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Prompt: Gifts

Rating: K

Warning: These one-shots are probably gonna be awkward and repetitive, so…

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Enjoy?

Chapter 2: Gifts

Akaba Reiji opened up his locker door to place his shoes in it and retrieve his school slippers, only to be greeted by the sight of a bag with his name on it. Although it didn't show on his face, he was really quite surprised. There was once a period of time when he'd get dozens of love letters from girls who were smitten with him daily, but after making an announcement about how he was uninterested and extremely annoyed by these actions, the girls quit their love letter writing. So, when he opened his locker, he wasn't expecting to find any love letters—let alone a gift.

He set his shoes back down on the floor and took out the unexpected gift. Grabbing the bow around the top, he pulled it loose and the bag fell open. Inside the bag was a red yo-yo with white swirls on the sides. He looked around in the bag and his locker but found no card—something that usually accompanied these types of things.

Why a yo-yo?

The next day, Reiji once again received a gift from his locker. This time however, it was in a box rather than a bag. He took the box out from his locker and opened it. Inside was a piece of strawberry cake, and once again, there was no card. He set down his school bag and placed the box on top before exchanging the two pairs of footwear and putting on his slippers.

Having picked up his bag and the box of cake, he turned around and left for his first class. As he was walking down the hallway, he felt like he was being watched. He looked off in the direction he was getting the feeling from and caught a glimpse of someone's blazer disappearing behind a corner. The bell rung only a second later and he increased his speed, not wanting to be late.

What the heck was this?

It was now Wednesday morning—the day after he discovered the strawberry cake he's been gifted with. Once again, he'd gone to his locker and found a present. Still with no card of any kind in sight. This time, the gift he received had not been in any kind of packaging.

He looked down at the colorful object in his hand. It was a box with a crank on its side. He was pretty sure what it was, but he wanted to make sure. As he turned the crank, the song 'Pop Goes the Weasel' played and out popped a smiling clown. It was a good thing he got here earlier than usual—this way, he didn't bother anyone else or get any of the strange looks he surely would've gotten otherwise.

What was the giver of these gifts thinking?

Reiji got his things together and turned around, only to come face to face with one Kurosaki Shun. While the two weren't exactly friends, they weren't on bad terms either. Shun looked down at Reiji's hands and noticed the strange, colorful item in his acquaintances' hands. The two turned towards the hall leading to their classrooms and started walking. "So what's the deal with the box?" Shun asked the other as they progressed down the hallway.

The next couple of minutes consisted of Shun listening to Reiji recount what he's received from some mystery person and his thoughts about how weird it was. There weren't any cards, the presents were weird and seemed to have nothing to do with one another and were just weird things to give to someone. After hearing what Reiji had to say, Shun decided to tell the other teen what he'd seen.

"I saw an underclassman run away from the lockers Monday morning."

"An underclassman?"

"He was so flustered that he was flailing around and nearly tripped over air twice."

"Hmmm…" Reiji smirked.

A lone figure looked around at its surroundings before creeping towards the set of lockers that stood to the left of the walkway. The person went up to a certain locker positioned in the middle of the set and opened it. Just as it managed to do so however, a cough was heard, making it freeze in its tracks. The figure turned around to see the owner of said locker now standing before it.

Reiji smirked at the person who had just been opening up his locker.

"Hello, Sakaki Yuya!"

Immediately, Yuya's face lit up like a Christmas tree. The now blushing teen stuttered and slowly inched back towards the lockers as the older teen walked towards him. Eventually, the shorter teen's back hit the lockers and his escape routes were lost as the older of the two placed his hands on the locker, caging in the person who had been leaving him gifts. Yuya gulped audibly and moved his eyes away from Reiji.

"H-how did you know it was me?"

"I figured out the clues you left me with the gifts after Kurosaki told me there was an underclassman scurrying away awkwardly from the lockers one morning. First, you left me a yo-yo to indicate your first name—Yuya. Then you left me a strawberry cake for Sakaki. Lastly, the Jack-in-the-box was a reference to your personality as an entertainer. Had it not been for Kurosaki's description of you, I most likely would have never put the pieces together—which I assume was what you were wanting, given how you never left a card or name."

Yuya's gaze turned back to Reiji.

"There was something I wanted to convey to you, but I couldn't really do it because of how embarrassing it was. So, I decided to just leave you the gifts as a way of kind-of telling you."

"And what you wanted to tell me," Reiji replied as he plucked the heart-shaped box in Yuya's hands out of his grasp, "was that you like me?"

Yuya blushed in embarrassment and turned his gaze away once more before nodding slowly. Reiji smirked and leaned his head on top of the shorter's as he wrapped his arms around the other's waist. "I like you too," he whispered.

A/N: So…that happened. Ehehehe…

*Inches away slowly*

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