Letters, Remained Loved Forever

Train Station - Almost 6 p.m.

"I'm nervous to see him…" Izumi thought in her head as she continued walking towards the train station. She glanced at the paper with the directions to the meeting place. "What if…" she wondered.

"So you decided to come after all, Izumi" a voice said behind her.

She suddenly turned around surprised, in relief… it was only. "Kouichi…"

Few years back - Second Grade - Japan

"Ohayo!" their sensei greeted to the class, as they responded happily. " Class, we are going to do a project on pen pal letters! You will each write a letter to someone in Italy, and we will wait for their response." she explained.

Sora leaned over to her friend Mimi. "Cool! A pen pal!" she whispered.

"Uwah! I can't wait to start writing letters!" Mimi gushed blushing at the same time.

Their sensei smiled at the sight of her class becoming excited and motivated. "Each person will come up to get a letter here on my desk." she pointed, as students began to line up.

A boy with brown hair turned to his friend. "Kouichi, who do you have to write to?"

He grinned at his friend. "That's easy Takuya! My pen pal is a girl, her name is…" as he looked at the letter "Her name is Izumi!"

"How cute!" Mimi added as she looked at her letter. "I have a boy and his name is….MATT!" she blushed. Sora gave her a weird look and patted her shoulder, "Mimi-chan, you don't even know this guy."

Second Grade - Italy

As the students were beginning to return to their seats, they began to open their letters. Izumi smiled as she opened hers. "A letter from Kouichi!" she smiled. She glanced at her friend who had a gloomy look and tilted her head in question. "What's wrong Matt?" she asked worriedly.

"No matter who I get, every girl I meet always has to end up as a fan girl" he muttered. "Or have a crush on me."

"Aw, I think that's cute" she teased, taking a look at her pen pal's letter. "So my pen pal is Kouichi, eh? it's Kouji?" she thought, reading what he wrote back to her.

Hi Izumi,

My name is Kouji. I'm pretty quiet, and I don't really have any hobbies.

She giggled reading the letter. "How funny" she thought

Well, I like hanging around with my friends. Japan here is pretty busy, but everyone around here is nice. I'm not sure what else to say, so how's Italy?

- Kouji

Ever since then, from second grade, Izumi and Kouichi have still continued to write letters to each other even after the project. Now, forwarding many years later into the future.

Izumi - Italy

"You guys have to come visit me in Japan!" Izumi reminded her friends, as she was leaving for Japan at the airport.

"Yes, yes" Matt nodded "I know Izumi, anyways, take care and don't talk to strangers"

"Knowing Izumi, she will" added his brother Takeru.

She glared at him jokingly "Hey!" and grinned "Well, I'll see you" she said sadly to Matt, T.K, Rika, and Juri, hugging each of them before walking away. On the airplane, she began to wonder "I wonder if Kouji received my letter."

Kouichi - Japan - Afterschool from Frontier Academy

Kouji was coming inside the house as he skimmed through the mail he brought in. Seeing a letter to his twin, he called out "Kouichi! Mail!"

Tip Tap Tip Tap Tip Tap - running moment

"Kouichi! Stop with the TIP TAPPING AND COME DOWN HERE!" he shouted getting annoyed.

"Sorry, I just wanted to created an effect to the story" Kouichi shrugged taking the letter. "Oh! It's from my friend Izumi" he smiled happily, reading what it said. Suddenly, his eyes widened, making him drop the letter.

Kouji who was watching him the whole time gave him a confused look and took the letter off the ground. He smirked as he finished reading it. "So she's coming to Japan and wants to see you, so what?"

"It's……it's not that" Kouichi said slowly, "I….we've never met in person."

"Well, wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity." he muttered rolling his eyes. "What an idiot" he thought.

His twin looked away embarrassed. "Well….about that. I kind of didn't write anything about myself…"

"What do you mean? You were writing lies to her?"

"Um…no" he paused. "I've been pretending I was…..you."

Oo silent moment

He closed his eyes and sighed. "Kouichi, please explain this."

"I was writing to Izumi, saying that my name was Kouji and I was writing my personality to be just like yours!" he explained quickly.

"Why would you do that?" he snapped.

"Ahaha" feeling embarrassed again. "That was back then in second grade."

"Oh" he all he could say. "Okay, I'm leaving" as he began to leave his brother downstairs.

"No! You have to help me!!!!!!!" he shouted, clinging on to Kouji. His face turned red "Kouichi, do you mind letting go?"

"Oh, sorry." releasing his grip on his brother. "Anyways, you have to visit Izumi."

"Why would I do that?"

"Please! I'm not like you! Otherwise, she will suspect that I'm not like the Kouji person she knew through her pen pal letters!" Kouichi pleaded.

He sighed "Fine,……but only this time. I'm only going to visit this girl once and that's it."

"Deal!" he agreed.