Author's note: Welcome. Not really sure what I can say, this idea sounded too appealing to pass up. Besides, I think I should try something new. I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: The following is a non-profit fan-based piece of fiction. As far as I am aware, Accel World and Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu are owned by Reki Kawahara and Kenji Inoue respectively.

Chapter 1: First Friend

Right now, I find myself in a very interesting situation to say the least. I am Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and despite my pale skin, long slender arms and legs, and slightly long light-brown hair, I am a guy. I never understood why people couldn't see that. Ever since elementary school, everyone kept mistaking me for a girl… even the girls. In the past, especially during my early childhood, I would respond many a time with lots of shouting and it would usually end with me crying about everybody's failure to recognize my true gender. My twin sister, Kinoshita Yuuko, wasn't helping either, as she was vehemently focused on her studies 93% of the time, so I was almost always forced to comfort myself. As time went on, I learned to just ignore them, and by the time I got into Fumizuki Academy, I had gotten much better about controlling my emotions.

Ah… Fumizuki Academy. Even though I am still there, that place brings back fond memories. I made a small, yet respectable number of friends, one of which has left for Umesato Junior High. I remember quite liking him, despite the fact that he also mistook me for a girl. He was the first one I befriended as a first year at Fumizuki, and the one who taught me that just because people think I'm a girl doesn't mean that I cannot be around them. We both had one major strength, and the other's strength seemed to bring us together. He was very good at playing games, especially VR games that require a neuro-linker, and to this day, I have not even come close to matching his virtual Squash scores. He, however, was drawn to my skill with acting, which was incidentally fuelled by my passion and honed after years of keeping my emotions in check. It looked like he wanted to try and develop his poker-face as he seemed to have deep personal issues.

Oh, I'm really sorry; I got so lost in thought that I forgot to mention his name. He is Arita Haruyuki, and although he might be considered repulsive at first with his large girth and the personality of a loner, he's actually quite fun to have around once you get to know him. The two of us, from what I thought at the time, seemed like the two boys who just wouldn't fit in, which was another thing that brought us closer together. I actually found out that, since enrolling in Fumizuki Academy, he had felt extremely lonely. The reason appeared to be that he was separated from his two childhood friends, Mayuzumi Takumu and Kurashima Chiyuri (I sometimes wonder if she has some sort of relation to a girl by the name of Kirishima Shouko.)

Aside from Haruyuki, I made a few other friends as well. There was Sakamoto Yuuji, a supposed child prodigy with red hair, Tsuchiya Kouta, one of the fastest… and most perverted… human beings I've seen, Yoshii Akihisa… well… I don't really know what I can say about him other than he's an idiot (an opinion that I hope he doesn't discover.) There is also Shimada Minami, who came back from abroad to study here. Finally, there is Himeji Mizuki, a pink-haired girl with really long hair and – dare I say it – maybe D-rank you-know-wha – anyway, that's not important! I tried to get Haruyuki to come out of his anti-social shell, but for some reason, he didn't seem to like spending as much time with them, seeming to preferably select me.

Then, halfway into my first year, Haruyuki did something I didn't expect from him at all. I'm not too sure if I should have said what I said back then, as maybe if I said something different, I wouldn't have driven him away like that. Anyway, Haruyuki, during one break-time alone with me, confessed his love to me and expressed his wish that I would be his bride. Considering that we had known each other for half the year, I thought he knew that I was a guy… unless he was actually secretly into that sort of thing. I doubt that possibility, though, as he often spoke about Himeji with a pessimistic attitude, saying that there wasn't any possible way a girl like her would love him. I was completely taken by surprise at Haruyuki's confession, and I actually felt a little betrayed, as if it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't have made leaps into my other friendships.

I told him that I was a guy, and that I couldn't be his bride. I think I also remember shouting something about… what was it? Anyway, I went home really angry. Little did I know that I was in for a shock in the next 24 hours. The next day, he told me that he was transferring to Umesato Junior High, and that their school administration had already confirmed the transfer request. I actually felt quite devastated, thinking that I was never going to see him again, and that maybe it was my fault. Maybe it was better to say yes to his ludicrous proposal and live out a somewhat uncomfortable school life, so that he wouldn't have to leave. For a long time afterwards, I didn't talk much to anyone, but eventually, Akihisa, Himeji and the others brought be out of my slump.

Near the end of that year, something quite interesting happened. I heard Haruyuki's voice again, and once I managed to get a good look at him, I found him in the grip of one of the teachers, Nishimura-sensei, better known as Iron man. He was Fumizuki's detention master, and… well, let's just say he took his job very seriously. Haruyuki was screaming out that he didn't participate in any Exam Summoning Battle (I'll explain later,) and that he wasn't supposed to take a supplementary lesson. My first thought was happiness at the prospect of seeing him again, my second of him still needing work on his poker face. Iron man never lies… usually. If he was dragging people off to supplementary lessons, then that meant he lost in an Exam Summoning Battle, didn't it? Then again, Fumizuki was the only school that I knew of that implemented the Summoning system, so how did Haruyuki lose? Something was wrong, and I had to find out what exactly had been happening to my long-lost friend!