Title: Love Is Never A Straight Path

Pairing: Megumi x Kei

Requested by: Little Princezz Everlazt

AYO! Hello Again! I am back with a new story! Now you can probably see that this is a Megumi x Kei story and to tell you the truth... I DO NOT ship these two ( Megumi x Yahiro is my game). HOWEVER, as you can also see, this pairing was requested by Little Princezz Everlazt, so I was able to push aside the fact that these two almost never communicate and that I ship them. But I was pretty happy with the way this story is planning out, so I hope you enjoy this story as much as I had fun making it.

*BIG SHOUT OUT TO: Little Princezz Everlazt This is for you! I hope you like it!

Just so you don't get confused:
-Megumi's words on her Sketch board/pad = ' '
-Thoughts = 'Italic'

Enjoy! XD

"Hhuuuuuuuh..." A long and tired sigh escapes the lips of the brunet, sitting on a long, old-fashioned bench. Wind blows though the young woman's long, wavy hair, as she looks down at sketch pad that her love had once given her. Megumi just sits there as she thinks about how many failed attempts to make Yahiro fall in love with her and the many
rejections she has received, including today. 'Is this really love?' The thought circles around her head.

That day, just a few hours from now, Megumi once again attempted to make Yahiro fall for her. And, just like the other times, she was turned down. But... Somehow this time... It hurt more than the others.

'Why does love hurt?' She wonders as her grip on her sketch pad tightens. She lets out another sigh.

"Megumi-chan?" A voice calls out to her from her side, startling the girl, who quickly turned her head to see a familiar figure...

'K-Kei!?' she quickly writes, surprised to see her friend. 'What are you doing here?'

"I could ask you the same." He smiles. He walks over to the bench and sits next to Megumi. "So, why are you here? You usually don't go out without Jun or Ryuu."

Megumi's shoulders slowly lower as she exhales, as she looks down in slight disappointment. 'It's... complicated'

Kei watches her as she slowly lowers the sketch pad and looks far out, with a sad look in her eyes. "I see... Yahiro turned you down again."

Kei's words pierce through Megumi's heart. 'How did you know?' The words shake along with the sketch pad as she raises it.

"Well, I guess you can say..." He faces forward and leans back on the back rest "It's written on your face." He crosses his legs and folds his arms. "Well, first of all, It's very rare that you go anywhere without Jun or Ryun, which means that you were on a date, which was most likely with Yahiro. Secondly, you're here alone, which means you either left him or he left you, but I doubt you left because Yahiro would have chased you and he would be here right now, but he's not. And thirdly, that lonely and disappointing look you had, tells he that the date didn't go as expected and/or got rejected." He faces her "That's how it is."

Megumi's eye twitches at his words. 'Well, I didn't think I was that easy to read.' she wrote in a humph. 'But, you are right about the date. It didn't go as I planned and I did get rejected... again' She wasn't very proud to write those words.

"Don't look to sad. Yahiro's not the kind of person to show his true emotions, especially to the people he loves and cares about," he says.

They stay silent for a couple of seconds. 'Oh! You didn't answer my question yet,' she says, to break the silence. Kei turns to her in slight confusion. 'Why are you here?'

"Me? Just out for fresh air. Then I saw you here and thought I stop by and chat." He smiles.

Megumi looks at the smile of Kei. 'Eh? There's something wrong with the way Kei is smiling now... Somehow... I feel something different... loneliness?... No... depression?... No! Never...' she thinks about it for a while. 'Ah...' she looks down and slightly narrows her eyes. In a very gently whisper, just a little peep of sound leave her lips. "Hurt."

"Eh?" Kei quickly turns to her. "Did you hear something?"

Megumi jumps in surprise 'I didn't hear anything!' 'Wow Kei has really sharp hearing. But... there is definitely a hint of hurt in that smile, but what's hurting him?' she thinks as she watches Kei look out into the sunset.

"It's getting late," he says turning to Megumi, whose train of though quickly stopped as soon as he spoke. "Shall we go?" he say as he gets up.

'Yeah,' Megumi quickly answers back and get's up as well.

"Well, see you soon. I hope we can communicate more often," he says.

'Yeah! See you later,' she response. They both turn opposite ways of each other, wave 'goodbye' and start walking in the opposite directions.

Megumi lays in her bed thinking of todays events and she lightly rubs the side of her sketch pad. The sketch pad that Yahiro gave to her on their 'first date' which was actually was just an attempt to help Akira and Tadashi's relationships stay untouched, by getting Yahiro out of the picture. Know that she thinks about it, the date was a double shot down. Not only did she fail to make Yahiro say that he was having fun, but the whole idea was completely useless, since Yahiro wasn't going to disturb their relationship anyways.

'Poor guy. Must really hurt to see the person you love taken away from you. Even so, Yahiro loves Akira-chan so much that he wouldn't hurt their relationship.' She sighs at the thought. She sits up to pull her legs to her chest and rap her arms around her legs. 'That's right. Yahiro is in love with Akira, not me.' She sighs again 'It kind of hurts...' She tightens the grip on her legs, bring them closer to her chest.

'I guess this is how Yahiro felt with Akira. It makes me envy him. It must have been so hard to hold all his emotion insides. It's really frustrating and painful.' She thinks as she looks at the starless, night sky through the window for her room. She gently closes her eyes and rest her head on her knees.

*"Yahiro's not the kind of person to show his true emotions, especially to the people he loves and cares about."* She quickly opens her eyes to the thought of Kei's earlier words.

'But, even with that thought in mind... Does he love me and just not showing it or does he just think of me as a precious friend? I really can't tell. Maybe I shouldn't look to sad, like Kei said.' She thinks for a while.

'That reminds me, earlier today... Kei came by. We started talking (well he talked and she wrote) the we sat there for a while, then...' She suddenly remembers 'Then he smiled with a small hint of sadness and hurt... But, why? I really can't say. Does he have problems at home or something. No, that doesn't seem right... or does it. Problems with Hikari... No, that could never happen... Right?' She released her legs and sat up right on the side of her bed. She thinks of a bit. 'Now that I think of it, I don't really know anything about Kei. Nothing more that he is the eldest son of Takashima household, childhood friends of Yahiro, Akira and Hikari, him and Hikari are super competitive, especially towards each other and that he is currently dating Hikari. But that's all I know. We almost never have any conversation with just the two of us. That's probably because we are always with the others or someone else. I should really learn about my friends more.' She thinks for a bit longer. 'But it seems that Kei already knows so much about, to already be able to see how my day went, by the way I look.' Her eye twitches as the thought runs through her mind.

Soon she calms and stares outside the window, once again. 'But, I wonder what's bothering him.'

Megumi sits at her regular seat, sipping hot tea and eating some biscuits, that Akira had just made. It's a regular day at the greenhouse. Tadashi is stuffing down most of Akira's snacks, which makes Akira get angry and attack him, but everyone knows how much they love each other. Ryuu is playing with the animals again and Jun is just watching Ryuu play. The only ones missing are Kei and Hikari. For some reason the two weren't anywhere to be found. Well since they're dating, it wasn't much of a big deal.

Suddenly, Kei slams the door wide open and angrily walks in. A heavy, dark aura follows him as he walks to his regular sit. Everybody stops what they were doing and watches as Kei makes his way to his chair and furiously opens his laptop, with Hikari out of sight.

"Oi, Kei. Where is Hikari-chan?" Akari asks, pushing Tadashi away from a piece of cake left on the table. Kei shoots at her a dark glare, then shuts his eyes in anger.

"How would I know," he answers in annoyance. He starts typing something on his computer, pushing every key down with extra force.

"Kei! You-" Akira was about to protest but is interrupted by a huge bang that came from the front door. A really pissed and irritated Hikari comes marching in with, just like Kei, a dark and heavy aura fills the area surrounding her.

"OI! TAKASHIMA!" Hikari yells as she grabs onto Kei's collar and forcefully pulls him towards her face. "YOU JERK! HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME THERE LIKE THAT!"

Kei releases himself from her grip. "It was your fault in the first place! I don't know why you're blaming me!" he had an angry and irritated tone as he spoke.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT!? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO LEFT!" she yells.

Kei slams his fist on the table. "MY FAULT!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? ANYONE WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, WOULD HAVE KNOWN IT WAS YOUR FAULT!" he snaps.

The rest of their friends stares in shock as the 'couple' yell at each other. Even Akira is speechless.

'What's going on with Hikari and Kei?' Megumi wonders as the two continue fighting. 'I thought they were in a healthy relationship? I guess not even their relationship can avoid fighting.' She watches as the fighting is getting more aggressive by the minute. 'But somehow, this doesn't feel like the normal 'I like this and you like that' fight that almost every couple goes through.'

(The fight goes on)

'They have been fighting of hours!' she screams to herself. Megumi's eye twitches as she's stuck watching and listening to Hikari and Kei argue.

Kei and Hikari's fight became so heated that they even took the fight outside and started throwing chairs at each other. Ryuu and Jun both watch in amazement, while Akira and Tadashi attempt to stop them from destroying all of their furniture and each other.

It's chaos out here. Chairs flying, people screaming, confused expressions and dark auras. It was a tornado of madness. The worse part was no one else, besides Hikari and Kei, knew what they were fighting about. They just keep screaming at each other saying "It's your fault!" or "Take responsibility for your OWN actions!" Everyone else was just focusing on trying to not get hit by the flying furniture, that the fighting couple use as weapons.

Megumi is losing it. Questions keep on piling up. 'What are they fighting about?' followed by 'Why are they this mad?' then 'Responsibility for what!?' to 'Why are they using the furniture as weapons!?' and the most famous question 'WHAT ARE THEY DEMONS!? No normal human can last 4 hours of chair throwing!' The more she thought of it, the more questions gathered. So enough it became a never-ending pile of questions and it was pretty clear that everyone was thinking the same.

Megumi's eye twitches. She lowers her head and her hands clench into fist. Jun notices her actions.

"Megumi-chan?" Jun asks.

Suddenly, Megumi runs towards the middle of the large field of grass, in between where Kei and Hikari have there show down.

"Megumi-chan! Wait! It's dangerous!" Ryuu screams out to her, but she ignores.

She abruptly stops in the middle of the two, who were about to throw another pair of chairs at each other, but stop by the sudden appearance of their friend. Megumi takes a deep breath in and... "STOP IT!" she screams as loud as she can, which hurt 10x as much as it should. Her scream was so loud that it knocked out each one of them.

A few seconds have passed and everyone regained consciousness. Kei was the first to lift his head. His eyes meet with the eyes of a panting and angry-looking Megumi. A surprised expression crosses Kei's face. Megumi quickly turns to Hikari, who is also in shock.

"What's wrong with you two!? You have fought for 4 hours straight! On top of that, None of us know what you're fighting about!" Megumi snaps. Everyone looks at her in shock. "What could drive you guys to fight like this!? You keep on fighting like this, then you'll never have a happy relationship! Now, you either tell us what you're arguing about or discuss it amongst yourselves in a civilized manner!" she angrily states as she constantly turns to Kei then Hikari. "Do I make myself clear!" was the finally words she said before the air was filled with silence.

They all get up and stare at Megumi in shock. She has her eyes lock with Kei's, with an angry look.

"Megumi-chan..." Kei softly says. Megumi's eyes narrows, surprising him. He quickly averts his eye. takes a deep breath and look at Hikari, who is on the other side of Megumi. "You're right. It was my fault. I'm sorry Hikari." He apologizes.

Megumi's angry frown slowly turns into a faint smile. She then faces towards Hiakri and is quite surprised for Hikari's angry face turns into a frown. 'Hikari-chan?'

"I... I forgive you, Kei." Hikari frown does not disappear. As soon as she says that, she turns around and leaves, which causes Kei to chase after to her.

"What just happened?" Tadashi questions.

It's been days since the incident and Megumi hasn't seen Kei or Hikari since then. Megumi is getting worried, everyone is.

She lays in her bed, once again. The questions asked back then still remain unanswered and new ones pop up every passing day. Megumi sighs. 'What are they up too? None of have heard from them since then. Maybe stepping in wasn't the best idea... But if I didn't, they would have destroyed each other, and our furniture.' Megumi instantly remembers Hikari's expression and frowns. 'What's with that expression? I thought for sure Hikari would be happy, but instead she walked away with a frown. Maybe I should text her, to see if she's okay.'

Megumi reaches for her cellphone located on the right side of her bed. Before she could reach it, her cellphone buzzes. She quickly sits up from her laying down position, grabs her phone and flips in open. 'A text message from Kei?' She looks at her phone is surprise.

To Megumi,

Hi Megumi, it's Kei. Would you mind coming to the park, where we meet the last week? I need to discuss something with you.

From Kei.

Megumi starts to type up her response.

To Kei,

I don't mind meeting up with you. When?

From Megumi.

She waits for a response.

To Megumi,

Today. I hope you don't mind meeting me in 30 mins. Thanks Megumi. Oh and... Don't tell Ryuu or June.

From Kei.

Megumi glances at her clock. '4:00 pm. I wonder what Kei wants to talk about.' She gets up and walks towards her closet. 'I should get ready.'

Kei watches in surprise, as Megumi heavily pants, holding her chest and tightly grips onto her sketch pad. "M-Megumi-chan? Are you okay?"

Megumi looks up him, with her mouth open and her finger, as if to say something, but all that comes out are pants. Kei gently pats her back as she catches her breath.

Once Megumi regains her breath, they both sit on the bench. "Are you okay? Why were you running anyways? The bus stops just a few feet from here."

'I missed the stop and the next stop was 25 meters from here. So I ran.' She weakly smiles. Kei looks at the sketch pad for a few seconds then starts to laugh.

'Eh!? What's so funny?'

"It's just," he wipes a tear from his eye "you could have taken another bus back here." He giggles a bit after seeing a shocked expression on Megumi's face. "Thank you. I haven't had a good laugh in days." He sighs in relief.

'Why is that?' Megumi asks in confusion. Kei looks at her for a second or two, then leans forward, placing his elbows of his thighs. He looks outward.

"Actually that's what I wanted to talk to you about." He turns and looks Megumi in the eyes. "I'm planning on breaking up with Hikari."

'What...'

Well this is the first chapter! I know there was a lot going on in this chapter. I was originally planing to make it a one-shot but the plot just got bigger and bigger and I ended up making it into this whole dilemma about breaking up with this and not getting that, and everything's complicated. And I just had to separate them.

And yes I did end the chapter with a cliffhanger, but that won't matter cuz this story is all coming out in one blow, so this is completely useless writing this.

Anyways, thanks for reading. Please leave a review of what you think of the story so far and stick around for the next chapter! BYENEE!