"Class, our graduation is fast approaching and I need you to try your best for the exam." The teacher said. (I forgot his name.)

"Yes sir." Everyone replied.

The bell rang.

"And Ms. Kotobuki, come to my office, I need to talk to you." Then he walked out of the room.

'Oh not again' she thought. 'He just won't give up.' She stood and fixed her things.

Miyu walked towards her. "Ran, you have to be serious by now, this isn't just a game."

"I know that Miyu, and I'm trying my best." She said and left the room. She saw Aya at the hallway. "Oh! Hi Aya!" she waved at her.

Aya waved back. "Where are you going Ran?"

She paused and said. "That teacher wants to talk to me again."

"Oh Ran! I wanted to help you but-" Ran tapped her shoulder and said "its okay Aya, I can manage. I promised we'll graduate together." She grinned.

Aya smiled back at her. "Okay." Then Ran left.

After meeting the teacher…

Ran saw her two friends standing near the gate. They waved at her… "Hey! Ran! Over here!" Miyu yelled.

"What are you two doing here?" Ran asked.

"We're waiting for you…" They said.

"You don't have to wait for me. I have to go as soon as possible and review these things." Ran brings out a dozen of papers.

Aya gulped. "There's too many of them… you sure you can handle them?"

"Of course I can. I'm the No. 1 gal in Shibuya remember? And besides I've got myself a tu-" Ran was cut off. Then she remembered "Nobody should know that I'm going to teach you especially your friends…"

"Ran!?" the girls said.

"Oh! It's nothing! Got to go now! Thanks for waiting but I really have to go." Ran run as fast as she could.

"I hope Ran is okay…" Aya murmured.

"She'll be alright. Don't worry about her. Everything is possible with Ran." She smiled.

"Right."

Ran noticed that she's far enough from their school. Ran took her cell phone from her bag and dialed it.

"Rei Otohata speaking." The man on the other line said.

"Rei! I'm out of school now. I'll be there soon."

"Did you tell anyone?"

"Of course not!"

"Good! Wait! Are you wearing your uniform?" He suddenly asked.

"Yes! So?"

"Then go home and changed."

"What!?"

"Get change or never mind the tutorial."

"Oooow! Alright! Tell me your address first." Rei did what he was told.

"Be here at six."

Kotobuki's residence…

"I'm going!" she is tying her shoes.

"Where are you going?" Yamato asked.

"I'll go to my friend's house. I'd already told mom and dad about it."

"Is it Aya or Miyu?"

"None of them. He…. Ooops… She… is a new friend…" she lied.

"What's her name?"

"You have too many questions, brother?" she smirked.

"Well at least I know who this friend of yours is, tell me."

"Her name is… uhm!... Rea… right…. Rea…" she turned and glared at him "…satisfied?"

"Rea huh!? Ok then! Don't be late!"

"Fine! I'll go now! Bye!" she opened the door and was about to go…

"Where will you eat dinner?"

She's irritated now "Will you stop asking me? I'm not a child anymore. I'll eat there, at his house." Then she went off.

'His house…?' he thought for a second "Oh well! I think I heard it wrong." He looked at his wristwatch "I should cook dinner now… Mom and Dad will be home in a few minutes…"

Ding… Dong!

"No respond!"

She pressed the doorbell again and again…

Rei suddenly opened the door. Irritations on his face "How very impatient you are. Don't you know how to wait?"

"Well I'm sorry I don't." she grinned. "Can I come in?"

He opened the door widely to let her in.

"Thank you." She took her shoes off while Rei closed the door. "Can I use this?" she pointed at the pink slipper. "Sure! Just don't put some dirt on it."

They walked towards the living room. "Wow your place is clean enough for a man" she looked around the area then she chuckled. "You're such a nerd." He glared at her. "Oh! I'm sorry! I forgot rule no. 4.

"It's good that you remembered everything. Coz if you don't, you'll going to go out with nothing on your brain."

"You can't do that!"

"Oh yes I can," he grinned. "Put your things there. If you want to watch, there's the remote, I'll just have to finish my cooking." But Ran followed him at the kitchen. He turned and glared at her again. He was about to say something but was interrupted. "But I want to see your kitchen." She pleaded. "PLEEEEEEEEASE!"

He closed his eyes and sighed. "Fine. Just don't do something stupid, okay?"

She stood up straight, salute at him and said "Yes Sir! You can count on me."

He smiled and started cooking.

Ran roamed around the dining room. "Cool! It's very neat." She touched the dining table. 'Smooth!' she saw five chairs surrounding the table. 'Five seats? I thought that he's all alone in this apartment.' Her thoughts were interrupted by the smell coming from the cooking area. 'Wow! Smells good!' She started to walk and followed the good aroma.

She found herself at the cooking area and saw Rei cooking. She walked towards him. "Hmmmm! I guess this'll taste good." She praised.

"I'll cook just for tonight." He said.

"What!?" she paused for a second. "Does that mean that I'll-" she asked curiously.

"You'll cook for the next days until the tutorial ended." He smirked.

"Huh!?" She opened her mouth for protest. "That's not fair. And besides, it's not included at those conditions we'd talked about."

"So!? I'm the teacher, you're the student. Are teachers supposed to be paid by the students?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Now, you're saying that I should pay you…" she put his hands on her waist. "… How much then?"

"I didn't ask money for return…"

She crossed her arms on her chest, tapped her foot on the floor and said. "So cooking will be the payment. Is that it?"

"Do you have any problem with that?"

"Well! I don't know how to cook? I'm bad at cooking, for crying out loud." she yelled.

He turned to his cooking again. "Then, let's just say that it's part of the tutorial. What can you say?"

She sighed, closed her eyes, and seethes "Okay! Fine! I'll cook. Happy?"

"Fair enough!" he smiled and continued his cooking.

Ran went back at the living room. She slammed herself at the green sofa. 'That nerdy boy, he's taking advantage on this tutorial thing. After the tutorial, I'll promise he'll pay for everything."

Her eyes wandered around the living room. She noticed the photo albums under the center table.She took one and was about to open when Rei snatched it from her. "Do you ask permissions?"

"Why should I? It's just a photo album. And besides, if you don't want others to look at them, why are you putting them on a place that can be easily seen?"

He already finished his cooking. His eyes softened, "Just ask permission if you want to see something like this." She's confused at his expression. He puts it back to where it was before and says "Dinners ready, help me fixed the table will you?" without thinking she nodded and followed him at the dining room.

He took two place mats and put them on the table. "Kindly get two plates. I'll serve the foods." She did what she was told. Everything was served now. They sat next to each other. "Okay, time to eat!" she said. Ran was the only one talking while eating, praising every food she had swallowed.

After eating, Rei cleaned the table while Ran washed the dishes. She complained and complained but was forced to do it.

When everything's done, they went back at the living room and started the tutorial. They sat at the floor, leaning at the center table. Books are scattered all over the floor. Rei started to teach her English subject, then Social, Science and finally, the hardest of all, the Math subject.

"Oh Rei, this is so hard!" she complained, scratching her hair.

"It isn't hard. You're just thinking that it is hard. You're so slow."

"Kindly repeat that!" she said in a threatening voice.

"I'm just telling the truth. If you have the will to learn then it'll be easy for you to understand everything."

"Hey! I'm trying my best here. It is really hard for me. I'm not that smart like you."

He sighed. He's starting to lose his temper. "This is just a simple Algebra, Ran." He turned, softened eyes on hers. "I know that you can do it. You just have to try and try." Rei smiled sweetly at her. Ran pouted her lips "You think so!?"

"Of course! Besides, you're the number 1 gal, everything is possible for you." He smiled again.

She grinned at him. "Wow, you haven't told me that before." She leaned unto him and put her hand above his head and rubbed it. "Are you hurt? Did somebody hit you on your head or something like that?" she teased. 'She was so closed' he thought. Their faces are about 3 inches away He stared at her face, as if observing every curved of it. He looked at her smiling lips. He was mesmerized again.

"Hey Rei!" he didn't heard her; he was still looking at her. "Oh! Rei! Are you there?" she knocked three times at her forehead and it just made him back to reality.

He smacked her hands away from him. "Stop doing that! It hurts."

"Oh! I'm sorry! I thought that you've been possessed. It seems like you've been paralyzed for a sudden."

"Shut it!" he rose from the floor, and then looked down at her. "Fixed your things, I'll walk you home, let's continue this tomorrow."

"What!?" she's on her knees.

He was wearing his coat. "It's getting late. Let's continue this tomorrow."

"Oh! Are you already bored?"

"It isn't 'bored', Ran. And no more complains please." He took the apartment's keys above the T.V.

"Tell me first. Why?"

He's walking towards the door, paused for a moment, closed her eyes and said to himself 'Because you're driving me crazy.' "Just do what I've just said."

"You're unbelievable." She mumbled. She fixed her things and walked outside the apartment. Rei closed the door and locked it. "You don't have to walk me home. I can go by myself."

He turned to her and grabbed her things. "I will walk you home, even if you can handle yourself."

She sighed and raised her hands on the air "Alright. I have no more complains. Let's go" and he walked her home.