Author's Notes: I'm very sorry that I took forever from updating there was so much to do in school. Honestly, I'm totally stressed out but thank goodness I will be able to graduate this March (throws confetti) anyways… enjoy reading and there will be more secrets that will be revealed here in Ayu's Big Problem ja ne!

Disclaimer: I do not own this anime (Ultra Maniac) and any of its characters.

Ayu's Big Problem

Chapter 7 – The Next Day

Every student from Shuhei (A/N: could somebody tell me the name of their school?) was walking down to the street that headed to their school. Everyone was happy, excited, sad, furious, and every emotions you can think of. Two girls were walking along, one was tall and has a fair complexion, everybody adored her and her beautiful brown messy but still beautiful hair, also her chocolate orbs. The other girl was blonde and short, she has a secret that only her best friend knew.

As they walk they heard someone called out from behind. "Ayu! Nina!" It said. They both stopped and turned to see who was their spectator more like… spectators.

"Good morning, Tateishi-san and Sakura-san" Kaji said as he greeted both girls with a smile.

"Good morning, minna-san." Ayu and Nina said in unison.

"Hey, I'm closing the gate now." The teacher said near the gate.

"Gomen ne, we're very sorry." The group said in unison.

"We better head to class and fast." Lee said. Everyone simply complied and ran as fast as they could.

As they walked inside the classroom, they were surprised to see that there was no teacher at all. "Thank the Kami's were not late!" Ayu said as she sat on her seat.

"You're not late; Mr. Mikami said that he will not be attending class today as well as the other teachers in the morning class." The class president said.

"So there will be no classes in the morning?" Nina asked through.

"Yes and it will be a half day he said." The class president also added.

"Yokata… we won't be having a test in English!" Nina said as she thanked the Kami's for the sudden miracle.

"But you stillhave to study, Nina." Ayu said as she open her bag to get her organizer. But suddenly something fell from the floor… it was a handkerchief, a well pressed and clean handkerchief. She darted to get the handkerchief back but someone held it first… it was Tsujiai. She hoped that he won't get the idea that the handkerchief was not hers due to the fact that the designs are not something that a girl could use. But she failed… well, at least she tried. "Whose hanky is these?" Tsujiai asked.

Lee and Kaji saw these; Lee took the immediate action "That's mine." He said as he took the hanky carefully and held it back to Ayu. "Here Ayu, I know you still need it." He added.

Kaji sighed in relief that Tsujiai didn't suspect a thing… may be not him… but someone else in the classroom. Nina saw him sighed and thought of the possible reason why would he do such a thing.

'Could it be that they're doing something that we don't know? Or maybe, something happened during their practice? I will definitely get to the bottom of this!' Nina thought.

"Hey Nina, are you alright?" Ayu asked as she waved her hand in front of Nina

"Huh? Oh… I'm fine why'd you asked?" She said.

"You look like you've flown off to the moon." Ayu giggled at the thought.

"That's silly…" Nina exaggerated this made her friends laugh hard.

All goodtime last too, it was almost their recess. Lee was starting to get impatient as he watched the clock turn slowly.

"Can we go now? It's almost time please…" He pleaded in front of the president, Shiraki.

"Baka, be patient it's almost time." She said.

"B-b-but" Lee was about to say another word but he only met a glare from the president. He surrendered and sat back at his seat.

"Is she always like that?" Lee asked her friend in a low voice.

Ayu chuckled and said. "You'll get hang with it." She said with another chuckle.

"What's so funny?" Lee asked in anticipation.

"You" Ayu said.

"Me? Why me?"

"You've finally met your match."

"Yeah right…" Lee said as he turned back from his seat.

Ayu saw Kaji looking at her. He was mouthing some words that said – "meet me at the courtside" Ayu replied back with an "okay".

As the bell rang, every student walked straight to who knows where with some of their friends. Nina asked Ayu if she was ready but instead Ayu replied with a sorry. "Gomen ne, Nina-chan… I can't go with you. I've got something to do." Ayu said.

"Oh… um… it's okay. I'll just gowith-" Nina said but Lee cut her off. "Me" He said. Nina was surprised at the sudden reply. "Oh… what I meant to say was… with us Tsujiai-san and me… I couldn't findKaji-san, so let's go." He said

Once the three were not in sight, Ayu darted off to the courtside where she could meet Kaji.

Meanwhile at the picnic grounds, a certain group of people saw someone waving a hand at them at the far side. They walked and saw that it was Yuta who was wearing the same school uniform just like Lee and Tsujiai.

"Um… Yuta-chan, what exactly are you wearing?" Nina asked.

"What does it look like I'm wearing? Of course, it's my school uniform. I transferred here. Aren't you surprised?" Yuta asked.

"WOW… what a surprise, well… of course I'm surprised." Nina said. "We should probably eat and celebrate for this occasion!" Nina added but before they could eat she excused herself to go to the bathroom. At a swift moment Nina saw Ayu walking at the courtside, Nina was definitely surprised to see her with… Kaji.

'Is that what she was suppose to do!' Nina thought out loud.

Nina sneakily headed to a near bush so she could hear their conversation. 'I'm not eavesdropping, I'm just investigating.' She thought.

"Um… hi…" Kaji started.

Ayu simply smiled back as a reply.

"Um, listen –." They both said in unison.

"You start." They both said in unison once again as if they were jinx.

They both sighed none of them were starting the conversation. Both hesitated and thought of the words to say. No one can blame them after what hadhappened during their practice. Meanwhile, Nina was starting to get impatient. There was a complete silence between these two.

"Ladies first." Kaji said.

"Um… Kaji, about yesterday, could you please don't tell anyone else about this? Especially, Tsujiai." Ayu said.

It all seemed to happen as if it was suspected. Of course, Kaji would have thought that he already won the battle but 'no'. Kaji expected this, he thought of the right words to say but he only came to a conclusion. He just simply reply and said "Okay".

"Thank you." Was all she could say abut then she remembered something… 'the handkerchief' she thought. She held it out from her pocket "Here" she said. She tried to hide her blush with success. "It was very useful, thank you again." Ayu said and started to walk away but before she could walk Kaji made a fast move, he pulled her wrist and enveloped her with his arms and said. "Anything for you." They stood there for a couple of minutes that seemed eternity for Nina.

Meanwhile behind the bush,

Nina heard everything from her so-called 'investigation' . Her recent theory was erased but she has a new case to solve… 'What happened during their practice yesterday?' She thought. She hoped that she could hear more but her hearing was blocked by the cricking sound of an enormous black cricket. She tried to make it go away and yet it came closer and closer. She couldn't take it anymore. She jumped up from the bushwhich made Ayu and Kaji to let go. They both saw Nina jumped up and tried to brush off the little creature but it only flew away.

"Nina, what are you doing behind the bush!" Ayu asked as she eyed her friend. She could feel her temperature rising.

"Would you believe that I was looking for something?" Nina said trying to think of the best way she could come up with a perfect lie.

"Really, now…" Ayu was now crossing her arms. "Nina, why were you eavesdropping at our conversation?" Ayu asked she swore she could feel the sun heating up on her but was it just her or something else.

"Come on Ayu, if I was eavesdropping then I shouldn't have let the both of you know my whereabouts, right?" Nina said with a triumphant smile. 'Thanks to that cricket, Ayu didn't suspect a thing.'

"Both of you that's enough." Kaji said reminding the two that he was still there.

Ayu was about to say something but she could feel her face starting to sweat with cold droplets of liquid. She tried to wipe it off with her hand but with her sudden movement made her fall to deep unconsciousness. Kaji and Nina ran up to her.

"Ayu, wake up. What's wrong!" Nina cried right before her unconscious friend.

"We better take her to the infirmary." Kaji said as he carried Ayu to the infirmary while Nina ran to her friends back at the picnic grounds to tell them about what had happened earlier.

Meanwhile at the Infirmary, Nina and the others came in. They saw Kaji talking with the Nurse.

"She's going to be fine, she just fainted you see. Tell me, did she ate her meal this recess?" The nurse asked.

"I don't know actually." Kaji replied.

"She just need to rest for awhile and after that I want you to give her something to eat, is that alright with you?" The nurse asked.

Kaji simply complied and walked at Ayu's side. Soon, the others came and asked about Ayu's condition. "How is she?" Nina asked.

"The nurse said that she just fainted and that she will need her rest." Kaji said.

All eyes went to Ayu as tried to get up butto no avail Tsujiai stopped her and said. "You should rest." He said.

"Kaji, what happened?" Ayu asked as she turned her view to him.

"You've fainted, Ayu… God! Ayu, why didn't you tell me you haven't ate your meal. I was so worried about you!" Kaji cried he tried his best not to raise his voice.

"I-I'm sorry." Was all she could say.

"Come on, let's just try our best to make her feel better, okay?" Nina said she walked in front of the three namely: Kaji, Lee, and Tsujiai respectively. "The three of you should get something for Ayu for her to eat." Nina said in a commanding tone. The three simply complied walked out to the infirmary.

"Nina, you didn't have to do that." Ayu said as she tried to get up once again.

"Ayu, tell us something that we didn't know." Nina said.

"What do you mean?" Ayu asked back.

"What did exactly happen yesterday during your practice?" Nina asked with a serious look.

Ayu sighed, she hesitated for a while. 'But what could go wrong Nina is her best friend and Yuta can be trusted as well.' She thought. "Do you promise not to tell anyone about this?" Ayu asked the couple. When they nod Ayu narrated what had happened during practice.

"Yesterday, our rehearsals where doing fine. Then Ms. Tachikawa told us to rest for a while. I was just sitting on the other corner then Kaji walked up to me and offered his handkerchief and as a result I accepted it." Ayu said.

"Ah… I see that's why you've returned it back to him just a while ago." Nina said.

Ayu nodded and continued. "As I was saying, there we were talking with each other until something unexpected happened." Ayu said, once again, she was cut off by Nina.

"What happened next!" Nina asked.

"…We kissed."

"What!" Both Yuta and Nina said in unison.

"Do you still want me to continue?"

"You mean there's more?" Nina asked, obviously excited.

Ayu just looked at her with a stern look and so she continued. "Then there we were, at first, we stopped. Then, we were just silent; no words were spoken between us. After that Lee came with some drinks. But suddenly the light came off. Kaji tried to see what was wrong, since that was his job. Then, something hit me, I lay flat from the floor I couldn't see what had just hit me since it was so dark. It was quite heavy…" Ayu paused for a while.

Nina could see that her friend was blushing.

"Then when the lights came… Kaji was on t-top of m-m-me." She said.

"Ah I see, no wonder you don't want to let Tsujiai know about this." Yuta said.

"I really don't know what to do next…" Ayu said.

"Don't tell me you like them both!" Yuta asked.

"Yuta, don't say such a thing!" Nina said.

Ayu was about to breakdown with Yuta's question but suddenly a thought came to her. "I got it." She said.

"What did you got?" Yuta and Nina asked in unison.

"I'll go and asked for Maya's help." Ayu said.

"WHAT!"

Author's Notes:

End of chapter 7. (sighs) its already 10:16pm wow… I started at 7:00 pm and look at the time. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it! I'm very sorry once again if I took so… long and I'm very sorry if it sucked because I kind of forgot the storyline. Please do not forget to make a review and thank you once again for reading.

Poll Q: Whom should Ayu pick?

Kaji – 7 votes

Tsujiai – 6 votes

It's a very close fight between these two! I wonder what would happen next. I'm guessing… since Kaji won in this chapter then I'm giving this to all KA fans.

See all once again in the next chapter. So what are you waiting for? Press that 'go' button to send a review.

cs-ayeka / Trixie