I stayed home for the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, and both Uki and Mitsu-senpai kept their words on visiting after school. Staying home was mostly boring until someone actually came home. Uki would visit me first, answering any questions about Tomiya and Isaki while we worked on my missed classwork or homework until she would have to leave for a certain sports event she had to attend. Mitsu-senpai and Taka-senpai would visit about an hour later. When they both have visited me for the first time, they brought the care package they told me I would get. Mitsu-senpai brought various types of sweets from different countries and a lot of stuffed animals. Taka-senpai had only brought one gift, but I love it to bits. He told me that her name was Hana, meaning flower, because he found her injured in a flower patch and he had helped her back to health. Hana is a black and white Himalayan cat with blue eyes. She's about seven weeks old, according to Taka-senpai. She's super sweet and she likes to cuddle against my arm whenever I'm working on something.

During the time when I was alone, beside the maids that helped clean the house and take care of me, I would be on my laptop or be playing with Hana. While I was skimming through different websites, I had gotten an email from someone. Kaoru Hitachiin. The email went along the lines of thanking me for my future cooperation in the upcoming Sports Competition and being in the white team. It contained a list of all the dates we would be meeting and discussing our plans. It also explained that we all needed to get our body measurements done unless we had them already done then we had to bring them to school and give them to Kaoru Hitachiin before class started, but if we hadn't, Kaoru would, one-by-one, take us out of our class for a few minutes for our measurements. The email was sent on behalf of the three main leaders of the white team: Kaoru Hitachiin (the sender), Kyoya Ootori (the white team's leader), and Mitsukuni Haninozuka (the team trainer).

I was excited about our first meeting, which was today after school. I was excited to see the different types of people who were on the team and to be teammates with Mitsu-senpai. I can't wait for after school.

"Miya-Chan! We have to go!"

I snapped out of my thoughts and put down the feather teaser, that I had gotten for Hana, down. I gave her a gentle pat before leaving her in the big cat structure in the corner of my room. I grabbed my school bag made sure I left my door closed so Hana wouldn't get lost in the house before going downstairs to where Nikko was waiting. We both made our way to his personal car and went to school.

"Emiya!" I was immediately glomped by Kimi when I walked into my classroom. "You're back!"

I laughed and hugged her back. "I missed you too."

"You missed so much during chemistry! We made ice cream and we made colored fire and... you just missed all the cool stuff."

"Ice cream! I want to make ice cream!" I pouted and sadly went over to my desk.

Kimi laughed, which resembled one of a pixie's. "I thought you would, so I asked Kurusu-Sensei if I could help you do the two labs. He said yes, but we have to have another student who actually knows what they're doing with us."

"Really?" She nodded. I threw my arms around her for another hug. "You're the best."

"I am." She took her seat beside me. "Kurusu-Sensei said that we could do them after the Sporting Event because you're in it and he needs to actually find a student to help us."

"Yay, I'm super excited now."

"Anzai-Chan." I looked up to see Nashio-san walking towards me. "I'm glad that you're back."

"Me too. It's super boring being home alone."

"So, we know how you're competing in the competition and won't be able to attend some of our meetings, so we decided that Kimi should take your spot for a while until it's over, but we didn't want to start without your permission. Is that alright?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I understand. I wouldn't be there to help so…"

"Yeah, thank you, Anzai-Chan."

"Good morning, Class." Everyone scrambled to their seats at the sound of Kurusu-Sensei's voice as we all mumbled our "good mornings."

The school bell rang and I stood up, ready to lead our greeting process. "Stand, bow, sit."

"Okay, class," Kurusu-Sensei had started. "today we're not going to start with our usual geometry class." Some of the students cheered, which earned an eye roll from our teacher. "Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't mean that we aren't doing anything. Today, we are going to do a project for our foreign languages." This statement earned a groan. "Because not all of you are learning the same language you won't exactly have a partner you may want for this project. For example... Kimi is learning English, but Uki is learning Italian, so they can't work together, but both Juro and Shichiro are learning German, so they are able to pair up. Do you understand?" We all nodded. "Okay, I have a list of who's learning what. I'll list them off by section and out of those people you're allowed to pick from. Okay, first is English." Kurusu-Sensei started to list names and I waited for French. "And for French, we have Emiya Anzai, Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Ayano Minami, and Shiori Matsumoto."

I looked towards Fujimoto-san and Ayano-san, only to see them hi-five each other. So they're out of the question. Who is Shiori Matsumoto? A boy from one of the seats towards the front stood up, begrudgingly, and looked at me, a glare adorned on his face. I smiled at him, trying to ignore his sour attitude. Great... Matsumoto-san moved towards the back where I sat and pulled up a chair to sit beside me. I fidgeted in my seat. "Um... hi."

"Hey." He said as he crossed his arms and looked away from me.

This is going to be super awkward.

"So, do we all have partners?" We mumbled a "yes." "Okay, what we're going to be doing is working on a research project on the country where your language is from. It can either be a written essay or on a poster, it's your choice. I'll pass out a rubric of the project and you and your partner can get started, if anyone has any questions, just ask me." Kurusu-Sensei said as he started to give a sheet of paper to each pair.

I grabbed the paper and quickly read it. "Um, Matsumoto-san…" He hummed in response. "What do you prefer, an oral or visual presentation?" He didn't move and I sighed, mentally preparing myself to do the whole project myself. I leaned back in my chair, feeling annoyed.

"Visual."

I looked at him. "Huh?"

"We should do a visual presentation." He looked at me. "An essay is basically an invitation to sleepville."

I watched him carefully before smiling. "Okay!" I pulled out a sheet of paper, ready to work. "What should it mainly be about?"

"The culture."

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Surprisingly, Matsumoto-san was really helpful during the time we had worked together. He was a tad bit blunt about certain things, but I didn't mind.

"We should add something about music, right?" I asked Matsumoto-san.

"Yeah, everybody enjoys music."

"Emiya-Chan?" I looked up at Kurusu-Sensei who stood beside a student I didn't recognize. "He needs you to step outside for a moment." He said, and the student stepped outside.

I nodded and stood up. "I'll be right back, Matsumoto-san." I made my way towards the front of the class and out of the door. I closed the door behind me and looked at the boy who needed me outside.

He smiled and bowed. "My name is Kaoru Hitachiin. You received my email, correct?" His voice was a bit light and raspy. It was really unique. I nodded and went to bow and introduce myself. "You don't need to do that, I already know who you are."

I blushed in embarrassment. "Sorry."

He lightly laughed, which made my blush worsen. "It's fine. So, I'm going to take your measurements for the uniforms we're receiving a little later." I nodded. He lifted up a clipboard and mumbled my name as he wrote it down. "How tall are you, Emiya?"

"One hundred and forty-nine centimeters."

His hazel eyes flickered up to look at me, before looking down. He smirked slightly. "That's cute, you're so small."

I tried laughing off my incoming embarrassment of how short I was, but it just sounded like a nervous laugh. "Yeah, I think I get it from my mom."

"Okay…" He handed me the clipboard before pulling out a neatly folded measuring tape from his pocket. "Stand up straight." I did as he said.

Hitachiin-san started to carefully measure me, starting with my neck. His fingers would gently graze my skin every time he moved to a different part of my body. Bust. Waist. Hips. Front waist. Back waist. Leg. And lastly, arm. There were a few times where I had to adjust my dress so he could get the right measurements.

"That's it." I released the breath I didn't know I was holding. "I look forward to working with you."

I opened my mouth to say something polite back to him, but his features caught my attention. Now seeing his eyes a bit closer, they looked more of an amber than a hazel and his hair was a light auburn. I tilted my head slightly. "Is that your real hair color?"

He furrowed his eyebrows slightly in confusion. "My hair? Yeah, why?"

My eyes widened and I stood on my tiptoes excitedly. "Really?! That's so cool!" I paused and tried to become serious. "Can I touch it?"

He laughed. "Yeah." He leaned forward enough for me to pat his head.

I gasped excitedly. "It's so soft!" He laughed again.

He gently grabbed my hand and pulled it away from his hair. "Well, I have to go."

"Oh, um…" I looked at our hands and quickly pulled my own away. "Sorry, Hitachiin-san."

"You don't have to call me Hitachiin-san. "Kaoru" is fine."

I nodded. "I looked forward to working with you, Kaoru-kun."

"I looked forward to working with you too, Cutie." He patted my head and started walking towards the 1C class. "See you after school."

I watched him walk away and I felt my face become red. He was really cute… and he called me cute... I gently slapped my cheeks to try to get rid of my blush. I waited until my face cooled down until going back into the classroom.

I slipped into the classroom and was immediately bombarded by questions from all the other girls. "What was that!?" "Why did you leave with Kaoru-kun!?" "Are you two secretly dating?"

I was super confused. Was this Kaoru person really such a big deal?

Before I could try answering their questions, Shiori came to my aid. "Why is it any of your business?" He grabbed my arm and pulled me back to my desk.

The girls glared at Shiori, but he sat down beside me, glaring back at them.

Hopefully, I didn't make any enemies from something as small as that.

The rest of my day went by quickly after we did our foreign language project. Geometry wasn't as hard as it usually was and Japanese history was a bit interesting, but all in all, it was still kinda boring, as always. I was currently walking to the conference room for students, where the white team meeting would be held. School had just ended and everyone had scattered off to either go home or to a club they were involved in.

I reached the first conference room and knocked on the door. After a moment, I opened the door and made my way in, saying "I'm coming in." I closed the door and set my school bag in a chair. I noticed a computer and a small stack of papers that was neatly set beside it. I looked around to see if anyone was actually in the room. It was empty. I sighed and sat down a few seats from the computer to try and start on my homework that I had gotten in geometry.

It wasn't that long before I heard the room door open, making me look up to see the intruder. It was another high school student. He held a sheet of paper in one hand, which he was reading off of, and a small, black notebook in the other. His eyes flickered up to meet my own and I scrambled up from my seat to bow. "H-hello, my name is Emiya Anzai."

The student bowed. "My name is Kyoya Ootori." He stood straight and smiled slightly, but it seemed a bit off. "It's nice to meet you." He sat down in the seat that had the computer had been set up.

I sat back down and tried to continue on my homework. So he is the white team captain. I looked at the raven-haired teen, watching him quickly type. He looks like he must be constantly stressed.

"Excuse me, Ootori-senpai."

"Yes, Anzai."

"Do you need help with anything? You know, so you won't do everything yourself." I suggested. He paused his typing, staring at the computer screen. Did I say something wrong? "Sorry, nevermind. I just thought you might want an assistant of some sort and-"

"That's nice of you to ask. I actually do have something for you to do." He looked through the stack of papers beside him and pulled out one. "As you can see, I have a collection of papers. A selected few I cannot do myself or I need assistance with." I stood up and grabbed the page he had held towards me. "I need you to find these students' files, from both the red and white teams, and determine their strengths and weaknesses concerning the competition."

I nodded rapidly. "Okay." I went to leave, but stopped and turned back to him. "Where would I find this information?"

"I've read about you. You're very likable to both your peers and teachers. Ask a teacher if you can go into the teachers' office. I'm sure they'll allow you to."

"Hai!" I slipped out of the conference room and headed towards the teachers' office. I stopped in front of the door and looked around. Nobody is around...

"Anzai-Chan?"

I turned around and saw Kaya's teacher. "Hello, Namaiki-Sensei!"

She walked towards me, holding her bag and a stack of paper. "Is there a reason you're just standing out here?" She furrowed her eyebrows. "Did something happen?"

Ask a teacher if you can go into the teachers' office. I'm sure they'll allow you to.

"Well, I'm apart of the white team and my captain asked me for a favor, but I have to go into the teachers' office. Is it okay if I go inside? And do you need help with those?" I quickly added after seeing the papers almost slip from Namaiki-Sensei's hands.

"Yes, please." She handed me half of the pile. "What do you need to do in here?" She asked as she opened the door, leading me inside.

"Ootori-senpai asked me to find the strengths and weaknesses of the two teams competing." I placed the stack of papers on her desk. "It's probably to help us get a one up in the competition."

She watched me carefully. "I suppose it's fine. I don't think they said anything about it, but I'll stay here and watch you so you won't do anything else."

I smiled happily. "Thank you, Namaiki-Sensei." I ran towards the different files and started looking through them.

It wasn't long before I found all the information I needed of each student. I quickly jotted them down on a sheet of paper that I got from Namaiki-Sensei. To make it easier to see who the student was, I asked Namaiki-Sensei to print out the picture of each of the students on the list, which resulted in me getting about ten pages of pictures. Beside the pictures, I wrote the student's name and what their weaknesses and strengths were. I thanked my sister's teacher again before leaving.

As I was making my way towards the conference room, I was stopped by Ayano-san. An average sized girl with mousy brown hair and hazel eyes. "Emiya-Chan?"

I slowed my fast pace down so she could walk with me. "Hai?"

"I don't mean to bother, but... you kinda caused a small uproar among the girls in our class."

I rolled my eyes. Really? "Why?"

"Okay, so... I know you probably don't know this, but Kaoru is really popular and a lot of girls like him. So us girls have a few questions and they sent me to ask you."

"Okay…"

"Okay... the questions are: Are you and Kaoru dating?"

"No. I just met him."

"Why did he ask for you?"

"Because we are both on the same team for the competition."

"Okay, and... um, I can't remember the last question. Thanks, though. I'll go tell them now. See you next week Emiya-Chan."

"Bye, Ayano-san." I waved goodbye as we went our separate ways.

I finally made it back to the conference room and I opened the door, which now revealed a variety of other teens. I awkwardly made my way inside towards my seat beside Kaoru-kun. He smiled at me and gave a small wave, which I returned, before turning back to the computer he was typing on. I looked around the room, only recognizing a few, including Mitsu-senpai and Kaoru-kun.

"In any case," Ootori-senpai started, "let's study the data of both the red and white team's members. One's physical ability is of course associated to one's personality. It is necessary to investigate if there were any changes during club activities, even the reason for up and down results."

"However, Kyoya-kun," The Student Council President spoke up. "How can they be related to the match?"

"Excuse me for my impoliteness, Student Council President," A girl with curly brown hair spoke up. "But if we don't study the data as much as possible then, in terms of athletic powers, the red team has a greater advantage." She turned to Ootori-senpai. "Ootori-kun, about this, have you thought up a plan to beat these spirited guys?"

"Yeah!" Kaoru spoke up from behind the laptop. "It aims fully using the opponents' weaknesses."

The girl beside me giggled slightly. "Well, isn't that mean? As expected of Kyoya-kun."

Geez... does everybody in here know each other?

"Anzai?" I perked up at the sound of my name and looked at Ootori-senpai, who looked at me expectantly. I grabbed the sheets of papers that I had worked on for the majority of the time I was out and stood up, going to hand them to him. He looked at the papers. "You did an excellent job. I was right to trust you with this." I smiled triumphantly and sat back down next to Kaoru-kun.

It wasn't long before everyone started buzzing around to work on our soon-to-be victory. I sat in my chair, out of place, watching everyone else.

"Hi, Emi-Chan!" I looked up and saw Mitsu-senpai right in front of me.

I smiled. "Hi, Mitsu-senpai."

"I'm super excited to be on the same team as you. Oh, your cheek got better."

My hand immediately went on my cheek, where the thin cut used to be. It healed over and turned into a light scar. "Yeah, but it's all thanks to you. Every time you came over, you would change the bandage."

He smiled brightly. "I'm glad I can help." He leaned on the table. "Do you want cake?"

"No… not really…"

"Then do you want my Usa-Chan?" He held up his bunny and my eyes glimmered in want.

"Really?" I held out my arms and Mitsu-senpai gave me his Usa-Chan. "Thank you~"

He quickly looked around. "Is your brother competing?"

I shrugged. "Probably, but if he was, he would probably join the red team," I said as I played with Usa-Chan in my lap.

"Good!" He leaned over the table and quickly kissed my lightly scarred cheek, making me blush. "Anyways, make sure you keep a good eye on Usa-Chan!" He said as he skipped over to two other boys who looked like lost puppies.

I bit my lip and looked down at Usa-Chan. Can he get me any more embarrassed?

I felt a pat on my head and I placed my own hand on the foreign hand and looked up to see Kaoru-kun. "Hi…" I said and pulled my hand back to my lap.

He laughed slightly as he sat down beside me, placing down a big stack of papers in front of him. "Did Hani-senpai kiss you?"

My blush worsened and I nodded. "Yeah…" I looked over at the said male and watched as he chased a group of horrified boys out of the room. I giggled. "Ever since we met, he does that."

Kaoru-kun laughed. "Aww~You should see your face. You look so cute when you blush." He poked my cheek and I tried to swat it away. "You gotta be careful, Cutie. You'll be eaten by a shark in no time."

I stared at Kaoru-kun and sweatdropped at his choice of words. "That isn't my name…"

"Huh?"

"Why do you keep on calling that?"

"What? "Cutie?" You're cute that's why."

"Well, that isn't my name."

"Okay, then... Cupcake?"

"No."

"Sugar Cube?"

"No…"

"My Doll?"

"No…"

"Kitten?"

"Why? Why do you this?"

"Okay, so... Sunshine?"

"Emiya, Emi, or Miya. Those are the only options."

He laughed. "Whatever you say, Miya." Thank... you… "Anyways, you looked lonely, so I was wondering if you wanted to help me with a few things."

"Like what?"

He shrugged. "Whatever Kyoya-senpai asks for. I'm his only assistant and it's a bit hard, considering most of the things he's asking for."

"Okay... fine."

He patted my head before grabbed the stack of papers. "Thanks, Miya."

I sighed and stood up, hugging Usa-Chan as I followed Kaoru-kun.

We both stopped beside Ootori-senpai as he spoke. "The contests where we have to secure points are the bread eating, the last relay, and especially the contests after the cheerleading contest which is in the middle of the program. If they selected the wrong members, there is a high probability that we can earn a lot of points in the tug of war. It is where we can make the most points."

"What do we do with the cheerleading contest, Kyoya-senpai?" Kaoru-kun asked him.

"There was cheerleading contest that took place in one of the pictures featuring the sports festival in normal schools. Let's refer to it. A cheerleading contest in itself doesn't yield any points. It is simply to motivate those who dislike sports by waking up their honor so that they accomplish something. Please make a compilation of it."

"Hai!" Kaoru-kun looked at me before turning back to Ootori-senpai. "What about Emiya? Does she work with me?"

Ootori-senpai looked at me, his brown-grey eyes showing his careful thoughts. "No. I'll have a different task for Anzai."

Kaoru-kun nodded and left to start working on his given assignment, while I stood beside Ootori-senpai listening to the rest of his conversation.

"But, Ootori…" A boy spoke up. "Is it okay to take it this simply? Suoh is on the red team after all. He will certainly do something extremely showy."

Ootori-senpai smiled slightly. "Like I said, senpai, the red team will uselessly put strength in the cheerleading contest. They don't think of efficiently using their physical strength. As a consequence, they will wear themselves out more and more during the following contests. I can see a lot of difficulties for them. Let's teach that idiot that he can't win by doing whatever he likes! Okay?"

Geez... I remember the sports event being a lot more revolved around the thought of having fun. This is kinda scary how intent they are on winning.

"Anzai?"

"Hai?"

"I need you to help me determine who will participate in each contest." Ootori-senpai handed me a list of all the different contests we had, along with the lists of students on the white team.

"Hai."

I sat beside Ootori-senpai and we both spent the rest of the meeting discussing everyone's placement within the different contests.

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All of the meetings I attended went by pretty quickly. Ootori-senpai and I finished the placement of everyone on our first meeting day. I had told Ootori-senpai to check everyone's average speed and their sprinting speed to help us determine who to place during the races. He agreed with me and everyone had to go with me to the track so Mitsu-senpai and I could check their speeds. We also had received our uniforms from Kaoru-kun after a week. Our meetings were really simple. We would discuss, disperse, then train together. Right now, I was sitting beside Ootori-senpai, listening to him type away on his laptop while I played with Usa-Chan.

"I heard your parents are returning soon."

I looked at Ootori-senpai from the corner of my eyes. "Yeah, they should be back in time for the sports competition."

He stopped his typing. "Do you know?"

"Know...? Know what?"

"Know what your parents are planning for you."

"What?!" I stood up and slammed my hands on the table. "You know too?! How come someone who I barely even know, knows more about this plan than I do?! Nikko, Kaya, Korra, and now you? This isn't fair! It's about me, right? Why am I not told about any of this?!" I huffed and plopped myself back onto my seat, crossing my arms angrily.

It was silent after that. I felt really bad for yelling at Ootori-senpai, but I couldn't help it. I just... snapped.

"I understand how you feel." I tried to ignore him so I wouldn't get any angrier. "I didn't want to make you angry, I just wanted to talk to you about it for a moment... but now I see that it is a sensitive topic to you." You think? "If you want… I can tell you what it is."

I looked at him. "Really?"

"Yes, but-"

"If there's a catch, I don't care. I'll do whatever you want, just please, please, please, please, please tell me."

Ootori-senpai smiled and leaned closer to me so he was able to whisper in my ear. "Your parents want to-"

There was a knock at the door. We both looked towards the door to see Kaoru-kun. "There's quite an uproar, Kyoya-senpai. People's attention have now gone from "Kuze vs. Ootori" to "Suoh vs. Ootori.""

Ootori-senpai readjusted himself. "Kaoru." He started to type on his laptop like he was doing before.

Kaoru-kun patted my head. "Hi, Little Button." I swatted at his hand, annoyed, which made him laugh. He turned to Ootori-senpai. "The number of accesses to the club's homepage have doubled. We have to frequently reprint the unprocessed pictures and the picture collection. What great timing!"

"Ah… Are the sales doing well?"

Kaoru-kun sweat-dropped at Ootori-senpai's words. "I knew it…" Kaoru-kun mumbled. "Wait... It can't be that you set up a fight with Milord so that the sales would increase…"

"How rude! I'm really mad at him, you know. Though, there are some unexpected effects. We indeed make profits, but only because of luck."

What are they talking about? I decided to ignore the rest of their conversation and play with the neglected Usa-Chan.

As they spoke, I got bored and stood up to get some tea for me and Usa-Chan. I left the room and walked through the hallway.

"Sweetheart~" I groaned at the familiar voice and turned around. Kaoru-kun wrapped his arm around my shoulder as he started to walk with me. "Where are you going?"

"I'm getting myself tea."

"While you're at it, why don't you come with me? I need to bring something to Kyoya-senpai and he asked for you."

I sighed. "What does he want?"

"I don't know, he said-" He stopped walking and quickly unwrapped his arm from me. "Hikaru! Haruhi!"

I looked at who he was speaking to and my eyes widened in surprise. There's two Kaoru's!

The second Kaoru stopped and he smiled happily. "Kaoru!"

The two hugged each other. "Long time no see since one hour ago!" They exclaimed together.

I heard chuckling from beside me. "Their identical twins." I looked at the person who spoke and saw a girl wearing the red team uniform, the same as the second Kaoru's.

"Twins?" I looked at them. "That makes so much sense."

The girl bowed. "Sorry, I have to go. My name is Haruhi."

I bowed. "I'm Emiya. It's nice to meet you."

We both waved to each other as she walked off, calling back to Kaoru's twin. "I'm going ahead!"

"Ah! Wait, Haruhi! I'm sorry, Kaoru! Since I'm doing the red team's training, I have to go back right away!" Kaoru's twin said as he moved towards Haruhi.

"Ah... well, it's okay... What happened? You're suddenly full of energy."

The second Kaoru chuckled mischievously. "It's a secret!" Kaoru looked surprised when his twin says this. "For now I will say this: The red team will definitely win!" With that, the two red team members ran away.

I looked at Kaoru who had a blank look. I tugged at his shirt sleeve. "Are you okay, Kaoru-kun?"

It took Kaoru a second or two before he actually looked at me. He smiled. "Yeah, just lost in thought, Precious."

I pouted. "That's not my-"

"I know, but it's fun to tease you."

I crossed my arms and looked away from him. "No, it's not!"

Kaoru-kun wrapped his arm around me again. "Awww~ C'mon, don't be like that. Didn't you hear Hikaru? There's no way the red team is going to win. White team, fight!"

I felt myself smile and I looked at him, only to see him smiling brightly at me with an awaiting fist. I fist-bump him. "White team, fight!"