Right after the speech all the students went to their respective classrooms that they were placed in from the audition and tests to get into the academy. Ai was placed in the elite S class, which didn't surprise him. He had more than enough skills to be placed in the S class.

He slides the door open and enters the loud classroom. People, no, his classmates were already making clicks, introducing themselves, saying whether they were here to be a composer or an idol. Ai had no interest in that so he sat in an empty seat.

5 minutes and 49 seconds until the teacher was to come into the classroom. He was early again. Ai glosses over at each group in the classroom, to know that he was going to get a partner from this group of people didn't sit well in his stomach. He can compose his own songs anyways, he'd be the one giving all the advice to his composer partner that all the time used to point out faults could be used to make his own song for the audition at the end of the year.

The door to the classroom slides open again and the same girl Ai saw this morning walks into the classroom very timidly.

Great, now this orange haired girl was in his classroom. But he was surprised that she was in the elite class; how in the world does this shy girl had the talent to enter this class?

As he kept staring at her, she turns her head towards him and their eyes meet. Ai immediately turns his gaze away from her, he didn't want to deal with that girl again but it was too late, the timid girl was already heading his way.

He sees a pair of feet come into his view, a small set of red flats paired with black socks come into his vision. He tried to ignore her for a couple of seconds but the girl did not move from where she was. He sighs and looks up to see the timid girl standing there, shrunken up body, her arms in her chest.

"Um…I'm sorry about this morning." She says, not stuttering, but still in that quiet tone of voice.

The robot wondered why this girl was still on the topic that happened an hour, 12 minutes, and 23 seconds ago. If he went with the data he collected from his interaction with her earlier, saying 'he's fine' wasn't an option, he had to try to say something different.

He looks out the window, "It's not a problem," he states in his monotone voice, "you don't have to worry about it, nobody was hurt in the process."

He thought she would leave with those words but judging from what he can see from his peripheral vision, the girl still stood in front of him.

"Is there something you still need?" He turns back to the girl, lifting a brow.

She starts to look around, trying to find an answer. Gosh what does this girl want?

"Is there something of the matter lady?"

A guy with strawberry blond hair wraps an arm around the girl's shoulder to which the girl immediately tenses up. Ai immediately notices he wears his uniform very loosely, the top couple of buttons on his shirt wasn't buttoned, his tie was just the same, loosely on, he didn't where the jacket but wore a black vest. Ai saw that Ren had pierced ears which confused him. According to his database usually females only pierce their ears.

Ai's database pulled up a file from his memories using his face recognition system, he was the third child from the Jinguuji family, a very prestigious group. Ai wondered why such a rich boy was here at Saotome Academy.

"Oh? What's the matter? Did this scare you a bit?" the guy looks at her face in curiosity.

"Ren can't you see that she's acting like that because of you?" a piercing voice tone entered the conversation.

A short boy with blond hair came walking towards them. Unlike that strawberry blond guy, Ren, this short boy was what Ai believed was called 'fashionable' , well at least better than that guy. His shirt and tie was exposed from the cardigan? Sweater? He rolled his sleeves up and had a hat on, he too had pierced ears. Ai added to his database that males also pierce their ears.

"Sorry about that lady," he removes his arm off of her, "but I'm amazed you could see that Ochibi-chan."

"I have a name you know!" He yelled at the strawberry blond, no by the looks of this his name was Ren, "My name is Syo, Kurusu Syo!"

Ai looks at the person who called himself Syo, he was short but had a lot of energy, similar to small animals, they tend to have a lot of energy.

"Hello Syo-kun, my name is Nanami Haruka." The orange haired girl bowed.

He didn't introduce himself to you, Ai thought, what was this girl, thinking?

Syo was slightly taken back by the sudden introduction but quickly smiles, "Nice to meet you Nanami, can I call you that?"

The orange haired girl, Haruka, stutters again, "O-oh I'm f-fine with that."

Syo was about to say something but was cut off by Ren, "Then will you be fine with calling you 'little lamb'?"

Haruka becomes flustered, "Uh, well, um…"

"Oh sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Jinguuji Ren." He gives her a wink,"And you are?" Ren looks over to Ai.

"Mikaze Ai." Ai states bluntly.

"Wow, that's a really pretty name Mikaze-san." Haruka's eyes twinkle.

Pretty? That's the last thing Ai would think of about his name. His name was weird, why would Professor name him Ai? Name a robot Ai when the robot needs to learn about love, ironic.

"By the way did Tokiya come in yet?" Syo looks at Ren.

"Ikki? Don't think he has just—"

The sound of the door sliding open enters Ai's ears and in comes a very surprising face.

"There he is." Ren finished his sentence.

"Hayato-sama?" Ai heard Haruka mumble.

The whole class started to buzz, phrases like 'Isn't that Hayato?', 'What is Hayato doing here?' comes into his ears. He was thinking the same thing, according to his database, the person who just came in, dark blue spiky hair and those blue eyes, his face recognition system points that he's the famous idol Hayato yet that calm demeanor is the exact opposite of Hayato.

"I believe that many of you think I am the idol Hayato but I'm not." He spoke out, "My name is Ichinose Tokiya, I am the twin brother of Hayato."

Now I don't need to research about this as much anymore, Ai thought. He still had to research around if Hayato actually had a twin brother, it might be slightly hard knowing the fact that Hayato doesn't reveal much about his private life.

He sees Haruka, who looked let down with the situation. Why was she so down? It's just a person.

"Alright! Sit down you guys!" a guy with spiky light orange hair in a black suit came walking into the classroom.

The students squirmed into a seat, unluckily, Haruka sat right next to Ai.

"I'm gonna be the homeroom teacher for this class, the name's Hyuuga Ryuuya." He says with his arms crossed and smiles, "Hope we have a good year together."

Hyuuga Ryuuya, according to Ai's database, he was an idol under Shining Agency. He's most known for the drama Kenka no Ouji-sama, he hasn't been on TV much and does a lot of paperwork over at the agency.

"You guys know that this class has both idols and composers right?" He asks, "Each idol gets a composer partner and work together to make a song for the audition graduation at the end of the year but first it's better to get to know each other so we're starting off with introductions."

Ai really didn't want a partner, he knew how the school worked, but a mediocre composer working with him? Outrageous. He told Shining before that he didn't want a partner but Shining straight out ignored his request, it seemed impossible to go without a partner in this school. Even if the partner quit you'd have to find another partner, you could go alone but you might fail the graduation audition, and Shining specifically told him he couldn't graduate without a partner.

"Anyone wanna go first?"

"I'll go!" Syo's voice cuts through the room.

Hyuuga-sensei gives Syo a nod.

"Alright!" Syo stands up, "The name's Kurusu Syo..."

Ai didn't bother to listen to every detail of each introduction, only things he needed to know.

Syo was 15 and was skilled in karate, Ren was 17 and can play the sax, Tokiya or possibly Hayato was 16 and doesn't have a specialty instrument but was good at singing, Ai can admit that after his demonstration. Haruka as usual had a very stuttering introduction, and Ai kept his short and simple.

Introductions were done, taking 7 minutes and 34 seconds, pretty long for introductions. Ai sighed internally, he wished he didn't had to sit through all of that. Ai was going to keep passively listening to everything but what Hyuuga said peaked his interest.

"Alright now that we've all introduced ourselves, time for picking partners." Ryuuya grabbed a box.

Ai sat up. Even though he knew nobody in this class would be a worthy partner for him, might as well listen up, who knows, they might implement a new rule: being able to change partners or even better, go partnerless. But Ai remembered Shining's words, he couldn't go partnerless.

"So we're gonna pick—"

"Not so fast Ryuuya-san~!" A voice boomed in the classroom.

The whole class jumped and started to look around the classroom to find the source of the sound.

"Where the hell is he now?" Ryuuya said as he frantically searched the classroom.

"Window." Ai pointed at the window behind Ryuuya. It was only a guess but if Shining wanted to make a grand appearance just like what he did at the assembly today, Ai thought the window would have the correct choice.

"Wha- president don't—"

The President, or rather the school principal crashed through the window and valiantly laughed.

"Leave the partner picking to me~ Ryuuya-san." Shining Saotome gave a large smile to the whole class.

Ai was amazed that Shining came out from that crash without a scratch. This room wasn't on the first floor so how did he get up here? Is he even athletic? Ai thought, by the looks of his protruding belly, Ai wanted to conclude no, but this person is wrapped in mysteries. For example, why was he wearing sunglasses indoors?

"Can you please come in normally?" Ryuuya sighed.

Shining pointed his finger at Ai, "Mr. Mikaze because you have guessed where I would appear from, you shall be the first one to be chosen a partner by me~!"

Ai sat in his chair, expressionless. Fine, he'll let Shining choose his partner, but his partner will suffer if they're mediocre, he will get them in shape as a better composer, even if that means they would have to rewrite what they composed for them. Or maybe just turn them down right on the spot. Yes, that sounded better. He smirked.

"Okay, who's my partner Shining?" Ai asked as he sat back on his chair.

Shining's sunglasses gleamed for a split second, "Your partner will be," he moves his finger one seat over to Ai's right, "Miss Nanami!"

"Excuse me?" Ai turns his head towards Haruka.

He sees she's in shock, speechless, at the fact. That goes the same for Ai but her? As his partner? Ai thought it was illogical, from all the information he gathered from her actions, she is not a suitable partner for him.

"Shining can I have a—"

"Next~!" Shining completely disregards Ai.

Ryuuya notices Ai's failed attempt to get Shining's attention and tells Ai, "The president barely listens to anyone seriously so you shouldn't try Mikaze."

Ai sighs, true, Ryuuya's question was completely ignored when Shining appeared in the classroom. Ai looks back at Haruka again who now was looking at him too.

Once her brain comprehends that they were looking at each other she scrambles to face her whole body towards him,"U-um, please take care of me!"

She sticks her hand out, bowing down.

Ai looks down at the hand. He knew she isn't the partner worthy of him, by his calculations the chance of making a good song for the graduation audition is close to zero. She is a waste of time for him.

Probably because he took a long time in taking her hand, Haruka looks up to see what was wrong.

Ai keeps his poker face and says, "I'm not your partner."

Haruka gives him a confused look, "B-but the Principal—"

"I don't think you have what it takes to be my partner." Ai cut her off, better to get to the point rather than beating around the bush.

"Ah— but—"

"Do I need to repeat myself?" Ai asked again.

She shook her head.

"Then just—"

"We just met so I don't think you can judge me!" Haruka blurted out.

Ai's eyes widened. He didn't expect this girl to actually go against him, this was completely different from what he actually calculated out, and by her personality she would agree with the words and not talk back. This was not normal to him but to Ai seemed like a very interesting to study, how long would it take for this girl to give up?

He sees that Haruka kept her eyes on him, he saw confidence in her eyes, they weren't wavering like when she bumped into him.

Interesting.

"I'll give you a month." Ai looks back to the front of the class.

"Huh?"

"One month to give me a piece of music that will prove that you're worthy of being my partner."

"Yes! I'll do my best!" she sounded what Ai can say was 'enthusiastic'.

Let's see if she'll stay like that, Ai thought.

April is done! I had quite a fight with myself how to refer to Hyuuga Ryuuya lol. Ryuuya does refer to Ai as Ai in the games but he's a student here so I went with the 'referring to his students by their last name', Ryuuya will refer to Ai as Mikaze.

I'm not sure how often I'll update, hopefully not too slow. Anyways, hope you have a great day~! See you in the next chapter!