It was lunchtime in Seigaku, and a certain tensai was wandering around the school looking for a girl with pigtails. He'd just gotten a call from Tachibana Kippei, the captain of Fudomine tennis team. Tachibana wanted him to follow his sister secretly, because Ann had been going back home around midnight for the past few weeks, and no matter how their family members question her, she refuses to say a single thing. That makes Tachibana very worried, hence he decided to approach Fuji for help.

After some time, Fuji finally spotted the distinctive long pigtails of Sakuno's under the sakura tree; she was eating her lunch alone since Tomoka wasn't at school that day. Walking up to her, he greeted her.

"Fuji-sempai?" Sakuno quickly stood up and bowed, "Ohayo."

"Ohayo, Sakuno-chan." Fuji smiled at his kohai, "Ne Sakuno-chan, do you think you could you do me a favor?"

Sakuno blinked. The tensai of Seigaku, Fuji Syusuke, was actually asking her to do him a favor; she couldn't, and didn't want to believe it. After all, Fuji was not only famous for his tennis skills, but also his sadistic personality, hence, whatever things Fuji wanted her to do, will not be something good. Sakuno was tempted to reject it, but upon remembering Fuji's sadistic personality, she doesn't dare to reject. Who knows what will Fuji do to her if she refuses?

"Hai… Fuji-sempai…" she agreed, feeling nervous.

"That's great," Fuji gave her a friendly smile, "You know Ann-chan?"

"Tachibana-san?" she was surprise to hear her name.

"Aa… do you think you could help me follow her secretly, without her realizing?"

"Eh? Secretly?" Sakuno was stunned, unsure of why Fuji had wanted her to do something like /that. /

"In other words, I want you to stalk her." Sakuno's eyes widen at what Fuji had just said, that causes her to wonder with mild curiousity. How could Fuji still smile that friendly smile when he just asked her to stalk someone?

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Sakuno sighed and look at her watch for the fifth time in the hour. Fuji had told her to meet him around Fudomine Junior high school an hour ago, but after an hour, she still hasn't caught sight of the tensai. That makes her wonder, if Fuji was just making fun of her?

"Sorry!" she could heard someone apologizing behind her, turning herself to face the person, she expected to see the tensai, but no, the person she saw wasn't the tensai of Seigaku, instead it was the Junior Ace of Rikkai, Kirihara Akaya.

"Kirihara-san?"

"Fuji-san asked me to come…" Kirihara sighed, "He said that he needs to deal with a purple thing…" he sighed again remembering that dangerous smile on Fuji's face, why did he agree to help anyway? It wasn't like he was afraid of him.

"So… what do we have to do?" he asked the shorter girl.

"To… to stalk Tachibana-san…" Sakuno replied softly, her voice was so soft that Kirihara almost had problem hearing it.

"Stalk Tachibana-san? Heh… that's interesting." Kirihara smirked before a question come across his mind, "Wait… which Tachibana are you talking about?"

"Tachibana Ann."

"Tachibana's sister…" he mumbled before catching the sight of her walking out of the school. Quickly, both of them went up to follow her, but still keep a distance behind her.

Soon after 5 minutes of walk, they saw Ann went into the park. Ann smiled at the sight of a bespectacled guy sitting on a bench, and went up to greet him.

"Oshitari-san?" Sakuno and Kirihara couldn't believe their eyes, the person Tachibana Ann was meeting was the tensai of Hyotei, Oshitari Yuushi. What surprised them the most was that soon they walked away holding hands.

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Sakuno yawned, it was already 11pm and the couple still doesn't seem to show signs of heading home. Kirihara and she had been following them the whole day, watching some movie that's way too romantic for them at the movie theater, drinking some drinks in the café, and other activities that young lovers are doing nowadays. Not that Sakuno dislike it, in fact, she enjoyed it a lot.

Watching Oshitari and Ann walked into the street tennis court makes both of them wondered if Oshitari and Ann were going to play tennis at such late a time. Kirihara and Sakuno went closer to watch them, although it was quite dark and there are some distances between them, they could still see what the couple was doing, Oshitari and Ann were making out under the tree. Both Kirihara and Sakuno went beet-red, not wanting to know what will happened next, they ran away from the tennis court as fast as they could.

Outside the tennis court, both of them were trying to clear their mind when Sakuno heard Kirihara's voice.

"So… what are we gonna do next?"

"Eh? I think we could go back now…" she responded.

"Aa… I'll walk you home." Kirihara said suddenly, causing Sakuno to blush more. "It's dangerous for a girl to be out at this time."

"Hai…" Sakuno mumbled and lower her head to hide her blush, "Arigatou, Akaya-kun…"

Owari.