Hey everyone...

So, I edited some stuff with this story especially with the pairing. I just realized that I sucked royally in the grammar and I didn't know then that the tense is supposed to be past tense.

I didn't edit everything, mind you. I'm a loyal slacker so I guess you could see that in the story. I think I started in chapter 2 with the major editing...

Anyway, I've written two new chapters after a very long hiatus (sorry i didn't warn any of the guys waiting for almost a year-major problems came up in my family and school). Second year high school was hectic in Phil-Sci. At least in my third year this year, it won't be so hectic.

I'm done with promising you guys for a certain time for my update. I'm done with breaking my promises. I can't even tell you guys how sorry I am.

Since those who had been waiting for this story to update probably got sick of waiting, I'm just going to say sorry and i hope you'll forgive me. To those who had been reading my stories and making Story Alerts and some even gave a few reviews, thanks a lot. I really appreciate it.

P.S. : This note is just going to repeat from the first chap until the 22nd chapter of my story.

Chapter 6 – Critical Reports

2:05 pm, same day

I flopped myself on the couch in the living room with Nonoko and Anna to my left. Sumire and Hotaru were seated on the loveseat while Yuu sat on the cushion-chair (a chair that's actually a cushion or something. I forgot what that was called).

Man, my fingers are aching! We ended practice by repeating the sequence thrice. Do you know how torturous that was?

"Man that was torture! Next time, we won't let Mikan take charge of practice," Sumire groaned.

Oh, I was the torture. Whoop-de-doo.

I ignored the comment anyways. No use of retorting to the shopaholic. After about 15 minutes, I took the remote on the table by the armrest and changed the channel to MTV (we were currently watching Phineas and Ferb. Hotaru and Yuu were always commenting on their inventions saying that they were dead wrong *sweatdrop), High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup is on. Funny how they describe high school these days.

The song just ended when Nonoko sighed.

"Hey guys,… I know that when D.S. came back, things got scratchy if ya'll know what I mean. Well, what happened this afternoon made things a lot more scratchy," she admitted while sighing.

"What do you mean?" Sumire prompted.

"Well, fox-eyes was asking for a tour so I did with occasional silence of course." She scowled. "But as he yapped on and on, he asked me a question which left me stunned for a moment."

"What's the question?" I asked thinking about Hyuuga's questions earlier.

"I'm just gonna say the point, alright? I don't wanna think about how he did it," she said and shuddered. "He asked if we met before because I looked familiar. The other question: why don't I like him? For the second question, I just shrugged and said 'you ain't my type you bozo'." She chuckled. We joined in remembering the gay (not Naru, he's just kinda like a gay).

"But, what did you say to the first?" Anna asked making us listen to Nonoko.

"Well, I said, 'Nope, you moron. I never go to your concerts and we've never met. I've got a good memory the last time I checked'."

"Hah! That was funny." Anna giggled.

"Yeah, but that would only make them more interested and size up their ego," I muttered while scowling.

It got silent and I saw that their eyebrows were almost touching. Seriously, even Hotaru the Ice Queen was listening.

"You know, if you continue looking like that, you'll be cavemen," I pointed out which made them look at me more but they erased their almost-touching eyebrows (not literally. They just smoothed their expression).

"What?" I asked. I was confused actually.

"What happened exactly to you and Hyuuga?" Hotaru spoke for everyone.

I sighed and turned to the television. "Com, show them the footage from approximately 10:15 am to 11:30 am. Enable the sounds if you don't mind."

"As you wish, Mikan," Com answered.

The next thing we knew, the wall where the television and the Tracker (a/n: if you read the last chapter, remember the monitor above the t.v that showed red and blue blinking lights. That's the Tracker) rotated and showed another wall that has a lot of monitors. What is that, you ask?

It's the SUV. No, it isn't a car. SUV stands for Surveillance Unit Vision. More of a surveillance camera showing every nook and cranny of the school. The difference is that there's about 100 cameras making about 100 monitors. So to make it clear, the whole wall in front of us turned into a CCTV wall. In addition, the cameras have mini-microphones which could hear even the whispers of a cat.

In camera 32, it showed me and Hyuuga walking down the hallway (of course, he was following). Our voices were heard and it made Anna put her finger just below her chin.

"So that's why he followed you out the door. I thought he was gonna pee," Anna said.

"My thoughts exactly." I chuckled at her innocence. If only she knew.

Then we turned to camera 56 forty-five minutes later (of course, we saw Nonoko and Sumire being followed by Yome and Kitsuneme towards the canteen) and saw me and Hyuuga talking.

Then, they saw me turn my back to him and walk away leaving him grunting and scowling. But then, he smirked behind my back and walked away going to the opposite direction.

"So… he got more interested in you," Hotaru said.

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"Isn't it obvious? The guy is used to girls squealing when they are together and answers rather nervously. You, my dear, is totally opposite of what he expected. If I'm not mistaken, he's going to follow you to the bus and will follow the bus wherever it goes," Yuu answered for Hotaru. Geez, what a long speech.

"Hold up, if he knew that Mikan didn't go in the bus, what's he gonna do?" Permy said. Only her friends are allowed to call her Permy (you know the reason). If you have the guts to say that, you'd better go and check-in the hospital for a reservation first.

"Apparently, from what I researched about the D.S., Hyuuga doesn't like being close to idiotic girls. So, he suspects that Mikan is in the dorms and goes home swearing," Hotaru replied. All eyes turned to her.

"You do research on Hyuuga?" Nonoko asked in disbelief.

"I research on Dark Sky not Hyuuga. For tight circumstances, like, oh, I don't know, maybe almost knowing our secret?" Hotaru snapped sarcastically in monotone. I wonder how she did that.

"Back to the topic. So, if ever we stay here, we won't be followed around by yapping idiots? Minus Futon and Ruka, of course," Nonoko inquired.

"Might be a possibility if—"Anna started.

"—they all don't like fangirls," Nonoko finished in agreement.

"Hotaru?" I asked.

"What the twins say is true," she said automatically.

"Alright, so we stay here 'til they're gone," I said.

"But we have to rent a room in the dorms," Sumire suddenly said. We looked at her with confused looks. Well, Hotaru was only nodding in agreement.

"Just in case they break in the records and gets suspicious because we don't have any room in the dorms," Permy explained warily.

"I agree," Yuu said.

"Totally off—" I began.

"—the hook!" the twins exclaimed while jumping up and down.

"I guess you guys were telling the truth while the two are hiding a secret," Hotaru suddenly said.

"Huh?" we answered idiotically.

"Rewind for a minute Com and you guys look at cam 42 and 29," Hotaru replied. Her lips were twitching slightly like she was trying to hold back a laugh or a smile.

In camera 42 and 29 was the sweetest and rather funny footage because the two cameras were the same. Both Permy and Nonoko were on the ground while their foot was grabbed by Yome and fox-eyes. The two guys were also on the ground blocking their kicks. It wasn't for long until they both landed a good kick in the face of the two desperate pop stars.

We were all on the floor laughing while holding our stomachs leaving Permy and Nonoko gaping a big "O" (sorta like this: °O°) and blushing like crazy.

"Wha—what was that?" I choked out. I was on all fours and was pounding the floor.

"That—was—funny!" Anna chimed in and laughed.

"We should put it in YouTube!" Yuu suggested, out of breath. He was also on the floor rubbing the tears that came out while laughing.

When the 2 "victims" heard what Yuu said, they regained their composure and glared at him. Yuu just continued to laugh still rubbing the tears out of his eyes.

"Oh, don't worry, girls. For revenge on those who embarrassed you, I thought of something. Go to YouTube tomorrow morning and search for Idiotic foot grabbers," Hotaru said while hiding a laugh with a cough.

"Bu—but—but—" they stammered looking flabbergasted.

Then Com announced something.

"Narumi Anjo, valid, please enter."

And in came Naru in his "teacher" clothes while holding up a clipboard of schedules.

"Okay, guys I want you to—"he started but noticed that we were laughing on the ground while two girls were looking horrified.

He took a quick look on the monitors and saw what we were laughing at (we rewound it over and over again) and laughed a little and cleared his throat.

"Well, that was rather *cough* hilarious*cough*," he said casually and cleared his throat again.

"I just wanted to remind you about the concert's schedule. At 7 pm tomorrow in the Tokyo Concert Hall, you're gonna present the songs in your newest albums. The songs are—well you already know. Then, we'll celebrate at the Konja Bar at 10 pm, penthouse of course," he continued rapidly.

"Speaking of celebrating, how about we celebrate for what happened in homeroom?" I said with a smile while a murderous tone covered my voice.

"And then, let's celebrate for Narumi partnering us with pop stars," Permy joined in while popping her knuckles.

"It-it's n-not my fault when they chose y-you," he stuttered while taking a step backward. A drop of sweat ran down his temple.

"So it's not your fault when you said that Nogi's my partner?" Hotaru sneered while cocking a gun she took from somewhere. Oh no, I'm not talking about the "very familiar gun" but I'm talking about guns like the Colt .45, revolver (do they still sell them? They're out of season!), pistol… those kinds of guns.

She ain't joking about anything no matter how insignificant. I think I already told you about that somewhere earlier.

"Girls, calm down. Who would be our manager when he's dead?" Yuu tried to soothe our anger but got snapped at by Nonoko.

"He's the reason why we got embarrassed by Yome and Kitsuneme!"

"Oh…"

"Girls, calm down, alright? How about we let Narumi explain why this is happening," Anna said in a pleading voice.

She got us. Whenever Anna is pleading or in the brink of tears, we feel guilty and stop from what we're doing.

"Explain now," I said acidly.

"I showed them the list of sections and Koko-san said that they chose your section. I wasn't the one who chose them to be in the section. I only guided them to what they want not what you don't want," Narumi said innocently.

"Fine. But you should have said that our section is already full," Permy said when she calmed down.

"But I thought it would raise suspicion," Narumi reasoned out.

"Good point," Nonoko agreed.

"Mikan, do you have any idea what to do to avoid any faults?" Hotaru asked. But I barely heard her.

I have been so stupid! If I was aware enough, we could have avoided this.

"Mikan?" Yuu inquired.

"I've been so stupid," I finally murmured. "If only I told you guys that they were going to school, we could have been prepared."

"What do you mean?" Anna said in a concerned voice.

"Two weeks ago, the star news interviewed them and they said that they were going back to school for a vacation or some sort to enjoy life as a student. If I only told you sooner during summer, we could have been prepared," I admitted in a grave tone. "I didn't notice that they meant here."

"It's alright, Mikan. Even I was surprised at what happened," Permy tried to soothe me. She took my clenched hand and smoothed it out to prevent it from bleeding.

"Well, maybe this is fate. I could be richer when I sell some of their pictures," Hotaru said. I smiled at her.

"But, they prohibited the paparazzi let alone the students to take their pictures," Narumi said in a worried voice.

Hotaru just looked at him with her right eyebrow raised.

"Oh, right," Narumi said when he realized what he missed.

"Alright, how about this…" I started when they listened carefully.

5 minutes later

"That's a very fool-proof plan. I believe it would work," Narumi commented.

"I agree with M 'n' M, I like it," Anna agreed.

Wondering why she called Narumi M 'n' M? That's Naru's nickname in courtesy of us. She said that Narumi's a really kind and sweet guy like M & M chocolates. Such a sweet girl.

"Alright. Hotaru, Yuu, please don't forget to get what I need to be brought today," I ordered. They both just nodded.

"Today?" Narumi said with a confused look.

We then launched our explanation for avoiding the Dark Sky members.

"Oh, I see…" Narumi said. "I'll tell the staff about this, okay?"

"Yeah, and Naru, can I drive my car today? I feel the need for speed and safety today," I asked.

"Sure. Everyone's gone now since it's already dismissal," Narumi said looking at the wall (which rotated again to show the television and the Tracker) on the Tracker with a lot of red blinking lights going out of the school apparently following the D.S. crew.

"Speaking of which, did you guys know that Futon already knows?" I said.

"Yeah, he told us earlier," Sumire said with a smile.

"Good. I think that's all of it. Hey, Narumi, I want to discuss something to you later at dinner, alright?" I said while walking casually to the door faintly hearing Narumi say a "yes".

The guys followed me towards the gym. We walked to the back part of it and looked at the bolted gate.

"Drop the lock and the hologram, Com," I ordered.

And then, the hologram disappeared and showed a lifting gate. Yuu and I lifted the gate and saw the inside.

Well, the inside is like a normal garage. With the tools, cleaning equipment and other stuff all crammed into the space, I'd say this is a normal car garage. Until—

"Drop the act, Com and show me my car," I said while rolling my eyes.

Then, with a loud clang the whole room descended downward until the entire normal garage went down the ground and shifted to the right. It was replaced by a new garage and was lifted up to the ground we're on.

And with a final clang, my garage showed my baby.