Chapter Two: Unknown Beginnings

Wow… (O.O) I thought fans were starved for Amorin, but apparently the Dekotani fans are even more rabid. So, by (apparently) popular demand, I will be continuing the story of these adorable girls. Chapter two starts where I left off in chapter one: with the couple going to announce their new relationship.

Usual Disclaimers: I do NOT own Chuunibyo Demo Koi Ga Shita. (If I did there would probably be TOO much Dekotani… If that's possible.)


Holding hands, the two girls walked into the clubroom without fanfare. Sanae had decided that it would be best, if when the two of them walked into the room, her left pigtail also wrapped around their conjoined hands, to make it look more official. However, even when they moved to stand in the center of the room, the others showed little interest: Yuuta barely looking up from tickling Rikka, who was too busy trying to fend him off with her Schwarz shield to notice their entrance: Kumin was, of course, asleep. As a matter of disappointment, it was actually Isshiki, who had been busy watching the sleeping Kumin with a goofy expression on his face that noticed their joined hands and the poorly hidden disappointment behind their smiles.

Isshiki, naturally, freaked out about the two girls standing together in such a manor. Startled by the commotion that the young man was causing, Yuuta stopped from backing Rikka into a corner and the couple looked over to see what he was so concerned about; Kumin just rolled over in her sleep, muttering something about sweets.

Yuuta and Rikka walked over to see what the commotion was about, taking each other's hands as they did so, their 'war' put on hold to investigate. Yuuta shook his head as he came over, looking at the way that the blonde's hair had been wrapped around the girls' arms. "What's there to be concerned about here, Isshiki, it looks like the two of them just need some help getting untangled; again." The dark-haired girl at his side however, was more familiar with the blonde girl, and as she got close enough to see Sanae's face more closely, she tugged on Yuuta's hand, forcing him to stop. She and the blonde had an unspoken exchange, before the girl with the eye-patch came barreling into Sanae and Shinka's arms, letting go of her boyfriend as she did so.

If it had just been the shorter girl that she had ran into, the two of them would have been sent crashing across the room, but Shinka had been ready for the move, and had intentionally rotated herself to be behind Sanae and Rikka; so that when the inevitable glomp came, she could brace her new girlfriend against the cannon ball known as Rikka. Even so, the momentum of the other senior sent the three of them stumbling back a few steps before the brunette could stabilize them. She attempted to place both of her hands on the junior's shoulders, but had forgotten about the hair entangling their arms. Instead of being able to set her hand against the blonde's neck, she raised both of their arms and almost hit Rikka as she did so.

Oblivious to these actions, the dark-haired girl and Sanae laughed with each other while a look of realization slowly dawned on Yuuta's face. Isshiki sat with a hand on his chin, pursed lips pondering the three girls. After the collision, even Kumin stirred and looked up at the tangle of limbs that had become of Rikka, Sanae, and Shinka, and yawned before she too, grasped the situation.

"Rikka!" Sanae near shouted. "You'll never believe it!" She twisted in the middle of the other girls, causing the taller girl's arm to wrap around her waist, and put the index finger of her free hand perilously close to the brunette's eye. "She's the real Mori-Summer!"

"Oh-hoho!" Rikka exclaimed, pulling away from the shorter girl to stalk a circle around Shinka, and by extension, Sanae. After a quick pass, she moved to stand with Yuuta, an arm coming up to take off the eye patch and exposing the golden-contacted eye below. "Yes!" She said with appropriate gravity. "It must have been the work of the Bureau that kept her true self so well bound with-in her." She made a quick spin around the man next to her to stand on his other side. "I cannot believe that the Wicked Lord Shingen was not able to penetrate the barrier."

Shinka exchanged a look with Yuuta and the two of them rolled their eyes.

"How did you manage to break the wicked spell keeping our comrade in the enervating prison chains of the Bureau?" The dark-haired girl inquired.

In response, Sanae said nothing. Rather, she let her actions speak for her. With an anticipatory, almost predatory, smirk plastered across her face, the blonde quickly planted a kiss on the brunette's lips.

This time the couple got more the reactions they though they deserved: Yuuta's eyes expanded quickly in surprise, before he nodded to himself, realizing that the two had been walking down that path for a while. Rikka jumped up on her toes and gave a few claps of congratulations, which Kumin joined in on. Isshiki, ever the typical man, made strangling noises in his throat and watched with great interest, before Kumin laid a quick elbow into his chest between claps.


The rest of the club's time passed quickly, and Kumin had to leave early to get to her university's night classes. The ever-sleepy girl insisted on returning to the clubroom even after graduating, to grab a few zzz's. Isshiki left with her, and the older girl took the opportunity to lean on him and take quick naps. As for the other four, Sanae and Rikka spend most of their time conversing on what it meant for their chuuni world, now that Shinka had been revealed to be the real Mori-Summer. The aforementioned brunette and Yuuta exchanged many patient glances and occasionally entered into the two chuuni's discussion, but mostly, they couldn't follow it very well, as they were speaking very quickly and running around the clubroom.

They left the school grounds with the setting sun, Rikka and Yuuta holding hands and Sanae and Shinka doing the same. The two couples went their separate ways, and soon it became time for the blonde and brunette to say good night to each other. Together they stood at the corner of the intersection that would send them to their different homes, and neither one wanted to see the other go. It became a moment for wondrous thought as they stood together, marveling at the fact that they had arrived at this moment despite all of their differences and all of the times that the two of them had fought.

Surprisingly, it was the taller girl who broke the silence, whispering, "I don't want to let go of you yet." She pulled the junior into her arms and laid her cheek against the top of the shorter girl's head.

Not sure how to cope with this, the pig-tailed girl felt her lips tremble with emotion and she returned the embrace, almost more to keep herself standing than anything else. "Then don't." She murmured against her senior's neck. "Come over and have dinner with me."

With the invitation delivered in such an adorable manner, Shinka realized that she had no defense against the vulnerability shown by the girl who held to her so tightly. "Okay." She said simply, not willing to let her disproportionate happiness shine through with any additional words.


Even though it seemed different for the new couple, they spent the short walk to the Dekomori household in silence, content to merely enjoy the company of one another. The younger girl felt more and more nervous as they approached her house, anxiety rising at the thought of her parent's reaction to her bringing home a girlfriend. It got bad enough that when they were finally outside her home, the blonde froze in front of the gated yard and looked up to her senior for support.

Overwhelmed by the cuteness again, the brunette could only let go of the hand she was holding to put both arms around the blonde's waist to pull her close. As soon as her lips were within reach, Shinka bent down to place a soft kiss on Sanae's pink lips, a smile tugging at her own. "I'm sure it'll be fine." She breathed into the kiss, allowing the heat of the words to tickle the younger girl's mouth.

Sanae quickly pushed back the other girl, before pulling her back for another kiss. After this was done, her courage was restored and she put her arm around her senior's waist and opened the gate into the familiar yard, deliberately ignoring the look of wonder that crossed Shinka's face at the small, but elaborately maintained, yard. There were flowerbeds with brightly colored flowers; luxurious fountains; and a small vegetable garden tucked into one corner of the yard. The house itself was not too imposing, but rather seemed to be filled with a kind of warmth that came from being a home, rather than just being a set of living quarters.

The blonde opened the door with a shouted "I'm home!" before tugging in her girlfriend and closing the door behind the two of them. They quickly took off their shoes and took the small step up into the house, their arms once again coming to wrap around each other's waists. The feel of the taller girl tacitly giving her support by allowing her to lean against her meant more than she would ever admit.

"Welcome home, ojou-san." Came the voices of both a man and a woman as the butler that once escorted the pig-tailed girl walked around the corner, followed by a woman dressed in what could only be called the outfit of a maid. The servants paused as they caught sight of their young mistress with her arm around another girl. After the moment passed, they both let a small smile show upon their faces, and the butler bowed while the maid curtsied.

"Your parents are out on a date tonight, ojou-san." The butler informed the young girl while he moved to stand to the side and gestured for the two girls to pass him.

"I can fix you and your friend here anything you feel like eating tonight." The maid smiled at the couple brightly.

"Oh… Uh…" Sanae stumbled, not expecting the situation to be like this. "Wh-what would you like to eat, Mori-Summer?" She asked cautiously, looking at the taller girl from the corner of her eye.

In response to being called Mori-Summer, Shinka turned a glare upon the girl at her arm, who returned the stare rebelliously. With a sigh, the older girl turned to the two servants and bowed slightly. "Nice to meet you, my name is Nibutani Shinka." She laid heavy emphasis upon her real name, and the butler and maid both smiled with understanding, having been in service to the young chuuni for many years. The brunette turned her eyes back the shorter girl and smiled. "I think we should have something with lots of milk, don't you think?"

At the word 'milk' the blonde's gaze turned fierce and she shook her head vehemently. "Anything but that, I won't allow it!" She started to continue, but she noticed the smile hovering around her senior's lips and she stopped, before looking at her butler and maid, who had similar smiles. "I think some sweet curry will do just fine." She sniffed, turning her head to the side.

Unable to resist such an opportunity, Shinka quickly leaned forward and blew softly against the exposed part of Sanae's neck, who reacted with a suitably impressive yelp and jumped away, almost slamming into the wall. Smirking, the taller girl held her hands on her hips while the servants fought to keep from laughing.

Blushing ferociously, but unwilling to be the one on the losing side, she reached out with both hands and laid a solid kiss upon those hatefully smug lips. Sanae had to fight from allowing a smirk to build on her own lips as she saw the surprise upon the older girl's face. With victory hers, she of course ignored the shock across the butler and maid's faces and took the brunette's hand in her own. "Let us know when the curry is done, please." And just like that she took Shinka up to her room.


Her room was, not surprisingly, covered in various chuuni items and posters of different animes. The thing that caught Shinka's attention, however, was a desk with an extremely familiar book sitting next to an open, but not activated, laptop. She stopped where she was, while Sanae twirled around to see what had caused the other girl to stop. Following her gaze, the blonde swiftly moved to stand between the brunette and the book that contained the words of Mori-Summer.

In a moment of clarity, the taller girl just reached out and took a hold of Sanae, and dragged her over to sit on the bed. She placed the younger girl upon her lap, and snuggled her head against the girl's shoulder. "I think I finally get it." She said quietly. "Why it mattered so much to me that that book was destroyed." A few tears formed at the corners of her eyes and she ignored them. "Why I was so adamant on you never repeating words from that thing to me." Her grip on the blonde's shirt tightened as the tears came flowing more quickly. "I think it's because I knew if you kept pushing, we'd end up here." She pulled back and looked into the sapphire eyes that were even with her own golden-brown eyes now that the other girl was on her lap. "And now I regret that I ever thought that was a bad thing."

Tears piled up in Sanae's eyes too, and she reached up with both hands to wipe at the tears on the brunette's face. "At first, I just wanted to prove you false." The blonde hesitated. "No, I think I needed to prove you false. How could you have been the real Mori-Summer, when you were so embarrassed by the beautiful words that you had once lived by? I knew from the beginning, I think, that you were the real Mori-Summer and that I loved you, and that's why I fought you so hard. Because how could I be in love with someone who was seemingly so against everything that they once stood for?" She placed both of her now tear-stained hands against Shinka's chest. "But I'm so glad that I was able to find you in here." She blinked quickly, vainly attempting to clear her vision so that she could continue to gaze upon the face of the angel that was so close to her. "I'm so glad that I could prove to you that you were still Mori-Summer. It was worth everything that we went through and so much more." Unable to see clearly anymore, the blonde leaned forward, placing her face cheek-to-cheek with Shinka's, who let them fall back to the bed. "After all, life is love, right?"

The brunette turned her head to the side, and gently kissed Sanae's eye, taking a few tears with her lips. "Yes." She murmured affirmatively.

A few moments later, they pulled back and looked at each other's tear-ridden faces and bittersweet smiles came across their lips. "Wait here a moment." The blonde instructed the taller girl, while she exited the bedroom.

Left alone for a while, the brunette continued to examine the chuuni's room and shook her head at the eclectic collection of items cluttering the room. As a matter of fact, the only places not completely cluttered were the desk which held a printed copy of the Mabinogion, and the area directly around the bed. Oddly enough, the younger girl kept her room very messily, and Shinka couldn't help but snort with amusement as she noticed some of the other girl's clothes left haphazardly around the room.

She lay down across the bed and wrapped her arms around Sanae's pillow, breathing in the scent of the blonde.

Of course, it was at this moment when said blonde returned, and her face heated rather quickly when she saw the position the brunette was in. In her hands she held two hand-towels, and she threw one of them at the other girl in embarrassment. "Geez, what are you doing?' She fumed as she walked quickly into the room.

Shinka, who had caught the ineffective missile deftly, smiled and blinked her eyes coquettishly. "Why, whatever do you mean, darling?"

Between the coy adorableness and the 'darling', the shorter girl felt like she'd been smacked upside the head. She stopped moving into the room and stood staring at the older girl without being able to string two coherent thoughts together.

With a chuckle, the brunette rose from the bed, bringing up the hand-towel to wipe away the tear stains on the younger girl's face. After each pass, she'd lay a quick kiss upon the area that had been cleaned.

Shocked back into reality, the blonde raised her own hands, and began to wipe at her senior's face. In short order all evidence that they had been crying had been wiped away, and the two stood smiling at each other once again.

"Hey," Sanae said suddenly. "Why don't you spend the night?"

Now it was Shinka's turn to be stunned. "Uhm…. What?" She asked lamely, her mind racing down dozens of different situations. She had to admit, if only to herself, that most of them were really not something that she had any issues with.

Realizing the implications of what she had just asked, the chuuni felt heat quickly spread across her face and she turned around. "I-I-I d-d-didn't mean it like THAT!" She explained quickly. "I mean… We have a few free guest rooms, and I was hoping that you would stay in one of them…."

The brunette moved up quickly, putting both arms around the shorter girl's waist. "That sounds lovely." She breathed into her ear.


And that's it for chapter two! I am currently working on a few other pieces as well. Apparently, I can't help myself from writing right now, and you should expect more for this couple, as well as some other well known, or not-shipped-hard-enough couples.

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