Awww they're friends! Wibble, wibble. _ Their discussion of what they should call each other was very cute. And they run together! That's awesome. Makes me actually want to start running.

Hahaha, no.

But anyway. Glad that they're progressing. One thing was that the chapter started off super slow, even though it was the whole reveal of the whole running-thing. Just, all the extraneous information about the scenery and the other people and basically Oshitari's entire thought-process. I didn't really need all of it, and it distracted from the coolness of the whole scenario.

Still, though. Super excited to see where you're going with this! :D

Her obsession with etiquette is funny

I have no idea how "this" between them will turn into a friendship or something more. :D

Please update soon!

Ahh, that cleared quite a bit up! I especially loved the last part; the whole exchange on what they should call each other was very cute 3 Can't wait til the next chapter!

Sorry. So late review. I really had no time to sit and write a good comment. :(

It reminds me the moment I've met my boyfriend. It was some competition in my school about fantasy books. People who've read (optionally watched movies) all books of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Narnia could participate. It had couple tours and there were many questions. I participated in it and so did he. Earlier I didn't really know him. A year older than me with hair a way too long and even thought he had good grades and teachers liked him he spent every free moment with his classmates laughing and joking. As you can imagine back them people who were laughing on pauses instead of revising before classes were stupid for me. ;) I didn't really know but I was enough childish to "know" I don't like him. On this contest somehow I always ended up next to him - doesn't matter if we were standing waiting for questions or sitting. Of course I tried to ignore him with all my might. I was even a little rude to discourage him but no, he still was talking to me. *laugh* There was one time when some girl his age was staring at us for a long moment and said loudly "Sth is definitely happening between you two." I blushed and said sth that there is no way for me to have anything in common with a guy like him. She smirked knowingly and he laughed. Now I also laugh when I think about it. :) But back then I was really angry. And it didn't really help when I realized he is the only one who can actually beat me and win this competition. In the end I've won but I couldn't feel as a winner coz he was also happy and congratulated me - for me this competition was a serious matter, for him only a way to have fun. Contest was ended but he still was getting terribly on my nerves talking to me on pauses or when I was waiting in long queue in school cafeteria to buy myself snack I loved when suddenly he appeared in front of me and gave it to me with a big grin and said: "I knew you wanted to buy it so don't wait here anymore." I was angry, embarrassed and there was no way he would accept money. Now when I think of it I must say I was so stupid back then. I don't know when and how exactly but one day I tried to do some make up before school (sth new besides foundation cream) and find it nice. I started to get angry when we was not in school or ignored me in the corridors. I realized I prefer guys with longer thick hair and despise shaven ones. I guess when he realized I matured not long time passed and I had no time to revise before classes. I remember I felt like I was flying when he screamed to his friend openly in the corridor "Wait, I have to tell sth to my girlfriend!" Stupid, right? *laugh* It was two years ago and now when I stopped being so idiotically strict and perfect I can fell pity for myself even more. Thanks to him I learnt how much I love going to the cinema (I rarely miss any movie) and doing different things than studying and reading books. ;)

Sorry for this long story. I'm not talkative about private things but reading about Akiko makes me compare her life to mine from the past.

I've overslept only once in all my school career and when I woke up I had less than a half hour to make myself ready and be on time for a math exam (last one in a school year). I haven't eaten any breakfast. Good thing I take shower every evening means I was clean and my hair perfectly fresh. And I also prepared elegant black dress I wear for exams so it was a matter of 20 minutes to make myself ready with make up and everything. But I wouldn't be able to walk (even less run) with high heels. When I was getting ready I called my uncle and he had to drive me to school. I was right on time but my class still noticed it's not like me to be so late. "

Ouch. I feel really sad for poor Yuushi and have terrible deja vu I was not really better for my boyfriend at the beginning when I was still thinking like a brat. _

? Who is that girl? I mean this one from water battle? Does she has any deeper meaning in this story?

I like your sense of humour and funny moments you added in Atobe talking about Oshitari and this moment when Kisaichi-sensei entered infirmary with "a bottle of tea". ;)

Ahahaha! You know, when I was writing this review I was reading Chapter 5 in parts so when I started writing I had no idea how it will end. I started to laugh when I read about Yuushi bringing her food. ;D

But Yuushi named it well. It truly is "commoner food". I can't picture Atobe eating any burger food with fries and drink in can. *hard laugh*

Still have to comment your 6th chapter. As I'm angry at myself for forgetting about this story for so long I'm a little happy I will be able to read new chapter without waiting. ;) If I will be lucky you will add new one soon and I will have two more to read. :)

'I jog with you every morning.'

How come Akiko doesn't notice Oshitari? Next chapter please! First time to read this fic and I wanna read more! Good job. :)

Ending chapters randomly is the story of my lifeeeee. XD

So dude I don't even know where to begin. Um. Okay. First of all, being the only unpaired/ungrouped person is the WORST. People look at you like you're a leper. You feel like you're the sole population of an island of loserdom, staring out at a sea of pity and derision... But yeah. Anyway. You nailed that feeling.

So this Hayashi girl. I'm wondering why she wants to be Akiko's BFF. 'Cause apparently Oshitari didn't actually ask her to berfriend Akiko, and she seems too nice to actually have it out for Akiko because Oshitari likes her (right?). Then again, she might be a super good actress. Or hoping Akiko's Oshitari-likability rubs off on her?

But anyway. Loved Oshitari's concern for Akiko. Also loved that she asserted her independence and whatnot. Though I do so wish she'd be nicer to him. Sadface.

... I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone use "invigorating" in conversation either. XD

And then Oshitari intervening for her again. Great how he called her out on vomiting up a thesaurus when she's uncomfortable/unsure. But man, Akiko holds a grudge! It doesn't really seem unrealistic, though. Like, you just get that one little thing that defines the start of your relationship with a person, and if you don't nip it in the bud, it snowballs and consumes you and becomes a big reason that you can't get over. Or something.

YES AKIKO REFLECT ON HOW MUCH EFFORT OSHITARI PUT INTO THE BOOKCOVER YES.

And then. "I just with you every morning." WHAT? That broke my brain. Does he just mean he's noticed that they jog at the same place and time every morning? And that he purposely synchs his schedule to hers? And that he watches her while she jogs? And then follows her into the - nevermind. Can't wait for his clarification on this.

Fantastic chapter. :D

'I jog with you every morning.'

...what

AND THE BRAIN DAMAGE

...I don't to know what Kisashi sensei was doing. o_o

Akiko really thinks big, doesn't she? In terms of the excuse of one day's tardiness leading to the "destablisation of society as she knew it." XD Love it.

So Oshitari likes Akiko - or is, at least, veryyyy interested in her. Will we find out why that is soon? Like, some event in the past that he remembers but she doesn't? Because it's hard to justify the level of attention he gives her when all she does is snipe at him. Even considering the "she's the only girl that doesn't fawn over me" sort of reason. Not gonna lie, I'd take fawning over bitchiness any day.

I do like that, again, she catches herself on her bad manners, and is big enough to apologize. I did feel that Oshitari is being extremely generous in not even seeing an apology as necessary. He's like, head over heels. XD

One thing that does bother me is there will be like, paragraphs with three words, and then there will be these giant six-line long ones. I automatically skim the latter, and then have to reread over and over just so I can pick up on the fantastic humor you embed in them. Try to break 'em up more?

But yeah. No idea about the "append" thing, sorry. Reallyyyyy looking forward to a new chapter. Thanks for sharing this one! :D

Late late review, whatttt.

I'm glad Oshitari ignoring Akiko kind of stings her, and that she feels empathy for people she'd previously scorned when she knocks over her pencil case. It makes me feel empathy for HER. (:

Handsomeness is so a criterion for Hyotei's tennis team. It has to be. I like that Akiko is a runner, and that Oshitari is as well, and that it gives them something to bondddd over. The bit about his running being beautiful made me :D. And the part about him looking at her with his jersey half-on made me giggle.

He made her a book cover d'awwwwww. And he asks her if she'll accept it... I never thought Oshitari could be ADORABLE.

Akiko's interaction with Atobe was also adorable. As was Oshitari's maybe-kind-of-just-slightly-jealous behavior? Or whatever it was. _

This definitely took a way longer that I promised I will review this chapter. Sorry. "

Great idea with Yuushi ignoring her - for the first time in her entire life she fells bad that someone ignores her - especially when it's a guy who she apparently wanted to be ignored by. ;) She is not happy he ignored her and doesn't understand why she feels that way. ;) This is exactly what I wanted her to experience. Really well done!

And the scene with her pencil case is so cute - the way she blushed and Oshitari's glance at her. ;) Great little addiction.

Next thing is her running ability.

I don't know if it's some kind of my fetish or sth but I always wanted a handsome guys to be paired with nice looking girl. I'm sick of fanfics where a popular, good-looking guy is paired with ugly OC. She doesn't has to be a beauty or anything. Really. I just want her to look in a way that guys will find her attractive and what will not let other girls to complain "What a guy like him is doing with a nasty girl like her!" I've read couple stories Yuushi x OC and it's the first one when a girl is normal. I mean, all those authors forgot about the most important thing about him: Oshitari loves girls with beautiful legs! It's the best known thing about his tendencies and they still made their OC look plain: short and pathetic in sport. Akiko is normal, strict and unsociable but she still looks good. And the fact that you made her run everyday is perfect! It means she is not a sport loser and her legs must look really nice because of running so they are perfectly to his liking.

Not that I despise people who are bad in sports or anything. ;) Personally I also love such things. You see, when I've read this part about her running I almost laughed to myself coz this story is more and more like you're describing me from the past. ;) In the past as if now I'm running everyday before school (which everybody: my entire family and people from school consider a total madness) and I regularly swim (which is considered by my grandma a suicide and I can often hear a talk "You are such normal girl. I can't understand how such insanity came to your head. Going outside with wet hair! God, you are killing yourself!) ;) But I'm terribly stubborn if it comes to things I do everyday or regular basis. I everyday run and I also watch couple minutes of voiceless movie (I find them pretty boring but I know if I watch many of them this knowledge may be handy in the future in some conversation so I'm forcing myself ).

I wish I could read about running in three-legged race with Oshitari but I know it's to early and it'd be too much for her. ;)

I love your description of her feeling when she watched running Oshitari. I'm really glad she admitted he looks amazing and not only that she was even mesmerized watching him. :) I would feel sad if you make her act cheap refusing to accept how extraordinary he is. There are people who would always lie to themselves which I don't like.

"... Oshitari looked over, with bottled water in one hand and his Hyoutei regular jersey half on"

Yes, I definitely have some fetish coz I've read this sentence about 100 times already. *laugh* I can't help myself from imagining him like that. ;D

"... But we're not going to win,' he added with a dramatic sigh. '3-B is ahead, which means that Atobe will be completely insufferable at practice next week."

:) :) *laugh* I love when you add amusing things like that. :)

It's good she is aware that Oshitari wasn't the only one who was wrong and she is not holding a meaningless grudge. It'd make things much harder if she was this type of person who thinks:

"I am the best. I'm always right. He is the one who is wrong." Etcetera.

"Thank you,' she responded, repeating her early comment, but this time she smiled, just a little, ... Turning her head back around to face her classmate, she noticed him staring at her. 'What is it?"

This is this little romantic accent I really wanted to see. :) It;s so nice. And not the only one in this chapter. :) :)

You couldn't think better than putting her together with Atobe and make them dance together. It shows that she definitely wouldn't be interested in him and gives another opportunity to talk and think about Oshitari - only thinking about him more and more can be helpful.

She smiled despite herself while talking with him and I can only hope she can react like that more often in the future - normally Akiko would ignore him.

He heard couple things of her? You mean, he heard it from Oshitari or it was about Oshitari spending time with her?

I laugh loudly every time I read paragraph when she is glad she is tall. ;D

And another one about Mukahi's fingernails is also hilarious. ;)

It's some kind of perversion but I'm glad you made Atobe look like that. I mean, a narcissus who is doing his fingernails and uses too many cosmetics. ;) Indeed, he is like that. I guess in the future he will become more manly. ;) I also wouldn't like a guy like him - I never liked a guy because of his look. To make it worse, if a guy is really handsome and pays a close attention to every detail of his look I will not like him for sure. One of my classmates is still angry at me. You see, when she brought her boyfriend to school once, I didn't know how he looks like. I only knew she thought she is very lucky to have such guy for herself. When I saw him - I heard from others that - I unwittingly twitched with disgust. She saw that (technically all people around us saw that). But I couldn't do anything else. :( Hair stood on gel (I find gel on man's hair repulsive!); 3 or 4 chains on his neck (he looked like a cheap yakuza!); widely parted shirt; hair on his chest, hands and legs was ALL shaven (I don't like even thinking about guys who look like bears with hairs everywhere but I can't stand a unmanlike guy with smooth baby skin - _ -); black glasses and couple earrings in every ear. Ah, and this tan of his. : / Yuck! This guy definitely must be a frequent visitor of solarium. I don't agree with girls who use it too often and a guy? How this girl could expect I will be impressed seeing such pathetic effeminate guy wouldn't touch this individual even with a very long stick and if he was my cousin or sth I wouldn't show with him between people. I truly can't understand girls who love guys like him. I know I'm rude but I even pity them they're that easy to satisfy. That's why I can only hope Atobe who in fact is one of my fav heroes is still a brat and will bet more manly in the future. And this is also a reason Oshitari, not Atobe is my number one. ;) I love guys like him - tall with long hair, glasses and being playful but serious at the same time.

He was looking at her and she couldn't turn her head away. ;) This is another romantic accent I was talking about earlier which I also really like. :)

I hope there will be time he will learn that she wrote both of their names on the book cover. :)

Reading my every review I must probably sound more and more like Akiko for you, right? Believe me or not but at some points I'm trying to stop myself from criticizing more I'd like to (like this bf of my classmate). But if you had met me two years ago my way of thinking and opinions were much narrower. :) I changed and it's not because I'm older and smarter or sth. Nope, I owe it all to my boyfriend who showed me I don't have to try to be perfect in everybody's eyes and how to take things more easy I did in the past. Not to mention that I always thought kissing is gross and was expressing this opinion openly which made my peers to make fun of me (I am not proud of the way I was but can't take it back).

Thank you for this chapter! :)

Hope you will find some free time to write new one soon. ;) But I understand you may have no time. I also was that busy it took me couple days before I got time to sit down and write this review. :(

Can't wait to read what you planned next for Yuushi and Akiko. ;)

It's that long I have no time to check it. Have to leave now. Sorry in advance for all errors in spellings you will find.

good story so far! Can't wait to see where else you are going to go with this. And I like Akiko. And the two senseis :)

The reading salon was totally cool. Way to incorporate it. (:

I like that Akiko acknowledged one of her comments was kind of offensive, and I like how Oshitari just laughed it off, and the note about his weird chuckle thing.

Ohtori! :D He's such a cutiepie. Sadface that Akiko doesn't like him. Good on Oshitari for calling her out on it, though. Glad Akiko noticed the hypocrisy of it, on the other hand.

The bit about pretending Oshitari was a foreigner was great. XD

Thanks for updating. (:

There is a typo in ch1. Die, I think is supposed to be dice.

Sorry. It's a bit later than I thought but couldn't write it earlier. I came back from school and after all main duties were done I still had to read this story coz I couldn't write anything if it wasn't fresh in my head.

I still could see myself in this story. When I was reading it I felt more and more sad how pitiful I was in the past. This is exactly how I was acting and this is also how I would probably act in this kind of situation. That's why this story is somehow special to me.

I also was in similar situation when I was badmouthing my teacher and had no idea she was standing behind me hidden a bookshelf. But I was complaining her handwriting is terrible, even little kids write prettier and how the hell does she expect from us to learn if we spend most time of the lesson trying to read what is written on the board. I didn't sound very rude but I was still terribly embarrassed when she suddenly stood beside me with a smirk and said "Said pot to the kettle. Your flourishing handwriting isn't easy to read either, young lady." There was moment of silence and she started to laugh. Luckily she had sense of humour - if it was some different teacher I would be doomed. But since that time whenever I have sth against anybody I keep it to myself when I am in public place. "

Hope Oshitari is gonna surprise her and give her a cover made by him. And at the beginning she will refuse to accept it, of course.

Somehow I love sport day in Japanese schools. After watching many anime and reading hundreds of manga I know sth good always happen on that day. Hope this time will not be an exception. After all, after reading this chapter I feel really sorry for Yuushi - she does not make his life easy. And to put it mildly he wasn't in good mood when she simply chased him away from the infirmary (no one would be). He is too smart to not notice she was not busy and simply wants to get rid of him.

That's why I hope sth good really is gonna happen on sport day.

If it comes to Choutarou I think she just have to tell Oshitari what is on her chest. Honest conversation with him really should help her.

Can't wait to read next chapter. :) Hope I won't to have long. But take your time and make is as good and long as previous ones.

A sport day gives you many possibilities. I wish there will be sth maybe not sweet but at least sth what shows that Oshitari really affect her and makes her change her attitude towards him.