Just to be clear - THIS IS NOT A YURI
MariMite
Yumi/Yoshino
The first time I caught Yoshino was a little while before I went to comfort Onee-sama over the death of her grandmother.
I had never really gotten angry at Yoshino before that day, so I can understand that she thought our friendship was over, and that she was worried. I just didn't realise that it would affect her so much that she would call me that.
I had snapped at her. And I hadn't wanted to see that pained face of hers anymore, so I ran. I soon regretted my words, and I apologized. And that's when I first heard it.
"Yumi!"
Just Yumi. Not Yumi-san. Yumi. And it sounded wonderful.
I was so happy to hear that – it was a brilliant sign that we were becoming closer friends. And that was something I hadn't had in a while. Tsutako-san was probably the closest thing to a best friend during the start if my first year at Lillian. Don't get me wrong – I got on with almost everyone in my class, but they all had their little groups of friends to chat and eat with, and I can't recall having that.
Yoshino and I were immensely close during our third year. We were joined at the hip in school and saw each other most weekends, either having sleepovers or walking around the city, pining for the expensive items we could only dream to have.
At the start of our final year, I began calling her Yoshino, without any honorific, without thinking about it. It came naturally. It just rolled off my tongue the first time, and after that it was like a dam breaking – it wouldn't stop. Whenever I called her over, it was always Yoshino. When she first noticed, I think she was a little surprised, as she asked my petite sœur if I had said anything to her about it.
Touko simply shrugged and said 'Isn't it okay to call a best friend without an honorific?'
After that, Yoshino started to call me Yumi all the time. It made me really happy to have someone I can be that close to – apart from Onee-sama – and to have someone to confide in and have her confide in me
My best friend – Yoshino.
The idea came to me one night, like flash, and I was like, no one ever writes about Yoshino and Yumi's friendship, and I thought the part in season two where Yoshino shouts 'Yumi!' without thinking is really quite important.
So, I decided to write a Fanfic about it. The Fics I put up on the Names series will all be little one-shots.
I hope you enjoyed it
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