DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FLAME OF RECCA. I'M JUST A SUPER FUUKO AND TOKIYA FAN! :D

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It was a cold winter night in Tokyo. Yanagi sat infront of her study desk as she tried to memorize a paragraph from her notes in Teaching Strategies. She was starting to have a headache. Her term paper on Research is due on Friday. Yet, she hasn't started yet. The past year has been hard for her. Her first year in college was like a whirlwind. She had to study in Tokyo University while Recca had to attend a boarding school in Nagasaki.

She decided to take a break from her studies. She went to her dresser and took out a flowery medium sized box. She sat on her bed and laid the box on her lap. The box contained photographs of her happy moments with the hokage team. She opened the box and see took out a picture. It was a shot of Fuuko and Tokiya. They were in a fierce embrace, shock seen on their blushing faces. Yanagi couldn't help but giggle. It was a picture taken at her birthday one and a half year ago. She could cleary recall the meddling she did then to have those two end up in a fiercely sweet embrace. Fuuko was walking towards Tokiya then with 2 glasses of champagne in hand when Yanagi tripped her. Tokiya caught Fuuko in his arms before she fell on the ground.

She let out a sigh as she placed back the photo into the box. "I wish I can do something for them to be happy."

Everything has become complicated especially with her two loved friends. Fuuko left for Pennsylvania with a broken heart thinking Tokiya never cared about her. " If only she knew, how much he had done for her."

She had been receiving a lot of calls from Fuuko. She pitied her friend. At every beginning of each conversation, it was the usual tough, jolly, straightforward and talkative Fuuko Kirisawa. But whenever the conversation's topic shifts to Tokiya, her voice starts to shake as if she was suppressing tears. Fuuko always asks about him. She always ask her questions like " Is he doing fine?" "How is he?" "Do you think he misses me?"

It was hard to answer her questions. She made a promise to Tokiya that she won't tell Fuuko that he followed her in Pennsylvania. She always found it so hard telling a lie. She wanted to tell Fuuko about everything but she couldn't. She made a promise. She can never break a promise.

"Tokiya, she loves you still." Yanagi spoke infront of the webcam. She and Tokiya are having a video conversation over windows live messenger.

"I know." Tokiya replied. Yanagi could clearly see the sadness in his eyes.

"Don't you think it's the right time to show yourself to her?"

Tokiya gave a painful chuckle and said, "Like a monkey like her will understand."

"You are so unfair, Tokiya. She's heartbroken thinking you don't care about her." Yanagi spoke already sobbing.

"It's better this way, Yanagi. I'll go back to Japan once she finally got over me and found someone who can love her more than I could." He spoke in his usual cold tone.

"Why do you still have to wait for that horrible thing to happen?" Yanagi asked in confusion.

"She deserves someone better than me. She's too precious for me. She doesn't deserve someone with a cruel and sad past."

Yanagi spoke in a shaky voice, already sobbing. "She loves you more than you could ever imagine! She loves the whole you, Tokiya!"

"I know, Yanagi. I know."

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Sorry for this short chapter. LOL. I'll update soon I promise.

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