Chapter 4

Confession

Momo got up extra early in the morning on Saturday because he wanted to look good for his date with Aine. She was probably just going to dress up normal, but this was a very important date for Momo. He still couldn't believe what had happened after Faye left. The guys had called Kumiko's house that night, announcing who they had chosen, and they also decided to postpone the dates. The dates were going to occur whenever the guys wanted them to. So it would be like a surprise date, in the meantime, the guys would try to get to know the girls.

~Flashback~

"So...," Eiji had started to say. "You guys have to pick who you want to go on a date with! And you guys better pick too! I had to give up my boxers!"

"Eiji, we don't know who to pick. We don't even know the girls that well," Fuji stated.

"Well, that's the reason why we're going on these dates, to get to know the girls better. They're always silent, and they tend to keep away from us for some reason. Maybe they're shy or something?"

"Maybe they hate us. There are millions of possibilities."

"Yeah, which we won't know of if we don't do this! Which we won't know of until you guys pick!!!"

"Why don't you pick first then, Eiji-sempai?" Kaido hissed out.

"Fine, I will!"

"Well then pick already!"

"Okay...I guess I'll choose...Koizumi-chan...? She can play the guitar and everything. I wonder if she'll teach me. So there, I chose, you guys' turns."

"I will not stand for this!" Tezuka bellowed out. "There is no reason to force the girls to date us if they don't want to."

"Tezuka-buchou, we know you like Tsubaki Oguri. It's obvious," Inui retorted. "You talk to her all the time in class, and you come up with the lamest excuses. Like: 'Can you help me with this problem? I don't understand it.' or 'Do you know where we're at in the book?'. You obviously don't need help, you even outsmart the teachers most of the time. Just go on the date with her, what could go wrong? Too bad you're too stoic. But then again, Tsubaki seems pretty stoic herself. Don't tell me you like her because of that."

"Hn," Tezuka gave up. "I don't like her. She's a good friend."

"So it's Eiji and Koizumi-chan, and Tezuka and Tsubaki-san. Interesting..." Inui wrote in his notebook. "So anyone else going to choose anyone soon?"

"But there's not enough of the girls!" Oishi remembered. "There are nine of us, and eight of them."

"No worries, Faye-chan told me that whether Ryoma wanted to go or not, he would go with Sakuno-chan. Apparently, Sakuno has had a crush on Ryoma for a while now."

"Hm?!?!" Ryoma interrupted. "That's not possible, me and Ryuzaki are just friends."

"Good ones if you address her without an honorific."

"Why don't you choose next then, Inui-sempai?" Ryoma retorted.

"Okay...I'll choose Ayumi, the mastermind behind the whole plan."

"What plan?"

"Oh...nothing..."

'The girls don't know that I know the plan they made up to ruin the boys' team...' Inui thought.

"I know who I'll choose," Oishi answered to no one in particular. "I'll choose Kumiko, maybe I can help her get over her sadistic side."

"She is one sadistic puppy," Fuji admitted. "I think I know who to choose now too. I'll choose the mastermind who thought up of the compromise."

"You're choosing Eiji-sempai?!" Momo shouted out.

"No! I'll choose Faye-chan, she seems interesting. She can even see auras..." Fuji started laughing under is breath after he said that.

"Now that's a sadistic puppy! He loves messing with people, and who knows what he'll end up doing to Faye-chan."

A shudder went across the room as the guys all tried to picture Fuji and Faye's date. Some pretty scary thoughts went through their minds. Some even thought that Fuji might torture Faye.

"Viper! You choose next!" Momo requested.

"Hssssss," Kaido said with a slight blush on his face, he had never been on a date before. "I don't know...I guess I'll go with Saori-chan..."

"Are you only choosing her because you got to see her half-naked?!"

"No! Of course not! I don't think about her that way!"

"Sure...Taka-san! You didn't choose yet, which means you're stuck with Miki-san. She's kind of quiet..."

"Umm, it's okay with me. She's shy, and I'm shy, so we'll get along," Takashi replied.

"Looks like the school year will be interesting...," Inui mumbled.

~Flashback End~

Momo left the house and got on his bike. He had to meet Aine early at the animal shelter.

Animal Shelter Downtown

Aine was petting a golden retriever who was blind in one eye. She loved pets, and she couldn't believe anyone would want to throw them out on the street. She went around the cages, making sure all of the animals had what they needed.

"Aine-chan!" a voice called out. "Sorry I'm late, I got kind of lost on the way here!"

Aine turned around to see Momoshiro. She smiled and said, "It's okay, I already did what we were going to do together here, so I'm done."

"Oh...," Momo said, dejectedly. "I guess our date is over then?"

"Not yet. We still have to pick up trash along the highway, give blood, hand out food at the soup kitchen, eat lunch, and then we can go roller skating at the roller rink for a bit."

"Okay!" Momo perked up.

"Well, let's leave and got to the blood donations first."

Aine and Momo walked outside. Momo noticed that Aine didn't have a bike or anything with her. So he asked, "Aine, how did you get here?"

"Oh, I took the bus."

"Well, since I have my bike...you can ride on it with me...if you want I mean..."

"That's nice Momo-kun. Come on then! Let's go!"

Aine got on the back of Momo's bike and held on to him. Momo started to pedal his bike. Aine directed him to the donation center and Momo did what she told him to do. Momo couldn't feel anything except for Aine's arms around his stomach and the heat of her body behind him. In no time they got to the hospital.

Giving blood was a new experience for Momo. When Aine walked in, all of the staff knew her, so she obviously had done this quite a couple of times. When they stuck the needle in Momo's arm, he almost screamed, it really hurt. But Aine was there, smiling at him and encouraging him. She even held his hand.

They left promptly after that and went to pick up trash. They spent hours outside just picking up trash. Some people even threw more trash out of the windows of their car.

"Hey! That's littering! You can go to jail for that!" Momo shouted.

"Momo-kun, they can't hear you. And they're already gone. But, it was a nice effort," Aine said.

Next on the list was the soup kitchen. Handing out food to homeless people was a great idea for a date, not. But Momo didn't mind. But when they got to the place, they got turned away. The soup kitchen had too many volunteers today, and there were many people who were stuck doing nothing. So instead of helping out some more, they decided to go to the roller rink. Food was sold there in a separate part of the place, so they could eat at the roller rink too.

They had decided to roller skate before they ate, so that they didn't get cramps while they were skating. They put on roller skates and went on the floor, Aine could skate pretty well, and so could Momo. They looked like a real couple, since they were holding hands while they were skating.

"Aine-chan, this is an awesome date," Momo stated.

"Yup!" Aine replied.

"I can't believe you said 'yes'. I thought you were going to do something else. It seems like you don't like me much."

'Boy is that true. I'm sorry Momo, but I have to break your heart today.' Aine thought.

"Of course I would say 'yes'. We're friends, right?"

"Friends....right." Momo wanted to be more than friends. Maybe he could change Aine's mind today.

Momo didn't watch where he was going, and ended up knocking down a random guy. The guy fell on another guy, and that guy fell on another guy. It was like dominos! All of the guys turned on each other and started yelling, their dates tried to stop them, but it was no use.

"You fell on me!"

"I did not! You fell on me!"

"Shut up! Now apologize to me and my date!"

There was a big commotion going on and even the people who didn't fall down were arguing with each other for no apparent reason. People were just arguing to argue.

"Aine-chan, let's go to the food court now or something!" Momo ushered.

"Good idea, Momo-kun," Aine agreed.

They left the rink and ran to the food court. They ate hamburgers and fries. Aine was thinking of a nice way to break Momo's heart. But it was impossible, there was no nice way to do it. Momo was talking to her, but she wasn't paying any attention. She just answered with "yes", "no", or "I see".

Before Aine knew it, it was time to go home. She left the place with Momo and they walked until they were halfway to Aine's house. But before Aine could say something Momo said, "Aine-chan, I like you. More than friends. I want to be more than friends. Can we? This was the best date I've ever gone on."

Momo had just given her a chance to break his heart. So she screeched, "It's not going to work, Momo-san. Don't you know that we're enemies?! No one from my team likes anyone from your team! We hate you guys! You guys get all of the attention! And I know the truth hurts, but...I hate you!!! I hate the boys' team! And every girl that's a regular on my team, hates you guys! We're on a war! The girls' team is going on a war against the boys' team! It's no fair that we work way harder than you and win more tournaments than you but you guys get all of the attention!!!"

"Aine-chan..." Momo said, surprised.

"Oh, and don't ever talk to me again! Or I will do something terrible to you!" Aine warned.

After Aine shouted that she ran away. She ran the rest of the way to her house and grabbed a bag full of sleepover stuff that she had prepared in the morning. She ran all the way to Saori's house without stopping once.

Saori's House

"I-I c-c-can't believe I s-said a-a-a-all of those m-m-mean things to Momoshiro!" Aine sobbed. "It w-was to t-t-t-terrible!"

"It's okay, you don't like him anyways," Saori soothed.

"B-b-but we're in the same c-class!!!! What w-will I say t-t-to him if we s-s-see each o-o-o-other? H-he said I g-g-gave him the b-b-b-best date he e-e-ever had in his l-l-life!"

"Shhh, don't worry. They others will be over here in no time." The doorbell rang right after Saori had said that. "Look, everyone is here now."

The others burst through Saori's door and all hugged Aine. They were all excited to know exactly what happened during the date and how everything went.

"Ohhh, it's okay, sweetie. Don't worry. You did a great job! I know you don't like hurting people but you did good!" Ayumi said, patting Aine's head.

"You should have done something else. Like, right before you broke up with him, you should have challenged him to a kendo match, then beat the crap out of him, then break up," Kumiko suggested. "Or you could've just fed him to a lion at the zoo or something."

"I'm not going to do that! Stop thinking sadistic thoughts!"

"That's not sadistic...that's just...mean."

"I know what you did in elementary school, Kumiko!"

"What did I do exactly?"

"You use to have...slaves! And when they didn't do what you wanted, or when they disobeyed you, you would whip them with the the headphones from your ipod that you always carried with you! You even gave them scars!"

"Hey, what did slave owners do to their slaves when they disobeyed?"

"God, Kumiko..."

"Hey, whatever floats your boat."

"You guys...we have a bigger problem."

"What is it Aine?" Miki asked.

"I accidentally told Momo-kun that the girls' team was on a war against the boys' team."

"What?!" everyone shouted.

"What are we going to do now that they know?!" asked Koizumi.

"We have to step it up, and act like it's a real war. No more undercover stuff. We have to act like we're actually in a war. No more breaking hearts, no more small stuff, we have to really sabotage them now, before they sabotage us!" Ayumi panicked. "Got it guys? No more small stuff. If you have to, I'd rather you not, but if you have to, you should destroy their stuff, or mess up their desk, or pull pranks on them. No friendly pranks, terrible ones. Like what you would do to someone you hated with all of your life. I will not lose this war!"

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