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-Chapter Five-

Kuukai walked peacefully to school, taking his sweet time. He had woken up extra early for no apparent reason so he had a lot of time to get to school. Part of Kuukai was thinking about getting to school to play soccer but another part was excited to get to school because of a certain someone.

Today would be Tenshi's second day of school and Kuukai was planning to take her to sign up for club activities.

"I wonder… what club would she want to join? Maybe I can persuade her to join the soccer team!" Kuukai said to himself enthusiastically.

Then he remembered the possibility of Tenshi being the mysterious flute-player.

"Or maybe she'd want to join the music club…" Kuukai said. "But I can't be too sure. She might not be the one who played the flute after all…"

'What about literature club?' he thought again. And Kuukai went on thinking about the possible clubs that Tenshi would be interested in until he bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry! I wasn't walking carefully!" Kuukai apologized.

"Kuukai!" he heard a familiar voice. A voice that made him go slightly scarlet around the ears and made his heart beat faster.

"Hinamori?" Kuukai said with a note of uncertainty in his voice. He saw his pink-haired friend smiling serenely at him.

"Morning Kuukai!" she held up her hand in greeting.

"Morning, Hinamori…" he mumbled back, embarrassed.

Amu joined Kuukai in walking to school. There was silence for a few minutes when Amu finally spoke up, "So… anything special going on today? You don't usually get to school this early unless it's soccer season… it's been that way since elementary!"

Kuukai forgot his embarrassment and returned to his old self. "But my belief is that, soccer's for all seasons!"

"Really?" Amu laughed lightly.

"Yeah I guess… actually, I just woke up too early and couldn't get back to sleep. I guess I was too excited to get to school or something," Kuukai grinned sheepishly.

"Excited to get to school? Then there must be something special that's going to happen at school today," Amu said a little teasingly.

"Well, I guess you could say that…" Kuukai said, rubbing the back of his head.

'Kuukai seems a little different somehow…' Amu thought affectionately. She had been friends with Kuukai ever since they were in elementary school and they had shared a lot of memories together.

"Well anyway, so did you start on the book yet?" Kuukai questioned.

"Book?"

"Umm… the one that Tenshi recommended…"

Amu raised an eyebrow. "You mean 'Falling in Love with Cupid'?"

Kuukai nodded. "Yep, that's the one."

"Oh… well, I did…" Amu said, nodding. "Just from the first few pages, you can see that it's really interesting. Does Tenshi have a good eye for books or something?"

Kuukai thought for a while. "Well, I've only known her since yesterday so I can't really say. Maybe you'd better ask someone else who knows her better."

The both of them reached the school gates and went their separate ways after saying 'See you later!' to each other.

Kuukai was walking along to his classroom when someone jumped at him and clung onto his back.

He tried to turn around to see who it was but couldn't.

"Let me guess…. Yaya?" Kuukai guessed.

"Wrong! Silly Kai-kun!" he heard Tenshi laughing.

"Tenshi!"

"Good morning Kai-kun!" Tenshi greeted happily. She released her hold on Kuukai and jumped down.

" 'Sup?" he greeted. "Do you always get to school this early'?"

He opened the classroom door and walked in.

"Sure…" Tenshi replied, following him in.

Kuukai set down his belongings and plopped into his chair and looked around the classroom. He saw that only a few of his classmates had arrived at school and averted his gaze back at Tenshi.

"Boy, for a girl, you're sure full of energy so early in the morning. Usually Yaya's the one who's like this," Kuukai said.

"Oh okay. So I was thinking about our agreement yesterday…" Tenshi started. She was referring to the bet between them that they made yesterday.

"And….?" Kuukai asked.

"And I was thinking that I myself should get to know Hinamori-san better so that I can start playing cupid effectively," Tenshi explained.

Kuukai nodded. "Will that be a problem for you?"

"Nope. Not at all. I'm really interested to be friends with her anyway. She seems like a really fun and interesting person to be with!" Tenshi said with a bright smile.

Changing the subject, Kuukai said, "Today, I'm taking you to look around the clubs to see which one you want to join."

"Really? Are clubs necessary?" Tenshi asked, wrinkling her nose a little.

Kuukai shook his head. "Nope. Actually they aren't. But if you want your report to look good, it's advisable to join clubs here. It'd be even better if you were an office bearer."

"Okay then. I guess I'll join. So what kind of clubs are available?" Tenshi asked, interested.

"Well… to divide them into categories, there are the Sports, Art, Literature, Life Skills, Educational and etcetera…." Kuukai started.

Both of them sat in their seats with Kuukai explaining about the clubs at school and Tenshi asking a few questions at random points.


(After school)

Tenshi wandered through the big doors of the school's Literature Auditorium. She spotted a bespectacled male student with black wavy hair and warm hazel eyes holding a clipboard, walking towards her.

"Good afternoon. May I ask what are you doing here?" the boy asked smoothly. His expression was perfectly straight but his bright eyes were clearly assessing Tenshi's outlook appearance.

Tenshi blinked a couple of times. "Are you the Drama club's president? I'm sure Amu-chan's and Yaya-chan's descriptions fit exactly."

Over lunch, Tenshi spent quality time with Yaya and Amu, bonding. Tenshi had confided in both that she wanted to try joining the Drama Club. With a lot of enthusiasm, Yaya and Amu had filled Tenshi in on the spectacular dramas that the club had produced, concerts that they have held, inter-school film festivals that they have won and so on.

Also, they encouraged their new friend to go and personally look for the president of the club. They had given her simple but fitting descriptions of the president.

The president's eyes widened a little with mild surprise and he pushed up his glasses which were slipping off the bridge of his nose.

"Yes. Actually, I am. Why?" he asked a little hesitantly. He raised an eyebrow.

Tenshi started getting a little nervous and shy. She twined her fingers around each other.

"Um… I'm a new transfer student in school. And I wanted to join this club…" Tenshi said, with a little more confidence.

"Oh…. Well, follow me into the hall, to the middle of the front row. That's where the club usually meets. But I have to see what kind of theater acts you can do before I allow you to join. I hope you understand," the president said with business-like authority.

Tenshi nodded and he led her towards the front seats. There were several people there. Some with instruments, some who were busy sewing things, some were busy drawing out blueprints; others were just talking and playing around. They were like one huge family. All of them stopped what they were doing and paid attention to the president and Tenshi.

"Well…" the president started. "Let me introduce myself first. My name's Chisaki Taku. I'm in my final year in this school and I'm the president of this club. Introduce yourself."

"My name's Koigokoro Tenshi. I just transferred here from Greece," Tenshi introduced herself confidently.

At the mention of the word 'Greece' there were hushed conversations among the members of the Drama Club.

"Oh Greece huh? Are you Greek then?" a mischievous looking male student with messy black hair and dark green eyes asked. He was wearing a pair of headphones around his neck and was also seated at a table which was loaded with several laptops, microphones , headphones, compact discs and some other items that Tenshi didn't recognize.

'Definitely head DJ,' Tenshi thought.

"I have Greek blood in me. But I'm Japanese. I just lived in Greek up until now," Tenshi answered.

"No more asking pointless questions, Yoshi. Let's all decide what you want to see from her to allow her to join us," Taku ordered.

Yoshi, the DJ, stuck his tongue out at his president. "Whatever, ya party pooper."

The club gathered around Taku and had a hushed conversation, shooting an occasional look at Tenshi.

Finally, after five minutes or so, the circle broke up and Take came up to Tenshi.

"Okay. First things first. Obviously, you're good-looking," Taku started. At that, the rest of the club members snickered while Taku turned a little red.

"I thought I'd never hear Taku say that," Yoshi whispered to a fellow club member who nodded his head in agreement.

Tenshi just said 'thank you'.

"Besides that, we want to see what you can do. Can you act?" Taku asked.

Tenshi looked at him with an uncertain expression.

"Well…. I've been in a few school plays before…" Tenshi said. "But I don't know if I can really act or not."

"Well, since you're not sure about acting, may I ask, can you sing?" Taku asked.

Tenshi blinked a couple of times. "Well, you'll have to hear me cause I'm not sure."

Taku looked back at the others and they nodded at him. Indicating that he should let Tenshi try singing.

"All right. Sing a song you want to sing. I'll stop you when I've decided it's enough," Taku decided.

Tenshi nodded. Taking a deep breath, she opened her mouth and started to sing. She closed her eyes as she sung. After Tenshi finished her song, she reopened her eyes and saw the members staring at her.

She got a little nervous. " Did I sound that bad?"

"You sounded just fine," Taku assured her quickly, snapping out of the trance. Instead of just a few verses, he had let her continued to the end. She sounded really good.

"You sing just fine. How good of a musician are you?" a mature-looking female student asked.

"Well, I play several instruments. I just do them for fun. If I'm not mistaken, I took my diploma for piano, violin and the guitar last year. I think I'm doing the wind instruments this year," Tenshi said. "So I think I'm okay in that area."

The musicians and Yoshi stared at her as if she were crazy.

"Damn. I barely passed Grade 3 in the violin!" Yoshi exclaimed.

"Dude, you don't even play the violin," one of the other members said. "You play the piano. Remember?"

"Well, that goes to show that I was so not destined to learn the piano. It's so not my forte. Being DJ is," Yoshi said. "Ahh, if only grandma would understand..."

"Ignore him," Taku ordered.

"By wind instruments, do you also mean the flute?" one of the musicians, a flutist asked.

Tenshi's eyes seemed to widen a little. A little hint of alarm in her voice, she said, "Umm, no. I don't play the flute. Although the flute seems like an interesting instrument. Don't you think?"

She laughed a little nervously.

Yoshi stared at her suspiciously. 'Something's up with this girl…'

"Well, I'll arrange another date for you to let the music division hear you. There's a task that I want to assign you," Taku said.

Tenshi looked at him with utmost interest. "And what is that? Chisaki-senpai?"

"I want you to write a script. You can submit it to me anytime this week," Taku said. "Up for the challenge? Is the time too short for you?"

The word 'challenge' woke up the inner Tenshi.

"No of course not! I'll do it!" Tenshi said with a lot of enthusiasm in her voice. "If you want, I'll give it to you tomorrow!"

"No that's quite impossible. Anyhow, I'll give you until the end of the week," Taku said.

"All right," Tenshi agreed. "Well then, I'll take my leave now. Thanks very much for your time."

"Sure. I'll be looking forward to your script," Taku gave her a curt nod.

Tenshi nodded back. She was about to start up the stairs to leave when Yoshi interrupted.

"Yo Taku! We all wanna see if she can dance!" Yoshi said smirking, with his arms folded. He leaned against his table.

His other friends all hollered with agreement.

Tenshi asked, "Dance?"

"That will not be necessary, Yoshi," Taku said, shooting Yoshi a death glare.

"Aww, come on! It's just dancing! She doesn't need to do the tango or anythin' fancy. Just show us if you can dance!" Yoshi said.

Tenshi stared at him, her face expressionless. Her eyes looked dark and cold.

"I won't dance." There was slight contempt in her voice.

"So does that mean you can dance but you won't dance?" Yoshi asked, walking slowly towards her.

Tenshi's expression changed and she looked up at Yoshi, arms folded. She now had a defiant look on her face.

"I won't dance," she repeated.

Yoshi continued smirking. "Why not? You've got two left feet?"

"Yoshi. Stop it," Taku warned. He started to move towards the two but the mature-looking female student who had asked Tenshi if she could play music stopped him.

"Leave them," she said, shaking her head.

"I have two perfectly normal feet. One right, one left, " Tenshi answered.

"So why won't you dance? Can't you dance?" Yoshi repeated.

"I can"

"Then, show me."

Tenshi's lilac eyes burned with defiance. Giving Yoshi a dirty look, she angrily stepped up onto the huge stage.

"Yep, yep. Yoshi wins again!" Yoshi held up both his hands, doing a rock sign and walked back to his station. He sat in front of the computer screen and started scrolling through his music list.

Tenshi on the other hand, took off her school blazer and tie. She tied her loose curly hair up into a ponytail and folded her arms.

"I'm ready when you are, DJ," Tenshi said.

"All right, princess. Go for it!" Yoshi put on his headphones and clicked his mouse.

Dance music started playing throughout the whole auditorium. Tenshi started dancing. Her movements were fast, and agile, yet graceful and they also matched the song that Yoshi had played. There were several times when Tenshi threw in gymnastics into her dance routine, but that was what made her dance much more exciting.

Everyone, including Yoshi and Taku were captivated. All the way behind the auditorium, Kuukai stood, unnoticed at the huge entrance door. He had been looking for Tenshi and Yaya had told him where she might be. He himself never imagined that Tenshi could dance so well.

Tenshi ended her dance with her left hand on her hip and her right index finger pointing right at Yoshi. Her face was flushed and she had a look of enjoyment on her face. The members of the drama club started cheering, clapping and wolf whistling for her.

Tenshi suddenly had a look of shock on her face. She picked up her blazer and tie and went down the stage with her head down. The girl walked right up to Yoshi.

"I danced. Happy? I won't to that again. Ever," Tenshi said quietly, only enough for Yoshi himself to hear.

Without another word, Tenshi said goodbye to Taku and left the auditorium. Yoshi just stared speechlessly at Tenshi's retreating figure.

'She can dance,' Yoshi thought.

Tenshi stormed out of the auditorium, into the lounge and passed by Kuukai without noticing him.

"Tenshi!" Kuukai called out softly. Tenshi totally didn't notice him.

"Why's she so down? She'll definitely make it into the drama club. She can sing and she can move," Kuukai said to himself.

He ran up towards his friend to catch up with her. Just as Tenshi was about to leave the building altogether, Kuukai caught up with her and grabbed her hands from behind.

"Who is it?" Tenshi asked, a little shocked.

"It's me, Tenshi. Why're you feeling down?" Kuukai asked, as gently as he possibly could.

"I'm not feeling down. Besides why're you here?" Tenshi said, she turned to face Kuukai.

"Oh…umm… I was here to pay the drama club a visit," Kuukai lied. "And, you can't lie to me. You're not yourself."

At this point, Tenshi had a pained look on her face and her eyes looked sorrowful. "It's just that, I was asked to dance. I don't want to dance. I can't. I can't ever dance."

Kuukai wanted to ask her a lot of questions then. But since he was worried, he put aside his thoughts and said, "Either way. They asked you to dance. You did. You rocked. That's all that matters."

Without thinking, Kuukai pulled in his friend and hugged her tightly.

Tenshi gave him a small smile. "Thank you, Kai-kun."

And she wrapped her arms around him.

Kuukai hated it when his friends were sad. Having a sunny personality, he never had any problem just coming up with an idea on the spot to cheer up his friends when they got sad. But just looking at Tenshi's sorrowful eyes brought about a new mix of emotions for him. He felt like crying somehow.

'I hate puberty…' Kuukai thought.


(In a secluded room somewhere in the school)

Taku looked over the comment reports that the senior members of the drama club had sent in about Tenshi. So far, he has come across lots of positive comments and none negative.

'Well, there's definitely no problem about her getting along in the club…' Taku thought. He sat back and rubbed his temples.

He reached out to pick up the report sent in by Yoshi.

There on the paper, which was slightly crumpled, was scrawled in Yoshi's handwriting, his thoughts about Tenshi. Purposely made big, bold and underlined in some parts, Yoshi had written, " Sassy; has okay talent, has moves, not so serious (unlike YOU!), thumbs up!"

He looked from the paper upwards and gave Yoshi, who was seated across the table, a dirty look.

Yoshi looked up lazily from the manga he was reading. "Hmm?"

"I can't tell if your point of view on Koigokoro is positive or negative," Taku said.

"It's written there, Taku. Thumbs up!" Yoshi said it with a lazy grin and gave his president thumbs up.

"Come on, Yoshi. You know Taku is all about straightforward-ness. He doesn't like wasting his time trying to figure out things other people say. That's why, never talk to him in riddles!" the mature-looking female student said.

"With all due respect Sakuya, when he made you head of the Art and Design division of the club, I doubted that he read my comment on you becoming the head. Not that I didn't want you to become the head of course. You're cool. Clearly, here, isn't," Yoshi said.

"Shut up, Yoshi. Your paper was practically non-existent. It had juice stains all over it, which blurred the words that you wrote. The paper was in shreds!" Taku grumbled.

"Which proves the point that you're not actually straightforward. Just, uh, impatient to evaluate what's on paper," Yoshi said with a satisfied nod.

Sakuya chuckled. "Don't look at me. I'm on none of your sides."

"Well, anyway. I was wondering if we could fill out the last head spot," Taku said.

"The last head spot for?" Yoshi asked.

"The last head spot for the 'unique talents'. She, Koigokoro Tenshi, is talented on stage. She has a lot of charisma, it makes me wonder if she had ever really been on stage. Anyway, being the Head of Miscellaneous Acts division requires a lot of patience, dedication and a lot of leadership skills. I think she has all that. With the three of us being heads of our own divisions, we already have our own load of work. I, the Head of Drama, Sakuya, Head of Dance and Art and of course you, Yoshi, Head of Music. One more comrade and we're really complete," Taku said, not hesitating in his choice of words.

"Not 'Head of Music', dude. Head DJ. That sounds cooler," Yoshi corrected.

"Are you listening to me or not?" Taku asked poisonously.

Yoshi raised both his hands. "All right, sheesh."

"Anyway, I thought you said you set a challenge for her? Writing a script? And the music division hasn't heard her yet," Sakuya reasoned.

Taku realized his error. Then said, "That's all right. I have every confidence that she can do it."

Yoshi snickered. "Looks like someone's fallen hard for the 'Angel of Love' huh? Taku?"

Taku gave him an extra dirty look. "Don't play around with people's names like that. Anyway, I'm just being positive you dope."

Taku stood up and shuffled all his papers together. "All right, I'm leaving. My grandparents are coming to town today. See you guys tomorrow."

He left the room.

"So…." Sakuya started.

"Yep?" Yoshi asked, as he went back to reading his manga.

"Why did you ask the girl to dance?" Sakuya asked. "You're not the one in charge of the dancers and I'm sure that I've never seen you express any interest in dancing."

Yoshi saw that he was going to have to explain his reason and so, put down his manga. "Do you realize the way she walks ? It's like, careful, not slow. Something like…"

"She thinks about the way she moves?" Sakuya asked. She remembered Tenshi's figure. Her head held up, back straight and shoulders up and not slouched. The way she walked was careful but confident.

"Exactly," Yoshi nodded. "Like the dancers in our club. They all have proper posture right? Back straight and whatever. They're aiming to dance in future, am I right?"

Sakuya nodded and waited for Yoshi to go on.

"That's why; they have to work on their posture. People who dance for fun don't. That's what I realized. And I'm sure Koigokoro Tenshi is not a noble or royalty. So she needn't have to learn proper posture to be a 'lady' or whatsoever," Yoshi explained, he folded his arms and nodded his head. "Oh yeah, I sound so smart."

"So you think she's a dancer?" Sakuya asked.

"Uh-huh. I mean, the dancers in our club came to us with one sole reason. To dance. Their audition consisted of nothing but dancing. Am I right?" Yoshi asked.

"You're right…so you asked her to dance because…"

"Because she didn't immediately ask us to let her dance. She even left without dancing. Which means that, she probably doesn't dance anymore," Yoshi said. "Anyway, I only did it to annoy her. I succeeded. But man, can she move."

While he went back to reading his manga, Sakuya was deep in thought.

'Why doesn't she want to dance?'



Author: So yeah. I know. So many months of not updating this story and I give you this trashy chapter?!? That's me! ;D Anyway, I hope y'all will R&R! I appreciate ideas as well.

-MCB