*A few weeks later*
School was over and everybody was heading out of the classroom and making plans for the weekend. Yuri and her friends were left.
"eh? A club?"
Yuri bore a confused look on her face.
"That's right! So would you like to join us?"
Yusuke pointed at the other members; Makoto, Shiori and Ichiro.
"Ahaha~ I'm sorry but I'm not really planning on joining a club."
"Awww~ please join us! The teacher said we needed five members for the club." Makoto begged as if she really wanted to form a club.
They all started to gather around Yuri trying to beg her to join. Through their efforts and constant begging, Yuri finally agreed to join.
"Oh fine! I'll join you guys"
"Really?! Thanks!" They all said in unison as they went over and hugged Yuri.
"Hey get off!" Yuri tried to push them away, blushing with embarrassment.
"B-but don't get the wrong idea! I only joined because I didn't want to see my friends' club go down without a fight."
"By the way, what is our club anyway?"
"hmmm~ come to think of it, was is this club Yusuke?"
They all looked toward Yusuke.
"HUH?! You all joined without knowing what the club is?!" Yuri thought to herself.
"Oh that's right, I haven't told you yet."
*ehem* *ehem*
"Recently, the news has been talking about high school students participating in a dangerous gambling trend."
"What is it?" Yuri asked.
"Some kind of underground brawling club. The spectators nominate participants to fight and then place bets on which team will win."
"Isn't the school they reported on far away from here? I haven't really noticed that happening though." Makoto interrupted.
"That's because they don't want you to notice." Yuri explained.
"Exactly." Yusuke replied.
Ichiro raised his hand to ask a question.
"So what are we supposed to do?"
"Well, the principal's worried that some people from our school may be participating in these things. So he formed a small organization of students to do some sort of investigating at school to find out if anyone has been going on those fights."
Yuri stood up with a worried look in her face.
"But what if the situation gets out of hand? What if they start targeting us? If they resort to violence what can we do? We have no combat experience whatsoever."
Yusuke looked at Yuri to reassure her
"Don't worry. When the situation gets out of hand we can always ask the teachers for help and he told us we'd be getting self-defense lessons three times a week once the weekend is over." he said patting her shoulders.
"That's not very reassuring." Yuri muttered unconvinced and asked another question. "*sigh* By the way, do we have a club-room or something?"
"Of course! The principal was kind enough to lend us his old office. He said this club was going to be important so we'd better have a good room to discuss our operations, but only if we clean it."
"Haha that should be easy!" Ichiro said being full of himself.
As they went inside they saw that it was REALLY dirty.
"Wh-what is this place? Its like a junkyard." Ichiro said in shock.
"hmmm~ The principal's office is pretty dirty"
"Pretty dirty?! "
"Well, it hasn't been touched for at least a year."
"How are we going to work in here?"
Yusuke walked in front of them and said "Alright I've brought some cleaning supplies, now, let's get to it."
"Awww can't we just let someone else do the jo- OW!" Makoto patted hard on Ichiro's back and smiled "C'mon do want to be in this club or what?"
"We'll do this together, if you don't want to, we'll hold a grudge on you!" Shiori jokingly said
"Hmph fine, I'm not really fond of cleaning though" Ichiro said with an annoyed look on his face.
"Alright everyone, lets get to cleaning" Yusuke announced as he handed out some cleaning tools
"YES SIR!" Everyone replied with smiles one their faces.
Yuri smiled seeing at how her friends were so dedicated to the club, she thought to herself, maybe she'd be happy with them, that maybe she'd be able to replace those sad memories with new, happier ones, maybe now she could finally live her life without having the burden of those painful memories. But that's what she thought….