Soraru was walking towards the cafe the guys had planned for him to meet up with Tanaka. They really have nothing else to do. Soraru just sighed at his friends' persistence and laughed at how pushy they are. He then began to become anxious at meeting the older women.

He hadn't talked to her, without any hostility that is, for a few years and he was worried he'd be rude or sarcastic to her which in turn would cause more problems for them. He finally made it to the cafe, after the long, dreadful walk, and slowly opened the door to enter. He spotted her by the windows and made his way towards her.

"Ah, Soraru. You actually came, I thought maybe you'd bail."

"Yeah...."

"You can get whatever you want, I'm paying."

"........"

Soraru was silent, not knowing what to say. It was awkward for him to just start acting friendly to someone he held a grudge against for such a long time. Soraru just laughed to himself, he knows that he can be awkward sometimes, and this was the time.

A waiter came by and Tanaka had placed their orders. Soraru just stared out the window, awkwardly shuffling in his seat. Tanaka smiled at the raven-haired's male action, looks like he still is his awkward self. Other people would be shocked to see such a cold kid look shy and nervous.

"I know it must be awkward for you, you always did hate being forced into situations you don't want to be in, but I just wanted to apologize for hurting you. I really, really wanted to be there for you two, but it would've caused a scandal since I was getting popular at the time and it would've made things more troubling for you guys. I mean you know how rumors go around, people would doubt your abilities because they'd think you only got in because of my connections since I was famous."

"........"

Tanaka sighed before continuing, "I know forgiving me for lying to you might be a bit of a stretch, I mean you had to throw away your childhood and grow up quick to take care of Sakata. But I just want to know how you really feel."

The waiter came back with their meals as Soraru was staring at his plate. A few moments of silence enveloped them, before the raven-haired male finally spoke.

"..........I don't hate you......."

She smiled at the raven-haired male who was looking away, a small, shy blush on his face. She could tell that Soraru held no malice towards her, guess he's able to forgive people.

"You don't know how happy it makes me to hear you say that."

Soraru sighed and gave her a small, faint smile. She was glad that the raven-haired's stubbornness finally faded away.

"Fine, I'll forgive you if it stops all this sad sappiness. But you're in charge of our college tuition."

Tanaka just laughed as Soraru went back to his usual blunt, brutal attitude.

"I figured you'd say that. Well, I have no problem with that since I do plan on taking care of you guys now that I don't have much work."

She took a sip of her coffee before saying something that almost made Soraru choke on his food.

"You picked a really nice boyfriend."

She covered her mouth as she laughed at the raven-haired's face, which was beginning to turn red.

"E-Eh?"

"That albino must be pretty entertaining to tease, am I right? I pity him for having to deal with your teasing and devilishly personality."

"Oi."

"Heh, who knew that the little child would be drawn to someone energetic. He's a pure angel and you're his devilish angel."

"O-Oi!"

Soraru was blushing as Tanaka kept teasing him. He sighed before glaring at her, though this time the glare wasn't one filled with hostility and it was just an annoyed look. She hasn't changed either, still likes to tease me.

"Can you cut it out?"

"It's just fun seeing your usual expressionless face crumble."

"You're a cruel witch."

"Who do you think you got your sarcastic attitude from?" She slightly smirked at the raven-haired male, who just laughed.

"Fair point."

They sat in the cafe, talking about their life to catch each other up. Tanaka was happy to know that there was no longer a brick wall around Soraru's heart. I'll have to thank those guys for helping me fix his trust.

Soraru was walking back home, he was holding a bag full of snacks and sweets while on his way back. Tanaka had ordered some for him to take back home for Sakata. 'He deserves some sweets' was her reasoning but Soraru was pretty sure she just wanted an excuse to order more for herself.

If I got my personality from her by spending too much time with her then Sakata probably got her sweet tooth. He opened the door and once he entered he was meet with the stares of his friends.

"You guys do know that walking into a room with people staring at you is creepy right?"

Mafu pouted at the raven-haired's words.

"How rude Soraru~ Can't you see that we missed you very much."

"Gross. That was so gross."

"Www. You returned to your tsundere state." Sakata teased his brother.

Soraru stared at him with a poker face before saying, "okay, guess I'll just throw out these sweets."

Soraru was about to walk to the kitchen when Sakata practically jumped on him to stop him.

"No~ niichan I was just joking~"

The raven-haired male just laughed and ruffled his hair, much to the redhead's dismay. He gave the younger the bag, Sakata grinned in happiness and went back to sitting next to Urata, happily munching on the sweets.

Soraru went to sit on the couch, Mafu moved from his spot on the floor to sit in between the raven-haired, he looked down to see the albino smile at him. Soraru smiled back and wrapped his arms around the younger, who welcomed the hug with a blush on his face.

"So how did it go?" Kashitarou asked his friend. Soraru thought for awhile before replying.

"Terrible, she never came to the cafe."

"Eh?!" was all their replies as they stared at Soraru's neutral expression.

He just laughed at their gullible faces as they all glared at him for tricking them.

"It was fine. Don't worry I didn't do anything bad."

"So you guys made up." Urata lazily said as Soraru gave him a sarcastic response.

"No I told her to get out of my face, of course we made up tanuki." Urata was irritated by the raven-haired's words.

"If you can make sarcastic replies then you must feel better."

"Even an idiot could understand that better."

Soraru smirked as Urata was smiling at him. They could tell the smile was masking his irritation and annoyance towards the raven-haired.

"Wwww. You two sure seem lively, are we sure you guys aren't secretly dating and cheating on your boyfriends~" Shima teased as the two glared at the purple-haired male.

"Shima. Quit it."

"Only an idiot would date this tanuki."

Soraru smirked as he heard his brother shout a 'hey' and laughed at the weak glare from the redhead.

"So now there's nothing to ruin your happiness anymore." Amatsuki said as Soraru blinked at the brunette's words.

For once Amatsuki is right, everything that prevented me from being happy is gone. The others just smiled at Soraru, he looked at them then looked down at the albino in his arms. He laughed and kissed the albino's forehead before he gave them another brutal reply.

"You guys are a bunch of idiots."

"Hey!"

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It was a few weeks after Soraru had forgiven Tanaka, March was ready to greet them as they were just about to finish their last week of February. Tanaka had been helping them a lot lately, coming over to cook, clean and do anything that would allow the brothers to have free time.

Soraru would offer help but she'd refuse it, she still felt guilty and wanted the raven-haired to enjoy his teenage year instead of having to worry about working so much. Sakata now had more time to hang out with his brother, they'd play games, watch TV and spend time outside, though Soraru would much prefer staying at home.

They were in their classroom, Soraru wasn't paying attention to the teacher, not like they were actually learning anything since his teacher was just talking about their life which didn't interest the raven-haired.

He was looking out the window to see the cherry blossoms were slowly prepare to bloom. He was wondering what the others were doing, especially a certain cute, little albino that can't get out of his mind, when the teacher's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

"You guys are soon going to graduate so don't forget to fill out the form and decide on your career."

The bell rang as the students were packing up to leave the school. Soraru grabbed his bag as Lon walked up to him.

"Hey Soraru can you help me real quick?" The raven-haired simply nodded as Lon smiled.

"Thanks, I just need you to help me bring some papers to the faculty room."

"Sure." Soraru followed Lon to the student council room, along the way they saw Mafu walk by.

"Oh hey Soraru, Lon." Mafu smiled at them as they stopped walking.

"Hi Mafu, hope you don't mind but I'm going to borrow your boyfriend for a sec." Lon teased Mafu as he blushed, even though it had been a few months since he began dating Soraru, he still wasn't able to comprehend the thought of Soraru liking him back.

The albino would sometimes get anxious thoughts that the raven-haired would lose interest in him, but the gestures and actions of the older always reassured him.

"T-That's fine."

Mafu used the sleeve of his sweater to cover his blushing face, Soraru found it cute and kissed the albino's forehead. This made Mafu blush even more.

"I'll meet with you guys by the gates." Soraru said as he walked away with Lon towards the room.

Mafu touched his forehead, his heart beating fast, as he smiled at the raven-haired male fading in the distance.

They had gathered the papers that Lon needed and were walking to the faculty room. They just talked about what they learned, well more like what the teacher went over briefly before talking about their life story. Eventually the topic of graduation came up.

"I'm planning on studying abroad." The blonde girl said as Soraru looked at her surprised.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I want to do something with fashion and I think it's better to go somewhere else to learn more about clothing."

"Cool, so were would you go?"

"Maybe France."

"Eh?" The raven-haired male was shocked at her choice as Lon giggled at his expression.

"Aw~ will Soraru miss me?" She teased the male, who glared at her.

"Don't say things that aren't true."

"I'm just stating facts."

"Oi."

They dropped off the papers and walked towards the school gates to meet up with the others.

"What about you Soraru?" Lon asked the raven-haired male, who was pondering the question.

"Don't know."

"Wwww. As expected, well hope you find something you like." Lon then waved goodbye at him as she went the other way.

Soraru was making his way towards the others, who were laughing at an embarrassed, blushing Sakata and an irritated Urata.

"You guys sure are weird. Whenever I come to meet up with you, I always see the tanuki look red." Soraru commented.

"Oi!" Urata glared at him as Soraru just laughed at his blushing face.

"Wwww. It's just fun teasing Urata~" Mafu said as he went to hug the older. Soraru returned the hug as he backed up Mafu's statement.

"Can't deny that."

"OI!" Urata's patience was slowly fading as his friends still laughed at him.

"Niichan, I'm hungry~ let's go eat something." Sakata whined as he was recovering from his blush.

"Can't we just have Tanaka cook?"

"How mean niichan, abusing her kindness just because you're lazy."

"She was the one who offered to help."

"So cruel~" Sakata laughed, niichan sure is happy to have more free time on his hands now.

"How about we go to a cafe?" Amatsuki suggested the idea, Kashitarou was about to turn it down by saying he's not hungry until his stomach growled.

"Www, such perfect timing." Shima teased as the other brunette gave him a small glare.

"Shut up." Kashitarou slightly blushed as they laughed at their small antics.

"Well let's go. I'm not paying though, leave it to the tanuki."

Soraru went to hold Mafu's hand and walked towards the direction of the cafe.

"Oi!"

The two just laughed as Urata was glaring at them, Sakata linked his arm with the brunette and dragged him along. The brunette was annoyed but soon gave up on fighting against the adorable redhead.

The other four laughed at their friends' antics before following them. They had just a few more weeks before the school year ends, and they were planning on making the most out of it.

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A/n

Soraru forgave Tanaka, yay~

I kinda feel sad that the book is about to end o(╥﹏╥)o
but I still have one more plot? angst? left to write so be prepared~

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