The blonde trickster slipped quietly in the front door and locked it behind him. A silent yawn escaped his lips and he began making his way to his room. However, a small noise caught his attention as he passed a different—yet still very familiar—door. As tired as he was, his curiosity won out and he crept into the room of the club's "fearless" leader.

It didn't take long for his eyes to adjust to the slightly different lighting and he once they did, he could almost clearly see Kido's figure spread out on the bed, her blankets a haphazard mess. He chuckled softly and approached, fixing her covers and carefully tucking her back in.

As Kano began his retreat, his foot hit something that rustled and pulled his attention to the cluttered desk area.

A fair number of wadded up paper balls littered the desktop and Kano caught a glimpse of something else beneath them. Walking over, he brushed his hand over the desk—sending the papers scattering; a single paper ball rolled from the desk and bounced from the chair to his knees and finally to his foot where it rolled off his boot and underneath the desk.

Quickly checking to make sure the sleeping girl hadn't awakened, he turned his attention back to what he'd been previously looking at. A pink stationary pad, covered with an oddly girly sakura pattern sat along on the surface. Only a few lines had been written but it seemed as though—judging from the paper wads now on the floor—it had taken a while to get to even that point. With a shrug, he read over the scrawlings.

He felt his face flush even before he'd finished reading and he let out a small breath of air. Behind him, Kido shifted in her bed, pushing the covers off again and rolling onto her side, facing away from the intruder.

After letting himself catch his breath, Kano smiled slightly and reread the message again and again. Finally, once he was sure of his response, he plucked a pencil from the pencil case and scribbled a reply on the not before making his retreat and heading to his own room.

Kido woke in a rather uncomfortable position—tangled in her lilac colored blankets. She sighed and slowly pushed herself into a sitting position, rubbing her eyes and then running a hand through her long jade hair. She grimaced and let out a soft sound of pain when her fingers caught on a knot.

Working her way through the hair demon—and scouring the room for her hairbrush—she swung her feet out over the side of her bed, kicking a small object in the process. She blinked, looking up to where she vaguely remembered having left the paper, only to find that her desk had been cleared of everything but her notepad. As she made her way over, she frowned.

Rereading over her message, she noticed a new addition at the bottom of the sheet. She read over the scrawl and then over her own message again. Her cheeks went red and her ears felt suddenly hot. She knew that handwriting very well.

Written in that very familiar font were the five short words, "I love you too, Tsubomi."

A/N: So, I know I haven't updated in a while and I'm so sorry for that! I'm actually working really hard on the upcoming chapter of Road Trip! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish my Christmas fic or the one I was working on for Danchou's birthday but I was recently digging around in some of my old binders and I found this old drabble of mine! I am pretty sure that I wrote this around/close to the same time as Of Nightmares and Promises but I honestly don't remember writing this very much... I will admit that I changed a few parts and added some connecting sentences to the original as well.

Also, since this is only around half of the size of a normal chapter of mine, I've decided to make a sort of collection for all of my drabbles and shorts that are too short for me to consider them a complete one-shot! I also may at some point open up requests to practice my writing-but I'm not 100% sure on that yet...

Pretty soon I will also be announcing some new AU plans and a couple of new multi-chapter fics that will take Road Trip's place once it's finished. Speaking of which, Road Trip should be updated pretty soon but since I updated it in November, I haven't gotten much response and haven't been terribly motivated to work on it... Sorry!

Either way, thank you so much for reading over this and please leave your thoughts in a review~ I always really love to hear what you all think!