Hi there..this is my second fanfic.. this is about my 3rd favorite pairing..TsubaSaki..

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" Cause you've made me believe that we're best friends.. just best friends.. I've decided to drift away. Anyway, I have no more right to stay."

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" Ne, Tsubasa, can't you stop slacking off and help me carry these boxes?" with her hands on her waist like a mother reprimanding Tsubasa.

Yes, this heralded a new day for Misaki and Tsubasa. Misaki carrying piles of boxes with miscellaneous contents..really? How strong she is!! Oh no,, not piles of miscellaneous contents but piles of scratch papers. A while ago, Noda-sensei asked her to bring those boxes to the office of Misaki-sensei since he was going to do them or rather convert them into something useful..of course biology-related materials.

Tsubasa was under a tree sleeping soundly..eh? Soundly? Hell no..if Misaki was around..he'd never have the chance to at least have forty winks and have a catnap. And this proves it. He wasn't really sleeping..he was just closing his eyes as an alibi not to notice Misaki.

Misaki, knowing how light the boxes were, she still wanted Tsubasa to help her but…

" Oh, gomen.. I still have some important things to do," he said as he dusted his uniform walking forward out of the shadows of the leafy branches of the tree, but not towards Misaki. He really wanted to escape as soon as possible.

As usual, a vein popped out of Misaki's head..

"So, you mean, sleeping is more important than those important things?!? Oh, c'mon Tsubasa!" she scolded him as she was stomping her right foot. Actually, she was enjoying her doing.. acting like a mother to Tsubasa. It had been a long time since they had been like this.

But in a minute..her fragile glee..finally..shattered.

" Well, let's just put it that way," he told her nonchalantly as he left Misaki behind feeling the guilt formed from the past.

Nonchalantly. When did that word suit Tsubasa? Wasn't it for Natsume only? Yes, Tsubasa started to become like this..but to Misaki only.

Guilty. When did Misaki feel guilty? For Tsubasa? Never.. that was before..After all, she just kept on joking and hanging out with Tsubasa, right? Because they're friends.. Yes..they were friends..they can never be more than that. They will never be.

Depressed of what happened, Misaki just laid the boxes on the table. Anyway, she needed not to carry them..she needed not to be helped by anyone else. She could just simply reason out to Noda-sensei if its supposed time of arrival was delayed. All she needed that time.. was the lost attention of her best friend.. her former best friend..to her.

Sighing, like the whole world had just fallen upon her two shoulders and she gave no comment nor any complaint of it, she walked down the hall of the High School Building ( yeah, they're already high school..in my story) not knowing where her feet may lead her. Head bowed, she decided only to look up if ever she would bump onto something or someone. Luckily, she bumped onto someone if not, she might be in the hospital now for bumping onto an enormous concrete wall.

" Misaki-senpai, daijoubu?" she bent slightly to see Misaki's face if ever there was a problem.

Misaki was startled by Mikan's voice not by the impact made by the bumping.

" Uh..uhm.. I was just spacing out..gomen..," she snickered as she caressed the back of her hair.

" Ne, Senpai.. you've been like that for I think.. a year and a half , and I still don't know why. Care to tell me?" Mikan wondered.

Misaki chuckled..faintly.

"Ah.. I guess… people do change.. Well, then, see you later Mikan-chan!" and she went off.. running.

She managed to feign happiness but anybody could tell it was fake for happiness had never been on her side since that day.

Meanwhile, Tsubasa was again sleeping under a tree. Actually, he didn't have any important thing to do, he just wanted to escape from the reality, from Misaki.

" Misaki, I have to tell you something.. I Love you"

" Tsubasa, you're always joking, I know that very well, because I am your best friend.. and don't worry, I also feel the same way"

" You..love me..? as a best friend"

" Of course.. well.. I can't love you more than that.. I've treated you as a twin brother eversince"

Twin brother

Bestfriend

These phrases were reverberating in his head that he suddenly opened his eyes and panted. Something was choking him.. that was the undeniable fact.

" Geez, why do they keep on haunting me?" he mumbled.

Suddenly he noticed something. The end of his bangs was smoking. Eh? Smoking?. Yep, it was on fire.

"Oh crap," he panicked as he patted his hair vigorously. He glared at someone who was standing beside him. And you know very well who was it.

" Oi, cut this off, what the hell is your problem?" he asked in disdain, though he really didn't want to show that kind of attitude in front of that someone, but her beautiful bangs was on the stake so he had to.

" I should be the one asking you , what the hell is your problem sleeping under my tree, idiot," Natsume reproached.

As expected, Tsubasa could just moan knowing that no words can really defeat this guy, that nobody could rupture the pride and coolness of Natsume.

" Ah..gomen.. I was.. I don't know, really.. what's happening to me..," he said in a silent distress.

"Tch. Why are teenagers like that?" Natsume questioned him in extreme disgust.

" Well, you're also like this, you're a teenager, don't you dare deny it," he chortled.

" Spill it out," Natsume commanded.. out of the blue.

" Eh?" Tsubasa aked.. out of curiosity.

" You have a problem.. I know," Natsume answered with confidence.. yeah.. because he's a genius.

Tsubasa then stood and muddled the hair of Natsume.. like a child.

" Oi, want me to burn you to ashes?" he suddenly uttered which made Tsubasa froze for a while on his spot.

After like having a psychosis, he regained the sense of reality.

" Yeah, I wish I could tell you.. but you'll never understand. Ja'ne!"

He walked away leaving Natsume shaking his head.

Tsubasa decided to go.. no.. to visit their S.A room,, it's better or safer if he would go there every once in a while.. no one knows, his secret might be revealed untimely. That would cause a big fuss especially in the case of Mikan. Somehow, he really finds it insufferable to be there… well, if only that person is present.

As he was walking, he could feel that someone was either glaring or gazing at him. And it hit him. Looking at his way, beside him was the person he hadn't wished to see at that moment, the one who made the whole of him be shrouded in frigid ice.

" Tsubasa, you're heading to S.A room, ne?" Misaki inquired him, squeaking, maybe because of her surfeit excitement for this may start a conversation between them and bring back the long lost friendship.

Tsubasa continued walking.

" Yeah, sort of," he droned. He was not in the mood of talking to Misaki at that time, heck.. he never had the mood.

" May I join you?" she still persisted though she was aware of the fact that Tsubasa didn't want to talk to her.

He stopped, anger, worse.. hatred came for a sudden visit.

" What are you trying to do? Why the hell do you still wish to be with me? What do you really want from me?" Tsubasa asked begging for a definite answer.. for a closure.

He intensely looked at Misaki, eye to eye.

" I'm trying to get back to what we were back then, Tsubasa, I miss you.." she spoke softly.

He could only smirk.

" You know very well that we can never be the same again, and I'm not really the one you miss, you just miss my presence but not me,"

He tried to run but Misaki grabbed his wrist.

" I'm sorry, Tsubasa.. I.." she managed to say.. guilt-ridden.

" You don't need to..it's over..over," he finally let out the words he had been feeling for almost a year and a half. As much as he wanted to believe that hope is still there.. somewhere.. just hiding or maybe disguising itself.. but this predicament just can't be denied and concealed.

Misaki had a tear escaped from her eyes that she loosened her grip of Tsubasa's wrist letting Tsubasa to walk away… slowly.

Thanks for reading!! Pls. Review! and kindly point out my grammatical errors.. i would gladly accept it.