Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts/バカとテストと召喚獣

By Inoue Kenji

I don't own anything.

Me, Minami, and Our Circumstances

A Fanfic by Takagi based on Baka to Test

Beta read by Festus Flare

Short A/N: Thank you very much for reading "Me, Minami and Hazuki, and Our Activities" !

This is the sequel, so make sure you read the predecessor first!

Special thanks to Festus Flare for willing to be my beta reader again.

Chapter 1: "Unhappy"

This morning is just too cold. They say that it was still three weeks away from December, but the atmosphere is already chilly and wet, not to mention windy since it's still autumn. This city is really different from Kyoto. It's much colder and humid here. Not to mention, Kyoto is livelier. How do I know? Because this Monday morning, out of the habit, I woke up earlier, and finished up my breakfast and even managed to take a bath earlier too. That's why I can tell that Kyoto in the morning is better than this city's morning. Ah, I wish I could go there once again. I really enjoyed my two-day trip yesterday. It was such an unusual and interesting journey that I have never had even once in my life.

Anyways, now that I woke up earlier than usual today, I also noticed other differences in my daily life. First of all, Nee-chan isn't here since she hasn't come home from Harvard. Second of all, 'she' looked rather gloomy. Yup. 'She' is Minami; the girl whom I went to Kyoto with for two days and one night, with her little sister Hazuki-chan of course. She is also the girl who suddenly pushed her lips on mine yesterday...

She doesn't look so hyped up today. She didn't even react when I talked to her during our walk from the locker to our classroom.

"Yo, Minami! Mornin'!"

"…"

"Ah, we have to give Ironman our homework today. Do you bring yours?"

"…" She only showed me the homework paper without saying anything. She didn't even spare a glance at me.

"Minami, you okay? Are you sick again?"

"I'm fine."

This is kinda annoying… Well, okay then. I might have signed my own death certificate, and I'm sure I'll regret it with every fiber of my being, but I'll have to try it.

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"Your chest is as flat as usual."

"…"

I closed my eyes tightly, expecting a knuckle sandwich to slam into his nose. However, none came flying his way. I slowly opened my eyes and saw, that Minami has walked ahead of me to Class 2-F. Okay, it's official. Something is wrong with Minami today.

As soon as I arrived at the classroom, I sat at my favorite seat at the back. This is what I like about this class; no fixed seats! When I looked at Minami, she was sitting way at the front of the class. Strange, how come she chose a seat that was so far away from our usual circle? This made Sugawa and the FFF very delighted, though. Well, at least someone was happy.

"Isn't she annoying?" I furrowed my eyebrows in annoyance after I told the guys about Minami's behavior this morning.

"Hmm… This could be troublesome, Akihisa. Normally, there's no way that Shimada would just stay still after you called her flat chested…" Yuuji commented.

"Akihisa. Maybe you made her upset sometime during yesterday's trip," Hideyoshi, who was sitting in front of my seat, turned his head towards me.

"No! Why would I? And no, she and Hazuki-chan aren't upset at all! If you don't believe me, fine! I have proof!" I was about to pull out the multiple photos from our trip when I realized something "Dang it! The photos are still with Hazuki-chan!"

"… Maybe you did 'something' with her during the trip and you aren't willing to take the responsibilities."

"WHAT'S WITH THAT TONE, MUTTSURINI? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FAITH IN ME?"

"Well, at any rate, Akihisa. You should talk to her about this later."

"I… I know that…"

"CLASS START! Bring your homework here!"

Ironman suddenly makes his appearance and asked us to collect our homework. After he read thorough the pile of homework papers, Ironman called me.

"Oi, Yoshii!"

"What is it, Sensei?"

"You were cheating, weren't you?"

Oh, shit!.

"How should I put this… No. I didn't."

I was doing it with my study group! Well, I copied most of Yuuji's, but that doesn't matter. It isn't technically cheating, right?

"OK. Since you just straight out lied to your teacher, I will have to give you punishment."

"No way!"

"I've given my thought on your punishment."

"SO YOU ALREADY PLANNED MY PUNISHMENT?"

What a terrible person!

"Listen. There will be a competition held in this school two weeks from now! I want my class to join the competition and WIN!"

"What competition, Sensei?" The beautiful Himeji-san asked.

"Drama"

"EEEEEH?" The whole class wailed.

"Drama? Oh no. I'm not good at it…"

"Even your lying act just now was splendid, Hideyoshi!" I praised him. Later on, Ironman continued talking.

"Consider this as an autumn festival! People will also come here to watch!" Ironman then turned to face me with his vicious glare "And Yoshii! As your punishment, I want you to be in the drama no matter what happens! Even if you broke your arms, you must come and act, understand?"

That's not a nice thing to say, you Ironman!

"Fine…"

Well, at least this time it isn't the usual harsh tortures he calls 'punishment'.

Time flies by. Minami doesn't even look at me even when the last period was over. What's going on with her today? It is just like when Hazuki-chan suddenly became gloomy during our trip. I must talk to her when I have the time.

"Attention please," Our class rep Yuuji stood in front of the class "Now guys, any suggestion about the drama? Himeji?"

"Romeo and Juliet!"

As soon as Himeji-san stated her suggestion, the men in class-F suddenly went into a wild frenzy.

"I'LL BE ROMEO!"

"NO. I WILL!"

"Silence! We will discuss about the roles later. Next... Muttsurini?"

"Ichigo 100%"

Everyone whooped at the idea. Ichigo 100% was an extremely popular ecchi manga, and everyone could already imagine the many scenes we could play out.

"OOOOGH! I'LL BE MANAKA!"

"NO, I WILL!"

"SHUT UP, AKIHISA! I TOLD YOU WE WILL DISCUSS ABOUT THE ROLE LATER!"

"Sorry, Yuuji…"

He wrote Muttsurini's suggestion on the blackboard with a chalk and then turned around to ask if there were any more suggestions.

"So… No more suggestions? Then let's decide which one of these will be our play by voting."

Just when Yuuji finished his sentence, the guys in my class (Well,including me of course) shouted: "ICHIGO 100%!"

"That'll do. You guys are fine, right? Himeji, Shimada?"

Wait, really Yuuji? You are fine with us playing that ecchi manga as our drama?

"O… Okay…"

"Muttsurini, Hideyoshi. You guys are helping me make the script. We'll discuss the roles after we finish the script!"

Hideyoshi, the master of drama. Muttsurini, the God of the perverts. They will make the script together? Just how will this turn our? I'm sure it will be good and canonic since Hideyoshi is in it yet I'm also sure that it will be an erotic one since Muttsurini is also working on it. Ah, I see. Maybe Yuuji called Muttsurini to polish the script's perversion level! "Ichigo 100%" is an ecchi manga after all! Ecchi to the max!

Not too long after that, Yuuji wrote the names of available roles he has just discussed in front of the class. There are four main characters: Manaka, the hero and three heroines Toujo, Nishino, and Kitaooji.

"First of all, let's decide the roles… Akihisa. You'll be Manaka since Ironman forced you to perform."

"Yooooshaaaa!" I clenched my fist to the sky.

"Since we only have two girls here I will… Ah, Shimada? What's wrong?"

Minami raised her hand. It's the first time today she actually interacted with people by her own will.

"I'm not joining. I'm leaving. Sorry."

She stands up and leaves the class, running to the hallway.

"Oi, Shimada!"

"Sheesh. How troublesome…"

"Akihisa."

"He already left…"

"Akihisa-kun…"

What's wrong with Minami? She's acting really strange today even though we had such a great time together at Kyoto. There's no reason of her to act this way! I have to reach her at all costs and get an explanation for all this.

"Minami! Wait!"

I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, so fast that I even overtook her by a meter at the school ground.

"Move" She said coldly.

"I won't budge until you explain why you're acting so strange today!"

She suddenly moved her right foot and, without warning, stomped my left foot with enough power to rival a grizzly bear. Dang it! It hurts! Even the earth was shaking for a moment there.

"OUCH!"

"It's none of your business. Now leave."

"I said I won't. You can do anything you want to me. But I won't let you pass!" I stretched both of my arms.

"I said it's none of your business, so move! Do I need to call the teacher?!" Her emerald shiny orbs were glaring at me dangerously.

"Tsk. This is not like you, Minami…"

"I know…"

Heavy wind suddenly blew and I felt a drop of water on my cheek as Minami ran past me. What is this? Is it going to rain? But the sky looks brilliant! Anyway, I can't believe that I didn't get to catch Minami. I hope she will be better tomorrow.

I walked back to 2-F and was questioned by Yuuji as soon as I arrived, "How does it look?"

"Not good…"

"I see. Then we can't play Ichigo 100% since Shimada is out," Yuuji said as he cleaned the blackboard.

"So we're going to play 'Romeo and Juliet'? And since Akihisa has to be in it, he'll have to be Romeo," Hideyoshi wondered.

"Hideyoshi will be Juliet. Right?" I asked her with pleading eyes.

"Shouldn't it be Himeji-san? I'm a guy."

"What are you talking about? You are clearly a girl! And your acting is really good!"

"I guess I can't help it, then…"

"Ah!" Suddenly Himeji-san's pencil-case and its contents fell on the tatami mat with a loud crash.

"You okay, Himeji-san?" I approached her to help collect the fallen stationary. My seat was next to hers and those pencils rolled at my direction, so it wasn't troublesome.

"Thank you, Akihisa-kun…"

"You are welcome Himeji-san!"

After we decide the roles, we discuss about the tools and costumes we will use in our drama, Romeo and Juliet. Hideyoshi looked like he really knows what he's doing. He told Yuuji every detail of the costumes, the settings, the characters, everything. He even said that he will make the script himself. He is truly the master of drama and theatres.

While Hideyoshi shines at the front, Himeji-san suddenly panicked.

"Ara? It's gone!"

"What has gone, Himeji-san?"

"Uhm… Nothing. Just a piece of paper! But it is very important to me… Could you please help me find it, Akihisa-kun? I think it fell with the pencil case too…"

As a girl, it is normal to have many things in her pencil case. But Himeji's has too much things in it. There are so many colored markers in it. Maybe that piece of paper was between them and accidentally flew somewhere.

"I can't find it, Himeji-san. Sorry."

"That's okay, Akihisa-kun…"

"OK. We are done. Everyone agrees with this, right?"

"Yeah."

After that, I stood up, heading to the lockers to change into my outdoor shoes and go home.

Wow, the sky is so red. Just like that evening at Kyoto. Remembering that beautiful sky, it brought my thoughts back to Minami. What is happening to Minami? Should I come to her house? No. It's quite far and it will be too much trouble if she's not home. So for now, all I can do is pray that she will be the usual Minami who always hits me whenever she sees me tomorrow. Not to sound like a masochist or anything, but it's really weird not to see her cheerful face for a day.

Time flew by and soon enough, I already arrived in front of my house.

"Huh? What is this?"

Something fell from my pocket when I took out my house key; a piece of paper that was folded square with a heart on it. Hmm… this is weird, since when was this there? I never put something like this into my pocket.

"Ah, whatever, I'll just open it inside," I unlocked the door and walked in, shutting the door behind me.

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At that time, I didn't know that this small piece of paper will cause me a whole lot of trouble in the future. If I could change the past, I would have thrown that piece of paper right there and then.