"E-E-Eh?" The stuttering and shaken albino managed to croak out as he stared at the redhead with wide eyes.

"W-What?"

"What do you mean!?" Kashitarou shouted in disbelief as he immediately stood up from his seat.

He looked at Sakata, waiting for his answer. T-There's n-no way that.....

"I saw a note niichan left...."

The guys looked down to notice that the redhead was holding the note in his hands. Urata let go of the comforting hug to grab the note. He read it out loud for everyone in the room to hear.

Sorry Sakata but I'll be leaving. If you want to know where, it's the college I plan on going. I know you all didn't like the idea but I just couldn't really give it up. You have Urata and the others with you now so you're not alone anymore. You probably hate me now, I mean I'm such a terrible brother but, please take care. I love you. Sayonara.

P.s. I guess I should mention that I never hated Urata. I'm happy that he became your boyfriend and I'm happy to have meet the others. Tell the others I said bye.

The room was silent as the words left on the note entered their minds. Urata was probably the most shocked at the note, h-he didn't call me t-tanuki. He stared at the note in his hands with a disbelieved look. He didn't say anything bad about us, no trace of hatred or malice. Urata was going to punch the raven-haired male but now felt like he was the one being punched in the stomach.

Mafu's eyes began to water again, Soraru, he..... The others just looked down, they don't know what to say at all. The atmosphere around them was filled with sadness and distraught. No one even bothered to move as they stayed still in their spots.

"G-Guess that's it then." Kashitarou said, he didn't want to believe that his best friend, his childhood friend, had left them.

"W-We did say we'd be happy for him, didn't we?" Amatsuki hesitantly said as he remembered their encouragement for the older. A-Ah, if anything we kinda lied to him by saying we'd support him no matter what.

"Yeah....." Shima said as he recalled how they were happy for him.

"It's his choice, nothing we can do about it." Senra said as they all sat in silence.

"Mafu?"

"I-It's f-fine. S-Soraru has no feelings for me, I'll f-f-f-find s-s-s-someone e-e-els—"

Mafu's shaken voice had been cut off by the sudden knock on his door. Sakata went to open it, only to see a concerned, sadly smiling Lon accompanied by someone. They were surprised to see it was Kana that came with her.

The dark-haired girl had a neutral expression on her face as she looked at them. Does she ever wear any other expression? Urata sarcastically thought as they looked at Lon questionably.

"Ah, I had a feeling you'd all be here together."

Lon smiled at them. Sakata blinked his tears away as he questioned Lon's sudden presence.

"W-Why are you here Lon?"

"Was wondering where Soraru is." Lon said, I have a clue but I just want them to confirm it.

"He left to go to the college he planned to attend." Shima said to the blonde girl, who sighed. So I was right.

"And you guys aren't going to do anything?" She looked at them as they all looked down.

"There's nothing to do, he decided to ditch us to follow his career." Urata's tone was dripped with sharpness as Lon looked at them with confused eyes.

The rest of them had informed the two girls about everything; from Soraru telling them about his college choice to them arguing to Soraru avoiding them. The blonde girl could only sigh and shake her head after hearing everything.

"So this was his idea huh."

She had an exhausted look on her face as she put one of her hand on her hip. The guys were confused by her words as they looked at her for an explanation.

"Soraru was avoiding you guys, hoping you'd all decide to leave him on your own. He was wishing that you'd forget about him or possibly even hate him."

The other's shock only increased as they heard Lon's explanation.

"E-Eh? W-Why?" Sakata managed to cry out as Lon sadly smiled.

"So that it wouldn't hurt you guys once he left. If you hated him so much that you didn't care about him, then you wouldn't be in this state. Guess he underestimated how much he means to you guys."

"E-Eh?" Mafu couldn't speak, what could he say after hearing that.

"I guess it was also a way for him to not feel hurt or guilty about leaving. Though I'm sure he's probably upset with himself right now."

The room once agin stayed silent, the guys just looked down. They couldn't get a grasp on what they should feel. Soraru is always complicated to fully understand. Kashitarou thought as all the guys zoned out. After a few seconds, maybe even minutes of silence, a loud sigh could be heard.

"What a bunch of idiot."

The guys all snapped their heads to see Kana, with her arms crossed, give them a bored expression.

"Seriously you guys are so pathetic."

Although the statement was directed towards the seven of them, Kana was looking at Mafu as she said those words.

"E-Eh?"

"Oi! Who are you calling—" Urata's remark was cut off by the dark-haired girl.

"I can't believe he choose to date someone as weak as you." Mafu just shrunk back at the statement as the guys glared at her. She doesn't need to rub more salt on the wound, was what they were all thinking.

"Guess you never liked him to begin with."

Mafu widened his eyes as he stared at Kana, the girl was staring back at him with expressionless eyes.

"If you did then you'd have run to him by now."

"W-What?"

"That guy still likes you, he's probably pretty hurt that his boyfriend didn't bother think of trying to persuade him to stay. You guys are mad that he was avoiding you but weren't you guys doing the same? He'd be there but you guys would act like you didn't see him."

The guys began to widen their eyes as they realized the truth in her words. They had ignored Soraru too, all those times they saw him but walked the other way, afraid to talk to him.

"Well guess I'll go to him and confess my love."

Kana turned her back and began to walk, Mafu shouted at the top of his lungs.

"W-WHAT!?"

She stopped and turned her head to look back at him before replying in a nonchalant voice.

"I told you didn't I, if you messed up then I'd go back trying to get him."

Kana could see the albino's eyes show fear, so he is afraid of losing Soraru. Huh how cute. She then smirked and turned back around to face them. An amused smile on her face.

"If you really like him so badly then go after him."

The guys just stared at the dark-haired girl, Lon nodded her head as she laughed.

"So even you can have a change of heart," she jokingly said to the other girl, who just gave her an irritated look.

"You should go to him Mafu. Bring Soraru back."

The albino began to feel a glimmer of hope as a faint smile began to appear on his face. Though it soon became doubtful as a thought occurred.

"E-Even if I tried, I-I don't know where he is..."

"Did he tell you Lon?"

Sakata looked at the blonde girl with a hopeful look, but it became a frown as the girl shook her head.

"He didn't tell me." Lon crossed her arms, he is good at hiding stuff.

"Guess he didn't want us to find him." Shima said as he soon became doubtful at the idea of bringing him back.

"The only person who would know is Tanaka."

At the mention of the older women's name, Sakata perked up and took out his phone to call her.

"Hello?" The older women's voice could be heard from his phone.

"H-Hey aunt Tanaka!" The redhead said eagerly as everyone else in the room, besides Kana, listened closely.

"Hi Sakata do you need anything?"

"Y-Yes, i-is niichan—"

"Hm? Oh right. Sorry Sakata but I have to return to work."

"E-Eh?"

The redhead was confused as Urata sighed. Figures that he'd tell her not to tell us anything.

"W-Wait! Aunt Tanaka—"

"If it's related to Soraru, then I don't know either."

"Huh?"

"He just told me that the college he plans on going to wanted to talk to him so he left. Well bye."

The other line was cut as Sakata just stared at his phone, trying to process what just happened.

"He seriously doesn't want to leave a single trace, does he?" Senra sheepishly said.

"G-Guess we'll never find him." Amatsuki commented as they sighed.

Kana was starting to get annoyed at how they were about to give up.

"He's probably at your aunt's company mansion."

"E-Eh? B-But didn't Tanaka say—"

Mafu was cut off as Kana just sighed at their idiocy.

"Your aunt probably had given you two the keys to the mansion right?"

She looked at Sakata, who mentally facepalmed himself for forgetting that.

"So he just took it, the college is probably about a thirty minute from there."

"How do you know that?" Urata gave the dark-haired girl a doubtful and disbelieving look.

"I saw it on his career paper. He dropped it by accident and I went to pick it up. That's when you saw me talking to him by the gates."

"So that's why...."

Mafu felt like he was finally able to breathe as Kana continued on.

"The college is pretty far, so you'd probably need someone to drive you there. But he still isn't enrolled in the college so he decided to stay at the mansion, it would also make him not have to see your stupid, sad faces."

"Thanks.....Kana." Sakata said to the girl, who just looked away.

"Let's go then!" Mafu shouted as he immediately ran out of his house.

"H-Hey Mafu wait!" Sakata followed the albino as Urata just sighed.

"Those two don't even know how to get there."

The others were amused and just laughed as they all rushed out of the albino's house to catch up to the younger two, leaving the two girls left behind.

"He's still causing problems for me even till the very end. Guess he hasn't changed that much since then." Lon laughed as Kana just nodded.

"Surprised he was able to even make friends with that kind of attitude."

"Yeah. Well we should get going to, I've done my job here." Lon said as she and Kana left the albino's house, not before locking it for the owner that seemed to have forgotten about his own house.

"I'm surprised you wanted to help them." Lon teased the dark-haired girl, who just played with her long hair.

"All their moping was starting to get on my nerves."

"Www. Well bye Kana, hope you have fun in the future."

The blonde girl walked back to her house as Kana smiled faintly.

"Yeah see ya Lon."

She turned around as a thought filled her mind. Soraru owes me one. She just laughed as she walked in the opposite direction of the blonde. Good luck albino.

Mafu was running towards somewhere, he didn't know where exactly, but somewhere that would help him become able to see the raven-haired. He felt himself behind pulled back and looked to see the others had finally catches up to him.

"H-How can a shut-in like you run so fast?" Urata asked as he was panting, out of breathe for running so much to catch up to the albino.

The brunette let go of his arm as he tried to recover his breathe.

"Eh? Why are you guys—"

"You thought we wouldn't join you. Come on Mafu, Soraru's our friend too you know." Shima jokingly said as the albino smiled at them.

"Thanks guys."

"Well let's bring Soraru back!" Amatsuki eagerly said.

"We'll drag him if we have to." Sakata added as they all smiled.

Mafu wasn't going to let his feelings falter anymore. I'm going to tell him again. He was going to remind the raven-haired male how much he means to them.

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A/n

Kana is helping our albino bring his man back

Anyways, Mafu is going after his man. Will they bring Soraru back~ (probably, unless I'm cruel enough to make this end on a sad note wwww)

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter
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