Ever had that moment where you had to face with your worst subject? I'm sure it happens to everyone. Anyway, please enjoy~!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from both Love Live and Ensemble Stars. All characters belongs to their original creator. I merely own the story of this fanfic.

Chapter 14: Tutor (Honoka)

The bell rang throughout the school, indicating the end of their last lesson period. Unable to stand the pressure of the class, Honoka finally let out a sigh of relief as soon as she heard the bell rang. Usually at the time like this, she would have waited outside at the hallway for her friend in the same club as they would walked together to their club.

However, she decided that she would skipped today's club activities. Not because she wanted to but because she had a MAJOR problem to settle first. That problem was called, homework.

Apparently, she did not finished her homework from last week and the teacher just had to mention it today in the class, which ended up her getting busted. As punishment, she received DOUBLE homework for today and must be pass up at the end of the week along with the previous one.

Letting out a sigh, Honoka took one last sip of her orange juice before tossing it into a trash bin.

"Well, now that that's settled. Might as well get started on finishing those homework. Ugh, though I think it might be faster if I had Umi-chan and Kotori-chan to help me..." talking to herself, Honoka pondered whether she should but she immediately shook her head in disagreement.

"No, no, no! I can't do that! I've already caused too much problem."

Her mind was brought back to the moment where she had to confess to all members of μ's that she couldn't attend to their practice and had to officially postponed it to a later date. Although she knew that the next DreamFes was coming up and everyone was just as nervous as she was, she had no choice. Not only that, she also had to skip her club activity today for the sake of completing her homework. She had to sacrifice so many things and never had she felt so much guilt for letting it happened.

"This time, I'll try to do it all by myself!" she filled with determination, Honoka got out all of her homework and placed it on her desk. Somehow, just looking at the books caused her determination to falter. To make it worst, it was one of her worst subjects in her class.

"You can do it, you can do it..." she told to herself as she opened one of the books before scanning the whole questions of what she had to do. However the sight of multiples questions inside the book created an urge inside of her to give up. Minutes felt like an hour and Honoka knew the previous urge was growing stronger than before as she faced a difficult question and she's not even halfway complete from that single book.

"Uwaah! I knew it was hard!" she whined as she slammed her face on the desk, only to slowly felt the pain throbbing at her forehead from the impact. "Ouch..."

"What exactly are you doing?" a sudden voice spoke up, causing the ginger-haired female to look at the owner of the voice, standing at her classroom's entrance.

"Eh? Hokuto-kun? What are you doing here?" Honoka titled her head, wondering why he was in her classroom instead of going for their club activity. She did told Umi to pass her message to the black-haired male that she couldn't attend for their club activity today.

"Club activity is canceled...again. So, what are you doing here?" he said as he walked towards her desk. Letting out a nervous laugh, Honoka slowly tried to cover her homework from Hokuto's sight but somehow, he already caught glimpsed of what she was doing.

"Doing your homework? How rare." he smirked, causing the ginger-haired female to glare at him.

"Hey! It's not like I've never done my homework." she pouted, crossing her arms as she looked away.

"Oh, really? Because from what I heard from Sonoda, you didn't finished your previous homework and ended up getting more from the teacher." he said. Honoka flinched by both of his statement and his stern tone. He reminded her so much of Umi. The male took a seat in front of Honoka's desk as he placed his school bag to the side.

"And that's why I'm here to help."

Blinking at the male, she wondered if she just heard him right but at the same time, she was delighted to hear the offer.

"Really?!" she asked as she leaned forward to the male, causing him to back away from her as he realized the sudden closeness between their faces. Hokuto nervously looked away before nodding his head. The smile on Honoka's face grew wider than before before it faltered.

"Oh, but..." Honoka mumbled. Sitting back at her seat, she looked at the male with concerned eyes. "Are you sure you're not busy? I mean, since there's no club activities, I'm sure you wanted to go home instead of staying back at school."

Although she was happy to find someone that could helped her, she didn't want to be a bother to him. Sensing her worried tone, the male regained his composure back and shook his head.

"Don't be ridiculous. You should know by now that I don't like going home early. Besides, I have free time right now. Might as well use it to help someone who needs any." After hearing the male's statement, Honoka smiled at him. Typical Hokuto, she thought.

"Thank you." she said with one of her usual smile while Hokuto nodded his head.

"Well, then. Show me which part you don't understand." Hokuto asked. Honoka showed the previous question that she was trying to solve to the male. When he took it, she was nervous that he would scold her because she couldn't understood something simple but he never did. Instead, he showed her how to solve the problem like any other teachers would when their students couldn't. Glad that he wasn't mad or scolding her, Honoka paid attention to every single explanations that Hokuto gave and tried solving the questions.

Time passed by without them even realized how long have they spent inside the classroom. It took her a while to complete the whole homework that she received but with Hokuto's help, it was possible. Solving the last question never felt any more relieving than she ever thought.

"It's done! I finally did it~!" Honoka cheered as she closed her book and jumped in joy, receiving a sigh from the male.

"You can get excited and all Kousaka, but make sure that you do you homework on time after this." Hokuto reminded the ginger-haired female before standing up.

"Sheesh, I know, I know. Seriously, you and Umi-chan really are alike, you know?" she pouted as she put all of her books inside her bag.

"I'll take that as a compliment."

The reddish sky signaled them that it was getting late and club activities have long finished before they even realized it. The two of them decided that it was time to go home. As Honoka closed the door to her classroom, she turned around and smiled at the black-haired male behind her.

"What is it?" the male asked, confused by her action.

"Nothing. It's just that, I'm glad you helped me out, Hokuto-kun." she answered, causing the male to smile this time.

"I'm glad I could be of some help."

"No, really! You saved me a lot of time. I know I would had a hard time doing all of those without anyone's help." she said, earning a questioning look from the black-haired male.

"I'm sure you could have asked Sonoda or even Minami to help you out." he stated.

"Well, of course I wanted to but... I just don't want to give them any more problem." she said as she looked down on the floor. Hokuto gave her a look that told her to elaborate her reason. Letting out a sigh, Honoka told him about what had happened after she received her double homework from the teacher.

"I see. So that's why you didn't want to ask for their help." Hokuto glanced at the ginger-haired female beside him as they walked down the hallway together. Honoka could only nodded her head.

"I feel bad..."

"Well, all you have to do is to make up for it."

"Hmm, you're right. Now that all my homework is done, I don't have to worry about it anymore. And it's all thanks to you, Hokuto-kun." she smiled at the black-haired male, causing him to blush a little before looking back at the front.

"That's good and all but make sure you don't ignore any other homework you'll get from the teachers after this." his statement caused the ginger-haired female to slow her pace down until she finally stopped walking.

"Kousaka?" noticing she was not beside him, he turned around to face the female, worried. However, before he could even asked anything else, Honoka was already in front of him with her eyes twinkled in excitement as she stared at him.

"If that happens, well, can I ask for your help again?" she asked as innocently as she could. Hokuto could only stared back in disbelief. His silence and glare was enough of an answer but Honoka wouldn't give up yet.

"Please~?" Honoka peered closer to the male as he backed away from her until his back hit a wall, trapping the male in between the wall and the female. Honoka continued to persuade him as she asked many times for him to help her out, again and again until Hokuto finally gave up.

"Fine, I'll help you out. But this is just because you're so desperate about it..."

"Thank you, Hokuto-kun!" she jumped on him as she clinged to his arm, causing the black-haired male to blush a deep shade of red before looking away.

"A-Alright, alright. I get it. Just...let go of me..."

"Yay~! I have my own personal tutor~!" she cheered as she spun around before hopping forward with a big smile on her face. She could hear the male letting out a frustrating sigh.

"I'm nobody's personal tutor, Kousaka..."

Giggling at the male, Honoka skipped in the hallway, leaving the male behind as she thought of how easy her life would be to have Hokuto as her own tutor.

Must be nice to have a smart friend like Hokuto as a tutor. I'd imagined him being the smart guy in his class and Honoka would do anything to have someone like him to teach her everything.

Anyway, sorry I've uploaded this chapter a bit later than usual. My new semester just started and I was busy choosing my subjects and preparing everything for my studies. But, don't worry. I'm still going to continue the story no matter what.

Hope you liked this chapter! Leave a review and a comment down below so that I can read your thoughts and hopefully, that will helped me get my motivation going on! Again, thank you and I'll see you in the next chapter~! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

p/s: One thing though, I have been informed about the new unit called 'Switch'. I will put them in the story but not sooner than you expected because I have no idea of what kind of relationship they have with the other characters so, I'm going to avoid doing that for now.