Hey~

*Glances around nervously*

Did you guys miss me?

*Dodges deadly weapons thrown by angry audience*

IM SORRY I TOOK SO LOOOONG~! Please forgive me! The reason why I took so long is at the end of the chapter since I know you guys wanna get on with this chapter!

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"Hey Fuyuki!" Natsumi shouted as she closed the front door, she had just came back from school, and she was worried by her brother's odd behavior. Silence met her ears however and Natsumi frowned lightly at the lack of response.

"Odd..." Natsumi looked around her surroundings with a daze, only to stop when her eyes landed on her brother's pet frog, Keroro. Gently, as to not scare the pet, Natsumi bent down and met at eye level with the creature in the glass tank.

"Nee, have you seen that weirdo around?" Keroro simply stared at Natsumi with his big black eyes, and gave a low 'Kero' at the red-head. Natsumi sighed and shook her head.

"Did I really think a frog could actually tell me where that odd ball went?" Natsumi muttered to herself as she lazily took off her shoes and reached for Keroro's food that rested just beside the tank.

"Ara? What's this?" On the feeding box was a paper. Natsumi took the paper off the box and began to scan the contents.

"Dear Natsumi, I left to go to the convenience store to buy some more snacks since we ran out, I'll be back soon -Fuyuki..." Natsumi finished reading out the small note, before silence ensued, only Keroro's croaking being heard.

"Fuyuki!" Natsumi gripped the piece of paper and threw it comically, but violently down at the floor. Her pinkish-red eyes searing with rage.

"I'll kill him!"

"Ahh...Achoo!..Ah mou~ Someone must be talking behind my back.." Fuyuki said airily before shaking his head and returning his attention back to the various snacks aligned in front of him.

"Maybe I should pick some soda now..." Fuyuki sighed at the sight of his hand basket only filled with sugary snacks.

Fuyuki approached the refrigerated soda's, and vaguely noted the sound of the automatic doors of the store opening and the cashier greeting the person.

'Why can't I hit a growth spurt, honestly?' Fuyuki grumpily thought as one of his favorite soda's were positioned at the top racket. The young teen reached as far as he could to the can, but was missing only inches away.

As Fuyuki got ready to give up on trying to reach for the drink, a hand reached above his, grabbed the drink and pulled away.

"Here you go." Fuyuki stared in awe at the hand holding his favorite drink before smiling and looking up at the kind stranger; not recognizing the smooth voice.

"Ah, thank you~!" Fuyuki looked up into enchanting blue eyes and instantly his body halted and the smile on his face became much more stiff.

'No way...This isn't possible..'

"No problem, it looked like you needed some help." A somewhat nervous smile was sent to the shorter male; causing Fuyuki to snap out of his momentary loss for words.

"A-ah..." Fuyuki rubbed the back of his neck and tried not to feel guilty as their earlier encounter repeated in his head.

"G-good evening...S-Saburo-san..." The silveret stared at the smaller boy for a moment before a small smile broke out on his face.

"You remembered my name." Fuyuki glanced up at the older teen, feeling somewhat more confident now that the other seemed a bit more relaxed.

"W-well of course..." Dark blue eyes met with sea blue ones, the latter one's almost shining with regret and some other hidden emotion...Hope?

Fuyuki stared at the other's eyes with awe. A minute of awkward staring was held between the two before Fuyuki gave a nervous laugh.

"So uh...Senpai...What are you doing here?" Saburo blinked at the sudden change of topic.

"Ah, I was just coming to get some snacks." Fuyuki gave a thoughtful look.

"Really? So am I." Another awkward silence came as the two were left staring at each other.

"S-so, Saburo-san...umm." Fuyuki honestly didn't know why he was at a lost for words. Maybe it was because he was still a bit fidgety because of what had happened this morning.

Sensing the younger one's distress, Saburo walked over to Fuyuki and gently placed a hand on his shoulder to get his attention.

"Weren't you going to find some snacks?" Fuyuki looked up at Saburo, silently thanking him for changing the topic before things got awkward again.

"Uh, yeah, actually I'm already done shopping so..." Fuyuki fidgeted at again another awkward silence.

'This time though I'm at fault for creating it!' Fuyuki mentally scolded himself for a moment before widening his eyes in realization.

Quickly he whipped his head up and met eye contact with the silveret, who merely blinked at how fast Fuyuki's mood changed.

"A-ano!" Fuyuki bit his lip as he tried to muster the courage to ask his question.

Seeing the shorter boy struggle, Saburo shifted his gaze to the filled hand basket, his eyes revealing nothing.

Without much thought, the older male swooped down and swiftly took the basket to the register and before Fuyuki could even blink, Saburo fetched out a wallet from his back pocket and paid for the snacks.

"Thank you for coming!" Saburo nodded to the cashier and motioned or Fuyuki t follow; who simply stood dumbfounded.

After taking a second to finally snap out of it, Fuyuki gave an expression mixed between horror and desperation as he stumbled out the automatic doors of the convenience store.

"S-Saburo-san! You shouldn't have done that!" The said silveret was walking down the side of the street, only pausing to look over his shoulder to Fuyuki.

"Done what?" Fuyuki gave a slight scolding frown as he walked faster to catch up with his senpai.

"Paid for my groceries! You shouldn't waste money like that!" Saburo blinked as Fuyuki walked up to him and quickly snatched the plastic bag away.

"I don't mind..." Saburo said quietly, the soft tone causing Fuyuki to look up to the other, only to see the silveret's once amazing blue eyes, turning into a stormy purple.

Awed by the uniqueness of the other's eyes, Fuyuki could only stare at the others eyes, not noticing how the both of them stopped walking and the sky already dark.

After a few seconds passed, Fuyuki cleared his throat, gaining Saburo's attention.

"You k-know..." Fuyuki glanced to the darkened sky to try to hide the tiny blush forming on his cheeks.

"Y-you have v-very beautiful eyes, S-Saburo-san.."

"Eh?" Saburo looked down at Fuyuki, only to see the other's face turned away.

"Really?" Saburo eyes lightened up as he looked up to the sky. While he was distracted, Fuyuki slowly turned his head back around and gazed questionably at the other, but shook his head.

"Ano...Saburo-san..."

"Yeah?"

Saburo glanced at the other to see Fuyuki giving a somewhat ashamed look as he looked down to his hands that fiddled with the plastic bag.

"T-there's something I need to tell you...If you don't mind that is.." Giving his full attention to the younger male, Saburo faced Fuyuki.

"I'm all ears, go ahead.." Fuyuki's fingers stopped toying with the bag for a moment before gripping tightly as Fuyuki squeezed his eyes shut.

"IM SORRY!" He bowed lowly, and gripped the bag even harder. Surprised by the sudden outburst, Saburo's eyes widened and his mouth dropped slightly.

"For what?!" Saburo asked the younger teen.

"For how I've treated you for the past week!" Fuyuki bended back up and faced Saburo with guilty dark blue eyes.

"Not only did I avoid you, and forget to thank you for saving me from my bullies, but because of how rude I was to you! I had no right to yell at you and accuse you of such things! So, I'm Sorry!"

Fuyuki looked back to the ground, staring intensely at his hands as they shook and trembled from the tight grip he had on the plastic bag.

Saburo waited a few minutes to clear his head before he bursted out into laughter. Confused and a little offended, Fuyuki looked up to Saburo and gave a look mixture of anger and confusion to the other.

"Ano, why are you laughing?" Hearing the slight agitation in the other voice, Saburo calmed himself and beamed at the shorter male before swiftly approaching him and patting him on the head.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to laugh at you, it's just that...I should be the one apologizing, not you.." Fuyuki frowned in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Saburo cleared his throat, looking a bit sheepish as he gave an awkward glance to the night sky.

"For uh..You know..Following you around and bothering you...That must have seemed stalkerish..."

Fuyuki stared at the idol for a moment before looking up at the night sky.

"Yeah...You did seem kind of stalkerish..." Fuyuki said bluntly as he gazed thoughtfully up at the sky, unaware of how the idol cringed at the blunt words.

"Again...Sorry.." Fuyuki glanced at the other from the corner of his eye, looking somewhat in silent wonder.

Catching Fuyuki's look, Saburo tilted his head, his blue eyes revealing his curiosity as to why the shorter male was staring.

"What's wrong, is there something on my face?" As he said this, Saburo quickly brought up a hand to his face, a slight blush on his cheeks as he cursed in his head for looking weird.

Amused, Fuyuki gave a silent giggle.

"Actually...Yeah, here lean down for me, I'll get it off your face." Saburo pouted slightly before bending down to Fuyuki's eye level. Fuyuki gave a soft smile to the silveret before leaning in close.

Saburo blushed even more as their faces were only inches apart and out of instinct, Saburo closed his eyes.

While he did this, he was unaware of the fact that Fuyuki was softly looking over the other. His deep blue eyes wavered with an unknown emotion and when the boy caught himself staring at Saburo face, he blushed a hot cherry red and out of panic he leaned in even more and...

*BONK!*

"Ah!/Ouch!"

*Thud*

"Geez, what did I do now~?" Saburo all but whined as he rubbed both his forehead and his lower back. All he knew was he closed his eyes then, bam! He ended up landing on his rear.

"S-sorry! I didn't mean to! I-it just happened!"

Fuyuki gritted out as he held his forehead with both hands, he too on his bum as he rocked back and forth to help calm him, as a searing pain came from his poor forehead.

Quick to notice how Fuyuki was in more pain, Saburo forgot about his own throbbing forehead and quickly scrambled to Fuyuki's side.

He raised his arms up and tried to help the boy, but was too afraid to touch him because he didn't want to worsen the younger's condition.

Not knowing what to do, but wanting to help soothe the smaller male's pain, Saburo leaned in and gently rubbed Fuyuki's back, worry flashing in Saburo's blue crystal eyes.

Some moments passed before Fuyuki finally calmed down and settled for just gingerly touching his abused forehead. Slowly Fuyuki looked up and saw Saburo beside him and the two met gazes.

An awkward silence passed and during the silence, Fuyuki remembered why he even head butted Saburo and so again he flushed a hot cherry red, steam nearly coming off his face as he gaped at Saburo who in return rose an eyebrow and brought a hand up to feel the younger male's forehead.

"Do you have a fever?" Fuyuki's face burned only brighter and soon something snapped inside him, resulting in him to squeeze his eyes shut and leaning back.

Saburo frowned in confusion at Fuyuki's actions at first, but then he suddenly remembered how Fuyuki reacted back in the alley when he cornered him.

"AH W-WAIT!" Fuyuki however, didn't wait and soon again his head launched forward, aiming for Saburo's face.

"WAIT!"

Saburo leaned back to avoid the dangerous attack and in return Fuyuki lost his balance and fell forward with a yelp, landing on Saburo's chest and knocking the wind out of him as he fell backwards, his arms unconsciously wrapping around Fuyuki's slim body as he hit the ground with his back.

Saburo's eyes swirled as he laid on the ground for what seemed like hours.

"Senpai?! Are you okay? Senpai?!" Saburo squeezed his eyes shut for a moment before re-opening them. His sight blurry from the impact, so all he could see at first was a messy blur of dark blue.

"Nee, say something?! Oh no, what am I going to do?!" Saburo blinked lazily, wondering whose voice it was, before his vision finally cleared. Saburo groaned to get the other's attention, effectively stopping the panic attack the younger boy was about to have.

"Senpai?! Are you okay?!" Saburo stared at Fuyuki for a moment, his silent stare causing Fuyuki to shift nervously as he waited for the other to pull himself together.

"You know..." Saburo slowly sat up, propping one knee up and resting an arm on it as he turned his head to Fuyuki, who was now freaking out in the inside.

'Oh he's gonna kill me! He's probably about to go off on me for hurting him! Man why am I such an idiot?!'

"Y-yes?"Fuyuki met with Saburo lighter blue eyes and waited anxiously for the other to reply.

"Your..." Fuyuki squeezed his eyes shut for the billionth time and waited for the older male to lash out at him.

"Your really something...You know that?" Fuyuki's eyes snapped open and he gawked at Saburo, too stunned to react.

Seeing Fuyuki's hilarious reaction, Saburo began to chuckle silently, but as Fuyuki's face didn't change, he soon proceeded onto laughing out loud, wrapping his arms around his stomach as he continued his fit of laughter.

Snapping out of his stunned state, Fuyuki gave a playful pout.

"Hey, what's so funny?" He crossed his arms, giving a playful glare to the other who began to crack up more.

Finding the silveret's laughter and happy attitude contagious, Fuyuki's lips twitched upwards before finally he to began to giggle and laugh with the other too.

After minutes of non stop laughing, the two boy's finally calmed down, both taking deep breaths to calm their nerves.

Afterwards the two just sat on the ground, not caring that some stray people who were out doing business gave the two boy's disapproving glances for causing a ruckus and for being out so late.

Instead the two simply enjoyed the breeze, Fuyuki's bag of snacks and drinks laying just a little away, more or less forgotten.

"You know..." Saburo began, getting Fuyuki's attention.

"You're the first person who's actually treated me like a normal human being..." His voice soft, almost a whisper as Saburo gazed up at the starless night sky. Fuyuki remained silent for a moment, his deep blue eyes swirling with a somewhat intense look as he gazed at the silveret.

"Eveyone...They treated me in only two ways...Like I was their God...Or some prodigy that was on a higher level than anyone could imagine...And honestly...It got lonely..." A breeze came by and softly passed between the two, caressing Saburo's silver locks.

"Everytime I would go to school, it was like everyone would treat me like some divine being...I would wonder for the longest time, 'Why do I even bother trying to be nice with people when they only accept this false illusion they've created?'..."

Saburo turned his head to look at Fuyuki, his blue eyes staring into Fuyuki's dark blue one with such intensity, Fuyuki had no other choice then to glance down and fidget nervously.

Still, even then Saburo didn't look away, eye trained onto Fuyuki.

"But you...When you ran into in the hall's that day and we both fell down those stair's...,"

At the mention of the accident, Fuyuki blushed and muttered a barely audible, 'sorry'.

"You didn't stay and pamper me with over exaggerated apologies or anything like that."

A stab went to Fuyuki's heart and he deflated at the way Saburo worded his earlier actions. Animated tears fell down his eyes in fake waterfall's as he mentally berated himself for not actually being more apologetic for knocking the other over that day.

"And even though it sounds like that would be rude to do to someone, which in a way it is," Fuyuki gave a strangled cry as guilt repeatedly stabbed his heart and the wave of shame forced him to bury his face in his hands.

Saburo seeing how he was torturing the younger boy, smiled sheepishly before continuing.

"It made me realize...There was someone who was actually more concerned about themselves instead of me...And even if it sounds bad, to me it..."

Saburo paused to look at Fuyuki and gently reached out to take away the younger's hands from his face. Saburo held the surprisingly delicate and small wrists in his hand gently.

Fuyuki timidly looked up, small tears gathered at his eyes from embarrassment, causing Saburo to give a soft smile.

"To me...It meant that there was someone out there that was a real human being...And no matter what..." Saburo held Fuyuki's wrists tighter, but not enough to hurt the other and gave a determined look.

"I had to find that person and catch them!" An awkward silence swelled right after the words slipped from Saburo's mouth. Moments passed before Saburo's once determined look melted into a panicked, awkward blush.

"Ah! Wait I didn't mean it in that way! W-what I meant was, I just wanted to-" Saburo sputtered out, his voice rushed as he desperately tried to take back his words, leaving Fuyuki blinking owlishly.

"Great, now you must really think I'm a stalker..." Saburo muttered as he release Fuyuki's wrists to bury his hands into his hair as he let his head fall onto his raised knee.

Fuyuki simply blinked at how fast the other had changed moods, before giggling, causing the once sulking silveret to peer at the younger from behind his bangs.

"I never knew you were so funny senpai! Or so awkward!" At the younger's words, Saburo flushed and settled for sulking in silence. His pity fest was soon shattered when a small hand tapped his shoulder, causing him to turn and look at Fuyuki who was beaming.

"I think I get what you meant though, senpai. And if it's not too much trouble..." Fuyuki gave a sheepish smile, a small blush tinting his cheeks as he outstretched his hand to Saburo.

"Do you wanna be friends?" Saburo paused for a moment, not processing what it was the other had actually said.

"W-what?" He stuttered, unsure if what he heard was right. Fuyuki glanced nervously around, wondering if he had gotten the wrong impression.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to be friends...I'm sorry, I must have gotten the wrong impression- Oof!" Fuyuki's words were cut off when Saburo suddenly reached out and yanked the other into a tight hug.

"A-ano! S-senpai!" Fuyuki squirmed in the older male's hold as passerby's gave bewildered looks to the two hugging boys. Some female women giggling at the sight and whispering excitedly to other women.

"Thank you..." The sudden soft whisper caused Fuyuki to stop his squirming and instead let the other hug him to his content.

'I wonder...' Fuyuki began to think as he turned his head a bit to try to see his senpai's face, but all he saw was silver locks brushing against his cheek.

'How long did he wait for someone to care...?' Not wanting to ruin the moment, Fuyuki leaned his head against Saburo's and gently lifted a hand up from behind Saburo's back and played with the ends of his senpai's hair, silently marveling at how soft and silky it was.

'To just go day by day without someone who was actually concerned for what he felt inside...'

Minutes passed and Fuyuki glanced around to see his fallen bag of goodies sitting harmlessly on the ground a few feet away.

'To get up in the morning everyday, ready to be disappointed by the world for who knows how long...'

Saburo finally began to let Fuyuki go and leaned back to give the other space. His eyes however, were shadowed, giving off a closed feeling.

'I can't even imagine living each day, knowing that nobody really cares for the real me...'

Not liking the feeling the shadowed look gave off, Fuyuki brought a hand up to brush Saburo's bangs away.

'I really can't imagine the loneliness...' Saburo glanced up at Fuyuki, curious to what he was doing.

'...It must have...' Fuyuki gave a smile to the other and patted Saburo's head.

' Really sucked...' Saburo stared at Fuyuki for a moment before beaming at him.

The two then began to laugh to their heart's content once again, this time...They could enjoy it even more because they were...

"Friends?" Fuyuki held out his hand to Saburo. Saburo gave a bright smile to Fuyuki and eagerly accepted the hand.

"Friends!" He confirmed, shaking Fuyuki's smaller hand. The two then began to smile and get up off the ground. However as Fuyuki got up he stopped and hummed, catching his new-found friend's attention.

"What's wrong?" Fuyuki furrowed his eyebrows together in thought.

"I feel like I'm forgetting something..." Saburo shrugged and approached Fuyuki, ruffling the younger's hair.

"It's probably nothing!" Deciding his friend was right, Fuyuki nodded and smiled.

"Yeah, it was probably nothing."

*Back at the Hinata's House*

Natsumi was fuming at the kitchen table, her hands balled into fists and her eyes looking like a demon's.

"That brat is late and is SO DEAD!"

So yeah... Saburo's intentions of following Fuyuki were revealed, or actually...Some *Hint Hint Spoiler*

And yeah I really actually do not know what to say lol other then I AM SOOOO SORRY for the late update. In the week following after my last update, i had completely forgotten about final exams for the year and had no time what so ever to get on the computer and write.

Worst of all even if I did have time, I wasted it by going on Youtube or searching Tumblr.

FORGIVE ME! i hope someone is still reading this despite the lack of...progress I've made on this story..

And hey! Letting you guy's know that in some time I'm gonna have a chapter up in the future that requires Saburo's parents, and if any of you guys know his parents real names or anything info, please do not hesitate to review and let me know kay!

LOVE YOU GUYS! And I promise to be back with another chapter much sooner then this last time~!

So yeah, hoped you liked this chapter, revealed t