Since it's break time Kirino is walking in the hallways of the first years and is about to meet up with Kariya to talk about the issue between the three of them and have a confrontational talk between him, Kariya, and Shindou when he bumped into someone.
"Ah! I'm sorry!" Kirino apologized and bowed his head not seeing the person he bumped into.
"My, my sempai what are you doing here? Could it be that you're looking for me? Don't tell me you have fallen in love with me because of the kiss I gave you" a familiar voice said, at this Kirino is shocked 'cause he recognized the voice and when he look up to see if he is right he saw Tsurugi's face.
"Tsurugi!" Kirino shouted shocked wide eyed and his cheeks started to have a red taint.
"Hello, sempai" Tsurugi said in a husky voice smirking at him, which only made the latter blush more.
"Ah!...Ah!...Hi!...Hello!...Well...Um...If you'll excuse me then!" Kirino turned around but before he could take a forward someone hugged him from the back and hold him tightly around on his shoulders making Kirino blushed ten times redder and all of his hair stood up especially his twin pig tails like a startled cat.
"TSU-TSURUGI! What are you doing?!" Kirino asked shocked his body paralyzed since he didn't know what to do.
"Hugging my beautiful sempai, what else" Tsurugi answered taking a strand of Kirino's hair and smelling it. Hearing the word 'beautiful' only made Kirino blushed harder and you could see that there's thin smoke coming out of him.
"Tsu-Tsurugi! Let go! Someone might misunderstand us" Kirino said trying to pry Tsurugi's hold on him, but the latter is not only taller than him but also much stronger than him. And since their in the hallway some one might see them and rumors might spread about them.
"But sempai were the only people here" stating that Kirino stopped on his struggle and looked around and saw that Tsurugi is correct they are the only people in the hallway.
'That's odd? Minutes ago there were many students walking in the hallway, what happened to them?' Kirino thought until he remembered the situation he's in and started struggling again.
'Tsu-Tsurugi! Stop teasing me already" Kirino shouted.
"I will-" he then cupped Kirino's chin and made him look at Tsurugi " if you say-" he then leaned in Kirino's ear "the magic word" he whispered, making Kirino's body shiver and his blush only intensified.
"And..what's the magic word?" Kirino asked not making eye contact with Tsurugi.
"Please" Tsurugi said letting go of Kirino's chin making the latter look downward.
"Can you...Um...Please let me go, Tsurugi" Kirino asked quietly. For a few minutes nothing happened but Tsurugi slowly let go of Kirino and started walking away but before he could be too far away he said something too Kirino without turning around.
"I hope you have a nice day, my beautiful sempai" Tsurugi said and continued walking, while Kirino blushed again.
Once Kirino is sure that Tsurugi is gone he turn around and saw Kariya right in front of him.
"GGGAAAHHH! Kariya! Were you trying to kill me by giving me a heart attack!" Kirino shouted while glaring at the little demon.
"Pffft!...I'm so sorry sempai...Pffft...I didn't mean to...Pfft...Scare you...At all" Kariya tried to say while snickering trying to stop himself for laughing.
"Gggrrr...Ka-ri-ya!" Kirino said trying to contain his anger.
"So sempai...What are you...Doing here?" Kariya asked while trying to regain his composure.
"I just wanted to ask you something did anyone of our teammates asked you if there's something going on between you, me, and Shindou?" Kirino asked, at this statement Kariya widen his eyes with shocked and looked at his sempai in the eyes.
"Yeah, why?" Kariya asked.
"Listen, Kariya I know you may not like it, but I think it's best if we solved this problem with Shindou, it's not a good thing to make our teammates worry at all" Kirino explained.
"No" Kariya answered immediately without thinking twice staring st Kirino in the eyes.
"But-" Kirino said but is stopped by Kariya.
"No means no sempai, defy me more and you know what will happen later" Kariya said narrowing his eyes at Kirino, threatening him about the punishment that might happen if Kirino pushed it further, which made Kirino's face drained of blood making him look paler and wide eyes that's evident of fear.
"And what will happen to him if he defies you" a voice popped up behind them.
"Shindou! How long have you been there?!" Kirino asked wide eyes shocked when they saw who the person is.
"Long enough to hear Kariya's threat" Shindou answered glaring angrily at Kariya. But before anyone could speak again. The bell ringed signaling the student's break time's over and that classes will start soon.
"Later at lunch let's meet up at the rooftop" Shindou said seriously and angrily at Kariya.
"And what if I don't want to" Kariya talked about. At this Shindou smirked.
"Well if you want to have lunch with Kirino then of course you'll have to" at this Shindou grabbed Kirino's risk and dragged him away from Kariya, while Kariya was angrily glaring at Shindou's back.
Lunch Break
Kirino and Shindou were already at the rooftop and was done eating their lunches and is only waiting for Kariya.
"So what kind of threat did Kariya mean" Shindou asked curiously but on the inside he is seriously worried for Kirino at what Kariya might do to him.
"Uhm..I'm not really sure either, he just said that the punishment is a secret" Kirino answered unsure.
"Punishment?" Shindou asked wide eye shocked at what Kirino just said.
"What I mean is!...Is!...-" but is stopped when the door of the rooftop and came out Kariya who's have a scowling face.
"So what are we going to talk about, captain"saying the word "captain" sarcastically while glaring at Shindou.
"Kariya!" Kirino shouted angry for disrespecting their captain and his best friend.
"Shut it Kirino 'cause I'm 100% sure this is something between us and just used you as an excuse!" Kariya shouted not looking at Kirino's way and is only glaring at Shindou,while Shindou just glared back.
"Didn't your parent's ever taught you of respecting those who are older than you" Shindou said not liking that Kariya just called Kirino by his name.
"Oh please!Enough with this nonsense talk why don't you go straight to the point, captain" Kariya said sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"Kariya! That's enough insult coming out from your mouth! Listen Kariya you can disrespect me! You can humiliate me! You can force me into things that I don't like! But what you can't do is disrespecting someone who I look up to,who I admire, and the people who are important to me especially my best friend!" Kirino shouted angrily glaring madly at Kariya for insulting him,which made Kariya more angry, while Shindou is shocked by what just he heard both happy and confused trying to understand what just Kirino said.
"Are you defying me!" Kariya shouted at Kirino both glaring at each other heatedly.
"Yes! I am defying you!" Kirino shouted back.
"You do realize what will happen to you Kirino-sempai" Kariya said sarcastically.
"I don't care about the punishment anymore Kariya! But I want you to apologize to Shindou right now!" Kirino shouted.
"As if! You better be prepared later Kirino because I'll make sure you regret doing this to me!" Kariya shouted and walked Kariya exitedd the roof top both boys sigh in relief and let loose all the tension that build up unconsciously.
"I am so sorry Shindou for the how Kariya acted" Kirino said and looked at Shindou apologizingly.
"Why are you apologizing for him? Shindou asked.
"Well...Umm-" 'Why am I apologizing for him' Kirino thought asking himself too.
"I have no clue" Kirino answered honestly. A few minutes comes by and no one spoke again, until Shindou broke the silence by asking a question.
"So what do you mean by what you just said earlier?" Shindou asked.
"What do you mean by 'what I just said earlier'I said too many things because me and Kariya were fighting" Kirino said acting like he didn't understood Shindou's question, Shindou noticing this tried asking in another way.
"Alright fine we'll do it your way" Shindou said in a tone of finality and asked Kirino seriously " What did you mean by 'punishment' earlier? And don't try acting to me 'cause I know when you're lying Kirino is best if you just answer me truthfully" Shindou said directly looking at Kirino. While Kirino's lookingsideways not meeting Shindou's eyes.
"Uhmm..Well..Argh! Fine (sigh) I'll give you some things but not all" Kirino said giving up at lying since just as he knows Shindou, Shindou knows him well enough too.
"Ahm..Well..You see (sigh) just last week me and Kariya did something like a deal of some kind and that well who ever loses well you know what happens to losers right" Kirino said giving as much little information on Shindou since from the things he just shouted at Kariya and the slip-up he made while they were waiting for Kariya it won't be long enough before Shindou figure it out himself.
While Shindou's already thinking trying to put the pieces basing from his observation, to that Kirino just said to him and the words he heard when Kirino and Kariya were shouting at each other 'last week, deal,staying with Kariya, Kirino obediently following Kariya's orders, Kariya acting like a boss,punishment, disrespect ,humiliate, force' this are the words that kept repeating to his mind until it "clicked" to him and has a vague ideaon what is happening between the two, but before Shindou could ask Kirino more the bell ringed signalling that lunch break is over. And both of them exited the rooftop