By the time seventh period rolled around, all of the Lady Guardians, Rowen, Sage, Flash and Thunder had left to go to the gym. The nine teenagers had weightlifting class. Ryo, Cye, and Kento history 12 that period, and they were still inside the school building. Also with the nine that were in the gym was Brock. He was watching the nine teenagers talking and chattering from the other side of the classroom.

Rekino had been on one of the computers checking her email. She logged into the yahoo website. (*Winter and Firestorm: YAHOOOO!!! *) She put in her user name and password, and continued with the website. Hana was receiving a back rub from Sage, Mia was finishing up some of her homework from Honors Algebra III, Amaya was writing on the board, Rowen was watching Brock from afar with a hawk’s eye, and Josephine was practicing some of her moves with her volleyball. Thunder was reading a Kendo magazine, and Flash was bouncing a basketball.

Brock was sitting on the other side of the room watching Rekino and Flash. His insides started to turn at the thought of those two. They were beautiful women. Each had great looking bodies, and he couldn’t wait to get his hands on both of them. Suddenly, Mesu’s voice popped into his head.

Brock smiled. He knew exactly what he was going to do. He got up, and walked over to Rekino, and sat down in one of the chairs at another computer. He smiled at the woman next to him, “Hey sexy.”

Rekino’s eyes turned cold, “Don’t call me that.”

“Fine,” Brock said. He scooted closer to her while watching Rowen out of the corner of his eyes. The Strata warrior wasn’t paying attention anymore. He was talking with Sage about something; however, Flash and Thunder were watching him.

Brock put his arm around Rekino, “What can I call you then?” He inquired with a hint of sultry in his voice.

“How about my name,” Rekino said, “That’s what I would like for you to call me.”

Brock moved even closer to the lady, “Well then, Rekino, how about I should you what a real man can do?”

Rekino’s eyes started to shine with anger. She stood up, which sent the chair flying behind her, and grabbed Brock’s hand, “Leave …me …ALONE!” Rekino screamed. She backed away a few inches, “I’M TIRED OF YOU! GET AWAY FROM ME!” She ran out of the classroom with Josephine, Amaya, Mia, and Hana hot on her tail.

Rowen had been talking with Sage when he heard his girlfriend scream. He glanced over at Rekino and saw her standing next to a sitting Brock. She was angry and her face was twisted with …annoyance. She suddenly stormed out of the classroom with the other Lady Guardians behind her.

Rowen saw Brock standing there with a look of victory on his face. He had never seen another man hit on his girlfriend before. What he just witnessed pissed him off beyond belief. Without warning, he walked over to Brock and punched him in the face.

Brock didn’t have time to move when Rowen hit him. His face flew to the side, and he glared at the geek, “YOU’RE DEAD, HASHIBA!” Brock said, but was held back by Sage, while Thunder held Brock back. The teacher walked in, and broke the fight up.

“Hashiba, Smith, Copiel, and Date, what the hell are you four doing?” Coach Davis asked.

Brock got lose of Thunder’s grip and looked at the teacher, “Nothing sir. We were just arguing about something.”

Coach Davis glared at the teens, “Don’t let it happen again.”

All of them nodded and watched the teacher leave. When he was gone, Brock turned towards Rowen, “You’re going to pay for this, geek face,” He said and walked out of the classroom. Flash decided to get into this asshole’s mind, and followed him. Thunder went with her.

*~*

Outside, Rekino had ran into the bathroom, and locker herself in the stall. She was crying hard, and she didn’t know how to stop. She tried when the door opened. She just got louder.

“Rekino?” Amaya said, “Are you in here?”

"Yeah" Rekino said.

"Don't let that jerk face upset you," Mia said.

"I'm not. He was just getting on my nerves. I don't know what he thought he was doing," Rekino said in a disgusted voice.

"I think he was trying to get laid, but that won't happen, I'll castrate his ass," Hana smiled.

"Hell yeah, I didn't like him from the start. I would love to cut his balls off. Wait what if he

doesn't have balls?" Josephine laughed.

The others laughed. The thought of Josephine getting a hold of that perv made Rekino smile.

"Jo, you really should start acting more like a girl," Amaya stated.

"What the hell are you talking about? I do act like a girl. I just like hanging out with guys and playing football," Josephine said

"Good God," Hana said.

"Why do you like playing that rough stuff?" Amaya asked.

"DUH!! I play quarterback. What’s in front of me? A guy's ass," Josephine smirked.

"Oh, I see your point," Rekino said.

*~*

Elsewhere, Flash and Thunder had followed Brock into the weight room. Thunder got a weird feeling from inside of the weight room. He was about to tell Flash something when he heard Coach Davis calling out to him.

“Guess you better go,” Flash said, “Don’t worry, I’ll talk to the asshole inside.”

Thunder nodded, “Be careful, I got this funny feeling about him.”

Flash smiled, “I will,” she watched Thunder leave, and opened the door to the weight room. She saw Brock standing next to the bar bells. It looked like he was having a fight with himself about something. She casually walked over to him. She got on guard when he turned around to face her. How had he known she was here?

“Brock,” Flash started, “You know what you did was wrong.”

“Yeah. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass what I did was wrong. I enjoyed it,” Brock said.

“I thought that Ryo told you to leave Rekino alone,” Flash said, her eyes growing cold.

“Flash,” Brock said, “I don’t care what Sanada told me,” He moved closer to the woman, “In any case, how about I show you a good time, sweet thing,” Brock said, and grabbed her hips. He then went to kiss her passionately.

Flash’s power immediately went into action as she got pissed off. Brock felt his lips heat up, but thought nothing of it until they were burning hot. He backed away some, eyes wide at her. She was glaring at him heatedly, and then before he knew it, he felt a knee right between his legs which brought him to his knees, gasping and groaning in pain.

“Kiss me again, and next time I’ll burn them off,” Flash warned in a low and dangerous voice. She sauntered past him, purposely stepping on his hand which made him yell out in pain.

Rowen was worried about Rekino and could only hope the other Ronin Guardians were helping her to feel better. He wasn’t really concerned about Brock’s threat. He knew he could take the punk, he just didn’t want to fight on school property. He had good standing grades, high academic achievements, and high expectations from his teachers and counselors. He didn’t want to disappoint them, and he didn’t want to disappoint himself. He headed to his Health Class and arrived within minutes. He took his seat next to Sage who was flirting with some girl who kept giggling like a little girl in Rowen’s opinion. He let out a long frustrated sigh which made Sage turn and look at him.

“You okay?” the Ronin of Halo asked in concern.

“No,” Rowen replied. “I’m worried about Rekino. I can’t believe that jerk said those things to her!”

Sage frowned deeply. “I know.. It seems he’s after her and Flash… And this whole thing worries me a lot.”

“Same here,” Rowen admitted.

Cye walked in and sat across the room in his seat. He was mostly quiet and feeling worried about this whole deal with Mesu, but he didn’t say much about it. Rowen and Sage didn’t have to ask him anything through the mind link because they themselves were worried.

Flash walked in then and up to the teacher. She gave her schedule to her, and waited for her to mark her in, then received her textbook and was given a seat behind Sage. She had an angry look on her face, though it was carefully hidden from others, Sage and Rowen could sense it somehow.

“Flash, are you okay?” Sage asked in concern.

“No!” Flash growled. “That germ infested, sleezeball, rotten mouth infested, dirt bag scum ball, that has no respect to others or himself and would rather get laid every second he can get because he’s a slut, tried to kiss me!” She grumbled again.

Both of the boys frowned deeply, including Cye who had overheard from where he sat. “When did this happen?” Rowen asked.

“About eight minutes ago.”

All three Ronins frowned again, and wanted to ask what she had done to him, but that would have to wait. The bell had rang and class had just begun.

Mesu was watching everything from Brock’s eyes. He had felt Brock’s pain from when the girl Flash had burnt his lips and kneed him between the legs. He didn’t understand why he had felt the pain. Possessing the boy he should have been protected from feeling blows or any other pain. He would have to ponder over this and figure this out, otherwise his plan would be ruined. He headed to Brock’s next class which was History and Geography. He sat a few seats away from Thunder, pretending to be paying attention to the lesson when in fact he was studying the boy not too far away from him. He was making plans at that moment, organizing them in his head. He would take Thunder first, then allow Brock to beat up Strata, then hopefully take Rekino and Flash. He smiled to himself, delighting in his own evilness. Soon it would be all over for the Ronins and the Lady Ronin Guardians.

Thunder could sense something strange about Brock, but he wasn’t quite sure what it was. He kept his eyes focused on his History Book, reading about the Edo Period which lasted from 1603 to 1867. It was interesting learning about the history of other cultures, and from what he learned of Tokugawa Ieyasu he had little respect for the man even if he was no longer alive. But right now Tokugawa was not on his mind. It amazed some people how he was able to study and learn about history without even trying or with having other things on his mind. Such as Mesu. He had been having a bad feeling all day but couldn’t really place it.

The teacher begin the lesson having the students take down notes and write vocabulary words down. Soon the entire class was working in silence, though there were a few girls who sneaked glances over at Thunder before quickly returning to their work, hoping the teacher didn’t catch them.

Time passed as the students worked and the teacher stayed at his desk, grading yesterday’s homework. The only paper he would not be grading was Thunder’s since there was no paper to grade.

About five minutes before class ended, he assigned some homework which required reading pages 213 to 235, doing the Review on page 236, then work on three worksheets. The class wrote down their assignments, then the bell ran signaling the end of 6^th period. The students gathered up their belongings, bid the teacher good-bye, then left for their next class.