My Ex-Best Friend

Summary: They were the Best of Friends since Kindergarten. But circumstances drove them away from each other. And now, six years later, they meet again. Now, both their lives are different and more complicated than when they were seventeen… Will old feelings rekindle…?

Prologue

"I can't believe we actually graduated…!" a seventeen year old blonde in her blue graduation robes sighed, as she stared at the clear blue sky, sitting on one of the branches of a beautiful cherry-blossom tree with her legs swinging.

The brunet sitting next to her, closed his eyes and with a smirk said, "But that will never make you to start acting like a girl…"

"Hey!" she exclaimed.

"Oh wait…" he said, apologetically, "I totally forgot that you're not one!"

"Ha. Ha. Very funny Saionji," she said coldly.

"Well, thank you…" he said flashing her, a charming smile.

The blonde rolled her emerald orbs and the continued to stare up at the sky again. Her eyes lowered and she turned to see the cream colored building right in front of her—Her High School. It was the last time she might be seeing it as a student there.

Her heart contracted lightly and her eyes singed. She didn't want to cry in front of her most annoying Best Friend and be called a crybaby. So, she searched through her head for a change of topic but the brunet bat her to it.

"Yo Klutizalla, it's your boyfriend!" he called her with an unmistakable tease in his voice.

After throwing him a glare she looked down and like the brunet had said, there was her boyfriend standing there with a smile on his handsome face and his graduation robes on his shoulder.

Both teens jumped down to face the newcomer.

"Hey Mizuki…" greeted the blonde timidly, her face growing hot as the former greeted her back with a smile.

"Hey Miyu…" he said and then turning to the brunet said with a nod, "…Kanata…"

Kanata sighed lightly and then said with a smirk, "I'll leave you two "lovebirds" alone…" That received him a blow from the blonde and then said to Mizuki with an even wider smirk, "and be careful dude… the demon in her can wake up at any moment…"

"Jerk!" accused the blonde glaring at him.

He stuck his tongue out at her and then with his graduation robes on his shoulders and both his hands inside his pant front pockets, made his way away from the two lightly.

After the brunet left, silence enveloped the couple as the blonde stood fidgeting lightly. Miyu wondered what to say. It had been only a week before had he asked her out but she had been crushing on him since their Middle School years.

But before she could even part her lips for some randomly embarrassing statement about the weather or the politics, he beat her to it. Only it was an unexpected statement.

"I have something to tell you Miyu…"

Oh god… She knew it. It had been too good to be true. Now, he was going to dump her. Her stomach dropped an inch or so and she was trying very hard not to break into tears.

Finally finding her voice she asked in a croak, "w-what is it?"

Mizuki scratched his head and then said with difficultly, "I like you a lot Miyu…" Miyu's heart skipped a beat, "…but…"

"But what?" asked Miyu before she could stop herself, "but what Mizuki?"

She waited with bated breath as Mizuki struggled to get what was bothering him, out. A lot of possibilities crossed her mind… A lot… But the one he said was nothing close to any of them.

"It's Kanata…"

It took Miyu an entire minute to process what he had just said.

"W-w-what?" she asked, incredulously.

Mizuki kept mum.

"Kanata?" she asked disbelievingly, "what did he do?"

It was about a whole minute before Mizuki answered.

"It's just… a lot of things…" Miyu's eyebrows rose, "you know, the way he looks at you…"

Miyu couldn't believe what she just heard.

"Kanata and I are just friends, Mizuki!"

Mizuki licked his lips impatiently and then scratching his head again said nervously, "I guess I'm just feeling a little insecure…"

"Mizuki…" she gasped, glaring at him, a little hurt.

"It's up to you, Miyu" he said, pursing his lips and fixating her with a culpable glance.

"Kanata's really important to me…" she muttered, tears threatening to fall, "he's my Best Friend!"

"I know…" he said, nodding his head, "but it won't work that way for me… I'm sorry…"

He hung his head.

There was silence in which Miyu understood his silent query.

"You want me to choose between you and Kanata…"

It wasn't a question and Mizuki knew that.

The first tear trickled down her cheek and her emerald orbs were wide with shock and surprise as the guy before her nodded his head once.

Miyu bit her lower lip and looked away. This was not what she had expected.

"It's your call Miyu," said Mizuki, his voice heavy.

"I-" choked Miyu, "I-I need t-time to think about it…"

Mizuki nodded understandingly and knew that it was his cue to leave her alone. He took a step away and then turned back to face her again. Miyu was glaring furiously at the grass beneath her feet, trying to swallow everything that she was going through at the moment.

She felt Mizuki still standing before her. She didn't know what to say or to do. But the latter obviously did for he placed his index finger on her chin supported by all his other fingers and forcing her to face him, although her eyes didn't oblige, he said in a husky whisper, "I like you a lot Miyu… and I don't want to lose you… hope you understand…"

Miyu nodded lightly. But she still refused to look at him directly.

Mizuki gave her a small smile and placed his lips softly over hers. Miyu was completely caught off-guard. She hadn't expected this but before she could do anything else, she found herself kissing him back. Mizuki wrapped his arms around her waist as she did the same to his neck.

Amidst the kiss, she made her decision.

"You certainly took your time…" accused the brunet with a smirk as he pushed back the locks of brunet hair that was covering his forehead only for it return to their original position, if possible even messier.

He was in his P.E. clothes (a black and red combo) and was standing with one foot on the substitutes table in their Indoor Basket-Ball Court, half-way through tying the lace to his shoes. Sweat was decorating his face and it was dripping like small drops of crystals.

The blonde remained silent as she stood by one of the hoops, trying to figure out how she was going to tell him Mizuki's request of her to part away from her best friend.

After finishing tying his lace, he picked up the basketball nearest to him and threw it at her going, "wanna play our last game?"

Miyu caught the ball and looked at him surprised.

"…as students of this school…?" he finished, smiling.

It took all her willpower to stop from crying. He was bound to notice something was wrong. After all, he knew her best.

"Miyu…? Is something wrong?" he asked, worriedly.

Miyu swallowed hard and was about to start when he smirked and asked, "Ah… Don't tell me… Did Mizuki find out you're a lousy kisser?"

She didn't even get irritated or angry like when he usually insults her. To the contrary, she was feeling very sad and all she felt like doing was wrap her arms around the brunet in front of her and cry her heart out.

Kanata gave her one calculating look and asked taking a step closer to her, "Seriously… is something wrong…?"

She didn't answer. He looked at her with a frown for an entire moment and then sighing, with his hands crossed said, "Well… I have something to tell you"

Miyu looked at him, surprised.

He smiled at her widely and grabbing hold of both her shoulders and forcing her auburn eyes into her emerald orbs and with an unusually cheerful smile announced, "I'm moving to Tokyo!"

Miyu didn't know why but her brain was operating relatively slow that day—first with Mizuki and now with Kanata.

"Miyu…?" he called at her empty expression.

She failed to reply.

"Earth to Miyu…?"

"W-w-what?" she gasped.

"What?" he mirrored, taking a step away from her, and raising his eyebrows.

"You're moving…?" she asked in a whisper, incredulously.

"To Tokyo," he said gleefully.

"W-wh-why?" she stuttered, her heart racing.

"Why?" he asked, amazed, "don't you remember…? The scholarships that Miss Mizuno gave…?"

She frowned, straining her memory, trying to remember. Yes, Miss Mizuno had presented Kanata with dozens of scholarship applications before the Exams but…

"To Tokyo?" she asked, disbelievingly.

"Yeah…" he said, smiling, "you're the one who filled out my application forms… you're the one who asked me accept…!"

"But…" she started, desperately, "Tokyo?"

"Yeah…" he said, "I heard it's an amazing Medical College… and hey..! When I graduate, I'll do a brain surgery on you for free… you're not going to live without a brain 'til death, are you?"

She didn't even have the energy to hit him for his insult. Rather she asked, "b-b-but you didn't want to go… You said it was t-t-too far away….!"

"Yeah I did…" he said shrugging, "can't a guy change his mind in this place anymore?"

"Idiot!" she whispered, her head bent a little.

"What?" asked Kanata, frowning.

"You IDIOT!" she shouted, looking at him with angry tears decorating her emerald orbs.

"Miyu?" he queried, a little worried.

"OK leave!" she found her voice rising, and sounded very much unlike her own, "don't you dare come back!"

"Miyu…?" he called, and this time the quiver in his voice was unmistakable but she was too angry to take notice.

"And here I was… thinking you're my friend!" she said, tears rolling down her cheeks, "Do you even realize what you're doing?"

"Miyu…"

"I dumped the guy-of-my-dreams so that I could still be friends with you!" she flared, "and you decided to go away from me, you ungrateful little piece of crap…"

Kanata didn't respond. He was staring at her strangely, as if it was very usual for her to be shouting her head out at him like that.

"You know what?" she asked, smiling coldly, "Leave… leave and never come back… see if I care…!"

Kanata failed to respond yet again.

"I hate you Kanata!" she shouted and ran out of the court, leaving the sad brunet at his own measure, "I hate you..!"

~Prologue End~

A/N: How was it? Does it need any work? I hope you all liked it… Please Review…

Today's thought:

"Never change your originality

As no one can play your role better than you…

So, be yourself"