I wonder if I can do a Triple Update on this one. I hope I do. I want to do triple Triple Updates. Meaning three chapter updates in three different stories. Or maybe if I lose more sleep in exchange for thinking time I can do a quadruple Triple Update, or maybe a triple Quad Update. Why do they sound like cheer dance hissatsus? xD Wish me luck on my endeavor!

Disclaimer: I'm that Grinch who wants to steal from Level-5.


33: The Plot

The point of a Plan B is to make Plan A work somehow.

"You still haven't properly explained why you're too nice to Fudou," Kazemaru closed the door behind him as soon as Sokudone had settled herself on his bed. Their dinner guest had left, with the identical cousins sending him off courteously. "I get that you forgive him, but I'm lost on the 'to love' part."

"Because you overthought it," she explained to him as he sat on the floor, his back to the bed. "To love is to forgive, to forgive is to love," the blackette positioned her legs on either side of the tealnet's head and removed his hair tie. "I love people, so I forgive them; I forgive people because I love them."

"Please don't make a Lady Gaga hair bow again."

"Then cut your hair."


"Onna," Fudou marched up to the addressee as soon as she exited Genda's car. The owner immediately followed suit, purposely coming in between the new secretary and the petite president. "You two are too close," he growled, and nearly yelped when he felt the stinging pain of his best friend's pinch on his arm. "Ditto, Koujirou," she gave a pointed look at his squeezed position between her and Fudou. The keeper glared once more at the delinquent, then back at Sokudone. "If you're not in class an hour from now, someone's head will decorate my father's wall."

"Wouldn't you look pretty on his mantle?" She brushed him off dismissively but patted his wild mess of hair her assurance.

"I didn't know you had a third dad," Fudou whistled after Teikoku's keeper's striding figure. He and the president started for the office. "Does he make you your bento too?"

"Neither of my two fathers made me lunch," she corrected him, unaffected by the absence of her father and father figure. "That one wouldn't even pay for my Sherry's if it weren't for his upbringing." (A/N: See Chappie 2. Throwback much. xD) The brunette shrugged. "Where's the emu?"

"Please don't call him that on his territory."

"This school is your territory," the delinquent corrected her. "No probation's going to change that."

Sokudone suppressed a grin. "Flattery won't get you anywhere."


Gohin was already in the office when the two finally arrived. Automatically, Sokudone took to her seat across the five-foot long mahogany, and Fudou barely contained a groan as he perched on what was once Maki's desk and examined the documents he was supposed to be handling from that point on. "You have thirty minutes until Genda hacks his head off," he chimed nonchalantly after a while. Gohin studied him for a while before resuming his observation on the president.

"Have you filtered through which companies I should be on the lookout for this Saturday?" The president inquired, not glancing up from the early morning profile skimming she had to do. While Akio was going to be her nearly literal voice of reason, she still needed a good look on her targets. The blackette's lack of attention to her new secretary irked him. "Six times in the past ten minutes you wasted skimming through them."

Sokudone glared at him. "Please be more formal."

"Please be more attentive," he bit back. "Fifteen minutes."

Sokudone immediately stood, handing out her morning report to her officer without so much a glance at him, and headed for the door. "We'll be off to class now, Gohin-kun," she turned, courteously bowed before him, and watched in silent disbelief as her secretary waited for her by the door he'd opened. "I'll let you know if we drop by for lunch."

"You're testing someone," the two chorused as they headed to their adjacent classrooms. The shorter one turned to look at him. "I take that it isn't Koujirou."

"Do you want a trophy for that?"

"Could you for one lifetime swallow that snarky attitude of yours and just play nice?" She snapped, her walk speeding up to match her boiling temper. The boy only grinned triumphantly. "Good is boring; bad is great."

"You're not a bad person," Immediately, the president's ire died down, realizing Fudou was bringing up her dinner conversation with Kazemaru.

"That's not how everyone else sees it."

"The Akio I know doesn't care about what anyone thinks."

"But the onna I know does."

Sokudone nearly stumbled in her step. "This isn't about me," her eyebrows scrunched together in the middle. "Oh, but it is," Fudou stopped her from entering her classroom and leaving their talk on an unconcluded note. "You worry about what people think and say when we're together. You hate how they think your preference is your exact opposite. You hate how, of all the boys you're acquainted with, I had to be the one who dirties your reputation. You hate the rumors. You hate me."


"Am I the only properly-functioning person in this group now?" Kidou asked, nose scrunching up against his goggles. He examined his tealnet seatmate staring intently at his phone as he sent and received one message after the other. Across him, the blackette female looked surprised at the existence of salmon on her plate. The brunette keeper beside her was glaring holes into the phone he laid out on the table, just beside his protein-heavy meal.

"Sakuma, quit ogling at your phone and eat something," Immediately, the Student Council Vice President was on his captain mode. "Sokudone, eat the something on your plate; it'd be a waste not to. Genda, you either die from starvation first or your phone will from idling; what'll it be?"

For good measure, Teikoku's soccer team captain snatched the boys' two phones with one quick hand and stabbed a slab of salmon and shot it in the girl's gaping mouth with the other.

"Hey!" Came a well-timed response from all three of his friends.

"Talk to me," he rested his chin on his palm, patient with his own version of three idiots.

"I'm e-palling," Sakuma explained, quickly grabbing for his mobile; Kidou held it out of reach. Sokudone momentarily forgot her problem and rolled her violet eyes at him. "E-palling or virtually courting?"

"E-palling, Sokudone," he hissed at her. She only snorted disbelievingly but let the topic go. She practically had a month's worth of proof that she'd found Sakuma's date. And he wasn't the only one doing things without the other's knowledge.

"Genda?" Kidou nodded to the lion-haired boy's direction, his face flushed for some reason. Sokudone studied him curiously as well. He let out a defeated sigh and faced his blackette seatmate. "I need your help planning for Claire and my monthsary."

Sokudone's eyes widened. She nearly forgot about it! "Don't laugh!" He whined with their two friends' cackling in the background. "I thought it was something bad!" Sakuma held his stomach. Kidou honestly looked stupid with his red cape flailing about. "What do you want to do?" Sokudone flicked a finger at the keeper's forehead, matchmaking instincts suddenly taking over.


Fudou was waiting for Sokudone to finish her last class. Despite his little outburst that morning, he wasn't really worried about it. Like the president had said, he didn't care about what other people said. He just liked getting a kick out of messing with the onyx-eyed girl.

She was boring.

Kidou was the most fun to mess with. Every time he idled too long at the Student Council room, the goggle-wearing genius would fume, telling him if he'd no business he had to leave. Fudou liked it the most when he perched on the crimson-haired kaicho's table and complained to her in a very suggestive manner about how tiresome it was to have Kidou Yuuto as her Vice President. Frankly he was surprised as to how the onna's never figured her longest-known friend's crush, but whatever.

Then there was Genda. He'd developed a mild phobia for banana peels and a short temper for Mohawk-haired delinquents like him. He hated how Fudou had easily fooled him into sending his own self to the hospital, but hated more how he ended up causing a strain in his friendship with Kidou and Sokudone. The teal-eyed boy enjoyed boasting to him that while the male trio didn't forgive him, the sole female did. That was enough for him.

Sakuma didn't even get much on his radar. He was the irrational hothead of the group, but Fudou got bored right after he found out the tealnet would head off to the field to release his ire. Sakuma was a debate prodigy, and Fudou knew better than to test his abilities.

"Your fluctuating presence of manners is beyond me."

Fudou grinned at her and the two headed off to the office when Sokudone noticed a familiar mop of hair approaching the corridor she and the delinquent occupied. She inwardly grinned. 'Perfect timing,' the blackette cleared her throat, stopped Fudou in his tracks, and stared him down. "Akio, I like you." The brunette didn't look surprised, but the one who'd hidden by the corner of Sokudone's eye did. That was the reaction she needed. She hadn't noticed another brunette hidden by the lockers on the opposite hallway, but Fudou did, and he grinned a huge grin for both brunettes in hiding to see. "I know; we've talked about this."

"So can you do your secretary job now?" She put on a playful smirk, which Fudou complemented with a devil grin of his own.

"Are you flirting with me to get me to do something, onna?"

"And if I am?"

The brunette Fudou had spotted gagged in his hiding place.

"Then you be glad I like you back," he answered, and when Sokudone took a risky half-step towards him, emitting a jaw-drop from the brunette Hiroki Zuko, Fudou ended their interaction with an arm snaked around the president's waist to drag her closer to him. The hiding brunette fell on his face. "Meet you back in the office," He bid, releasing her from his hold and sneaking an evil grin at Genda Koujirou as he headed back to the office.

He took that back. She wasn't boring at all.


This is awesome. I finished two chapters in 24 hours! I'm so excited for posting a ton of these all at once and blasting your alerts! xD Merry Christmas indeed!

-wanonymous