Chapter four of the story, the start is a little slow maybe a little tedious, but i think that like at the middle it gets a little better.
Also to everyone that reads this and reviews it, thanks you are freaking amazing =P
I forgot in the last chapter to put something, i did do a hunter x reference, it was neferpitou, that is why it was a cat mask with white hair.
Thats it, gonna make this intro a little shorter than usual, i do not own any of the characters.
Enjoy =P
It was a cold day today too like the days before. The weather had changed abruptly since that hot day that the tournament was decided. Shintaro was walking to school with Momo, she was telling him about another movie she had seen, and this time it was about pirates.
"And then you know, they jumped from one ship to the other one with their swords and started to fight" said Momo while looking at Shintaro.
"Yeah…" answered the boy sleepy.
"Hey you promised me you would go to the cinema with me to watch the ninja movie that's going to come out soon, when are we going to go?" asked Momo.
"Ahhh… okay… how about this weekend? Is it going to be out already by the weekend?"
"Yes! It is going to be available already, but only on one cinema and it is a little too far away"
"Agh… well okay a promise is a promise even if it is a drag"
"Yay, thanks oni-chan, you know we have seen a lot of weird and funny things lately like the girl that hit that boy with the bicycle and Takane's tons of fans, I don't think I had seen things like that before"
"Yeah also those two boys the other day…"
"Yeah the girl in the bicycle was so weird I mean how can you even ride a bicycle with those clothes isn't that like really uncomfortable and makes it more complicated and-"
Shintaro and Momo started looking to the other side of the street they were walking in. A boy was riding a bicycle, but he was carrying someone in the bicycle front basket.
"W-Was that a girl inside a futon mattress?" asked Momo with a surprised look.
"Y-yeah I think so…" said Shintaro also pretty surprised.
"I think that beats all of the other weird things we have seen up until now…"
"Yeah you are right… wait, who wears a futon mattress around their upper body though…"
"I don't know… maybe she was too cold…" said Momo.
Both of them arrived at the school pretty early. Shintaro talked with Ayano a little in the morning, mainly about the science project. On their lunch break they went to Haruka and Takane's classroom to test it out on the computer they usually used to play their shooter game. The program still needed some adjustments but the idea was kind of showing already.
"Welcome, I am Azami, what may you need?" said the girl in the computer.
A bunch of options appeared on the screen on, displayed by the character's hands.
"Okay let's choose… organize music… that should be simple I guess…" said Shintaro.
"How would you like to organize it?" said the computer program.
"By… name… and… only this two folders…" said Shintaro while choosing some options on the screen.
"Yes, here, the organized files" said Azami while a folder opened.
"Wow I can't believe you actually made it Shintaro-kun!" said Ayano while looking at the computer.
"Hey that is so cool, can it call you master?" asked Takane while looking at Shintaro.
"You can choose it to call you however you like..." said the boy while opening an option in the program.
"Sweet… this is so cool… hmm… what is this, subject teacher Azami… okay math I guess?" said Takane while clicking an option.
"No don't click that it is not finished!" said Shintaro but Takane had already clicked it.
"Yes Master Takane right away…" Azami started teaching a mathematical formula but the same problem and result started showing over and over again until Shintaro closed the program.
"Agh it made a loop… well if we fix that, and it actually works then it should be ready" said Shintaro.
"R-Really? If it can teach things for school then everyone is going to love it, imagine the people that have to study for a test and don't understand anything but don't want to go supplementary lessons because it is too tiring and just want to stay at home, like me for example, I mean holy crap it is so cool I could just study at home in my computer instead of having to come extra time here and-"
"Takane-chan really likes it hehe" said Ayano with a smile.
"I-It's just because it would be useful… for when I get sick for example also for Haruka it would be too"
The four of them kept playing with the program doing all kinds of stuff until lunch was over. In the afternoon they met to practice a little for the tournament. On the way back home Ayano was walking out of the school with Shintaro and Momo.
"Hey Shintaro-kun, how about we go to a movie this Friday?" asked Ayano.
"Hey we could all go together!" said Momo.
"Momo-chan is there a movie you would like to watch?" asked Ayano.
"Yes it is the new ninja movie, but the cinema is a little too far away from here, but oni-chan promised me we could go watch in on the weekend, let's go all together"
"Yeah that would be nice, maybe I can invite Tsubomi-chan to come too and she can meet Momo-chan, how about it Shintaro-kun can we go on Friday's afternoon? Asked Ayano.
"Yes oni-chan, can we?" asked Momo.
"Y-Yeah let's go… the four of us I guess…" answered Shintaro.
"Yay! And I can make a new friend, this is a record for me!" said Momo.
"I think the two of you will get along pretty well" said Ayano while looking at Momo.
That day Shintaro arrived home and started working on the science project right away. After working 3 hours nonstop, the Azami programming was almost done, but he decided to test it the day after because he was too tired already.
Shintaro had another dream with Ayano. This time Ayano turned into a zombie, though she was a zombie, she remained exactly the same; it was just that she wouldn't really die anymore because she was part of the living dead, he would have to look for a way to keep her body from rotting though, but she was so tender and lovely with him that he didn't mind at all, as they were looking at some plants and she fell on top of him, she got closer to him with her cold zombie body, and as they were about to kiss, he woke up again.
"What the… that was a weird dream" said Shintaro while getting out of bed.
This time Momo and Shintaro walked to school together again, she was talking about the movie they were going to watch on Friday's afternoon, and how about she wanted to meet Kido so that she could have another friend and also near her age.
When they arrived at school they met Kenjirou, he was waiting for Momo.
"Hey, I got your test results already" he said while looking at Momo.
"Oh oh…" said Momo while looking at the paper in Kenjirou's hand.
"See… I think we already talked about historical characters not having power levels…"
"Hehehe… I just didn't know what to write again…" said Momo while sticking out her tongue.
"Come with me already… we are going to have a look at the supplementary lessons you will be taking if you don't get a high score on your next test…" said Kenjirou.
"Ahhhh… not again…" said Momo while sighing.
Shintaro then went to his classroom. Ayano was waiting there for him. They started talking like always, mostly her just telling him about movies she had seen the day before and about how she tried the Azami program but some things didn't really work yet. She also told him about how she needed to study more for the upcoming tests.
"So yeah with all of the things lately I had forgotten that we promised to study together… hehe" said Ayano while looking at Shintaro.
"Yeah… we should meet for a whole day to study for the tests I guess…" said Shintaro while looking at the tests dates.
"R-Really? That would be nice…" said Ayano while pulling her scarf to her face.
"Yeah… how about the day we are going to practice with Seto, though we don't even know if we are going to win the festival's first place though…" said Shintaro.
"We are going to win I am sure! If it is with you I know we can win Shintaro-kun, you are a genius after all in all subjects… not like me"
"Not in sports though…"
"Hehe I guess that is true you are pretty clumsy at sports…"
"S-Shut up… idiot…"
"But you yourself said it though" said Ayano while laughing a little.
"Yeah I know…" said Shintaro while laughing a little too.
"By the way Kido said she would to the movies too, so we are four already, it is a little far away like Momo-chan said so I maybe I should make some things to eat there"
"Yeah that would be nice too…"
"It is a really nice place though; did you know they are having a little festival right next to the cinema?"
"What… really?"
"Yes! Let's go see it after the movie ends, okay?"
"O-Okay…" said Shintaro while looking at Ayano.
Shintaro felt a little excited about going to the movies with Ayano, he didn't know why though, even though they saw each other every day, even more now that they met on weekends for the science project and the gaming tournament, and also the sports practice now, this felt a little different from that, more like a date, though Momo and Kido were going to be there too so it wasn't really much a date, he was still happy though, lately he didn't dislike being with Momo, he thought it was all thanks to Ayano.
Classes were over already and they headed to the club room to practice for the tournament, they now called it that though it was just Takane and Haruka's usual classroom.
After practicing a while they decided to try out the Azami program again since Shintaro had worked on it a lot the day before, so they used Haruka's laptop.
"Okay so… what do I do?" asked Takane.
"Uhmmm you could try some of the new features" said Shintaro.
"Okay… this one… create desktop wallpaper… with users favourite images and blue design!" said Takane while she chose all of the options available.
"Ah!" Haruka looked a little nervous.
An image of Takane dressed as her character for the tournament appeared on the background of the computer as the wallpaper, it had a design pretty nice made by Azami so that it wouldn't bother the user blocking the view of the icons like normal wallpapers. Everyone was more surprised because of the picture though.
"I ahh… it's for the tournament I mean…"
"Delete Azami! Delete! Delete the wallpaper…" said Takane while blushing really hard.
"Expand the wallpaper master Takane?" asked the computer program.
"What!? No delete it!" said Takane while clicking an option.
"Searching for images with similar names… 30 images found, would you like to use them for the wallpaper, master Takane?"
"What? 30? No just… agh close this freaking thing" Takane was covering her face, so was Haruka.
"Seems like the program is failing a little, well this was pretty useful as a test though" said Shintaro.
"Useful my ass…" said Takane while still covering her face.
Shintaro closed the program, and then Haruka started talking.
"T-Those were for… you know… to have an image of everyone in their costumes…" said Haruka.
"Haruka-san really likes Takane-chan in her tournament clothes hehe" said Ayano while looking at Shintaro.
"Y-Yeah I guess so…" answered the boy.
"The feature about teaching is working a lot better though!" said Haruka with a smile.
"Yeah it is pretty good I could understand everything" said Takane.
"That is so cool, so it should work for the festival, with this I am sure we can win, right Shintaro-kun?" said Ayano while looking at the boy with a happy face.
"Y-Yeah maybe… but it has to be perfect for next Friday though, it is not that much time if we are also studying for tests" answered the boy.
"Well I guess you are right… but still even if we don't manage to win it is not a bad thing, just take it easy okay? I don't want you to overwork yourself okay" said Ayano while grabbing his arm.
"I-I want you to improve your grades though… I promised you…so we need to win" said Shintaro while he started to blush a little.
"T-Thanks…" Ayano started blushing a little too.
"Oh for the love of god… you two why don't you just kiss already while you are at it?" asked Takane while looking at the two of them.
"T-Takane that is a little…" said Ayano while pulling her scarf up to her face like always.
"Just kidding I know… I know…you are not a couple blablabla" said Takane.
"By the way Haruka-san… when did you take pictures of Takane with her costume?" asked Ayano.
"They must have taken pictures of each other, together here" said Shintaro.
"Wha- How do you know that?"
"Because you have a picture of Haruka with his costume on your cellphone I saw it while you were showing me a video of a new shooter on your cellphone on lunch break" said Shintaro.
"I-Idiot don't say that I-I… you…" said Takane.
"Hahaha… yeah actually we took pictures of each other to see how we looked since we don't have a mirror here…" said Haruka while blushing.
"Ohhh… but you kept them to look at your beloved one at all times, right?" said Momo.
"Momo-chan, when did you arrive here!?" asked Takane surprised.
"Just now, I came to get oni-chan!" answered Momo.
"You done with your extra lessons?" asked Shintaro.
"Yep! All done for today at least… next week I have more for the tests though" answered Momo with a tired face.
"Yeah let's just go home for today" said Shintaro.
After they said goodbye to everyone else they went home. On the way home Momo told Shintaro about the movie they were going to watch, she also asked him if he could make Azami help her with her studies but instead of that he said that he would help her, since that would be easier than programming more things in Azami.
"So oni-chan, you are gonna help me study?" asked Momo.
"Yeah it would be troublesome waiting for you every day if you have supplementary lessons every day of the week" answered the boy.
"Yeah I guess so…"
Both of them arrived home, Momo was pretty happy about going to finally watch her movie. They played some games in Shintaro's room and Momo went to sleep pretty early to be prepared for tomorrow and have a lot of energy for the trip since it was a little far.
Shintaro went to bed after working a little on Azami. He fixed the problem that appeared during the accident with the wallpaper of Haruka's laptop.
That night Shintaro had a continuation of a dream he had before. It was about the online RPG, though he was not trapped with Ayano anymore, he was with Momo now and they had to go on another adventure on another online RPG game, only this time to save Takane.
It was finally Friday. Shintaro woke up and went to school. He felt a little sleepy because he had a hard time falling asleep the day before. It was a really cold day, colder than the other ones. For some reason Shintaro could not stop thinking about Ayano hugging him, all of the times they hugged had been so unique for him, like it was a new thing every single time, the warmth he felt when she was embracing him, the calmness and how relaxed and happy he felt, it was something that would really fit in a cold day like this too. He also thought about the promise she made him make about hugging her every day if she reached the final of the tournament.
("Idiot I would do it without you winning or anything you just had to ask and done…")
Shintaro started blushing a little, good thing he had a scarf today too to cover his face.
They spent the whole day like any other normal day, listening in class, eating lunch together now with Momo too though since she said she didn't have any friends in her class and she didn't want to eat alone, so it was Ayano's idea that from now on she would eat with them.
When it was already afternoon they went outside of school and said goodbye to Haruka and Takane that were going together to buy some new game that came out recently and Takane really wanted to play. Kido was waiting at the entrance for the rest.
"This is my sister Tsubomi-chan, this is Momo-chan, Shintaro's sister" said Ayano while introducing each other.
"H-Hi…" said Kido while looking down at the floor.
"H-HEY! I'm Momo… you ahh… like the movie we are going to watch?" asked Momo a little nervous.
"Y-Yeah I really like ninjas…" said Kido a little shyly.
"Yeah! Me too! They can hide like freaking crazy and not get spotted like bwaaahh" said Momo all excited about the movie.
"Y-Yes but also they are really strong too with their abilities…" said Kido.
"Hehe they are getting along so well…" said Ayano while looking at Shintaro.
"Y-Yeah…" said Shintaro with his usual cold expression.
They decided to go on train since it was more comfortable and it would leave them pretty close to the place they had to go, the cinema and the festival were pretty close to one of the stations, and also it was Ayano that said they should do something different once in a while and riding a train wasn't something they usually got to do together.
They sat down to wait for the train. A couple sat down near them.
"S-So Shintaro-kun h-have you gone to a festival with friends before?" asked Ayano.
"N-no… never… only with Momo when we were little... why?" answered the boy.
"N-no reason… I think riding a train was a good decision… it feels so elegant, don't you think so!?" asked Ayano.
"Yeah I guess so…" answered Shintaro not looking so sure.
"Hey Isaac, they are talking about adventures in trains aren't they?" said the blonde girl that was sitting near them.
"Yeah Miria, we sure do know about that right?" said the guy that was sitting with the blond girl.
"A lot about it indeed!" said the girl.
"But I didn't expect people here to also like trains that much too!" said the guy with cowboy clothes.
"It's a culture shock!" said the blonde girl.
"Are you riding the train too?" asked Ayano to the couple sitting near them.
"Yes we are! We are experts at this already!" said the guy while looking at them.
"Experts already!" said the girl right after him.
"Just be careful about… rail tracer!" shouted the guy while making a scary face.
"Rail tracer!" shouted the girl right after him.
"R-Rail tracer?" asked Ayano.
"It is a monster that attacks trains… we were once in a train and it appeared! We are lucky we survived!" said the guy while closing his eyes.
"Very lucky!" said the girl while imitating his expression.
"M-M-Monster?" asked Ayano now a little scared.
"Yes… and it is unstoppable, well lets go Miria the train arrived already, see you guys again! "Said the guy in cowboy clothes.
"See you!" said the girl in the red dress.
"W-What were they talking about…" said Kido a little scared too.
"J-Just some nonsense I guess…" said Momo trying to reassure Kido that monsters didn't exist, but also pretty scared.
"They must be some crazy people… anyway, let's just go already" said Shintaro while standing up.
While they were already inside the train Ayano started looking outside of the train pretty nervously.
"Hey, don't tell me, are you scared?" asked Shintaro while looking at her.
"W-What! N-No I'm totally fi-" The train made a weird noise and Ayano buried her face on Shintaro's chest.
"WHAT! What was that!" she said while still holding onto Shintaro.
"N-Nothing… it was just a noise…" said Shintaro while looking at the other two girls, they were hugging too, seems that the scary story got to them too.
("Ahhh… this is going to be a long trip like this… not that I mind though… she is so close she feels so warm too…")
"S-Shintaro-kun… do you… remember our promise?" asked Ayano while still hugging him.
"A-About reaching the final?" answered the boy almost instantly.
"Yeah… I… do you not like it?"
"What… the promise?"
"Yeah… does it bother you?"
"N-No… I don't mind…I mean it is fine…"
"Haha I'm glad… I really like being like this after all… I feel like I can tell you everything I feel if we are like this… I feel so happy…"
"Y-Yeah me too…" said the boy while blushing really hard.
"You know we are still here right?" said Momo while looking at the two of them.
Kido was still hugging Momo though. She seemed to still be a little scared.
"Ah! Momo-chan… please forget that… hehe we will buy you some ice cream again…"
"Yay okay" answered Momo cheerfully.
"H-Hey look we arrived" said Kido while looking outside. It wasn't that long of a trip in the end.
The four of them went to the cinema and bought the tickets right away. They waited for the movie to start, Ayano sat down next to Shintaro and Momo and Kido were going to seat next to them too but somehow they ended up way father up front, it seems like they sneaked up in the last moment.
"W-Why did they go there?" asked Ayano a little confused. She received a text message from Kido.
-Go for it, now is your chance, do your best-
("Ahhh Tsubomiiii-chan… you are acting like mom now!") Ayano showed the message to Shintaro.
"Well we will just regroup when the movie ends…" said Shintaro while sitting down.
The movie started and the whole place got darker.
("C-could I hold his hand… ca-can I do it…?") Thought Ayano while looking down.
("Maybe we could… hold hands… ah dammit here goes…") Ayano tried to hold Shintaro's hand but forgot a can of soda was near his hand and knocked it over.
"Agh… cold…" said Shintaro with a low voice as the soda spilled all over his knee.
"Ahhh… sorry Shintaro-kun…" Ayano extended her hand with a handkerchief to wipe out the soda of his knee. She ended up grabbing his hand with the handkerchief instead.
"Ah! S-Sorry…I…" said Ayano nervously.
Shintaro showed Ayano his cellphone; he decided to type the message to not bother the other people watching the movie.
-N-no yeah I…I was trying to see how big the stain was…-
-Y-Yeah… sorry about the soda…haha we are so awkward getting so worked up about grabbing hands right?-
-Yeah…-
-This feels like those times we text each other, at night or things like that, but now you are so close it just makes me happy that we are not far apart…it is like a cellphone with a new app to be able to be together… I'm just talking nonsense now… I am kind of nervous… can we hold hands?-
("Whoa… whoa whoa whoa whoa… I just wrote that!? What… why did I write that? Oh god he must be thinking I am so weird…")
Ayano felt Shintaro's hand touching hers, it wasn't that much like a couple would hold hands, but she could still feel his hand touching hers. He was looking the other way though.
Ayano looked at the cellphone.
-Idiot…-
("Hehe… you are so cute when you are embarrassed Shintaro-kun…")
Ayano held Shintaro's hand tightly as she closed her eyes. She was really enjoying that moment.
"Hey the movie ended… lets go" said Shintaro as he was getting up.
"Ah…okay lets go meet the others" Ayano was suddenly a little nervous while talking to him.
The four of them met outside of the cinema. Kido and Momo looked at them and laughed a little at first, they then said they should go right away to the festival.
"Let's go I wanna buy some things to commemorate this trip!" said Momo while smiling.
"Y-Yeah let's go" said Shintaro while looking at her.
"Do you want to eat some takoyaki Kido-chan?" asked Momo.
"Y-Yeah I would like some…" answered Kido.
"Hey that sounds good let's go eat some Shintaro-kun" said Ayano while pointing to the guy that was selling it at the festival's entrance. They went to the shop that was selling it and bought some for the four of them.
"Here, for the two little girls and for the lovely couple!" said the guy selling the takoyaki.
"Ahaha we are not a couple though…" said Ayano.
"R-Really? You really look like one though… well have a nice day" answered the guy looking a little confused.
"W-why did he look so confused I wonder…" said Ayano while looking at the shop after they sat down to eat.
"Maybe because people who hold hands usually are couples I guess…" said Momo while pointing at their hands, they had been still holding hands since they left the cinema.
"Eh? Ehhhhh?" Ayano looked at her own hand while she was still holding Shintaro's hand, she started blushing harder than ever.
"Ah! Momo why didn't you say anything!" said Shintaro while looking at his sister.
"I thought you guys were doing it on purpose how was I supposed to know you didn't notice!"
"Pffft…" Kido couldn't help but laugh a little about the whole situation.
"Ah I…I… I'm gonna check that store!" Ayano said as she ran off to a store nearby with a lot of people, there was a really big crowd.
"Ah Nee-san wait…" Kido and Momo chased after Ayano.
"Ah guys we shouldn't get separated it could be hard to-"
A really big crowd appeared in front of Shintaro all of a sudden. It was impossible for him to see the girls anymore anywhere around the place. He started walking and wandering around looking for them but couldn't find them so he just sat down on a bench where a girl with long hair was sitting while looking in every direction every once in a while.
"Ahhh what am I gonna do… I wonder where they could be…" said Shintaro while sighing.
"Are you looking for someone too?" asked the girl with long hair.
"Ah…eh….yeah…" answered Shintaro. It was a really beautiful girl he thought to himself. She had purple eyes, it was not something you would see very often, but she was really, really beautiful.
"Did you get separated too?" asked the girl with purple eyes.
"Ah…yeah… you too?" said Shintaro as he felt more comfortable talking with her.
"Yes, I got separated from a friend I was with because of the crowd… how about we search together for our companions?" said the girl while looking at him.
"O-Okay…" said Shintaro looking a little surprised.
"My name is Chitanda, Chitanda Eru!" said the girl with purple eyes.
"I-I'm Kisaragi Shintaro" replied Shintaro right away.
"Nice to meet you Shintaro-san!"
"Y-Yeah same here I guess…"
"Well then let's go look for our friends!" said the girl as she grabbed Shintaro by the arm and dragged him along all the way until they reached the end of one of the sections of the festival.
For some reason Shintaro felt really similar as to how he felt with Ayano, with her dragging him along to every place she wanted to go or to something she wanted to do.
"Ah sorry, I just felt like you were kind of similar to my friend so I just dragged you along!" said the girl while looking at him.
"Ah n-no it's fine…" Shintaro was getting a little nervous.
"Master, I have found the others, their cellphones have reception again" Azami's voice could be heard from Shintaro's pocket.
Shintaro had made a portable version of Azami so that he didn't have to do some things like calling with his phone every time until Momo just answered so like in this case it would tell him when she had signal, only this time it was actually pretty useful and not just being lazy.
"Whoa, what was that! Can you show me? I-I'm curious!" asked the girl while looking at him.
"I-It's just a program I made for a science festival…" answered Shintaro while blushing.
"That is so incredible!" said the girl.
"T-Thanks" said Shintaro.
Suddenly a crowd started to gather somewhere pretty quickly, they could notice because everyone was going in the same direction.
("Could it be Momo?")
"Hey why don't we go there too maybe our friends are there too!" said Chitanda.
"Y-Yeah" answered Shintaro.
"Ah! But first let's exchange phone numbers, we could talk and even become friends, I'm really curious about that program you made it is so cool"
"Ah? Eh… o-okay…" Shintaro could only agree to the proposal right away, he was really nervous because every time she said she was curious, her eyes felt like they were sparkling in a way he had never seen before.
"Okay let's go!" Chitanda grabbed Shintaro's arm and dragged him to where the crowd was.
There was a little stage and Momo was on it singing a song Shintaro had heard before. He then saw that Kido was going to sing a song too.
"Go Kido you can do it!" It was Ayano that was shouting, trying to encourage Kido to sing.
"Ah! That's who I'm looking for" said Shintaro while pointing to Ayano.
"Ahahah and that bored looking boy with her is my friend that I'm looking for!" said Chitanda.
"R-Really?"
"Yes, what a coincidence isn't it?"
"Y-Yes a great one actually, they must have been in the same situation like us in the end"
"Yeah, but we finally found them Shintaro-san"
"Yeah" They both went to where the other two were standing and called out to them from a distance.
"Oh, Shintaro-kun! Where were you?" asked Ayano as she came close to him.
"Oreki-san!" said Chitanda while looking at the boy that was with Ayano.
"Ah, Chitanda, where were you?"
"Eh? I was with you all the time and then suddenly you were gone, then I met a new friend and started searching for you and now I found you, seems like you were with his friend too"
"Oh, is that so…" the boy looked bored with the same expression, was he really bored though, Shintaro couldn't really tell, he just thought that they could be really good friends if they met and talked sometime, he felt they were alike somehow.
"Anyway let's go already, I'm curious about that store over there!" said Chitanda while looking at the boy with the bored expression.
"It's just a normal store though…" said the boy while looking at the store she pointed at.
"Goodbye Shintaro-san, talk later some other day, okay?" said the girl while waving her hand.
"Huh…yeah… talk some other time I guess…" answered Shintaro.
The boy with the bored expression just waved at Ayano as a goodbye expression, she just waved back too since she didn't have time to say goodbye because they went away so quickly.
"Huh… that was weird… was that Oreki-sans friend?" asked Ayano while looking at Shintaro.
"Y-Yeah I think so" answered Shintaro while looking at the pair going to the store they targeted.
"She was really cute too… were you with her all this time?" asked Ayano while looking at Shintaro.
"Ah? Huh…yeah…" answered Shintaro.
"Hmmmpfff…" Ayano was silent for a moment. She was looking at Shintaro with a kind of sad expression.
"W-What?" asked the boy while she was still looking at him.
"Nothing…" answered Ayano.
"Master shall I save this new number with a specific name or something else besides Chitanda?" said Azami while Shintaro's phone was showing Chitanda's number.
"AH!" Ayano shouted out of nowhere.
"W-What!?" asked Shintaro a little scared.
"N-nothing… you exchanged numbers?" asked Ayano looking a little sad again.
"Y-Yeah" answered Shintaro right away.
"Huhhh…" Ayano was looking a little down.
Kido was singing on the stage that Momo was singing before.
After a round of applause, Kido and Momo got down from the little stage and came back to Shintaro and Ayano, they decided it was time already that they went back to the train station or else it would get too late to be safe traveling back and also they could close the station.
"So what did you think about the boy we meet?" asked Momo to Kido who was eating something.
"He was… nice but a little lazy" responded Kido while giving Momo some of her food.
"Huh, I thought he was cute though" said Momo while taking a bite of what Kido gave her.
"Y-Yeah he was kind of cute, I really like his voice also" commented Kido.
"Right, it was so soothing wasn't it? What did you think Ayano-chan?" asked Momo while looking at Ayano that was sitting right next to Shintaro.
"…"
"Nee-chan?" asked Kido since Ayano didn't answer and was just looking out the window of the train.
"Ah…eh…I… don't know…" she was still quiet.
"Ah…uhmm… oni-chan by the way who was that girl you were with?" asked Momo while trying to lighten up the mood.
"Just someone I met there while looking for you guys" answered Shintaro.
"AND exchanged numbers with…" added Ayano while looking the other way.
"Huh? Y-Yeah… why did you say that part though" said Shintaro while looking at her.
"No reason, just thought I would point it out…" responded Ayano.
"Ah! So you were on the same train Shintaro-san!" Chitanda appeared from the hallway of the train with her friend.
"Hi Oreki-chan!" said Momo while waving her hand with some food.
"Ch-chan?" Oreki looked a bit surprised.
"Hi Oreki-san…" said Kido while looking at her food.
"H-Hi…" The boy said while looking at her.
"Are these the people you were looking for at the festival?" asked Chitanda.
"Y-Yeah" responded Shintaro.
"Ahhhh so sleepy…" Ayano leaned to her side until she was resting on Shintaro's shoulder.
"A-Ayano" said Shintaro a little surprised.
"Ahh… so tired…" Ayano kept leaning to Shintaro's side until she was hugging him and pretending to sleep on his shoulder.
"I see you are busy, we will leave now we are pretty tired too, oh but remember to tell me about that phone app or program you made okay? See you!" said Chitanda as she left with her friend.
"Bye Oreki-chan!" said Momo, who was exchanging numbers with him just before he left.
"Goodbye Oreki-san" said Kido while looking at the boy leave.
"Ah… yeah goodbye" said the boy as he left with his friend.
"A-Ayano are you okay?" asked Shintaro since he thought she was so exhausted.
"Zzzzzzz" Ayano wasn't answering and was just sleeping, or at least pretending to do so, while hugging Shintaro.
"Maybe we should do the same, oni-chan you take care of us and pay attention to when we get to our station okay?" said Momo as she leaned against Kido.
"M-Momo-chan…" said Kido while looking at Momo, she seemed a little embarrassed about them being so close.
"Hehe so sleepy…" said Momo as she hugged Kido, who didn't resist Momo's hug and also started to get comfortable to rest a little.
"H-Hey why am I the only one who has to stay awake I'm tired too…" said Shintaro but no one answered, it seems like the two girls had actually fallen asleep pretty fast, and Ayano was still not saying anything.
"H-Hey Ayano say something" said Shintaro while looking at the girl.
"Zzzzz" She only responded by hugging him tighter.
"Ahhh… what's up with this…" said Shintaro with a low voice.
When they arrived at their station Shintaro woke everyone up, Ayano quickly got up so Shintaro guessed she was just pretending to sleep after all like he thought at the beginning but didn't know why she did pretend to sleep in the first place, the other girls were really sleepy so Ayano took Kido's hand to take her home and Shintaro carried Momo on his back all the way home while she was still sleepy.
When he got home he said hi to his mom and explained why Momo was so sleepy, she helped him to get her to her bed, she was pretty exhausted after the trip after all, she had had a pretty exhausting week with the supplementary lessons so she must have had accumulated exhaustion.
Shintaro went to bed after working a little on Azami's program, and then he played an RPG he liked but for some reason couldn't concentrate like usual, maybe it was because of what happened on the train with Ayano, he didn't know for sure right now though so he just went to sleep after playing for like half an hour.
He then got a text message. It was from Ayano.
-What a nice festival it was, I really loved it, see each other tomorrow? =P-
He then thought maybe it was just his imagination that she was weird on the train.
-Yeah, see you tomorrow; let's try to study a lot so that we can advance some significant amount-
-Okay, seems good to me, I'll be waiting for you, how about, outside of school?-
-Okay, I guess at 11 in the morning would be nice-
-Okay =D also thanks for taking care of me on the way back, was I too heavy?-
-No it was fine, you are really light, I think I already told you that though-
-Yeah you did, thanks Shintaro-kun, see you tomorrow =P-
-Yeah, okay see you tomorrow-
("I guess it's fine then… ah well I'm really tired so I'm just gonna go to sleep")
"Ahhh what a tiring day, I'm exhausted…" Shintaro let out a sigh and went to bed after drinking a can of soda and brushing his teeth, he fell asleep almost right away.
Ayano was just laying on her bed under the sheets but couldn't fall asleep.
"She was really cute and beautiful… ahhhh come on forget about it already… Shintaro-kun…"
"Ahhh what is up with me today and I also acted so weird on the way back on the train…" Ayano started blushing as she remembered when she was hugging Shintaro and pretending to sleep.
"Just… just sleep already Ayano you can do it come on!" said Ayano as if trying to encourage herself.
That night Ayano had a dream about Shintaro. It was a dream where Shintaro was a secret service agent and he would always be with her taking care of her, and she would always tell him that it wasn't necessary to take so much care of her but he would refuse and still follow her around all day unless she told him not to, he would simply not disobey and order from her, also he could transform into a semi-fox kind of thing, she thought it was really cool, he also had a lot of photos of her on his phone, although he didn't hide them from her, it seemed he was kind of obsessed with taking care of her and was also in love, she was also in love with him though, and she also had a lot of photos of him, but in her case she wouldn't tell him, until one day he saw her cellphone by mistake, she was really embarrassed but at the moment he was getting closer to her, face to face almost as if they could hear each other's breathing, she woke up.
It was Kano. It seems he wanted to play with Ayano first thing in the morning. She got up and started her day like usual, only a little embarrassed about the dream she had had, she couldn't help but blush a little while she made breakfast before going to see Shintaro.
She thought it would be nice to spend the whole day with him again like last weekend.
I really loved writing this chapter because of the characters, i love chitanda and oreki hehe xP i hope you enjoyed it thanks for reading, sayonara
until next chapter =P