So hi, after wednesday i'll probably go back to my superpostingchapters mood but until then you can read this one :). If you are on tumblr you may know composerofmyheart. She's a great Haruka roleplayer and one of the reasons why i fell in love with the character so this chapter is fully dedicated to her :) Happy birthday, Lucy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Uta no Prince-sama or any of its characters.

Continuation of the flashback ~

They ran into Tokiya in the hallway on their way back to the living room.

"Oh, Otoya. I've been looking for you. Do you know where Nanami-san is?"

The redhead looked at his friend with a sad expression on his face. But before he could reply, Ringo said: "Tokiya-kun, why don't you gather everyone in the living room: we have some news for you"

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Once everyone had gathered in the chosen room, Ringo cleared his throat and started talking. "You see, boys, something not exactly good happened a few moments ago… As you all may know I was having a private conversation with Otoya-kun here" Everyone nodded at that. "So… We finished talking and I decided to open the door to get out of the room… I opened it with a little too much strength and…" He made a long pause just for dramatic purposes making Syo almost rip off his own skin and then: "I hit Haruka-chan with the door"

"Eh?!" was everything the boys could mutter.

Then Syo spoke up: "What happened to her?!"

"I was just getting there, thank you" said Ringo. "… Anyways, Haruka hit her head pretty bad" Seeing everyone's worried looks, he quickly added: "But the doctor said she just has a mild concussion. She'll be fine tomorrow… She just won't be able to do much physical effort for a while, but it's not like she did any…" he finished giggling. His giggles couldn't lift up the tense mood that had taken over the room, so when he stopped the atmosphere grew uncomfortable.

"Can we see her?" asked Tokiya.

"Boys, she's sleeping. I'm telling you, she's fine. You don't need to worry. Now: go take a shower, dinner will be up in no time. I'll be here tomorrow and I hope nobody does anything crazy tonight, okay?" he looked directly at Syo as he said that.

Syo muttered "Fine" as everyone else nodded and with that, Ringo left the building.

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The second Ringo closed the door the boys started bombarding Otoya with questions.

"Is she really okay?" asked Tokiya.

"What were you two talking about?" asked Syo.

"What happened between you and Nanami-san today?" asked Masato.

"How the heck did you two start dating in the first place?" asked Ren.

"When are you breaking up?" asked Cecil.

"Why do you look so pale?" asked Natsuki.

They were about to start their second row of questions when Otoya yelled: "SHUT UP!" They all went silent at that so after a deep breath he continued "Listen, today was a REALLY long day and I would appreciate it if you guys could help me out a little here" They just looked at him expectantly, so he finished: "I'll answer all your questions but just don't yell and please ask one at a time" They didn't even think about what to do next, they just raised their hands as if they were in school waiting for the teacher to call them. He just picked someone with his eyes closed: unfortunately he picked Cecil.

"I repeat: when are you two breaking up?"

"… Honestly? I have no idea, but you don't know how tempted I am to say never…" Cecil grunted and made no further comment on the topic.

The next one was Tokiya: "Ummm… I asked if she really is okay… please don't sugarcoat it"

"I'm not sugarcoating it, Tokiya, she's fine" His friend still moved to object, but everyone convinced him to drop it and just visit Haruka the next day to reassure himself.

Then it came Ren's turn: "I feel like a little boy. Just for the record this is ridiculous. But, that said, I repeat my question: How the heck did you two start dating in the first place?"

"Ummm… okay, long story short: for some reason we almost kissed last night but Reiji was there so he interrupted us and told us not to break the rules and then anyways Haruka confessed to me and of course I feel the same way so we went to talk to the principal and here we are" he finished, finally breathing after that mouthful of words.

"Huh, I didn't know The Little Lamb was so forward…" he said.

"…Don't even think about it" replied Otoya.

Ren smirked and said: "And what exactly are you gonna do about that?" The redhead gave his friend a look full of rage as in a: "Don't test me" kind of manner although internally he just felt disappointed in his older bandmate. "Ah, come on Ikki, did you really think that only because you are dating The Little Lamb all our feelings for her would disappear? 'cuz if you did, that is trully naïve of you"

"I did not" he replied. "I just… didn't think about it, okay?"

"It's perfectly fine, but as a friend I feel inclined to warn you that as much as I respect you: if she asks me to be with her now I wouldn't even hesitate in my answer"

"…But hey! What about the pact?" Syo asked.

"Eh? What pact?" said Otoya.

"Earlier we made a pact (an actual signed on paper pact) to agree not to date Haruka unless everyone in the band is okay with it. Of course, we made this because we all clearly have a… let's say feelings for her and we wouldn't want that to get in the way of our friendship or work" explained Masato.

"Oh" muttered the redhead.

"Yeah… But really guys, are you gonna tell me that if she asked you out today you would ask everyone to gather up and ask if it's okay before giving her an answer? No, you wouldn't because: a) No one would be okay with it (not completely that is), and b) As much as you care about your friends, you wouldn't want the opportunity to slip through your fingers. This is the ugly truth, guys"

"Then why did you agree to the pact?" asked Tokiya.

"Just because. You were all so excited like little kids about it and I didn't have the heart to crush your dreams at the moment. I just wanted to have a coffee and take a nap, I was tired"

"So you lied, yet again" said Masato.

They all started arguing about the pact, their friendship, Ren's lies and it just spiraled down from there.

An hour later they were still at it, yelling at each other and raising their voices to prove how wrong the other was. The only one that stood on the sidelines was Natsuki. Maybe because he usually repressed every emotion that didn't make him look cute, maybe because he didn't want to force his voice or maybe 'cuz he cared too much about his friends to fight them like that. Whatever it was, he just couldn't get into the discussion. The discussion didn't seem to be going anywhere except for making every single guy aphonic and unable to perform later. So he tried to interrupt them by walking a little closer and moving his hands up in the air, to tell them to stop. That was when hell was unleashed. It turns out that Ren took a couple of steps backwards pushing Natsuki to the ground and breaking his glasses in the process: Satsuki was back.

Satsuki stood back up and punched a surprised Ren on the face. This would've been bad enough but right afterwards, Ren punched back. He was angry enough already and he didn't have the energy to deal with Natsuki's personality problem (otherwise known as Satsuki). In no time all the other boys stopped arguing just to try and stop the fight but that only made it worse. Every time they got close to break them apart they would either get kicked or punched. They needed someone to stop them; at this rate someone would seriously get injured.

Ten minutes later the fight was still ongoing, Satsuki had a black eye and Ren's chin was full of bruises. They would get in so much trouble… Ren's injuries could be covered up with makeup, but Satsuki was another story… And this is not to count that Syo had a gigantic cut on his face. Satsuki had pushed him away making him fall, and given how lucky the poor blonde is: he fell over Natsuki's glasses.

All the other boys had at least one bruise in their arms or faces.

This, of course, was the perfect time for the senpais to come in through the doors.

After the initial shock passed, they got extremely angry too. After all: whatever those boys did was under their responsibility.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" yelled Ranmaru.

Ren got distracted by this allowing for Satsuki to punch him and push him to the ground, beating him then.

At the sight of this, the senpais ran towards the fighting couple and pushed them away.

Syo came back running then (he had gone to the infirmary to get some stitches) with some glasses that he forced into Satsuki's face.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" yelled Ranmaru once again. They all stayed silent in response.

Ren gestured to his face as if saying that he needed some medical attention, but Ranmaru still said: "Listen, pretty boy, I don't care if your face gets disfigured, I just want to know what happened before you can leave. But until then, you're gonna have to suck it up"

"Wh-what happened?" Natsuki asked.

"That is exactly what I'm asking four eyes… well, more like 3 now" Ranmaru said gesturing to Natsuki's black eye.

Tokiya stepped forward and said "We may have had a bit of a… disagreement"

"That's an understatement" replied Camus.

"Well um…" Tokiya tried to continue but Otoya stepped forward and muttered "no, let me handle this"

The redhead cleared his throat and said: "Umm… So, we were discussing a little personal problem that kind of made us get a little heated and… well, Ren took a step back making Natsuki fall and break his glasses and when that happens… he gets kind of aggressive"

"… I… Do?" asked Natsuki.

"Yes, you do" replied Syo.

"Okay then, what were you 'discussing' about? If you may be so kind as to fill us in" asked Reiji.

Otoya blushed a little and said "The fact that I'm dating Haruka"

Reiji looked stupefied for a moment and then replied "WHAT? AFTER I TOLD YOU NOT TO? WHAT THE- WHY?!"

"… Well… We asked the principal and he said it was okay so…"

"He did? Wow" Reiji replied.

"So, let me get this straight: you were all fighting over a girl. And she, for the record is your songwriter" Ranmaru said and then sighed.

"Yep… yeah... I guess you could say that…" they all replied in unison.

"I can't believe this. I am so disappointed in you guys; I thought that after all this trouble with Heavens and whatnot you would've been closer… I guess I was wrong" said Reiji.

"I'm sorry" they all replied in a low voice.

"Well, 'sorry' isn't gonna cut it" Then he looked at Ren and said: "You go to the infirmary right now: the boy's one… Yes, there are two. And no, don't play the fool and 'for mistake' go into the other one. Natsuki-kun, you too"

"Masato, Syo: you two go with these dumbasses" said Ranmaru.

After they walked out Ai talked: "My data tells me that with fights like this, it's probable that this band won't last much longer"

"Yeah, well. That's pure logic" said Camus and then he added: "Aijima, come with me, I'm going to give you so much work you won't even talk for days" Cecil grunted in response and followed his senpai.

"This is not my problem Reiji, I'm gonna take a nap" said Ranmaru as he walked out followed by Ai.

That way, the only people left in the room were Reiji, Otoya and Tokiya.

"So… boys… What did you learn today?"

"… That I should've stayed in bed?" said Otoya.

"Nope"

"That you shouldn't stand behind a door?" said Tokiya

"Umm… What?"

"Well, you see… Haruka is in the girl's infirmary 'cuz she got hit by a door" explained Otoya.

"Oh"

Awkward silence enveloped the room then. So Reiji just said "You boys should all be friends and happy and just… try not to fight again okay? This opportunity you have is only given once in a lifetime and seeing you waste it it's just…"

"We're honestly sorry, I guess it's just our hunger and fatigue making us fight" said Tokiya.

"I really do hope so… We'll continue this tomorrow okay? Now go eat something"

End of Flashback ~

"Wow, that was... intense" said Haruka.

"Yeah… It was"

"So umm… How are Jinguji-san and Shinomiya-san?"

"Oh, you don't wanna see them… They look like they were attacked by bees" he laughed.

"That's horrible"

"Yeah, it is. But they're okay… They are 'grounded' though (whatever that means in this situation). Ranmaru and Ai weren't too nice to them if I may say…"

"… What are they doing?"

"Oh, you'll see. It's pretty hilarious if you're not actually them so…"

They grew silent after that so Haruka asked: "So… Are you guys still fighting at each other?"

Otoya sighed and replied "Um… No? I guess… I don't know, the only person I talked to today apart from you was Masato and yesterday we were so silent during dinner that I wouldn't be able to tell…"

Haruka looked sad as she said "Maybe we shouldn't have done this…"

"… What do you mean?"

"Well, I mean that since we started dating… everything seems to be a problem… We fight, all you fight… Maybe 'us' is not a good idea…"

"What? No, don't say that. It's just… a conflict of opinions. You'll see, we'll work this out, you just need to give it time"

"Well, I don't know… We've only been dating for a day and you already fought with each other? I don't see how more time could fix this…"

Otoya was desperate now: "No no, come on Haruka, you know it'll be okay. Everything was fine with them when we were both there, remember?"

"Yeah… But if you all started punching each other the moment I'm gone... I doubt that everything was fine…"

"Haruka…"

"No, it's okay… I'm not breaking up with you, don't worry… I don't think I can… It's just… I don't want everyone's dreams to get crushed just because I love you"

Otoya got closer to her, pecked her on the cheek and as he pulled away, he whispered: "You'll see everything will be just fine. You just have to believe. We're all good friends, I'm sure that a little fight won't change that"

Hearing that, she whispered back: "I hope so…" grimacing as she leaned into his hand.