Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ True Love ❯ Flowing Butterflies ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3: Flowing Butterflies

"Sage, are you sure you're going to go through with this bet?" Rowen asked, with a serious look on his face as they walked down the street to get to school.

"Yes, I'm very sure. Now the hardest thing to do is getting my fans off of me for a while so Yayoi knows that she hasn't won the bet."

"How much did you both bet each other anyway?" Ryo asked with curiosity as they all turned the corner.

Sage scratched his head and shrugged. All of his friends took a look back and gaped at Sage like he was mental.

"You mean to tell me that you didn't bet anything on this?" Kento questioned in awe, then busted out laughing. "You're stupider than I thought, Sage. How come you didn't bet any money or anything like that?"

"I guess the bet was the heat of the moment." Sage smiled, "But I'll settle this score right after school."

"You better," Satsuki groaned, "If mom does ever finds out that you two are betting, then she'll have a cow. You know what happened the last time that you both did that and how much you and Yayoi got into trouble."

"Don't worry sis." Sage reassured, "I know what I'm doing."

"Yeah, right." Satsuki moaned as she turned another corner, "Well, this is my end of the bargain. I'll see you all after school." The ronins waved their good-byes as they went on their way to their own school.

"I still don't understand why you won't just keep on with your fan-club." Kento voiced his opinion rather loudly. "I mean, you are the most popular boy in school, you get everything you want, and all the girls just love you. And you're still unhappy." Kento made a frown when he saw the deep despair in Sage's eyes.

"Kento, you have no idea what it's like to be the most popular boy. Sure, you'd love it the first two years, but then you realize that your whole world is based on a lie. You're not really popular, only a hangman for people to use and abuse off of. Better yet, how about you take my shoes for one day and see how miserable you are when you're expected to treat a girl everyday of the week and never have time for any of your fun." Sage uttered, surprising his friends to the extreme.

"I'm sorry man, but I still say you're nuts to even let go of all those pretty girls for nothing in the world." Kento sadly said as he put a hand on Sage's shoulder.

"Yeah, well, stop trying to be sorry for me, I don't need your lack of sympathy." Sage pushed Kento's hand off of his shoulder and continued on into the building, where all of a sudden, a herd of girls came flocking towards Sage unexpectedly. Sage was taken aback when a girl about the age of sixteen with shoulder length dark black hair and brown eyes jumped upon him, giving him a huge hug.

"Oh, Sagey-chan, you're here! I thought you were hurt!" the girl cried, tears forming in her eyes.

Sage looked at her with a soft frown and pushed her off of him. "Now is not the time, Takani, I don't need you hovering over me like that."

"But, you've always loved me to do that." Takani pouted. "You must not have slept well, knowing I wasn't there to make you feel better."

"No, that's not it." Sage said, walking away from his fan club. But in that second, Takani again tried to wrap her arms around his waist. "Takani, stop being such a brat!"

"Sagey-poo, it's someone else, isn't it?" Takani whimpered, taking a step back after she unwrapped her arms around Sage.

Sage looked perplexed when he looked around and saw Kyoko walking to her locker.

"Yes, there is." Sage moved Takani aside as he started walking up to Kyoko, who by now had opened her locker. Takani glared deeply at Kyoko as Sage walked up to her without making a sound.

"Come on girls, it looks like we got some planning to do!" Takani snapped her fingers and all the girls followed, doing the same as their friend. The ronins watched as they did this and all rolled their eyes in the process.

Rowen smiled a bit as he saw whom Sage was walking towards. Ryo and the others were looking awestruck and seriously awed by the way Sage handled his situation.

"Hey guys!" greeted an auburn haired girl with blue eyes as she walked up to the astonished looking group. "What's the matter?" She flashed her hand in front of Ryo's face before getting a started reaction.

"Huh?" Ryo blinked, getting out of his trance. He looked at the hand and followed the long slender arm. "Oh, hey Mia."

"What's the matter with you all? I've never seen you so worked up and where's Sage, I thought he was with his fan club. I saw Takani and her group just pass with out him? What's up?" Mia asked with concern.

"Walk with us and we will tell you all about it," Kento smirked as he put his arm around Mia and started walking with her. She smiled nervously as he jabbered on about what was going on and looked back at Sage who was walking up to a new girl. She sadly turned her head, walking with Kento and even nodding at some questions that he asked.

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Kyoko was putting some books in her booksack when she saw a shadow hover over her. She rolled her eyes in exasperation when she looked up to see pale blue violet eyes blocking her view the rest of the hall.

"Wahh!" Kyoko screamed, dropping her heavy literature book onto Sage's foot. He started hopping around in pain as it electrified through his right foot. "I am so sorry! I apologize for my clumsiness." Kyoko apologized as she picked up her literature book from off the ground. "Oh, its you." Kyoko said when she noticed who he was and slashed him a fake smile. * Boy these two days are really not my day, especially with poofy hair over here. *

"That's okay, I'm used to pain. Believe me." Sage put on one of his flashy smiles while waiting for Kyoko to say something. She just looked at him with a little fear and unreadable feelings that were running through her head. Kyoko went back to getting her books put up after the mood was set back to normal.

"Why are you here? I thought you were with your fan-club?" Kyoko asked when she closed her locker with a soft bang. Sage grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, I kinda blew them off."

"Really, now why did you do that?" Kyoko questioned with surprise as she walked down the hall, Sage following.

"I really don't want to talk about it." Sage frowned when Kyoko nodded.

"Then why are you talking to me?"

Sage didn't know what to say to what she just said and just stopped in his tracks.

"And I thought the Flirt King had more ambition than that. I highly doubt that you were even this close in talking to me the other day." She stopped walking as she turned around, looking at him with seriousness in her eyes. "And that's why you shouldn't talk to me again."

She turned around again to walk off. * That's weird... I have enough courage to tell the most popular guy to stop talking to me for just the two times he had, but I never could tell his fan-club every time they would boast about my looks. *

Sage looked a little hurt and surprised that she'd blow him off like that, but that wasn't the first time he had been blown off anyway. He dealt with many hardships in his life and this one was just another scuff-mark on the floor. But what really surprised him was that he even had the courage to use this girl to pawn away Takani and her group.

"Hey, Sage!" Mia shouted, getting Sage out of his thoughts of Kyoko and other girls.

"Huh, Mia?" Sage turned around to see Mia walking to him with a look of sadness on her face. "Hey, good morning." Sage flashed her one of his smiles as she finally stopped in front of him.

"Good morning yourself, I've been looking all over for you." Mia said, which was not a total lie.

"Oh, really? Why's that?" Sage asked, while walking along with her.

"Well, because..." Mia looked around and was about to say what she wanted to tell him when Kento came running between them, with Cye high tailing it behind in a ferocious manner.

"I'm going to kill you, Kento! You hear me! You're dead!" Cye yelled as he chased his best friend. Mia and Sage looked at their friends when they looked at each other and busted out laughing.

"I wonder what that was about?" Sage wondered as the bell rang for first hour to begin. "You'll have to tell me later of what you wanted to say. I need to go to first period. I'll see you for lunch, kay." Sage ran towards his first class as everyone else either followed in his footsteps or the other direction. Mia was left standing there with an O shaped on her mouth. She was so close to telling him how she felt when the big twin idiots had to ruin everything.

"Man, I almost told him...in front of the whole school!" Mia flaunted as the tardy bell rang. "OH NO! I'm late!" Mia high-tailed it out of the hall way which was empty and ran into her first period class.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Woo, that's really...really...really...okay. Well, how did you like it! Was it too slow, was it too fast, was it just okay! Well, tell me! I had to think this on the spur of the moment, so it might go a little over board! Man I planned that Kyoko would be nervous around him, but it turned out that she was more of a free-spirited person! Am I going to fast? Please tell me in a review!

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Harry: for reviewing and giving me a good idea of how it would be to get Kyoko and Sage together.

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