A/N.: I am sorry for the late update, I was busy with updating my main fanfic but now that I have reached its 10th chapter, I'll try to update my others more often! Some of the scene are taken from the 1st OVA, please enjoy and review!

"I'm gonna be late!" Haruyuki ran down the stairs from the nearest train station with a toast in his mouth but tripped at the end which made the toast fly into the air in a slow motion. Haruyuki extended his hand in despair as he screamed, "My breakfast!" And watching it falling closer and closer to the ground...

"Eh?" Only for it to be caught into the hand of a girl wearing the same uniform as his before it fall on the ground. Haruyuki looked up to see his childhood friend, Chiyuri, with his toast in hand and raised it in a greeting, "Morning, Haru!" He was about to thanks her for saving his toast and ask her to give it back, but―

"Did you knew? The finder of a lost article can take 20% of it as a reward." She looked at him with a mischevious grin while Haruyuki hesitated, was it a riddle? But if he had to give 20% of his toast then he wouldn't have much to eat it afterwards, he even missed breakfast because he woke up late this morning...

"W–well... 5%, then!" He raised the five fingers of his hand in response as Chiyuri just shook her head, "A selfish person like you gets to lose 20% as divine punishment!" And with that she bite happily into the toast near the spot where Haruyuki bitted in much to his shock, did that meant that he would lose even more of the small breakfast he already had?!

"Morning." A cold voice ringed behind them but Haruyuki froze before turning nervously towards the source of it, his upperclassmen in school and the 'Parent' who introduced him to the Brain Burst, "Kuroyukihime-senpai!"

She stared between the two childhood friends but seemed strangely displeased? "Friendly together early in the morning, as usual. How nice." Though she said that, her voice didn't sounded happy at all.

Haruyuki hastily bowed as he apologized in a repetitive manner, "I–I'm sorry! I apologize! I'll never do it again! It's all my fault!" The black-haired young woman was worthy of her title of Level 9 and taking count of how scary she was, he didn't wanted to anger her further even though he was completely unaware of what he might have done to put her in such a bad mood.

"Haru, what was supposed to mean?!" Chiyuri, too, was displeased. One of the reasons was because Haruyuki always apologized even if it wasn't of his fault and the other is because that just like their Legion Master, she too held romantic feelings towards the owner of the Silver Crow avatar, unfortunately it was unrequited.

As he felt that now, not only his senior but also his childhood's friends anger are directed towards him, Haruyuki turned to Chiyuri and held his hands in a defensive manner as he tried to calm their boiling wraths before it burst out. "O–oh right! I'm on morning duty today. So I'm seeing the two of you later!"

"Wait, Haru!" Chiyuri took the toast out of her mouth and wanted to extend her hands in order to pull the running Haruyuki back but she accidentally swinged the arm with the toast in it which flew again in the air...

*PAF!* Only to find itself smashed against the face of a passing person. The surprise was so much that all of them found themselves staring at the sight with wide opened eyes, Haruyuki almost tripped on the way.

"Ah, I–I'm really sorry!" Chiyuri bowed and apologized to the still unmoving person who seems to be unable to react correctly at the weird situation he found himself in. It was easy to see that he is a young man with his attire. The said person then took off the toast sticking on his face and then watched Haruyuki and his comrades. It was a young man around their ages with wavy wine-colored hair and hazel eyes. "...Is this perhaps yours?" He asked as he handed the toast to the dazed Haruyuki who could only nods in response.

"Please next time be sure to not throw your breakfast around, okay?"

"Y–yes, sorry!" Haruyuki hastily bowed once again as the boy walked past across him, surely heading out towards somewhere. Then something about him caught his attention...

'Huh? Isn't the school uniform he's wearing the same as us...?' What he was wearing was without doubt the uniform of the Umesato Junior High School, the same one that he, Chiyuri and Kuroyukihime were wearing. Yet he didn't remembered seeing a boy with such a distinguable hair color in his previous school years before, was he a transfer student? But if so then why was he going to the opposite direction of the school, was he perhaps skipping classes? If so then it isn't good, specially if Kuroyukihime who is the student council president of the school―

"...Haruyuki-kun. Was that person an acquaintance of yours?"

"Eh? He isn't though..."

"Is that so? He seemed to know you though, perhaps you passed across each other one time ago?"

'If I had met someone like this I would have remembered though...'

"But still he was sure cute! Maybe in a few years he'll look even better?! Say, Haru, are you perhaps jealous~?" Chiyuri taunted but Haruyuki didn't took its meaning as he answered, "Why should I be jealous?" Of course he didn't noticed Chiyuri who pouted in response and huffed away, yeah it would be perfect if he had just stopped here, but―

"Still he was really good-looking... somehow it makes me envious." Indeed, the young man's appearance could be a good match for Kuroyukihime's appearance or Fuuko's, though he looked a bit effeminate with his face that could be mistook for a woman's, too bad that he didn't had such a stature himself otherwise Haruyuki would be sure that he wouldn't be as bullied he used to be. He didn't noticed the effect of his words on the two girls that worked like a bombardement. When he looked back at them again he was surprised to see them sending him an horrified gaze with their skins worringly pale.

"H–Haruyuki-kun...?" Kuroyukihime began but couldn't finish until Chiyuri did it in her place, just what was getting them so scared about him? Did he said something bad...? "Haru... don't tell me you actually swing that way?!"

"...Eh?"

...

"EH―?!" Now, he understood! With how he phrased it now, those two thought that he was... that he was...! AH! Just the thought of it was horryfying! "Of course I'm not!"

"B–but you just said that he was good-looking..."

"I was just envious of his good looks!" What would it be on tomorrow's newpaper? Arita Haruyuki; actually is he a ho*o? Hell no! No matter if the boy has a feminine face! Yet no matter how hard he tried to explain those two didn't seems on wanting to believe him, how painful! Is that all their friendship were?! So fragile to be destroyed by a simple misunderstanding?! He was normal, straight! While he was thinking on how he should escape from this situation that was even more dangerous than when he fought Dusk Taker, the sound of a motorcycle stopping behind him was head which made all of them turning towards the familiar maid of the Red Legion taking off her helmet, she then turned to the stunned Haruyuki. "Harry? K, I'll give you a ride to school."

"P–Pard-san?" Her avatar's name is Blood Leopard―real name; Kakei Mihaya. But before he could say anything back an extra helmet had been shoved on his head and he was grabbed by his collar and then the motorbike started to run again; but Haruyuki was held like a kite by Mihaya's hand and screamed all along the way. The two other girls could only look at them in shock but Chiyuri responded while screaming, "Hey, Haru!" But unfortunately he was so far away that he couldn't hear her anymore, Chiyuri then pouted angrily, "Geez, you're always being helped by girls!" Now their suspicions about his sexuality towards his same gender was now changed into jealousy towards their same genders.

"..." However unlike Chiyuri who was openly showing her displeasure, Kuroyukihime could only turn her gaze away in a sad manner.

A little more away was the familiar-looking hazel-eyed young man who observed them with a curious eye before sighing and walked away. 'What weird people.' He thought as he directed himself towards the place where he was supposed to meet up with his childhood friend.

At the cafe where Kuroyukihime and Haruyuki once went, a brown-haired light blue-eyed young woman―Fuuko―was sitting on a table while drinking her tea and checking occasionally the hours on a nearby clock, the childhood friend that she was waiting for seems to be late, she just got discharged from the hospital, did something happened to him? Those kinds of worries always came into her mind. He was younger than her of one year and still in middle school, would he truly be alright on her own?

*Cling~* When she was thinking like that, the door of the cafe suddenly opened with the ring of the bell on it, Fuuko raised her eyes to see her childhood friend and with a relieved smile stood up and waved to her to announce her presence here, "Shinkkun~!"

"Fuu-chan! Didn't I already told you to stop calling me like that? Geez... it's embarrassing in public." The boy's name was Nikaidou Shinku, and he walked towards the table where her childhood friend sat down as he ignored the giggles of some people around them while other watched them with an envious look; it was a pair of handsome boy and beautiful girl so they surely thought that the two were on a date (this is where someone would normally shout 'Riajuu should explode!' but let's keep ourselves quiet in a café), "But still I'm sorry for the wait, something unusual happened on my way here so it stopped me for a little while."

"Ahaha! Sorry, sorry." Fuuko apologized with an amused smile, seeing her friend's reaction toward her childhood nickname utterly amusing! But then she remembered about what her friend just said which caught her mind, "What do you mean by unusual? And what happened to your face?! Don't tell me you caught a cold suddenly?"

Shinku hidden his slightly red nose due to the burning toast attack from earlier, before scratching his cheek in a troubled yet embarrassed manner, "No, I'm not sick or anything and by 'unusual'... I mean 'unusual', well I'll tell you about it later." He averted his eyes towards the end of his sentence much to Fuuko's confusion as the latter cocked her head slightly on the side.

"Anyway, how about you try to order something first? Today is my treat to celebrate your dischargement from the hospital~"

"Really?!"

"But not anything that cost too much okay?" Shinku happily nodded as he gratefully took the menu from Fuuko's hands and opened it while looking at what he order first, being tired of the usual and disgusting (how can they call it healthy?) hospital food. Then he suddenly remembered something and closed it much to Fuuko's confusion once again, "What's wrong? You are not hungry?"

"I am, but let's keep it for later." Shinku smiled but his eyes were hidden behind her bangs, "More importantly, how about you tell me more about it?"

"Hm? About what?"

"About the most recent stories about Silver Crow and Black Lotus." Fuuko didn't noticed that time, but there was a slightly dark glint shining into Shinku's hazel eyes. Will he become an ally of Nega Nebulas? Or will he become a foe? At that time, none of them knew that the small meeting they had earlier would lead to one of the many hints that will reveal the secret behind the history of Brain Burst.

A/N.: That's all for now!