On the first day of school, Ryūji discovers that he and Taiga, the meanest girl in class, share a secret: each loves the other's best friend.

Taiga's efforts to get closer to Yūsaku fail: A scheme in basketball ends with Taiga knocked out, and she drops a plate of cookies out a window.

Ryūji and Taiga spend a day helping Minori at one of her many part-time jobs, and Ryūji gets to know her better when they're locked in a storehouse.

Taiga has a photo album full of blurry pictures of Kitamura. Ryūji offers to snap some pictures of him instead.

Followed by a stalker, Ami hides out with Taiga and decides that she must discard her fake personality from now on.

Ryūji tries to help Taiga win a swimming race against Ami, but when Ryūji nearly drowns, the truth about Taiga's feelings comes out.

Taiga's reconciliation with her father divides her friends, but she ends up disappointed when her father doesn't attend her school play.

Taiga wins a beauty contest despite a crushing disappointment about her father; a race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga.

A rumor starts that touching Taiga leads to good luck; Yūsaku gets some interesting news from the student council president.

Knowing that Taiga believes she was rescued by Yūsaku during the ski trip, Ryūji asks Yūsaku to pretend that she's correct.

When Yasuko collapses from anemia due to overwork, Ryūji and Taiga take over her job of selling chocolate and use Ami's celebrity to improve sales.

The truth about Taiga and Ryūji's feelings for each other finally comes out, and they make a plan to run off together and get married.

When Yasuko reconciles with her parents, the truth about Ryūji's father is revealed, inspiring him to have a traditional wedding with Taiga.

Kitamura brings a gigantic bento to school: His parents are on a business trip, so his grandma is taking care of him for the time being. While everyone else is happy to be allowed to eat from this bento, Takasu considers it a challenge to his own housewife skills; during the following days he tries to make creative special bentos in order to "beat" his mysterious opponent... before he learns what making bento is ultimately about.