Breaking up with the Scarlet Witch

AN: Valentine's prompt exchange for the DCMK Fanfic server event on discord.
The prompt was: Akako gets rejected over phone, because the boys all start to dislike the empty headedness they get around her once they leave her presence. (I hope I got the meaning right)
Thank you for the prompt, it was really fun and challenging (the other prompts will hopefully follow soon).
Happy (belated) Valentine's Day Lailan!
I'm sorry it's so late and bad.
Thank you, Stopwatch, for betaing!

Yamada has always been someone who took pride in his academic success. Only students with higher than average grades would land in an A or B class. Unfortunately for him, or so he thought after their first year, having gotten to know the phenomenon that was Kaito Kuroba. He was in class 2 B, where chaos reigned and impromptu magic tricks were common. Not something one would expect in a classroom with excelling students. That he was one of the frequent victims getting disguised as their local God of Mischief (Kaito Kuroba, not Loki) and therefore a target for Aoko's mop, didn't make it any better.

Of course, like any other class, they had their couples and their conflicts. But, aside from the Valentine's Day uproar, Kaito and Aoko's constant denial-ridden squabbling was quite enough for everyone else. That had been before the new additions to their class in second year.
Fresh meat had always been interesting, but being exceptional in their own rights, Akako in looks and Hakuba practically being a minor celebrity, added another dimension to it.

Nowadays, he didn't know whether it was because of them all getting older or because their new classmates were very talented, good-looking and, more importantly, single (because as lovely as Aoko was and as handsome, despite his constant pranks, as Kaito was, they were claimed, even if they were still in denial), their classroom had been turned into a battlefield.
Most girls more or less secretly fangirling about Hakuba and the boys vying for Akako's attention like lovestruck fools. He knew he was such a fool as well, he would never have thought himself capable of that, getting all emotional and irrational, quite unlike his usual self. He knew, or at least guessed from Kuroba's narrations, that they behaved ridiculous surrounding her like that. He was inclined to believe it as he only had memories of meetings with her where he behaved as he could vaguely recall, without a better word for it, like an empty-headed chicken. Her allure seemed less potent during their lessons (else a lot of them would probably have failed their classes), but did have an impact on his performance.

Despite all that, he agreed to date her when she asked. She was really charming, her allure a bit less impairing than normal, but he knew he couldn't really think when she was near. He did genuinely like her, but he didn't like how he became a mindless idiot whenever he was around her. This led him to a conclusion: he needed to break up with her. He tried several times, tried when meeting her in private, which failed every time he came into her vicinity. Any thought of breaking up with her fled his mind and all he could think of was how to please her, how to remain at her side.
Thus, when he finally found his courage and resolve to break up with her this time, he sent her a text. Not a phone call or a meeting, a text. Even now he feared that her voice alone would break his resolution to break up with her, his heart was broken, but he knew that this wasn't a healthy relationship, the kind of relationship he dreamed of, strived for.

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Thank you, Akako, for the wonderful time, but we both know this isn't the relationship either of us want. You are a very charming woman, winning hearts left and right, but the more I look, the more I can see that you would rather fight for someone's heart - someone who is clear-headed around you - than to take one freely given by a mindless fool. The look you have while looking at Kuroba tells a lot, but that which you wish is something I cannot give you.
I am sorry.

Thank you for reading!