Author's notes: Hey guys! I'm back! I was originally going to make this a one chapter fanfiction but I decided to split it up so I can get some feedback. I haven't made a fanfiction in awhile so I was hoping to get some constructive feedback incase my writing ability dropped since last April. ChitogeXRaku is one of my favorite shippings, right up there with MegumiXKiyo and TiaXZatch (which I should be making more in the future). Anyways, I hope you enjoy!

"Where am I?"

It was as if Raku was abducted and taken to this unfamiliar place. Looking around, Raku noticed he was trapped in a seemingly endless hallway and yet he noticed something.

"A door?" Raku questioned, "Why would there only be one room?"

Feeling like he only had one option, Raku opened the door and to his surprise he found a familiar girl who he never saw like this.

"C-Chitoge?!" Raku blurted out in surprise, she was looking right at him.

Chitoge's face resembled both sorrow and silent rage as she cried silent tears. All of sudden she started shouting, but…

There was no noise?

Raku stood there in complete shock as Chitoge seemed to be screaming at the top of her lungs and yet it was dead silent. During this, Chitoge had been looking at the floor; suddenly, she raised her head and yelled in a voice that finally reached Raku.

"You stupid beansprout!"

After these words, Chitoge and everything else vanished. Raku's vision was blurred but noticed he was back in his room.

"It was just a dream." Raku whispered to himself. There was a ringing noise which woke him up; it was his phone and he slowly went over to answer it.

"H-Hello?" Raku asked, still in shock from the dream.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!" screamed a voice over the phone.

Before Raku replied, he looked over at his clock and found out he overslept.

"Dammit, I'm sorry! I'll be there real soon!" Raku yelled in shock and hung up his phone to get ready for school. Running with all his might, Raku finally met up with the person who called him earlier.

"Good morning, darling." An annoyed voice spoke to him.

After taking a few seconds to catch his breath, Raku simply said "Well, lets go, Chitoge."

His "girlfriend" was Chitoge Kirisaki and due to their families fighting, Raku and Chitoge were both forced to date each other to calm things down. It was, in a lot ways, a chore to date one another.

Frustrated, Chitoge replied "Huh?! I've been waiting here for twenty minutes and I woke you up. That's all you have to say to me?!"

Scratching his head, Raku tried calming the beast "Oh, you look nice today."

"Wha-" Chitoge blurted before retorting "It's not like you mean it. You're only saying that so I wouldn't yell at you."

"So?"

"So you really didn't mean it?! You could have at least tried to cover it up!"

"What would be the point in lying?!"

"Lying is what got you into this mess!"

And just like, the couple starting arguing all the way to school. After getting viciously hugged by Marika and receiving death threats from Tsugumi, Raku said his morning greetings to Onodera.

"Hey, Onodera. How are you?" Raku asked the shy brunette.

"I'm fine, how are- Raku?! What happened to you?!" Onodera asked in shock upon seeing Raku's many bruises.

Feeling a dark and intimidating aura to his right (which happens to be where Chitoge is sitting), Raku lied "O-Oh, I-I just… fell down some stairs today!"

To his right, Raku heard Chitoge say "Hmpf, maybe if you weren't such a stupid beansprout, you wouldn't have 'fallen down those stairs.'" The truth was Chitoge once again beat the day lights out of Raku during their argument.

Normally, Raku would've retorted to the "gorilla woman" but something wasn't right. His head started hurting a little at the words "stupid beansprout". Chitoge always called him that but something felt strange hearing it this time.

"R-Raku, are you okay?" Raku heard Onodera ask worriedly.

Not wanting her to worry, Raku forced a smile and said "Don't worry, I'll be fine. Just a small headache." Looking a little to the right, Raku noticed that Chitoge looked concern.

"D-Did… did it hurt too much?" Chitoge asked timidly which threw Raku off.

"Huh, what do you mean?" Raku asked, thinking that there was no way Chitoge could ever be concerned about him.

Irritated that Raku didn't know what she was asking, Chitoge replied "Never mind, stupid beansprout."

The pain in Raku's head that had almost subsided returned stronger and it was as if he heard an echo from within his mind "stupid beansprout!" This voice in his head was Chitoge's but she sounded like she was in pain, just like the dream. Clutching his hair, Raku gritted his teeth and lowered his head to hide the pain but he wasn't deceiving anyone.

Full of guilt, Chitoge asked worriedly "R-Raku?! Are you okay?! What's wrong?!

With some of the pain gone, Raku looked up at Chitoge and once again forced a smile "Nothing, just a little headache. I'm fine, really." At this point Raku could tell he was worrying his "girlfriend".

"RAKU!" Marika's voice enveloped the entire room as she darted towards Raku and wrapped her arms gently around him.

"Don't worry, Raku. The power of my love will ease your pain." Marika said caringly.

To nobody's surprise, Chitoge took action and lifted Marika into the air. With devilish rage, Chitoge said threateningly, "Off." It was a simple command but it was the rage behind it that made Marika listen.

Turning her attention to Raku, Chitoge grabbed his wrist and said with authority "If you were fine then you wouldn't be in so much pain. Come on, I'm taking you to the nurse's office."

Knowing he couldn't stop Chitoge and being a little worried for himself, Raku gave in and the couple walked to the nurse's office. The nurse gave Raku some medicine but it would take a little bit for the medicine to kick in.

Before leaving, Chitoge looked back at Raku and said "Well, I'm heading to class now. Don't come back until you feel better."

"Yeah, yeah." Raku replied to her orders and added in a small voice "When I said 'you look nice today' I meant it. And thanks for walking me down here."

Chitoge's eyes widened as a blush rushed quickly to her face. Trying to hide her embarrassment, Chitoge quickly turned around and headed straight back to class.

"…Why did he just say that?"

"...Why did I say just say that?"

The teacher was going over new material but Chitoge's mind wasn't on the lecture, but rather on Raku's words and trying to contain her own embarrassment.

Raku couldn't wrap his head around it, after all, he knows he did say it to calm Chitoge down. Maybe he meant it but why did he tell her she looked nice?

"Dumb beansprout!"

As if from a distant memory, Chitoge's voice once again rang through his head. Although it was painless this time, it only surfaced more questions to Raku. Trying to get his mind off things, Raku got the nurse's permission to go back to class.

Before entering class, Raku decided to take a quick look inside and to his surprise Chitoge was blushing and looked deep in thought.

"Chitoge, are you paying attention?"

"Huh?" asked the bewildered blond. Chitoge recognized the voice as the teacher's but the person she first saw was the one who put her in this situation.

"Ra-!" Chitoge blurted as her face became a dark shade of crimson.

Going off his instincts, Raku hid himself before the teacher could look his way.

"Ra…ku?" the teacher finished her statement and went on, "Chitoge, if you're so worried about your boyfriend then you should go check on him. Come back once you get your mind off of him."

"But… But!" Chitoge protested but soon gave in as she gathered her things and slowly left the classroom. Only two seconds passed after Chitoge left before a loud thud came from the other side of the wall.

"What the hell was all that!" Chitoge roared.

"Umm… Well… How did I get here again?" Raku asked as his eyes were still spinning.

After leaving the classroom, the very first thing Chitoge did was punch Raku dead in the face and dragged his half-conscious body to the courtyard. The two were sitting on a bench.

"You idiot! First you distract me in class and then you show up to class without a word!"

"Wait, what? Aren't those two instances the same?" Raku asked.

Chitoge's rage was replaced with an equal amount of embarrassment. What Raku didn't know was that his "compliment" is what distracted Chitoge during the entire class period.

"Sh-Shut up!" Chitoge quietly said.

Feeling a kind a click in his head, Raku replied "Oh, were you thinking about earlier when I called you cute?"

By the end of his own statement, Raku had no idea of the origin of his words. He didn't even think of them so it was as if the words came out on their own.

"Why did I say that?!" Raku asked himself.

Chitoge was flustered and was even about to hit Raku again. Remembering something important, she stopped and asked "'Cute'? But you said I 'looked nice', remember?"

Thinking properly this time, Raku replied shyly, "Well, of course you look cute, you stupid gorilla. They both mean the same thing."

"Oh." Chitoge simply said. It was true that they sounded the same; but, to a girl, "cute" is a significant step above "looks nice". A soft blush rose to her cheeks from thinking about it.

"Th-Thanks, Raku." Chitoge said in almost a whisper. Sometimes it felt good to act cute despite the embarrassment.

The rest of the day went by pretty normally until it was time for bed. Alone in his room, Raku was looking at his pendant and was lost into thought.

"Today was a mess. I got into a fight with Chitoge the minute I saw her. Then later she hit me so hard that I didn't fully come to until she dragged me outside. And then… And then I kept hearing Chitoge's voice screaming at me. 'Stupid beansprout'… Why? Why do I keep hearing that? I don't even remember her yelling that at me like that before the dream. She sounds so really… hurt. Did I do something to her? Wait, what am I thinking?" Raku started rubbing his forehead and had one final thought "I'm probably just over thinking things."

Although it was bed time for some, there was one girl who was wide awake while writing in her diary. While writing, Chitoge was carefree and joyful until it got to one part she pondered fiercely about writing down. After a gulp, Chitoge anxiously wrote "Raku called me cute today. It was really weird but it made me feel happy, I think. I mean it really did make me feel happy but, I don't know." Chitoge always had trouble being honest with her feelings, even to herself. With every person comes insecurities so she added "I just really hope he meant it…"

Thinking about the day's events, Chitoge had a serious look and wrote one final thing "I don't know what it is but something is bothering Raku! I can tell it's not some normal headache from me attacking him because I always hold back if it's for him." Blushing with regret, Chitoge erased the part about her holding back but added in its place "Something is bothering Raku really badly and I'm gonna find out what it is!"

Even though Chitoge may sometimes be oblivious, she has an instinct when it comes to Raku. Maybe it's from being around him so much during her high school year or maybe it's because deep down she cares so much about him that she can tell that's something off.

Suddenly feeling tired, Chitoge turned off the lights and decided to go to bed. A sudden urge caught Chitoge off guard when she saw her phone. Before falling asleep, she typed out a message saying "Goodnight, Raku." and pressed send. For not texting Raku at all today, she felt strange for sending a text at the very end. "Great, now he's going to think I'm weird. Maybe I should just say I texted the wrong num-" she thought until her phone cut her off when she received a message saying "Goodnight, Chitoge - Raku."

With a soft smile, Chitoge's eyes closed as she peacefully drifted away into sleep, confident about helping Raku the very next day.