• Kinoko sat on Leiko’s bed as she watched Leiko look at herself over and over in the mirror

    “I don’t get it, I look the same with my glasses on as I do with them off…” Leiko commented as she removed her glasses for the hundredth time

    “It’s a guy thing…” Kinoko replied as she returned to reading her magazine, she had found a really interesting article on weather changed in Antarctica

    “but Yuki looked like she was astonished too…” Leiko replied

    “She’s a lesbian” Kinoko replied without blinking an eye, Leiko glanced at her before dropping onto the bed laughing.

    Suichi and Leiko were going strong after two weeks of dating the gossip finally died down, Leiko had rose to her new status as ‘hot’; Kinoko and Leiko worked together to change everything about her from head to toe, but what made Suichi happy is that she stayed the same dorky Leiko on the inside, Leiko started wearing her plaid skirt a little shorter and white knee high socks, her hair was styled about her face and she wore a very thin layer of makeup to excentuate her natural beauty.

    “OHH Suichi…” called a flamboyant voice from the other side of the hallway, Suichi turned to see Haku a Junior classman with a pale complection and bleach blonde hair straight out of the bottle.

    Haku sauntered up to Suichi and handed him a bright orange flyer

    “Fashion club is having a fashion show and I would be tickled pink if you would be the sexy model for my outfit” Haku growled and smiled at him with a wink, Suichi smiled politely and nodded

    “Alright, do you need me to come for a fitting?” Suichi smiled widely as he placed his things in his locker, Haku looked at Leiko standing quietly next to them looking down at a paper that she was reading on top of her folder and gave her a nasty look behind Suichi’s back

    “Yea, why don’t you come over after school and I’ll fit it for this weekend” Haku smiled gaily as he turned on his heel and walked away with his hips swishing from side to side.

    “High school is so dumb, all of the sudden you’re the most popular girl in school” Kinoko pointed out as a group of soccer players(including Meicho) walked by their table for the fourth time with their eyes glued to Leiko who was eating her sandwich oblivious to the happenings

    “Yea, they are all so shallow” Yuki said as she walked up and sat down in on the empty bench next to Kinoko

    “What do you want?” Leiko spat back, Yuki stared at her shamelessly

    “I want to apologize and I want to be friends…” Yuki replied holding out her hand, Kinoko looked at Yuki and then ran her hand up the length of her back

    “What are you doing?” Yuki shot out, Kinoko smiled broadly

    “checking for a wire, we could be on one of those joke shows” Kinoko and Leiko laughed at this, Yuki looked down sadly and retracted her hand

    “Well at least think about it…please?” Yuki replied as she stood up to leave, Leiko stopped her

    “What happened to your friends?” Leiko asked, Yuki shook her head

    “They ditched me, they found a new leader…” Yuki frowned, Leiko nodded

    “Alright, we’ll be friends” Yuki smiled back and nodded as she walked off to buy her lunch, Kinoko turned on Leiko as soon as Yuki was out of earshot

    “are you kidding my?!” Kinoko exclaimed, Leiko waited for her to finish her rant

    “I’m not going to stoop to her level Kinoko, I’ll extend the branch of friendship and be the better person” Leiko smiled as Kinoko closed her mouth and fell silent for the rest of lunch period.

    After school Suichi headed over to Haku’s house in the opposite direction of his own home, as he walked up the drive he noticed that Haku’s parents were out of the house and Haku answered the door with absolute eagerness once Suichi reached the front door.

    Haku lead Suichi up to his room where a manikin was waiting for him

    “alright strip down and put this on” Haku smiled as he handed Suichi the outfit which was a fitted dark grey blazer with navy blue stitching and trim, a navy blue v-necked t-shirt tucked into acid washed jeans with a high tops and very large sunglasses for Suichi to wear.

    After a few minutes of removing and putting on clothing Suichi stood in clothing that was slightly too big for him

    “is this outfit supposed to be too big for me?” Suichi asked as he pulled the jeans up to rest on his hips as Haku got onto his knees holding a pocket sewing kit

    “yes, I’m going to take the clothes in so that they fit you better” Haku smirked slyly as he went to work.

    A half an hour went by extremely slowly for Suichi as he had to stand very still and after they finished Suichi undressed and was tackled onto Haku’s bed

    “Haku, what are you doing?!” Suichi exclaimed as he pushed Haku off of him, Haku smiled
    “Oh come on Suichi…don’t pretend like you don’t want me” Haku stood up tall and fluttered his eyelashes, Suichi shook his head

    “No, I’m dating Leik…” Suichi was cut off by Haku grabbing him about the neck and thrusting his tongue down Suichi’s throat, Suichi pushed Haku off, grabbed his backpack and ran for the door

    “Don’t pretend like you didn’t like it!” Haku screamed after him as Suichi slammed the door and met up with Kiera outside.

    “I sense something is wrong, what happened?” Kiera asked as she trotted at his ankles

    “Haku was just making a move on me” Suichi threw back, Kiera’s eyes widened

    “are you serious?” Kiera asked as they walked past the school towards Sucihi’s house, Suichi nodded angrily stomping his feet as he walked.

    Suichi and Kiera reached home and Suichi threw himself onto his bed thinking

    “Did I just…LIKE that?!” Suichi exclaimed at himself as he rolled over and threw a pillow over his head to try and shut out his thoughts, but it wasn’t working.

    The following morning as Leiko, Kouji, Kinoko, Yuki and a completely silent Suichi walked to school the sky suddenly turned a pitch black and a large gust of wind blew past their ears

    “What now…” Suichi exclaimed angrily, Meicho who was less then a block away came running up next to them

    “Awesome, more practice!” Meicho exclaimed as he pulled Aila out of his bag

    “Oh no…do I really have to fight?!” Aila exclaimed as she retreated into her shell for protection, Biru and Leiko were ready standing next to Chip, Kouji, Kiera, Suichi, Yuki and Alberic

    “oh bother…I was just settling in for a cat nap” Alberic complained as he stretched his paws and scratched the ground.

    Kiera and Biru were growling into the distance as someone appeared, she was balancing on a wooden fence on the opposite side of the street

    “Hello children” Envy called out as her snake tightened it’s grip on her wrist glaring at them all

    “Oh great…another one of you” Yuki frowned as she crossed her arms

    “Oh my…you are filled with such Jealousy, so envious of everything you teenagers are…it fuels me and makes me sparkle” Envy smiled as she kicked her leg up, the coral snake forming a tight circle around her arms, she was dressed in a tight leotard that was completely green from head to foot, and she wore jazz shoes for walking a tight rope, her hair was done up in curly pigtails and her eyes were green, with Envy.

    “Cory…it’s dime dear…BLADE EEKE!” Envy called out as the coral snake around her arm turned into a large hoola-hoop type of blade that could fit around your entire body, it was a ring blade.

    “Wow…what a cool weapon!” Meicho exclaimed as he held out his hand at Aila

    “AXE EEKE!” Meicho screamed as Aila sat there skittishly

    “Ok…here I go!” Aila exclaimed as she attempted to turn into an axe, Meicho stood there holding a large wooden stick

    “This isn’t an axe” Meicho exclaimed as Aila transformed back into her turtle form and coward in her shell from Meicho

    “I’m sorry, I’m still very new at this…” Aila cried, Leiko glared at Meicho who was trying to get Aila to transform again as the others easily changed their spirit guides into their various weapons, Kinoko was trying to coherce Bosatsu down from the nearby tree

    “Bosatsu, come down here!” Kinoko exclaimed as she pointed at the ground, Bosatsu shook his head

    “no, damn strangers” Bosatsu called back as he flew up to a higher branch.

    Envy fell off the wooden fence onto her bottom, she sat on the concrete pointing at all of them laughing

    “Are you seriously all the enlightened ones, you are just a bunch of kids…you can’t even control your spirit guides” Envy slapped her hand across her forehead and started to tear up from laughing so hard

    “SOLARFLARE!” Leiko screamed as she made a slashing motion in Envy’s direction with her shuriken, a large wave of fire exploded from the shuriken and barreled for Envy with the force of 100 elephants and slammed into the concrete where Envy had once sat, Envy had jumped into the air to dodge the large attack and landed next to the charred remains of the wooden fence and the now black concrete

    “Pathetic, let me show you real power” Envy smiled as she levitated her ring blade and moved her hands in intricate motions in the open center of the weapon, a large symbol appeared in the center of the blade and seconds later large green light engulfed them all and Envy vanished, Leiko and the others looked around for her

    “she seems to be gone…” Suichi smiled as he put his hand on Leiko’s shoulder, Yuki scoffed

    “Why do you always pay attention to her Suichi, pay attention to me too!” Yuki exclaimed as she yanked Suichi’s arm away from Leiko, Leiko turned on her

    “Your just mad because he wants me and not you!” Leiko exclaimed as she yanked Suichi back in her direction

    “Ladies…quit it!” Suichi exclaimed as he was once again pulled in the other direction.

    Meanwhile, Meicho and Kinoko had begun to argue on the other side of the sidewalk as the sky once again turned blue and Envy watched as her evil plot started to unfold

    “Soon, their Jealousy will consume them and I will be more powerful then Sloth or Greed!” Envy laughed as she vanished in a wave of dark energy.