A/N: Hey nerds! ZareEraz here! The author who's new favorite game is "Dumb Ways to Die!" (You should play it...NOW) Back and better than ever, I'm finally starting the squeal to my first fanfic: High School Never Ends! Whoo! Let me know what you think about it in comments and reviews and the updates will try to be weekly but we'll see! Enjoy! (and P.S. if you haven't ready High School Never Ends...you're probably going to be very confused)

Chapter One: For Sure

"Hey, Bunny?" Tetsuko asked the blond as they sat at one of many park benches on a sunny afternoon. They'd gone out to enjoy the cool winter sun before the storm came in and blew it all away. The couple had stopped to rest when Tetsuko's leg had ached too much to keep walking, her injuries still freshly irritating from the fight back in December even though it had been weeks since then.

"Hm?" He didn't even look up from his book, the boy's warm breath ghosting into the crisp air as the girl looked at him. They were both dressed in heavy winter coats, Tetsuko's legs all wrapped up (especially her thin one) and both had scarves slung around their necks. Barnaby's was red and Tetusko's was green, a Christmas gift from the girl's kaa-san. Tetsuko swung her legs back and forth across the snow, her boots scuffing the powder.

"You'll always be with me, right?" It was such a simple question, but Tetsuko wanted to know the answer. She'd lost the last boy she'd cared this much for and her chest ached just to think about losing the blond. Or maybe that was her second degree burns taking out their abuse on the girl.

"What a silly question, after all we've been through." Bunny looked up and rolled his eyes at the girl. "I'll always be there for you. That is, unless you get tired of me." Bunny's face dropped, sadness from almost losing Tetsuko forever still a painful subject. They hadn't really talked about it and even if they did they didn't dwell on it long. It hurt to even think about it, for both of them. Tetsuko hated seeing him that way.

"I'll never get tired of you, Bunny." Tetsuko leaned in towards the boy, carefully bending her sore torso to get in close. She gave him a chaste kiss, soft and sweet. "For sure."

"Same. I love you, Tetsuko." Bunny leaned in for another kiss, a more passionate one this time as he crushed his face to hers, his fingers winding into her hair. They broke for air a few minutes later, both their cheeks red and their breath puffing into the cool winter air.

"I love you too, Bunny." Tetsuko smiled in her dorky way, her eyes squinting shut. "Now can we get something to eat?"

"You're impossible." Bunny moved away from the brunette and pushed his glasses back up his nose.

"And that's why you love me!" She teased lightly.

"I never said that." The blond snapped his book shut and stood up, holding out his hand out for hers. Tetsuko took it and balanced her body out before attempting to walk again. She was still sore and aching and all sorts of other painful things, but her leg had to be the most frustrating. If she had thought it was hard enough to move with it before, being on bed rest for three weeks after the Maverick incident was worse. And the physical therapy she had to go too was killing her leg as well as she tried to rebuild at least some of her muscles.

"But you were thinking it! Just think about how boring your life would be without me!" She'd said that in light fun, but after the words left her mouth, Tetsuko wanted to take them back. She stopped walking and glanced back at her boyfriend. His face had gone emotionless, eyes blank. "I'm sorry, Bunny. I-" The brunette tried to amend her statement, to take it back before she offended him. She knew that it had nearly killed him, that whole thing with Maverick and her almost dying…again. Only this time she'd actually looked dead and Barnaby had been left in that waking nightmare. She'd told him to shoot, to save him, to save everyone and he'd done it. She thought she could dodge it, she really had, but the second her leg stopped working; she knew she was in for the long haul with almost no way back. She just hadn't expected to wake up.

"No, it's fine." No it's not. Bunny held up his hand, "But ever since it happened, it's actually really easy to imagine how I'd live my life without you, it just wouldn't be a good one. It was horrible, thinking you were gone and thinking I had been the cause of it. I thought I'd lost…everything." Tetsuko reached back and took Bunny's hand as his voice broke choking back tears.

"I'm sorry, Bunny. But remember: I'm the one who told you to shoot." Tetsuko tried to soothe the blond because she knew that he hated to show real emotion in public like this. It was embarrassing to him. He was even looking around for his ever present fan girl club even as they spoke.

"But I should've seen that something was wrong!" He whispered harshly and squeezed the woman's hand almost painfully. "You always know when something's wrong with me, so it was selfish of me not to see your problems too." Bunny was looking down at the snow now, hiding his face from her. "I don't want you to die in my arms again. I can't handle it if you do. So don't do it! Ever!" Bunny grabbed onto her shoulders, as if he was never going to let go and then crushed her into his chest. Tetsuko gasped as the air was pushed out of her lungs and she left her legs somewhere behind her as she clutched onto the blonde's back. She pressed her face into his shoulder, her own tears slipping down her cheeks to soak his coat. She spoke softly.

"You know I can't keep a promise like that." Bunny shuddered at her words. "But I can promise to be more careful, but when someone needs my help-"

"I've got to go and help them." They finished together. Bunny chuckled weakly.

"At least you're constant in your unreliability." He jabbed.

"I am not unreliable!"

"Tell me that again sometime, I might believe you."

"You're a jerk!" Tetsuko broke out of her boyfriend's embrace and glared at him. At least he wasn't crying anymore, though that smirk was damn annoying. She huffed and stomped off for about twenty feet before crashing to the ground painfully, her leg giving out on her.

"Tetsuko!" Bunny ran after her and helped the woman pick herself up, his strong arms hoisting her up to her feet. "I thought you said you were going to be more careful." He said pointedly.

"Times of emotional pissed off-ness do not count!" She shouted, brushing off the blonde's arms.

"Whatever. But a promise is a promise so you'd better keep it."

"For sure, Bunny." Tetsuko threw out, turning a one eighty on her mood. "Now let's eat! I'm starving!"

"You're a piece, old lady." Bunny shook his head in disbelief.

"Baka, I'm a masterpiece!"

"Whatever you say."