A/N: So in the last chapter, I said that this one would have them back at the Polar Star Dormitory. It won't. That'll happen in the next chapter.

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"Well I suppose this was somewhat of a decent vacation…" Alice said conversationally. She sighed when she didn't get an immediate response. "Neh, Ryō-kun?"

"Ah, ojou-sama." Ryō nodded grudgingly. His eyes narrowed at Alice's back though since he was once again carrying both his luggage and her luggage. While this was nothing new, the fact that she somehow was leaving with more bags than she had taken here was irksome to say the least.

Now that the summer training camp from Hell was finally over, everyone started making their way towards their busses. A few, very few, promising students were stopped by the Alumni as they were walking out. Alice and Erina were both skipped over since every one of the alumni knew that those two are either too good for them or not interested in working for them.

Alice did note that quite a few of the Alumni were surrounding Sōma and Megumi. She paused to watch the scene. Interestingly enough, it looked as though most of the alumni were interested in Megumi of all people. It was a bit strange, considering her abyssal grades. Then again, Megumi did have Sōma to help her. Alice gritted her teeth at the thought. Her irritation only grew further at seeing Fuyumi-senpai walk up closely to Sōma. Too close.

"Ojou-sama?" Ryō questioned. "Do you want to go over there?"

Alice had half a mind to do just that. And had Fuyumi not just walked away from Sōma, she would've done so. As it was, there was no need to go over there.

"We're fine," Alice sniffed. "Let's hurry and get on our bus."

"Right," Ryō said. Then, at seeing Alice puff out her cheeks and glare at him, he internally sighed. "Right, ojou-sama."

"Good boy," Alice smiled and turned around. "Now let's go."

"Hm." Ryō glanced back at the alumni, and then at Sōma, before following Alice out into the parking lot.

"I wonder what we should do when we get back…" Alice mused.

"Beats me." Ryō said blankly. It didn't matter either way to him.

"Maybe we should have a match…?" Alice asked, turning to smirk at Ryō.

Ryō's eyes sharpened. Turning, he looked straight at Alice. "I'm up for it."

"Great," Alice clapped, smiling as though she had just won a prize. "Hm, I wonder if I should invite Sōma-kun to judge."

'Interesting,' Ryō nodded as Alice prattled on. That wasn't anything new. Bringing Sōma though. That was. Thus far, she had always gone to visit Sōma. That much was obvious. Her being away from the Nakiri Mansion was commonplace because of how much she disliked the place. No, she mainly hated the memories associated with the place. So she would always find an excuse to venture out. Lately, she had been using the same excuse. Visiting Sōma. Alice never used those exact words, but the intent was clear whenever she left. 'Guess things are getting serious.'

Any other person might have gotten jealous about this, a close friend who was a girl showing interest in another guy. Not Ryō though. The more Alice fixated on Sōma, the less she was bossing him around. Already, he had gotten to be lazy more since this school year started than during any full year of the middle school section. Sōma is a Godsend that Ryō is more than happy to shove into Alice's path.

"Fine." Ryō said.

"Hm?" Alice turned, bemused at Ryō's response. She hadn't said anything that required a response from him.

"If you want Yukihira to come and judge us, I'm fine with it." Ryō said, not looking at Alice.

"Oh," Alice blinked owlishly. That wasn't what she had been expecting Ryō to say that. She hummed thoughtfully. "I was just joking about that though."

Ryō seriously doubted that.

"But if you're ok with it, I'll ask him," Alice said. Stopping at their bus, she pointed at the door. "Now go and put our luggage away."

"Of course…" Ryō yawned as he walked passed her into the bus. "Ojou-sama."

Chuckling a bit, she turned to check on Sōma's whereabouts. A quick glance around the area showed no Sōma in sight. She pouted at the audacity of the boy. Here she is, waiting for him and he isn't there. How rude.

Just when she was about to send Ryō to go and look for him, Sōma came around the bus.

"Oh," Sōma smirked at the sight of Alice. "Fancy meeting you here, Alice."

"Sōma-kun," Alice smiled in acknowledgment. A part of her, a very small part, was really happy to hear him call her by her first name with no honorifics. Ok, it was a big part. But she would never ever admit it. "I thought you might miss the bus."

"After all we've been through here?" Sōma fake shuddered in fear. "No way."

"Well congrats on making it to the correct bus," Alice said, patting the bus to emphasize her point. She was about to continue, but then noticed something odd about Sōma. She couldn't quite place her finger on it though. "Hmmm…"

"Something wrong?" Sōma asked. He still isn't used to Alice's stares. They just happened and he really wished he could know what she is thinking while she's staring at him so hard. Was there something on his face? Did he do or say something wrong?

"Where's your headband?" Alice asked once she figured out what was missing.

It didn't take her too long to figure it out. Sōma wore that thing on a daily basis. Sōma not wearing it just looked plain weird to her.

"Huh?" Sōma raised his left hand to show it off before looking at arm in shock. It actually was gone. "Crap! I left it behind."

Without another word, Sōma turned and started running back towards the resort.

Alice's eyelid twitched angrily.

Ryō, who had walked back up to the door after seeing that Alice wasn't coming on, came in time to see the end of their conversation. He smirked at Alice's back. That was probably the first time that someone had turned their back on her. Well, to his memory at least. The fact that Sōma then turned away and ran from her was just icing on the cake.

"Are you just going to stand here and take that, ojou-sama?" Ryō asked, egging her on.

Alice didn't reply in favor of angrily following after Sōma.

People who were sitting by the window on the busses promptly ducked out of sight once they saw the angry Nakiri walk passed them to avoid being the focus of her ire.

As soon as they were both out of sight, Ryō moved towards the last seat on the bus and laid down. The corner of his lip twitched up a bit. Finally, a whole bus ride with leg space and no nagging. He might just have to send Sōma a gift basket after this. Seafood themed, of course.

From further up the bus, Akira glanced back at the last seat. He could smell the satisfaction emanating from back there. Shrugging, he pulled out a cinnamon stick and gave it a whiff before leaning back into his seat as the bus started to move.

Alice sighed. 20 minutes passed by and there was still no Sōma in sight. She had thought that Sōma would be faster than this. Then again, his room was pretty high up. To think he would rather go back up to get it and miss the bus. Evidently, the headband was more important than she had thought. It may even be as important as Ryō's bandana. Yet another thing she would need to find out about him.

Pulling out her phone, she sent a text to one of the aides to have a car come and pick her up. With that done, she walked up to the building.

If Sōma isn't coming out, she's going in.

"Oomph!" Two voices huffed out.

"Ow…" Alice grabbed her forehead in pain.

"What?" Sōma groaned and looked to see what he had hit. He noticed two things. One, he had hit a person. Two, Alice's panties are as red as her eyes. He quickly stood up and offered his hand to her while turning away. "Sorry about that!" He stammered out.

"Sōma-kun?" Alice looked up at him in surprise. Then her eyes narrowed. No one ran into her and got away with it. "You have some nerve."

"It was an accident!" Sōma protested.

A useless effort, really. His protest fell on deaf ears.

"Hmph," Alice crossed her arms. "And after I went through all of the trouble, staying behind and ordering a car to come and take us ho-… to Tōtsuki."

"You…" Sōma didn't really know what to say to that. It would be really jerkish of him to not just let it go after she had done all that. Plus, his dad did tell him to never argue with a woman when it came to certain things. This seemed like one of them. He bowed. "I'm really sorry, Alice. For bumping into you and for keeping you waiting. Even if it was your fault." He muttered the last part lowly so she wouldn't hear it.

"Apology accepted." Alice said, smiling at him. Reaching up, she grabbed his hand and let him to pull her up.

"Thanks." Sōma made to pull his hand back, but Alice's grip wouldn't allow him. He looked at their joined hands before looking at Alice. "Um…"

"Allow me to show you to the car." Alice said, although it sounded more like an order. Without waiting for Sōma's response, she started pulling him towards the car.

"But ou-." Sōma started to say.

Alice's grip tightened around his hand.

"Nevermind." Sōma mumbled, seeing a lost cause.

As they neared the car, the driver opened the door for them. Alice all but pushed Sōma inside.

The inside was extravagantly lavish, unnecessarily so.

"This is a bit much; don't you think?" Sōma asked after he buckled himself in.

"Do you think so?" Alice looked around. "It's just one of our extra cars that was nearby. I would have preferred the special Nakiri Family Limo, but that's back at Tōtsuki."

'What makes it so special?' Sōma wanted to ask. He didn't voice this aloud because he wasn't sure if he really wanted to know.

"Mhm," Alice yawned cutely. "It's a shame we left Ryō-kun back on the bus. He must be really bored by now without me around."

"Probably." Sōma nodded along. Part of him doubted it, but Ryō was more of Alice's friend than his. Maybe he had missed something.

"Summer break is coming up, isn't it?" Alice asked. She knew it was, but at this point she couldn't think of anything else to say to Sōma.

"Oh, I guess it is." Sōma had actually forgotten about it. What with everything that had been going on, he hadn't realized how quickly time was flying.

"Maybe we should work on our project then?" Alice hinted obviously.

"Yeah," Sōma grinned wryly. "That would be for the best. Malfroid-sensei would be pissed if we screwed up."

"Anyone would be," Alice pointed out. Grinning a bit, she poked Sōma playfully. "There's no way we can fail though."

"Oh?" Sōma looked at Alice. "And why's that, Alice?"

"Because we'll be the ones who become the First Seat and Second Seat, Sōma-kun." Alice said confidently.

"Well ye-." Sōma started to nod.

"I'll be the First Seat, obviously." Alice cut in.

"Huh?" Sōma rose an eyebrow. "That's a lofty goal you have there, Nakiri."

"Hey!" Alice pouted and slapped Sōma's arm. "We talked about that!"

"No; you talked and I nodded along." Sōma protested.

"Well we'll just have to see what happens during the Autumn Elections then." Alice said, smirking at the thought of the upcoming event. Oh, how she wished Erina were participating as well so that she could beat her too in front of everyone.

"The what?" Sōma asked, staring at Alice cluelessly.

"You really do know nothing, Sōma-kun." Alice should have known by now that Sōma had no clue about anything to do Tōtsuki. But even she needed reminders. And Sōma always reminded her.

"I know some things!" Sōma countered.

"Who created Tōtsuki?" Alice crossed her arms and waited for a response.

"Your ancestors." Sōma replied.

"Well, you're not wrong." Alice relented.

"Knew it." Sōma leaned back in his seat smugly.

"Long story short, there will be a competition among the first years. People will be chosen based on some criteria, we'll all show off our food, then one on one matches will happen until there's a winner." Alice explained. There was a bit more to do with it, and some history involved. But that didn't really matter. She was sure that Sōma would forget about that part later regardless of how interesting it may be.

"Huh, well that's easy enough," Sōma smiled. "I wonder why no one else told me about this."

'They probably thought it was obvious and that you knew already…' Both Alice and the driver thought.

"Ah, speaking of the others…" Sōma snapped his fingers, remembering something important. "We were going to have a celebration at the dorms for surviving. Do you want to come too?"

"A party?" Alice parroted.

"Well, it'll probably be lower class than what you're used to." Sōma added, thinking that maybe Alice wouldn't be ok with that.

"No, I'll go!" Alice said suddenly.

"Really?" Sōma asked, grinning. "Great! The others would love to have you over. The more the merrier, as Isshiki-senpai always says."

"The Seventh Seat?" Alice asked. She didn't know that he was also living there. Then again, it's not like she ever met any of the Elite 10 unless her grandfather specifically wanted some of their cooking.

"Yeah, he's kind of weird." Sōma beamed.

"Birds of a feather flock together, after all." Alice loftily said.

"I wonder if all Elite 10 members are like that." Sōma mused out loud.

"I can believe it," Alice smirked. "Erina was such a strange child. That hasn't changed."

"Really? What's did she do back then?" Sōma asked.

"Well, there was this one time when I was 6…" Alice started.

The rest of the ride was spent with Alice telling Sōma all of the dirt that she had on Erina.

In another car, Erina shivered violently.

OMAKE

"Isn't this place…?" Yūki trailed off, looking forward speculatively.

"I think it is." Megumi gulped nervously.

Behind them, everyone other member of the Polar Star Dormitory glanced at each other uneasily.

"Yes," Marui nodded, adjusting his glasses as he too stared at what Yūki is staring at. "This is the Nakiri Mansion all right."

"What should we do now?" Daigo asked.

"I don't think there's anything that we can do." Satō said dejectedly.

"We do have one option…" Sōma murmured, staring intently at the mansion in front of them.

"What?"

"You can't mean…?"

"No way!"

"We'll get expelled!"

"We shouldn't, S-Sōma-kun…"

"C'mon everyone," Sōma held up his phone, revealing his screen to them all. "Do you want to capture this Legendary Pokémon or not?"

Their eyes narrowed and their hearts hardened. Their decision had been made. They really had no choice, honestly. The prize is too good. It's worth any risk, even expulsion.

"Ok, we're going to break in and catch this thing if it's the last thing we do!" Sōma yelled, holding up his phone proudly.

"YES!" Everyone else followed suit right before they grabbed some vines and began to climb up the wall surrounding the Nakiri Mansion.

A/N: I had to do a Pokemon GO OMAKE for this after doing one for my Jurassic World fic. I hope you liked it.

Well, for sure in the next chapter, Alice will meet Sōma's father. I'm getting a vibe that he and Alice's mom will be talking about what might happen in the future as well as make bets as to when they will hook up.

There was a lot of things I wanted to do here that they all got scrambled in my brain. Such as Alice and Sōma being trapped in an elevator. Alice getting jealous about other girls checking out Sōma. One of the alumni flirting with him. Hm, I'll do all of those at some point later in the story.

For those of you who watch/read Tokyo Ghoul, I'm going to make a one-shot for it. Pairing options are in a poll on my profile for those who are interested.

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