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"Wait…..did he just ask who we are?" Oishi said, panicking. The other regulars nodded in confirmation, Alluka stood there, wondering what would happen next.

"Oh no!" Oishi shouted, going into 'mother-hen' mode. He felt Alluka's forehead. "Did he hit his head somewhere when he left us? I told you we shouldn't have left him alone! Did he have amnesia? Echizen, are you feeling ok? Do you need any aspirin? I can get Tezuka to give you some! Tezuka, give him some, he needs them! Oh, I am going to send him to the hospital to see the doctor!" Alluka sweat dropped. She could tell that staying in the area where the regulars are present is not safe at the moment. She kicked Momoshiro, who yelped and dropped her, and started running again before the regulars had time to react.

Once she reached home, she clutched to her heart, coughing out blood. She felt faint from running so fast, and started to collapse on the ground. But before she fell to the ground completely, Ryoma caught her. His face had a disapproving expression on it. "What happened, Al-chan?" he asked, seeing her face was in terror. She gestured to his regular's jacket, which was draped on a chair nearby. "Was it Momo-senpai and the others? Did they see you and thought it was me?" He earned a nod from Alluka. "I see. That explained what took you so long."

Alluka shook her head. "I fell asleep. Tried to run but they caught me. Took me quite some time to escape" She mumbled. Ryoma nodded. Finally, she was saying three sentences in one go. "Do you want to take a bath before we retire for the night?" Ryoma offered. Alluka nodded, and grabbed her nightgown. After her bath, she helped Ryoma with his homework. Being a sickly, frail person, she spent most of her time at home, but being a genius, she's still smarter than Ryoma. They then went to bed, and fell asleep.

The next day, Alluka tried to shake Ryoma awake, but realized how unnaturally warm he was. He was having a fever! Alluka started to panic, not knowing what to do. Usually it was her who gets sick, not the other way around. She looked around, looking for answers, and spotted Ryoma's uniform at the corner. Her eyes lit up. That's it! She will pose as Ryoma and go to school for him! She dressed in his uniform, ate the breakfast she prepared for him, grabbed the bento lunch, wore her toy patch (he had one eye injured, remember), and hurried on to school. She got there five minutes before the bell rang, and sat down at his desk.

"R-Ryoma-kun?" She looked up to find a girl in braids. She inwardly smirked. It was obvious she had a crush on her brother, but he was not interested in her. Unless she was mistaken, her name was Ryuzaki Sakuno.

"I appreciate it if you don't call me Ryoma-kun. You see, it's very irritating, as we are not even close friends, and you are calling me as if you know me well." Alluka said coldly.

"E-eh?" Sakuno said, puzzled and hurt.

"And stop stuttering. It's really annoying." Just then, the bell rang. "Go back to your seat, girl." Alluka advised. Sakuno ran out crying. 'Wow, she is emotionally weak' Alluka thought. 'How Ryoma handled her is a mystery to me.' The first period is Mathematics, and the teacher announced she was going to give out a test she had told them about beforehand, after asking where Sakuno was. (Everyone didn't know, and Alluka didn't bother to answer the teacher) She gave out the papers, and Alluka accepted hers without question. The teacher didn't bother to separate their tables, as she believed in the value of integrity. Alluka sighed, and looked at the questions. She smiled, and began to write. She noticed her seatmate trying to look at her answers, and placed her right arm over her answers. 5 minutes before the bell rang, the teacher announced that the time is up, and please hand their papers in.

The bell rang again, and it was English. Alluka, unlike Ryoma, tried to pay attention to the class, but started to doodle after 15 minutes. The bell rang the third time, and finally, it was lunch.

Meanwhile, Tezuka was walking as fast as possible to the rooftop. He was hoping to escape his fangirls, when he bumped into something hard. He fell to the ground. He stared down at the person who caused his fall. He was unfortunately surprised to find that is was only Echizen, and he saw Echizen's fearful expression before getting up and starting to run in the opposite direction. He wasn't sure what his goal was but he found himself running after 'him'. He could feel his heart pound with every step just barely keeping 'him' in sight as he did everything he could to try and lose him.

He made it to the stairway leading to the rooftop before he had to stop the catch his breath. "I don't want to hurt you!" He called after Alluka. "I promise." He doesn't know why he is saying this but he saw Echizen stop. He seemed to hesitate but slowly walked back towards him keeping his eyes locked on him skeptically. "Do you want to have lunch with me?" he said in a voice that did not sound like his at all. He turned and went to leave. "Please! None of my friends are having the same lunch period." He just stood there for what felt like forever before turning back to him with a nod. There's something peculiar about Echizen today, he's pretty much mute, even during English class (he passed by earlier), he never said a word. Echizen motioned for Tezuka to follow him.

"Is your eye alright, Echizen?" Tezuka said.

Alluka nodded. Just then, her phone rang. She got up, and went to a corner.

"Hello?" she whispered.

"Alluka, what are you thinking?" It was Ryoma. "Dressing up in my uniform and going to my school?" It was clear he was angry.

"It's ok, Ryoma, no one has caught me so far. Besides, you are the capable one in taking care of sick people, not me. I want to have a taste of school life for a change. It's so boring being cooped up at home." Phone conversations are one of the only times that she says more than 5 sentences. Other than that, she just uses gestures to communicate, or the occasional words and short sentences. Gestures appeared to be working out well for her though. After all, she doesn't need many people to understand her.

There was a sigh at the other end. "Fine, but make sure no one catches you."

"Got it." she hung up the phone.

"Who was that?" said Tezuka.

Alluka smiled, and shrugged. She looked down the tennis courts, and pointed to it, and shaking her head.

"You won't be coming today?" Alluka nodded. "Why not?"

She pointed to herself, and shook her head. "Not feeling well?" Alluka nodded. Just then, the bell rang. Alluka left the rooftop without even saying goodbye.

Tezuka watched her retreating figure. There's something strange about Echizen today.

But what?

BP: Ok, this is bad, because well, I was watching Shugo Chara. Do review, though.