Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in a while ':) I've just hit a writers block well I was busy with my group's Youtube Channel's artwork and recording videos.

But I'm slowly getting back to it :D. So if you follow my other stories, I'll try to update those as well XD.

So enjoy a much needed update to 2nd Generation!

Chapter 4: Welcome to the rumour mill

Rumours are not that hard to come by but they are hard to get rid of. If you don't believe me, then ask Kori's parents. They had to put up with almost a year of constant rumours that circled about their relationship (even if it wasn't real…yet).

"Did you hear about the Demon and the Ice Princess?"

People always tend to add onto rumours and turn it into something even worse than it originally started as.

"I heard that they started dating after the Demon got his ass kicked and he's the Ice Princess's lap dog"

Most of the rumours either painted one being the master and the other being a servant.

"I heard that they've been going out since last year and they broke up recently"

Some rumours make others question their knowledge on the person /people it's talking about.

"I'm kinda happy for them"

And there are those rare moments when some people just acknowledge that the rumour, whether it's true or not, should be real.

"Hey…" Kasai opened his eye to look at the people around him "is it me or are too many people staring at us?"

Rin looked up at the boy with a look that said she didn't even notice the stares.

"I didn't even notice"

Point exactly.

The two stopped at their classroom. Kasai reached out and grabbed the door handle. Just before he could open it the door was thrown open with a loud BANG!

"Kasai Akuma!" someone screamed in Kasai's face making the two-toned haired boy step back in shock.

Standing in the doorway was a very pissed off Miyo Kushieda who glared up at Kasai with as much hatred as she could muster. Even with all her hate showing the girl still looked ridiculous with her puffed up cheeks.

"What the hell?!" Kasai shouted at the girl well rubbing his ears "why would you scream in someone's face like that you damn Genki!" he glared at the girl, but it didn't even faze Miyo.

"Come with me!" Miyo grabbed Kasai's wrist and started dragging him down the hallway.

"Oi! Let go!" the boy growled at her trying to pry the red haired girl's hand off, but Miyo had an iron grip and wasn't going to let go anytime soon.

As they got to the stairway Kori had just took the last step to get on that floor. She stopped and stared at her best friend in surprise when she caught sight of Miyo's angry face and her vice grip on Kasai's wrist.

"Miyo? What's going on?" Kori asked but the only answer she got was Miyo grabbing her wrist in a similar grip she had on Kasai's.

"You're coming with us Kori" Miyo pulled the struggling/complaining/shouting duo up the stairs with her.

Back by the class entrance to the class of the three, that just vanished upstairs, stood a very confused Rin.

"Can someone fill me in on what just happened?" she asked and looked in the class. She saw majority of the class snickering at the scene that just played out.

"I'm surprised you didn't know" Rin looked over to the person standing by the door inside the classroom. The person was a blue/purple haired girl who had a small smile on her face "since you're so close to Kasai and all…"

"Miyo" Kori stood with her arms crossed as she stared at her best friend, who stood with her hands behind her back and staring past the fence that surrounded the rooftop "what's going on here?"

"Yeah, the hell are you doing dragging us around like we're some damn rag dolls?" Kasai growled with a frown on his face. He was having a crappy morning from the minute he got a crappy wake-up call that morning to the strange stares that kept following him as he went about his day.

"Kori…you know I love you right?" the two lost their annoyed looks and adopted looks of both shock and confusion.

"Wh-What are you talking about?!" Kori shouted, covering her face. That was the last thing that she expected from her best friend! She knew that Miyo was usually impulsive in everything she did…now that she thought of that, she could be taking this the wrong way.

"Oi" Kasai frowned in annoyance/awkwardness "if you were gonna confess your undying love for each other, why the hell am I here?"

"And you!" Miyo turned around and pointed at Kasai "you homewrecker!" her cute looking angry face appeared again.

"What did you call me?!" Kasai took a threatening step forward. The nerve of this girl! Who the hell did she think she was to call him a homewrecker?! In fact, why did she call him that?

Instead of answering him Miyo crouched, making the two stop what they were doing to stare at the girl in both confusion and anticipation. They watched as the red haired girl leapt towards them and had two different reactions. Kasai got ready to dodge well Kori got ready to catch the hyperactive girl.

The two didn't have to do either because the minute Miyo took off she landed on the ground in the most respectful bow ever, prostrating herself as if she were in a place of holiness and begging forgiveness from the deity that resided there. Talk about unexpected.

"Please take care of Kori!" Miyo shouted; even though she was talking to the floor the two heard her as clear as if she was shouting in their face. Hell, the two suspected that the whole school heard her.

"Huh?!" the two reacted instantly to that. They looked at each other as if to confirm that they were indeed bearing witness to the spectacle in front of them. They turned back to Miyo to give their retort to what she said.

"Wow, wow, wow, hold up!" Kasai held up his hand well pinching the space between his eyes (A/N: It's called the glabella for those that didn't know) "what do you-"

"What do you mean take care of me?!" Kori shouted with a fierce blush on her face, this was more embarrassing than her best friend confessing she loved her.

"Ah, so that's why she called you two up here" the two looked over to the door that led to the school. Standing by the open door way was a smirking Rin with an amused look in her eyes.

The girl walked towards the three with her hands in the pockets of her jacket "You know, I was sceptical about all the rumours going around about the two of you…" she stopped beside the two and looked up at Kasai with her teasing smirk growing wider "when were you going to tell me you had a girlfriend?"

"Wait a minute, rumours? Who's spreading these rumours?" Kasai asked with narrowed eyes.

"Don't know" Rin shrugged before she turned around and headed back towards the door that would lead her back into the school building "if you two wanna have a quiet day, I suggest you try and put a stop to 'em" with that the girl left the three on the roof.

"I can't believe you Miyo" Kori frowned at her best friend, who had an apologetic/sheepish look on her face.

"I'm sorry Kori" Miyo put her hands together "I didn't mean to cause such a ruckus" the minute Rin left Kasai had followed her, saying that he needed to take care of something. Kori had taken that moment to explain to her best friend what was really going on, from the moment they parted ways the day before. She explained everything and when she had finished Miyo had a horrific look on her face. That was the red haired girl's cue to apologise to her best friend for maybe being the one to start the rumours.

As Miyo explained it, she had run to school and asked someone what it meant when two people walked to school together. The person, she found out it was Narumi Haruta, had explained that normally that meant those two were in a relationship. The girl had then asked why the energetic girl asked her that question and Miyo had said that she witnessed her best friend going to school with Kasai.

Kori had spent some time berating her best friend for not talking to her about this misunderstanding, especially since it involved Kori. They had then left the roof before they missed Homeroom.

The two had made it to their class and paused when they saw Rin standing outside the class beside the door. They could hear some things behind moved in the room and someone's voice, but they couldn't make out what the person was saying.

"Rin?" Miyo asked, tilting her head to the side in confusion "what are you doing outside the class?" she asked the question on her and Kori's minds.

Rin looked over to the two with a raised brow before returning to staring out one of the many windows across from their classroom "avoiding a storm" she said with a shrug, confusing the two even more.

"Wha-" Kori was cut off from asking her question by the classroom door being slammed open. Someone walked out of the room, more like stomped their way out. The two blinked when they saw Kasai standing there and shaking violently.

"Have fun?" Rin didn't even turn to Kasai when she spoke, but she did smirk.

"Piss off" Kasai grumbled as he shoved his hands into his pockets. He turned towards the two girls and walked towards them. Miyo took that opportunity to apologise to the two-toned haired boy.

"Kasai, I'm so sorry! It was me who-" she was cut off when the boy she was apologising to stopped right in front of her and glared down at her. She started sweating at the intense glare being directed at her.

"Don't. Do. That. Again" he hissed out before he stepped around the girls and continued down the hall. Rin was a few steps behind Kasai stopped in front of the shell shocked girls and smiled sheepishly.

"Sorry about that" she chuckled awkwardly before she turned towards Kori "also, don't worry about those rumours anymore" with that the girl ran past them and fell in step with Kasai as the boy rounded the corner.

After waiting for a few seconds the two girls decided they needed to see what happened in the classroom well they were gone.

The best friends looked into the room and felt their jaws drop in shock. The whole room was in complete disarray. Tables were tossed all over the room one table was even smashed in half. That wasn't the only thing that was strange about the class, the students of the class were all crowded at the back of the room as if they were expecting someone to come in and do to them what had happened to the desks.

"What the hell happened?" Kori asked no one in particular. Miyo beside her thought that an actual storm had erupted in the classroom.

"Er, Kori…" the two turned towards the person who spoke. Narumi stood there with an apologetic look on her face "We're sorry about all the rumours, Kasai…explained that it was all a misunderstanding" she bowed her head, an action which many in the class copied.

"Yeah, sorry Kori"

"We didn't mean for it to get out of hand"

"We hope you can forgive us"

These were some of the things being said in the group that were cowering in the corner. Kori stared at the scene in shock.

That night well Kori sat with her parents at the dinner table she decided that she'd tell them how crazy her day had been. Actually she didn't need to initiate the conversation because her dad did.

"So Kori, how was school today?" he smiled at his daughter as he asked the question. Ever since the girl had gone to school, her father would ask her how her day had gone when they sat down for supper. It was a routine that the Takasu household was familiar with.

Normally Kori would give a short reply that would satisfy her parents need for information, not because she didn't want to talk about her day it was more along the lines that not a lot happened around her. Today however…

"Actually…" the way the girl said that word made her two parents give her their full attention "it was a very…eventful day" Kori took a bite of the grilled fish on her plate.

"Oh? How so?" Taiga was very interested to hear what had happened, being at home watching the television and doing chores around the house got very boring after a while.

"Well, it actually starts from before school" Kori took another bite of her fish before she continued "as it turns out, Kasai lives right next to us" both Taiga and Ryuuji blinked in surprise. They'd lived in this house for a whole year and they'd never even seen the boy in the neighbourhood, especially Taiga, since she was basically a stay at home mom.

"Really? I always thought the house next door was abandoned" Ryuuji raised a brow "how do you know this?" he asked with a suspicious tone in his voice.

Kori looked up from her food to see her father looking at her with a suspicious look and her mother smirking evilly. Instead of shouting, Kori just settled on frowning at her parents "I don't know what you two are thinking, but stop it. I only found out last night when I went to get my bag. He also dropped his bag when we crashed into each other on our way home-" more like when she tackled him and accused him of being a stalker "-we heard a noise that sounded like barking so we took off-" the old lady that shouted did kind of sound like a bark…if you listened to it a certain way "-in case we were caught by whatever was barking at us" Kori felt a bit bad for lying, but she only told half-truths so it wasn't so bad. Her mother looked disappointed and her father kept up the look for another minute before he relented.

"Okay, so you boyfriend lives next door, what else happened?" Taiga asked, ignoring the glare her daughter sent her for the boyfriend jab.

"Obviously I went over this morning to get some answers" Kori huffed in annoyance "stupid bastard was so vague about all the answers"

"Kori! No swearing at the table" Ryuuji scolded the girl who rolled her eyes.

"I'm just giving him the name that fits him best" the girl scoffed "anyway, we continued walking towards where I normally get Miyo well I tried to get him to answer more of my questions. The minute we made it to where Miyo was, she took one look at us and ran away screaming about not understanding what she was seeing"

"And what was she seeing?" the suspicious look appeared again on Ryuuji's face.

"Nothing!" Kori growled out in annoyance. She loved her father very much but sometimes he can be overbearing "as I was saying, we made our way to school and well I went about my day, rumours started spreading…"

Taiga and Ryuuji glanced to each other with small worried looks on their faces for two reasons. First was the fact that they knew their daughter detested rumours for the fact that it kept her from making friend's growing up. Second was that this…was sounding very familiar…

"I was going back to class when Miyo ran towards me dragging Kasai along with her. The minute she saw me she grabbed me as well and took us to the roof" Kori blushed in embarrassment "she started spouting some weird things about loving me, obviously she meant platonically!" the girl shouted the minute she saw her parents eyebrows shot up in surprise, with Taiga's mouth making a 'O' shape.

"After Miyo started saying that Kasai should take care of me, which confused the hell out of us, Rin appeared and said that she'd heard some rumours being tossed around by our classmates. After she said that Kasai walked away" Kori put her chopsticks down, having finished her meal "I explained to Miyo what happened and she apologised for starting the rumours, unintentionally. When we got to class Kasai had just exited the room looking like he had just dealt with a bunch of delinquents…"

The parents could see where this was going; it was uncanny how similar it was to how they met each other. The only difference was that this time the rumours were spreading faster.

"Before he and Rin left, they stopped in front of us and he told Miyo not to do it again. It's safe to say that she's learned her lesson. Rin also said that I didn't need to worry about the rumours anymore, which confused me. Until we looked in the class room and saw that the place was almost destroyed. The others apologised and told us that Kasai had went on a rampage screaming and shouting that he and I weren't in any form of a relationship" Kori sat back in her seat with a thoughtful look on her face "at least he's not so bad…for a bastard"

Ryuuji was too shocked to scold Kori for her foul langue. Both he and his wife were so surprised that her daughter was going through the same thing that they had gone through when they were in high school…Hell, the girl was at their old high school.

The first one to snap out of their shock was Taiga, who clapped her hands together and smiled sweetly at Kori, an action that put the girl on edge.

"That was so sweet of him" she said and turned to her husband "don't you think Ryuuji?"

The man snapped out of his shocked state when Taiga addressed him. He took a moment to sort through what she had said before he gave a reply "Actually I think that-Ouch!" Ryuuji shouted in pain as his wife elbowed his stomach making him lean forward and try not to vomit.

"I'm sorry dear, what were you going to say?" the sweet tone was laced with some venom. Taiga had been married to Ryuuji for years and for all those years she had picked up on some traits of her husbands, he had also picked up on things about her. It got to the point where the two could sometimes predict what the other was going to say.

"I-I mean…yes?" the Takasu male said with a fearful tone. Even at 36, Taiga packed a mean punch.

"That's what I thought" Taiga patted Ryuuji on his back. She rubbed it as well, showing that she was slightly sorry for her action "how about you do something nice for him as well?" she addressed her daughter now, who was sweating at the display of dominance her mother is capable of. That, however, was not enough to get the younger Takasu female to do something nice for Kasai. The boy had done one good thing for her well also royally pissing her off every other time.

"Yeah…no" Kori turned her head to the side and crossed her arms "I don't think he deserves anything I give him"

"I actually agree with Taiga" Ryuuji sat up as he said that. He wasn't saying that because he was afraid his wife might elbow him again. When he really thought about it, those rumours could have spiralled out of control and that could have made Kori's life horrible. So he bit the bullet and agreed that Kori should do something nice for the boy. Not that Kasai did what he did for Kori's sake; it was painfully obvious "why don't you make him a bento as a thank you"

"Why? He obviously didn't say all that because he was head over heels for me" Kori scoffed "the rumours also involved him, so he's probably doing it for himself"

"Instead of thinking of it as a thank you, think of it as a 'thanks for being our neighbour, here's a bento for you'" Taiga shrugged nonchalantly. The father and daughter stared at her for the long name she gave "of course we can change the name"

"…Neither of you are going to back down until I give in…are you?" Kori frowned at the two adults across from her. When they shook their heads to confirm what she said the girl sighed and rested her head on the table "fine" she sighed again.

"I'll go get some ingredients for you" Ryuuji stood up as he collected the empty plates as well "it's better to make it the night before then you can just heat it up, so you're not late for school" he said entering the kitchen.

Kori sighed again. If she really did think about it the rumours could have gotten worse and some of her classmates had even engaged her in real conversation for once. So whatever Kasai said to them had a big effect…she could at least do this for the guy.

The bell rang throughout Ohashi High School signalling the beginning of the school's allocated time for lunch. Many of the students sighed in relief as Minori stopped her lesson in mathematics. Many of them may adore and respect Miss Kushieda, that didn't mean many of them adored all the subjects she taught, especially math. It's very rare that you find someone who can make Maths fun for everyone, bless Minori's heart she tries really hard.

"Okay, I'll see you guys after lunch for P.E!" the red haired woman cheerful announced before she left the class to their own devices.

Many of the students got into their groups of friends to sit and talk well they ate whatever they packed for themselves. Others walked out of the class to go hang out somewhere else on the school grounds.

Kori packed her books into her bag well also pulling out her bento. As she packed her back, she saw the second bento that she had made the night before and she had a thought. What if Kasai already had his own lunch?

That would make her look like a fool for giving the boy lunch when he was already eating his own lunch. It almost made her seem desperate for his attention.

Glances over to the two toned haired boy she noticed that he didn't have any lunch out. A good sign, however it could go south if he tells her that he already has his own lunch he just wasn't eating it yet. Well, if it does come to that she'd give it to Miyo, who could eat 5 bentos on her own. Speaking of the energetic red head…

"Hey Kori!" Miyo greeted as she approached her best friend's desk with a bento in her hand "you ready for lunch? Oh! Oh! What do you have today?" the girl had stars in her eyes.

"Hey Miyo" the girl smiled at the girl, she couldn't be mad at Miyo, she never had any bad intentions when she asked Narumi about her and Kasai "I have the usual today…actually…" she glanced over to Kasai, who was staring at the ceiling with a bored look on his face "do you mind coming with me?"

Miyo tilted her head in confusion before shrugging her shoulders "Sure, I don't mind, but where are we going?" Kori could almost see dog ears as Miyo stared at her with that curious and excited look.

"Just come with me" Kori reached into her bag and pulled out the second bento, which surprised Miyo more.

Takasu girl stood up and made her way across the class towards the boy that everyone dubbed the Fire Demon. She got some curious looks from some of her classmates but she didn't pay them any mind.

Kasai had closed his eyes as he started to relax in his seat. Rin had told him that she had some things to do and she'd be back in a bit. So he decided to wait for the laid back girl.

The boy had almost drifted off to sleep when he heard someone clear their throat. Kasai cracked an eye open to see who was disturbing him, he almost fell out of his seat when he saw who it was.

Kori stood by the boy's desk with blue and pink lunch boxes in her hands. She looked awkward as she stood there well trying to find something to say. Kasai raised a brow at the girl as he turned in his seat to give the girl his attention.

"What do you want?" he didn't mean for it to sound so mean but it just came out that way. Majority of their time together had been nothing but them arguing.

That snapped Kori out of her awkwardness. She frowned at Kasai for a second, before she cleared her throat and attempted to be civil with the boy.

"Good day to you too, blondie" she mentally patted herself on the back for making Kasai's eyebrow twitch in annoyance.

"If you're here to argue, I'm not in the mood" the boy scoffed in annoyance as he crossed his arms.

"You know, as fun as it is to push your buttons" Kori rolled her eyes as she said this "I'm here for another reason entirely" she pushed her hand that held the blue bento forward "here, for you"

Kasai's eyes almost bulged out of his eyes sockets by Kori's action. This…This he did NOT expect the girl to do the minute she came over to him. Shouting about him being mean to her best friend? That was the first thing he thought she'd be screaming at him about. Try to pry into his personal life some more? She spent the better part of their walk yesterday pestering him, even when he kept saying no. A bento? For him? Definitely not.

"Um…what?" was the only response that he could come up with as he stared at the girl that held out the bento towards him.

"Just take the stupid thing" Kori shoved the box into his chest, forcing the boy to grab the box. The orange haired girl started blushing slightly, this was so embarrassing for her.

Getting over his shock, Kasai looked down at the box in his hands for a few seconds before he looked up at the girl who gave it to him. The boy smirked evilly; this was too good of an opportunity for the guy to pass up.

Shrugging, with the bento in his one hand, well closing his eyes "Huh, I never knew…" he said making Kori stop blushing, to regard the boy in front of her with a confused look.

"Never knew what?" she asked, narrowing her eyes at the boy's smirk "what are you talking about?"

Kasai snickered "that you actually fell for me" he opened his eyes to give the girl a fake flattered look "if you were honest from the beginning we could have avoided all this unnecessary drama and, you know…" he wiggled his eyebrows "hooked up"

Kori's face became so red Kasai idly wondered if they could use her to bring in ships on a foggy night, or if Rudolph would be jealous that Santa would rather pick her to guide him instead.

"Wh-Wh-Wh-What are y-y-y-you talking about?!" Kori shouted as she pointed at the two-tone haired boy, who's smirk grew wider "i-i-it's n-not like th-that!" her embarrassment made way for anger, thus destroying her stutter "Do you want people to start weird rumours again?!"

"Well, it seems that you already reopened that box, princess" Kasai pointed behind Kori trying not to laugh.

Kori spun around to see the people in the class staring at them with gapping mouths. The Takasu female blushed even brighter well taking a deep breath "It's not like that!" she shouted at them. She put so much force into her shout that she closed her eyes and stomped her foot in anger.

"It's not like that!" the class repeated back in shock and fear. None of them, especially those who had been in Kori's class last year, ever heard her shout like that. She normally shouted in anger, well she did once. To see the Ice Princess of Ohashi shouting in embarrassment, with her face almost shining from how harsh her blush was, it was…cute.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kori spun around to see Kasai slapping the table with his free hand and his head thrown back with how hard he was laughing. The girl saw red as she pulled her fist back to deliver a gut wrenching punch to the boy currently laughing at her expense. She was, however, stopped by someone grabbing her arm.

Looking over her shoulder Kori was surprised to see Rin standing there with that shit eating grin of hers. The jacket wearing girl was holding Kori's arm with one hand, surprising the Takasu female by the amount of strength she had.

"Wow, slow your roll there princess" the girl chuckled. She let go of Kori's arm and put her, now free, hand into her pocket "Kasai's just being a jack-ass, don't worry about him"

"Damn Rin, did you have to ruin my fun?" the boy rolled his eyes with that smirk on his face.

"Course I had too" Rin walked past Kori and stood in front of Kasai's desk "if I didn't you'd have embarrassed the girl so much she'd probably pass out from all the blood going to her head.

Kori's blush had slowly begun to die down but it slightly rose when Rin reminded her that she had been blushing. The hooded girl grabbed the desk in front of Kasai and turned it around so that she had a place to sit. After she was situated in her seat, Rin turned to Kori with an inviting smile on her face "well? You just gonna stand there looking pretty? Or are you going to sit with us?" her question threw Kori for a loop.

"Er…no thanks, I'm good. Miyo and I were going to-" she was cut off from talking and stepping away by Rin grabbing a hold of her school blazer's arm.

"Please, I insist" the look in Rin's eyes promised hell if Kori didn't sit down.

The standing orange haired female had one of two options. She could rip her arm out of Rin's grip and just walk away, but that could mean that the other orange haired girl would try to inconvenience her day like she did before (how Kori saw it), or she could just sit down with the two for one lunch.

The best answer was the one that didn't give her more of a headache. So she sighed and got two desks to push against the two desks Kasai and Rin were sitting in. When she was finished, the girl noticed that her best friend was missing. Looking around the room for the red head, Kori spotted her peaking in from outside the classroom. She was eyeing Kasai, like a prey would when they see their predator just patrolling the area they were in.

"Miyo! Stop hiding and come sit!" she shouted at the girl. The last thing she wanted to do now was argue with her best friend.

"No!" she shouted back pointing at Kasai "he scares me!"

"Me?!" Kasai pointed at himself in shock "what did I do?!" he shouted at the girl. Rin and Kori looked at him with deadpan looks.

Kori just ignored the stupid question the boy asked and regarded her best friend with an annoyed look, one that meant she was done arguing "Miyo Kushieda, you get over her and sit with us"

The two stared at each other, neither looked like they were back down, until Miyo opened her mouth to speak "…only if I sit next to Rin"

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