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What's Going On: Mizuki is still keeping her girl secret

Yup… I'm doing a confession story. I had to do one sooner or later, but I've read too many to really enjoy doing many of them.

-A Confession-

She was sitting on the side of Sano's bed, staring at the dark windows outside, and waiting for him to return. Everything had gone terribly wrong. She had to explain to him. What could she say without giving herself away to Sano? She couldn't tell him the truth about this morning, tell him that Nakatsu had figured out her identity and had somehow fallen in love with her. Could she really explain to him that Nakatsu had kissed her, but she hadn't kissed him back? That her one moment of shock before she backed away from Nakatsu and shook her head was the one moment that Sano chose to walk by? How could she tell him? She didn't want Sano to think Nakatsu was gay when he wasn't, but she didn't want him to find out she was a girl, either.

The door clicked open, and Mizuki's head jerked up to see Sano look at her for a second before he turned away to stare at the wall, an impassive expression on his face.

I walk in to see Mizuki. Why does she have to look at me like that… when I'm the one she's hurt? How am I going to survive this… all this… Nakatsu and Mizuki crap. That one kiss was torture. How can I endure more of that?

"Hi." Mizuki said, tremulously. Sano didn't say anything, but after a pause, he opened his locker, scrupulously keeping his back turned to her.

"S-Sano, I-I can explain…" She tried again. Dead silence. He was making this so hard.

She gave a nervous laugh. "I think Nakatsu was on some funny medication o-or something, you know for that fever he had like a week ago or was it a few days I can't remember," Mizuki kept rambling for a bit, and then subsided into silence when Sano didn't respond.

But Mizuki wasn't one for giving up, even when she was frazzled. "I-I know it looked weird…."

Yeah. It looked weird. And it'll be weird with Nakatsu now. All that time I spent with him, doing all sorts of things to keep Mizuki's identity under wraps, so no one would find out. Ugh. He knew I liked her. Well, Izumi you idiot, he actually went for her. What, you thought he would sit around like you?

"Sano, I swear, Nakatsu's not gay." Mizuki mumbled, looking at the floor and fighting back tears.

Sano straightened up and closed the locker. He stared at the brightly colored metal for a moment before speaking to it, "What about you?"

"Uh… well… I don't… I don't know… maybe?"

What crap is this… with an answer like that, it's so obvious that she's a girl. She's only lasted this long because of me…. and Nakatsu…. Dammit.

Whatever. This is too much. It stops here. Just say you love him. All that soppy stuff. Just get it out so I don't have to hear it again.

Mizuki froze as Sano strode up the stairs to Mizuki's bed and heaved a corner of the mattress off. How does he knows about that?! Mizuki's breathing suddenly accelerated. What on earth was going on?

Sano seized a box of sanitary napkins… pads… for girls.

He turned around, and stared at her, tossing the box down over the railing to land with a loud smack at her feet.

"I'll let you rephrase that last sentence." He said, coldly.

"Sano…" Mizuki had no idea what to say next. Sano had already known? He even knew where she kept her stuff. What could she do? She shut her eyes tightly and mentally prepared herself. He already knew… but she had to say it aloud.

"Sano… I came here to make you jump again—"

Sano interrupted her, "Yeah, and that already happened, so I guess you ran off in search of boys." He spat the words out.

Okay… so he doesn't want me to say I'm a girl.. But now I'm just confused.

"What? Boys?" Mizuki stammered. Oh… damn… she had forgotten what this had been about in the first place… Nakatsu…

"Yeah. Found your perfect guy, 'oh, I'm in love.' Since you did this entire charade of being a guy, which by the way, was a god awful act, I thought you were different from the girls gathered out there every morning to moon at Nanba."

"Perfect guy?" Mizuki could barely keep up, and it seemed to just make Sano madder. Did Sano think she loved Nakatsu? Well…he saw her kissing him… okay fine that was a legitimate mistake.

"Whatever. You're not worth my time."

"Sano!"

"Get out of my face. I bet Nakatsu's waiting for you." He turned to walk towards the shower but Mizuki ran in front of him and flung her arms around him.

Before he could shake her off, she spoke into the silence, arms still clamped around him. "I love you." He didn't say anything, but she refused to give up. This was her confession… now. "I love you, and don't ever think it's anyone else."

I was wrong. But…. can it be true?

But I saw her…

"You… you kissed Nakatsu." At the sound of his hoarse whisper, Mizuki looked up to see Sano looking away.

"Other way around. Didn't you hear me? I love you." she whispered back. And slowly, she felt Sano's arms link behind her back too.

And she heard the magic words she had dreamed of for so many nights: "I love you too."

They stood in silence, Mizuki resting her cheek against Sano, as Sano hugged her close and let his chin rest on the top of her head, both smiling in quiet happiness. Mizuki mumbled, "Hey, am I really such a bad guy?"

Sano chuckled, "Yes. You're terrible… But that's not such a bad thing for me." He loosened his embrace to tip Mizuki's face upward with a hand, his heart jumping into his throat. Slowly, hesitantly, he bent his head to kiss her.

Mizuki could barely breathe and her heart was thumping so fast she swore it shook her body. She saw Sano's deep eyes and his smooth lips dipping toward her, his face holding the promise of a wonderful future and all the rewards for her efforts over the past months… and suddenly, she could bear to wait no longer.

To both her and Sano's great surprise, Mizuki's feet suddenly went on tip-toe, boosting her closer to Sano, and her arms clasped around his neck. Sano was still preparing to kiss her when Mizuki pulled him down and pressed her lips to his.

It was, in both of their opinions, a perfect kiss. Passionate, but it had that element of utmost happiness that was never present in the ephemeral, hot-headed kisses of other couples. They couldn't get enough, breaking apart with shallow breath and resting their foreheads together only to kiss again, smiling into each others' lips.

Sano whispered, "I'm going to have to hunt down Nakatsu, for trying to take you away."

Mizuki playfully punched his shoulder, but kissed his cheek.