Alright guys here's a chapter. God I haven't updated this one in a while, sorry about that. I was having too much fun writing the other stories and college took up some of my time.

Anyways, hope you guys enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Toaru Majutsu no Index

The girl named Shokuhou Misaki was outside and walking. Where she was now, she was just walking around the sidewalks of Academy City's District 7. She didn't have any particular reason for walking around or any destination in mind, but there was one person she wanted to see.

And that person was the boy named Kamijou Touma.

Usually, if she wanted to meet him, she'd just have to conveniently stumble upon him while just going around. Although she did wish she had his phone number to contact him.

As she was walking, she heard a commotion.

Misaki looked ahead. Over in the distance, she could see that were were a group of delinquents. But a closer look revealed that it wasn't just only a group of delinquents. In the middle of the group was a girl surrounded by all sides.

It seemed that the girl was being harassed by the group.

"Hey there girl, how about we go have some fun together."

"I...uhh..."

"Come on, we can promise you a good time, can't we boys?"

"Yeah we can! The more the merrier, right?"

"Please...I have to head somewhere."

"Surely you can take some time out of your day for us?"

"What could you be doing that's more important than having fun with us?"

Misaki frowned kind of angrily. She could feel her disgust at the scene. It reminded her of the time she was with Touma the other day where a group of boys tried to do the same thing with her. She honestly found it kind of pathetic.

But that wasn't another thing she was disgusted at. She was disgusted by the other people that were ignoring what was going on. Many of those that passed by the scene was doing nothing when any of the could have helped. They were either trying to look away from the scene or walk as fast as they could past the commotion.

Misaki sighed. She took out one of her remotes.

Even though she wasn't usually one to get involved in this sort of stuff, she figured she could handle something like this very easily with her power just as she did before.

She stopped all of a sudden.

A figure appeared from the side of her vision that seemed it was heading towards the group of delinquents. As she turned her head, she could see that the figure was the familiar boy named Kamijou Touma.

What is he doing?

Misaki put her remote back and then put herself behind some cover while still peeking her head out. She was about to intervene herself but she wanted to see he was going to do and how this would turn out.

"Hey there guys." The boy had said as he approached the group.

"Huh?" They all turned to him.

"Ah so that's where you were!" Touma walked up to the girl. "I was looking everywhere trying to find out where you were." He said as he grasped her right hand with both of his.

The girl looked confused for a moment as to what he was doing. The thugs were also kind of looking at him skeptically.

"Thanks guys for keeping her company while I was gone. Jeez, we can't have you getting lost can we?" He said as he started dragging her away.

"Who are you?"

At that moment, something shattered within Touma. He sweatdropped and suddenly felt a heavy weigh on his back.

All of the delinquents turned and set their eyes on him.

"Wait a minute..." One of them said.

"Something fishy is going on here."

"You sure you're really with her?"

"Why would you say something like that?! I'm trying to save you here!" Touma exclaimed.

The delinquents started surrounding them again.

Touma sighed. He let go of the girl's hand and whispered to her. "I'll handle this. Once I get you an opening, I want you to run away as fast as you can."

"Huh?"

"Trust me. Just do it."

"A-alright."

Touma took on a fighting stance in front of the girl. His expression turning into one of determination.

"Why don't you bastards leave the poor girl alone?"

"Ohoho, lookie here. This guy is trying to play hero."

"We don't want to leave her alone, we want to play with her. And we ain't letting some brat like you trying to stop us."

"Yeah, a little squirt like you ain't going to be able to stop us if you look around you. If you know what's good for you then you better scram-"

That person never got to finish his sentence as Touma threw a sucker punch at his face, instantly knocking him down.

The other people were surprised but Touma didn't stop there. He punched another guy next to the first guy he knocked out.

"Go! There's that opening!" Touma yelled back at the girl. The people he took out did create a gap in the group that surrounded them.

The girl nodded nervously and made to run off.

"Hey! She's getting away!"

Touma stepped in front of them with his back faced to the direction the girl ran off to. He made it so that they couldn't get past him to after the girl.

"I'm not letting you guys go after her!"

"Tch. This fucking guy."

"He ruined our time, why don't we take it out on him!"

Touma smirked. The delinquents saw his smirk and prepared themselves ready to fight, cracking their knuckles.

Touma closed his eyes. "Well, looks like there's nothing else to be done." He said with a smug smile

He opened his eyes. "Except to run away!" He yelled as he also turned around and ran away.

"Wait, what?"

"Hu-huh?!"

"That guy's getting away, after him!"

The group also took off after the boy.

"Hmm, well that was interesting." Misaki said out loud.

She stepped out of her hiding place and walked over to the spot where the previous scene just took place.

"Well, looks like I found him. It wasn't the way I expected to see him again." She said just before she sighed.

"Although it looks like I lost him again."

"Ahhh, fukou daaaaaaaaa!" Touma yelled.

He was running as fast as he could as he was still getting chased by the group of delinquents. He knew he wouldn't have been able to take all of them on so that was why he made the decision to run. He was lucky to take out the two that he did just because they didn't expect it. But he knew to pick his battles wisely.

He made sure to run in a different direction that the other girl did just so he wouldn't lead them to her again. Touma ran through all sorts of places.

At one point he decided that it would be a good idea to run into an alley. Well that idea didn't seem like a good idea in hindsight.

As he ran through the alleyway, he was met with a dead end.

O just my luck. Touma thought as he turned around.

The group of thugs had been right behind him and they piled in the alleyway.

"Alright punk, we going to take out our frustration for losing out on that tail on you."

The delinquents moved forward towards Touma.

"Well well well, what do we have here?"

Touma turned around to see Misaki walking out of the shadow of the alley, a remote in hand. How did she appear there?

"Misaki?"

"Seems like you're caught in a bind."

"Oi, who's that chick?" One of the thugs said.

"Is that supposed to be his backup? Pfft, we can mess them up easily."

Misaki smirked and pressed one of the buttons on her remote. Suddenly all of the people had stars in their eyes. They all turned around uniformly and started walking out of the alley.

As they piled out of the alley, Touma let out a relieved sigh.

"Didn't think I'd ever have to save you in a situation like this." Misaki said as she walked up to him.

"Ehehehe, well thanks Misaki." Touma said scratching the back of his head.

"Pleasure is mine. Although it was a hassle chasing after you."

"Chasing after me?"

"Of course, I was looking for you after all."

"I didn't even know you were looking for me."

"Well I was. And it's all your fault that you had to make a girl come all this way. Be more sensitive about others jeez."

"I'm feeling that's kind of unfair."

"Teehee" Misaki laughed as she had a teasing smile. "Can you really say that's unfair after you just had a charming beautiful girl come to you to help?"

Touma put on a sheepush smile. "I guess I have no right to complain."

They both walked together out of the alleyway.

"Still though, even though I saw it the other day, I'm still surprised by your ability."

"Are you awestruck at it's power?"

"No...more like I'm concerned. I don't know, it's just something about taking over people's free will rubs me the wrong way."

Misaki frowned a little. She herself was the one that was most aware of her power. It wasn't really a surprise, that, to most people it would seem like a nefarious and deceiving power being able to manipulate people's minds. If Touma thought so as well...

"*Sigh* It can't be helped, that's just how it works."

"Well, I'm not trying to reprimand you or anything, but if you can't help it, I'd like for you to try to refrain from taking other people's minds as best as you can."

Misaki put her hand on her chin as they walked. "I'll try my best just for you then." She said with a smile.

Touma put on a small smile back at her.

"Moving on from me, what about you?

"What about me?"

"I saw how you got involved in this mess. A girl was getting picked on by those guys and you just threw yourself in there to save her."

"Oh, so you saw that huh?" Touma said scratching the back of his head.

"Indeed I did. It seemed to me that you were trying play a hero and save a damsel in distress."

"Well uhh, I wouldn't use that analogy."

"Umm...hello?"

Touma and Misaki both turned their heads to the source of a new voice that popped up. While they were walking, someone had approached them from the front,

"Hmm?" Touma turned his head to look at the person. "Wait, you're that girl that was surrounded by those guys."

"Uhh...yeah...that's me." The girl said as she chuckled nervously.

"It's good to see that you're alright."

"Yeah." The girl said shyly. "And it's all thanks to you."

"I just did what I can, anybody else would have done the same." Touma said scratching the back of his head.

"But it was you that did it." She blushed.

Misaki noticed the girl blushing and an expression appeared on her face that was not amused.

"Well the most important thing is that you're safe."

"I guess so. But then what about you? I felt kind of guilty for just running off and letting you handle those guys."

"I'm just fine. I uhh" He looked over to Misaki. "managed to lose those guys so everything turned out okay."

"Oh I'm glad. I still feel bad about getting you caught up in that so I really want to thank you for it."

"You don't need to do that."

"B-but I insist." The girl leaned in close to Touma.

Misaki's expression was still one of someone that was amused at the scene unfolding in front of her.

All of a sudden she grabbed Touma's arm. "That's nice and all, but Touma-kun, but we still have something urgent we need to do."

"Ah, Misaki!" Touma said surprised. He turned back over to the other girl while he was getting dragged away. "Don't worry about, I'm just glad that you're alright." He yelled back.

The girl blushed more and could only look in confusion as she watched the boy get dragged away.

"What was that about?"

"Oh? I don't know what you mean."

"Why did you drag me away?"

"Oh that. No reason really." Misaki said as she let go of his arm and casually walked ahead of him.

Touma still looked on questioningly. "Not quite sure if I can believe you."

"Don't worry your spiky-haired head over it."

"Hey!"

Misaki laughed and walked off.

Even as confused Touma was about what had happened, he followed right behind her. They continued to walk on together, not really sure where they were going but still walked on.

As they were walking...

"Ahh! Someone help me!"

They heard a voice up ahead and they looked over to see that a girl was getting her purse snatched from her by a thief. He was tugging on the girl's purse while the girl tried to hold onto it. It looked like she was about to get overpowered soon.

Touma took a step forward. He had to go and help out that person. He grit his teeth and clenched his fist.

But he stopped for a moment. He looked back over at Misaki, almost silently asking for permission to go ahead.

Misaki sighed and nodded, giving him the go ahead to do what she knew what he wanted to do.

At the signal, Touma nodded back and went off.

Acting like a prince again huh?

"How could I ever thank you?"

"It's no big deal."

"But I feel I really need to thank you for helping me get my purse back and stopping the thief."

"No need for that. I'm just glad to be able to help."

"You sure I can't do anything for you? Not even give a little kiss on the cheek for my hero?"

"Hehehe" Touma laughed nervously. "I don't think that necesar-ah!"

Touma all of sudden got pulled by Misaki. "Come on now Touma-kun, we still have a date to attend to."

"Wait, we're going on a date?!" Touma exclaimed as he got dragged away.

"So are we seriously going on a date?"

"My, my, Touma-kun, asking me out on a date? How bold of you."

"But you were the one that said that!"

"Oh well if you really insist on wanting to go on a date with you, I'll oblige." Misaki teased.

Touma could only let out a defeated sigh.

Misaki laughed. how about we go to that park we went the other day to relax?"

"Why are you putting words in my mouth!"

"It's across the District so why don't we take one of the buses to get there." Misaki said as she continued dragging Touma.

She took him to one of the many bus stations in the district that was nearby. They waited until one of the buses arrived and boarded it.

It was pretty cramped since the buses were more busy since it was the summer. Both of them stood up on the bus holding onto one of the handles.

While they were riding, Touma saw something that seemed off. He saw a girl that had a distraught and uncomfortable expression on her face nearby. It seemed like the girl was caught up in a bind. A closer look to him revealed that there was a guy right behind her that looked like his hands were too close for comfort.

Is that a pervert? In a cramped bus like this one, he realized that most people wouldn't notice something like this going on. Why hasn't she screamed for help yet?

Touma looked around and saw that everybody was either ignoring it or they didn't notice it.

Misaki noticed what his attention was focused on and let out a sigh. "Go and do your thing." She said

Touma looked back over to her sudden voice. She stared back at him and gave a nod.

He let go of his handle and walked over.

There he goes again. Misaki thought as she rolled her eyes.

"I can't thank you enough." The girl said with a sniffle.

"It's no problem at all."

"But you really helped me out a lot stopping that pervert. If I can repay you in any way, then let me!"

"I don't need any repayment for this."

"Oh Touma-kun, this is our stop! We gotta get off now." Misaki said as she dragged Touma out of the door.

After that whole situation, Misaki decided they would still continue with the intention of heading towards the park. But, unfortunately for her, as they continued to make their way towards the park, some more events happened along the way and Misaki began to notice a trend.

First, they saw a girl lost her dog that had run off its leash and Touma came to save it. The girl thanked him profusely while blushing.

Then, there was a foreign girl that was lost in the city and Touma offered to help her. The girl also thanked him profusely while blushing.

The last thing she saw was that a judgement girl that was surrounded by Esper delinquents and Touma jumped in with his power at hand. And to anybody's surprise but her, the girl thanked him while blushing as well.

What was up with him helping and saving all of these girls? Why did he keep running into them?

The second question could possibly be left up to coincidence but what about the first question? Was he really just a playboy? Did he do this to win over the affections of many girls? No, Misaki knew that he obviously wasn't. He was too dense of a guy to notice that sort of thing anyway. She knew how pure he was.

Was it just in his nature to help people? Now that she thought about it, when she first met him, he was the one that saved her. And she was smitten by it.

She shook her head. There was no use in trying to figure it out. She looked over to her left to see Touma was still walking with her. Even after everything that's happened, it looks like they were still going to the park.

"I...uhh...what's with that look you've been giving me?"

"Hmm?"

"You've been kind of giving me an annoyed look for quite some time now."

Misaki hadn't realized that her expression got more and more annoyed every time he saved a girl. It wasn't necessarily the fact that he went off and saved the girls. Was she...jealous of the other girls trying to ?

"What look? Why would I have a look on my face?" Misaki said kind of haughtily as she turned her head away.

"Umm, never mind then eheheh." Touma said while scratching his head nervously. They continued on their way and soon made it to the park.

They walked into the park and settled down near a bench.

"Well, as thanks for giving my stuff back and saving me, you want anything from the vendors around here?"

"I don't really particularly care so surprise me, but don't go flirting with any female vendors."

"As if I could flirt with them!" Touma said as he walked off.

Misaki sighed as she sat back on the bench. With his luck, what she said was probably going to happen.

She leaned forward with her chin on her hand and her elbow on her leg and sighed. Truth be told, she was jealous of the attention other girls received from him. Now that she thought about it, she kind of wishfully hoped that Touma would come and do something like that for her. Just to have that feeling of having a prince coming in to save the princess. Then again, what kind of situation where she was in trouble would ever come to her? She was a Level 5, she could definitely handle a lot of things thrown at her.

*Meow*

Misaki heard a sound from beneath her. She looked down and saw a kitten right in front of her.

"Huh? What are you doing here?"

*Meow* It responded back.

"Are you a stray?"

*Meow* *Meow* The cat moved up to her leg and put its paw on her leg as if it was trying to tug on it. It seemed it was trying to tell her something.

"What is it you want?"

The cat turned around and walked in front of her. It's head then turned back to her.

Does it want me to follow it?

She stood up from the bench. The cat soon started walking and she followed behind it. It led her to a part of the park in a clearing with a bunch of trees. She continued to follow it until it stopped at the base of the trunk of one of the trees.

*Meow* The cat tilted its head up.

Misaki looked up as well to see what the cat was pointing too.

*Meow* Another mew had entered her ears and her eyes confirmed the source. There was a cat similar to the one right at her feet up in that tree.

She looked back down to the cat that led her here.

"So is that your sibling or something?"

*Meow* It seemed like an affirmative meow.

"So what do you want me to do? Rescue it?"

*Meow* That seemed like another yes.

She frowned and looked up at the tree. She didn't feel like she was most suited to doing this kind of thing but she couldn't refuse after she followed the cat.

She saw that there were a couple of branches on the tree that she could leverage herself up on to get to the branch that the cat was on. And so, she made her attempt to get up. After getting up a couple of branches, she looked down and saw that she was at a reasonable height. She looked back up to see that the cat was not that much further away.

But after getting up to the last branch right below the cat, a cracking sound was heard.

"Uh oh."

The branch was beginning to bend underneath her and snap. She grabbed up to the last branch above her just as it snapped and the branch fell below her. She was panicking now. Misaki pulled herself up to the branch right where the cat was on. It seemed that it had watched the whole ordeal of her climbing up.

*Pant* *Pant* Misaki let out breaths as she managed to get herself up.

I did not think this through.

*Meow* The cat right up there with here meowed in an almost affirmative response.

Misaki was stuck up in the tree and there was no way for her to get down. She could have jumped down but there was a risk to getting hurt from jumping at this height. She probably couldn't have replicated the same success Touma had when he jumped out of her room. How was she going to get down?

Wait. Misaki looked down at her chest, she saw that she had her silver whistle. She could maybe use it to draw Touma's attention over here.

She grabbed it and brought it up to her mouth. Misaki blew into it and the pitch rang through.

"Huh? That sound..." Touma turned his head.

The sound was something that seemed familiar. Was that from the whistle that he gave Misaki? If she was blowing it, that meant she needed help.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Another voice piped up.

"I uh, gotta go do something. Are you fine now?" Touma said turning his head back.

He was helping a girl that was a vendor of a ice cream cart. Some of the wheels had broken down and he offered to help.

"Yeah, I can't thank you enough for your help."

"Well if everything's fine here then I'm off." Touma said as he ran towards the direction of the whistle.

"I hope he heard that." Misaki said as she leaned back on the tree.

The cat up on the branch with her walked up to her.

*Meow*

"It's your fault I'm up here."

*Meow*

"It most certainly is! You were the one stuck up here."

*Meow*

"So you would have preferred if nobody came to help?"

*Meow*

"I'm talking to a cat right now, aren't I?"

"Misaki? Where are you?" A voice had popped into the clearing.

Misaki's head looked down and around for the source. She spotted the familiar spiky black hair down below.

"Touma-kun! I'm up here!"

Touma heard the sudden voice in his ears and looked around to trace the source. He looked up and saw where she was up on the tree.

"Misaki? What are you doing up there?"

"Apparently saving this cat. Here! Take this blasted cat!" Misaki grabbed the cat that was up there with her.

"Wait, what are you doing?"

"I'm throwing the cat to you!"

"Why would you do that?!"

"Because the whole reason I was even stuck up here was to save this thing!"

"Then why would you throw it?!"

"Cats always land on their feet!"

"Isn't that a myth?" He was going to find out soon though as she already threw the cat at him.

The cat was screaming as it flew down through the air. Touma outstretched his arms to try to catch it. But as it was getting closer, he noticed something. The cat's claws were now out of its paws. And then, it hit him, precisely right in the face. The cat had landed on his face and was now clutching to it and scratching it with its claws

"Ahh fukou daaaa!"

He tried to get it off of his face but the cat's claws had sunk deep into his skin.

After a couple of more seconds, he managed to get the cat off of his face. He was now holding it in front of him but the cat was still making scratching motions with his paw.

*Meow*

Touma turned his head down to see the other cat that had lead Misaki there. He got the message and let down the cat right next to its sibling.

The two cats purred at their reunion and walked off.

"Now that that's over with, can you get me down now?" Misaki said from up in the tree.

"What do you want me to do? You want me to say 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.' so I can get up there or something?"

"Just do something and get me down!"

"Uhh...I got an idea!"

"What?"

"Jump down!"

"What?! But it's so high up."

"I'll catch you! Just trust me!"

"Alright..."

Misaki lowered her legs down and prepared to make the jump and she pushed herself off the branch.

As she jumped Touma prepared to catch her.

In both of their minds, they envisioned it would be something like in a movie where the guy catches the girl perfectly in a princess carry. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

Misaki's body had hit Touma's face again like the cat. Since it was a human this time he fell backwards onto the grass with Misaki's form pushing from above him.

And so now, Touma was laying flat on his back on the ground. As he opened his eyes, he saw nothing but darkness.

Am I dead?

He was not dead, but might have been soon enough. Looking at it from an outside view, you could see the form of Kamijou Touma lying down on the ground with his head being covered by being underneath Misaki's skirt.

Touma did not realize the position he was in, but Misaki did. She was blushing but she did not move and she had an embarrassed look on her face.

Then she heard groaning from underneath her, it seemed like he was trying to lift his head up now since it was now pushing against her...

"Gahhh!" Misaki jumped up off of his face and landed on the ground next to his body.

When light returned back to Touma's vision, he groggily lifted his head.

"Huh? What happened?" Touma lifted his upper body up and was now sitting up. He turned his head to the left and looked over at Misaki who was sprawled backwards with her face flushed.

"N-nothing. It was just a hard landing, let's just get up and- ah!" Misaki tried to push herself up off the grand but suddenly a pain shot through her and she crashed back down.

"Misaki?!" Touma got up and moved close to her.

"Agh, it's my ankle. It seems my foot hit the ground when I landed on you." She pointed towards the bottom of her leg.

Touma frowned. "I'm sorry Misaki, I was supposed to catch you so that this wasn't supposed to happen." He said looking worriedly at her.

"It's alright, Touma-kun. But I don't know how I'm going to be able to move around with this."

"I think I might have an idea..."

"I'm sorry about this Touma-kun."

"It's no problem at all."

Since Misaki had a sprained ankle, there was no way she could have walked on her own. So he came up with the most craziest idea ever to help fix that situation. He would carry her.

He had lifted her up and carried her on his back piggy-back style.

Misaki had wrapped her arms around Touma's neck and rested her over Touma' shoulder. Her cheek was almost rubbing up against his.

It wasn't really a problem at all for her. If anything, this was something that was pretty favorable for her.

Touma continued to walk on with Misaki on his back. Other people also noticed the two of them.

"So we should probably get you checked at an infirmary or hospital for your ankle." Touma piped up.

"Hmm, then you can just take me to Tokiwadai's infirmary then."

"Alright then."

Touma continued to walk and Misaki just nestled her head as close as she could to Touma's.

"I have a feeling that I've been visiting your school often." Touma said as he walked towards the entrance towards Tokiwadai, Misaki still on his back.

"Well you're probably going to be visiting again pretty soon."

"What do you mean?"

"We're having an open dorm day soon and I want to invite you to it."

"Huh?"

"Don't be so surprised, you should feel honored. This sort of thing is invitation-only and you have me extending my hand."

"Eheheh, well thanks."

Touma had stopped right in front of the entrance.

"I still feel nervous about entering your school."

"Don't be, it'll be just like last time. I'll give you the directions to the infirmary."

Touma nodded and complied as he walked into the campus.

Much like the times before though, some of the girls around the campus had seen the two of them in that form entering yet again. More rumors were surely about to circulate among the girls.

"Touma-kun."

"Yes?"

"I want to try something."

"What is it?"

"Can you carry me in your arms?"

"W-what?"

Misaki was being selfish, but she truly wanted to know what it would be like getting princess carried by him.

"Come on, we're close to the infirmary and you're going to have to lay me out on the bed soon right?"

"I guess..."

Touma shifted his arms around and let Misaki down right before picking her up again in his arms right in front of him.

Misaki wrapped her right and left arms around Touma's neck as he carried her.

"There we go, much better." Misaki said in a teasing tone.

"Glad to see you enjoying herself."

And enjoying herself she was.

"Well, I hope you'll be fine." Touma said as he dropped her off in a bed in the Tokiwadai infirmary.

As Misaki settled in she looked over to Touma who was at the side of her bed.

"I'm sure I will be, all thanks to you Touma-kun."

"But I was the one that got you hurt."

"That was not necessarily your fault. But what you did do was help me."

"Ehehe, if you say so." Touma said as he smiled at her

"Well, I should probably get going now."

Touma waved off at her and Misaki waved back.

As she thought back to the event that just happened, she had only one thought in her mind. Girls really are selfish to this kind of thing.

Misaki sighed and laid back in the bed. If she had to say, even though the being stuck in the tree part and spraining her ankle wasn't exactly pleasant. It was a very nice and warm feeling being carried back by Touma. Even though the earlier parts of the day was a little bit hectic, it seemed that she got her earlier wish of being 'saved' by him.

Still, she noticed the attention that Touma was receiving from other girls for this kind of thing. She knew now for the future she would have to account for the affection that Touma received from the opposite gender.

As if she didn't already have enough competition with that high school girl.

One last thought entered her mind as she relaxed into the bed.

He had a pretty broad, warm, comfortable back.