Kousei was pretty scared to go visit Kaori. What if she found out he took the letter and read it without permission? That would be a risky thing to confess, especially to a girl who just came out of surgery...but, Kousei still decided to go visit her.

He wanted to go alone but he didn't want to seem desperate or selfish so he decided to bring Tsubaki and Watari, but this time they actually did have to go to a meeting for their sport.

It was was the weekend and he didn't have any competition to go to, so that means Kousei would have more time to spend with the person he loves.

He's still shocked at the three words that clenched his heart once he read them, he wasn't able to properly sleep with them running through his head. So, he's deciding that once he talks to her and gets her words out, he's gonna tell her about the letter.

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"Kousei! Good morning!" greeted Kaori, waving her hand with a bright grin.

"Good morning." Kousei gave her a half-grin and half-smile. He slid the door closed behind him and fidgeted with the letter that was in his hoodie's pocket; he tried to be subtle but she noticed anyways.

"What're you doing there?" Kaori nodded toward his pocket.

Kousei immediately stiffened and blubbered out some excuses but they weren't working on Kaori.

"Kousei..." she warned.

"I-i-it's...something." Kousei bit his tongue and stepped forward, quickly taking out the letter and holding it behind his back. "I meant to tell you about it later but then you caught me a second after I came in...so..." The pianist cautiously held the letter out in front of him, the writing and words hitting Kaori's face with realization.

"I...might've...accidentally took this while you were practicing to walk..." Kousei noticed how Kaori didn't seem mad...but...surprised and a little...scared.

"H-have you read it yet?" she quietly asked, looking back up to him, her eyes showing a glint he's never seen in her before.

"Er...no?"

"Liar."

"What?" Kousei rose an eyebrow and brought the letter closer to him, not letting Kaori see it even though she's the one who made it.

"You're lying. The way you answered sounded like a question... Can I have it back?" Kaori held her hand out and expected Kousei to just give up and give it back to her but what he did next surprised her even more.

"I love you too."

Kaori slowly dropped her hand, her mouth opening and closing. "What?"

"The letter... I love you too." Kousei grinned at her with his eyes shining brightly.

"You...you're responding?" Kaori was a little surprised; she didn't even mean to give it to him anymore since there was no need but he still read it, even if she was still here.

"Yes. And I wanted to respond to your confession with: I love you too, Kaori."

Kaori couldn't believe her ears. She didn't even mean to give that letter to him since she's all good and alive but...she didn't really expect him to read it and love her back. Especially since she's been so harsh to him, in her opinion. Besides, it's been a day since she was all better and there's already a confession?

"N...no you don't," Kaori refused, even though she felt like she should've been saying the oppisite.

"I do Kaori, why deny it?" Kousei asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't understand why you're not anxious on telling me or awkward...you're...confident. Huh, that's new."

Kousei grinned and stepped forward, handing the letter out to her.

"I may be confident, but I am not gonna deny my love for you."

Kaori felt like she wanted to burst with tears, but even though she tried to hold them back she just couldn't so she let them all out.

"I..." Kaori stopped her words and then let out a little laugh, wiping away some of her tears with a huge smile on her face. "Well I was gonna say 'I love you too' but it's pretty obvious."

Kousei laughed along with Kaori sat on the edge of her bed and shyly and reluctantly grabbed her hand, relieved when she held his hand tightly.

"So..." Kaori sniffed and used her other hand to wipe her tears away, "was the letter okay?"

Kousei laughed and looked down at their hands, thinking about how the letter made him feel. "Yeah... Just to think that...if you were to pass away...this is what I would've been reading."

Kaori smiled a little and nodded, sighing as her smile went away when she suddenly started to think about how Tsubaki likes Kousei, and she's practically stealing him away from her even though they weren't exactly a thing.

"What's wrong?" Kousei asked, noticing her glum expression.

Kaori looked up and into Kousei's bright blue eyes, her smile reappearing again. "I'm fine."

Kousei shrugged, rubbing his thumb on the back of her hand in soothing, relaxing circles. "That's what they all say."

Kaori sighed and removed her hand from Kousei's to move over to a side of the bed and patted the spot beside her as a signal for Kousei to sit down.

Kousei got the memo and removed his shoes before placing them aside, gently, and moving over to sit down beside the girl he confessed to. Once he was sat properly, Kaori leaned her head on his shoulder and intertwined their hands together once more, feeling Kousei rub his thumb over her hand again, to which she wasn't complaining because it was relaxing.

"Is it okay if I do this?" Kousei asked, referring to his thumb so he stopped before waiting for her permission.

Kaori pouted at him for stopping but nodded, sighing when he resumed to rubbing the back of her hand. His thumb was so gentle it was as if he feared he'd break her if he put anymore pressure.

There was comfortable silence for a couple moments before Kaori decided to speak up.

"So, Kousei, about that letter..."

"Hmm?" Kousei didn't stop his movements as he turned his head to look over to her, but he did and started blushing once he realized how close they actually were.

Kaori looked away from his eyes and removed her head from his shoulder and bit her lip while trying to find a way to say her concerns. "Everything in there is true, obviously, since that letter was meant to be given to you by my parents at my funeral when I was gone, but you somehow found it and...you've read it," she clarified as she turned her head once again to look into Kousei's eyes through his glasses.

"Yeah...that I know," Kousei responded. His hand suddenly tightened around Kaori's and he leaned his head against the wall behind him as he closed his eyes and tried to think about the present and not any 'what ifs' about Kaori and if she died or if she was lying about loving him, but she just admitted it wasn't a lie and it was all true...

Why do you always leave me with questions?

Kousei sighed and opened his eyes to see Kaori staring at him with her wide blue eyes.

"What would you do if I did die?"

That question wakened Kousei into more thoughts. That's what I'm trying to figure out myself...because there's a lot of things I'd be doing... I'd be grieving, mourning, wishing for you to come back... You gave light to my eyes, you made me see color in a different way so please don't ever think I'd be celebrating for your death.

"Um...well...it'd hurt me...just like my mother's death, and...well...I wouldn't be able to imagine a world without Kaori Miyazono." Kousei grinned cheekily her way.

Kaori felt her cheeks redden a little but she paid no attention to it and smiled before leaning forward to give Kousei a kiss on the cheek but Kousei moved his head at the same so their lips abruptly met.

Kousei slowly widened his eyes as he became alerted and his face grew red with a large blush while Kaori widened her eyes and her cheeks had a little tint of a blush.

But alas, of course they kissed at the most convenient time since the door slid open with a loud thud and in came Watari and Tsubaki, but they stopped moving and they froze when they caught Kousei and Kaori.

The violinist and pianist both broke contact and looked toward the two brunettes, their faces growing even more hotter, Kousei's like never before.

They were all silent for a moment before Kaori and Kousei yelled at the same time, "It's not what it looks like!"

Watari smirked and glanced at their hands that were still together in between them and whistled, much to Tsubaki's blank face.

"Wow Kousei, seems like you finally got the guts to make a move!" Watari laughed as Kousei started bumbling with protests.

"N-no! This isn't what it looks like! Really!" Kousei frantically waved his one hand in front his him, making Tsubaki notice that the two were holding hands.

"Then how come we saw you two kissing?" Tsubaki's words were slow and calm, even if she felt like bursting with tears, she wouldn't do so until she feels like a dam wanting to break.

"I... We didn't mean to." Kaori's words were more relaxed, trying to not make it obvious how much she was freaking out.

"Uh-huh. Doesn't seem like it." Watari wouldn't wipe that grin off his face and it actually irritated Kousei for the first time.

"Just...please?" Kousei just wanted to get out of this awkward situation that arose and he felt his palms begin to get clammy, even the one in Kaori's hand.

"Are you guys going out now, or what?" Tsubaki asked, staring at their twined hands.

Kousei and Kaori both looked down to their hands, and Kousei blushed even more and so did Kaori before they both tore away.

"Nope," Kousei flatly said, shaking his head.

"Alright, we'll leave you to it. Just don't make babies too early my friends!" Watari laughed to himself as he started to walk out the door but before he even made it halfway Tsubaki grabbed him by the ear and dragged him away, so the only thing heard outside the door Tsubaki slid closed were Watari's screams.

Silence...

"I-..." Kousei wanted to say something but he felt too embarrassed to speak to he just sighed and looked down to his lap.

"That was a surprise," mumbled Kaori, watching Kousei as he took off his glasses and toyed with them for a little.

He nodded. "Yeah."

Kaori sighed and closed her eyes, brushing her messy hair away from her eyes. "What now? We were basically embarrassed by our two friends..."

Kousei was still a little shaken up by all this.

That was...my first kiss. And, luckily, it had been the most awkward one with the one I actually love... Kousei chuckled to himself and Kaori rose an eyebrow before turning his head to her direction so he could look at her with his flustered and glasses-free face.

"What is it?" she asked, pouting in thought.

Kousei thought she looked cute that way and chuckled a little more, looking at the vacant space between them. "Nothing... I was just thinking how...that...the kiss we shared was my first kiss and it was just...really awkward."

Kaori pondered over his words for a while before laughing herself and nodding. "It was mine too."

"Wait, really?" Kousei looked into Kaori's eyes for a hint of anything and all he found was honesty.

Kaori nodded, playing with Kousei's fingers. "Yep. Why do you sound surprised?"

Kousei's blush returned again. "Well...I'm gonna be honest. It's just that you're...well...always out there and always there for others but I just don't get why I was your first kiss. There's a lot of other guys out there."

Kaori sighed and looked down, feeling Kousei fully hold her hand and slip his fingers through hers. "Well...who would've wanted to kiss a diseased girl?" Kaori laughed a little and kept looking down, not meeting Kousei's gaze and felt tears well up in her eyes.

Kousei stared at her blonde hair with tight lips and slowly and carefully, in case she turned her head, reached for her chin so he could make her look into his eyes.

"Wha..." Kaori didn't know why Kousei wanted her to look at him but her glistening eyes widened and her sentence was cut short once Kousei kissed her again, but his eyes were closed this time.

Kaori wasn't even sure what to do so before she even got to kiss back Kousei always pulled away and looked into her eyes, his eyes that were clear and out there were boring into her own pair with care and...love.

"Me... I would've." Why am I so confident all of a sudden? "I wouldn't have cared if I knew you had a disease or even if you didn't...I would've still kissed you." This isn't like me at all, but...it just feels right saying this to you. "And besides...you've made me fall in love with you, there was no turning back once I did because you're like a permanent marker, once you were written down into my mind I couldn't stop thinking and thinking about you and you were just stuck there, no longer able to erase."

The trees outside the hospital were blaring against the window but that didn't stop Kousei from speaking or Kaori from listening.

"I know it may not seem like it considering the amount of times we fight or argue but...I love you and you're just...amazing."

The blonde headed girl was speechless when she heard everything Kousei said and she felt her face sizzle when Kousei brought her into a hug, wrapping his arms around his shoulders.

"Where did all this confidence come from?" Kaori asked, wrapping her arms around his waist to lay her head on his chest and listen to his rapid heartbeats.

Kousei laughed quietly as his sweat dropped. "I-I don't even know myself, to be honest...I just spoke from my heart."

"Hmm," Kaori hummed. She laughed a little more and snuggled Kousei closer so that they were practically laying down.

"Whoa, uh..." Kousei didn't know what to do so he just leaned his chin onto her head and kept holding her.

"You're warm...and comfortable."

Kousei was still but he slowly started to relax and moved lower so he could lay down with Kaori fully placing her head over his chest.

"This is a more comfortable position...right?" Kousei said.

Kaori smiled and closed her eyes so that she could just listen to Kousei's relaxing and frantic heartbeats. "Mm-hmm. Calm down though, your heart keeps hurting my head with how fast it's going."

"Ah! S-sorry," Kousei mused, his heartbeat going faster with each word.

Kaori laughed and looked up at him, her chin on his chest. She took in his features without his glasses.

He was handsome, more clear, and he looked a little more older, but yet younger at the same time.

"Kousei?"

"Yeah?"

"This is the first time I've seen you without your glasses like this..." Kaori smiled and placed a small kiss on the tip of his chin. Kousei reddened and he looked down at Kaori before stuttering out, "O-oh...then I guess it may not be pretty huh?" He laughed a little nervously.

Kaori rolled her eyes and weakly got on all fours so that she was hovering above him, her hair framing her face like a waterfall.

"Nope, because I think you look handsome." She grinned and leaned in to kiss his lips and pulled back to look back into his eyes.

"R...really?" Kousei asked, his brow furrowing.

Kaori chuckled and nodded, pecking his nose before carefully falling down beside him, wrapping her arm around his chest and rested her head on his upper-arm. "Uh-huh."

Kousei was still red but he gave Kaori a pursed smile and closing his eyes right after Kaori did so and his heartbeat started to relax and it lulled Kaori to sleep while he fell asleep to her steady breaths.

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In reply to that guest: Of course :D

Hey guys! Sorry that this was later than usually (even if it is only the 3rd chapter). School has been in the way and I wasn't even sure if I wanted this to go the way it went, but I pushed that anxiety away and did it anyways.

I hope this was okay and you at least enjoyed reading it. I'm not sure what to do next chapter, so if you have any ideas please shoot. I'm sometimes blank but I enjoy ideas.

Who else has heard about the live action movie coming out for YLiA? I sure have, I cannot wait. I can't even wait for the dub any longer as well, I've heard about them both since the first day it was announced and now I just can't wait, the dub needs to come out sooner or I will go crazy; I can tell by the notices about the VAs that they're gonna be good. I wanna see how the live action is gonna go though, it's coming out next year since the actors for Kaori and Kousei learned piano and violin for a year. So far I know that they're gonna be in their second year of high school and not in eighth grade because of the actors' ages. Can't wait for it.

Sorry this AN was long, just wanted to get that out there.

I hope the next chapter can come out soon, I'm just trying to get my grades up since next trimester, or semester, is coming up.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far :D

Till next time! (sorry if there were any mistakes)