A/N:Thank you everyone for your reviews^^ I really appreciate it. It's my one week summer break so I had a chance to update my story^^. I'm very sorry for really really late updates...It's really busy... but I hope you'll like my new chapter.^^

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Chapter 7

xxxxKimi ni Todoke(Reaching you)xxxx

"I'll be back soon" the pitch black haired girl left a cheerful smile to her mother. She made her way outside their house. Wearing a white shirt, with short sleeves and a hood, olive green shorts and plain black slippers, Aya Hoshino went to buy the ingredients' for tonight's dinner , kotatsu. Her mom was quite worried of letting her buy all the stuff alone. They are quite plenty and heavy for such a petite girl but Aya insisted to do so. "Don't worry I'll be fine mom, I asked Ran to accompany me" Aya assured her mother.


Somewhere in the market

"Gomen Aya-chan…..something came up, I can't accompany you to buy your things" the orange haired girl responded in the other end of the phone line.

"It's alright, don't worry about me" Aya made a cheerful tone to cover up her worries. "It's not as if I'll get robbed or something"

Somewhere in the middle of a crowd a girl screamed of being robbed and threatened. The pitch black haired girl had cold sweat after seeing the incident.

"What was that?" Ran worriedly asked. "Is there something wrong?"

"Nope nothing" Aya immediately denied "Don't worry I'll be fine, I can take care of myself, I'll just need to buy things anyway. How hard could that be?"

"Sure your fine?" Ran asked "Would you like me to call somebody?"

"Nope" Aya replied in a solid tone "I'll be fine. Besides you have also matters to attend to right?"

Actually the reason why Ran can't accompany Aya is because Tatsuki kept on forcing Ran to have a date with him. Ran has been busy saving Shibuya and some matters with regards her family and friends that she tends to neglect Tatsuki. Ran being a soft hearted person despite her personality, agreed to Tatsuki's plea.

"Ok. I can do this I just need to buy things that are on the list mom gave to me" Aya is reaching for her pocket when she noticed it had a hole on it. Aya sweat dropped and remembered that it was the same pocket where she put the money. "It's not really my luck day"

When she was about to turn around she bumped into someone. She fell badly on the ground.

"Gomen" Aya quickly apologized.

The guy quickly extends his arm. Aya didn't recognize the guy's face because of the sun rays but as she stood up, the person who helped her was no other than the Ice Prince himself.

"Arigatou"

"Why is he here?" Aya had on mind "It really isn't my lucky day after all. After what had happened on the school festival I can't face him anymore."

"I better get going" the pitch haired girl quickly turned around and walked away. Rei was about to catch her arm but she was too quick to get away. It's as if Rei was a total stranger to her.

Aya kept on walking distantly from Rei while Rei kept on following Aya from a distance with his both hands on his pocket. He was wearing white pants with a black plain long sleeve shirt. His presence quite caught an attention but he just merely ignored everyone and glued his eyes on the pitch black haired girl in front of him.

"Why does he keep on following?" Aya irritatingly asked on herself. Aya increased her pace and so is the ice prince.

"Oh I forgot I need to buy ingredients for tonight's dinner" she halted. Aya sweat dropped and sighed. "What am I going to do? I've lost the money and the list.

"No wonder Ran was worried about you" Rei approached her "You're still clumsy as ever"

The pitch haired girl looked away. "Did she call you?"

"Yeah" he replied.

"I just need to borrow some money. I'll just pay you tomorrow" she still looks away from him.

"Why am I so clumsy? And now I still need help from the person I least wanted to receive help from." She had on mind.

Rei just extended his arm and grabbed the girl's hand. He started walking towards a stall while holding her .

"Hold on a minute" Aya was startled. "What do you think your doing?"

"We still need to buy your things right?" the ice prince's azure eyes stared at her intently.

The shopping for the ingredients was finished quickly as expected. Aya didn't have a hard time at all. Rei was the one carrying the purchases and also he paid for everything. Even though Aya couldn't remember everything on the list is, Rei knew them. Since Rei was living alone, doing chores was part of his everyday life especially cooking.

"Thank you for today" Aya bowed formally as she grabbed the purchases from Rei's hands "I can take it from here"

The whole time the sellers thought that they were a couple. They even discounted their purchases since they thought that they were a cute couple marketing together.

"Wait" the Ice prince retorted as Aya turned around. "Is that all?"
"What?" Aya was perplexed.

"Is that how you thank me?" Rei put on a grin on his face.

"I'll pay you tomorrow" Aya replied. "so don't worry"

"I want you to pay me now" he stared at Aya

"but I don't have any money" she replied

"Then just come with me" Rei persistently grabbed Aya .


In a coffee shop

Rei and Aya sat in a two person table near the window and Rei was of course sitting across Aya.

"How am I suppose to pay you?" she irritatingly asked. "I said I don't have money right now."

"Just stay here" he just stared on the pitch black haired girl and drank his coffee. "Who said that you'll be paying me on cash?"

"I don't get it" Aya quickly rose from her seat, grabbed her things and was about to leave the store.

"The rain is pouring hard you know." The lad sarcastically exclaimed.

"Why does this keeps on happening to me?" Aya has no choice but to return to her seat. "If I had gone home earlier then there wouldn't be a problem"

"Is that how you see me Aya" Rei slowly spoke " a problem?"

Rei's face changed. He looked blue all of a sudden and looked outside the window of the pouring rain.

The atmosphere became awkward.

"It's…I…just….." Aya didn't mean it like that. She wanted to explain but she doesn't know how.

Silence…

All of sudden Aya sneezed which made the ice prince startled. He looked straight at her.

"what?"

Ice prince still stares

"I'm not sick ok."

Silence….

"Hahaha" Rei burst into laughter. Aya's cheeks burnt red. "Ok I'm going. I'm really going. This rain won't stop me." She immediately left the store despite the weather condition. She tried to protect herself from the rain by walking on the sides of the stores that has part of the roof on it. But even so, she's still soaked wet.

"Do you seriously want to get sick?"

Aya turned her back and saw Rei following her. She was about to run away but this time Rei caught her.

"Is this a hobby of yours?" Rei embraced her tightly. "Running away?"

Aya was struggling from his embrace. She wanted to set free from his arms but he's just too strong.

Then without any hesitation he placed a kiss on Aya's lips. Aya's struggling stopped. Her eyes widened as Rei held on to her under the pouring rain. Rei hugged her tightly. "I don't blame you if you consider me as a problem"

"For everything I have done, you have every right to hate me." His grip gotten even tighter. " I know it's impossible to ask you not to stop loving me but please don't."

Aya put on a sad face. "Rei …I…"

"I guess I'm just no good without you" He slowly released Aya from his arms. He slowly reached for her face and touched it. "But I wanted you to let me reach out for you." He smiled sweetly, a smile he had only shown to Aya.

Aya couldn't help but stare at him. It was like he saw a different side of the Ice prince.

It was the same as last time. It was also pouring hard when the Ice price had broken her heart into pieces. It's as if the rain were like thousand daggers that hit her straight. That's why she hated rain so much that it had brought her a lot of painful memories. But this time it's different. She doesn't even mind if it develops into a storm. She just stood there, in front of the lad. She doesn't know why but she couldn't turn around and ran anymore but she knew she was making the right choice.

Aya returned home soaking wet. Her mom was really worried after seeing her. All the ingredients were also soaking wet. After she took her shower she reached for her phone and checked for e-mails. She saw 50 missed calls from a very familiar number and a dozen of messages.

"Aya have you reached home already?"

"Aya did you catch a cold?"

"Aya how you felling?"

"Aya"

"Aya"

"Aya"

"Aya"

The pitch haired girl held her cellular phone closed to her chest. Her knees suddenly weaken which made her dropped down on the floor. Her cheeks went scarlet and her heart throbs faster than ever. "What am I suppose to do?" That's the question she's been asking herself all night.


kotatsu - a Japanese dish^^

Please do review and sorry for the wrong grammars.^^