(A/N: This is kinda a filler chapter, but it leads up to a big confession in chapter ten, so please don't be mad)

Izumi's P.O.V.

"Morning." I say to my boyfriend as his tired eyes open slowly. Hiro smiles and hums in content.

"Morning." Hiro pecked my lips. And I just wasn't satisfied with that. So, I kissed him, making sure to hold the kiss. We got into it quickly as Hiro was hovering over me, his hand around my back, holding me to him as we kissed, my arms wrapped around his neck. If you didn't know what are relationship was like, you might think we're about to have sex walking in, and my sister just happened to walk in.

"Morning gu-" We both heard a shriek and stopped kissing, looking towards the noise.

"Morning Yuki." Hiro says causally. I personally saw nothing wrong with what we were doing, neither did Hiro, but Yuki seemed bothered.

"Why are you guys having sex first thing in the morning?" She squeaked.

"We aren't. We haven't had sex yet." I say with furrowed brows.

"Then what are you doing?" She questions.

"Kissing." Hiro says blankly.

"I'm going to eat breakfast. Remember we're leaving later to celebrate my birthday. Zero, Yata, May and Rei are coming, right?" She asked us.

"Yeah. Gray and Misaki are planning their weddings, and Savannah and Lyon have work. You invited a few of your own friends too, right?" I question, pushing off Hiro.

"Duh. Maybe I'll meet a hot guy." Yuki grinned.

"Possible, but I doubt they'll be straight." Hiro jokes.

"Don't spoil my fun." She leaves the room and Hiro and I get dressed. He does have his own room at my place, but he ends up coming to my room or I go to his. We don't do anything except cuddle. Though, the more we do this, the more my body yearns for more. My body is catching up pretty quickly, dragging my mind and heart along with it.

"You know, someday, we might actually make love in the morning."Hiro jokes, causing a hot blush to creep up my neck and onto my cheeks. We never look at each other when we're changing, just because we both get embarrassed. But, I can't help but peek. His tinned back faced me and I saw his muscles tighten and flex as he yanked off his shirt. His boxer briefs clinging to his ass. He had some body hair, but not much. He even had a slight stumble going on now, but he was going to shave. I want him! I am a guy after all. I turn away and finish getting dressed.

"She'll be gone tomorrow." I say with a hum.

"You're that happy to get your sister out of here?" Hiro questions.

"Well, I love her, but I didn't really want her here in the first place." I admit as we leave the room.

"I understand. I'm an only child though." Hiro grins.

"Fuck off." I grumble.

"Good, you guys look decent." My sister smiles, taking a bite of her toast.

"Little sis, how about we treat you to breakfast? We can then go meet up with the others." I suggested.

"Fine. Why not. I can flaunt two Hollywood stars off, and no one will know it's because we're family or childhood friends." Yuki grinned.

"Yeah, we don't look anything alike, even though we're related." I admit.

"That's because you got the attractive traits. It's no fair! Think how many guys I could've gotten if I looked like you." Se complained.

"Suck it up buttercup. Come on, I know a great place nearby that serves awesome pancakes." Hiro comments. I smile and grab my wallet , keys and phone before heading out the door. We decided to walk, and I think Yuki was happy.

Hiro's P.O.V.

"Izumi, you have some whipped cream on your upper lip." I comment. Izumi stuck out his younger and tried to get it off, but somehow missed some. I smile and lean forward, kissing him and licking up the last of the cream.

"And here I thought today was all about me." Yuki frowned. I knew she was fine with it, she liked seeing us together.

"Sorry, you did intrude on our couple lives." Izumi jokes.

"Yeah yeah." We finish eating and pay, heading to the meeting point at the strip mall. Which doesn't have strippers. Yeah, might as well say I was real confused for a bit.

"Hey!" Rei waved to us and we walked over. With him was Zero.

"My own friends should be here soon." Yuki comments, and as if they heard her call, we all heard the high pitched squeal of four girls and a very loud groan of one guy. Poor guy.

"Hey!" Yuki squealed.

"Happy birthday. I'm guessing that the short one with the cool eyes is Izumi." The guy comments.

"You'd be correct." Izumi smiled.

"Guys, these are my friends. Yuno, Ritska, Haruka, Lucy and my best friend Akise." Yuki introduced. Yuno had her hair dyed pink and her eyes were a dull blue, a very freckled face with pale skin. Quite skinny. Ritska had short brown hair and brown eyes. Her skin was pale and she was also skinny. They all were, figures. Haruka had dark black hair and blue eyes, a calm expression on her face. Lucy was a blind with blue eyes and she had a light tan and plump pink lips. Finally, the last guy. Akise, was an albino. Red eyes and white hair, he was smiling at us kindly.

"Nice to meet you." Lucy grinned.

"It's rare to see an Albino kid these days." Zero comments.

"Yeah, I get that a lot. It's hilarious because I'm the int one of this group who has watched Future Diary, so no one gets my jokes." He chuckled.

"I watched it. Yuki, Yuno and Akise, a recipe for disaster." Izumi smirked.

"Yeah, I guess. Nice to meet you." Akise smiles. All of us head off and look around the mall, going in and out of stores. I found it hilarious when Izumi slipped into GameStop. He is such a nerd sometimes.

"That's quite the endearing look. You really love him, huh?" Akise questions as everyone else runs ahead.

"Yeah, I do. With all my heart. How'd you know?" I question.

"Because I'm madly in love with Yuki, but she's so damn oblivious." Akise sighs, running his hand through his hair.

"I know how tough it is. I had to wait eighteen years after I realized I loved Izumi for him to accept my feelings. Even now, his feelings haven't caught up." I admit.

"So you realized you loved him when you were three?" He smirked.

"Yeah. You and Yuki would look cute together, so I wish you the best of luck." I say as the two of us follow the others into Game Stop.

"Hiro! Look! They have the new Pokémon game!!!" Izumi exclaimed.

"Good for you. You going to buy it?" I question, walking over.

"Duh. It's Pokémon. Do you even know me Hiro?" Izumi jokes.

"Of course I do. We've been together for twenty one years after all." I comment.

"That's because you and Rei stuck to me like glue. But, that said, I'm glad you two were my friends." Rei smiled at us and I smiled at Izumi.

"Oh for gods sake, there's no one hear, if you two are going to kiss, do it already." Yuki groaned as she browsed.

"Wait, they're together? Aw! The hot ones are always gay!" Yuno whines. Izumi rolled his eyes and got on his toes, grabbing my shirt and dragging me into a kiss.

"Can you two not kiss in front of us?" Rei jokes.

"Hah, you much worse things in bed with Zero." I remark.

"Okay, let's pretend we heard none of this.

Izumi's P.O.V.

I walked with Hiro, who informed me that Akise loved Yuki, which I thought was hilarious, given their namesakes.

"We have to get them together somehow. Let's inform the others and create a plan." I issued. Hiro nodded.

"Hey Yuki, let's get drunk for everyone. It's a hot day after all." Akise suggested calmly.

"Yeah. Hey Izumi, can I borrow some money?" Yuki jokes.

"Oh piss off. We both know you have enough." Yuki sticks out her tongue and walks away with Akise.

"Okay, since we're all gathered here, Akise likes Yuki." I say suddenly.

"We knew that already. He is pretty obvious." Yuno comments.

"Yeah, we try so desperately to get Yuki to notice, but she's an idiot." Lucy comments.

"Must run in the family." Hiro smirked.

"Oh piss off Hiro." I grumble.

"Come on, you know it's true." Rei teased.

"Even I know that." Zero chuckled.

"Anyways, does anyone have a plan?" Ritska questions.

"Well, we should try to isolate them. Or have someone threaten the possible relationship. But, that would mean more than one person would end up hurt. I'd much rather isolate them and see how things work out." I inform, thinking of all possible ways for them to get together.

"Would that really work? If Akise is too much of a coward, nothing will ever happen." Lucy questions with a sigh.

"Well, Hiro and I got together due to someone threatening a possible relationship between us." I admit.

"The isolate thing does make it somewhat easier to confess. With no one around to interrupt, it makes it a lot easier." Zero informed.

"We're no experts in love, by all means, but we think it would help to at least try." Hiro smiled kindly. We all then planned how to get the pair alone, but our plans......

"Guess what guys, Akise asked me out on a date!" Yuki squealed happily.

"Huh, he made a move on his own." Hiro comments. Akise was standing beside Yuki, his face flushed and a large smile on his face. He was obviously both happy and embarrassed. Yuki was holding his hand after all, their fingers laced together.

"Good for you two." Yuno grinned.

"I'm happy for you little sis. Akise, you better treat her right." I end up directing a cold stare towards Akise who gulped. But he relaxed when my cold eyes dropped.

"Oh, that reminds me, Akise is also going to be my new roommate in college, so we should hurry home so Akise and I can go to our dorms and unpack." Yuki said suddenly.

"Right now?" I question.

"Yes, right now. We've already been outside for hours. You guys probably want to do do something else and I want to hang out with Akise." Yuki blushed a little, a smile crawling up her face.

"Not to hands or I'm telling mom and dad." Izumi threatened, to which Yuki responded with her middle finger. "Love you too sis."

A few hours later....

We already ate lunch, so Hiro and I were left to lounge about.

"Did the air conditioning break? It's hot as hell in this house." Hiro complains.

"I'll call someone to fix it tomorrow. Right now I'm going to relax." I say as I lay on our couch, feeling a bit sweaty myself. I glance over at Hiro, whose front was facing me. He was in the middle of removing his shirt and I couldn't help but stare. His toned stomach came into view, revealing a six pack. Not a heavily muscled six pack, but not a faint trace of a six pack either. I continued to stare even after he got rid of his shirt. The tanned skin was gloriously tantalizing, and repeated images of his body came into my mind. His v-line going perfectly into his boxers, int inticing me.

"Like the view?" Hiro comments, noticing my prodding stares.

"You have a nice body, can't help but admire it." I say in all honesty.

"Well, there's much more of my body to discover, you never dared to try investigating under the waistband." As if to prove his point, he hooks his finger on the waistband of his boxers which peeked out ever so slightly from his navy blue sweats. He pulls it slightly then releases the waistband, a satisfying snap as it hit his skin. I could feel myself get red. My heart was pounding more than I thought it could. A warm feeling spread through the my body and I felt a churning feeling in my stomach. I was glued to the spot, my eyes staring at him, not daring to leave him. My face still flushed, I didn't know what to say or do. I obviously feel something stronger than a simple crush or like towards him, so what was the feeling that my body ached for, that it craved?