I'm so so so SORRY FOR BEING LATE I WAS SO UNPRODUCTIVE THE LAST WEEK AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO AND EVERYTHING WAS SO DEMANDING AND UGH IM SORRY.

I have bad news, unfortunately :/ (for you guys, for me it's different) I will be taking a break for 2-3 weeks, meaning no updates. I need to get life and really, I want a break. No stress, no responsibilites. Just. A. Break.

I'm really happy you guys liked the previous chapter :) I will do my best not to disappoint you!

So yeah, sorry again. I hope you enjoy this silly chapter XD

See you! :)


Karma's P.O.V.

"Karma-kun? Are you okay?" a certain bluehead asked as he made his bed. I on the other hand was still sitting on mine, having yet to remember my own name.

"Huh?" I groaned, narrowing my eyes in order to get used to the sunlight. Damn, I was sleepy.

"I'm asking if everything is alright. You have been sitting like this for the past ten minutes already." Nagisa-kun walked towards me and waved his hand in front of my face. "And you look tired."

Yeah, he didn't have to tell me. I was tired. Considering that I returned back to the hotel at three a.m. and now it was... what, seven? - Well, I wasn't really good with sleep deprivation.

Just in case someone wanted to know what I have been doing until three a.m. - it turns out the stargazing turned out too well. Both me and Gakushuu enjoyed the view for two hours, showing each other the constellation and then talking for another hour about something. Currently I have no recollection of the content of the conversation but I suspected it had something to do with this trip and then about the chairman. You know, the serious stuff.

Maybe that's why I couldn't remember it. I didn't want to.

Either way, I admit that motionlessly sitting on the bed for ten minutes straight was a bit concerning. Sighing, I mischievously smiled and assured my friend: "I would welcome five more hours of sleep, indeed."

The bluenette was obviously amused: "Unfortunately, we signed ourselves up for the boat trip which starts at eight o'clock. Come on, Karma-kun, you will be awake after breakfast."

And true to his words, the sandwitch, butter croissant with marmelade and orange juice got me back to my senses right away. Really, the food was wonderful. I felt like a goddamned king, sitting in a luxurious restaurant with luxurious food and luxurious everything.

While eating, I noticed my older brother who sat across the room with other four guys (those wannabe geniuses). He didn't seem affected by only four hours of sleep with all those smiles and lively responses he was giving. Well, taking into account that he liked to stay up late and study (and he sometimes pulled all-nighters), it was understandable. And despisable.

"So~ Excited?" Nakamura grinned, earning our attention with a strawberry on her fork. Agh, the strawberries here were so sweet!

She sounded really innocent and the two green and blue midgets of ours immediately thought she was asking about the tour. But I knew that spark in her eyes and knew very well she had something completly different in her mind. Maybe the upcoming prank. Or the one we have just pulled, unbeknown to everyone else. (Not even the readers XD)

"Definitely," I answered with a smirk, secretly communicating with her in the 'devil-duo-telepathy'.

Kayano-chan clapped her hands in joy: "Yep! I checked the route - it follows the bank of the island so we will have a wonderful view to the cliffs and waterfalls. And the sea itself!"

I nodded and carried on eating since we only had ten more minutes left. While they were talking though, I accidently cracked a small smile when I remembered that Gakushuu was going too. But my friends didn't know that - and the class A didn't know about us either. It was only yesterday that I suggested my brother went on the boat trip as well and he agreed. We could play off being annoyed by each other while secretly enjyoing it.

Also, what use would it be of if I couldn't see the results of my prank?

"Are we done?" Nagisa-kun asked about a few minutes later and we all agreed, standing up and then heading to the place where we were supposed to wait.

Our tour guide came up only a little bit later than us and he asked us the casual things - if we were excited, what we wanted to see and all. A nice guy, in my opinion. But I didn't talk much because I have only been waiting for one thing.

"What the-" Kayano-chan suddenly gasped as she spotted two figures going right here. My friends then glanced at whatever it was that made the greenhead frown only to react just the same way.

"Oh, lookie who came," I sarcastically remarked, not letting the delight show. I was quite good at deceiving people after all. Though I didn't know if that was good or not.

When the two people - Asano Gakushuu and Sakakibara Ren spotted us, the strawberry blond made a disgusted face, his companion sighing in annoyance. I wondered why and how only Sakakibara-kun was with my brother, I thought the whole gang would stick to him. But well, I could ask later.

"Is this all of you? It's high time we go," the tour guide Ito-san asked, interrupting the somewhat tense atmoshpere.

"On the second thought, this isn't worth my time," Asano-kun stated and turned around to leave. I exchanged a look with Nakamura who understood my desire to see him suffer from the prank we pulled earlier this morning and gave me a look of approval.

"Come on, Asano-kun! This will be fun, won't it?" I grabbed his hand and dragged him into the boat. He made a surprised face and lost his footing, unable to fight back and falling on the wooden vehicle. His friend tried to catch him but ended up just the same. Nakamura pushed the two hesitant midgets there as well and the two of us hopped in the last, beckoning Ito-san to start the mashine. And before anyone could realize what has just happened, we were already ten meters away from the shore.

To be honest, Gakushuu could break away from my hold any time. He could have easily jerked his hand away, considering his wonderful reflexes and strenght, defended himself or even attacked back. Something as weak as a pull wasn't enough to make him loose his ballance. And my brother never fell butt-first. He always managed to somehow land elegantly and swiftly without any problem. Not that anyone knew though - only us. Only we knew that this all was just a play and that all of the expressions and words were only parts of the script.

It was funny.

And strange at the same time.

It felt like our lives were nothing but a puppet play.

Putting serious and depressing thoughts aside, Sakakibara-kun and Asano-kun started bickering: "What's wrong with you, Akabane?!"

Innocently, I titled my head: "What do you mean?"

He frowned, dusting off his clothes: "We don't want to go on this tour. Not with you guys. Now get us back."

Nakamura then joined my overly polite speech: "Oh but we want to enjoy this trip together. There should be no problem whatsoever. Right?" she turned at me, recieveing an eager nod, and then at Nagisa-kun and Kayano-chan who stayed quite for a while with the 'this isn't a good idea' face.

"Or do you mind their presence?" She pursed her lips. Genius indeed, the girl knew how to manipulate people. Make them obligated to agree. I liked that.

Frantically shaking his head, the blue-haired boy denied: "N-No, it's alright."

And with that, I returned to the two hosts we had: "There you have it. No need to be shy, come on~ We are all friend here, no?"

I got pretty respons from both of them.

Anyway, the voyage was going smoothly. We were taken to a certain locality where you could see corals even through the water surface (damn that was beautiful). While taking pictures, I glanced at the clock - roughly half an hour since our innocent prank. And sure to the label's words, the effects started kicking in.

The two A-class students started fidgeting and holding their stomach. I saw my brother's face twist in confusion and displeasure as he gritted his teeth, walking over to the tour guide and asking him something. Probably where was the nearest toilet.

Well, to be expected. Since the five virtuosos got a good dosage of laxatives into their breakfast. (Good job, Nakamura!)

Just a while later, the older teen frowned and returned to his friend, telling him about the unfortunate news - the toilets are only in the hotel. Which was about twenty miles away from here. So yeah, twenty minutes back would surely do a number to their stamina. Or pride, if they didn't manage to hold it in.

Lol.

The blonde girl chuckled as she noticed the same thing and through our 'devil-duo-telepathy' we fist bumped. Seriously, it was so precious to see my older brother's embarrassed and flustered face.

He probably asked Ito-san not to tell us about the reason why we were returning so Nagisa-kun and Kayano-chan who knew nothing thought the two insisted on seperating their ways from ours.

But really, the fidgeting was funny.

As we sailed back, I walked up to my brother's side when Sakakibara-kun went off to the other side, probably trying to distract his digestive track by flirting with the girls. Maybe he thought Nagisa-kun was a girl too.

"So, how is it going?" I smiled, leaning on the edge of the boat and staring off into the vast blue.

The latter hesitated to talk - of course he wouldn't want to say outloud that he was about to shit his pants. And it made everything so much more amusing.

"I see you've got some problems going on?" the mockery in my voice was accidental - I was just enjoying it too much. More than I should have let shown.

Gakushuu shot a suspecting look at me: "Karma," he hissed. "is this probably... your doing?"

Aaaah well, that escalated quickly. I wondered whether I should deny it but then again, my brother wasn't stupid. Dense, maybe, but not stupid.

"I thought you were just too stiff lately so I wanted to help you loosen up." emphasizing the last words, my voice got even more daring. Damn, he was going to kill me. But I didn't care, this was hilarious.

"Akabane Karma, you didn't." he threatened, standing up and looking ready to snap my neck with his bare hands. I was glad no one saw us since they were too immersed in the conversation (maybe that's why that Ren was my brother's best friend, he was snobbish but not bad.)

Holding my hands in a defensive way, my facial muscles just had to curve into a grin. And that's when I sealed my fate. Gakushuu lunged forward and tried to grab my neck. I however back off to find out that-

there was nowhere to back off.

It happened so quickly I didn't even get to react. Falling over the edge, I felt my brother's hands grabbing my shirt but gravity proved to be stronger and he immediately following me into the water.

What's worse, no one noticed or heard it because of the loud engine. So when both of us emerged from the surface and caught our breath, our friends were already too far to hear our shouts.

"HEY!" I called again, but in vain. Their siluethes were getting smaller and smaller until we saw nothing but gray and blue dots. Wonderful.

Sighing, I bit my tongue. This didn't turn out how I wanted it to. Not to mention the strawberry blond who was currently giving off a very murderous aura right now.

"Karma," he dreadfully cracked his fingers. But then when he was about to swim towards me, he suddenly stopped and he burried his face into the water.

Alarmed, I dived to see what happened to find my brother holding his stomach again, curled into a ball. Ah right - the laxatives. Such a bad timing, seriously. I pulled him up since a having Gakushuu drown was the last thing I needed right now.

"Fuck you so bad, Karma," he whined, the look on his face somewhere between despair and rage.

But even then, I couldn't hold the chuckle in: "You know, now that no one is looking, you could just-"

He violently headbutted me with the back of his head (so in the end it hurt only me), screaming: "DIPSHIT! That's disgusting!"

Stars started dancing in my vision and I held my forehead in pain. But well, maybe I deserved it. Either way, this was the least of our problems. Right now, we were in the middle of sea, about ten miles away from the shore.

"What do we do now?" Gakushuu asked seriously, looking around in hope to see the mainland.

"Swim back?" I suggested but knew that it was ridiculous. One - when we fell, we completly lost orientation so we had no idea which direction was back to the hotel. Two - it was a bit too far. And three-

"In case you haven't realized it yet, I can't swim at the moment."

Yeah, my brother's diarrhea was the third factor.

Lol.

"Hmm, let's hope they find us soon?" I shrugged playfully though I knew very well that I was one milimeter away from getting my head cut off. But it seems the other was way too tired of my shit he only groaned and ignored me.

"Don't you have your phone?" After a while, he querried, probably remembering that I took photos of the corals.

"Unfortunately I left it in my jacket. And even if I had it right now, it's not waterproof. You?"

"Same," my brother sighed, completely desperate. He tried lying on his back and relaxing under the gentle sun but soon he curled himself back into a ball because of the laxatives' effect. It made me guilty a bit but that didn't stop me from laughing.

"Do you need some help?" I jokingly offered him a hand.

"I would appreciate it very much if you went and killed yourself, thank you," he shot back venomously, splashing water into my face.

Pretending to be hurt, I blinked a few times: "But I already did that?"

And it seemed to hit the nail. Gakushuu's glare got a shocked and somewhat regretful vibe. Maybe I shouldn't have said that.

"Just ki-" but before I could finish that, strange shadows started appearing from bellow and I got shivers.

The strawberry blond noticed that as well and clicked his tongue, trying to keep calm.

"Those aren't sharks, right?" I remarked nervously and soon I felt my brother's back on mine. We must have unconscioussly swam to each other.

I heard the older one gulp: "I fucking hope so."

And right after that, a familiarly gray body surfaced from the water, scaring the shit out of both of us. I would have never believed that either me or Gakushuu were capable of making such a high-pitched shriek. But apparently we could. And no one was going to ever know about it.

But it seems our fear was unnecessary. These weren't sharks - those big round black eyes and specific sound it made belonged to a dolphin. Oh they were cute.

"Don't get tricked by their looks, Karma. Dolphins are actually beasts." My brother suddenly declared, his body language showing he was on his guard. But they looked so adorable! Although I did read some unpretty things about them, I just couldn't believe this gullible-looking sweetheart could be dangerous.

One of them nudget me into my cheek with his mouth and then started playing with me. It was such a beautiful and gentle gesture I just couldn't help but play with them all, enjoying it very much.

I glanced at Gakushuu to find him flustered and confused about what to do. The dolphins wanted to play with him too but my stiff brother just had no idea what 'fun' meant.

"Relax, Gaku-nii! They are nice!" I called out and hugged one of the animals as a proof. I couldn't believe this was true - I was playing with dolphins!

He however frowned even more: "Stop acting like a five years old! We need to get back!"

And that's when an idea came to my mind.

"Oh no, you don't-" the class president realized what it was that I thought of.

A mischievous though very excited grin was all it took to make my brother feel in trouble: "Oh yeah, I do."

"No, that's ridiculous." he refused hard didn't manage to look serious with all the dolphins splashing water at him and trying to eat his hair.

"Come on, I have seen people do it. We can ride dolphins too."

"Those people are pros and their dolphins are trained. Besides, where do you want to swim?!" he threw his arms into the air in frustration.

"We can just play around until Nagisa-kun notices. He's quick on these things anyway so I guess it will take about five minutes and we are back onboard." I winked and then grabbed the animal's upper fin. It felt as though it wanted me to pull it because exactly at that moment, it made a delighted sound and started slowly swimming around.

"Karma! Stop, this is dangerous!" My overprotective brother objected, trying to catch me and get me off the dolphin but to no avail. But that was his problem. I was going to enjoy the time I had with the friendly, adorable animals. And if Gakushuu wanted to be rigid and focus on his diarrhea - then I will let him.


Asano's P.O.V.

I. Fucking. Told. Him.

Just a little bit before the tour guide with the students found us and took us back to the boat, Karma got ditched by the dolphins.

And by ditched I meant literally ditched. They threw him off and then swam away in a blink of eye. I suspected they heard the machine and ran away to hide or something but my brother didn't have the chance to think about it since he got splashed onto the water hard.

Before he could drown because of being in shock, I pulled him up: "Stupid! Be more careful!"

But the kid was too heartbroken to listen. Now that I thought about it, Karma has always loved animals. He adored them and felt super happy when in contact with them. So maybe he was upset? No. He was thirteen already, goddamn it. He wouldn't be crying like when he was seven-

He was crying.

"What the fuck?!" I shook his shoulders, very disturbed by the sight of my brother's pained face.

"Why..." he muttered, those big tears falling down his cheeks. He looked sweet, I admit, but he was a juniour high school student, goddamn it. Juniour high schools don't cry when they get abandoned by dolphins.

The few hiccups got me back to the reality. This was really weird. And uncomfortable. I had no idea what to do - scold him for being such a crybaby or cheer him up.

"Stop it, Karma." I tried to say authoritatively but failed when the weeping didn't stop. Damn, he looked pathetic.

"Hey, stop crying." I poked his cheek. Come on,"

"But I wanted to play more-"

"You can play with them later. I will take you to an Aqua world park or something so stop crying." I couldn't bear to look at that ugly face of his anymore. Being sad didn't suit him anymore.

The kid looked up in hope: "Really?"

Sighing, I nodded.

And right after that, we heard the loud motor and the shouts of a few students calling our names.

It was about time


Karma's P.O.V.

I just manipulated my brother into going to an Aqua world park, yay! XD