Well, this is the newest chapter, I'm not pretty sure if you'll like this one, the second part is sort of a filler thing, but tell me what you think, that part will conclude in Chapter 08, then I'll finally move to pure Makoto and Ritsu time. If you see any grammar errors tell me, its been some years since I wrote in english bla bla bla. well thanks for the comments already posted or that maybe will get posted.

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Chapter 07: Bzt Busted

It was morning, Ritsu woke up in an unfamiliar place, "Oh yeah, I'm at Mokoto's", as she yawned, she hugged her arms, it was a cold winter morning remember, she felt the sweater she was wearing, remembering its owner, she laid on the bed again and begun, "Makoto… ", she sniffed,"…Makoto smells sooo nice".

"Oh I see what you did there, hehe….hehe", Ritsu immediately got up, surprised by the statement, she turned to see who caught her in a moment of bliss… "Oh it's just you Sawa-chan."

"HEY DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A SECUNDARY CHARACTER!", tears could be seen forming on her eyes, " haha, well, I'm sorry Sawa-chan, still can't wrap my head around that you and Makoto are relatives, you see, how to put it...", her phrase was completed by Sawako, "So different?, well, five years living together, he could've turned worse."

'Wow five years, how long do these two go back?', Ritsu made herself a question she would have to find the answer to later on, "Speaking of which, where's Makoto", Ritsu asked as she stood up and made his bed, "Mmmm impatient are we?, he went to the park to jog, meanwhile why don't you help me make breakfast, It's still early."

'To jog, man he's crazy', as Ritsu went and helped Sawako at the kitchen, time passed quite a bit, 15 minutes passed when Makoto came back, she went to the door to greet him, "Makoto good morning, w-w-welcome back", she still wore the clothes she slept with, including his sweater.

Baffled, he fantasized his girlfriend and Ritsu as a married couple, it didn't last long when he came back to reality, with a heavy blush on his face, "I-I'm back", the couple only stood there looking at each other, even Ritsu was taken aback for what she said, 'Man they're slow, Mugi-chan was right, guess big sister's gotta give them a little push hmm', a smirking Sawako thought, on a quick attack, she took a big leap and 'lightly' pushed Ritsu towards her boyfriend, he reacted, he caught Ritsu just in time before she felled down the front step.

Ritsu tried not to seem so obvious, even if she promised herself to be more feminine, "W-Wow, that was awfully cavalier", Makoto only stood there for a second until he reacted, "Well princess, you're life comes with a price", Makoto said with a smirked face.

"Huh?, and what may the price be o noble knight", Ritsu faked fear as she acted in front of the noble knight.

Makoto only closed his eyes, Ritsu lifted an eyebrow, he took a step closer to her, "M-Makoto what's wrong?", then all of sudden he started tickling her on the stomach, she couldn't resist, it was one of her weak points after all, her laughter could now be heard through the whole house, after a minute or so, the boy gave up, "haha man… hahaha whoa that was fun 'Need to get revenge later' ", Ritsu then placed a smile on her face, "Oh yeah I forgot, I helped Sawa-neechan make breakfast, c'mon lets go!", she grabbed his hand and guided him towards the kitchen, in only one night she had almost memorized the layout of the whole house, 'Sawa-neechan?, well… they are in friendly terms so why not', a happy Makoto told himself.

In the kitchen, soon as Ritsu took the first step she almost got tackled by Sawako, "Aaaaahhhh Ricchan I knew you were the one, hug me little sister!!!!!", Ritsu and Makoto slightly laughed at sawako, everyone quikly ate breakfast before it got cold, Makoto took a shower before changing, Sawako left early because she's a teacher, leaving the pair to walk to school together.

I've been, meaning to ask you, what are those CD's you're carrying?, I wanted to ask last knight but decided to brush it off", she looked at her boyfriend, who was carrying 7 slim CD cases with his right hand and her girlfriends hand with his left.

"Oh these?, o your case you'll have to wait till afterschool", surprised, she decided a new tactic, she hugged his arm, "Makoto-samaaaa, won't you show me, pretty please… with a cherry on top", complete with puppy dog eyes, Makoto only smirked, "Too bad Yukimura, nor Makoto-sama likes cherries, nor puppy dog eyes work on him, Sawako does them a lot when we go shopping fro groceries, you'll have to wait like the other girls."

'Other girls?', she thought to herself, a little bit of jealousy forming, "Maan, ok I'll wait", the girl decided to give up for now.

In school, a funny thing happened, it was until self study time that somebody noticed, well… until two people noticed, Yui and Tsumugi, the ones that pushed Ritsu into giving birth to her relationship with Makoto, saw something different about their friend, no it wasn't the hair style, "So what is it?", asked Mio in a low voice, "You can't notice Mio-chan?, its so romantic", Yui only trailed of to imagination land with her own comment.

"Mio-chan, the sweater, the sweater", the always wise Tsumugi proclaimed, "But it's just a normal sweater, it's a like a size or two to big for her, besides she's sleeping, why do we have to whisper, besides she's behind us", Mio got a little annoyed, but it was surely her ignorance towards her best friends situation.

Returning from god-knows what she was dreaming about, Yui told Mio, "Look close at Ricchan".

Curious, she took a better look at her sleeping friend, "… …Makoto… …"

"Well, she's just sleeping, dreaming about your boyfriend…", being interrupted by Tsumugi, "Geez no Wonder Ricchan makes fun of you for no having a boyfriend, the sweater, it's Mako-chan's sweater, since this morning she has been snuggling it and faintly sniffling it!", Yui and Mio we're surprised at her friend's sudden outburst, "Mugi… haha you're right, sorry I didn't noticed, at Mio's apology she smiled and nodded, everybody in the classroom was staring, "Wow you really raised you're voice huh Mugi?", said Mio as she scanned the classroom, she noticed the stares at their little circle, but strangely enough, not at them, she could see the faces of her classmates, they weren't smiling or laughing, rather, they looked scared, "Mio-chan, M-Mugi-chan, help m- Ouch!!!".

They saw Yui crouch while holding the top of her head, "Think you can take advantage of me while I sleep eh Mio", Mio gulped at the person who said that, it was a newly awoken EX Ritsu, "W-wa-wait, take advantage?!, me?!, you're a-", interrupted again, Ritsu moved closer to Mio, as she was about to say something, he came in.

"Hey what's going on I heard some sort of people noises?!!!", people stared at him, "Makoto, I'm busy punishing ma underling, you mind?", it didn't took long for Makoto to notice that Ritsu had transformed to her EX form, "Y-Yes ma'am", he closed the door.

"Well Mio, gonna explain? Or, well… Is anyone interested in some rare limited edition photos of Akiyama Mio's life style, we have from room photos to special event photos!!!!!", a 'YES' roared from the male half of the classroom, Mio was starting to fall again to her pranks, "Ok ok I'll tell you, WHY ARE YOU WEARING MAKOTO-KUN'S SWEATER?", she didn't shout, but everyone eared her clearly.

You could hear whisper from the students on the classroom, mostly the girls, Ritsu fidgeted at her friend's question, "Well… I… Ahhhh…"

"she twisted her ankle yesterday, I happened to pass by her on my way home, my parents insisted she stayed in my house for the night so she could recover."

Everyone turned to see the one who made the comment, it was Makoto, Yui and Tsumugi only smirked upon hearing this, it didn't surprise them, only cleared their doubts, "Oh Mako-chan, so that explains the sweater… haha, sorry Ricchan, guess we just were envious… haha", Yui kinda sweat dropped at the apology.

"A c'mon guys, you know I couldn't be mad at you", as soom as things cleared up, the bell rang to start the afternoon classes.

Classes ended, the rest of day was the fun part about going to school, club activity time, with less than a week for winter vacations, Sawako had gathered the members of the Light Music Club on a special reunion…