Sorry! I haven't posted for over a week. I have been busy and only found time today to write the story. So here it is. I love this story, but I feel others don't… Is it how I write it?… Does the story suck or something?... Sorry… I am a very insecure person, so I am very conscious about how others feel about what I do… Something I wish I wasn't always bothered about. So Review to tell me your thoughts and to motivate me to write the story… I appreciate it very much and enjoy.

After Ritsu, Takano, Chiaki, Hatori, Kisa, and Yukina finished talking to everyone, the six decided to move away from the group to talk privately. They went to the cherry blossom tree, where Ritsu confessed to Takano last night. As they all sat down onto the soft, green grass, each pondered about the questions they had in their minds about the others. For a few minutes, the six adults sat in silence.

After while, Ritsu decide to be the first to speak up. "Chiaki, so… do you want to tell me what is happening?"

Chiaki made direct eye contact with Ritsu and then Hatori before speaking. "Well… Tori… have been my childhood friend since forever as you know…"

Hatori decided to help tell the story seeing his lover's distress. "Ever since I met Chiaki, I was in love with him, but I never told him because I didn't want to ruin anything…"

Chiaki looked at Hatori and smiled a bit. "Tori…, I'm sorry I didn't realize it."

Hatori wrapped his arms around Chiaki's waist pulling him closer to him and said, "It's alright Chiaki."

Ritsu and Kisa looked at one another and said at the same time, "We're guessing the reason why you couldn't figure it out was because of your denseness, right?"

Chiaki blushed really red and mumbled, "I know now…"

After everyone settled down again, Chiaki started to talk again, "I thought Tori was in love with someone else, but one day when I was sleeping… Tori… kissed…me. I was confused at this because I didn't realize my feelings for him, but when Tori said he should leave after what he did, I figured out my feelings for him. I didn't want him to leave me. He meant too much to me…I love him."

Hatori kissed Chiaki on the forehead and responded towards his love confession by saying, "I love you so much too, Chiaki."

Everyone stared in aw at how sweet the scene in front of their eye was. Chiaki saw that all the eyes were staring directly at them and blushed darkly and looked away knowing everyone just saw that.

Then Ritsu realized one thing Chiaki did not explain yet was about Chinatsu and also Nadeshiko (Chiaki's ex-fiancee), so he asked about it. "Chiaki, what about Chinatsu and Nadeshiko?"

Chiaki glanced at Ritsu and then sighed. "Nadeshiko says she knows that I love Tori and just wanted me to be happy, so we broke it off, but of course we are still best friends and she comes visit me a lot. I think she starting to like someone else, but that is a good thing because it means she has moved on and that is what I want for her and for also to have a good future with someone who loves her. As for Chinatsu… she most definitely does not know about our relationship.

Kisa said, "From what I remember, she is always going on and on about how much she loves Hatori-san."

Chiaki responded, "Well… yeah…, but… Tori… is… mine… and I don't want to give him up."

Hatori hugged Chiaki tightly and said, "I don't want to give you up either…"

Ritsu said, "You are hiding it from Chinatsu then?"

Chiaki replied, "Yeah…, but we are going to tell her when the right time comes."

Kisa said, "I see…it's not like you are the only one who is in that type of predicament."

Chiaki looked at him with a clueless face and asked, "What do you mean?"

Ritsu said, "Really? You don't get it?"

Chiaki just looked at everyone for an answer, so Hatori decided to answer it.

"He means that they are also in that type of situation."

"Oh… I see now."

Ritsu and Kisa just looked at him and shook their head, but then Chiaki asked, "What about you Kisa? Why don't you tell us about yourself and Yukina-san."

Kisa gave off a slight blush and looked at Yukina, who smiled shiningly at him.

Kisa sighed and said, "Well… Mother and Father told me to go to the Shining Kingdom for business seeing that I would go that kingdom a lot because I claimed that I would sight-seeing there, but I was lying… The truth was that I went to a store, where a young man always was and umm… stared at him for a while because of his good looking face…, so when I went to greet the royal family of the Shining Kingdom, I got a big surprise… It just so happen that the man I was always looking at was the man at the store."

Yukina decided to finish everything else Kisa was going to say. "I noticed Kisa-san every time when he looked at me and thought it was cute and started to like him a bit too. When I found out he was the crown prince of the Faith Kingdom, I was very surprised. He and I started to spend time with each other and I enjoyed his company and started to fall in love with him and in no time I did. I kissed him one day and he was shocked and ran away and locked himself in the guest room. I would come by to his room and asked him to come out and talk to me, but he wouldn't respond, so I had no choice, but to use force to get inside. I told him that I loved him, but he responded by saying that he only liked me for my face, so I said that I would make him love everything else about me too."

Kisa snuggled closer towards Yukina and Yukina wrapped his arms around Kisa's waist.

Kisa said, "Soon enough, I found myself falling for him more and more each time I spent time with him and realized I love him too… and everything about him…"

Yukina pulled Kisa even closer to him and rested his head onto Kisa's. Everyone thought what Kisa and Yukina had just said was really heart-warming.

Kisa continued, "As for Fujita-san, Yukina's fiancée, we plan to tell her later too and Mitsuko also broke it up with me because she knew I loved Yukina."

Ritsu had a burning question about the relatsionship though, so he asked, "Umm… Yukina-san, I just want to know that you do know that Kisa is 30 years old right?"

Hatori and Takano were speechless from hearing that. Seeing Kisa, they thought he was 20 years old at most, but 30 was a BIG shock to them.

Takano exclaimed, "He is 30. 30. He is really 30?"

Ritsu looked at him and said, "Yeah, that is right. Don't worry; a lot of people think he is younger than he really is."

Kisa blushed and said to get the attention off him and Yukina, "Ri-chan, what about you and Takano-san?"

Ritsu's eyes just went big at this and when Takano was about to say something, he cupped his hand over Takano's mouth to silence him. Takano looked at him with questioning eyes. Ritsu pulled him down, so he could whisper into his ear.

"Don't say anything for a while."

"Why?"

"Well…, Kisa and Chiaki know I dated you in high school and broke my heart, but they don't know that person was you. If they found out from you, they are going to kill you."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah. They are kind of overprotective when it comes to me."

"Are we going to tell them or not?"

"We will, but I will tell them."

"Okay…"

Seeing the two whisper quietly got the four suspicious, so Kisa asked, "What is going on between you two?"

Takano and Ritsu looked at up them and said, "Nothing… really."

Chiaki asked, "Are you going to tell us how you guys got together?"

Ritsu said, "If I tell you guys… you must NOT harm him, got it?"

Kisa and Chiaki looked at each other and nodded their heads slowly.

Ritsu started, "Well… you see we met back in high school 10 years ago…"

Hearing the word high school made Chiaki and Kisa frown knowing Ritsu had a horrible high school experience.

"Takano-san was someone I fell in love with at first sight. I umm… kind of stalked him at the library reading and checking out books he would read because I wanted to know more about him."

Ritsu smiled fondly at the as memories flowed back to him, while Kisa and Chiaki were getting the hint of who he was talking about and were not to pleased and hoped what they thought was wrong.

"After a year or more… I confessed to him accidently when he and I were reaching for the same book in the library…and what do you know, he said yes… I was completely overjoyed hearing he said yes to my confession…"

Kisa and Chiaki had an ominous aura surrounding them. When they looked at Takano and then Ritsu, they yelled, "He was that guy!" They jumped up from their lover's arms looked ready to attack Takano.

Ritsu yelled, "SIT DOWN! You are not to hurt him!"

Kisa and Chiaki were brought back to their senses by Ritsu's sudden outburst and decided to sit down quietly. Yukina and Hatori were surpised by the actions of their lovers, but decided not to question seeing that they would find out later.

Takano started to say, "At first honestly, I thought you were annoying and a spoiled rich kid…"

Ritsu frowned at hearing that.

"But… when you stayed by my side all the time, even though I yelled at you, I couldn't help, but to fall in love with you. You filled the void that I beared in my heart."

Ritsu looked up at Takano to seeing him smiling gently at him and lean towards him to give Ritsu a small kiss on the lips. Ritsu snuggled closer to Takano, who in response wrapped his arms around him.

Yukina asked, "You two have been with each other for over 10 years!"

Ritsu shook his head and said, "No… we broke up after a few months of dating."

Hatori asked, "Why, did something horrible happen?"

Takano said, "Umm… we broke up due to a misunderstanding. I was the type of person who had a hard time conveying my feelings with words, so I never really said words to confirm how I felt about Ritsu."

Ritsu continued, "So… one day, I was over in his room and I asked him if he loved me, but he chuckled in response. I thought he was laughing at me, so I apparently round-house kicked him according to Takano-san."

Takano rubbed his cheek remembering that day and said, "It really hurt you know. You kick me really hard in the face."

Ritsu looked at him sheepishly and just said, "Sorry."

Takano smirked as he thought of something. "If you are really sorry kiss me on the lips right here right now."

Ritsu blushed harshly and shouted, "W-what! N-no!"

Takano pouted and said, "I guess you really aren't sorry…"

Seeing the expression on Takano's face, Ritsu couldn't resist, so he gave up and pressed his lips on to Takano's for gentle kiss. Takano wrapped his arms tighter around Ritsu, so he couldn't get away and kiss him harder. The two ended up making out for a bit and forgot where they were and who was watching them.

When somebody said, "Hello! We are still here you know." The two broke apart panting and finally remember they were talking to Kisa, Yukina, Chiaki and Hatori. Ritsu reddened knowing that he forgot about them and started to make out with Takano with the four watching them. Takano couldn't help but smirk because he got Ritsu to initiate a kiss.

Kisa said, "What happened after?"

Ritsu asked still dizzy from the long kiss, "What happened after what?"

Chiaki said, "After you guys broke up."

Ritsu came back completely to his senses. "Oh! Well, we didn't see each other for 10 years after the incident. Then just a few weeks ago… Mother and Father said, the family of the Diamond Kingdom was going to come visit us, after all our two families are good friends. Mother and Father wanted to introduce me to Takano-san, but the thing was when we met, we didn't realize who the other was because we changed a lot in looks and personality."

Yukina asked, "So how did you guys find out?"

Takano said, "It was because of a photo. Our mothers and fathers wanted to show our pictures to everyone and at the end, they found this binder that had pictures of Ritsu's school life. One had a picture of me and him in it, but we didn't know, until we were asked that whether or not it was a picture of the two of us. So then and there we found out the secret identity of each other."

Chiaki asked, "How did you guys actually get back together again?"

Ritsu responded, "He said that he would make me love him again because he still loved me 10 years even after we broke up. We figured out our misunderstandings and I started to realize that I was still in love with him…How we actually got together was because of something I am going to say and that is the reason why mother and father asked you guys to come…"

Ritsu rested his head on Takano's shoulder and sighed before telling the rest of the story.

"About a week ago, I had a conversation with Kaori-san… She told me how much she loved Takano and wanted advice from me. I felt guilty that I was in love with Takano-san and that Takano-san was in love with me, so I told her to keep on trying and that love is not easy and that it takes time. I came to a resolution to make Takano not love me anymore and I said that I hated him to his face."

Ritsu eyes started to water from recalling the words he said regretfully to Takano. Takano brought Ritsu onto his lap, into a tight hug, and kissed him on the cheek and said softly to Ritsu that it was okay and that he knew he didn't mean it. Ritsu just moved his hands onto Takano's to know he was there by his side and then continued.

"We both locked ourselves up into our rooms and hardly even came out. I hardly ate at all and just cried for the next few days… Yesterday, I decided to head out into the garden for some peace and quiet and to think, but when I got there I saw Takano-san, but he was sleeping. Because he was sleeping I told him how I felt about him thinking he wouldn't know what I said to him, but in the end he heard. And… he said he still loves me too. I told him why I said those words to him and that I did honestly love him. That is how we got back together."

Takano whispered lightly into Ritsu's ear, "I do truly love you…"

Ritsu smiled gently hearing those beloved words and whispered back, "I love you so much too…" Takano nuzzled Ritsu's hair and gave it a small kiss to show his affections.

Kisa, Yukina, Chiaki, and Hatori watched the scene before their eyes and thought of how Ritsu's and Takano's love was special and that none of theirs could even compare after hearing the trials the two went through for them to get back together, even though they just got back together for less than 24 hours. Kisa and Chiaki decided to forgive Takano for hurting Ritsu after hearing the story and were happy that their favorite cousin finally found someone, even if it was the same person to love again.

Kisa wanted to know something though, so he asked, "Ri-chan, what about An-chan and Saito-san?"

Ritsu looked at him and sighed. "An-chan said that she saw how I was still probably in love with Takano-san, so she said it was okay to break it off, but as long as we are still best friends and like sibling. Kaori-san…Well… it is not so good I guess… She doesn't know… and I still feel guilty about it…"

Takano looked at Ritsu worriedly seeing the distress in his beloved's eyes, so he said, "We will tell her, just at the right time. She knows I don't love her, after all I rejected her, but it seems it will be harder than I thought to break it off completely…"

Ritsu then said, "I also think Mother, Father, Mizuki-san, Hikaru-san are suspecting us."

Everyone, but Takano looked at him with wide eyes.

Kisa said, "T-they k-know?"

Ritsu responded, "I don't think they are positive, but I think that is what they believe of us. I feel as they are always watching our actions and after the incident of the week and how Takano-san and I recovered from our depression at the same time, it only made them even more suspicious of us…"

Chiaki said, "Wow…"

Ritsu just said, "Yeah… it looks like things are going to get complicated…"

What the six didn't know, what Ritsu just said was true. Somebody was near the scene of six and now hell has been unleashed.

What did you think of the chapter? Sorry if my story telling is not that great. For Chiaki and Hatori, I didn't want to add Yanase, so he wouldn't be part of the complication. Mostly because I read the story "Always." And also I think they are a sweet couple, despite what others say because of happen to them, if you get what I mean. For Kisa and Yukina, I like the couple, but I am not familiar with them, so the story telling was not great in my opinion. For Takano and Ritsu, I just absolutely love them, so the story telling was a little easier, but also hard because I had a hard time trying to shorten their story. Tell me your guesses on who you think the mysterious person. Thank you for reading. Please review to motivate me!