Disclaimer: I've got to play one-man tsukkomi here and tell myself, "Who do you think you are, the owner of Junjou Romantica?? Dondokeee!"

Yeah, I've been watching too much Gintaman. That statement alone proves that. I don't think it's very healthy.
And yeah, I'm really really suuuper sorry for the late update! I gots me some influenzas. D8 'Whatss??' you say? No, 'tis not A(H1N1), thank goodness. And I was out for like, four days!! Mein gott. Missed so much school.

As usual, thank you so much for putting up with me and my short stories. I think I'll stop at twelve (which means two more to go!) with 'The R Files' and focus on that HaruhikoMisaki fic I've been planning. So, without further ado, item number 10, inspired by nothing in particular!

Item # 10 – Contender

The first time Misaki met Haruhiko, he did not think of it as something special, or out of sorts. Well, as out of sorts as you could get with a middle-aged man not knowing how to go about the train station.

He simply noticed Haruhiko was in a pinch, and, being a person who could not ignore others in need, decided to help him out.

Never in his life, has helping someone at a train station led to his utter demise. He didn't even think it possible. But here it was, and he was living proof that it was, indeed possible.

But despite the fact that Haruhiko was always out to destroy his relationship with Akihiko, Misaki couldn't help but pity the man.

During the times when Haruhiko would send Misaki truckloads of cherries, invite him to gatherings, or decide to claim him for himself, he'd think the same things.

One: that he could never ever betray Usagi-san and choose to run off with Usagi-ani,

and two: Why does this man go this far?

Misaki couldn't help but feel frustrated over him. It hurt him to see Haruhiko try so hard, and yet, Misaki couldn't do a thing to help him, otherwise, what would happen to Usagi-san?

Despite all the loathing for Haruhiko that had built up at the bottom of his heart, whenever he saw Haruhiko and looked into his eyes, his eyes filled with sharp coldness, discontentment, and sadness, Misaki wanted nothing more than to help him.

But he loved Akihiko, deeply, madly, and truly, and could never let his lover down.

So, when he sees Akihiko express such hatred and animosity towards Haruhiko, Misaki could do nothing but frown, and, from deep down in his heart, wish that Haruhiko, could someday, find true happiness.

A/N: Y-yeah... my favorite character is Haruhiko. I don't know, I just like him a lot! I'm a sucker for megane kyaras. And I only noticed that, like... a few months ago. But by then it had become too much of a... whaddya call it, I dunno, disease? Or maybe, complex. Megane complex... megane fetish?

Oh, randomness, has anybody read the latest chapter of Ouran? It's soooo MOE. 3 *Goes off into la la land*

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