S.M: I'm really glad that you are enjoying my story. I hope that you like it, I'm really enjoying writing it.

Here's a little summary from the beginning, Miki, Yuu and all her friend's are19. She's been living with the Matsuura's since she was 17. And her best male friend Ginta left her when he was 16. Like in the story she admitted her feelings to him and he made the mistake of saying stuff about her and she was there. But by the time they had become friends again he had to move. And a year later Yuu and the Matsuura's moved in with the Koishikawa's. Like the story they were instantly drawn to each other, but neither would admit it.

Yuu's admitted the secret of his father, and Kei Tsuchiya has already tried to get with Miki, but she never wanted him as more than a friend. They aren't together but Miki's admitted that she loves him and would like to be with him. But she hasn't told him yet. And Ginta's trying to get her now, too. She just met Arimi for the first time recently, and her and Yuu have been spending a lot of time together (She's been forcing him). The story with Nachan and Meiko is slightly different. But we find out later on in a flashback how things changed and they were able to be happily together.

Also there's a little twist with one of the characters who comes in the second part of the series. But it still will be like the anime, in this one instance.

?: Serenity have you finished boring these kind readers yet?

S.M: (Looks behind her to see a tall shadow.) YOU! What are you doing here?

?: Aren't you happy to see me. I was taking a break from my role and decided to come and say hi.

S.M: (Sweatdrops) gomen… First Ginta, now you Matsuura-kun? What do you want to know?

Yuu: Nanimo, just seeing how you're coming along with the torture of poor Miki. She, chosen anyone yet?

S.M: (Evil grin) Not yet... Why? You want her to be all yours?

Yuu: I didn't say anything. I was just curious I don't care.

S.M: Then you won't care if I make her be with Ginta?

Yuu: Nope.

S.M: Fine than maybe she'll be with Ginta, or maybe a mystery man?

Yuu: Not really.

S.M: Fine than do the disclaimer for me.

Yuu: I really don- Wait why should I.

S.M: I'll tell Miki that you really love her, you want to date her… You don't want anyone else to have her.

Yuu: (Grumbles) I don't love Miki!!! But I'll do it anyway.

S.M: (Grins, giving a V sign) Yay, yay, yay, yay…

Yuu: Man he was right. Anyway… Severity Madison the black mailer doesn't own Marmalade Boy, or any characters associated with Marmalade Boy

S.M: who's right? (Sticks her tongue out at Yuu) Thank you for doing it for me anyway. Well I really hope you like this chapter.

With out me with you, With out you with me

Who do I want, is it Ginta or is it Yuu?

Marmalade Boy

By: Yui

I ran the whole 15 minutes to school, and I ran into the nurse's office. She looked at me and asked me if there was anything I needed. I tried to talk but found that all I could produce is a wheezy squeak. I mumbled what was the matter and amazingly she understood. She had me remove my glasses. I slowly did and opened my eyes looking at her. She jumped back when she saw my bright red eye staring at her.

"There isn't anything I can do for your eye besides give you drops. Take these every few hours and if it's not better in a few days you should go to the doctor. What happened to your voice."

She asked kind of dumbly. I opened my mouth to try to speak and all that game out was painful squeaky "I had a hard night". She looked at me amazed and had me open my mouth and she said my throat was agitated and swollen, but my voice should return in a few days. About a week and it'll be better. And she handed me the drops and sent me to class. I put the sunglasses back on and headed to class. I got in just as the bell rang and my teacher called me up to the front of the class.

"Welcome back Koishikawa-sama. But you know you can't wear sunglasses."

She told me. I took them off slowly and she jumped when she saw my eye.

"If you feel more comfortable you may wear your sunglasses in this class but only as long as your eye's red. Are you ok?"

She asked and I shook my head, and pointed to my throat. She sent me to my seat and I took it getting a strange look from the people who sat around me even Meiko. I spent the period writing in the diary to Meiko. I pretty much told her about my horrible Friday, my weekend, and yesterday. I also mentioned something along the lines of I think I know whom I'm going to choose.

The class ended and on came the next one. I was luckily and I didn't have to speak. But I was really getting annoyed and my throat really hurt so I asked my teacher if I could go to the nurse. She found it hilarious but let me go.

In the nurses office

I had found that with extreme hacking I was able to somewhat speak normal but that was only for a few moments. I asked her if she could give me a pass so I could go home because I really didn't feel well on top of the obvious. She didn't want to but she decided that she would. She wanted to first call the house, to make sure someone was there. She did and spoke to Yuu telling him that I was coming. I felt embarrassed but when she let me leave I quickly made my way out of the school. I got some looks from some students as I walked away. But I kept walking in a tired trance. I soon got to my door and walked in and crawled up to my room not seeing Yuu anywhere. I was outside my door and when I walked in I saw Yuu sitting on the corner of my bed with his arms crossed and eyes closed. When I entered the room he looked up at me. I accidentally looked into his dark eyes and was momentarily paralyzed till he broke the lock, standing to his feet. He came towards me but I just walked past him and crawled into bed feeling tired and I closed my eyes. I found myself almost instantly falling asleep. I slept a dreamless sleep for once and opened my eyes feeling cold. I got out of bed and saw that I was alone and changed into a pair of heavy Pajamas. And made my way down stairs hearing Yuu's voice.

"Hello. Sorry boss but can I stay home today. Miki came home sick and I need to make sure she's ok."

I listened from outside the kitchen door I stifled out a cough but he heard me and called to me. I noticed it was kind of dark when I walked into the kitchen. Yuu looked at me funny and took the sunglasses off of my head.

"I forgot I had these on."

I said as he looked at me. I turned away but he turned me back towards him.

"What's for dinner?"

I asked trying to change the topic. He turned around casually,

"I ordered pizza, also a friend of yours called. They were pretty rude I asked them if they wanted you to call them back but he said that you couldn't so he'd call you later on or early tomorrow, because he's going to be moving into his new home and he may not get to talk to him."

I nodded dumbly and sat on the floor. I saw Yuu looking down at me strangely I looked up at him not thinking anything strange. I got to my feet and sat down at the kitchen table. I could feel Yuu's on me concerned but I didn't pay him much mind and lay my head on the table.

"Miki?"

I heard him mutter I looked to see him my head still on the table. Now I wasn't sick so much as really tired and my throat was still very sore. I turned my head to look at him not lifting it from the table. He looked like he was about to say something but the doorbell rang. He left the room and I closed my eyes once more. He hit me on the head and woke me up when he came back into the room, carrying pizza in his hands. I peeled my forehead from the table and fell back in my seat. He was getting 2 plates from the cabinet when the phone rang I stumbled to my feet and went to the phone answering slurred.

"Heo"

I mumbled my throat paining me. It was silent for a moment till a voice started yelling over the other end.

"Miki-chan, what's wrong?"

I took the phone away from my ear looking at it.

"Gi- Ginta?"

I grumbled.

"Hai."

I heard happily on the other end. I sat on the couch next to the phone and took a deep wheezing breath.

"Miki-chan are you ok. "

A familiar and concerned male voice asked. I swallowed and answered.

"I'm fine Ginta… I had a really bad dream last night and I didn't get any sleep and it made my voice a little weak."

I told him hoping he wouldn't ask anything, but I'm not a very lucky person.

"Miki-chan, why couldn't you sleep?"

He paused for a moment and I was going to answer him but he spoke once more.

"Miki- is something troubling you? Does it have anything to do with me wanting you to choose between me and that guy there whom you like?"

I was baffled.

"What?"

I asked truly confused. He took in a sharp breath like he had dropped something that he didn't mean to.

"I- I can't… Not now."

I mumbled, but he understood what I meant.

"Gi- Ginta I admit that since you've told me how you feel I've been thinking about you as more than a friend but… It's true that I do love someone here. And the more I see them the more I want to know about them."

I told him, I glanced out of the corner of my eye and saw Yuu, looking at me thought the kitchen door.

"And then there's Funo-san. You remember him, from before you left? He's kind of the reason I was suspended yesterday."

I told him. He gasped in shock.

"You were suspended! Why what happened?!?"

He yelled. I had to laugh at how cute he was acting.

"That Friday was destined to be the day from hell anyway. I over slept big time and didn't get to school till really late. And, well Funo-san was saying stuff about Yuu and I, so Yuu punched him and then there was a pretty bad fight. When I got into school the principal was under the impression that I had one of them try and hurt the other. I got mad but calmly said no. He believed me and had me bring Funo-san to the nurse. I did and when we got into the hall he said some stuff to me and-"

I paused for a moment but he asked me to tell him what happened. I took a deep breath and continued.

"He slapped me hard, I still have a mark on my cheek. He left and I went into the office grabbed my bag and left. The principal called to me, and so did Yuu but I left. And I got suspended for a day. But I'd rather not talk about it."

I told him, he understood and dropped the subject.

"OK, I just wanted to make sure that you were alright. I called earlier and someone answered the phone and said that you were sick and asleep. It wasn't your father."

"Well that was as you call him Matsomething."

I laughed and he was quiet on the other end. I took a long breath and pulled the phone away as I tried to clear my throat because my voice was wearing thin again. Ginta noticed this.

"Um… Miki can I ask you 1 question before I let you go. Do you think you- you'd be my girlfriend?"

I was shocked to say the least and I couldn't speak for all my fighting.

"I nee- I need to think about it."

"I understand, I'll call you again sometime soon. We'll be staying in this hotel for another few weeks. We don't have a home quite yet."

He said nervously.

"Well I should get going. Pizza's getting cold."

"Ok… I hope you get better. Luv you Miki."

He whispered I just hung up the phone and sat there in disbelief.

"Bachiatari Ginta! Baka!"

I seethed loudly. I sat in the chair staring blankly till I saw something held in front of my face. Yuu had been holding a piece of pepperoni mushroom pizza in my face (My favorite 8 }). I took it from him and held it in my hands still staring sadly at the wall in front of me. I shook my head and got rid of the strange thoughts and that unanswered question.

"Yuu"

I whispered as I stood and went into the kitchen. I sat at the table and quietly ate my pizza. And Yuu sat across from me like he usually did, and watched me, but this look in his eyes held more concern than the normal mocking look I'm so used to.

"Isn't this good?"

He asked. I just looked up at him and shrugged. I put my pizza down and excused myself heading up stairs.

"Miki?"

I stopped and looked back towards him.

"Why don't you stay at Akizuki's tonight. You look you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. You guys can talk and straighten out matters that might have appeared before you."

He suggested so sweetly. I felt my cheeks heat up and I nodded.

"I should call"

Was all I could clearly get to fall out of my mouth, he gave me a worried smile.

"Just pack up your stuff, it's ok."

He told me with a smile. I smiled and made my way to my room, grabbing a uniform and some pajamas, and what I'd need for the next day. I went down stairs still in a questioning fog thinking about what I should do. 'I told myself I was going to talk to Ginta and get things straightened out. But my love for Yuu must not be very strong if I'm questioning it just because Ginta wants me to be his girlfriend.' I thought to myself as I walked down the stairs. I was jolted back into awareness when I realized that Yuu had his arms around me. I looked up in shock but didn't move.

"Miki… I hope you have fun. And I hope you get things in order, we need the old frantically hyper Miki back."

He said with a laugh as he let go of me. I looked at him stunned and waved as I walked out of the door and found Meiko and her car waiting for me. I turned and looked back at Yuu whom was smiling at me. And ran to the car, and jumped inside.

"Matsuura-kun told me to take good care of you."

She said as she started up the car with a smile. We got back to her house a few minutes later and were laughing and having fun. She made a never-ending supply of Tea, seeing as how it was only thing that soothed my throat. It took me a long while but I told her about Ginta calling and she was really surprised. I even told her about how he wants me to be his girlfriend. She was happy for me but also I could tell she was concerned.

"That's great Miki, I remember how much you were in love with him everything from his odd good looks to his hothead attitude. But you told me that you had fallen in love with Yuu even if he didn't love you in return."

I nodded my head and cleared my throat loudly.

"I- I do love Yuu, but ever since Ginta called me I've been thinking about him. And tonight he called to see if I was alright and he asked me to be his girlfriend."

I managed to spit out in a wheeze. Meiko just looked at me strangely.

"What did you say? You didn't give him an answer did you…"

She stated. I looked at her with a blush and rested her fears.

"I didn't really say much… I tried to act like he hadn't said anything and changed the subject telling him I needed time. He said that it was ok and he'd call me sometime because he's still at a hotel. "

She stared at me blankly. I sighed and cleared my throat once more.

"I feel bad though. I told him I should get going because the pizza was getting cold. And- and he- he said-- Ok… I hope you get better. Luv you Miki. And I hung up on him. I was nervous and I didn't want him to love me, not when I don't think I love him the same way. I didn't say a word and just hung up."

I sighed feeling horrible about what I had done. My eyes watered and it stung but I cried, not badly but still. Meiko and I soon went to bed and woke up the next morning and got ready for school.

We walked into school a little earlier than I normally would and the day passed by mostly uneventful. At lunch some girls were giving me death looks. I asked Meiko if she knew why she heard it was because they knew it was my fault that there precious Yuu's suspended. I sighed and ignored their looks.

The day ended and I went home to find Yuu was no where. As much as I really wanted to see him part of me was thankful that he wasn't home. I walked into the kitchen and found a surprise. There was a gigantic bear on the kitchen table with 2 deep red roses in its hands. I slowly approached it and saw that there was also a card I opened it slowly and read it.

~Miki,

I'm sure you must be surprised. I know I haven't yet told you exactly how I feel about you. I haven't talked to you in a few years, and I'm so sorry for that. I was so nervous that even when I talk about you I feel strange. I've loved you since we were little kids but I never had the courage to tell you. And when you wrote me that letter you have no idea how happy it made me.

But you put it in a magazine in my suitcase that wasn't mine. And when my friends teased me I didn't have the courage to tell them the truth. That I love you more than you could ever have known. I know I haven't spoken to you in almost 5 years and I shouldn't hope that you even think of me as a friend anymore. But I know your forgiving heart. Miki I want you to be mine. I want you to forgive me and let me love you like I wanted to all those years ago.~

I read what he wrote in astonishment. And the phone rang startling me. I ran over and answered it hearing Meiko's scattered voice.

"Miki, Do you think, you can come over."

She asked. I nodded and said of coarse and hung up the phone, I threw the card on the table and ran up to my room and discarded my book bag in the room. I ran downstairs and out of the house to Meiko's. I rang her buzzer and was let in and went up to her room. I opened the door and saw her sitting in front of her window crying. I slowly went up to her and sat down besides her.

"Meiko-chan?"

I questioned quietly. She looked at me and her eyes were pink and full of tears.

"Na-chan"

Was all she muttered before breaking into tears once again, I wrapped my arms around her and tried to console her. It was strange she cried harder like it was my fault. I let her cry and she eventually quieted. And looked into my eyes, with regret and sorrow.

"Meiko-chan…"

I said. She was still quiet.

"Can I ask what happened that has made you so upset?"

I asked. She nodded but remained silent.

"Miki let me first say I'm sorry, it was nothing. You should go home and talk to Matsuura-kun."

She told me I looked at her confused.

"What happened Meiko? Are you alright."

I asked getting concerned.

"Well you know that Yuu's been modeling for the past week? His mom set it up before she went on their vacation."

She told me as she sat up and looked into my eyes, which reflected my shock and hurt. She looked at me nervously and stumbled.

"I didn't know that's what he's been doing. Wh- why?"

I asked hurt.

"He wants to save up money for school. Remember Miwa-san? Well his father suggested a good school in New York for him, a while back. At least that's what Miwa-san mentioned to me. And Matsuura wanted to save money so maybe he could attend."

My sunken features moped further.

" Why does he want to go to New York?"

I asked her. She looked at me confused but answered me.

"He's always looking at Architecture books in the library isn't that why he wanted to meet Miwa-sama? I'm not sure though."

She tried to comfort. I looked at her in disbelief.

"What is it about Meiko that the men in my life seem to be drawn to. First Ginta always calling on her, and Yuu telling her all this?"

I mumbled to myself.

"Meiko-chan… I know nothing of Yuu, so I'm sure your assumptions are correct."

I rose to my feet and apologized to Meiko but told her that I had to get home. I walked the streets alone and never made it home. I ended up in front of river.

"Our secret place."

I said to myself as I sat by the shore skipping stones and thinking over my thoughts. It had gotten really dark by the time I heard a voice calling to me.

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Well that's it for chapter 6… I really hope that you enjoyed it, and will give me some feed back so I know what you think so far, and how I could go about continuing it.

Also, one thing, you guys get to have a part. I want all of you to tell which you like better, Meiko & Nachan, or Meiko & Miwa Satoshi? I think I already know what couple I'm going to do. But I'm just curious. I may change my idea, ya never know.

In The Future: Miki feels like she doesn't know Yuu after her conversation with Meiko and eventually confronts him with her feelings. He's surprised and at the same time upset. But they eventually work it all out. But how long will have to go by before they explain why they feel the way they do. And will a mysteriously familiar visitor take Miki's affections off Yuu, and how will he react to the challenge. This and much, much more as 'With out me with you, With out you with me' continues. Please stay tuned.

S.M: Yuu-kun… Who told you so?

Yuu: A good friend of yours.

S.M: Who?

Yuu: (Laughs evilly)

S.M: All my anime friends like me. (Pouts)

Yuu: I never said they didn't like you. They love you they just told me that you have a way of making people do things for you.

S.M: YU-GI, GENE!

Yuu: (Laughs) you'd be right.

::The invisible door appears and out pops Gene and Yu-gi::

Gene: What the… Oh hello Serenity

Yu-gi: Is there a reason I've been pulled out of my bath?

To Be Continued…

30/8/02