Disclaimer: The characters of this fic are owned by Hiro Fujiwara. I do not own any of Maid Sama's characters.

..Sacrifices..

Chapter 7

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"Suzuna, can you waken Misaki? It isn't like her to oversleep" Minako said as she placed finishing touches on her dishes.

"Okay!"Suzuna complied as she took her apron off. She had a very good mood; It's been so long since she enjoyed cooking this much. They had a wide variety of choices thanks to the grocery they received.

"Let me waken her" Usui said when he saw Suzuna step out of the kitchen. He could guess she was going to waken Misaki; the breakfast was ready.

"Okay" Suzuna smiled and returned into the kitchen in order to help her mother to lay the table.

Upon entering Misaki's room, Usui paused for a moment, perceiving the sight in front of him.

Misaki was laying on a futon (Japanese beddings). There was a disordered pile of books and files besides her head.

Usui frowned; it didn't seem comfortable to sleep besides all these reading materials. He wondered: Did she study all night long?

Usui made his way towards the sleeping Misaki, intending to waken her, but he changed his mind as he took a closer look at her.

She was lying on her side. Both of her hands were besides her face; on the pillow. One of her hands took hold of a pen, and the other grasped a crumpled paper.

As funny and awkward Misaki's posture was, it was cute. Usui didn't see this clumsy side of Misaki before. Curiosity took over him. He drew the paper slowly from her grasp; he was afraid she might wake before he gets to read it.

Usui smiled as soon as he read what is written on the paper. It was filled with scribbles that prevented reading some words, and the words that were obvious were mainly insults.

Idiot… alien… stalker… why here? Moron… Barging in is rude… no, it should be a crime!

Those scattered words and insults made Usui happy; she was thinking about him 'till she fell asleep.

He flipped the paper in order to see if there was anything written on the back side of it. Two sentences were written on it. One of them was:

'Usui… what's wrong?'

Usui frowned, is he worrying her?

The second sentence he read brought his smile back.

'Misaki' Usui called while agitating her gently.

Misaki opened her eyes slightly, and mumbled: 'Suzuna, I'm tired'

Seeing that Misaki thought he's Suzuna, Usui realized she wasn't fully awake.

He bent down and pecked Misaki on the forehead. She automatically smiled, making the cutest facial expression ever whilst still being half awake. Usui couldn't help smiling.

"Yes, it's okay to love me" Usui whispered into Misaki's ear, making her open her eyes widely; she almost got a heart attack. She instantly crawled towards the corner of the room, perplexed.

"W…what got you here?" Misaki stuttered.

"I live here" Usui grinned happily while saying it; the ring of the words sounded so sweet to him.

"I mean… what are you doing in my room?" she looked at him skeptically.

"I'm just here in order to answer your question. Yes, you can love me, and I already love you"

Misaki blushed; what is he saying the first thing in the morning?

Usui stood in order to leave, but before he did, he waved the paper in the air, saying:"You write interesting things. I'm keeping this"

Misaki observed him in horror as he shoved the paper into his pocket and left the room. She wasn't certain why she was in an absolute horror. The cause of her fear got confirmed when she noticed the pen she had a grasp on.

Misaki recollected what kind of paper he laid his hands on; she blushed to the tip of her ears as she remembered a line she wrote, which is:

"Usui… is it okay to love you?"

"Did she wake up?" Minako asked, sitting by the table and waiting for Usui and Misaki to join the table.

"Fully" Usui answered shortly and confidently as he took a seat. He struggled to hide a smile that strived to appear on his face upon imagining Misaki's blushing face.

Few moments later, Misaki appeared, literally dragging her feet across the parquet floor. She didn't dare to look at Usui.

She sat on the vacant chair by the table, which was facing Usui.

Misaki looked at the various dishes that laid on the table. In the breakfast, they usually had steamed rice, misu soup, along with one of the side dishes. However, there were four side dishes on the table now. Who would eat all of that?

A dish of Tamagoyaki (rolled eggs) was pushed across the table to Misaki's side. She looked at the owner of the hand that pushed it.

"Eat well in order to make up for exerting yourself all night long" Usui smiled slyly while talking. Misaki heard his words in a different way than her mother and Suzuna. No matter how she looked at his smile, it only spelled the words:

'You… were… thinking… about me… all… night'

Irritated and embarrassed, Misaki stood, went into the kitchen, brought a tray, took a bowl of rice and a bowl of misu soup, and then left the dining table. She was going to eat in her room; she couldn't handle the embarrassment of Usui's teasing while her family is observing.

"Excuse me" Usui excused him self, and then copied Misaki's actions, except he laid more dishes on his tray.

"I'll make her eat" Usui said confidently, earning a nod from Minako.

"It's unacceptable not to eat seeing that they had cooked wholeheartedly" Usui stated as he entered Misaki's room.

"Get out! Why are you staying here anyways?" Misaki talked without facing him.

"Because I want to spend more time with you" He reasoned while placing the tray on the floor. Misaki turned around and opened her mouth in order to object, shout, or say anything to hide her bashfulness. However, she was surprised by the rolled eggs that entered her mouth.

Misaki chewed slowly while looking at him meekly. Usui dipped a strip of nori(dried seaweed) in soy sauce and rolled some rice with it, readying to feed her once again, but Misaki snatched the chopsticks out of his hand.

"I'll eat by myself" Misaki pouted, amusing Usui.

"Seriously, why are you here? Is there something wrong?" Misaki said as she stopped eating. She recalled the way he sounded worried during that phone call, and ever since then, he didn't seem his normal self although he behaves as if nothing was wrong.

"You have no manners. I just fed you, shouldn't you feed me back?" Usui attempted to change the topic; he did not want to worry her, nor scare her by telling her she's being stalked. He had resolved to protect her, which was all he could think about.

"You know I won't feed you, and don't try to avoid my question. What's happening?" Misaki asked sternly, not intending to neglect the topic at all.

Silence controlled the atmosphere, tensing it. Misaki stared at him, stock still, seeking answers.

"Why aren't you answering?" She asked in frustration; his silence disappointed her.

Usui didn't answer. He seemed somewhere off this world although he was looking at Misaki directly.

Misaki pouted nervously. She was about to hit him by her hand in order to bring him back to this world. Usui held her wrist midway in the air and smiled, saying:"Why do you want to ruin it? You never looked at my eyes for that long"

Misaki averted her eyes immediately, realizing she was intensively staring at him.

Usui held Misaki's chin up in order to make her look at him. "Beautiful eyes" he whispered, making her heart skip a beat.

She utterly froze as if he was sucking up her mind by some sort of a mysterious power. Any intention to resist she had prior, disappeared into thin air.

*click*

Startled by the light that flashed into the room, they both recoiled away from each other. Alerted, Usui rushed to the source of the flash; the little spacing between the window's curtains. He instantly opened the window in order to know who was there.

Usui saw a clumsy Sakura, barely getting a good grasp on her smart phone. A shy Shizuko stood besides Sakura. He sighed, relieved; they are not anyone dangerous.

"I told her to turn the flash off" Shizuko mumbled.

"That doesn't justify taking a picture stealthily! You know…" Misaki began to shout, but her shouting was silenced by the arm that suddenly wrapped around her shoulder.

"Why are you furious? They caught a sweet moment, right Sakura?" a devilish smile appeared on Usui's face as he stretched out his arm to Sakura.

Sakura caught the hint and gave Usui her smart phone. Usui sent the image to his smart phone.

"You! Don't keep that!" Misaki shouted indignantly.

Usui looked around, playing idiocy, and then looked at Misaki, asking:"Who's 'Yuu'?"

Misaki clenched her fist, irritated. She made a dash towards Usui in order to snatch the smart phone out of his grasp and delete the picture. Usui simply sidestepped. Misaki nearly fell, but Usui held her just on time.

*click*

Misaki blinked twice, disengaged herself from Usui's hold, and snatched the smart phone out of Shizuko's hand.

"What are you doing? Are you my friends or his?" Misaki scolded her friend. She was too busy scolding to notice that the smart phone was being drawn out of her grasp.

Misaki was about to begin searching for the image, but she found out the smart phone no longer exists in her grasp.

"That makes them two photos" Usui said while a victory smirk danced on his lips.

Misaki reached her peak point, huffed, and made her way towards the exit of the house.

"In pajama" Suzuna said calmly after perceiving that Misaki headed for the door.

"Eh?"

"You are dressed in your pajama"

Misaki looked at her pajama, turned around, and returned to her room. She locked up her self. She determined not to open the door no matter what happens, even if that stalker;Usui knocked for eternity.

Oddly, there was no knocks. Fifteen minutes elapsed, yet no one knocked the door, as if Usui, Sakura, and Shizuko didn't exist to begin with. Usui didn't try to barge into the room.

The situation was too suspicious. Misaki forgot about her anger. She wavered between leaving her room and staying. Eventually, curiosity won and she opened the door.

As soon as Misaki opened the door, she was shoved back into the room.

"What are you doing?" Misaki asked as she watched Sakura closing the door. Shizuko showed Misaki a bag and said:" I talked to maid latte manager, and she agreed to let you skip the day for this"

Misaki was puzzled while looking at the bag, but it wasn't the bag that puzzled her. It was the fact that her friends knew where she was working.

"Maid Latte? How did you find out?"

Sakura's eyes turned into fountains, tears flowed out of them into the air. "How could you not tell your best friends?"

Shizuko's glasses gleamed as she smiled evilly.

"That's exactly why we are here to punish you"

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Misaki ended up wearing a blue dress that had long sleeves with fluttering sleeves, collar with fluttering, and overall dress with expansion skirt. It seemed similar to those dresses of dancers.

Under the collar there was a room that fit for a small crystal-like necklace.

Shizuko and Sakura applied make up for Misaki. In the end, Misaki couldn't recognize herself.

"Ready!" Sakura shouted, and the door was opened by Usui.

Usui was wearing a neat black suit with a blue neck tie. A blue flower hung on the left side of his chest to match her dress. He was literally stunned by Misaki's beauty. He forgot to release his hold on the door due to how captivated he was.

Misaki blushed when she saw how handsome he looks, and blushed harder when she noted how intensely he was staring at her.

She still had no idea what was going on.

Recovering from his daze, Usui said: "No, we can't go this way. Everyone will see her"

"Go where?" Misaki asked.

Sakura had a fangirl moment while Shizuko said:"you say you don't want anyone to see her, but in the video everyone will"

"What video?" Misaki asked.

"In the video she'll be between my arms. It'll be obvious she's my property" Usui answered nonchalantly while tapping on his smart phone.

Misaki frowned as a blush appeared on her face; 'between his arms in a video? His property?' she wondered.

Five minutes later, a limousine was waiting outside the house.

Misaki's frown grew bigger; no one was intending to tell her what's happening.

"I'll not take any step until you tell me what is happening" Misaki stated indignantly; she felt she was being bullied.

"Then I'll have to make you budge" Usui said, picking her up in a bridal style, and placed her into the limo despite her futile tries to break free.

Shizuko and Sakura followed Usui into the limo. Suzuna said good bye to them at the door and informed:"We want a copy of the video too!"

And then, the limo took off. Usui never took his eyes off of Misaki, making all her efforts to glance at him fail.

Irritated, she said:"Okay, I'm in the limo and going with you to I don't know where. I'm not going to escape so tell me what is happening!"

"Maid Latte manager wants to hold a ballroom day. Not everyone knows how to waltz, so she wants a tutorial video of the waltz dance. Since you are the most loved maid, she wants you to do it." Shizuko explained.

"B… but I don't know how to waltz!" Misaki objected. In terror, she tried to open the door.

Usui sighed and then held Misaki's wrist. He pulled her towards him and seated her on his lap, saying:"That's dangerous. The limo is moving"

"L….let go!" Misaki stuttered, embarrassed.

"I won't, or else you will run away" Usui said simply.

"I'll not! The limo is moving" Misaki stated, but her words fell on deaf ears.

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A/N: I hope I'm not ruining the story. I'm trying not to rush it and I want Usui and Misaki to have a bit of relaxing moments (although they are not exactly relaxed)

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