'This morning is the absolute worst; having to get up early from bed, eating when I wasn't in the mood, hearing the wailing noises from my terribly inconvenient baby brother and yata-yata-yata' Yaya thought. She walked up to Seiyo Academy slouching, red-eyed, glum and very, very indifferent.

'Ohayo Yaya-sempai!' a group of students greeted from behind her. But Yaya was plainly not in the mood for people. She simply waved her hand dismissively as her back slouched with grief still written across her eyelids from shock the other night.

'What's wrong with Yaya-sempai?' she heard a girl whisper.

Today was just not her day. Unlike every other day she's lived, she's never felt this much depression eat her alive. If it wasn't for that terrible news she would be filled with happiness like always, having finished her homework last night with full understanding thanks to Tadase.

'DING DING-DING DING!' the bell rang stingily into her eardrums, making her head hurt. When class would end, never passed her mind today unlike any other day where all she would wait for during school hours was the final bell. She mentally groaned as she made her way past the desks in her classroom.

She flung her bag behind her back a lot too hard and lost her balance. The next thing she knew, she found herself lying on the floor and heard an annoying repeated call of her name.

'Yaya-chan! Yuiki-chan! AAAH! I don't know what to do! Wake up!' her irresponsible history teacher screeched right beside her left ear and made her wake up with a stunned gasp of shock. Also, thanks to her teacher her head ached worse than ever for her today.

'I'm fine… I'm fine-' Yaya said rubbing her head and experiencing the full pain waiting for her after the loud crash of her body hitting against the floor.

'Oh, gosh- you scared me!' her teacher said, sighing with relief.

'Well, anyway… Thanks sensei, I'll be heading off now' she said slowly standing up and dusting her uniform.

'Wrong' her teacher said, alarming her currently immobile stance beside the classroom door. Yaya's brows creased because of her teacher's oddly farfetched statement.

'Wrong about what? I need to go to a meeting' Yaya said, confusion stirring inside her, all her will set on getting away from the building and be anywhere else.

'I'm fine… that's what you failed to lie to me about. You see I've been very well trained being a single mom, the eldest sister and a history teacher.' Her teacher said proudly.

'Well, there's nothing to worry about.' She sighed.

'Yaya is innocent.' She said waving her hand with her back behind her teacher 'Yaya's fine, really! So see you, bye-' she stopped her foot from taking a step further when her teacher interrupted her not so sly escape.

'Look, all I wanna say before you go is some friendly advice' her teacher said. She could have sworn she felt dog ears flopping down from her head. Yaya stayed quiet and listened to her teacher, for once, like how students really should listen to their teachers.

'The load you carry inside gets a lot lighter when you tell someone about it.' Her teacher preached. Yaya smiled and began to settle herself.

'So before you go home I have an assignment for you.' her teacher said with a grin. The normal Yaya was screaming inside 'NO MORE ASSIGNMENTS! SAY NO! YOU SUFFER ENOUGH! HURRY UP AND LEAVE! SAY SOMETHING!'

'No.' Yaya said awkwardly. She then faked short, uncanny laughs at the realization of the atmosphere but unfortunately regained the conversation with her teacher.

'Hey, I'm just saying it would be a little nice if…'

The end of classes wasn't any better for her either. She walked numbly towards the Royal Garden for the Student Council Meeting recalling some of the things she heard along the corridors and even in her own classroom.

'I hear Yuiki-san's math teacher freaked out this morning.'

'She was greatly improving in her academic status but she's dropped dead emotionally'

'So insensitive, I bet they didn't even care how I felt if I heard… just like Mama and Tsubasa' Yaya thought.

'I heard the same thing about her English teacher!'

'Who would've thought academic progress could be so fatal?'

'Maybe it's just that the Student Council work is getting to her-'

'Yaya!' shouted two girls.

'Yuiki-san!' called two boys.

Yaya turned around to see Amu, Rima, Nagihiko and Tadase sprinting towards her. She stopped walking and faced them after the three came to a halt and took a few moments to catch their breath, while Nagihiko certainly had no problem with stopping normally due to his athletic stability.

'What's the matter?' Yaya questioned stiffly.

'We were worried about you' Nagihiko said, being the only person fit enough to speak up at the moment.

'We could always talk about it inside' Yaya reasoned blankly. Amu had her brows furrowed in disappointment at Yaya's deadpan attitude. She held out a box with a slice of cake in front of Yaya. Her pale eyes instantly went back to normal and she accepted the cake. Everyone beamed at her but sweat dropped after she turned around sharply and started walking away like a normal person would. The pigtailed girl was secretly cured inside, grinning widely with a little chibi drool appearing at the side of her mouth. She then, hurriedly went ahead of the others.

The four looked at each other in amusement, confusion and happiness. They all decided to get back to the matter, like Yaya said, back inside the Royal Garden.

Tadase opened the door and they found an empty platter and an overstuffed Yaya. They all did an anime fail, except for Rima who had dismissed Yaya's questionable behavior.

'Okay, we're in the Royal Garden now. Talk' she said with a business-like serious tone that detectives in movies use during interrogations. The only thing missing was a lamp as a spotlight.

Yaya rested her head on the table while her body fell limply down at her, the chair thankfully supporting her weight enough for her posture to be stable. Everyone else had joined her in the table that mysteriously had automatically set cutlery. All their stares made the child-at-heart feel very awkward about speaking and at the same time eaten by depression again, faster than the time she took eating Amu's present.

'You guys remember when I told you Mama wanted to meet with me after school?' the troubled Yaya said, staring at the broad space in front of her that was full of plants.

Amu and Rima nodded their heads while Nagihiko and Tadase listened further, creating the scenario in their heads.

'Well, she told me some pretty terrible news. She drove me to my weakness in case I would freak out.' She said.

'The pastry shop' everyone thought.

'So, she brought Tsubasa because Papa was at work and she couldn't leave Tsubasa in his terrible state. She said Tsubasa had this blahblah disease. Well, they told Auntie Griselda about it and she said she had a cure and insisted that Tsubasa should receive treatment from her in Europe. Mama and Papa will work harder here in Japan to pay off the expenses Euros are really expensive you know'

'What's the problem with that? Isn't it a solution?' Amu said interrupting Yaya's narration.

'I wasn't even finished yet!' Yaya exclaimed, not moving from her current position.

'So, you'll have to go with Tsubasa to Europe' Nagihiko theorized.

'CORRECT.' Yaya said heavily disappointed.

'How did you know Nagihiko?' Amu asked, amazed at how Nagihiko could've conjured up the thought.

'Of course, because he's a baby he can't go alone' Tadase figured.

'And because her parents need to work off the trip, they have no choice but to send Yaya' Rima said broadening the explanation.

'Wuuuh…huuuuh…' Yaya sobbed quietly in her seat, crossing her arms and burying her head in it.

The door opened and everyone turned their heads to the shining light coming from outside. They all squinted their eyes and used their arms to shield their faces. If you saw quite enough through the light you could see the shadow of a soccer ball being held between its waist and its arms, a wide grin playing across its lips, clearly proud of its astonishingly unnecessary entrance.

'Was that seriously Yaya crying?' rushed in a very worried Kukai, quickly dissolving the light and dropping the soccer ball. Everyone but Tadase did an anime fail at Kukai's questionable attitude while the blonde prince chuckled at his friend's unpredictable attitude.

Yaya's tears stopped instantly as Kukai ran up to her and looked like he was a crowd of people with unbelievably irritating questions because of his fast movements.

'WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!' she demonically shouted on purpose to hush him by looking like she was crying. Her failure was too evident that Kukai's face was scrunched up in thought.

'What happened?'

'She's getting sent to England with Tsubasa-chan to her witchdoctor Auntie' Amu chanted robotically, obviously still shocked at the awful news. Her face then scrunched up in thought.

'You're right, her Aunt's probably in England. That's where the real sorcery has been happening since the old times' Rima said.

'Well, how'd I know that?' Amu asked, surprised at herself.

'I don't know, maybe you accidentally mixed up Europe for England' Rima replied.

'I didn't know you were interested in those kinds of things Rima-chan' Nagihiko casually pointed out.

'W-well…' Rima said unintentionally stumbling over her own tongue at the sight of Nagihiko's gaze. She quickly recovered, thinking that everyone might get the wrong suspicion if she didn't speak up any time soon.

'I actually thought of charming my parents into a love potion. It was a pretty good idea to heal their hearts at first' I replied, softly sipping some tea to calm down.

'Then…? What happened?' Nagihiko said eyeing her closely, but looking bored with his chin softly resting on his fist to hide his interest.

'I-I abandoned the idea when I realized that even though I would get them to settle down for drink… it might' oddly continuing as if what she felt of this was nothing exceptional.

'Okay' Nagihiko said satisfactorily grinning at what her reaction had been the moment they had the conversation.

'Wipe that grin off your face. There's nothing to smile about' Rima scolded. She didn't understand why but he chuckled. It started as muffled giggles and was finally held back by him hiding his head in his arms like Yaya did. Nagihiko smiled his widest inside his cave-shaped arms then retreated his head in the air with his usual expression. Everyone was skeptical about his actions, Rima at most.

'What was that for?' Amu said grinning at her dubious friend, everyone shifting glances at one another, checking if they were all at the same page. Now, Kukai, who had been silent the whole time, spoke, deeming his presence undesirable at a time like this.

'Well, if it isn't –sniff- affection in the air' Kukai humored, raising a brow at the pair.

'Oh, no.' Rima thought.

'Sempai, it's nothing special. Get back to your business, everything's fine here' Nagihiko said casually.

'Oh, tsk, tsk, tsk. How can you underestimate you sempai? I know just what that huge grin meant' Kukai said, taking a step between them, who were "incidentally" seated beside each other.

'I see this unbelievably dazzling SPARK between you and…Rima-chan' he said turning to Rima at the mention of her name with a witty mark of mirth on his face.

'That's right… he called me by my first name earlier… and I didn't react to it… as if… it was… normal…' Rima thought, her stare blank but her insides completely welling up. 'This will go to no good. He might arrange a wedding cosplay or a mushy love stage play… or worse. A DATE' she thought, seeing averagely deranged worst case scenarios for her age.

'Are you done yet, Mashiro-san?' said a grinning Kukai, completely reading everything in the girl's mind.

'We are not having this conversation.' Rima said pushing aside the cup of tea over its saucer and picking up her bag. She turned to the two girls. They took it as a gesture of a friendly idea so they walked with her outside. They reached the door and awkwardly said goodbye. Nagihiko ogled Kukai while Tadase set away the cutlery.

'Nice move, you scared them off' Nagihiko said standing up.

'Hey, I just pointed out some cute, innocent, puppy love. It isn't even worth a date… yet' Kukai said with a huge grin.

'Don't.' He said smiling with a dark aura hiding beneath his words. Kukai left the room with a worried, innocent-playing whistle. Tadase wasn't the last to leave the room though. Nagi stayed and lay back in his chair again after helping Tadase clean up.

'It's a start' the boy thought letting loose his long purple hair behind his chair, leaning heavily on it.

'Ah… what will it take to make or break this hint of love?' Nagihiko chanted, shut eyed, alone in the Garden, and deep in thought of fully blossoming bliss…