Caveat: I have not played the Amagami PS2 game because I can't read Japanese. Some events I've shown here are my interpretation of certain events in the game.

I've decided to start this relatively short fanfic because my creativity for my K-ON! fic is dried up at the moment.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story.

Italicized conversations are flashbacks or thoughts.

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Lies

"That Makihara-san was planning on dumping you in front of everyone, myself included," spat Kamizaki Risa while she was pacing frantically around in circles in their secret room, Junichi's afternoon bento in her hands.

Tachibana Junichi could only look at her in shock at the revelation: this girl who was his self-admitted stalker was the very reason his heart was broken two years ago, though that was not her intention.

"So Risa-chan, let me get this straight: You misled Makihara-san by telling her I changed the meet-up place and time, so that she wouldn't humiliate me in front of her friends?" asked Junichi tentatively.

The brunette nodded while she continued to pace. "I didn't have a choice, Tachibana-kun! It was the best I could do…"

"Was it indeed the best you could do, Risa-chan?" interjected Junichi testily. "Wouldn't the best thing for you to have done would've been to tell me exactly what Makihara-san was planning?"

"Well…," mumbled Risa, who stopped pacing, deciding to twiddle her fingers instead. "If I told you, I'm sure you wouldn't have believed me; you might even think that I was trying to rain on your parade."

Junichi sighed; she was right. It wasn't his right to blame Risa; what else could she have done, after all? He felt that he'd rather not know all of the things that Risa was telling him; he had only reluctantly agreed because it was only under the condition that Risa reveal everything to him that she would allow him to take her as his date to the Founder's Festival coming up in a few days.

He was already inclined to forgive her for her actions due to the circumstances until she dropped the bomb on him.

"Also… I've done terrible things to all the girls who looked interested in you," mumbled Risa, refusing to meet Junichi's eyes.

Junichi's head snapped up and looked at her incredulously. "W-What do you mean, Risa-chan?" asked Junichi warily, his voice cracking from anticipation and dread.

"I sabotaged whatever attempts any girls were doing in order to get close to you. It was all for your own protection, Tachibana-kun," replied Risa, still refusing to meet Junichi's eyes.

"Like?" came the neutral reply.

Risa took in a deep breath.

"There was a time when Morishima Haruka-senpai grew interested in you," began Risa. "I knew that you had confessed to her and had been rejected, and yet, she had the audacity to remain around you, acting as though nothing happened. You, on the other hand, swallowed it up, Tachibana-kun, because you liked Morishima-senpai, didn't you?"

Junichi nodded and Risa continued. "I was, to put it lightly, very angry at what she was doing. You continued to pine after her even after she had rejected you and was now hanging around you without any consideration for your feelings. That's when I called her out to meet me behind the gymnasium one day."

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"Hello, what business did you have with me, uh…?" began Haruka tentatively.

"Kamizaki Risa," replied Risa, her hands behind her back clutching her ace in the hole.

"Um, yes, Kamizaki-san, what did you want with me?" repeated Haruka while she twiddled her thumbs, gazing at Risa with pure curiosity that belied her easygoing nature.

"I've seen you hanging around with Tachibana-kun lately, and I thought that there was something that you needed to know," said Risa as she brought the picture from behind her back and showed it to Haruka who raised an eyebrow.

"This is Tachibana-kun…? And this girl is…"

"Yes, apparently, she's his girlfriend, Morishima-senpai. I just thought you should know," replied Risa.

Haruka took one more look at the brown-haired girl who had her arms around Junichi's shoulder, flashing a "V" at the camera.

"I thought she was… nevermind," mumbled Haruka, shaking her head. "Thank you for letting me know about this, Kamizaki-san."

Haruka turned and walked away. "I really, really, really hope I'm wrong about what I was thinking," thought Haruka as she walked away.

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"So that's why Morishima-senpai and Tsukahara-senpai stopped hanging around me," muttered Junichi. "You showed them a picture of me with a girl and they thought she was my girlfriend?"

Risa gulped nervously and nodded. "T-there's more…"

Junichi could feel a pin drop. "More!"

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Risa was, frankly, incensed. She was heading towards the staircase when she overheard Tanaka Keiko and Tanamachi Kaoru talking in Junichi's classroom while they were the last two left for cleaning duty. She had tracked Junichi's movements and was certain that he and Masayoshi were headed towards the family restaurant where Kaoru worked part-time.

"…is being really nice to me during these trying times," said Kaoru to her companion as she cleaned the blackboard.

"Aren't you lucky to have such a reliable best friend, Kaoru?" asked Keiko as she arranged the chairs after Kaoru had mopped the floor.

"Of course I am! Junichi might look like that but deep down, he's a really nice guy. Probably even nice enough to be a boyfriend, not just a best friend," said Kaoru with gentleness in her voice.

"Kaoru!" exclaimed Keiko. "I didn't peg you as the type to go for your BFF. Why the change of heart?"

"He's been there for me throughout these trying times with Mom and her boyfriend. I told him to go to the restaurant with Umehara-kun earlier, because I was planning to confess to him after my shift. Since we're all done here, wish me luck, Keiko!" said Kaoru enthusiastically, despite the fact that she was feeling nervous.

Risa then bolted for the staircase and sat on the steps, rifling through her schoolbag for the tools of the trade she needed. She took out the picture she had shown to Haruka and, noting Kaoru's relationship with Junichi, decided to take another picture out of her bag in order to convince her that Junichi was taken.

When she heard footsteps, she made her move. "Tanamachi-san!" exclaimed Risa, her heart beating wildly at the implications of what she was about to do.

"Hmm? What business do you have with me, uh…" Kaoru grasped for her name.

"Kamizaki-san. Um, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation with your friend, but…"

Risa then stepped forward and showed Kaoru the first picture. "Tachibana-kun already h-has a girlfriend…"

Kaoru took one look at the picture and burst into laughter; laughter so hard that her mirth practically seemed to envelop the entire building. Risa would be unsurprised if Keiko had heard her laugh. She was not disappointed.

"Kaoru? What's that all about?" asked Keiko as she came walking towards them.

"Shit," thought Risa. She had planned to keep the collateral damage of her plans to a minimum, but now that Keiko had arrived and she was in the middle of carrying her plan out, she had no choice but to continue.

"Oh, Kamizaki-san here is telling me that this girl is Junichi's girlfriend," said Kaoru, taking the picture out of Risa's hands and showing it to Keiko.

Keiko raised an eyebrow skeptically. "Isn't that—"

"I know, right?" Kaoru managed as she began to giggle once more. "That's the most preposterous thing I've ever seen; I'd be more willing to believe myself as an electromaster being able to shoot arcade coins at the speed of light to create a railgun than this."

Risa moved in for the kill, her actions tearing inwardly at her heart as she apologized to whatever gods existed for the travesty she was about to commit.

"I can prove it," she said, her voice unnaturally steady. She took another picture out of her pocket and showed it to Keiko and Kaoru, the latter's face immediately turning stony as her laughter ceased and the former clasping her hands over her mouth in shock.

"What the fuck is this supposed to mean?" she asked in a brittle voice as she raised the photo in her hand.

"It means exactly what it means, Tanamachi-san," continued Risa.

Still in that same stony voice, Kaoru continued. "Are you fucking sure about this? How do I know this isn't a fake?"

Risa decided to tell part of the truth. "I climbed onto the tall tree beside Tachibana-kun's house and took a picture while they slept. I liked him too, see, but when I discovered this… I felt it was my duty to let my rival know."

Kaoru's frown persisted as she merely nodded to Risa and with Keiko in her wake, went downstairs, muttering profanities about Junichi all the while.

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"You're telling me you're also the reason why Kaoru hasn't been talking to me for the past week?" sputtered Junichi in disbelief.

"I'm sorry!" Risa practically wailed. "T-there's more…"

Junichi felt his hands involuntarily hug his chest as Risa continued.

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"Um, Nakata-san, I can't help but notice you've been really close to Tachibana-kun recently," said Risa as she leaned against the stairwell heading towards the gymnasium's locker rooms. Across her, Nakata Sae stood facing her with uncertainty etched all over her face.

"S-senpai? What about senpai?" asked Sae in a nervous voice.

"What is Tachibana-kun to you, Nakata-san?" asked Risa in a steely voice. "She's a timid kouhai, this is going to be a piece of cake," thought the brunette.

"U-uh, he's my instructor… I asked him to help train me for a part-time job I wanted. Miya-chan insisted," replied Sae.

"But don't you like him at all, Nakata-san?" pressed Risa.

The twin-tailed girl flinched as though she had been slapped. "I'm right, aren't I? You love Tachibana Junichi-kun." It was a statement.

Defeated, Sae nodded. "What does it have to do with anything, Kamizaki-senpai?"

Wordlessly, Risa took out one of two pictures from her pocket. She delegated to use the same strategy with Kaoru with Sae. No kill like overkill, or more accurately, no kill like shoving something so outlandish into her mind by backing it with physical evidence, no matter how fabricated it was. Times like these were what made Risa thankful that she was so damn good at Photoshop.

Sae took the picture that Risa proffered and looked at it questioningly. "What about this picture? I find it to be completely normal," replied Sae.

"That girl is Tachibana-kun's girlfriend."

"G-girlfriend?" Sae's eyes grew wide.

"Nakata-san, if you don't believe me, look at this," said Risa as she moved in for the kill, showing Sae the other picture in her hands.

It only took one look for Sae before she promptly fainted, her body weight falling limply onto Risa's, which made her so much more aware on how well endowed the girl was.

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"You drove away Nakata-san as well!" exclaimed Junichi.

Risa nodded balefully. "It was all in the interest of your protection. Someone as inexperienced and fearful of men as she was was bound to screw up."

Before Risa could continue, Junichi cut in. "Let me guess, you're the reason why Nanasaki started to avoid me as well." It was a statement, not a question.

Risa nodded. "She was the one who took it the worst."

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"What business did you have with me, senpai?" asked the lean swimmer as she leaned against the stairwell that led to her locker room.

Risa decided to cut to the chase with this one. She had to one-two punch this down-to-earth kouhai in order to pull a fast one on her. She took out both pictures from her bag and handed them to Ai while she said, "The girl in these photographs is Tachibana-kun's girlfriend."

A minute later, Ai was still looking at the photos with a stony look of distaste in her eyes. "I think I should ask the girl in question if this is true," she finally said.

"No!" Risa practically screamed. "She wants it to be a secret; just please accept their relationship and keep it a secret, since it's in their best interests. It's what both of them would want, Nanasaki-san."

Ai sighed audibly. "In any case, thank you for letting me know about this. I'll make sure to tread clear of both of them."

She turned wordlessly and left, though Risa could've sworn she heard Ai mutter about how "disgusting" and "a menace to society" Junichi was. If she could say such things about Junichi, then there was no way she was letting her have him.

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"Where are you getting these pictures anyway? And no, I don't want to know who the girl in the pictures is," said Junichi, a hand over his face as he sat, hunched, on a wooden crate in the secret room.

"Photoshop is one of my talents," said Risa, chuckling slightly.

"There's more, isn't there?" asked Junichi. "Two other women I was okay with have also begun to avoid me in the past week."

Risa nodded regretfully.

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"Sakurai-san, I can't help but notice lately that you and Tachibana-kun are getting closer. The two of you are childhood friends, right?" asked Risa.

Rihoko nodded. "He doesn't notice that I like him though. My love for Junichi has always been one-sided, even since we were little, Kamizaki-san."

"For your own good, Sakurai-san, and as a concerned classmate, I need to show you something," said Risa as she took the first photo out of her bag and presented them to Rihoko in one fell swoop. "The girl in the photo is Tachibana-kun's girlfriend."

"Kamizaki-san, I didn't know you had such an amazing sense of humor. Hiba-senpai and Yuzuki-senpai from the tea club would enjoy such a joke."

Rihoko noticed the serious look Risa was giving her and Risa took the other photo out of her bag and gave it to Rihoko.

Rihoko's mouth opened in an "O" as she perused the two photos she now had in her hands. Wordlessly, she thrust them back to Risa and turned on her heels and fled, the sound of her sobbing remaining audible despite her distance from Risa.

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"I wonder if that explained why Itou-san seemed to be doing her best not to lunge for my throat yesterday," thought Junichi.

"And about Ayatsuji-san?" prompted Junichi as he looked up at his tormentor in resignation. "She hasn't avoided me to the extent that the other girls have though…"

Risa smiled ruefully.

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"Ayatsuji-san, I know you're busy with the Festival and Tachibana-kun is there to help you out. That's why I felt that it was my duty to let you know…," trailed Risa.

"Know about what?" asked Tsukasa sweetly. Risa gulped and, her hands shaking, took the first picture out of her bag, handing it to Tsukasa.

"This girl is Tachibana-kun's girlfriend," said Risa. Tsukasa raised her eyebrows and remembered that she had met the girl the previous week, back when various students were requesting activity forms for the various things they wanted to do at the Founder's Festival.

She wasn't able to recall her completely, but she took another look at the photo and due to her experience with organizational posters and computers, she immediately saw through the lie. She decided to play along though, for her own amusement.

"Convince me," stated Tsukasa. Risa handed her the other photo and this time, Tsukasa's eyebrows shot up sky high as she saw the smile plastered on the girl's face as she slept. She finally recognized where she had seen the girl before.

"I still don't believe you, Kamizaki-san was it?" Risa nodded, and Tsukasa continued. "I still do not believe what you have shown me, though if it had truth to it it would certainly be veryinteresting. In light of this, I shall try to keep my distance from Tachibana-kun in the meantime."

Without another word from her, she turned on her heels and sauntered away, as though she weren't even disturbed by what Risa had shown her. "I wonder if she saw through my lie," muttered Risa. "Well, it doesn't matter, as long as she lays off of Tachibana-kun."

As she walked towards the committee room, Tsukasa smiled. "Things certainly will be interesting for the rest of the school year. I hope to the gods that Tachibana-kun has a good Christmas as consolation," thought Tsukasa.

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"And that's everything I've done," finished Risa, turning away from Junichi again. "I swear that I did everything for your own protection, Tachibana-kun!"

"Risa-chan… I'm sorry… I just… I can't forgive you after what you've done. Your lies have probably severed my friendships with some of those girls," said Junichi as he looked up at Risa and the girl was shocked by what she saw in his eyes. His eyes emitted nothing but tranquil fury, and instinctively, Risa knew what was coming.

"I'm breaking up with you, Risa-chan. I'm sorry," said Junichi, though he didn't sound sorry at all.

Risa froze; she had heard the words she was dreading. She dropped the bento she was holding and it impacted on the wooden floor with a loud crack. She leaned in closely to Junichi, who backed up in surprise, tears flowing down her face.

"If I can't have you," she said as she reached for her bag that was on the crate beside him. "No one can."

Wordlessly, she ran for the door before Junichi could stop her and she slammed it shut, leaving Junichi alone with his thoughts.

It would turn out that not chasing Risa would be one of, if not the biggest mistake he made in his life. It would be debatable soon enough though.

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"Oh, Tachibana-kun, a word with you if you please," whispered Takahashi Maya, his homeroom teacher as he passed the staff room right as she was going out. "Please enter the staff room, there is something I need to discuss with you of utter importance."

Perplexed, Junichi wondered what he had done this time. He had spent over half an hour brooding in the storage room after Risa bolted from him. When Junichi entered the room in Takahashi-sensei's wake, the room was empty save for the two of them.

Without further ado, Takahashi-sensei proceeded quickly to her desk and sat down in her chair.

"I've been hearing a few rumors about you this past week, but I dismissed them as fanciful lies. Until, that is, I found these pictures on my desk."

Takahashi Maya handed two photographs to him and what he saw made his blood run cold and his heart stop flat in its tracks.

"What is the meaning of this, Tachibana-kun? Please tell me that this is not true," said Takahashi-sensei in a carefully neutral voice.

"N-no, no, it's not true, none of it is true!" screamed Junichi in desperation as he was overwhelmed by the shock. He bolted for the door and ran down the stairs, taking the steps three at a time. He wanted to run away and never come back, for instinctively, he knew that it was all over. He knew that Risa had left the pictures on Takahashi-sensei's desk, but there was no way for him to prove it unless he could somehow corroborate what Risa confessed to him earlier with those same girls who were now avoiding him.

"And with good reason," he muttered grimly as his feet had taken him outside Kibitou High School's gates. With the sun setting, he looked forlornly at where he had come from and he sagged against a tree in the lane in physical and mental exhaustion.

When he closed his eyes, his memories, unbidden, flashed back to the two pictures Takahashi-sensei had showed him not even five minutes ago.

Me… and Miya…

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Well, how was that for a first chapter? I was inspired by Risa's episode and decided to turn it on top of itself in combination with her game's bad end, combined with Miya.

Please read and review; this is also the first story in the newly created Amagami SS section by the way, as yours truly requested the site admins for a new subsection. :)