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Chapter 4:

"A dance?" A certain bird-brained ginger exclaimed. "No way! I don't do dances!"

"C'mon Crow! Jack is even going! You can't be the only one NOT going in our circle of friends! It'll be so much fun! I promise!" Luna begged.

Akiza chuckled at the scene. The entire 'totem' had occupied one of the many lounges the elaborate school had. She sat on one of the love-seats with Yusei, her hand in his, observing the battle between brains and funny-brains occur. Jack leaned against the wall, expression as cold and passive as ever, next to the chair Carly was occupying. The future journalist was glued to her laptop screen, conjuring up her massive blog article on Yusei and Akiza's 'blossoming love'. Sherry was napping on one of the regular couches and Leo was munching on some random chicken wings he managed to scrounge up. Crow was occupying one spot on one of the other couches in the room and Luna was in his face, yelling profoundly at the clownish duellist.

"But I suck at dancing! And-… Never mind." Crow trailed off.

"What? What else is holding you back from the best night of your life?" Luna exaggerated.

Crow tried to find something to cover up his slip-up. "Uh… The food there is always horrible! It makes me sick!" He gave lamely.

Luna wasn't buying it. She put her hands on her hips and looked down on the ginger teen like a condescending mother would expectantly. "You're going to this dance whether you like it or not. It will be much more fun than sitting in your dorm room alone! Everyone is going!" she exclaimed. Luna was right, everyone would be there. It was the perfect way to get all the students back together again to reconnect and such since most of the students who attended the school had a lot of money and usually went on vacation during the summer with their families.

"Exactly! EVERYONE will be there! Including Misty and Kalin. I'm not interested in Misty getting in my face about how I'm trying to split her and her boyfriend up so I can have my friend back. No thank you! And besides, I'll probably just end up sitting against a wall with Bruno or Harumi, watching everyone else have a good time." Luna was taken aback by the sudden outburst from the bird-loving peer and gave a sigh of defeat.

"You'll be missed, I hope you know that." And with that Luna turned and headed off for what looked like the main office, no doubt she would have something to do there.

"Way to go." A sleepy Sherry chastised as she sat herself up on the couch. Akiza smiled at the blonde girl who returned the smile lazily. Akiza worried about Sherry. He sleeping habits were very unorthodox, as in when she wasn't in class, she was sleeping, and it wasn't healthy. It seemed as though she would get too much sleep, wake up tired and with a headache and her remedy was more sleep.

Crow glared at her. "Lay off. Luna 'll get over it. It's not like she's my date or anything."

Akiza arched an eyebrow at him. "Do you want her to be your date?" She inquired with a teasing tone to her voice.

Crow gave her an exasperated look. "Oh yeah, definitely! It's not borderline incest at all!" He exclaimed rather sarcastically. Leo spit out the chicken in his mouth when Crow said 'incest'. Yusei snorted at him while Sherry gave a look of disgust.

"Okay then." Crow said confusedly. "I'll be in my dorm room if anybody needs me." Crow left without hesitating with almost and awkward feel to his movements. The group shrugged it off and continued to chat amongst themselves.

"So how long are we going to pretend we're together?" Yusei asked his 'girlfriend'.

Akiza didn't quite know how to answer him. It wasn't uncomfortable for them, but she didn't have feelings for him in 'that way', but she also didn't want Takami coming after her again. Carly also had a huge story going with this and Akiza didn't want to ruin it. Wait! Carly's story…

"How about we wait for Carly to post her story and then a couple days later, we make a huge break-up scene?" Akiza suggested.

Yusei pondered the possibility with furrowed eyebrows. "Well, it would help Carly out… But don't you think people would be confused when they saw us hanging out again as friends?" He had a point.

Akiza thought about it, then conjured up a brilliant idea that would out for all parties involved. "What if, we broke up because my parents didn't want me dating? We could still make the scene and agree to be friends as a result in front of everyone, and Takami will still lay off of the group." Akiza excitedly explained, proud of her little scheme.

Yusei smirked at his clever friend. "Do you think they'll believe it?" he wondered.

Akiza nodded. "If we make it convincing." She waited for a response, but Yusei still seemed a bit hesitant. "We could do it at the dance." She suggested.

Yusei shook his head. "And ruin the hard work Luna put into it? No, we'll have the scene after the dance." He agreed. Akiza nodded and smiled before pecking her 'boyfriend' on the cheek.

Akiza leaned her head on Yusei's shoulder as she scanned the room. Sherry fell asleep again, Leo had resumed eating his wings even after having spit them up and Jack was still next to Carly watching her do her work. She was convinced he liked her, and it was rather cute. The popular bad-ass kid falling for a behind-the-scenes, barely noticeable klutz of a girl and asking her to prom where they become madly in love and live happily ever after. She hoped that the two of them would get together soon.

"I'm going to take Sherry back to our dorm room, okay?" Akiza whispered to Yusei. He nodded and kissed her sweetly before letting her get up.

Akiza walked over to Sherry and tapped her shoulder to get her up. Sherry looked up at the red-head with squinted eyes. "Hmm?"

"I'm going to bring you back to our room okay?" Akiza told her softly. Sherry nodded and got up. They started to make their way back to the room when Misty and her 'gang' showed up in a hallway they turned down.

"Awe, is Sherry tired? It's only 5:30. I guess Akiza better get the little baby back to her crib for nap time." Misty taunted.

Akiza glared at the socialite as she lightly nudged Sherry along. Misty and her friends started laughing at them when Sherry decided to pipe up. "Very funny Misty. I'm sure you'll be a great comedian, seeing as you're too dumb to comprehend how to do anything else except spew the occasional somewhat funny comment. In a couple years you might have enough jokes for a comedy act!" Sherry spat with some sarcasm thrown in. Misty was speechless.

"What's the matter? Tongue-tied now are we?" She attacked. Misty still didn't say anything, which Sherry took as her cue to leave. Akiza followed but didn't say a word the whole way there. As she followed her friend, she reviewed what happened with Misty. Akiza was surprised that Misty couldn't retaliate Sherry with some insult, maybe she wasn't used to getting attacked like that? She was a queen bee after all, if anyone had something to say about her, they either said it behind her back or didn't say it all, probably due to fear of being ridiculed. Sherry obviously wasn't afraid of it in the slightest.

It made sense to Akiza that Sherry would insult Misty like that. Even though Stephanie was the one who stole Bruno, there was no doubt in her mind that Misty had been behind it. Misty had stolen Kalin herself, if that wasn't an indicator, then what was? It seemed to Akiza like Misty was trying to rip apart Luna's social group, but why? Did Luna do something to her? Did she feel her popularity throne was being challenged? There was only one person Akiza knew of who would know.

The two girls reached the dorm room, but said nothing to each other as they entered their respective bedrooms. Akiza whipped out her cell phone and dialled a number. She waited and after a few rings her friend picked up.

"Hello?" came a rushed voice from the other end of the line.

"Hey Carly, it's Akiza." She greeted.

"Oh hey, what's up?" Carly was obviously still working on her article about Yusei and herself.

"Do you mind coming to my dorm room? I have some questions I need to ask you." Akiza explained.

"Sure no problem. I'll be there soon." Carly agreed.

"See you soon."

Akiza hung up her phone and waited for Carly to arrive. She laid on her bed and decided to do some homework as she waited. As she started getting her Algebra textbook out her cell phone buzzed. She picked it up and read the screen: 1 New Message. She hit the button to open it and started reading, the sender was unknown.

"Akiza, I'm sorry about my brother's actions. He tends to think the world revolves around him. I hope we can be friends despite my brothers behaviour. Believe me, I'm not like him. Please come and meet me so we can talk some more at 7:00 behind the gym.

Kichimi"

Akiza frowned at the message, a bit puzzled by it. She decided to meet her at the said time and place and sent a reply message saying so. Luna said she was nice, so did Carly, she had no reason not to trust her, right?

Her thoughts were silenced by Carly walking in her bedroom rather oddly. Akiza raised her eyebrow at the raven-haired teen.

"What are you doing?" Akiza asked her.

"Sherry's sleeping isn't she? I didn't want to wake her up." Carly explained.

Akiza looked at her weirdly before shaking it off and making room for her on her bed.

"So what did you want to ask me?" Carly inquired, excited that Akiza needed her help.

"Well, you pretty much know everything about all the popular kids here, like you said it's your job to know." Akiza began. Carly nodded, signalling her to continue. "I was wondering, has anything gone down between Luna and Misty that makes them hate each other?" Akiza questioned.

Carly's eyes went wide as if she remembered something and she got her laptop out and started going through some folders she had stored. When she came to the one she wanted, she opened it and selected a file titled 'CAT FIGHTS 07'. She opened the document and started scanning it until she came across what she wanted and moved the laptop so Akiza could clearly see the article.

"They were best friends up until they had a huge fight over something, we still don't know what it was or why it happened. All I know is that it had something to do with Leo and Misty's brother." Carly explained.

Akiza pondered the new information as she pulled out her cell phone and pulled up the message Kichimi sent her. "It must have been pretty bad if they were best friends and couldn't forgive each other. Does Misty's brother go here?" Akiza asked again.

Carly nodded. "Luna and I are the only ones who know besides the teachers. They're half-siblings, but they were raised together. Misty's mom and birth-dad split up and her mom got full custody of her. She remarried and had Misty's brother with her new husband, they're still together. His name is Toby Tredwell. Misty decided to use her moms maiden name as her last name so her brother didn't get sucked into her social paradise. She goes by Misty Lola." Carly elaborated. She really did know everything about the populars at this school. Hopefully she didn't want to do a spread on Akiza herself.

"Do you know his dorm room number?" Akiza inquired.

"3457, you're not going to talk to him are you?" Carly asked hesitantly.

"No, Carly. I just asked for his dorm room number for fun." Akiza gave sarcastically. "Come on, let's go talk to him." Akiza instructed. Carly nodded excitedly and followed Akiza's lead.

Akiza had gotten used to the school layout and knew her way around pretty well now. She found Toby's dorm room quickly and knocked on the door with an eager Carly at her side.

"No making a story on this until we've gotten all the facts. We don't want an angry Luna and Misty cleaning our clocks over this, got it?" Akiza clarified. Carly nodded again, still excited as ever to be Akiza's recorder.

A kid with light orange hair and droopy, red eyes answered the door. "Can I help you?" he asked surprisingly cheerfully.

"Um, yes. We're looking for Toby." Carly answered. The orange-haired kid nodded and let the two girls in.

"TOBY!" he called.

"WHAT?" came a response muffled by the door to one of the bedrooms.

"THERE ARE SOME GIRLS HERE WHO CAME TO TALK TO YOU!" he shouted back.

Toby emerged from his bedroom to greet them, but the friendly smiled he carried in with him vanished when he recognized Carly.

"You're that reporter girl, aren't you?" he accused. Carly nodded at the boy who turned back to his bedroom.

"Show them out Hideki." He ordered his roommate, who started to comply when Akiza shoved him off.

"We just want to help, we don't want to make a story out of it." Akiza protested while simultaneously giving Carly a look saying she meant it. Carly looked pleadingly at Akiza who just strengthened the look even more. Carly shrank back in defeat which Akiza took as an 'okay'.

Toby turned back to them. "Do you promise?" he asked.

Akiza gave him a reassuring nod and he showed the two girls into his room. He gestured them towards the bed and he sat down in what looked to be a customized computer chair. The three of them got comfortable as Toby began to explain.

"Luna and I had a 'thing'." He started. Akiza and Carly's eyes widened as he continued. "Misty had no idea until one day she walked in on us kissing. We had been together for a couple years at that point. Her and my sister were best friends and she was over almost everyday, so it was hard not to fall for her. Misty wasn't too upset when she found out, she really didn't mind. She figured that since she knew it was okay for her to talk about it with Luna, which Luna was okay with until one day her brother overheard them."

Akiza and Carly had by now dropped their jaws in pure astonishment.

"He started yelling at the two girls over it and blamed Misty for it. He started calling her a bunch of profanities and tried to throw her out of the house. Luna tried to stop him and kept apologizing to Misty saying he didn't mean it until he called her the, and I quote, 'most oblivious idiot in the world who didn't deserve to live'. It's true she isn't the sharpest knife in the draw. She was made fun of a lot at her old school for it. She ended up slapping him, which Luna took great offense to. Luna believed that Misty knew Leo was overreacting and didn't mean what he said and that slapping him was out of line, but Misty felt he should've known better than to call her an idiot because of how she was treated before about it. They still can't forgive each other and believe that they are right and the other is wrong. Not to mention they were extremely popular at the time, so when they split, so did their friends."

Akiza's head was reeling with the new information. She loved Luna to bits, but she had to agree with Misty's side of it, Leo had gone too far.

"And thus started the age of the totem poles. Takami didn't come into play until much later. Before him it was almost like a contest, who was better than who. I'm not going to lie, the whole thing thickened Misty's skin a bit too much, she's a total bitch now when it comes to anything really. The only thing she really cares about is me now, she made Luna swear not to let a single soul know about the whole thing."

Akiza forced herself out of her shock so she could ask Toby a question. "Are you and Luna still together?"

"Oh, no. Leo forced her to break it off. I'm telling you, Leo and I were good friends, he would never hurt a fly, but something about Luna and I dating made him snap. It still boggles me to this day." He answered.

"Maybe he's just overprotective of Luna?" Carly suggested.

"If that's the case, then overprotective is an understatement." Toby input.

Akiza sat there and dissected the new information, trying to figure out what to do from there. "I think we should talk to Leo about this." Akiza voiced.

Carly looked at her like she was crazy. "Are you insane? If he knows we know, he'll accuse Luna of telling us, which will cause her to come and yell at us, then she'll get mad at Misty who will undoubtedly get mad at Toby and then everyone will be mad at each other!" Carly ranted, clearly afraid of being yelled at by her best friend and Misty most likely as well.

"Well then we'll figure out a plan later, I need to get going, I'm meeting someone. Are you free afterschool tomorrow, Toby?" Akiza asked, which the boy nodded to.

Toby gave Akiza and Carly his cell phone number and the two girls left for Akiza's room again, still trying to figure out what to do with the situation.

"Who are you meeting? Because if you can reschedule, I think we should continue talking about this." Carly suggested.

Akiza shook her head. "I cant cancel, otherwise she might get the wrong idea about my opinion of her." She admitted.

Carly started to wave her hands around in the air. "BUT THIS IS HUGE! We need to figure this out!" She exclaimed with a large amount of enthusiasm.

"I'm sorry Carly, I have to go. Here, I'll leave my dorm room unlocked. You get your uniform and nightwear and set up camp in my bedroom. I'll be back soon, and we'll spend all night on this, okay?" Akiza offered.

Carly agreed to the idea and hurried off to get her things. Akiza parted ways with her friend and headed to the area behind the gym. What did Kichimi want with her? Was she really that interested in being friends with Akiza? Or was it something else entirely?

Akiza soon arrived at her destination to find Kichimi waiting for her. Unfortunately, she wasn't alone. Harumi and Kiyomi were there as well.

"What's going on?" Akiza inquired, a little uneasy with the whole situation.

Kichimi put on a serious face as she approached Akiza, "We've come to make an offer."

END

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