Catch you when you fall
By: elle
Summary: Mamoru Izawa falls in love with his best friend.
Elle: this is not the first story I ever wrote, it's just the first I ever posted. So yeah…uhm…please review!
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, the manga, or the TV show, just Izawa's best friend.
YELLING
'thinking'
"talking"
Another boring day of training just ended. Mamoru Izawa walks home alone looking straight up to the sky. He predicted it was going to rain. Judging by how grey the sky was.
"What are you looking at?" asked a feminine voice from behind him. Of course he knew who she was.
"Hey, Raika, it's nothing, just bored that's all" he smiled, finally looking straight ahead.
Raika Takahari. She has chestnut brown hair reaching her shoulder blades and ruby-red eyes that looked so cold, yet so warm. Raika is his best friend before kindergarten. They've known each other for 13 years and have remained best friends ever since.
"It's going to rain…" she sighed.
"You hate rain." He chuckled.
"Did I sound happy when I said it was going to rain?" she snapped at him while spanking his head.
"Ouch, what was that for, I thought we were best friends?" he said annoyed.
"For being stupid and we are best friends" she smiled.
After awhile it started drizzling, then seconds later, heavy precipitation followed.
"Damn." They cursed at the same time. They ran to Raika's house which was nearer to where they were.
Once they were inside, Izawa plopped himself on the couch, visibly exhausted.
"Are you hungry?" she asked drying her hair with a towel. Izawa just stared. "Hey, stop that…" she said uneasily.
Izawa snapped out of the magical spell that was placed upon him.
"Sorry, I was kind of spaced out."
She put it aside and asked again.
"Yeah I am." He answered getting clothes from his bag.
"Go change in my room, just don't touch anything or else you'll never see daylight again." She threatened.
"Thanks…I think."
He went inside her bedroom. He started changing. After that he decided to look around her room. Not touch anything just looking around. He grinned to himself.
He saw a picture the two of them on her bedside; it was taken twelve years ago. His heart raced, but he didn't know why, when he saw her diary sitting on the edge of her bed.
He so wanted to know what was in it. But then 'why do I even care…oh yeah she's my best friend'
Maybe the reason was not her being his best friend maybe it was something more. But hey, he didn't know.
He immediately went outside of her room and rushed to the kitchen.
"What's cooking?" he asked sitting down on the table.
"I'm just gonna make ham sandwiches, kind of tired." she replied as she placed bread on the ham.
"Then maybe I should go." He said feeling rather guilty for tiring her.
"nah, it's okay, my parents aren't coming back till' next week, so technically I live alone."
"You should've told me you were alone, what if something happens to you."
She chuckled lightly as she placed the sandwiches on the table.
"It's fine really." She said smiling brightly at him. For some reason he blushed.
He never blushed whenever she smiled brightly at him. 'I am so not falling in love…' he repeated in his head over and over again.
After awhile they finished eating and proceeded to the leaving room. Both were really bored and it seemed that Izawa had calmed his thoughts.
"So what do you want to do?" she asked.
"Dunno." He answered sitting on the couch again.
"I have an idea, you wanna watch a video."
"Whatever."
Raika went inside her room. A little later she came out holding a white CD. She put it inside the player and sat down beside him.
Izawa smiled at the video he's watching, it was of them when they were little kids, the one where they were playing hide and seek.
There parents were always there to watch over them and Raika's dad often took videos of them.
The video:
"Raika-chan, let's play hide and seek, I'm bored." Came the little voice of Mamoru Izawa has he came running towards her.
"Okay" she smiled brightly
It was Izawa's turn to be it.
"1…2…3…4…5…6…uh WHAT'S AFTER SIX?" he yelled.
"It's seven, stupid, 8, 9, and 10 follow, just incase you forget."
"THANKS…7, 8, 9, 10…ready or not here I come."
He ran around and around looking for her. Raika was giggling to herself; she found it funny that she was hiding in the same tree where Izawa had been counting.
She was laughing already. She was about to fall off she shut her eyes tight…when all of a sudden she felt someone grab her arm.
"You should try not laughing so hard" said Izawa rolling his eyes, as he pulled her up.
She was mute, thankful, but mute. She couldn't say anything at the moment. She remembered almost falling off the tree if it hadn't been for him. She cried into his shirt.
"Don't worry, I caught you didn't I" he grinned as he hugged his friend, to comfort her.
"Thank you." Was all that she said or could say?
She stopped crying and both of them climbed down the tree.
Video ends…
"You still have that?" he asked.
Her head was leaning on his shoulder. She smiled.
"You expect me to throw it away? Besides you said yourself we would be best friends no matter what"
"I get your point. Is it still raining" he asked.
She looked outside and sighed.
"I guess…" she said sadly.
"Well, what time is it?" he asked.
"Almost nine"
"Oh, shoot I've got training tomorrow."
"You can sleep here, if you don't mind sleeping on then couch. It's raining rather heavily."
"Really?" he asked blushing.
"Yeah, sure." She said standing up. "I'll just go grab you a blanket and a pillow"
Later on she came back with both items, wearing white jogging pants and a black shirt.
"Well, good night" she smiled at him. She entered her room but left the door open.
"Good night" he said lying down.
They both fell soundly asleep. At twelve midnight Izawa had woken up from a dream. He sighed 'yeah right, as if she'd love me back' he thought to himself. He stood up to get a glass of water. From the corner of his eye he looked at the sleeping Raika.
She looked beautiful under the moonlight. He blushed at the thought of it. Later, he shrugged the thought off. As if, he and Raika, but something in the pit of his heart told him it was possible.
He walked on. After drinking water he went back to sleep.
The next morning he woke up, the rain had stopped.
Raika came out of her bedroom, still in her pajamas. She was rubbing her eyes, which meant she had just woken up.
"Good morning." He yawned a bit.
"Morning."
She said walking to the bathroom to wash her face. Izawa stood up from the couch.
"Hey, I better go. Training starts at two." He said looking at the wall clock.
"Okay…"
"Say, you wanna eat lunch together, if you're not doing anything, that is." He asked blushing madly. It was technically asking her on a date.
She was actually blushing as well, while she washed her face.
"Sure" she replied.
Later on he left, with his heart pounding so fast. He felt like Jun Misugi having a heart attack.
He knew what he had to do; he had to talk to someone about this, but who?
Let's narrow down the candidates shall we?
Genzo? –no
Tsubasa? –no
Teppei? –no
Sanae? – Nods like a maniac.
So it's decided he should ask Sanae about this.
End of chapter.
Elle: don't forget, please review. Thanks to all the readers.