Chapter 3

Cassandra had to cover her mouth with her hand. She was trying to hide the smile that had appeared on her face when Kei killed Chioukichi. About a minute after they started to fight Kei had knocked Chioukichi down. Kei slammed his foot down on Chioukichi stomach to keep him from getting up. Chioukichi tried to get free but he was stuck. Kei crouched down and sat down on Chioukichi stomach after removing his foot. Chioukichi had looked at Kei in the face as Kei got an evil look to his face.

"Payback time." Kei started to repeatedly punch Chioukichi in the face. "I'm going to pulverize you until you can no longer smell pretty things!" Kei's punches had gotten faster and faster until you couldn't see them anymore. Finally after a while they stopped and you could see Chioukichi's face. Cassandra could remember how bloody and bruised his face was. Cassandra was sure he was dead until she saw him smile.

"Nice battle cry Kei." After that Chioukichi's body went lip. The higher up then called for people to take his body. As they came Kei stood up and started to wipe his hands off.

"Remind me that when he wakes up I need to shove something pretty up his nose to see if he can smell it." What Kei had said is what made Cassandra have to try hard to contain her laughter.

After a while, Cassandra finally caught her breath calming herself down. At that moment Akio walked up to her. He had a smile on his face. He had his hand raised for a high five. Cassandra smiled at him and gave him one.

"Well." Akio looked at the Boxing ring as the guys tried to clean off some of the blood. "Ready to beat the snot out of each other?" He glanced at Cassandra and smiled.

"Only if you are." Akio laughed.

"Just remember. Don't go easy on me, and I won't go easy on you." Cassandra shook her head.

"It wouldn't be any fun if we went easy on each other." They laughed together. At that moment the higher up told them to get in the boxing ring. The higher up looked at Kuya and Fusao.

"You two are next get ready." Kuya smiled he looked at Fusao. He raised his hand.

"Alright! I get o fight you next!" Fusao smiled at him and gave him a high five.

Cassandra and Akio smiled at each other and did as the higher up told. They looked at each other and bowed. They quickly got into a stance and stared at each other. Neither dared to make the first move. Cassandra smiled a cocky smile. "Come on Akio. You go first."

"No I couldn't. Lady's first."

"But I insist. You must go first." Akio smiled at Cassandra.

"Well if you insist." Akio didn't waste a second of him being allowed to go first.

Akio instantly fell to the ground and grabbed Cassandra's leg. Before Cassandra had a chance to do anything he pulled her leg out from under her. Cassandra hit the ground with a thud. Akio got on Cassandra stomach. Akio raised his fist to start punching her. Before he could, though, put her arms over her face to protect it. Akio started to punch her arms before he realized what she had done. When he realized she had done he decided to punch harder. Cassandra quickly realized what Akio was doing. He was hoping that her arms would get tired and she'd put them down. Cassandra also realized that that was what he was entirely he was focusing on. Cassandra smiled under her arms.

Cassandra swung her legs off the floor, and up around Akio's neck. She crossed her legs around his neck and pulled him down to the floor. Before she was up right she removed her legs. Akio was stunned at what she did. Cassandra smiled and went to punch Akio in the face. Akio grabbed her fist. Cassandra tried with her other hand to punch him, but was stopped again. They stayed like that for a while till finally Cassandra got off of Akio. Cassandra took a few steps back as Akio stood up. Akio smiled at her. Cassandra smiled back.

Akio ran at her. He pulled his arm back ready to punch her. Cassandra saw his attack ahead of time and dodged it easily. After she dodged it she punched his right cheek. Akio staggered backward holding his cheek. His right eye was closed in pain. Akio spat on the ring, opened his eye, and looked at Cassandra. Cassandra could see the smile in his eyes. She could also see the hint of a challenge. Cassandra smiled at that.

Cassandra ran at Akio. Akio put up his arms to cover his face as Cassandra threw punches at him. After a little while Akio realized something. After about five punches Cassandra would wait half a second longer to throw the next five. He decided to use that to his advantage. After five punches, when Cassandra waited her half a second before throwing her next punch, Akio took the moment and punched Cassandra in the gut. Cassandra was caught off guard. Cassandra felt like everything slowed down extremely as pain raced through her body. Finally after what seemed like forever Akio's fist was removed from her stomach, and she stumbled backward. She held her stomach trying to keep steady.

"Had enough already?" Akio gave a little chuckle. Cassandra smiled, an irritated smile.

"What are you saying?" She straightened up closing one of her eyes to try to resist the pain. "Barley felt that." Akio laughed at her. Cassandra took the moment. She crouched down, stuck her right foot out, and spun. She kicked Akio off his feet, and he fell to the ground on his back. Cassandra smirked as Akio fell to the ground. Cassandra could tell that pain shoot threw him. He sat up with a hand to his back and his face twisted in pain. Cassandra stood up quickly, ran toward him, jumped up in the air, had her elbow pointed down, and came down on Akio. Akio folded forward like a sheet of paper.

Cassandra looked at Akio. She was sure she had won. At that moment Akio spun around and made Cassandra lose her footing. She fell to the ground. Akio got on her and punched her in the face. Her nose started to bleed. Akio went to punch her again when Cassandra punched him in the gut. Akio got off of Cassandra. He stumbled backwards. Cassandra stood up. She could fell her nose bleeding.

Cassandra saw that Akio was starting to feel all the punches in the gut. One more hit should do! Cassandra ran and kicked Akio. When she kicked him she realized something. Akio wasn't still slightly crouched over when she kicked him. After he stood up he was his full height, which meant that Cassandra didn't kick him in the gut.

Akio's eyes grew. He fell to the ground in pain holding the spot where she kicked. He held his breath, trying not to scream out. Behind her Cassandra could hear the guys making sounds to show that they knew that it hurt. Akio moved his hands to the spot where the sun don't shine and curled into a little ball. Cassandra felt guilt rush over her in an instant.

"Akio?" Concern covered Cassandra's face.

"43! You're out! Go meet your higher up so he can teach you the rules! We don't do stuff like that." Cassandra instantly knew what he meant.

"What! But I didn't mean to hit him there."

"Does not matter. We don't do low blows. Go follow those guards and get out of here."

"But- this is unfair!" The higher up shook his head and made a jester to the guards to go to her. The guards got onto the boxing ring and walked up to Cassandra. One walked behind her, grabbed her arms, and pulled them behind her back. The other put handcuffs on her. Cassandra's face was twisted in anger.

"Let's go." One of the guards said as he started to push Cassandra out of the boxing ring.

"You can't do this! I didn't do anything."

"Shut-up!" Cassandra didn't flinch when the guard yelled in her ear. At that moment one of them shoved her head forward. Cassandra's anger grew. She shoved her head backward and hit the guy in the nose. She smiled when she heard it crack. "AH!" The guard let go of her and covered his nose. Cassandra smirked at him. The other guard grabbed Cassandra and pushed her out of the ring. She hit the ground. Pain shot threw her, but she didn't let it show.

"CASSANDRA!" Cassandra looked up to see Kuya looking at her. He would have been next to her if it wasn't for the guard, that pushed her down, stopping him. Cassandra smiled at him. When she did, though, the guard saw that she was ok. He ignored Kuya, walked over to Cassandra, and pulled her up to her feet.

"Let's go." His deep voice echoed as he pushed her toward an open door.

"Cassandra!" This time Kei yelled her name.

"Go back number 43 and 32! Go Back! 43 get ready for your fight!" Cassandra glanced behind her. She saw then hesitate, watching her leave. Cassandra smiled at them then looked forward.

Cassandra sat in discomfort in the chair she sat in. She looked around the room. It was white. What's with all the white in this place! To her left was a door. Above the door, on the right hand side, was a camera. A little light blinked on the camera to show that it was on. Cassandra looked away from the camera and looked at the table in front of her. She had her hands on the tabled. They were still hand cuff but in front of her.

Cassandra sighed then looked at the chair that sat on the other side of the table. The chair was empty. Cassandra stared at it, as if trying to make the person she was waiting for to appear in the chair.

At that moment she heard the door open. She looked over at it to see Hinata step in. Anger over took her in a second. Hinata walked over and sat in the empty chair. He laid a folder on the table. Cassandra suddenly got the feeling that she was on one of those criminal justice TV shows. Hinata looked at Cassandra. Cassandra matched his stare. They locked eye. They sat in silence for the longest. Then Hinata stood up and looked at the camera. He got a sly smile to his face.

"I would like to teach this girl the rules without restrictions, please?" At that moment the light to the camera turned off. Cassandra looked at Hinata. Hinata turned, looked at her, and cracked his muscles. Cassandra could only guess what he was going to say/do next.

"If you want to go then let's go-"

"Thank goodness they haven't broken you yet." Cassandra stared at Hinata. Shock covered her face in an instant.

"Huh?" Cassandra eyes widened as she watched Hinata sit back in the chair. A smile grew on Hinata's face.

"I'm sorry Cassandra. I have so much to explain."

"What's going on?"

"I guess I should start off by saying you're doing exactly what I want you t do. Weather you know it or not." Hinata started to speak as if Cassandra had never said anything.

"Huh?"

"Now I'll need you to start doing other things for me though." Cassandra held up her hands in a stopping motion.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What are you talking about?" Hinata smiled at her again.

"I guess I should explain some stuff huh?"

"Uh yea you should!" Hinata gave a little laugh.

"I can't explain much sadly." Hinata got a sad look to his face. It disappeared all most right after it came. "So where to start..." Hinata was silent. Cassandra decided to ask a question to get him started.

"Why did you suddenly change personality's after the camera went off?"

"If the higher up knew what I was going to try to over throw them, then I wouldn't be able to be a higher up. I act heatless and cold when the cameras are one." Hinata pointed at the camera. "When their off, though, I act like my normal self." Hinata smiled as if he just figured out something. "Here I have an idea. You ask a question, and I'll answer it." Cassandra nodded her head. She was going to do that anyways.

"First off, how do I know I can trust you?" Hinata thought for a moment.

"Remember when we met on the bus?" Cassandra nodded her head slowly. "I said 'Someday everything will all make perfect sense.' I was talking about now. When you would come here and help me." Cassandra looked at Hinata not believing him.

"I still don't trust you, but I'll go along with this." Relief washed over Hinata's face.

"I'm ok with that." He gave a little laugh. "So, what else?"

"Earlier you said you'd start needing me to do other things. What did you mean by that?" Hinata smiled a gentle smile then his smile started to show laughter.

"Well I'm trying to get rid of the Facility." Cassandra's face was cover in disbelief.

"You can't be serious!"

"Oh but I am." Hinata leaned back in his chair. "I'm sorry to say, but I can't tell you everything… Not yet at least. But I can tell you some things." Hinata leaned forward and placed his elbows on the table. He intertwined his fingers together and touched them to his mouth. "Do you want to hear what I can tell you?"

"Yes. Yes please."

"Ok. So For as long as I've been here I've been trying to over throw the higher ups. But I figured out that I needed to become a higher up in order to destroy them." Hinata leaned back in his chair again. "I also figured out that I couldn't do it alone. All this time I would go meet the new people who would join to see if they would be any help. Some were. Can you guess who they are?" Cassandra thought for a moment. Her face slowly got covered in disbelief.

"Classroom 10…." Hinata nodded his head.

"Yep. Your classmates are the people that I thought would be able to help me the most. Only I didn't talk to them like I did you before they died. I just knew that they were who I was looking for. I knew about their ability's before they ever did. But after I got them all together I realized something. There was something missing. Then I figured it out. It was a leader."

"But it looks like their doing ok now." Hinata shook his head.

"They seem like it but they aren't. Their all strong but they'll get broken by the higher ups at any moment. They need a strong leader that can hold them up. A leader that will never break." Hinata smiled at Cassandra. Cassandra got what he meant.

"Me?" She pointed at herself. Hinata nodded.

"Yes. When I meat you I knew that you were the leader I was looking for. I had to make sure that you got into group 10 though. I had to tell the other higher ups that you were going to be amazing. You were going to shock them all." Hinata gave a little laugh. "Luckily they thought that it was about the test. I was actually talking about me over throwing them. Destroying them." Hinata eyes looked like they had focused on something besides Cassandra. Something beyond that world.

"Hinata?" His eyes came into focus.

"Oh sorry." He gave a little laugh. "So now that you know what I'm trying to do, want to help?" Cassandra stayed silent. "I know it would be hard to decided, but I need your help."

"What will happen if I do join you?"

"Well to be honest you just have to act the same. Keep hating me like you always have. I'll need to keep acting the same as I do too."

"So I just act the same?"

"Yes."

"Then how will I know what to do to help you?" Hinata smiled

"I'll tell you some way somehow." Cassandra sat quietly for a second.

"Are you going to tell me anything else then?"

"I'm sorry I can't. I'm afraid that if I do I'll jinx myself. Like last time." A sad look covered Hinata's face. Cassandra decided not to ask what he meant. Hinata shook his head. He looked at Cassandra. "So you with me?" Hinata offered his hand to her for her to shake. Cassandra looked at his hand. Do I take his hand?

Cassandra fell to the floor of the classroom. She heard chairs scrap across the floor. In seconds the guys surrounded around her. Akio was by her side checking her wounds. He reached out and touched a bruise on Cassandra's arm. Cassandra flinched when he did. At that moment Hinata stepped in the room. Everyone looked at him. Hatred filled Cassandra's eyes.

"I hope you learned your lesion?"

"I learned that your all a bunch of idiots!" Hinata made a tsk sound.

"Careful. I could have hurt even more." Hinata looked at all the guys. "I see you guys are back. I hope you didn't hurt each other to much. Tomorrow you'll be running a new coarse tomorrow so get some sleep." Hinata looked at Cassandra. He smiled an evil smiled and nodded his head at her. "Hope you learn the rules soon." He left. No one moved till they heard the click of the door being locked.

"That bastard!" Atsuo glared at the door. "Even though you did break a rule they didn't have to beat you up!"

"Man! This is so studied!" Kei's hand turned into fist as he spoke.

Around her, Cassandra listened to the guys. She felt slightly upset that she couldn't explain to them what happened. Hinata had to beat her up in order not to get the higher ups suspicious. If he didn't then all he worked for would be for nothing.

"I'm sorry I have to do this." He kept saying those words over and over as he beat her up. She would just tell to quit saying that and finish what he started. After he bruised her up pretty badly he apologized no stop. Cassandra had to punch him to make him stop.

Afterward Hinata told her that she couldn't say anything to the guys. She had to gain their trust first. Not just regular trust, but a trust that would never waver no matter what. She had to wait to tell the everything till she got that trust. Or they would never believe her when she explained things.

"Cassandra are you ok? Does anywhere hurt?" Cassandra was brought back to reality when Akio spoke to her. "Akio looked her over. "If he had hurt you any more you could have died."

"What?" Cassandra couldn't hear what he said over the other guys yelling. Akio understood. He took in a deep breath.

"WILL YOU GUYS SHUT UP!" The room got quiet in an instant. Akio ignored the silence and started to talk to Cassandra. "Now Cassandra We'll need to take care of these wounds now. If you get any worse you could die." Surprise covered her face when she was told this information. Akio turned around and looked at Fusao. "Can you carry her to the bathroom? I'll need to dress some of her wounds." Fusao nodded his head and crouched next to Cassandra.

"How do you want to be carried?" Cassandra thought for a moment.

"Well I'm not much of a princess, so I guess princess style won't work."Cassandra smiled at Fusao. "I guess on the back then." Fusao smiled and turned around. Cassandra rapped her arms around his neck and Fusao put his arms behind her knees.

"Hold on." Fusao stood up quickly. He smiled at Akio. "Go open the door now." Akio smiled back, stood up and walked over to the door. AS he opened the door Kei spoke.

"Hey Akio, when will Chioukichi be waking up from the dead?" The door opened as Akio responded.

"Soon. In fact, any moment." They stepped into the room. Cassandra had to duck her head so she wouldn't get hit by the door way.

Cassandra glanced at Chioukichi's bed, which was in the front. His face was pale. Cassandra thought for a moment that that was the only way she could tell that he was dead. Other then that he looked just like he was sleeping. At that moment color flooded Chioukichi's face. The gasped and opened his eyes. He looked around and saw everyone coming into the room. He say Kei and smiled.

"I guess I deserved to die for being an ass yesterday." He rubbed the back of his neck with a smile on his face. He looked at Fusao and saw Cassandra on his back. Shock covered his face. He looked around the room. Slowly he realized that he had missed something. "Ok what did I miss?"

"Kei explained to him what happened after you knocked him out." Akio spoke without missing a beat.

"Ok! So Chioukichi first off I kicked your ass! Seconded off-" Kei's voice faded as Cassandra got farther away. His voice was completely gone when the door to the bath room was closed. Akio stood in the middle of the room and looked around.

"Set her on the edge of the tub while I get the first aid kit." Fusao nodded his head at him and did as he said. The pain from the bruises started to take effect on Cassandra. She started to feel very single one of them. When Akio walked up to her carrying a box he saw the pain she was suddenly in. He smiled at her.

"Think you can take this pain away?"

"Don't think I can take it fully away. I can ease it but you'll still feel some of it." Cassandra got an uneasy smile on her face. Akio had spoken with cheerfulness. It worried her some.

"Ahh." Cassandra looked up at Fusao. "What did you guys do while I was gone?"

"Well Kuya and I fought. We didn't get to fight much, though, when we were told to go back to the classroom. We stayed there for the longest till they brought Chioukichi body. We placed him on his bed then waited for you to come back." He smiled at her. "You didn't miss much."

"Good."

"So did they explain to you why it's bad that you broke that rule?" Cassandra sighed.

"Yea. Apparently almost all the higher ups and majority of the "students" are males." Fusao smiled when Cassandra explained the reason. When she explained it the remembered the whole reason on why it all happened. She looked at Akio. "I'm sorry Akio. Are you ok?" Akio smiled at her as he put a bandage on one of her bad wounds.

"I'm fine. I think the reason why it hurt too badly was because I wasn't expecting it."

"I'm still very sorry about what I did."

"It's fine it's fine. you got beaten up pretty badly for that, so it's all good." Cassandra smiled. Akio paused and looked at Fusao. "I don't think I'll need your help for now. I suggest you go and help Kei explain everything to Chioukichi properly. We all know he won't." Fusao nodded his head and left the bathroom.

Akio and Cassandra sat in silence. It wasn't an awkward silence though. Cassandra decided to watch Akio in the silence. His face showed that he was focused on what he was doing. His pink hair would fall over his eyes a few times, but it wouldn't stop him from what he was doing. The tips of his hair were a hot pink that faded out to regular pink as it went up his head. Cassandra realized that his eyes were pink with a slight tent of yellow. She was captivated my them.

At that moment Akio sat up and wiped his forehead. He looked as if he faced a problem. He was looking at her leg. Cassandra decided to look at it too. She saw a cut on the side of her calf. It was bleeding but it looked like it was healing. Cassandra remembered how she got it. Hinata had punched her in the gut. As she fell backward her leg got cut on the table. Cassandra had honestly forgotten it was there.

"I hope that can heal by tomorrow. You won't be able to run fast with a cut that big." Cassandra smiled.

"I'll be fine. Just bandage me up."

"Wow never on the dark side huh?" Akio laughed. He reached in the box and pulled out a bandage. "We'll need to get more of this soon." He got a paper towel and wet it. He started to clean Cassandra's wound. Has he cleaned it a thought accrued to her.

"Hey Akio mind if I ask something." Akio glanced at her.

"Shoot."

"Why did Chioukichi call on you to check on Atsuo when he was knock down, and how do you know how to do all this stuff?" Akio smiled without looking at her.

"When I was alive I wanted to be a nurse." A smile appeared on Cassandra's face. Akio saw the smile. "Yes, a male nurse. I was going to run around with the nurse dress and hat on; seducing everyone who saw me." Cassandra busted up laughing. She could see Akio running around having fun surprising people. Cassandra took a deep breath trying to stop her laughter. When she finally did she spoke.

"Oh that was good. You just made my day."

"Glad to be of service to you."

"Were you ever able to become a male nurse." Akio's eyes got a sad look to them. Cassandra realized she asked the wrong thing. Before she could take back what she said Akio spoke in a soft tone.

"No... That's why I'm here. I was killed before I could."Akio smiled a sort of sad smile. "I was volunteering at the local hospital in my town. A patent had died from a car wreck. Her husband said it was our fault that she died. He blamed us all. All of a sudden he pulled out a knife. He went to stab the doctor that tried to say his wife's life. My first instant was to protect the doctor. I jumped in front of him and got stabbed in the heart. I died almost instantly."

"I'm so sorry." Akio smiled at Cassandra.

"It's not like you could have done anything. The guys was a psycho so no one could have stopped him. Sure you have great abilities Cassandra but you would have been useless." Cassandra gave a little week laugh.

"Uh thank you."

"You're welcome!" Akio looked at Cassandra leg. "There all done."

"Wow! It looks all nice!" Cassandra looked at Akio with a big smile. "Thanks."

"No problem. Just don't do something stupid to get it to unravel. Though, even though I say this you'll still do something." Cassandra looked at him.

"Akio. Do you always say whatever is on your mind." Akio thought for a moment.

"I wouldn't say that. I'd say that I'm just really honest." Akio got up to but up the first aid box leaving Cassandra amazed by his words.

Cassandra left the bathroom behind Akio. When Cassandra entered the other room she saw almost everyone on their beds. Kei and Fusao were with Chioukichi at his bed. It looked like they were explaining everything in detail to him. Cassandra flopped down on her bed and looked at the ceiling. At that moment Chioukichi called her name. She looked at him.

"So Cassandra its true that you beat the snot out of Akio? That it was an amazing fight and that I missed it." Cassandra smiled.

"Yes." That simple word upset Chioukichi.

"MAAAN! That's unfair! I can't believe I missed it!" Chioukichi glared at Kei. "If only I hadn't of gone easy on you."

"EASY! HA! I killed you fare and square!" Chioukichi dismissed Kei.

"Nope. I went easy on you."

"Oh bull shit!" Chioukichi stood up, his back facing Kei.

"It's the truth." Chioukichi walked to the middle of the room. He whipped around and faced Kei. There was a look of challenge on his face. Kei stood and walked over to where he stood in front of Chioukichi.

"Oh really? Then let's go again?" The two got into a stance, but before either could do anything they both felt great pain in their ears. They looked over to see Cassandra holding their ears by the finger nail.

"OWW!" They started to try to get free but Cassandra only dug her nails in harder. "Stop!" They both screamed out in pain. Cassandra just glared at them.

"No fighting. The last thing we need is for us to get even more injured." Cassandra glanced at Kazuya. He was half way off his bed staring at Cassandra. He smiled at her then sat back down.

"Cassandra let go." Chioukichi started to get a tear in his eye. Cassandra stared at him with a blank expression.

"Please?" Kei looked at Cassandra big eyes.

"Promise you won't fight? Promise no more arguing?" The two nodded their heads. Cassandra let go of their ears. They both instantly moved their hands to their ears. Chioukichi looked at Cassandra.

"Why don't you want us to fight or argue?" Cassandra looked at him.

"I want a peaceful moment."

"But there have been peaceful moments when you go here." Cassandra rolled her eyes a Kei. She held up her hand and started to count off all the un-peaceful moments.

"When I first got here I was uneasy. It was all new to me so it wasn't peaceful. The second day I got here I got to meet the General, run a new course that was extremely hard, then act like it wasn't, and not be able to eat. The third day I died and then we had Atsuo die. Then today I had to fight Akio, and get punished for accidentally kicking him in the privet. My days have been pretty hectic so I would just love to be able to relax." Chioukichi and Kei looked at each other. All of a sudden they both got mischievous smiles to their face.

"Ahh but Cassandra you don't know us that well then." Chioukichi leaned in toward Cassandra when he spoke. Kei quickly did the same thing.

"Nothing is ever peaceful with us around. So you're just going to have to get use to it being un-peaceful." Cassandra smiled sweetly at them. When she did so it threw Chioukichi and Kei off.

"Oh I bet I can make it peaceful." Cassandra quickly reached out and grabbed their ears again. They guys let out small screams of pain. Cassandra drug them to the back of the room. She opened the door to the bathroom door with her foot. She threw Chioukichi and Kei into the room, shut the door, and locked it. Cassandra could hear the guys pounding on the door. Cassandra just turned her back to the door and walked over to her bed. She looked at everyone else. They were all staring at her. Fusao opened his mouth.

"I think that's the greatest idea ever." Kazuya nodded his head in agreement. Akira pushed his glasses up his nose and looked at Cassandra.

"I'm very thankful that you did that. They get out of hands sometimes. We can usually never stop them."

"Their block heads so they don't really listen." Akio spoke with enthusiasm.

Cassandra smiled at them as a memory of what Hanta said popped in her head. He told her to take charge, and fix problems that she knows that they'll want fixed. If she does so then they'll trust her more and make her the official leader. I feel bad for deceiving them like this. For playing them like pawns, but I have to, to save them.

"No we might have some peace and quiet." When Akira spoke it brought Cassandra out of her thoughts.

"So when do we let them out?" Kuya asked. Everyone looked at the bathroom door where the pounding was still going on.

"Let them stay in there." Fusao grabbed a book from the trunk at the foot of his bed. "It'll be good for them." Everyone nodded their head. Cassandra smiled. Looks like everything is going good.

Cassandra laid down on her bed and looked at the Ceiling. At that moment she felt something land on her stomach. She raised her head up slightly to see a book on it. She looked around and saw Akira looking at her.

"You look like your kind of bored. So I threw you that book. I think you might like it." Akira leaned back and picked up his own book.

Cassandra looked at the book again before she picked it up. The one that lost? On the cover it showed a princesses and a prince the top left hand corner. in the middle it showed a poor women with tears streaming down her face. Just the cover its self interested Cassandra. She opened the book and started to read.

Cassandra woke up to someone calling her name softly. She opened her eyes to see Fusao. She was kind of surprised. She sat up quickly and looked at him. He had a smile on his face.

"I went to the bathroom to wake up Chioukichi and Kei and... Just follow me." Cassandra got out of her bed and followed Fusao to the bathroom. Fusao looked at Cassandra and smiled before he opened the door. When Cassandra could see into the bathroom she flew her hand to her mouth. A smile grew behind her hand.

In front of her was Chioukichi and Kei. They were both laying on the floor. Chioukichi's head touched the bathtub and Kei's head faced the door. Kei's left foot was jabbing into Chioukichi's head, and Chioukichi's left leg was being hugged like a stuff animal by Kei. At that moment Kei snuggled up to Chioukichi's foot, and Chioukichi turned his head to where Kei's foot went into his mouth. Their eyes flew open at the same time. They both took in what was going on. The pushed was from each other.

"GROSS!" Chioukichi started to wipe is tongue on his arm while Kei was wiping his face. Fusao and Cassandra busted up laughing giving themselves away. Chioukichi and Kei stopped what they were doing and looked at Fusao and Cassandra. "WHAT! You guys were here and didn't wake us before I got a face full of feet!" Fusao and Cassandra laughed harder when Chioukichi and Kei spoke at the same time. the two in return just glared.

"Sorry Chioukichi and Kei. Saw you to like that and had to show Cassandra before I woke you guys."

"WHY?" They both were mad but were curious.

"Because it was so funny." Fusao and Cassandra busted up laughing again. At that moment they heard a voice behind them. They turned around to see Atsuo standing at the door. He had a dazed look to his face as if he just woke up. He looked around and yawned.

"Why are you guys so loud? What are you laughing about?" Cassandra opened her mouth to reply when a hand covered her mouth.

"Nothing! Nothing at all." Chioukichi and Kei said at the same time. Atsuo stared at them.

"I swear. You two are more like twins then Kei and Kazuya are." Atsuo yawned. "Well just finish whatever you guys are doing and get ready for homeroom. I'll wake up everyone else." He left closing the door behind him. Chioukichi and Kei both let out a sigh of relief. Cassandra reached up and removed the hand from her mouth. She looked up to see that the hand belonged to Kei. Kei looked over at Chioukichi.

"We will never speak of this. Agreed?"

"Agreed." Chioukichi looked that Fusao and Cassandra. "You two promise not to speak of this."

"We promise." They both said. Kei let go of Cassandra and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Man that's just nasty. I don't think I could think of an even worse situation than that." Cassandra smiled when Kei said that.

"You guys could have been cuddling with each other the woken up in each other's arms." Fusao shot his hand to his mouth keeping his laughter contained. Kei and Chioukichi looked at each other. Their faces for red in an instant.

"AW! GROSSER! That would be so embarrassing!" They both turned away from each other and visibly shuddered. Cassandra giggled. They looked at her. Cassandra held up her hands.

"Hey I promise never to speak of this again." Fusao let out a little chuckle when she said this. Kei and Chioukichi glanced at each other and shuddered again. Fusao took a deep breath.

"Ok enough of this. Let's go get ready for homeroom." Fusao's voice was calm but he still had a smile on his face. Kei and Chioukichi nodded their heads and quickly left the bathroom. Fusao gave another little chuckle. "I swear without those two I think this place would be very boring." Fusao left and Cassandra followed him.

Cassandra sat in her desk feeling happy. So far her morning was going amazing. She guess that it would get worse but she didn't care. She was happy right then and there and that's all that matters. At that moment the door to the classroom opened. Hinata stepped in and walked to the front of the room. He looked at everyone with a smile on his face.

"Good morning. I hope you all slept ok. Today you will be testing a new course. That's all that needs to be said so you may all go now."

Cassandra stood and started to walk to the door. She had to pass Hinata. She glared at him. As she passed him she ran her shoulder into his. He in return smiled at her.

"Hmm going easy on me this morning huh? Well don't worry I won't punish you. The new course will do that." Cassandra glared at him the finished the rest of the way to the door. When she reached the door she realized that there was something in her skirt pocket. She didn't dare to pull it out and look at it. Hinata must have slipped it into his pocket when I ran into his shoulder. He's good. But I won't read it now. The others might see me and ask what it is. I'll wait till we get back to read it. I just have to make sure I don't lose in the course. Cassandra sighed and ran to catch up with the others who were a few yard ahead of her.

Sorry for not updating soon. I had writes block so had to get over it then I have a bunch of stuff to do right now so I ouldn't really work on it much. I hope you like this chapter. I worked really hard on it. This is the chapter where the plot line starts to show. I hope you like Akio's backstory. I find it a little sad but good. Anyways thanks for reading! please leave a review so I know if I failed on this or not. Thank you for reading! *Bows* Hopefully I'll be able to get the next chapter up soon!