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Kouji sighed as he slouched in his seat once again. He had been at Odaiba High for three days now, and still no sign of his so called 'partner.' The raven was begining to think that he was going to be stuck doing the project solo.

It had been cloudy this morning when he had walked to school. He gazed out the window from his seat, this seemed to become a habit during this class, and sure enough it was raining, well downpouring, no, that wasn't it either. It looked as if God had decided today was the day to drain his pool... well, that or else his toilet was plugged up and overflowed. He was hoping for the first rather than the later. Either way, it was raining a hell of a lot out there. Lightning flashed and Kouji smiled slightly, he wasn't exactly sure what it was about thunderstorms, but they always seemed to make him feel a tinge better than he usually felt.

"Well, Miss Yagami... I'm pleased that you've decided to join us today."

"I'm so sorry Mr. Sato...."

Kouji turneed his attention towards the front of the room where he saw a teenage girl standing in front of the teacher's desk. She remained in a bowing stance as she continued her apology.

"We would have been back sooner, but my brother----"

"Ah... yes your brother..." He cut her off mid-sentance with a wave of his hand. "No further explaination needed. I understand how Taichi is, and, this may sound harsh, but I do not miss having him in class." Mr. Sato chuckled, then straightened in his seat and pulled out a paper from a stack on his desk and handed it to the girl. "No need to worry about missing work in this class, Miss Yagami,I gave the students their projects fot this semester, you are allowed partners, and considering you were gone the same day we received a new student, I've paired you two together." He motioned towards where Kouji sat. "His name is Kouji Minamota, he transfered here earlier this week while you were gone."

The brunette staightened form her stance and twisted to look at Kouji. From what he could tell she had layered mousy brown hair that was parted on the left and barely made it to her shoulders along with ruby eyes. She was dressed in a black band tee with a pink shirt underneath whose sleeves made it to the elbow and no further. She had some fish-net arm warmers on, along with a pair of gray skinny jeans and some pink converse shoes.

The girl spotted Kouji and smiled, holding her hand up in a small wave.

Kouji stared back, she was... pretty. Pretty? Kouji never thought about girls, not their personalities, money, and especially not their looks, he had no time for it. After a few more seconds passed, he tore his gaze awat and began to stare out the window once more.

The brunette dropped her hand and frowned. Mr. Sato smiled at her apologetically. "He's still pretty new... you know how tough that can be. I'm sure in time he will warm up to everyone.... well, you had better take your seat Miss Yagami.. class is about to begin..."

She nodded, and turned to make her way to the back of the room.

Kouji sighed, he hoped that she wasn;t the kind of person who talked constantly and continually attempted at small talk. Hopefully she was smart enough to catch on right away and realize that talking was simplay a lost cause.

The girl dropped her bag at her feet and slid into the seat next to Kouji. Turning towards him she cleared her throat.

"Here we go...." He sighed.

"Hi, my name is Hikari Yagami... Kari for short." She held out her hand. Kouji glanced down at her hand, then up at her, then back out the window. Kari dropped her hand, a bit offended then spoke again. "I haven't had the chance to meet you yet... You're Kouji right?"

"Thats my name..."

"Okay... well I just wanted to apologize for leaving you with the work while I was gone.... I promise I'll make up my part though."

He simply nodded. "Kay..."

That was the last they spoke throughout the remainder of the class.

"Smart girl...."

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The bell rang and Kouji heard Kari yawn. He looked over at the girl and notice a small red mark on her cheek, probably the result of leaning on her hand throughout the entire ninty minutes of lecture. She rubbed her face and mumbled.

Kouji chuckled quietly to himself. At least he wasn't the only one not entirely enjoying himself here...

"Holy crap Kari! I though you fell off the face of the Earth!!"

"No s**t, you could have at least called, I...erm.. well, we were worried that something might have happened. I thought you were supposed to be back Tuesday?"

Apparently during the few seconds since the bell had rang and now, the annoying goggle-headed boy and his blonde friend had made their way over to Kari's side.

The brunette sighed as she gathered her belonging and shoved them in her bag. She smiled at the blonde. "You worry too much TK, and yes we were supposed to be back Tuesday, but Tai did... some stuff, and... we got a bit delayed... It's a long story..." She sighed, then glowered at the goggle-head. "Davis! Get off my desk!" She complained as she attempted to push him him off.

Davis grinned and hopped off, then turned to hand her a paper that he was sitting on. "Oops, my bad."

TK rolled his eyes.

"Damn are they desperate..." Kouji thought as he stood and made his way for the door. He stole one last glance back at the girl before he ran in to something solid... and blonde. "God damnit! What the hell?!" The raven complained rubbing his shoulder and looking at his collision buddy. The teen was about the same height as Kouji. He had blonde hair and blue eyes that were intensified by thick black eyeliner underneath. He wore a simpel black shirt and some tore up blue jeans. He had a sweat band on either wrist, one with a heartogram and the other was a simple balck and white checkered design. His lip was pierced as was his cartilage a twice on each ear and about three times near the lobe.

"Well..." Kouji thought after examining the teen. "This guy doesnt exaclty look as if he's gona take this too lightly... it's been awhile sicne I've fought someone anyway.... normally I dont last this long in a school without a fight with the school badass, should have seen this one coming..."

He took one step back, getting into a fighting stance.. but when the blonde spoke, it wasn't what he had expected.

"Oh s**t, I'm sorry dude.. You okay?"

Kouji blinked, relaxing his stance. "Uhm.... yes?"

The blonde tilted his head and stared a little curiously at Kouji. "Huh... I don't think I've seen you around here before.. The name's Yamato Ishida.. but just call me Matt, that's what everyone else does." Matt didn't offer his hand or anything, he just grinned.

Kouji raised a brow. "Ishida...? Are you from that one band.. teenage dogs or whatever?"

"Teenage Wolves actually.... and yes I am... you a fan?" He asked sounding a bit pleased.

"Oh don't flatter yourself, pretty boy.." Kouji smirked. "But, I guess I could say that if I ever had to induce vomitting for whatever reason, I wouldnt use your cd for it."

"Well then.. I'll take that as a compliment."

"Hey Matt.... I see you've met Kouji." Kouji looked over and noticed that that Kari was standing in front of them with TK and Davis at her flanks.

"Well, more like nearly ran over." Matt joked as he pulled Kari towards him and kissed her. "I've missed ya, you shouldn't have kept me waiting so long. You were supposed to be home sooner."
A small blush made it's way across Kari's cheeks. From what it looked like to Kouji, Kari didn't seem all that comfortable with public displays of affection... and TK and Davis didn't seem too fond of it either. "How was class?"

"Ugh..." The brunette groaned, slumping her shoulders. "Boring as ever."

Matt chuckled as he put an arm around her and placed another kiss on her already red cheek.
Kouji had enough of this... these weren't his friends and he didn't want to just stand there, he had a class he needed to get to anyway. "Well.. Imma go... it was nice meeting you.." He mumbled as he shifted around the couple and made his way out the door.

"See ya." He heard Matt call behind him. "Maybe we could get together sometime and talk music?" He offered.

Kouji decided not to answer.