Author's Note: This is the first FanFic I have written for a very, very long time. Forgive me if I forget the gist of it.
Disclaimer: I know nothing of Japanese, so of course; every character here is not Mine, unless you count my OC, in which case; they're mine.
Chapter 1
Yukino Yukinoshita walked down the streets, admiring the view of the Cherry Blossom while humming a quiet tune to herself.
Normally, she would have called her chauffeur and asked him to take her to school - but it was a nice day, and she couldn't pass up an opportunity to admire the amazing scenery, the sceneries that were so breathtaking that only walking to admire them was it's true justice.
She had just entered the school gates, when she spotted the 'dead-fished eyes' boy guy. Hachiman Hikigaya, placing his bikes on the rack not even batting an eye towards her.
"Morning." She greeted politely as she walked up to him, he nodded and shrugged as a greeting.
"Morning, no car today?" He asked, it was pretty obvious Yukino had walked as he saw her arriving to school through the gate - and no car behind her.
He shuddered, the car - more specifically her car, the car that hit him during the first day to school, when he tried to save that stupid dog. Where he broke his leg and had to wear that damn cast, it was itchy and uncomfortable and he was pretty sure it was someone of the above way of saying, 'Here - Your life will officially suck for the rest of your life, No chance for a second chance.'
Yukino nodded, "I couldn't pass out an opportunity to admire the Cherry Blossoms, they really are incredible." She said as Hikigaya slowly faded out into a world of his own.
His world would consist of people having no emotions, so they would think rationally and decide what really is the best without feeling guilty, or obligated, or fear - what a great world that'll be. He would execute all the people in his Death Book and maybe if he was feeling nice enough - allow Yukino to escape this one, she could be his queen or his manager or something that allowed her to sort things out for him - she was good at things to do with organization so that would put her into good use.
"Hello? Hikigaya? Are you alright?" Yukino asked, she was slightly concern over his well-being as he was not responding to her for five minutes straight.
Hearing Yukino's voice snapped him out of his fantasy, "Um… Yeah! What's wrong?" He asked - clearly confused with the arrangements.
"You spaced out, I've been calling you for 5 minutes." Yukino said, a slight smile on her face.
"You counted?" He asked, in his usual sarcastic manner.
"Yes," Yukino said, and the thing was she wasn't even joking, she genuinely counted 300 seconds in her head.
"You do realise that I was joking, right?"
Yukino noded, "I realised, but I am being rather serious."
Hikigaya was about to reply before he was interrupted by a very loud voice.
"HIKKI!" Yui yelled, waving her arms frantically like a chicken who was about to be slaughtered.
"Senpai!" Iroha yelled, waving her hand in the exact speed that Yui was.
"Hey." Hikigaya greeted, not really minding any of them.
"Good morning." Yukino said, again in her polite manner.
"Yukinon! I missed you! How was your vacation?" Yui asked, tackling Yukino with a huge hug before spouting out more and more questions.
"I am fine, but I really wish you wouldn't do that - I can't breathe." Yukino said honestly as Yui loosen her grasp on her.
"Sorry." Yui said still grinning.
"How was your holiday, Senpai?" Iroha asked Hikigaya who in return just shrugged.
"Same old, same old." He retorted.
"What about you Y-Y-Yukino?" Iroha asked Yukino out of politeness, it was clear to everyone that the poor girl was pretty intimidated by Yukino herself.
"I went to England with my family for a business meeting, I tried to reject the trip but my father had already bought the tickets. After that I joined 'Doctors without Borders' for two weeks, it was a pleasant experience - I meet some very interesting people over there." Yukino replied, checking her watch before announcing she was going to class.
Naturally, both Hikigaya and Yui followed her.
Hikigaya sketched a wolf on his exercise book, it was biology and he wasn't really paying attention to what the teacher said - he was focusing on the drawing and was adding in minor details that made the drawing look better.
Everybody was either noting down what the teacher was saying or chatting. Hikigaya sighed, waiting for his teacher to slow down or something, it wasn't a tough topic to learn and Hikigaya was sure that everybody knew what the subject was.
"Okay class, I would like to place a pause in our lesson and introduce a new student in our class - He is from England, and had arrived here yesterday - so please be nice to him. His japanese is okay, but do not expect him to understand our slang around here."
"Hello." A blond boy said, stepping into the classroom. "My name is Jake."
Hikigaya took a glance at the new kid, he was tall (Or maybe everybody else was short) and looked like one of those 'popular' kids.
"Jake wil be here for a while, he was suppose to join class 2J but there was not enough space over there, so until we can find a spot for him he will be studying in this class. Is that okay with everyone?" The biology teacher asked, looking around the room before telling the new kid to sit right behind Hikigaya.
Jake walked towards his desk, and Hikigaya looked around. The teacher have continued babbling on but everybody was solely focused on the new kid, and to be honest - this was probably the most attention that his corner of the room have ever gotten for the longest time.
"Hey, What's your name?" Jake asked, tapping Hikigaya on the shoulder with a friendly smile.
"Hikigaya, Hachiman" Hikigaya replied politely, before turning to face the teacher.
"Cool." Jake said, "Could you do me a favour? After this I want to visit the Service Club - can you tell me where that is?"
"Sure…" Hikigaya mumbled, facing down to his textbook.
What does this guy want from the Service Club?
Yukino was seated on her chair closest to the window as a slight breeze entered through the window, her book was closed and rested on her lap.
"Yahello!" Yui yelled, as she energetically ran into the Service Room, sitting at her usual spot in between Hikigaya and Yukino's chair.
"Good Afternoon, Yuigahama." Yukino greeted, as she flipped through the pages of her book.
"Oh… Yukinon have you heard? There's a new student and he's in my class, he's from England and his Japanese is really good. He's really smart as well - he was suppose to be in your class." Yui said excitedly, letting out a short, high-pitched scream.
"Hey." Hikigaya said as he took his seat furthest away from the window. "There's this new guy in my class and he wants to make a request to the Service Club, or something."
"Yukino?" A new voice said, before moving into the Club room - revealing Jake.
"Jake? What are you doing here?" Yukino asked, snapping shut her book.
"Ha! I knew it was you!" Jake said while Hikigaya and Yui looked back and forth - clearly confused.
"Care to elaborate on what's going on here?" Hikigaya asked, raising his eyebrows.
"We were paired together on 'Doctors Without Borders.' - you know the volunteer project that I joined during the holidays? So I known him over those two weeks." Yukino reply before turning back to Jake, "So, What are you doing here? And what is your request for the Service Club?"
"I want to play Matchmaker - I want, no need to set these two people on a date." Jake said, his stance in a very determined pose.
"Okay? Why do you need the Service Club for this? We can't guarantee anything, much less both of them falling for each other." Yukino asked, she was sipping on her cup of tea in a perfect posture but this time - she was sitting straighter.
"Well… I know for a fact that they do love each other, but it's buried through layers and layers and layers of things that I don't know." Jake said.
"Do you have any evidence to support that they actually have mutual feelings towards one another?" Yukino asked, she had stopped drinking her tea and was listening attentively to what Jake was saying.
"Yeah, I was checking their neuronal-activity and I found traces of Adrenaline, Epinephrine, Dopamine and Norepinephrine. But higher levels of Cortisol. That is evidential that they are somewhat in love, right?" Jake said, well Yukino nodded and Yui just looked confused.
"What does Adrenaline have to do with anything?" Yui asked, "Isn't love just love?"
Hikigaya sighed, "Adrenaline, Epinephrine and Norepinephrine are probably the chemicals released by the body to make your heart beat faster when you see someone you love." He explained, "So when you say your heart beats faster when you're staring at your crush, all three of those chemicals released is the cause of it, though I have no idea what the other two are."
"Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which is used to send signals to other nerves. Dopamine also help control the brain's reward and pleasure centre. So being in love is like being addicted to drugs because almost the same amount or more Dopamine is released when someone is in love, as for Cortisol it's a steroid hormones that is released in response to stress, so when you're in love you'll be under stress for awhile - but after that stage passes your Cortisol levels slowly goes down." Yukino said, taking another sip of her tea.
"That's right - And I want you guys to try and get them together, along with a bunch of other people." Jake said, "In fact, I'll bring them in now."
As Jake said that a bunch of people flooded in.
"Iroha? Totsuka? Saki? Yamato? Yumiko? Hayato? Komachi? Taishi? Hiratsuka-Sensei?" Yui asked in complete shock.
"Yahello!" Iroha said, waving her hand in happiness.
"Wait all of you signed up for a matchmaking scheme?" Yukino asked, well everyone in the room nodded.
"Even you Komachi?" Hikigaya said, he was glaring at her now - in the look that suggest that he was very, very, very angry at her.
"Come on, Onii-San. It's just for fun!" Komachi said, "I'll give you a lot of Komachi points for this~"
"No, absolutely not." Hikigaya said, "I am not letting you participate in this type of event - I do not want five little kids running around the apartment while you chase them in whatever stage of pregnancy you are in. And don't even let me start with the noise…" Hikigaya said trailing off.
"Yukino Nee-chan, Could you tell onii-san that he's being stupid?" Komachi asked, giving her the 'puppy eyes'.
Yukino glupped, "Komachi, if you're calling me Nee-chan to get me on your side, you've got to the more than that-." Komachi tried to speak but Yukino continued, "However, I believe that at the age of 15, Komachi should have a few options of what she wants to do and if she wants to participate at this event we can reach a compromise between both Hikigayas, is that okay?" She said, staring deep into both of the Hikigayas eyes in a slight intimidating way.
"Sure…" Hachiman said, while Komachi nodded happily.
"Thanks Yukino!" Komachi said giving Yukino a big hug, Yukino just stood there awkwardly.
"Okay, back to business." Yukino said, "I'm going to assume that nine of you want us to find your significant other for you or help you advance your relationship with them - no?"
All nine of them nodded while Hiratsuka-Sensei smiled, "I'm here for that and checking up on the three of you."
Yukino sighed, "If you wanted a report, you could have asked me and I would have typed one up for you."
Hiratsuka Sensei shook her head, "I must perceive everything from my perspective or else everything will be bias."
"As if you're not already bias." Hikigaya muttered under his breath, thankfully for him Hiratsuka-Sensei wasn't listening.
"How about going to Kyoto?" Yumiko asked, "It's romantic, and we already have a Chaperone, I know someone who owns a hotel over there and can get us all a room."
"I'll add that into the list." Yukino said typing it down on her Mac, "Any other suggestions?"
"How about Destiny Land?" Iroha asked, her smile was so bright that it could blind the sun.
"Sure, after all they just added a new Pan-San - I mean sure why not, they added a few more new rides after our last trip there." Yukino stuttered, apparently not a lot of people caught it because only Hikigaya and Hayato cracked a small smile.
"Rikugien, Koishikawa Korakuen, Kiyosumi Teien, Hama Rikyu Garden and Kyu-Shiba-Rikyu Garden?" Yui suggest.
"Shopping!" Komichi said, grinning with an evil smile as she watched both Yukino's and Hikigaya's reaction as they remembered their Shopping 'date' where they both pretended to be in a relationship, both turning into a flush of light pink.
"How about a Cruise Ship? I know a few people." Yamato said, 'It can go anywhere - Paris, China, England, Italy."
"How about this? We go to England, I know loads of people and I can show you around - We could use the train to go to Paris." Jake said, smiling.
"They are all good idea's and all, but what about our education? And we don't even have enough of a budget to get anything." Hikigaya said.
"Well, we could set you homework - for example, we could all keep a travel journal for Japanese, talk to at least two people in English for English, go to museums for Science, Art and History. We use conversion rates for money, so that'll cover Maths and the teachers can send homeworks and class plans to all of you guys." Hiratsuka-Sensei said.
"There's still a matter of money as well." Hikigaya said.
"Not so, we can use sponsorship - as well as write travelogues about the places that we visit and we can sell them. Pictures can also gain us a lot of money, we could make it as a little campaign and donate the money we earn to charity and that will certainly gain our journey a bit more popularity so we can get more sponsors, and considering most of us are well connected we can use that to our advantage and pull some strings." Yukino said, "And not forgetting our main objective, which is to find a significant other or improve the relationship of one another - so we could rate the place in order of the romantic atmosphere of that place, it's original so it does give us a chance to gain more money as well."
"You're a ruthless businesswoman." Hikigaya said.
"Not ruthless, just efficient." Yukino replied, almost just as fast.
And there started the Yukino v.s Hachiman glaring competition.
"Can we name the Romantic Atmosphere Ratings something like Romance Points?" Komachi asked, to no one in particular while Hayama tried to calm down the glaring competition between Yukino and Hikigaya.
"Okay, So when's everybody free?"