A Thousand Shining Coins

Chapter 6: The Frown That Went Un-noticed

Rating: T

Takes place right when Sakura ditched Tsubasa to run off to Rinne's in chapter 4. I looked back at it and thought Tsubasa deserved some thought in there but to make it better lets give him his own drabble.

"Sorry, Tsubasa-kun, I can't. I'm off to see Rokudo-kun." she had said running out of the classroom.

Nope, she hadn't noticed when he frowned.

She had overlooked the sadness in his eyes.

And she saw right through that mask he always kept up.

She had no idea of his feelings for her, she had no idea how much he cared and what he thought of her.

She never took the time to stop worrying about Rinne Rokudo to notice Tsubasa Jumonji. She probably never would.

But he was far from giving up hope. Not on her, not on such a special girl.

"Sorry, Tsubasa-kun, I can't. I'm off to see Rokudo-kun."

She didn't notice my frown again and its probably best she didn't or ever does. With a guy like Rokudo in the way I can't tell her my feelings, its obvious there is something between them. Its more than obvious that they're happy, happy without me...

But that doesn't matter, they are happy and thats all that matters.

Sometimes I wonder if she would have been happier if I hadn't came to this school. She clearly doesn't think about me the way she thinks about him. Rokudo, and the thing is he has the most wonderful girl in the whole world by his side and he won't even tell her of his feelings.

She notices every move he makes, she can't even listen to the words I say. I used to think it was only because he was poor. Over time I have learned how wrong I was. Her thoughts on him wouldn't change if he was filthy rich. And her thoughts on me wouldn't change if Rokudo and I switched bodies.

He couldn't understand it, that gleam in her eyes she'd get whenever Rinne came into her view. That perk her face got at the mention of his name. The courage and determination she got whenever he was in the slightest danger. How it was so natural, them being together.

They "were ment to be and he didn't know how they couldn't see it. He wanted them to be together, for her happiness if nothing else.

He knew he wasn't the one to make her happy, yet he couldn't bring himself to give up. He was a slave to love. And love had a name, it was Sakura Mamiya. The girl he'd loved and always would.

He loved everything about her, the way her pigtails would bounce as she ran. How she was always happy, no matter how bad life got.

He knew she deserved Rokudo, she deserved everything in the world and more... He just didn't deserve her. She was the princess in his fairytale and he, himself, was the prince.

They were arranged to be wed but she couldn't help but leave the castle and go see the village boy.

He was Romeo and she was Juliet, but she wouldn't die for him.

He could go on and on forever. But it would all come to the same conclusion, no matter what he called himself, no matter what fairytale he imagined, he wouldn't be the one she fell in love with in the end. He might could wake the beauty from her sleep but she would be disappointed at what her eyes were faced with.

But those were his dreams, and right before his alarm clock would wake him up that moment would come where they would become nightmares, nightmares of her and Rokudo hitting it off.

He clenched his fist, "Okay, Rokudo, I'll be the best man at your wedding but know this, you hurt her and the next meal you eat will be your very last."

But as he thought about it more he decided, "No, I'll ask her out one more time, just one more."

A/N: He never gives up does he? I hope you enjoyed this.