Hey guys so here's me coming at you with another chapter.

So my idea came for this chapter came while I was pondering on something. So we all know that Misaki dislikes Misaka right? And we all know why she hates Misaka right? (Hint hint, it's because she basically stole her spot in Touma's life that she held previously as that girl he knows from Tokiwadai) So I thought, why not make a chapter that shows the parallels between the two of them. I thought back to that episode in Index where Misaka forces Touma to go on a fake date with her. So I thought, why not do something like that for Misaki?

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter. As always, I do not own Toaru Majutsu no Index

Misaki was known as the Queen of Tokiwadai Middle School. She had obtained that title in a pretty obvious manner. She was the leader of the largest clique at Tokiwadai Middle School and she was one of the most popular girls on campus as well. Being one of Academy City's famed Level 5s certainly contributed to her status as well. Even without having to use Mental Out, Misaki had gained one of the largest followings at Tokiwadai.

So of course with her popularity and status, she would even gain quite a few admirers as well that were from outside of Tokiwadai. With Tokiwadai being an all girls school, all of her admirers in the school were obviously female. The point of saying that was that it was a sharp contrast to some of her fans outside of Tokiwadai as it didn't stop her from gaining admirers that were notably male in gender.

It wasn't exactly the fact that she had some admirers that were male that stood out to Misaki. It was the fact that a lot of them would recognize her and come up to her and start pestering her. It was starting to get to the point that some of them were trying to ask her to go out on dates with them and such. She would politely refuse their invitations but some of them never gave up and would keep repeating attempts. All of that was starting irk her and she wished that they would just stop. She thought of using Mental Out on them in order to get them to stop but she was not that cruel as to mess with people's feelings. That and she didn't want to ruin her reputation by messing with people's minds like that.

Even so, unfortunately, today was one of those days where it seemed like that sort of thing was going to happen again. When she decided to go out and roam the streets of District 7, she started attracting the stares of many people around her as they saw the Level 5 walk out in public. Many of the males started whispering to each other presumably about her. She rolled her eyes and just kept walking.

After walking around a bit, she felt that she needed something to fill her. An outdoor cafe came into view. How convenient Misaki thought as she walked over. She sat down at one of the tables and soon enough a waitress came up to her and handed a menu. She ordered some tea and a wide arrange of sweets alongside it. After handing back the menu to the waitress who came to take her order, Misaki waited.

As she was waiting though, it seemed like some passerbys and other people around in the cafe were starting to recognize the #5. After a couple of minutes, her order finally reached her as the waitress brought it over. She was hoping she could dive into her sweets to ignore the attention she was receiving around her.

Misaki knew it was futile though as she knew she was still receiving attention even if she was eating. As if on clockwork, her expectations were fulfilled as a boy walked up to her. Misaki sighed as she familiarly recalled this type of situation.

"Ah Shokuhou-san, fancy meeting you here." The boy said while standing in front of her.

"Ahhh, yes, it is hehehe." Misaki looked up and replied with a sweatdrop on her head.

"May I ask what brings you around here today?"

"Well I felt a little parched and so I just thought I'd stop and get a snack." Misaki said with an awkward smile on her face.

"Ah well it seems that we've coincidentally chosen the same place to eat at."

"I am particularly fond of this certain cafe to eat at."

"Well I guess we have something in common if we have similar tastes. We must certainly be compatible."

"Ehehe, I guess so..."

"If you don't mind me asking, after you're done here, would you like to do something together like go take a walk together around a park."

"That sounds like a nice offer..." Misaki said while looking to the side.

"Yes, it seems like something nice to do right?

"I wouldn't disagree but uhhh"

"Hmm? What's wrong? Do you have something else to do after this?" The boy inquired.

"Well it's not like I'm refusing your invitation but I don't know if my schedule will allow it."

"Do you have something else to do after this?"

"Ahh yes I do! I errr..." Misaki then noticed something in the corner of her eye. A form with a familiar hairstyle of spiky black hair was walking by on the sidewalk next to the cafe. An idea came to mind in her head and that certain unfortunate soul was going to be involved in it.

"I'm actually meeting up with my date right now! Ah it looks like he just arrived here." Misaki said.

She stood up and quickly made her way towards the boy as he was walking past by. "Touma-kun! I'm so glad you could make it." Misaki exclaimed in as sweet a voice as she could muster as she ran over and wrapped herself around the arm of the unsuspecting boy. All while maintaining a happy aura on her face that seemed like a girl reunited with her boyfriend.

"Ah Shokuhou-san! What are you doing?!" Touma said in surprise at the sudden golden haired girl's appearance and with her acting weirdly.

"Aww Touma-kun what do you mean what am I doing? We were supposed to meet here for our date right?" Misaki said with as sweet a smile as she could possibly make.

"D-date? What route have I unlocked for you Shokuhou-san? This seems all of sudden!" Touma said befuddled in response to what Misaki just said.

"Why the formality Touma-kun? You can call me Misaki you know? After all, that is what couples do right?" Misaki said still in her sweet tone but it seemed like she was having fun with this now.

"C-c-c-couples? This sort of progression of our relationship is too fast!"

"But I thought we were close enough in order to be able at this point though Touma-kun."

"I mean I think we are close. B-b-but are we actually really this close?"

"Ahahaha sure we are, after all, we're going on a date today right? We set it up to have our date around District 7 right? Come on and let's enjoy our DATE TOGETHER." Misaki said as she dragged Touma away, placing emphasis on her last words and seemingly directing them for everyone around to hear.

The boy that approached Misaki seemed befuddled at what just happened. Actually, everyone around the cafe was just befuddled at what happened.

Over in one part of the cafe, there sat a high school girl that looked like she was sipping her drink in irritation. "Well that was certainly interesting."

After they had made a show and Misaki dragged Touma off, she had pulled him over to a park and they sat down at a bench where Touma was still in shock of the situation. Misaki apologized for what had happened but Touma was still perplexed.

"What was all of that about?" Touma asked.

"Well..." Misaki began explaining her situation of how boys had started approaching her very often. In that specific situation at the cafe, she told me how she had to use him in order to avoid her admirers and avoid from being approached and questioned some more.

"...and that's why I had to put on that show. I was really hoping to avoid those types of situations." Misaki said as she finished explaining that the reason she had to that was to avoid other people asking her out on dates.

"I understand." Touma said pretty accepting of the situation. "Still though, that was a surprise that you pushed onto me."

"Well I did what I had to do on the fly but it seemed pretty convincing wasn't it?" I'm sorry that I had to drag you into it Touma-kun."

"Even though we're alone now, you're still calling me by my first name." Touma pointed out in realization.

"Ehhhh am I now?" Misaki blushed and shyly looked away. "Well I'd be fine with you calling me Misaki if you wanted to..." She said with even more red adding onto her face.

"Hmm? Well alright then...Misaki." Touma said while scratching his cheek. At the sound of Touma saying her name, Misaki's heart started beating faster.

She started shaking her head. "Anyway, while that problem over at the cafe was solved, I have no doubt that something will happen like that again in the future." Misaki sighed. "So uhh I wanted to ask you something Touma-kun."

"What is it?"

Misaki started poking her two index fingers agaisnt each other. "Will you pretend to be my boyfriend for today? I was thinking that maybe I can shake off all of these boys if they think that I have a boyfriend."

"B-boyfriend?!" Touma sputtered. "Something like that is pretty serious. I don't know if I should really be taking on a role as big as that."

"Pleeeeaaase Touma-kuuuun" Misaki looked at him with her hands clasped with a teary looking face.

Touma looked at her and felt his resistance crumbling as he kept looking at her face. "Well I guess it's fine if we're just pretending. I'll do it for your sake." Touma said while sighing.

Misaki's stomach felt like it dropped when she heard Touma say those words. Doing it for my sake huh? I think I like the sound of a guy saying that they'll do something for you. Girls really are selfish.

"W-w-well great!" Misaki said while blushing. "So if we're going to do this then we need to do stuff that couples would do."

"Hmmm well we're in the park right now. That's kind of a common spot for couples to hang around. What do they usually do around here?" Touma said as he put his hand to his chin and pondered.

Touma took a quick look around the park. "Ah, I think I see an ice cream vendor over there. How about we go get some ice cream? That seems like something couples would do. I'll buy some for the both of us" Touma said. Misaki nodded at the suggestion and they bothstood up and walked over together to the ice cream vendor.

"What flavor do you want?" Touma asked Misaki as they stood in front of the vendor

"I'll get anything that you decide Touma-kun, after all you're buying for me."

"I don't mind buying for you so you can choose whatever flavor that you like the most."

"I kind of feel selfish for doing this though."

"Then let yourself be selfish, I don't mind."

"Erm, can I get strawberry then?

Touma nodded and moved towards the vendor. "Can we get one scoop of strawberry and one scoop of vanilla?" Touma said.

The vendor nodded and started scooping some ice cream. "Well well, from that conversation can I inquire if we have a pair of lovebirds here?" The vendor asked as he looked over at them.

Misaki blushed but Touma was the one to respond. "No we're-Actually yes we are." Touma said with a nervous smile as he caught himself from saying an automated response. He had to remember that he needed to pretend to be Misaki's boyfriend.

"Well that's nice, just for you two, I'll give you each two scoops of ice cream then for this hot summer day." The vendor said as he handed them each of their cones. "I hope you two enjoy yourselves together." He said as Touma and Misaki walked away.

Touma and Misaki walked back to the bench they were previously at and sat down again. Each of them just enjoying their ice cream.

They looked around the park trying to observe anything of interest while they were eating their ice cream. One notable object of interest was that there was another couple out in the grass on a blanket seemingly having a picnic. In a mirror to the two of them, the couple were eating crepes with each one holding their very own. Then it seemed the boy was holding his crepe out to her and offering the girl to have a bite of his. The girl obliged and took a bite out of the crepe he was holding. After doing so, she counter-offered her very own crepe and the boy took a bite out of hers.

Touma and Misaki watched in awe at the sight of what the couple just did and looked at their own treats.

"So do you want a lick of my ice cream?" Touma asked her.

Misaki instantly blushed after Touma asked her. Something like that is just... just... Misaki recalled one of her and Touma's earlier encounters this summer that involved her getting attacked by a swarm of pigeons. He had given her a whistle and she had received an indirect kiss from it. Still though, something like sharing ice cream was even more farther down along the line.

"Sure, I'll try it."

After their endeavors at the park, Misaki and Touma were walking together side by side around on the sidewalks of District 7. Misaki was still getting looks from boys but it didn't look like anyone would try to approach her as long as she was still with Touma.

But it didn't seem like that plan was going to go as smoothly as she thought.

A group of 4 guys ahead looked like they were about to approach them. The appearance of these boys seemed liked something akin to delinquents. This meant that this encounter was going to be rougher than with any of her usual admirers.

Touma felt a certain intent coming from them as well. He looked over at Misaki to his side to check on her and then looked back forward and tensed his body. He knew what was the most likely outcome that was going to happen. Touma was no stranger to a situation like this though as he has had his own run ins with delinquents. Usually it involved him trying to save a girl that was being bothered by them. It looks like he was going to save one again.

They approached the pair and Touma and Misaki stopped in their tracks. The four of them then moved to crowd around Misaki.

"Well, hello there cutey-pie. What brings you around here?"

"You look like someone that needs some excitement."

"Yeah, if you come with us, we can definitely show you a better time."

"Just ditch this guy and we'll all have a fun time together."

Misaki just turned her head to the side with a bored and a seemingly disgusted look. "I'm very sorry but I'm afraid I'm going to have decline your offers. As you can see, I'm with my date."

They looked over to Touma.

"What is she doing hanging around a lame looking guy?"

"This guy? He doesn't look so tough."

"Just looks like a lanky guy."

"His spiky hair is weird."Their attention turned towards him now and Touma finally felt he could intervene now. "Hey, leave her alone. Don't you see that she doesn't want to go with you?" Touma(who felt quite offended by the hair comment) said.

"You don't know that. What if she does? She just needs some convincing. Even then, what are you going to about it?"

Touma clenched his hands into fasts and readied his body as if it looked like he was going to fight. The delinquents readied themselves as well and they looked like they were ready to rumble.

*Sigh* "Alright boys, that's enough."

A click was heard and suddenly there were stars in the eyes of the delinquents. Suddenly, their bodies stopped and drooped over lifelessly a bit. Their bodies then straightened out, turned around, and just started walking away.

"Huh? What just happened?" Touma said questioningly as he watched them just walk away.

"That was my Mental Out ability. I just took control of their minds and made them forget about us and leave us alone."

"Wait, you can actually do that?!"

"Didn't I tell you I can?!"

"I didn't actually know if I could believe because I haven't seen it before!"

"Well there you go! You just saw an example!"

"Ugghh" Touma said as he put his hands over his face. "I was all ready to fight them too."

"Must you handle it in a rough way?"

"If it's to protect a girl, then yes. I wanted to protect you and make sure that nothing happened to you."

Misaki blushed at his declaration and turned her face away from him. "Well it's all fine now right?"

"I guess, but I'll always definitely make sure you're safe and still smiling."

Misaki felt herself get hotter and just started walking.

As they were still walking, they tried to figure out what else to do on their "date" for the day.

"Hmm so where else would couples go to do stuff together?" Touma asked with his hands behind his head.

Misaki pondered on that as well as they still walked. Ahead of them she could see the Seventh Mist mall ahead. An idea popped up into her head.

"Touma-kun." Misaki said as she pulled on his shirt sleeve. "Why don't we go to the mall? That's something that couples would do right?"

"Ehh? The mall huh? All of the romantic comedies I've seen have shown that whenever a couple goes to the mall, the girl usually drags the guy around on her shopping adventures and the guy is forced to carry all of the stuff she buys!"

"Don't believe everything you see from anime and manga! Come on let's go!" Misaki said as she took Touma's arm and dragged him into the mall.

"Ugghhh fukou da."

They started walking around and looking at the various shops that the Seventh Mist contained. Unfortunately, it seemed Touma was right into thinking that something trope-ish as he described would happen as Misaki started dragging him around to shops she wanted to visit. It seemed that she had a lot of interest in remotes and webbed attire. Fortunately for him, it didn't look like she was going to buy anything and force him to carry stuff for her.

As they walked past by a certain shop, an idea popped up in Misaki's mind. She poked Touma's arm to get his attention. "Touma-kun why don't we go in there?"

Touma looked at the shop she was pointing to and paled. It was a swimsuit store. Touma was rightfully feeling a sense of dread at her suggestion.

"Err Misaki, why would we need to go in there? After all, don't you hate the water?"

"I don't necessarily hate it, what if some time in the future I'll want to go the pool or maybe go to the beach?"

"Aren't you very horrible at swimming?"

"I'll just have you teach me again when we go swimming together again."

"But why buy a new swimsuit?! Don't you already have your school swimsuit?!"

"I can't always wear that thing around. A girl has got to be fashionable."

"Fashionable? A girl doesn't wear a swimsuit for the fashion! The many different swimsuits that girls wear are made to define their character! The difference between wearing a one piece or a two piece can tell a lot about their personality!" Touma ranted. "Also, why are you trying to drag me into a store called 50% Skin Less Covered?! I can just feel the misfortune seeping in. I can even go as far and make a bold prediction that I'll probably walk in on you changing."

"Well what if I really wanted to show off a swimsuit to you and ask for your opinion on it?"

"Don't try to make this like something from a manga! Either way I'm not going in there!"

Touma let out a sigh. "Why don't we actually do something in the mall that's an actual activity. Look, there's a movie theater over there, why don't we watch something together?" Touma pointed out.

"Hmmm, well I guess something like that is fine as well." Misaki said as she crossed her arms. She pondered and envisioned how a movie date would go. What if when they were sitting right next to each other and they want to put both their arms on the arm rest, they'd rest their hands on top of each other. Maybe they'd be sharing popcorn together and their hands would almost touch when reaching for some at the same time. Maybe she'd get so engrossed into the movie that she started leaning her head on his shoulder. Maybe she and Touma would be share a soda and experience an indirect kiss again. Many thoughts were running through her head at all the possibilities.

"I'm glad you think so, it's a perfectly fine normal activity right?" Touma said.

Although with Touma, nothing will ever go normally as planned. When Touma and Misaki went to watch what they considered a normal movie, they actually ended up in a theater that was showing a horror movie. They were horrified when they realized they went into the wrong theater and yet they didn't leave. As soon as the first jump scare popped on the screen, Misaki who was holding popcorn screamed and flipped it up into the air where the bucket landed on Touma's head with the popcorn spilled all over him and was now covered in butter. Not only that, it seemed Misaki was getting very scared of the movie and she was now clinging to Touma's arm as she buried her face in it. Touma appreciated the fact that a girl was clinging onto him in a movie theater setting but Misaki was VERY scared and clinging onto his arm HARD and he could feel his arm growing limp. He had to say that it did feel uncomfortable in that position. Not only that, he had to stay in that position as the movie went on for a couple of hours.

After the movie had finally finished, as they walked out of the theater, Misaki was still hanging by his arm very closely. To most people it would like it was just a normal couple, but Misaki was actually still stunned by the movie and still clinging onto him in fear. This had gone unnoticed by the many onlookers around them so it just seemed that Kamijou Touma was being close with the #5.

As Touma looked down her as they were walking, it still looked like Misaki was very shaken by the movie and had a scared look on her face. "Hey, Misaki? Are you okay?"

Misaki looked at him with still the same look at her face and nodded without saying anything.

Guess she must still be affected by that movie.

An idea popped into his head as to how he could break her out of her current status. Touma took her to the food court with the idea to buy her some sweets to calm her down. Deciding any treats would do, he decided to get scones for the both of them.

After treating her to the scones, it seemed like Misaki felt invigorated again. She must really like her sweets Touma had thought. She had gulped them down fast but at least it was bringing her back to her sense again. He just watched as he ate his own scone.

Touma stood up after they finished eating, "You okay now?" Touma asked Misaki he offered his hand for her to stand up. Misaki nodded and took his hand as they stood up and continued walking around the mall.

"I never want to see something like that ever again." Misaki muttered quietly.

"I'm sorry that we accidentally saw the wrong movie." Touma said with a sweatdrop.

"It was so scary! I think I might be scarred for the rest of my life with the memory of that movie."

"I could have sworn you were mostly digging your face into the side of my arm for the majority of that movie."

Misaki pouted and stared at him with a sharp and seemingly angry face.

Touma had a nervous smile. "Well I'm glad I was able to provide some form of comfort to you."

It may not have been the way she envisioned being close together in a movie theater would be, but she certainly did feel a sense of comfort and protection being near Touma.

After the movie, a certain amount of time had passed and it was getting to be the evening. With that it signaled that their "date would be ending soon. Misaki felt a little pang of sadness as she realized that their "date" would be over soon. Even though her initial reason was to try to shake off other people, she was definitely enjoying the time she had with Touma. They walked around trying to find one more quick thing to do on their "date" before she had to go back to Tokiwadai.

As they continued to look around, Misaki saw something ahead that caught her interest. Perfect Misaki though.

As as they walked by it, Misaki suddenly grabbed Touma's arm and dragged him to the side.

Touma felt himself get pulled by Misaki and suddenly saw that they were now in a more confined space. Misaki had just pulled him into what apparently looked like a photo booth.

"What are you doing Misaki?" Touma inquired.

"Ah, I just felt like we needed a souvenir as a memory just for this occasion." said Misaki as she smiled at him. "Come on Touma-kun, look at the camera and smile."

"Wait, wha-?"

A light flashed and the sound of a snap went through.

Misaki and Touma were now walking back to the Tokiwadai dorms. As the gentlemen that he was, Touma had offered to escort her back.

Looking over at Misaki, an item was being held by both of her hands as they were walking was a picture that she was looking at. In that picture was Misaki smiling at the camera as she was holding onto Touma's arm. In that very same picture alongside her was Touma with a dumbfound look on his face as it looked like he just managed to turn his face to the camera as it snapped the picture.

It was going to be a memoir of the time they spent together on this day and she wanted to treasure it.

As they neared the Tokiwadai dorms, the sun started setting just on the horizon. Misaki put the picture in her purse and set her arms behind her back as they were still walking onwards.

They had finally reached the dorms and stopped just right in front of the building because Touma couldn't go any farther with her.

Misaki looked over at him. " So uh, Touma-kun, I just wanted to say thanks for everything today."

"No problem, I hope that our 'date' today will have hopefully solved your problem."

"Yeah I hope so too. But, even if it didn't...Well, in any case, then I'd guess we'd just have to do something like this again." Misaki winked at him.

Touma felt a light blush on his face but smiled back. "Hehehe sure, I guess another 'date' wouldn't be too bad. I wouldn't mind."

"I bet you wouldn't. You'd get to be around a beautiful girl such as me some more." Misaki said teasingly as she put her right hand to her chest.

"Yes, yes. You're indeed a beautiful women with bountiful assets that no guy could resist." Touma said sarcastically.

"Hey! That is sexual harassment!"

"Didn't you get mad at me for stating your lack of assets?!"

"That is also horrible as well!"

"Then what will you accept?"

"Your eternal admiration?"

"I'd rather just say that look very cute!"

Misaki felt herself get taken aback and stunned at his statement and felt her face go red.

"W-well I guess that's acceptable."

if you ever need my help again, I won't hesitate to come for you."

Misaki blushed as well at his statement. "Geez, girls will feel their heart beating faster when you say something like that to them."

"Pfft, like I'll ever be able to impress a girl like that any time soon."

"But what if I say that it made my heart skip a beat."

"I probably wouldn't believe you"

"Hey!"

"What? I doubt this Kamijou Touma has much effect on the hearts of maidens."

"But didn't we just spend the whole day together? What if it had an effect on me?"

"Now I know you're just teasing me."

"Do I look like the type of person that would be lying?"

"Honestly..."

"Hmmm?" Misaki pouted and stared at him.

Touma became nervous under her stare. "No...You don't." Touma relented.

"I'm glad that you think that of me." Misaki said as her pout turned back into a smile.

Touma rubbed the back of his head and laughed a little. He looked back over at the setting sun. As he though back as to what happened, all in all, it was an interesting day for him.

"Well I should probably be getting back to my own dorm too. I'll see you later Misaki."

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next time we meet Touma-kun. "

Touma turned to start walking back to his own dorm and waved back at her. Misaki stared at his back.

As she continued to stare, she didn't notice the Tokiwadai students that were walking back into the dorms for curfew as well that noticed her exchange with Touma. Actually there were girls in the dorms that were looking out their windows that saw her exchange as well. As the Tokiwadai girls started talking about what they just saw with the Queen, it seemed like rumors were going to start circulating soon. It seemed like her objective would be accomplished after all.

End Note: Hey sorry for the late update guys but I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I really wanted to get this out last week and keep up a weekly update but I couldn't finish it in time. I came up with a new idea for a story so I was also writing up a new fanfiction. So expect to see a new one coming out of me soon and I hope you guys read that one as well.