Disclaimer: I do not own Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and if I did then I would have had more of the boys.

A/N: I was writing a nice SZS story, and then my mother decided to delete the file and empty the recycle bin. After lamenting over the loss of my story, I decided to write this horribly written, generic crap that I was very close to making crack. Hopefully it's not insanely cliche. So two chapters of this bullocks. Enjoy. By the way, aren't you guys glad that I sent an update for the character list on this site? :U No one else was doing it, so it was bothering me. I was too lazy to put everyone in the update. END RANT! STORY TIME! Also! Yes, I know they wouldn't use dollars! ;A; I'm sorry!

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Walking down the street in the heat of summer may have not been the nicest feeling, but it was always nice to have the company of a friend while doing so. It was the middle of summer and everything seemed leaden and sluggish. Aoyama and Haga were making their way to the bookstore that Kino's family owned. Upon arriving, they spotted Kino reading a book with utmost fascination. They had a mind to turn around and go back the way they came. That gaze only led to more disaster. Kino quickly looked up at his friends and smiled widely, "Guys! Read this!"

"Kay yeah, let's just turn back," Haga suggested, steering himself away from Kino.

"Whoa hey! Hold on! Really, look it's really cool," Kino tugged at Haga's shirt, making him turn around.

"What is it Kino?" Aoyama asked, somewhat interested.

"It's a charm book! It says they really work," Kino began, "this one is a luck charm! All you have to do is do all this crap and you're good to go!"

The boys rolled their eyes. Whenever Kino got a hold of books like these, he always found interest in them, tested them, figured out they were fake, and then got mad at the world. Of course, to test them he would often use his friends as guinea pigs.

"So you two! Wanna test these out?" he asked.

"No," Haga was quick to answer, snatching the book from Kino's hand and placing it back with the other copies. Kino frowned and took it back out, "This is legit! It has everything anyone could ever want or not want!"

"Kino, it's fake. We're not doing any of it." Aoyama piped up.

The unfashionable boy sighed and flipped through the book again, "Look, let's make a deal, and make it interesting; ten dollars for the both of you if these are real and five dollars from each of you if they aren't real. Deal?"

The boys looked at each other for a while, "We have to talk about this really quick." Kino shrugged and skimmed the pages again as his friends huddled in a corner so that Kino couldn't hear them. "You're thinking what I'm thinking huh?" Aoyama asked.

"Act it all out? Get ten dollars? Sounds fine to me. Agree?" Haga asked. Aoyama nodded and the two walked back over to Kino, "Deal!"

Kino perked up, almost sinisterly, "Alright! Let's start with the first page!"

"What's the first page?" Haga asked, peeking at the book a bit.

"What do you think people would want charms for the most? Love!"

The boys frowned, "Second page," Aoyama murmured.

"Are you sure you want page two?" Kino asked.

Haga rolled his eyes, "Yeah, we're sure."

"Page two is 'Gay Love Charms'," Kino cooed.

Aoyama grabbed the book, "We meant page three! Oh what? 'Lesbian Love Charms'?"

"Well! Too late now! Let's try page two guys," Before they could protest, Kino scanned the book through the register and took off to his home nearby, urging his friends to hurry up and follow him.

"So it says, take a picture with the man you're trying to have fall in love with you. Have it developed and in parenthesis it says that you can print it out from your home printer...good, good. Then it says kiss the picture and say the person's name five times. After that, keep the picture under your pillow while you sleep. Aw man, we don't get immediate results? And then the spell will take effect when the person sees you," Kino explained.

There was silence for a long while. Haga finally spoke up, "Aoyama can make out with my picture and stuff, I'll just be the victim."

"Oh no way," Aoyama huffed, "you're doing this too!" They agreed and got to work.

They took a picture of themselves with their phones and sent it to Kino's computer to have it printed.

"Kino, you fixed this piece of crap right?" Haga asked, poking buttons on his friend's printer.

"Yeah pretty much. It just doesn't copy," he slid the paper slot out, "this has to be out or else it'll get jammed."

"Stupid piece of crap. Get a new one," Aoyama suggested.

"I wanna but dad says that I should run to the shop and print stuff if I really want something copied. You two are spending the night by the way."

Haga grabbed his phone again, "Great, I have to bother my sister for the millionth time. She's going to end up hating you."

"She loves me, she can't hate me," Kino grinned, catching the photos that printed.

"Heeeey, can you do me a favor? No? What? How'd ya know? Please? I know you're passing by eventually anyway," Haga continued to speak to his sister.

Aoyama pulled on his arm, "Ask her if she can bring the things I left the other day."

"Hey, can you...ah, Aoyama. She says to tell you that she can hear you," Haga pursed his licks in a mocking manner, "ah, you will? Oh man thanks sis! Tell mom that I'm staying at Kino's."

"Tell her I said hi," Kino mumbled, reading the charm book a bit more.

"Oh...she says hiiiii Kinoooo," Haga drawled out in a creepy, dreamy, girly voice.

Aoyama giggled, "Just like that?" Haga laughed with him and confirmed it, hanging up.

"I hope she doesn't want to come inside," with a whisk Kino gave Haga and Aoyama their pictures, "she'd kill the mood." The boys laughed, wondering what the heck kind of mood Kino was talking about.

"Kiss the picture and say the person's name five times," Aoyama reread. He shrugged and gave the Haga side of their picture a kiss, "Haga, Haga, Haga, Haga, Haga."

Haga was hesitant to do the same, "Can I not?"

"Oh come on Haga, Aoyama did it, you can do it too," Kino chuckled.

"You're just getting a kick out of this," he gave the Aoyama side of his picture a big kiss, and with his girliest voice chanted, "Aoyama, Aoyama, Aoyama, Aoyama, Aoyama!" The other boys nearly died of laughter and mimicked him with random voices, such as their "pedo" voice, or their "foreigner" voice.

"Alright, alright. Let's see... the pillow part," Kino sighed.

"That'll be a while from now," Haga blinked.

In a sudden nervous fit, Aoyama sputtered, "Oh gosh! What if it actually works!"

Haga stared at Aoyama for a while, then smirked, placing his hand on his friend's head, "Then I guess we're gay lovers, Aoyama. You're so not topping."

Before Aoyama could cry, the doorbell rang, "Your sis," Kino guessed.

"Yeah let's get everything," Aoyama ran down to the door, opening it and thanking Haga's sister.

Haga took his own stuff and thanked her again. "I-Is Kino here?" she asked. He used a mocking tone while speaking to her, "No way! Kino doesn't live in his house! Only Aoyama and I!"

Before she could punch him in the gut, she spotted Kino coming towards the door, "Hey! Thanks again for bringing their stuff! You're welcome to stay for dinner!"

"O-Oh no no it's okay! I'm having dinner at my friend's house! Um, b-bye! I mean, it was no problem at all! I mean...! B-Bye," and just like that, she dashed away.

"You offer but you know she's not going to accept," Haga hauled his things into Kino's room.

"Well yeah, that's why I offer," he stated, closing the door, "she brought both of you guys' pillows too! Sweet!"

They set up their sleeping gear so they wouldn't have to later, and they placed their pictures under their pillows. Haga and Aoyama each had separate feelings about the charms. Haga was beginning to think of the deal as fun, especially since he was expecting his ten dollars in the end. However, Aoyama had become quite nervous. He swore he felt something when he kissed that picture, and he hoped that nothing really happened. If something did happen then he was hoping that the spell could be broken.

"Lemme see that book," he took the book and looked for reversals of the spell, "Haga, it says that this is a temporary spell that will only last for a day. For longer lasting spells, see page forty." With this, Aoyama smiled and put the book back where it was, "So we'll be okay."

"Wow, I can't believe you're worried about it," Haga snickered, "let's play video games until then or something, geez."

"Seconded!" Kino exclaimed, practically yanking his PS2 out of his closet, "Aoyama plays last!"

"Hey what?"

So for a long portion of the time, Aoyama sat there thinking of all the possible outcomes of the charm. He thought so much, even while he did play, that before he knew it, it was 3:39 AM, and he was awfully tired. He fell asleep after checking if the picture was under his pillow. He was so very close to shoving it elsewhere, but he kept it there, thinking that nothing would happen. It would all be an act, for the both of them, it would be an act. The two other boys fell asleep shortly after, not entirely thinking the same thoughts. In the morning, everything would be settled.

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A/N: I'm sorry I added Haga's sister and stuff. I try not to do that often. She's not like the center of attention of this fic or anything so I guess that's good right? If she was then that would have been a problem.