DISCLAIMER: I Don't own La Corda or any of it's characters.

(Author's Note: Okay, here's the thing, Len didn't dream up the part about him going to the Printing Shop, or going to the school… He really DID go to the park to practice, but shortly after, he went home. He did NOT see Kaho there. Once he got home, he plopped down in bed and immediately fell asleep.)

'What the heck was that??? Why did I say that I love Hino? Do I honestly like her?'

Len groggily sat up, pushed his dark blue covers away, and sleepily walked over to his window, drew open the curtains, and let the light in.

He shielded his eyes from the light with one arm, turned his back, put his arm down, and began getting dressed.

'Ugh… It's too bright…'

'Wait a second here… It's too bright!!! What time is it?'

Len stumbled to his bedroom door (wearing only his indigo pajama pants over his boxers and no shirt), opened it, and wandered downstairs into the kitchen to look at the clock on the microwave (that he never uses)…

Before he got to check the time, he heard some giggling, and turned around to see Hihara, Yunoki, Fuyuumi, Kaho, Kaho's friends Mio & Nao, Tsuchira, Shimizu, and Len's mother.

Mio & Nao were giggling, Fuyuumi & Kaho were blushing like mad, Yunoki was smirking, Hihara's jaw had dropped, Tsuchira 's back was turned (of course he was trying hard not to burst out in laughter), Shimizu was just blinking sleepily thinking 'I wish I had sempai's confidence to appear in front of girls like that', and lastly, Len's own mother, who was smiling a little, due to the fact that her plan was working perfectly.

'Please, please, please, PLEASE let me be having a nightmare,' thought Len as he raised his hand to pinch himself.

'Owwwwwwww!!!!! That hurt!' he thought after pinching himself. [A/N I know, he's really OOC here]

"Okaasan, what are they doing here?" asked Len angrily. He didn't appreciate being laughed at this 'early' in the 'morning'.

"We saw her at the mall, and your mom invited us over for a late lunch," stated Tsuchira snarkily.

'Lunch? Exactly what time IS it?' Thought Len as he turned around to check the time.

Len's eyes widened in shock… The clock read '2:00 PM'…

'How long was I asleep????? Why did I sleep so late???'

Unknown to everyone there, Hamai Misa, Len's mom, had slipped a sleeping pill in a glass of water that she woke her son up to take.

'There,' she thought, 'that should keep him asleep until tomorrow evening.'

You see, Hamai had planned this all out… She had decided to play at a charity event at the (amphitheatre which was located in the mall), and give tickets to Kahoko, and some of his other friends…

Afterwards, she met up with them and invited them over…

And that brings us up to now…

"Len, I think you should go change… Besides, I think it would be easier for us to talk to you if you had a shirt on," said his mother.

Len looked down and blushed…

"Hai okaasan," he said sheepishly.

As Len trudged up the stairs (still sleepily, at this point he's half awake, and barely forming coherent thoughts) he began remembering what had just happened.

By the time he got back to his room, he was wide awake, and blushing from head to toe.

'WHAT DID I DO?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Hino was down there! Well, at least she wasn't laughing at me like her friends… Wait. What do I care if she was laughing or not? Bad Len! Bad Len! Bad Len!'

"Aaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!" he exclaimed.

From downstairs he could hear his mom talking.

Her voice wafted through the door way and he heard, "And this was Len when he was three, and this is him at that age at Halloween… I remember that year… When he was that age, he adored bears… It was so CUTE! I seem to recall him wanting me to call him Lenny-bear…"

'Oh crap… Please don't show them the picture of-" he thought, but was interrupted again by his mom.

"OH! And this is a picture of him at the age of two! This was right after he decided that his favorite food was peanut butter, and he decided to wear it that day… You see, my husband and I were out in the dining room entertaining some guests, and we didn't know he was awake yet, and he wandered in wearing nothing but his teddy bear underwear and a LOT of peanut butter," laughed Lens mom…

At this point, Len was getting dressed as fast as hecould, and was listening to their discussion as well.

Suddenly he heard Kaho exclaim, "Is this a picture of your whole family? Is that Len? He looks so CUTE at that age! Wait a second… I just remembered! I have something I wanted to return to a certain music store, but I guess if it's okay, I'd like to show you guys this video of Tsuchira-kun."

Len had appeared in the kitchen at the exact time that Kaho said "video of Tsuchira-kun"…

Suddenly Shimizu looked up, and asked, "Sempai, why do you have a video of Tsuchira-sempai?"

"Oh, that's simple really. I asked for a video of a pianist playing Chopin's Nocturne in E, and he handed me this video," stated Kaho simply.

Meanwhile Tsuchira was just looking at the proceedings in shock…

"You have a video of me playing Chopin's Nocturne??? Wait, did you watch it yet," asked Tsuchira hastily.

"Eh? Oh, no I haven't but considering that I just put it in, we will right now," smiled Kaho sweetly…

'I wonder why that green-headed bozo seems so anxious' wondered Len.

The video started, and showed Tsuchira playing at a very young age

Mio & Nao were giggling yet again in the background, and Nao finally said, "I wonder how you felt about seeing that movie. Eh Kaho-chan?"

Hihara looked at Nao in shock and exclaimed, "Iie! Kaho doesn't feel that way about Tsuchira! They're just really good friends!"

At this point, Yunoki was just smirking, Fuyuumi and Shimizu were looking from person to person, depending on who was talking, and Len said, "Well, why don't we see this video already? I want to practice, and clearly my mother won't let me do that while you guys are here."

"Okay then," said Kaho, "Let's play it!"

Suddenly, Tsuchira appeared on screen, he looked to be about seven years old, and very anxious to get this video recording of him over, and quickly.

The Tsuchira at the present time saw the beginning of the video and blushed…

"Oh, no… PLEASE don't let this video be the one where-"

'Rrrrrrrrip!'

'Great…' thought Tsuchira as he turned to the screen to view himself stand up, bow, and turn to the side and bow, and have people (both back then, and the people viewing now) view his power rangers undies through the rip in his pants.

"Tsuchira! What happened?????" Exclaimed Hihara.

Tsuchira rubbed his hand against his head, and smiled sheepishly.

"My pants got stuck on the corner of the piano bench, and, well… You see what happened," he explained. (A/N: idk, is that kinda OOC?)

One corner of Len's mouth lifted suddenly… Then the other corner followed.

Then he grinned… Pretty soon, he was in an all out laugh, and everyone was just staring at him.

"Are, are, are you LAUGHING?" asked Hihara incredulously.

Len's laughter seemed to be contagious… Soon, everyone in the room seemed to be laughing, except Misa Hamai, and Azuma.

Misa was too shocked at seeing Len laugh to laugh herself, and Azuma decided that it was too 'undignified' to laugh along with the others, so he just smiled. (A/N: SORRY YUNOKI FANS!!! Please don't flame me!)

After they finished their laugh-fest, a blushing Tsuchira, Misa, Kaho, and Fuyuumi worked to prepare a late lunch for the group.

Since the guys knew what a "genius" Ryo (Tsuchira) was at cooking Fried rice, they requested that from him.

Hamai decided that the fried rice needed veggies to go along with it, so she got some Bok Choy out from the fridge and got some chicken broth, added some onions and potatoes, and they had soup with Ryo's fried rice.(A/N: Am I confusing my asian veggies again? Ugh… nvm, they all taste good to me… except brussel sprouts… and celery… *shudders* but then again, I guess they could be considered American veggies… :P)

"SUGOI!!!!!!!!" exclaimed Kaho and Hihara.

Shimizu looked up and said, "This is really good. Thank-you for cooking."

Misa looked up, smiled and said, "Not at all! I just got the vegetables, Fuyuumi's the one who actually put all the ingredients together, and at the perfect time too!"

Fuyuumi just ducked her head and blushed. "Arigatoo gosaimas," she said, "But Kaho-sempai helped too."

Kaho froze. "No I didn't! All I did was wash the vegetables! And I didn't even do THAT well!!!!! Tsuchira-kun had to help me," she exclaimed.

"Ah, the modesty of young people. You don't find that very often these days, and it's very refreshing to see you use it Hino," said Misa amiably.

"But, but, but, but-," stammered Kaho.

"But nothing my dear," smiled Misa, "what I said was the truth, and I'm proud of you."

"A-arigatoo gosaimas," said Kaho happily.

"Oh, that reminds me," said Misa, "Speaking of modesty, I have a video of Lenny-bear here, and it's not too modest at all, and I'd like you all to see it before you leave."

"Eh?," inquired Kaho.

"Okaasan!," exclaimed Len, "PLEASE! No videos!"

"I can't promise that, BUT, I CAN promise a LOT of rewinding and replaying," smirked Misa.

Just a few moments ago, Misa had disappeared into another room in search of the mystery video about Len that they were about to see.

'This should be interesting,' thought Azuma, 'I wonder what kind of video it could have been to make Tsukimori act that way…'

"Here it is," exclaimed Misa, "I finally found it! Okay, this is from the day after Len's second birthday, and as well as bears, Len also loved superheroes back then, so this is Len's impersonation of his favorite superhero."

Misa inserted the video into the system, and waited for it to come up.

Len looked extremely irritated, and suddenly plopped himself down on the couch next to Shimizu (who was actually wide awake for once, obviously he didn't want to miss a second of the festivities)…

Suddenly the door opened, and Tsukimori's father walked in, wearing a black, two button jacket suit, light blue dress shirt, black slacks, and dress shoes. His hand was on his head, and walked to the kitchen fridge while muttering something about "not being able to find any orange juice anymore."

"Len," he shouted, "Did you drink out of the carton again? Did you finish the orange juice? Do we have ANY juice at all?"

"Honey, did you check behind the milk," smiled Misa sweetly with an eyebrow raised.

Mio, Nao, and Kaho giggled at Jun Tsukimori (A/N: I don't know if that's really his name, I can't find it anywhere, so let's just go with that.)

"Found it," he exclaimed, "thanks darling."

He looked up and saw everyone looking at him while either smirking, or giggling.

"Eh? I'm not decent, and we're not signing autographs now! Why don't you get Bunnny Boy over there to sign you some," Jun exclaimed while blushing and hiding behind the fridge door.

"Bunny Boy," asked Kaho, "What do you mean?"

"Never mind that," said Misa to Kaho, and then to her husband she said, "You look fine dear, and they're not here for autographs, they're Len's friends,"

"My son has friends?!!?!?! Oh happy day," he exclaimed while dancing around the kitchen.

"Otousan," Len exclaimed while flushing a light pink, "These are my schoolmates. This is Hihara-sempai, Yunoki-sempai, Tsuchira, Shimizu, Fuyuumi, Hino-san, Mio, and Nao."

"Konichiwa Tsukimori-san," they chorused.

"Hello, everyone, what are we doing?," Jun inquired.

"Well, we were about to watch a video of Tsukimori-kun impersonating a superhero," said Kaho.

"Oh, well I hope you don't mind if I join in on the fun, I haven't seen this video in a while myself," said Jun.

"Sure! We don't mind," Kaho said.

'Tsukimori-kun's dad acts like an older version of Hihara-sempai, he's not acting at all like he was during the concours,' thought Kaho, 'This must be what he's like at home.'

"Okay! Now that we're all ready, let the fun begin," exclaimed Misa.

The video starts off with the camera facing Misa. (A/N: She's the one taking all the footage, so she's the one holding the camera to face herself.)

"As you can see," she says, "today we are filming Len."

A shout is heard from the background.

"I am not Len! I am Boxer the Bunny Boy!"

The camera swings to capture Len, in bunny pajamas, with a pair of white and black polka dotted boxers on his head, bunny ears on top of the boxers, rolls of toilet paper in each hand, and a light teal blanket tied around his neck as a cape.

It is early in the morning, and Misa points the camera to the first victim that has been exposed to Boxer the Bunny Boy's "justice".

"Jun," she gasped, "What happened here?"

Len's father has been totally wrapped from head to toe in toilet paper, and as a gag, has had toilet paper stuffed in his mouth.

Misa helps pull the gag/toilet paper out of her husband's mouth.

"I tried to make Len eat the yolks from his sunny side up, and he ran upstairs and came down like that," he explained, "The next thing I knew, I ended up like this."

Giggles are heard from Mio, Nao, and Kaho.

At this point, Hihara is already at la full blown grin, and Len is scowling.

Ryo is laughing his butt off, Azuma is smirking, Misa is smiling, and Jun is blushing.

(Back in the video)

"KYAAAAAAAA!!!"

"What was that," asked Jun.

Crumpled up pieces of wet toilet paper are seen flying through the air.

One piece hits the camera, and falls off.

"Bunny Boy" is seen running away.

Misa turns to Jun. "Isn't our son cute?"

"Speak for yourself," he grumbles.

A crash is heard from the practice room.

Misa and Jun run to see what happened.

"Otou-san," Len says, "What's this?"

"That's a violin," his father says, "In fact, we were going to give this to you yesterday, but we forgot, so here you go."

"ARIGATOO OTOU-SAN!" Len then jumped on his dad and wrapped him on a bear hug.

Suddenly a thought occurs to Len.

"But," sniffles the forlorn child, "I don't know how to play."

"Don't worry, I'll teach you," comforts Jun.

"YAYYYYY!"

Then Len promptly wraps his father in ANOTHER hug.

And the video ends.

Len's scowl deepens.

Azuma smiles yet ANOTHER princely smile and says, "That was quite amusing, don't you think?"

"So THAT's how you got interested in the violin… I didn't know that," mused Kaho, "And I had no idea you were so CUTE when you were little!!!!"

"Boxer the Bunny Boy?," laughed Ryo, "I had no IDEA you could make me laugh so much!"

"Please don't comment on my behavior back then. I was a toddler, what could you expect?" said Len coldly.

"But that's just HILARIOUS," said Ryo, tears coming out the sides of his eyes, "Ah, ow, ow ,ow, my sides hurt! I haven't ever laughed this much!"

Mio and Nao were still giggling, and Fuyumi was blushing.

"I wonder if Sempai still has that costume," mused Shimizu sleepily.

Apparently, staying completely awake for such a long period of time had its effects on him.

"Oh! Yes! I kept that costume! But I think it's somewhere in the attic, so it would take a while to find. The next time you come over I'll probably have found it, so I'll show it to you then," exclaimed Misa.

"Hai! We'll come over soon! I wouldn't want to miss seeing that costume," smirked Ryo.

Kaho suddenly glanced at Ryo's watch.

"Eh? It's that late already? I have to go," she exclaimed, "I have to go to the park. Thanks for inviting me over!"

"Kaho-chan! Wait! I'll come with you," exclaimed Hihara, "Thanks for inviting us over, The food was DELICIOUS! We'll come back soon!"

"We'll all come with you," exclaimed Mio and Nao.

"Len, why don't you go with them, there's certainly nothing for you to do here, so go enjoy yourself," said Misa.

"Hai, Okaasan. Hino, I hope you don't mind if I tag along," said Len, sounding slightly irritated.

'Jeez, why do all of them have to come? I was supposed to meet Niriya,' thought Kaho, 'but then again, it's not like I can just say no now is it?'

She sighed and said, "Sure, I don't mind."

"GREAT," exclaimed Hihara, "Thanks again for the great food Hamai-san! Bye!"

(A/N: I didn't know if her first or last name was Hamai, so I just guessed, and yeah.)

After everyone said their proper goodbyes, they set off to the park.

*************

As soon as they arrived at the park, Kaho spotted Niriyu.

"Niriy-," she called.

Mio and Nao saw him and thought, 'So THAT'S Niriyu!'

'Who IS this guy," though Ryo, Hihara, and Azuma.

Len already met the guy so all he thought was, 'Oh, it's THAT guy again.'

Fuyuumi and Shimizu weren't paying attention to any of the others, they were too busy talking about their favorite cello and clarinet pieces and complimenting each other.

Suddenly, Niriyu turned around, but something was wrong…

You see, instead of him smiling and talking to Kaho, his Lips were occupied with something, or rather, SOMEONE else.

Attached to Niriyu's lips in a full-blown make-out session, was a brown haired individual.

Kaho saw this and fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face.

Suddenly Niriyu and the girl broke apart.

"What's wrong Niriyu-kun?," the girl asked.

"Nothing, Aiko, but I just remembered that I have to meet my girlfriend, and she's supposed to be here already, so I have to go," explained Niriyu.

"You have a GIRLFRIEND," said Aiko incredulously.

"Aiko, I told you that already," said Niriyu.

"You NEVER told me that! Every time you kissed me you've been hurting her," exclaimed Aiko, "I want you to tell her what you've been doing and apologize! What we've been doing isn't right! I don't want anyone to be hurt!"

"Too late," said Kaho. She had managed to stand up, and although there were tears running down her face, her voice was strong and solid.

"Kaho!," exclaimed Niriyu, and engulfed her in a hug.

She pushed him away and slapped him.

"How DARE you? You toyed with me! You told me you loved me, and then this happened?!?! It's over Niriya," said Kaho.

"You don't understand! I do love you! Why else would I transfer into your school," asked Niriya.

Shimizu and Fuyuumi looked up from their conversation.

"You WHAT?!?!?," exclaimed Kaho, "You idiot! You've been cheating on me all this time, and you DARE to enter into my school to LIE to me MORE?!?!?! How do I know you won't just trick my friends into kissing you too," exclaimed Kaho.

By that time, Mio and Nao were glaring at Niriyu, Hihara and Azuma were holding Tsuchira back, Shimizu looked like he was about to explode from anger (A/N: I know that's kinda hard to imagine, but bear with me here), Fuyuumi walked up to hug Kaho and keep her from falling, and Tsukimori walked up and sucker punched Niriyu.

"How dare you toy with her affections," said Len, "It is because of people like you that others are afraid to show their true affections to others for fear of being betrayed."

Kaho looked up just in time to see Len punch her ex, and hear Len talk to him. 'What does he mean?' she wondered, 'Was he talking about himself when he talked about being afraid to show affection?'

Yunoki let go of Ryo and walked up to Niriyu.

"You have hurt a friend of mine, and you shall not be forgiven quickly," he said softly, for only Niriyu to hear, "You mentioned transferring to our school? Well, I shall make sure that you'll either transfer out in record time, or I will make your life a living hell."

Then he walked back to stank by Ryo and Hihara.

Niriyu's eyes widened. Suddenly he smirked, and looked at Kaho.

"You accused me of cheating," he said bluntly, "and I don't deny it, but here you are, hanging out with THEM. How do I know that you weren't cheating on me too?"

Kaho suddenly burst into tears. She said, "You know what? I thought I loved you."

At this, all the boys' eyes widened, and Hihara walked up to hug Kaho.

"But," she said, "I realize now that I was just blinded by your pretty words, and worthless promises. You dare accuse me of cheating on you? For weeks, you were all I could think about. I got dressed each day wondering if you'd like what I was wearing. But now, now I know that I don't need you. I need them. THEY are my friends. THEY have been there for me through EVERYTHING.

I even invited you to come see the concours, but you said you couldn't.

See Tsuchira over there? (Ryo's eyes widened)

He helped me during the first selection, when no one else would.

You see Hihara-sempai over there? (Kazuki's jaw dropped)

He helped me get over my fear of playing in public.

You see Shimizu? (Shimizu looked up)

He helped me realize that I love the violin.

Yunoki-sempai?

He helped me realize that I can't give up, no matter what. (Azuma smiled slightly)

Tsukimori-kun?

He showed me how beautiful the violin is, how it's a window that allows people to see into your heart. (Len blushed)

Mio and Nao? (they looked at each other and back at Kaho)

They've been giving me support since day one.

And Fuyuumi-chan? (Fuyuumi started crying [tears of joy])

She taught me that no matter what, my friends will ALWAYS be there for me.

And what have YOU done for me? You told me what I wanted to hear. You told me lies, you said you loved me. And this happened. All I can say is, Goodbye Niriyu. I'd like to say I'd miss you, but I'd be lygin, and I don't want to do that. Even to you."

Kaho turned on her heel and started walking away, with Hihara and Len as support.

Suddenly Shouko did something very out of character. She walked up to Niriyu and slapped him.

She said, "You hurt Kaho-sempai, and so you hurt all of us. We will remember this incident, and if you EVER get close to Kaho again, we WILL know, and we WILL prevent you from hurting her again."

She turned on her heel and walked away.

Aiko looked at Niriyu and said, "You know what? You're an asshole. You know that she liked you and you did that to her?"

Mio and Nao looked at her.

Aiko turned to Kaho, who, hearing Aiko say that to him had turned around.

"Hino, I'm sorry, can you forgive me? I know that what I did was wrong, but before he had never mentioned that he had a girlfriend, and I just assumed he was single," she explained earnestly, "Please, could you give me a chance to be your friend?"

Kaho looked at Aiko and smiled a little.

"I accept your apology Aiko, and of course we can be friends. I know that you didn't know that Niriya was cheating on me, so you can't be blamed," said Kaho.

"Let's go then," said Len, "I don't want to be seen hanging around trash like him."

Kaho was suddenly wrapped in Mio's, Aiko's and Nao's arms.

Azuma walked up to them and wiped tears from Kaho's tear-stained face.

Hihara walked up and engulfed all of them) in a bear hug.

Ryo joined the festivities.

Fuyuumi and Shimizu walked up and hugged Kaho as well.

Pretty soon almost everyone was included in the hug.

Ryo looked up and saw Len standing off to the side.

"Oi! Tsukimori! If we're stuck in this, the you might as well suffer with us too," he exclaimed, and Mio and Nao pulled him in the group hug.

Later on, they decided to go to the cake shop, and they all pooled their money together to get what they wanted.

Kaho got melon bread, Ryo and Hihara each got a slice of mocha cake, Len got pandan cake (it's a certain type of flavoring, like vanilla), Mio, Nao and Aiko got chocolate, and Fuyuumi and Shimizu each got slices of strawberry cake.

While Kaho was at the counter ordering the food, the others were finding a table.

Aiko, Mio, and Nao walked up to Kaho.

"Hino-san? I just wanted to know, did you ever kiss Niriya-kun," asked Aiko.

The rest of the group heard this, and of COURSE their ears perked up to hear the response.

"I-iie," stammered Kaho, "You see, he asked once, and I said I wasn't ready, and yeah."

She immediately started blushing, and all the guys heaved a sigh of relief, except for Shimizu, who was fast asleep, dreaming about Shouko's music, and the way she defended Kaho earlier.

"Oh, gomen Hino-san. I'm sorry about reminding you of him," apologized Aiko.

"That's alright," said Kaho sadly, "I should have guessed that he was too perfect to be true… Oh, and please call me Kaho, or Kahoko, Or Kaho-chan, because Hino-san feels too formal."

Mio looked up wit ha sparkle in her eyes…

"If it's too formal, then why do you let Tsukimori-kun call you Hino-san," she asked teasingly.

"B-but. He insists on calling me Hino-san! Since it's Tsukimori-kun, I can't really DO anything about it," she protested.

"Yes you could," said a voice behind her.

"Eh?!? Ts- tsukimori-kun! Don't do that! And what do you mean," she asked.

"You could have asked me to call you by a different name," he stated.

'She is so hard-headed,' thought Len.

"Eh? Really? Okay then. Tsukimori-kun, could you please call me Kaho, or Kahoko, or something other than Hino-san? And that goes for you too Tsuchira-kun," she requested.

"Fine then, Kaho-san," said Len.

"I'll call you Kaho," said Ryo, smiling and rubbing his hand on his head.

"Arigatoo you guys," exclaimed a smiling Hino.

"No problem," they exclaimed.

Suddenly Kaho's phone began to ring.

Still smiling at her friends, she answered it.

"Hello?"

"Kahoko? I'm sorry. I love you."

"Niriya-kun? Why are you calling me? I told you to leave me alone!"

"I know, but I'm sorry. And I really DO love you."

"Iie, Niriya, you don't. You're lying again. So please stop and leave me alone."

"But-"

"Goodbye Niriya."

Hino hung up the phone, with tears streaming down her face.

She crumpled in the closest persons arms and began sobbing.

The lucky person that got her in his arms was Len. Almost immediately he started blushing, then regained his composure and began rubbing her back.

Ryo suddenly got up and walked to Kaho and Len.

"Kaho, give me your phone," demanded Ryo.

"H-hai, Tsuchira-kun. Here," she sobbed.

She handed her phone to him.

Immediately, he hit redial and but the volume on speaker phone(as in everyone could hear).

"Hello? Kahoko?" said Niriya.

"You idiot, this is her friend Tsuchira. Leave her alone. She doesn't want to associate with the likes of you. Think about this you asshole,(everyone looked up at Ryo's use of vulgar language) right now, she is crying. She's crying her eyes out in another guy's arms. Why? Because of you. If you really do love her, You'll leave her alone, so you don't hurt her anymore. Understand?"

Niriya's voice sounded dismayed as he responded, "I understand completely. Please give her my apologies."

"Goodbye," said Ryo stonily and hung up.

At this point, Ryo's face was red with anger, and he looked about ready to punch something.

"It's Tsuchira, right," asked Aiko.

He nodded stiffly, still red in the face from his conversation with Niriya.

"Well then Tsuchira-kun, cool it. Niriyu's not worth getting angry over," she said, "Anyone who's capable of hurting people like that is trash, or worse, and they don't deserve the emotions or attentions of others. So just leave him alone. We can torture him enough tomorrow at school."

At that everyone looked up.

"WE?!?!?!?! Whaddaya mean," asked Hihara incredulously.

"I'm transferring into Seiso. Originnaly I did that to be with Niriya, but now I'm transferring in order to be friends with Kaho-chan," she said with a bittersweet smile on her face.

Kaho looked up and smiled gratefully at Aiko through her tears.

Kaho then threw herself onto Aiko to hug her.

"Arigatoo Aiko-chan! That's really nice of you," she exclaimed.

"Iie," said Aiko, "I want to, I don't have many friends at my old school, so being friends with you guys would DEFINITELY be a nice change."

"Eh? Impossible! Aiko-chan's so nice," exclaimed Kaho.

"Hai! And kawaii," exclaimed Hihara.

He then realized what he just said and blushed.

"A-arigatoo Hihara-sempai," said Aiko while blushing furiously.

Mio and Nao got up from hugging Kaho, and linked their arms through Aiko's arms, and said at the same time, "Just wait till you come to our school. You'll be swamped with friends."