A/N: Edited by my friend.

Yuu let out a tired sigh as he finished the devilish test from math that had four fucking pages. Like seriously, it was almost impossible to finish it in less than two hours. The teacher was pure evil. No surprise.

Everyone had a blank face when they got the test papers as if accepting their death. The only way to survive was to fight. And Yuu was more than determined to defeat the monsters.

But the results on who won will be announced only after two days (maybe, depending on how lazy is the teacher).

"Ichinose, if you have finished your test then you can leave the class." his teacher's voice brought him back and the ravenette nodded.

Yuu handed the papers to the teacher and left the class, happy to be free even though it still feels some parts of his brain burnt down in the two hours that he fought with the Math Monsters. The final Boss was the hardest to defeat so he proudly walked down the school hallway. A sign that he survived...for now.

He studied a lot after all. Shinya and the others helped him study for the passed few days and he didn't want to disappoint them. That and Guren threatened him that if he won't pass again, he will not give Yuu any money for two months.

He could survive that by going to Shinya and beg for some money (but mostly for food). Maybe he could even find a part-time job for himself. But this time Guren said that he will triple his training with more private trainings with Shinya.

That scared the living daylight out of him. Shinya was a really good fighter, his abilities with sword on the same level as Guren's skills. You would think that he is the gentle type of teacher but the truth was different. Sometimes he could be much worse than Guren. Yuu could swear that if Shinya was killing someone, he would be smiling and eating a slice of bread with his favourite jam while torturing and slowly killing his victim.

Yuu pushed away the horrific images and opened his school locker.

He placed the books that he didn't need and just as he was about to close it, he heard a familiar voice calling his name.

"Yuu-chan!" Mika's dandy voice slightly echoes in the half-empty hallway.

Yuu froze for a second before he smiled hesitantly at his rather popular childhood friend.

"Hi..." the ravenette took notice of the few students surrounding Mika that were throwing glares at the less popular boy, namely him. Yuu simply scoffed at them, not really caring about what did they think about him or about the rumours that they spread about him. The emerald eyed ravenette didn't have any energy left to do anything about this.

Seeing his dearest person happy with the 'others' as if he wasn't needed as much as in the past.

'It's not like needed me so much in the past...' Yuu thought bitterly. He only saved Mika few times from bullies that liked to make fun of him and make him cry.

"I was looking for you, Yuu-chan. How was your exam? Did my text book help you?" Mika got closer to him, excusing himself from the small crowd of students.

"Y-yeah, thank you." Yuu tightened his hold on the books he is still holding and averted his gaze from the bright face of his friend. He used the books as an excuse to turn away from Mika and finally put the books in his locker, later closing it louder than he intended to.

Mika looked at him in slight confusion but let it go for now. They walked together out of the school, talking about what happened in the past few days.

"So you are staying alone with Hiiragi Shinya?" Mika asked, a flash of a dark emotion appearing in his usually clear blue eyes.

"Yes, Guren left yesterday with Mahiru, going on a trip with her. It will take some days so he didn't want to risk leaving me alone and 'accidently' burning down his precious kitchen. So he left me in Shinya's care. He totally ignored me when I said that I don't need a babysitter." Yuu rolled his eyes, obviously annoyed by how Guren still treats him as a clumsy kid. So what? There were some small accidents in the past but that doesn't mean that he would do something again. Only..maybe to annoy Guren.

"I see..."

"Oh. That reminds me..." Yuu trailed off, remembering something. "Shinya said that he is going to make curry tonight!" he sounded excited, practically bouncing next to Mika. "And you know that his curry is the best so..." now his voice sounded more hesitant. "..would you like to come with me and have dinner together? Just the three of us. With Shinya." he quickly added the last part, his eyes shining with hope.

"I don't mind." Mika mustered up a gentle smile, the back of his hand brushing against Yuu's hand.

"And later we can study as well." he added and Yuu only groaned in response.

"Mika why are you such a nerd? How can you love studying so much?" Yuu whined in distaste, fixing his school bag so it wouldn't slip off of his shoulder.

"It's not that I love it, Yuu-chan. It's our responsibility to study." Mika nonchalantly spoke without a second of hesitation. He is already used to this type of conversation.

"I know but it's no fun. Only torturing." the raven grumbled and kicked a small stone that was in his way.

"Then I will just have to make it more...entertaining." Mika grinned at him, his voice more deep with a hidden meaning. Yuu almost tripped hearing these words and fully turned to his friend.

"Huh? What do you mean by it?" he asked in confusion, oblivious to the hidden double meaning.

"For example we can play games that will make studying easier and more fun." Mika smoothly answered.

"O-okay." Yuu wanted to ask more about what type of games would they play but Mika pushed him forward and only then he noticed that their bus already arrived.

"I just hope it will be as fun as you say." Yuu sighed and sat down on a free seat with Mika by his side. He looked out of the window and watched the passing scenery outside.