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Rekino and Rowen got out of her 2002 Red 4-Runner, and walked up to the school hand-in-hand. They were following behind the others hearing Flash talk about her parody of waking Rowen up. The Ronin of Strata held a scowl on his face as he heard Flash and the others laughing. There were other ways to wake him up.

“Are you okay, sweetheart?” Rekino asked her boyfriend of six months, “You seem a little down in the dumps.”

Rowen put on a smile, “I’m tired. I didn’t expect to be hurtled off of my bed, and into my dirty clothesbasket. That isn’t how to wake me up.”

Rekino kissed Rowen’s hand lightly, “Then how do you expect us to wake you up? We’ve tried everything,” Rekino gasped when Rowen stopped and kissed her on the lips, “What was that for?”

Rowen smiled smugly, “You could always do that.”

Rekino smiled, and kissed him again. She pulled back and was going to say something when a familiar voice caught her attention. It was Brock Smith and his gang of football players. She frowned. Brock picked on all of the non-popular people, smart ones, and foreign people. He was rather sweet and Mia, Hana, and herself. He didn’t like Amaya cause she was French, and he didn’t like Josephine cause he said she was fat. His favorite thing to do was to hit on girls, and pick on Rowen.

“Hey there, geek!” Brock called out to Rowen, “Ready for a five days of utter torture from me?”

Rowen ignored Brock, and grabbed Rekino’s hand. He started to walk away with his girlfriend. He didn’t feel like being around the jock right now. He had others things to think about. They made it into the school, with Brock on their tails. The bell hadn’t rung yet, so he had time to go with Rekino to her locker on the junior hall.

“Rowen, why do you let him do that to you? You know he just wants to get under your skin,” Rekino said. She put in her combination, and grabbed her English 11 book, “I wish that I could just get one good punch in on him.”

“I know,” Rowen said, and kissed Rekino’s neck, “So do I. You know I don’t resort to violence in school. That just gets people in trouble.” Rowen saw Mia and the others at their lockers, and waved to them. He also knew that Brock was still behind him. -“What does he want?”- Rowen thought.

Rekino closed her locker just when the bell rang to start school, “Well, it seems that another five days of listening to teachers ramble has just started. You better get to your locker before you’re late,” Rekino said, “I’ll see you at lunch.”

Rowen smiled, “Okay, baby,” He bent down a couple of inches and gave Rekino a kiss, “I love you.”

“I love you too,” Rekino said, and kicked him in the butt as he was walking away, “You better run. Your locker’s on the other side of the school,” Rekino saw Rowen smile and he picked up his pace.

The Lady of Wildfire made her way to her first period class, Honors English 11, which she had with Hana. Rekino made it the whole way without one pervert touching her. She never told Rowen about that. She was about to walk in when Brock stepped in her way. She frowned, “What do you want, Smith?”

Brock put a hand in his hair and smoothed it back, “You know what I want,” He said.

Rekino rolled her eyes. This was everyday for her, “Well, sorry to say, I’m not for sale. I’ve already been bought. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a class to attend to,” Rekino tried to moved around the lug, but it was no use. He was blocking the way completely, “Please move.”

Brock gave a smug smile, and put his hands on Rekino’s waist, “Why don’t you dump that geek Hashiba and got out with a real man?” He said, and leaned down to kiss her, but a voice stopped him.

“Kiss her, and you’re a dead man walking.”

Rekino sighed happily. She turned around and saw her older brother standing there with his arms crossed. He had his health book with him, “Ryo!”

“I said to let her go, Smith,” Ryo growled, “There are plenty of other sluts you can go and have a good time with. Sadly enough, my sister isn’t one of them.”

Rekino didn’t feel Brock letting her go, so she pushed him back, and ran into her classroom. Ryo, on the other hand, stayed there with his eyes lock on the jock. He moved closer, and spoke to Brock with authority, “I don’t want to see you EVER touching her that way again, Smith. If I do, you won’t walk for a whole year.”

“Is that a threat, Sanada?”

Ryo smiled, “No, it’s a promise,” Ryo walked into Rekino’s class, and saw Hana comforting his sister. Who seemed to be a little bit shaken up, “You okay, Rekka?”

Rekino breathed in a little air, “Yeah, I’ll be okay as soon as I can kick his sorry keister! I’m sick of him!”

Hana looked at the clock on the wall, “You better head on out of here, Ryo. You don’t want to be late and get detention again for tardiness,” Hana smiled at her comrade, “I’ll take care of her.”

Ryo nodded, and headed out the door. Once he was gone, Hana looked at Rekino softly, “What did he do? What did Brock do this time?”

*~*

Flash and Thunder were in the main office filling out the registration forms. After that, they would receive their schedules for the first semester of school. Both of them thought that the Japanese school system was much different from theirs. Flash looked up and saw the flyer for basketball tryouts. They were that Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The Firestarter Warrior smiled. That was a must.

Thunder was filling out his form and noticed the question about sports. He checked yes, and put down Kendo. He would find out later if they had a Kendo Club so he could join. After he finished his form, he sat down in one of the chairs and waited for Flash to finish hers. He acknowledged the presence of the principal as he handed Thunder his schedule.

“Welcome to Hana High School. We are happy to have you here,” The principal said, and left to go greet Flash.

Thunder looked down at his schedule and read over what he was taking. He had Health first period, English 11 second period, Algebra III/Trig third period, Biology fourth period, lunch fifth period, History 11 sixth period, and weightlifting for Kendo seventh period. He was happy that they had a Kendo Club here now, but he wasn’t happy about English. That was one of his worst subject. He looked up and saw that Flash had gotten her schedule as well, “What do you have?”

Flash smiled at her friend, “Well, I have Science, Math, History, English, Lunch, Health, and Weightlifting for a sport,” Flash said, “You know, I kinda like this schedule.”

Thunder nodded, “Yeah, mine’s okay.”

Flash smiled at her friend again, “I guess we better go ahead and go to class. We have to get our books and all. I guess I’ll have Rekino take us to the mall to get our supplies,” Flash said as she and Thunder headed out of the office.

“Yeah,” Thunder sighed, “I’ll see you later.”

“Okay, bye,” Flash said, and walked in a different direction than Thunder. She walked to her locker, which was on junior hall, and tried out her combination. With luck that way it was, he locker wouldn’t budge open, “Just great. I have a bogus locker!”

“Need help with that?” A masculine voice asked from behind her. It was Sage.

Flash turned around, “No! I can get it open! What are you doing out of class?”

Sage smiled, “I have a pass out of class. I had to talk to the administration.”

“About…?” Flash asked.

Sage smiled, “About Brock Smith,” His eyes turned cold when he remembered what Ryo told him Brock did to Rekino. Sage thought of Rekino as a little sister, and hated to see others do things to her, “A fair warning, Flash, if you see Brock, turn and go. He’s a walking sex machine, and he’ll do anything just to get a girl in bed with him.”

“Oh, don’t you worry,” Flash said, “I’m not the one to be hit on. Besides, I thought you were the walking sex machine,” Flash and Sage both laughed. She finally managed to get her locker open, and Sage was nice enough to show Flash to her first period class. Once there, she thanked him, “Thanks, Sage!”

Sage smiled, “No problem. I have to get back to my Government class. I’ll see you later, Flash,” He smiled, and walked off.

*~*

Thunder found his locker with little trouble. It was all the way at the end of the school toward the west wing. His locker was number 32. He read the combination off the slip of paper he had, then turned to the lock and started to twist the dial in the order he was suppose to. The locker gave a little trouble first, but with a bit of persuasion it opened. He hung his jacket inside, then got out his trapper keeper from his back pack and put his back pack away and shut the locker again, redoing the combination lock so it would stay locked. He checked his schedule and saw he had Health first, then set off to find the class. It didn’t take him long to find it as it wasn’t too far from his locker. He went inside and immediately a hush fell over the class. Thunder grimaced as almost every female eye seemed to gaze at him. Not here too, he thought, with a groan to himself. He headed to the teacher’s desk to give him his schedule so he could be marked in the attendance book.

The teacher, and elderly man in his 50s with graying hair and round framed glasses took the new boy’s schedule and checked it over, then marked him in the book.

From the back of the class Ryo sat watching Thunder. He shook his head as he noticed how almost every single girl was staring at the new boy, practically drooling on their desks at the sight of him. The bearer of Wildfire shook his head. Oh yeah, Thunder was gonna have a nice time here at Hana High. And he was thinking that sarcastically. He watched Thunder receive a health book to use for now, and was given a seat in the third row, fourth desk that was diagonal from Ryo.

Thunder kept a groan inward, as he knew he was being stared at. He did what he was best for. He ignored them and paid attention as the teacher whose name was Mr. Zubyck got started on today’s lesson. The class paid attention, including the girls who had been gazing at Thunder, although there were a few that stole glances at him out of the corner of their eyes.

“Today’s lesson begins on muscles in motion,” Mr. Zubyck begin. He begin to teach the lesson, starting with physical movement. The class paid attention and wrote down notes, and then they were given a set of vocabulary words to copy down and write the definition to each word. There were twenty words to look up altogether and it would keep the class busy for the next fifteen minutes or so. “When you are done with the vocabulary read pages 231 to 238 in your text books, then do the review questions on page 239.”

With that said Mr. Zubyck sat down behind his desk and allowed the students to get to work.

*~*

Flash was listening to her Science teacher speak about the Aldebaran, which was a red giant star located in the Taurus constellation. Flash paid attention and wrote down notes as the rest of the class did.

On the other side of the class was the very same Brock Smith. He had seen Flash come in and liked the way she looked. He had to have her and it would only be a matter of time before he had Rekino, despite what her brother said. And he would have Geek face eating the dirt off his shoes in a matter of time.

Lunchtime rolled around sometime later and Flash and Thunder were glad they had lunch with the Ronins and Lady Ronin Guardians. At least they knew them; in fact, they were the only ones they did know. They sat together as a group at one of the cafeteria tables. Ryo sat next to Mia, Rowen sat next to Rekino, Cye sat next to Josephine, Kento sat next to Amaya, Sage sat next to Hana, and Thunder sat next to Flash. Everyone had their lunches now and were all getting ready to eat.

“So how’s your first day here?” Josephine asked the new students as she bit down into her peanut butter sandwich.

“It’s good actually,” Flash said, licking some mayonnaise off her fingers. “My teachers are all nice and the students are friendly enough. Course,” she sweatdropped a little bit, then finished her sentence, “I had to stuff a few boys into the lockers because they called me babe.” She wrinkled her nose at the word.

The others just stared at her, eyes all wide as they could hardly believe what she had said.

“You stuffed them in the lockers?” Rekino said slowly as she just stared at the American. Flash nodded seriously, then shrugged.

“I hate it when men call me babe,” she said as she sipped her milk.

“Apparently,” Ryo commented.

Sage then made a mental note to himself not to call Flash babe or even say the word around her.

It seemed like Thunder was the only one who wasn’t surprised, but he hadn’t spoke up yet. In fact it seemed he hardly ever spoke.

“So um what about you, Thunder?” Cye asked as he looked toward the quiet blond.

Thunder shrugged. “It’s been okay,” he said. “I just wish the girls in my class would stop staring at me.”

Sage just stared. What guy wouldn’t want a bunch of girls staring at him? He wondered. Lunch continued on for them and ended as always. The students begin to throw away their garbage or and return their trays to the cafeteria. As they were all heading out to return to their classes, Brock Smith suddenly blocked Flash. She stared at him hard in the eyes, never flinching, never looking away. “Can I help you?” she asked in annoyed voice. It was obviously he was up to no good.

Rekino stopped and looked back, seeing the trouble Flash was in. She was about to go over there and slug the jerk, but decided to wait and see what her friend would do.

“Actually you can,” Brock sneered as he crossed his arms. “What’s your name?”

“Who wants to know?” Flash asked, never changing her tone of annoyance.

“I do.”

“Hrm, don’t know any “I do”,” Flash said sarcastically. “Now if you’ll excuse me I have to get to class.” She pushed past him, and then suddenly felt him grab her arm and pull her back a bit.

“Listen babe…”

Flash’s eyes suddenly flashed and she turned her head and snarled at him. “Babe?” In no time at all, she suddenly lifted him up by his shirt and threw him head first into the trashcan, causing it to knock over, garbage spilling all over him. He stared up in shock at the American who glared back down at him, literally seeing flames in her eyes, and for one moment he was scared.

“Don’t ever call me babe, got it?” After seeing him nod his head once, Flash stormed away.

Rekino and Rowen followed, both laughing their heads off as Thunder followed behind, staying silent as usual. No doubt this would be the talk of Hana High now.

Brock watched them go as he climbed to his feet, glaring at their backs. He would make them all pay, starting with the Geek.