HEEEYYYYYY! So…. The power is out. The entire neighborhood is out of power this morning. So…. I thought I'll write another chapter… While my laptop still has battery life that is…

(Hiyori POV)

'This isn't happening. This is not happening.'

Hiyori just learned the truth moments ago.

'This isn't fair!' Chuckling to herself mentally she started once again,

'How dare that idiot do this! Why would he tell me now? Why? Why is this idiot telling me this when he thinks I am sleeping.'

I felt a flaming lava blush appearing on my face. My entire body starts to heat up.

I…I am being overwhelmed with feelings. I'm feeling happiness. Anger. Embarrassment. Excitement.

The reason I am angry is because this idiot, Yato, does something like this when he thinks I can't hear what he's saying. I always felt strange around Yato. As if, we've met before. I'm being crazy, I know…

Even so. Yato… He's a GOD. I'm nothing but a human. How could a god possibly love a mere human from the near shore?

Gods liked their worshipers but the way Yato acted around Hiyori was different. He would joke often about how if she gave him five yen he would complete her wish, but he often did them regardless. Anything to see Hiyori at ease. She her breathtaking smile. Hear her beautiful laugh.

I always liked Yato, but I never told anyone. How would a god even react to finding out a human is madly in love with him? For that reason, I always kept my feelings in check and refused to confess it to anyone.

I remember thinking to myself…

'If I shove these feelings down and ignore them—eventually they'll go away, right?'

Wrong.

Nope. Real feelings don't just 'go away'…

'How is this possible? Am I even worthy of a god? Yato is still holding my hands. I don't care what that brat Yukine and Mayu always say, his hands are not sweaty. His scent is overwhelming me. This indescribable scent…'

I know that whenever or wherever you smell this scent… It means you're about to be with someone you love. Someone who's presence alone is enough to make you smile and grin like a maniac. Going to sleep with this person on your mind can and will go two ways…

One way is you get consumed with the facts that you're not with them right now. They don't know how you feel. You stay up all night thinking about them. Attempting sleep would guarantee failure.

The other-more preferred way—when you go to sleep imagining them being right next to you. Either you in their arms or them in yours. (AU: I'm a guy. I prefer her being in my arms. Hugging pillows best substitute. XD Anyways, I was curious for anyone's preference. Please share if you have one ;P)

'I'm absolutely undeniably dumbstruck.'

How am I exactly supposed to react to this?

Would he be angry to know I was awake this entire time? Should I stay like this pretending to sleep until he leaves?

I start to panic.

WHAT DO I DO!?

(Yato's POV)

This is pathetic.

Here I am.

In Iki Hiyori's room while she is sleeping… Confessing to her unconscious self, what I am too much of a coward to tell her.

I love her. She's much more important than a simple believer of a god. She's unique is so many ways. She has the ultimate power to cause happiness and give light, even in the most sad and darkest if times. A room with thirty people, and Hiyori cannot hide. I look at her, everything is blurry. She is perfectly visible. Background becomes irrelevant, it feels as if she is the only one there.

Nights where I have flashback dreams of my time with Father and Nora… When my only purpose was to kill. A God of Calamity. Killing men, women, and children. Slaughtering them. Dreams of the past never really stopped. I wake up sweaty, and sometimes in tears remembering Sakura.

Hiyori always helped with that. Just the thought of her influenced such feelings of happiness. I would think of Hiyori and all the good times we've had. Hugging my pillow close to my chest as I slept with her on my mind gave the best sleep.

Sleeping as if you never killed all those people. Nightmares replaced into future hopes for me and Hiyori. A frown quickly replaced with a happy grin.

How she had such an amazing effect on me? I'm not sure I'll ever know. All I know for certain is I love her. Everything she finds embarrassing or unattractive for herself, I love even more. I love that she is an outlier. Someone unique. Someone different from an ordinary average person. She hates that she loves martial arts. I love that she does. She finds her laugh sometimes unattractive, I find it gorgeous. Her laugh has the power to stop time. I would do anything to hear that beautiful laugh of hers.

Suddenly, I felt a soft gentle hand cup my checks. Tears, still falling one by one slowly.

I begin to panic and prepare to be 'Jungle Savate.'

'She knows I'm here! She's going to kick me!'

I continue to close my eyes in preparations for the impact.

Yato felt a gentle pressure.

Hiyori's lips met Yato's.

That's all for this chapter! Thank you for reading! Thank you KaylaCutiePop, RighteousEzekiel, and I-Love-Trunks1 for support! This story seems popular on Fan Fic. Net, but not so popular on ArchiveOfOurOwn. Come on Archive… Let me see some comments! Power is back on…