Next Chapter for Daydreams. This one's for the Student Council president, Tatenashi Sarashiki. Nothing much to say except read and enjoy.

Also, planning a new story AU with Ichika and Chifuyu. Please read it if you can :D

Warning: Tatenashi may be OOC here since I'm not to sure about her character.

BTW, Laura's next chapter will be on a new story along with the other chapters which will soon be removed to be placed there.

The sounds of sparring echoed around the small dojo as Ichika and Tatenashi fought together. However, if one looked close enough, it'd become obvious the match was incredibly one-sided. Ichika looked out of breath, his body wobbling left and right as he struggled to stay upright. Tatenashi, on the other hand, seemed be relaxed and showed no signs of any fatigue at all.

"Ara, ara. Giving up so soon, Ichika-kun?" She said, leaning back on the wall and stretching her arms behind her head. Ichika didn't reply to her taunts and simply shook his head before charging straight at her again, pulling his right arm back to aim for her shoulder to try and disable her.

She dodged to the side casually before grabbing his outstretched arm and pinning it to his back. Ichika struggled to try and free himself, but her grip wouldn't loosen. "Do you give up yet, Ichika-kun? You're a thousand years too early to match up to this onee-san." She proclaimed confidently.

"N-No way!" He yelled in response. He struggled for a few more seconds before he realized it was futile. No matter how he moved, her grip on his arm wouldn't loosen and he ended up being unable to fight back. Hanging his head in shame, he stopped his movement and surrendered. "Alright, I give up, Senpai." He muttered softly.

"Huh~ I'm afraid I can't hear you properly. This Onee-san has a hard time hearing people when they don't speak up." She teased him. "Why don't you speak up?" She leaned forward and placed her face next to his, her mouth so close to his ear that he could feel her every breath tickling him. "There, maybe I can hear you now." The smile she had on her face made it quite obvious that she had ulterior motives to getting closer to him.

Ichika blushed at their close proximity and turned his face away from hers before muttering again. "I said I give up!" He said, the redness on his face getting worse by the second. Ichika always wondered how she could be so open, but he never really found out why. It honestly astounded him how she could be so carefree considering her position.

He didn't have time to wonder about it before he suddenly felt two soft, pillow like things pressing hard against his back. He didn't have to be a genius to figure out exactly what those were and he reacted like any reasonable and chivalrous young man would've.

By panicking...a lot.

"S-S-SENPAI! YOU'RE WAY TOO CLOSE!" He yelled as he suddenly ran forward, causing her grip on him to loosen . He was really starting to regret asking her to help him spar today.

Tatenashi pouted cutely, causing Ichika to blush again. "Eh~ I was just leaning in to hear what you said. It's Ichika-kun's fault for not being loud enough." She reasoned to him. Ichika knew her reasoning was a complete lie, but he knew arguing with her would only end with him losing and her coming out on top again, so he just kept his mouth shut and walked out the door of the dojo to the cafeteria for an early dinner. Maybe some food would help him calm down.

"So...why are you here, again?" Ichika asked slowly.

He'd wanted to get some time to himself, maybe think over a nice bowl of ramen. Unfortunately, he couldn't get his wish.

"Eh? Just having an early dinner. We probably had the same idea that's all."

Tatenashi was waiting for him at a table when he got there, a full meal already ready. She said she was going there herself and they just met by coincidence, but the full tray of food – full of his favorite foods, no less – placed across her made him seriously doubt that statement.

He sighed and sat down across from her. He didn't want to bother questioning her since he knew how that would end. Besides, the food looked delicious and it would've been a waste not to eat it.

There was one thing plaguing his mind, however. "Senpai, where's everybody else? It looks like there's no one here." He asked idly, looking around the oddly desolate cafeteria.

"They must be busy with other things." She answered nonchalantly, continuing to eat her food. Ichika seriously doubted that. He at least expected one of his five friends to be here. One of them would usually invite him to eat dinner with them.

He decided to drop it. After all, what could she have done? She might've been the student council president, bet he doubted even she was good enough to make the entire school disappear from the cafeteria.

"Ichika-kun, aren't you going to eat? You shouldn't waste food others worked so hard to make."

Ichika snapped out of his stupor and looked down on the food in front of him. The meal consisted of some shrimp tempura, a bowl of ramen at the side, and some rice for good measure. He also saw some cake for dessert which consisted of a slice strawberry cake and some sweets. All in all, it looked very appetizing.

With a small smile, he quickly shoveled down some of the food in front of him, and suddenly froze as he swallowed the first bite. 'Th-this shrimp's texture is...amazing! The crunchiness of the bread covering complements the softness of the shrimp inside.' He grabbed some of the rice with his chopsticks and took a small bite as well, making another sigh of pleasure of the perfect taste. This was the best meal he had eaten in days.

Tatenashi smiled when she saw his over the top reaction. "I take it you like it, Ichika-kun." She gigled slightly, causing Ichika to stop his eating and look at her in embarassment. "How is it?"

"Oh...uh, it's really good." Ichika answered happily. "I was just surprised, that's all. This is the first time the foods ever tasted this good. The chefs must've been doing their best today" He added as he shoveled more food in his mouth.

"Actually, I made that, not the chefs." She remarked in an off hand tone as she started to eat her food as well.

The sounds of coughing could be heard as Ichika suddenly choked on the food at her announcement. He grabbed at the table to and tried to find some water or anything to dislodge the food on his throat.

Worried, Tatenashi stood up from her seat in order to give him the heimlich maneuver. "Ichika-kun, hold still and keep trying to dislodge the food from your throat." She placed both fists on his gut and pulled inwards.

After a few seconds of choking, the food lodged in his throat loosened and Ichika managed to spit it out, grimacing in disgust the entire time.

"T-Thanks, Tatenashi-senpai." He managed to say in between fits of coughing. "Haaaaa~ I wasted the food." He said with a sigh.

In all his grabbing at the table to find some water earlier, he had knocked over his tray and spilled his food onto the floor. Now the meal he had just been enjoying a few seconds ago was decorating the floor.

"Still...you should've told me you were the one who made it, Senpai" He remarked as he bent down to try and clean up some of the mess.

She bent down and helped him clean up the mess before a question popped into her mind. "Hm? What's the difference if I make it or not?" She asked him curiously. "You didn't seem to mind eating it before you found out." She idly noted.

Ichika felt himself pause awkwardly as she asked her question. "Well, it's just that...uh, how do I say this? Most people who cook for another person tend to either be family or...boyfriend and girlfriend." He managed to stutter out nervously, hoping she didn't notice his face turning red (How many time has this happened already?).

"Hm~ I thought Ichika-kun and I were already like that." She commented cheerfully, causing Ichika to feel embarassed .

He didn't know how she had come to that conclusion. Unless...was she just teasing him again? 'Yeah, that must be it.' he thought to himself. She was just teasing him again like all the other times. He breathed a sigh of relief at his conlusion.

"I've already seen each you naked, after all." She added as an afterthought. Ichika had to resist the urge to remember how she barged into his his bathroom when he was taking a shower and the way the swimsuit clinged to her voluptous fig-

*CLANG*

The sounds of the tray dropping echoed around the Cafeteria as the metal fell onto the floor. Ichika cursed lightly as the food splled onto the floor again. 'Okay, not good. I should probably try not to think of her huge bre- THERE I GO AGAIN! Need to keep calm and make sure she doesn't think I've been thinking of her matu-' Ichika had to resist the urge to smack himself in the face as images kept popping into his head.

While Ichika was having an internal debate, Tatenashi was having a dilemma of her own. She'd said her remark off-handedly just to gauge his reaction, and, honestly, it didn't look that good. Did he really think it was so unappealing that he dropped his tray in shock? She thought she was a good enough catch, to be completely honest.

'Is there something wrong with me?' They both thought simultaneously, though their reasons differed by a huge margin. Ichika wondered why he was thinking of her so much and why pictures of her kept popping into his head, while Tatenashi tried to find what would make her unappealing to her kohai.

The next few minutes were silent, until Tatenashi looked up and asked Ichika a question. "Ichika-kun, is there something wrong with me?" She asked him slowly.

"Huh? What do you mean, Senpai?" He looked confusedly at her as he continued to clean mess he made.

She paused for a moment, before shaking her head left and right. "Un, nevermind." She smiled slightly before asking asking another question. "Um, just curious, but what kind of girls does Ichika-kun like?" She asked him curiously.

"U-Um, w-w-well...I try not to think of girls much?" He answered her with a stutter. Only after he said it did he realize how weird it sounded if taken out of context.

Evidently, Tatenashi picked up on this. "My, my. So you don't think of girls? I didn't think you had those kinds of tastes." She laughed as his face went from confused to bright red at her statement.

"T-That's not true! I think of girls all the time!" He denied her accusations of his alleged thinking of men. She just gave him a 'Yeah, sure I believe you' look and he took the last plunge to ensure his musculinity. "Didn't I get a nosebleed when I massaged you? That proves I like girls!" He said frantically.

Unfortunately, he didn't realize how deep he was digging himself into when he said that.

Tatenashi's smile turned into a full on smirk at his confession, and she went back to cleaning part of the food spilled on the floor. Ichika had a feeling he would regret confessing that little memory.

The rest of the time cleaning up was filled with an awkward silence. Ichika was expecting her to take a crack at his nervousness or tease him in her usual manner, but she seemed oddly focused at the task in front of her.

Both of them sat down at the table again after they finished cleaning up. The only feed left was the one for Tatenashi, Ichika thought sadly. He didn't want to admit it, but he still felt hungry and he wanted to eat more food. That sparring session had taken a lot out of him.

He heard a small sigh, before a voice broke him out of his sad mood. "Here, aaaaahn~" A pair of chopsticks holding some shrimp tempura in front of him. He looked past the chopsticks and saw Tatenashi giving him a bright smile.

"Senpai, what are you doing?" He titled his head to the side and looked at her with a confused expression. 'Doesn't she want to eat? She worked hard to cook these, after all.' He wondered to himself.

After a few seconds, he still didn't react to her feeding attempts, and her smile twitched ever so a slight push of her hand, the chopsticks she was holding got closer to his lips till the shrimp was almost touching it.

"Ichika-kun, please open your mouth" She asked in an overly sweet tone that made his heart beat rapidly for some reason. He felt like she was showing him a side she didn't show to anybody else.

And he thought she was...cute.

Ichika was usually annoyed with her antics and frequently protested to her usual methods of gaining his attention. He still remembered how he came into the room to find her in an...interesting...state of dress and how his bathroom door got broken after he ran in due to embarassment.

Now she was...being polite and considerate to him. Was it because of what he said earlier? If that was the case, he expected her to tease him more like she usually did, not like...this.

He opened his mouth as the shrimp pressed into it and swallowed the food offered to him. It still tasted delcious.

"How is it?" She asked him.

He nodded his head happily and smiled at her. "Yeah, it's still good even if it's a bit cold" He replied earnestly.

The rest of the impromptu meal went by smoothly after that and they shared the meal before placing the tray in the in disposal unit.

Evening eventually rolled in as the two of them made their way to the dorms. Both of them kept a comfortable distance to one another and a comfortabe silence was kept between them.

Using the rare moment to think, Ichika wondered about something she had said in the past. She'd told him to "Turn into a man I can fall in love with" and, to this day, he still wondered exactly what she meant.

What kind of man could match up to someone like her? Her standards must be near perfection, he thought somewhat bitterly. How was it possible for someone like him – Heck, for anyone at all – to catch up to her? They'd have to be superhuman.

His train of thoughts kept wandering and they both reached his dormitory room before he knew it.

"Well, see ya, Ichika-kun." She waved goodbye to him and turned to walk away, until-

"Wait, Senpai!"

She stopped in her tracks and was surprised to see Ichika staring at her with a serious look on his face. "What is it?" She asked, surprise evident in her voice. This was the first time she'd seen him look so intensely at her, and she felt her heart flutter slightly.

He seemed to hesitate before he managed to say what he wanted. "Before...when you told to be a man you could fall in love with, were you being serious?" He nervously asked her, efusing to break eye contact.

"Of course. This Onee-san never lies, you know." She answered confidently.

"Then, can you tell me what you meant? I don't really understand what you mean by-"

He didn't have a chance to finish his words as he suddenly felt a pair soft of lips encompass his. No words needed to be said, everything was understood between the two of them thorugh that one action alone.

He didn't know how long they stayed like that. It could've been seconds, hours, or days even. All he remembered was feeling content and the tastle of strawberry's in his mouth.

"Does that answer your question?" She whisperered teasingly at him.

"Huh? I thought you said that you wanted me to be a man you could fall in love with?" He gave her a look of confusion.

She hugged him softly and replied in a breathless voice.

"You already are."

Little did he know that the rest of the students were currently in a contest to be his next roommate to ensure the two of them would be alone the entire time. Hey, being the Student Council President had it's advantages.

Alright, that's the end of the Tatenashi Sarashiki chapter. Probably not very good, but I'm stll learning how to write well, so please be patient with me.

Truth be told, this wasn't supposed to be the original chapter, but I have to finish what I can since I'm beta reading some stuff. I'll make a the daydream for her that I was supposed to make for her again at some point.

Next maiden is either: Charlotte, Kanzashi, Maya, or Tabane. Please leave a comment on who you want to go next.