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For the people who reviewed my other fic, you're in for a special treat (perhaps)! Onwards with da cheez!

EDIT: 29/12/10 - Previously named "Mine" has now changed to current title and chapter titles also altered :) (DECO*27!) Why? Because I'm unoriginal...

The Theory of Loving Each Other

(Sou Ai Sei Ri Ron - DECO*27)

Chapter 1: This is the first page of my evolution

("Kore wa boku no shinka no katei no ichi peejime desu" - Nisoku Hokou)

Though it is only mid-afternoon, the dull illumination of the skies would have led you to believe otherwise as a canopy of dark grey hung across the heavens, threatening to blanket the whole city in white at any given moment.

It is December and following the custom, festive decors began to litter around the school. Whether it is the small Christmas tree sparkling inconspicuously at the corner of the classroom to the excessive amount of tinsel that adorned the walls, nevertheless, a cheerful atmosphere was taking over as everyone anticipated the holiday. Except for one.

CLANG!

Was the sound of someone kicking their locker angrily as he found it was stuffed full with pieces of paper. Once again.

"Honne-kun suddenly became popular, huh?" stated a girl with a large white ribbon tied in her hair while she tilted her head to peer down the corridor for a moment then turned back to lean on the wall.

"Wasn't he popular before too? More like the girls that confess to him has suddenly increased." The tealette sitting beside her said before resuming to inspect her nails.

A third girl with fiery red hair chipped in, "But love letters? Really? In this day and age?"

"Well yeah, since he didn't tell anyone his phone number or email address." Miku said, looking up again. "The cause of this is..." her voice began to trail off as the subject came with a slight skip in her step.

As she bounded nearer, she began to wave something around, "Look, what I got from MeiMichi-chan!"

The trio leaned forward in interest.

"A carrot?" Miki raised a fine eyebrow.

Gumi smiled, "Not any carrot but a foot-shaped carrot!!" She said laying the emphasis extra thick on "foot-shaped "as she made weird hand gestures much like the music teacher, Ade-sensei, or as she was nicknamed, Ade Mozart.

Flicking her forehead, Miku successfully got the green-haired girl's attention. "Gumi! This is not the time to talk about things like that!"

"Honne-kun is?" The girl became saucer-eyed and hands instinctively flew up to her mouth in shock, "Why...?"

"It's probably the girls who have been watching him but were afraid to approach him thinking that "If that feeble girl is his girlfriend, I also have a chance!" or something like that." The twin-tailed teen said with a shrug, even putting on an extra squeaky voice to imitate the fangirls.

"He'll be easily snatched away if you don't step up for yourself~" Rin chirped, "I've heard stories of other girls going as far as placing mistletoes under the classroom door to catch him!"She said, dancing around Gumi teasingly, who knitted her eyebrows together in anxiety at the thought.

"B-but I don't know how..." Gumi's eyes retreated down to stare at the floor in uncertainty.

Miku sighed exasperatedly with a hand on her hip, "Then you'll have to learn, okay? First of all..."

Excited whispers were exchanged upon seeing the distinctive snow-white hair bobbing along the crowd in the corridor. Just as turned the corner, he heard a harmony of shrill voices call after him, for the nth time. "Dell-kun!"

Without even turning his head to see who it was, he could hear the predatory tone in their voices. Shuddering slightly and, shoving his hands in his pockets, he continued to walk briskly in the opposite direction.

They caught up with him easily and already he could hear them fawning over him shamelessly.

"Hi, I'm-" One of them started to introduce herself but was hastily cut off whenever he felt a pull at his hair.

"Heehee, his hair is soooo soft! Doesn't his half-ponytail remind you of a fluffy bunny tail?" With a frown, Dell slapped away her hand and turned the other way to escape however it seemed that they had already surrounded him as he bumped into another one.

The nameless one piped up. "No, no, Dell isn't that feeble, he's more like a wild white tiger!"

"Hi! I'm NyenTan!" The one on the left said sweetly.

"You can call me by Pi or Pie as 'p-i' or 'p-i-e'" The one on the other side said, adding a wink in for further measure.

He was about to push his way out until a head of green entered his vision, standing between him and the girls. "Gumi?" He looked at her confusedly.

'Step one: make eye contact, accomplished.' She thought to herself encouragingly. 'Step two now...' Her cheeks turned pink as she fidgeted with the edge of her sleeves and muttered, "I-I am..."

"What did she say?" One of the girls turned to look at the other who shrugged.

Her vision flickered from fangirl to fangirl nervously, failing to maintain eye contact under the pressure but still continued anyway, "Hon- De-Dell's..." She said in an even smaller voice and began to cower from them, "Girl...- Fr-fri-... Umm...Eh..." Her face flushed scarlet in embarrassment before she retreated and dashed off back to the classroom.

The girls where left staring after her with a puzzled look.

"What's with her?"

"Who knows..."

"What happened?" Miku asked with a concerned voice, patting her hair as she hugged back with her other arm.

Gumi sniffled slightly and buried her head into her friend's shoulder. "I'm scared... They're so intimidat-"

"EEEEEP!"

A loud scream echoed down the hallway, followed by other alarmed cries, causing the two to look up just as Miki burst into the classroom. "It's terrible! Honne-san has snapped!"

"The one who said that just now, come out!" He thrashed to get out of the restraining grip, growling and baring his teeth.

"Calm down, Dell! They're girls!" Ted exclaimed, glasses slipping down the bridge of his nose while he tried to pull him away.

"Hey, what happened?" Rin turned to ask Miki, jabbing her thumb at the crowd of people.

"Seems like there was someone who said that Gumi-chan isn't good enough for Honne-san." She explained.

Worried green eyes travelled to him then to the floor guiltily, 'I'm so unreliable...'

"Someone stop him!" The red-haired male cried out as he was just grasping Dell by the shirt.

She pushed through the horde and called his name repeatedly, whether it was in her mind or out loud, she didn't know, nor did she care. Leaping out, she grabbed him by the collar and closed the distance between them by standing on her tip-toes.

Though it was brief, there was a moment of silence before the swarm of people chattered noisily, and some distinct wolf-whistling and cheering could be heard.

"N-no matter wh-what people say, th-this guy is mine!" Gumi declared all the while clutching onto Dell for support as her knees wobbled and her vision went hazy. Though in other people's eyes, you might say it seemed quite possessive.

The white-haired teen only managed to catch her before she crumbled to the ground.

To those who had reviewed 'Dear, Mr. Nameless', I hope you caught all of my referencing! I tried to do it in the order they came in (and I even included the anonymous one!) Sorry if I had offended you in anyway though...

The manga that was 'fic'-timised: "Ai Kara Hajimaru" by Yukimaru Moe. (I actually had a another great pun that I was going to use but I'm having a blank, it was probably quite lame, knowing me XD)

Reviews (and/or constructive criticism) are appreciated! Oh yeah, what do you think of the genres of this story (and my other one if you have the time), I've noticed I just stick it under General but I'm not sure if that's right...

Sawahii