"I can't believe Yajima-san would do that to Tomo-chan!" Otoya exclaimed, sitting at one of the lunch tables with Haruka. His elbows were on the table with one arm propped up to cup his chin in his hand as he seemed to glare into his cup of water. "It's so unfair on her!"

"Ittoki-kun, it's not exactly his fault that he had to cancel plans with Tomo-chan. I suppose family business is family business after all" Haruka tried to protest softly in their classmate's defence. "It sounds almost as if you're jealous she was going to be spending her birthday with him in the first place".

"I am not, Nanami!" He shouted a little too loudly, drawing a few stares of unwanted attention to the two of them, mainly himself.

"What's this, Ikki is jealous of someone?" Came a familiar flirtatious voice. The two A Class students looked up to see the S Class students making their way over to them. Syo tipped his hat in greeting before high-fiving his redheaded friend. The trio took their seats to somewhat join in on the conversation. "Is that not what I just heard the Little Lamb say?" Ren pressed on from his earlier question.

"Jinguji-san, I don't think Ittoki-kun would like to talk about it so openly..." Haruka blushed faintly as the saxophone player hung his arm around her shoulders from where he sat beside her.

While the flirt was distracted with the girl, Otoya looked over to his roommate, Tokiya. The bluenette gave the redhead a questioning look before Syo grabbed Otoya's shoulder and declared their usual race to get food. Otoya quietly yelled that it wasn't fair to begin while he was distracted, and scrambled up from his seat to give chase to the fedora-clad blond. Tokiya shook his head. Whatever had been on Otoya's mind just a minute ago couldn't've been too important and Tokiya guessed that he'd just tell him later on.

"What do you think Icchi? Ikki jealous of someone? You are his wonderful roommate, after all".

"I don't keep a twenty-four-seven watch on him so how should I know?" Tokiya half-rolled his eyes.

"Well if he is jealous then we should help him out, should we not?"

"I do not think that would be wise," Masato's voice sounded to answer his roommate as he and Natsuki took their seats.

"Ah is this about Otoya-kun and Tomo-chan?" Natsuki asked, clasping his hands together in front of him. "Don't they just make the cutest couple?"

"Couple? Well that certainly explains things, doesn't it? And Icchi, you knew nothing of this?"

Tokiya sighed. "No, I did not. Otoya may like to tell me everything he does in the day but even he has his secrets. Besides, I believe he's smart enough not to go against Shining's no love rule".

Ren hummed lightly in thought before seemingly agreeing. "Sure, I suppose so. But what do you think Little Lamb?"

Haruka squeaked slightly in surprise at being addressed, knowing that more often than not when the boys got really into a conversation they near enough forgot she was there too. But what did she think about two of her friends being together? If it was possible. The two redheads certainly got along well enough, with Tomochika being one of the rare few to compete with Otoya's energetic personality aside from Syo.

"I think Ittoki-kun just wants to do something nice for Tomo-chan as a good friend. There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"

Just then, the Golden Duo returned, panting as if they'd just finished running a marathon together. Placing down their trays and slumping down in their seats, trying to catch their breaths back. Otoya crossed his arms on the table and rested his cheek on his hands facing his roommate. Syo rested against the back of his seat with his head thrown back and his chest heaving.

"What happened, you two have to run to another country for those meals?" Ren teased, earning two half-hearted glares from the boys.

"Actually Ren," Syo started.

"Our races are vital to our survival" Otoya finished with a loud huff. "Ain't that right, Syo?"

"Damn right, Otoya! Let's eat!"

And with that said the two boys dug in. Suddenly Otoya's eyes sparkled. "I just remembered!" He said after swallowing, knowing Tokiya would reprimand him if he spoke with his mouth full. "Today's Tanabata*!" He then gasped and stood from his seat. "That's it! That's perfect!" Snapping out of his excitement with a blush dusting his cheeks, the redhead grinned sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. "Sorry guys, I've just been thinking about something. I know we said we'd all go to the festival tonight, but I have something more important to do".

He raced off leaving the others in slight bewilderment until Ren chuckled, causing the other members of their group to look at him curiously. Placing a hand under his chin with his palm facing downward, the ginger saxophone player chuckled again with a smirk.

"I think Ikki just figured out how to please his little...crush".

TBC...

*Tanabata - Japanese Star Festival (I suggest looking it up, it's pretty interesting)