"You see!" Ranmaru barked. "See how fucked up this is!?"

After capturing a video of Tokiya...dancing in a strange circular motion, the silver-haired sempai immediately called Reiji and Ai to his room to show them the incredibly twisted scene he saw.

"Eh, maybe Toki wanted to try it out?" Reiji tried to reason although he was actually scared for his kouhai's mental welfare. "Afterall, they wanted to get to know each other, so that could be a start?"

The tsundere meat-lover glared at the brown-haired male before angrily saying, "Are you stupid!? He's not under me but I know for sure that Tokiya would NEVER do such a thing!"

"Ranmaru's right. According to my data, Tokiya wouldn't do such act since it reminded him of his days as HAYATO...which he greatly disliked." Ai added.

Reiji sunk down on his seat. His grey eyes followed the silver-haired rocker who was pacing back and forth. The clown sempai was somewhat okay with his kouhais until Otoya asked him if he ever had sex with anyone, causing the sempai to choke on the orange juice he was drinking.

Ai simply sighed. Their kouhais' strange behaviour seemed to bother Ranmaru a lot, and the cyan-themed teen couldn't help but feel for the guy.

'It is kind of disturbing.'

Ai recalled the time the tsundere of the group ranted how he nearly had a heart attack when he saw Masato's latest dish (which was very incomprehensible by the way - the supposed cupcake looked like something that got kicked out of hell for being too disgusting). The rocker even mentioned the dish was something only Ai's Piyo-loving kouhai could make, and that it was a miracle for Masato to create something so horrid.

That night, Ai was surprised to find Syo making a pretty decent bento ('Shorty can cook?') for Ranmaru ('For what?' 'An apology.'). The midget even made one for Ai.

The meal tasted great. It disturbed the robotic sempai a lot.

Ranmaru remembered the time his formerly sane kouhai named Masato asked him if he could dress up as a maid. The rocker almost punched the blunette had Ren not been there to stop him.

"What should we do?" Reiji asked in slight desperation.

"I say we interrogate those punks!" Ranmaru replied. "I'm sure as hell they're up to something!"

"Maybe we should." Ai reluctantly agreed. The teen could already sense trouble in this one.

"Then it's settled!" Reiji exclaimed. "How should we do this though?"

Ranmaru smirked. "I might have an idea. You still have those baseball bats?"

~

The members of Starish were at the cafeteria of the Master Course dormitory. After their getting to know you activity, the group became closer to each other causing them to be chattier than usual. Heck, even Tokiya and Masato were joining in the conversation!

"So...how was your bonding?" Tokiya asked his red-head roommate.

"It was great!" Otoya exclaimed happily. "Ren taught me a lot of things!"

Upon hearing those words, Tokiya directly glared at Ren. "It better be sensible things."

Ren only smirked. "Trust me Ichi, I taught him really useful stuff."

"I doubt he learned anything from you, Jinguji." Masato interjected while nibbling on his melon bread.

"Ouch. That hurt, Masa." The saxophonist exclaimed as he snatched the other's melon bread.

Masato glared at Ren and soon began to chase him when the Casanova started to run away with the younger's melon bread. The blunette eventually caught up with the treat snatcher and whacked him on the head with a rolled up newspaper that was conveniently in reach.

"Stop acting like an idiot Jinguji!" Masato exclaimed as he grabbed his precious melon bread back.

"Ah but I'm YOUR idiot, Masa~"

The others looked at the duo with an amused expression. The pianist mumbled something incoherent and hit Ren once more before walking back to the table.

"Aww....you guys are so close!" Natsuki chimed in. "Just like me and Syo-chan!"

Said boy got locked in a hug. "Natsuki! Don't take it literally!"

The munchkin tried to pry off the older teen, his bandmates laughing at his struggle.

"I am definitely glad to be surrounded by such great friends." Cecil exclaimed with a smile.

Minutes later, the members of Starish were walking towards their respective rooms. They never made it through because before they could even reach out for the door knob, something hit each one of them in the head. That 'something' wasn't soft either.

~

"You think we hit them too hard?"

"Nah. I wasn't even using full force."

"That's not what we're trying to do."

Syo slowly regained consciousness after what seemed like an hour. He heard voices which he identified to be Quartet Night.

"Where am I?" the violinist murmured as he held his head.

"Cecil-chan! You're awake!" Reiji exclaimed.

"Good. Now if you don't mind, we have a few questions to ask." Ranmaru added.

Syo looked around and recognized the room to be Cecil's (or his temporary room). His emotionless sempai was leaning on the wall with baseball bats near him, and across Syo were his bandmates who wore different expressions. Tokiya and Masato were slightly irked, Ren had a smug smile, Natsuki was confused, Cecil looked uneasy, and Otoya was on the verge of tears.

"What happened to him?" Syo asked, pointing to Otoya.

Reiji crossed his arms and pouted at a certain tsundere. "RanRan here was really mean to Ren, even though he responded to what we ask."

 'Poor Otoya...' Syo thought. "Well, why're we here anyway?"

"We're the ones asking questions for now." Ranmaru interjected. "What the hell are you guys planning?"

Syo raised an eyebrow. "Planning? What planning?"

"That's the same reply as everyone else." Ai commented.

Ranmaru narrowed his eyes. "You must've agreed on what your replies should be! Don't think you can fool me!"

"According to my data, the members of Starish are keeping something from us." Ai added.

"Then one of them better start talking before I do really bad things!" the silver-haired sempai exclaimed in a threatening manner, slightly scaring some members of the really bad things that would happen to them.

"RanRan, we'll never get anything if you talk like that." Reiji said in hopes of getting his bandmate to calm down. "Try talking nicely!"

"We tried your way with your kouhais and what did we get? Some really disturbing shit I bet Ren knows and mystical mumbo-jumbo about muses and magic!" Ranmaru barked, completely losing his cool.

"Cecil, it's best that you tell us what is going on." Ai spoke.

Syo stared at the sempais, then at Starish, then back to the sempais. He was having a hard time thinking how to explain the situation. For all he knew, the seniors would just look at him like he lost his marbles or something along that line.

"Don't just stay quiet - say something!" Ranmaru exclaimed. "Why're you acting so different? Tell us why you're not being yourselves!"

"That's because they're not themselves!"

The three sempais and Starish turned to where the voice was and saw,

"Camus!"

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FINALLY Camus is back! You know what that means dear readers?

This fanfic's about to end, specifically in the next chap :D 

Whut.

Aww...yes you heard me right - the next chapter will be the ending :( 

And before you go raging otori on me, lemme just say that this fanfic was already planned, chapter wise. I already decided the number of chapters (and it's 10) and the important bits. C'mon guys, I'm not one to write without a plan although the splitting of chap 8 into 2 parts and rewriting the chap wasn't part of it. 

Just to be clear: I am NOT ending this because I lacked/lost motivation or ideas or interest. Or because of summer class which we are required to attend. Sigh. 

I hope you enjoyed this chapter everyone! (BTW the first ep of utapri s3 was full on fanservice >///< have you watched it yet?)

Stay tuned for the last chapter (and possibly a long author's note)! See ya!