Okay, forget about the Spiritomb thing. I'll just ask around anime club. I am still refusing to watch Naruto fillers at the moment and am surprisingly happy with the English dub of AgK!

Also, for the Broadway fans out there, make sure to wish Wicked a happy birthday! 12 years on Broadway! [and still no movie :(]

Enjoy! :)

Since the day test results got back, Akame had been more friendly towards Tatsumi and the freshman. Realizing that the red-eyed girl barely extended her friendship to anyone unless they really were smart or kind or whatever, Mine decided to also get to know her new dorm members. And what better way to do this than Mine's favorite activity: shopping.

"Yay," was Sam's sarcastic response.

"Hey! Be lucky Mine is letting anyone go near her!" Leone exclaimed.

"So what are WE supposed to do?!" asked Tatsumi, gesturing to himself and Freddy.

"We can stop in a store you guys want go in, too," Mine answered haughtily. "I'm not a TOTAL brat, you know!"

"Well, I do like Hot Topic," Sam admitted.

"See? SHE stopped complaining!"

"But she's a girl!" protested Tatsumi.

"I'm sure there's a guy store somewhere," reassured Freddy. "We'll stop at Abercrombie or something."

"That's the spirit!" Freddy was hurt when Mine punched him in the shoulder, although it was supposed to be her way of saying that she liked him.

After an exhausting and emotional (A freshman in Sam and Freddy's class dropped out) school week, Mine, Tatsumi, and the freshmen and had their shopping trip to look forward to. Since there was a barrier around the AP Academy, so that students who dropped out could not come back in, they had to be driven in a NancyMobile limo, whose driver knew the classified password for the barrier, to the mall.

Once the students got to the mall, they couldn't decide which store to stop in first. So, the boys and girls split up; Mine and Sam went into Forever 21, and Tatsumi and Freddy went into Abercrombie.

The only reason Sam agreed to go into Forever 21 first was so she could see what was so great about it. Girls in her class stopped there often, but she didn't see why she should care about fashion. Besides, she made Mine promise to take her to Hot Topic later. "What is this madness?" Sam asked at one point, looking at a super-frilly shirt with flower print.

"What does it look like?!" snapped Mine, busy looking at a pink dress.

"It's a frilly shirt."

"So?"

"So why do girls need to wear things like this?"

"It might be hard for you to believe, but rock band and Harry Potter t-shirts don't necessarily make a girl look attractive."

"I'd rather be comfortable and express my fan girl-ness than look attractive."

"Sucks to be you, then." Sam responded by sticking her tongue out.

"Sam?" called a voice. The black-haired freshman spun around to see a heard of her classmates coming her way: Helen, Jamie, Abby, Ashley, and Nicole. "Hey guys!" she called back, waving.

"I'll be over here..." Mine announced, starting to walk away, but Sam pulled her over. "Come on! My friends don't bite," she insisted, smiling. The seven introduced themselves and talked about school. Finally, Abby asked her classmate, "So, what are you doing here?"

"Oh... well, I'm not actually shopping here," Sam answered, her reputation as a tomboy now demolished. "I'm with Mine."

"You know, I'm actually getting pretty bored," Mine added, yawning. "I'll come back another time. Let's just go to Hot Topic." Sam's eyes brightened. "You mean it?" she exclaimed happily.

"Only because I'm bored." This, of course, wasn't true; Mine didn't want to ruin her dorm member's social life. But she couldn't say this because her tsundere complex made it psychologically impossible.

"Why don't we all go to Hot Topic together?" Nicole suggested. "I doubt I'll be able to find anything, but..."

"I'm pretty sure there are fashionable things in there," Ashley countered, but no one seemed to care.

So, the seven girls all went to Hot Topic; Sam was the only one enjoying herself, though, and decided that she actually liked Mine. Ashley also said she found an interesting shirt, but no one except Sam cared.

Tatsumi refused to go into Abercrombie and Fitch, much to Freddy's disappointment. Instead, they went into Model's to look for sport's clothing, since they were thinking about trying out for the soccer team. Surprisingly, they weren't complaining about how Mine had dragged them to the mall against their will; instead, they actually both decided that she wasn't such a bad person.

Around noon, Mine, Sam, Tatsumi, and Freddy all met in the food court. They got Burger King and Froyo. As they ate, Freddy couldn't help but stare at Mine. As soon as her pink eyes met his blue ones, he would blush and go back to his food.

On the way back to the limo, the group saw Run and Wave from the sophomores' class, and Nathan and Elliot from the freshmen's. Tatsumi, who was friendly with his peers, waved to them, and Sam and Freddy did the same to their peers. Meanwhile, Mine glared at these new people. She wasn't jealous or anything; she was just tense around Run, who she knew was a member of the Jaegers, and therefore assumed his friends were, too.

Normally, Mine would tell Run and his buddies to back off and rot in hell. But after her conversation with Akame on the first day of classes, she didn't want to cause trouble. "Alright, it was nice seeing you!" she interrupted, abruptly grabbing her friends by the collar, "But we need to get back to the Academy!"

"But we just said 'hello!'" argued Tatsumi. This earned him a greeting from the pink-haired girl's fist.

Wave seemed to understand exactly what the problem with Night Raid was now; while the Jaegers were a bunch of weirdoes, Night Raid was a bunch of violent weirdoes. He didn't want Tatsumi to get into trouble, so he told him, "Don't worry, about it Tatsumi. It's best to listen to the Walking Breast Cancer Ribbon."

Mine stiffened. She quickly turned her head away and ordered, "Let's go, guys." Everyone could tell by her tone that she was hurt, but they were afraid of getting punched in the face, so they followed. That is, everyone except Sam. "I dare you to say that again, Blue's Clues!" she shouted.

Wave was shocked. Was his blue hair really that noticeable? Either way, he was quick to react: "I said your friend's a Walking Breast Cancer Ribbon! Plus, she's nuts!"

"Well at least my dorm isn't led by an Elsa Wannabe!" Sam made a sassy gesture. Unfortunately, no one got the reference, so Wave wasn't that insulted. "Seriously... Esdeath? You know, cold, unique hair color... an Elsa Wannabe?" Sam explained. Still, no one got it. She sighed. "I'm going to let you go this time, Dolphin Boy," she went on, addressing Wave. "But if you insult any of my friends again, we're going to have a problem."

"W-WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" shouted Wave, held back by Run and Elliot as Night Raid went back to their NancyMobile. Nathan could only stand in shock and anger. Wave did insult her friend, but Sam had no right to talk to him like that! And he never imagined Sam could get so angry, either; maybe Night Raid was having a bad influence on her. If that was the case, then he was going to do whatever he could to make sure Night Raid went down.

In the limo, Mine said something that she thought was psychologically impossible for a tsundere to say: "Thank you... for sticking up for me back there." Well, it was more of a mutter, but Sam understood. "You covered for me when I ran into my friends from class," she explained, blushing. "I figured I should return the favor." Mine managed to curl her lips into a smile, although it looked more like a smirk.

"Great for you guys," Freddy said bitterly. "You two bonded, and all Tatsumi and I did was look at cleats for soccer!"

"You were not dragging me into Abercrombie!" Tatsumi stated firmly.

"This is exactly why boys hate shopping, don't they?"

"Pretty much," Mine replied.