The four friends were at a cafe, looking at their brunette friend, who called them over.

"So Urata why'd you call us? You going to finally explain what happened yesterday?" Shima said as he was stirring his drink with the straw.

The brunette was just staring at the table. Ever since last night when he found out about his feelings, he couldn't keep himself calm.

"................."

"Urata, are you okay?" Amatsuki asked the older, who just continued to stare at the table, he didn't even bother touching his drink.

The others were getting a bit worried for their friend. Was it really bad? They all thought as they watched the brunette stay silent, well except for the albino who already knew everything that happened. Did Urata finally realize his feelings?

"I-I-I...." Urata started to say but he was so quiet that they couldn't hear him.

"Urata what are you trying to say?" Senra gave him a confused look.

"I-I-I...."

"He sounds like a broken record." Amatsuki commented as Mafu just nodded in agreement.

"I-I-I..."

Shima was getting sick of hearing Urata repeat himself.

"Just say it already!" Shima exasperatedly shouted at the brunette.

"ILIKESAKATA!"

The cafe turned to look at their table. Mafu and Senra were embarrassed as Urata shot them a glare to mind their business, resulting in the people around them to go back into their own conversations. The four were quiet as Urata was blushing, he dropped his head on the table in misery.

"Can you repeat that Urata." Amatsuki said as the brunette groaned in response. He was mumbling as the others began to silently laugh to themselves.

"We can't hear you~" Shima said in a cheery voice as Urata finally lifted his face to glare at the purple-haired male.

"Shut it or I'll kill you." They couldn't take Urata seriously when his face was completely covered with a red-tinted blush, they continued to laugh.

"So Urata likes Sakata huh~" Senra said as Shima mumbled an 'I told him so.' Urata continued to glare at Shima, who just innocently smiled back.

"Why aren't you guys shocked?" Urata was surprised that they didn't have much of a reaction.

"It's pretty obvious. You'd never stare and act nice to someone as much as you did to Sakata. This is you we're talking about."

Urata turned his glare to Amatsuki, who just playfully stuck his tongue out. Urata buried his head into his arms again as his friends laughed at his blushing state. It was the first time seeing the brunette blush this much.

"So what does this have to do with yesterday?" Senra questioned the older.

The brunette mumbled into his arms as Senra looks at him in exasperation.

"Urata, you know we can't hear you."

"He was trying to confess to me but I called him a friend. Because of the way I was acting when he was talking, it probably made him think that I knew he was trying to confess and that I rejected him."

"Wow, you really messed up," Amatsuki said.

"Shut it."

"How ironic that he now believes that you don't like him when you just finally realized that you do." Shima followed up Amatsuki's statement with a comment of his own.

"Shut it."

"Soraru told me that Sakata was crying."

Urata snapped his head up with wide eyes as he stared at the albino. Mafu showed him the text message Soraru had sent him when he decided to ask the raven-haired male if Sakata was okay.

As Urata read the text, he felt his heart break as he was the reason the redhead, who he just found out that he loved, was crying. Urata groaned as he buried his head into his arms again.

"I told you before that if you didn't realize sooner then it'd be too late and you'd regret it."

"You said and I quote, 'by then someone will have taken him away' not that I'd regret it."

"If you think about it, someone did take him away from you."

"What?" Urata stared at Shima in confusion at what he meant.

"Soraru probably won't let you be with Sakata now that you're the reason he was crying."

Urata wanted to punch himself for forgetting that Soraru would definitely kill him the moment he sees him again. Urata groaned loudly as he continued to wallow in his self-misery, the others gave him a pitied look.

"It might not be too late though, I mean Urata now knows that he likes Sakata and Sakata feels the same so Urata could just confess." Mafu thought as Amatsuki shook his head.

"I don't think so. Sakata was basically rejected, whether it was intentionally or not, so now he might be trying to give up on the crush he has and move on. While Urata here," Amatsuki said as he pointed at the suffering brunette, "is starting to come to terms with him feelings. It'll basically be just like before but now they switched places instead."

Mafu sighed before resting his chin on his hand, elbows on the table, as he spoke to Urata in a disappointed tone.

"Look at what you did Urata. All my hard work is now thrown out the window."

Urata just continued to groan in response.

"Hey isn't that Soraru and Sakata?"

Senra's question made the others look at the direction he was facing. They looked out the window only to see the two walking by. Urata lifted his head to see Sakata was smiling as he spoke to his brother excitedly, he sighed in relief. They all were glad to see that Sakata was smiling and being cheerful again.

"As expected of the great brother Soraru~" Amatsuki joked as he looked at the two.

Soraru glanced to his side and noticed the four of them through the cafe window. Mafu noticed Soraru's glance and waved at the raven-haired male. Soraru just smiled back before turning his attention to Sakata, who tried to look at what his brother was smiling at. Soraru would just move around in an attempt to block his view.

Urata was ducking his head down so they wouldn't notice him. I don't want Sakata to see me now. He would be lying if he said he wasn't afraid of the delinquent, he was. Urata had seen what Soraru could do if he was pissed, especially when it came to Sakata, take the incident with the 3rd year for example.

Although they couldn't hear what the two were talking about, they saw Sakata pout at his brother for not letting him see what was behind him, Sakata was a curious child after all. Eventually Sakata finally got to see past his brother and noticed the four of them, Urata had slid down to hide under the table.

Sakata grinned at them before talking to his brother. They walked away as the others turned to look at the brunette, who had slid down his seat. Mafu gave a sigh as he addressed the brunette.

"They're gone. You can come out now."

Urata emerged from under the table as the others looked at him.

"Are you seriously thinking about avoiding them?" Shima asked the brunette with an eyebrow raised.

"Um......"

"You can't keep hiding. You're going to see them at school when we return. Plus we planned to go to the beach in July."

"......"

As Shima said that they all sat in silence, realizing that they had planned to go with the two siblings.

"Is it even a good idea to ask them?"

Amatsuki wanted them to come along but after what happened, he didn't know if it was a good idea to have the three of them in a room together.

"We should." Mafu said, the others turned to look at him confused.

"I'm not letting my plan fail again. I promised Sakata I'd help him and I will."

"What are you talking about?" Senra was confused by the albino's words.

"Don't worry about it. Anyways we should get them to tag along. Maybe the beach can help Urata and Sakata fix the problem surrounding them."

"Yeah but what about Soraru? I don't think he'd want to be near Urata." Shima pointed out, causing the brunette to groan again.

Shima glared at Urata, he was getting tired of hearing the brunette groan.

"I'll ask him."

"Of course you'd ask him. He'll only listen to you." Urata sarcastically said, he finally spoke an actual sentence.

"Urata shut up. Right now we don't need your sarcasm. We're trying to help fix your problem." Urata shut his mouth after Mafu scolded him.

"Www so Urata is finally listening to us." Amatsuki joked as Urata glared at him.

"Okay guys, Operation Save Urata's Love Life is beginning." Mafu said proudly as he stood up to leave the cafe.

"What?" was all Urata could say as Mafu left the four of them.

"Let's hope he doesn't do anything drastic." Senra nervously laughed.

"Let's trust Mafu on this one. He looks like he knows what he's doing." Amatsuki said as they all smiled at the albino's eagerness to help Urata.

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"Okay, so how am I going to do this?" Mafu asked himself as he was walking towards the siblings' house. He said he would ask Soraru but now on his way there he couldn't come up with a way to ask him.

"Let's hope Soraru can agree without being stubborn."

Mafu knocked on the door as he tried to think of a way to bring up the topic. He saw the door open up and was greeted by the sight of the raven-haired male.

"Hello Soraru."

"Hi. Why are you here?" Soraru knew that his question seemed harsh but he was confused on why the albino was at his house when he saw him hanging out with the others just a few moments ago.

"How cold Soraru~ Can't I just visit a friend's house?"

"What are you planning on doing?"

"You know you can act like you have no idea that I'm planning something." Mafu pouted at the raven-haired male, who let him into his house.

"Where's Sakata?" Mafu asked as he noticed the redhead wasn't there.

"In his room. So what are you trying to do now?"

"Ah~ straight to the point Soraru~"

"This is you we're talking about. You seem to always have something up your sleeves."

Mafu blushed a bit at Soraru's comment, the raven-haired male knew him enough to understand his intentions.

"Ah, I wanted to know if you guys are still coming to the beach with us in July?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't we?"

Soraru gave Mafu a confused look as the albino stared back, equally confused.

"Eh? But I thought that you wouldn't want to see Urata or have him near Sakata at all."

"Trust me if I could that tanuki would've already been dead. But Sakata still cares about him so I'll let him live." Soraru had a blank expression on his face so Mafu couldn't tell if he really meant it when he said he would've killed Urata. As soon as the other words processed through his head, Mafu became aware of what Soraru just said.

"Wait, Sakata still cares for Urata?"

"Yep. He still likes the tanuki. He said he wanted to try to get rid of his feelings but he just can't."

"THAT'S GREAT!" Mafu shouted as Soraru grimaced and covered his ears.

"Oi! Not so loud, you're going to destroy my eardrums."

"Sorry~ but that's great cause Urata just told us that he liked Sakata."

"Eh?" Soraru looked at the albino confused.

"Yep, Urata finally figured out his feelings. You should've seen him when he told us, he was blushing madly."

Mafu laughed as he remembered Urata's face before his expression turned soft, into one a pity. "He also felt bad that he made Sakata cry."

"I figured much. Anyone would feel bad if they made someone as cheerful as Sakata cry."

"Have you ever felt bad about something you did?"

"........."

"Ah, sorry for asking."

"So when are we going to the beach?"

"In the middle of July, Ama-chan said he'd rent a beach house for us."

"Does he even have enough money to rent it?" Soraru doubted that Amatsuki could.

"He has connections~"

"Of course."

"So you're to help me?"

Mafu looked at Soraru expectedly as the raven-haired male smiled and patted the albino's head.

"Sure. I don't want to see Sakata sad any longer. I won't exactly help you but I'll try to back you up."

"Thanks Soraru~"

Mafu hugged Soraru, who blushed at the contact. Mafu looked up and smiled at the male, before realizing what he did and blushed.

"A-Ah, s-sorry I-I was just h-happy."

Mafu let go of the hug and started to stutter while Soraru was recovering from his blushing state. He looked at the albino, who was turning a shade of red and smiled. He's cute when he's blushing and embarrassed.

"Well, see ya when the day arrives. Don't worry about Sakata, he won't say no if I'm going. He never liked being separated from me."

"Goodbye Soraru~" Mafu waved goodbye, blush still on his face as he left the house.

Soraru stared at the door for awhile before walking to his brother's room. Well Mafu, let's hope your plan works. Sakata deserves happiness after what we've been through. He was laughing at himself as he remembered the look on Mafu's face. He really has some sort of spell on me to make me soft. Soraru smiled to himself as he went up the stairs.

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A/n

Two chapters in a day \(•w•)/

I wrote a bit during school so I was able to finish one early and had time to write another.

Welp time for me to go to bed, enjoy the sight of a blushing Urata, hope you guys enjoyed the chapter.