Chapter 5

She continued watching Taro Yamada from her vantage point. Every second spent watching him became less and less interesting. Ayano had learned everything about Taro in the first few moments she met him. He was a quiet boy who had an interest in reading. His one friend was Osano and he had no interest in going a club. In short, he was boring. He was so boring, Ayano had no doubt he could be a protagonist in a harem game. He certainly looked the part.

Deciding that enough time had been wasted on watching Taro, Ayano rested on the bar and decided to look somewhere else for entertainment. There were two groups on either side of Taro. One comprised of girls, and one made up of boys. They were both just as boring as Taro. There was no one worth watching from the balcony. Ayano felt disappointed. There might have been a twinge of regret at hanging up on Info-chan so soon.

She picked herself up and started to walk back into the school. Maybe there was somebody worth watching inside. The worst case scenario is that she fails to find something interesting. It's happened enough times in her life already, one more day wouldn't bother her.

She walked down the stairs and rounded a corner, bumping into someone with an "oof".

"I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" Ayano looked at the one who had bumped into her. Kokona Haruka.

She was a plain girl. Not too boring, Ayano could count a few moments she'd been surprised by the purple haired girl on one hand. Still, it was better than nothing. And Ayano had been caught off guard by her, even if it was only because she had been going around a corner and had no way of knowing someone was coming.

"I am fine." Ayano answered. "Is there somewhere you're going in such a rush?"

"The drama club needed some supplies from the supply closet." Kokona answered. "I was only chosen because I have a minor role in today's practice."

Ayano nodded. The moment Kokona had mentioned drama, Ayano remembered another reason she remembered her. One day as Ayano had been ready to leave, she'd been dragged into helping a younger student practice lines for a play. Being caught off guard had been interesting, though seeing the inside of the club room killed any interest Ayano would have had. Reading the lines with the student had been a different kind of interesting. Even though she put no effort into saying her lines like they had wanted, she'd been told to try out for a role in the next school play.

Ayano had given them the "someone else would be better suited for this role, since I have something I need to do" excuse that worked on so many people. The true reason had been that since she read the script she knew what would happen and so had no interest in participating. Of course that reason would have caused more trouble than Ayano wanted to deal with. Though they left her alone, she had a feeling the drama club would eventually get her to join them-if only for a little bit.

It was now Ayano realized that she had absentmindedly followed Kokona to the storage closet and was watching her struggle with balancing boxes on top of boxes. She moved forward and wordlessly took some boxes from her.

Kokona' face brightened up. "Thanks Ayano!"

The black haired girl shrugged and said nothing. She moved out of the way to let Kokona get out and followed her from behind. The theater girl kept talking to her, and Ayano usually gave her one word answers.

"Have you heard about the new play we're putting on, Ayano?"

"No."

"Oh. You'd be perfect for one of the lead roles."

"Really."

"Yes! And our club president is coming back soon. I'm sure he'd love to help you!"

"Mn."

Kizano Sunobu was someone who would get be a lot more stubborn. He was attracted to people with talent. Most other clubs would be fine with a reason as to why their club was refused. Kizano would find a way to make someone join in on his madness. Rumor was that was how he got all of the club members to join.

As much as she wanted to entertain the idea, Ayano was already bored of it. There was some other reason that the club members joined. Eccentricity was the science club's thing. The word that described the drama club best was most likely "passion". Both clubs cared for what they did. But the science club took their passion to an extreme that the drama club did not. The science club had based their entire existence around their club's focus: Bringing back a loved one, getting a high paying job, taking over the world. Whatever the drama club wanted to accomplish, it wasn't on the same level as the science one.

Ayano realized that her thoughts had changed from the Drama Club to the Science Club. They certainly did seem to be more interesting. There were no plots that were easy to figure out, no overly dramatic lines, no questions that had already been answered. What the members of the science club were doing currently seemed to be a lot more interesting than what she was doing right now. It was her hope that her current interest in the Science Club would reward her with something she couldn't predict that kept her from leaving Kokona alone. Instead she followed the purple haired girl to her club room before leaving with another pathetic excuse, and walking quickly to the Science Club room.

Kaga Kusha was rather excited to have someone to talk to about his projects. Ayano ended up listening blankly as Kaga ranted about what he had done since she last visited. His talk of world domination was something that both interested and bored her. On one hand, Kaga had done nothing that would cause her to believe he could take over the world. On the other, he was known to stalk Megamo Saikou when the student council president attended school. So far, Ayano's opinion of Kaga was neutral. He hadn't done too much to bore her, so she could still count on him to entertain her. At least until his science talk began to bore her. Their relationship was strange.

When Kaga finished ranting, Ayano left so he could return to work.

As she walked to the stairs, she became aware of a camera that monitored her when she walked past and a dark room with a curtain over the window in. It didn't take her long to figure out what was going on. She walked up to the curtain and moved it a little to peek inside.

"I know you're there." Info-Kun's deep voice sent chills through Ayano's body. "Run along now. There's nothing for you to see here."

So he thinks that he can stop me with a locked door and a sentence. Ayano thought.

"I hope you know you caught my interest, Info-Kun." Ayano said. The redhead at the computer gave no indication he heard her. It didn't matter. Ayano walked away. She had a feeling she'd get a message soon.

A/N: I didn't want to rush this and reach the rivals, but I still wanted to write this story. So this is just filler. Kind of pointless, but we got to add some more characters: Kokona and Kaga.

Fun Fact with Kaga, I was trying to figure out how to make the chapter longer when I remembered other clubs existed. Kaga's probably the one guy who would catch Ayano's interest just for all his mannerisms. Maybe one day Kaga might make the other rivals jealous.

I'd like to say that I unintentionally made Ayano is very athletic in this story. She went from the rooftop to the the theater club on the first floor, then the science club on the third floor. Aso's going to be impressed when he gets to school.

And I have a question. I'm switching the changing all the characters that showed up in the April Fool's Video to male, but that means some other characters might have to change too. The student council members will have to, to make Megamo can still have the rumor that Megami has. But are there any other characters that should change too? Such as Megami's brother and Aunt? Or Midori? Let me know, because I can't decide!

Continuing with that, what should I do with Ryoba? Should she still be an obsessive yandere? Or should she and her husband be a bit more normal?

Thank you for reading! Please leave a review on your way out, I love to read them!

~Mirai