Disclaimer= I do not own Clannad.

I'm finally getting around to writing my stories! I've had another Clannad story planned for I don't even know how long. The idea of Youhei and Tomoyo as a couple would have been feasible had Youhei not done some of the stuff he did. Enjoy reading OP3!

So there Youhei Sunohara was, watching television whilst eating a quality sandwich. A short time later, Tomoya shows up and Youhei tosses him a bag.

"Thank you for the meal." The school where they studied was typical and did not have much to it- you have your classrooms, sports fields, and storage room to put all the equipment in. A mysterious donor helped make possible the expansion of the storage room to put in a lounge type of hang out area with the expanded place projected to happen.

This was Youhei's second year of high school and already he was making more friends than he could have ever imagined. Despite the persistent self-talk that being with girls will happen; his behavior sometimes did not allow for that to happen.

For dates to be had at Youhei's school, if you heard your name being discussed by the opposite sex and they seemed genuinely interested when discussing you, the person in question would step up and ask them out. There was no peer pressure or anything because rejection was handled very well. Back to the recently completed game space- funds were not had for some swank opening ceremony, so the faculty let the students have at it, but strangely, they were hesitant to go in there.

Youhei was all like screw it, and subsequently charged in there gladiator style to find the most quality of game rooms. You had it all in there- pool tables, arcade games, air hockey tables, and the wildcard? Why yes, they did have dartboards in there too. Soon his best friend, Tomoya, was in there as well as a couple more guys and they scattered; some playing pool, Tomoya trying his luck with the dart boards, and Youhei playing on the arcade games.

They were happy, and should be- a place was seemingly built just for them; a "man cave" of sorts, if you wish to liken it to that metaphor. Everything is penetrable though, well gender-wise. One day while playing darts, Youhei was hype because he was winning by several points over Tomoya. He was going to throw a dart dead-center to the board when the cool door chime sounded. Coming through the door were girls, and the few guys in the room at the time simply stood there mesmerized.

"Hope you don't mind because we are going to be regulars here," says the very brash class president, Kyou Fujibayashi. Flanking her was her sister Ryou, who was positioning herself to approach the "wanting to be a man" person playing pool. On the opposite side was Furukawa Nagisa, whom already has gotten acquainted with Tomoya, hence the lack of awkwardness.

"Anchoring" the group of friends was Tomoyo Sakagami, who seemed to look at the man continuing to play darts despite the group of girls entering the room. Youhei was oblivious to the fact that a girl was checking him out, but he was already messing it up.

"You're pretty good at throwing darts." Youhei turned to see Kyou admiring his talent for the dartboard with some shameless flirting. The clueless boy would only muster a thank you to her but shockingly, she kept going at it, wanting Youhei to show her how to make a quality dart throw.

Meanwhile out of the corner of his eye, he sees Tomoyo talking with another girlfriend that had just entered the room. Wanting to play pool with her friend but having been declined, Tomoyo shrugs and starts to play on her own while Youhei continues with the darts and having Kyou fawn over him. For some reason, he could not stop staring at the silver-haired girl. She had a certain grace to her that Youhei did not see in other girls that he courted.

Still in the room a while later, Youhei steps up by tabbing Tomoya to be Kyou's partner in a friendly game of pool, secretly set up so Youhei would get to know Tomoyo better. She says some hobbies she likes to do, and he is enthralled further by the hobby listing. A short while later, the game ends and Youhei was going to say by, but Tomoyo tells her girls to hang out later, leaving Youhei planted next to the pool table, stunned that she did not say anything to him.

I'm pretty sure we hit it off, and yet she leaves so abruptly?

"Furukawa, does Tomoyo always do that?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Sakagami Tomoyo, does she always leave in a hurry?" Nagisa would only shrug her shoulders as she explained that Tomoyo does some questionable stuff from time to time. Youhei had long since finished his school work so after everyone had left, he decided to watch some television before heading back to his dorm.

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He quickly got over Tomoyo not saying bye to him, seeing as though he would have plenty more opportunity to see her. Youhei knew something was going on because normally he would be his usual crazy self. Around Tomoyo, it was as though he was somebody different. Seeing an empty can, he decided to kick it and did so with enough force that it solidly went in a garbage bin. Seeing as nobody was there to witness it, Youhei triumphantly raises his arms in victory, all while some silver-haired girl looks on with a puzzled expression.

"Sunohara?"

"Hey… Tomoy-Tomoyo? You saw all of that?"

"Yes, and it was quite impressive." Youhei was so worried about Tomoyo seeing him in that light that he failed to pay heed to the compliment that was just given.

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So that ends the first chapter of the third and final installment of Observe and Protect. It shall get better in the coming chapters. What do you think thus far? Leave reviews!