Well this is the first story that i write so yeah if anyone reads this it would kinda like a miracle tough i doubt its really good anyway... i dont know anyway hope someone reads it =P

Shintaro x Ayano and later on Takane x Haruka. oh and every time i wrote ("something") it means the characters thats it.

i guess if anyone reads this ill make a chapter two =P

The birds were singing outside of his room, it was a sunny day, a beautiful day for going outside.

But there in his room was Shintaro just playing an online game with Takane, this time for a change of pace they decided to play sports games, and they would always end up in a tie of scores, one win for him, one for her, one for him, one for her, over and over again.

"Come on you jerk, next one I am breaking the tie!"

"Okay, okay…"

"We are playing now….. Racing games! Racing games it is!"

"Okay I'm out of soda though so I can't really continue like this just let me go buy some things and ill be back in like an hour, you decide the courses and settings and everything else for now."

"Yeah I'm gonna go buy some snacks too so let's restart when I get back too should take less than you to go buy the things I need."

It had been not that long ago that he started playing online games with Takane, for some reason as long as they were not in the same room together they could get along pretty well and have some healthy competition. Up until now the score was 55 wins for each one in different types of games.

Shintaro grabbed his phone and went to the entrance but before leaving he went to check on Momo to see if she wanted anything from the supermarket, they were alone after all since they mother went on a trip for work.

"Hey Momo I'm going to the supermarket you want anything?"

"O-oni-chan you are going out? And asking me if I want anything? Are you sure you are okay do you have a fever or something you should stay in bed or maybe-"

"Even I go out sometimes too you know…You want anything or not?!"

"Buy me some apple juice then!"

"Okay"

Shintaro stepped outside and felt the heat of the day on his skin.

"ahhhh… I hope I don't pass out…"

"…"

"Sun used sunny day! ... It's very effective! ..."

"Good thing no one heard that"

It was ten am in the morning and Shintaro was tired as hell since he woke up at 7 am today because of Takane, since she couldn't sleep anymore after she woke up at 5 am she called him because she was bored as hell, so that they could play online games together, although it didn't seem like a bad idea to spend the day that way he did feel very tired.

"Dammit Takane why at 7 am tough … anyway…still pretty fun playing videogames with her."

Then a few minutes later Shintaro arrived at the supermarket exhausted from the trial this walk was for him under the raging sun.

"Ah…. Water…. I mean…. Soooodaaaa"

The tired boy's cellphone started to ring

It was Ayano.

They had exchanged phone numbers for a science project they were doing together. Ayano said it would be a good idea to have each other's numbers since they should take some time to make this project really good, because it was pretty important since the pair that got first place would get the chance to take 5 tests for any subject and replace all of their grades with the new ones gotten on the 5 tests. It did seem like something pretty tedious since you would have to take tests again and it didn't feel like a prize at all, but for Shintaro and Ayano it was useful, Ayano wanted to improve any subject's grades and Shintaro his, well… p.e. grades tough he would have to practice anyway so he wasn't that hopeful of improving them.

("Dammit Shintaro keep cool…")

For some reason lately he was pretty nervous around Ayano, maybe it was because of that time he found her crying in the classroom when there was no one there, for some reason he felt really bad inside, as if he couldn't do anything for her, he thought "maybe I should just leave her alone", but he then felt that really wouldn't end up well for her, she always followed him around no matter how boring or tedious was what he was doing, so now he felt it was his time to be there with her even if he couldn't do anything that significant to help her.

So he decided with all his antisocial skills, to go and try to comfort her. Prepare yourself for awkward Shintaro.

"H-hey A-Ayano… a-are you… alright?"

"S-S-Shintaro-kun?"

Ayano quickly started to wipe off her tears, surprised to see Shintaro there.

For the first time Shintaro actually felt so worried for a friend, it was painful to see the cheerful girl crying like that, he really wanted to do something to help her.

"Y-y-you know… you can… tell me or something if you want I'm… not busy or anything today…"

("Yes, freaking nailed that, Kisaragi Shintaro master of comforting people…")

"Thanks Shintaro-kun but I gotta do this alone."

"N-no! You don't have to, I mean… I'm here too you know… before you came in to my life I was always so bored but you always make the most happiest moments from the most simple things in our daily life… so it's my turn to make it better for you too… your life I mean … problems… yeah…"

"Shintaro-kun you are so cute when you are so awkward "

"S-shut up…"

Ayano stood up and hugged Shintaro with all her strength.

"Well then… I'll tell you… since my mother fell really ill my dad has been kind of like… tired you could say… I know he is really worried… but also besides from that he has to worry about my brothers and me… and my grades aren't really improving so he tries to help me but he doesn't really have that much time I wish I could make him feel that he doesn't have to worry about that and also take care of my brothers too… but I don't know how to do it…"

"Then I'll help you, to study and improve your grades, and if you need help with taking care of your brothers maybe I can help too I don't really know how tough…"

"A-are you sure? Isn't it too much of a burden."

"No it is not; look you can rely on me you know"

("Ahhhh this is so embarrassing I can feel my face turning bright red")

"Humm… okay then… I'll rely on you then for this Shintaro-kun, b-but don't go leaving me alone now okay? Hehe..."

"O-okay"

"So yeah…hey my usual partner for science projects said she wanted to do it someone else this time… maybe she got bored of me because of my grades. Think we can do it together?"

"Ah…ehh…y-yeah"

"Then let's exchange numbers so we can keep in contact with the project and call each other to meet outside of school to make it in time for the science festival!"

"Y-yeah I guess so… let's exchange numbers"

("Dammit heart whyyyy are you pounding so hard right now, I bet its because of that shoujo manga I was reading yesterday the scenes were too much like this one, also her face is too close and it's really not helping to calm my heart, come heart slow down !")

"Ahm…S-S-Shintaro-kun?"

"Y-yes?"

"I-i-if y-you don't let go of me I can't really get my phone from my bag"

Ayano was blushing really hard.

Shintaro noticed they had been still hugging each other this whole conversation about the science project and quickly let go of her.

"AH! I'm s-s-sorry I didn't notice!"

"N-nah it's okay I really feel safer when you hug me, even though it's the first time you hug me actually so I just realised that so yeah… I mean…ahhh forget that forget it!"

"O-okay"

"Th-then let's text each other a lot…I mean for the project the project AHH forget that too please"

"Yeah I'll send you a text so that we can meet then too"

"Okay then see you tomorrow again! "

She was smiling like her usual self again.

"Yeah see you tomorrow"

That was a week with a lot of blushing from the two of them good thing it was only one day left since that was a Thursday.

"H-hey Shintaro-kun I was calling you because of the hug- I-I m-mean the science project, project!"

"Ohh yeah when do you want to do that?"

"(Low voice)m-maybe another hug would be good too right now…"

Beep beep. Shintaro got a text message from Takane.

"Wait a second I got a message from Takane"

-Hey Shintaro you idiot I can't continue right away something kinda came up so yeah in the afternoon we continue-

"Haa… that's weird what could have happened to her…"

Since the supermarket was really close to a small arcade Shintaro could hear some shouts from over there.

"Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama!"

"O-o-okay you punks who wants to go first I'll beat you all one by one hahahahaahah!"

"WHOAAAAAA! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama! Ene-sama!"

"W-what the… so that's what happened…anyway"

"Umm Shintaro-kun? Is everything alright?"

"Y-yeah"

"S-s-so…are you busy today? Did you have plans or can we hug- I mean meet! Meet right away?"

"Ah n-no I mean I was just playing some online games with Takane"

"Oh then I don't want to interrupt"

"No I mean not anymore tough, she won't be back till afternoon so I'm free for the rest of the day at least we can continue playing videogames at night anyway when she gets back from her… uhmm…thing"

"Oh okay…then let's meet today! Where are you right now?"

"I'm at the supermarket the one near the arcade, buying some soda and things to eat"

"Then wait for me there I'll get there before you finish buying your stuff!"

"O-okay"

"Bye then!See you in a few minutes

"O-okay I-I'll be waiting here"

Shintaro's face was bright red until he heard some guys talking near him.

"Hey did you hear Ene is in the arcade!"

"Hoooo I want to challenge her to a match then!"

"I think she already beat 15 guys in a row though"

"Let's go before she leaves then quickly!"

Shintaro couldn't help but laugh a little at the situation.

"Seems like she's on fire today"

Shintaro then entered the supermarket to buy the things he went there to buy. First was his soda (obviously) and then Momo's apple juice. He then went to the snack section and bought some chips for the day and for the night for his gaming session with Takane (if she even made it back in time with all those guys asking for a match with her). He then thought about buying something for her she might be tired also because she couldn't really buy anything if she is busy competing with her fans, so he bought extra sodas for her and some juice for Ayano.

Then Shintaro got a text from Ayano.

-hey I'm here already I'll wait for you outside kay? =) -

"…"

Ba-dump, ba-dump.

"Dammit heart not again! C-calm yourself…"

Shintaro then went to the entrance after paying for all of the drinks and snacks he bought to meet Ayano and there she was, waiting for him and at the moment she saw him she started waving at him with a smile as big as his love for soda.

"H-hi Shintaro-kun"

"H-hi"

"B-by the way Shintaro-kun where are we going to do the project?"

"Oh yeah we didn't decide over the phone…"

"Then your house because I want to see your room!"

"W-what, because of that?"

"Also because we shouldn't leave Momo-chan alone so much time, my brothers are fine since dad is at home"

"Y-yeah I guess you are right"

"Oh yeah how is Takane doing by the way?"

"She is fine; she is actually pretty close right now wanna go see her?"

"Really? Okay let's go then!"

Shintaro and Ayano then proceeded to the arcade where Takane was in some kind of game tournament with her fans. It was pretty noisy.

"Hey Taka- I mean Ene-chan!"

"Whoa how did you guys know I was here!?"

"I could hear your fans shouting from as far as the supermarket, here I bought you this I thought you might be thirsty"

"Hey thanks you can actually be pretty nice if you try you see?"

"S-shut up and just drink it"

Then one of the fans went to speak to Takane.

"Ene-sama are these people acquaintances of you?"

"(Whispering) Ene-sama? Hey Shintaro-kun what is this all about is Takane-chan famous?"

"(whispering) Yeah something of the like tough she is famous as Ene not Takane"

"Ahhhh ehhh aaahmmm y-yeah they are y uhhhhmmmm… my comrades! Yeah they are uhhhmmm Shiragi-kun thunder sniper and Taya-chan thunder driver!"

"Ouh crap…" (Shintaro)

"Hehe Taya-chan I like that nickname!" (Ayano)

"N-no you don't know what this mean they are probably gonna think that we are gonna also play with them now and-"

"WHOAA! I never knew Ene-sama had comrades! Would you also please play with us some matches? Are you near as good as Ene-sama?"

"(Whispering) Pssst guys just go with it for now please so that we can actually get outta here already okay?" (Takane)

"Hahahahaha of course we will play you but in an official tournament! How does that sound to you all huh?" (Takane)

"WHOAAA! A tournament with Ene-sama and her comrades? Is Konoha-sama gonna be there too?"

"Y-yeah of course he's going to be there as well hahahaha so prepare yourself we will discuss the location and games in the blog we usually use okay?"

"YEAAAHHH!"

After all the ruckus the three of them were finally able to leave.

"Ahhhh sorry guys for dragging you along but I just couldn't think of another way to finally get outta there today… so Shintaro you teach Ayano how to play racing games since I said she was thunder driver and you and me will be playing shooters like always since it's our speciality and I'll see what type of game Haruka will be playing okay?"

"O-oi but when are gonna do it then we have to meet for this kind of thing" (Shintaro)

"Then let's make a club at school we can meet in Takane's and Haruka's classroom after classes anyway nobody else uses that class" (Ayano)

"A-Ayano you are okay with this? Have you ever played any racing games before?"

"None! But Shintaro-kun can teach me right?"

Shintaro could not say no to those adorable puppy eyes.

"O-okay then I'll teach you then… Takane try not to make it too soon so that the four of us can meet plenty of times before the tournament"

"Y-yeah leave that to me! Well then see you guys! So Shintaro, we will continue our gaming session today as practice for the tournament okay!? Put Ayano also on your side today on a match against me so that she can experience firsthand how a real match feels online okay? Ahh but don't be a jerk like always if she loses okay? Bye then!"

Takane then left running to her house.

"…"

"She looks a lot happier than usual" (Ayano)

"Yeah every time it's about videogames her personality changes a lot and she is way happier" (Shintaro)

"A-anyway shall we go now we have a lot of things to prepare for the project and also for the tournament right?"

"Y-yeah you are right"

Then the two of them headed to Shintaro's home. The walk was pretty awkward at first but then ayano started talking.

"Hehe Shiragi-kun thunder sniper… it's a cute nickname don't you think so?"

"S-shut up… Taya-chan…"

"Don't forget the thunder driver part!" said Ayano with a smile while doing a pose as if she was driving a car.

She's so cute thought Shintaro to himself. He could feel his face starting to blush a little.

"A-anyway remember you won't be driving a real car tough it's gonna be with a controller"

"L-like this?" Ayano put her hands mimicking a remote control of a TV.

"Ahh… no not quite I'll teach you when we get home okay?"

"Okay!"

"You look happy"

"Of course I get to be with you more time and with Takane and Haruka too"

"Y-yeah you are right tough it could be a little noisy at times in the tournament you know, "Ene" has a lot of fans, and I mean a lot of them, tons of them"

"Haha I never knew Takane-chan was that famous among gamers"

"Yeah its freaking ridiculous how many fans she has"

"So do you think we can win?"

"I guess if we have Takane it is always like a triumph card so yeah but it's the four of us so I don't really know for sure, one thing is for sure tough Takane is the best among us"

"But you beat her once remember at the gaming booth"

"Y-yeah but she is way better now at some games that I am not"

"Oh I see… I have to participate in racing games right, are those difficult?"

"Actually yeah… kinda really hard sometimes if you are against experienced people"

"T-then y-you will have to teach a lot of days then… can we me-meet of-often?"

"Ahhh ahh ehh y-y-yeah of course"

Both of them were blushing really hard now.

"Finally we arrived I'm dying from the heat outside already"

"Oh come on its not that bad"

They entered Shintaro's house and left the bags of soda's, juice and snacks on the table of the dining room before Shintaro went to hand Momo the juice she requested him to buy.

"Hey Momo I brought the orange juice that you wanted!"

"AAhhhh! Oni-chan I told you I wanted apple juice not orange juice!"

Momo came downstairs to get the juice from Shintaro while making a face of disgust over the juice.

"I know dummy I was just teasing you, here, your apple juice"

"Oh thanks- hey who is that?"

"Ah oh yeah she is Ayano a friend we are doing a science project together for school"

"H-hi I'm Ayano Tateyama nice too meet you"

"F-F-F-F-Friend?" (Momo)

"O-Oni-chan has a friend? And also a girl? Science project?!" (Momo)

"H-hey even I have friends you know" (Shintaro)

"A-anyway, nice to meet you Ayano-san" (Momo)

"Well we will be here doing the project or what we can for now at least so if you need something you can come here"

"… Oni-chan you seem way nicer than usual! Okay I'll be in my room watching some TV"

"Your sister is pretty cute Shintaro-kun"

"Yeah she is really annoying too you know"

"Haha that's not true she is pretty nice"

"Anyway let's start doing the project"

"O-okay look here… intellectual mode on!" Ayano pulled out a pair of glasses from her bag and put them on while pulling them up with her right hand.

Shintaro had to cover his face with his hands to cover all the blushing at that moment.

("Nope, she is too cute, too cute, way too cute, too much right now, cuteness overload, emergency I repeat cuteness overload")

"Y-you okay Shintaro-kun?"

"Y-yeah I'm fine …"

"O-okay, well actually last week I discovered that I kind of have slight bad eyesight so have to use glasses while reading books or things like that such as computer screens but any other moment it's not necessary"

("Great now it's gonna be every day we meet to study or practice for the gaming tournament")

"A-anyway let's think what kind of project we can do for the science festival"

"Okay!"

They sat down in the couch while talking about what kind of project they could do but without much of a conclusion they gave up in the end because their ideas were too complicated to get the materials or either were too simple.

"You know what let's ask a teacher better, I think I would be a better idea so that we can have an idea of what is simple to do but not to simple so that we can actually get top 5, because if we can't get the materials there's no point in choosing something we won't be able to make in time and I don't really know the prices for the materials of the projects I had in mind either"

"Y-yeah you are right then next time you come to my house and we can ask my dad hat could be like not that expensive but cool to make too"

"Y-yeah sounds good to me"

"Okay let's not lose any more time, start practice for the tournament we can't let Ene-chan down right we have to win as a team!"

"E-Ene-chan?"

"That's Takane's nickname right, or did I say it wrong?"

"N-no I just wasn't expecting you to call her Ene "

"We have to use our nicknames Shiragi-kun since Takane-chan gave them to us with all her love"

"I don't think it was exactly love as much as getting out of there as soon as she could so that she could go home already"

"But it's like we are the red thunders!"

"Huhh!?"

"Because you always wear your red jacket and I always wear my red scarf, and Takane gave us both the name thunder in our nicknames so we are the red thunders!"

"This is so embarrassing… let's just go and practice"

"Yay lets go Shiragi red thunder!"

"Uhh…"

They both entered Shintaro's room Ayano following him from behind and blushing a little, she still couldn't get that hug out of her mind.

"S-so this is your room Shintaro-kun… it's pretty cool I like it a lot"

"Where did the nickname go Taya-chan?"

"Oh yeah sorry Shiragi-kun!"

"Okay here this is the controller for the gaming console I'm gonna start the game and you will be in a race with me and 6 more cars that are gonna be the computer a.i. okay?"

"Okay! Ready whenever you need me to be!"

"Okay look this are the controls for the game, I'm gonna tell you which button you have to press to do each things in the game okay?"

("I never felt so nervous while playing a video game my heart is pounding extremely hard again goddammit not again heart seriously calm yourself already")

"O-okay I got it!"

"You sure you remember all of the controls?"

"Yes!"

"O-okay then let's start the race you are the red car and I'm the grey one, this is just like a normal race going from start to finish, there are no laps"

"Okay Shiragi-kun shows me your skills!"

They started the race and Ayano crushed into the wall right away but then started going after backing up and accelerating again. Shintaro was first right away after passing all the other competitors that were a.i. from the game. Ayano would always lean to one side every time she took a turn in the race and Shintaro would always blush when she leaned closer to him. After 2 minutes he noticed Ayano had passed two cars already and was sixth in the race. She was doing pretty well then it could be easier to train her for the tournament. After a few seconds Ayano was fifth and then fourth right away.

"Hey you are doing pretty well"

"Thanks Red-Thunder!"

"Huh huh"

Final standings in the race were: Shintaro first, computer1 second, Ayano third, computer3 fourth and so on until the eight which was also computer a.i.

"Okay you did pretty well actually for it to be the first time you are playing this game"

"Yeah I got praised by red thunder Shiragi-kun!"

"AAhhh seriously stop that it's so embarrassing!"

"Hehe lets go again shall we partner?"

"Okay let me just choose another map and another type of race, this time will be… okay with 3 laps you know what to do pass the finish line 3 times don't forget the race doesn't finish until you pass the finish line 3 times"

"I know!"

The race started and Ayano started pretty well without crashing into a wall this time. She was second the first minute but then she caught up to Shintaro and they were both first until the final lap.

"What the…" (Shintaro)

"Hey I'm second but just behind you I'm doing well right? Whooo take this!"

Ayano tried to tackle on of the computer a.i. but instead ended up tackling Shintaro's car and making him crush into a wall.

"H-hey what was that for!?"

"Ups sorry Shintaro-kun I was trying to do what I saw you do the last race against the computer!"

Final standings in the race: Ayano first, Comp2 second, Shintaro third, and so on up until the eight spot.

"…"

"I-I won right?"

"Y-yeah, actually you dominated the race…"

"So does that mean I'm good at this?" Ayano asked Shintaro with her eyes full of happiness.

"Y-yeah you are way better than just good" ("How the hell did she get so good if it's the first time she is playing this game")

"Thank you Shintaro-kun!"

Ayano then hugged Shintaro out of pure happiness from winning the race.

"W-why are you thanking me I didn't do anything you won the race"

"But you are the one who taught me how to play Shintaro-kun!"

"T-that's not really anything… let's just continue practicing for now the tournament won't be this easy we have to be prepared and I'm sure if its Takane its going to be pretty noisy and with lots of different gamers so you have to be able to compete in different type of races"

"Okay then let's continue training"

"Y-yeah… but I can't get the controller if you don't let go of me"

"Oh s-s-s-sorry Shintaro-kun I-I was too happy I'm not really good at that many things after all s-s-s-so"

"N-no I a-a-actually don't really m-m-mind tough"

"Hehe it's just like last time right? … (Low voice) I feel safer if I'm with you you know…"

"I-Is that s-so…"

"Heh! You heard that? I said that out loud!?"

"Y-yeah the part about feeling saf-"

"AAAHHH forget that toooo pleaseeee…this is so embarrassing… I'm going to the bathroom a little wait for me for the next race!"

Ayano's face was bright red just as Shintaro's face was also like a tomato.

"Dammit… cuteness overload again…"

"Well Takane's gonna be surprised when she plays against Ayano tough, let's see who wins that match"

Shintaro and Ayano continued practicing that afternoon.

Thats it for the first chapter n.n i hope you liked this if anyone reads it that is obviously =P