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Author's note:

Stupid short chapters

Chapter 5

(At school, the next day)

Ryouko sighed and leaded her head against her locker, her shoulders slumping forward. She ha been late for her waitress job because of the zodiac incident (see chapter 4) and had been forced to work overtime and didn't get home until 3 AM. Then she had a lot of homework, and didn't get to bed until 4. Having to wake up at 6, she was now the very, very tired.

"Ryouko?" It was Kyo.

"Mhhm?" was the muffled reply.

"I'm… sorry, about yesterday, if it shocked you or something." Kyo blushed; he wasn't used to apologizing to someone.

Ryouko lifted her arm in and flapped her hand in his general direction, as if to say, it's okay. Internally, she was begging him to go away, she hadn't been shocked at all, she was restraining herself from telling him the truth, he would hate her if she did.

"C-Can I walk you to class as an apology?" Kyo was still blushing, what the hell is wrong with me?! He thought.

"Mmkay." Another muffled reply.

Ryouko heaved herself off of the locker and franticly tried to stay upright, and failed. She flopped against the locker again.

Kyo grinned at the poor girl, and heaved her arm over his shoulder, gripped her waist tighly, and headed for homeroom, dragging her along with him.

"Thanks." Ryouko mumbled as her head flopped onto his shoulder.

There were a lot of whispers and giggles as Kyo dragged her through the halls.

"Man, you're heavy." Kyo grunted.

"Sorry." Ryouko smiled weakly.

"Need some help?" Yuki said, appearing from the stream of students. He pulled Ryouko's other arm over his shoulders and began dragging Ryouko with Kyo.

"I owe you guys." Ryouko said weakly.

Yuki helping earned them even more whispers and even some gasps of reproach. They reached homeroom and flopped Ryouko into her seat between them. She gave a muttered "Thank you" before falling soundly asleep. But her sleep didn't last long

"We have a new student joining us today." The teacher said.

A guy with dark brown hair covering most of his face, and a black mask covering his mouth and nose walked into the room.

"Please meet Usagi."

Ryouko shot up out of her seat, sleep forgotten, hands slamming onto the desk.

"USAGI?!"

Author's note:

sorry for the short chapter!! haha i actually drew the pose that Ryouko is in when she says that, she looks awsome. sorry for the short chapter (AGAIN!!) Something came up, and i couldnt finish the chapter, but i wanted to get it up and aww i feel so bad!

IM SO SORRY!!