(A/N: I'm really glad that my late nights have been paying off, don't ask why I always choose to type my fics this late. Special thanks to M.S Arashi Sumeragi who has reviewed twice hands out gigantic bag of chocolates Anyways, I promised you all that there will be some action in this chapter and so here it is, chapter three!)

Game Plan

Chapter Three: Operation Alpha

Kaoru placed her school bag on the floor beside her desk as she recalled Misao's actions from the day before. The crazy girl had been grinning so insanely when Soujirou had shook her hand. You could also see the maniacal gleam in her eyes that could easily outshine the sun. Kaoru sighed dejectedly. Things were becoming more and more difficult. She was finding she had even lesser opportunities to dissuade Misao from her diabolical plans especially since she was elected as one of the members on the Student's Council.

She gave a dismal groan as she recalled how she had tried to ask Misao to walk home with her so as to make use of the journey home to have a good heart-to-heart when she realised that Misao had already left the classroom and on her table left a hastily scribbled note explaining that she had some personal matters to attend to and she was not to worry about anything.

Kaoru gave yet another sigh. With all the trouble her cousin was causing her, it would be a miracle if all her hair had not turned grey by her next birthday. Kaoru was just about to go for a walk to clear her mind when she spied Misao entering the classroom. She attempted to stand up and was going to talk to her cousin when Misao excitedly pushed Kaoru back onto her chair and excitedly occupied the chair in front of Kaoru. Kaoru looked at her cousin- and despite her occasional chants to herself to not lose her wits especially so early in the morning- immediately screamed, "What the hell happened to you?"

Misao just gave her cousin a big grin. She knew she looked a terrible mess, which was definitely the understatement of the year. She had slept very little the night before. Heck, she had not even had a wink of sleep! Although she was too excited and too hyped up to feel the effects of her recent sleep deprivation, her face was definitely showing the effects. Her eyes were now slightly puffy and red. There were two dark rings under each eye, each one around the size of her index finger. However, Misao wasn't bother about her looks- at least for the moment- she was more interested in showing Kaoru whatever information she had gathered on her newly sighted prey otherwise known as one Seta Soujirou.

She happily started explaining all the facts to poor Kaoru who could only sit and stare at her with complete and utter disbelief as to how Misao managed to acquire so much information in such a short amount of time. It turns out, as Kaoru was reluctant to note, that Soujirou's parents had died in a car accident and had been taken in by his uncle, one Shishio Makoto who happened to be the same Shishio who led the famous Makoto industries and became one of the most influential and richest businessmen in Japan. Furthermore, Soujirou had moved to England at the age of three and had stayed there for a few years until his uncle had business to attend to here and Soujirou was required to leave the school to accompany Shishio and his wife, Komagata Yumi. The boy though raised in England had been constantly reminded by his uncle and aunt and thus had not forgotten how to speak Japanese even after being away for so long.

Feeling extremely proud of herself, Misao just smiled an even wider grin at Kaoru who was still staring at Misao unable to believe that Misao could spend so much time on something so trivial and yet not focus on her studies. Kaoru opened her mouth, wanting to reprimand the girl. Although she was the same age as Misao, she had always took it upon herself to guide Misao- being only a few months younger then her- especially when Misao's mother had died at childbirth. However, Kaoru was yet again dismayed to find that Misao had once again escaped from her to talk to a now smiling Soujirou who had just stepped into the classroom.

Misao smiled at Soujirou. She knew that probably he was eyeing the sloppy job she had done on covering her eye bags with the cheap concealer she had bought out of curiousity. Yet, that was the least of her worries. Right now she had a task at hand and no way was she going to slip it up. She had not only spent the entire night researching on Soujirou's background. She had also devised a plan as to how she would ensnare Soujirou's heart thus making the boy reveal his undying love for her.

She now grinned at the boy as the thoughts raced through her head. She had to play it cool. She had to act the role of good classmate offering to show Soujirou around and not the role of evil-monster-preying-on-innocent-victims. "Ne, Seta-kun," she said, sounding shy as she willed herself to look at the soles of her shoes, "Would you like me to show you around the neighbourhood? I would be glad to!" At this she made a scene of looking as though it took her a great deal of courage to look him in the eye before abruptly looking back down at her shoes again and quickly adding a shy, "If you don't mind…"

Misao could hear the cries of whoop in her mind as she saw the chibi version of herself dancing an extremely pitiful version of John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever when Soujirou had smiled at her and her so-called shy advances and replied with a rather delighted yes before walking back to his seat. When she was sure he wasn't looking, she rubbed her hands in glee and had to restrain herself from pumping her fists in air and shouting in triumph. She had to plan for Saturday's event…

That Saturday…

Misao stared at herself for the umpteenth time in the mirror making sure that she looked good or at least as though she had put a lot of thought into her wardrobe, eager to make a good impression on Soujirou. Her favourite long-sleeved forest-green shirt, her lucky teardrop choker, a tight black miniskirt and her black boots finished off the ensemble. She smoothed down her skirt and proceeded to check her hair. Today she had decided to plait it into two braids so that she more or less looked like the average kawaii Japanese school girl or so she thought. Happy with everything, she placed her essentials into her black handbag which she slung confidently onto her right shoulder and set off for the bus-stop.

Everything was right in the world. Nothing was going to stop her and nothing, absolutely nothing was going to ruin her day out with Soujirou.

(A/N: Ok, I know I promised to include some action in this chapter, but because I had not written in so many days (which I will explain why later) but also the chapter will become EXTREMELY long due to the fact that it will describe their entire day-out which I do not wish to do so especially since I'm rather tired seeing as it's 1am plus again and I have to keep an eye out on my ever-watching parents who would no doubt be coming to check on me. Eep!

So I had better end this here. As to why I did not update in FIVE days, was because I was EXTREMELY tired on Thursday. Friday? I got hooked onto my computer game and played solidly for 14 hours. I kid you not. Saturday was the day I got my BRAND-NEW electric guitar! I was so ecstatic that I could not resist playing on it the whole of Saturday and Sunday. However, I promise that I will do my best to update as much as I possibly can in the remaining days till school starts.

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