Café Mew Mew.

From the main room, they heard footsteps, and Ryou came in a minute later. "Where WERE you?" he asked.

"The girls at school decided to kill me for having Kisshu as my boyfriend," Ichigo said. "And that's why we're late; we were getting attacked."

"You know what being late means, right?" Ryou said.

"If you dock their paychecks, we'll beat you up," Moe said.

"Who are you two?" Ryou asked.

Moe and Miwa smirked. "Your worst nightmare," they said together.

"But if you decide not to dock Ichigo and Kisshu's paychecks, we're sweet little angels," Miwa said.

"I prefer sweet little angels, so I won't dock their paychecks," Ryou sighed. "But they need to get ready now."

"And we need to get home, so that's fine," Miwa said. "But if we find out you did dock their paychecks after we left, we'll be back."

"Great…" Ryou said.

"Bye Blondie!" Moe said, and she and Miwa left, snickering.

Ryou looked at Kisshu, and said, "You corrupted them, didn't you?"

"No, I don't know how they found out about my nickname for you," Kisshu said innocently. "Can we get ready now?"

"Oh, fine," Ryou said. Ichigo and Kisshu went off to get ready for another busy day at the Café.

When they finally got to go home, Kisshu teleported Ichigo back. Sakura was waiting for them, looking worried. "So what happened today?" she asked. "I got a call from the principal saying you had been attacked, and that he needed to get the students in order before you could come back."

"The girls decided that since I get all the hot guys, I'd be better off dead," Ichigo said gloomily. "We got trapped on the roof, Miwa and I got knocked out, and since Kisshu and Moe couldn't go anywhere, Moe had to start screaming."

"The principal said something about new rules," Sakura said. "I hope they help."

"Me too, because if they don't, I'm going to strangle the next girl to look at me," Kisshu grumbled. "I hate them. At least the boys haven't attacked me yet."

"That's good," Sakura said. "I guess you'll be home for a few days."

"Yup," Ichigo said.

Short with a bad ending. I know, I'm horrible. Please review anyways. :)