Mokuba's First Love

Chapter 4: Takato and Takuto

The next morning Mokuba went downstairs to see Naomi at the table eating. She smiled and gestured him over. He sat down and quickly began to eat. The two soon finished and went to school. They stepped into the classroom and sat at their usual seats. Takana-sensei entered and the class quieted down.

"Good morning class."

"Good morning Takana-sensei!"

After roll call, Takana-sensei then began her next lesson.

"Alright class. I'm assigning you a project." There were some groans as Takana-sensei smirked. "This is different though. You will have to teach the subject you are doing to the class for 10 minutes. You can do whatever you like. Be it sports, instruments, history, a book, anything. You will have a partner so I'm giving you some time to choose now." On that note, many of the male students rushed up to ask Naomi to be their partner. They caused such a fuss that Takana-sensei interrupted them. "Since everybody wants to be Naomi's partner, I'll ask Naomi to pick her own partner. Naomi?"

The young girl smiled shyly and looked over in Mokuba's direction. "Mokuba. Do you want to be my partner?" She asked him. Mokuba smiled.

"Sure!" He exclaimed. The guys were glaring dangerously at Mokuba, when Takana-sensei caught their attention with a clearing of her throat.

"Now that that's settled, you have 4 minutes left to pick your partner." She told them. Everyone then began to rush around the room, looking for a partner. After everyone had, Takana-sensei resumed the lesson. "Now I want you to converse with your partner on what subject you want to do, and come up to tell me after you've decided." She said, before everyone began to talk.

"What should we do?" Mokuba asked his partner. Naomi pursed her lips and thought.

"Well I always wanted to learn more about Chinese history." Naomi said. Mokuba smiled.

"Okay! We'll do that. But what should we do in Chinese history?" Mokuba asked again. Naomi smiled as she thought of a solution.

"The War of the Three Kingdoms." Naomi told him. Mokuba tilted his head in confusion.

"Huh?" Naomi giggled as she explained what the War of the Three Kingdoms was. Mokuba nodded understandingly after she finished. "But wouldn't it take kinda long to teach the class that in 10 minutes?" Mokuba asked once more. Naomi smiled.

"Don't underestimate me Mokuba. I think we should just do the personalities of the War of the Three Kingdoms. So we'll introduce people like Cao Cao, who was the leader of the Kingdom Wei. Liu Bei, the leader of the Kingdom Shu, or Sun Jian the leader of the Kingdom Wu. Stuff like that." Naomi said. Mokuba nodded in agreement.

"That sounds good. Should we go tell Takana-sensei now?" Mokuba suggested. Naomi nodded and the two walked up to Takana-sensei's desk.

"Takana-sensei? We've decided on our subject." Mokuba said. Takana-sensei smiled and gestured for him to continue. "We'll be doing our project about the different personalities of the War of Three Kingdoms." Takana-sensei nodded and scribbled something down in her notebook.

"Interesting subject. I hope to see good things come out of your project. This is something I'm going to be looking forward to. Don't disappoint me." Takana-sensei said. The two bowed and walked back to their seats.

Some time later the lunch bell rang and Mokuba and Naomi began to walk to their usual spot at the Sakura tree. Along the way, Takato shoved in between the two.

"Hey!" Mokuba protested.

"Can it you moronic dweeb." He said, before turning to Naomi with a "charming" smile on his face. Naomi ignored him. "Hey Naomi. Why are you hanging out with him-" Takato jabbed a thumb at Mokuba, "-when you can hang out with someone like me." He said. Naomi merely walked past him to Mokuba, smiling and grabbing Mokuba's hand.

"Let's go Mokuba! We don't want to keep the others waiting." She said, dragging him along. Takato frowned but broke apart their joined hands and shoved past Mokuba... again, and put his arm around her shoulder.

"So anyway. Want to go out tonight Naomi? We'll go watch a movie." His voice lowered to a whisper. "We can watch a scary movie. All alone in the dark, where no one can see us." He smirked. Naomi merely moved her shoulder so that his arm slid off and turned to face him, a glare evident on her face.

"I suggest you stay away from me Takato-san. I can be quite... violent... when I want to be." Naomi told him. "And I suggest the same with Mokuba. Also, if you ever think of touching me again, then you'll find that a Shinigami will come to claim your soul sooner then you thought." Naomi whispered fiercely, before grabbing Mokuba and walking away again. Thankfully Takato didn't follow this time.

The two soon reached the Sakura tree, and Anzu asked what had taken them so long.

"It was so awesome! Naomi told off a guy in our class!" Mokuba exclaimed, as Naomi blushed.

"He called Mokuba a moronic dweeb. How could I not?" Naomi murmured under her breath.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Mai said. Everyone turned to her, confused. "What? I'm just saying." She said. Then, someone came strolling up.

"Hey Anzu!" He greeted. Anzu looked up at him.

"Oh! Takuto. Hello. Did you need something?" Anzu asked. Takuto was Takato's older brother.

"Well..." He trailed off, sitting down and putting an arm around Anzu's shoulder. "I was wondering if you'd like to go out sometime... You know, maybe a movie or dinner or something." He said. Anzu tensed as his arm surrounded her shoulder. She didn't get a chance to reply, because he began to ramble on and on. Everyone flinched as they looked at the soda can in Yami's hand; glad they weren't in its place.

Naomi, fed up with the rambling, stood up and rolled her eyes. "Oh shut up already you annoying pest. Your incessant blabbering is going to bore me to sleep." She said. Takuto narrowed his eyes and stood up.

"What did you say?" He growled. Naomi looked at him with a bored expression on her face.

"It's quite amusing you responded to annoying pest." Naomi smirked. Takuto's face heat up, as he growled again at her.

"You're just a kid! What would you know?!" He shouted. Naomi smiled.

"Probably about 30,000 more years of knowledge." She drawled lazily. Takuto face grew red, and his fists clenched.

"Why you-" He started, but Takana-sensei walked over.

"Takuto? Is there a problem?" She asked him. He immediately unclenched his fists and turned to Takana-sensei.

"No sensei." He said.

"Then please go back to your friends. They're wondering where you are." She told him. He bowed to her.

"Thank you." He said, before walking off. Takana-sensei smiled at the group before walking off.