A/N: So for the first timers in this fic who'll read, this is an edited version... I removed the 'Parts' since I think this will go longer than I planned.
Kaede Hinowa is a normal teenage girl who has normal tastes and a normal lifestyle, and because she is that typical, like any mediocre girls, she fell in love with a popular guy who is loved by at least 85% of the girl's population in their school, that being said, she is perfectly aware of the fact that her chance to date or be even be recognized by this 'popular' boy is (1/ Total number of girls in school) × 0.85, mathematically speaking.
Why dies she like him? She have asked that question to herself a lot of times...
As she recalls, there is one time, however, a one and only time that she was able to speak to said guy, that was in the freshmen opening ceremony, where she first laid eyes to Mr. Popular...
'Whoa...Teiko Middle school...' Kaede thought, the school was quite appealing on its own, it has nice facilities for sports and acadaemics. 'Ohhh...certain club rooms are being announced, better get the numbers.' She rummaged her bag for her pencil and then adjusts her glasses before writing in her notepad.
"Ahhh...Miss, do you have another pencil?" Kaede heard someone behind her talk, being a kind hearted girl, she fished out another pencil and then passed it to the one in need, as soon as she glanced up, it was as if sparks flew, bubbles appeared out of nowhere as she stares at his honey colored eyes, his blonde hair and stunning smile. He politely gets the pen and said 'Thanks' then started scribbling, leaving her awestruck and forgetful of what she was supposed to do.
That was the time she's certain, that she have started the inevitable infatuation for this blonde guy, she learned later on that his name was Kise Ryouta and he's a model, loved by every girl she have seen in campus. It was annoying, she was a fan too, but everytime she runs to his fan club, she gets thrown out like when there's a japanese lunch time rush. They were classmates, but she can't even get closer because when a free time comes, a flock of over decorated and wanton ladies gather around him.
That's why she knew there's no chance, no chance at all, however it got worst when he joined the basketball team, her fascination of him exceeds because she likes athletes, but of course if her infatuation have increased, his fans' love for him will increase too, making it a lot more impossible to talk to him.
Kaede's a fan of conventional sports ever since she was young, so she's a member of the archery and kendo club and she's known to be good at both, (its funny how she became better because she incorporated Kise in her every move, whenever she plays Kendo her vigor and hits increases when she thinks of her opponents as the girls of Kise fan club), she was always a first player in kendo matches and with her team she became one of the kendo champions. (She's able to win single handedly by thinking she was eliminating Kise fan club's annoying leaders, the same applies in archery.) So basically her name is also known in the campus, (but she's always mistaken as a boy because they wear head gear in kendo) Then again, sadly, only her name is known but not the real her.
She trains hard hoping to be recognized, but it was no use, there's still no contact,'Of course he won't be interested with a girl who wields swords...' she mentally pats herself in the back at times and was contented with just Kise's posters, magazines and advertisements and its up to that only...
They say that a crush extending beyond six months can be love... so that means Kise has many lovers, and she blames herself for falling for such a guy that can never be hers.
"Hinowa!" She went out of her room because she was called by her elder sister. "Kasamatsu-kun's here!" That brought a smile to her face, Kasamatsu was her older brother like friend, they were neighbors for atleast 10 years. He has a somewhat violent tendency but he's very timid towards girls and she knows perfectly that her Matsu-nii likes her elder sister but can't tell her that.
"Oi, Hinowa!" He called and roughly pinched her cheek, he can do that to Kaede but he will turn into mush if he ever thought of doing that to her elder sister (that would be embarassment overload on his part). She was a second year middle schooler, her sister and Matsu-nii are both first year high school students, though they go to different schools.
"You're a high schooler now, stop being a coward and tell nee-chan how you feel." Hinowa teased, and Kasamatsu's face was redder than a tomato. "Joke!" That was her time to hit him hard on the back.
"You brat!" Kasamatsu roughly ruffled her hair and they started hitting each other.
Though inwardly, she could understand Kasamatsu, she, herself has no guts to even get a one word based conversation with the, now she admits, love of her life and every girl's lives, Kise Ryouta.
Since there's no chance she decided to end this platonic relationship, after all the pain in her heart is caused by overvaluing an imaginary relationship with the person she likes. She decided to focus on her academics and extra curicullar activities, she tore off the posters in her room and planned to burn every magazine she bought that features him (Though she hid them because she can't really do that.)
She's not an excellent student but she was able to pass all of her subjects even if she was engrossed with, currently Kendo, that was already a major achievement for her. When third year came she decided to bury her feelings finally and asks her Matsu-nii some application forms because she will apply to Kaijo. She passed, Kasamatsu called her, rather vigorously.
It was their graduation ceremony, and she decided it'll be her last chance, like a ninja, she stealthily stalked Kise to ask for a button, however, she was late, he was actually crying to his basketball mates, currently he's wearing torn clothing and he says he was raped by fan girls.
It's really impossible... she sighed to herself and decided, she'll probably find love in high school...
"Matsu-nii! Stop that!" Kaede pulls his hand away from her head.
"You look like a girl now!" Kasamatsu teased, because she looks different with her hair usually long and black, turned into a bob cut one (with a perfect concavity and it reaches up to her chin) and she was wearing lip gloss. "You ate something greasy?"
"What?! of course, not!"
"I decided to do a little make over, but that's the limit of what she lets me do." Her sister came out and Kasamatsu's complexion suddenly became ruby red, Kaede adjusts her glasses and pushed Kasamatsu towards her sister and laughs at the two of them, she was hit on the head afterwards.
The school was amazing, and she's excited to join the Kendo club, seeing how the school was quite athletically inclined, she went to her class and then saw that her first one's chem lab, ohhhh...she loved experiments and all. Kaede sat on a blank seat near the window, its good she came exactly at the time before they started.
"Ok...since today's the first day...I have decided to give your lab partners and then you will have a partner introduction..." and then her teacher started announcing pairs and when he called Kaede, she swears she cleaned her ears right before class and she's sure she didn't take any drugs. "Miss Kaede, you're paired with Kise Ryouta...Is Mr. Kise here?"
She heard murmurs of her classmates blabbering how lucky she is and 'Kise-kun is hot, kyaa' she actually thought she heard someone casting a voodooo spell on her. Suddenly, the door slammed open revealing blonde hair and a panting, exhausted pretty face.
"Sorry sensei, I got lost." He said with an apologetic smile that made half of the female population in the room faint, Kaede would, but she's too surprised for that. Her eyes trailed him as he walks to talk to the sensei, she didn't even notice that he was already directed to sit next to her, and the fact that he's her classmate, not to mention lab partner, where they would be required to atleast have scholarly conversations with each other.
What the hell? Now that I've already decided to start moving on, this happens...oh my God! Kaede stared blankly at her lab manual as she was piecing together what's happening...
"Hi! I'm Kise Ryouta, your lab partner and you are..." she glanced up and was surprised to see him in front of her with all smiles and well...with a very close distance that she can smell his nostalgic perfume, and be dazzled by his luminous appearance, lucky for her, his eyes were closed and her face, going to 100% red alert, wasn't noticed, She can't hold her embarassment that's why her fist suddenly clenched and when he opened his eyes, her fist made contact with his face making him stumble down. He was sitting on the ground, when Kaede realized what she just did, she instantly helped him up, fortunately for her, their teacher went out for a while... but the scene was exposed among all his fans and they were probably looking for a death note to write her name on it.
"Owww..." Kise said as he stood up, he glanced at his lab partner and she was standing at least a foot away from him.
"I'm sorry, I j-just have some claustrophobic issues...it's t-too close..." she gave out a smile, distance is a good thing for her now, they'll need to work hand in hand but at least her mind's diverted, but in simple times when they'll be forced to chat with each other to kill boredom, she'll have to be atleast one foot away from him.
"Ehhh?"
"You should stay at least one foot away from me, or else..." she lets out her Kendo sword that was concealed in a long black sheat. "You'll be pounded into submission." She said that with a poker smile, to hide her nervousness and embarassment, she needs to move on! Damn it , it'll take a new generation for him to even date her, so she'll have to get him out if her head. Three years of unrequited love's enough, she needs to think of herself now.
They say that exposing yourself with the allergen multiple times can remove hypersensitive reactions, the technique is called 'desensitization' and in Kaede Hinowa's mind, that could work, her long time unrequited love for Kise Ryouta can be demolished if she exposed herself to him.
Lucky for her, he followed the 'one foot' rule so she can converse nicely with him (she placed a ruler between them) and sometimes it makes her realize how stupid he is, especially in his arguments, anyways experiments are getting harder to do with distance so she tends to do all the work and mostly lets him watch and learn or sometimes she divides the work and do one on their own, so much for partnership.
Kise Ryouta's childish and a whiner at that, he tends to complain about her claustrophobia issue (which is nonexistant) and tells her to see a phobia expert, she'll just smile at him and brush him off. Sometimes he gets too talkative that she wants to smack him, ironically, she actually yearned for him to talk this much to her for a long time.
Kasamatsu told her that Kise's their basketball team's ace and he tells her how annoyed he is with the blonde, its a good thing for her that she didn't tell her Matsu-nii about her secret crush on Kise or else, hell will break loose, especially because of how he points out girls' weird fascination with the dumb boy, however Kasamatsu acknowledges Kise's talent and somehow when the third year describes Kise, she can't help but regain some of the lost feelings she had already dispelled.
"Neh...Matsu-nii, Nee-chan told me that a guy confessed to her." Kaede said and the basketball captain almost choked on his drink. "But she rejected the guy because she said she likes someone already..."
"R-really?" Kasamatsu slowly said, currently they were in the cafeteria, having some snacks.
"Yeah...you should ask her out now, Matsu-nii! You know I root for you."
"B-but your sister said she already like someone else, idiot!" Kasamatsu drinks again from his glass of juice.
"I think she likes you." Kaede smirked as Kasamatsu almost sputter his juice. "I have tickets to the movie she likes to watch, I'll tell her that you want me to give her the other one."
"C-crazy! Don't even think of doing that!" He slammed his fist on the table.
"Too late, already bought the tickets." She smirked again waving the tickets on her hand. "Come on, you won't know if you don't even try." Kasamatsu suddenly grabbed the tickets from her, the action surprised her.
"I-I'll ask her out..." Kasamatsu looked away, his face was brilliantly red and Kaede found that really amusing about him.
Edited version...
A/N: I know its a typical and ordinary story but I really enjoyed writing it...I was supposed to put this on my Midorima ff, but I figured Kise's character will fit the guy here,