Miyuki's PoV

Mitsuko and I waited as Joh signed both of our papers, allowing us to go to the beach with our grade.

"Hey, it says here that we're not going alone. Another school will be coming with us." Haruki says, pointing at the sheet.

"Gross, you're actually reading over it?" Ichigo says.

I read the sheet as well as Mitsuko. Hey...that's Rihito's school! 

"Aww...too bad its only for the second and third years." Rihito says, leaning back into his chair.

At the corner of my eye, I see Mitsuko having a faint grin on her face. She must be thinking about the cute guys we've met at their school. She just never changes...does she....

"What're you grinning about?" Ichigo asks harshly, Mitsuko just stuck her tongue out at him.

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The five of us were chatting as we all entered our classroom.

There were murmuring to be heard throughout the class, instead of the usual noisy atmosphere.

"What's going on..?" Mitsuko mumbled, but then, when she arrives at her desk. 

'GO AWAY WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE'

Was scribbled on her desk with white chalk, and on my desk...

'FREAKS GET LOST ALREADY'

I dabbed the white chalk with a finger, unfazed. It's not like this has never happened before.

"Heh." Behind me, I heard Mitsuko scoff. She faced the whole class, whose gazes were all on us, "whomever did this, all they got across to me is that they're cowards. Want me gone? Face me! Say it to my face. I promise you'll rest in peace...pieces." She says in a very harsh tone, making everyone flinch.

"What braver are you if all you can do is scribble notes on our desks?" she says, taking a small piece of cloth from the board piece, she easily wiped all the characters off. 

Her sadistic smile even made me have goosebumps, "you want war? Keep doing this, and I'll give you war. 天国の道があるあなたは歩いて、地獄無門あなたが舞い込む 。(Tengoku no michi ga aru anata wa aruite, jigoku mu mon anata ga maikomu) There's a way to heaven that you don't take, instead you break into hell!" her voice echoed throughout the room as everyone went dead silent.

I put a hand on her shoulder, telling her to calm down. She did so, and took her seat. No one spoke. The classroom was dead silent even when the first period teacher walked in.

Mitsuko acted like nothing ever happened for the rest of the day. 

"Ano...you'll have to train Ryuno yourself today." Takeshi said with a straight face, "I have track practice after school today."

"Fine...." she muttered. But she's probably just nervous that she's spending time alone with a kid.

"And the festival is two days from now." Haruki says, "how's he doing?"

"He learns fast." Takeshi replies, smiling for a second.

After school, Mitsuko went to the park to meet with Ryunoshin, so I went straight towards Rihito's house. I wanted to see him, even though his mom...well....

I heard the sounds of beautiful melody as I neared the piano school.

The door to his room was open, ten something girls were standing around him, listening to his playing.

"Whaaa Rihito that was amazing~!"

"How beautiful~!"

"You're playing is so skilled!"

Noises, noises, noises.  They're annoying the hell out of me. When was I this impatient? God someone must be taking over...

I pushed to the front, "Richy."

Upon that nickname, he turned and faced me, "Yuki-chan! You made it!"

All the other girls frowned at the sight of me, most of them I think I saw before at his school. Some might even recognize me right now. I mean, you don't see a blend of white, pink and turquoise hair everyday.  

I felt my gaze fix into a cold one, who am I even right now? I can't tell. My face was completely blank as Rihito smiled brightly at me.

"Can you tell them to leave?" I ask him straight forwardly, not even glancing at the girls around.

I can tell by his eyes that he probably figured out why I was behaving strangely. 

"Ah gomene, mina. I've got a guest today." he says, showing an apologetic smile at them.

"But Rihito-san--!" the girls protested, but eventually left. I didn't bother to meet their glares. I kept on a straight face, which under normal circumstances I can never do.

"Yuki-chan...do you know who you are right now..?" he asks, concern in his voice as soon as we're alone.

"I'm not sure...but the emotions within me are killing...." I say in a husky voice I'd never thought I could pull off. Slowly but surely, I backed him to the wall. Surprise was shone on his face, but he didn't stop me from advancing my hand on his arm, and moving up, to his shoulder.

I rested my hand finally at his collarbone, where Mitsuko usually does when she's flirting with a guy unconsciously.

"Yuki-chan...." he whispered, something was clouding his pupils. 

Alone in his personal piano room, our bodies were pressed together against the wall.

"You're still in your uniform...." I say, tugging at his tie, slowly loosening it. 

"A-Ano...what're you doing...?" shock was visible on his face, but something else were in his eyes.

Tiptoeing, I leaned towards him, my eyelids fell down.

Our lips pressed together.

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Mitsuko's PoV

The tension was obvious as it was just me and Ryuno walking towards where we trained him to run.

"We're here. Now, run around the track once, let's see how you're doing." I say and he nodded. Good thing he's more outgoing than most kids I've met. 

I watched his movements as he ran. He's definitely improved since the last time I've ran with him.

"How was I?" he came to a halt, barely panting. 

"Pretty good." I say honestly. It was only seven seconds. To see how big this track is, I tried doing so myself, which only took even less than four seconds.

"Whoa! You're as fast as Takeshi!" he says, his eyes shining in admiration.

I smiled true-heartedly at his enthusiasm. I guess kids can be cute at times.

By the time it was five o'clock, when our training finished. It only took him five point eight nine seconds to run around the track. 

"Awesome work today." I put out my hand naturally for a low five that I didn't think about if he'd leave me hanging. But before I could think about that, he hit my hand energetically. 

"Arigatou, Mitsuko-san! You're an amazing coach!" he says with a huge grin that resembles Ryuzo.

I felt a smile come on my face. "You're a very fast learner."

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"What up." I push open the door to black ship.

It was dead silent, Rihito was sitting at the counter, looking a little awkward. While Miyuki was at the back table, fidgeting and look down while Haruki sat beside her.

"Um...what happened?" I say. Immediately sense something's going on with Miyuki and Rihito.

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Yup, short, Ik.

Welp, summer vaca started for me and I'll try to update more often ^_^

June 28th 2015

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