A young girl about the age of eight with long dark hair beautifully down her back proudly raised her hand to answer the question on the board. The teacher looked at the young girl and smiled.
“ ?” The young girl stood up.
“The answer is – ahh!” a little young boy of the age of eight as well sat behind her. He was wearing a light blue cap that was styled on backwards. He had started to snicker quietly as he had pulled her hair
“The answer is ahh?” the teacher asked with a confused expression plastered on her face.
“Uh-uhm…” stuttered embarassed as ever.
“She doesn’t know the answer! Ahaha Oh the answer is ahh!” the young boy teased her in mimicry with a girly tone.
“Shishido! Don’t say that! please have a seat. The correct answer is…” the teacher rambled on.
“What did you do that for!” hissed at him.
“Che! Not my fault you’re so annoying…always trying to be Ms. Perfect” he said crossing his arms looking the other way ever so arrogantly. “Give up. You’ll never fit in. Nobody wants to be friends with you”
tried hard to keep her cool and feelings strong. She didn’t like it when the other people teased her but what could she do? She looked down at his table, huffed at him and turned away.
7 years later…
A girl about the age of 15 with big blue eyes was getting ready for school. She wore her Hyoutei girls’ uniform and her dark long hair cascaded down to where her bra strap would have been also a red headband with her outfit. She sighed tiredly in front of the mirror; pretty decent. She had never tried to fit in because her mother taught her that being yourself was the best decision that you could ever make especially if you respected yourself.
“ honey breakfast is ready” her mother called out from downstairs.
“All right mom” called back still looking at the mirror. She grabbed her bookbag and headed out the door.
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A boy also the age of 15 walked along the Hyoutei hallways. He wore his light brown hair slightly messy while speaking with his close friend. Both of them were carrying their tennis bags hanging from their shoulders.
“Shishido-senpai, what do you think about Seigaku’s new ace I think his name is Echizen Ryoma?” Ootori asked his friend.
“Keh. Who cares. I think he’s annoying” Shishido replied boringly.
“Yeah but that freshman really is something” Ootori smiled. “Wonder who we’re going to face off for the Doubles 1 match?”
“Doesn’t matter. We won last year and we’re definitely winning Prelims this year. Besides their coach would be psycho to put that kid against us. He’ll probably be a sub or something” Shishido replied with no worry at all.
“Heh. Shishido-senpai always so confident, ne?”
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The bell rang for class to begin.
“All right class please take your seats,” the English teacher said happily. walked in and heard a group of guys chattering away and laughing Shishido included. rolled her eyes and took her seat diagonal from where he was with one of his friends in between them.
“Hey look its Little Ms. Perfect” one of his friends said smirking at her.
continued to ignore them. They may have all gotten into the same Junior High but that didn’t necessarily mean that they were going to be in the same high school. They have been picking on her since they were so young. She was surprised she hadn’t gone crazy…yet.
“What’s the matter sushi girl?” one of his friends asked. That’s right, she worked with Seigaku’s Kawamura Taka and his father. She didn’t mind serving sushi as a part time job they were nice people and a majority of the customers were nice too. At least she had money to help out her mother with the rent.
“At least I’m doing something with my life aren’t I?” she asked smirking back.
“Ooh Hiro you just got served!” Shishido laughed out. Hiro gave Shishido an irritated look and shifted his attention back to .
“Oh yeah? At least I’m not a loser geek with no friends” he said coldly. frowned as the other guys oohed and an amused smirk formed itself on Shishido’s lips.
“Class settle down now. Boys in the back be quiet. Hiro get off of the table and sit in your seat” the teacher ordered. “Ok good news or bad news?” the teacher, asked.
“Bad news first!” Everyone shouted in unison.
“Bad news…you guys have another big English project” Everyone awwh-ed and whined.
“What about the good news?” Shishido asked.
“Good news? Hah! There is no good news I’m choosing your partners for you!” Yet again, everyone whined and complained.
“Oh shucks…I wanted to choose sushi nerd so she can do all the work for me…” heard one girl whispering to another girl.
“I wanted to work with Ryou…” the girl whispered back.
“Izumi Yuri, Yamato Hiro” the teacher had already started to pair the people up.
“Oh crap…” the girl mumbled.
“Hey Yuri baby!” Hiro called out happily.
“ and Shishido Ryou” ’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“No effing way am I working with that ass!” thought her eyes aflame.
“WHAT THE -!” Shishido started but was interrupted by the teacher.
“Don’t you dare finish that sentence young man” the teacher said sternly. 10 more minutes passed and the pairings were finally decided.
“So sensei! When are we going to get started on this project?” Hiro asked excitedly as the teacher was already passing out the paper for the project.
“Right now and I will explain as soon as the papers are passed out” the teacher replied as the person passed the paper to as she scanned through the description.
“No way…this is…worth 200 points! And my partner is HIM?” she thought taking a quick glance at Shishido. “Oh crap my A is going down…” she thought miserably. “To make things worse…we start today. I really don’t want to deal with anyone today especially him…” haven’t admitted to herself yet but she had always had a crush on Shishido Ryou ever since she was 10 years old. Even after his constant teasing she couldn’t help but feel for him. He was handsome and athletic. Could he be anymore of a turn on? Too hot, but she had to keep her feelings in check.
“Please get with your partners now” The shuffling of seats and chattering started to fill the air. and Shishido glanced at each other. She gave him the you’re-coming-over-here look while he gave her the no-YOU’RE-coming-over-HERE look. sighed in defeat and walked over to his desk and sat in the seat in front of him and faced him. The two were quiet for a moment when Shishido started to speak.
“Ok let’s get started then shall we?” Shishido asked with a smirk.
“My god what a sexy smirk” thought dazed for a millisecond before she snapped out of it. “Yeah. So the paper here says the project would be due in a week” she said glancing at the paper. Shishido scoffed.
“One week isn’t enough” he commented not interested in the conversation.
“Well we don’t have a choice now especially when I’m working with you” spat rudely. For some reason he was the only guy out of his group of friends she actually felt safe teasing or being rude to him of that matter. He didn’t seem to care since he had always done the same for her.
“Where do you want to meet so we can do it?” Shishido asked all of a sudden.
“I-I beg your pardon!” asked with a confused and surprised expression written all over her face.
“To do the project” Shishido replied with a blank expression. “What are you thinking …” he asked with an amused expression. “Who would’ve thought. so naughty…”
“Sh-shut up! Well we can’t meet at my house cause my mom won’t let me bring a guy home so we’ll have to do the project at your house” she said embarrassed and angry at the same time. She let her guard down. It was never going to happen again.
“Fine. My house after my tennis practice at 6” Shishido mumbled.
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“Geez…I just want this whole day to be over with. Be happy …tomorrow I get to stay home and sleep and I won’t have to worry about dealing with anybody” said to herself as she walked up to Shishido’s door step. She rang the doorbell but nobody answered. Five minutes passed and still nobody answered the door.
“Ahhrgh! He’s not even home! It’s past 6:05! I am going to kill him!” she muttered.
“Someone’s impatient” a voice came from behind her. turned around to see Shishido standing there with his tennis bag swung over his shoulder and his cap on backwards staring at her in his regular expression.
“Well you said 6” said crossing her arms.
“You actually came dressed up?” Shishido asked. “We’re only working on a project. Don’t tell me you have a crush on me now” he said arrogantly walking past a fuming and up the stairs to unlock his door.
“Y-Y-YOU-YOU!” she muttered angrily pumping her fists at him. “You wish pretty boy!” Shishido opened the door for her to enter as she stomped into the Shishido residence. looked around the house. It looked really nice…
“What are you looking at? My room’s this way” he said pointing to the left.
“Oh…” followed him to his room and took at seat on his chair by his desk and slightly twirled left to right while adjusting her denim skirt at the same time. Shishido dropped his bag at the end of his bed and sat down. The two shared a weird moment as an awkward aura surrounded them.
“Let’s get started” Shishido started.
“Fine” opened her backpack and took out her binder. “Okay so we are supposed to do an oral report about the American Renaissance…” she muttered. Shishido started to play around with a tennis ball that he had grabbed from his cloth set drawer. He tossed it in the air and caught it; repeating the action several times.
“Che…I don’t see why we have to research about something like that…”
“God I know aren’t we supposed to focus more on grammar? Is the history of the American language really that important?” she said annoyed.
“Tell me about it” Shishido answered now throwing the ball against the wall and watched it bounce off the wall as giggled. He looked at her totally forgetting about the ball as it bounced on his head. “Ow…”
“Haha you’re such a klutz Ryo-bon!” spat out by accident of his nickname she had secretly given him. She realized what she had said and immediately covered her mouth. “Oh no…” she thought in panic. Shishido looked at her with a shocked expression. Did he just call her Ryo-bon?
“W-what did you call me?” he asked unsure at first of what to do.
“I-nothing let’s just focus on the project here” stuttered and continued to stare nervously at the paper.
“No. Wait a minute” Shishido said seriously and knelt down in front of her. “You have something to say to me right?” ’s mouth was dry and her eyes widened. How did he know? It was as if he knew everything that went on in her mind. Could it be that he liked her too? Oh Gods please yes! If he did it would make her life hell of a lot better than it already was! But there was a downside to all this. If she said yes and he didn’t like her she would be in the worse state ever. It didn’t matter. She had to find out.
“H-hai…”
“Yes what?” Shishido smirked. “I was right before huh? You like me don’t you?” ’s face turned pale. The nerve and conceitedness of this guy! She put up a stubborn expression.
“Yeah so what of it!” she exclaimed standing up and glaring down at him. He was still in his smiling state. The nerve! “Here I am telling you how I feel and you just freaking-!” didn’t get a chance to finish her sentence.
She was somehow rudely interrupted by Shishido lips capturing hers. His arms were wrapped protectively around her as he tried to deepen the kiss. He lightly poked his tongue out to caress her lips asking for her permission if he could come in. hesitantly opened her mouth and suddenly threw all her curiosity and confusion for his actions aside and decided to talk to him about it later. The kiss grew in intensity as he thrust his tongue in and out slowly and teasingly earning a whimper from the girl who was still in her own world of bliss as Shishido broke away.
He left her and took a seat on his bed admiring the way she looked. Her clothes all frumpy and her lips bruised and puffy from the intense kiss. She could barely catch her breath. God that guy was beyond incredible.
“Wow you sure took that pretty well” he commented smirking at her ever so amusingly. This was highly entertaining. calmed down a bit and stood in front of him.
“What was that all about Shishido?” he lightly gripped her hips and settled her down onto his lap. She didn’t seem to complain anyway.
“Can’t figure it out yet?” he asked. “That’s too bad because I love you too”
’s eyes widened and the tears welled up in her eyes by his touching words. Did the Shishido she hated since 4th grade just said he loved her?
“Ryou…that…you have no idea how much that means to me” she cried covering her mouth and embraced him into her arms. Who would have thought that true enemies would ever become true lovers at the end?
“Anything for you Yuki” he smiled as they both leaned back onto the bed.
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Written by Kawamoto