Disclaimer:…I wish *pause for dramatic effect* I owned *another pause* this MANGA!
A/N: EARLY RELEASE!...Kinda
That Night
Part 9
"Kuugo, please. You need to calm down." Sakura fretted as she followed the ragging blonde even though he didn't know where he was going. Hell, he hardly understood why he was this angry in the first place he just knew he wasinfuriated, and the focus of it all was on the other blonde, the other annoying person, the other hard-to-deal-with person, the one he was looking for right now and the one he probably would have found if it wasn't for Sakura constantly trailing after him, pulling his sleeve every time he stopped and begging him to ignore the news, to not tell on her to Usui, but the moment the word Usui was uttered after Misaki, was the moment his nerves, all but one, snapped. The words that followed the two names that shouldn't have came out in the same sentence was just the right thing to break that last one and send him on a wild goose chase looking for at least one of the two.
"For the last time, Sakura, no. I refuse to stop till I find one of those buffoons, preferably Usui!"
"Nani?" a deep, uninterested voice somewhat whined. Kuugo and Sakura turned, only to see Usui standing at the door of a fancy looking hotel, bored face intact and eyes seeming utterly jaded. No emotion showed on the boys face as he stared at the weird couple. Upon seeing Kuugo's angered face, his usually bored expression dropped and he proceeded to walk on as if he hadn't noticed the two.
"Oi! Where do you think you're going? I'm not done with you yet, Usui!"
Annoying. Why do I have to deal with such a bothersome character like him? Why is he even here? He looked swiftly at the flushing girl that stood close to him, attempting in every way to avoid his gaze, but failing horribly every time she looked up. Sakura. Go figure.
"Is what she said the truth?" Kuugo questioned, pulling the girl closer to him with every useless question asked. "Is she lying to me? Did you really do that? Why leave if you were going to come back with something like that? Do you know how hard it is to try and understand you?"
"Calm down." Usui sighed as he stood against the opposite wall of the elevator to watch the two people that unfortunately followed him into the hotel, causing this big scene and giving him more attention than he ever wanted. "Now what do you want?"
"You know what I want! I want answers, and now!"
"K-Kuugo! I'm so sorry, Usui, even though Misaki and you clearly stated that you wanted this to stay a secret from everyone else, I still told him. I'm sorry, it's just that between the two of us there's no secrets and-ˮ
"Stop."
She did and surprisingly so did Kuugo who unwillingly calmed down beside her. Usui just stared at the both of them. First, Sakura, who grew uncomfortable under his strong gaze, then Kuugo, who stared back at him with just as much pressure but not enough to falter Usui.
"Yes, Kugo. Yes we did do that, and yes we did know of her relationship with Hinata at that time, yes we did take advantage of his not being there, and yes she did lie to him when he got back. I don't regret anything though. I knew and know what I wanted then and now, and I got…part of it."
"Hinata's back?" said Kuugo who followed Usui swiftly without question.
"She lied?" Sakura nearly cried as she followed the two boys out of the elevator.
Usui looked at her reassuringly before stopping short, putting the key of his apartment door in the hole, then stepping aside, letting the two unwelcomed guest in before showing himself in. "Yes, and I do plan on stealing her if I have to."
"Looks like you'll have to." Kuugo cooed from the kitchen, getting comfortable and grabbing a drink, much to the host's annoyance. "Because I'm more than sure that Shintani wouldn't willingly hand over the love of his life, to the only soul enemy in love he has especially when you have a better chance of winning seeing as you went to 4th base with her, and he couldn't even get too far past 2nd."
Usui bobbed his eyebrow before letting it fall going by unnoticed by the two people now drinking his favorite drinks. "That's nice to know."
"Do you know why she doesn't want Hinata to know just yet, Usui?" Sakura asked, the thought of Misaki actually lying to Hinata set her mind in a race, each confusing question seeking one answer and each on confused on which answer could be the right one. "It's not that I didn't hear her when she first tried to explain things, it's just that I couldn't quite understand where she was going with it, and so I still don't get it."
"I believe it's because she doesn't want to hurt him."
"But isn't keeping it from him going to make matters worse?"
"Hm, but that's not under our jurisdiction, it's under hers." Sakura's shoulders fell a little, but she never once said something else. She was quiet the rest of the day as Kuugo and Usui continued talking about what happened, who made the first move, and whether or not it was good or not. All the while, one thought dance in her head, one name that slowly intertwined with another that showed until a third came, splitting the first two names and leaving the first one confused and in the middle of the newer ones dipping back and forth between the two, unsure on which to pick.
Misaki, what have you done?
Later that Day:
Misaki sneezed for what felt like the 5th time in that hour. The other maids excused her for the 5th time, and she looked around for the 5th time, wondering what could have possibly happened to make this happen.
"Looks like someone's talking about you, Misaki chan." Satsuki cooed with a smile, but the manager's words only worried her more. The two people that crossed her head were the two people who were still MIA at the moment, and the last thing she could handle at the moment was the two people she loved speaking about her to the wrong person.
"Calm down, Misaki." Aoi comforted her. "I'm more than sure that neither of them are speaking bad on your behalf…then again, you do seem to be having this rain of bad luck, starting, of course, with Hinata's early return, and ending with your not seeing Usui for days…yeah, you seem to be in the long run when it comes to most days of bad luck right about now."
"Thanks, Aoi." She replied blandly, part of her wanting to run off and cry somewhere where no one would find her.
"You're welcome."
"Don't listen to him, Misaki." Subaru smiled. "He's still high on popularity from the Ladies Day two days ago so he's spurting out nonsense."
"Yeah." Erika agreed, and besides…" She pointed towards the door of the café with a smile. "Looks like one of them is still thinking of you."
Misaki felt her heart drop. Not out of fear, but out of a weird ting of happiness as she stared at those unmistakable blond threshes and those gorgeous green eyes. A smile spread across this once MIA persons face the closer he got to her and the faster his stride became only excited her even more. It got to the point to where she couldn't move upon seeing him. She was too excited, too intoxicated with his beauty.
"Misaki." He cooed, making her melt from the sound of his voice, the voice she's been dying to hear for a while. "I came to pick you up."
"U-Takumi." She whispered.
Later that Night:
She could feel the glares she was getting from the two sets of curious eyes that danced between the two of them, her and Usui, thinking they were safe from behind the curtains that failed to hide their shadows that were crouched by the windows. She wanted to ignore them she really did, but it was so hard to do so and with a straight face, especially when a certain blonde refused to acknowledge their existence.
"Are you really going to ignore them."
"Hm? Ignore who? I don't know who you're talking about."
"Usui!"
"Who's that?" He asked with a smile.
"…Takumi, please just…just go. I can't raise anymore suspicion between the two of us."
"Standing outside your house with me and talking while staring at me with such a heavy gaze doesn't help either, Kiachou."
Misaki chuckled. She heard him, just all her anger suddenly disappeared the moment her old "name" came out of the boy. It brought back memories, good ones not bad ones, not unwelcomed ones. "Takumi, seriously, you need to go. Hinata will-ˮ
"Hinata this, Hinata that. That's all I hear from you know."
"Well I am technically dating him."
"Hard to tell." He smiled. "With the way you cling to me and the way you look at me, any other person who didn't know any better would have thought we were the real couple. When you're pent up with Shintani you look like friends or siblings gone wrong."
"Takumi!"
"Fine." He cut her off before she could say anything else. "As long as you continue calling me Takumi, then I'm fine." He tousled her hair slightly before walking off. Misaki simply watched, wanting him to turn, but when it was clear that he wasn't going to she did, and headed to the door of her home where her mother and sister, the nosiest people around, were waiting.
"Misaki!" Suzuna cried.
Didn't think she would be waiting this anxiously for me. "Y-yes?"
"We need to talk." She paused. "About Usui."
Damn. Misaki thought. I should have known that wasn't going to last with Suzuna around.
"Fine." She gave in. "Let's go upstairs since it's obvious that Mom-ˮ
"No. Tomorrow." The girl demanded, looking over her sisters shoulders to the sight of the bright boy waving franticly at a car pulling away. "When Hinata-nee-san and Mom leave for work tomorrow, I want you to take me with you to your job. There, you'll tell me everything."
"Don't you have some kind of contest to enter in?" Misaki joked, hoping that it would calm the girl down enough to have her forget everything.
"I can do them at the café. So do we have a deal?"
Misaki sighed as the rambunctious boy barged through the doors. "Hello! I'm home."
"Deal." She spat before rushing past the girl.
"Misaki-chan." Hinata cried. "Misaki-chan, what deal? What are you talking about?"
I apologize for this one being later than the other ones that I released early, it's just that I'm this overly passionate procrastinator that needs to be taught a lesson.