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x-Chapter 16-x

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A. R. I. S. A

The Fight Recommences

Purple. Chocolate. Stars

Ikuto could feel the heat of the sword right as it was about to come in contact with his skin.

It was all Easter's fault this was happening; it was their fault Aika was spinning out of control and their fault he would die.

For the longest second in Ikuto's life, the burning heat nearly seared his skin when…

Aika suddenly changed transformations and instead of being stabbed by a burning sword, he was whacked by a giant, white pillow twice the size of him. (The mental image is hilarious. Ikuto getting owned by a giant pillow! :D)

The fluffy object knocked him over with a soft poof and settled on top of him with Aika sitting triumphantly on top of it, grinning like a maniac.

Arisa's eyes were as wide as UFOs at Aika. Just a moment ago, she had gone clinically insane, she had nearly killed someone.

Once Ikuto managed to escape from the…fluffy soft prison after closely dodging a shot from Arisa, he sped off and Aika's giant pillow disappeared along with her transformation.

For a little while they both just stood there, catching their breaths and making a dire attempt to soak in the previous events.

Breaking the silence, give or take early morning birds chirping, Arisa brother the silence, "Can we hurry? Cause…if we don't get to school in 4 minutes, we'll be late, AND screwed."

Aika gasped as Arisa took the blue haired girl by the hand and pulled her along in the direction on the castle like school.

Though the jog there would've been quite relaxing, Arisa thought. There were many birds around them singing their song, the sun cast warmth across her face and the air smelt sweetly of dew and flowers.

But the main thing bothering her at the moment, destrupting the wonderful scenery was Aika.

"I'm sorry Arisa, it's all my fault! He's after me because of my crazy past with Easter and—"

"Shut up man, it's nto a big deal. School's not really tha big of a thing for me anyway," Arsa cut her off for…who knows how many times.

Right when Arisa thought it was going to be silent, Aika broke out once again.

"AAAHH!!" she screamed fearfully.

-"WHAT??" Arisa demanded, shocked by the sudden noise.

"I JUST REALIZED I HAD PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR MY WHOLE LIFE!"

Arias blinked a few times, silent. Finally she sighed and continued on shaking her head helplessly.

"Gomen ne Arisa…" Aika muttered.

"What the freak are you apologizing for?" Arisa asked, probably sounding a bit harsher than she intended.

"…..I'm sorry…"

Arisa sighed deeply. She can't hide it any longer; this girl was absolutely hopeless.

Yet another silence followed. They walked at a steady pace at the top on a hill where they were able to see the second floor of Seiyu Academy.

A look of sudden realization crossed Aika's face. "Arisa…?"

The brunette inwardly groaned, but she couldn't get mad; that'd make her mean, and how can you get mad at a girl who'll just shower with apologies seconds after?

"Ne, what did we have for homework?" She asked, like her previous gloom fest had never happened.

Arisa took a second to remember the mental list she always kept somewhere deep, deeeeeeep down in her brain. It took a moment then the loading bar in her brain finally finished loading and she spoke. "The retarded math thing, the English assignment and the science sheet, but that's not due today."

Oh yeah, in her mind, she's a genius.

Aika didn't even hesitate to ask her next question, "Did you finish them?"

"I think so…" Arisa didn't like where this was going.

"Me too, but," not the 'but', "—but I think my English assignment is too long. Can you tell me if it's okay?" With that, Aika pulled out an immense stack of paper. It was a wonder about how she was even able to keep it in her bag without having it burst open.

Arisa's face practically paled at the sight of the size. "I-I'm sure it's fine. Nikaidou-sensei's pretty chill about homework anyway…" she managed to stutter out.

"Are you sure??" Aika demanded.

Arisa shrugged, "Not really."

She watched from the courner of her eye as she saw Aika physically deflate. Taking her by the arm, Arisa dragged her friend the rest of the way to school.

Finally, they arrived (on time mind you). Arisa, still tired as ever, made her way over to the soccer field to find her friends while Aika ran in the direction of a group of girls she has met the previous time she was at school.

The bell rang, and Arisa limped to class, leaning on Daisuke, and being supported by Hikaru.

"Arisa-kun, it's like you just ran a marathon then climbed a mountain with a bag of bricks and survived," Hikaru stated, adjusting his hold on her.

She groaned miserably, "Dude, you've got no idea."

Grumbling tiredly the entire way, they finally reached the classroom.

They flopped Arisa down onto her chair and scruffed her head a few times then walked off to their seats.

She (to the best of her current state) looked up at the clock; Nikaidou was defiantly late for class.

Just as she was about to doze off to sleep, she was approached by something horrible, something treacherous, something…that I'm failing to describe at the moment!

One of the giggle-ish girls. (insert dramatic music here)

"Ne, ne, Arisa-chan?~" she of them chirped. Arisa glanced up at them and inwardly groaned.

"'Sup?" She greeted.

"I was wondering if you understood the homework from last night," She said, fidgeting with the cutely designed pencil in her hand. That was Sakura Ikazu. She sat in front of Arisa and usually understood most of the work. It was strange for her to ask others about homework.

Arisa hesitated for a moment, then pulled her notebook from her desk.

Though she hated math with a burning passion, she understood it. …You can stop laughing now, it's not that funny. Actually she got an A+ on it last year.

She briefly explained the process of…something, and when she was done, she shut her book and tossed it onto her desk.

"Any questions Ikazu-san?" Arisa asked sleepily, yawning slightly.

The girl nodded, fixing her hair for a moment, "Would you want to go shopping with me and some friends after school?"

Arisa cocked a brow, personally wondering if she was serious. From a seat behind her, she heard Hikaru and Daisuke snickering loudly. Arisa scowled at them, rolling her eyes.

"Sorry Ikazu-san, but I'm not really up for that kind of thing," Arisa rejected as kindly as she possibly could.

The other girl's lower lip jutted out, forming a pout. "Okay…" The girl sauntered off with her notebook in hand, walking up to Aika who was surrounded by a group of girls.

Arisa collapsed dramatically onto the desk, shutting her eyes momentarily though her would-be-nap was obviously interrupted by the non-stop chitter-chatter of the female component of the class.

"Suzuki-chan, your previous classmates are so funny!" one of them chirped happily at Aika, as the new student's face flushed a light shade of pink.

"And I can't believe your sister; she sounds so cute! I wish my sister could be like yours," another crooned.

Aika reddened even more to the complements.

"And you're so lucky to have gotten close to Hoshiwa-san," a third girl noted quietly. Aika turned to her in curiosity. Arisa opened her eyes in interest as well.

"Why's that?" Aika asked carefully.

"Since she's s close with Hikaru-kun's group, you get to be close to them as well!" She chirped excitedly.

Aika looked over at Arisa worriedly. Arisa just rolled her eyes and nestled herself deeper in the nest her arms created.

Eventually Nikaidou finally entered the room flushed, and his clothes wrinkled and messier than usual.

"A-ah! Ohayo minna-san!" He greeted dumping the books onto his desk with a bang. Arisa's head shot up, but when she realized the source of the sound was just a bunch of books, she collapsed back down. She clearly agreed with Tsukiga, sudden loud noises can suck it.

During the lesson, the class was deathly quiet; so deathly, Arisa was threatening to fall asleep in her seat at any moment. But before she could, the bell signalling the start of lunch rang.

She got up slowly, and made her way out of the classroom to get her lunch from her locker.

Upon retrieving it, she encountered someone she was obviously not prepared to see.

"Eh…Kuukai, what do you want from me now?" She dragged.

He smiled brightly, "I just thought I'd tell you to cancel all your after school plans for tomorrow." Arisa stretched her arms above her and yawned.

"And why is that, Souma-kun?" She inquired, suspicious.

She watched as he reached into the back pocket of his pants, and pulled out a pair of light blue slips with small writing written neatly on it.

"Because," he said in a sing song voice, "Rika-chan invited us to go see her ice competition audition tomorrow after school!"

Arisa took a moment just to remember who Rika was. Don't you remember? She was the girl who they met at the ice rink and had a Kuukai-complex and was always decked out in something gold to match her hair and eyes.

Arisa thought for a moment, and then agreed. It's not like she had anything better to do anyway.

Kuukai smiled enthusiastically then waved her farewell as he sped out of the building. Arisa waved slowly back at him, fighting the urge to smile, if not just a bit.

During lunch, she followed the usual sequence of events; sit with guys, throw food at girls, have girls scream at you, over-hear overflowing complements about Aika; again.

"Aika-chan, I also heard that you're really good at speaking French!" A girl squealed. Aika looked a bit uneasy, but agreed anyway. "Y-yes, that's true, but really I'm not that good…"

'I know French too, but that doesn't matter since Aika's probably better than me anyway!' Arisa thought bitterly. After consuming the last bite of her lunch, she stood up, causing the surrounding males to look at her.

Lately, they've been idolizing her more and more; it was caring her.

"I'm going to head over to Moon Class, don't wait up. And if you want, you can terroize the chicks while I'm gone." She tied the black sweater around her waist and packed up her lunch exiting the classroom. The group cheered wildly, though when Daisuke went to high-five Ryu, he caught him staring over at the group of girls.

"So Aika-san," Amu broke in, startling the females. Aika looked up innocently at the pinkette.

"What do you think about Tadase-kun?" She asked sourly.

The surrounding girls ooh-ed and aah-ed at Amu's 'courage' for asking such a question that everyone supposedly knew the answer to.

"Well I defiantly don't like him that way!" The crowd's stares' expressions remained indifferent.

Before she could say anything else, Tadase approached them, looking at Aika.

"Ah, Suzuki-san, here," he handed her an envelope with her name written on it. "Come to the Royal Garden after school."

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