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I keep meaning to make the chapters longer...but I don't have the patience to wait for myself to type more and I just add what I've already written...I should really use some self-disipline...
Btw, the italics part near the bottom is just Tsuruhimes recount of the day ^-^

Chapter Four

Over the next few days everyone had seen and met with the newest students and they were now well on their way to forming new friendships…and possibly relationships?

Keiji sighed dreamily looking ahead at his 'true love' as she recited Shakespeare's poetry in English class. Her elegant features, her perfect silky hair, the colour of her pale lips…and of course her chest…she was perfect in his eyes. Keiji felt he could stare at her all day…

Kotaro on the other hand sat two desks back from Keiji because of the strict seating plan, could only glare on in anger towards Magoichi. How dare she think she can just waltz into this school and steal Keiji away from him? Sure he hadn't asked her out yet but from previous crushes Keiji had, he guessed it wouldn't be long now. And like all the other times, the girl would say yes.

He folded his arms huffily, he hated it when Keiji had a girlfriend, he never got to spend much time with him because he'd always be busy with her. Much too busy to pay any attention to his best friend…

Magoichi finished off her poem recital and took a small bow when the class applauded, before walking back to her seat. Keiji's eyes following her the entire way while Kotaro tried to burn holes in the back of Keiji's head.

Sitting down at her desk once more she felt somebody staring at her so she turned round, only to see the one named Keiji quickly look back down at his workbook avoiding her gaze. Turning back round she smiled slightly, she knew he'd been watching her from the moment the two met.

She couldn't say she disliked him as a friend but…well…she would never in a million years date someone such as he. To sum up, he came across as a mess to her, he never handed his work in on time and when he did it often looked rushed or of poor quality, his clothes were always untidy as was his wild long brown hair and whenever they did talk to each other he always seemed to end up spouting some strange rhyme about love, throwing them in in-between random parts of conversation.

No she decided…she couldn't go out with a guy like that…although she felt slightly shallow to think it, she thought that he was simply not good enough for her, mainly because her standards were too high…

Ieyasu and Motochika sat at a table in the cafeteria eating their lunch. They were also joined by Magoichi and Rye whom had befriended both the silver haired boy and the other transfer student.

"Hey Magoichi…he's looking at you again" Rye said flicking her eyes over to Keiji sat across the dining hall, Magoichi rolled her eyes taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Is there a time when he's not looking at her?" Ieyasu asked, Keiji's obsession for Magoichi reminding him of a similar obsession that a girl by the name of Oichi had.

"Seriously I don't care! Let him look and see what he can't have" she smiled smugly, causing Motochika to frown. "There's nothing wrong with Keiji you know?" he said trying to convince his stubborn friend.

"I never said there was anything wrong with him as a person…I just wouldn't date him that's all" she shrugged, Motochika looked unconvinced at her reply, glancing up from his burger to see Motonari once again sat on his own a few tables away.

He lowered the food away from his mouth and put it back on the plate, standing up. "You could at least give him a chance you know Mago? And if it's not working out then you could just tell him and then at least you'd have a reason to dislike him…" Rye trailed off mid-sentence as the remaining two on the table watched Motochika walking away from them.

Magoichi frowned, "Where's he off to?" Ieyasu looked puzzled before laughing, "He's going to talk to Motonari" he explained. The two girls looked at him quizzically, "You don't know Motonari?" he said looking at their confused faces. "Well…we've only been here a few days to be fair…" Rye stated matter of factly.

"Of course!" Ieyasu said raising his arms "I didn't mean it like that! Allow me to explain…" he said lowering his arms "Motonari Mori is a lone wolf, he keeps himself to himself and doesn't tend to converse with other students a lot…apart from Mitsunari…" he found himself pausing in thought, "…uhhh, I was saying…he's a lone wolf and likes to stay that way, because he's happy like that. Motochika got this idea into his head that he's lonely and miserable so being the big pushover he is, he's now making an effort to befriend him…"

The two girls turned round again to see Motochika approaching a table where a brown haired boy sat on his own, Rye's eyes softened "He does look kind of sad on his own…" Magoichi scoffed, "Don't be ridiculous, can't you tell he's perfectly fine on his own?" she stated turning back round again and continuing to eat. Rye turned back round and stared at her food, "Maybe…but…"

"Hey!" Motochika said to the boy walking up to his table where Motonari sat reading a book. Coming to a halt in front of the table he'd received no reply so putting another smile on his face he tried again "Hey Mori!" he said casually with a small wave.

A moment passed with no reply and Motochika began to feel awkward…'Maybe he's too engrossed in that book of his…' he thought gazing down on Motonari silently reading a calm look on his face.

After slight hesitation Motochika decided to make one last attempt at making contact with him, for the last time he put a smile on his face and opened his mouth to speak; "If I wanted to talk to you I would've replied by now, but I haven't. I don't want to talk"

Motonari spoke without even looking up over his book and Motochika felt himself frowning slightly…
"I was just seeing if you were ok, sat by yourself…wondering if you wanted to talk is all…" he replied trying to meet the others gaze which was lost in the book. "I sit by myself everyday, surely by now you must have noticed that I hadn't sought you out, meaning I don't want to speak with you…" he stated calmly turning the page of his book and taking a sip of orange juice from the glass to him.

Chosokabe was overwhelmed with his rudeness and was rooted to the spot feeling his fists clenching. 'How can he be so rude? We barely know each other…the nerve…' he took in a deep breath 'Ok…he doesn't mean it…he's probably just feeling a bit strange talking to me for what seems like the first time…' he observed the hazel eyes flicking across the page as he turned it over once more.

He felt a small wave of jealousy, 'God damn it! Why won't he shut the book and pay attention to me! He hasn't even looked at me yet!'

Motonari suddenly looked up absently at Motochika his hazel eyes locking with Chosokabes lone slate one.

"It's a mystery to me why you're still stood here. I just said I didn't want to talk to you, so get lost you're blocking my reading line!" Mori said with a glare and Motochika snapped.

"I just came over here out of my own good will because I saw you alone and wondered if you were bored. Yet here I am and you're treating me like I've just committed a crime? What's wrong with you?" he growled at Motonari putting his hands on the table and leaning in closer to him.

Motonari didn't move even as Motochika leaned down inches away their glare becoming more heated. "I thought I couldn't have made it any clearer…" he said eyes narrowing dangerously "You are not wanted here, I do not want to talk to you. Now get out of my sight before I rip your good eye from its socket" With that Mori returned his gaze to the pages of his book.

Motochika was speechless, he had not expected this from the quiet member of his classes. He ground his teeth together leaning off the table, he opened his mouth to say something. Looking at Motonari calmly reading his book as if nothing had just happened, just pissed him off even more. He shut his mouth again rammed his fists into his pockets before he could punch anything and stomped back over to his friends.

"Oh he's back!" Magoichi said laughing at the expression on Motochika's face, Rye grinned "How'd it go?" asked Ieyasu, already knowing the answer.

"He is such an ungrateful little bastard." Motochika growled sitting down again and viciously taking a bite from his burger, trying to chew his rage away. "I walk over there, with nothing in my mind other than the idea of saying a brief hello-" "Don't talk with your mouth full…" said Magoichi looking away, disgusted at his lack of table manners.

"Sorry, I'm just pissed off…" he swallowed his food before starting again in a louder voice, "And he reacts like I've just tried to commit a crime against him! All I did was try and talk to him as a nice gesture. But no he says he doesn't want to talk to me, he never has done and he never will now because I cannot be bothered to waste my breath on a son of a bitch like him!" he finished sinking his teeth into his burger again, glaring into thin air.

The other three were silent for a few moments and just picked at their food feeling slightly awkward. While Motochika was contemplating different ways of causing bodily harm to Motonari…

After her detention Rye was finally allowed to leave the school, swinging her bag over her shoulder she started to make her way across the school ground. Kicking a rock across the ground she imagined Matsu's face when she found out she'd had received another detention…hell she hadn't taken the first one too well. Smiling to herself Rye deciding she liked having Matsu around, she was more of a parent than the others had been…

She kicked the rock a little too hard and it flew off into the grass, looking up a bit further Rye could see the familiar figure of Oichi stood at the gates. Raising an eyebrow she began walking over wondering what crazy stunt Oichi was pulling now…

"…Oichi?" Rye said walking up behind her, Oichi turned round slowly her dark eyes only half-lidded like usual. "Hello Rye-Chan…" Oichi said with a small smile before turning back round and scanning the area. Rye bit her lip, "Ummm…Oichi? What are you still doing here?"

"I'm waiting for him Rye…" she said in her darkest intimidating voice like it was obvious. Guessing that she meant Ieyasu Rye tried to reason with her "School ended quite a while ago…you know?" she said feeling slightly worried for her mental health.

"Oh?" Oichi said shocked, "It did…?" she spoke in her soft voice looking to the ground puzzled. Rye grinned to herself, sometimes Oichi could be quite cute, "Yeah…it did! Ieyasu left, what, about an hour ago?" she said moving forward and linking arms with the black haired girl. "Come on, let's go home" she said tugging a protesting Oichi away from the school gate.

"I should probably visit him on my way home then…" Oichi said finally giving up on protesting and walking alongside Rye. "Uhhh…" Rye said cleverly trying to think of an excuse for the guy, "I think he went to Motochika's to do some homework…" she said covering for Ieyasu 'He better thank me for that'.

"Oh…that's too bad…" the raven haired girl said lowering her head, Rye sighed "Don't worry, you'll get to see him tomorrow won't you! By the way, what are you doing for your art project?" she asked reasoning that it would be healthy for a change in subject.

"You want to know what I'm doing?" repeated Oichi sounding surprised before smiling, "I was think of doing subliminal messages from the media…something about the fashion industry, how they make all those girls look so skinny…making everyone else have the urge to copy them…" Oichi looked away. "Oh…what about you?"

Rye smiled back thankful the topic of conversation had veered away from Ieyasu for once. They chatted all the way to Oichi's house about various subjects and after arriving at her own house Rye had reached a decision that Oichi wasn't such a creepy girl as originally thought…sure she had her strange moments, but inside that obsessive young stalker was a heart of gold.

"You're finally back!" Tsuruhime shouted through the house, "We were going to start eating without you!" Matsu's voice quickly followed. Rye kicked off her boots at the entrance and walked through to the kitchen where Matsu and her sister were sat at the table, throwing her bag onto the sofa Rye took a seat next to Tsuruhime.

"Where have you been?" Matsu asked narrowing her eyes, Rye couldn't be bothered with another lecture tonight so she lied, "I was at an after school club". Matsu didn't believe her for a second but she decided to let this one slide and just nodded before stabbing a mushroom with her fork.

"I was just about to tell Matsu what an amazing day I had!" Rye's younger sister explained her eyes glowing with excitement. "Oh really?" her sister replied with a mouthful of food.

"Yes! You know what the best part is?" Tsuruhime paused to sigh and clasp her hands dreamily, "I think I'm in love!" she said gazing up into some invisible heaven. Matsu giggled to herself as Rye bit her lip trying not to laugh, "Go on then…what happened?"

"Okay! Ready!" Tsuruhime shouted from her side of the net, Magoichi smiled at the energetic girl before throwing the ball into the air, only to have to it hit out of her reach. "Glad I found you Sayaka, mind if I join in?"

Tsuruhime squealed as the ball flew towards her and she dodged out of the way. She stood there in shock for a few seconds before picking up the ball and looking back over the net to see a silver haired boy stood with her opponent. She frowned, "That's not fair…two versus one?" she whined pointing at Motochika.

Motochika shrugged "Suck it up kid" with that he hit the ball hard, aiming for her head, once again Tsuruhime squeaked and dodged it. The ball hit the wall behind her, bounced off and hit her on the back knocking her over.

"Motochika!" Magoichi scolded glaring at him. He grinned looking at Tsuruhime on the floor "Sorry I thought it was dodgeball" he turned to see his best friends angry face and he jumped slightly. "Sorry…" he mumbled fidgeting with his hands."She sighed, "It's not me who needs your apology…" she said folding her arms, "I can't believe you just did that! You don't even know her!" Feeling angry he rolled his eye, "Fine, fine…hey you! I'm Sor-" he was unable to finish his sentence as a ball collided with his face.

Motonari had put down his book and was smirking at the shocked look on Chosokabe's face trying not to laugh while Magoichi was covering her smile behind her hand.

"Oops sorry!" Tsuruhime called sweetly covering her mouth in mock shock. "I guess I just thought it was dodgeball!" she shouted frowning at Motochika.

"Why, why you! How dare you!" he growled rubbing his face.
"Serves you right for interrupting our game, you filthy pirate!" she yelled back, Motochika's grip tightening on the ball.

"You have no right to call me that! I've never stolen anything!" he retorted glaring at the brunette girl. She folded her arms, "Well you sure look like one…" she said pursing her lips and flicking her hair..

Gritting his teeth in anger he threw the ball in the air and punched it with all his strength at Tsuruhime, the ball was moving so fast she barely had time to squeal in response.

Just then a gust of wind blew in front of her and she opened her eyes to see a boy hit the ball out of the way just before it collided with her. She looked up at her hero with wide-eyes but all she saw was his auburn coloured hair and then she blinked and he'd somehow moved over to the other side of the hall, vanishing out of view behind a bunch of students playing Badminton.

'He moves so fast…almost like a ninja…'

Okay…that explains where the ninja part came from…what about the twilight bit?" her sister asked amused. Her sister sighed happily putting her head in her hands, "I'm not sure…perhaps it's because he secretly likes me, that's obviously the reason he saved me!…like two lovers in the twilight" she giggled.

Rye shook her head, she didn't really want to break it to her sister. So she just left her with her own childish fantasies, hey what could go wrong?

End of chapter~! Hope it wasn't too painful to read xDDD