A word from the author :

Ohayogozaimasu! This is another of my work. I try to make it as fun as I could, but I end up failing. But this time its gonna be different! Cause I believe in myself. Alright, enjoy! *bows*

The next mission

Chapter 1 : You ask for a competition, you're getting one!

Sakaki looked at Mayoi, and she looked back, avoiding eye contact ; they watched the sunset at the school.

" Muuh, So what's our next mission, captain?" asked she while trying to balance her pen on her mouth. She glanced at Sakaki, for he made no answer for the next few minutes.

" Hmm, probably just watch them.," answered he with a heavy sigh, with no clue on how to find the perfect answer for the question.

" That's it?" Mayoi said. She stood up from her position and said with pride with both of her arms out," We should at least take it to next level!"

" What?! You wanna get Tsumiki pregnant, is that what you're thinking?!,"

" Eh-," Mayoi broke the conversation, for she had no reasonable statement that could defeat Sakaki's. She slowly puts down her finger that she lifted, and went back to her position with a sigh.

" I guess it's just the two of us, then," said Sakaki " Well, I wish you good luck my friend," and with that he gave Mayoi a smirk, patted his friend's back and left the class.

" Humph, I guess he wants to race, huh? Alright, who gets a lover first wins! If he thinks he is so good, I'll show him," muttered she, misunderstanding what he meant. She stayed at the class for quite a bit, counting down the boys in the class. Unsatisfied with the number of boys in the class, she left with a disagreeable face.

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" Puuh. I'm sure he's already gotten himself a girlfriend, that little cheater," mumbled Mayoi, as she walked herself to school," I'll show him!," she said out loud, causing people to look at her. But Mayoi didn't notice, for she was too busy planing her scheme.

" Oi! Mayoi!" She heard a call for her from behind. She turned back to see Sakaki running towards her direction, while waving his hand in mid air.

" Myuaa!," she said with excitement, looking at the boy.

The boy stopped running when he reached in front of the labratory girl. He panted, as he lifted his hand on to Mayoi's shoulder. " Good morning," he greeted, as he breathed in for air.

" Yo!," greeted back Mayoi, carelessly, as she lifted her hand and tilted it to the side. Looking from she talks, she definitely forgot about yesterday's conversation between Sakaki and she.

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" So, how are things going?," asked Sakaki suddenly, as they walked on the right side of the road to school.

Suddenly, it hit her, she remebered about the whole thing yesterday, the competition. She hasn't found one yet. The cold wind of realization froze her, and she has yet answer Sakaki's sudden question, which Mayoi thought was a trick question. Upon reaching the school, she finally became concious and finally answered the confused looking boy, who stood beside her, with a monotone.

" I. Havent. Found. One. Yet.," answered she.

" Wha- what are you talking about, Mayoi chan?"

Ignoring Sakaki, she gave out a sudden shriek that made Sakaki close both of his ears with both hands of his. She stood silent for a while with a dark aura around her, that made Sakaki bounce back. With that, she ran furiously with all her speed, together with a scream, toward the school.

" IIIEEEEEEEEE!," the scream that echoed through the hallways of the school, together with clouds of dust.

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" Eh? What are you doing, Mayoi chan?," asked Tsumiku, as she entered the class by the back door, and taking off her scarf that was warped around her neck by Io.

" Errrgghhh," groaned Mayoi, as she moved her face on the table to the right, to face Tsumiki with stream of tears running down her chubby cheeks.

" What's with all this?," Tsumiki asked as she looked at the pool of tears on Mayoi's table from far, and observing the face of her sobbing friend.

" I'm looosiinggg," wailed Mayoi" too Sakaakkii...," and with that, the sounds of groaning and wailing were followed by her.

A few question were asked by Tsumiki, and only a little got answered by the sad, helpless girl. Tsumiki was in a state of confusion, for some of the answers she got were the complains from her friend on how unfair it is. At last, she reached a conclusion.

" Ah, I got it!" said Tsumiki, as she placed the side of her fist on her other hand's palm," why don't you make Sakaki fall in love with you?"

Mayoi looked at her for a second with a sneer face, and went on to say," Thats not how it works!" and after that plunging her face on the table filled with tears.

" No. Its like this! If you can make him fall in love with you, he will not go flirt with other girls. Instead he will be with you! And with that way, you can win by having Sakaki as a boyfriend!,"

Mayoi lifted her face from the table, and looked at the brilliant Tsumiki with a robot like expression, and suddenly shouted words of thanks and enjoyment to her.

" That is brilliant! With that, I can get my victory! thanks, Tsumiki!," she said, as she grabbed her friends hand and smiling widely at her, jumping with joy.

' I'm sure she only heard the word " win " in my sentence' thought Tsumiki, as a sweatdrop went down her head, turning her face away from Mayoi.

Luckily, Sakaki didn't hear the loud conversation that Tsumiki and Mayoi had, for he came in when the joy was in for the girls. He glanced at them for a while, and asked Mayoi for the matter. She didn't reply, but only said the word, " secret ". With that, he left them with not a clue, and with no plan on sneaking up in them.

" But, how do I do it?," whispered Mayoi at Tsumiki, shortly after Sakaki had left them.

" I'll tell all about it at my place tomorrow!"

With that, Mayoi straightened her sit, and started to scribble on her desk, where as Tsumiki was thinking about her scheme. As the bell ring, the teacher comes in and the class begins its first period.

Thank you so much for reading this! Arigato! I have not much to say here but thanks. See you in the next chappie! * waves *

Ie : means no. In the paragraph where Mayoi runs like a maniac.