Chapter 01: A New Year

It was the first week of the new school year, about 4 months after the defeat of Quartzmon. Tagiru kept twiddling his pencil, waiting for the class tutor Mr Kawasaki, who managed to be more late than Tagiru himself. Yuu, who was sitting to the left of the boy was also twiddling his pencil and feeling bored. "Sorry I'm late class." The teacher shouted before he entered the classroom. "I was held up to be informed that we have a new student in our school."

Yuu raised his eyebrow, eager to see who it was. "I hope it's a cute girl." Tagiru whispered to his ear. The blond boy just simply closed his eyes and frowned.

"Class, let's give a warm welcome to Airu Suzaki!"

"Eeek!" Tagiru squealed as he was shocked to see the blonde girl walked in and bowed to the class. Yuu was equally shocked with his eyes widened but he didn't make much of a sound. "Tagiru that was rude, please calm yourself outside." Mr Kawasagi scolded. Without any excuse, Tagiru obliged and made his way out of the classroom.

"You may take his seat Miss Suzaki."

For a second, Airu lost her smile from the sight of the familiar Yuu, but as soon as she saw him with his head down on the table, she gladly made her way to the back of the classroom where Tagiru was sitting.

"Why Tagiru why?" He whispered to himself. "Together again." The girl teased.

Yuu just waved while keeping his head down on the table. He knew this school year will be a fun one.

During a literature period, a bored Airu threw a piece of folded paper to Yuu's desk. The boy raised his eyebrow as he unfolded it and saw a drawing of himself with stink lines. He sighed and threw the paper away. Then a few moments later, he received another paper coming from the same direction. He unenthusiastically unfolded this one and saw a message that reads "You're mine!" along with a small drawing of a face with its tongue sticking out. The boy frowned a bit, but then he realised that Tagiru had done these sorts of antics over the years. The boy was tempted to send a message back, but he convinced himself that a mature student like him should have grown out of that by now. He tore that piece of paper into pieces and resumed his attention towards the teacher. Airu was disappointed by the lack of fun that Yuu exhibited, but she didn't give up.

She wrote another message onto a piece of paper, folded it, and again threw it to the boy. Yuu at first was hesitant to open this one up, but his curiosity got the better of him and he opened it.

"Wanna hang out at lunch? x"

By now Yuu was convinced that the girl had some sort of split personality. First, she insulted him, and now she wants to hang out with him?

He ripped a bit of paper from his notebook, wrote a little message and then threw it to a Airu who was I delight.

Finally, a reaction from the blonde boy. She enthusiastically opened the message...

"Only if you stop. =)"

Yuu hoped his response would be last of the series of distractions until another folded paper landed on his head. He gave off a sigh and then slowly opened this piece of paper. It simply reads "Okay". The blonde boy let out a sigh again and threw the paper away. He no longer expected the messages to stop but that message actually turned out to be the last of that day.

Lunch time came and Yuu had all of his stuff packed into his bag and ready to meet Tagiru at the front of the classroom. After grabbing out his goggles from inside his desk, he tucked his chair under the table and turned around to see two blonde-heads heading his way. "I can't believe I have to sit here for the rest of the year now." Tagiru moaned. "It can't be as bad as where I'm sitting." The blonde boy joked. The two boys and the girl made their way out of the classroom and sat on a bench outside with Tagiru on the left, Yuu in the middle, and Airu taking the right. "Just in case you've forgotten, I'm going to make you my minion." The boy sitting next to her gave off a somewhat playful frown and decided to ask a question he wanted to ask the second she appeared in that class. "So why are you here?" he asked seriously. "Well..." The blonde girl crossed her legs and entwined her hands. "My father got a new job in this area so we moved here." she answered lightheartedly. Yuu nodded his head. He wanted to ask where she lives but he didn't want to come across as being creepy so he kept silent. "So where do you live?" Tagiru asked, straightforward as usual." The girl giggled cheekily, not showing a hint of shyness. "Just in an apartment near Hachikō Square."

"What!?" Yuu shouted.

"Hey isn't that close to where you live?" Tagiru said while repeatedly nudging his best friend with his elbow.

"In that case, we can walk to school and back together every single day." The girl teased while poking at Yuu's cheek with her finger. Yuu pretty much frozed in his spot with his mouth left opened from the shock, not noticing that Tagiru was elbowing him in the torso. He was truly being tortured. Throughout most of Yuu's school life, he only had to deal with one obnoxious person but now he had to deal with two of them.