(The next day)

When Aika woke up she turned on her side and saw that Sakura wasn't there anymore. She sat up and looked around the room for Sakura but she didn't see her anywhere.

"I wonder where Sakura went? I should probably go looking for her." Aika said to herself as she got up and got dressed.

After getting her dress on she went up to Sakura's yellow painted door with plants and sweets painted on it and opened it. Once she opened the door she caught a whiff on a delicious smell of home made pancakes being made. Following the scent, Aika went down to the Kitchen where the smell was coming from and saw Sakura there making pancakes.

"Oh Hey Aika, You're up! How did you sleep?" Sakura asked.

"I slept well, thanks for asking, also what kind of Pancakes are you making?" Aika asked.

"Oh it's something new. I'm inventing their black berry pancakes with a little twist. I call it Guāng Bǐngzi Shíjiān." Sakura explained.

"Um Guāng Bǐngzi Shíjiān? What does that mean?" Aika asked, confused by what she said.

"Oh, That's a little secret my friend." Sakura said.

Aika crooked her head a little confused by what Sakura was saying but decided not to question it any further. She sat down at the table and waited for Sakura to be finished with breakfast so she could enjoy it. Then Benjior came into the kitchen looking very sleepy as he had just woken up.

"Uhg Morning Sakura, did you make my coffee?" Benjior asked his daughter sleepily.

"I did! I make it for you every morning dad!" Sakura exclaimed with a smile on her face.

"Ah Thanks sweetie, what did I do to be blessed with such an amazing daughter like you?" Benjior asked as he patted his daughter on the head.

"Aww thanks dad! Also I put your coffee in a thermal cup so it can stay warm. I also made it just the way you like it, extra sugar and vanilla cream." Sakura explained as she grabbed the thermal cup and handed it to her father.

"Thanks dear, I love it when you make my coffee, it always turns out so delicious!" Benjior exclaimed happily as he took his coffee and sat down at the table.

He then took a sip from his coffee and smiled at the delicious taste. Benjior was happy to have such a talented daughter like Sakura when it came to things that tasted sweet.

"Hey Benjior you said you wanted to show me something last night, but I couldn't as I wasn't in any mental state to do so. So what did you want to show me?" Aika asked, remembering that he wanted to show her something.

"Oh right, it's on my desk so give me a moment and I'll be right back with what I wanted you to see." Benjior said as he put his coffee down and left the kitchen to get what he needed from his office.

Aika said they were wondering what in the world Benjiro wanted to show her that seemed rather important. After about five minutes Benjior came back with some papers in his hand as well as a pen. He then sat back down in his original seat, put the papers on the desk, and slid them over to Aika for her to see. When Aika took a look at the papers he had slid over to her her eyes widened as they were forms for a restraining order.

"Um... I'm confused. What's this for?" Aika asked, feeling all kinds of confused about this.

"Well it's for those cheerleaders, this is to ensure that they Will stay away from you. In the past when I was just a fresh new cop I dealt with cases of kids getting bullied a lot. However sometimes when the bully is told to stay away from their victim they don't always listen to the warning even from a cop and take things to the extreme. So the victim has a restraining order signed in-order to insure that the bully will stay away from them. I was worried that this might turn into one of those cases so I looked around and I found some papers for a restraining order left over from the last time I had to print some out. So I called up some people I know from work who are in-charge of this if I could use these for you and they said that if you signed them and had them submitted then it would count. However this is all up to you Aika as this is something you're going through, I'm just suggesting this as I want you to be safe especially from those girls who had hurt you so much for all these years." Benjior explained to Aika letting her know why he had those papers.

Aika looked down at the papers for a moment and thought about what Benjior had said. She was on the fence with this one as she didnt know if the cheerleaders all got the message last night and would indeed leave her alone. However she was a little concerned that they wouldn't listen and would continue to bother and bully her.

"Um... I'll need to think about this for a while Benjior this is a big decision to make and I don't want to feel like I'm going to the extreme if I sing this without thinking it over." Aika explained.

"I get it, I'll save this just in case you change your mind." Benjior said as he took back the papers and brought them back to his office.

Aika sighed, not sure if she should really sign the papers or not, on one hand she really did want the cheer leaders to leave her alone, but on the other she'd felt like it'd be a bit extreme with a restraining order.

Aika was snapped out of her thoughts when Sakura placed a plate with two big fluffy pancakes in-front of her. The pancakes had some black dots on them and were decorated with edible purple flowers on top and a black and purple whipped cream on the top with a black raspberry on top of the whipped cream. There was also a purple syrup on the pancakes as well, it pretty much had the colors that Aika wore all the time.

"Here I feel like you'd be able to think better on a full stomach." Sakura said as she handed Aika some silverware.

"Thanks Sakura you're the best." Aika said while smiling and took the silverware.

Sakura smiled and went back to make more pancakes for everyone else in the house. Aika then took her knife and fork and cut into her pancakes and began to eat them. When she took her first bite she realized that there was something in the pancakes, the black spots where black berries and their was also purple grape jelly inside of them as well.

Overall it tasted amazing, like nothing she had before, Aika started crying a little over how good it was. Sakura looked back at Aika and saw the smile on her face and the tears of joy she was shedding from the pancakes she made.

She smiled at that as it always made her feel good whenever someone enjoyed her food. She then heard footsteps coming down the stairs and soon Botan and Haru emerged in the kitchen, both still sleepy.

"*Yawn* Morning sis what cha making? Smells good." Botan said as he rubbed his eyes.

"It's a new kind of pancake dish I'm making, I call it Guāng Bǐngzi Shíjiān." Sakura explained.

"Ohh that sounds good! I can't wait to see what you're doing with this new recipe!" Botan exclaimed excitedly to try the new dish his little sister is making.

Sakura smiled and went on to make the next batch of pancakes for her brother and friend.

(At Hinata's house)

Mio woke up to the smell of coffee in her kitchen. She sat up and saw that she had fallen asleep on her couch and that there was a blanket draped over her. She sat up and looked into the kitchen and saw her younger brother Asahi making coffee.

"*Yawn* M-morning little bro, how was your night?" Mio asked.

"Huh?! Oh it went great, thanks for asking sis." Asahi said.

"I'm happy to hear that!" Mio exclaimed happily for her younger brother.

"Thanks and no need to make me breakfast. I'm heading out to get my shop ready for the day." Asahi explained.

"What but it's only 7 in the morning you don't need to open for another hour." Mio explained.

"Mio you're forgetting that there's a festival going on today and it's on the street where my shop is. So It's going to be flooded with customers and tourists. That's why I'm leaving early. I need to get going and get my shop set up for today as it's going to be one of the busiest days for me." Asahi explained.

"Oh right The Ikune shrine summer festival, I forgot about it! I've been so busy with work that I forgot that was going to happen today!" Mio exclaimed, remembering the festival was today.

"Yeah so I gotta go now! And um maybe you should bring Hinata to the festival as I know he's been spending a lot of time in his room... especially ever since his father went missing." Asahi said sadly as he thought about how it had affected his nephew.

"... I know, I just hope we'll get an update soon. It's been months and Hinata has been getting pretty distant lately and I'm worried about him." Mio said.

"I know I am too, it's our job to worry about him, you're his mum and I'm his uncle so we have to worry about him. I do hope that they will find your husband soon with the help of M as he is one of Japan's greatest detectives." Asahi explained.

Mio smiled at what her little brother had said. She's glad that he tried his best to help her feel better over her husband's disappearance, she also thought that going to the festival would help her son out as well. Asahi looked at his watch and saw that it was almost time for him to go.

"Oh Crud I gotta get going now or else I'll never make it in time for the festival rush! I'll see you around sis!" Asahi exclaimed as he scrambled to get the rest of his coffee together and rushed out of the house.

Asahi ran as fast as he could to get to his shop intime and open up for the festival. As he ran his phone then started to ring so he slowed down to a walk and took out his phone to see who was calling. When he read the caller Id he saw that it was his Yakuza Boss friend, he felt his stomach churn a little as while they were friends he still was pretty scary.

However Asahi sighed and reassured himself that this man wasn't a scary yakuza boss, he was his friend and that's that. So Asahi picked up the phone to see what his friend wanted to talk to him about.

"Hello?" Asahi said when he picked up the phone.

"Hey Asahi how have you been? Sorry I haven't called you in a while. Things here have been very busy for me so I haven't had any free time to myself." His friend explained.

"Oh it's alright Ritsu I've been busy with my shop and today is the Ikune shrine summer festival so my shop will be flooded with customers coming in today." Asahi explained.

"Yeah I know, and um hey I know you're going to be busy today but I need to ask you for a small favor." Ritsu said.

"Um it depends what the favor is Ritsu." Asahi said.

"Well it's pretty simple, you think you can watch over my daughter for the day? I have a meeting today and Sota unfortunately got some pretty bad food poisoning from something he ate last night so he's out of the job till he gets better." Ritsu explained.

When Asahi heard that he felt himself die a little as it was one of the busiest days for him, and he had to take care of his friend's kid as her usual caretaker was sick with food poisoning. However Asahi sighed as he knew that Ritsu's daughter was well behaved and she'd even help around the store every now and again so taking care of her would be a big help.

"Alright, I can take care of her while you're at your meeting." Asahi said.

"Aw thanks man you're a lifesaver, I'll drop her off this afternoon so expect her around your lunch break." Ritsu said before ending the call.

Asahi smiled as he put his phone back in his back and continued on to his store.

(Later that day)

The Anime Artists were sitting in the living room watching TV when Ichika came into the room.

"Hey Kids the local Ikune shrine summer festival is going on today and I was hoping if you all would like to go?" Ichika asked.

"Ohh! I love that festival, it's so much fun!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Yeah I do too, what about you guys?" Botan asked.

"I never really had the time to go as my part time job kept me busy, but I can go as the store is closed due to renovations being made." Haru explained.

"I don't go to events like that as I'm very introverted and I was kinda also worried I'd run into Akane and the other cheerleaders. Out of all of them Akane was always the worst of them all when it came to bullying me." Aika explained sadly.

After she was done explaining, Haru put his arms around Aika and gave her a tight hug reassuring her.

"Don't worry Aika Benjior and your mom told her and the others to stay away from you, and I think after what Sakura did to Akane the other day I'm sure she learned her lesson." Haru explained with confidence.

When Aika heard that, she smiled a bit and felt a little bit better about going to the festival.

"Yeah and if she does show up to the festival and tries to ruin it for you I'll make her lose even more teeth then what she's already lost from my last attack!" Sakura explained with fury in her voice.

Everyone looked at Sakura with fear as she once again scared them with her unexpecting anger and talked about violence. Both her mother and Brother were the most shocked as they still didn't know that Sakura had this side to her personality.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's have some fun!" Sakura exclaimed, returning to her kind and sweet personality.

Everyone just nodded slowly before getting up to go to the festival, all hoping that they wouldn't see that violent side of Sakura as she was scary like that.

"Hey mom, are you going to come with us?" Botan asked.

"I wish I could but I'm needed at work as we have a very important client coming today so I was called in to come into work. But I do hope you'll be able to take care of Sakura and the rest of your friends Botan as you are the oldest." Ichika explained.

"Um Ichika Just because Botan is the oldest doesn't mean he's the most reliable, let alone responsible." Aika said, giving Botan a hard time.

"Hey! I'll let you know that I am a very responsible guy!" Botan snapped at her.

"Dude relax, I was giving you a hard time. I didn't mean anything by it." Aika said.

Botan sighed as Sakura and Haru both laughed at Botan for how Aika had given him a hard time. The group then got their stuff together. They also decided to stop by an ATM to take some money so they could purchase some items from the festival.

"I can't wait to go to the festival! It's going to be so much fun, I'm so excited!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Me too, I love going to this festival, it's just so relaxing and it makes me proud to be here in japan." Botan said as he grabbed the keys to his car.

"Hey mom, are you coming with us?" Sakura asked.

"Sorry but I can't. I have to go to an important meeting at work so I can't go." Ichika explained, a bit disappointed that she couldn't go.

"Aww I was hoping that you'd come! It's always so much fun when you and dad come." Sakura said disappointed that her parents couldn't be there.

"Hey sis dont worry it's still going to be a lot of fun whether we have mom and dad theri or not!" Botan explained trying to help his little sister feel better.

"Yeah, let's just go and enjoy ourselves. I can't wait to go to this festival!" Aika exclaimed excitedly about going to her first ever festival.

'Man this is going to be awesome!' Aika thought to herself.

(With Mio and Hinata)

The two were heading to Asahi's store as they were walking, Hinata was looking around observing the behavior of everyone around him. He was looking around for anyone showing off suspicious behavior he should investigate.

'Hmm anyone around here could be contestants of the artists game, however if they're smart they won't reveal themselves so easily, however I do have a number of suspects on my list already. Aika, Sakura, Haru, Botan, and Kowai. I just need to know who's a good guy and who's a bad guy. Once I get that information I'll need to find a way to eliminate the bad guy as I also suspect that one of these bad guys could be the reason my father was kidnapped.' Hinata thought to himself as he was trying to solve the case he was on.

The two soon arrived at the shop and Hinata took a seat at one of the tables that was set up outside as Mio would just talk about work and other things he rarely paid attention to.

"Hey Hinata are you going to come inside?" Mio asked her son.

"No, I'm just going to enjoy the fresh air out here and play marbles." Hinata said.

"Okay, although I don't understand what's with you and those marbles seems like a strange game to me." Mio said a bit confused by this game her son plays with marbles.

However it seemed to be calming for him so she decided not to question it and just let her son have his fun. Mio went up to the shop's doors and opened them up to see her younger brother putting more of his beautifully decorated pottery on the shelves.

"Hey Little bro how's your day been so far?" Mio asked.

"Huh? Oh they've been going well as it's just the morning so things will get more busy for me later in the day." Asahi explained.

"I know that's why I wanted to see you now before you get too busy, and I also know at the end of the day you're too slammed to talk to us." Mio explained.

"Hey Asahi, where do you want me to put these cups?" A girl who came out from the back with a box of beautifully decorated cups asked.

Mio took a look at the girl and saw her hair was black and put up in a fancy braid with a golden dragon clip holding her hair up. She also wore a long tight black dress with a sewing of a golden dragon wrapped from the bottom to the top. The trims of the dress were also made with soft looking golden silk, and she was wearing bracelets that were also golden with dragons on them as well. Her shoes were also black with gold straps on them, everything she wore looked pretty expensive.

"Wow who is this? And where did she get her clothes that are so beautiful." Mio said.

"Oh um S-She's-" Asahi tried to explain but the girl started explaining first.

"I'm the daughter of his friend. My name is Renho and my father is a very rich business man so that's why I have all this expensive clothing. I also wanted to help Asahi out as my dad asked him to take care of me as my usual caretaker is sick." Renho explained.

"Caretaker? That's surprising, and I don't mean anything by it, it's just that, you look old enough to take care of yourself." Mio explained.

"Well my father is in a high position so there have been incidents in the past where I almost got kidnaped by gangs. So my caretaker is really my bodyguard, he thought Asahi could protect me as he had saved me from getting kidnaped once in the past and that's how he and my dad became friends." Renho explained.

"Oh you did? You never told me that little bro." Mio said surprised.

"Well a lot happened that day and when I got home, I um... forgot to tell you about it." Asahi explained.

"Well I know now, and I'm proud of you for doing such a thing Asahi." Mio explained.

Asahi smiled at what his sister told him, he then told Renho to put the box she had near the shelf where other cups were and he'll put them away.

"Hey sis, where's Hinata? I thought you'd bring him along?" Asahi asked.

"Oh I did, he's just outside playing marbles." Mio explained.

"Oh okay, I wonder what is it with him and those marbles?" Asahi asked.

"Um hey who's Hinata?" Renho asked curiously.

"Oh he's my son, he's outside if you want to meet him, but I need to let you know that he doesn't talk much." Mio explained.

"Well I'm fine with someone who's quiet. Those kinds of people are the most calm and often they are easy to live with." Renho explained before going outside.

She left the shop and looked around the area till her eyes landed on a kid wearing all black, playing with marbles.

'Well Mio said that Hinata was playing with so that might be him. Although... Why is he sitting like a monkey in public?! Sitting like that is alright at home as your family members are the only ones who will judge you but in public?!' Renho asked herself as she observed Hinata.

"Hey I've noticed that you've been staring at me. Is there something you want?" Hinata asked, surprising Renho.

"Oh um no, I just wanted to know if I could sit next to you?" Renho asked.

"Sure why not." Hinata said before going back to his marbles.

Renho looked at Hinata and saw that he had dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept in a long time. She got a little concerned for him as she knew a lack of sleep wasn't very good for anyone. However she decided to ask him about it later and just sat down next to him.

Not wanting to sit and do nothing while watching some emo kid who looked like he hasn't slept in months play with marbles, she decided to draw some pictures. So she got out her notebook and started to draw in it to pass the time.

Hinata took a look and noticed the notebook and got curious about where she got it thinking that it could be connected to the Artists game.

"Hey where did you get that notebook?" Hinata asked.

"Oh I just bought it off of some website, I think it also asked if I wanted to Join the Artists game? I don't know, I barely even read it when I bought it." Renho explained.

'Hmm so she could be a part of the game as well, that now adds another suspect on my list.' Hinata thought to himself.

He then reached into his bag of marbles and pulled out a golden colored one. He placed it down next to the other marbles that were neatly arranged on the table. The colored Marbles that were on the table were Purple, white, yellow, Blue, Pink, and black. While it just looked like a strange game that Hinata could've made up, it was actually his way of plotting out his investigations.

'Okay I'll go over this one more time, purple is Aika, White is Haru, Yellow is Sakura, Blue is Botan, Pink is Kowai, and now my new suspect Renho. I'll need to investigate all of them individually if I want to find out anything without giving myself out of the way. After the incident where my stand-in was murdered I can't take the risk of being found out so I'll take every precaution I can to avoid getting caught. Once I find out who's a bad guy, I'll help in eliminating them and see if they're the reason for my fathers disappearance. After that I'll ask them to help me with finding the commander of this game and have them all arrested.' Hinata thought thoroughly to himself.

He then placed a black marble on the table, the black marble was meant for him. He then pushed it with his finger and it started bouncing off of all the other marbles as a representation of his investigation of his suspects and his elimination of who could be innocent and who is the guilty party.

(Meanwhile with Akane)

Akane had snuck out of her parents house, she had bandages on her face from Sakura's attack on her. Her face that got punched was now swelled up to the size of a baseball and aside from the teeth she lost her cheek bone was also cracked.

Due to all of this she was fuming with rage from how she was embarrassed and lectured the other day not to mention how she was assaulted and no one stopped it.

"That Fuck Bitch is going to regret snitching on me! I'm going to fucking kill her! And that Yellow Fuck! I'm Going to make her life a living hell from ruining my beautiful face!" Akane said to herself.

"Oh you want to hurt Aika? I can help you out, and I can also help you with Killing Aika if that's what you truly want to do." Akane heard someone say.

She looked around and soon her eyes landed on someone emerging from the shadows and coming up to her.

"Huh? Who are you? And how do I know you just aren't bullshitting me?" Akane asked.

"Oh trust me I'm not doing such a thing to you dear, as you see I'm in this little game where I have to kill them, and I thought that if you want Aika dead then I could help you so you wouldn't get caught!" The person explained.

"Oh really? Well anything to teach that gothic Bitch a permanent lesson on what happens when you don't do as I say! I'm in, but who are you and what is this game exactly?" Akane asked curiously.

"Oh dearie, I'm afraid I can't tell you the game's name, but I will tell you my name... I'm Kowai and I'll offer you a flawless plan to kill them all." Kowai said as she emerged fully showing off her pink friendly exterior while showing a psychotic smile showing her meritorious interior.

(AN I hoped you all liked this, however I do now need to go into Mama EnderPearlGirl mode right now. As you all know or may have heard, bullying is a very real and a very serious issue in today's world. And as sad as it is rarely anything is done about it and by the time it is sometimes, (while not common as far as I'm aware) A bully can and will try to kill their victim if they feel like they are allowed to. So please if you are being bullied but can't stand up for yourself on your own remember these rules, walk away and tell someone who will listen to you! Someone who can and will help you can allow you to avoid something so terrifying happening. I hope this will help any of you in the future if any of you end up getting bullied, remember you have the right to feel and be safe anywhere, in work, school, or even with your family. With that being said Have a nice day!)