Author's note - Hey this is my first story here so I hope I do well. At the moment my life is really kicking up speed so my updates may not be very regular...Sorry about that. I try to write stories about ships I like that don't get much attention so even if I ship it I may not write about it because there are so many other stories about that ship.

Ok please review it and tell me what you think please don't hate too much but helpful advice is welcomed! I forgot to mention this first chapter is more of a prequel than anything else you do not need to read it if you don't want to this is just the start to my story in my head.

Harumi

The nerve of this girl is beyond amazing. All I ever wanted was to go shopping with my best friend but no, she had to "bump into" us. Now, we are alone, together...Wonderful.

"Yuzu!" I called out to my best friend.

"Come on, we're going to be late!"

I swear this girl will never be known for being punctual. Even just walking towards the mall flyers were being passed out every couple of feet, stores lined up with their best discounts, and, as a bonus, we happened to be off of school today . Yuzu hurried up to me apologizing all the way as we started off towards our favorite clothing stores.

For a while we had a great time shopping and messing around and just when I thought we were in the clear…."Yuzu-chan!" A certain pink haired girl jumped onto Yuzu gleefully. "Oh, and Taniguchi-sempai," Matsuri said, in a noticeably less gleeful tone.

"Whatcha doing here Matsuri?" The ever-naive Yuzu asked her.

"I came to see Yuzu-chan of course!"

With that statement I mentally growled at the middle-schooler. While I was at it I figured I should brace myself for what I knew was going to happen next.

" So you're alone? Then you can join us right Harumin?!"

" If you're okay with it then I won't argue with you Yuzu."

I sighed, it went like this every last time.

"Yay! Then can we go to karaoke Yuzu-chan? Pretty please?"

The little devil put on her best begging face that I knew Yuzu could not resist. This whole time Matsuri has said not a word to me other than general acknowledgment of my presence. The nerve!

Thus we went to karaoke, which was bad enough with Yuzu there, but of course, life loves its curve balls.

"Oh no!" Yuzu suddenly shouted, (in the middle of a song to boot.) "Tonight is my turn to cook dinner argh! I got to go guys!" Yuzu stood up and collected all of her things. "Feel free to have fun without me, bye!" Yuzu sent one last wave before she ran off.

…...Now what!? I internally screamed because, after all, I wasn't left there alone.

"Nee, Taniguchi-sempai, we still have an hour left here, should we just stay?"

I blinked at the surprisingly reasonable suggestion, and serious tone of voice coming from the prankster.

"If you need to be somewhere else," she continues, "you can go, I won't mind I can stay here and shoulder the bill.

I snapped out of my shocked state.

"No way am I leaving you, a middle schooler alone in a isolated, soundproof place and then on top of that let you, once again a middle schooler, pay for the enjoyment of three people by herself ! "

In all of my fury I had stood up, I now slowly sit back down.

"We still have a hour right? Well then lets enjoy it, together."

Now Matsuri was the one who looked shocked

"I thought you didn't like me sempai?"

I grinned a bit at that.

" I don't. Glad you picked up on it or you would have been a dumbass," I cheekily stated, "and that would be an accomplishment."

I flat out lied because I knew exactly how intelligent Matsuri was, but I just couldn't help myself. It was just too fun to tease her. The only problem with teasing a tease is that Matsuri always got revenge greater than what the initial infilction.

"Well than Taniguchi-sempai how-"

"About that," I cut her off, "why in the world are you so formal with me and yet so loose with Yuzu? Just Harumi is good enough."

Oh she is surprised. Its, well, such a rare face and so ... cute. I snapped out of my thoughts. What in the world was that? I hurriedly started a new song and began singing it. Eventually she let go of what she was going to say and picked her own song. We even performed a few duets and I laughed at Matsuri's many (failed) attempts to rap. Then before I knew it the comm in our room buzzed to let us know that our time was up.

As we left the building Matsuri looked like she wanted to say something and just as I was about to prod her she spoke up.

"Thank you, Harumi-"

For some reason it looked like she was forcing out the next words out, hah! She was embarrassed! How rare was that.

"-sempai, for staying and paying...and I guess I had a little bit of fun.

"...Your welcome, just don't come back again."

I answered her with a straight fact but in truth, I had had a great deal of fun and just didn't want to admit it.

Matsuri got that conniving look in her eyes again and opened her mouth to speak, " Fine, but only if I can get something else from you Harumi-sempai," Matsuri grinned like she was plotting something, again. Not only that, but Matsuri was using my name more often than she normally would, which, for some reason, brought a strange sense of satisfaction to me.

"Oh no," I responded dramatically, " what is it you want now Matsuri?"

"Nothing much," and again with that smile, why do I find it so adorable? " Just your number and permission to text and call."

Spending an entire day with an energetic high schooler and then a mischievous middle schooler tends to wear any normal person out, so you really couldn't blame me for not particularly caring about the why and just giving the darn girl what she wanted. I gave Matsuri my number as I walked her home, no way was I going to leave Matsuri alone outside at night.

"Buh Bye, sempai," Matsuri waved goodbye to me as she entered her house.

"Yeah, bye you little devil," I silently replied to the now closed door.

End note: So! how was it? I know nothing really happened yet but I needed a start to open up the story. I apologize if the characters are a little bit out of character i'm trying my best. Once again this is my first story so I welcome any feedback and please don't hate to bad.

Cat Out.