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BEEEP
The annoying sound the alarm clock reverberated through the room, awakening Rei from his slumber.
He groaned and sat up, today is the first day of school after winter break and he was not looking forward to it. Tiredly, he pushed off of the bed and walked indolently to the bathroom. Leaning against the cool surface of the sink counter, he slowly looked at the mirror. His long ebony hair was ruffled and spastic, and he had dark rings under his eyes.
Sighing, he quickly washed his face, then, proceeded to comb his hard-to-manage mop of a hair. He wrapped his lengthy, dark hair into its habitual tail-like tress. Glancing at the mirror one more time, he was satisfied. He now, at least, looked presentable.
After a quick change of clothes, Rei grabbed his backpack and progressed towards the driveway. There was a slick, black Mercedes waiting for him. He quickly threw his backpack into the trunk, and got into the back seat of the car.
"Ready for school, Master Rei?" The driver, Ming, asked.
"Yea" Rei lied. He didn't understand why he needed a driver. Rei was seventeen and he was fully capable of driving himself places. Nevertheless, his overprotective father thought it best that he have a million men working for him when his dad was away.
Speaking of his father, he never did come. The issue with the newspaper caused him to delay his visit. His promise to stay was still valid though he wasn't sure when he would be able to come.
Rei groaned, he was going to kill whoever decided it was a good idea murder Mr. Walton. On Christmas Eve no less! Sure, Mr. Walton was scum, and he deserved every bit of his punishment, but couldn't the killer pick a better day to commit the crime? His father was his only family since his mother died when he was young, and he missed him dearly.
"Here we are." The driver interrupted Rei from his thoughts. The Chinese boy sighed and stepped out of the car. 'Today's gonna suck!'
"Here we are." boomed a loud voice within the car.
Kai glanced out the window. His location was, it seemed, a high school. However, this wasn't just a normal school. In fact, this was the most extravagant building Kai had ever laid eyes on. 'Must be full of rich kids' he thought bitterly.
"My son, Rei, goes to this school." Mr. Kon began, "Please watch over him, I'll have my workers bring your bags to your new home."
"Hn" was his customary reply.
'What kind of assignment is this?' Kai thought bitterly to himself, 'No criminals, no fighting, but I'm looking after some snot nosed kid? I wasn't trained to be some babysitters.'
Still, despite his own opposition, he still complied with his task at hand. He quickly stepped outside the car, and began walking towards the large school. A subconscious hand ruffled his messy, two-toned hair and sighed inwardly. 'Today's gonna suck!'
"..And that is the photoelectric effect" Dr. Shah explained, "Another great scientist that contributed to modern Chemistry is James Chadwick. He discovered…"
Rei zoned out. This has got to be the most boring class of the day. How chemistry was supposed to apply to real life was beyond him. He had much more important things to worry about. Like, when was his dad coming home? How was he going to reject Mao? Who killed Mr. Walton? Who shot JFK? How do they get the bones out of the boneless chicken in KFC? How is it physically possible for Dr. Shah to pull his pants up so high? Why is the Sky blue…no wait that has to do with chemistry…. What's the difference between Coke and Pepsi? Who's knocking at the door...?
Wait, knocking at the door?
The neko-jin snapped back to reality, and gazed at the origin of the noise. The door opened to reveal an old, frumpy man Rei recognized to be the principal of the school along with a young boy about Rei's age. The man quickly exchanged a few words with his teacher then walked off, leaving behind the boy. The two remaining men paced back into the classroom. Dr. Shah spoke up:
"Class, we have a new student today. Please welcome Kai Hiwatari."
The introduction was followed by excited chatter from the students and some giggles from the female population. Rei studied the new student. He had broad shoulders and strong arms. The thin fabric of the school uniform did not do a good job of concealing his well-built body. His hair was dominatingly slate-colored with blue strands at the end, and it looked like he never once bothered to brush it. He had a moderately handsome face with blue paint stripes covering both cheeks. All-in-all Rei would have to admit that this boy was good looking; it was no wonder that he was receiving so many admiring stares from girls in the class.
However one physical flaw Rei pinpointed was his eyes. His gaze was cold and harsh, and it seemed to radiate annoyance and dislike. The color of his eyes was so piercingly red that it seemed bloodshot. From the slight wrinkle in his brows, Rei could tell that the boy did not want to be here. But, who could blame him; No one wants to be in school.
The boy's eyes were scanning the room, as if looking for something. From the moment his gaze met Rei's, it stopped and he smirked. Rei felt a shiver go up his spine from the boy's hard stare. Something about the boy's eyes just scared him.
Kai glanced around the room. He was surprised at how intercultural this school was. Sure, this was an international school for the elite. But still, since it was located in Shanghai, shouldn't it be dominantly Chinese? As far as he could tell, there was only one Chinese student in the entire class.
'That must be Kon!' he thought to himself. 'He's the only Asian kid here!'
But the boy, Kai noted, didn't have the typical oriental face. His eyes were big and round, and had a peculiar golden color. His skin was slightly tan, and he had long charcoal hair. He was tall and lean much like the senior Kon he met this morning. Kai smirked, 'That has to be Kon, no doubt about it.'
"Why don't you take that empty seat right behind Rei. Rei, raise your hand!" Dr. Shah spoke up.
Rei jumped, awoken from his daydreams by the mention of his name. He raised his hand awkwardly, watching the boy walk towards him and setting himself behind him.
"I'm going to have a quick word with the principal." Dr. Shah began as he walked out of the room, "Be quiet and behave yourselves"
But, of course, as soon as the teacher left, the room filled with noise, chatters, and gossip, mostly about the new kid in class. Though, no one was brave enough to actually talk to the beautiful new boy, so most just shied away in their confined areas looking at him favorably. Rei, being the outgoing friendly person he is, decided to take the initiative for the class and open up to the stranger.
"Hi," Rei put on his best fake smile.
"…"
"I'm Rei, welcome to the school"
"…"
"It's nice to meet you" Rei stuck out his hand waiting for Kai to shake it. Kai, however, just stared irritably at the Chinese boy's friendly gesture as if it was a cockroach.
"Ok…" Rei put his hands down, confusedly, but still with a fake smile plastered on his face. He was not going to give up!
"So, do you like the school so far?"
"Hn"
Yes! He talked! Sure, it wasn't exactly a full English word. But this proves that he isn't a mute or deaf or something.
"Where are you from?"
"Russia"
Oh my god! An answer! An actual coherent answer! Rei was making progress.
"That's so cool! What's it like in Russia!"
"Cold"
Ok, his next goal is to make Kai say more than one word. Plan! Set! Ready! Go!
"So, how's China so far?"
"…"
Dimmit, plan backfired. Now it's back at square one. 'Damn my persistence!'
"Can I see your schedule?"
Kai said nothing, but complied, handing Rei a slip of paper.
"Woah! What a coincidence! We have the same exact schedule! I can show you to your classes if you like"
Kai smirked and nodded in agreement, 'Yea, coincidence, how bout that.'
Rei smiled, genuinely this time. He really was making progress. Perhaps the two of them could even become friends.
"Hey everyone! This is Kai Hiwatari, he's new"
It was lunchtime and the cafeteria was crammed with screaming kids. Kai was forced to follow Rei into the center of the cafeteria where the noise was most prominent. He wanted nothing more than to just leave the building and have a quiet lunch to himself, but he had a duty to fulfill, and that was to keep an eye on Kon.
His whole morning was spent on watching the Chinese boy intently. He followed him to every class, and listened to his incessant chatter. The whole day so far was filled with one-sided conversation between the two as Kai nodded, "Hn"ed, and pretended to listen. Just how many questions could the boy have? Couldn't he tell that Kai really couldn't care less?
"..And these are my friends" Rei's voice, for the eightieth time today, interrupted Kai's thoughts, "Max, Takao, Hilary, Kenny, Salima, Kane, Lai, Mao, and the twins."
"We have names you know." the female started.
"Yea, she's Julia and I'm Raul, pleasure to meat you." her brother introduced.
"Hn"
Rei chuckled, then proceeded to take a seat at their usual table.
He took the only empty seat on the table, which was coincidently right next to Mao. Before the girl could latch onto him, however, he took the opportunity and dragged Kai down to the miniscule space between them, forcing both sides to scoot over to make room. Mao pouted, and directed a menacing glare at Kai. He smirked, not only at how painfully obvious the relationship between the two was, but at how ironic this situation was. Someone was actually glaring spitefully at him, instead the other way around.
"So what grade are you in. Are you a junior like us?" a short, dark haired Japanese boy (Takao, he remembered) started.
"…"
"Yea he is, he's in my English class I think." a blonde child with freckles and an innocent smile plastered across his face, Max, answered for him.
"Oh, cool. So how's the school treatin' ya?"
"Hn"
"Meet any new people?"
"Hn"
"How's life?"
"Hn" Damn this kid's more annoying than Kon.
"Miss any friends back home?"
"Hn"
"How's the weather?"
"Hn"
"Goddammit! Christ, can you say anything other than 'Hn', are you socially awkward or something? Seriously, Kai…"
"Hiwatari" Kai interrupted.
"Excuse me?"
"I don't appreciate people that don't matter being so informal. You may refer to me as 'Hiwatari' and 'Hiwatari' only, as I will call you…."
"Kinomiya" Takao cringed.
Kai smirked, satisfied. "Kinomiya" he finished.
"Dammit! I'm so pissed off I'm not even hungry any more!" Takao growled "I'm going to go back to class and study or something"
"Takao, wait up!" Max stalked off after his friend. The rest of the members of the table only gaped, deciding whether or not to believe what they just heard come out of Takao's mouth.
Rei sighed as he walked in his room. Today had not been a fun day. Kai was obviously not a people person. Takao is, albeit easily irritable, still one of the friendliest guys in the school. For Kai to start an argument with him within the first five minutes of meeting the guy proved just how anti-social this kid was. 'Oh well' Rei thought silently, 'On the bright side, that was probably the longest sentence Kai had ever spoken in his lifetime.'
Even though Rei had just met the loner today, he felt like they'd been acquaintances for a long while. He'd like to think that this was because they had some sort of special connection and were destined to become the best of friends, but it was probably just because of the fact that Kai had been in every single class of his. There was not one moment today where the two have been apart. If it hadn't been for the fact that Kai was so reclusive, Rei could have sworn that the boy was stalking him.
As if that wasn't enough, Rei had to stay after school for karate club. And today was the most intense practice yet. Apparently, they had to make up for the lack of exercise during the holidays. During practice, Rei could have sworn he saw Kai at least three times staring at him from the doorway to the gym. He shuddered, the intensity of those eyes still made him quiver in fear.
'I need a shower' Rei thought to himself, 'No, what I need is a nice warm bubble bath, I don't care how unmanly that is, I need one to cleanse all the worry off of me.'
Rei started towards his bathroom, then stopped. The guest bedroom had a much bigger bathtub, great for maximum comfort. He switched direction and began walking towards the guest bedroom conveniently located right across the hall.
Not only until he opened the doors to the guest bathroom did he notice that that the water was running. The room, he noted, was steaming, which meant that the shower was already in use. But who would be in this bathroom? All the servants live on a separate floor and as far as he knew, his dad was not home yet.
He glanced up and a muscular, naked body came to view.
The owner of the body turned around and met Rei's stare.
The last thing Rei saw were strong, intense eyes before he fainted.
To be continued….
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[Edit: I'm actually writing this in a much faster paste than I thought. Even though I just updated this, I'm already halfway through the next chapter! Please review though! They make me happy and they'll help me update faster:)