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Kotaro clicked his tongue, running his eyes over the shops they passed by. Mei kept glancing at him, biting her lip in worry.

'Am I boring him? I'm not exactly saying anything. SAY SOMETHING! But what? What should we talk about? The fight we had? …No. The take-over Choa-san almost did not to long ago? No. His training? Oh! Yes! That!'

"So-" both said at the same time. Mei jumped, as Kotaro quickly shut his mouth, both turning a slight shade of pink. "You first." he said.

"Oh, um…I-I was wondering, how is your training? I hear you've gotten stronger." Mei said smiling a bit.

Kotaro grinned and folded his arms over his chest, his ego inflating twice as big at that very second. "You heard right!" he bragged. "I've been training with Kaede-sama for a while now. I've brought up my strength, became faster, and…" at this he smirked at her. "Became a better swimmer. So now there's nothing to worry about you falling in the water."

Mei flushed a deep red and smiled uneasily in return. "Well, th-that was an accident caused by you." she pointed out.

Kotaro flinched and then scratched his cheek, avoiding her eyes. "Oh yeah…"

"B-But I do appreciate the gesture…"

Kotaro looked over to her, freezing as her face lit up in a gentle glow, eyes softening up as they met his. "Kotaro-san."

For some alien reason, warmth washed up to his face, turning him into a beat red and then he looked away quickly. 'W-What the hell was THAT?! My heart feels like its pounding out of control!' he screamed in his head.

Mei cocked her head slightly, seeing the boy turn away abruptly. A thought entered her mind that she might have insulted him by using his name so familiarly even when she always called him that. Her usual paranoid thoughts caused her to stutter out, "Kotaro-san?" Then suddenly a paper slapped into her face. She screamed in a panic, swatting it off. But to her misfortune, it stuck to her hand, and she slapped it instead to Kotaro's face, since he whipped his head towards her direction at her cry. The girl gasped as he saw her mistake. "Ah! Sorry!"

"S'right." Kotaro mumbled into the paper. "I should be used to this by now." He yanked it off, blinking as he saw the title. "Costume Contest?" he sputtered.

Mei looked over the boy's shoulder, scanning it with her light colored eyes. "A costume party will be held in the open area on the north-west side of town. Come and join the hundreds of others as your favorite animal. Best pair of costumes will win…WHAT?!"

"A hundred thousand YEN?!" Kotaro screamed for her.

"Contestants will be judged exactly at 5 pm! Come over for the fun, stay for the punch, and maybe leave with the prize!" Mei finished reading with a gasp.

Kotaro stared at the paper for a second longer before shaking his head and crumbling it up in hid hand. "Ah what a stupid contest. Dressing up like animals."

Mei blinked and then forced a smile. "Y-You're right. It sounds really dumb."

Kotaro paused and looked thoughtfully at his fist. Mei saw how his claws grew out slowly and he smirked. "Of course…that hundred thousand yen doesn't sound too bad right now. I could get a lot of yummy treats with that."

Mei was beginning to get scared by that face.

"What are they saying?" Asuna hissed.

"I don't know! But you're getting heavy Asuna-san!" Negi whined as he was stuck being the bottom of the disguise. Both kids decided to play spies and dress up in an oversized coat.

"Hush! They're walking this way!"

"Hey Ane-san? I didn't know you went panty shopping! When did you get the new pair?"

"H-HUH?!" the girl squealed. Suddenly she felt something digging around on her back. She could perfectly picture the creature lifting her skirt up from behind and taking a peek from inside the coat. "YOU-YOU-YOU!"

"Shh! Asuna!" Negi hissed, but to no avail. He couldn't calm the girl down.

"What the…?" Kotaro mumbled, staring at the strange person bending one way and then another way, and then suddenly grabbing a piece of his own body and squeezing the life out of it. Then the feet of the person tripped over himself and stumbled back, falling over the rail and out of sight, screaming in what sounded in three different voices.

"What a weirdo." he muttered turning back on the street.

"You say something?" Mei asked.

"Nah, it's nothing."

lol short I know but more will come soon! Promise~