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Fishstick: Hi! Always a pleasure to read to your reviews. Ena's blunt honesty has always been there even in her past life which got her into a lot of trouble. I would say she doesn't completely go with the flow of things since she deliberately changed a few things in order to make Saiki's life easier and some of those changes benefited her in the end like getting Kaido as her best friend. She will start changing things more often the closer she gets to Saiki and some of them will be without her meaning to. Writing is a jealous Saiki is low key difficult since he barely shows any jealousy in the anime but I'm glad it's turning out well. Nope, she is definitely not afraid of snarking at Saiki nor afraid of teasing him a little bit. Boo don't be afraid to write more I enjoy reading these kinds of reviews :3
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Chocolates and Ghost Issues with a Side of Promise
During new years I opted out of going to the shrine. Why? I don't believe in any gods, so I didn't really see the point in going. Even though it would have been nice to see Saiki, Shun, and Nendo, I need some me time! Saiki can handle this one. Oh yes, I managed to give my gift to Shun and to my surprise he gave me a gift as well! Apparently, we had the same idea and we got each other a costume! He gave me a princess costume that I will use when he does his Halloween party. I got him a vampire costume he was eyeing a few days ago and now that I think about it, the costume looks like the one he wore for his party in the anime.
Lately, I have noticed in stores the increase of heart-shaped things which led me to check my calendar
"Oh yeah, Valentine is a thing…"
Valentine's day holds very bad memories for me from my past life…very painful memories. This is a new life, though so I will try to make good memories to replace the bad ones. For Valentine, I made three batches of chocolate. Two batches of milk chocolate and one batch of coffee jelly filling chocolate. Now the coffee jelly chocolates were difficult to make since I didn't want them to end up extra bitter. Eating extremely bitter chocolate is not fun.
Soon the day came, and I had the unfortunate luck of having Toritsuka walk to school with Saiki and me. The weather has been on the freezing side today, so I decided to wear one of my blue scarves that has a large embroidery of a snowflake on both ends. I was planning on giving Saiki his chocolates but now that pervert is here, I don't think I should. Speaking of the pervert he has not stopped talking about how excited he is of getting chocolates. I know of his tactic since he tried to carry my bag once but before he could grab it, I smacked him across the face with the said bag, he didn't try again after that.
He asked Saiki if he is going to receive a lot of chocolates and Saiki made a zero with his arms, but the pervert took it as an ok and ran off very happy.
"It's too early in the morning to have that much energy" I mumble tiredly
"What's wrong with you?"
"I finished making chocolates at around one in the morning" I yawn and stretch
I feel his gaze on me
"For who?"
His tone of voice sounds irritated
"For Shun, Nendo, and…" I rummage through my bag and take his chocolates "you" my face gets warm when I hand him the heart-shaped box filled with coffee jelly chocolates
We stop walking and he looks at the box then at me
"For me?"
I feel my face get warmer and nod "I…I hope you like them"
He takes them and starts walking ahead of me. For a moment I saw a hint of red on his cheeks like that time at his house on Christmas.
"I'll let you know…"
A big smile spreads across my face "I'll be waiting"
In class, I watch Shun look into his desk and freeze up
"Oh yeah, Nendo's prank, poor wittle Shun…"
A guy from Teruhashi's fan club bursts in yelling that Teruhashi brought chocolates and that sent Shun into overdrive, so he ran out of the classroom with a cute little bag only to come back a moment later looking depressed. Nendo teases him about how Teruhashi will only give him chocolates when pigs fly.
I sigh "Shun," said boy looks up at me with teary eyes "here" I hand him the chocolates I made for him
His eyes widen and sparkles surround him "for me?!" I nod and he takes them
Nendo pouts
I chuckle" for you as well Nendo "I hand him his chocolates
"Alright!" he takes them and instantly opens it to it "oh wow I didn't know you could bake"
I laugh nervously "once in a while when the occasion strikes, sorry they look so plain, decorating is not really my forte and I didn't want to ruin them"
"It's fine" he pops one into his mouth then looks at me with a big grin "delicious!"
I smile "I'm glad"
That whole time I felt a mildly irritated gaze on me making the hairs from the back of my neck stand up
"Bloody hell what did I do?"
When I look behind me all I see is Saiki looking away from me
"Alright then, that was weird"
Shun was called by another girl during that and it left Nendo in a semi-depressed mood.
"At least he got chocolates this time"
I shrug and decide to go to the bathroom where I bump into Teruhashi who is hiding from her fans
"Oh thank goodness you are here Yuki!" she cried as soon as she noticed me walk in
I blink "yes?"
She grabs my hands"Could you give my chocolates to Saiki?"
"Um sure? Why?" I ask confused
"He'll receive them when you throw them out the window"
"My chocolates are way too valuable! If they see me giving him chocolates, they'll surely kill him! "she explains frantically
"I mean I doubt they can even put a scratch on him but I can see your point"
"Alright" I give her a false smile "I'll give it to him, don't worry"
" Oh thank you so much!" she hands me the chocolates and smiles" I owe you one"
"It's fine" I assure her
"The things I do for Saiki to have a semi-peaceful life"
She walks out and I do my business. Once done I go back to class, chocolate now in my pocket.
"I could toss it as most girls would do to their love rivals…"
I sigh
"I'm better than those girls, I'll just give him the chocolates…It doesn't matter"
After school, as usual, I walk home with Saiki
"Here Teruhashi wanted me to give you these" I reluctantly handed Teruhashi's chocolates to him
He looks at them then at me
"How badly did you wanted to throw them away?"
I tense up "I…I don't know what you mean?"
"You know you can't lie to me"
I puff up my cheeks in a pout "fine I thought about it"
"I heard"
I stick my tongue out at him like a child and I think I heard a small chuckle come from him
"I tried your chocolates"
My heart speeds up at those words
"And?" I ask softly a bit scared of the answer
"T…they weren't bad…"
I relax a little "they weren't too bitter?"
He shakes his head and I let out a sigh of relief
"That's a relief, I'll make sure the next ones are even better though!" I declared
"I'll be waiting"
Those words just made my day and motivated me to make them better even more!
The weekend came and after I finished all my homework I pour my heart and soul into making those coffee jelly filled chocolates taste even better! On Sunday at around noon, I was interrupted.
"The ghost of Nendo's dad is following me"
I stumble and almost dropped the tray full of chocolates that I'm holding
"G-ghost?!" I stutter and immediately placing the tray on a nearby counter before the trembling kicks in and makes me drop it.
"He won't hurt you"
"I…I know that but I still don't like knowing they are near me!" I mumble while hugging myself and resisting the urge to hide under a blanket
Suddenly Saiki appears in front of me and just like he did that time he wraps his arms around me, my face close to his neck, so close I could practically smell him. I'm sure by being this close he could feel my heart wanting to burst out of my chest from how fast it's beating.
"I won't let him touch you"
He stayed like that longer than last time and it helped me calm down a bit
" Shouldn't you be going to Toritsuka so that you can get rid of the ghost?" I whisper so that I don't ruin the moment
"I figured you would know a quicker way of getting rid of it instead of wasting my time with him"
"Ah well you fight it as a ghost yourself" I recall while looking up at him, still his arms
A look of realization crosses his eyes
"Take care of my body"
He suddenly goes limp as soon as I wrap my arms around him to hold him up but I overestimated my strength so I was dragged down to the floor instead. Now I just have his body laying on the floor with his head on my lap. A few seconds later he opens his eyes and looks up at me. I can see a large amount of redness spread across his face when suddenly he quickly sits up.
" Is he gone?" I ask slowly
"Yes…thank you"
I smile standing up along with him" anytime"
He looks like he is about to teleport away but he slightly turns towards me
"And I meant what I said, nothing will hurt you while I'm here"
With that, he teleported away
"Oh my heart won't last long if he keeps saying those things" I place a hand on my chest and take a deep breath" it's probably just paying back for all those times I helped him, yeah he hates being in debt to someone…"I run my fingers through my hair "that must be it, right?" taking a deep breath I turn back to the chocolates then sigh" and I just fell deeper into that love rabbit hole didn't I?" I place my hands on either side of the tray and lean on them" yep I did and somehow I don't mind" smiling I go back to making the chocolates.
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