I have to admit...this chapter was the most fun to write thus far!

The school bells rang like a death knell. Well, not really but it sure makes it seem more insistent. Students rocketed out of the building, leaving behind strangely lingering smoke trails. And, you know, it was the last day of the year! Holy crap! Class shuffle time! Osaka bemoaned the situation and Kaorin tore through a steel bar with her teeth in pure anger. Separation of friends, or in Kaorin's case, her insanity trigger, was never a fun concept. Yukari would have no such thing though, and paid off the higher-ups with whatever she did so in order to keep most of her class intact.

Meanwhile, Tomo and Yomi made their way home. Being the splendid day it was, they decided to take the long way…..through Gondor. The smell of stale horse sweat and ignited pitch arrows wafted into their nostrils; a good day, seeing as they spotted no heads on pikes.

"Holy barnacles, Yomi! It's time for our second year already!", Tomo expounded.

"Oh my, my.", Yomi droned. "You sure are excitable."

"CLASS SHUFFLE! YEAH, BABAY, YEAH!", Tomo shouted, arms akimbo.

"Bah…", Yomi sighed. "You're fucked up…"

The two continued to walk, chattering about the lack of condensed milk in the stores and other needless info. They didn't even argue, gods forbid! They managed their way through Mordor, yes they walked right in, and eventually parted ways with a simple goodbye as they headed for their individual homes.

Moments later a girl wearing a similar uniform approached the spot where the two had been moments before and cackled.

"YES!! I AM TRULY A CLAIRVOYANT GODDESS!"

The following day was the start of a new school year! Students grumbled as they dragged their sorry asses into the building. Indeed though, Yukari's plot had come to fruitation; much of class three was the same save for a few additions. The sports nut, Kagura, being one of these additions. She was a normal sports nut; not one of those prick guys in Abercrombie shirts and sideways caps…

Regardless, Kagura introduced herself to the class; which caused Tomo to immediately go into a frothing fit and, whilst staring at her boobs…or her eyes….same thing, Yomi asked her what was the matter. Before Tomo could respond, Kagura approached them; seeming to trail a cloud of cackling laughter in many demonic vocals.

"Good evening.", she greeted.

Tomo and Yomi exchanged a morbid stare.

"It's the middle of the day."

"So it is….ALAS!", Kagura held aloft a single finger. "Meet me upon the rooftop during the period allotted to nutrient consumption!"

"…..You mean lunch?"

"Quite…", she spoke, traipsing away to the mournful chords of 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'.

"Kagura seems…..familiar.", Tomo mused. "Is it her boobs? No…"

The morning class tore by like a pantsless child. Yukari revealed her true intentions to be world conquest and all was at peace. Osaka dreamt of some 'Tomo Poon' and the Earth continued to spin.

Thus came 'Nutrient Consumption Hour'. Tomo and Yomi made up a tale about the second coming of Christ…or something to that effect and told their friends they would be eating elsewhere.

As they pushed open the door to the roof they spotted a desk chair in the center of the area with its back turned to them. In that chair…sat Kagura.

"….Kagura?", said Yomi.

"BAHAAHAH!", came the cackle as the chair slowly turned under the power of her foot.

Scrape…

Scrape…

Scrape….

"I AM LORD IMMORTAL OF THE SKIES!!", Kagura laughed in mock triumph.

Tomo and Yomi exchanged a glance. You sure do meet the loonies in this line of work…

"Is that it? Man, you're boring!", Tomo said, turning to leave.

"No! Wait!", Kagura called, standing up from her makeshift throne.

"Seriously…what did you want?", Yomi asked, impatiently standing with her hands on her hips.

"You..two….", Kagura droned. "You need not hide it any longer!"

"…Huh?"

"You are both Satanists!"

"You mean that silly Culture Fest thing our class did?", Yomi said. "That was just a joke.."

"Oh…..that sucks…", Kagura sighed deeply.

"What happened to that impressive talk?", Tomo chided.

"Bah….", Kagura said with a dismissive hand gesture. "I was just hoping to recruit you two into my unholy fold."

"Oh..", Tomo said, shrugging.

"Oh, by the way…", Kagura said. "You two are also deeply in love."

Tomo and Yomi stared at one another before forcefully vomiting onto the ground in front of them.

"GACK!", Tomo choked. "W-What the hell did you just say?"

"You two are in love.", Kagura repeated. "Something…wrong with that?"

"Yes! Because we're not!", Yomi said, regaining her composure.

"You sure? The entire school seems to think differently.", Kagura said.

"Woah!", Tomo yelled. "They think we're the Carpetlicking Compadres of the school!?", Tomo shouted in shock.

"Pretty much.", Kagura confirmed, approaching them closer.

"Why!?", Yomi asked, her jaw still dropped.

"First of all….you two are always close to one another.", Kagura nodded.

"Well..yeah.", Tomo said. "We've been friends forever!"

"No…I mean literally CLOSE!", Kagura said, trying to slide a piece of paper between where the two girls' shoulders touched. The paper just would NOT go in. "Look, you two are like those rocks in Macchu Piccu."

"You know…", Tomo said. "Two people can stand close and not be in love."

"Yeah…but usually they don't end up sharing atoms like you two do.", Kagura said.

Silence abounded and nervous foot shuffling was the tune of the day.

"Anyhow…a second point: Yomi lets Tomo do whatever she wants! Regardless of the outcome!"

"That's just because I have photocopies of every terrible piece of blackmail I could have on her.", Tomo said.

"It's true.", Yomi confirmed.

"Well..uhh..anyhow..Example three! I've seen you two hug like you were going to absorb the other!"

"It was YOU!", Yomi pointed at Kagura as if she was trying pick her nose for her. "You saw us that night!"

"That's right! You freakin' stalker!", Tomo expounded.

"Besides, I was just thanking her for something.", Yomi explained.

"Hmph. Sure makes up for all the blushing you two did.", Kagura grinned. The sort of grin that makes you want to break a person's teeth.

"Blushing?", Yomi questioned. "That is totally untrue!"

"Well, we did blush AFTER she saw us!", Tomo corrected. "But only after!"

"But that wasn't the only time I saw you both! I saw you last night in fact!", Kagura said.

"Man, we should just call the cops right now.!", Tomo said.

"Hey! I just had to confirm what I was suspicious of! Nothing against you two at all!", Kagura waved her hands defencively.

Meanwhile, Yomi was contemplating that day months ago. It sure was interesting then; Tomo and her were latched onto one another like a vacuum had somehow formed between them. Other events invaded Yomi's mind, each and every one with its mental compass pointed to 'LOVE'. Yomi blushed, a hard and deep blush that we are now sure could be seen from space.

"Hehehe.", Kagura chuckled, noticing the red-faced wonder. "It seems you have figured it out!"

"Huh!?", Yomi defended herself vehemently, saying that it was only gas.

The bell rang, saving her ass quite nicely. Kagura grabbed the chair and headed for the door back into the building.

"Just think about what I said, ok? And don't worry….if anything happens between you two; you can tell me."

"Yeah, ok.", Yomi said.

"….Just don't think you get to watch.", Tomo added.

Let us now insert a time paradox. School ended moments later without explanation. The gods wept and all was quiet and proper. Regardless, on their way home, Tomo and Yomi crossed the river Styx to stop off at The Secret Place, Inside, Forever. Sitting on a bench beside Tomo, Yomi spoke.

"Tomo, I learned something today.."

"The circle piece doesn't fit in the square hole? Yeah….that's a tough one.."

"Uhhh..not quite.", Yomi said, shuffling her position on the bench.

"Oh….OH! It has to do with that Kagura girl, right?"

"Look..", Yomi said, exasperated but desperately wanting to speak what she felt was the absolute truth. "We're in love and we don't even know it!"

Tomo stared at her as if she had lobsters crawling out of her ears. "Bullshit!"

"No, seriously!"

"But if we're in love and don't know it, how do we know it?"

"We just needed an explanation!"

"Huh? You mean Kagura talking like Aleister Crowley?", Tomo asked.

"Yeah..sort of..", Yomi said. "But look here…", she pulled Tomo to an upright position so they stood no more that two feet apart. "Even if Kagura's examples didn't make a ton of sense, one did."

"Which? The atom smashing?"

"Sort of….it's the hug I'm talking about! You know, even before high school, when we would get close to each other we would blush like raging beasts of lust! There can only be one reason why..", Yomi explained.

"Huh?", Tomo asked. "Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?"

"Tomo, listen!", Yomi reprimanded.

"Fine!", Tomo huffed.

"Regardless, after that I knew that even her second example made a hell of a lot of sense! I let you get away with TONS of stuff! No matter what! Heck, no one else our age lets anyone touch them the way you do me!"

"Oh, you mean like this?", Tomo grinned, grabbing Yomi in a very unmentionable place. Actually, no…that didn't happen. But a guy can dream, right? Regardless, the true answer went more like this: "Hey, I'm no molester!"

"You know what I mean!", Yomi growled. From there they cited many examples of 'love' or so they call it. Everything from their lives, some seemingly fabricated; such as the tale of Tomo's rescue of Yomi from Mount Doom. This went on for a good ten minutes before they came to the final conclusion. Sitting back down, very close in fact, Yomi spoke that conclusion.

"We're fucking insane…"

"Yeah, this is too confusing for my rapidly increasing brain mass.", Tomo said, gazing up into the sky at the flock of dryads floating above.

"What should we do?", Yomi asked idly.

"Get a psychologist? Check into the madhouse?"

"No…we could figure it all out right here!", Yomi said, holding Tomo by the hands. "Ok, we'll stare at one another like we have schitzophrenia, move towards one another very slowly and then we'll describe how we feel ok?"

"Gotcha.", Tomo responded, staring down Yomi as if attempting to summon some sort of laser.

The two moved a few millimeters toward one another and then stopped.

"I feel a little hot…", Yomi said.

"I think my burrito is acting up…", Tomo said.

They inched a bit closer to one another.

"My head feels fuzzy…"

"I think I have something in my eye…"

They moved even closer, by now they were speaking in nothing more than hushed tones.

"My head feels even fuzzier….", Yomi said.

"Yomi…", Tomo whispered.

"Yes, Tomo?", Yomi said, her stomach fluttering with an expectant lust.

"Yomi….", Tomo pushed closer to her, wrapping her arms around her.

"Tomo…", her voice cracked with unbridled passion. Her head felt as if it was on fire now; a good fire, tingly and lovely.

Then the moment came. Their lips brushed one another's for a moment before pushing forward in their first true kiss. It was as if the world ended, began again, and was dismissed into the trash bin of time. The entire time Yomi's head fluttered with that beautiful feeling. As they pulled away from their first kiss, Tomo smiled and spoke.

"Yomi….there's a fairy in your hair."

"GAH!!", Yomi fell out of Tomo's arms and onto the grass. "WHAT THE FUCK!? GET IT OUT!!"

The little beast once again chattered away on gossamer soft wings.

"What a little shit.", Tomo observed.

"Grr….", Yomi growled, then remembered what had occurred before they were interrupted by the mystical creature, and blushed copiously. "We really did it, didn't we?"

"Heck yes!"

"That was almost too easy..", Yomi observed.

"Yeah, you got that right.", Tomo said.

"Does that…make us a couple?", Yomi asked, touching her lips, which were still warm.

"Beats the hell outta me.", Tomo said.

"Well…anyhow, I love you Tomo.", Yomi said.

"Love ya too, Yomi!", Tomo gave a thumbs up.

The simplistic situation was enough to kill an entire herd of cows. Yet, the confession still occurred, and that was what is important. The gods did smile and all was well in Toyomi Land.