Chapter 26

DISCLAIMER: Do not own Baka and Test or anything related to it, also do not own Gintama.

A/N: This is rewritten version.

Shimada Minami

It was lunch time, and Minami had decided to come up to the roof after eating with his friends. He had just wanted a quiet, peaceful place to think about all that had occurred last night, especially about what had occurred with him and Miharu. At first, he had tried forgetting it but something kept drawing him back to it, back to the look that had captivated him so much to the point where he had lost control of his thoughts and of his body.

When Miharu had looked into his eyes with that look in her own eyes, he had just been completely unable to think about anything and unable to take any action to push Miharu away when she had begun to inch her lips closer to his own. If that stranger hadn't shown up, Minami feared that he would have let his second kiss be with Miharu. He didn't know what had led him to being captivated; just that it was something so beautiful and so lovely.

He wasn't in love with Miharu, how could he be when his love is for Akihisa? Even through Akihisa was paying more attention to Hideyoshi, Minami could understand why and accepted it, waiting to get Akihisa's attention back on him. Yet... yet he had almost let Miharu kiss him, something that would be like cheating on Akihisa. He couldn't, wouldn't do something like that to Akihisa even though they may not yet be more than friends. But still, why had let Miharu get so close to him? What was that he had seen in her eyes?

Could it be...?

Even though they had been both girls, Miharu had loved him anyways. Now, him as a guy, she still loved him just as much as she did when he was a girl. Could the look that had captivated him so much be her undying love for him that crossed the gender gap? If that was so, why had he never seen it before? Did her love for him grow over all this time, or maybe it was because he had never looked at her like so before yesterday? He had always pushed her away because they were both girls, not to mention she could be a bit fanatic sometimes, but had he ever truly looked into her eyes like yesterday?

"Minami," He turned around upon hearing Akihisa's voice as the girl approached her, all alone as he didn't see anyone behind her, "what are you doing up here all by yourself?" Aki was worried about me?

Akihisa... she liked him, he's known that since this all started... but did she love him? Did she have a look in her eyes that bespoke of her love for him? A look that could captivate him, something that could make him lose his thoughts and just stand still, to just keep looking into her eyes longer? And what about his own eyes? If Akihisa looked into them, would she feel the same thing as he?

"Aki," Minami began, not giving any thought as to what he was saying, "look at me."

Akihisa, was of course, confused. She was about to say something but stopped when her eyes locked onto his own, something causing her to lose her words she was about to speak. Minami looked back into her eyes, and saw something in them. It was different from Miharu's, yet, it still managed to captivate him like hers had. This time, a memory surfaced, a memory of kissing Akihisa all those months back.

With that memory came a desire to kiss her again, and as he took a step forward to take her into his arms, the bell rang. The bell broke them out of their trance, both of their faces turning bright red. Akihisa quickly headed off, running back into the school building.

Kinoshita Yuuko

Normally, Yuuko would be sitting on her couch, reading her boys' love manga as she waited for Hideyoshi to arrive home so they could either read together or so she could try and help him study some. But this time, she had felt like doing something different other than reading, so, she turned on the TV. She figured she could turn it to the news or maybe even of one of Hideyoshi's so-liked cooking shows if there wasn't anything good on.

Instead of anything like that, the TV had somehow gotten left on an anime channel from whoever had it last on (Hideyoshi no doubt as he was busy making breakfast and lunch). Another thing was that not only was this anime channel about his so-liked Shoujo anime, it was his even more so-liked Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl) anime. If it wasn't for their looks, Yuuko would be doubting that he was even her brother.

Thankfully, the channel was playing commercials at the moment instead of one of those anime, but before she could find something to turn it to, it started playing a commercial about some kind of diary for young girls. The commercial brought back memories of Hideyoshi sitting around the house, writing in his own diary as she read her manga or studied. When those memories surfaced, she also remembered that it had been a long time since she had seen him write in it.

She doubted he would have thrown it away or stopped writing in it, so, why was he hiding it from her? She knew in it would be his most personal and private information that he wouldn't want anyone to see, but why would that include her? He had always written down such information when she had been around, even after he had gone through puberty (which, by the way, had little effect on him - she can't even trust mother nature to make her brother more masculine).

So, what could he possibly want her to not know? It couldn't be about their birthday as that was still a long ways off. It couldn't be about... okay, so their birthday was all she could think of. Or maybe, he's writing in it about me? No, no way. False hope, just false hope that he would love her back, that he would return her forbidden feelings for him. But that was the only thing she could think of...

She couldn't withstand the urge; she just had to get up and go look for it. And that is what she did, turning off the TV she stood up and headed for his room, suspecting that to be the place he would have hidden his diary. She told herself the only reason she wanted to find it was to find out why he had stopped writing when she was present, but she knew that she was looking for it to see if her false hopes were true.

I'll just go in there, find it, and read only to find out why he had stopped writing and then when I do find out why, I'll put it back. He'll never know that I read it, never know that I had decided to look at his most private and personal information. Yuuko couldn't help but begin to think about what kind of stuff could be in his diary; stuff that was too embarrassing for him to talk about, his own thoughts about himself, his thoughts about Akihisa, or maybe even stuff she could blackmail him with. But the one thing that held her mind the most was his thoughts about her.

She wanted to find out what he thought about her.

And she wasn't going to be satisfied until she found out.

With a smile, she intruded upon his room, looking around the neat and organized room while she wondered where he would have hidden it. "Dearest brother, I'll only be a moment. You won't even know I was here." With those words, she began her quest to find the book of secrets.

Looking under his bed, she found fashion magazines neatly stacked inside of a box. In his drawers was some of his clothing articles - she would have liked to have found more boys' underwear rather than girls'. In his closet was an array of costumes and other, more casual clothing along with some personal items she wouldn't list. At his desk, she found nothing out of the ordinary save for a drawer filled with pictures of his friends, him, and her. The other areas in his room she checked were also devoid of the diary.

After her futile search, she laid down on the ground, looking up at the ceiling as she wondered where his diary could be. Maybe he had really thrown it out? Or could it be that I'm not looking well enough? Wait, that must be it! I've been thinking about where a typical girl would hide her diary, I should be thinking more like Hideyoshi... If I was him, where would I hide my diary from my over-protective, boys'-love loving, slightly sadistic, and slightly violent sister?

Thinking like him wouldn't be enough, she knew some things about her twin and one of those things was that he could be smart when wanting to hide something from her (he learned from personal experience). So, if she was him, where would he hide his diary from his sister, knowing that she would try and think like him? It would have to be somewhere she would never expect it, wouldn't look, and somewhere where he could get it to write in without her noticing.

Definitely not his room since that would be the place she would most highly suspect, and not her room (the least susceptible place) since he couldn't easily get in and out without her noticing. Not the bathroom since that place was too frequented by her and not the hallway since that didn't really have any good hiding places. The living room wasn't too bad of an idea, but she was too often in there. The kitchen, however, was a much susceptible place as that was practically his domain, so maybe... no... no, there was one place that would be the best room to hide it in.

That place would be the laundry room. The cleaning supplies were stored there, and as Hideyoshi was in charge of cleaning and doing laundry, she would barely ever go in there, and if she did, it would only be for a moment or two. There was nothing in there for her to ever go looking for and since he went in there all the time it would be the perfect place.

As she suspected, she found the diary in the laundry room. It was in a box under some cleaning supplies inside of one of the cabinets. Actually, she found all of his diaries. Ever since he could write, Mother had gotten him a diary to write in about his day each day, a new diary every year. Even though there were about fourteen diaries, she was able to find the current one he was writing in with ease - they all had the year written on the cover.

With this, I can learn all about the juicy details of his life that he doesn't tell me about.

No more concerned with finding out about why he had stopped writing, she opened the diary up at random.

Dear Diary,

Today, my sister forced me to crossdress as her of all people so that I could sing the school's song in a new promotional video for the academy. I just want to say that she's the most tone-deaf person I know, and not only that but she also has no sense of rhythm, at all. I told her all of that without thinking and she hit me, remember, I wrote about that yesterday. She's my sister and all, so I only say this as matter-of-fact: she's a sadist. But even though she can be sadistic at times, I still find myself enjoying her attention... even if it causes me physical pain...

Yuuko's attention was perked up, and along with that, her suspicions that Hideyoshi was actually a masochist heightened. Aside from those, his writing brought back memories of that day and the night before, where she had threatened his life pretty much. She had actually enjoyed dressing up in the boy's uniform, having liked that she hadn't had to worry about her underwear being seen.

She told me everything would be perfectly normal if she, a girl, was discovered as crossdressing as me since the whole entire school is already convinced I'm a girl. I didn't have anything to say to that partly because she held out a hidden microphone to me, but mostly because she was right, as always. Well, after that, I went off to her class and sat down, eventually striking up a conversation to where we started discussing our interest in homosexuality (I didn't mean to say that my sister was a lesbian, I was just referring to her interest in yaoi! How was I suppose to know Kubo would think that I'm - I mean she - is a lesbian?).

Maybe she had been a little too harsh on Hideyoshi at that time... he had been forced to pretend to be her on a moment's notice, and he had just been innocently speaking to Kubo without any ill intents towards her...

Unfortunately, she seemed to have been listening in on me right then as only a few moments later she came storming into the classroom. I was surprised by her sudden entrance and was more surprised when she started dragging me off like I didn't weigh a thing. She took me to where we had changed and stood before me (I'm not sure, but I think I saw a demon behind her and that she, herself, had fearsome red eyes) and demanded what we had been talking about. I tried to explain to her that we were just having some casual small talk, but she told me that I made her sound like she was gay.

I really didn't mean that, I was just trying to say that she had an interest in homosexuality that involved other guys... I never meant it to come out like she had the... 'hots for other girls'... It would be bad for me if that was so...

That little bit perked her interest up, wondering why it would be bad for her brother for her to be a lesbian. Intent on finding out why, she kept on reading.

She then suddenly punched the wall, not too hard (for her) but hard enough to leave a fist size hole in it and for it to start cracking. I was scared of her at that moment, but also thankful that she hadn't punched me that hard.

After going back to class for a bit, Kirishima suddenly told me that my skirt was flipped up in the back. My face began to heat up in embarrassment as I tried to tell her it's okay, but I was too embarrassed to choose my words carefully and ended up saying something that sounded like my sister didn't normally wear panties. I knew that she would be coming after me before she even stormed into the classroom. So, I just let her drag me away, she exerting even less effort than before.

Again, I thought I saw a demon, but even bigger now, behind her as she asked me for my excuse. I lifted up my skirt (with a blush) to show her I was wearing leggings (it was embarrassing to do that in front of her, only the fear of her keeping me from blushing deeper). Then she told me that I made it out to sound like she didn't normally wear panties (as aforementioned) and she started getting even madder. I didn't want her to be so frustrated so I tried to calm her down while trying to tell her that that wasn't what I had meant. After that, I told her that her skirt was a little too big on me around the waist and she ended up digging her heel into the wall, the simple action causing even more damage than the weak (for her) punch.

But then came the worst part, one of my classmates was confessing his love for my sister in front of me to me, and after being able to gently tell him down, he asked me my - her - type. As she has never had a boyfriend (or even a crush) before, I only could guess from the manga she reads. I meant to say she liked younger boys, but it came out to making it sound like she liked much, much younger boys... I didn't mean that!

Afterwards, she choked me until I passed out. But, thankfully, I didn't make any more mistakes and was able to pass the day off without her having to come rushing to drag me off. But I did manage to have a talk with Kirishima about the new clothing store that just recently opened up, and she told me that some of their shirts were really nice. I think, maybe, I'll try stopping by there the next time I shop.

If there hadn't been a rumor going around that my breasts were developing, I would have felt worried that sis disliked me even more after all I had put her through... I didn't want her to dislike me... I wanted her to-

The continuation of it was on the other page, and the only thing stopping her extremely curious mind from turning the page was a dark and familiar presence behind her. It was familiar because that presence was usually associated with her, like the times she had gotten onto Hideyoshi that day. Looking behind her, she saw him standing with his hands on his hips, his eyes drilling into her own.

This one time was the only time she had ever felt scared of her brother, of getting into trouble by him.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi

He had come home to his sister reading his diary, reading from one of the two diaries that he absolutely did not want her to read from. Why? Because those two diaries had in them his true feelings for her and if she ever found out about it... he was afraid of what would happen. Thankfully, though, the pages she had been reading from hadn't had any concrete evidence of his forbidden love for her, but if she had just finished that line at the very end... what would have happened? It wouldn't be him getting onto her; it would be her learning the shocking truth...

But why had she even went around looking for his diaries? But no, that wasn't the most important thing to do just yet. He had to teach her that she shouldn't go looking into his diaries that he does not want her to see. "Don't forget to clean the bathroom, wash all the dishes, do the laundry, clean your room, clean the dining room, dust off all the furniture, and to vacuum the western carpet," He took a sip from his tea, watching a magical girl anime on the TV as he continued on, "there are also some weeds in the garden that need to be pulled, the grass needs to be cut, the other floors inside of the house also need cleaning, and I believe my room could use a cleaning. Oh, don't forget that it's trash day tomorrow, so you will be needing to take out the trash before school," He couldn't threaten her with physical strength like she could with not only him, but also anyone she met, but he could threaten dressing up as her and revealing her yaoi-love to not only the school, but also everyone they knew including their parents, "can I also have a refill? Oh, and don't forget that you're preparing dinner."

As Yuuko came over to get his cup, glaring at him all the time, he wondered if there was possibly anything else she could do.

A/N: Does Yuuko have enough chores to do yet?

Story Creation Room

"Why am I doing chores even in here?" Yuuko asked her twin brother as she swept the floors clean along with the author. "And why is the author doing it too."

Hideyoshi was sitting at his seat, sipping from a teacup as he watched the two of them. "You read my diary, sis. And the author allowed my diary to be read, so both of you get in trouble."

"This isn't fair, she was the one who snooped around to read your diary." The author told him, trying to defend herself.

"Life isn't fair." Hideyoshi bluntly said.

"Don't you and onee-sama seem a bit OOC in these extras?"

"Well, you are writing them as you proofread." Yuuko told the author, sparing her a glance as she went about her work.

"As I said before, do not tell them that.