[b]Akane Hanazawa // Manga Club Room[/b]
April 13th, 2015 
After School

Lost in her own little world, the knocks at the door eluded her as she had a pen in her hand yet seemed to be somewhere else completely. Sighing in frustration she crumpled up the page she was working on and tossed it into the trash. [color=9e0b0f][b]"That one wasn't good either..."[/b][/color] she grumbled as she grabbed another sheet and started re-doing her drawing. [i]It's been like this for awhile now....why doesn't it sit right with me...it...feels...off...[/i]

After a few more moments, she checked the drawing, frustration mounting, crumbled up the piece of paper and tossed it at the wall. Grabbing at her hair, at the top of her lungs, shouted. "AHH!!!!! By the time she calmed down and regained her senses she heard a loud voice and turned her head. [color=9e0b0f][b]"Oh...."[/b][/color] without showing any signs of embarrassment or that something was wrong, she raised her hand. [b][color=9e0b0f]"Hey, of course we are!"[/color][/b] she said happily with her eyes closed, without taking a good look at the owner of the voice. Opening her eyes, she stared at the man. 

[color=9e0b0f][b]"It's you again."[/b][/color]

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[b]Akira Kirigakure - Warakuma High, Archery Range[/b]
Monday, April 13th, 2015
After School

As expected, Ueno's reactions are still top-notch as ever, as she nearly knocked over Hashimoto as she whipped around at warp speed as she gasped at the sight of him. Raising his hand, [color=00746b][b]"Yo"[/b][/color] he said with a knowing smile, watching as she fought to maintain her composure. [color=00746b][b]"Yeah, I'm sure he'd be all shook-up by seeing his little girl talking to another man."[/b][/color] He said as he moved closer to her face for added effect. As her voice grew quiet, she quickly looked over the lanes, probably to make sure her master didn't see her talk to him as she walked away [i]Heh[/i]

After she walked off and off to the platform to shoot, Hashimoto came over and scolded him for the little interaction as well add in an idle threat. As he walked over, apparentely feeling good over his little speech, Akira just simply laughed and walked over, getting a better view of the platform. Glancing at Saya, he could see that she was getting paler after each person took their turns aiming at the target as she stood there trembling. [i]Maybe I went too far, she was already at her limits as it was.[/i] Who could blame him? Well, a lot of people apparently, but she was quite cute and he couldn't help himself.

Finally, it was her turn. Akira had expected her to give up and step down, given the way she was trembling and looked all scared but surprisingly, she stuck it out and gave off an impressive aura of determination. Though, her arms were shaking and after a moment, released her first shot and it didn't even go half-way down the lane...There was an eery silence as the room gone quite and Ueno all red. She clearly was embarrassed, but with tears in her eyes she released a 2nd arrow, eyes closed and all, to not only make it down range it hit the board, but a bullseye nontheless. Even Akira was surprised, never would of expected it. [i]Maybe she can make it here after all... [/i]

After seeing Ueno's bullseye, there was a lot of groaning as the lot of them gave up hope on the prize. He couldn't help but laugh, but I'm sure everyone was thinking as he did, was that she'd miss and possibly come in last but nope, bullseye and while she missed the first one, no one else had gotten any better. [i]Their pride must've taken quite the hit...[/i] he grinned. After the next bunch went up and didn't do all that much, it was his turn. [i]Well, might as well get this over with.[/i]

With a stretch, he grabbed his bow and went up to the range, with all eyes on him. Grabbing an arrow, he placed it on the bow and pulled it back. With a deep breath, he glared at the target, as if fighting with it personally. After a moment, he released the arrow and drilled into the middle, Bullseye. As everyone looked on, he took a moment before loading the next arrow. Pulling it back, he took aim and fired. Tracing the first, came the second arrow, splitting the first one. 

While he wouldn't admit it, despite not having been in the Archery Club dojo to practice since that day, he'd still make it a habit to shoot hundreds of arrows at the dojo back home. It's really hard to break habit, especially after doing it for so many years now. Keeping his calm, he went back to his previous spot and put his bow as he sat down and layed against the dojo wall. It wasn't long after that the 'competition' finally wrapped up and Mika came out to announce the results. 

To the surprise of no one, Akira won the competition. It was more jealousy and anger, well mostly jealousy. Guy shows up late, wins competition and gets to go on a 'date' with Mika, it was too much. Though it meant nothing to him, he knew of someone else that it meant something totally different. As Rokoru replaced Mika and addressed the crowd, he reminded them of their rewards. With a smile, he glanced at him. [b][color=00746b]"Don't worry Rokoru, I won't keep her out too late, we'll have some fun on our [i]date[/i] on your behalf."[/color][/b] he gives him a thumbs up as he walked over to Mika.

[b][color=00746b]"I'm Ready when you are."[/color][/b]