Kami-chan: And now, the moment you have all been waiting for!! The conclusion to the exciting...

Kouji: Whoa whoa Waitaminute.....

Kami: yes?

Kouji: I have two points to make.

Kami: Once again, yes?

Kouji: Point 1. You say everyone has been waiting for the conclusion to the breakup scene. You mean the conclusion including what you do to me?

Kami: Uh huh.

Kouji: Eh heh heh...Point 2. Are you just going to barge on into this without even doing the disclaimer?

Kami: Wellll.....I hadn't really thought about that......

Kouji: Ah, you can just get Takuya to...Wait, where is Takuya anyway?

Kami: holed up in his room, thanx to a certain someone here......glares at Kouji

Kouji: Will it help us get back together faster if I do the disclaimer?

Kami: Well, that would help......

Kouji: For my sanity, she doesn't own anything here.....

Kami: ON WITH THE FIC!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 5

Punishment and Reunions

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"

Kamiya's cry echoed through the classroom, along with the sound of a loud slap. The students turned to look at what was causing the commotion, just in time to see an angry girl with blonde hair and blue streaks glaring at Kouji Minamoto, who was holding his red cheek.

"What in the hell were ya thinkin?!?!" Kamiya yelled.

Kouji looked around the room, and then shrugged. "I don't know what you're talking about." He said.

Kamiya growled, grabbing the boy by his shirt collar and slamming him up against the wall.

"YOU KNOW GOOD AND DAMN WELL WHAT I AM TALKIN ABOUT, KOUJI!!" Kamiya screamed.

It was a wonder no teacher had come yet with all the noise the two were making. Kamiya's eyes were no more than slits as she glared angrily at the boy.

"Now. Why. Did. You. Do. It." Kami asked through gritted teeth.

"I'm sorry, Kamiya, but I can't deal with the fact that no matter what happens to him, he always goes back there. His family won't do anything to help him, and when we tried, he still tucked his tail and went running back to them!! He won't try to get out of that kind of situation, and I just can't deal with that, Kamiya." Kouji said, letting his head drop.

"THAT'S STILL NO EXCUSE FER WHAT YA DID, KOUJI!!" Kamiya yelled, tears beginning to fill her eyes. "THA ONLY REASON HE WAS ABLE TA GO HOME WAS BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT YA'D BE THERE TO HELP HIM IF ANYTHIN ELSE HAPPENED!! HE BELIEVED IN YA!! HE RELIED ON YA!! AND WHAT D'YA DO? YA BROKE HIS FUCKIN HEART!!"

Suddenly, Kamiya felt a hand on her shoulder. She whirled around to see someone from the classroom, a young guy with black hair, staring at her.

"Can I help you?" Kamiya spat.

"You're a first year, aren't you?" he asked her.

"Yeah. What about it?" Kamiya said, glaring.

"Do you have a pass to come up here?" he asked.

"No. And what're ya gonna do 'bout it, eh?" Kamiya asked.

Whenever she got mad, Kamiya's original Osakan dialect kicked back in full force. Now, it was stronger than ever.

"You can't just come barging into an upperclassman's classroom without a pass and cause an uproar, especially not once like this." He stated.

"Are ya gonna stop me?" Kami asked.

"N-N-No....Have fun!" he said, and took off out of the classroom.

Kamiya turned back to face Kouji. He gulped. Kamiya had scared off the fearless class rep. He was horrified about what she was going to do to him.

"Kamiya...I'm sorry, I really am, but I just can't handle all this shit anymore!! He's the one who fucked up and..." Kouji began.

Kamiya's eyes narrowed even more.

"NO, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO FUCKED UP!! YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN HIS BASTARD FATHER IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO ABANDON HIM LIKE THAT!!!!" Kamiya yelled.

Kouji's eyes grew wide, then narrowed. His hands balled up into fists, and with one swing, he did the unthinkable: He hit Kami. He reached over and pinned her to a desk. Glaring at her, he loomed over her and got three inches away from her face.

"Don't you ever...EVER...say that I am like that man again. I'm not. I was trying to protect him from that man." Kouji growled.

Kamiya pushed Kouji off of her, and decked him again, sending him backing up until he reached the window.

"You tried to protect him? Is that right?? How, by running away?!?! You ran away!! Takuya did no running!! He decided to face that man head on!! And you abandoned him!! Deserted him!!" Kamiya grabbed the boy's shoulders. "You hurt him more than that man ever did!!" she hissed.

Kouji pushed Kamiya away, and she back up until she tripped over a desk leg and landed on a knocked over chair. Kouji approached her, and she groaned, trying to get up. He grabbed her arm and yanked her up. She let out a quick cry of ouch, and slapped him. This did no good, for his grip tightened. He pulled her up next to him, and he was so close, she could feel his breath on her face. She gasped.

"Yes, I did try to protect him. But every time I tried, he denied my help. He always ran away from me, and away from my assistance, and away from my love. Tell me, Kamiya. Since you know so much about this situation, what else could I have done, huh? If you can answer me that, then I'll get back together with him." Kouji said. "Till then, he is no more than someone who is in the way."

Kouji turned to walk away. Kam sat up.

"You take that back." Kami muttered.

Kouji turned around to face Kami.

"What?" he asked.

"TAKE THAT BACK, YOU BASTARD!!" Kami yelled, launching herself at him.

The two ended up next to the window. Kouji was leaning up against it, and Kamiya had him pinned. Kouji was trying to back up, but since there was only window behind him, he had no place to go-or so he thought. The window suddenly popped open, and Kouji was leaning out of it. It didn't help matters that Kamiya was now trying to push him out of it. Kouji screamed.

"Kami!! Please don't do this!! You don't know what you're doing!!" Kouji screamed, fear plastered in his eyes.

"I know exactly what I'm doing!!" Kamiya yelled. "Are you scared Minamoto?"

By now, the students in classrooms on the lower floors were paying full attention, glancing up to see what all the fuss was about.

"What do you think?!?!" Kouji yelled.

"Now you know what it must have felt like every time that man hurt Takuya!! Only his fear must have been ten times worse!! Do you understand why he kept coming back?! He didn't want you to go through this, and he didn't want his mother or brother to go through it either!! Do you get it now?!" Kami spat.

Suddenly, a teacher rushed into the room, grabbing Kamiya. She let herself be pulled off of Kouji, who sank to the floor. He buried his face in his hands, tears streaming down his fast.

"Kamiya....I understand it so fully now...I was so...so stupid....and I was only thinking of myself...I didn't even consider what he could have been going through...I just didn't get it....I'm so...So sorry....." Kouji muttered.

He was in tears, and could do nothing to stop them from coming. Kamiya knelt by his side, rubbing his back. The moment could have gone on forever had the teacher who had grabbed Kamiya not grabbed both of them now and dragged them down the hall to the principal's office.

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"Miss Iguno, what may I ask, were you thinking?" the principal asked.

Kamiya sat in the seat on the other side of his desk, not even wanting to look up at the older man, who she knew had to be glaring at her. Instead, she kept her head hung. Her hands were placed between her legs on the large seat, gripping the chair. She wondered what kind of trouble she would get in. She simply shook her head, as if she didn't know, in response to the man's question.

"You could have severely injured Mr. Minamoto!! Did you not know that?" he asked her.

Kamiya nodded. She knew full well what she could have done to him. Had he not been scared, she probably would have actually pushed him out the window without so much as a second thought. But now, as she thought back on it, she realized what a mistake that would have been.

"Was there not any other way to handle whatever problem you two could have had?" the man asked.

Kamiya thought about this for a second. Sure there were other ways that it could have been handled. But chances were, Kouji would not have been able to understand Kamiya's point if she had tried to get it across some other way. Her plan had worked, which was all that had mattered to the girl. So, to her, that was the best way it could have been handled. Kamiya shook her head.

"No sir, there wasn't. This was an extreme problem, and I picked the only way that I could think of to make him see my point. And my plan worked, better than I thought it would. So in my eyes, and probably Kouji's too, there was no better way that it could have been dealt with that he could have understood." Kamiya replied.

The principal sighed. "And what is this problem that was so severe that you had to beat the daylights out of Kouji Minamoto to get him to understand?" he asked.

"I'm not at liberty to say." Kamiya said.

"And why is that?"

"Because it's a personal problem that involves a third party and I'm not sure whether or not they would want it spoken of, especially to you." Kamiya reasoned. "Besides that, it's really none of your business."

Kamiya looked up to face the large man. His face was turning red from anger.

"It is my business. This problem was severe enough that you had to beat up another student and nearly push him out a window, so I believe it is my business." He said, trying to control his anger.

"No sir, I don't see it fit to tell you, so I won't. It's none of your business what goes on outside this school. It does not concern you, so don't try to stick your nose into someone else's business." She said.

"Look here, you cocky little bitch!" he said, rising from his chair.

"What was that, old man?" Kamiya spat, glaring at him.

"You will tell me and you will tell me right now exactly what your problem was got that?" he fumed.

"How about not? Now look, I told you twice now that I will not tell you what went on. It took place outside of school, therefore, it does not concern you in any way, shape, or form!" Kami spat.

The secretary walked in. "Um, sir? Is everything okay in here?" she asked.

Kamiya rose. "Well, I guess I'd better be going then sir!" she said, inching her way out the door.

"OOOOOHHHH......IGUNO!!! YOU'RE SUSPENDED!! TEN DAYS!! YOU HEAR ME?!?!" he yelled after her.

Kamiya waved a hand back inside the door. "Yeah, sure! Gotcha!!" say said, before shutting the door behind her.

Kamiya winced as she heard the principal screaming at the secretary about how she had always been a troublesome student and didn't even know how she got into the school. Kouji looked up at her in disbelief. Kamiya shook her head. She began walking away, and Kouji rose behind her.

"What are you doing?" Kamiya asked as he tried to follow her out the door.

"I need to talk to Takuya. He's still at your place, right?" Kouji asked.

Kamiya nodded. "Of course, if you would have come home last night, then you would know that, now wouldn't you?" she asked.

"And I'm really sorry for that." Kouji said.

Kamiya thumped him on the head before pulling him next to her side. "Now worries!" she said, flashing her traditional peace sign.

Kouji laughed, and the two walked out the door and headed toward the apartment.

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As Kamiya explained her most recent punishment to her fiancée and guardian, Kouji made his way down the hall toward his and Takuya's room. He knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" a stifled voice asked.

"It...It's Kouji." Kouji muttered.

"Go away!" Takuya moaned from inside.

"Takuya please...just hear me out." Kouji pleaded.

"I can hear you fine from where you are." Takuya said.

Kouji sighed and sat down, his back against the door.

"Well, Takuya. I came to say that I am really sorry for everything I said yesterday. I wasn't thinking at all. I wasn't even considering what you were going through that whole time. I was only thinking of myself and the hurt that it would cause me to see you go back. Instead of offering you support through all of this, I abandoned you. I thought it would hurt more to see you go back, but I guess I realized...I guess I realized that it hurts more to be apart. I didn't even realize how scared you must have been for your mom and brother...Until today. Kami said some things and did some things that made me realize how scared you really must have been. She may have been stupid to have done them at school, but I really regret saying all of that shit from yesterday and...Well, if you're willing to take me back...I'll be here for you, no matter what, okay?" Kouji said.

He wiped the tears from his eyes as he stood. The door clicked open to reveal dark room and an equally dark Takuya. His eyes and cheeks were red and puffy, and his eyes were bloodshot, evidentially from crying all day and probably most of the night. Now, fresh tears were flooding from his eyes. He launched himself at the raven haired boy, and hugged him tightly. Kouji held the boy close and petted his hair softly. Kamiya stood at the front of the hallway with Yamato, and both were smiling. Kouji gave them both a thumbs up before leading Takuya back into the bedroom. Kamiya turned to Yamato with a smile.

"I think they're going to be just fine, ne?" she asked.

"Yeah." Yamato said, pulling the blonde beauty closer.

"Hey, Christmas is coming up!" Kamiya said.

"Yeah, Kami. It's in a week and a half." Yamato said.

"Well then, IT'S PARTY TIME!!!" Kami shouted.

She dashed off into the kitchen. Yamato smiled til she got far enough away. Then he frowned. There was no way he was going to tell Kami about the message that had been left on the answering machine. He had deleted it as soon as it had finished recording. Now, it wouldn't stop playing through his mind.

"Kamiya, this is your mother. I'm going to be in Shinjuku for Christmas. When I get there, we need to talk about your coming home. Call me later. Goodbye."

Kami: I'm....WHAT?!?!?!!? Who typed that??

Kouji: Heh heh heh.....can we say payback's a bitch?

Kami: Welll......I guess I can remember when that happened. And I remember the outcome of it too!! So all of you fans I have out there PLEASE STAY BY KAMI'S SIDE!!!! SHE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!

Takuya: Well, I do have to thank you for hooking us back up.

Kouji: Well, we did get back together.

Kami: Well, next chapter will be a Christmas chapter!! Have fun over Christmas everyone!! And be safe!!!