Kouha is pissed that Sinbad hasn't fallen for any of his sabotage. Starts posting on social media.

Spends time with Leraje

He was pissed. The asshole had only fallen for one of his new plans. It wasn't working! And he was good at this. Normally. No, he was definitely good at this, Sinbad was just more experienced in avoiding sabotage. It still pissed him off. Solomon had met him at some no-name restaurant the other day. Things seemed to be going well on his end so far, but it wasn't like Solomon had really done anything public yet, so Sinbad wasn't able to react to Solomon's plans. Kouha had warned him about that. He doubted that even Solomon would be able to overpower Sinbad without a hitch, especially since most of Solomon's power was overseas.

Kouha's actual plans to directly sabotage Sinbad wasn't working, but he had other methods. He was starting with the social media method. His following wasn't as large as Sinbad's, but it was big enough. And he could probably convince his brothers to follow him on the social media attack. Kouen's following alone was definitely comparable to Sinbad's. The whole Ren family together would definitely cause some problems for that annoyance. Maybe then Sinbad would at least be annoyed. So far he had seemed amused at all of Kouha's antics, especially when they worked. It was infuriating.

"Kouha, don't you have to go meet up with that girl soon?"

"Meimei I'm so mad!"

"At the girl?"

"No! At that stupid Sinbad. None of my plans have worked!"

"You already planned to have him meet Kouen right? You set it up with Kouen earlier today."

"Yeah but other things aren't working and it's pissing me off."

"If you try a social me-"

"I already started. That's what I've been doing. But he has way more power in this business then I do at this point. He reaches way more age groups and he knows more people still."

"I'll join your little plan if it will help, but I'm not that popular anymore."

"Yes you are! And you could be even more popular if you weren't so lazy all the time. And camera shy."

"I don't like my freckles."

"Meimei your freckles are adorable. You are just making up excuses."

"Go meet the girl Kouha. I'm not in the mood for flattery right now. En has a ton of things I need to organize for him."

"Have fun Meimei!"

Kouha met Leraje at the movie theater. They sat through two hours of a painfully horrible romance movie. It had sounded good in the summary and looked good in the previews but both of them regretted watching it. It was really bad.

"Well that sucked royally. Leraje what do you want to do now." She seemed down, not her usual chipper self.

"I just want to go home."

"What's wrong Lera?"

"Nothing Kouha. Don't worry about it."

It was still light outside. "Let's go on that hiking trail we were talking about!"

"I don't have shoes for that kind of thing on right now."

"I have a pair of Kougyoku's in the trunk, you can use those. It isn't a long trail, so you shouldn't need hiking clothes. Let's just go. I don't want to go home yet."

"Yeah, sure just not too long okay? It has been a long week."

"Of course!" Twenty minutes later Kouha pulled off the side of the road and parked at the entrance to the trail. He gave Leraje the shoes and changed his own. He led her to the end of the trail. It took about forty minutes to walk the three-mile trail to the place where it ended in a small waterfall and creek. He sat down in a sunny patch and waited for her to join him. It took her a minute before she joined him. Her eyes looked lost.

He turned her face towards his. "What's bugging you? You aren't acting normal."

"It's nothing Kouha. Don't worry about it. Let's just enjoy the outside for a few more minutes them go home. It's cold." He pulled off his jacket and laid it on her shoulders.

"You can't hide from me Lera, I know you too well at this point. Tell me what is wrong."

"I-I…Focalor and I broke up. He was cheating on me. Not just all flirtatious with other girls, but actually cheating on me." Her eyes were glassy, holding back tears she didn't want to let fall.

"How horrible! He is such an asshole. How could he do that to you?" That prick was going to pay. Kouha needed to vent some frustrations anyway.

"I guess I just wasn't interesting enough for him." Her cheeks were covered with tears at this point. She wasn't able to fight them off. Her chest hurt.

"Lera you are amazing. He is the one that isn't interesting. If he doesn't want to be with you then he obviously wasn't mature enough to appreciate your company."

She didn't look any better with his words though, which was weird because normally a few nice words from him would make girls fall head over heels for him or dry up their tears. Not this time though.

"Lera come here." He opened his arms and for once she didn't shy away from his openness. She just leaned herself against his chest and let him hold her. She was so tired of the uncertainty she had felt with Focalor and Kouha was here for her, had been here for her ever since they had met. She cried into his shoulder for a long time. He whispered sweet and comforting words into her ear, played with her hair, rubbed circles into her shoulders. "It's going to be okay. I'll be here for you. Don't worry. You can have me all to yourself." 'All to myself? What is he talking about?' They stayed like that for almost two hours. Kouha's shirt, his extremely expensive silk shirt, was stained with tears and makeup. He just held her hand as they walked back to the car, squeezing it before he walked around and got in on his side. He dropped her off at home just before sunset.

He drove around for a long time. Today had been a horrible day. But there was hope. Leraje was now single. He would eventually be able to start dating her. He had been ridiculously disappointed when he had found out that she was in a relationship. At least something had gone in his direction. Vaguely anyway.

Hello!

So, there is some more Kouha and Leraje. I really like writing Kouha. He is one of my favorite characters. :D :D :D

Anyway, I am still playing around with the order of events to come so please feel free to request anything you want to see and if I can include it I will. I'm hoping to start picking up the plot again soon, I feel that it has been a bit slow the past few chapters so I'm sorry about that.

Please Review! Also! 40,000 words! I originally only planned for the story to be about 30,000 words. I was going to have Sinabd's betrayal be a bit different and Solomon's reaction different, as well as Judal and Aladdin's relationship afterwards. Oh well, I like it this way a lot.

I've been thinking about the Ren family movie story and if any of you have requests or ideas for it let me know, it will help me in the planning of the story. It is taking me longer then I would like to be able to plan out the story.

Until Next Time!

-Kizuna