Domyouji, at the Ebi Garden :

"Where is she? Look at the time! How dare she not show up?" he asked to no one in particular.

"I waited the whole day for her, frozen to death and I told her to not to be late." He was muttering to himself, fuming.

Akira and Sojiro just got there and were at a distance from him, breathing heavily, not knowing how to give him the news. Akira said to Sojiro :

"He's still there, how can we tell him?"

"Just tell him directly and get it over with." answered Sojiro. But then, Domyouji heard his friends' voices, and got to them and asked them, flaring up:

"Tell me what?"

"Nothing, nothing, nothing…" began Sojiro.

"There's surely something to tell me, you two were debating between yourselves on how to tell me. So out with it!" ordered he angrily.

"Well, you gotta promise us to not hit us, if we told you." said a shaken Akira.

"What's so terrible about it? Is it about Makino?" Tsukasa finally realized.

"Yes, in a way." answered Sojiro.

"So, out with it, I wanna hear what's her excuse for not coming to our date."

"Well, it's that…" began Akira.

"Well, just out with it right now!" yelled Tsukasa, angry.

"Fine, shewentoutwithKazuya." said Sojiro in one breath.

"Sojiro, could you please repeat that, I didn't get anything from it." asked a puzzled Tsukasa.

"Fine, well, it's that she went out with Kazuya."

"What?" screamed a broken-hearted and angry Tsukasa.

"Don't get angry now." soothed Akira.

"How can I not get angry? I'm going to…How could she?" he asked in a broken-hearted tone.

"What are you planning to do with the nouveau riche kid, anyways?"

"I'm going to give him a red card and beat him up." He said very angry this time.

"Don't flare up, Tsukasa." Akira attempted to appease him.

"I won't stand for it! My Makino, going out with someone else! How can any guy stand for this?" He asked rhetorically.

"Fine, you do whatever you want with him to relieve your anger." Akira gave up.

In class, the next day

It was in history class. Everyone was "studying". Well, actually studying intently Kazuya kun. He didn't get his red card because he didn't open his locker yet. He felt everyone's eyes on him and he didn't know what was going on in school, but he didn't care, and per usual, enjoying himself casually with Makino-chan. That made Tsukada dart hate glances towards with. At the end, Tsukasa couldn't stand it anymore and walked up to Kazuya :

"You, how dare you go out with my Makino?" Makino shuddered at his "my Makino."

"Well, she wasn't taken, so I thought I was free to take her out somewhere.'

"You dare answer me back? All you deserve is a good beating." As he said that, he pulled Kazuya up and started beating him up as usual.

"Everyone, this is the one my Makino went out with instead of me, the great Domyouji Tsukasa." As he said that, he hit him some more. But Tsukushi stood up :

"Stop it please." She defied him.

"How dare you?" He asked her, her words hurting him even more.

"I said stop it please, it's my fault, punish me instead. I'm sorry for hurting your feelings." She tried to appease him, with all the other students watching. He didn't know why, but he dropped Kazuya on the floor.

"You don't know how I felt when you didn't show up, so explain to me why you did this to me in the first place, and I'll let him go."

"Domyouji, I never agreed to go out on a date with you in the first place. " She dared to stay, shielding Kazuya-kun, afraid Domyouji might hurt him more.

"So, this is why. All right, I'm going, but I'm not done with him."

Later, in the afternoon with Sojiro and Akira

"Do you think she's got feelings for that nouveau riche kid?" asked a hurt Tsukasa.

"Yes, I think so and I think it's mutual, why?"asked Akira.

"Because when she stood up for him, I felt my heart torn into a million pieces."

"So that's why you dropped Kazuya?" asked Akira again.

"Yes, and I did it for her, thinking she might hate me even more if I hit Kazuya more." Tsukasa answered his friend.

"You've grown up." declared Sojiro.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You've never been considered of anyone's feelings before, and you just do whatever Makino tells you to."

"Well, I love her." he admitted to his friend.

"So, you finally admitted it to yourself and us?" Sojiro teased.

"Yes, if you two don't got anything more to say to me, I'm going home and to bed and so should you."

Home they went and to bed too.