*Note: The cell phone that Hikari has is the Cyon, "Ice Cream 2"

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Chapter 3

To the dojo, Hikari and Kanda were getting ready for their match. Hikari had changed into her Bogu* and was stretching. Kanda, on the other hand, had also changed into his bogu but was sitting on the floor, mediating while waiting for Hikari to finish stretching. Hikari soon finished and grabbed her Shinai**.

"Alright, let's start…" Hikari said in an unusual indifferent voice after she put on her Men***; Kanda did the same and they got into the ready stance.

"OKAY! Match start!" Lenalee shouted for them to start.

Hikari took the first attack and aimed her Shinai to hit straight onto Kanda's Men but Lucky; Kanda was able to move to the side just in time, for Hikari had made a huge hole in the ground.

~Later~

Everyone was shocked. Kanda had somehow won! They looked at Hikari, who was sitting on the ground in front of Kanda, shaking. Lenalee walked up to her.

"Are you ok?" Hikari lifted her face to show that she was crying. She the wiped the rears away and sadly smiled.

"Yes, I'm fine." But as Hikari stood up, she whispered, "I'm really fine…"

"For now that is…" And with that, Hikari dashed out the door. Allen ran after Hikari. Soon, Kanda followed after. Lavi being Lavi saw that Hikari was whispering something but he couldn't hear what she said; he walked up to Lenalee with a serious look and asked her.

"What did she say…?" Lenalee turned towards him with teary eyes. She then started crying even harder and hugged Lavi. Lavi tried comforting Lenalee by holding her and patting her back.

"It's ok… But, can you tell me why you're crying?" After a while, Lenalee's crying stopped.

"She, she said "For now that is"!"

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"She has to marry Kanda, don't you remember?"

"What's so bad about that?"

"She wants to marry the one that she loves and she already likes someone."

HA? Nani? Who?"

"A… really cute igo-player named Touya Akira."

Lavi didn't speak for he was shock. A Kendo champion likes an igo-player? After that thought passed through his mind, Lavi busted out laughing.

"What's so funny?"

" Ah… its because the idea of a female Kendo champion and a male igo-player together is way too funny! HAHAHA!"

Lenalee smacked Lavi on the head with her clipboard. "SHUT UP! I think it's really sweet that Hikari is in love with her childhood friend."

"Wait… Isn't Touya Akira an eight-dan igo-pro?"

"I think so… WAIT! That gives me an idea!" Lenalee yelled before running off, leaving a confused Lavi behind.

Meanwhile, Hikari was hiding in a tree, sobbing. Allen was somewhere on the ground looking for her and Kanda had gone to practice some more Kendo. Hikari was thinking about the match against Kanda, she knew that she should had listened to that little voice in the back of her mind, say that it was a bad idea to go against Kanda. But now, she had to marry a cold-hearted but handsome jackass instead of her sweet and really cute prince charming: Touya Akira. Speaking of Akira, Hikari had forgotten that she had promised him that she would play a game of I-go with him. Quickly, she pulled out her cell phone and was about to speed dial Akira's number until the cell phone rang. She looked at the cell phone's screen; it was Lenalee again. She pressed the answer and placed it to her ear.

"What is it Lenalee?"

"Where are you?" Lenalee asked.

"Why should I tell you?"

"Are you crying, Hikari? Because you're"

"NO I'M NOT OK!"

"Well… Calm down please because I asked my nii-chan to accept Touya Akira into the academy."

Hikari stopped crying, "Really! Did you get his reply yet?"

"Not yet, but I did ask nii-chan to mention you so… I think you can guess the answer already. Oh! I'm getting another call! Can you hold for a little bit?"

"Um, sure…" Hikari started hoping that the one who calling Lenalee was Komui with Akira's response.

"…"

"Hello? Hikari are you still that?"

"Yea… So what did Akira-kun say?"

"Touya-san wants to talk to you."

"Okay!"

Hikari hung up on Lenalee and began dialing Akira's number.

"Beep… Beep… Hello? Who is this?"

"Akira-kun!" Hikari said cutely, "It's Katzura!" So… do you want to come to the academy?"

"Sure… But why?"

"I'm stuck here…"

"You do remember that I don't go to school anymore, right?"

"Yeah… Oh! I remember that I promised you I play a game of I-go with you… But I'm still stuck here!" Hikari started sobbing.

"Um… Are you hiding in a tree, sobbing?"

"Huh? How do you know?"

"Cause I can see you…"

"… Where are you?"

"Look above you…"

Hikari looks up and see a helicopter.

"Do you happen to be in a helicopter?"

"Yes…"

"May I ask why?"

"It's a long story but they also dragged Shindo in this as well…"

"Shindo? As in your rival, Shindo Hikaru? That Shindo?"

"Yes…"

Then the door of the helicopter popped open and Hikaru stuck his head out of the door.

"Hi Katzura-san!" Hikari sweat-dropped. Then, she noticed that the helicopter was a little lower than she remembered; Hikari wondered why. Then, Hikaru was pull back into the helicopter and Komui then stuck his head out.

"Hi Hikari!" Hikari waved back while a guy with two moles on his forehead and long blond hair that was braided neatly, lowered a ladder.

Hikari climbed up the ladder and up into the helicopter. She right away sat in the middle of Akira and Hikaru.

"Yo! What's up?" Hikari smiled from ear to ear.

"Katzura! I challenge you to a game of I-go when we get to the academy!" Hikaru yelled happily.

"Sure, after I'm done with Akira first."

Akira smirked, "Oh… So you're saying you can beat me, hm?"

"Yep!"

"Yeah, right! Touya is my rival!" Hikaru yelled at Hikari.

"Whatever you say…"

"Grrr…" As Hikari and Hikaru continue arguing, Akira was watching Hikari; he was worried about her. He could tell that Hikari was troubled even though she was smiling because of her eyes. They had sadness in them. Why would Katzura-san be troubled? Did she loose something important? Was she forced to go to this so-called academy? Or maybe she's just having trouble with her other friends? Akira thought to himself. He continues to watch Hikari when he noticed something.

"Katzura-san," Hikari stopped arguing with Hikaru and turned towards Akira, "last time we met, which was sometime last week, you had a bob-cut. How did it become this long in about a week?" Hikari covered her hair with her hands. "I, uh, um…" She looked out the window, "Oh, look! We're here!" She cried out as she saw the helicopter approaching the tall black building.

"Answer my question, Hikari."

Hikari became tense when she heard her name, since Akira only say it when he was serious. "Well um… See ya!" Hikari said before she got out of her seat, opening the door, and jumping out while the helicopter was still in mid-air.

"Hikari, wait!" But it was already too late; Hikari had already dived down to the trees. Grabbing the branches, she stopped her fall.

Hikaru asked Akira as the helicopter lowered, "Why did you call her by her first name? You only call Katzura-san and me by our last names…"

"Because I'm concern for Katzura-san, had she been wearing a wig the whole time? Or is she wearing a wig now? As well, she did seem distracted by something."

"How should I know that? This the fifth time I've met her."

"Oh… Wait! Then, how is she on such good terms with you!"

"Like I said, how should I know?"

"Forget it, I'll ask Hikari myself."

"There you go again."

In Komui's lab a.k.a the psycho's lair, Komui was fixing Allen's Crowned Clown/his right arm.

"STOP MOVING!"

"But how can I stay still when it hurts!"

"There! Finished!"

"It still hurts!" Allen sobbed.

"Can I come in?" Hikari asked Komui, as she cracked the door open.

"Yes, yes, come in Hikari-chan!"

"It's Katzura!" She yelled as she plopped onto the couch.

"But Hikari-chan sounds cuter!"

"I still don't really get why are you at this academy, Katzura-san." Allen asked before Hikari yelled at Komui. Then, there was an awkward silence.

Hikari then broke the silence, "I actually still don't know why either…"

"Oh!" Komui answered Allen, "She's a genius with an IQ over 200!"

Allen's jaw dropped to the ground.

"And she's amazing in sports!"

"Cut it out Komui! You're just lying. I'm not that smart!"

"No I'm not kidding…" Komui replying as he searched through his disaster zone, a.k.a. his desk, for something. Finally, after turning everything on his desk up side down, he held up some sheets of paper. During that time, everyone that was in the helicopter had arrived.

"Katzura Hikari has completed the Intelligence Quiz with a score of over 200." Komui read out loud for everyone in the room to hear. Everyone stared at Hikari with his or her jaws dropped down onto the floor and eyes as big as saucers.

"That shrimp has an IQ on par with that Baka Usagi or maybe even higher!" Kanda yelling out what everyone in the room was thinking.

"Who's the Baka Usagi?" Asked Hikari.

"Lavi." Everyone else in the room answered except for the said person.

"And… who's Lavi?"

"Who looks like a stupid rabbit?" asked Kanda.

"Hm… him!" Hikari then pointed at Lavi.

"Ding! Ding! Ding! Bingo! We have ourselves a winner!" Cried out Komui.

"Oh… he didn't really look intelligent anyway…"

"Hikari-chan… do you remember this quiz?" Komui asked as he handed her the sheets of paper that looked like they were a hundred years old.

Hikari scanned through them and replied, "Yes… well kind of no a bit… maybe no."

"Tch." Said… well… we all know who did that sound anyway so why mention him.

Komui asked Hikari, "How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?"

"Just open the fucking refrigerator and stuff the god-damn elephant in there."

"That's wasn't lady-like of you and why do you say that?" Lavi asked.

"Who is the asshole that ever said that there wasn't a fucking fridge can't hold a piece of crap that big. And what was that for?"

"It was one of the questions. Well, moving on…" Komui sweat-dropped, "Since Hikari is now enrolled, we have to find out what's her innocence is and what type it is…"

"What the FUCK is an innocence?"

"Tsk, tsk, would it kill you to be lady-like just like my Lenalee?"

"Yes."

"Moving on. They're weapons to fight the students of the Noah Academy. The Noah Academy is-"

"Blah, blah, blah…"

"…Hikari-chan…"

"Look… I don't give a damn, okay!"

"You will have to since you'll be a student here!"

"I said I don't fucking care!" Hikari yelled as she walked to the door. She was about to grab the doorknob when the door crashed down onto her and Hikaru came in smiling, followed by Akira trying to get the door off of Hikari.

"This place is awesome! I can see why Katzura-san goes here!" What Hikaru wasn't aware of was that Hikari was emitting a murderous aura until she sent him airborne with a powerful kick.

"Shindo! How many fucking times did I tell you to knock on the fucking door before you come in!"

"But I did knock!"

"Yeah… You did knock, alright… You fucking knocked down the door!"

"Ok… Ok… I get it already!"

"NO YOU DON'T ! I JUST GOT FUCKING SMASHED IN THE FACE JUST A FREAKIN' MINUTE AGO!"

"Ah! Gomendasai." Hikaru replied indifferently as he jumped onto the couch.

Akira Karate-chopped Hikaru's head, "YOU HAVE TO MEAN!"

"ITAI! Touya!

"Akira… You didn't have to hit him that hard…" Hikari patted Hikaru on the head.

Before Akira could reply, Komui turned him around and asked him with his glasses gleaming mischief, "So you're Akira-kun, how did you meet her and what do you see her as?"

"A female friend…"

Cue the rain cloud over Hikari's head.

"Katzura-san!" "Are you okay?" "Hikari-chan!" "Hika-chan!" "Tch."

"Probably." Akira then added in.

"Then what do you see her as!" Hikari yelled out, "A male friend?"

"Or maybe a lo-" Lavi was adding in until Akira gave him a death glare.

"Oh! That's rare! Touya giving someone a death glare!" Hikari exclaimed.

"Ruffle, Ruffle… Ruffle, Ruffle…" Everyone started looking for where that sound was but in the end, their eyes landed on Komui's desk where Komui was searching for something under all the papers. Since they thought that Komui was going to take a long while, Lavi went to help Bookman, Lenalee went to make coffee, Allen went with Lenalee, Kanda went to practice some more Kendo, Akira was playing I-go on a goban on the couch with Hikari, while Hikaru watched them play. After what seemed like forever, Komui finally found some more sheets that looked like they were about a thousand-years-old. Magically, everyone comes back into the room.

"Surprisingly, Akira-kun and Hikari-chan are engaged." Komui said as Lenalee passed out the coffee.

"Eh!" "What?" "Tch."

Lavi started saying, "What do you know! It's almost like fate because they both like ea-"

"KARATE CHOP!"

And Lavi was lying on the floor with his head smoking.

"You've been watching Soul Eater again, haven't you?" Akira asked Hikari.

Hikari answered happily, "Yep! I'm on the 23rd episode!"

"Apparently, it was decided by their parents." Komui added.

Hikaru started playing I-go with Akira but not before adding in, "That's awesome! They bo-"

Death glare form Akira, "SHINDO…!"

"Um, both like I-go…" Hikaru backed away but he ended up falling off the couch.

"That reminds me…" Akira twisted towards Hikari, "Katzura, are you going to take the pro exam?"

Hikari then went to the emo corner, "Sob, sob… Did I say that I wanted to go to this academy…? No, I didn't and now I'm stuck here… Sob, sob…"

Everyone sweat-dropped as Hikari went on ranting about not wanting to go to the academy and crying.

Lenalee pats her back, "There, there, this academy isn't so bad."

"Yeah! That's right!" Komui added in.

Hikari is still crying anime tears, "Says, the one, who owns, sniff, the go-damn place, sniff, sniff…"

Hikaru said with amazement, "Wow, Katzura-san… I never knew you could be so rude…"

"That's because you're my best friend…"

Then a black aura was emitted from Akira while Lenalee was wailing, "Then what about me?"

"I don't care…"

The next thing you know, Lenalee was sitting off in a corner with a rain cloud over while Allen and Lavi were trying to hold Komui back since he had his drill of doom out which means, he wanted to kill Hikari.

"Ah, actually, Akira and Lenalee are my best friends…"

Akira then stopped emitting the black aura while the rain cloud over Lenalee disappeared and she stepped out of her corner. But, then they heard someone weeping. Everyone looked at Hikari and found that she had a question mark about her head. They looked at another corner, they found Hikaru in his own emo corner. Everyone then sweat-dropped. Hikari got out of her corner, walk up to Hikaru and patted his back.

"T can't be helped that I only saw you only five time, ne?

Hikaru nodded and got out of his emo corner.

Komui then shouted, "Akira-kun, Hikari-chan!" After that, a goban slamed into Komui's face. Lenalee yelled, "Why did you do that for!"

The answer that she got was Hikari pinching Komui's ear and yelling into it, "DO NOT CALL ME HIKARI-CHAN!"

"Ok, ok… I get it!" Komui started trying to get of Hikari's grip, "But don't you two want to know how you two became engaged?"

Akira replied, "Sure!"

"Ok! But first, Hikari-chan! Can you let go of my ear!" Komui wailed.

Hikari released Komui's ear while saying, "Fine… And don't call me Hikari-chan…"

"Ok! It seems that it started when Akira's father and Hikari's father were friends and rivals in I-go. One day, Akira's father made a bet. If I beat you the next time we play I-go, my son, Akira will marry your daughter, Hikari." Komui began, "Hikari's father didn't exactly wanted to force Hikari into marrying Akira… Even so he couldn't turn down a challenge. The next day, they played at an I-go café. Hikari's father wasn't feeling well so he didn't play as well as he usually did. And so, Hikari's father lost the bet, but to crease Hikari's father's worries, Akira's father made sure to let Hikari come over to play with Akira at least once every week, so that they would both fall in love with each other. But, that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon because Hikari has to marry Kanda now…"

At that moment, a vicious aura filled the room; everyone shivered except Kanda, of course. Subsequently, everyone turned towards to the source, Akira. Dun, dun, dum…


Um... I believe everyone knows that I take a long time to update, so I just telling you that I will leaving next month and I will be in Japan for 4 days then I'll be in Viet Nam for the rest of the summer. I don't know if they have a computer but I didn't have this beta-read... Cya when the next school year starts!