Rosario Diaries: Blood And Sweets -Chapter 3

The school bell finally made noise to the exhausted teenagers' ears, who were eargerly waiting to escape their own boredom. Moka silently made her walk to where her house sat. "Moka-chan!" exclaimed a cheery voice. Moka whipped around to see Orihime jogging up to her. "Do you mind if I walk with you?"

"Sure, Hime-chan! I don't mind." The two of them began their walk to their respective homes. The two of them were happily talking away in their conversation, talking about one of Orihime's friends, what happened at school, and such. It was like the two shared something in common. Well, technically. Moka listened to what Orihime was telling her about wanting to go to a bakery. "A bakery?" Moka questioned.

"Yeah. It's a place full of yummy desserts and many other things." Orihime explained to the girl. Before Moka could ask what it's like to be in a bakery, Orihime beat her to it. "I could take you there to see it sometime, if you like."

Moka gave a smile. "Sure. That would be nice." Before she died, Moka, just like Orihime, always wanted to know what it was like to be in a bakery shop. She may have seen people walk into them, but never have gotten the privilege to do so herself. The only place she was only able to go to, was school and such. She remembered how much she use to hate her life, before transferring to Yokai Academy.

While the two of them were having a conversation, the two of them finally came to a stop near Orihime's place. "Well, this is my stop." Marching up the stairs to her apartment, Orihime waved at Moka. "Goodbye, Moka-chan! See you at school tomorrow."

"You too!" waved Moka, walking away. 'I have the feeling that tomorrow is going to be great for me.'

Unfortunately for her, she didn't expect for this to happen. Forgetting to set her alarm clock last night, Moka had accidently slept in. She was now quickly showering up, brushing her hair, and making her lunch before finally throwing on her school uniform. She quickly rushed out of the door. She abruptly stopped, getting the sudden feeling that she was forgetting something. "Darn it!" she cursed. She quickly rushed back inside and came out with a small box in hand. Having everything that she needed, she wasted no time and sprinted off towards school.

To be completely honest, this was obviously not her day.

Moka's eyes darted through the classroom to see that class has already started and she was beyond late. She reculantly knocked on the door gently, not wanting to rudely interrupt the class. The door swung opened to reveal a bewildered and amused teacher. "I hope you have an good excuse for being late, Akashiya-san."

"Yes, I do. I'm so sorry, Ochi-san." she apologized, scratching the back of her head. "Well, I had a little family problems, this morning."

"Go on."

"My little brother came down with the flu, this morning and my parents were out of town, so I had to look for a babysitter to watch over him. I couldn't just leave him there alone." she fibbed.

"Hmm..." wondered the teacher, her index finger and tumb tucked on her chin. "That sounds like a good excuse, though." the teacher let out a sigh. "I guess I'll let it slide, this time, since it's your second day." Moka could only let out a sigh of relief. "Just don't let it happen again." Mrs. Ochi stepped aside, letting the pinkette walk through the classroom. Moka scanned through the row of desks and smiled when she was able to find her assigned seat. However, her smile faded, when she saw someone sitting next to her empty, assigned seat. The person had orange, spikey hair and chocolate eyes. It was the same guy, she ran into! He was staring at her with surprise and something else, she could not describe. Deciding to ignore his gaze, she made her way to her seat and sat down, trying her hardest not to look back at him. As the lesson continued on, Moka was utterly bored that she started making doodles on her paper. Accidently dropping her pencil, she leaned over to pick it up, but stopped when another hand picked it up. Moka glanced up to find the orange-haired guy, holding it out to her. She became reculant for a second, before giving a kind smile and taking it in her hands. "Thank you."

He gave a smile back...well at least he tried to. "No problem." The two of them turned away from each other, before the teacher could spot them. The bell finally rung for class to end and Moka began to gather her things, and walk out of the class, only to be stopped by the orannge-haired guy. "Uh...hey, wait up." Just as he applied, she stopped and gave him a minute to speak. "Mind if I talk to you, for a sec?"

Moka was taken aback, but only smiled. "Sure, I don't mind." The two of them started to walk through the halls of the school. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"I...just...wanted to apologize for yesterday. I was just tired and frustrated with everything, that's been going on with my family. That's all." he said, scratching the back of his head, nervously. 'Why the hell am I so nervous around her?'

Moka could only blush. 'Wait a minute...why am I blushing?' she visibly asked to herself. "Oh, don't worry about it. If anyone should be apologizing, it should be me. I wasn't looking where I was going."

The guy could only shrug his shoulders. "It's nothing to feel sorry over. It's no big deal." There was a moment of silence as they walked, until he decided to speak up. "Ichigo Kurosaki, by the way." he introduced, offering out his hand.

"Moka Akashiya." she introduced back, gladly accepting his hand. "So what is it like being here in this school of yours?"

"Well-"

"IIIIICCCHIIIIIIGO!" screamed a voice, rudely interrupting the pair. Knowing what was about to come, Ichigo quickly stepped out of the way, making the person who screamed fall flat on his face.

Ichigo let out a sigh. "Great. Just what I needed, another headache." he groaned, taking a stepped towards the person. "What do you want, Keigo? I am really not in the mood for you, right now."

The guy named Keigo quickly recovered and shot up on his two feet. "None of your business!" Keigo yelled towards him, before turning his attention to Moka with a big smile. "Pleasure to meet you, Moka. My name is Keigo Asano and I thought it would only be polite to introduce myself. If you need anything, and I do mean anything, please don't be afraid to ask."

"Bullshit." Ichigo coughed as he cleared his throat, Moka giggled as Keigo groaned.

"It nice to meet you, Asano-kun." Moka greeted, taking a bow.

Keigo jumped with delight and took her hands in his, at how well she accepted him, without any sort of problem. "It's a pleasure to meet you as well, my fair maiden." The minute he said that, he felt a foot connect with his face, giving him a nose bleed.

Ichigo stood with his foot stubbed in his face. "Just give it a rest, will ya!" yelled Ichigo, removing his foot from Keigo's face as he collasped.

Moka let out laugh. "Well, I better get going. My friends are probably waiting for me." She turned towards both Keigo and Ichigo. "It was nice meeting you both." she commented, before leaving to join her friends for lunch.

Ichigo watched her leave, never taking his eyes off her. 'Wait. Why can't I stop staring at her?' he asked himself. That's actually a good question he'd just had to ask to himself, right now. Ever since she walked in the classroom today, he just suddenly found himself staring at her. His thoughts were shoved away, when he heard Keigo say. "Dude, she is hot! I would definitley would go for a girl, like her."

"Leave her alone, Keigo." Ichigo replied, walking away.

"What! Leave her alone? Are you crazy?" Keigo shreiked, following Ichigo. "Wait, are you interested in her? I mean, if you have your eyes on her already, I think I could lay off on the "Asano charm"."

Ichigo could only shake his head at Keigo's idiocy. He never showed any kind of interest towards any female, he crossed paths with. Sure, that he might have female friends, but that was it. To him, they were just friends of his. He, himself had to admit that Moka was indeed an attractive young girl, but he wasn't interested in her. And even if he was, it would never work out. "I'm not interested in her; I just think you're wasting your time, drooling over her. She's probably has a boyfriend, or something." Ichigo replied

"Sure dude, whatever you say. I'll back off and when you decide to stop acting gay, and start talking to some girls, I'll be here to guide you." Keigo laughed.

"You know, I kind of find it hard to believe that you're normal, sometimes." Ichigo muttered.

Moka and Orihime, Tatsuki, and the other girls were eating their lunch, while they talked about pointless stuff. At usual, Chizuru was trying to molest Orihime and even Moka, but Tatsuki always ended up punching the air out of the girl. Orihime as always was eating one of her unusual made-up food. Moka silenty unwrapped her lunch, only to have a few gasps once again. "Let me guess; one of you wants to eat my food, right?" Moka suggested with a warm smile.

"Well..." One of the girls started, but when they suddenly saw a glare come from Tatsuki, they knew that they shouldn't ask for her food. "Nevermind..." sighed the timid girl.

Moka looked over to see Orihime eating her strange lunch. "Hime-chan, what is that you're eating?"

"Oh." Orihime slightly pushed out her lunch, so that Moka could see. "This is just something, I made for lunch. It's ramen noodles with wasabi, red bean paste and gummy worms!"

Moka could only stare in awe. "Really? Can I try?" Orihime nodded and handed Moka her chopsticks. Before she could dig in, Tatsuki stopped Moka's hand.

"Orihime, let's not kill Moka, ok?" Tatsuki suggested. Orihime put on a pouty look.

"Aww, it isn't that bad!" she then looked at Moka. "You will try it, right?" she asked. Moka gave a nod. Before Tatsuki, or anyone could stop her, Moka had already dug the chopsticks in and put them in her mouth. They all waited to see what she would say. Moka silently took the chopsticks out of her mouth and let out a gasp, making the others tense up, except Orihime.

"H-Hime-chan...I...I..." she stuttered, not able to find the words she was looking for. At first the girls thought that Moka hated Orihime's food, but they were seriously mistaking, when they saw a big smile, following by a blush make their way across Moka's face. "Hime-chan, I love it!" Moka exclaimed, pulling Orihime in a hug.

The others, except Orihime and Moka, were all shocked. Ever since Orihime started make her unusual lunches, one of her friends were glad that she asked none of them to try some of her lunch. But now that Orihime asked Moka to try her lunch, everything that used to happened...happened the complete opposite way. Moka liked it. Moka actually liked Orihime's lunch! Tatsuki could only let out a sigh. "Oh great, she created another 'Orihime'." Tatsuki groaned, thought happy that Orihime finally found someone, that actually had the guts to stomach down her food and like it.

At the Kurosaki Clinic

Ichigo was sitting at his desk, trying to concentrate on his homework. For some odd reason, he couldn't get the bubblegum-haired girl out of his head. It wasn't unusual for a guy, his age to have those types of thoughts, but all these thoughts of Moka were starting to get to him. He just met her today, so why was he thinking about her? After the today of her arrival, he found himself being drawn to her, he could only imagine what the rest of the year was going to be like.

Moka's House

Moka sat on her bed, writing in her diary about what happened today, trying to avoid unnecessary thoughts fade their way into her head. Not wanting to bear anymore, she shut her diary close, putting a hand to her head. 'What's wrong with me? Why am I thinking about him, all of sudden?' Moka's hand flew to her heart. 'My heart...it's pounding...really fast.' Moka's hand tightened around her heart. 'But what does this exactly mean? Do I like him?'

The Next Day

"Listen how about me, you and a movie tomorrow?" said a guy, who was harassing the pinkette. She was trying to move past the guy, but he was being very stubborn and persistent.

"I'm sorry to say this to you, but I need to get to class and I'm not interested in going to movies with you." Moka replied trying to brush past him, but he placed his hand on the locker to block her path to class.

"You've gotta be joking? I know your new around here, so let me tell you who I am. If you want to fit in good around here, it would be in your best interest to stick with me. I get girls like you popular within days. Well, it's your loss, I could help you make it in this school."

"Listen, I'm not interested." Moka admonished, trying to restrain herself from losing her cool and beating the guy up on the spot.

The guy was about to protest when a voice was heard from behind. "Hey!" Moka looked over the guy's shoulder to see her savior, Ichigo, standing there with an annoyed look on his face. "She's not interested, so gather your balls and take a hike." Ichigo's voice sounded the hall as he was right behind him now.

The guy turned around and glared at Ichigo, that could probably kill in two seconds or so. "Oh, so this is now your business, Kurosaki?" he asked annoyed.

"Keep bothering her and it will be." Ichigo replied, the guy locked eyes with Ichigo and dropped his hand from the locker, letting Moka past through.

"Whatever, loser. I don't know what she sees in you, anyway." The guy stated as he walked away, Moka smiled at Ichigo

"Thank you, Kurosaki-kun." she said.

"No problem, some of the guys around here don't know how to control their hormones when there's a pretty girl around..." as Ichigo said that, Moka turned her face away, so he couldn't see that she was blushing. She was used to being complimented on by guys, but with Ichigo it was different. Ichigo just let out a low chuckle. "What's wrong? You're usually used to being complimented by other guys."

"N-No...it's just..." Moka tried to find the answer to fill in the blank that was left spaced. Instead of answering, Moka quickly smiled and changed the subject. "Well...we don't want to be late for class, so let's get moving." Moka ran ahead of Ichigo, who just chuckled at her sillinest and followed after her.

Just to let you know, I am not going to force Ichigo and Moka hook up in the next chapter or so. This is technically like Romeo and Juliet, but not that much of it. Ichigo is not the type to look and swoon over a pretty girl like Moka, and I intend to keep it that way. I'm glad some of you understand that this is my first fic. Again, if you don't like what I'm writing, then you can piss off! I won't let puny little flames stop me from writing this story.