FOREWORD

Hello again everyone. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I know it's been a while since I've update this but with work and the holidays, and moving into a new place, it's been fairly hectic. But I'm back now and ready with get to work. So without farther ado, on to the reviews.

Guest: touma will begrudgingly help those in need even if it isn't life threatening. Like when he and Misaka went of their fake date. And Touma is a pushover in his everyday normal life. Just look at how easily he gets sucked into the antics of his friends. And yes, while he could dodge all of her attacks, he usually only does that when he's truly in danger.

Guest (2) While Touma did beat Accelerator, I would say that he does still fear him. He wouldn't want to go up against him again if he could help it.

Guest (3) Touma's misfortunate really is that bad. So no, I'm not blowing it out of proportion. And yes, Misaka, in her tsudere way, really is that petty.

Guest (4) Touma is getting fed up but you didn't expect him to just show at school one day and start smacking people did you?

The Menace Within: I'm glad you like the story. And you just wait till the end of this arc…

d3mystic: Im glad you like the OC. I'm debating on if I should keep her around more. She was just supposed to be a one shot character, going away at the end of this chapter as this chapter was supposed to be the end of their date. And Tsuchimikado is a spy. And a spy's greatest strength is the ability to blend in and not be noticed.

wildarms13: If I can keep surprising my readers and coming up with interesting plot twist, I'll be happy.

Whwsms: Thank you for the welcome. And I'm glad that you are enjoying where the story is going. And of course, potential misfortune is right around the corner. In fact, the better things seem to be going the great the misfortune later. And NOTHING will happen because Tsuchimikado overheard that call…nothing.

"Wow! That was quite the epic story you just told me. It had a bit of everything in it. Action, danger, adventure, romance and even wanton destruction." stated Mizune.

Both Touma and Seiri just looked down at the floor nervously while a slight tinge of red filled their cheeks.

Seiri had just finished telling Mizune the story of how she and Touma first met. Throughout the entire story Mizune seemed enthralled by the detail that Seiri were telling her, only interrupting a few to clarify a few details.

'Is that really how we first met? Dammit, I don't remember any of that.' thought Touma to himself.

Touma searched his memory of any sign of the story that Seiri just told, but as much as he searched, he just couldn't remember.

"Wow. I can't believe that you and Kamijou san here went through so much and how far he was willing to go to help a perfect stranger. I mean, he ended up crashing a helicopter into a blimp." stated Mizune.

"Hey! That wasn't my fault." proclaimed Touma.

'At least, I don't think it was' he thought a second later

"Well, that's just the way he's always been. He'll help anyone who needs help and any time. He's just that kind of guy. It's one of his best traits and one of the reason I like him." replied Seiri, covering her mouth with both hands and instantly regretting the words as soon as they left her lips.

Touma's and Seiri's faces both turned slightly red; Touma because of the praise that was being given and Seiri because of what she had just said.

'I can't believe I just said that! I mean, he is pretending to be my boyfriend so it won't look weird with me giving him a bit of praise. In fact, it would probably seem weirder if I didn't say that I liked him. I hope Kamijou doesn't think I'm weird or take what I said out of context. I hope he understands that I said that just to keep up the boyfriend narrative.' thought Seiri waveringly to herself.

'Did Fukiyose san really mean what she just said,' asked Touma to himself. 'It seems weird that she would say something like that even if we are pretending to be a couple. She must REALLY want Mizune to buy our couples act.'

Mizune just looked back and forth between the pair of teens and smirked as she noticed their faces turn red.

'Look at them. Blushing like they're in junior high school. They are sooo cute together." thought Mizune.

"So Kamijou, just why do you help anyone in need? What do you get out of it?" asked Mizune.

"What do you mean? I don't need a reason to help people. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if I could help someone and failed to act."

Mizune just stated at the boy for a few seconds, processing what he had just said.

'Most people will help others to a certain extent. After that point they expect to get something out of it. Either money, fame, or sex. But this guy, he true wants nothing for helping others.' thought Mizune to herself.

"So your saying that if I were in trouble, you'd come running to save me if you could?"

"Yes." was the immediate reply she got. There was no hesitation in the boy's voice.

"It looks like you found a good man," said Mizune as she turned towards Seiri. "Keep an eye out or someone might try to steal him away. Someone like me." said Mizune as she winked at Seiri.

Cheeks aflame in red, Seiri turned away from the girl in complete embarrassment.

'She wouldn't really try and take Kamijou away from me, would she? W-what am I saying. We are just pretending. He isn't ACTUALLY my boyfriend. He doesn't belong to me. In fact, I don't have any feeling for him at a—'

She stopped just short of completing her sentence. For some reason Seiri couldn't quite bring herself to say those words, even in her own head.

'I mean, we are friends. We may not be as close as he is to those other two idiots, but I like to think that we're friends. And even though he and those other two idiots are always casing trouble, and he's always blaming his laziness and lack of motivation on his misfortunate, he does try hard sometimes and he has help almost everyone in the class at least once. So as friends, can I really say that he doesn't mean anything to me? Just looking at how far he'll go to help friend and stranger alike shows what a good and kind person he is. I mean, just look—he's helping me right now with this situation with Mizune by pretending to be my boyfriend. He didn't have to do it, but he did. I mean, yes, I threw in some incentive, but I'm sure that he would have agreed to do it anyways. The only downside to his kind nature is that he is willing to help anyone in need. And while I do like that about him, it makes me feel less…less…I don't know. Less something. I mean if he's willing to help anything, doesn't that make me sort of like a notch on his belt. I know he doesn't think like that, but that's kinda how it feels. Like him helping me was nothing special because he'll help anyone who needs it. It's like a guy who goes around sleeping every girl he meets, so the time he slept with you means nothing.'

Seiri blushed slightly at the analogy she used as she was brought back to reality when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Seiri, you ok? You spaced out there for a moment." said Mizune.

"W-what? Yeah, I'm fine. I was just think about what we should do next. You only have a few more hours here in Academy City before you have to go."

"I know. How about we go see that space elevator?" suggested Mizune.

"That sounds good. You can actually see it from just about anywhere in the city."

"I know, but I want to see it up close. Do they allow people to ride it into space? Mizune asked.

"No. It's basically a cargo elevator. The Gs it would put on a regular human would be…very uncomfortable." replied Touma.

"Well, that's ok. I still want to see it. I would also love to see the famous Windowless Building."

"Well the Windowless building is in this district so it's closer to where we are now. It would be a fairly short walk from here." stated Touma while holding his chin in his hand.

"Ok, so it's decided. First the Windowless Building and then the space elevator. And that should probably finish out my day." stated Mizune excitedly.

They all made the short walk to the Windowless building, which is exactly what it said on the tin. A solid black building without any windows.

"What's in there and how do you get in? I don't see any windows or doors." asked Mizune.

"If you did, it wouldn't be called the Windowless Building, now would it." remarked Seiri.

"Hardy har har." sarcastically laughed Mizune.

"Well rumor has it that the Windowless building is the home to the General Superintendent of Academy City. And that the only way in or out was to use teleportation. It's also say that a nuclear warhead could be launched at the building and it would survive." stated Touma.

"So we can't go inside a take a look?" asked Mizune.

"Not unless either of you know a teleporter." replied Seiri.

"Well, actually I kinda do…" began Touma, thinking of Shirai Kuroko, who for some reason seemed to hate his very existence.

"Really", asked Mizune. "Do you think she'd help us?"

"I highly doubt it. She part of Judgement."

"What's that?"

"It's the city's student peace keeping force, made of students with abilities. And then there's Anti-Skill above them, staffed by teachers. In fact, one of the teachers at our school is an Anti-Skill lieutenant.

"Wow! The teachers in Academy City must really be badasses."

"Well…I guess. I never really thought about it much."

"Well if we can't go in and take a look, let's go and see that space elevator."

Walking to a bus stop the trio got on the first bus headed toward District 23 to view the space elevator Endymion.

The two girl took one seat together while Touma take a seat across the aisle from the two girls.

While the two girls converse, Touma just sat and watched with a slight smile on his face.

'It's nice to see Fukiyose enjoying herself, and not being angry and violent for once,' thought Touma to himself. While she's usually genteel with everyone in our class, she's always pretty strict with Tsuchimakado, Aogomi and myself. And most of time it isn't even my fault! My idiot friends pull me into their idiot conversations. And every time I try to get out, they just drag me back in.'

A little while later, the bus stopped. The trio stepped off the bus and they could see the massive tower ascending above the clouds. Although Touma had seen the tower before and even had been to the top of it, it was still a sight to behold.

"Do you think they'll let us ride it to the top?" asked Mizune.

"Probably not. That elevator is usually only for cargo and equipment. They did have a concert at the station at the top of the elevator when if first went into operation a little while ago, but they haven't let non-essential personal up there since." replied Fukiyose.

Touma remembered that concert, as he was in attendance for it. He also remembered the trouble caused by Ladylee Tangleroad, and everything that happened with Shutaura, and Arisa.

'It's been awhile since I've seen them…err…her…err…Shutaura san. I wonder how she's doing. Maybe I should give her a call later.' thought Touma to himself.

"Wow, a concert in space, that must have been spectacular!" stated Mizune, with a dream-y look in her eyes as if imagining what I would have been like.

"Well, yeah, I guess, but really I wouldn't know. I didn't get to go." stated Fukiyose downheartedly.

"I went to that concert." remarked Touma, offhanded and absentmindedly.

Touma then looked over to the two girl who were now just staring at him, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape.

"What?!"

"Y-you managed to go to that concert?! How?! You had to be a VIP or buy a ticket, and they were nearly impossible to get!" replied Fukiyose.

"W-well…I managed to meet Arisa and listen to one of her songs. She then invited us err…I mean me to her concert." stammered Touma.

"Wow! I can't believe that your boyfriend got to go to that concert and into space Seri chan!," excitedly squealed. But thinking about it a bit longer, Mizune thought of something. "Hey, Seri chan, why didn't Kamijou take you to the concert? You are a couple right?"

W-well…" stammered Seiri, worried that her ruse was about to be found out, until Touma cut in.

"You see, that was before we started dating. So that's why I didn't take her. If I had known that she wanted to go, then I probably would have offered to take her with me. Ha ha ha ha" nervously laughed Touma.

"And you never brought up to her the fact that you know Arisa Meigo and that she personally invited you to her concert?' suspiciously asked Mizune to Touma.

"Yeah, why haven't you ever mentioned that?" asked Seiri, in a slightly irritated tone.

"Well…you see…it just never came up. No one ever asked me so I never said anything." said Touma, slightly back away from the two girls as they both gave him intense looks.

"Whatever."

"Whatever."

Spoke both girls together, not believing a word he said as they turned away from Touma.

Walking closer to the large tower, the trio noticed that there was a medium size group of maybe 20 or 30 people standing at an entrance.

Walking over, they saw standing in front of the group was a man in a dark blue uniform and tie.

"Ok everyone, if you'll just come this way, we'll start the tour of the Endymion Space Elevator" called out the man above the mild chatter of the crowd.

"Oh, a tour. How about it Mizune. Want to join the tour?" asked Seiri.

"sure, it sounds fun. Maybe they'll even let us go to the top." replied Mizune.

"Don't get your hopes up there, Mizune." calmly retorted Touma.

Deciding to join the tour, the trio joined the crowd with Seiri and Mizune standing up front while Touma stood back and more to the middle of the crowd.

"Hey. Your leaving your boyfriend, whispered Mizune. Why don't you go back there with him a bit? After all you've been giving me all of your attention since I've been and I'm sure he's lonely back there."

"Him? He'll be ok. Beside I wanted to spend time with you." Seiri whispered back.

"See, you're going to wind up losing him if you keep treating him like that. Are you two really a couple?"

Making a slightly worried face, Seiri simply nodded at the girl.

"You're right. I-I should go back there with him for a bit."

Dropping back, Seiri appeared next to Touma.

"Hey, whatsup? Why'd you'd come back here?" asked Touma.

"Mizune said that I should come back here with you for a bit. That as a couple we should be closer together. I don't want her to figure it out so we need to make it look good."

"O-oh, I see. So what should we do then?" asked Touma.

That's when suddenly, Seiri grabbed and held on to Touma's arm.

Touma nearly jump out of his skin when she did that.

"W-what are you doing Fukiyose san?" asked Touma surprised and embarrassed by the display of affection.

"Today you call me Seiri, and I said that we have to make it look good. She's watching." replied Seiri, slightly nodding her head to the front of the crowd.

When Touma looked in the direction that the girl was nodding, he saw Mizune watching them with a smirk on her face.

Touma looked back down to Seiri who was looking away from him but had a deep tinge of red in her cheeks.

'What am I doing!? I-I'm holding grabbing his arm like he really is my boyfriend. I mean, it's not really a big deal. I'm just reacting to what Mizune said. But why does what she said bother me so much? "See, you're going to wind up losing him if you keep treating him like that. Are you two really a couple?" I mean I don't want to lose h—I mean; I don't want her to realize that we aren't really a couple. So I HAVE to take measures like this. No matter how embarrassing they are' thought Seiri to herself.

Seiri then pulled the boy's arm closer to her and rested her hear on his shoulder.

Touma was taken by surprise at this move, and looked down at the girl. Her cheeks were now a very deep red and his cheeks felt like they could have been the color of roses.

"What the hell is going on here!? She's holding on to his arm and laying her head on his shoulder. Just who is this girl!?" asked a girl at the back on the tour to herself.

Misaka Mikoto was walking alone in District Seven and she was in a foul mood. She had just came from trying to do a bit of shopping. She had received an email from the official Genkota Fan Club that a shop at the Seventh Mist Mall was giving out a free Genkota prize pack to the first two hundred people that entered the store and were also fans of Genkota, that included a Genkota t shirt, stickers, arm band, stationary and a special made coin with Genkota's face on it.

"Dammit! I thought that I would have more time. I didn't think there would be that many Genkota fans in Academy City. Whenever I check the message boards only a few of the other users have Academy City checked as their location. I can't believe they were all gone by time I got there!"

Due to her foul mood, Misaka was walking the whole way back to her dorm. She wasn't even really aware of it. After the disappointment in losing out on the prize pack, her feet just started moving on their own. Also because of her foul mood, there was a dark cloud over her head that made people instinctively avoid her or get out of her way.

It was Sunday so Misaka was wearing casual clothing and not her school uniform, that caused her to stick out. She wore long blue pants with a yellow shirt and a tan zip up jacket with a hood on it. While she was proud of her school, she really didn't like the attention the uniform gathered and the assumptions people made about her.

Because of the school she went to and the fairly strict guidelines they had for admitting students, as they only admitted girls level three and over, people assumed that she was some spoiled rich girl with a high level that looked down on the lower level espers.

Now while it's true that she was a rich girl and a high level esper, one of only seven level fives in the city, she wasn't spoiled and didn't look down on others.

In her mind, people were people, no matter who they were. And to be fair, outside of Academy City, levels, like the points¹, don't matter.

There was only one person that she's met that didn't treat her like that and that was—

"That idiot? What's he doing around here?" asked Misaka, seeing someone she knew from two blocks away.

What Misaka saw was an idiot with black spiky hair and he was walking towards the Windowless Building. But what really threw Misaka for a loop wasn't seeing the boy around District Seven. That was normal, since they both lived in this district, but who he was with. There were two females, both appeared to be his age, walking with him.

"What's he doing here? And who are those girls with him? Could they be his family? No. They don't seem close enough to be family. They seem to be laughing and having a good time though, even if I can't actually hear what they are saying."

Seeing as they were headed away from where she currently was, Misaka decided to follow the trio.

'I-I'm only following them because with that idiot, something danger is sure to happen. And he'll probably need back up.' Misaka justified in her mind.

Sneaking closer, Misaka could now confirm that it was indeed the idiot that she knew and he was with two girls.

"Wow. They're both really pretty," said Misaka "And the taller girl with black hair-!" she exclaimed, while looking down to the girl's chest.

Hidding behind a building just half a block away, Misaka could now hear a bit of what the trio was talking about.

Misaka heard the red haired girl talk about wanting to go inside the Windowless Building and heard the other girl mention the need of a teleporter to get in. She then heard Touma mention that he knew a teleporter and that she was part of Judgement.

"He must be thinking of Shirai" said Misaka quietly to herself.

She then heard them mention going to visit a space elevator.

"They must be talking about going to see Endymion."

'The last time I was there was for that concert that Arisa was performing. My friends and I were having so much fun, until things went off the rail. There was a lot of trouble and the whole thing almost came crashing down.' Misaka stood thinking to herself.

Misaka then saw the trio walk off and head down the street.

'The space elevator is in District 23, so they're probably heading to a bus stop to catch a ride.' reasoned Misaka.

She then followed them to the nearest bus stop and hid behind a small building.

'I can't get on the same bus as them. That idiot would probably recognize me and then he would know that I'm stalkin—I mean; I'm only going to give that idiot backup if needed. I don't want those two girls, whomever they are to get caught up in whatever unfortunate event that he is sure to get caught up in.' corrected Misaka midsentence.

But she didn't have to get on the same bus. Since a vast majority of people in academy City were students, most residents here didn't own cars, so they had to take the buses. And because of that, Academy City had an extremely efficient mass transportation system of automatic buses. So she knew that if they got on one bus, another would show up a few minutes later. And since she knew where they were going, she didn't have to worry about losing them in the few minute gap between bus arrivals.

Soon, a bus arrived and the trio boarded. Having to wait only a few minutes herself, Misaka boarded the very next bus headed towards District 23.

The bus ride was fairly short, taking maybe about 15 minutes before the bus slowed down and announced over the PA system that they had arrived at the stop Misaka wanted to get off at, before coming to a complete stop and opening the doors to let the whatever passengers on and off the bus.

Getting off the bus, Misaka looked around for the trio before finding them a few blocks away. Quickly trailing behind them, Misaka stop a few dozen meters away and crouched behind a bench, partially hiding herself.

'Damn. I'm still too far away to hear what their talking about.' thought Misaka to herself.

She could see the trio mouthing word, but couldn't hear what they were saying. Context club could be used to infer what they were saying. Like the red haired girl looking up at the tower and then speaking can be inferred that she is asking questions about it. And the other dark haired girl speaking can be inferred as her answering said question.

Misaka then saw the boy's lips mouth, and as soon as her was done speaking, a look of shock appeared on the two girls faces. Then she heard the dark haired girl nearly yelling at the boy;

"What?!"

"Y-you managed to go to that concert?! How?! You had to be a VIP or buy a ticket, and they were nearly impossible to get!"

The boy's lips then began to flap up and down very fast, as if he was trying to explain himself, but Misaka couldn't actually hear what he was saying.

'It seems that he said something stupid again. But what concert could she be talking about?'

Thinking about it for a moment, Misaka thought about where they currently were, and what event had happened there. In her mind it was the only thing that made sense.

'She must be talking about that concert that Arisa threw. I didn't know that idiot was there that day. I wonder if he got involved in everything that happened?'

The argument seemed to calm down after a bit, with the boy losing. The trio began to move on, but Misaka waiting a bit before following, wanting to make sure that she wouldn't be seen. Nut upon standing, Misaka noticed that the people around her were staring at her and giving her strange looks. Thinking about what she was doing, hiding behind a bench and following a group of people, Misaka thought about how that must look to the people around here.

"Ha...haha….hahahaha…" laughed Misaka nervously as she bowed and apologized to everyone around her for the strange way that she was acting.

After getting out of the awkward situation that she had found herself in, Misaka did something between a walk and a job to catch up with the trio while also keeping enough distance between them to remind unseen.

Misaka saw the trio enter the tower of the space elevator with a group of people that seemed to be on a tour.

'You know, the more I see of them, the more it seems like they are on a d-d-date. But that's not possible. How could they be on a date? I mean there is only one of him and two of them. So they couldn't be on a date unless they are shari—' Misaka brain froze at the thought she just had.

'Was it possible? Could they actually be in "that" kind of relationship? I have of course, heard of polyamorous relationships but I had never actually seen one in action. I really didn't think that he would be into something like that. Of course, I could be reading way more into this then there is, but why would one guy be out with two girls? I mean, they could be just friends, but most of the times the girls would do something together, so why invite just one guy? They could be his family, but the body language shows that while they know each other and are fairly close, it's not a familial closeness. I need to know what's going on with them. Do they have "that" kind of relationship or is it something else?'

Seeing the crowd and the trio walk into the tower, Misaka followed, making sure to stay near the back of the group so that she wouldn't be seen.

Misaka stood in the back while the tour guide talked to the crowd. Misaka didn't hear anything he said, all of her attention on the trio. She noticed that the two girl walked more to the front of the crowd while that idiot stayed towards the middle. Then one of the girls, the dark haired one, walked back to where the boy was. The girl then grabbed the boy's arms and rested her head on the boy's shoulder.

Both the boy and the girl's face seemed to explode into red at the public display of affection.

"What the hell is going on here!? She's holding on to his arm and laying her head on his shoulder. Just who is this girl!?" asked Misaka to herself.

But that wasn't the end of things. That's when the red haired girl came back towards the pair and grabbed the boy's other arm.

The boy's face became an even deeper shade of red, if that was at all possible.

'Just what in the hell is going on heeeeerrrrreeeee!?' screamed Misaka in her own head.

AFTERWORD

Well, that's it for this chapter. I hope everyone enjoyed it. I was going to end their fake date with this chapter, but then I thought "Hey! This whole thing needs some more conflict, so I added another character, Misaka Mikoto.

But don't worry. Mikoto running into the trio won't have any unplanned or bad consequences for Touma. Just like Tsuchimikado overhearing that conversation between Touma and Fukiyose won't. Probably. Maybe. Kinda. We'll see.

And as always please rate and review.

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