"…meet at 7.30pm at SeKi Mall tomorrow after school." Miaka informed Yui, passing to her a ticket the next morning.

Yui took the ticket. "The movie is 'Second Time Around'? I heard it's nice!"

"Yeh, so you're going right? No, wait. You have to go especially since we've already bought your ticket!"

Yui laughed. "Alright, alright, I'll go."

Miaka beamed. "Fabulous!"

And at the same time somewhere on the other side of the school near the basketball area, Kouji was telling the same thing to Tasuki.

"Yeh, ok, got it already!" Tasuki frowned, getting irritated at Kouji for asking and asking.

"Confirm? As in no backing out? Ha! Either way, you don't have a say! You've already paid me for the ticket!" Kouji grinned.

"Yeah, ok, whatever! Let's get moving already. I don't want to be late lest the LADY YUI decides to bite off my head again!" Tasuki slung his backpack over his shoulder and began walking towards the venue.

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Yui was standing at the door, drumming her fingers on her arm, staring at the clock. Miaka had left quite awhile ago, on her way to meet Taka. Five more minutes before Tasuki is officially late again. And there was a high-likely chance that he WOULD be late again. Not that she wanted to see him, of course, it was just that… Well, she wanted to go off early.

The minutes ticked by. 20 seconds… 15 seconds… Then, all of a sudden, WHAM!

"Ouch!" Yui exclaimed, shocked.

"Oh, well, sorry about that!" the person who banged into her spoke.

Yui looked up. It was Tasuki. She glared at him. "Couldn't you have been more careful?"

"Well, if I was all THAT careful, then I would have been late for LADY YUI'S tutoring sessions, wouldn't I?" Tasuki smirked.

Yui dragged him in. "Ok, ok. Now, have you brought your textbook THIS time?"

"Well… What do you think? Of course not! I can't be bothered to lag such a heavy boo-" Tasuki began but was interrupted.

"End of lesson!" Yui cut in curtly, and turned to leave.

"Wait, wait!" Tasuki yelled. "Alright, alright, I DID bring my textbook! But I wasn't kidding when I said it was heavy!"

A slow, barely noticeable smile crept on Yui's face. It wasn't as if she didn't know that he HAD brought his book. Afterall, the book peeking out of his sloppily unclosed bag did read 'Ancient History'… Whirling around, she chirped, "Good! Now we can start!"

Tasuki scratched his head at Yui's sudden cheeriness. Maybe this session wouldn't turn out so bad afterall.

"Ok, turn to page 31 and we can start on History of Russia," Yui instructed as she too flipped open her own copy of the textbook and began to tutor Tasuki.

After a few hours…

"Ok, so this was why Russia became a communist state?" Tasuki asked, still looking a little confused as he ran his hand through his thick, messy orange hair.

"Yeah, that's right," Yui answered his question. "You know, if you are still a little doubtful, you can do a little research in the school library." she suggested.

"Hmm, I'll consider that…" Tasuki agreed as their tutorial came to an end. Both Tasuki and Yui closed their books at the same time and walked out of the classroom. This was the first time both of them weren't trying to kill each other and were actually getting along.

As they both walked off in the opposite direction, one thought remained in their minds—"Maybe he/she isn't so bad afterall."

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author's note:
thnkz 4 da reviews, ppl! big hug ahahahz
FlonTed: hey, thnkz 4 ya suggestion! nuriko's one of mi fav characters so I'll nv omit him! Oh, btw, nuriko's a he in this story.. so I guess there wont b a possibility of a nuri/tas yeh.. )
EVERYONE, like I said, keep reading, keep reviewing, keep smiling! smilex