Hello! I've been working really hard on this story! It takes place before the girls have wen't to Nico's house, but after season one. Thank you for understanding! By the way, Honoka is a little OOC in this story, but she is NOT the antagonist! In fact, it's someone outside the group! Thank you for understanding, and for thinking of reading my story! Favorites, Follows, and Reviews are very appreciated!

By the way, there's a little bit of self hatred with Nico in this story, but there's perfect reasoning for that we will get to in chapter three or so! If you're sensitive to that, please be mindful that it takes place in only this chapter, but is mentioned later on as well! Thank you, and I hope you enjoy!

"Alright everyone! I have a proposal." Honoka, the leader of their idol group called out in the club room one day, "I know that we have all hung out separately and such, but I think we need to have more of an emotional bond between the people who aren't very close to each other!"

Everyone looked at her, with confusion on their face.

"Honoka, what are you talking about? We're all really close to each other." Umi spoke, saying what everyone was thinking.

"Well, Umi, lemme explain." She turned around and started drawing on the chalkboard behind her.

Everyone stared at her back while she was drawing, wondering what on earth she could be trying to attempt. She used the entirety of the board, letting the chalk glide mindlessly into shapes, which eventually turned into people. After a couple of minutes she stepped away from the board.

"So, basically, everyone knows how close Umi, Kotori, and I are, right?" She said, looking over everyone nodding, "As well as all the first years, and all the third years, yeah?" Everyone mumbled a small 'yes', "Well, I was thinking, let's mix it up! So, basically, I have a chart here with people who need to become closer to each other!"

Everyone sighed, but Honoka still pulled out the chart, "Umi and Hanayo, Nozomi and Kotori, Maki and Nico, and lasty, since there's an odd number, Rin, Me and Eli!"

The people grouped together looked at each other, and smiled.

Well, all except Nico and Maki.

"Can I get swapped?" Maki asked.

"Yeah, can she?" Nico asked as well.

Honoka laughed, "No, this is official. Besides, it would be unfair. Then the relationship between each person in their specific grades would be messed up. We can't have two people from the same year in the same group, you know."

Maki sat back in her chair and put her hands over her face, and Nico looked offended, "But- but we can't- we can't be with each other constantly, at the end of this, we'll need a restraining order against each other!"

Honoka shrugged, "Rules are rules, ladies."

Nico groaned and fell back into her chair, accepting her fate. The rest of the group looked at them, wondering where all that drama was coming from.

"But, anyway, girls!" Everyone's eyes went back up to Honoka, "So, I took the liberty in asking all of your parents during a private time if it would be okay if you guys could stay at each others houses for a month and a half and all of them humbly agreed. So, you're all forced into this by your parents as well, isn't that great?"

The room fell silent. Everyone was looking at Honoka with stunned expressions on their faces.

"A month and a half!?" Hanayo asked, looking slightly afraid.

Honoka just nodded, smiling back at the younger girl.

Nico raised her hand, "But- but wait. Who's staying at who's house?"

"Good question Nico! Umi will be staying with Hanayo, Kotori will be staying with Nozomi, Maki will be staying with you, and us three will be staying with Eli." Honoka replied, with a smile on her face.

"But- I can't do that! I have siblings who look to me as their mom since mine is always working- I can't have someone else that I need to take care of in my house!"

"Just think of her as another mom, then. You guys can work together!"

Maki looked stunned, as well as Nico, while everyone in their groups were talking with each other, discussing plans for the time they were together. While everyone was excited, Maki looked over at Nico, and sighed. Yeah, this was going to be painful. She groaned and stood up, walking out into the hallway.

"I'm just getting water, okay?" She yelled back into the room before leaving once more.

She walked into the girls room and splashed her face with water. She looked at herself in the mirror, and sighed. She's going to have to do this, and she's going to have to do this for over a month. Why was this all of a sudden happening? Did god just want revenge on her or something? Does Honoka have a secret hatred for her? Why does the world want to put her through this pain?

"I can see you're not happy about this."

Maki turned towards the bathrooms entrance and saw Eli standing there, smiling.

"Oh gee, how did you know?" Maki replied sarcastically.

"I've seen you guys in the BiBi rehearsals. You guys can't stand each other, I'm surprised we get anything done." She said, looking at herself in the mirror.

Maki sighed, "Do you think we'll get out without killing each other?"

Eli nodded, "Probably. I think that you guys will get out." She stared at Maki one last time, "Perhaps…" She laughed and walked out the door.

Maki watched her leave. Perhaps what? She thought before leaving the bathroom and going back to the club room.

The rest of the day was uneventful. It was as always planned. They practiced their singing, did some exercises, and wrote out some more dance moves, as well as practiced them. But the hype was distracting everyone from the normal practice. Everyone was talking about it, except the two that weren't fond of the idea. At the end of the day, when everything was coming to an end, everything was just beginning to start.

All the groups were parting ways with each other, until the last two girls were standing there, in front of the entrance to the school. They were looking at each other, with no expressions on their faces. Both of them expectant and a bit excited about this new thing that Honoka had set up. This went on for several minutes, until Maki spoke up, breaking the silence.

"Are you just going to keep staring at me, or are we actually going to leave?"

Nico smirked, "Since when have you wanted to go to my house so bad?"

Maki just glared at her, and Nico glared back, giving an expectant smile. Maki rolled her eyes, "No, I just don't want to be stuck at this school more than I have to."

"If I were you, I'd cherish it. You don't know what you have until it's gone." Nico looked around the school one last time before shaking her head and turning out the door, "Come on, I can't be late to make dinner."

Maki followed behind her, twirling the edge of her hair with her finger. They walked out of the school grounds in silence, and all the way to the train station in silence. The whole situation was unnecessary, and neither of them wanted to do it. How the other girls managed to comply so willingly, they had no idea. Apparently, all of the girls had a 'strong emotional bond' as Honoka put it. As ridiculous as it sounds, it was probably true. Maki wasn't very close to anyone, so she didn't really find it necessary to have this 'bonding' thing. If Honoka really even cared, she would've had a group thing. This was definitely a weird hatred situation.

Right?

As the got to the train station, Maki stopped in her tracks, and Nico turned around, with a confused look, "What? Afraid you left your train card in your locker?"

Maki shook her head, "I don't even have a card, I've never taken the train before."

Nico raised an eyebrow, "So?"

Maki gave an annoyed expression at Nico for not having the common sense to realize what she meant, "I can't take the train, obviously."

Nico groaned, "Just buy a card! It's not brain surgery, Maki."

Maki looked uneasy at the idea of using her credit card, it was marked only for emergency. "Would you consider this an emergency?"

Nico shrugged, "A little bit? I mean, we need to get home as soon as possible so I can make dinner-"

"That's all I need. I'll go get the card now." Maki cut Nico off and walked over to the place where you buy the cards.

Nico watched her leave, already annoyed with her. Why did that girl just push all of her buttons!? It's like she's doing it on purpose- and enjoying it. That girl just didn't have any care in the world, did she? The only thing she cares about is being a bitch all the time. God, if Nico wasn't such a good person she would've punched her already.

Maki walked back carelessly, and stepped through the terminal, "You're the one who said to hurry up, Nico."

Nico snapped out of her daze by the sound of Maki's voice and huffed in annoyance before turning into the terminal and walking alongside Maki. They both stayed silent, equally annoyed at each other, until they reached the divider between trains. Maki followed Nico as she turned into the Akiba station terminal.

Maki looked at Nico with surprise on her face, "You live in Akiba?"

Nico nodded, "What to it? It's where I can afford to live."

Maki looked away, "Nothing, it's just surprising. I wouldn't have ever thought that you lived in such a busy city."

Nico shrugged and waited for the train to arrive. Maki stood a little ways behind her, rolling her eyes from Nico shrug. She began tapping her foot in impatience, taking a deep breath and sighing. She glanced at the board, noticing that the train wasn't arriving for another seven minutes. Her eye twitched, and she groaned, walking past Nico and making her way to the nearest seating area.

Nico watched her walk by her, "What are you doing?"

"Going to rob a bank, of course. What do you think?" Maki replied sarcastically.

Nico gave an annoyed expression and looked back at the train tracks, ignoring Maki's sarcastic comment.

Maki smirked at her little victory about bothering Nico, "I mean, we have a couple to wait, why not sit? It seems like the most logical thing," Nico turned around at her, and she just gave a calm smirk, "Don't you think?"

Nico tensed up, and turned away again, murmuring to herself. Maki had to hold in a laugh, it was so funny annoying the other girl the way that she did. It was the only joy she got out of being stuck with Nico, and she was pretty sure Nico just accepted it so that she could get through this. Smiling at the thought, she glanced up at the board to notice that her train should be the next one to arrive. She gathered her stuff, and walked back to her previous position.

The train arrived not long after that. The door stopped some-what in front of the two girls so they didn't have to walk very far. As the doors slid open, Nico walked in there as fast as she could without it being considered running. Maki followed calmly behind her, sitting next to her in the only two seats they were able to find. Nico quickly pulled out her phone to avoid any awkward conversations, put in her headphones, and listened to any song her phone put on shuffle. She tapped her finger along to the beat as she stared out the window of the car.

Maki threw her head back and looked at the ceiling of the car, listening carefully at Nico's beat. She closed her eyes, letting melodies flow through her head to the beat of her fingers. Unknowingly, she began to hum a tune that would go along with the beat. Her fingers played the piano chords to go along with the notes she was producing with her mouth.

A few people started turning their heads towards the two girls, hearing Maki's precise notes to Nico's beat with her fingers. The beat was tough to match with a new song easily, and Nico wasn't letting it up at all by tapping her fingers in the way her feet would go if she were playing Dance Dance Revolution on Expert mode, her fingers were tapping at the speed of light. Maki didn't match the beat perfectly most of the time, but she matched it well enough with the small improvisation they were creating unknowingly.

At this point a small group of people were looking at them, wondering what on earth they were doing. But they kept going, not paying attention to whoever was looking. Maki was matching with the beat as much as she could, and Nico wasn't paying attention to it that much, easily tapping her fingers on the windowsill. As the song was drawing to a close, the tempo slowed down greatly. Maki was late on slowing down the music, but she still managed to make it sound do-able. Once Nico's fingers stopped tapping, Maki stopped humming. She opened her eyes and sat up, looking around at the small crowd of people staring at them in awe.

She lightly tapped at Nico, who took out a headphone, looking in the direction that she was looking. She looked slightly confused, as well as Maki. Suddenly, a little girl began to clap. That little girl made a couple more people clap, and then everyone who was paying attention began to clap. Maki began to blush and Nico just improvised with the group.

"Nico Nico Nii! I hoped you enjoyed our little beat there!" She gave her signature hand sign and a little girl giggled, still clapping as hard as she could.

Maki leaned over and whispered into Nico's ear, "What did we just do to deserve this?"

Nico shrugged, "You probably started humming again without knowing it, like you usually do during rehearsal, to the beat of my fingers."

Maki's blush grew redder, "N-No that couldn't be it! I mean- I wouldn't-"

"Well apparently, you just did." Nico looked back out the window, "Stop being so embarrassed, apparently people liked you anyway. It's not necessary for you to be embarrassed."

Maki sat back at her seat and stared at her feet, flustered, "I-I guess… I just don't know why I did that- My improvisation songs are always horrible…"

"Maybe to your standards, but to everyone else it's apparently good." Nico brushed her hair back and stood up, seeing that they were arriving their stop.

Maki followed behind her, still staring at the ground to hide her blushing face. She was shaking a bit, but only from stage fright. Oh my god, she thought, brushing her hair behind her ear, I'm going to be cringing at this later.

The train came to a slow stop, and Maki followed Nico out of the train and into the station once again. Nico was walking a bit fast, and Maki was having a hard time trying to keep up. She maneuvered through the crowd of people as best as she could, with still keeping Nico in sight.

They eventually got to the exit of the station, where Nico was standing, tapping her foot in impatience, "What was taking you so long? I've been here for five minutes."

Maki rolled her eyes and stepped out of the train station, "Yeah, sure, whatever helps you sleep at night."

Nico growled a bit and walked off in the direction of her house again, quickly. Maki followed the pace this time, there wasn't a big crowd of people from where they were walking. Suddenly, Nico turned a corner and began to walk through a small alleyway, Maki was a bit hesitant to do so, but she eventually followed Nico into the alleyway.

"Why are we walking through here? Isn't it a bit… Dangerous?" She questioned, staying close to Nico.

"It's a shortcut to a park in my neighborhood, and it beats walking through that crowd of people." Nico replied dully, making her way out of the alley.

Maki followed her out and as they exited, she found that Nico was right. There was a small park with kids playing, and there were a few apartment complexes nearby. She smiled a bit at the little kids playing. They were having so much fun, and not a care in the world. She laughed a bit at them, and brushed it off, focusing her vision to where Nico was walking. They walked into the main lobby- which was small compared to Maki's living room- and turned into one of the elevators, as people were walking out of it. Nico pushed her floor number and they waited in the elevator in silence.

"Nico." Maki questioned, twirling her finger around her hair.

"What do you want?" She replied back, annoyance in her voice.

"How many… Siblings… Do you have?" She felt a bit uneasy saying the word siblings, because she's only ever had one, and didn't know how many Nico had.

Nico huffed, "Three, why?"

Maki felt a shiver going down her spine, Three!? she thought to herself, thinking about that many people living in such an enclosed space, "Do you guys share a room o-or anything?"

Nico scoffed, "Of course not. They share a room because they're all around the same age, but I don't share a room with them."

"So, where will I be staying?" She asked, brushing her hair behind her ear again.

Nico stood still, her eyes wide, "I-I, uh, I d-didn't really think about t-that…"

"You mean I don't have my own room?"

"Of course not, who do you think we are, rich? We only have three bedrooms and two baths in my apartment."

"So, then will I sleep in the same room as you?" Maki asked uneasily.

Nico shrugged, "Probably. But we don't have any extra futons because my siblings take all of them, so you'll have to sleep in my bed."

Maki cringed a bit at the thought of sleeping in the same bed as Nico, "What size is your bed?"

"A queen size, don't worry. We can share it." Nico replied, as the elevator came to a stop.

They stepped out of the elevator and walked down the long walkway, while Maki was staring at the beautiful sky that was above them, which was beginning to turn a bit yellow as sunset was coming across. Maki smiled gently at the horizon before bumping into Nico.

"Hey, geez, we're here." Nico unlocked the door and stepped in, Maki following behind her and closing the door lightly, "Cocoro, Cocoa, Cotaro, I'm home!" She called, alerting her siblings that she had arrived.

Maki took off her shoes and left them by the front door, walking into their small kitchen, where Nico was standing, looking through the refrigerator. Maki stood next to their kitchen table and sighed a bit, looking around the kitchen.

Nico looked up from the refrigerator, "What? Need a tour of the house or something?"

Maki shrugged, "It would be nice."

Nico groaned and took out a chocolate popsicle, unwrapping it and throwing away the wrapper, "Fine, but don't make any snooty comments." She gestured towards the kitchen, "This is the kitchen, where I cook things. Don't expect me to make you lunch though." She walked out of the kitchen and into the small living room, Maki following. She gestured to the living room, "This is the living room. It had a tv, some seats, a small coffee table, and some plants. You can watch tv here whenever you feel like it, just not in the middle of the night."

Maki looked around, unimpressed. She was right for the description for the most part, but everything was of low quality. The tv was small, though it was a new model, and there were a couple pictures of the family lying around. She looked at the small coffee table, and while it was sturdy, it was very small, but big enough to put a nice little flower on, and maybe a couple plates.

Nico walked out of the living room and gestured into the hall on the right, "This is where we have my siblings room, my room, a bathroom, and a storage closet. I can show you the room later." She walked past the living room again, but this time gestured to the hall on the left, "This the smaller hall, where we have my mom's room, a bathroom, and another storage closet. Don't go into any of the rooms here, my mom likes her privacy."

Maki nodded, "Note taken." Nico turned around and went back to her hallway, and Maki followed.

Nico opened the door to a messy, childlike room with three futons in it. There were toys everywhere and a dollhouse about the size of a bedside table. Nico sighed, "This is my sibling's room. They're probably at work with my mom again, and they never clean. They're really loud and don't understand things, just be nice to them, okay?" Maki nodded, and Nico closed the door.

She walked over to the bathroom and opened the door, "Here's the bathroom. Please use your own soap in the shower." And with that, she closed the door. She walked over to the storage closet and opened it, "Just towels, blankets, pillows and cleaning supplies, nothing more." She shut it, and walked towards the final door.

With a deep breath, Nico opened the door to her room. Maki was blasted by the color pink. There were idol posters everywhere, lolita decorations everywhere, and her bed was just the cutest pink there was to exist. Maki began to step in slowly, her mouth agape.

Nico blushed a bit, "Wh-what's wrong with it?"

Maki grabbed onto one of the banisters on her bed, and looked at her with tears in her eyes, "This is so cute, Nico. I never imagined someone like you to be in possession of this."

Nico's face turned red and she grabbed Maki's arm "Never, ever tell anyone about this, do you understand me?" She said with anger in her voice.

Maki just nodded, failing to hold back a laugh. Nico let go of her arm and kept her head down, shaking a bit as she walked out of her bedroom and slammed the door shut behind her. Maki stared at the closed door and sighed, looking around the room once more and setting her bag down, sitting on the floor and beginning her homework.

On the other side of the door, Nico was standing there, trembling. Her eyes shut tight, but tears still managing to escape. She walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind her, collapsing on the floor in tears. Her sobs were quiet, but still loud enough to be heard from someone in the next room over.

She picked up her body, and looked at herself in the mirror, "Disgusting." She let down her hair, and looked at herself again, "Disgusting." She threw the bows on the floor with tears in her eyes, "Why can't I just not be disgusting for a second of my life!? Why can't I just be myself and not let people get to me!? Why do I just keep faking my confidence, because it's not really there and it will never be there! I'm just a worthless, fake bitch who can't do anything right! I can't even get people to smile for me…" She screamed at the top of her lungs, probably loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear.

She collapsed back onto the floor, letting her head hang low. She muttered the word 'disgusting' more times than she could count. She sniffed and cleared her throat, tying her hair back up in her twin tails. She picked herself up, and looked at herself in the mirror once more. She put on a fake smile, and opened the door, only to see Maki standing there.

"Nico, tell me what just happened in there."

Nico froze, tears beginning to form in her eyes, "N-Nothing… It wouldn't matter to you anyway."

Maki took a deep breath, "Why were you yelling? I could hear your voice even with my music on full volume."

Nico cleared her throat a bit, "I-I was j-just… Practicing a few of my signature catchphrases! Y-Yeah…"

Maki sighed, "Look, Nico, if I'm really aggravating you so much that you're screaming to yourself about me, I can just leave."

Nico raised her hands up in defense, "No! No. It's not you, you don't need to leave."

Maki raised her eyebrow, crossing her arms, "Well, then what was it?"

Nico gave a forgiving smile, "Hey, can we talk about this later? I really need to cook dinner now…"

Maki sighed, this girl isn't going to budge at all. She thought as she flipped her hair back with her hand, "Fine. I'm going to continue my homework now."

Nico smiled and waved, "Tell me if you need help, okay? Nico Nico Nii is always welcome to serve you!"

Maki squinted her eyes and walked into Nico's room, slamming the door behind her. "Hey! Stop slamming doors! We can't let them break!" Nico yelled at the door.

"You started it!" Maki yelled back from inside Nico's room.
Nico sighed before walking towards the kitchen. This was going to be a horrible month and a half.

This is called Unexpected for a reason, is it not? Well, in this story many things are very unexpected, so I hope that you'll enjoy this really angsty love story between two girls who hate each other in the story but end up falling in love. How beautiful. Anyway, the next chapter should be out in two weeks or so, I don't know how long this will take, so, yeah. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it! You should too! Adios~

Edit- Also! I made it for as long as I did for character development, though I'm a bit iffy on the length of how long they will be together. If it becomes unnecessary throughout the story, I will shorten it within reason, but if not, it will stay the same. Thanks for understanding!