High School Romance

Chapter one – Introduction

Takuya Kanabara, high school student. This is the person our story is about. Sweet, adorable, Takuya. However, Takuya has a secret about his best friend, or more of, what he feels about his best friend. Sure, he can handle that, he's a teenager, raging hormones, all that crap, but when you tell said best friend's twin about the secret, it's not all that great. This is how the story will start, with the boy in park, looking generally down after the great teasing he got off Kouichi, which sucked. Life isn't all that great as far as he's concerned right now, and he still has his homework to do. Don't you just HATE it when that happens?

Sighing, the boy kicked the ground beneath the swing slightly before moving it back and forth, keeping his feet on the floor. He didn't notice anyone behind him until he felt a hand lightly push his back. Automatically, his feet lifted off the ground, letting the swing go forward. When it went back, he felt the hand on his back again, pushing him a bit more. It was weird; to be pushed on a swing like a little kid, but also relaxing; to have the wind in your hair as you swung, not caring about anything else. He shut his eyes and let the motion lull him into a half-sleep condition, until the hand on his back moved to the metal chains, two pale hands resting just above his own and stopping the action, bringing him back to reality. He froze. Only two people he knew had pale hands.

"Kouichi?" He guessed, hoping so much that he was right.

"Guess again," replied the deeper voice of his best friend. Oh, the troubles of teenage life. His cheeks flushed automatically as he realized how close they were; their hands touching, their backs brushing, and he swore, if Kouji's head moved any lower, it would be on his shoulder.

Scrap that. It was on his shoulder.

"What are you doing here?" Takuya asked, controlling the wild blush on his cheeks with all his will power. Kouji Shrugged and moved, taking a step back and breaking all form of contact.

"I have to pass the park to get to my house, and I saw you. Though I have to say, a high schooler on a swing?" Takuya stuck his tongue out and turned around, seeing the pale face and blue eyes clashing against each other, and the black school uniform, slightly worn showing that it had been used for a year already. . "You really haven't grown up, have you?"

"You didn't need to come push me you know! I could do that fine on my own, what are you, my mother?" Kouji laughed at his companion's childish behavior.

"I'll make a note next time to leave you alone then," Dam it. "What are you doing here anyway?" Takuya stopped, thinking up an excuse. He didn't even know why he was there; it was a kind of 'spur of the moment' thing.

"Bored really, it's the weekend tomorrow after all; I can always do my homework a different day." Kouji laughed again, that wonderful laugh that sent girl's heart soaring. Yes; the object of our poor main character's affections was a known womanizer.

"Seeing as you don't have anything to do, why don't you come round? I'm sure my father wouldn't mind," Kouji suggested, getting his best friend to grin from ear to ear.

"Really? That'd be awesome!" He paused to think. "But…I have to be getting home to look after Shinya, though I'm sure he's old enough…I know, why don't you come round to my house? We could drop your things off first, seeing as we're closer to your place than mine!" the bluenette nodded, small smile in place. "Cool! Come on then!" Takuya said, leaping off the swing and grabbing his school bag, walking with Kouji. It wasn't a far walk, only a few minutes; however Takuya didn't like who was waiting at the gate for them.

Three clues on who it was;

Dark hair

Big smile

Dark eyes

Nope, it wasn't Kouichi; it was Kouji's current girl, one of the girl's in Takuya's Math and Science class no less. She giggled and waved at the two as they approached.

"Kouji-kun! Are we still up for this evening?" she asked, holding the boy's hands in her own. She blinked and turned to face Takuya, who was slightly behind them. "Oh, I know you! You're in my Math class right? You sit near Izumi-chan!" she exclaimed, grinning slightly, before turning her attention back to the boy in front of her.

"Well, I was going to-"

"No worries, I best be off now, have fun on your date," Takuya interrupted sourly and turned around striding off in the direction they'd just came in. He heard something which sounded a lot like a girl giggling and exclaiming something, but he wasn't really listening

The girl was now on his 'People I Hate' list after all.

So, we're right back where we started; the park. The brunette pushing himself back and forth, basking in the heat of the sun. Though with it being autumn; it wasn't all that hot. Sighing slightly, he leaned back to look at the clouds, but was met with a grinning face.

Guess who?

Kouichi. Takuya glared tiredly at the elder twin and groaned.

"What do you want?" he asked bitterly, not feeling up to putting up with the boy right now. Kouichi shook his head and sat on the swing next to his friend.

"That's no way to treat the person who has the potential to blackmail you, you know that right?" someone hated Takuya today. He was sure of it; someone had put some terrible curse on his and was laughing manically as they speak. He wouldn't put it past Izumi. "What's with the greeting face?" the brunette shrugged and kicked at the ground a few times before answering.

"Kouji's stupid girlfriend. And Kouji. And you. And the world in general."

"Well, aren't we a bucket of laughs, huh?" Glare. "Ok, ok. What happened, he's not still going out with that looser in our Biology class, is he?"

"Apparently, seeing as they're going out this evening. There goes our plan of hanging at my place, smashed into a million little pieces," Kouichi winced slightly, sympathizing with the boy. "What've you been up to, gotten bored of your life and deiced to come and wreck mine?" Kouichi took in a big breath; he was obviously not getting anywhere.

"Look, stop moping around before I have to slap you, and come to get something to eat with me! I'm starving!" he exclaimed, standing and grinning broadly. Though he came off shy at the beginning, he wasn't all that quiet. Takuya shrugged half heartedly and stood, picking his bag up off the floor again. They set out towards the shops, Kouichi walking with his head up, where as Takuya had his head drooped slightly and his face looking like a wet dish cloth. Kouichi tugged his sleeve and pointed out a chocolate banana stall on the side of the walk way.

"Let's go there! I love chocolate bananas, don't you?" Takuya nodded slightly and aloud himself to be dragged over to the shop, picking a brown colored fruit with sprinkles on it out of the cart. He turned around as someone approached them and almost chocked. Remember that person who cursed him, he was currently wishing them a thousand deaths. Two dark haired people walked up to them, one looking directly into Takuya's eyes, before looking at Kouichi and sending the twin a death glare.

"What are you two doing here? I thought you had to look after you little brother?" Kouji asked, a tint of anger in his voice, his own brother turning round to face them, glancing at the girl clinging to Kouji's arm, then to Kouji.

"Isn't he old enough to look after himself? Besides, we were hungry and bored, so decided to go out." Takuya looked skeptically at his companion.

"You mean you were hungry and bored, you just decided to drag me along," he defended, only to be ignored. He looked between the bothers. Kouji was glaring for some reason, and Kouichi had an unreadable look on his face. Kouji's angry was as clear as snow though.

"Ne, ne, Kouji! Introduce me properly to your friends!" Came a feminine voice from the side, breaking the staring contest between the brothers.

"This is Takuya, my best friend, and this is Kouichi, my brother." Her attention was now completely on Kouichi. Takuya started to eat his treat, before noticing Kouji looking at him.

"What's that look for?" Takuya asked, cocking his head to one side, Kouji looked away.

"What look?"

"Come on Kouji! We've been friends for a good few years; I can tell when something's bothering you! What's wrong?" Kouji held his head high and didn't answer. Takuya poked him in the cheek with the end of the stick. Kouji, wafted at it, but couldn't help grin.

"Cut it out Takuya!" he said, a slight laugh sneaking its way into his voice. The poking persisted. "Takuya!" He whined, grabbing the wood and lowering it. The boy in question blinked innocently.

"Yeas? Is there a problem?" he asked, no a trace of guilt in his voice.

"Yes, there is a problem! You and your blood stick!" Takuya shook his head from side to side and wagged his finger.

"Don't go around accusing people of things, Kouji! You never know what'll happen!" Kouji tried to bite the tanned finger. "Hey!" They turned to the side as someone coughed an amused expression on the pale face.

"Have you two finished flirting, or shall we leave you to it?"

"Kouichi!" Takuya yelped, blushing furiously. Kouji smirked and casted a side glance at his elder twin.

"Leave us to it."

"Kouji!" he yelped again at the other one, blush increasing slightly. The girl tugged on Kouji's arm and pulled him in the direction of the forgotten stand.

"Kouji-kun! Don't forget! You promised me chocolate bananas, remember!" Kouji nodded and let himself be taken to the shop.

"Later brother, we're off to do something fun, right Takuya?" Kouichi said, wrapping an arm around the brunette, said brunette nodding.

"Woo! Fun-ness!" Kouichi waved and steered his friend the other way, waving at the couple.

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Takuya and Kouichi were now stationed in the Kanabara dining room table, sitting opposite each other not really doing anything. They each had a glass of soda in front of them. They took this time, to collect their thoughts, and be generally bored, as you do.

"So," Kouichi started off. "My brother." Simple and to the point; Takuya hated it.

"You're brother."

"You like him." Glare!

"I like him."

"How long for?"

"Goodness knows, you think I keep track of these things? I'm not a girl…why are we talking about your brother anyway; you know how awkward it sounds?" Kouichi grinned at this.

"I'll take that as a long time. And I think you'd make a good pairing with him." Takuya stared blankly, un able to comprehend what had just been said.

"You think I'd make a good pairing with him?"

"You'd make a very good parrot, you know that?" Takuya slapped his palm to his forehead. "Right, sorry, going off topic."

"You're brother is one of the most popular womanizers in school, and you're telling me I'd make a good pairing with him? As in, we'd go well together as a couple?" Kouichi nodded. "I don't get you, I really don't."

"Well think about it, you two have a good relationship, even if there are a few fights, but then again a good couple needs to disagree on something's. You both go well together; you've got a lot in common, yet you balance together as you both think differently. You both always jump in to save each other, and you're both bi, if not as bent as a rainbow."

"Gee, thanks for the nice comparison to a rainbow."

"You're welcome fairy."

"You sound like a flipping homophobe." Kouichi shrugged.

"No, I've just always wanted to call someone fairy, that's all."

"Hopeless…I'd like to point out, I doubt your brother's anything but as straight as a ruler, he's always got a girlfriend."

"You doubt me, my friend," Takuya agreed on that one. "I'm his twin brother, he pours his heart and soul to me, as I do him…ok, so that's a bit exaggerated, however he tells me these things. Especially when he's drunk, then he pours his sour out to me."

"Remind me never to drink when you're in the vicinity." The teenagers looked to the hallway as the doorbell went, then to the clock to see the time. "It's not that late…but why would anyone come round now?" Takuya asked no one in particular. They heard some running, telling them that Shinya had gone to get the door.

"Someone weird might come round now…maybe one of your brother's friends," Kouichi suggested, though when a certain handsome dark haired teen walked into the room, they changed their minds.

"Someone weird."

"Agreed." Kouji raised an eyebrow at this, before sitting down next to Takuya. The tanned boy's heart skipped a beat. "Hey Kouji, what happened to your girlfriend?" Kouichi ejected.

"I dumped her," Kouichi nodded, where as Takuya just stared at the boy. Kouji looked at his best friend questionably. "What? It wouldn't have been right to give her false hope we had something, when we obviously didn't."

"But to just dump her suddenly? She liked you, didn't she, she must feel bad!" both twins laughed slightly at this.

"No, she saw my brother and moved on," Takuya blinked. "You're so naïve."

"Girl's are confusing…" Takuya said, scratching his head. Kouichi laughed at this, causing the other two to look at him.

"No wonder you like it on the other side of the fence." Takuya paused.

Wait, freeze, hold it a second, did he just say what I think he said? Please say he didn't say what I think he said! Whoever cursed me must be getting real kicks right now!

"You're gay?" What a horrid question, telling your crush you're gay when they aren't meant to know. Takuya nodded and took a drink out of his glass. "Why did you tell Kouichi but not me?" in fact, that one might have been worse.

"I don't know … I wasn't intending on telling him it just kind of… came out." Takuya admitted, remembering the situation

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"Hey! Takuya, what's up, you look out of it," Kouichi asked, poking the boy in the side.

"Just thinking…" Kouichi grinned at that one. The dreamy smile, the distant eyes, the quiet voice; someone was in love.

"What about? Anyone in particular?"

"Kouji…" silence.

"I knew it! You have a crush on my brother!" more silence.

"How'd you figure that one out?"

"It's written all over your face that you have a crush, and seeing as Kouji is who you were thinking about, it must be him!"

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A few hours of 'you really looove him!'s later and Takuya had lost half his sanity. Half, because he didn't have all of it at the beginning. He was snapped out of his flash backs by someone poking him on the cheek.

"Earth to Takuya, do you read me?" He frowned and swatted away the hand.

"Takuya to looser-vil, I read you." Kouji grinned, poking him in the head one last time.

"Ouch, it hurts!" he said, sarcasm dripping from his voice. Takuya rolled his eyes. "The poking was payback for earlier; though having a wooden stick jabbed into your cheeks probably hurts more." Kouichi looked at the clock before standing up and gulping down the rest of his soda.

"Well, I best be off, it was wonderful hanging out," he said, getting his black school jacket from the chair and putting it on. "Mum's expecting me home."

"Say hi for me!" Kouji said as his brother retreated to the hall.

"Have fun love-birds!" They heard being shouted, followed by a banging of a door. Takuya rested his head on his hands.

"Sheesh, what's with your brother and comparing us to a couple? It's annoying." Kouji smirked and leaned against his friend, getting a pink tint out of the boy.

"Aw, don't you like it sweetie?" Takuya shrugged the taller boy off.

"I don't know about you, but no, I don't." Kouji grinned and stood himself, grabbing the tanned boy's glass and finishing his soda, getting a small cry of protest.

"See you later, I best be off too, nice soda by the way!"

And just like that, he was gone."

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Kitty: not as long as most chapters I write, but it is the introduction. Sorry if any of the characters seem slightly off, I haven't finished watching it yet ''

R+R please!

Ciao .

Kitty-cat