Subs are not out yet, so i'll just post some screencaps concerning KEY events...and try to make out what happened, it's not too hard to guess really.

Seems like Ruka won some competition or she got accepted to maybe some huge motocross competition, coz they were saying Congrats to her and she came back to celebrate with them.Cowboy costumes...
The next day, all worn out...
and this is the sweetest part...

Michiru began to really wonder whether Ruka and Takeru likes each other or not, after seeing how well they get along and cared for each other, especially after the embrace in ep8.

Then we get a surprise visit by Takeru's mysterious sister, until now we're not ENTIRELY SURE what caused Takeru's trauma. Although there are speculations that he was sexually harrassed, maybe by his sister or someone else very close to him.



Then, Takeru paid a visit with Michiru to meet her mother...*i don't know why* i'll just wait for subs.
Sousuke made his appearance to ask Michiru to go back to him.
And here, Michiru obviously made a huge mistake by saying that she loved someone else *this provoked Sousuke into thinking that she loved Takeru*

It's no surprise to us that Takeru became the next target in Sousuke's *must die* list. Seeing how *kiasu* he was. He literally ambushed him. Maybe coz he thinks that with him being crippled like that with a crutch, it'd be harder to fight him one on one as in face to face. So he ambushed him instead.
Poor TakeruAnd my...he made it home...


and of course Ruka ruched back to see Takeru lying helplessly on bed...
And the ONE WORD that got me sooo touched was when he just looked at her, smiling his best and said gently " Okaeri" i mean, THAT'S SO SWEET!!!!!!

I hate Michiru . I hate Sousuke.
And after having a phone call from Sousuke, Ruka went to meet him in his apartment. Bad Move here, Ruka. But come to think of it, I'd give Ruka 11/10 for courage. She KNEW sth BAD is going to happen when she agreed to meet up with him, and at his apartment, some more.

It might be a stupid move for her considering how badly Sousuke had beaten Takeru up, meaning he can be vicious to anyone that gets in his way, regardless of gender.
But i think Ruka somehow wanted to confront him, and talk to him out of it. Coz she seemed to choose her words carefully when speaking to him.
And it takes these...to PROVOKE him which ticked him off:

"I'm the only who truly loves Michiru, yours is not true love"

and we can see here that Ruka decided to tell him face to face about her feelings for Michiru. This will be the second time confronting HERSELF, actually, first by telling Takeru about her true self, then now, telling Sousuke this.
And of course, what follows afterwards are uh....the second fight.
Seriously, Sousuke fights her like a man! This isn't even close to how he treats Michiru when he abused her, this is beyond it. He does show that he hates this person for ruining his relationship with Michiru.
My heart literally stopped when he punched her in the guts...T.T Oh and just one thing i'd like to comment on Ryo's expression the entire scene. If i were the director, i'd have asked him to give more expression, i mean, throughout the whole scene he's like EXPRESSIONLESS! Maybe that's just his character you know, blank expression but seriously, you should show some ANGER, man! That way, the scene would be more believable and convincing.

Maybe i've watched too much hollywood movies...
I'm not gonna elaborate about the LAST SCENE of this fight... so let's proceed to what comes after, Takeru's cup suddenly fell coz the handle broke off...BAD OMEN...
Ep 9 got 18% rating. it was slightly lower than previous episode and i have no friggin idea why...i mean, this episode is one of the best ever and they put actions in here, sometimes i wonder what the japanese viewers were thinking...besides Ryo is here, beating people up! *oh..maybe that's why...maybe his fangirls couldn't bear to watch him beat someone's ass up, maybe they want to preserve the SWEET FACED Ryo from 1 litre of tears and Attention Please*

Well, i could never see Ryo the same anymore after ep9. what he did is not forgivable. I know it's all acting, but maybe coz his acting is good enough to leave that kind of impression to me.