Chapter Seven

[Kaoru POV]

Butch was still flying over to the others, and, when we reached them, he didn't let me go. It was annoying, especially since I was still Buttercup and in a freaking skirt.

A flipping freaking stupid skirt.

Blossom and Bubbles rushed over to my side and hugged me, unaware or just not caring that Butch still had his arm around my waist.

"Okay, everyone get their hands off me!!" I screamed. Blossom and Bubbles stopped hugging me and Butch didn't have his arm around me anymore. I felt kind of cold now…

"What happened, Buttercup?" Blossom asked.

I shook my head. "Nothing happened. Butch was under some rubble and I, being the superhero I am, saved this idiotic citizen in his time of need." I sounded professional--just the way I needed to sound.

Blossom and Bubbles just blinked.

"What? What is it?" I exclaimed.

"Nothing, it's just that--" Bubbles started.

Blossom put her hand over Bubbles' mouth. "It's nothing!" she said.

"Okay…" I said. "Let's just transform back. I don't really feel like going back to school, though."

We nodded, and we headed into an alley. After transforming back, we stepped out to find the RowdyRuffs, back in normal clothes, too.

"Momoko, we're not going back to school, right?" I asked.

She sighed. "Fine. But only today," she said strictly. "There's a candy shop I wanna get to, anyways!" She sounded shockingly excited.

"Yay!" Miyako squealed. "I wanted to go to the mall! Come on, Kaoru!"

She pulled on my arm. I groaned. "No…" I protested half-heartedly. They wouldn't have listened anyways.

I glanced at the RowdyRuff Boys. They looked uncomfortable. Butch was staring at me, and he looked like he was thinking about something. When I met his gaze, he smiled and looked down for a second.

I dug the heel of my shoe into the ground. Miyako, who was pulling me, stopped and, Momoko, who was pulling Miyako, stopped. We all fell on the concrete, tumbling.

We heard laughter from behind us. "Oh, yeah, forgot you guys were still there…" Momoko said.

The RowdyRuff Boys came up and helped us up. We all broke out laughing for a few minutes.

"Hey, what do you say if we all go to the mall and watch a movie?" Brick said.

"Why?" Momoko asked, incredulous.

"Because we're bored! And we're not gonna go to school if you get to skip!" Boomer finished.

We all laughed again and started walking. "Sure, sure. Let me just check with Miyako and Kaoru," Momoko said.

All three of us walked away from the guys to somewhere where they could see us, but not hear us.

"Okay, what do you think?" Momoko said.

"NO!" I said, half-screaming and half-whispering.

"Why not?" Miyako asked.

"Because! I'll get stuck with Butch!" I pointed out. "He's a pervert!! He might try to make a move on me!"

"Shush," Momoko warned. "I think we should try to get to know them. Otherwise, they might grow a bit reluctant to help us when we fight monsters. If we're their friends, they'll definitely help us."

"Yeah," Miyako added. "And they're nice now."

I groaned. Why couldn't they see that it was only a matter of time before the guys snap? "They might still be evil!" I said.

"Kaoru, look at them and tell me what color aura you see," Momoko said.

I looked. The boys were staring at us. More specifically, Butch was staring at me, Boomer at Miyako, and Brick at Momoko. I looked harder. Sure enough, there was a faint white glow around. Even stranger yet was that Butch's had a faint light green rim to his aura.

I looked back at Miyako and Momoko. "Okay, so their auras are mostly white…"

"Mostly?" Momoko asked.

I frowned. "Well… Butch's aura has a light green rim, but, other than that, they all have white auras."

Miyako and Momoko glanced at them. "Not for me," Momoko said. "For me, Brick has a reddish-pink rim. Butch doesn't have that green rim for my vision…"

"And for me," Miyako added, "Boomer has a light blue rim. But the other two are just white!"

"Wait a minute… They're our counterparts, so, wait, what?" I said, confused.

"Maybe there's a hidden meaning to this…" Momoko trailed off. "We have to see the professor after the movie."

"Yeah--no, wait, what? We're going with them?" I asked.

"Of course! We need to find out more!" Momoko said.

I glanced at the quiet Miyako. She was gazing over at Boomer. Her eyes were glossy, and her hands were together, fingers intertwined as if she was imagining she was holding someone else's.

"Great…" I muttered sarcastically. "Miyako's been hit."

"What?" Momoko said.

"Miyako been shot. By Cupid," I spat.

Momoko giggled and poked Miyako twice.

"Huh?" Miyako said, snapping out of her daydream.

"Do you have a total crush on Boomer or what?" Momoko inquired.

Miyako blushed scarlet. "N-no!! Of course not! W-why would I?!"

"Hmm… Someone's a little too defensive there," I teased. Momoko and I laughed our heads off while Miyako fumed.

"Okay, okay, so maybe I like him a little bit, but you shouldn't laugh at me!" Miyako exclaimed. She was holding back tears; she cried so easily.

We stopped laughing at her. I placed my hand on her right shoulder. "I'm sorry, Miyako. I guess we shouldn't judge," I said.

"Yeah. I'm sorry we laughed. It was rude of us," Momoko said.

"Thanks," Miyako said with a tiny smile. She hugged us both and, for once, I let her hug me.

"We're sorry," Momoko and I said once more.

"Sorry about what?" Boomer asked. He and the boys walked to us and heard Momoko and I apologize.

"Oh, it's nothing," Miyako said, looking away with a fake angry expression. Boomer wouldn't know that was fake, though.

"Anyways, let's go to the movies!" Momoko said.

We started to walk, but we stopped when we noticed the boys weren't following.

"What's wrong?" I asked, rolling my eyes. "Afraid of girls?"

"No way!" Butch exclaimed. "You wish." He smirked and, in a second, his arms snaked around my waist and he pulled me closer.

"Let go of me, Butch," I stated. "You might want to live to tomorrow, so you should get your hands off me!"

He rolled his eyes and set me free.

"Before we go to the movies, we have a few conditions," Brick said, ignoring the small scene that occurred seconds ago.

"Conditions?" Momoko asked.

"Not really conditions, but, we'd just prefer to do things a certain way."

She rolled her eyes. "What conditions?"

"Counterpart with counterpart, and we don't have to go to the same movie."

"Seems fair enough, since we don't all like the same things… It'd be hard trying to find one movie that all six of us would like," said Momoko.

"Alright, then."

That being said, we all walked to the mall and into the movie theater. This should be fun.

Yeah, right.

Wasn't that Flip-tastic? lol. Yeah, I wrote two chapters in one day. It wasn't that hard, considering I do about 3 pages per. In Z Story, I'm strict and keep to 7 pages only. No more, no less. But anyways, REVIEW! :D