A/N: This fic needs more drama and angst so... Here's chapter 9 with that. Also... I know that I said this fic would have 9 or 10 chapters but... My brain is getting even more ideas so there will probably be another side chapter (or even chapters), just not sure if it's going to get published before or after chapter 10.

Kanae's senior year had, as expected, started out in the best way: she had her boyfriend with her, and how much fun she had in teasing him and sending indirect remarks whenever she could when the two were together, either during classes or outside the classrooms, which most of the time ended getting her in her favorite room of the school: the detention room.

Nevertheless, she made sure to never overstep her limits. She knew that Eiji wasn't a student anymore and they were not really allowed to have a relationship going on between them seeing as they were teacher and student but as long as they weren't caught, nobody could say anything.

However, Kanae quickly noticed that she wasn't exactly the only throwing herself at the new teacher's assistant, after all, there was always that fantasy deep within the female students of having the attention of the young, attractive teacher to themselves so it hadn't been just one time where she had caught someone throwing a flirtatious suggestion to her boyfriend and unfortunately, she could only clutch her fist in anger and jealousy and trying her best to just not throw herself to whoever was talking to Eiji.

She knew she shouldn't feel jealous, after all, he was there for that year because of her but still, it was easier said than done. With the passing of the months, the situation only got worse as Eiji seemed to be covered with projects and works whenever she was free or then vice-versa and whenever the two were totally free there was always something to interrupt them. In the start, they still found a way to spend, at least the weekends, in each other's places but eventually, even that stopped and by the time that the exam's period was over, Kanae didn't even remember the last time the two had shared an intimate moment.

To contribute even more to her frustrations, thanks to all the previous factors, Kanae's grades had decreased drastically. She just couldn't find herself to focus either in class or at home and as consequence, it was frequent for her to handle even blank written tests. She just didn't care.

Eiji, however, did. Yet, he wasn't expecting her reaction when he visited her after the first exams grades ended being given.

"So you finally decided to come to see your girlfriend? Oh, right, you're here on business so I guess it's your student right?" She had told him, only revealing her face on the half-opened door, refusing to open more. She was glaring at him, her gaze colder than he had ever seen on her.

"Kanae..." He tried to reach to her face, even if she didn't stop glaring at him, at least she didn't refuse his hand on her cheek; while with the other hand he managed to open the door to reveal his girlfriend "I know I couldn't give you any attention... Please forgive me. This was more work than I thought... It wasn't my intention to let you like that."

She wanted to stay mad but how could she? She wasn't even able to deny his contact without breaking, ending up just quickly embracing her boyfriend, burying her face on his chest and letting his scent become familiar once more "I'm sorry... I know it's been hard for you... I'm sorry."

Eiji felt her shiver and her breathing getting faster against his body, what made him pull her closer and trying to console her by rubbing his hands up and down her back, kissing her head until she finally dared to look at him again "Want to talk...? I'm sure there are some things you have to say."

"I..." She could have just told him what had been bothering her but he didn't deserve that she was acting that way so she just gave him a weak smile and pulled him down to her, locking her lips with his in a so desired kiss "I missed you."

He returned the smile weakly, knowing that Kanae was hiding something yet he couldn't force her to speak, anyhow whenever she felt like speaking about her problems, he would be there for her.

One more kiss followed the first one with even more enthusiasm, Kanae pulling her boyfriend to inside the house so they could have more privacy and as soon as the door was closed, Eiji turned them around and Kanae just found herself with her back against the door and in need to support her weight by wrapping her legs instantly around Eiji's waist as he lifted her up to his level, burying his face on her neck after breaking the kiss "I missed you too... So much."

"Eiji..." She smiled under his words, her hands gently brushing his long hair "Can I ask you a question? Why did you exactly accepted the offer? And don't say that it was only because of your amazing girlfriend... I know there's something more, isn't there?"

He looked at her in silence for a while, wondering about his words until he finally found something to say "Kanae... What is exactly your plan for the future?"

"Hey, don't ignore my question." She pouted yet only earned a peck on the pouting lips before Eiji carefully, still holding her, walked them to the couch, where he sat with her on his lap.

"I am not, I will answer it, but please answer my first."

"Hm... Dunno. Probably will work in my old man's company or something... Although I really hope it's the second option..."

"What about... A family and such?"

She hummed and nuzzled his neck while giving it a brief thought about it. It had been a topic she had never thought about if she was honest, yet before Eiji, she had never even had taken any relationship seriously.

"Well, never really thought about it... But it does sound nice I guess, just not for now, I want to at least finish school." She kissed his neck, making a trail to reach his cheek where she also placed a kiss before rubbing her cheek against it "Are you asking that because of my grades...?"

"Not exactly but it can also work. Kanae, what happened?" He asked but only got her to hid her face in his neck again, feeling her nails clutched on his shirt.

"I... I'm sorry..." She answered in a whisper, ashamed of herself yet she just couldn't bring herself to admit her jealousy.

"It's fine... I know you'll recover." Kanae just nodded, unable to say anything. She was concerned about many things, her grades were the least of her concerns at that moment but she preferred to just let him believe it was that what had been bothering her.

The two spend a good while in silence, just enjoying being in each other's embrace after so long until Kanae remembered something "You didn't answer my question."

She had whispered, not really wanting to break the moment, but feeling him kiss the side of her head she knew he had heard her.

"I need to save money for one thing."

This new information was something new to Kanae as she had never heard anything related to money coming from her boyfriend's lips which caused her to look up at him "Money...? But... Are you in troubles? Anything I can do to help?"

Kashii simply gave her a soft smile and rubbed her cheek with his hand, trying to erase any concern she could have "There's nothing to worry about, I have everything under control."

´Like always...´ Kanae internally commented to herself ´Do you even need me for anything?´ "Alright... If you say so."

She laid her head back against his neck and just stood there listening to his breathing as she eventually closed her eyes, not even remember falling asleep yet despite them being on a couch, that had been the most peaceful night both of them had for a long time.


Another month had passed and despite they had that small talk, Eiji still felt that Kanae was hiding something, even getting more suspicious when she finally started to refuse and started avoiding him whenever he tried to approach her, most of the times having to excuse himself from a group of students that asked for his attention for the most random of the reasons.

However, the story was different whenever he was alone. In the few moments where the two managed to meet without having anyone else in the room, at least a few kisses exchange was almost a must until they both parted away a little before the rest of the class to arrive.

Thankfully, Kanae had started to focus once more on her classes, her mindset that she shouldn't be so dependent on anyone and even if it was hard, she managed to block any distractions from the school whenever she knew she needed to pay attention.

It had all gone smooth, most of the time, until one Friday night after an extra after-hours meeting, Eiji went to his girlfriend's place and there was when things went wrong really quickly.

In the first place, he wasn't expecting to see the uncountable empty cans of beer that were spread along the room and then he wasn't exactly ready to get attacked in a hug by the excited Kanae "Eiji~ You're back! Welcome home"

She laughed, completely out of herself as Eiji could easily identify the smell of alcohol on her, and slammed her lips on his, yet Eiji did not reply to her affections, instead, he gently pulled her away and kept his grip on her shoulders "Kanae, you're drunk. You need to calm down."

That would have been a good plan but her mind wasn't exactly the best to deal with in a moment like that, in which she took the denial of her affections as something offensive " Why is that so? Don't you like me whenever I'm like this?"

"Kanae..." He tried to say his arguments but the girl beat him as she roughly pushed him away from her, glaring at him.

"Oh, so do you really need to use the alcohol as an excuse to just say you don't want me anymore heh? Well, figures, after all, you can easily just pick one random girl and just go fuck with her, big deal for you."

"Kanae." Eiji started once again and tried to reach for the can she had now grabbed once again, probably the only one that still had something left "Give me that."

"NO!" She quickly ran to the couch, sitting down and turning her back at him, refusing to even look at his face. "Why are you here? Why are you wasting your time with me...? Just hurry up and leave me."

He called her name once more, noticing that she was starting to shake and could hear a sob, at the same time that she lifted one of her hands to clean what he assumed it would be her eyes. "Kanae..."

"Let's break up."

"Huh?" It was the only sound left by his lips, his brain refusing to think of anything as Eiji slowly felt something inside him breaking under those three words.

"I want to break up with you, didn't you heard?" By now, it was impossible to not see how badly she was shaking, even throwing away the can she had previously refused to let go to be able to cover her face with both hands in an attempt to not let any crying sounds be heard.

"Kanae... Look at me" He turned her around just as soon as he made his way towards her, finding her with tears running down her cheeks, even escaping the hands that protected her face, hands that once he had gotten to her level could not do anything since they could not stop the tears that were falling, trying instead to use them to dry the tears, trying to ignore the fact that more tears where forming to replace the ones she had erased.

"Eiji... Don't make this harder than it should be. You know this isn't going anywhere."

Finally, he reached his limit. Grabbing her wrist, he shifted her to lay down on the couch and ended up holding both of her wrists on top of her head as he now glared at her "Why are you saying that?"

"You know perfectly well why. Look at you. And then look at me. There's no need to be a genius like you are to see how unworthy I am of your attention much less of your lo..." He didn't let her finish, stealing her lips in a deep kiss to silence any words that didn't make any sense.

"I love you." He kisses her, roughly, then softly, then just a tease, then passionate, mumbling those three words in every small gap the two had for the few seconds he gave them before going for another kiss until he felt Kanae's tears stop and her returning the kisses with the usual enthusiasm. " And I promise I'll erase any kind of doubt you can have about that."

His grip on her wrists finally disappears and she got up, sitting on the same place she had been while still looking down at the floor, feeling embarrassed at herself and even upset for trying to break the best thing she had "I-I'm sorry..."

"Now, let's sleep, shall we? I think this is already a long night that needs to end, tomorrow's a new day." Eiji gently kissed her forehead and picked her up even more gently, after she had nodded softly, to carry her to the bedroom.

Once they were both laying on the bed, Kanae kissed her boyfriend without any warning, yet Eiji still felt her whisper against his lips "Please don't ever leave me... I love you so much."

He pulled her into his arms to reassure her he wasn't going anywhere, and where she immediately succumbed to sleep, being both mentally and physically exhausted.


It wasn't really a surprise for Kanae to wake up without any a headache since young she had found a certain tolerance to alcohol and rarely felt any after consequences, yet part of herself hoped that for once she would be suffering even the worst pain she could, at least then she would probably not feel so guilty about last night.

"You're awake?" Eiji commented, pulling her even more into the hug they had been during the night, taking note about her appearance and how it didn't seem like she had a hangover "Are you alright?"

She shyly nodded and buried her face on her boyfriend's chest "Yeah... About last night... I'm..."

"You're not going to apologize again, are you?" He interrupted her immediately, not wanting to hear those words again, feeling his heart arch when seeing his lover in pain "Kanae... Where did you get those ideas?"

"I... I don't know... I feel like I'm just holding you down, you know?"

"Kanae..." He sighed and lifted her face to look at him "Why do you insist on hurting yourself with such thoughts? Can you promise me one thing?"

"What is it?"

"Can we be honest with each other from now on? If you feel insecure, please just talk to me."

Her emerald eyes were locked with his grey, each of them talking in silence with each other, before she nodded, lifting her own hand to lower his face to her, kissing him slowly and tenderly "I will."

Eiji smiled in the kiss, rubbing her cheek as he leaned in for another kiss as soon as the first one ended, following Kanae as the girl lay down on her back.

Their hands explored the other's bodies as the kisses they shared turned more passionate until they discovered that the clothes between them were just a burden that needed to be removed after that was taken care of, it didn't take them too long for them to let the mood take over the moment.

Eiji had never seen himself as a possessive person, but never in his life he had something to be possessive over but this time...

"You... I must have you for my own, only you, entirely mine. I just want you." He whispers in her ear while slowly thrusting into her, delighted by the soft moans Kanae released next to his ear.

"Eiji..." She holds his face to be able to kiss him. Another kiss. And one more followed. " You asked me what I wanted to do in the future... I know now."

They shifted positions, simply rolling over while sharing another kiss, the pace never slowing down or speeding up, what would happen in other situation but this time, there was something different. The two were realizing how quickly time passed and that those intimate bits were the only moments where they felt like the time stopped and only the two of them were important, only them existed.

"I want forever with you." The grip of his hands on her hips got tighter as they locked their gaze upon each other, the words they shared being said without giving any thought, just letting them flow "I want to wake up next to you every morning and go to bed beside you every night."

"I know I'm being selfish... But I can't help it. I want to be your lover for as long as you'll want me and even beyond it."

" I want to be closer to you." She rests her hands on his chest.

"I want to feel you inside me." Her hands slowly slide down his chest until stopping on his lower stomach, sighing when feeling him deep inside her for some seconds before continuing moving "To be one with you..."

" I want to, someday maybe, bear your children." Eiji's hands gently rubbed the sides of his girlfriend's hips, his gaze never leaving her own that shone with honesty "Love them as much as I love you. And still continuing to desire you as madly

or even more, than I do now..."

"I want to have you as much as I want and whenever I wish. I want you to understand you have me completely submitted to you, my heart, body, and soul belong to you and you only."

She then laid down on top of him when feeling herself reaching her peak, her hips still moving to meet his as her lips were placed on his, whispering against them "I need you so desperately..."

"Kanae..." He whispered her name, cupping her sweaty face and resting his forehead on her completely moved by her words which made him thrust into his lover deeper. Even when having the girl admitting it, he still wanted to make sure she needed him as badly as he needed her.


They took their time with each other for the rest of the day, both urged on getting back the lost time, getting rid of all of the doubts there could be once and for all, giving and receiving all the passion both of them had accumulated along the time they just couldn't share it, they had already lost count of how long they had been engulfed in each other, how many times they had done it and how long it had passed until they felt so exhausted they could only lay down on the bed, never letting go of the embrace they shared.

Kanae smiled when feeling Eiji placing a kiss on her forehead but when feeling him shifting, she lost the smile to be replaced with curiosity when seeing him leave the bed "Where are you going?"

He looked at her and smiled a little before going to the living room, where he had left his jacket, only to return a few minutes later "I think this is the perfect time to give you this."

The ginger-haired sat down as her boyfriend also sat down next to her, revealing a small box in his hand, which only caused her curiosity to grow "what's that? A gift?"

Eiji's smiled returned after ceasing for brief seconds, his nervously getting the best of him for a short moment "Yeah... You can say that. Kanae... I know that this past few months have been too much for you and last night gave me all the answers there were missing... But please understand there's absolutely no need to be jealous, you should know that by now..."

"This... Eiji... Why?" Her curiosity had turned mostly into surprise as soon as he opened the box to reveal a single, silver ring inside and she could only look at her boyfriend, waiting for explanations.

The older one grabbed her hand gently and, after waiting a moment for any sort of denial from her part - which never came-, slid the ring onto her finger, watching as her breath skipped a beat while he did so, along with her cheeks winning the pinkish color he loved to see on her "So you can understand how much I need you in my life. For now, this is just a promise ring but I hope that when there are times that I won't be able to show you how I feel, you can always look down on this ring and remember that it's with you that I want to be."

He took her hand to his lips and kissed the silver object that now adorned her finger, before looking into her eyes again. "Just like you mentioned, I won't accept anything less than eternity with you, I'll be selfish enough to never let you go."

"I want to be as close as possible and become one with you forever," Kanae felt him gripping her hand while his free hand travelled along her body, passing by her leg slowly and earning a gasp from her when feeling him reach her upper thighs and proceeding to her hips "I want to start a family with you and for as long as I keep breathing I'll desire you to the point of never having the need to even look at someone else."

By the time he reached her face, he lifted the hand that was holding hers and lifted it to his lips, kissing it once more "All of these things are the reasons why I'm giving you this ring, as a promise that one day, I'll fulfill all of those wishes we share."

There were many moments that he would always remember with Kanae but until now, looking at her pink cheeks, the slightly watery eyes, and the bright smile she was giving him before tackling him in a hug that had caused both of them to crash into the bed, was without a doubt one of his new favorites.

With what Eiji had in mind for his plans for the future, he really hoped to erase any kind of negative thoughts his girlfriend could have about herself in their relationship as she was, for sure, in all of his thoughts.