Here's the first drabble. Frick, I really listened to the song as I wrote this drabble, but honestly, it DID help. Oh yes. :D I suggest you listen to the song (found at the end of the story) too, as you read. Yup.

Disclaimer: As a disclaimer for all of the drabbles, Foxtrotelly gives all respectful copyrights to the genius and creative work of Tachibana Higuchi-sensei because she's simply thankful they're around for everyone to enjoy. I don't own any of the songs in these drabbles too, by the way. (:

Drabble # 1: Narumi x Yuka

Main Genre: Drama

Word of the Drabble: Bullet

Dedicated to: SEESTER, here's the song we always jam to. :

Narumi grabbed my hand, making me squirm like a young child for a while.

"Narumi, please…" I pleaded with him, which was funny considering the last time I sounded like this was when I was pregnant, beaten up, and currently the main prey in all major Gakuen manhunts.

"No, Yuka, I won't." His words sounded firm, the lack of the word senpai suddenly biting me in the face like a harsh and bitter reality.

"There's not much time, Naru, please, I have to go."

"You can't if I'm not there with you," said Narumi gravely.

"Naru, how could you – "

He suddenly spat out, "What? How dangerous it's going to be? How much harm I might get into because of you? What is it, Yuka?"

I sighed, "Yes, as a matter of fact, that's what it exactly is. But don't forget, you also have to stay around because – "

"Because Shiki doesn't want me around you?" he crudely asked, then continued, "I ask you now. Why, Yuka-senpai, why give Shiki the chance? Why wasn't I ever allowed to come along with you? Am I not good enough, strong enough? Yuka, just tell me WHY."

I grimaced, Naru should seriously hear himself right now, he sounded very immature and childish. "Don't drag Shiki into this. You know it doesn't work like that."

"Then how, Yuka-senpai, how does it work?" Narumi was almost on the verge of tears.

Strange, how a grown man looked with tear-stained eyes and that child-like look of pleading and begging on his face.

I took in a deep breath, "Shiki had nowhere else to go. We were both lost, in the world, and in finding our ways back home. Though Shiki was needed in some places and I was pretty much loathed and displaced, denied and disowned for everything I had, we were both of help to each other in searching for light."

"Yuka," Narumi's cold voice returned, "why did he get to stay by your side through these years? And how come you never even allowed me to help you?"

"He was a lonely man who needed compassion and – "

"Yuka-senpai," Narumi's voice quavered, "I was lonely and broken, have you ever forgotten? You left me, but you didn't leave him. That's being unfair."

"You have your students Naru, Shiki had nothing," I spoke calmly, suddenly catching thought of the dull ache in my chest. "And you have Mikan."

"You have her too, but she still doesn't know it yet."

"I-I, if you only saw her eyes, they were filled with so much, so much hatred and anger, what more now that she's completely aware of the fact that I'm a complete disgrace," I said ruefully.

"Yuka-senpai, that's not true," Naru mildly consoled, "she will learn to love and trust you because that's what Noda-sensei was asked to do: to make her aware of the past and the numerous hardships and sacrifices you went through for her."

I got slightly surprised with Narumi's sudden change of tone.

Unexpectedly, Kazu looked up from the papers he was signing, and spoke, from behind his ornate, mahogany desk and from the deafening silence he's been in for the past few hours, "It's almost time. They should all be returning by now."

I tried to ease my haywire nerves, but only lost my concentration when I found Naru's hand still tightly clasped to mine.

"Naru, let me go."

"No."

"Do you love me enough to let me go?"

"I – " Naru was cut off as a bullet shot through the door and embedded itself on a wooden chest of drawers.

And then everything seemed to go by in a rush.

Oh, I'm a wandering soul
I'm still walking the line that leads me home
Alone… All I know
I still got mountain to climb
On my own, on my own

Do you love me enough to let me go?
To let me follow through
To let me fall for you
Do you love me enough to let me go?

Enough To Let Me Go - Switchfoot

This song is a certified thumbs-up, so I recommend it for anyone who's into alternative and indie rock.

Yosh, on to the next drabble! XD