AN: So here I am, uploading another story when I haven't even updated any of my others in months. And jumping fandoms, no less! :L. Still, I really am sorry to anybody who has been waiting for my Naruto fics. I write all my stories on a locknote app on my iPod, and the stupid thing fucked out, without me having any copies of my in-progress fics. They're not cancelled or anything, but it might be a while longer until I can get my screen replaced and access them. In the meantime, I brought myself an iPhone, and downloaded the same locknote apps on that :L #lessonnotlearnt. So while my old fics are on hold for a little bit, I've started writing new ones.
Hope you enjoy :).
"Satsuki?"
"Hmm? What is it, Dai-chan?"
Momoi Satsuki looked up from where she was seated at her desk, trying to do her homework, to where her best friend had been lounging on her bed, leafing through one of her seinen manga. Now, however, he was sitting up, dark blue eyes trained directly on her. She felt her heart sink.
She had a feeling she knew what was coming.
Dai-chan opened his mouth, looking as grave as he ever had, but then closed it again without uttering a peep. Satsuki just spun around in her wheelie chair to face him properly. No matter how long it took, Dai-chan would eventually get what he wanted to say out. She knew this from experience; Dai-chan had had serious issues talking about serious problems (AKA his emotions and most things unrelated to basketball) for as long as she had known him. Satsuki could wait him out.
"I, uh, there's something I gotta tell you, Satsuki." Dai-chan's mouth was pulling down at the corners.
A confession.
Her heart twisted in her chest. She didn't want to know, didn't want the thoughts that had plagued her since middle school confirmed.
But Dai-chan was her best friend. And he was trying to open up to her, his most trusted confidante. She couldn't deny him that, couldn't ignore his words, no matter how much she longed to.
Satsuki took a deep breath, remembering all the ways that Dai-chan had looked out for her and made her laugh over the years. She raised her head, bright pink eyes meeting midnight blue, and smiled. "Tell me, Dai-chan."
He grimaced apologetically, handsome features twisted in some form of regret, confusion, and self-recrimination. "I think I'm in love with Tetsu." He sounded absolutely miserable about it.
Worst fears confirmed, Satsuki fancied that she could actually hear the sharp crack of her heart breaking. Her eyes lowered to her hands, twisting in her lap, as she sobbed out a broken chuckle.
"Silly Dai-chan," she murmured, almost to herself. "I already knew."
AN: Sooo, lemme know what you thought! Chapters will get longer, don't worry, this is sorta just an opening. I have a general plotline worked out already, and the second chapter is in progress, so hopefully it won't be ages before I upload it! On another note, I have never seen this ship ANYWHERE, no fan art, no fanfics, no nothing. And since it's become an OT3 of mine, I decided to write one myself. If anybody else has seen otherwise, please tell me!
- Kelly