Disclaimer: I don't own Acchi Kocchi or Hayate No Gotoku.

Part A:

It was Saturday, and Io was at his house relaxing. Throughout the week, he kept in touch with the trio, which kept him from feeling too down. Talking to Izumi in particular would bring his spirits back up. Sakaki and Mayoi would try to tease him in front of her, but Io silenced them when they started getting out of hand, or Tsumiki would get irritated enough to hit them herself. Actually, he was called a bit earlier by Sakaki and his friends wanting to hang out, so he prepared to leave. Just as he was going to, someone knocked on his door. Opening the door, he was surprised and felt a strong sense of excitement. In front of him was Izumi, Nagi, Hayate, Maria and Chiharu.

"Izumi! You guys!" Io said in surprise.

"Surprised?" Nagi asked with a sense of cocky pride.

"We came by plane, so that's how we arrived so quickly," Maria said. "It was Nagi's idea."

"H-hey!" Nagi said with embarrassment.

"I see," Io said, turning his attention to Izumi, smiling. "It's good to see you again, Izumi."

That earned a blush from Izumi. A bit of silence hung over the two as they smiled at each other. Io broke it though, feeling awkward inside.

"Where's Miki and Risa?" he asked.

"Huh? Oh, Hina-chan is afraid of heights, so they're coming by a car," Izumi explained.

Io recalled having seen Hinagiku freak out before in regards to heights.

"Well, I was about to head out to my friends, do you guys want to come along?" Io asked them.

"Of course!" Izumi said in her bubbly voice, the others also agreeing.

So they headed out. Nagi had a hunch that the two liked each other. They certainly seemed pretty close. Maria was beginning to think along the lines of Nagi as well.

Chiharu, who was with them, was unsurprised, having already been able to deduce how the two feel. Although Chiharu found Io cute and attractive, she knew he was already out of her league. She wasn't sure if she liked him per-say, but he was certainly the type of guy she would be delighted to go out with if asked. Despite that, whatever those feelings were, she reasoned they were of no use at this point. Of course, that didn't stop her from finding him very cute and attractive, like many girls.

Eventually, they met up with Io's other friends.

"Io-kun!" Hime waved at him.

"Morning, Hime," Io said walking up to her.

"Huh? Izumi-san?" Hime said with surprise.

'So these are his friends,' Chiharu thought while observing them.

"Yeah, she came to visit us for the weekend," Io said in a happy voice. "With her are some of my other friends."

"I'm Nagi of the Sanzenin family, nice to meet you," Nagi said with enthusiasm.

"My name is Maria, a pleasure to meet you all," Maria said in a calm-like voice.

"I'm Ayasaki Hayate, Ojou-sama's butler," Hayate said in a refined voice.

"And I am Chiharu," Chiharu said in a plain voice.

After the rest of the introductions were out of the way, they all walked together. Of course, Io stuck close to Izumi, which made Sakaki and Mayoi grin. Tsumiki got jealous, but kept herself in control, due to not wanting to offend him.

"Want to hit the arcade?" Sakaki asked Io.

"Again?" Io asked exasperately.

"You bet! I'll beat you this time!" Sakaki declared at him.

"You never give up," Io said with a sweat drop. "How many times have you been beat?"

"Nonsense! I'm gonna win this time!" Sakaki said, fired up.

"No, I'll be the one to win!" Nagi said, getting in the mood with pumped fists, for she was quite a fan of games.

"What did you say!?" Sakaki asked, as he and Nagi eyed each other competitively while Hayate laughed nervously.

"What do you want to do, Izumi?" Io asked gently.

"Win a prize," Izumi simply said.

"...Could you be more specific?" Io asked with a sweat drop.

"Are you going to try winning another prize yourself?" Mayoi asked Hime.

"Eh? Um..." Hime started, remembering all the times she was so bad at operating the crane. "No way!"

"Hime is clumsy," Tsumiki said as if it were nothing.

Izumi suddenly attacked her in a hug, which made her blush.

"Cute!" Izumi yelled out in compliment to her, as she found Tsumiki adorable in person all the more.

"S-stop it!" Tsumiki said in a low, but embarrassed voice.

Finding the scene cute, Hime nosebleed.

"Is she okay!?" Hayate asked in panic.

"Don't worry, she gets like this a lot," Io pointed out. "Anytime she finds something very adorable, she gets nosebleeds. She can for other reasons as well, but I never understand what other reasons cause her to."

"Is that so?" Hayate said in a voice of curiosity.

Mayoi whispered in Io's ear.

"You wish to win Izumi-san a prize and be lovey dov-" Mayoi was silenced by Io giving her a small chop to the shoulder.

It didn't stop Io from blushing, which made Hime nosebleed, and Tsumiki show surprise. Sure he's done it before, but it was always so adorable when he got embarrassed.

"He blushed!?" Nagi said, astonished, as that was something she has not seen before from him.

"Y-you're right!" Maria said, very surprised too.

After that, they went to the arcade. Io and Sakaki played dartz.

"Sakaki's ultimate, swift finisher!" Sakaki yelled out as he threw the first dart, hoping it would hit the center, but it missed. "SHOOOOT!"

Io, intensely concentrating, threw his dart at quick speed, and hit the center. Sakaki was dumbfounded by his incredible accuracy. Io always seemed to be accurate with his aiming. Sakaki paled in depression for looking so pitiful in comparison.

"Do you want to try again?" Io said, knowing he wouldn't accept a quick defeat.

"Of course!" Sakaki said.

"No helping it," Io said, consenting.

Once more, Sakaki's aim was way off, while Io scored yet again another perfect shot in the center.

"Give it up, you suck at this!" Nagi said in a matter of factly voice.

"What was that!?" Sakaki asked in anger. "Then let's see you do better, blonde pigtails midget-"

WACK!

Nagi gave him a comical hit to the head so hard he fell. Furthermore, he had a large bump on his head. Everyone sweat dropped at this scene.

"Want to repeat that last part!?" Nagi asked in annoyance.

"A-are you alright!?" Hime asked Sakaki with worry.

"I-I'm fine!" Sakaki managed to say as smoke came off his bump.

"It's your fault for not watching how you speak to others," Io said.

"So it's my fault!?" Sakaki asked spastically, offended that he got the full blame.

Io then went over to Izumi and Hime, who were trying to win a stuffed animal.

Mayoi watched out of sheer amusment, while Tsumiki kept quiet.

"What are you guys trying to do?" Io asked as he walked up to them.

"I was trying to get Hime a specific prize, but I keep missing it," Izumi said with discourage.

"You don't have to get it," Hime offered.

But Io went ahead and put a coin in, and with some guiding of the crane, he carefully scooped up what they tried to win.

"Here you go," Io said, handing it over to Hime.

"Thank you!" Hime said with utmost excitement.

"Isn't that great?" Izumi asked her in a happy voice, to which she nodded.

"Hehhhh! Io is such a gentleman, right Izumi-san?" Mayoi teased her, which made her blush and Io twitch.

"Eh!?" Izumi yelped out, very flustered by this.

Mayoi watched her with a big smirk on her face. Chiharu on the other hand, who was observing the scene, smiled in amusment.

"Cut it out!" Io said to Mayoi in annoyance.

Meanwhile, Sakaki and Nagi were locked in an intense fighting game.

"Jumpkick! Uppercut!" Nagi yelled as she played using the controller.

"Take this!" Sakaki yelled, mashing button combos himself.

Despite his best efforts, Nagi managed to win.

"Again!?" Sakaki said, having lost their game of dartz as well.

"It's the natural outcome," Nagi said with cockyness. "I spend most my days reading Manga, watching Anime and playing video games."

"Is that something to be proud of?" Maria asked while sweat dropping.

"Teach me your moves!" Sakaki asked. "I want to get better from a true game genius!"

"You have a good eye," Nagi said, happy from the praise. "Alright, I'll teach you Nagi's ultimate moves!"

So they went at it again.

"She's really into this isn't she?" Maria asked Hayate.

"Mmm, but it's good to see her so lively with others instead of just staying in her room," Hayate said as he watched her.

Next, they set up a game of two in a air hockey game. Io teamed up with Izumi, which disappointed Tsumiki, but it was to be expected. The teams were Io and Izumi, vs Hayate and Nagi. The rest acted as the refs.

"Ready, match, start!" Mayoi declared.

"Ha!" Io roared, hitting the puck strongly.

"This is nothing to me!" Hayate said, hitting it. "I used to be the best in reflexes at my old jobs!"

"Take this!" Izumi yelled in a bubbly voice as she hit it towards Nagi.

"Not yet!" Nagi yelled lively.

"Io and Izumi seem to have good teamwork," Mayoi said with a smirk.

"Right," Sakaki said with a smirk as well.

Hime wasn't quite following the meaning of those words, but Maria, Tsumiki and Chiharu caught on to what they were implying.

"Good, keep it up Izumi!" Io told her with enthusiasm.

"Yes!" Izumi said, looking at him and then once more hitting the puck.

"Ultimate Butler, finish!" Hayate declared as he comically powered up and hit the puck with intense force.

However, as it was going to reach Io and Izumi's side, it suddenly made a turn and slammed into Sakaki's face. The others could only sweat drop at this.

"Sorry," Hayate said.

Sakaki on the other hand collapsed.

Part B:

Hinagiku, Miki and Risa finally arrived later next day, and met up with the others.

"Io-kun!" Miki and Risa yelled in excitement as they ran forward and tackled him to the ground.

"You guys!" Io said with a sweat drop, but then smiled. "It's good to see you again too."

"Without you, us three feel like something is missing from our group!" Risa told him.

"Exactly!" Miki said in agreement with her.

Hinagiku always seemed to think Miki and Io were like the unofficial leaders of their little one four group. Miki being the more silly, and Io the more mature leader.

"Alright, give him some room!" Hinagiku said, walking up to them. "Man, you guys are already..."

Sakaki whistled. "Who's she? She's very graceful!" Sakaki noted, making Hinagiku blush from that blunt statement.

'Most guys don't have the guts to say stuff like that to me outright in front of my face!' Hinagiku thought. 'But he did it so easily.'

"She's our Student Council President at Hakou Academy, Hinagiku," Io said, introducing her.

Mayoi went up to her. "Io-san is so popular with girls," Mayoi noted. "He's popular here, and I can only guess he has quite the popularity with girls over there as well."

"What do you mean?" Io asked, oblivious to it.

'What, so he and Hayate-kun are a little alike when it pertains to being dense about girls, even though Hayate is a lot denser than him,' Chiharu thought as she watched them.

Following that, the group went to the festival.

"Sure is crowded," Sakaki commented.

"Well, it's to be expected," Io pointed out.

"So how did you get a cute girl like Hinagiku as your friend?" Sakaki asked in a half tease to Io.

'This guy!' Hinagiku thought as her face began to turn red from embarrassment. 'I, I'm nothing special.'

Miki decided to give Io and Izumi some time alone, in an attempt to get them to come out with their feelings. Grabbing both by the arm, she spoke up and pushed them forward.

"You two go on ahead," Miki said to them.

"Why?" Io questioned, Izumi also giving a similar look.

"W-we have some things we want to do!" Miki said, getting nervous. "So don't mind us and go on ahead!"

"A-alright," Io said and turned to Izumi. "Let's go."

"Mmm," Izumi agreeing.

After leaving, Chiharu walked up to her.

"You did that to give them time alone didn't you?" Chiharu deduced. "What if Io-kun takes advantage of her-"

"What are you talking about?" Miki asked. "You know Io-kun is not a pervert. And he's too kind and caring to take advantage of a girl like that."

"True, he is that way," Chiharu said, seeing her point.

After that, everyone did their own thing.

Chiharu simply got a drink and sat down in a chair while chilling.

"Want a race to see who can gather up the most fish?" Sakaki asked Nagi.

"You're on!" Nagi said, fired up.

"Good answer!" Sakaki declared with eagerness

They gathered two nets and started speed scooping in the mini-pond. Hinagiku stayed with the two, observing Sakaki in particular in interest.

"Why you!" Sakaki yelled in frustration at not being able to get any fish.

"Blast it all!" Nagi yelled in equal frustration due to doing as bad as him.

Neither side in the end could get even one fish. However, both didn't seem upset.

"Not bad," Sakaki admitted. "Your persistence is interesting!"

"Same for you!" Nagi admitted back.

Both smiled, happy to have a rival. Hinagiku, who watched Sakaki, sweat dropped.

'What was he doing that whole time?' Hinagiku thought. 'Were they even trying to get the fish!?'

Still, she couldn't help but smile. Sakaki may be rather energetic like Nagi, but he was a pretty good guy as far as she could see.

Elsewhere, Mayoi, Miki and Risa bought an overkill amount of strawberry sunday.

"Now, let's dig in!" Mayoi stated.

"Yeah!" both Miki and Risa proclaimed with energy.

As they started scarfing it all down, the people around them sweat dropped, which they didn't notice.

Hayate and Maria came across a hammer weight game.

"Ah! This is one of those games where you hit the bottom, and how much force you used, is the amount that will force that little dong to go up," Hayate said.

"Are you going to try it Hayate-kun?" Maria asked him.

"I guess so," Hayate said.

Hayate readied himself, took the hammer and hit the bottom of the device with all his strength. This made the dong reach all the way to the top with no effort.

"Great!" Maria clapped. "Let me give it a try."

Once he handed the hammer over to her, she gave it her best shot. The hammer didn't hit with enough force for the dong to make it to the top.

"Could it be, that you're really fat-"

BANG!

Maria hit him comically with the hammer, and stood like she did nothing while Hayate layed on the ground out cold.

Meanwhile, Tsumiki and Hime played a game involving having to shoot five balls in a hoop to win.

While they did that, Io and Izumi went to a small shop.

"How do I look?" Izumi asked Io, having a small flower on one of her two ponytails to try on.

"Beautiful," Io said with a smile, which caused his heart to pound very quickly.

"T-thank you," Izumi flusteredly blurted out while blushing greatly, and then turned away while smiling.

Back with Tsumiki and Hime, who still were playing.

"Here I go!" said Hime, throwing a ball through the hoop. "I did it!"

Tsumiki throwed one, and it also made it's way through. Afterwards. she looked in the direction Io and Izumi went.

"I wonder what they're doing," Tsumiki said with little emotion, but some sadness in her voice.

"Want to go see?" Hime asked with excitement.

The two headed in their direction.

"The stars are so pretty!" Izumi said in her bubbly voice.

"They are," Io said, looking at her.

When Tsumiki and Hime finally arrived, they saw the two staring up at the stars. Just then, fireworks illuminated the sky.

"Look at that!" said Hime, pointing at a star shape one.

The others came behind Hime and Tsumiki after hearing the fireworks.

"I had a lot of fun today with you, Izumi," Io said, smiling at her, which made her cheeks turn red. "To tell you the truth, it felt painful not being near you, even though we still talk a lot over the phone. So, I'm really happy you visited."

The two gazed into each others eyes as their heart beats speed up.

"How romantic," Mayoi said smirkingly.

Both Io and Izumi jumped and turned behind them, only to see Mayoi and Sakaki grinning ear to ear. Hinagiku, Miki and Risa had amused looks. Hime was blushing from the sight and nosebleed, wheras Chiharu had folded arms and an amused expression.

"You guys..." Io said, for some reason feeling annoyed.

"You two had such a good atmosphere," Sakaki said with a grin.

"W-what are you saying!?" Izumi uttered out in a flustered voice.

This earned laughs from everyone else, besides Io who was embarrassed. Before everyone turned in for the day, Hinagiku looked at Sakaki.

"Are you still feeling tired from the trip?" Miki asked her.

"Huh? N-no!" Hinagiku stuttered while blushing and quickly walked away.

Hinagiku's behavior was odd to Miki. As she glanced where Hinagiku did before, she saw Sakaki walking and chatting with Io and his other friends.

'Could she...?' Miki pondered before leaving. 'Think about that later. Right now I have something else to do.'

Later at night, in their rental Hotel room, Miki walked up to Izumi.

"Izumi," Miki started, with some seriousness to her tone.

A/N: When I think of Sakaki and Nagi ever meeting, I honestly think their interactions would be like this.