"Come on Kizuka! You're being stubborn and unfair!" says Juni trying to drag me out of my room to go shopping. Dress shopping.

"No, I'm perfectly fine with staying home." I reply escaping from her grasp and locking myself in my room. I hate shopping. Bad experience with... others.

*Cough*Kris, Lisa, and Dawn.*Cough*

In my defense: I was young, naive, and innocent.

Another reason I don't want to go is because I already have my dress. I've never worn it and I think it's just right for the occasion.

"Please Kizuka-senpai?" pleas Umeko.

"I said no. N-O! What part of 'No' don't you get?" I yell through the door. It's a hopeless case and they should give up.

-3 Hours Later-

I slurp happily on a Caramel frozen expresso as compensation for them dragging me on their little 'search for the perfect dress' thing. We also dragged Ann along because she didn't have anything better to do, or so she says. *Suspicious look*

"Well, at least I know you guys are determined to get what you want." I say slurping a big gulp of coffee.

"SHIT! Brain freeze!" I shout holding my head and squinting my eyes shut.

"It's probably karma for taking so long to agree to come." says Hazumi matter-of-factly. I glare.

"Come on girls, she'll be ok." instructs Hazumi walking ahead. Everyone follows her except Nami and Isabelle.

"Come on, Buchou-neechan."

"You ok, Kizu-sama?" asks Isabelle. I look at them and smile.

"I'm fine. You can go ahead." I assure but Nami shakes her blonde head.

"Iie. We never leave a teammate behind." she smiles.

'Kawaii.' I think.

"Arigatou." I says getting over my brain freeze. She grabs my hand and the 3 of us run to catch up to the others.

8 stores, 5 arguments, and no dresses later we make it to the last store in the vicinity.

"Finally! I was beginning to think you guys weren't going to find another store to find your dresses. Hopefully they're in here." comments Ann just as exhausted as I am. The first seating area we see, we bolt for it.

"Ahhh, cushion." we sigh in relief to be sitting and resting our feet.

Once I settle down the rest take a look around. The store is expensive looking which make me wonder how much these girls are willing to pay for their 'perfect dress'.

"Hello and welcome to 'Unique Boutique'. My name is Lydia, if there is anything you need, just ask." she smiles, unlike other clerks, it's genuine.

"Arigatou, we will." replies Umeko. We all nod in agreement. The lady then walks away to tend to another customer that just walked in.

"Ok, you girls know the routine. You try on the dresses then Ann and I will be the critics." I suggest. They nod and hurry off to get dresses. Every now and then the girls would pick out a dress, try it on, get a shake of the head and run off to find another. I'm getting the strange notion that Hazumi is trying to get me to wear the hideous dresses she picks out because she sure as hell doesn't plan on wearing it and neither do I

"How about his one Kizu-hime?" she asks holding up a particular disgusting yellow colored dress. I cross my arms giving a glare.

"No." Not 5 minutes later did she come back with another and let me tell you 'ugly' isn't even the word for it.

"This?"

"Hell No!" 10 minutes later after everyone is done picking and goes to the cashier to pay, Hazumi comes up to me and taps me on the shoulder. Frustrated I whip around to tell her to stop picking disturbing dresses when halfway through my sentence I shut up and my eyes widen.

"It's beautiful." I breathe moving to feel the fabric but Hazumi smirks and pulls it out of my reach. I pout like a little kid.

"Wait a minute. I thought I picked out ugly dresses." she says, her mischieveous grin growing wider. I shake my head.

"No. I was wrong." I confess as an apology. She teasingly wiggles the dress in front of me. After my futile attempts to retrieve the garment like a dog trying to get a bone, I become frustrated and begin to growl clinching my fist.

"Hazumi, .."

"Let's see..." she trails tapping her chin in thought.

"JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN DRESS!" I practically yell holding out my hand. With a heavy sigh she hands it over mumbling along the lines of 'could've asked nicely'. Shrugging it off, I try on the dress smiling as it fits perfectly.

'This will shock even Kunimitsu.'

Paying for the dress we go get something to eat at Nami's family cafe. Fortunately we didn't run into any unsuspecting whores or man-whores here, like I usually do. We each order something, with a discount of course, and talk about the upcoming dance.

"So who are we all going with?" I ask casually.

"Momoshiro-kun asked me yesterday." says Umeko meekly. She does that often, so I think I'll call her Meeky-chan.

"Lolita-chan?" Nami gives a bubbly smile.

"You don't know him, but his name's Takamichi Heiwa."

"Well I'll see you two at the dance then, and you can introduce us."

"M'kay." she smiles brightly.

"Of course I'm going with Fuji-kun." interjects Hazumi arrogantly, I smirk.

"Who wouldn't know? You guys are practically making babies in the corner in your sparetime." I comment causing Hazumi to flush and glare at me while shutting her mouth.

"What? Speechless? Gasp!" I say putting my hand over my heart feigning shock earning a harsher glare.

"NE-way. I'm going with Eiji-kun."

"Obvious." we all chorus.

"What about you and Tezuka-san? Has he asked yet?" inquires Juni. I shrug sipping on my smoothie.
"He asked me yesterday, but decided that we weren't entering that stupid contest."

"And WHY NOT!?" yells Hazumi.

"Someone needs to knock that bitch off her throne!!" she whispers harshly.

"And who better than the very person who's taken all she's wanted." smirks Umeko catching on.
Giving them suspicious glances I turn my attention to Isabelle who has been quiet for awhile now.

"So, Oto-hime, who are you going with?" I whisper.

"Did Oishi-kaasan ask you out?" I add causing her usually pale face to glow red. She shakes her head.

"No, he hasn't asked me, and it's okay if he doesn't. I'm fine with just being his friend." she smiles softly looking at her half full glass of lemonade. I shake my head.

'Oishi better ask her today, or else.' I scowl in my head.

When we make it back to the Mansion, or Safe House as I now dub it, we put up our dresses and find the boys playing in my pool. Chibi-chan is being dunked by Momo and Eiji, Kunimitsu and Kamon chilling as Lifeguards, and everyone else is playing water volleyball. Luckily Maria and Airen are the RESPONSIBLE adult supervision.

"Ladies! Welcome back!" shouts Rei jumping up and down in the pool wildly creating waves. At this everyone stops what they're doing and climbs out grabbing a towel and drying off. Kunimitsu hops down out of the high chair and gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"My grandparents say they want to meet you after the dance." he says leading me back into the house.

"Okay. That means I have to be normal." I say more to myself than anything. Inside I feel really REALLY nervous. Kunimitsu hugs me from behind and kisses my head.

"Don't worry, they'll love you."

"Yeah." I mumble turning in the embrace to return it.

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Ugh! I can't figure out if I should pin my hair up or leave it down in curls. The other girls and their dates have already gone ahead to the school. Kunimitsu had planned to go home and come pick me up later, which I readily agreed to, in order to make our grand entrance. Now all I need to decide is who to do my hair!

*Doorbell*

'Oh Shit!' I think, quickly putting my hair in curls and leaving it down. I grab my purse and walk out of my room and down the stairs gracefully. This is what's going through my head at the moment: 'Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall...' I look at Kunimitsu and immediately blush at the handsome young man before me. He's wearing all black. A casual black button up shirt, black slacks, and nice black dress shoes. In his hand he holds a single red rose.

'Awww, how sweet.' I think practically melting.

I give a soft smile as I walk up to him and take the rose.

"It's beautiful."I whisper as I smell the fresh fragrance before me.

"But not as beautiful as the Angel in front of me." he comments smoothly giving me a chaste kiss. He then holds his arm out a small noticeable grin on his face. I smile.

"Shall we go?"

I loop my arm with his.

"We shall." I reply with him leading the way out. Before we can make it to the door Rei and Kamon block the way, arms folded and eyes narrowed. An anger vein pops up on my head.

'If they mess this up...'

"Now her curfew is--" they start but are interrupted by Dawn and Kris who put them in headlocks and force them away from us. Maria and Lisa take their places.

"You two have a good night." they bow and usher us out the door to the limo. We get in Kunimisu, being the gentleman, gets in last.

"I forgot to mention that you look very handsome tonight. Not that you don't look it every day." I blush, he chuckles and grabs my hand lacing his fingers with mine.

"You're cute when you're embarrassed." he whispered in my ear sending shivers down my spine. The good kind that makes my whole body tingle.

'Why does he make me feel this way?'

"Look we're here." comes his strong voice breaking through my thoughts. He proceeds to guide me out of the car as I pull my shaw closer to keep me warm.

"Kizuka-sama, Tezuka-san, I'll be back Promptly at 11." states Airen, we nod in confirmation before he pulls off heading back home. We walk into the gym only to be jumped on by Nami, Eiji, Momo, and Juni. Everyone else walks over to us calmly with their dates, well almost everyone.

'Where is Fuji-nii and Hazumi? Probably manipulating some poor unfortunate soul.' I sigh, but shake my head to rid myself of the thoughts.

"You guys look so cute together!" exclaims Umeko stars in her eyes. A flash went off somewhere in my peripheral vision. I turn my gaze to look but no one was there.I could've sworn I saw a head of purple hair. A vein appeared on my head.

'Hazumi!'

"Why don't we sit down and talk? I don't want to get blisters too early in the evening." I suggest. Tomo-chan leads us to the table she ferociously protected from the other guests. I sweat drop.

'She's like Kris, and I don't know if that's a good thing or bad.'

We sit and talk for about half an hour before me, Momo, and Kaidoh decide this dance needs a new DJ. I go through my purse and pull out a Mix CD I made.

"I think it's time to turn on some real music. Kaoru-chan, would you do the honors?"

"With pleasure." he replies as Momo hands him the disc. Kaidoh then proceeds to push the DJ, who sadly was a small 8th grader, off the stage rudely and switches the CD's. The first song to play is one of my favorites.

Time to Dance by Panic! At the Disco

"Come on Momo, dance with me!" I yell over the music pulling on his wrist. Once on the dance floor we show'em how it's really done while singing along with the lyrics. I pull off moves I didn't even know I could do. It wasn't freaky or anything since Kunimitsu was watching.

*Nervous laugh*

When the song is over a slow song comes on.
I make my way back to our table when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn to see Shouji looking polished and primped. His blue eyes seem to glow in the dim lighting as he stares at me. He bows.

"Kizuka-hime, will you honor a lowly soul with a dance?" He asks not making eye contact. I sweat drop.

'But I wanted to dance with Kunimitsu!' I cry mentally. I sigh shaking my head. I want to be as polite as possible, right?

"You're bugging me asshole, I have a date that I want to dance with." I turn on my heels, secretly I almost trip but play it off nicely, leaving the obsessive fan to go sulk in the corner of woe.
I reach Kunimitsu in time to see him reject Claire causing her dumb ass to go sulk in a corner as well. I put on an evil grin. Time to flaunt.

"Come on, Kunimitsu. Let's dance."I say in a sweet voice pulling his sleeve. He nods leading me to the dance floor. I can practically feel Claire's heated gaze on my back. I stick my tongue out at her in triumph.

'Serves her right.'

An hour later that slut Sukai is hanging all over Ryoma, pushing Sakuno to the floor. It took us forever to get him to agree to ask Sakuno to the dance and now she's ruining it! The Bitch! I had to bribe him with apple pie and new equipment for him to agree.
I snap my fingers and the 3 freshmen appear in front of me saluting.

"Hai, Kizuka-senpai!" They say in unison. My left eye twitches in anger.

"Get that bitch away from my brother!" I instruct as calmly as possible. They nod rapidly.

"Hai!" they answer and head off in that direction. I sigh heavily finding a place to sit.
Not long after, I sit with arms crossed a glare set on the annoyances of my life. Hazumi and Fuji had disappeared again after coming back for about a second. Momo and Umeko have gone off to spike to punch, Inui shadowing them expertly. Probably to spike it again with his damn concoction.

'Reminder: Don't drink the punch.' I think. An arm wraps around my waist from behind ripping me from my mental note.

"Kizuka, what's wrong?" asks Kunimitsu. My glare harshens.

"The mini whore from the other day is wrecking my nerves. Hazumi and Fuji-nii are up to something. I want something to drink but afraid I'll die of poison because of Inui. And if the little slut pushes my nerves one more time I can't guarantee she'll make to her next birthday." I growl but all my anger is forgotten momentarily when he kisses me on the cheek.

"Forget about all that and come dance with me." he says pulling me onto the dance floor. It is a slow song.

Never Felt This Way by Alicia Keys

I look straight into his eyes and see an emotion spark but couldn't make it out before it disappeared. I grin slyly.

"You know, I wouldn't have taken you as the dancing type." I say before he twirls me out then back in elegantly. He leans in close to my ear, pausing our steps.

"Well you learn something new every day." his cool breath sends tingles up and down my spine. I can feel the heat rising in my cheeks.

"Well, what have you learned about me tonight?" I inquire curiously as we begin to dance again. He only gives me a small noticeable smirk.

"I've learned--," he doesn't get to finish because our best friends decide to go on stage and interrupt.

"Ok you losers, it's time for the Dance Competition!" says Hazumi excitedly. I sweat drop at her

enthusiasm.

'She obviously has something up her sleeves and she's got that Sadist, Fuji, with her.' I sulk, trying to escape the crowd but I'm not so lucky. I am unexpectedly grabbed from behind and heaved into the back room that is being used as a dressing room. And inside is my worst enemy. Well...one of them.

"You're entering the competition? This'll be a piece of cake." Smirks Claire turning back to the mirror to finish her make-up. What she needs is a Make-over.

"Me? Entering? Hell No! I was just kidnapped and dumped here." I huff sitting down on a random couch. Finishing her mask I mean make-up, she struts over to me, a smug look on her hideous face. Her revealing dress was not helping her visage, but hey, who am I to judge.

"Well then if you're not entering, leave. Worthy competition allowed only." Man, she is too close to my face.

"Then what are you doing here?" I smirk and stand, making her back up, a glare set, and my hands balled into fists at my side.

"Saying that I can actually dance has to do with it."

"Is that a challenge?" I ask deathly calm. She shrugged.

"I don't know. Is it?" I am like an inch away from making her eye a nice black color when Hazumi chooses that moment to walk in.

"Ok, hoe, back up. Kizuka may have money but she's not a lesbian and she doesn't need paying company. She has Kunimitsu." comments Hazumi stepping in between the would-be fight. Offended Claire walks off in a huff. Hazumi turns to me a devious grin in place as she holds out a black clothing case.

"Put this on, and I'll be back in about 5 minutes." she walks out before I can ask what is going on. I open the bag after trying to get out the room only to find I've been locked in.

'HAZUMI WILL DIE!!' I yell mentally as I death glare the outfit in the bag. After a minute of cooling down I grudgingly put on the outfit. It's a perfect fit.

'I don't even want to know.' I sigh as Hazumi, on cue, comes in and does my hair in a neat bun with a red flower on the side.

"What is going on Migoto!" I almost yell but keep my cool. I think Kunimitsu may be rubbing off on me. Just a bit.

"When did we resort to last names?" she asks avoiding my question. She drags me out into the hall and over to a clearly angered Kunimitsu and nervous but still smiling Fuji.

"What's going on Migoto-san?" questions Kunimitsu calmly. To our surprise she gives a nervous smile.

"Ano...We just thought you guys needed a push in the right direction. We entered you in as the tango." explains Fuji backing away pulling Hazumi with him.

Kunimitsu's glasses gain a glare while a shadow covers my eyes, our anger rising considerably. I take a menacing step forward as they take a step back.

".WHAT!?" I shout my head snapping up in rage, eyes glowing a dangerous red. Kunimitsu steps up to my side his eyes narrowed but that's the only indication of his anger.

"We don't even have a routine! I'm highly disappointed in you, Fuji." Kunimitsu scolds his teammate. Hazumi begins to pout.

"What about me?"

"SHUT UP!" we shout in unison. I calm down a bit but hold the glare.

"You both are on my hit list." I say pointing at them. Hazumi sticks out her tongue pulling down her bottom right eye lid.

"BITCH!" I yell angrily at her childishness, launching myself at her. She hides behind Fuji in fear but the only thing keeping her alive is Kunimitsu holding me back. But that's only out of pity. He really wants her dead.

"We'll settle this problem later. I assume that there is no way out so we have to wing it." says Kunimitsu as I take a deep breath.

"We need a routine." I point out.

"You both know how to tango, right?" inquires Fuji, we nod in response.

"Then think 'Sex on the dance floor'." Hazumi says with a straight face and goes to announce the next couple. Kunimitsu and I glow a bright red. Seeing our reactions Fuji chuckles and leaves.

'Sex on the dance floor? I hate her.' I sulk.

"Don't worry Kizuka, just play to your strengths." assures my boyfriend. I tilt my head in confusion.

"Strengths?" I draw out the word waiting for him to continue.

He smirks. "Teasing the crowd."

The regulars and their dates gather at the table watching the contestants. A groan is heard from the ever energetic Eiji and Juni.

"Something wrong Senpai-tachi?" asks Ryoma innocently his date next to him.

"We're so bored Ochibi." replies Juni leaning her head on Eiji as he lays his head on hers.

"If it helps to cheer you up, I heard Hazumi-san and Fuji got Kizu-chan and Tezuka-buchou in the dance competition." states Kawamura. This makes everyone's eyes go wide.

"WHAT!!?!!" they chorus simeotaniously, some even to the point of standing up in surprise.

"How'd they pull that off!?" questions Momo, Umeko wondering the same.

"Nee-chan and buchou are probably going to kill them in their sleep." states Ryoma calmly taking a sip of his double-spiked punch. Immediately afterward he spits it out and falls to the ground unconscious.

"Ryoma-kun!"

"Echizen!"

"Ryoma-sama!!"

"BACK OFF SUKAI!"

"Nii-kun!"

"Well that's not good." says Inui but begins scribbling things down quickly in his notebook.

"You got the steps?"

"Hai." I sigh. I am half-hearted on this whole tango thing. The dance only lasts about 2 minutes but it'll be the longest 2 minutes of my life. I blush just thinking about it.
Hazumi's slave, who I assume to be a random freshman from the journalist department, skipped up to us and bows respectfully.

"Echizen-senpai, Tezuka-senpai, you're on in 5 minutes." he informs and then skips back to do other numerous tasks.

"Come on. Let's go see what we're up against." I sigh grabbing the stern captain's strong hand and pull him back to the gym. We stand idly in the doorway only enough to see what's going on. Apparently the current couple is Claire and Shouji doing a Salsa routine. I have to admit, they're good. I begin to sulk all over again.

"They're good because they've had time to prepare." I pout. Kunimitsu, being the caring and sentimental boyfriend that he is, wraps his arms around my waist and kisses my head.

"Don't worry. Even if we mess up, it's not like we wanted to be in this to begin with." he explains. I nod but seeing that ass crack teammate of mine showing me up on the dance floor isn't working.

"We have to win." I whisper to myself, too bad Kunimitsu hears me but decides not to ask. I think he thinks I have gone beyond the limits of crazy for a second. I think I am too deep in thought because I miss our introduction. Kunimitsu pulls lightly on my wrist to get my attention and proceeds to give me the track we are to dance to.
I walk up to the stage getting a few cat calls on the way. I ignore them and hand a smirking Hazumi the CD.

"After this prepare to die." I mumble before going into position. All she does is grin.

"Oh you know you love me for doing this." She puts the track in and I begin the dance as Kunimitsu walks out for his part.

During the entire dance I block out the surrounding audience and just envision me and Kunimitsu alone. No, not like that. Just in our own little world.

When I finally zone back in I hear the clapping of everyone in the entire gym, even some from the contestants. Roses are thrown at our feet as we bow. Where they got the roses from I'll never know but it is nice.

"See now it wasn't so~ bad now was it." comments Hazumi afterwards. It takes all I have not to jump her.

"I guess it wasn't."

"You know, you could've just belled the entire dance so you wouldn't have to do it. But since you didn't it means you wanted to be up close and personal with Kunimitsu. It's cool, I won't tell anyone about your Kunimitsu fetish---"

"HAZUMI!!!!!!!!!!" I yell chasing after her out of the gym and through the halls of the school.

Man, is she in for it now.