"Er…" Tohru sat rigidly tense with embarrassment—unsure of how to react or confront the situation she was in.
Behind her sat the new student Hiroko, who dreamily played with the tendrils of long brown hair belonging to the girl in front him—Tohru.
"Um…Hiroko…?" she asked shyly with an added kun.
"Yeah?" Hiroko replied uninterestedly as he continued to play with dangling strands of hair, "What's up?"
"Well…" Tohru looked around at the tittering classmates not so subtly watching them, "People are looking at us funny" she whispered with a blush.
"So?" he said carelessly as he shrugged his shoulders as he continued to twirl Tohru's hair on his slender fingers, "Not my fault that they don't have anything better to do than gossip" he blankly stared into Tohru's mass of brown locks, "But I guess we might as well give them something to talk about" he grinned mischievously as he gathered a fist-full of Tohru's hair and put it to his nose.
Hiroko inhaled deeply, fluttering his eyelashes rapidly as he goofy smile crossed his face, "I must say Tohru" he said loudly, the class began with intensely whisper with shock that he said her name as though he were a close acquaintance, "Your hair smells absolutely wonderful" he grinned like the little rascal that he was.
"The girls back in London don't have hair nearly as nice as yours" he added with wide-eye sincerity, "In fact, I should take you back to London just to make them jealous" he raised a challenging eyebrow to the now violent whisperings of the class—inviting them to speculate on his actions.
"So what do you think?" Hiroko leaned over his desk and whispered much more quietly into Tohru's ear, "Can I steal you away to London?"
"Ummm…" Tohru was fastly turning darker shades of red, a new, darker, blush sprang across her cheeks every time she felt a little puff of his breath tickle her earlobe.
"I…don't think I could" Tohru said, she glanced around hoping for someone to save her. She was about to give up hope when she laid eyes on her two best friends, talking to each other and ignoring the commotion that the rest of the class was making.
"Besides!" she added brightly, "I couldn't just leave Hana-Chan and Uo-Chan" she glanced at her friends with gratitude.
"Hmmm…" Hiroko sat back in seat looking thoughtful, "That does pose a problem…"
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"Omigosh, you won't believe this!" a girl cried as she read the message on her cellphone, she motioned to her friend, "It's says that…"
Kyo rolled his eyes in irritation, the voice of the girl in the seat next to him made it feel like his eardrums were being grated. Her shrill, perky voice made him just want to clamp his hands over his sensitive ears and pass out, be knocked unconscious—whatever, as long as he didn't have to listen to the incessant squealing.
"…that Hiroko kid? Are you sure?"
"Definitely" the annoying girl said with confidence.
"Who'da thunk?" the other girl said in shock, "I could've sworn that Tohru liked one of the Sohma boys or something"
"I know" the other girl said, nodding vehemently to her friend, "But that new kid is a total fox, I hear that the whole school is rooting for them"
Kyo's cat ears mentally swiveled at the mentioning of his newest rival and Tohru. His mile wide jealous streak could not be oppressed at the mention of those two together.
"What did that Hiroko bastard do to Tohru?" Kyo said suddenly to the girl next to him his eyes intense and murderous.
"Um…" the other girl shirked back—caught by her own mouth, "Hiroko-Kun…the new kid, just asked Tohru to go to London with him" the girl cowered when Kyo's murderous glare became even scarier. She quickly turned back to her friend, whispering about how scary it was when the Kyo Sohma was talking to her.
Kyo was seething.
His mind was clouding with rage and his thoughts only got more and more violent. The pencil in his hand broke with a sharp SNAP, sending tiny wood fragments into his hand. But he noticed none of this—in fact—the grip on his now broken pencil only got tighter.
How dare he! That bastard was messing with Tohru before—and he was still upset over the incident earlier this morning.
Kyo was jolted out of his reverie of fury by the quiet boop-boop-beep-bop-boop of his cellphone.
Earlier that week, Shigure (in another moment of insanity) had pushed cellphones on all of them. Quite literally actually—from the stairs.
Looking around to see if anyone was aware that his phone had gone off (and seeing that none had, or just hadn't cared) he quietly picked it up, opening it clumsily with a whispered hello.
"Hello? Kyo? Is that you?" a merry voice asked.
"Shigure? What the hell?! I'm at school you idiot! You should know that phones aren't allowed!" Kyo whispered violently.
"But this was important…" Kyo rolled his eyes, he could feel the saddened out through the phone. "Fine, but hurry it up, the teacher's not gonna be writing this math problem on the board for long"
Kyo huffed impatiently at the cry of delight from the other end.
"See, I told you that you need a cellphone, I mean…this is the age of technology and all. And Ayame always says—"
"I'm hanging up, go call Hatori and babble your nonsense to him" Kyo was about to press the button to hang up when he heard Shigure's tiny voice pleading not to hang up. With another huff of irritation, Kyo once again brought the phone discreetly to his ear.
"What?" he asked gruffly, "And this better be important…"
"Oh it is Kyon-Kichi, don't worry!" Shigure waited until Kyo had reached the optimum point of annoyance before continuing.
"So...have you heard about Tohru and Hiroko?" Shigure asked, Kyo groaned inwardly, he could practically feel Shigure leering at him through the phone.
"Yeah, some girls were talking about it next to—wait a minute! How do you know about it! I just heard it myself about a minute ago!"
Shigure 'tch' in disappointment, "You underestimate me once again Kyo, of course I found out!"
"But how?!" Kyo asked in confusion.
"Oh," Shigure said it as though it were obvious, "Well Yuki had left his phone here, and some Manabe boy texted it to me. Ingenious really, and I'm so happy! Maybe when Tohru goes to London with that boy she'll take me"
Kyo stared disbelievingly at the phone, Shigure was…just so Shigure.
"One, Tohru is not going to London with that new kid and two…why is this a reason to call me—during class?!"
"Well I just couldn't wait! Ayame's excited for Tohru too…Hatori's a little more conservative about it but…he always is"
"…You called Ayame and Hatori about this too?!"
"Why not?" Shigure asked like a little boy pretending not to be aware of what he just did was wrong.
"Whatever, I don't care" Kyo rolled is eyes and was about to snap the phone (yes it's a flip) when he hastily added, "Don't call me again".
"But Kyo—"
CLICK
"Hmpf" Shigure pursed his lips in dissatisfaction as he listened to the little jingle signaling that the conversation was over, and turned the phone off with a sigh.
Then again…
With a sly smile, Shigure turned the phone back on.
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Lol, I think that it's hilarious (yes, I find my own death funny) that after about a year, I haven't updated this story. (Big smile) Wow…that was relatively painless, well less than I thought it would be. I was just going to completely neglect this story until I finished one of my other ones…but from a few reviews from ILiketospin got me motivated and feeling guilty. So from now on I won't be neglecting this story and I will update. Well, gotta go! There's a thunderstorm and my power always goes out—and this one sounds like a doozy! Toodles.