Hey guys. This is my first fanfic EVER so please don't expect much from me. I don't expect all you to like my story and my grammar either. Just please leave a review so I can work on it the next chapter :) Help yourselves.

It was typical night in Japan. Business men hustling and bustling alongside the streets. Late night couples holding hands while going straight to Shirakawa Boulevard. Gangsters and thugs shaking their spray cans, bandalizing the walls of Paulownia.

As for the SEES, they were idle as usual. Mitsuru was reading a novel. Akihiko was watching boxing on the local sports channel. Yukari was knitting for her home economics class. And Junpei was reading the "Luxuria" magazine he got from Kenji.

Minato however had a chance to escape unconspiculously to Paulownia mall. He promised Mr. Tanaka that he'd accept the "proposition".

"Oh it's you, so you have a minute?"

Minato just blankly nodded. His eyes glancing around.

Something was bothering him. He smelled the strong perfume Mr. Tanaka had on.

"Sit down son."

Minato slowly sat down. His heart was pumping.

"You know son, I dont just give out any proposals to common teenagers so you're lucky I personally

picked you"

Minato didn't reply. His elbows placed on his knees, looking down with an unfathomable expression.

"Okay, okay. So you know how those product endorsers end up with huge amounts of money?"

"So?" Minato coldly replied.

"You'll become one of those lucky bastards! You'll be working for me now, with your impeccable skin, blue eyes, spiky blue hair and cold attitude you'll surely have anyone's attention. In short you're the PERFECT product endorser."

"I-I can't do-" Minato stuttered "B-but I have to."

"What's bothering you son?" The man asked

Minato looked down with a disturbed look and sighed. He wanted to tell Mr. Tanaka of the faults he's done. He wanted to tell him that he pawned all of his dormmates weapons secretly and he needed big loot quickly to redeem them but, he can't. Even though the guilt was eating him alive he still managed to abruptly evade the question. "You don't have to know. Look I'll take the job but no funny business okay? I'm outta here."

As Minato's lean silhouette fades in the darkness. Mr. Tanaka grinned sinisterly and uttered to himself, "Oh I don't know about that".

As Minato rides the train to Gekkoukan with Junpei and Yukari, he looks across the window blankly wondering how he can pull this off.

"Dude? What's shakin? You look a little tense. The exams are still due next month!" Junpei cluelessly said.

"You dumbass! Leave him alone. As our leader he must be stressed out from school and the Dark hour!" Yukari implied.

Minato just sighed.

"These morons have absolutely no idea on what I'm going through" Minato thought to himself.

Inside class 4-A. The new Math Teacher noticed Minato was dozing off while she was teaching about the history of triangles.

"Arisato-san!"

"Wha- Huh?"

"How dare you sleep in my class! now if you were listening.. Who was the genius founder of the tri-"

"Pythagoras. He also made the Pythagorean Theorem which has the equation a(squared) + b(squared) = c(squared)."

"Ha! Wrong! The correct answer is Pyth- ... Oh wait, that's correct! Argh! Sit down Arisato! And stop drooling on our math book!" The teacher bitterly ordered not knowing Minato's intelligence is already that of a genius.

The students giggled and one female student beside Minato blinked at him with her false eyelashes as if she were "inviting" him. Minato quickly looked away, disgusted by the female's thick make up and extremely huge breasts.

While the teacher turned around to face the board. The heavily made up female moved her chair close to Minato and flirted with him.

"Hey there blue boy what you just did was SEXY" the girl said in a low and seductive tone.

Minato just froze in disgust. He tried looking at the girl but his eyes drove away.

"Will you p-please g-go away?"

"Oh, playing hard-to-get? I like it..."

"I-I.. er hate this feeli-ng dammit.." When Minato was just about to finish his sentence the math teacher gazed at both of them

"I hear talking!"

The female couldn't help but ask out of curiosity "Hey since you don't like me and you hang out with girls and Akihiko-senpai a lot, are you by any chance umm... GAY?"

Minato froze. He just couldn't handle the word. If this sorry excuse of a human makes a scene here it'll mean the end for Minato's image, that IMAGE he had to keep. There are endless "what if's" running through his mind. One of them was "what if Aki found out?" but he had to make a move before it becomes evident.

Minato stood up out of humiliation. The students looked at him and wondered why he made a sudden gesture out of nowhere.

Embarassed, Minato quickly excused himself out of the room.

Inside the male's comfort room, Minato stared at every part of his face. He caressed his cheeks, touched his lips, and felt every corner of his face.

"This won't do"

Minato was trying to perfect his appearance for the proposal set to him by Mr. Tanaka assuming the pay would be bigger if he doesn't have any blemishes or unwanted marks.

Minato thoroughly washed his face and looked at the mirror unsatisfied. When he was about to repeat washing his face again, the cubicle door behind him opened.

Minato astonished, turned around. "A-Akihiko-senpai?! What're you doing here?"

Minato, in the presence of Aki became oblivious of his words. Of course he's here, this is the Gekkoukan's male comfort room. Any male student can enter here without anyone's permission! He thought.

"Can't a man use the male's room when he needs to go?" Akihiko chuckled softly.

"Ah.. Yes! Senpai your.. birthday is coming right?" Minato stuttered

"What? No one knows my birthday.. Why? It's no big deal really. I only eat 2 bowls of deluxe ramen to celebrate. Wanna come? My treat don't worry."

"Doesn't anyone give you gifts?" Minato wanted to take back what he said. He sounded just like one of Aki's swooning female admirers. It was just then he realized that he's flushing in embarassment.

Akihiko laughed "No. Only Mitsuru gave me one. It was a book about boxing. Why? You planning on giving me one?" He said jokingly.

"Ah. No.. Just asking."

"Haha. You're kinda weird you know? I don't really need gifts to make me happy. I just need ramen and some good ol' training. But there's actually something I want for my birthday..." Aki zoned out for a moment

"But nevermind, that's impossible"

"Oh. Well I uh... gotta run to class" Minato hurriedly walked away.

"Mmm. You do that"

While hurrying back to class, afraid Aki might catch up with him, tripped over someones foot. It was Mitsuru-senpai, she was reading a book across the hallway titled "The Avarice"

"Arisato! I apologize for being callous. I was reading my book, I didn't realize my feet were in the way." Mitsuru helped Minato up.

"Mitsuru-senpai! Uh can I ask you a question? You have known Akihiko-senpai the longest right?"

"That is correct. Why?"

"What gift does he like?" Minato asked , trying to hide his flushed face. Maybe someone as studious and intelligent like Mitsuru won't waste her time meddling Minato's gift crisis. So she was the perfect person to ask and there was no other person to ask anyway.

"That is.." Mitsuru wondered for a second "Honestly Arisato your question caught me off guard.. I don't really have any clue about Akihiko's amusements and gratifications. He's been silent about such matters. He only focuses on the dark hour and his training, maybe you should ask him yourself"

"That's not neccesary." Minato was about to walk away when Mitsuru stopped him.

"Wait Arisato."

His eyes beamed.

If I remember correctly.. Akihiko keeps a journal. It's a progress journal, but I'm assuming you won't barge into his room and get the journal yourself. He writes regularly about his training progress, but maybe you can .. Oh forget what I said Arisato. I feel like I've just indirectly devastated Akihiko's privacy, please keep out of Akihiko's or anyone's room. As the leader, you should provide equal respect to each member of the SEES."

Minato zoned out for a rather long moment thinking about his 5 point plot to sneak inside Aki's room.

"Arisato!"

Mitsuru's face slightly worried about Minato doing the things she knew the latter would.

"Arisato please. Be mature and stay out of Akihiko's private space I'm going to execu-"

"It's fine. I'm not interested anymore anyway."

"But you just.. nevermind. I surely hope so Arisato, now attend to your class, *looks at watch* what? It's dismissal alread-"

Before Mitsuru can finish her sentence, Minato disappeared.

Aww I know I had doubts with this chapter too. Don't worry I'll make improvements next time.