a/n: since there are two Akiras in this story, from this point on whenever I write 'Akira' I mean 'Kishimoto Akira' while 'Sakamoto' means 'Sakamoto Akira'. Okay?

Turning Point

Chapter 6

It was an image of them several years back when they were still little.

Two little kids were playing around. The older boy was hiding behind a big tree, the younger girl was desperately looking for her. He chuckled silently at his hiding place as he watched her looking around in confusion. However, when the girl looked like she was going to cry, he deliberately let her saw a bit of his clothing to give her a clue of his where about.

Her face lightened up when she saw his shirt sticking out from behind a tree and then she excitedly ran toward him. With her little fingers, she tugged his shirt, saying "Tooru-nii, find you!" before she laughed contently.

Sayaka rolled over in her bed for the several times, obviously could not get herself to sleep even when her body was already exhausted. Each time she tried to close her eyes, she would always see his image. His heart-warming smiling image, which always made her heart to flutter and surround her body with an invincible comfortable feeling.

She could not remember all of her childhood memories. Just like the pages of a very old book, there were many blank spots in her memory, which prevented her to recall all the things from way back. Even so, there was one thing she remembered clearly even until now. Between the cool breeze of autumn wind….

"…"He moved his lips, saying something.

"Promise?" She asked, her eyes were sparkling like a clear star shining in the middle of the night.

He ruffled her hair gently then nodded firmly.

To him, she might only be his new, cute stepsister who always followed him around like an adorable puppy. However, to her, he was a cool and dependable brother who loved spoiling her over and let her do whatever she wanted.

She did not know when or how that relationship changed in to an unrequited love for her side, she just knew that she liked his smile. She liked his kindness. She liked it when he only had his eyes on her. The small bud of love just grew bigger, stronger. And before she knew it, he was the centre of her life.

She rolled her body again for a couple of times, ignoring the knock on her window before she finally gave in to her curiosity (and slight annoyance) and took a look at the window.

It was dark outside and she had turned off her lights, making it hard for her to find out what had been knocking at her window in… she rolled her eyes toward the alarm clock, one in the morning.

The knock came again and this time she was sure that it was not a tree branch hitting the window due to the wind. Someone was knocking on her window in the middle of the night and if it was not because she knew dearly who that someone was, she might get really angry. Instead, she hurriedly ran toward the window and opened it, letting the said person to get in.

"Tooru-kun!" She almost yelled happily. "What are you doing showing up from the window? Did you climb your way up?"

"Kind of."

There was an awkward silence between the two. Recently, it had always been like that whenever they found themselves alone in one room. It was like the older one was afraid of saying, doing and hinting the wrong thing. He started to be even more cautious toward her ever since the incident, which made a certain girl fell from a flight of stairs and got hospitalized.

"Will you be staying for the night?" She asked hopefully.

"… Ne, Sayaka…" He called, trying not to make an eye contact to the raven haired girl in front him, "About the… letter.."

"It's not me!!" She quickly yelled. Her happy voice was quickly replaced by an angry one and there was a slight of disgust look appeared on her face before she continued yelling, "I don't know what he's telling you, but it's not me! He looks like someone who loved to fool around with girls after all! Maybe one of the girls sent him the threat letter!"

"Lower your voice, Sayaka. I don't want to wake uncle and auntie up." Was all he said. It's not like he believed her, just one look at her nervous face and trembling body was enough to tell whether she's telling the truth or not, it's just that he couldn't make himself cornering his sweet little sister more than he already did. And blame him for having such a gentle heart that he could not stand watching her holding back her tears, he really did not want to upset her.

After she had quiet down, he gave out a long sigh before continuing his words, "Just say that you happened to know the one doing the nasty thing to my friend, what do you think that person want in order to stop?"

At first she was unwilling to answer that question, but after a few shrugged (and since she was convinced that Tooru had already guessed correctly that she was indeed the one sending the threat letter), she answered, "…She wants you to promise something…"

-St. White-

"Good morning princess!!" Akira called cheerfully. She laughed a bit before she fixed her sentence, "I mean, Ouji-kun."

"…"

"Aw, come on! Wake up already! I don't know about your dorm, but we have morning exercise here so get up! Get up!" She called again, this time forcefully pulled him on the hand and made him sit even with his eyes closed.

He yawned, stretched his body a little bit before unwillingly got up from bed.

"How was your first night here?"

He rolled his eyes in annoyance at that sentence. Sure, it might look like a normal sentence coming out from your roommate's lips to show the said person's affection, but since he knew that she knew that there was absolutely no way he could get a good rest when one third of the dorm's resident were throwing him a pajamas welcoming party, which ended up with him only had two hours of sleep, that words didn't sound so thoughtful anymore.

"Akira," A weak, familiar voice came from outside the room along with a knock on the door. "Exercise starts in 15 minutes."

"Got it, Ritsuko-san!" She yelled. "Please go on ahead."

"Okay." Was her reply before she made a stepping sound, which slowly faded after several minutes.

THUD!

Okay, what was that sound? Yuujirou thought after he heard a loud sound from outside the room. But before the blond could ask anything, Akira only laughed while telling him not to worry. "Ritsuko-san must've collapse in the alley again. Morning is really her weakest point of time in a day. Change your clothes here while I carry her to the nurse office."

"Haha.." He laughed awkwardly. He did not know which one was scarier: Ritsuko for fainting without any clear reason (she sounded really fine just a few minutes ago!!) or Akira who awfully looked like she had gotten used to have the said person collapsing outside her room every now and then.

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-Fujimori Gakuen-

"Something like that happened?"

Mikoto nodded, showing his friend a serious face, as if saying that he meant the words he said earlier.

"Sakamoto-sama, don't you think we should tell Arisada Kaichou about this?"

"…" Sakamoto only gazed down toward the field silently from behind the rooftop's fence.

"I mean, sure it started with a prank at first but…"

"I think we should observe the situation first. After all, kaichou had already been busy with the dance party and all. If it continues, I'll go tell him myself. Anyway, did Tooru really sneak out last night?"

The pink princess rested his back against the wall, enjoying the breeze, then nodded again.

Sakamoto fell silent for a while before he joined his friend and leaned against the wall right next to the princess.

"I'm telling you, something is definitely wrong. Kouno hasn't been his normal self this morning."

"Maybe he's just love sick." Sakamoto smiled calmly and casually as if he was saying the most obvious thing in the world. At first Mikoto agreed with him, that thought also crossed his mind earlier this morning actually, but then again... how did he…

Sakamoto, being a perceptive person as ever, knew why Mikoto was giving him a surprised look right after his last words. He could only laugh nervously, tapping his index finger on his cheek before he said, "Aah… you see… I've been hanging around SC room lately and… well… Arisada Kaichou is… I mean… he knows everything, so… Anyway, since the majority of students here will most likely get their heart broken, Arisada Kaichou ordered to keep it as a secret."

"Aaahhh…." Mikoto let out an exasperated sigh, scratching his head wildly, then continued, "If he already knew, why did he send Shihoudani to St. White? He must be plotting something!" It was really cruel to separate two people who were deeply in love for one whole week, right? RIGHT? What was the president thinking?! He should have sent someone who did not have any attachment to Fujimori Gakuen. Someone like him!

…

Yeah, he was still upset because St. White SC president did not acknowledge his manly-hood and chose Yuujirou instead. Sure his face was in the cute category type, and he did sulk a lot like a girl (not that he would openly admit it), and his posture was somewhat more feminine than the blond's (but that's just because Yuujirou was taller than him!!), but, like he always emphasized lately, he's manlier than all the other two princesses. At heart.

Sakamoto laughed nervously again, finding it completely normal for anyone not to be able to follow their SC president. But…

"Arisada Kaichou won't do anything bad for them." He explained, deciding to keep the last word, which was 'perhaps', for his private consumption.

"I know. I just hate the way he's doing things."

"Welcome to Fujimori Gakuen, Rijichou." Arisada greeted the young executive who had just come out from his car. The dark haired man nodded as he took up Arisada's offer to shake hands. He gazed around the school, trying to see the entire building in one view before he let out a long, amazed sigh. Just as he thought, the school was marvelous. He was already overflowing with idea to improve the school even more.

"Nice to meet you," He answered as he gazed toward the young beauty in front him. "You're the SC president, I assume?"

"Yes. My name is Arisada. They are also the member of Fujimori Gakuen Student Council."

After Arisada introduce the new director to the all three other SC member, he quickly lead the older one around the school and gave a little information on the school's achievement both in academic and non-academic field. By the look of Ryusaki as he heard the president, the blond knew that he was pleased. Fujimori Gakuen was, after all, the school that his father had led for so many years. He could not help but to feel proud to hear such an outstanding achievement.

"I hear you are holding a dance party to welcome me?"

Arisada laughed capriciously, "It's just a normal gakuensai with the dance party as the peak event on the last day actually." He explained.

"Gakuensai?" He asked. Because he had been living abroad since birth, Ryusaki did not actually understand the events held in Japanese schools. But it sounded fun…

"We're combining the sports and cultural festival. On the first day, we held sports festival and on the second day the cultural festival. It's so much more efficient that way."

Ryusaki nodded silently, still following the younger's step as he showed around some more. Just as he expected, the students in this school were very diligent and behaving well. Ever since he arrived, he did not meet any delinquent or any of the same sort. It is just a normal, peaceful school's life. Which, btw, seemed awfully suspicious seeing that Fujimori was an all boys school after all. Didn't such school supposed to have rather hot-blooded students instead? He was imagining finding one or two students got in to a bloody fight or encountering sloppy students all around the school, or something similar.

"Are the students always behaved this way?"

Arisada smiled but gave no answer.

"I also heard that this school holds a treasure."

The president's smile just grew bigger but he's still restraining himself from opening his mouth to answer that question.

"Can you tell me what the treasure is? Is it a statue or something?"

Ryusaki could only saw the younger one in confusion as he laughed wholeheartedly at his last statement. Well, one thing for sure, it wasn't a statue.

"Rijichou, it's not that I don't want to show you our…" He rolled his eyes toward his secretary excitedly while holding down a chuckle before he continued, "treasure, but I want to keep it as a secret for now. You'll find out about it soon enough."

The director kept quiet as he stared Arisada's eyes carefully before he finally gave up in finding out more about this treasure thing. What's with these Japanese people who loved keeping secrets from him? Oh well… "Thanks for the tour. I have to visit St. White now. I guess I'll meet you again at Gakuensai then."

Grinning, Arisada nodded as he walked the director back to his car. After informing that the sports festival will be held at St. White and the cultural festival at Fujimori Gakuen, the blond watched in content as the car disappeared from his view.

"Have you contacted Ritsuko-san?"

"Just like you told me." Koshino answered calmly.

"Great."

"Hot…"

Sakamoto smiled as he continued walking toward the school. Currently, he was on his way home after shopping for the gakuensai's supplies. Since everyone was working hard, he offered himself to do trivial things like that.

"Sakamoto-sama, you're just amazing. Doesn't the hot weather bother you?"

"A little."

"It's so hot.." The other one mumbled again, looking like he's going to get a heatstroke any minute. They kept on walking until Sakamoto spotted a raven haired girl who nearly collapsed due to the hot weather. He quickly shoved his shopping bag to his friend and tried to catch her before she hit the ground. The girl was sweating a lot, he noticed, and she looked weak.

"Are you okay?"

The girl nodded weakly. Carefully, he helped her to stand up and lead her to the nearest tree. He let her rested under the tree's shadow for a while before he asked again, "Better?"

"Yeah. Thanks." She answered, giving out an indifferent look as if saying she didn't want to have anything to do with the world. 'What am I doing? Spying him around like this… after all, he already promised me…'

"Sakamoto-sama! What's the matter?"

Sakamoto gazed at the girl, his friend and the girl again. Somehow he felt that the girl was bothered by something. He really couldn't leave her alone. Not after he saw her equally dark eyes, which were filled with hatred and despair. And why was it that he found those eyes so… beautiful but sad at the same time?

"Sakamoto-sama!" His friend called out again.

"You go on ahead. I'll catch up with you later."

"I'm fine. You don't have to-" She gasped after she saw the person who helped her earlier. She didn't know him, and she wasn't interested to know him either, but what caught her attention was his uniform. The uniform looked a lot like her brother's, was he…

"My school is just ahead. Maybe it's inconvenient for you to go to an all boys school, but there should be a doctor there."

"No!" She yelled suddenly, successfully attracting the attention of several pedestrian around her. "I'm fine. Leave me alone."

"But.." He tried to catch her hand but she slapped him on the face instead. There was a guilty look appeared on her face a brief second before she made an annoyed one, convincing herself that it was all that boy's fault to anger her.

"You're so noisy! Just leave me alone!" She snapped again, leaving the stunned boy behind.

Sakamoto rubbed his cheek before he took a look at his hand, mumbling 'She's trembling…'

a/n: whew, finally another update. Why do I feel that this story lacks romance?? Isn't it supposed to be a romance fic?! What happened, self?! Tee hee…

About the SC member, I know that their names are Koshino, Harue and Tadasu, but I forget their position.

Disclaimer: Not mine.