"Yoshitaka-kun, where are you? Yoshitaka-kuuun!!"

I lifted my head from the small, misshapen clay blob that I had been trying to mold into a person, but ended up looking like . . . nothing. Maguri was searching high and low, and apparently for me. I grinned slightly, but stayed silent. I had been evading lunch with Maguri since I heard his older brother was coming. Yuki was a jerk to put it simply. He laughed at me a lot and called me girly. Maguri yelled at him to defend me but it didn't comfort me too much.

"Yoshita - - ?"

He stopped suddenly as we met gazes. Maguri raised a brow and frowned at me. It wasn't easy to hide from Maguri, well actually, it was hard to hide me. I hide in the most obvious places. Namely, trees.

"Get down!"

Maguri shouted, a little bit of a growl in the back of his throat. I laughed at this, since he always got worried whenever I did something . . . well, sorta stupid like this.

"Why?"

I asked, smiling at my black-haired friend. He rolled his eyes, which he, like, always did. It's a bit mean of me, but seeing Maguri all worked up is always funny to see. I mean, he acts all tough with his family being in yakuza and all but he's really caring inside.

"It's dangerous, you idiot."

He started tapping his foot hurriedly, which I knew meant it was time for me to quit messing with him and get down. On the way down, my foot slipped on the bark of the tree and then my entire grip was lost. I screamed as I fell since I was still about five feet from the ground and that was a long way to go.

"Ugh!"

That's all I heard besides a loud exhaling of breath. I opened my eyes slowly, verrrry slowly, and saw Maguri beneath me. I gasped loudly, and immediately started worrying.

"Maguri-kun! Oh my gosh, Maguri-kun . . . !!!"

I was silenced soon by a small chuckle from the yakuza boy, and his pained-but-not-gonna-say-so smile.

"Are you okay?"

"Uh . . . yeah . . ."

"Hah . . . good."