BlackLynx17: I got a review from someone saying she didn't like my bashing on Nise Koi and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. We should not be cheering that we hate Nise Koi because some people actually like it. With that being said, here comes chapter three! I hate this chapter, well not so much the beginning, but the ending. It's horrible! I had to do it though so I apologize in advance people. Thanks for your reviews, hope you enjoy this.

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Mr. & Ms. Nisekoi

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It had been their fourth date and Chitoge and Raku were walking together with their arms around each other, only because of the uninvited guest who came to spy on them. It seems the pictures of their on their first date together they sent home had done the exact opposite of what Chitoge and Raku wanted and inspired them to see their dates in real life. In those measly first three dates Chitoge and Raku found out about each other that they weren't that bad and maybe they could be... friends. On their fourth date he had taken her to a fair. She's been to many in America before, but Japan's fair was a little different.

Different foods, different designs, different games! Raku had won her some fish which had made her so happy, even though she didn't admit it out loud. They were wandering around the fair when Chitoge laid her eyes on a shooting game. She smirked and walked over to it, grabbing a gun and handing it to Raku.

"Come on Beansprout, let's see who has the best shot." She challenged.

Raku smirked right back at her and paid the vendor, taking his shots first. He had only missed four of his five shots and had won her a small little teddy bear.

"Here, so you won't cry when you don't win anything." He told her when he gave it to her.

Chitoge had snorted and grabbed her own gun, shooting every shot on target. She received her prize, a teddy bear three times the size of his, and gave it to him.

"Here, so you won't cry since I just beat you."

They two of them started laughing and their uninvited guests all aw-ed at them together. Raku wrapped his arm around Chitoge's shoulders and pulled her close, leaning down and whispering in her ear.

"Do you think they're still watching us?"

Chitoge looked passed her shoulder and nodded, "yeah. I think we've convinced them though."

"Hopefully or else all this effort is wasted." Raku said.

Chitoge stopped walking and Raku paused, biting his tongue.

"Shit, wait Chitoge. That's not what I me-"

"I know, I'm sorry it's just... I forgot for a second this was a pretend date, it's my fault." She said walking passed him.

Raku followed after her confusingly, forgot this was a pretend date? If you forget it was a pretend one, did that mean she actually considered it one?! Raku stopped walking as his face heated up, she thought this was a date?! A real date! How was he? Did he mess anything up? Did he make a fool of himself, what was Raku thinking right now?! Why was he blushing so badly about the fact that she thought this was a date?...

He found her leaning against a railing, staring off at the city. He walked up beside her and leaned with her, sighed out loudly.

"We've talked about everything, everything but our jobs." She whispered to him.

"Right... is this permission to ask you then?" He asked.

"Only if you want too." She said absentmindedly.

"I had my assumptions, since you were born and raised into it of course you'd become an assassin." He said.

"Was that what happened to you?" Chitoge asked quietly looking at him.

Raku shook his head lightly, grabbing his necklace and pulling it out from under his shirt.

"I had a girl I was in love with when I was ten. It was a childish crush, whatever, but we promised to marry each other when we grew up." Raku said.

Chitoge reached out and touched his necklace, feeling the cool metal under her fingertips.

"She didn't know what my family did, if she did though I don't she would have cared. Though she didn't know, other people knew and... there was a reason Father always told me to never leave the backyard when we played. I didn't understand it though, we left together because she wanted to show me something spectacular, something wonderful and- and..."

Chitoge stared as his eyes started to water.

"I heard it before I saw it. The sound of a gun being shot, this necklace protected my life. The bullet hit it right in the keyhole... there wasn't something protecting her though. All I remember is blood, her blood on my hands, my shirt, everywhere. She died in my arms all because I forgot the number one rule in my house, because I forgot not to leave the backyard."

"So you followed after your family business for her?" She asked.

"For revenge, yes. I trained my hardest so I would be strong enough to avenge her." Raku said, gripping the railing so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

"And did you get it?" She asked.

"I don't know. Father found out what agency hired the hit and I must have killed dozens of people from there, we wiped that agency clear off the map. I have no clue if I was the one who got revenge or if it was one of my underlings." Raku said.

"So you got your revenge, why are you still in the business then?"

"Because... I focused so much on getting the revenge by the time I finally got it... I didn't know what else to do I guess. Didn't know if I had any other special skills, didn't want to find out if I did... I guess I didn't want to get out of it. Well there's my story, your turn." Raku said.

Chitoge lifted her hands to untie the ribbon from on top of her head. She held it out and brought it to her lips.

"My Mother bought me this on my tenth Christmas. That Christmas I was so excited because she was going to actually spend it with me, I woke up that morning and ran downstairs looking for her... instead I found my Father crying. There was a present wrapped up in his arms and as he gave it to me and wished me Merry Christmas. The next thing he told me was that my Mother was dead."

Raku's heart stopped and his eyes widened as her eyes lost all of its life.

"I swore on this ribbon that I would avenge her so I trained long and hard, I made my Father promise me that I'd be the one to put a bullet in his head and so three months later he was my first kill ever. He wasn't my last though, I stayed in the business to make sure nothing like that ever happened to anyone else, so no one would have to lose someone they love. I only kill bad people, people who have murdered and rapped and ruined the lives of others. I love what I do because I'm preventing any other little girl from losing their mother like I lost mine."

Chitoge's eyes widened as she felt herself getting engulfed in a hug. She looked over at Raku and found her head buried in his shoulder, his arms tightly around her. Compared to her story, compared to her belief... why the hell was Raku doing what he did? He got his revenge long time ago, he could gone back a regular life. Chitoge though... she lost her Mother, her mother and even after she got her revenge she could have left and walked away but she stayed to prevent anything like that happening again.

"You're so strong." Raku whispered.

"I'm not, not really." She mumbled.

"You really are Chitoge, I'm sorry that happened to you."

"I'm sorry as well, for you. Is that reason why you haven't had a girlfriend yet? Because of her?"

"Yeah. I guess I'm afraid of getting hurt, afraid that I won't be able to protect and save her." Raku said.

Chitoge pulled away and retied her ribbon on her ponytail.

"Maybe you need to date a strong enough girl who can protect herself."

Raku watched as the wind blew her hair, Chitoge reaching up to push her hair behind her ear. She looked over at him and smiled lightly, Raku feeling his heart beating loudly. He squeezed the teddy bear she gave him and Chitoge looked up at the sky.

"I think it's about time we go back home, what do you say?"

Raku gulped and nodded, following after her as she walked away and soon beside her as they left the fair. Raku didn't care about keeping up their dating appearance and forgot that they were being followed as he learned towards her and grabbed her hand. Chitoge didn't say anything as she let him hold it, admiring the sunset in the sky.

"Thank you." He told her.

"For what?"

He shook his head, "I think we can be good friends Chitoge."

"Yeah, you're not so bad Beansprout... don't get conceited though!"

Raku rolled his eyes, a little relieved to see the brightness back in her eyes. So the two of them lost someone important to them making them join the family business and the both of them had something important left from them... what a sucky thing to have in common.


"Wait, wait, so let me get this straight. You actually might like the girl? You've only lived with her for six weeks Raku, what's happening?"

Raku glared at his friend Shu before blocking some hits. He was an idiot for telling his best friend the truth, an idiot indeed. Why the hell was he talking about this in public? Where all their fellow coworkers train at? Where they all can hear and wonder what's up with him actually liking his girlfriend when he's supposed to love her already?

"Shut up Shu!" Raku growled going on the offensive. He threw punches left and right at his opponent.

"Right, sorry. So, what made you start thinking about her differently?" Shu asked learning against the ropes.

Raku paused and thought back on their date a week ago, where she told him the truth about her dark past and smiled at him at the end. Bad move on Raku's point. His opponent was able to punch him square in the face since he wasn't blocking and Raku fell to the ground. He shielded his face while his opened tossed punches.

"She told me her past and I, for once, didn't think about her, for once I felt my heart actually skip a beat." Raku said.

"What?! I can't hear you!" Shu called.

"I found out she's not actually a bad person." Raku said.

"I can't hear him, can you stop hitting him? I think he said something crazy." Shu said.

Raku's opponent got up off him and flashed Shu a smirk before exiting the ring. Raku laid on the floor catching his breath while Shu walked into the ring, sitting cross legged beside him.

"Are you actually falling for this girl?" He asked him.

Raku blinked, wiping the bangs from his forehead.

"I could Shu, I think I could and that's the scary part about it." He breathed out.

"And what about..." Shu trailed off and touched his chest, referring to the locket that was around Raku's next.

He would have grabbed it if he wasn't so sweaty and held it tightly in his arms.

"She's gone Shu, is it wrong for me to move on? It was fifteen years ago, I was only a child. Maybe I need to find, to find a girl strong enough to protect herself."

Shu placed a hand on Raku's shoulder and nodded. "Bro, you don't know how long I've waited to hear those words come for your mouth. This was long overdue."

"I know, I know." Raku sighed and leaned up.

"So... are you going to go after this girl? Or are you going to find another strong girl? Because everything would work out perfectly if you actually fell in love with your girlfriend." Shu chuckled.

Raku threw in a few laughs himself as he picked himself up.

"I don't know Shu, I'm going to see though. I know I've said I'd never date a killer like me but Chitoge... she's actually not a bad or mean person. She's actually very... strange." He said.

"And you like strange and that's okay, as long as you move on Raku. I think we both know that's what she would have wanted."

Raku walked out of the ring and grabbed a towel lying on the bench, wiping his face off on it. Some words Shu said held true, it would have been what she wanted. If the situation was reverse, Raku was sure he would have wanted his childhood love to fall in love with someone else, be with someone else after he passed on. Why had it taken him so long to realize this though?

"Why did I only come to this conclusion after I met her?" Raku asked himself.


Chitoge was panting loudly, glaring at the stupid sun for being so hot today. She got a good grip on a rock before climbing up another step, repeating the process over and over.

"So, you don't think this is all happening a little fast Milady?!" Tsugumi asked climbing right after her.

"You know me Tsugumi, I never do anything without thinking it through." Chitoge responded.

"But-but, to be in love with him Milday?!" Tsugumi called.

Chitoge almost lost her footing and fell to her doom. She quickly tightened her grip as a bright blush spread across her cheeks.

"I didn't say love Tsugumi! I said I think I could fall for him!" Chitoge yelled at her.

"But don't you love him already? You are dating him." Tsugumi said.

Chitoge sighed, it sucked not being able to tell her best friend everything. If only she knew for a fact that Tsugumi was more loyal to her than to Claude... oh well.

"I mean true love, like really head over heels I know this is the only one love." Chitoge said.

"And why would you think that Milday?" Tsugumi asked.

Chitoge stopped climbing and blinked, staring up at the sky. What had made her think that? Sure Chitoge thought he was a prince when they first met, but at their second meeting her dream quickly shattered. After she spent weeks avoiding him, ignoring him only to find out that he didn't want that. He wanted to know him, be friends with her so he did. He dedicated a week to her, finding how who she was and what she was like. In return Chitoge found out things about him and... it broke her heart hearing about the tragedy of his first love and made her... just see him in a different light. Made her try and actually not think of him as a beansprout.

"... He's just different Tsugumi. He's like no one I've ever met before." Chitoge answered.

Tsugumi only frowned slightly as she caught up with Chitoge and saw her staring off into the distance.


"Chitoge, I'm going to the store alright?" Raku asked stuffing his keys into his pocket.

When he didn't respond he wandered around the house, looking for his fake girlfriend. He found her in the living room, sitting on their couch and staring at the fish he had won her. Au and Un.

"Chitoge?" Raku called.

Chitoge blinked and leaned up, smiling lightly at Raku.

"Yes?" She asked.

Raku forgot how to speak and he mumbled out, "I, I, I-"

Chitoge giggled and Raku cleared his throat.

"I'm heading out to the store, we need some carrots and celery for dinner tonight. Do you need anything?" He asked.

"Fish food!" Chitoge answered.

"What? I bought food for them three days ago, what happened to that?"

"They ate it all."

"Ate it all?! You're only supposed to feed them two pills twice a day, there was a hundred in there!"

"Well Au and Un were hungry!"

"You're going to overfeed and kill them!"

Raku groaned and rolled his eyes, scratching the back of his head.

"Alright, alright. I'm feeding Au and Un from now on okay?!" He called as he left.

"Alright Darling, have a safe trip." Chitoge called.

Darling. She hadn't called him that in a while mainly because she hadn't needed to. No one was watching them, so why had she said it now? Raku peeked behind her shoulder and found her smiling at him. He sighed out and smiled back lightly.

"Will do Honey."

A quick trip to the pet shop then the grocery store and then he was back home. Simple enough. The pet store went without a hitch, though Raku did waste some time playing with the animals there. The food store went even better, Raku finding everything he needed and not having to wait in a long line. He carried the groceries back home with a smile on his face, imagining the dish he was going to make tonight. His thoughts were broken though when he noticed an orange on the ground.

Raku bent down to pick it up and noticed another orange on the ground ahead of him. He walked over to pick that one up too and walked around the corner, finding more oranges and some apples on the ground along with a girl with a ripped bag trying to carry them all. He bent down and started helping her pick them all up.

"Oh! Thank you, I don't know what happened with the ba-"

The girl gasped and Raku looked up strangely at her. His heart skipped a beat as he stared at her, never before seeing such radiant brown eyes in his life before. The girl's face turned red and all the fruit in her arms dropped and fell back into the floor.

"Ichijou?" The girl asked.

Raku blinked, standing up. The girl stood up with him, her hair falling towards her face and Raku couldn't help but think she looked cute.

"Do I know you?" He asked handing her an orange.

"Oh, thank you and uh yeah, I think. You might not remember me, but we went to the same middle school together. I'm Kosaki Onodera, remember?" Kosaki Onodera introduced herself.

Raku blinked, coming up with a blank. You think he would remember such a beautiful girl like this.

"I'm sorry, but I don't remember." He said.

"Really? Uh, let me see... oh yes! Remember we had a bake sale our last year together and they made me make the cookies? I asked you to try one and you ended up going to the nurse's office for the rest of the day?" She asked.

Raku's eyes widened as he hugged his stomach.

"Onodera! Your Mom owns the sweet shop doesn't she? Yeah, I remember now. I don't think I could ever forget those cookies." Raku laughed.

Onodera laughed lightly with him. She couldn't believe the chances of running into him again, after all this time. Raku stopped laughing and blinked, staring down at the fruit on the ground. He placed all his groceries into one bag so he'd have an extra one and started placing all of Ondera's fruit in the bag. When he finished he held the bag out for her.

"Thanks Ichijou. It's sure been a while hasn't it? I heard after your graduated middle school you were home schooled." She said.

Raku blinked, trying to recall middle school. Everything was a blur there, all he remembered doing was training. Training to become stronger, training to become smarter, to be able to take revenge. He didn't care about school and was glad when middle school was finally over, he didn't need high school. He was already smart enough, all he needed was revenge.

"Yeah, I was. So how you've been? What are you doing around here, don't you live on the other side of town?" He asked.

"Oh well, I used to until I moved. Ah, I moved in with Ruri, Miuamoto? Do you remember her? Well one person at a time, she wore glasses though. We ended up going to the same college around here. What about you? If I remember you lived on the other side of town as well." Onodera giggled.

"Yeah, well my girlfriend and I moved here together and-"

"Girlfriend?" Onodera repeated.

Raku blinked, did he just called her that? Well... of course that was true, they were pretend dating, but he had said it so naturally. So immediately, without a second hesitation. Suddenly Raku remembered what he wad doing walking around the neighborhood.

"Actually, I have to go now Onodera. I was in the middle of cooking dinner and she was in the middle of starving our fish." Raku said.

"Fish?" Onodera repeated.

"Yeah, it was nice seeing you though. Maybe we'll run into each other again soon. See yeah!" Raku said running.

Onodera watched him leave, outstretching her hand as if to grab him. He was out of sight though and she slowly dropped her hand, grabbing ahold of her bag and making her way back home. She took out her keys and unlocked the door, opening it open and kicking her slippers off.

"I'm back." She mumbled lightly.

"Welcome ba- what happened?" Ruri asked sticking her head in the room.

Onodera entered the kitchen, placing the bag onto the table and placing a hand over her head.

"I saw Ichijou, I ran into him a few minutes ago." She told her.

Ruri raised her eyebrows, "Ichi- do you mean your first crush?"

Onodera pulled out a chair and sank into it, resting her head on the table. She pulled out an orange from her bag and started rolling it around the table.

"Yeah, him."

Ruri's eyes suddenly sparkled as she started getting closer to her best friend. All middle school she watched her watch him, encouraged her to go on and do something about it only to have him suddenly disappear. If she didn't do anything about it after being reunited with her long time crush, Onodera was really something. She only assumed that her friend still had her crush on him since there hasn't been any other crushes or boyfriends since him.

"So what you do?" Ruri asked sitting down on the table near him.

"I recognized him immediately but he didn't until I told him about the time I almost killed him with my cookies." Onodera whined.

Ruri resisted the urge to snicker.

"He helped me pick up the fruit, my bag ripped while I was walking home. I knew who he was... he looked exactly the same except... not as warm. Anyway he was walking home too bringing groceries to his... his..." Onodera gulped.

"Well?" Ruri asked.

"To his girlfriend's house. His girlfriend. They live together and they live in this town, ugh." Onodera groaned slamming her head on the table.

Ruri nodded, definitely still in love with the boy.

"Of course he wouldn't remember me, of course he'd have a girlfriend. We were barely friends back then, we barely talked at all. Of course he hadn't been thinking about me the way I have been him, you should have seen how fast he ran off when he remembered his girlfriend Ruri. He even said and I quote, maybe we'll run into each other again. Maybe! Not even hope, but maybe. Ugh." Onodera groaned slamming her head on the table again.

"You see your crush for ten seconds after six years and it completely brings you down." Ruri said.

"I'm sorry." She mumbled.

"Don't worry." She told her.

And that was all she told her because Ruri didn't know what else to say. She didn't know Ichijou personally, didn't know anything about him, only her friend's crush on him. At a time like this she had no idea what to tell Onodera. To go after him still? He had a girlfriend though and if they were living together then things must have been very serious. To become friends? That would only be torture for the girl though, being friends with a crush but never being able to tell him. Maybe avoiding him, that seemed like the most logical solution. Ruri said nothing though as she simply watched her friend roll the orange around on the table.