Chapter 3

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"Okay, the people in the rooms are:

Suite 1: Four people; Komachi Hikigaya, Taishi Kawasaki, Saki Kawasaki and Yamato

Suite 2: Three people; Yui Yuigahama, Iroha Isshiki and Saika Totsuka

Suite 3: Two people; Yumiko Miura and Hayato Hayama

Suite 4: Two people; Yukino Yukinoshita and Hachiman Hikigaya

Suite 5: Two people; Jake Smith and Olivia Jones

Suite 6: One person; Shizuka Hiratsuka

That's everyone - right?" Olivia asked looking around the lobby as Jake passed out the hotel cards to each group.

"We'll regroup for dinner at 7 o'clock, we'll meet here okay?" Jake said, "So that gives you 5 hours to do what you want."

Everybody nodded before returning to their room.

Yukino and Hachiman's Room

"Could you at least place your shoes properly?" Yukino asked as she eyed the messy pile of shoes that belonged to Hikigaya.

"Too tired…" Hikigaya mumbled into the pillow of the bed.

"Keep to your side, we probably have to share a bed." Yukino called out as she arranged Hikigaya's shoes into a more neater and presentable pile.

"Huh? Share… Share a bed?" Hikigaya stuttered.

"No, share a kidney - of course share the bed." Yukino replied sarcastically before neatly placing her shoes besides Hachiman's.

"Oh… Okay." He said scooting over to the left and Yukino sat beside him.

"Is there anything good on the television?" Yukino asked as Hikigaya flipped through the tv with the remote; pausing occasionally on certain shows.

"Gosh! They're all in English! And there's no Sub." Hikigaya said as he flicked through the tv. In mid flick, Yukino laughed at a joke that the tv played.

"You understand English?" Hikigaya asked while Yukino look genuinely offended at his question.

"Of course I understand English! Who do you think I am? How can I not understand English - It's a universal language, English is one of the official languages of the United Nations." Yukino said glaring at Hikigaya.

"I suppose you speak Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish as well?" Hikigaya said sarcastically.

"Yes?" Came the uncertain reply.

Hikigaya rolled his eyes, "Yeah, right sorry - I forgot, You're the rich heiress Yukino Yukinoshita. Of course you'll know."

Yukino scowled, "Don't judge all rich heirs and heiress, some of them are incredibly daft. Take the Okada Heiress, Kana. She doesn't use her power for good, far too optimistic, spends her father's money in less than an hour that it's given to her. And how about Daiki Harada - a Harada Household Heir, he has no competition for the company and he doesn't even prepare himself for the future; from what I heard he just spends his time chasing after girls or vice versa."

Hikigaya rolled his eyes, "Of course, he's rich - easy money."

"Not exactly a good catch though." Yukino replied sharply.

"That's not nice to say, remember: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." Hikigaya said while Yukino let out a huff of annoyance.

"It's not that genius, Okada and Harada have one thing in common - they both bullied me in Middle School. Okada was like the rest of the girls in my class and Harada kept on harrasing me even after I rejected him, using threats about his family to try and convince me to date him."

"That's why you hate them?" Hikigaya asked, and Yukino shook her head.

"I'm not that low…" Yukino said glaring at Hikigaya before continuing, "The thing I hate about them is that from the end of Middle School until now - they still haven't change and trust me they have plenty of chances to. And I despite it when people don't turn for the better because everything will always turn into a tragedy in the end if no one changed."

"Oh…" Hikigaya said and Yukino gave him a slight smile.

"Enough talking about the past, we should talk about the romantic places that we could bring everybody on tonight." Yukino said as she walked towards the desk with a bunch of papers and a laptop in her hands, Hikigaya groaned before standing up and walking towards her, and both of them set off to work.

Yumiko and Hayama's Room

"Hayato… What do you think about this?" Yumiko asked, twirling around in her dress.

"Good." Came the mumbled answer, it was very clear to Yumiko that Hayato wasn't looking at her.

"Hayato? What's wrong?" Yumiko asked sitting on the bed that they shared, the place where Hayato was covering himself with a pillow with. She suspects that Hayato would say something like, 'I'm okay…' or 'Don't worry about it...', but unfortunately for him, she knew better.

"Is it bad that I'm going back on something I vowed I will never do?" Hayato said mumbling into the pillow, he looked hopeless right now.

"You look useless, get up and straighten yourself - stop being such a loser." Came Yumiko's stiff reply.

Hayato smiled, "I still don't understand why you do that, tell someone that they're useless in order to make them happy again - people might see it as the wrong way you know."

"And you know what I mean?" Yumiko asked glaring at her Hayato before focussing her eyes on her phone.

"Of course I do, that's your way to say: Cheer up, everything will get better. Sort yourself out." Hayato said, "But your way of sending a message is almost the same as Hikigaya's way - you do realise that, right?"

"Do not compare me to that… that…. that loser." Yumiko said, typing on her phone furiously.

Hayato shrugged, "It's true though."

"Anyways what were you thinking about?" Yumiko asked, expertly changing the topic.

"I think I might like Yukino Yukinoshita - again." Hayato said shyly.

"What?"

"Me. Like. Yukino. Yukinoshita. Again." Hayato said burying himself into the pillow.

"Again?" Yumiko didn't mean to make it sound like a question but it sounded like one.

"I use to like her in Middle School." Came Hayato's short reply.

"Oh…"

"What do I do?"

"I don't know." Yumiko said, keeping her voice the same - Hayato liked Yukinoshita, not her. She did all that she could to make sure she felt like her heart wasn't being shattered into millions of pieces. "What is this thing that you said before, a vow?"

"Yukinoshita was always being confessed to constantly, and she rejected everyone of them. I didn't want to ruin things between us. And at the end of Middle School I confessed, she rejected me."

"Well, there's nothing I can do to help you. I'm going to change now." Yumiko said, rushing towards the bathroom - yeah, the Service Club was doing great right now.

Hayato sighed as he saw Yumiko rush into the Bathroom, he had a suspicion that she might like him and this had confirmed about 80% of this theory. Yumiko was nice, but he really like Yukino. Yukino Yukinoshita, the girl he knew ever since… Forever. He had a suspicion, however that he was losing a battle to no one other than Hikigaya Hachiman.

During the years in Middle School, Hayato wasn't really worried - he knew Yukino well enough to see that she would reject every guy who confessed - but he was a bit jealous, back then he knew he was a milestone ahead of all the guys in there but now? Now Hikigaya was more than a milestone away from him, he was at least a dozen milestones away from Hikigaya, and for the first time - He wasn't in first place.

Hikigaya Hachiman had came closer to the finishing line in less than a year than Hayato had ever had in years.

Yui Yuigahama, Iroha Isshiki and Saika Totsuka

"Wanna do something fun?" Yui asked, jumping up and down there were two double beds and all three of them (Yui, Iroha and Saika) agreed to take turns rotating so everybody had a chance to sleep on the bed by themselves.

"What do you suggest?" Totsuka asked sitting cross-legged on his bed - he was going to sleep alone first.

Iroha's eyes twinkled in delight. "Gossip!" She semi-yelled.

"Gossip?" Totsuka said his voice going higher-than-usual.

"Yeah! Gossip! Come on Totsuka - aren't you a little curious on what's going on?"

"Not exactly…?"

"That's okay - you just have to listen to what Yuigahama-Senpai and I say."

"Iroha… If Totsuka doesn't want to we could always do something else." Yui said.

Ah. Good Old Yui came to save the day.

"Okay, Truth or Dare?" Iroha suggested.

"Can we play that with only three people?" Totsuka asked.

"Telephone?"

Yui and Totsuka shook their heads.

"But it's so BORING!" Iroha yelled, while Yui tried to calm her down.

"Calm down Iroha-Chan, there are people in here." Yui said.

"Oops… Sorry." Iroha said pretending to zip her lips.

"How about ordering?" Totsuka suggested.

"Ordering? What's that?" Iroha asked.

"We go into somebody's mind and see what are the order of importance to them, for example my ordering can be TennisMathsFriends or something like that and then we can go in depth so, ordering who's my most important friend to the least."

"Sounds like a Maths game, but sure lets do it." Iroha said, "Who should we start with first?"

"Hikki, friends" Yui said while the others nod, they took out a pencil and wrote down what they thought.

"This is hard, Hikigaya-Senpai doesn't have any friend." Iroha said scratching her head.

"Okay - ready? Reveal." Totsuka said everybody revealing their cars.

Yui:

KomachiYuiYukinoIrohaSenseiTotsukaYumiko=Saki=Taishi=YamatoHayato

Iroha: IrohaKomachiSenseiYuiTotsukaYumiko=Saki=Taishi=YamatoYukinoHayato

Totsuka:

YukinoKomachiYuiSenseiIroha=TotsukaSaki=Taishi=YamatoYumikoHayato

"Really? You think that Hikigaya-Senpai likes Komachi then he does us?" Iroha asked Yui, who looked down at her board and thought for a while before turning her board to change something.

"Thinking about it… The order should be like this…"

Yui:

Komachi=YukinonYuiIrohaSenseiTotsukaYumiko=Saki=Taishi=YamatoHayato

"You think that Yukino-Senpai is worth the same as Komachi?" Iroha asked again.

"I forgot how to put the equal or more sign, if I remembered - Yukinon would be at the front." Yui said

"Why?" Iroha asked.

"I put you behind Sensei because I feel like he treats you like another Komachi, and at the start of the trip I feel like Hachiman likes Yukinoshita a bit more and this makes Yukinoshita surpass Komachi, Komachi is pretty self-explanatory, Yui is third because she was the third member of the club, Sensei is fourth because she seems like a loner in her younger years so she's probably really relatable to Hachiman, Iroha fourth and is tied with me because I feel like that's how Hachiman view us, Yumiko, Saki, Taishi and Yamato are the same as Hachiman views them as acquaintances and Hayato as last because I think Hayato had or has a thing for Yukinoshita and there will be a big rivalry for her." Totsuka explained.

"Mine is pretty much the same but I feel like because Iroha is another Komachi she outweighs Sensei." Yui said, while Iroha huffed.

"You guys are not fun! I put me first and then Komachi, then Yui, then Sensei almost in the same order of you guys but I put Yukino second to last because I feel like he doesn't really like her."

Yui smiled at that, "You didn't see Hikki before he was like this did you? Yukinoshita made him change, it's slow but noticeable - especially if you look back and see how much has change, I never seen Hikki get along so well with anybody like that."

"I agree." Totsuka said, "It's like evolution, except it's with Hachiman and Yukino."

"I totally Ship them!" Yui said.

"What? I thought you like Hikigaya-Senpai." Iroha asked in utter disbelief.

"Yeah, but you know - I figured that It's time to move on and all, Hikki and Yukinon are perfect together and I don't want to ruin that. Plus, British guys are kinda hot; but I'm not fully giving up - as long as Hikki's not taken I'll chase after him."

And with that their Love Pentagon, slowly became a Square.

Komachi Hikigaya, Taishi Kawasaki, Saki Kawasaki and Yamato's Room

"Yesh, my brother's so dense." Komachi said with a smile as she sat on the bed flickering through her phone's photo gallery admiring the pictures she had taken of her older brother and her hopefully-soon-to-be-future-sister-in-law, Yukino. There was one of them in the plane, another of them in the car and many many more, and the most recent one was their little conversation in the hotel lobby.

Saki came next to her and sat besides her peering over her shoulders to see what Komachi was doing.

"Komachi… Are those the pictures that you took of Hikigaya and Yukinoshita earlier on today?" Kawasaki said, admiring Komachi's photography skills.

"Yeah, they're so cute -right? They need to get together." Komachi said pausing to let out a dreamy sighed.

"But it'll be hard, Yui and Iroha likes Onii-San and Hayama likes Yukino Nee-San right? And apart from that Yukino Nee-San has loads of admirers. And those foreign guys might hit on her you know! And most of them are hot." Komachi said with a sigh again.

However, this attracted the attention of Taishi; he did not like the sound of 'hot' and 'guy' coming out of Komachi's mouth - he felt like something was turning his stomach and his face would get red - all of this in a bad way.

"You're trying to date foreign guys? Long-Distance Relationships from what I heard are pretty tough and wouldn't there be a language barrier?" Taishi asked in a spur-of-the-moment thing.

Saki, his older sister laughed. "Otouto, she was talking about Yukinoshita-San; and I'm pretty sure she knows English."

Taishi could feel his face turning more red, but his stomach stopped turning he was honestly really relieved.

"Oh."

Komachi smiled kindly, before offering Taishi a seat next to her.

Saki started to continue their previous conversation, "So what you're saying is…" She said to Komachi, "That there's a love pentagon?"

Komachi nodded, "I kinda feel my Komachi senses tingling and they're telling me that it's more of a love square, or at least it's turning into one"

Taishi raised his eyebrows, "With who?" He asked subconsciously, he didn't really care about gossip, but this was too good to pass up.

"Iroha, Hayama, Onii-San and Yukino Nee-San."

"No Yuigahama-San?" Saki asked, her eyebrows raised.

"I think she's giving up, because of the fact she's been exposed to Onii-San and Yukino Nee-San love tension from Day 1; she starts shipping them together even when she likes Onii-San." Komachi said.

Saki mumbled a little 'Oh' before speaking, "Then Hikigaya-San is most likely dead, as he sees Isshiki-Kun as another little sister; so frankly speaking - another Komachi."

"How exactly does that make him dead?" Taishi asked curiously, not understanding the language of the gossip.

"Obviously Taishi, if Isshiki has a lower ranking in Onii-San's eyes in which she is considered a 'sister; he will most likely not end up with her; which leaves Yukino and Hayama, and from what I know Yukino doesn't see Hayama as a brother so Hayama has a bigger chance of winning Yukino Nee-San's heart then Isshiki has with Onii-San which means in the 'Hachiman X Yukino' shipping, Onii-San has to work harder." Komachi said, as Yamato walked in.

"What are you guys talking about?" He asked as he took a seat beside the Kawasaki's.

"Hikigaya-Kun and Yukinoshita-Chan's relationship." Saki said casually.

"Cool."

"Why are other's love life so interesting and mine is practically non-existence?" Taishi asked dramatically while Saki chuckled.

"Fear not little brother, a simple and easy way to get together leaves less white hair on your head."

"Says, you." Taishi said looking at his older sister's silver-white hair.

"It's silver!" Saki said defensively, "And you are to talk as well, you're hair is grey isn't it?"

"Dark Grey!"

As the siblings bicker, Yamato and Komachi was discussing about the trip - the second hand of the clock seemed to tick quicker.

"Where are they?" Yumiko complained looking at her watch, they were all waiting for Hikigaya Hachiman and Yukinoshita Yukino who both haven't came down yet.

"They'll come soon." Hayama said, but the worry in his voice was evident.

"Sorry we're late!" A soft voice said lightly as Yukino and Hikigaya dashed through the lobby, running as fast as they could towards the big group.

"What took you guys so long?" Yumiko asked venom full in her voice, throwing both of them her death glare.

"Sorry, we fell asleep." Hikigaya said, and upon closer inspection this was true, Hikigaya's hair was messier, his clothes were wrinkled up and his usual soulless eyes were screaming 'sleepy'. It was harder to identify with Yukino though, her clothes and hair were perfect but it was the sleepy look in her eyes that gave her away.

"We wrote a list of attractions we thought was worth going, though so we got a good excuse." Hikigaya said taking a stack of papers out each one of them filled with at least ten attractions, including a brief summary about the place, the best time to go and the address.

"Wow. That much?" Olivia said staring at the piece of paper before looking at Jake, "You never told me you guys were staying here for half a year, that's loads of places." She said in English, confusing most of the people in the group.

"It's just a few suggestions, Hikigaya and I place them in the order that we thought were the most romantic." Yukino said in English as well.

"Very well, that's settled then." Olivia said reverting back into Japanese.

"What's settled?" Komachi asked curiously.

"Nothing much, just settling the destination for the tour." Yukino said.

"Where are we going?" Hiratsuka-Sensei asked, "I'm starving!"

"You'll know when you get there." Jake said with a confident smirk as the van pulled out from the lobby.

"We're going to Sanders Waterhouse? What's that? Do they have Ramen?" Hiratsuka-Sensei asked, "Cause I really want to eat Ramen."

Yukino sighed, "Sensei, does the Sanders Waterhouse sound like a Japanese restaurant name at all? Or course there's no Ramen."

"Although, I am quite curious about what kind of food does the Sanders Waterhouse serves?" Yui said and surprisingly enough Hikigaya was the one who answered.

"It's a restaurant that are favoured by celebrities, with meals such as Crab Meat and Shark fin-filled slider 'doughnuts' being their star dish and all. It's really hard to get a reservation, how did you do it?" Hikigaya asked, and Olivia smiled.

"We just pulled a few strings." She replied with a Hikigaya-worthy smirk.

"That. What exactly on point. And this is coming from his sister." Komachi said to Olivia.

"Trust me, Olivia's been smiling like that since birth." Jake said as Olivia lightly punched him in the arm, muttering something like 'As if you don't' under her breath.

"Speaking of which, I have a few questions." Yukino said, her arms crossed and her eyes closed as if she was deep thought.

"What is it Yukinoshita?" Hayama asked.

"Why did all of you sign up for a romance related thing, or in other words why did you sign up for this?" Yukino asked.

"I signed up because Taishi said he was going, I need to take care of him after all." Saki said nonchalantly.

"I joined because Komachi was going and she asked me to." Taishi said.

"I joined because I have to help my poor Onii-San with his love life -right?" Komachi said with a smirk.

"I joined because I heard that a lot of students were going, and I want to find love too! Oh- and evaluate all of the service club members performance as well of course!" Hiratsuka-Sensei said with a smirk.

"I joined because of the amount of response it was getting." Iroha said, "As well of the fact I want to find true love as well."

"There's no such thing as true love." Hikigaya and Yukino said at the exact same time.

"These two." Hiratsuka-Sensei said shaking her head, before reaching out to pull Yukino's and Hikigaya's ears. "You just don't believe in true love because you haven't experienced it."

"And you have?" Hikigaya asked almost immediately, everybody except Yukino gasped. Yukino just covered her mouth with her hand, as if to hide her smile.

Hiratsuka-Sensei just pulled Hikigaya's ears in a harder manner.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Hiratsuka yelled.

"Sensei, I realise that he has insulted you but punishing him would be worthless, he'll repeat himself again." Yukino said, before mumbling 'Some people never learn.' under her breathe.

"Well, I joined because Yuigahama-San asked me to." Totsuka said with a smile.

"I joined because Yumiko and Hayama was coming and the rest were too busy." Yamato said.

Yumiko looked up from her phone, "I came because Hayama was going."

Hayama smiled, "I came because I'm looking for love."

"So most of the people here joined because of the fact that they are under the influence of finding 'love'?" Yukino said raising her eyebrows in dissatisfaction.

"Not to break it to you, but the possibility of you finding 'love' as you call it is so close to none, that it's just one figure less from a zero."

"Yeah, and even if you find 'the one' what are the chances of you guys ending up as a couple and staying as one? The courtship itself is a long process, then you have relationship turbulence and then maybe one person thinks the other as less attractive than the other and start cheating - too much risk." Hikigaya said with a huff.

"Not to mention if you get married - and that's a if the amount of things you wouldn't agree on - where you live, what kind of occupation, what colour to paint the rooms, who to invite to your wedding, what colour the tablecloth is and how many kids you want." Yukino said.

"Don't forget the amount of money you spend on everything." Hikigaya said.

"Yeah, and the money as well." Yukino agreed.

Komachi sighed, "Seriously Onii-San? Even after you get a girlfriend, you probably won't make it to marriage."

Hikigaya shrugged, "No use denying it." He said.

"Okay! What about the amount of kids do you want? I want three!" Yui said, desperately trying to change the subject.

"Kids? I would like to have one." Yumiko said, not even looking out from her phone.

"Really? I want one as well." Hayama said, "That way the kid wouldn't need to compete with anybody."

"I want five!" Iroha said.

"Woah five? Isn't that a bit too much?" Yui asked.

"Nah, I want a big family." Iroha said.

"What about you Sensei?"

Hiratsuka-Sensei rolled her eyes, "If I even get to be married I would probably have three as well."

"If there's three, you should make sure there's a smaller age difference between them - having kids too late might cause some problems for both your kid and yourself." Yukino said.

"Was that an insult?" Hiratsuka-Sensei said glaring at Yukino.

"No, but it's true - the older the mother the higher the infant mortality rate." Yukino said.

"What about you Totsuka?" Yui asked.

"Hmm… To be honest Yui, I would like a big family too. About five or six."

"How about you Taishi?" Yui asked.

"Hmm? I want four."

"Me too! I want four!" Komachi said excitedly.

"Seriously Komachi? You might want to think that again, childbirth is really painful and the whole labour process takes a long time and think about the amount of free time you'll get. And think about all the trouble and the amount of babysitting it'll take if you want to go on a date - so much arrangements, and knowing you, you'll get me to babysit for you - it'll be a nightmare." Hikigaya said.

"Not to mention that you'll have to wait for 36 months not counting premature and overdue births - that's about 3 years of being pregnant." Yukino said.

"That's why I'm hoping Onii-San's future-wife is good with kids." Komachi said with a wink.

"What is the amount of kids that you want Hikki?" Yui asked.

"Two. One kid would make him to lonely, three will just be too much." Hikigaya said.

"How about you Yukino Nee-San?" Komachi asked.

"Two. One boy, one girl - the order of birth doesn't matter." Yukino replied.

"So you and Onii-San match." Komachi said adding another wink.

"Yeah, and so does a few thousands of people as well." Hikigaya said.

"Gosh, Onii-San - at least be more optimistic." Komachi said.

"I'm not being pessimistic, I'm being realistic." Hikigaya replied.

"Whatever, it's still the same thing." Komachi replied, sticking her tongue out immaturely.

Yukino sighed, "Let's not fight now." She said rubbing her temples.

"Fine, fine…" Komachi said.

"Great, cause we're here."

Author Note: I'm kind of going through a post-writer block and Procrastination, so I might not be able to update as much as usual.