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Disclaimer: I don't own this anime (Ultra Maniac) or any of its characters.
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Chapter 2: Problem# 2
"Kaji! Tsujiai!"
"What are you guys doing in front of the girl's locker room?" Nina eyed the two suspiciously.
"We... um... uh..." Kaji started to stammer, not knowing what to say or do.
Even Tsujiai was speechless, he didn't know why.
"If you guys are gonna stay like that Ayu and I will be leaving, see you guys tomorrow." Nina pulled Ayu's arm for a quick getaway.
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THE NEXT DAY
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Ayu sighed once again; it was becoming one of her habit. "Tomorrow's the dance, what am I going to do?"
"Ayu!" someone called out.
"Nina"
"Good morning, Ayu!" Nina greeted her friend politely.
"Why are you so jumpy all of a sudden?" Ayu scowled, feeling a little grumpy about her problem.
"Well, I already made an antidote for the... you know."
"Really" Ayu asked with her eyes widely opened, filled with glimmering hope.
"Hey, you two" A teacher called out, near the gate. "I'm closing the gate now."
"Right, sorry about that." Ayu and Nina apologized as they bowed their heads.
"Ran along now" The teacher ordered.
From the far distance window, two known figures were watching the two girls walk up inside their building.
As Ayu sat on her seat, she opened her desk's compartment and held out her English notebook. Surprisingly, two notes fell out. It has different handwriting but it has the same content.
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Ayu,
Will you go to the dance with me?
I'll wait for you at the side of the tennis court after class.
(Anonymous)
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Nina read both notes twice, still disbelieving of what she had read.
"Do you think they planned this?" Ayu questioned her friend.
"There's a possibility but I really don't know, sorry." Nina handed the note back. "So, are you going to meet them?"
Ayu sighed; she didn't know what to do. 'Wait a second, the antidote.' She thought out loud as she stood up from her seat. "Nina, the antidote"
"What about the antidote?"
"I'll give itto Tsujiai on lunch time." Ayu answered back with a smile on her face.
"And by the time the spell wear off, he'll totally back off." Nina smiled at her friend's idea.
"So, where's the antidote?"
Nina held out a small glass of bottle with blue substance in it. "Here, just make him drink this and then bye-bye worries."
"What are you girls up to?" A girl asked from their side.
"Maya, oh this... it's nothing." Nina managed to spat the words out through her nervousness.
"So Maya, who's your date for the dance?" Ayu asked, trying to change the topic.
"It's not one of your concerns, Tateishi." Maya glanced at Ayu then to Nina. After that she returned to her seat.
Time flies so fast. Ayu got her job done without Tsujiai noticing something. Some of the students at their school didn't even pay any attention to their subject matter and most of them were pretty occupied by tomorrow's event. The moment they've all been waiting for; the dismissal bell. Every student in Ayu's class was all ready to leave. Some of them were packing their things and some bid their goodbyes to their fellow classmates but two students were left.
"Ayu, this is it."
"Yea, Nina... thanks."
"Don't thank me yet. After all I want to hear him tell you about... you know."
"Oh alright, but –"
"Please... Ayu, I'll hide behind the bush."
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MEANWHILE
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"Oi" Kaji heard someone called out. As the new figure came in view he already knew who it was.
"Hey" Kaji replied back.
Minutes passed between the two. "Are you waiting for someone?" Tsujiai asked not reallywanting to bug his friend's business.
Kaji just looked at him. "Why? How about you, are you waiting for someone too?" He questioned his friend as he remembered the incident outside the girl's locker room.
"Me?"
But before they could talk, they heard someone was coming. Ayu came to the venue where she could meet Kaji but much to her surprise Kaji wasn't alone, He was with Tsujiai.
Kaji walked up first. "So, you received my note?"
Ayu nodded in response. "But I kinda received two notes."
"Huh?"
"Uh, hi" Tsujiai stepped in, waving his hand.
Ayu looked at him as he started to walk up to her. 'He looks different from yesterday. Wait a minute he's trembling!' "Tsujiai, are you alright?" Ayu started to panic when Tsujiai suddenly collapsed in front of her. "Kaji, help him."
Nina was a bit shocked when she heard Ayu screamed. She suddenly jumped out of the bush. She followed the two and the unconscious Tsujiai at the infirmary.
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AT THE INFIRMARY
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"Is he gonna be alright?" Ayu asked the Nurse.
The Nurse simply gave her a reassuring smile as he led her back to Tsujiai's side with Kaji, sitting next to him. "Miss, he's gonna be alright. He just fainted a while ago and I think he's gonna pull through easily. Why, are you his girlfriend?"
Ayu blushed at her question.
"Oops sorry, I'm getting a little nosy here. If you need something else just call me okay." The Nurse said as she leaved the group.
"Ayu" Tsujiai called out with a sign of weakness in his voice.
"Tsujiai"
"Sorry about that." He gave her a weak smile.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Nina asked from Tsujiai's left side.
"A little dizzy, I think."
"Then, I'll get you an aspirin." Ayu offered but Tsujiai stopped her.
"No, I'm alright now."
"You sure?" Kaji asked, turning all gaze to him.
"Yea, I'm sure." Tsujiai glanced at Kaji for a couple of minutes then to Ayu. "Ayu, I've wanted to ask you this. Would you go to the dance with me?"
Ayu was struck at what he had said. She looked at him, Nina and Kaji. Her gaze fell when he saw Kaji looking at her with a different expression on his face. 'He's sad; but why?' "I'm sorry, there's this guy who asked me earlier but..."
"But what?" Tsujiai was now confused about her statement.
"I didn't give him my answer yet." Ayu looked at Kaji who started to gain hope.
"Then, go with me." Tsujiai pleaded once more.
"I'm sorry, if I go with you he'll be hurt and I don't want that to happen. But if I go with him you'll be hurt also and I don't want that to happen too." Ayu bowed her head as she apologized. "You're not mad, are you?"
"Of course not; after hearing this from you, you made me realize how kind you are. I'm sorry for being selfish; I didn't know what you were experiencing." Tsujiai stood from the bed and head towards to his things.
Kaji was a bit surprised from what Tsujiai had said. He too felt guilty for giving such pressure on Ayu. Kaji was still silent until...
"Hey Kaji, are you in there?" Nina asked. She tried to poke Kaji's temples but he suddenly came up with his senses.
"I'm fine and Nina, please don't do that again."
"Wait a second! I Nina Sakura had the greatest idea ever." She exclaimed herself once again.
"What is it now, Nina?" Ayu asked in a monotone voice.
"Well, since we're all not going with someone else. Let's go to the dance as a group just the four of us, isn't that great?"
"You know Nina, sometimes you're a genius!" Ayu hugged her.
"What do YOU mean sometimes, I am a genius?" Nina shot back.
"Are you really?" Ayu teased her once again.
Nina, on the other hand, was a bit surprised at Ayu's question. She started to tickle Ayu's side on the bed. They were getting louder but suddenly the Nurse came, silencing the two noisy girls.
"We're terribly sorry." Both said in unison as they bowed to the Nurse.
Tsujiai and Kaji laughed silently at the two being scolded by the nurse after being so noisy in the infirmary.
Tomorrow's event will be exciting at least that's what they think.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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That's it for now. Thank God I managed to make another chapter of this fic. Anyways, thank you for reading this story of mine and also please review.
Thanks again,
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