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I did finally get what a reviewer said by more surroundings xD I just had to wake up at 2 in the morning for it to dawn on me.

Chapter 5-Confrontation

Kyon and I were walking along with him explaining everything I would need to know about getting around this school for as long as I might be here, which at this point seems like will be a long time.

"This is the classroom but I'm sure you know that already. We do physical activities outside when it's nice out, which you were out when we did, and you know where the club room is…ah, over there through the double doors is the cafeteria. That's all you'll need to know to get around but you'll learn more as time passes."

"Thank you Kyon this shall prove most useful to me."

There wasn't a soul in sight and we just stood there in silence. Then Kyon spoke up to break it in his usual tone.

"It was no trouble at all, now if you'll excuse me I have to go meet someone."

And with that he walked off leaving me to wonder where he was going, but I was so curious I had to follow him and find out. Yes this is demining behavior but come on even the best of people have to satisfy the urge once in awhile don't they?

I stayed far enough back to where he couldn't hear my footsteps but that also made it hard to keep up with him. I'm not trained for this kind of thing and it makes me wanna just give up and go home but something kept driving me forward.

He finally stopped and went into a classroom and it was one I had never seen before, what did you expect I was only here for a day after all. There were muffled voices coming from within something along the lines of a static subject and growing tired of observing it but there was one thing that was clear as day, almost like I rolled a 20 in D&D and got super hearing.

"I'm going to kill you to see how Suzumiya reacts."

At this point my "wtf" senses went off and I raced for the door and reached for the handle when it suddenly disappeared? What the hell is that all about? I swear things in this place are making less sense to me all the time. I brandished my weapon and proceed to cut a hole in the wall.

I quickly go through the hole, man I hope I don't have to pay for that later, and I see Kyon standing over on the other side of the room with Ryoko slowly walking up to him wielding a combat knife. Two things went through my mind at this moment. What the hell and I need to save Kyon, sure I barely knew him but I can't let someone die right in front of me either. I ran in between them as a makeshift shield for Kyon who should be happy I'm here but he was paralyzed with fear and couldn't move.

"What the hell is this?! Why are you trying to kill Kyon, Ryoko?"

"Oh Kotaro, I didn't think you would get caught up in this. Now I have no choice but to take you out."

"I don't suppose you mean for dinner?"

The combat knife quickly turned into a katana and she proceeded to try and take my legs off, I guess she didn't like my joke, I blocked her strike with a loud clang then forced her weapon into the floor and sidestepped. I was going to knock her away from her weapon but before I had the chance the part of the floor where her weapon we embedded dissipated and she made a swing for my head. I ducked and did a sweep kick which landed.

She hit the floor with a rather loud thud and her weapon dissipated. She stood up like nothing happened and proceeded to taunt me.

"Is this all you can do? I had hoped for so much more out of you Kotaro."

A new weapon had appeared in her hand and she rushed me. I needed to focus or she might really kill me...but I can't bring myself to strike her down. I stood at the ready to be sure I could stop whatever she tried to do. She swung down at me with an overhead slash. I waited till the last second, parried, and kicked her in the side. There was a crunch like the sound of ribs breaking. She stumbled a few feet then turned to face me. The look of pain on her face was enough to scar me for life but not once did she shed a tear…she has a strong sprit.

All the while Kyon was still just standing there, staring at the fight that was unfolding and that seemed I was gonna perish at some point which would mean he would be doomed. Maybe if he had some faith in me it would be easier for me to actually care if he died or not.

She started to come at me again. This time she tried to overhead me again and needless to say I was ready for it, she however didn't think the way I did. She stopped abruptly and dashed to the left and swung at my arm. I managed to avoid being armless but the cut was so deep and well placed that there was a huge gash and blood was spurting everywhere, oddly enough none got on Ryoko…how was that possible? Needless to say my left arm is pretty much K.I.A.

Ryoko was still so agile despite the broken ribs, it was insane. Now being at the disadvantage I couldn't risk being offensive, although my determination was unwavering, my body was shaking at my blood loss and I couldn't hope to last too much longer.

She dashed at me once again feigning to the left but I could tell from the way she was holding the weapon that she was going for the right this time. When she got close to me she threw the katana over my head, dashed to my right, caught it, and began to swing. I barely blocked it but it wasn't a complete block as she grazed my right arm. It didn't hurt thats for sure and it sure as hell wasn't enough to disable my arm.

She quickly recovered from the recoil and tried to take my head off. I ducked and once again kicked her in the side, which was very hard seeing as I was almost squatting. There were some more cracks…I think I broke every rib on that side of her body. She shed a tear, which almost made me cry myself, but stood undaunted in her conquest to kill me. She was weakening, however, I could see that.

We both rushed each other and both swung in a diagonal slice and locked in the middle of the room. It was me or her with no middle ground present, or so it seemed. We continued to push with me starting to lose ground and then I had an idea. I pushed our swords to the side, sidestepped to get out of her way when she stumbled, and the hit her in the back of the head which caused her to fall unconscious.

I noticed she was still breathing normally, which made me feel relived…I wonder why? I looked over at Kyon who was just standing there with a stupefied look on his face. Then I felt faint, my vision blurred, I feel to my knees, and then to the floor. I could feel my own blood starting to pool around me…then I noticed it wasn't as bad as before which meant I wasn't going to bleed to death.

"Hey! Hang in there I'm going to get help!"

Sure now he decides to go get help…he needs to work on that skill. Soon I was overcome with fatigue and all faded to black.

I awoke a few minutes later, to my surprise, I noticed my blood and my headache…what the hell happened exactly? I can't really remember too well.

"Aww damnit now I need to buy another kimono."

Wait where did Kyon go and was Ryoko ok? I looked around and saw her a little ways away from me. I walked up to her, she was still out cold. I lifted her up and placed her left arm around my neck and I took her by the waist and started to walk to the gate of the school. My phone had been slightly destroyed by the blood seeping into the circuits. She started to come to after we got into the halls.

"Kotaro? How are you still alive? I thought I took you out…"

Her voice was faint and in disbelief. Hard to imagine me winning a fight against her…she is so fast and agile not to mention strong and cunning.

"Well you almost did but next time I'd prefer if we did dinner or a nice walk in the park instead of a dance of death."

"Yeah, that sounds rather nice, maybe we should sometime this weekend?"

She gave a weak smile and I continued to bleed, which she failed to notice. I felt better knowing she was ok though.

"Well I suggest getting to a hospital first to fix your ribs and my arm. Don't worry though I won't be holding this against you unless you try to do it again, then we will have a problem."

After we had gotten to the front door, the help Kyon had called for had arrived and we were rushed to the hospital. Our treatments would differ and we wouldn't see each other much, if at all. Soon after I got to this hospital it hit me. Ryoko had actually asked me to go out with her sometime.

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