Here's your update. This chapter was suprisingly hard for me to write for some reason. Maybe because I'm so tired ^ ^' Sorry! T.T I might update another chapter or two because I'm on March Break for this coming week. But if not, enjoy this one until the next update!

-Belle

I woke up the next morning to Akane shaking me.

"Kisa, wake UP! We're going to be late."

"Ugh. Can a day not go by where I can wake up on my own?" I mumbled into the pillow.

"What?"

"Nothing." I said, sitting up. "Let's get ready."

I went into the bathroom and took a look at myself in the mirror and grimaced, seeing my hair. Looks like a ponytail day, I thought to myself. I grabbed a hair elastic and combed my hair into it. Once I had it secured, I got dressed. I straightened my Day Class uniform tie and smoothed my skirt. Looking in the mirror and deciding it'd do, I left the bathroom and got a bite to eat while Akane used it.

I had just finished putting my dishes in the sink when Akane tapped me on the shoulder.

"Are you ready to go yet?"

"AHH!" I must have jumped nearly three feet.

She drew back and smiled. "Sorry."

"It's okay." I grumbled. "At least I'm awake now."

"Come on," she said, tugging on my sleeve. "We've got to get going."

I allowed her to drag me out the door and we began our walk to the Day Class building. As we neared the Day Class building, Akane made some conversation.

"So..." she began uneasily. "Is your fever better?"

"Yeah." I smiled. "My day in the infirmary helped."

"And how did you get there again?" She raised an eyebrow. "Last I saw you were going out to watch the full moon with Rei, and the next thing I knew he was coming back alone."

"Umm..." I said quietly, slowly turning red as I tried to come up with something, "I was brought there by..."

"Yes?" She prodded.

"Um... Aido—" I stopped, seeing her facial expression change to one that held a tinge of disgust.

Suddenly a pair of arms slipped over my shoulders and pulled me against something firm. A chest. Akane gasped.

"Yeeeess?" Aido crooned in my ear. "I… what."

My cheeks burned. "You just took me aside to talk to me and then I fainted because of my fever and you took me to the infirmary." I exhaled. "You just forgot to tell Rei."

Aido smiled. "You could say that." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Nice save." He said, only for me.

Akane looked from him to me a couple of times. "Alright." She sighed. "I'll buy that."

Aido grinned again. "Thank you Masa-san." He pulled me tighter to him, laughing lightly. I felt Aido looking over my shoulder at the Day Class building, where a commotion was beginning to form because he was outside.

"Aido-kun!"

"Idol!"

"IDOL-SAMA!"

"Why did you come out here?" I hissed, trying to push away from him.

"Well," he breathed. "I do remember telling you to be prepared for what you've brought on yourself."

"And this is what I've brought on myself?" I hissed again, fighting harder now.

"Mmmm part of it." He said as the crowd began to slowly move closer.

Akane sighed heavily. "I'll see you inside, Kisa." She said. "This is ridiculous." She pretended to plug one of her ears. Aido chuckled as she walked away.

"You do realize that they are going to kill me when you let go of me, right?" I whispered, referring to his fangirls.

He straightened up slightly, as if this never occurred to him. "Really? They're not that extreme, are they?"

I took this opportunity to drop down quickly and escape the prison of his arms, ducking underneath them. He fell forward slowly for the briefest instant before he righted himself.

"Yes, they are." I hissed. "And despite what you may think I don't actually wish for an early death. Who knows what they thought when you just came up and grabbed me like that?"

He rubbed his chin slightly, pretending to think. I turned to start walking away.

"Well, Matari-san, what do you think they would think if I did this?" He reached behind me and, with surprising delicacy, he grabbed my elastic and slid it out of my hair in one fluid movement. My hair fell loosely around my shoulders. I whirled around to see him twirling my elastic between his fingers. I glared.

"That took me 15 minutes this morning." I said. "Jerk." I added.

"Well it was worth it." Aido said. "It was very easy for me to pull it out."

I stomped over to him. "Give me that back." I held my hand out.

He held the elastic at his arm's length above his head, which was at least a foot from where I could reach.

"You're kidding me, right?" I grimaced. "That isn't even funny."

"I'm laughing." He grinned. "Come and get it."

"That's just cruel." I said, looking up at the impossible. "I can't even reach that high! And besides, I'm going to be late for class."

"Oh!" He exclaimed happily, as if only realizing this now. "I could come with you and explain why you were late…" He trailed off suggestively.

I jumped, trying to snatch at the elastic. He moved it out of the way in time. "Damn!" I cursed.

"Too slow." He said lowly, waving it at me and grinning.

"Ugh." I groaned. "Just give it back, Aido, before anyone has time to think up anything else." I said, glancing around at the fangirls, who were in turn glaring at me. Oh, if looks could kill…

"Kisa!" I turned sharply to see Rei standing at the end of the line of fangirls. "What's going on?"

"Nothing, Rei." I called to him. "Just trying to get my elas—" Suddenly I was whirled around as Aido grabbed the hand I still had half raised and spun me toward him. He pulled my hand closer to him so our chests were nearly touching and he pressed his lips to my forehead. After an extremely long second, he pulled away, looking pleased with himself.

"—tic." I finished in a whisper, loud enough so only Aido heard. I was red, surely, by now.

"But in this case I must say, I rather like making people think things. Oh, and by the way?" He added, shoving the elastic under my nose for a brief second. "I'm keeping this." He grinned. "Enjoy your day, Matari-san. You too, girls!" He added loudly for the fangirls.

A couple of them screamed and turned red. Others grinned and tried to follow him, but he got away quickly, leaving me standing there, dumbstruck.

I heard Rei beside me. "So what was all that about?"

I looked off into the distance where I could still see Aido making his retreat. "I'm really not sure…" I trailed off. I ran my fingers through my hair a couple times to make it look presentable.

"I don't like how he's so friendly with you." Rei said. He almost sounded angry. "Are you okay with him being like that?"

"Oh come on." I said, trying to brush it off. "That could have been anybody. I guess he just decided to pick on me today." I turned and started walking. "Let's just go to class."

So how was that? *is nervous* ^ ^' Thank you for the reviews everybody. *bows*