Kanou? "What are you doing here? Whu are you following me? Do you want to kill me now? Are your memvers with you?"

"One question at a time, will you?"

Ayase just continued walking. He doesn't want to talk with Kanou anymore.

"Hey kid, mind if you wait for me?"

Ayase did not respond. Until they reach Ayase's apartment, Kanou is still following him, even inside.

"Mom, Dad, I'm home."

"Huh? Where are your parents?"

"What are you doing in my apartment? You're trespassing."

Kanou put his bag and went to the kitchen and open the ref to get some water.

"I'm warning you."

After tking glass of water, "I'm asking you, where are your parents?"

"You think I'm going to tell you my story? And why am I talking to you? wil you just go home?"

"Why are you always talking like that to me? As if I've done something wrong to you."

"Not to me, but to our school."

"Look, kid, were not the one asking for a fight."

"Will you stop calling me kid? I'm not a kid anymore."

"But you're acting like a kid in front of me, and you know what?"

"What?"

"You're a cute kid. When I first saw you, I thought you're as fragile as a 1 mm glass, but you proved that I'm wrong."

"Want me to clap my hands?"

"But there's one thing I'd like to tell you."

"Again?"

"I hate you. Because you're always on my way." Kanou's face turned serious and scary.

"Oh my God. I'm sooo~ scared. Look, I'm having a chicken skin already. Now," Ayase's face turned to serious from the just-joking-scary face, "if you don't mind... will you get out of my apartment? I want to sleep early because I don't want others to be worrying about me."

"You can sleep even though I'm here, you know." He teasingly smiled at him.

Ayase just stared at him emotionlessly. "Yuck! Now, go out!.. go out!" He is pushing him outside the house but he's just so strong. "You won't get out, huh? Well, them I think your bag wants to get out first." Then he throw his bag outside.

"That's just a bag. Now, where's your room?"

"What- how dare you-"

"Maybe this door here?" Then he opened the door. That's really his room. "I gues this is it." He entered it and let his body feel the softness of the cushion. "Lie with me, kid." To women who can hear his voice, it was arousing, but to Ayase, it sounded like a threat to his life.

Ayase is steaming already. "GET... AAAAAAAAAAAAAWT!"

Kanou just smiled at him.

His phone rang. "What's the matter?... Okay, then... Idiot.!" Then he put it down. He stood up. "Okay. I'm going now. Bye... Kid!" Then he went out of his house. "I'm coming back, sometime." He grabbed his bag.

On the doorway, Ayase shouted, "Oh please don't waste your time." Then he slammed the door.

The next morning, while Ayase is walking through the halls again, he saw Kanou, but he did not dare to give an eye to him. And that's what Kanou did, too.

-12:15 pm-

Tsusaku entered the office, breathlessly, "Pres, .. pres..."

"Tsu-kun? What's the matter?"

"Pres, look outside... the...the...," he's breathing hardly, "The walls outside the...campus... were... vandalized."

"What?... You mean while we were in the middle of our classes?"

"I guess so, Pres."

They ran outside to see it. There were alraedy many sudents including and mybe with his accompany. When Ayase looked at the walls, there were many vandals and they read, KAZEMACHI HIGH LOSERS!, BLACK PHNTOMS YOU CAN'T BEAT US...

Black Phantoms? Ayase looked at the direction of Kanou. Kanou just stared at him and went away.

"Pres, what shall we do? If the principal knows this then..."

"We'll clean these."

"But Pres, .."

"You're helping me or not?"

"Yes Pres, of course."

"But you know what, it's weird." Tsusaku said.

"Why?"

"Gangs usually use spray paints in vandals, but this one is... crayons?"

That's right. I don't understand it, too. "Guess we should be thankful."

They all cleaned the walls. Even the some of the students help them so it's not that hard to clean it. But still there are parts that need to be scrubbed thoroughly.

The cleaning ended almost 6 pm. He l et his staffs to go home early so that tey can rest.

-6:15 pm-

Someone knocked the door. He was surprised to see Kanou.

"Hi, Kid."

"You told me you hate me because I'm always on your way, now, why are you here? What's your purpose?"

"Kid, calm down." Then he pulled Tokigawa's chair, put it beside Ayase's then he sat down and put his arm around Ayase. His feet on Ayase's table.

"You crap!" He leaped out of his chair.

"No, I'm just one hell of a General."

"What are you doing here?"

"I don't know who did that."

"Are you saying sorry? Why don't you just go straight to the point?"

"In my observations, you're always asking me many questions at a time, why?"

"Don't change the subject."

"Kid, I'm just saying I don't know who did that."

"Well, that didn't help me. I let them go home early I want to be alone. Now you're here, guess I should go home, too."

As he was heading to the locker, Kanou grabbed his arm and that made him bump into his broad chest.

"Are you avoiding me, kid?"

Ayase, again, is steaming with anger. "You pervert!" He tried to punch him but Kanou's bug hand stopped him.

Kanou laughed at him.

"Don't laugh at me!" He stomped on Kanou's foot.

"Shit." He let go of his arm.

"Hahahaha. Think you can beat me?" Then he get his bag from the locker. He's now standing on the doorway.

"Do you want to stay here and be locked? Or to go out and head home?"

"I want both... I want to stay here and be locked... with you. I also want to go out and head home... with you."

"Oh, shut up. Now, YOU go out. I will really lock you."

"Don't you like it? Me and you... together?"

*cricket... cricket*

Ayase just stared at him.

"Do you want to have an expression on your face? Or... blush a little? Or... anything?"

"Blush? For God's sake, Kanou, don't you feel ny strange feeling by just saying that I would blush with what you just said?"

Kanou smiled.

"Okay. I saw it!" He excitedly exclaimed.

"W-what?"

"You were smiling. I swear I saw it."

Idiot. "Let's just go. You're saying nonsense things." Kanou went out.

Ayase locked the door. He was already wlaking through the halls and he's irritated because Kanou is still following him.

"Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't tell me you're following me again to my house? Well, if you're planning to, then just forget it."

"Nope. I'm not following you to your house." Then he put his arm around him. "I'm walking with you,"

"Let your filthy hand off me." He's trying to let go.

"Please, let me walk you home." His voice sounded different.

Ayase stopped resisting. He let Kanou put his arm around him.

When they were totally out of the campus gate, a student is secretly watching them from a distance through binoculars. When he saw that they were happy to each other, he threw the binoculars and clench his fists. He grabbed his phone and puched some numbers.

"We'll attack them surprisingly. Not now, let's just wait for a long time. Let's make them think that we're done."

"Then he slammed it."

"Damn you, Kanou."