"Saga-senpai... Oh! You can take the book..."

"A-ah! S-Saga-senpai?!"

"Gomen, Saga-senpai."

"I'm in love with you..."

"Saga-senpai."

"HAAAH?! STOP RIGHT THERE SA- I MEAN TAKANO-SAN!" Onodera rushes out of the alleyway, in the direction that Takano had left in. The amber-eyed boss turns his body a bit, and comes to a stop to let the brunette catch up to him.

"Remember now?" He asks, a smirk dancing on his thin lips.

"What the hell?!" Onodera ignores Takano's question, and kneels over panting. He finally raises his face to meet his boss's eyes, with angry emotions swimming in his green eyes. "If this is a joke, it isn't funny!"

Takano widens his eyes, almost challenging the brunette. "A joke? Why would I joke about that?"

"You caused me so much trouble and pain! I actually loved you and you just threw me away!" Onodera clenches his fists, determined to get answers.

'Why here? Why now? And why does he have to be my boss?'

"Me?" Takano raises his voice, and the two seem to have forgotten that they are outside. "It was you who threw me away! When you just randomly drop kicked me and ran off!"

"Haah?!" Onodera gets more confused, which makes him frustrated, and he takes an angry step closer. "Me?! When I asked you how you felt about me, you just laughed!"

"I didn't laugh! Even if I did, I was a brat in highschool! Or it could have been just a bit of nervous laughter!"

'Nervous...laughter? So he's trying to say that my entire life was shattered... By a bit of nervous laughter?'

"You really are..." Takano interrupts Onodera's thought, and gives the latter a blank whale face

(-_-) . "An idiot."

Onodera watches his boss with a surprised expression as he tries to hail a taxi.

"So, we've finally solved the mystery." Takano finally speaks, getting the attention of an empty cab before turning back towards the brunette. "Does this mean I can seduce you now?"

"This should be the last of it!" One of the movers brings in two small boxes stacked on top of each other into an apartment room.

"Ah, hai." Onodera turns away from a large box that he had just placed down, and points to another stack of boxes near the door. "Right there, please."

He tips his hat, and places the boxes on top.

"Thank you so much!" Onodera waves as he leaves, closing the door behind him. As the door clicks shut, the brunette let's himself slouch on the floor.

"Maybe starting work on the same day that you move isn't such a bright idea." He mumbles to himself, scootching on his butt over to a bag left on the floor and rifling through it.

"Dammit, where's my box cutter?" Onodera shuffles through the things in his bag, then sighs as he rises onto his feet. "I guess I can buy another while I go grocery shopping for food."

The brunette pats his back pocket to make sure he had his wallet on him, then slides past the stacks of cardboard boxes towards the door.

As the door clicks and swings open, Onodera could hear the door opening from the apartment next door. The brunette man steps outside his apartment, and bows to the figure exiting next door.

"Hello. My name is Onodera Ritsu, I'll be your new neighbor." He states politely, holding his hands together in front of his knees.

"Oh, you're here to confess your feelings already? That was fast, but I don't mind."

Onodera's eyebrows furrow at the familiar voice, and he whips his head upwards. His face falls, and his his shoulders shudders in somewhat close to disgust.

Takano is facing the door to the neighboring apartment, just about to pull the key out of the lock. His amber eyes are studying Onodera, as if he wasn't as surprised as the latter was.

"Ah, Takano-san." Onodera tries, but horribly fails to keep the disappointed and nervous tone out of his voice. "Heh... If you'll just excuse me for a second."

The brunette quickly throws his own apartment door open, and rushes inside, pulling the heavy door to slam closed behind him. Almost immediately he is sitting cross legged on the floor, flipping through the apartment catalog at the speed of light.

'I need to move ASAP! Even though I'm broke... But that doesn't matter! I can't live next to...'

Onodera can't help but let his mind wander off onto what happened and what was said late that night.

"I didn't laugh! Even if I did, I was a brat in highschool! Or it could have been just a bit of nervous laughter!"

"So, we've finally solved the mystery." Takano finally speaks, getting the attention of an empty cab before turning back towards the brunette. "Does this mean I can seduce you now?"

'The feeling of his warm hands on my wrists. The softness of his lips on mine... I was truly afraid that I was going to get sucked into him again like back then...'

Onodera grips the sides of his head, and violently shakes his head back and forth. "Baka baka baka baka! STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!" He scolds himself, then rests his face into both of his hands, feeling tired.

'I couldn't sleep at all. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw his amber ones in front of me.'

The brunette lets his left hand slip down to his side, and he looks down at the floor hazily. He hadn't even noticed his thick apartment catalog fall from his lap to the floor with a soft flop sound.

'So Saga Masamune and Takano Masamune are the same person. Meaning my old love from ten years ago is now my boss... What a strange and cruel twist of fate.'

Onodera finally lets his other hand plop down to his other side and he picks himself up from the floor. 'I can't let something like this mess with work. I can't afford to get fired at a time like this.'

The brunette drags his heavy body to his room, where the bed has been set up in the middle of the room. Nothing else occupies the bedroom except boxes of his belongings which need to be unpacked. His body falls on top of the unmade bed, and he attempts to fall into the deep sleep that he needs.

Onodera bolts up in bed, and holds his forehead in shame. Takano's face had appeared. Again.

"This way I'll never get any sleep." He murmurs to himself, feeling the deep circles under his eyes. Unable to let sleep whisk him away, he reaches over the side of the bed for his bag, which he had stuffed with as many of Emerald's mangas as possible before he left work.

'If I can't sleep, I might as well get some work done.'

~this chapter is shorter than my previous ones. Gomen, Reader-chan.~

Takano: Hey Onodera, why don't you call me Saga-senpai?

Onodera: Drop dead.

Me: Aww C'mon Ricchan!

Onodera: Nope.

Takano: You used to be so cute when you'd call my name with your face blushing red while I suck your d-

Onodera: SHUT UP!

Me: We all know it happened.

Kisa: ...

Me: Oops I forgot he was here... Heeeeey Kicchan.

Onodera: Ohayo Kisa-san.

Kisa: Y-You a-a-an-d T-T-T-Tak-kan-n-no-s-s-s-san? Are dat-

Kisa: *falls to the floor and passes out*

Me: *holds up syringe* Sorry, Kisa can't know!

Onodera: I really hate you both.

Takano&Me: I LOOOOOOOVE you Ritsu/Ricchan.

Onodera: *blushes*

Me: That blush is TOTALLY because of me.

Takano&Onodera: *stare*

Me: What? Was it something I said?

Hatori: ... *walks away*