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                              P r e m i e r   F a n f i c t i o n

                                   by Robert Kwong
                                      ver 1.0
                                      Complete 4/4/97


Based on characters from the Kimagure Orange Road Series created by
the venerable Matsumoto Izumi.

As you can see, this is fanfiction harkening back to the old Kimagure Orange
Orange Road Series. In the Prelude edition, it outlines the events following
the breakup of Hikaru and Kyouske which sets the stage for Shin Kor and
HARD Kor series. These stories were written in the attempt to clarify
certain details assumed and to provide clues for future Hard Kor episodes.


HardKor Web Site (With Disclaimer and back-stories:
Book A and Book B chapters)
http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rk/HardKor.html

My SuperPage for the General Kimagure Orange Road enthusiast
http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rk/Kor.html

My contact email address for comments or further correspondence:
rk@soda.berkeley.edu

Feel free to email me your impressions and suggestions for the series. Beta
readers always welcome. If you want new stories emailed to you, please e-mail
me at the above address.

Thanks for reading my stories and making it one the most popular KOR fanfic
on the web! (14000 can't be wrong!)I hope you enjoy reading it as I did
writing it. Thanks again.

Special Thanks to Steven Tsai, author of the KOC Fanfiction series. I took the
liberty of using some details from his KOC Story #24. I hope he doesn't mind.

Robert Kwong
Ark Productions -97-


Legend:
H=Hikaru Hiyami
Y=Hino, Yuusaku


<>      Indicates characters thinking to themselves
*       Denotes action
[]      Denotes change of events

Prelude - JuSan : The Trap

[Yuusaku riding on the motorcycle down in the east side of town with Kaori
right behind him]

(rides up to a liquor store, next to blind alley)

Kaori: You can drop me off here, thanks.

Y: Anything to be of service to you, my love. (lunges in for a kiss)

Kaori: (places hand up over his distored face) LISTEN MAN! I appreciate all
the a'tent'ion you've been given me, but don't start getting fresh with me. I
got things to do. I might hook up with you later on. Now just go take a hike!

Y: (mesmerized look in his eyes, in a robotic voice) Yes. Whatever you say.
Goodbye dear.

Kaori: (shakes head) Sheesh! Them city folk are sure creepy! Did I lead him on
that much?

[Back at Ryoga's place]

(opens door)

Ryoga: Sorry I took so long. One of my boys came by to drop something off.

(Hikaru quickly places the piece of paper back into the book)

(*Ruff*)

H: Now who do we have here?

Ryoga: (cradles the thing in his arm) It's a dog. A puppy actually.

H: Kawaii! He's adorable! (strokes the puppy's chin) Where did you get him
from?

Ryoga: My dog fished him off the streets. Taki just carried him by the nip of
his neck to here. Didn't know what to do with the little thing, so I sent
'em to a vet to get some shots. My boys just got him back.  Must have been
abandoned by its owner.

H: That's terrible!

Ryoga: Yep. Too bad I have to send him to a pound. Can't be keeping too many
dogs around the place.

H: You are? That's too bad...

Ryoga: Feel sorry for the little thing? Here, you hold him for a while.
(places the puppy into  Hikaru's lap)

(puppy crawls up her chest and starts licking her face)

Ryoga: (laughs) I think he has taken a liking and licking to you!

H: (giggling) Stop it. Oooh. That tickles!

Ryoga: I think you two make a cute pair. Why don't you take him in yourself?

H: Me? You think so? I never really raised a pet before...

Ryoga: Doesn't hurt to try. Besides, you couldn't get him off you now even if
you tried.

H: You're right. I indeed would like to keep him. Arigatou!

Ryoga: Sure. No sweat. What do you plan on naming him?

H: He is so frisky and feisty. And he looks just like the dog in the "Wizard
of Oz". I think I'll call him Toto.

Ryoga: Then Toto-chan he is. Looks like we won't get much studying done after
all today.

[Back at the Chemistry Lab]

(Muroke bursts right into the lab)

(Startles Shiijama-san, decked in his white lab coat, extracting a sample from a
parallelpiped)

Shiijama: Watch the equipment! Can't you see I'm working on my experiment?

Muroke: Bad news man!

Shiijama: (eyes still focused on the beaker) What is it this time?

Muroke: The synthetic stuff you gave me; it turned my friend into some zombie!

Shiijama: What? You're not suppose to drink the thing!

Muroke: He didn't; he just inhaled some of the fumes and started acting 
real goofy.

Shiijama: Nonsense! My mixture solutions are perfectly safe!

Muroke: Not so! Look! (sticks out the cannister he was holding)

Shiijama: (places down the beaker, rubs his hands, then gingerly grasps the
cannister from Muroke) This one,...hmmm...this,...this is not the right solution.

Muroke: (eyes bulge out) IT'S NOT?

Shiijama: (nerd laugh) No, of course not. You must have grabbed this in your
haste. The "speed racer" formula is right next to this one over there. 
(points to counter) Ah...this ...is something else.

Muroke: Well? What is it?

Shiijama: (blushing) It's a love potion of sorts.

Muroke: Love potion? What the heck are you developing this for?

Shiijama: I-I-I, ...uhhh...(pushes glasses up) well...it's really...uhh...

Muroke: Well? What are you waiting for? Out with it!

Shiijama: I wanted to use to get a date for the holidays 'kay? Are you happy
now?

Muroke: Y O U? A date?

Shiijama: Yeah! Even nerds have fantasies too!

Muroke: Gee,...I didn't know...

Shiijama: (wipes forehead) Yes it's true. I just a depressed, overworked honors
student looking for love in the wrong places. I spend all my life in the lab,
so I knew it would be hopeless for me to ask a girl out, so I wanted to take a
shortcut. So I started to studying multitudes of aphrodisiacs from all around
the world and analyzing its chemical composition. Turns out that my o-chem
background was a perfect match for such an undertaking, so I secretly
developed it.

Muroke: Well, it sure works.

Shiijama: It did?

Muroke: Yes, too well. Now my friend Yuusaku-san is head over heels for the
bewitching bad girl, Kaori Kinsu!

Shiijama: You mean the transfer student from last semester? (puts palm under chin) 
Wow,...she's really a fine looking babe. What a lucky guy...

Muroke: This is not the time for your fantasies. You got to help come up with
an antidote for him?

Shiijama: Antidote? You want me to neutraize its effects? How should I know?

Muroke: But you must! Or else my friend will be in big trouble!

Shiijama: But I wouldn't know where to begin.

Muroke: I don't care where you begin! Just do it and let me know when you're
done. In the meantime, I gotta go check up on him...

(grabs second metal cannister as he darts off)

Shiijama: HEY! Where's ya goin' with that!?

[Kaori down in the East District]

(saunters quickly into a blind alley beside liquor store)

(A bum sits alongside one of the garbage cans)

(Kaori looks around to both ends of the alley before addressing the bum)

Kaori: Mama bear here. Is Papa bear home?

Bum: (wails) Say what honey?

Kaori: Sorry. Have the wrong person.

Bum: (stutters) But the D-D-DDoctor iz in.

Kaori: You're a doctor? Ha! Don't insult me, old man.

Bum: (grogily) You don't look too well. Here. (raises alcohol bottle up) Take
my p-p-precious! Make you f-e-e-e-l g-o-o-d. And I e-e-especially want y-y-you
to have it. (raises up a liquor bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag.

Kaori: Leave me alone! And take that thing away!

Bum: Take da bottle. Take it.(claws at her)

Kaori: Gawd! Get off me! I'll take your stupid bottle. Just get your dirty
hands off of me.

(Bum wobbles a bit before lying back down to go to sleep amid the trash)

(Kaori quickly exits the alley and briskly walks towards the bar she is
working at.)

Kaori: What a piece of junk! (tosses bottle into trash receptacle and enters
bar)

(A dark figure about 10 paces behind creeps out of the shadows picks the
bottle out of the trash and examines it, but he finds nothing)

(Behind the bar, we see Kaori take out of the piece of paper she slipped under
her sleeve before tossing the bottle)

[Back at Yuusaku's house]


"Yu-u-u-u! Your little friend is here to see you!"

(Yuusaku is oblivious to her calls)

Hino's mom: You seem to be very young for your age. Do want some cookies?

Muroke: No thank you Mrs Hino-san. I really need to see Yuusaku-semapi.

Hino's mom: He's probably practicing his karate in the garden. (points to the
left side)

Muroke: (bows) Arigatou! (runs out)

(Yuusaku is lying on his belly on the soft earth, both palms cupped under his
chin, gazing aimlessly up into the sky with a goofy smile on his face,)

Muroke: (waves hands back and forth in front of Yuusaku's face) Hello? Anyone
home?

(Yuusaku just rolls his eyes around)

Muroke: (kneels in front of him) Gomen nasai. It's me who is to blame for
causing you all these chemical inbalances. I'm so sorry about those wakeup
pills and now I'm sorry about this latest chemical mishap. And to have this 
happen during finals week! I have to help you! Come on! Let's go in and cram 
for calculus. (tugs weakly in vain at Yuusaku's broad shoulders)

Y: (points up to the trees) Look at all the pretty little birdies flying off
in the distance.

Muroke: (slaps a hand to his cheek) OH GAWD. He's really off in never, never
land.

[Back at Hiyama house]

(In Hikaru's bedroom, with the puppy playing with a ball of orange yarn on the
bed)

(Hikaru lying beside on the bed, hands crossed behind her head, listening to
an American song on tape she had dubbed from Ryoga.
Song: Hold on For one more day by Wilson Phillips)

(On an easel lies an unfinished painting similar to the one she sketched
earlier of a man draped in simple white traditional garb practicing in a
bamboo like edifice situated alongside the mountainside)

(Next to it on a table is some knitting handiwork of what looks to be a scarf)

(Hikaru staring hard at both of these objects and then looks down at the puppy)

<Ryoga-san. A really kind person behind his rough, brusque exterior. Someone
who I can grow to like. Someone who is often misunderstood. A rebel and an
outsider.  But is he the one who I really want to latch on to,...to get
close to?

(Hikaru recalling the events which occurred earlier...)

Y: ...I have no more time to baby-sit you nee-san...

<And Yuu-kun. The brother I never had. He aptly called me nee-san which is
sister in english. That was the type of relationship we had ever since we
were little.  Always there to help lift me up whenever I fell down. Someone
whose shoulder I could cry on whenever I face another mishap. Old reliable
and dependable up until now. Someone who I could fall back on.
Straight-laced and honest and ordinary.  Someone who I could grow to love in
time.  But would that be fair to him,...  to have him wait and waste his
life away on me? To have him live in doubt as to who I trully love? One who
could never give back to him as much love as he has shown me? No, I could
never do that to him. To have my eyes betray his poor heart.  That is why we
must stay friends. 

(then recalls earlier event seeing Yuusaku in a deep embrace of Kaori)

<But if that was true, why did my feelings betry me? why did I feel so
strange seeing Yuusaku in the arms of another woman? Was it because I felt
jealous?  No, it can't be! Why should I feel jealous at all? He and I
understand the relationship we have. We're friends, that's all. Of course
I'm not jealous.  So it must be something else. Hmmm. Humph. What could it
be? What is wrong with me? (feeling more anxiety over her uncertainty and
starts to fidget about in the bed causing Toto to be displaced on his back)
(Hikaru picks him up and holds him up to her face)> I'm sorry Toto. I was
being so selfish to ignore you. Just pondering my feelings, that's all. Can
you help me out?

"BARK!"

H: What is it boy?

"Bow wow!"

H: I think I see what you're saying. You think that I'm just worried about 
Yuu-kun associating with such bad company such as Kaori Kinsu, just like a
sister would. That I was looking out for him on his behalf. That would
explain a lot of things. Thanks boy! (kisses puppy)


(looks at scarf)

<And finally you. You're the hardest to get over. Even now, I can still feel
the pangs in my heart. A undying fire which refuses to be extinguished. I
could never ever forget the special things we had together. That kiss,...my
first one the one I would treasure for the rest of my life. Sempai. Where
are you now when I most need you? My life has grown much more complicated
since you've left me. I don't know how I can cope with all these conflicting
range of emotions surging inside of me. I could learn to love another, but
do I want to...do I need to...do I have to? I feel I'm in a bad dream living
out here in this new land and I want to go back. I only wish had some ruby
slippers so I could return to things the way they use to be...  

"Hikaru!" (mom bursts into door)

H: (cross) Don't you ever knock?

Hikaru's mom: (retorts) Don't you ever clean this room?

H: Well what is it now? I'm studying!

Hikaru's mom: Well, me and your papa wanted to save this till later but we
feel it would give you an incentive to work harder for your exams.

H: So what's the big surprise?

Hkaru's mom: Well we know you and Yuu-kun have been kind of homesick, so our
two families have decided to spend the winter break back in Tokyo.

[Ryoga's Place] (Ryoga lying on the bed, a cigarette hanging loosely in his
mouth, listening to the cd player. Song is "Every Breath You Take".)

(Kaori, dressed in a tight black mini-skirt and red top, enters)

Kaori: There're you are, you lazy bum!

"Bow Wow!"

Kaori: That mutt drinking from the sink again?

Ryoga: (ignores her comments) What do you have for me?

Kaori: I got your lousy message like you asked me to. Special delivery by the
doc himself. Had a hard time shaking that snoop following me. So what have
you've been doing while I was busting my butt?

Ryoga: Enjoying myself as usual with the company of Miss Hiyama-san. How are
you and loverboy doin'?

Kaori: He's become such a nuisance! Now I have a hard time getting him off
of me.

Ryoga: It was all your own doing. You pushed him over the edge and he cracked.
I reckon that already from the weak character he had.

Kaori: (sarcastic) Well I wish someone here would covet as much attention
towards me as he is now!

Ryoga: I was just kidding. That's not his style. Only reason he was so bold
was because he's stoned.

Kaori: What!?

Ryoga: I told you he was in on it, but you wouldn't believe me. Judging from
his irrational, bizarre behavior and that lost look in his
eyes, he was definitely high on some foreign substance. I've seen that look
way too many times hauling addicts like that off to jail. Same old story;
dealer trades dope for information. Gawd I hate my job!

Kaori: I guess you're right this time. He is acting very weird. But you think
I like this charade myself? Trying to act like a bawdy teenage girl at my age
is hard work.

Ryoga: I know. You look like you have a hard time fitting in that skin-tight
jump suit. (starts to pat his stomach) But you better watch your bulging
behind. (pats his butt)

Kaori: (steamed) Are you saying I'm fat?
(starts to take something from her purse)

Ryoga: (smile) Of course not baby. And put that away before you hurt someone
with that. Now you believe me now on that snitch Yuusaku.

Kaori: Despite the facts against him, my gut feeling tells me otherwise. But
he did give me the creeps, so I'll be more careful of myself around him.
Speaking of snitches, did you plant the trap for her?

Ryoga: Uh huh. (glances quickly over the message) You didn't read this first,
did you?

Kaori: Yep. What's your's is mine and vice-versa.

Ryoga: DAMN! I hate this sharing business. You know what's up for tomorrow?

Kaori: Next year's stash going to Toro and Company to infect the innocent
lives of the Otaru community. We've gotta stop it before it falls in the wrong
hands again.

Ryoga: I know. The Chief will jump on my back for another failed venture. And I 
don't want to spend another lousy semester at that school.

[At a secret location...]

Toro: Did you find out anything?

"Nothing sir. I'm been following the girl all around town this whole week.
Seems to be sticking to her normal habits. Just seems to have the transfer
student - a Hino Yuusaku around her all the time.

Toro: The guy at the tournament?

"Yes. The very same one."

"He's been popping up conveniently at all the right times. Too convenient. He
must be part of their side to infiltrate us. Must be the undercover student cop
my allies were warning me about. He must be their key guy now. From
now on, I want you to keep a sharp eye for him.

"Understood sir."

Toro: And understand this. My special "cargo" arrives today. I absolutely want
no mishap in its delivery. If you see any of our three enemies near the
designated area, take them out.

(*nods*)


[The Next Day]

(in the school hallway)

(A figure runs towards Hikaru)

"HIYAMA-SAN!"

H: (turns head) Who? Oh, it's you Sario-san!

Sario: Great news! I got the part in the play!

H: Congratulations. I'm happy for you.

Sario: Well don't you want to know?

H: Know what?

Sario: You're going to be our lead kitty in the play. YOU GOT THE MAIN PART!
(starts jumping up and down, feeling excited for the both of them while a
stunned Hikaru just stands there to absorb the news)

H: I-I-I g-g-ot t-t-the part?

Sario: YES YOU DID! DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME THE FIRST TIME?

H: I thought I was dreaming...

Sario: Oh, you're have plenty of time for that later. You've got to come with
me to see the rest of the chosen cast. They're assembling in the auditorium.
(grabs Hikaru's and and drags her away)

(Yuusaku walking in a snake-like fashion down the hall, bumping into people)

H: Hi Yuusaku! Guess what? I got the part!

Y: (mesmerized) That's nice Hik-chan.

H: Want to go out to the ice cream shop to celebrate after school?

Y: Ice cream shop? You've got to be kidding! You can hold a tea party with
your dolls if you like. I've got adult stuff to do. See ya later. Gotta find
where Kaori is at...(darts around the corner)

H: (dejected as she walks along with Sario) Normally, he would jump at the
chance to do anything with me. But now he is not even the least interested.
Is that how a friend suppose to act? What a stupid jerk! (clenches fist) I'll
make sure he gets it!


[At the chemistry lab]

Muroke: Well? Did you find the cure yet?

Shiijama: (monitoring a caged set of rats) I currently testing my experimental
reversal formula on these specimens. Haven't gotten any conclusive results
yet.

Muroke: Could you hurry it up? Time is running out!

Shiijama: Don't go blaming me! You're the one who took the wrong formula!

Muroke: Sorry. It's just finals week and all that got me all worked up.

Shiijama: Hey, don't take it personally. Everybody should have a friend like
you who worries so much about their semapi.

Muroke: That reminds me. I have to get outta here. (waves) Ja ne!

[After school in the courtyard]

"Excuse me for a moment."

Y: Huh? Oh, you're one of Ryoga's point men. They call you the 'Flamingo Kid'.

"Yeah so?"

Y: What's your real name?

"Tojo is all you need to know. But I stick by my nickname."

Y: So what do you want with me? I'm in a hurry.

"I see you have bad blood with Ryoga. "

Y: Yah man. I'm the bad boy now intruding on his turf. Everyone knows that.

"If that is so, then why are helping him by being on the team?"

Y: Helping him? You've got to be kidding. I just want to annoy the crap out 
of the big guy. Just like I'm annoyed with your stupid questions. 

"Hey man. I just wanted to discuss a mutual proposition to help rid us of
our common foe.

Y: Not interested. I trust no one but myself.

"Just wait man. Listen to what I have to say."

Y: You listen to this. If you don't want me to beat the crap out of you, then
get out of the way! (shoves him out of the way)

(mutters: You made a big mistake! Now both of you will get it!)

(sees Muroke pouring something in his bike)

Y: (snaps) What the hell are you doin' to my bike?

Muroke: (startled) I was just....

Y: Just take your little toy away and get out of my way! I have a girl to
chase!

Muroke: But Sempai-

Y: ...and if I catch your dirty little paws on my bike again, I'll beat the
crap out of you! Now SCRAM!

(revs bike and motors off leaving a thick cloud of smoke)

(*crackle, crackle pop pop BANG!*)

Muroke: (*cough cough cough*) Gawd! That chemical must have turned him into
a 'Mr Hyde' complex. I need that antidote fast!


(another motorcycle whizzes by him creating another cloud of smoke)

Muroke: (*cough cough*) Now who the hell was that? And why was he in such a
hurry?

(sees Hikaru)

Muroke: Hiyama-san!

H: Do I know you? (short pause) Oh, I know. You're Yuusaku's little helper
friend.  Koji-san, right?

Muroke: Yes. I think Yuusaku might be getting himself into a heap of trouble.
I think he went looking for that Kinsu girl. But I saw some guy chasing
after him.

H: That Yuusaku! Always getting himself into trouble now! Humph! If he's after
Kaori-san, then I have an idea where he might be. Thanks for the tip. 


[At one side of town: Farpoint grove]
(Aki, Bento, Chiko sitting around playing junken.)

Aki: Seen anyone yet?

Bento: Not yet. Suppose to wait for that Hino guy to come around.

Chiko: You got the right location from the boss's chic, right? Farpoint he
said.

Aki: Yep. This is it. We're here. Kind of strange to make us wait out here
like this. Let's wait for the boss to come back.

Bento: Hey look! A girl is coming by!

"Hello there? You look like the guys who hang out with Ryoga-san.

Aki: (points to himself) That's us!

"Can you help me out? Have you seen a curly-brown hair boy come by around
here?"

Chiko: You mean that Hino transfer kid? Nah. We're waiting for him too.
(covers mouth) Oops!

"He's not here...how about the girl, Kaori-san."

Bento: She? Of course not. She's with the boss on some secret mission.

Aki: (knocks Bento's head) Stupid! You were not suppose to tell!

"Thanks anyway."

Chiko: Who was that girl anyway???

[On the other side of town, a mysterious truck makes its way downtown towards
one of the remote, isolated areas of town, with 4 bikers trailing
suspiciously]

(One wears a beret and another sports a  shirt with skull and cross bones)

(One displays his brass knuckes and leather jacket)

(Yet another flashes a metal pipe)

(Kaori waits hidden in the bushes at the destination, awaiting the arrival of
the truck.)

Kaori: (speaking into a walkie talkie) Taki One. This is Big Bang two.

Ryoga: (static) Proceed with the tracking. Wait for my signal. Do not act
before then."

Kaori: Got it. Over and out.

(from behind)

"Now who do we have here?"

Kaori: (looks back) AIEEE!

(The 4 biker dudes are right behind her!)

(*Evil Cackle*)

"The boss will love this. A pretty girl out in the middle of nowhere. (in a
mocking fashion) Are you lost little woman?"

Kaori: (grits her teeth)

"Ain't the talkative type, is she?"

(man brandishing pipe) "No problem. I have just the thing for that." (slaps
pipe against his hand)

(A muffled voice inside Kaori's purse: Hello? BIG BANG TWO? Do you read me?
Come in!)

(4 guys with their hands out front writhing with anticipated desire)

(*ZOOOOOOM! ZOOOOOOM!*)

Thug #1: Huh?

(A motorcycle flies out of the sky out of nowhere and right into the middle of
things and scattering the bikers!)

Kaori: (incredulously) Yuuskau-san?

Y: Missed me babe? Better get going before those punks come to. Here. Grab my
hand my love. (pulls her in the back of the motocycle)

Kaori: How did you know...

Y: I just know. Didn't know you were so popular with the guys...

Thug #2: There they go! After them!

(*sputter sputtter*)

Kaori: Oh no! That bike of yours don't sound too good.

Y: Don't worry; This will hold up. It has some special surprise still stored
up.

Kaori: Here's they come!

(chase scene ensures along a narrow strip of dirt road, with the 4 bikers
riding superior motorcycles. Soon they are side by side with Yuusaku.)

Guy with pipe: F-E-E-L MY HEAVY METAL! (swings pipe at them)

Kaori: Listen scumbag! Two can play that game! (takes out a pounding type
object out of her purse)

Kaori: TAKE THIS! (expertly swings object and knocks the pipe out of the
thug's hand and into the spokes of the motorcycle trailing behind.)

"Aieeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Kaori: And this is for you! (swings and punches out the guy with the pipe off
his bike!)

Y: Good going babe. 2 down, 2 more to go.

Kaori: Will you stop calling me babe?

"Let's ram 'em!" (switches on special cutting blades which protrude out
from both encircling motorcycles.)

Kaori: THEY'RE RIGHT BESIDE US! THEY'RE TRYING FOR A BLOWOUT!

(*sputter sputter cough cough*)

Y: (calmly) Don't worry. Everything is under control.

Kaori: WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT OUT OF THIS!

"RAM THEM NOW!"

(Yuusaku's motorcycle engine hicups and suddenly starts to rev up)

(*Voom voom V-O-O-O-O-M!*)

(Yuusaku's bike starts to hits overdrive and accelerate from them just in the
nick of time as the two motorcycles are making their ramming maneurver from 
both sides.)

"MOVE BACK! MOVE BACK!"

"TOO LATE!"

(The 2 remaining enemy bikes ram into each other instead)

Y: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooo!

Kaori: (lets out a yell) Boy Yuu-san. I never knew you could be this much fun.

Y: You never know unless you try. By the way; do you always keep a hammer in
your purse?

Kaori: Doesn't every girl?

[Hikaru walking back along the road]

Ryoga: (in his bike) Hullo there! What are you doing out here by yourself?
It's dangerous!

H: I came to look for someone.

Ryoga: Me too. I think I know who ya looking for. Hop on!

(As Hikaru boards, Ryoga floors the motorcycle)

H: Woah! Watch where you're going. What's your hurry Ryoga-san?

Ryoga: Kaori. I've tracked her. (scans area) Gotta find out what's wrong.
She should be closeby judging from the signal I'm getting.

H: What signal?


Ryoga:Oh shit!

H: What?

Ryoga: I found them.

H: You did? That's great. Isn't it?

Ryoga: (points) No. Look!

Beside a tree, behind the shadows, with Yuusaku sitting on his bike, Kaori
beside him. Both are bent over in anticipation of a kiss!

[End of Chapter JuSan]