6/23/13: Hello I did some editing with this chapter. Hopefully it reads clearer and I'll work on the next chapter.

"Come on whiskers you need to focus! This is just the basic work we do in class, if you can't do that then forget about the exam." Eri said hitting Harima with a role of paper on the head.

"Give me a break! I'm trying!" Harima yells back. Eri was helping him prepare for the test into Class 2C. At first Harima wanted to get in the class because of Tenma. But now it was for himself, he planned to make something out of himself.

"Are you sure this is a good idea? If you can barely do this, I don't see how you'll be able to keep up in our class." Eri said making correction to the paper. Almost all of them were wrong.

"Come on Rich girl I came to you for help! Not to hear the stuff I already know." He said resting his head on the table.

They both were in the library "ugh…I'm sorry it's just I never tutored anyone before…now here try these." She said giving him another paper. The problems were from Eri's Homework she would make a copy of the homework and do it together with Harima.

They both worked until the bell rang "Well at least you got one right…" Eri said looking at the paper. Harima at this point was brain dead and he still had class to go to.

"Here do the problems on the back…see you tomorrow." She waved walking back to 2C. Harima Walks back to class 1D.

Harima enters the classroom and put his head down at his desk. "How did your studying go with Eri Harima?" Yakumo asked.

"Ugh…I don't know how I'm going to do this! I have a manga due in three days and I have to study for this exam to put me at my own grade level…ugh." He said rolling his head towards Yakumo.

"I'm sure you can pull it off…if you need help with the manga I'm free tonight." Yakumo offers.

Harima felt some stress go away "I'm glad you're here Yakumo. If you can be around as soon as you can." He said putting his head up as the class began.

Later that Night

Harima was hard at work on his manga when Yakumo knocked on his door. "Come in!" he called, Yakumo came in and Harima lost his breath for a second.

Yakumo was in a very nice winter dress "Ummm sorry if this seems too overdressed…but Tenma had a mix up with the clothes and this was all I had." Yakumo said blushing very red.

Flashback

"Yakumo I think I destroyed are drier!" Tenma yelled.

Yakumo came in nothing but a towel "Uhhh how did you do that…" she asks looking at the drier.

Tenma was holding back a smile "oh no what are going to wear when you go to Harima's? All your clothes are in there." She said in a clueless tone.

"All my clothes were in there?" she asks raising her eye brow.

"Well expect the one on your bed." Tenma smiled, Yakumo walked into her room to see the dress laying on her bed. "Get ready! You don't want to keep Harima waiting!" Tenma said pushing her in her room. Yakumo had a feeling Tenma did something to the drier but she let it go.

"Uhhh no you look really good in a dress…anyways let's get to work!" Harima said taking his pen. Yakumo sat down and took the first page

"Harima you only finished one page?" Yakumo said starting to ink it.

"I've hit a road block! I can't come up with story!" Harima said wanting to cry because 30 pages were due in three days.

"I really need help with ideas! Please tell me Yakumo that you've been holding ideas from me." Harima begged.

Yakumo blushed "ummm…well…sorry Harima but I don't." she said.

Harima face planted on the table "Doomed! Doomed! I gone die! The boss it going to smash me with his oversized hand!" Harima cried.

Yakumo watches Harima as he curls up into a ball. He was really losing it and it was starting to get hard to watch. Yakumo stood up "trade me spots." She said. Harima looks at her teary eyed and crawls to the other side. Yakumo goes into a deep focus and starts drawing the story. Harima did the inking still crying convince that his life was over.

3 hours later

"All done!" Yakumo said putting down the pen.

Harima snapped out of his depression "wait what? Really?" he asks.

Yakumo smiles "yeah…I hope I took the story in the right direction…I kind of got carried away." She said.

Harima went through the pages overwhelmed with joy. The art was just about on par with his "well…its better then I would've done…my god I love you Yakumo…" after he said that there was a very awkward silent. Harima then realized what he said and refuse to look at Yakumo because his face was red. Yakumo wasn't looking at Harima she also very red "uhhhhh…you know what I meant right?" Harima asked.

Yakumo looked at him "umm yeah you were just over joyed is all." She said. She then saw something that made her heart jump, his thoughts! This was the second time she seen them.

Harima seem to be confused it went something like "why the hell did you say that! Damn it! Now I can't stop thinking about her! This doesn't help that Tenma said I could date her! I mean Yakumo is cute and she helps me with a lot. But what if she doesn't feel the same? I don't want end this friendship…It's too much of a risk…" the thought pretty much then repeated itself.

"Harima I'm going go now…ok?" Yakumo said very red. She wasn't sure what to think

Harima nodded also red "You Dumb Ass! Now she hates you!" Harima's thought said above his head. Yakumo felt she had to fix this enough to let him know he was ok.

"Let me know if you need any more help…do you need any more help?" she asked.

Harima shook his head "No…I'm fine! See you tomorrow." He said sweating. Yakumo smiled and left the room.

Harima could finally breathe again "What the hell was that! Damn it I don't want this to turn into a misunderstanding…but do I like her?" he asked himself.

"Here you go again…" itoko said walking by.

"Hey shut up!"

Yakumo walked home "so Tenma is wants me to be with Harima…did she really think we match? Does she know about Sarah?" she thought. Yakumo liked Harima for who he was and in a way she thought she didn't deserve him. Sarah was in love with Harima and she wouldn't do something like that to her best friend…even if Harima felt that way about her. Yakumo was going to make sure Sarah got what she wanted. They were best friends…and that's what friends do. "I'll never betray Sarah." She said to herself.

Yakumo reached home "Hi Yakumo how did it go at Harima's?" Tenma asked jumping onto Yakumo.

Yakumo smiled "It went good sis…we got a lot done." She said.

"What did he think of your nice dress?" Tenma asks.

"umm he liked it…Did you fix the dryer?" Yakumo asked.

Tenma held in her joy "Yes I did! Gave it a good butt kicking and it started running again!" she said raising her fist up. Yakumo smile and started cooking dinner.

Three days later

"If you keep this up whiskers you'll be ready for the exam." Eri said looking at his paper. Harima was starting to get some of the work but he still had work to do.

Just then his phone started ringing "one minute…" he said walking to a quiet spot. "What's up?"

"Harima we got your reviews for you resent manga and its amazing!" Harima eyes widen.

"What really?" Harima asked.

"Yes! The sales are going through the roof! The boss wants to see you now!"

Harima was so happy and horrify that it was too much to hold in. He walked back to Eri "Uhh I got to go! Something important happened!" Harima left in a rush before Eri could say anything.

He rushed to Class 1D "Yakumo! Yakumo! Yakumo! You need to come with me! Come on!" he said picking up Yakumo and running off campus.

"Harima School isn't over yet! What's so important!" she asked. Harima put her on his motorcycle and drove off

"Just wait and see!" he said over the wind. Yakumo at this point was hanging on for dear life.

The reach Zinagma and Yakumo now had a good idea why he kidnapped her. "Come on!" he said grabbing her hand as they rushed into the building.

2 hours later

"Can you believe the how much of a raise we got!" Harima said very happy.

"I'm happy I was able to help." Yakumo smiled.

Harima looked at Yakumo and his heart started racing. He knew this feeling all to well. It was a feeling he hadn't felt since Tenma. The words that came to mind come out with ease "Thanks to you Yakumo…I…I…I think I'm in love with you." He said blushing.

Yakumo shot a bright red, he wasn't questioning his feelings. He was dead serous, his thought backed up what he was saying. Yakumo had so many thoughts running through her head, in a way she felt the same way. But then she thought about Sarah and how it would destroy her and their friendship. Yakumo's heart started hurting and she didn't want to hurt Harima. The tears started falling off of Yakumo's face. This was going to hurt her beyond anything she ever felt.

"Harima…I'm sorry…but I don't feel the same way…"

END OF PART 12