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(A/N: Sorry for the cliffie you guys!!! here's a new chappie! :D)

Kaho's eyes fluttered open...

She awoke to see Len's worried face over hers.

"Len," she said groggily, "What's wrong?"

Kaho put her hand up to Len's face to cup his cheek.

A single tear ran down his cheek.

Kaho wiped it away with her thumb.

Suddenly Len hugged her.

"Don't ever scare me like that again," he whispered in her ear.

Kaho nodded, wondering why Len was so worried.

Suddenly she remembered everything.

'Len caught me hugging Kazuo-kun on the rooftop. I chased him down the stairs, but tripped... I'm in the hospital... I told Len everything... He still loves me," she thought.

Suddenly Kanazawa coughed to let the couple know they were still there.

Len let go of Kaho and stood up abruptly, blushing slightly for showing his softer side to his schoolmates.

Kazuki looked like a young child that had dropped his cookie.

'I never thought losing her would hurt this much,' he thought sadly.

He shook his head an plastered a grin on his face.

He walked up to Kaho and said, "I'm glad you're okay Kaho-chan!"

Ryo walked up to Kaho's bedside and said, "There's a horde of our schoolmates outside the building that want to check on you... I just thought you should be warned beforehand."

Just as Kaho opened her mouth to reply to Ryo, Amou walked in and announced, "Kaho, I just talked to your doctor and she says that you're fine and that you only suffer minor bruising. You can get dressed and they'll let you out now."

Everyone stared at Amou in shock.

"When did you get here," inquired Kanazawa.

"I rode in the ambulance with Len and Kaho," she stated simply.

"Aww man! I wanted to ride in the ambulance," said Kazuki.

Everyone heard hm say that and stared at him like he was crazy.

He looked at them blankly and said, "What? I've always wanted to ride in an ambulance."

Amou just shook her head and said, "Okay, all you guys need to go... Kaho-chan here needs to get dressed... Mio, Nao, Aiko, and I will help her..."

The boys nodded sheepishly and walked out the door just as the nurse walked in the door.

"I'm here to take out your IV," she said, "After that, you're free to go."

Kaho nodded.

The nurse walked over to her bedside, gently took off the tape that held the IV in place, and gently slid the IV out.

Meanwhile, Kaho had been talking to Mio and Nao, and had been facing away from the nurse.

Suddenly she turned to the nurse and said, "It's out already? I thought it would hurt more... I guess I was wrong."

The nurse simply smiled and said, "Get well soon."

Kaho nodded and said, "Arigatoo."

The nurse nodded and walked out the door.

Mio and Nao were standing there looking slightly sickened, and Amou looked annoyed.

"Nani," asked Kaho.

"That was so DISGUSTING," exclaimed Mio.

Nao nodded in agreement.

Amou shook her head.

"You guys are wussies," she said.

She picked up the bag that she brought with her.

"Here are your clothes Kaho-chan," she said, "I got them out of your locker."

(A/N: Kaho keeps an extra uniform in her locker just in case she spills something on herself.)

Kaho blushed.

"Arigatoo, Amou-chan," she said.

"No problem, I ran over to get them as soon as I saw you on a stretcher," Amou explained.

Kaho nodded.

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As soon as Kaho finished getting dressed, (A/N: I didn't really want to get into details about that...) she walked outside the room, where a wheelchair was waiting for her.

She looked at it questioningly.

Kazuki said, "Hospital policy... Luckily, since Kaji's grandfather owns this hospital, we were allowed to be the ones to cart you out."

Ryo was standing behind the wheelchair, his hands on the handles.

Kaji, Kazui, Kazuo and Len were glaring at him.

Ryo, completely unaware of this, gestured to the wheelchair, beckoning for Kaho to sit down.

Kaho sat down awkwardly.

As soon as she was seated properly, and was a little comfy (A/N: Remember, she fell down a flight of stairs and has TONS of bruises, so she's gotta be at least a LITTLE uncomfortable.), Ryo began pushing her towards the exit.

Kazuki was running ahead to make sure that none of their schoolmates were there to bombard Kaho, and everyone else was surrounding Kaho in a protective huddle, leaving just enough space for Ryo to maneuver the wheelchair safely.

Suddenly, Kazuki came sprinting back.

"Go the other way," he exclaimed, "They're coming!!!!"

Kanazawa broke away from the huddle, heading towards the horde of Kaho's schoolmates.

"Head through the back door, I'll meet you guys in the parking lot," he yelled over his shoulder.

"Hai," exclaimed Kazuki, "Let's go."

Kazuki ran towards the back entrance to the hospital, everyone racing after him, Ryo running and pushing Kaho at the same time.

'It's a good thing these wheelchairs have brakes,' thought Ryo.

"AAAAAHHHH!!!" screamed Kaho, gripping the armrests.

Suddenly, a little kid ran through the hall, right in front of them.

"Tsuchira-kun! Watch out," screamed Kaho.

Ryo swerved wildly, avoiding the little boy, and bursting through the the huge double doors that provided the back exit.

Outside, Kazuki, Kaji, Kazuo, Mio, Nao, Aiko, Amou, Azuma, Len, Shimizu, Fuyuumi, and Ryo, were panting like crazy.

Kaho was just sitting in the wheelchair, stunned silent.

Suddenly, Ryo laughed breathlessly and said, "Let's never do that again."

Everyone smiled and nodded.

Kazuo looked at Kaho worriedly.

"Kaho-chan, are you alright," he asked, then turned to Len after Kaho nodded and said, "I'm sorry for the misleading gestures Len-kun. Kaho and I are nothing more than friends."

Len nodded to Kazuo, and smiled a little, just a little, and said, "That doesn't matter now Kazuo-sama. All that matters is that Kaho-san is alive and well."

Len said the last sentence so tenderly, that Kaho blushed beet red when she heard Len say her name.

Len walked over to Kaho, who was still sitting in the wheelchair, helped her up, placed her arm around his shoulders, and his hand around her waist and said, "Let's head over to the van, Sensei should have the car ready by now."

Kaho winced when she first stood up and said, "Hai Len, Let's go."

*************

Everyone stood stock still.

Kanazawa came around the vehicle and said, "What??? These were extremely common in the 80s."

Ryo looked from Kanazawa to the neon pink, blue, and green trailer.

"Is it safe," he asked tentatively.

"One hundred percent," answered Kanazawa, "At least by my standards."

"That's what i was afraid of," muttered Ryo.

The screams of other students looking for Kaho were echoing in the distance, coming closer and closer.

Len looked at Kaho, and, once recognizing the pain she was in, lifted her up bridal style and carried her to the door of the trailer.

He turned and looked at Kanazawa expectantly.

"Are you going to open the door or are we just going to wait until we get trampled my the rest of Seiso," he asked coldly.

At this point, everyone was dumbstruck at Len's sudden show of strength.

'I never knew Tsukimori-kun was that strong,' thought Amou.

Kaho was blushing like crazy again, and was in a complete and total state of bliss.

'Len is carrying me," she thought happily, 'Oh crap. He's carrying me. What if he thinks I'm heavy? Or fat? Or my legs are to flabby? Or my butt is too big? Or my stomach is too squishy??? AHHHHHHH!!!!!'

Kaho screamed mentally several times while Kanazawa opened the lock on the trailer door.

Len climbed up the stairs into the trailer, took off his shoes on the hot pink "WELCOME DUDE" mat by the stairs.

He walked over to the nearest fuzzy, bright green faux fur couch, and carefully set Kaho down.

Kazuki climbed in last after everyone else.

"Whose trailer is this," he asked, staring in awe at all the bright colors and lava lamps and peace signs.

"This was the principal's trailer," said Kanazawa, "He's lending it to us so we can get back to school safely."

"This was headmaster-san's home before," asked Amou, whilst taking pictures with her Polaroid (she was still out of film).

"Hai," said Kanazawa, climbing into the driver's seat.

"Now, everyone, grab a seat and we'll be going," he said.

Mio and Nao decided to sit comfortably on the bright purple and bark blue carpet.

Aiko decided to sit next to Ryo on a two seater couch with guitars embroidered all over it.

Azuma was sitting in the passenger's seat, next to Kanazawa in a seat that was the perfect shade to match his hair and had the word "groovy" emblazoned all across it in large green letters.

Len was seated next to Kaho, her head resting in his lap, (A/N: Kaho was lying down on the couch, her head was on Len's lap, a compromising situation, yes i know, and Len's hand was on her shoulder) on the fuzzy green couch, Kazuo was seated across from them on a matching couch, along with Fuyuumi and Shimizu.

Kaji and Amou were seated at the very back of the trailer, lime green couch with red, black, purple and dark blue polka dots that converts into a bed, and Kazuki was sitting on a neon blue hammock that was hanging between the walls, swinging back and forth.

Kanazawa started the trailer's engine, and they were off.

While they were cruising down the road, Shimizu took out his iPod and began listening to music.

Kazuki looked at Shimizu curiously and asked, "Shimizu-chan, what are you listening to?"

"Bach's Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major," answered Shimizu slowly, carefully enunciating each word.

"Really? Can I listen," asked Kazuki eagerly.

"Hai sempai," answered Shimizu sleepily as he offered Kazuki one of his earbuds.

"EH?!?!?!? IIE SHIMIZU-CHAN!!! I was going to plug in my MP3 speakers," exclaimed Kazuki.

At this, Kaho smiled softly.

'Silly Hihara-sempai,' she thought.

"Oh," said Shimizu sluggishly, "Alright."

He held out his iPod as Kazuki took out his MP3 speakers.

(Standard MP3 speakers, nothing too fancy...)

Shimizu started the song over again, and the everyone ceased their conversations to listen to the notes flowing from the speakers.

Kaho sat up.

She snuggled into Len's shoulder and closed her eyes happily, letting the deep, resounding notes flow through her mind.

Len looked at Kaho and blushed a light shade of pink.

'She's mine,' he thought happily, a small smile touching his face, 'I don't think I could ever be any happier than this. What am I going to do when spring break comes? Am i just going to leave her beautiful face in tears?'

Len's face contorted into a deep frown.

He placed his arm around Kaho's shoulders protectively and thought, 'No matter what, I will not let ANYTHING ever separate us ever again. If there's a problem, I'll ask her about it, not be an idiot and run away again...'

He closed his eyes and leaned his head against Kaho's.

"Ashiteru, Len," Kaho murmured so that only Len could hear.

Len's eyes flew open, and he lifted his head in surprise, looking at the beautiful girl whose chin rested on his shoulder, her deep amber eyes looking into his gold ones.

Len turned, took Kaho's chin in his hand, and kissed her forehead.

"I love you more than anything in this world Kaho," he whispered.

Kaho blushed a little and said nothing, instead, she rested her head on his shoulder once more.

Len kissed the top of her head and leaned his head against hers.

Once again they let the sweet refrains of Bach's Suite for solo Cello sweep over them.

Once the song ended, Amou opened her eyes, they had been closed the whole time (fortunately for Kaho and Len, although i would have liked some pics... ), and said, "What a beautiful song. The notes were so sweet... It seemed like whoever played the song had been playing for his sweetheart."

At that comment, Shimizu blushed.

Kazuo saw this and said, "Amou-san, are you suggesting that whomever played this song is deeply in love with someone and wished to play this for them?"

Amou looked at Kazuo in shock and said, "How did you know?????"

"Guy's intuition i guess," he said, and winked at Shimizu after pointing at Fuyuumi and grinning.

Suddenly, the gates of Seiso Academy appeared.

"That was short," commented Kaji, standing up and streching as soon as te vehicle had stopped.

Mio nodded in agreement.

Nao was still on the floor, lying down and staring at the ceiling of the trailer.

Kazuki jumped out of the hammock, walked over to Nao, bent over, looked her in the eye. held out his hand and said, "Come on! If we don't hurry, we might miss the rehearsal for the visiting high school students!"

Nao suddenly sat up..

"You're right!" she exclaimed, "Crap!!! (sorry bout the language there... ) I need to get something for the rehearsal too!!!"

She hurriedly took Kazuki's hand, jumped up, and ran out the door of the trailer calling over her shoulder as she left, "Ja ne!!!"

Kaho stood up slowly, looking a little sad as she left the comfort of Len shoulder as she thought, 'I wonder what all that was about.'

Amou shook her head and said, "C'mon. I wanna see if my new film has gotten here yet. This Polaroid is getting on my nerves."

She stepped out of the trailer, and walked in the direction of the Journalism room.

Kaho stepped out of the trailer as well and said, "I need to get my things. I'll meet you guys in the theater afterwards, alright?"

Len nodded and said, "Hurry up, rehearsal starts in 15 minutes."

Kaho nodded and walked off towards the roof, where she left her stuff after being caught hugging Kazuo.

Kaho climbed up the stairs and opened the door to the roof.

Niriya was there, holding her sheet music in his hand, facing away from Kaho, and reading the notes over.

Kaho ran over, snatched the music out of his hands, grabbed her violin case and her binder, and stood by the door, looking at Niriya the whole time and thinking, 'What's he doing here?'

Niriya looked at Kaho with sad eyes and said, "Gomen Kaho-san. I hurt you in many ways... And I just realized how much of an idiot I've been to you."

Kaho just stared at him.

Niriya sighed and took several steps towards her.

"Kaho, I'm not going to say that I'm sorry that i Kissed you earlier, because, quite frankly, I'm happy that i got to kiss you before that boyfriend of yours," said Niriya.

At that, Kaho smirked a little.

(A/N: Remember, she's a completely different person around Niriya. He unlocked her dark/ unkind/ hurtful side...)

"You thought you got to be my first kiss," she asked snidely.

"You're even more dense than i remembered. Of course i kissed Len before you. He's kind... And truthful... And he doesn't tell his friends that i have a great ass, or that I'm too emo for him," said Kaho.

A flicker of sadness dashed across Niriya's face, but was gone almost as soon as it had appeared.

He took a few more steps towards Kaho and said, "Oh really? Well, at least I never planned on leaving you to go to some far off country on the other side of the world."

He took another step towards Kaho, bringing their faces centimeters away from one each other.

"You'll always be my first love," he whispered, leaning in so his breath tickled Kaho's ear.

He leaned out again and pushed Kaho against the wall, his lips colliding with hers, Kaho struggling to get away from him.

As soon as Niriya came back up for air, Kaho opened her mouth to protest, but Niriya saw this and quickly began kissing her again, using the fact that her mouth was wide open to his advantage, his tongue slipping in her mouth, exploring each crevice.

Kaho struggled some more, trying to get Niriya off her.

Once she realized that it was hopeless, she just gave up, letting her body go limp, the only thing keeping her standing was the force Niriya applied to her shoulders against the wall.

The door burst open, revealing Len standing in the doorway, staring at Niriya kissing his beloved.

(Originally, Len had come up to the rooftop to see what was taking Kaho so long.)

Len sprinted the couple steps there were between him and his girlfriend that was being kissed by her ex, and literally pulled Niriya off her.

A single tear ran down her face as Kaho crumpled to the ground.

She raised a hand to her lips, trying to wipe off the feeling of Niriya, vigorously kissing her, trying to get a reaction.

Len began yelling at Niriya.

"YOU UGLY BASTARD," yelled Len. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO HER??????? YOU CLAIM THAT YOU LOVE HER YET YOU INSIST ON HURTING HER!!! THAT'S NOT LOVE! THAT'S HARASSMENT!"

Len raised his hand and was about to punch Niriya when Kaho placed her hand on his arm.

(Kaho had gotten up while Len was yelling at Niriya.)

She shook her head.

"He's not worth it," she murmured, "What if you injured your hands while punching him? What would you do then?"

Before Len could respond, she pulled his head down, stood up on her tiptoes, and kissed him.

Niriya's eyes widened.

He could see all of Kaho's and Len's passion when they kissed.

At first, Len's eyes had widened in shock, but then he closed his eyes and leaned in, placing his hand behind Kaho's head, holding it in place while he backed her up against the wall..

Niriya could see Kaho's response.

She kissed Len back willingly, and with her whole heart.

She let her love of music and her love for Len meld together.

Niriya thought back to the time where he forced himself on Kaho.

How lifeless she was, and how hard he had tried to make her respond.

Finally, he couldn't take it anymore...

He sprinted to the door, down the stairs, and out the school gates, not stopping until he got home.

Meanwhile, Kaho and Len were still at it, their lips tangled together in a complicated dance.

Finally, they broke away, both panting for breath.

Len seeing Kaho's disheveled look was about a thread away from losing his composure, locking the door to the roof and going all the way with her right then and there.

Len's hair was all mussed up because of the way that Kaho ran her hands through his blue locks.

They looked at each other lovingly until Len recalled they reason they had embraced so passionately.

His eyes clouded over and his mouth deepened into a scowl as he recalled seeing Niriya kissing Kaho.

"That bastard," he muttered. (A/N: Sorry about the language you guys!!!)

Kaho shook her head.

"He's not that big of a bastard," she said, a twinkle in her eyes.

Len looked at her with widened eyes.

He opened his mouth to protest.

Kaho placed a finger over his mouth and said, "How can he be bad? After all, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have gotten to kiss you like that."

Len shook his head.

Kaho cocked her head, confused about her boyfriend's sudden remission.

"What's wrong," she asked.

"It just makes me so angry when i see someone other than me lay their hands on you. And then HE, of all people, decided to harass you like that. It just makes me so mad," Len clenched his hands by his sides and turned away from Kaho.

Kaho turned Len towards her, placed a hand on his cheek, and said, "I felt nothing when he kissed me... When you kiss me, my heart races, and my knees buckle. There is nothing that could make me happier than being with you."

She smiled, stood up on her tiptoes, and kissed Len gently.

After a couple moments, she ended it, leaving Len look slightly ruffled at having his 'happy moment' taken away.

Kaho picked up her stuff, motioned to Len and said, "Let's go, we're going to be late for rehearsal."

Len walked over to her, kissed her forehead, took her violin case held Kaho's hand and said, "Yes, let's."

(A/N: SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE!!!!! I had a TON of homework, and yeah... PLUS, my Mandarin teacher gave out TWO tests, and I had to study like crazy for them... :( Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, it was 14 pages long!!! The characters were REALLY OOC, I'm working on it, if you have any suggestions on how I can get their attitudes/characterizations back on track, feel free to message me about it!!! :D I would REALLY appreciate it... THANKS FOR READING!!! Yours, Franfran.)