Authors Note: Sorry, I meant to put this in the last chapter but I got so excited about finishing it that I totally forgot xD. As for the character Ryu his English name is Rafe if I'm not mistaken. He was in Destiny Deoxys, the kid with brown hair and had two twin sisters, he also had a Blaziken. I hope that cleared it up for you guys, I realize he is a bit of a minor character but I added him because he was from La Rousse like Drew. And a big heartfelt thanks to everyone who reviewed I really appreciate your feedback, sorry the progress with May and Drew are taking so long, I just really want to develop this story and have lots of different things within it, although it is mainly a contestshipping I also want to develop some of the other characters a bit too, so I hope you guys stay with me for this.
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Chapter 4: All is fair in love and War, but is this either?
Haruka stood there dazed, unsure what had just happened.
"Oh my, aren't you two love birds all lovey-dovey!" Harley squealed as the trio got outside. Shu shot him a glare before returning his attention to the brunette, and sighed.
"Do you wanna snap out of it? I mean we will be working together so you can't go losing your head every time you're near my presence like this." Shu said as he flicked his hair. Haruka brought her head up and glared at the green haired boy.
"Listen mister, you may think that everyone is tripping over themselves for you, but I've got a newsflash, I was happy staying as far away from you as possible. I have to go in there and explain this mistake and get someone else to take this position, no way am I going to be stuck doing this with you." Haruka snarled as she tried to go back into the classroom, only to obstructed by Harley placing himself in her way and Shu grabbing her hand. Haruka glared at the purple haired boy and then turned back around to the green haired one who released his hold on her.
"Look, Makomo sensei already explained it to the other girls, there was no way anyone was going to come to an agreement, this whole situation worked out best for Makomo sensei in that someone was finally chosen as the girl representative. Besides, no matter how much you deny it, you like me, every girl does, I've even notice you staring at me in class." Shu said the last part with a smirk. Haruka blushed slightly.
"I…I wasn't staring at you…I…I was looking out the window!" Haruka said slightly stuttering.
"If you two love birds are done, can we please get going, I have other class representatives to gather up." Harley said as he walked away from the two. Haruka sighed and unwillingly she followed Harley, with Shu walking beside her.
"Who is that guy anyway? A friend of yours, using him to try and get this oh so coveted spot?" Shu said with a cocked eyebrow and what seemed like a mischievous look in his sparkling green eyes. Haruka shuttered.
"No way, if I was going to ask for a favor it would be that I didn't get chosen for this 'oh so coveted' spot" Haruka said raising her hands to form air quotes, "Besides I've met him like once. He wanted me to join the cheer squad but I already signed up for cheerleading. And he got all creepy and weird and tried to force me to join cheer squad instead." Haruka continued explaining, the two were talking in hushed voices as Harley went around to the other classes and gathered all the first year representatives, there were only four class for the first year so the entire group consisted of eight students including Haruka and Shu.
Shu glanced at the tall figure leading them, he got a weird feeling from the guy, and it was clear Haruka did as well. Behind him and Haruka they heard the excited whispers of the girls from the other classes, being grateful for having gotten on the student council because Shu was there. Haruka sighed, it looked as if her life was going to get more difficult, and fast.
"Oh wow…" Haruka whispered in awe as the students gathered into the room for the student council. It was a large room, for it had to be to fit everyone in there, the space of two, maybe even three rooms together.
"Welcome to the student council. First years please have a seat, thank you Harley for gathering them up." Haruka recognized the speaker, it was Leaf, the captain of the cheerleading team.
"Why of course darling, you are the head honcho." Harley said, his voice slightly venomous. Leaf kept her composure, looking around at the new students and resting her eyes on Haruka and smiling.
"Hello first years, my name is Leaf, and I am the student council president. Now I am overall president of the student council but within each year there is also a leader and a sub leader, otherwise there is just too many people to have to deal with directly for just myself and the vice president, Harley." Leaf finished. Haruka's eyes widened at the comment that Harley was the vice president.
"Now darlings as it is your first time here you do not yet have a leader and sub leader, as such you will be reporting to me directly. After a couple of weeks we will see how all of you kiddies have been doing with your positions and the best two candidates will be chosen as the leader and the sub leader for the first years." Harley continued explaining.
"That's right, now the leader and sub leader do not have to be from the same class, and it does not have to be one boy and one girl, they will be chosen on their commitment and hard work. Remember that this will not be an easy job as you will, if chosen, have to handle a lot of events for the first years. Making the first years high school experience remarkable will be in your hands." Leaf added. After Leaf and Harley had explained everything the next thing was introductions, everyone went around introducing themselves and their classes.
Haruka sighed, there were so many names to remember and what they jobs were, Makomo sensei wasn't kidding, this was a huge student council, but they also were famous for the amount activities planned out for the students, that's one of the reasons Haruka and Hikari had chosen this school. Although it was a bit farther away from them than the other schools, this school was supposed to really give students an unforgettable high school life.
"Haruka, is that you?" Haruka turned around to who was calling her. It had been break time and the student council provided the students with sandwiches to eat so everyone was chatting and eating, naturally all the first years gathered around Shu, in fact there were even second and third years around him as well, both boys and girls.
"Hmm?" Haruka said as she turned around, her face soon lit up at the recognition of the familiar face. "Wakana!" Haruka said with joy as she went over to hug a girl with red hair that was cut in a bob around her face with straight blunt bangs and teal eyes.
"Oh Haruka, I thought that was you, but I wasn't sure…" Wakana said shyly. Haruka smiled, Wakana hadn't changed one bit, they had gone to middle school together and she was a sweet girl back then.
"Wow Wakana, I didn't know anyone else besides Hikari and I went here." Haruka said as the two girls sat down to talk.
"Yea, my family actually moved close by here so I ended up choosing this school." Wakana said with a soft smile.
"This is going to be great, at least I have a friend here." Haruka said with a smile.
"Um…Haruka, are you and Shu-san friends?" Wakana asked as her face turned slightly pink. Haruka shook her head furiously.
"No way, that guy is such an arrogant jerk, I unfortunately got stuck with him." Haruka sighed.
"Oh? Well he doesn't seem so bad," Wakana said as she turned her gaze to the green haired boy.
"Oh trust me Wakana, he is." Haruka said as she pouted.
"Hey Haruka," came a voice from behind Haruka, the two girls turned to see who it was.
"Ah! Leaf! Hi, I didn't know you were student council president." Haruka said as the older girl approached.
"Yea well, the president from our year left to study abroad so I the then vice president was chosen I guess." Leaf said as she sat down with the two girls.
"And, what's with Harley being the vice president?" Haruka said lowering her voice a bit. Leaf raised an eyebrow.
"You know Harley?" she questioned. Haruka nodded.
"I met him that day after we signed up for the cheerleading team. He found me in the crowd and tried to get me to join the cheer squad, and I accidently let out that I already joined the cheerleading team." Haruka explained.
Leaf frowned slightly, "I see," she said with a sigh. "See Harley is the captain of the cheer squad." At hearing this Haruka was stunned. Leaf nodded.
"I'm sure Marina already explained to about Harley's little grudge against us." Leaf said.
Haruka nodded, "Yea, she did, but I didn't know he was the cheer squad captain." Haruka sighed. Life didn't seem to be getting any better for the brunette. "Oh, Leaf, by the way, how do you manage being the student council president and cheerleading captain?" Haruka asked.
"Oh, well it's not easy but the student council consist of a lot of people who are in clubs and sports, some who are also captains, so we always agreed that we would try our best to compromise and work out everything so that our two responsibilities don't clash. So if you're worried about that, I assure it will work out. Because in the student council I will work out a schedule that doesn't interfere with your responsibilities here." Leaf said assuring the girl. Haruka smiled happy to know that.
Once break was over the students all gather up again.
"Okay now second and third years, I don't have to explain how things work so get to coming up with events for your grades. First years, as you do not have any leader yet, the class representatives will be in charge of coming up with events for their respective classes. Now don't take this lightly, from here on out we will be watching to see who would be best as leader and sub leader. Your first assignment is the garden. You may not know this seeing as how you're all new, but the responsibilities of the garden always fall to the first years. They gardens are already divided to each class so whether you get the garden in the north end of the school or south end of the school or east or west, it's already chosen for you. Harley." Leaf said turning to Harley.
"That's right darlings, here is a list for each of you that shows what garden you'll be getting and how much you have for funds." Harley said as he gave each first year a piece of paper.
"Now funds aren't unlimited and this isn't your only activity for the year. Don't worry we have several fairs and the school festival to gain some money for your activities, but you will be in charge of how to get the funds and only be able to use however much you earn. But let's not worry too much about that. For now go out and do your best with this assignment. You need to get your class involved in this, the gardens are each classes responsibility so everyone is held accountable for it." Leaf finished before she dismissed the students.
"It seems we got the east end of the school." Haruka spoke to Shu as the two headed back to the class.
"Who was that girl you were talking to?" Shu asked as he looked down at the paper, Haruka looked up at him.
"Who, Wakana?" Haruka asked.
"Oh is that her name?" Shu said still looking down at the paper as they walked.
"Yea, she's a really sweet girl, so you leave her alone." Haruka said getting defensive.
Shu looked up at the brunette, "Calm down, I just wanted to know." He said looking her in the eyes, which made the brunette a bit uncomfortable.
"Why do you ask, you don't seem the type who's interested in people for no reason." Haruka asked eyeing the boy suspiciously. Then Shu did something that shocked Haruka, he leaned into her face, bringing his face mere inches away from her, Haruka could feel the heat on her face as blood rushed up.
"Oh…I have my reasons." Shu said with a smirk before walking away from the girl. Haruka blinked getting over the initial stun. Her eyebrows came together and she shot the boy a glare as he walked away from her, she had lost that round, she knew it.
"Well any ways, I guess we better get together and come up with an idea as to how we're going to tackle this project." Shu said as he reached the door.
"Do we have to get together?" Haruka whined, thinking about all the possible ways people will see them and then make her life miserable.
"Yea, how else are we going to figure out a plan?" Shu said, "You know the butterfly café? The one near the shopping mall? How about there, 4:30 Saturday?" Shu said, although it was a request it sounded more like a command, but Haruka nodded and agreed.
"Haruka," came the happy greeting of a blue haired girl.
"Hikari? Did you wait for me this entire time?" Haruka said in disbelief.
"Of course, who else is going to?" Hikari said with a smile as she handed the brunette her things.
"Shu!" came the high pitched voice of Urara. Shu looked at the girl and then to the brown haired boy behind her.
"Oh you two are still here? Let's get going." He said as the trio walked away.
"Hmm…seems like a pleasant guy." Hikari joked.
"Yea…" Haruka said as she watched the boy walk away, and Urara turn around to give her a glare.
"Haruka, how did you get picked? Wasn't that the creepy guy we met last week?" Hikari said, attacking the girl with questions. The two started walking out and Haruka explained the situation to Hikari.
"Oh wow, I didn't know he was the vice president, you think he's out to get you? Marina did say that guy had it against cheerleaders." Hikari said.
Haruka sighed, "I don't know. Why is my life so complicated, I didn't do anything wrong to deserve this." Haruka said as she walked with her head low.
"Oh!" Haruka exclaimed bringing her head up, "Did I tell you, Wakana goes to this school!"
"What? Really?! Oh wow, we have to hang out with her, maybe Saturday?" Hikari suggested, Haruka beamed and then became gloom.
"I can't I'm supposed to meet Shu Saturday to discuss the garden project." Haruka said bring her head down again. Hikari patted her friend's shoulder as the two walked to the train.