Arigatou Gozaimasu : A-Channel

A-Channel and all of its characters are property only of bb Kuroda. All non-canon characters are property of me, except Regan Hiyruu.

To shortly summarize what you're going to run into? Um, T rated yuri, later may be M for safety, but nothing lemon likely. A summer set fanfiction, where the group and their extra friends have a little vacation in honor of the recent graduation of their seniors.

Settling In

The bus had stopped a short distance away from the destination intended. After a short walk, the small group of three finally arrived at the large house. Miho seemed pretty calm about everything, while Tooru held an expression of subtle surprise and Yutaka, of course, gasped and was the first to speak up. "Wha! Wow, Miporin! To think, that you were hiding this gem from us all along!" She exclaimed.

The house was huge, with two stories, and already had a decent amount of acres own to its name. It belonged to Miho's aunt, who happened to be on a long-time trip away from home anyway. Miho had called her to ask permission to use the house for the summer trip, and it was agreed, as long as they didn't destroy the house and they took good care of it. They would have supervision anyway, that was for sure. Half their group was made up of people who were technically already considered adults, but thinking about who they were, only one or two of them were actually mentally adult.

Yutaka jumped up next to Miho and grinned widely at the house. Miho looked over at her with a straight face, and then sighed. "Well, it's not like the subject ever came up…come on, we might as well go inside so you two can see the inside before the others get here." She motioned for them to follow, heading to the steps of the front porch. A summer trip. Not really a common suggestion, especially not a trip for a large group like theirs. But it consisted of their own classmates, and their upperclassmen, who'd recently graduated. Surprisingly, it had been mentioned as a joke from Nagi, but when Tooru heard about it, she almost too eagerly suggested they seriously take a trip together. Tooru didn't give a reason why she jumped onto the bandwagon so fast. She had her reasons. Tooru frowned as she followed Miho and Yutaka; her mind was a little distracted about the thought of the others' graduation. It was a good event, and great that they were out of high school now, but…

What about after that? What happens now? Those were her main questions. They were going to find colleges. Maybe even leave. Run too. Tooru's expression fell a little more. She wanted this trip so that she could spend what unpredictable amount of time they had left together. Not just with Run, sure, but all of them. Tooru looked up to see Miho unlocking the front door, and soon after they were all stepping inside of a cooled home, clean and very well kept for having been empty lately. Relatives probably came by to keep it in shape while the owner was away. Still…she looked over at Miho. That aunt of hers must have had quite a lot of money on her to afford such a large place.

Miho looked at Yutaka, who was already excitedly exploring, and then Tooru. She grinned somewhat nervously and spoke up. "Y-yeah, it's also never come up, that my oba-chan happens to have a nice amount of money on her." Miho looked at the stairs leading to the upper floor. "Upstairs, there are probably about four bedrooms we can use, and they can have a couple of us in each, so that should fit us all nicely. When everyone gets here, we'll just have to arrange where everyone is sleeping." So, two to a room, and they would be comfortable. Tooru nodded. It did work. Suddenly, Yutaka wrapped her arms around Tooru's head in an uncomfortable hug. "I want to sleep with Toorun!" She stated cheerfully. Tooru frowned, trying to keep her footing.

It was then that Miho's hand grabbed Yutaka's wrist and pulled the excitable girl away from Tooru. "No, I don't think so." She stated bluntly. Yutaka frowned and began to whine. "But I—"

Miho cut her off mid-sentence. "Yutaka! You're going to stay in my room, is that clear?" She wasn't really asking. More like, if Yutaka said no Miho would hurt her. Yutaka sweat-dropped and nodded quickly, immediately following the command. "Y-yes ma'am." Miho nodded, then smiled at Tooru. "Besides, Tooru probably wants to room with someone else."

Yutaka looked at Tooru curiously. Miho still had a grip on her wrist though, so she couldn't jump back on Tooru. "Oh? Who would Toorun want to live with?" It was just an innocently curious question.

Tooru stared blankly before averting her gaze to the floor. "I…want to room with Run-chan." She said in a quiet voice. The hesitation was evident. Though, neither of her classmates would notice it anyway. Yutaka thought about it for a moment…oh, the fair-skinned sempai? Tooru was always hanging around her and her friends, though they had never really gotten a chance to speak much. Tooru seemed closer to that one sempai though then the other two. "Oh, what was her name…Run-sempai? Toorun must really like her." Tooru blushed faintly and turned her head to hide it, rubbing the back of her head. "Sh-she's a long-time friend of mine. We're close." She explained, still shyly quiet. Miho stared at her a minute, before frowning at Yutaka. "Okay, I think that's enough prying." She said before she sighed. She looked out the still open front door to see a car pull up.

"See? The others are here already." Four people came out of the small car. Yuuko left the passenger side, stretching a bit before looking at the house with a smile and saying something to the others as they also left the car. Nagi and Run from the backseat of the car both looked up at the house before the driver, Yuuko's sister Ritsu, finally shut her door and locked the car. Tooru and the others went outside to greet their sempai as they came to meet them. Ritsu adjusted her glasses a little, grinning with her usual ear buds stuck in her ears. She usually had them in whether there was music or not. It was…interesting. But she said it was just a habit. Honestly she had graduated a year before Run and the others, so she was nineteen, and she was also their supervision. Yuuko's parents, at least, could vouch for Ritsu's responsible attitude, even if she was a little out there sometimes. And she was a good friend of Nagi's, having met the senior girl actually when she was volunteering to clean the school campus. Suffice to say, Ritsu and Yuuko didn't seem like sisters most of the time, but they did have their similarities.

Nagi grinned, her cardigan tied around her waist. "Hey. You guys beat us to the punch."

Miho bowed to them quickly and smiled. "Welcome sempai!" Yuuko blushed faintly and chuckled. "I don't think there's a lot of need to be formal like that with us. Especially not right now." Nagi nodded. "Hm. Yeah, we're all friends here, right?"

Tooru smiled at Run and waved. Run's bright grin could easily cheer anyone up. Ritsu spoke up next. "Isn't there one more person?"

Yuuko nodded. "She said she wasn't going to be here until tomorrow." Nagi raised a brow at Yuuko. "We've never met her, right? What is this, keeping secret friends from us?" She smirked. Yuuko chuckled nervously, shaking her head. "N-no, not at all! Just, she's always busy with a lot of other things, that's all! Now that she's graduated with us, she says she's happy to use her free time to get to know us."

Run looked at Yuuko. "Ohh, we're going to meet your secret friend?"

"She's not secret!" Yuuko insisted as Nagi laughed. They headed into the house to talk about living arrangements. Eventually they came to an agreement. Yuuko with Ritsu, Run with Tooru, Yutaka with Miho. And Nagi would room with their yet to arrive guest. "Well, at least I get my room to myself for a night, right?" Nagi said as she untied her jacket from her waist. Now that it was agreed, they would be able to unpack and get themselves situated. Arriving so late in the afternoon, it was already becoming evening anyway. Yuuko shared the food she'd made for them to eat once they arrived, so that was their dinner.

"It's amazing, you two are classmates to our friend, yet we never have really talked to you. It's like she's got two separate lives." Yuuko said, glancing at Tooru as she spoke to Yutaka and Miho. Miho chuckled a little bit, and Yutaka grinned. Run blinked, speaking up without really considering what she was telling everyone. "Tooru said something to me once about…finding it strange that she has fans?" She remembered. Tooru let out a small gasp and blushed, as Nagi and Yuuko looked at Run, confused. They didn't know about that yet. Tooru's life was easier if they didn't. Nagi chuckled and looked at Tooru. "I see now. So you have admirers?" Tooru didn't answer, but just looked at her food, entirely too conscious of the subject change now.

"Haha, yes, actually, I guess you could say that Yutaka and I are like a small fan club for Tooru here. She just seems like such a cool classmate, you know?" Miho said. Tooru hid her head under her arms at this point. Run giggled a bit as Yutaka stood up quick enough to push her chair to the floor and make Miho jump. "Toorun! Are you okay! Does Toorun need Yutaka's help!" Excited enough to go into third person as usual, Yutaka was about ready to try to cross the table to get to Tooru. But Miho grabbed the back of her shirt collar and pulled her back, a subtle anger vein on her forehead. Yutaka flailed her arms, before yelping and falling onto the floor. "Oww…Mipooorin! That was just mean!" She whined, wincing. Miho just kept her frown, sitting back down. "Yutaka, control yourself. If you keep acting out I'm going to force you to start eating at a separate table from Tooru." Yutaka gasped, looking absolutely appalled at the idea. She looked a bit defeated as she apologized and got back into her chair. The others watched on, a little surprised by the scene that had just unfolded in front of them, though Tooru just stared, it being an everyday thing to her now.

"Some spirited friends you got there." Ritsu commented, smirking. Tooru nodded a bit, having regained her composure.

It made sense to say that everyone was tired from the trip here. When it got late, they turned in, in their respective rooms. Tooru let Run in first before stepping into the bedroom they were staying in. There was a bed on one side of the room, and it was a well outfitted room already. Some of the rooms had two beds, some only one. Tooru had her smaller futon on the floor by the bed just in case. "You can take the bed, Run-chan." She said, nodding. Run giggled, shaking her head. "But then you're going to end up on the floor, Tooru."

"I don't mind, I want you to be comfortable." Tooru was insisting. Run thought about it, then smiled big, lightly tapping the side of her fist into the palm of her other hand as she got the solution. "We'll both just sleep in the bed, okay?" She suggested with a more normal smile. The shorter girl looked at the floor, and then nodded. She should have seen that coming. Run was bound to come up with some middle ground, whether strange or reasonable, when something came up. Admittedly, there was something about her solutions though that had been bothering Tooru. What was it? Tooru wouldn't say. It wasn't even clear if she knew what was wrong, herself.

"Why can't I room with Toorun?" Yutaka asked once again as Miho buttoned the cotton shirt she had put on. Miho frowned a little and turned her head towards Yutaka, who always complained like a child when she didn't get something she wanted. Especially when it came to Tooru. "Yutaka…she wanted to room with her friend, it's as simple as that. Besides, don't you ever think that you may bother her enough as it is? To let you sleep in the same room would be punishing her." She said with an irritated expression. Yutaka sweat-dropped. "A-ah…Miporin's so harsh." Yutaka murmured. Miho yawned and shook her head. "Just go to bed, Yutaka." She insisted. They had one of the two-bed rooms, so Miho walked over to her bed on the left side. She shut off her light, and Yutaka sighed, trudging over to her own and clicking the lamp off.

Did anyone actually expect her to sleep? Yutaka waited a good hour or so, before opening her eyes. She looked over towards Miho's bed, where it seemed the dark haired girl was sound asleep. She smirked, and slowly slipped out of her bed. Being as light on her feet as she could, she made her way out of the bedroom, shutting the door, and walked down the hall to where she saw Tooru walking into with Run. She grinned and reached slowly for the knob of the door. In a second, the knob turned before her hand reached it, and the door swung out, hitting Yutaka square in the face. Tooru walked out of the room and walked the opposite way, heading for the bathroom. Yutaka was left standing where she was, unnoticed, and with her hands on her face. "Ow…" She grimaced. Tooru really swung that door open. She rubbed her nose as she just went back to her room. Maybe she should have just gone to sleep. She opened the door and walked in quietly, taking her time to shut the door. Before she could turn around to the room though, the light switched on and an arm was around Yutaka's neck. Miho's other arm was against the back of her head as she got Yutaka into a painful headlock. "And just what do you think you're doing?" Yutaka winced. Today wasn't her day! "M-Miporin, I-I just wanted to see Toorun…"

"Yutaka!"

"I-I'm sorry! I give, I give! O-ow!"

YES! Haha, I said I'd do an A-Channel fanfiction, and I did.

I do involve two OCs in this story, as well as two more surprise original characters that will show themselves later!

There aren't a lot of characters in A-Channel, I'm sure you can figure it out.

I hope to make this story last a nice while, obviously, and I intend on several different pairings, not just the obvious RunxTooru.

Read and review it, tell me how you think I did~