AN: Just in case you don't know.

Senpai - upperclassman/upperclasswoman/senior

Kouhai - underclassman/underclasswoman/junior/freshman/basically a younger student lol

Bento - a lunched box

It was another morning yet again! Students were either just waking up, dragging their shoes to school or crying a little inside. Well, except for one side pony tailed blonde, although it was never evident on her face, she was ecstatic! Why? Oh everyone will see why, alright. Neru adjusted her book bag that was between her armpit as she walked along the school hallways en route to their classroom, everything seemed to be normal.

But it wasn't.

Neru knew that Miku and Miki were tailing her from behind, but she wasn't going be a dumbo this time. She let them think that they had her fooled and walked inside the classroom. Her classmates looked at her when she hid beside the door and unzipped her bag, taking out her weapon for the day.

Behold!

An air horn!

Everyone already knew what she was planning, and so they waited to see the scene unfold with excitement burning the edge of their butt.

Neru's weapon was already on stand by ready. She only needed to wait for the victims, and as if on cue, the two idiots walked through the door with—ironically—an impish look on their faces. The blonde smirked when the two finally noticed her and widened their eyes. With that, the spectators cupped their hands over their ears before Neru pressed the horn.

Eliciting a loud yet fortunately short, honker.

Miku and Miki shrieked so high, that it almost freaking outdid the damn airhorn.

Still everyone laughed, including Neru who had that haughty look on her face that conspicuously said, who was laughing now! Definitely not them as the pranksters of class 2 - A had been outsmarted! Revenge was a sweet thing, it made Neru grin proudly at her work. After all, it was as satisfying as letting out a long huge fart without anyone nearby!

Soon Miku and Miki began to laugh along, finding humor with their own reactions as well. Not that they could anything about it now, they were such good sports. Though that actually legitimately freaked them out for a second there, the thing was so loud that they thought their hearts were going to burst out of their chests!

They shook their head and took a deep breath, that was a good one—they had to give it to Neru. Soon the two sports curled their lips into a naughty grin, directing it to the perpretrator for the day who looked unfazed. Uh oh, this only meant more trouble was going to happen in the future.

"You know we'll get you for this," Miku crossed her arms, a mischievous glint in her sparkling teal eyes.

Miki was the same.

Neru huffed and answered provocatively, "Try me."

The class was like, ooooooooohhhh!

Was this another competition they were seeing right now? Once again between classmates in their now well-known class? Gumi looked at them in awe as well, unable to really intervene since the three were looking at each other so intensely. But it was moderate unlike the rivalry between Miku and Luka—which was on a whole new different level. This seemed a little scoop worthy though.

Yes, Gumi was also a part of the newspaper club, apparently she actually had a thing with words.

The three held their gazes for a minute until the bell rang, immediately the atmosphere lightened as the three laughed it off with a shake of their heads before going back to their seats.

"Though we'll still get you one day!" Miki added with her index finger pointing to the amused blonde before sitting on her seat, a coy smile on her face.

When the shenanigans were over, Luka actually found herself chuckling slightly at their antics, somehow she was unknowingly beginning to warm up to her class. Miku was walking back to her desk which was right next to the girl, she had a quirk on her lips when inadvertently, their eyes met. They stared at each other for a while, until the teal haired girl gave her a weird gentle smile that it made Luka avert her gaze with a blink of her eyes.

She faced her head away from Miku, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion on the conflicting feelings that was bubbling up inside her.. being. She couldn't quite pinpoint where it was coming from yet, but to be honest, it felt like it was coming from all over.

What the hell.

"What's up with her.." her voice was inaudible and was directed mostly to herself, muddled on what just happened.

Not a minute later, their homeroom teacher Kamui Gakupo came into the classroom, when he settled before the teacher's desk Gumi took that as the cue for her to lead the greeting as usual. Typical duty of the class representative, which in all honesty, was just a position thrown onto her because no one else wanted to do it.

She learned to cope with it anyway.

She stood up from her seat, "Rise."

The rest of the class stood as well.

"Bow," Gumi continued and bowed herself, they did the same.

"Good morning sensei," they all greeted in unison, though a little monotone.

After that they sat back down to their seats, Gakupo nodded at their lack of enthusiasm, he knew that would change the moment he announce the upcoming big event that some of them had probably forgotten about due to all these hot student topics. He even noted the newspaper club doing really well lately.

"You all haven't forgotten about the upcoming Sports Day this Friday, haven't you?" he started, catching majority of them off guard. Even the famous duo, they had actually forgotten about—probably—the biggest highlight of their rivalry ever, their teacher sweat dropped, "Well, I'm here to remind you that it's going to be three days from now on. Be glad that Yamaha Academy doesn't require second years to prepare a dance for the event. The seniors and the freshmen have that covered."

His students made delighted noises at what he said, at least they wouldn't stay in school until dawn to practice their butts off!

"As tradition, it's going to be Red vs. White, does anyone know why?" he turned to his class, Miki raised her hand giddily. He gestured for her to stand up.

She stood up to answer, "Because it's the flag colors to our country!"

Miki sat back down when Gakupo nodded at her answer.

"Correct," he noted with a smile on his face, "The faculty will post which team you are all assigned on the bulletin tomorrow, so stay tuned until then."

Someone else raised her hand, it was Lily who seemed really excited as well, "What are the games going to be, sensei?"

"Well, aside from the usual games and some faculty additions. The clubs seemed to have gathered around and had a meeting—since we don't have a student council yet—they suggested a few interesting games," before anyone could ask, he added, "but you all still have to wait and see."

They all groaned at his cliffhanger attitude today.

"Anyway, since this is going to be the first Sports Day for Yamaha Academy, we should all make the most of it and have fun! Make it memorable for all of us," he urged his students, they seemed to agree with him.

"Okay, sensei!" they all replied enthusiastically, very unlike the way they were just a few minutes ago.

Pleased with their mood, he glanced at his two best students in the class. They had these respective smirks on their faces as they stole glances with each other, he noticed some of his students looking at them too. How could they not? They were the most competitive students—probably in the whole school—ever. Who knew what would happen on the day of the Sports day.

It was exciting.

It was definitely going to be a memorable day.

Definitely.

After that spectacular announcement, lunch was filled with chatters about the upcoming event. Most of them being either the games, Luka and Miku or Miku and Luka. Really, they were that popular it was almost ridiculous. At this point it was a normal thing now.. well—everything would completely be normal if Miku would just stop gnawing on her chopsticks absently like a rabbit. The thing wasn't even food!

Plok.

And look! She was even dropping precious food as she spaced in and out! Did she know that many children never even get the chance to ea—

Okay, Rin will not go there. She sighed exasperatedly, though the fact that she was the only one fretting about this was even more incredulous. She looked around and saw Lily bugging Gumi behind her chair, basically she was pretty much flirting with the class representative, teasing how cute her goggles were—seriously, Lily? Len was dead to the world, and Miki was out buying food that could probably feed a whole orphanage.

She was left to her own devices now.

With another sigh, Rin scratched her head and was about to tap Miku on the shoulder, until the said girl stood up abruptly from her seat as if she had found the cure for cancer. It was so sudden that it actually managed to catch Len's undivided attention from his abused PSP with a startled look on his face. Lily was still more fixated on Gumi's reactions though.

Miku looked around with her chopsticks in hand and lingered her gaze—suspiciously—on Luka's empty desk. She furrowed her brows before she began to pack back her lunch box hurriedly, earning very confused stares from the Kagamine twins.

"I have something very important to do," Miku stressed her words as she was busy fixing her stuff, flashing them a quick toothy grin afterwards before leaving in a rush. Rin was gobsmacked and noted that Miku looked strangely excited for some reason. What was that? She looked at her brother who was as muddled as her, before shrugging and going back to his own gaming bubble.

Lily noticed Miku's speedy exit and only then began to take interest in her group—much to Gumi's relief, the girl wouldn't stop bugging her!

"What was that about?" she asked, amused as she looked at the exasperated Rin.

Rin sighed before leaning on the table and hovered her fingers in a flicking position over the piece of food Miku dropped, "I don't know."

She shot the food up in the air, hitting and embedding itself in Neru's hair who was as oblivious as a toddler inside a toilet trying to flushing himself down. She prevented the snortle that was threatening to come out of her nose by pressing her fingers above the holes of her nose, her face burning in crimson with restrained laughter, she finally continued talking after calming down, "She.. She just said that she had something important to do.."

Lily saw the whole thing and sniggered, fortunately low enough to stay undetected Neru's radar of terror.

Though Rin did recall seeing Miku look at the empty space that was Luka's desk longer than necessary, it was suspicious alright, but she felt like she shouldn't mention it. Whatever their friend was planning right now, somehow she had this inkling that they weren't supposed to meddle this time.

The taller blonde nodded at her answer, she looked at the door where Miku left for a while before going back to bugging Gumi again. With a shrug, Rin herself decided that she'll just ask her friend after school and to continue eating her bento after scolding Len for not eating his lunch again.

Miku was holding her half eaten lunch box that was wrapped in a blue cloth as she sped walk across the hallways, craning her neck around to look for a certain someone. It was a little difficult since the hallway was filled with students, it was still half of lunch time after all. Several students greeted her in recognition, it was actually a normal occurrence. But what made it particularly different was that she had just gone out from her classroom in about.. literally three minutes, and she couldn't even begin to count how many of them acknowledge her already!

Was she always this popular?

Come to think of it, lately she had been receiving all sorts of letters in her locker. Most of them being letters of admiration and.. love. As much as she didn't like to say this, she had been rejecting confessions left and right, it was crazy! Well, she had been normally dealing with those ever since she started her second year in this new school, it increased in volume when she caught that psycho, but suddenly these days it was even worse!

Miku shook her head and kicked the thoughts out of her head. That didn't matter right now, she wasn't getting any luck spotting Luka like this.

Yes, she was looking for Luka, the aloof and cold looking diva that had transferred recently. Miku figured that she was probably eating alone somewhere, and ever since she had an epiphany back in the classroom, she wanted to change that. So she decided to invite her to eat lunch with their group! Well.. that was the plan. She still couldn't locate Luka though.

She sighed and waved back to a group of girls in some corner who were calling her name, she raised a brow at their reaction. It was as if they were having a low-key seizure or something, it actually made her a little worried. Glancing around, Miku fortunately spotted a familiar scene across the student filled hallways, the upperclassmen!

Meiko and Kaito!

It seemed that the former was chiding Kaito again for preferring to only eat ice cream at lunch, he just rubbed the back of his neck apologetically. They were also well-known in their school as a couple, and was respectively, both the top students among a few in their year—which was definitely not as competitive as the second years. Miku's group had gotten close with them ever since the psycho incident, they were there too.

Well, Kaito was. Her group was also close with two more upperclassmen as well, Teto and Ruko, each one of them popular in their own right. They were good folks.

Their uniforms were distinctly different by year by the way, specifically the colors of the ribbons or ties. The freshmen wear blue, juniors yellow and the seniors green. It was convenient, it made classifying and acknowledging students by year easier.

Miku waved over to the two with a smile on her face and caught their attention. The two upperclassmen blinked for a second before wide smiles graced their faces as they immediately went over to their adorable kouhai. In a span of a single blink, the junior felt hands on her head and found herself being petted—again.

The junior pouted like a kid, "Must you do this every time you see me?"

"We can't help it," Meiko laughed before petting Miku vigorously then finally let go, the younger girl looked vexed at the state of her hair, "You are so cute!"

Kaito withdrew his hand when they had ruffled her hair bad enough, chuckling with his ohoho laugh.

Miku groaned and began to fix her ruined pony tail, "Anyway, have you guys seen Luka?"

Meiko smirked wittingly, "Oh? Isn't that the rumored transferee that caused such a huge commotion in the student body for starting a 'fiery' rivalry with the popular Hatsune Miku?" she air quoted, which made fiery mean more than it actually did, or was there really a different tone in it?

"Though you guys on first name basis now?" the brunette looked teasing, "Wow, Miku. You're relentless."

Miku was perplexed, "..what are you talking about?"

The female senior shook her head, sighing at the fact the Miku was as dense as the great walls of China, "Anyway, I think I saw her go upstairs.. or something."

This made Miku think for a while, soon she flashed them an adorable thankful grin, "Thanks for telling me!"

She excused herself before waving her hands as she left the two upperclassmen, picking up her speed. They waved back at her departure, watching her as she walked along the wide hallways. Kaito was smiling through the whole thing, this made Meiko nudge him on the ribs, though he swiftly maneuvered away from her unforgiving elbow. He was ticklish there!

She simply looked amused at his reaction, "What are you smiling about?"

Quickly recovering from her onslaught, Kaito responded with a gesture of his head to the fangirls and fanboys sighing every time Miku walked past them.

The senior laughed as if he was an old man looking over her grandchild, "She grows up so obliviously fast."

Meiko raised her eyebrows with a shake of her head, the thought of a certain troubled cherry lover making her sigh. One of these days, she really had to check on in Miku's class, things had been very eventful lately.

Damn, Miku really was relentless.

Miku ran up the stairs which only led to one place, it was the school's rooftop. She was sure about this one, because of course! Why didn't she thought of it before? It was the perfect place to eat alone, or to just be alone in general. Not many people hang on the rooftop because of the hassle to go up and down from there, but it seemed like Luka was the exact type of person to take that extra effort.

She shook her head at the thought.

When the teal haired girl reached her destination, she evened her breathing and swallowed. Was she nervous? She didn't know, but she couldn't stay still on her feet either. After a big exhale, Miku twisted the shiny knob open and swung the door, relieved to easily spot Luka sitting on a sakura colored checkered picnic blanket eating gracefully by herself.

The rooftop was a safe place, it was high fenced so no one would get hurt, it was still clean too as the school was fairly new. Needless to say, Luka wouldn't even step a foot here if everything was grungy and a mess. No one would, really.

Luka looked very surprised at the disturbance and had a chopstick holding a chunk of rice halfway down to her mouth. Her lunchbox—scratch that, lunchboxes—were towering three stacks high, Miku could've sworn that two of them were pure expensive side dishes and one was white rice. Wait, also a bunch of tunas?

Wow, she never thought Luka ate like Miki who had an insatiable black hole stomach.

Miku released a grin at the sight before closing the door behind her and walking over to her flabbergasted and confused rival. There was an unnerving silence—to Luka—as the teal haired girl went to her, when she was in front of her domain, she decided to break the silence.

Luka was still baffled, "What are you doing here?"

"How did you even find me?"

The said girl shrugged, ignoring her questions, "I just wanted to ask if you would like to join us in lunch, next time."

"No, thank you," Luka was quick to reply with a scoff, she loved doing that, didn't she, "I'm very much fine by myself."

Still, that didn't stop Miku from convincing her, "Oh come on! I bet your food would taste better if you had people to share it with!"

Luka didn't answer and stubbornly jutted her chin up in the air before popping another piece of tuna in her mouth. The teal haired girl inwardly laughed at the way she was acting, she was like the kid Luka from nine years ago, it was adorable.

Miku sighed, but not in defeat, nope.

She stared at Luka in the eyes, "Well.. is there a way for me to convince you?"

The stubborn girl deadpanned, "No, you cannot convince me."

After a thoughtful moment, Miku's face brightened up as if what she thought resolved all the poverty in the world, "I'll just eat with you then!" she decided as she sat on Luka's sacred picnic blanket that was once occupied only by her. Luka was in shock, how did it end up like this?

She knitted her eyebrows together, beyond bewildered on what her idiot rival was thinking, "What's with you?"

Well, she had a perfect reason to be puzzled, right? Like, they never actually talked except for that one plight in the gym locker room. Their involvement with each other was mostly whenever they challenged and debated against one another. Which weren't really conversations, so this was very weird.

"Honestly," Miku answered as she pulled out her lunch box once more from the cloth, deciding to finish her food, "I don't know either."

"But for some reason," she stopped in her actions, and looked into Luka's azure eyes, "I just wanted to befriend you."

The said girl looked away, a little flustered from her gaze that was too intense for her comfort, though she was still skeptical, "You do know that we're rivals, right?"

Her rival nodded her head absently, taking a piece of leek with her chopsticks from her lunch box and ate it, "I know, but it's not like I'm breaking any laws trying to befriend you, right?" she grinned playfully.

Luka continued to feel dubious, but now conflicted, "But, why?"

"I just want to."

Luka scoffed again, ruffled, "Whatever, I don't care what you do or want," she continued eating her huge all in one lunch box with her eyes closed indignantly, trying to ignore her current predicament.

Miku chuckled before making another attempt to invite Luka, "Soo.. you still wanna join us for lunch?"

"No."

"Okay."

Luka peeked at the girl beside her with her chopsticks in her mouth, a little surprised by her willingness, however she immediately regretted it when she saw the shit eating grin on the idiot's face.

The diva frowned, "Why are you still here?"

"Why shouldn't I be here?"

She narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "I told you, no."

Miku replied with a nonchalant wave of her hands, "I know, I know, so I'll just eat here with you."

Luka spluttered, she was fortunate that she wasn't chewing anything at the time!

"WHat," she breathed.

"I said I'll ea—"

"I heard you," she sighed, vexed more than anything, "You're stubborn."

"So are you," Miku was very amused.

"Touche," the diva stopped talking with a shake of her head and finished eating in silence.

Miku stopped trying to convince her as well, it went on like that until the bell finally rang.

This was probably the longest lunch she'd ever had, Luka thought as they fixed up their lunches and stood. She saw Miku stretch in the corner of her eye and noticed her crooked tie. It bothered Luka like an antagonizing itch on her butt cheek during class. She tried ignoring it but its atrocious crookedness wouldn't stop bugging her! She sighed in exasperation, causing confusion to the other oblivious girl.

"Your tie is crooked," Luka pointed to the offending lemon colored tie, to think that the tie pins would hold it down, it was incredible how it couldn't seem to keep up with whatever stress her rival was giving it. Just how much activity does she do to render the pin useless?

"Oh," Miku blinked before fixing her tie, but honestly she had no idea what she was trying to do. Her dad usually did it for her, but today he wasn't home. She didn't think it would be that bad though, with a small groan she struggled knotting her tie back into an agreeable shape, tangling her fingers in the process.

Seeing as her efforts were in vain, she was about to give up until she heard another irritable sigh, followed by stomping footsteps from across. Miku raised her head at the noise only to see Luka's face right in front of her.

They both looked startled for a while, and before the other could see the splash of pink on their cheeks they quickly looked away from each other. Luka looked down to tend to the idiot's crooked tie. The way she handled the cloth was gentle and precise, the slight grazes from her fingertips on her clothes made Miku's heart go crazy as if blaring red alert due to their intimacy.

They had never been this close! She just wasn't used to it, OK?

A minute later it was finally fixed and Luka immediately moved away from Miku.

Both of them discreetly releasing sighs of relief that they didn't even notice they were holding in.

Though damn, why did they suddenly feel so meek?

"Uhm.." Miku rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly, finally calming down when they were a good distance away, "Thank you.. for fixing it."

Luka faced her back to Miku with a perpetual hmph like she had always done. Miku let out a grin at this, maybe she was just thinking too much. She shook the awkwardness earlier away from her thoughts and ran ahead with a wave of her hands, "See you tomorrow lunch!"

She quickly disappeared from Luka's sight, who looked flustered and alarmed at the same time.

For two different reasons..

Wait, did that mean that she was going to go here everyday?!

Classes had already ended for the day several minutes ago, yet students were clogging the supposedly spacious hallway with their chatters and bodies of different ranges. However, the daunting crescendo of Megurine Luka's stomps immediately made them give way to one of the school's top students with hushed whispers.

She looked furious.

Today was also the showing of results from the midterm exams they had a few weeks prior, and it had been posted to the bulletin board only this dismissal. Rumors were already circulating about the results, and she was unhappy with the nearby natter she'd overheard. She didn't care about the looks she was receiving as she took heavy steps towards the bulletin board, though she did notice her rival already there. Miku looked amused as always at what she was seeing.

But Luka didn't give her much thought as her heated stare immediately landed on the top spot of the innocent piece of paper thumb tacked on the board.

She scowled at the contents.

1ST: Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka

..whAT!

This wasn't what was supposed to happen! She was supposed to be the only one in first, what sorcery was this! She fumed as she directed her fiery glare onto a guiltless Miku, at this point the crowd didn't dissipate but instead circled the two, moving away lest they get hit by Luka's stray eyes that screamed doom.

Unsurprisingly, Miku wasn't bothered at all and instead shrugged coolly at the results, she looked tickled actually.

..which was unnaccepTabLEE!

Luka just scoffed to the side before stomping away from the crowd with her nose stuck in the air, much like she did when she entered. Leaving stares of different emotions trailing on her back. Miku smiled at the display, though gave a little sigh afterwards. She'll admit, the glare was actually a little frightening, but she didn't let it get to her. Little did Luka know that Miku was actually quite challenged to go toe to toe with her rival, she'd never made so much effort to get to this point again, not since they were kids and in second grade.

Hmn.. wait.

They first met in their second grade, now they met again in their second year.

What a big coincidence that was..

Though, there was one more thing about it that made it so interesting to beat Luka at something—although Miku didn't exactly beat her in the results.

It was.. Luka's reactions.

Miku chuckled at the thought, ignoring the chatters of different volumes the crowd was making as she simply walked away the opposite direction.

She was so cute when she was mad.

"Sport's Day is definitely going to be a fun day," she muttered to herself like a whistle.

Blissfully unaware of the malicious darkness brewing just around the corner, and the huge threat it posed for the upcoming event.

For her.