Chapter 1. Dislike

Brief A/N: In my mind, Ryuu looks like Aki from Honto Yajuu. I apologize if this fanfiction does not strictly follow the anime's plot, since the anime is not finished yet (and I've only watched up to episode fourteen as of now). And... as a heads up for those who are not interested in yaoi, I would like to mention that this fanfiction will eventually contain boy x boy.

Disclaimer: I do not own My Love Story!, Honto Yajuu, nor the image used for the cover. I only "own" any of the OCs I create. Please ask for my permission and credit me if you decide to use any of my OCs-thanks!


It was just another Sunday. The people circled through the park leisurely and the sound of lively chatter was everywhere. Most of the park visitors (except for the ones who came Sunday on a regular basis) shot bewildered looks at the three teenagers sitting on a park bench near the water fountain. They were just about the oddest, most bizarre trinity the visitors had seen.

Sitting on the very right of the bench was a petite, doll like, female high school student, who was constantly laughing and talking in her silvery voice. Sitting next to her on the left was a mountainous, gorilla like... man? The majority of the passerby concluded that he was also a high school student because of his high school uniform. He was stuffing his face with garish (but delicious looking) sweets. Sitting on the very left was yet another high school student who looked like he could become a model. All the girls giggled and enthusiastically whispered about him. The three students were either oblivious of the stares and laughter of the passerby or (in Suna's case) chose to ignore it.

Yamato was in the middle of talking about the huge test that was coming up. Suddenly, she slapped her delicate hands on her thighs and jumped off the bench.

"Ah! I almost forgot to show you, Suna... Guess what!" Yamato frantically rummaged through her small handbag.

Suna and Takeo (who appeared to be extremely curious and was subconsciously invading Yamato's personal space by peering over her shoulder) waited for the girl to finish her scavenger-hunt for her phone.

"Yes, I found it! Here it is!" the young teenager celebrated, and she immediately flipped her cellphone open and turned it on.

Takeo's mouth morphed into a small "o" shape as he watched his girlfriend pull out a photo of a very attractive-looking student.

"Isn't she cute? She's one of my classmates, and she still doesn't have a boyfriend! She's also very smart-just like you Suna! You two should meet up some time!" Yamato squealed as she held her cellphone screen in front of Suna's face for him to see.

Takeo nodded furiously, and Suna could have sworn that Takeo's eyes were sparkling even brighter than the stars on a clear night.

"Thanks... but I'm fine," Suna forced the words out of his mouth as he waved his hands politely.

The excitement on the couple's faces went from a ten to a negative twenty.

Yamato pouted and whined, "Suna, when are you ever going to get a girlfriend?"

"Yeah, when? Don't worry Suna, I'll help you! It won't be a lot of trouble! I'll be here for you, you can count on me!" Takeo gave Suna one of his ridiculous grins and a thumbs up.

"Really, it's fine," Suna assured, standing up and letting out a small breath.

Yamoto and Takeo followed his suit, both letting out disappointed sighs.

Takeo was the last of the teens to stand up; when he did, a small child, who so happened to be walking by, stopped short in her steps and gawked at Takeo in awe. A few moments later, the child was pulled away by her mother, who admonished her child how dangerous it was to stand near strangers.

The three started to head back home. Takeo was going to walk Yamato back to her house, so Suna let the two lovebirds be. He walked back to his apartment, greeted his mother, entered his room, sat down on his swivel chair, then started to study. After a few hours, his mother called him out for dinner, which was wordlessly eaten in silence (in exception to the brief "itadakimasu" in the beginning and "gochisou sama" in the end). Suna went back to studying for another hour, took a shower, and went to bed around ten o' clock.

Once the lights were off and he was under his soft, warm blanket, Suna tried to sleep. For some reason, he ended up staring at the plain white ceiling of his bedroom and thinking about Takeo and Yamato's words earlier.

When Takeo had asked Suna how he felt about girls (by the sacred "Butt Tree"), Suna had told Takeo that he was just as interested in girls as all the other guys were. To be truthful, Suna had no interest in anybody except his friends. It wasn't like Suna couldn't tell who was considered "attractive", "unattractive", "intelligent", or "unintelligent". He knew pretty well who was and who wasn't; even so, those things didn't really matter to him, and he wouldn't like someone just because of their appearance or intellect.

Although Takeo thought that Suna's looks were a blessing, Suna bitterly thought of them as a curse. His peers worshiped Takeo because the impressive teen was not only athletically talented, he had a heart of gold.

Suna knew that unlike Takeo, who was a tattered, derelict treasure box with valuable jewels inside, he was just an ornate chest with only a few polished stones (of little worth). The girls only liked him because of his looks, not for who he was. Although they barely knew him, they were attracted to him like a bunch of moths drawn to the light of a lonely lamppost, only to recoil when they got too close, scorched by the heat. As much as the moths wanted to get near the center of the light, they couldn't. Suna was a master at keeping his secrets to himself and shutting others out. It just irked him that whoever "liked" him was only drawn to his outer shell. He knew that like the ornate chest, once the person opened the chest saw the few polished stones, they would be greatly disappointed and become disinterested.

The only two people who didn't judge or like him for his looks was Takeo and Yamato, his only friends.

Suna closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. There was no point in meditating on something that posed such small significance in his life. If the only two people who really cared for Suna were his friends, he didn't mind one bit. There was no point in finding someone else who didn't actually care for him anyways. He was fine with having just his two friends... even though he would get a little lonely at times.

The adolescent thought about his friends: foolish (but kindhearted), Takeo, and cheerful, caring Yamato. That was enough to make a small, rare smile grace Suna's face before he drifted into a deep slumber.


Suna proceeded with his usual routine: he got out of bed, made his bed, ate breakfast, brushed his teeth, changed into his school uniform, and walked to school with Takeo. Nothing was out of the ordinary... well, excluding the fact that Takeo saved a careless child from being hit by a car and accidentally ended up denting the automobile in the process. Suna wasn't sure if there was anything Takeo couldn't do. Although they had been friends for a little over a decade, Takeo never failed to amaze Suna. It was refreshing for Suna to have someone constantly disturb the peace and bring something interesting into his boring, routine life.

As they walked through the school, all of the boys eagerly asked Takeo why his uniform was ripped. Almost the entire male population could be heard yelling "AWESOME!" or "Takeo's so cool!"

On the other hand, the female population stayed distanced themselves from Takeo and continued with their gossip, huddling in their little circles. Strangely their topic (for once) did not completely revolve around Suna.

"Did you hear? A new transfer student is coming!" one of the girls whispered, but loud enough for Suna to hear as he was walking by.

"I know! Look, I even took a photo of him!" another girl squealed.

"Oh my gosh, he's such a hottie!"

"He's good-looking like Suna, but in a different way!"

"I know!"

A bunch of giggles rose into the air, and Suna resisted the urge to roll his eyes. At least he wouldn't be constantly pestered by the girls as often, there was someone else to split the attention.

"Hey, Takeo. Don't forget to tell your mother to fix your uniform when you get home," Suna flatly reminded his friend, nudging the giant.

Takeo grunted in reply and nodded. Suna tried to hide his smile when he thought of the car incident this morning.

The two friends walked into their classroom and sat in their respective seats. A few minutes later, the rest of the students filed their way into the room and filled the classroom with their boisterous chatter, even as they took their seats.

The school bell blared and drowned out all of the noisy students, leaving the room in silence. Their teacher, who was an elderly man with poor vision almost as bad as a bat, hobbled towards the front of the room with his books. He carefully set the books on the desk, before clearing his throat quietly. The students had to strain their necks towards the front of the room to pick up what he was saying.

"... Before I take attendance, I want to introduce..." the old man paused and took his time to clean his glasses with his white handkerchief.

After he was done, he shakily put on his glasses, picked up a paper on the desk, and held it very close to his face. The elderly man squinted intently at the paper. He looked like he was trying to burn a hole through the middle of it. The students waited in silence expectantly (the girls a little more eagerly than the boys).

Finally, the elderly man spoke up in his feeble voice, "... Yuu... Kio?" he looked up from his paper and looked around the room.

All of the students blankly stared at the teacher. The silence was so heavy that the classroom might as well have been empty.

Suddenly, a pleasant, baritone voice broke the silence, "Um... sorry sir, do you mean Ryuu Yukio?"

Everyone in the classroom turned their heads towards the back of the room, where a young man had his hand raised.

"Erm... yes. Excuse me. Please, Ryuu, would you come to the front of the room to introduce yourself?"

Out of the corner of his eye, Suna watched the new student stand up and walk towards the front to the room. Ryuu looked like one of the "bad boys" that the girls constantly mooned over from a shoujo manga. He had silky, black hair that swept from the sides of his head and large, amber eyes. Suna reverted his gaze to the window. He continued to watch the people walking on the sidewalk like a line of ants.

New students were usually popular for the first few days they were in school, but after a while, they would start to blend in with the crowd. Suna had no interest in new students.

"Ohayou goziamasu," Ryuu did a low, formal bow. All the girls in the room tried to contain their squeals.

"I'm Ryuu Yukio, I recently moved here with my sister and father from a nearby town. I hope that you'll treat me well," the new student grinned. The grin was enough to make the girls' hearts soar and the guys instantly want to befriend Ryuu.

When Ryuu made his way back to his desk, one of the more outgoing guys, Osamu, dared to offer his fist to the new student. Ryuu laughed and fist bumped his peer. Once Ryuu sat down, the teacher began with his lecture and disorder ensued.

The girls inconspicuously had their phones out and were furiously texting each other.

"No doubt about the new student," Suna thought to himself.

He rested his cheek on his hand and tried focus on the lecture. It was hard to because simultaneously he was trying to drown out the sounds of rustling paper being passed to the new student from the rest of the boys in class.

"Today's going to be a long day."


During lunch, there was a huge rush. All the boys crowded around Takeo and Ryuu while the girls stayed on the other side, whispering and occasionally glancing over at Ryuu.

"Hi, my name's Ryuu," the new student extended his hand to Takeo, who shook it a little too fast.

"I'm Takeo," the giant replied, leaning a little too close to the other male.

"Oi, Takeo, back off. You're too close to his face," Suna sighed, tapping Takeo's shoulder.

The giant still continued to stare in his unintentionally intimidating way, but he eventually moved away.

"It's OK," Ryuu smiled and clapped Takeo's back.

"Your name is?" the teen asked, staring at Suna and tilting his head to the side.

"Sunakawa Makoto," Suna tersely replied, looking to the side. He didn't want to get too involved with someone whom he barely knew.

"Can I call you Suna for short?" Ryuu offered his hand to Suna and one of his charming smiles (which had no effect on Suna).

Suna gave a nonchalant shrug (which Ryuu assumed was yes) and shook the offered hand briefly.

"Anyways, Ryuu! I heard that you were really good at all of the sports in your school, just like Takeo!" Osamu interjected enthusiastically, eagerly looking at Ryuu.

"Well... not all of them..." Ryuu sheepishly scratched the back of his head and laughed, "My specialty is track."

Suna wasn't surprised. Ryuu looked like he was naturally meant to be a runner. He had long legs and was very lean.

"Hey, why don't you try arm wrestling with Takeo?" another boy asked.

"Yeah!" the boys chorused all together.

"Sure, why not," Ryuu grinned and turned towards Takeo.

The boys closely followed the two to a nearby table and watched intently as the two sat down on the side opposite of each other.

"Three. Two. One. START!" a male student yelled, chopping his hand dramatically through the air.

Everyone in the room went silent, and all of the students stared at the two. Ryuu seemed to be evenly matched with Takeo, until after a few more seconds, he gave out.

The whole room erupted with a series of "wows" and "amazings".

"Awesome! I've never seen anyone last that long arm wrestling with Takeo!" a student yelled.

The boys were awestruck and the girls were love-struck.

"Handsome and strong! I think I'm in love," sighed one of the girls as she fanned her face.

Suna was the only person who didn't appear to be impressed. He had his arms crossed and was sitting in one of the chairs in the corner of the room, where none of the students were.


School felt longer than usual for Suna, but for the rest of the students it went by too fast. They were all intrigued by the new student.

Once the final bell rung, Suna slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked over to Takeo, who was currently sleeping.

"Takeo. Takeo. Idiot. Apeman," Suna deadpanned, sighing, he tried again.

"Yamato-san."

Bang

The giant slammed his large hands on his desk and immediately woke up, looking around frantically.

"It's time to go home," Suna said quietly, waiting for his friend to finish packing his backpack.

The two left the classroom together and started to walk back to their apartment complex.

"Ryuu seems like a nice guy," Takeo mentioned, looking up at the sky with wide eyes.

Suna yawned, "I guess you can believe that."

Suddenly, a loud shout caused the two friends to spin around.

"Oiiii! Wait up!" Ryuu ran up to Takeo and Suna. He looked like he had just taken a light jog, he didn't appear to be tired at all.

"I noticed that you two were up ahead. Do you guys also live in that apartment complex?" Ryuu pointed to Takeo and Suna's apartment.

Takeo nodded, "You can walk with us if you like," the giant offered with a large smile.

"Sure!" Ryuu grinned.

While Ryuu and Takeo started to eagerly talk about the latest sports and the upcoming Olympics, Suna purposely trailed behind.

Eventually, the two stopped talking.

"Hey, where's Suna?" Ryuu asked, whipping his head from the left to the right.

Takeo stared dumbly in front of him. It was only until Takeo turned around, he spotted the quiet teen.

"Oh, there's Suna! Hey! Suna!" Takeo waved his hands wildly, causing all the people around him to duck and scurry away.

Suna raised his hand and then let it fall limply by his side. Ryuu and Takeo waited for him to catch up.

"Are you alright? I'm sorry if I was cutting you out of the conversation," Ryuu apologized, looking genuinely concerned.

"I'm fine. Just a bit tired," Suna said, staring at the two with his usual poker face.

Takeo sensed something was off too, "Are you sure?"

"Like I said, I'm fine. Just a bit tired," Suna tried his best not to snap and continued to walk past the two.

The jocks looked at each other and shrugged. Suna made sure that he was ahead of the two the entire time. When they reached the apartment, to the teenagers' shock, they found out that Ryuu also lived on the same apartment floor. Suna vaguely remembered his mother telling him about the new neighbors moving in, but he hadn't been paying much attention to what she was saying.

"Well, I'll see you guys tomorrow," Suna gave a small waved and shut the door behind him.

He greeted his mother and went into his room.

Strangely enough, Suna didn't immediately start studying; instead, he laid his head in his arms and stared out the window.

Ryuu Yukio. Although the new student was a likable guy, Suna decided that he didn't like Ryuu. With a friend as popular as Ryuu and a girlfriend, Takeo wouldn't be able to spend as much time as he used to with Suna. Suna knew that it was selfish and petty of him to hold a grudge against someone who wasn't a bad person, but he couldn't help it. He let out a sigh and started to take his books out of his bag.


A/N July 12, 2015

OC(s) introduced: Ryuu Yukio

Well, that's that's the end of the first chapter. I hope that it was at least somewhat interesting? I spent almost four hours typing this up, and it didn't help that I lost one page of this chapter... so I had to retype an entire page...

Please don't expect Suna to "fall in love" quickly. I feel like he's the kind of person who takes a while to warm up to somebody. So... no kissing in the next chapter XD. I want Suno to actually find love, not lust.

I guess that this fanfiction can technically be thought of as an "AU" since this is happening when Takeo and Suna are still first-years in Shuei High School. It's really weird creating an OC who's one of the main characters... This is the first time I've actually done something like this, so I hope that everything turns out alright.

Also, I'm still a little confused whether Osamu Kurihara is called "Osamu" or "Kurihara" (I did a quick search and I still couldn't figure out which "name" to use). I'm assuming that he's called Osamu by his friends, since he's an outgoing guy and would probably let others call him by his first name.

Until the next chapter,

-ShootingStar103

(P.S. Ryuu means dragon spirit and Yukio means Happy Hero)