"Kurama, you love me right?"
"Of course I love you. You are the reason why I returned to Ningenkai[1], (Y/N)", he responded," Why do you have to ask?"
"It's just that…I see… how other girls see you…and well you could do better than me, you know. I mean, come on, I'm more tomboy than the girly girl type. I love to have a good fight with Yusuke, even though the bastard goes easy on me, meh. I'm probably one of the only girls who rides bareback on a horse, gallop at full speed down the freaking roads and laugh when I'm thrown down. And the freaking horse loves to throw me down, I just know it!" You mumbled the last part.
You sighed.
It has been three months since the two of you had gotten together[2] and you couldn't believe that Shuiichi Minamino, AKA the sexy, hot, heartthrob of Meiou High School, had fallen for you. With your normal (h/c)_ hair and dull (e/c)¬_ eyes, you felt inferior next to other girls who were vying for Shuiichi's attention. But he had picked you and you couldn't understand the fact that he wanted you while there were glamorous red heads with curvaceous bodies and silky blond girls.
Of course, all those girls were empty headed and had their heads full of idiotic stuff. Maybe it was no wonder that Kurama, er, Shuiichi would find you preferable than those morons.
Kurama sighed. With one of his hands, he nudged your chin up. A thoughtful look entered his beautiful face, emerald eyes sparkling with mischief as he looked into your own. With each passing moment, you became unnerved with his intense look.
Finally he said," You know, you're right. With your radiant _(h/l)_ _(h/c)_ hair and beautiful, gleaming _(e/c)_ eyes, I don't know what I see in you. But then again, there's your voice of an angel and the sweet, lovely personality I've come to adore. And the way you make me feel… are some of the things I don't understand why I would want to be with you." He finished.
He fell silent a moment. "But then again", he began once again," it could just be that every time I'm near you my heart starts beating with a feeling I have never felt before. Or it could be I think of you every minute of my existence and love every minute I have with you. I love to feel you in my arms and I love that you want to spend every minute with me also. It makes me feel like a different man. It makes me think that I can live with myself even after the things I did in my past. A past I share with Youko[3]. Need I say more?"
You were speechless.
Never in your life had you imagined someone telling you how they felt for you and to have Kurama, of all people tell it to you, was just divine.
All you could do was shake your head. What Kurama just said had a great impact on you. They were such beautiful words, it made you want to cry.
Throwing your arms around him, you buried your head in his chest. His arms came around you in an embrace as warm as the autumn air around you. Pulling back far enough to see his face, you smiled and leaned forward, Kurama meeting you half way. Soft lips met your own. Light brushes that turned passionate moments later, neither wanting this afternoon to end.
Breaking apart, you placed your forehead against his. Both of you breathing hard.
Minutes later you two had returned to embracing each other, your head on his shoulder and his on top of yours this time.
Trees swayed as the breeze rustled the leaves. Squirrels ran from one tree to the next, salvaging food for the oncoming winter.
And the pair on the bottom of one of the oak trees, sat silently together, both processing what Shuiichi had just said.
" Kurama?", you asked.
"Hmm?"
"I love you".
"I know".