Sorry for the long wait, everybody. It took a while, but my B-Level exams are finally over. I even managed to be in the top quarter of the class, YAY. Anyways, now that I have time again, you can expect more of these oneshots to appear. Also, please don't mind making requests of all kinds of things. I'm eager to try out everything and I'm sure you guys can think of stuff that I never would have dreamed of. As for CutiePie1998, this is the AikoxLeon fic you requested, so please review and tell me if this is to your likings.

Title: 69 Annoyance
Characters: Aiko; Leon
Genre: Friendship, Comedy, Romance
Rating: K+, although it might be T

"I challenge you!"

He just suddenly jumped in front of her. Had he actually been waiting until she left the house? Nah, no way he would do such a thing. That would make him a stalker. Coming to think of it … maybe it wasn't that ridiculous after all. Aiko sweatdropped. There was no way she would take on his challenge. Or rather, he had chosen the worst time to challenge her. After all, it was seven in the morning and the blue haired had neither the time nor the patience to put with a wannabe sports star like him.

"Get lost", she simply said and walked on, leaving the blond boy standing where he was.

It was clear that Leon wouldn't let her pass just like that, but hey, one could still hope, right? So when he caught up to her and almost threw the basketball into her face, she simply sighed and rubbed her temples. Every day. Why did he have to do that every single day? Didn't he ever learn? No matter how often he challenged her, nothing would change. He would always be the loser, she would always be the winner. So what kept him going?

"What's wrong Ai-chan? Are you going to chicken out because you know you can't beat me?"

Usually, that would have been enough to get her to take the challenge, but seriously, it was Saturday and it was seven in the morning. As if it wasn't bad enough that she had to get up this early on a Saturday, to deal with him was something she did not have the strength for. So she simply took the ball and slammed it right into his face, hard enough to knock him out for the next few hours.

"I toldya to get lost, didn't I?" she simply said and went on.

There was hardly anybody on the streets. Of course there wasn't. It was too early. But Aiko had no time to spare. She had to keep going. She didn't even pay attention to all the parts of Misora she shared memories with. It was too early to even think. Maybe she would have been halfway awake if her father had been home, but he had to pull the nightshift, so he was still fast asleep and he would stay this way for the next few hours. But that was okay. Aiko knew how to take care of herself, one of few ups of being the daughter of a taxi-driver.

"I challenge you, Ai-chan!"

Not again. Did that guy even know what 'giving up' means? Since his voice came from behind, Aiko turned to him after letting go of a very, very deep sigh. This time, he was holding two badminton rackets in his hand. It was quarter past seven, he had been knocked out once already and he was still wearing that stupid grin on his face. What kind of freak was he? Still, she had to give him credits for recovering that fast. His face did seem a bit flatter, though. Somehow, seeing that satisfied the sports girl.

"I ain't got time for ya today", Aiko sighed.

"Don't talk nonsense. You always need to have time for your biggest rival", Leon grinned.

Aiko sweatdropped again. Since when had the two of them been rivals? It was usually him challenging her and her beating him into a pulp. What part of that was rivalry? One of the girl's eyes twitched. Trying her best not let loose her temper, she walked to the boy in front of her, took one of the rackets and slammed it over his head, knocking him out in the process again.

"And this time; stay down", she growled.

She walked on. The closer she came to her destination, the more people she saw. That wasn't surprising, seeing that her destination was the Misora Central Station. It was always pretty busy there. To her, it was familiar. She was here so often, whether it was because she was travelling herself or because she was picking someone up. Everything here was so familiar that she didn't have to look for the time her train would depart; she already knew. It was only half past seven, so there was still some time left. A hot chocolate would be just right. Although it was almost summertime, the mornings were still rather chilly. Maybe she would get herself something to eat as well. She couldn't eat her bento yet. After all, she had made it especially for later.

"I challenge you!"

Okay, now it was getting ridiculous. In only a half an hour, he had challenged her twice and had been knocked out twice and yet he was challenging her again. That guy really didn't know how to take care of himself. Didn't he know that he would just get knocked out again? Aiko rubbed her temples before looking at him. He had a bump on his head and his face still seemed a bit flat. But he was grinning and his foot was resting on a rather small soccer ball.

"This is the perfect place for street soccer", Leon explained. "It's about running around all kinds of obstacles and trying not get the ball taken away."

"No thanks", Aiko said annoyed.

"Aww, come on, Ai-chan. I even went through the trouble of following you here."

That's exactly where the problem was. He was following her everywhere, challenging him in every sport at every time. He always lost, but he kept coming back. It didn't matter what she did to him or how badly she injured him, he was always coming at her. Why couldn't he just leave her alone? What did she have to do to get rid of that annoyance?

"Ai-chan. Hey, Ai-chan."

'Ai-chan' was seriously ticked now. Before Leon even knew what had happened, she had stolen the ball from under his foot and slammed it against his head. He staggered for a few moments before he collapsed again. Another bump appeared on his forehead. The blue haired sighed again and went to buy some hot chocolate and some mamedaifuku, leaving the blonde wizard lying where he was. She didn't even mind all the scared and curious looks she got from passerby's. For some reason, though, nobody seemed to mind the passed out blonde.

"Serves ya right", Aiko muttered.

A half an hour later, the train departed. Aiko finally allowed herself to rest and sat down at the window. There weren't many people, so there was enough space. For the first time this day, Aiko smiled a small smile. In only two hours she would be at her destination. She could wait that long. Today was going to be a good day. Everything was going to be perfect.

Suddenly feeling a chill, Aiko looked around. No, he wasn't here. There was no way he could be. She had knocked him out thrice and he was still knocked out when she had entered the train. There was no point in worrying about it, so she forced herself to relax. It worked.

"There ain't no way he'd be here", she whispered to herself and leaned against the window.

"Ai-chan, I challenge you!"

"Ya have got ta be kidding me", Ai moaned in annoyance.

He was standing in the middle of the hallway this time and he didn't have any equipment with him. His face was still a bit flat and there were two bumps on his head, but he was still grinning. Why? Why was she being punished like that? What did it take to get that guy to give up?

"Well, Ai-chan? You versus me, the one who wins is the better one."

"We're on a train, ya thickheaded idiot. What could we possibly be doin' here?"

Leon's grin got even bigger. "Hehe! Can't you see? This is the perfect place to be parcouring!"

This was a bad dream, this was a bad dream, this was a bad dream. In reality, she was still at home, sleeping. She was not sitting in a train, being challenged by the biggest annoyance of her life to be parcouring in it. No, something like that couldn't be possible.

"Well, Ai-chan? What do you say? Are you gonna accept my challenge?"

"STOP JOKING AROUND!" Aiko yelled and kicked the blonde wizard head, knocking him out again.

"Seriously", she huffed before sitting back down.

She tried to pout and just forget that he was here. The thing she would love to do most right now was to just throw him out of the window, but he was too heavy and she would have to use magic for that, so that wasn't going to happen. No, the best thing would be to just keep him lying where he was.

But then why was it that her eyes kept darting back to the boy lying so pitifully beat up on the floor. Aiko really did try her best to just ignore him, forget that he had ever existed. That would definitely be the best thing to do. If only she could.

"This really sucks", the girl growled from the bottom of her lungs.

Still, she stood up, walked to the wizard and pulled him on the seat next to the one she was sitting. She even allowed him to rest his head on her lap. Really, why was she being so kind? It wasn't like he deserved it or anything it definitely wasn't because she liked him. He was just too pitiful to watch, that was all there was to it. He was just a huge annoyance that she would love to kick back to the world he came from. The only problem was to make sure he'd stay there.

Aiko forced herself not to look down at him when he stirred. There was no reason she should. She didn't care about him after all. It was enough to watch him from the corner of her eyes when he opened his own. Aiko looked out the window again. He was going to be fine, so there was no longer a point in watching him. But if he was awake, then why didn't he move it? Having that guy lay on her lap was really just annoying.

She looked at him one more time only to see him staring back at her. There was no grin on his face this time, not even a smile. The expression on his face was serious, if only a little bit curious. Again, Aiko shifter her gaze back to the window. With time, the feeling of his stare became more and more intense, which actually caused her to blush. It was the low chuckle that followed which made her snap.

"What's so funny?" she asked grumpily.

"You're actually pretty cute when you blush", was the answer she got.

That only made her blush even more, but it also angered her even more. She had better not say anything now or she would completely explode. So she fixed her gaze on the view outside the window, determined to completely ignore the young wizard resting on her lap. Only, doing that would have been a lot easier if he hadn't started poking into her cheek.

He poked once.

He poked twice.

Poke. Poke. Poke.

"WILL YA STOP THAT ALREADY?" Aiko yelled.

Leon only blinked. "But it's fun."

"Is that the reason why ya keep pestering me with yer challenges? 'Cause it's fun? Yer annoying the living daylights outta me, ya'know! I'm neither yer rival nor yer friend. I can't even stand'ya."

There was a long silence after that. Aiko looked back out the window and Leon gaze at the ceiling, not even thinking about moving from his position. She didn't ask him, either. By now, she didn't really care what he doing anymore anyways.

"There's a reason I wanna win so badly against you", the blonde suddenly said.

Aiko looked back at him and crooked an eyebrow.

"If I can't defeat you, I feel like I'm not worthy of being close to you. But I really want to be close to you, so the only thing I can do is to keep challenging you."

Again, the blue haired blushed a bit. "That's a stupid reason", she said. "If that's really how ya feel, then you should train more instead of challenging me all the time."

"I've tried doing that, but whenever I train on my own, I can't concentrate because I keep thinking of how great it would be not to feel unworthy anymore."

Shit. She couldn't really say anything against that. Now what?

"Fine", she huffed. "I get it already. But today and tomorrow, I wanna spend precious time with my mother, so don't bother me with yer stupid challenges until I'm back in Misora."

Leon blinked at her perplexed for a few seconds, before a huge grin made its way on his face.

"B'sides", Aiko went on, "There's hardly anybody out there who can keep up with me as good as you do, so there's really no reason to feel unworthy. It's nonsense. Ya can be my friend even if ya don't manage to defeat me."

"Ai-chan…"

Tears welled up in Leon's eyes as he looked up at the blue haired sports girl. She was always acting tough, be she could be so kind as well. It made him admire her even more. Finally, he moved from his position and hugged her tightly, letting his tears flow freely.

"Ai-chan", he cried. "You're so kind, Ai-chan, so nice …"

Although clearly annoyed and definitely not pleased, she let the wizard do as he wished, blushing just a tiny bit t the close contact. She would never admit it, but beside from being an idiot, he also had guts and she admired that. Now if only he would stop pouring his tears all over her.

"So annoying", she growled.