"Did you get the last ones?"

Yukio grimaced and shook his head . Jeniferu had made collecting data about anything concerning the freshmen a breeze . With most of their friends juniors the second years were covered as well, but a lot of seniors still resented them .

"Can't be helped then," Kyoko said . "We've still got six of their cla.s.ses and most of the clubs . "

"And?" Yukio looked at his girlfriend, but he already knew, or at least guessed the answer .

Kyoko smirked . "It's as Urufu said . Traditional j.a.panese food . Displays about j.a.pan and even a couple of old plays . Nothing foreign will be part of the cultural festival . "

Noriko's hand grabbed his shoulder and Yukio felt Urufu's girlfriend shaking with laughter . When he turned around he saw how her other hand grabbed Kyoko's just as tightly .

"What is it?" he wondered when she wouldn't stop .

Finger dug deeper into his shoulder . "Urufu, you wonderful moron!"

"Huh?"

Noriko's laughter subsided into a wide grin . "Kareyos.h.i.+'s just as ignorant of history as Urufu said . Look here!" she said, let go of his shoulder and bent between him and Kyoko . When she reached the table she placed her hand on the section for food stalls .

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Yukio looked at where Noriko pointed . "And?"

"Yukio, really!" Noriko giggled and stabbed her index finger at two stalls . "Ramen and tempura . "

That ramen was a rather recent introduction from the mainland was hardly unknown, but tempura? Still, it wasn't exactly enough to warrant Noriko's level of hilarity . "What else?"

Noriko squeezed herself between them, but when Kyoko shot her an angry glare she backed away and returned to the other side of the table . "Sorry," she said .

Kyoko nodded consent and it was as if the girls had never clashed at all just moments earlier .

Noriko spread out the papers and showed entry after entry where Kareyos.h.i.+'s ideas of a pure j.a.pan showcased something imported .

"He's so clueless it's funny . " Then Noriko's face grew sombre . "And now for the not so funny part . " She opened her bag and dropped another paper onto the table .

Yukio read it and shook his head . "Morons!"

That outburst had James turn his head from behind the counter . Yukio used it as an opportunity to order another round . Something hot this time . Autumn came early this year and the asthmatic air-conditioner no longer had any problems keeping the temperature at check .

"Can't say I'm surprised," Kyoko noted when she was finished reading the single page Noriko had added . "Micromanagement is bound to fail, but I'm not surprised . "

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"They really never took note of Urufu at all, did they?"

Yukio looked at Noriko . She might be starstruck but she wasn't an idiot . "I don't think they could understand . Took us long enough, and we see him almost every day . "

"But still . The student council a.s.signing individual tasks?"

"That's just Kareyos.h.i.+ being so scared of losing control he's s.h.i.+tting his pants . "

Around them club members laughed at the vulgar outburst – the freshmen not until Iris.h.i.+ma High's vice princ.i.p.al guffawed . Yukio wasn't sure if that was a good sign or not .

Then the older man rose from his chair, pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose and walked to their table .

"May I inquire about what merited such an, eh, spirited remark earlier?" he said when he arrived at their table .

Yukio watched as Noriko wordlessly handed over a stack of pages . Vice Princ.i.p.al Noguchi-sensei, because in difference from Kareyos.h.i.+ he did deserve both t.i.tles and honorifics, read them in silence and smirked when he came to the end .

"Funny," he began, "I thought they called us uptight at Iris.h.i.+ma High . " Then his eyes got a sharper touch to them when he met Yukio's stare . "Your comment on this, young man?"

Yukio dared smiling a little . Closer to two years with Urufu had built confidence he didn't know was there to begin with . "As long as the context merely stays complicated it should work just fine," Yukio said .

Vice Princ.i.p.al Noguchi scowled, but Yukio wasn't taken aback .

"That's also the main danger, sensei . They're likely to be lulled into an illusion of safety and for that reason becoming less able to handle what Urufu so fondly calls 'incoming s.h.i.+t from the left' . "

"Incoming s.h.i.+t?"

"From the left, sensei . " Yukio smiled . "That's when complicated becomes complex . In this case it's likely to occur shortly after we open for the public . "

It would happen earlier . Small things . Unimportant things . Things on a scale the student council could handle by burning excess energy that would be needed later . Still it wasn't the main problem .

"Sensei, we can handle a boring cultural festival, but I'm worried there are only shards left of the meaning behind having one . "

"To promote cooperation and initiative," Noguchi-sensei said .

"Well, this year we'll be doing what we're ordered to do, and taking initiative most certainly isn't that . "

"I wonder," Noguchi-sensei said, "why you transferred back . "

"Couldn't leave Urufu all alone, could I?" Yukio sipped some of his lukewarm tea . That wasn't entirely true . "Because it's so much fun being around him, even when it isn't . Because he makes me grow . "

"Because they are our friends," Kyoko said .

"Because we love them," Noriko added .

In her case the word love held a slightly different meaning . The couple still hadn't gone public with their relations.h.i.+p . Not after someone kicked Noriko down the stairs just after the new trimester started . As for his own relations.h.i.+p with Kyoko, well the armed guards were back . Urufu's guardian just loved sticking a thumb into Kareyos.h.i.+'s eyes, and twist .

"Now this is funny," Noriko said .

Yukio brought his mind out of his thoughts . "What is?"

"This . It specifically says every cla.s.s is a.s.signed logistics duties throughout the entire festival . "

Yukio shrugged . "We had to last year as well . "

"But it wasn't made explicit like this . " Noriko looked at them . "Something stinks . "