Hey All. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm back, You're back, It's time for another chapter.

This Should be the last chapter of the boring school section for a while but it's necessary for the plot so I gotta do it, I think I'm going to do some original stuff before the school trip starts so yeah.

Enjoy!

(Explanation for where tf I've been at the end, sorry)



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Y/N POV

The days had gone by and it was finally the day that everyone would get their results had arrived. You, Fuutaro and the girls had all agreed to meet in the library after school so you were currently on the way there. Everyone planned to open their results together. You were pretty nervous surprisingly, the future was just minutes away. All around you there were people cheering from their good results and others in despair from their bad results but you just kept walking to the library. You finally arrive and see the girls and Fuutaro already there.

"Hey, sorry if I'm late"

"No worries Y/N, you're right on time" Miku replies

"So, how are you guys all feeling?"

"Nervous" Ichika said

"Same" Yotsuba chuckled

"Ditto" Miku replied

Itsuki was quiet, after her accusation against you the other day, she had not really addressed you at all.

Nino approached you from the side.

"How are you feeling" she says, looking sweetly into your eyes

"For myself or for you guys?"

"Both"

"For you guys, I'm honestly kinda nervous but I have just enough faith in you to pass it all. As for myself, I feel fine"

"Fine?, even after being asleep for a majority of the exam?"

You look away from Nino, embarrassed.

"Which reminds me, I still haven't given you a piece of my mind about that stunt"

"haha... well that can wait for another time can't it, lets just open these results.

"On that note is everybody ready?" Fuutaro asks

The girls and you all nod in response. Everyone opens their Midterm results at the same time. Your eyes go straight to your final score: 478/500, not bad but could have been better, it might be top 10 though. You heard there was a board in the main hall that showed everyone's rankings so you thought about asking everyone if they would want to go and see.

You look up from your results and see a sight that makes your heart sink a bit. All of the girls looked disappointed, Fuutaro had noticed too and had looked over to you. You flash him a nervous smile as neither of you want to really start speaking but someone had to do it eventually and surprisingly it was neither of you.

"So how did you guys do?" Miku asked us.

You didn't know if you should be vague or not but it looked like Fuutaro had you covered.

"That's not important, what's important is the results of all of you, as your tutors we need to see the fruits of our combined effort. So girls, please show us your answer sheets"

"I Refuse!" says Itsuki, which noticeably catches everybody off guard. "It's private information, I don't want to share it with you"

"Itsuki..." Ichika trails off

"Thanks, but we've already prepared ourselves, so please just show us"

The girls proceeded to show us both their results

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Nakano Ichika: 19/39/26/15/28 Total: 127

Nakano Nino: 15/19/28/14/43 Total: 119

Nakano Miku: 25/29/27/68/13 Total: 162

Nakano Yotsuba: 31/09/18/22/16 Total: 96

Nakano Itsuki: 27/22/56/20/23 Total: 143

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You and Fuutaro sigh in sync

"You guys..." You begin

"I forgot how dumb you guys were" Fuutaro finished

"Dude, be easy. But guys, what the hell happened?"

"We each passed a subject each, that's so like us" Nino pointed out

"Oh yeah, you're right" Yotsuba realised

Fuutaro taps you on the shoulders as you're flicking through the girls answers.

"This is it man"

"Yeah, end of the road" You reply solemnly

"Y/N, you really grew attached to them didn't you?"

"Yeah, I guess so, but don't think I'll let them off easy, care to join me?" you smirk

Fuutaro smirks back "Sure thing, I've been waiting to give them a piece of my mind for a while"

"Hey! what are you creeps gossiping about" Nino barks.

You sigh, "In that case... Nino! you're up first!"

"Wha- What do you mean?"

"Think of this as a tutor review from both of us, Fuutaro, the floor's all yours." You take a step back and gesture a hand outwards for Fuutaro to start speaking.

"Nino, You never listened to a word I said, you were a difficult girl and I could never truly get you to do what I said" He pauses "But just because I'll be gone, doesn't mean you can slack off, you have potential so keep improving"

"Hmph" she simply responds

"My turn" You smirk.

"Your turn? Isn't he enough?"

"Nope, and I'm the one who mainly tutored you anyway so I get a say in this too"

She gulps and takes a step back

"You really are a handful sometimes, Fuutaro could never get control of you so you were the number one problem child, admittedly when you calmed down and we studied 1 on 1, you paid attention pretty well, or so it seemed, these results are pretty shitty"

A sad look creeps onto her face and she faces the floor, shaking and clenching her fist, it looked as if she was about to cry.

"But" you say placing a hand on her head. "Studying with you was really fun, and I can see if you're in the right condition you can really pull your weight, so as Fuutaro said, just because we're not there anymore, please don't give up. I believe in you."

Her head shoots up from looking at the ground and she looks at you in the eyes. It was clear as day there were tears in her eyes and she was about to burst at any moment, everyone else could see it too, she was really frustrated with herself

You sigh and extend your arms out, gesturing a hug, she slowly walks into your arms and clings herself to your chest, putting her arms around you. You close your arms and put one around her and the other patting her head slowly and rhythmically. You give Fuutaro a look to continue on to the other girls.

"Alright next, Yotsuba! I don't know how you scored so low, I assume you were just panicking so just try and do that less and learn from your sisters to improve for the future, your willingness will take you a long way"

"Roger that!" she cheerily responds

"Ichika!" Fuutaro's next target. Her eyes were locked onto you and Nino who were still hugging off to the side.

"Ichika, You kept giving up in the middle of questions, try to see them to the end in the future"

"Kaay" she responds

"Miku, you did pretty well all in all, just keep doing what you're doing but try and help your sisters out too, I'm proud of you, you did really well" Her face lights up and she happily nods in response.

Fuutaro turns to the last sister, who was sitting down at the table "Itsuki, you're an airhead who ran out on time as you were getting too anxious over each question, if you work on your time management, your scores would probably rival Miku's so just keep that in mind for next time"

Itsuki also silently nods seemingly disappointed in herself. There was a silence in the room for a few moments. Until it was shattered by a phone ringing from Itsuki's pocket. She takes out the phone and hands it to Fuutaro.

"It's father"

"Shit" Fuutaro mutters, reluctantly answering the phone. "This is Uesugi speaking"

"Oh, so you're with Itsuki, I was going to ask them all individually but I think I'd rather hear it straight from you, but I will know if you lie to me"

"I didn't plan to, but make sure next time, you find them an even better tutor!"

"So that means the results were..."

Nino leapt out of your arms, wiping her tears with her sleeve and promptly snatching the phone out of Fuutaro's hand.

"Papa, It's Nino, I want to know why you would bother to set a condition like that for Uesugi" She sounded really stern, that's my Nino for you, you thought to yourself.

" I only want the best for all of you, that's why these measures are necessary to ensure he is a suitable choice to be your tutor."

"Well that's nice of you to do papa ,but grades aren't the only important factor"

"They're the most important and they're also my basis for picking him"

"Well, I'll be glad to let you know that the five of us passed all five subjects, and I'm not lying to you, there would be nothing to gain in doing so"

The Father pauses before speaking "If you say so Nino, I shall believe it, Uesugi will remain your tutor from here on out, goodbye"

The phone beeps and Nino hands it back to Itsuki.

"Problem solved" she proudly says, looking at Fuutaro "Now you and Y/N can both stay"

Fuutaro's jaw had dropped and you couldn't help but laugh at the sight.

"N-Nino!" He sighed, realising what's done was done. "You're such a reckless idiot" he mumbled under his breath.

Nino's mood seemed to have improved after that conversation.

"So what now?" Itsuki asks

"I wanted to check out the ranking board in the main hall" you reply. Everyone looks at you confused.

"What, why? Did you do bad?" Nino asks

"I just want to satisfy my own curiosity, is there a problem with that?" you respond rhetorically. "So, are you guys gonna come with me?"

They all nod in agreement and you all head off towards the main hall to look at the rankings.

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Nino POV

Everyone was walking through the school towards the main hall. Your heart was still recovering from earlier with how quickly your emotions were tumbling about in your heart. You kept glancing up at Y/N's back and then tuning back into the patterns on the hallway floor. Thanks to your actions, Y/N and Fuutaro were safe, it made you feel happy and like a weight had been thrown off of your shoulders. Your sisters were all eagerly talking to Fuutaro and Y/N ahead of you but you tuned out of their conversation, not feeling it necessary to pay much attention.

"Hey, you alright?"

Suddenly without you noticing, Y/N was walking right beside you. Your heart rate steadily increased and you could already feel your face getting hot.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine"

"Good to hear, thanks for what you did by the way" he points to Fuutaro's back "We both really appreciated it"

He seemed to have noticed the redness appear on your cheeks and gave a warm smile. It really did melt your heart like always. "No Need to thank me, but you owe me one" you tease

He chuckles, "Sure Ribbons, I'll think of something, don't you worry"

It was comforting when Y/N was around, your feelings for him were clear and there was the incident before when you both indirectly confessed to each other, but nothing was official, you both recognised that it wasn't the right time.

Everyone eventually made their way to the main hall where the rankings were written out on a huge board. The main reason you were here was for the boys, neither you or any of your sisters cared too much about your placement.

"Wow, Uesugi Fuutaro, first place what a surprise" Y/N said sarcastically. Fuutaro chuckled in response. Y/N traced down the list with his finger until he eventually stopped. His face smiled.

"What did you get?" Fuutaro asked him

"8th" he responded

"WHAT!" everyone exclaimed. The shouting turned some heads that were also in the room.

"B-But you fell asleep during the exam, how could you get such a high score?" Itsuki asked sounding defeated.

"I told you there was no need to worry, it's better than I usually do maybe the time pressure boosted me or something..." he trailed off.

Footsteps approached your group as well as some slow clapping.#

"Well,well,well. What do we have here" A boy with blonde hair appeared beside Y/N and Fuutaro.

"Takeda..." Fuutaro answered

The boy called Takeda looked at the board, "Fuutaro, you got first again, congratulations you just barely beat me once again!" he said in a very cheery tone.

You noticed that the smiles had disappeared off of both Fuutaro and Y/N's face. Who was this creep? you thought to yourself.

"Y/N, 8th? I see..." he trailed off

"Takeda" Y/N started, his tone deeper and more aggressive than he usually sounded. He sounded as he did on your first day when you got cornered by those guys from your class. Judging by the look on your sisters faces, this was the first time they had all heard him take this tone.

"Takeda, what the hell do you want" Y/N scowled

"Oh Y/N, there's no need to be so hostile, we're friends right?"

"Are we? last time I checked I hate you" Y/N deadpanned. IT was weird to see him act like this he must really not like this guy. Just then Takeda turned his attention to you and your sisters.

"You must be the Quintuplets I've heard so much about. My name is Yuusuke Takeda it's a pleasure to meet you" he bowed. You all proceeded to make your introductions.

"Asking again, Takeda what do you want?" Y/N said sternly

"I just wanted to check the results the same as you Y/N, where's the harm in that?" he responds rhetorically.

Y/N sighed, seemingly tired of this conversation already. "Whatever, anyway I'm done here so I'm going" He stated suddenly as he started to walk away

"Hey Y/N!" You called out to him as you caught up with him, your sisters and Fuutaro following behind.

"You know Y/N," you hear Takeda call out, Y/N stops in his tracks but doesn't turn to face him. "You really should work on that sour attitude of yours, no wonder Fuutaro is the only company you've managed to keep" Takeda's tone was harsh and smug. You could feel yourself get angry at that remark, you look up to Y/N.

"Y/N..." He looked back at you, reading the anger written clearly on your face. He simply looked over at Takeda and laughed.

"Whatever you think about me, I couldn't care less about it, Later." He simply replies, walking out of the main hall. You turn and scowl at Takeda before following Y/N along with everyone else.

The exams were over finally, and now it was smooth sailing until the upcoming school trip. You planned to do all you could to get closer to Y/N in this time and the first step was inviting him over this Saturday...

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Hey Everyone... It's' been a while, Just over 6 weeks to be specific...

I'm just gonna say flat out I don't have a valid reason as to why I suddenly disappeared, Maybe I just wasn't into QQ as much as I was when I started, maybe it was Writers block or something I honestly couldn't tell you.

In truth, most of this chapter has been done for about a month, up until the main hall section pretty much. I've been trying to do some life stuff but I think now I'm in an in-between phase between two canon arcs and I can write some original stuff it might make getting back into the swing of writing a bit easier.

Sorry if the end of the chapter is a bit meh, tbh I just wanted to wrap this chapter up as it's so segmented in my brain lmao. Takeda will probably get some more attention in a later chapter, I kinda just wanted to introduce him to the story here as it seemed to fit.

So, am I going to continue writing? - Yeah, but no promises it'll keep the same consistency it used to. Luckily I still have some notes I wrote before I disappeared so I know the general direction I planned to take this story so that helps

Once again, I apologise for the long wait, it's also not the longest chapter in the world but I'll try my best to at least update this as regularly as I can.

Hope to see you again, If I can actually pump out another chapter that is. Thanks for the support in my absence I always appreciate it.

See ya guys next time. (Hopefully not 6 weeks again lmao) Take Care and keep healthy.