Dia's POV

"Who do you like?" the words rang around the room. I wanted to swear very badly but...

BUT AUTHOR-KUN DOESN'T SWEAR IN BOOKS, anyways back to the story...

Mari would pull something like this. She deceives everyone with that smile of hers. Then I got an idea, she wanted the truth? I'll give her the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

"All of you guys." I answered. "I like hanging out with you guys."

The eight were shocked that I managed to find a loophole. 

Mari just nodded, but I could see a look of defeat on her face. I had successfully defended myself. 

The next number, was ten. 

"Finally!" Shizuko smiled, "Alright Kanan, truth or dare?" 

"Why me?" she said surprised.

"I still haven't gotten you back..." He grinned evilly.

"Fine, anything you can think of won't scare me," she challenged, "dare."

"I dare you to go to the city go to the top floor of the tallest building and look down." 

That was pure evil. Everyone knew how afraid Kanan was of two things, the dark and heights. 

"Can I have truth?" her tone changed really quickly, you could sense the fear in her voice.

"Nope. Oh also I heard there are these glass windows on the top that you can actually go over the street, yeah you need to lay face down to the ground." 

The color on Kanan's face drained, she was absolutely petrified, "Please no," she begged, "please, please, please... think of something else... please!" 

You had to feel sorry for her, she was absolutely scared, and Shizuko showed no mercy. 

We all hopped into Mari's van, Kanan tried to escape a total of five times. We eventually had to put her in the back seat held back by You and Chika. 

"After this I will murder you!" she glared.

"Yeah, yeah, it's just a game, cheer up..." he smiled innocently.

We finally arrived at the tower, or I guess building. It was pretty tall, but not tall enough that you couldn't see the street, which was Kanan's fear.

We climbed the elevator all the way up, Mari holding Kanan the entire time. Arriving at the very top of the building, Mari let Kanan go. 

Terrified, Kanan walked towards the box made of glass. Seeing the cars moving beneath her, the people walking, she stood on the glass.

"If you think about it, it's like conquering your fears." Shizuko said positively.

"You're lucky I don't throw you out of this window right now!" Kanan hissed. 

He put his hands up defensively, "Am I gonna die after this?" he whispered to me.

"You put this on yourself," I responded.

Kanan finally went face to the ground on the glass box thing.

The deal we decided in the car was one minute looking down. She was doing well aside from the fact that she was hyperventilating. 

As soon as the timer hit zero, she was already running towards the elevator, wanting to get back on solid ground.

On the ride back she said absolutely nothing, scarred by her experience up there. This was supposed to help her with her fear of heights, but all it did was terrify her even more.

Even though she didn't say anything, she stared down Shizuko the entire time. Warning him that if it was ever her turn to ask, she'll make it hell for him.

Arriving back at the house we decided it'd be fair if every person go their turn to ask. 

The rounds went by quickly, there wasn't much to talk about, a few dares, nothing extreme. Then Kanan got an idea, she was the very last person.

"Shizuko," she smiled, "Truth or dare?"

He was scared of what dare Kanan would come up with so he went with the safer option, "Truth."

Little did he know that was exactly what Kanan wanted... "Who is your favorite out of us nine?"

See she didn't want an answer, she wanted panic. She knew there was no way Shizuko would actually give a truthful response. Not only that she wanted to make the first and second years nervous about his answer. Which they were...

"Is it too late to ask for dare?" he scratched his head. 

Now everyone was on the edge of their seat. The pressure was building in the room.

Mari whispered in my ear, "Is it me, or is it getting hot in here?" 

"If it's taken out of context they may think of something else..." I responded back. "Choose your words better."

"How many hentai's have you watched Dia? Your mind went straight to that in point-blank of a second." she teased.

You might as well have told Shizuko that he'd be skydiving today, I'm sure he'd rather pick that option than give us his answer here. 

"Can we get an answer?" Kanan stretched. "It's literally night time now." 

"What if all of you are my favorite?" 

Okay the way he said that just made all nine of us blushed. That was just really, cute. Actually that brings me to the next part, why did we like him?

Well for me, he was just a caring guy, always helping us out and doing whatever we wanted. I mean it's kind of hard not to fall for someone that you've spent most of the time with.

Mari's POV

Dang, that Shizuko is slick. He may not realize what he just pulled with that answer of his, but my god that got everyone's heart racing. See I realized I liked him when he let me stay at his house. The guy was pretty much gave me the entire house. Not to mention he was cute about it too.

Kanan's POV

This guy... he's really something else. I promised myself that I wouldn't fall for him when we first met, mainly because I figure the second-years would fall for him. The guy was cute, but not only that he still did things with us no matter how absurd. Heck he went on nine dates over a three week period...

Ruby's POV

When he took me to the movie, I don't know... It just seemed like a small little crush at the time. But then as time went on that little crush started to grow even more. And I know I probably won't win, but I just want to tell him how I feel.

Hanamaru's POV

He picked on me, called me short, and would head pat me. I know I can't win, I'm just a side character, nobody really cares about me. I'm only helpful in times where they need some sort of comedy. I'm not like the others, I don't have anything special. But I just want to confess. 

Yoshiko's POV

He really cares about us. He spent time with all of us individually. Honestly how could you not fall for him? Even though our interactions are short a lot, when we did spend that whole day together, it felt like he understood me. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't feel the same way but it'll make me feel better if I one day tell him, when will I? I don't know...

Riko's POV

The guy is a caring person, he gets on my nerves sometimes but he's a sincere person. He's serious at times, but he's always looking to have fun. And he got us Christmas presents, that was definitely cute. I fell for him when he I guess saved me, he showed that he's willing to risk himself to protect us. True, I probably wasn't going to win, but I'll confess one day. 

You's POV

This idiot, the guy has been in too many clichés. How the hell did he find himself in a harem of nine high school girls? But if I'm being honest, if all nine of us are in a harem together with a guy, I'm glad it's Shizuko. I don't know how we all ended up falling for the same freaking dude, but he's adorable. To think that he does everything we ask him too. 

Chika's POV

Shizuko really cares about us, he's been helping us ever since we've met. We didn't really care for him when he showed us around, but then again we also didn't want it to just be the nine of us. So we ended up hanging out with each other. And over time, like all of us, I fell for him as well. I don't think it's cause he's necessarily the cutest guy I've ever met, but it's more of his personality. He'll protect us no matter what and that's honestly all you can hope for.

Shizuko's POV

Ugh, am I a bad guy? Is it bad of me to like all nine of them? You know in most cases in anime and manga when the main character likes someone, that someone most likely likes them back. Unfortunately this isn't an anime. 

I mean yes there have been clichés and stuff, but there's no way they like me. If this was an anime the next thing you'll tell me is that we return back to school tomorrow...

Dia called my phone, "Better sleep well tonight, we have school tomorrow!"

Okay universe. I see what you're doing, you're making me believe this is just part of the script... Though I guess it's better this way, because what will happen if one of them do confess? Or even worse, what if all nine of them confess?

I kind of went a little overboard with this chapter... But I kind of wanted to explain what was going through the nine's mind and why they like him. Though I got lazy midway through and just put some crappy answer lol...

Anyways hope you all liked it! I'm out of inspiration so time to ask my nine year old brother what to do next... Love you all!

I think we all know what I'm gonna say next... (can we make it my trademark?)

Be safe! Mask up! Don't be stupid!

-Kazuya