LightRayPearlshipper: Thank you for your critic, I am not a very experienced writer mainly writing for fun and trying to improve my English a little but I'll try my best to incorporate your suggestions into my writing. I chose not to include any of the other girls because then the story would just turn into another Nisekoi where Raku will have to choose between different girls, I just wanted this story to be about Ichijou and Onodera.

cubillos: I forgot to mention this in my PM but thank you so much for reading all my chapters so far and dropping a comment after each of them, it really encouraged me to continue to write.

*Author's Note: Sorry for not writing for a long time even though you guys kindly reviewed, Nisekoi's anime isn't airing and chapters come out once every week which cycles through different pairing per chapters so I don't have a lot of inspiration :P

Chapter 3 – Best Friends

Ring. Ring. Ring

"Hello?" said Ruri as she picked up the phone.

"Good morning Ruri-chan!" she recognized the voice instantly, it was the voice that could make her blood boil and her bones rattle, the voice of a natural born pervert, Shuu.

"Oh it's you," she said before trying to hang up.

"Wait don't hang up!" she stopped and put the phone back against her ear "I have a plan and I need your help."

"I'm listening."

Raku was up early as usual cooking breakfast for his yakuza, he smiled to himself remembering the date he had last week with Kosaki. The ring of the telephone brought him back into the present and he went quickly to pick it up.

"Kosa-," said Raku excitingly.

"It's me," realizing it was Shuu there was a moment of silence before Raku decided to hang up the phone. The phone rang again and he picked it up.

"Don't hang up on me like that, you'll hurt my feelings and I'll have to tell on you to Onodera-chan," teased Shuu.

"What do you want?" said Raku sounding annoyed.

"Come on don't be like that, I know you have a girlfriend now but I'm still your best friend, right?" No response. "Anyway I was wondering if you were interested in hanging out with me today."

"No actually I ha-,"

"Great see you at 3 then! Bye!"

"Damn you Shuu!" yelled Raku then realized that the food was burning, today did not start out good.

Kosaki was still in bed enjoying her sweet slumber while dreaming about…

Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Hello?" answered Kosaki sleepily.

"Hey it's me," said Ruri.

"Oh Ruri I haven't talked to you in so lo-,"

"How's things with Ichijou?" asked Ruri cutting Kosaki off.

"E-EH?!" yelped Kosaki blood rushing to her cheeks.

"Has he touched you yet?"

"NO!" yelled Kosaki into the phone now crimson red with steam rising out of her head.

"Hmm I'm going to have to fix that…"

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIX ANYTHING!"

"Oh by the way are you free today at 3? We're going to a restaurant called Golden Time."

"Yeah I think I am."

"Okay good meet you there then, bye," said Ruri with a mischievous grin after hanging up.

3 o'clock came around and Kosaki got to the restaurant, Golden Time seemed like a place for people to drink and party which confused her but she decided to ignore it. The customers were separated and given their own room for their meals which also seemed strange to her why her friends would pick a place like this but she decided to ignore it as well. She walked into their reserved room and was greeted by Ruri and…Shuu?

"Hi Onodera-chan," said Shuu excitingly.

Kosaki paused there looking at Ruri then at Shuu and her jaws dropped. "A-a-are you two d-dating?" she stuttered, surprised and shocked.

"Me date this guy?" her voice was monotone but Kosaki could tell by her death stare and veins on her forehead that she was greatly offended.

"Come on Ruri-chan don't you think we would make a nice couple like Onodera-chan and Raku?" said Shuu getting his face right next to Ruri's with a creepy smile.

"Sorry I just didn't expect you two to be the first ones here and to be alone together," said Kosaki taking a seat next to Shuu who had a new bruised eye.

"We should start ordering the food," said Ruri.

"Is it just us?" asked Kosaki surprise.

"No," said Ruri looking at Shuu and giving him the 'did you do your job?' glare. Shuu looked up with a bruised eye and gave her a thumb up and another creepy smile which got his other eye bruised as well. Finally Raku showed up half an hour later.

"Where were you?" asked Ruri.

"I was running around the entire city trying to figure where to meet you guys Shuu didn't tell me where the restaurant was and didn't pick up his phone so I had to go ask his family," said Raku out of breath.

"Why didn't you pick up your phone?" asked Ruri picking Shuu up by his hair.

"I left it on silent," said Shuu sticking his tongue out to the side, gently tapped his head with his fist and tried to make a cute face.

"You guys enjoy the food," said Ruri dragging Shuu out of the room like a demon dragging his victim to hell, "I'll have a talk with this guy."

"Alright let's eat then," said Raku looking at Kosaki.

"This water tastes…really good," said Kosaki her face getting red.

"Huh what are you talking about its water," said Raku drinking from the glass "wait a minute this isn't water this is alcohol." There was a pause in the room as Raku looked at Kosaki; she was looking at the ground, her hair covering her eyes.

'She can't be that bad at holding her liquor right? I mean she only drank a glass,' thought Raku.

"Kosaki are you okay?" asked Raku.

"Y-yup," said Kosaki looking up, her face completely red.

'YOU ARE DEFINITIVELY NOT OKAY!'

This was like one of the nightmares he had before; he had a bad feeling and started to move towards the door.

"I feel like you are so far away," said Kosaki crawling closer "are you moving away from me?"

'She's sharp!'

"Uh of course not, why would I want to do that?" said Raku looking away.

"Then come closer," said Kosaki her voice firm and Raku obeyed, taking a seat next to her. He stayed silent, taking a drink and preparing himself for what drunken Kosaki will do next. She started unbuttoning her shirt which caused Raku to spit out all the liquid that he was drinking.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" yelled Raku trying to look away.

"You can't have sex with clothe on silly," said Kosaki like it was completely natural.

"WHO SAID WE WERE HAVING SEX?!"

"We're not?" said Kosaki tilting her head.

'GAH SHE'S SO CUTE IT MAKES ME WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER' thought Raku 'no I can't do that, I can't stay near her I have to get out.'

Raku made a run for the door and tried to open it. 'WHO THE HELL LOCKED IT?!' Then he was pulled by the back of his shirt onto the ground before Kosaki got on top of him.

"Where are you going?" said Kosaki in a cute voice as she took off her dress shirt, now wearing nothing on the top half except her bra.

"W-w-w-wait," stuttered Raku as he held her hand from taking off any more clothing "I know a way that you can do it without taking off your clothe."

"You do?"

"Yes, first you need to get off of me and close your eyes," said Raku praying that Kosaki didn't have enough sense to figure that he was lying. Raku breathed a sigh of relief when she obeyed and started looking for things that could bind her with to make sure she doesn't do anything else until she was sober again.

"Can I open my eyes yet?"

"Not yet, just wait a little longer."

He picked up her discarded dress shirt and took his jacket and tied them together. He quickly wrapped the clothe-rope around Kosaki, the drunken girl started struggling and all of a sudden his phone started ringing.

"Hello?" answered Raku with his phone between his ear and shoulder and his hands trying to tie a knot.

"Hey it's me."

"Don't 'hey it's me' me, where the hell are you and Ruri?"

"Oh for 'some reason' the door is locked," said Shuu as he tried to suppress a laugh.

"ARE YOU BEHIND THIS?!"

"Raku you are so dirty," said Kosaki squirming under him, still struggling and making the knot hard to tie.

"Oh Raku what are you doing to Onodera-chan in there?"

"THIS ISN'T FUNNY LET ME OUT!"

"I'll leave you two to doing whatever you're doing, bye!"

"Damn you Shuu!" said Raku as he let go of the phone.

He finally finished tying the knot; it was a constrictor knot on top of a fisherman knot. He finally got off of her and sat back, whipping the sweat off of his forehead and relaxed. As bad as he felt tying Kosaki up, he would have felt worse taking advantage of her when she was like that. Now he just has to wait until she was sober, he felt his heart start to relax and listened to it.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Hic. His heart paused, and then he heart the sound of fabric ripping it was slow and painful as if his own heart was being ripped.

'They say a crazy woman is stronger than ten men combine,' thought Raku looking at Kosaki breaking out of her bindings 'I guess it's the same for a drunken Kosaki.'

Kosaki move towards him and got on top of him again.

"Kosaki stop," said Raku as her hand moved to unbuckle his belt.

"Stop!" said Raku, his voice firm, his eyes locked with hers and his hands holding both her wrist.

"Don't you want me Raku?" said Kosaki tearing up.

"Eh no, I-I mean yes I do but it's just that," stuttered Raku looking away feeling a little guilty "it would be wrong to take advantage of you like that when you're drunk. I love you and I hope that one day…"

'SHE FELL ASLEEP?!' thought Raku as he looked back 'well I guess it's for the best for now.' He examined the position he was in; a girl without a shirt on was lying on top of his chest with his belt half unbuckled, it would be one hell of a job to explain this to someone. Then he heard the doors slide open as Ruri and Shuu came into the room.

"Oh my Ichijou what were you two doing," said Ruri covering her mouth and Shuu smiling from ear to ear.

'…best friends,' thought Raku as he sighed.

*Author's Note: Thank you so much for reading, please drop any comments or suggestions that you may have.