Notes: The end!!! This is just a short chapter to round everything up. ^_^
Cupid
Chapter 14: Epilogue
Makoto stood at the side of the gym, idly dribbling a basketball as she waited for the team to assemble. The team's captain and vice-captain, Rukawa and Hanamichi were also waiting patiently for the rest of the club to come together. It was their last year in high school and things were going well. They had just come in first in the inter-high championships, under the leadership of Rukawa and the self-proclaimed tensai. When everyone was settled, Rukawa just briefly made a speech before they left to study for their entrance exams. ( Well, Hana and Ru do have to study because they might get kicked out even before they began their exams ^^;)
"Anything more to add?" Rukawa glanced at Hanamichi and Makoto. Makoto smiled and walked out from her corner.
"Aa." Makoto stood in front of the whole basketball club, Haruko included.
"I've been in this team for three years. There is something I must tell all of you, that I have been keeping a secret for three whole years," she took a deep breath before continuing, " I, Aoshima Makoto, am actually a girl, believe it or not."
She amused herself at the sight of the basketball club. They were in shock, as expected, as well as in denial. First, their captain and vice-captain were an item, and know one of their best players was actually a...girl??? Haruko had fainted because she did not expect it, and the rest of the team simply had their jaws stuck to the ground. Makoto wanted to roll on the floor laughing, but she simply gave a satisfied smirk. Rukawa just had his face as stoic as ever, while Hanamichi was getting red in the face trying to prevent himself from bursting into laughter. He was purely amused by the hilarious reactions from the team.
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It was the beginning of April. A tall figure was standing at the side of the road, waiting by the gates of Kanagawa State University. The figure looked at her watch impatiently. It was already ten minutes to eight, and her companions were nowhere to be found. She gave a quick glance at the people passing by.
"Where in the world are they? Kami-sama, it's the first day of school!" She muttered to herself, but was cut off by two long arms wrapping around her waist, and warm breath on her neck.
"Missed me?" Her boyfriend's deep voice echoed in her ear, while his breath tickled her neck. Usually, she would let him do what he wanted, to a certain extent. But, considering that they were in broad daylight, with university students walking past them, and that she was in a rather foul mood, today was an exception. She raised her arm and jabbed him in the stomach. Totally not expecting the blow, her boyfriend took a few steps backward, clutching his stomach. She turned around, and cast a glare at him.
"Baka Akira, if you haven't noticed, we are at the gates of Kanagawa State University, in broad daylight, and we are almost late for the first day of school! And Hana-kun and Kaede aren't even here yet! You still have the mood to jump me?"
Sendoh pouted cutely and grinned in reply.
"But Mak-chan! You look wonderful today! This is the first time I've seen you dressed in a skirt! I've never seen you so cute before, what's wrong with cuddling my girlfriend?"
Makoto sighed in exasperation. She looked down at her own attire. She wasn't going to cross-dress since she had no intention of joining the national team. She was wearing a denim jacket, buttoned at the bottom, over a black open-collar polo shirt, with a pale blue skirt that just ended above her knees. She was just wearing her normal sport shoes, but the look was complete.
"..Besides, Rukawa and Hana-kun are already here. They're not late, see?"
"Eh? Where?" Makoto looked around, confused, not seeing anyone that resembled both of her best friends.
"There." Sendoh enthusiastically pulled Makoto over to the other side of a cherry blossom tree nearby. Makoto sweatdropped and blushed furiously when she saw what the two were doing at the back of the tree. The raven-haired boy had pinned Hanamichi to the tree with one hand and they were....(gomen. i'm not going into details ^^;;;) Makoto couldn't believe her childhood friend was becoming as hentai as her boyfriend, maybe even more. A large throbbing vein appeared at the back of her head, just as Sendoh was kissing down her neck.
*WHAM!!!!*
" I can't believe I'm held up just because both of you were %&*$# behind a sakura tree first morning first thing in the morning!" Makoto fumed as she dragged 3 tall boys with steaming lumps on their heads across the corridor. The students of Kanagawa State University decided, then and there, that they should not interfere in the affairs of that particular foursome.
~OWARI~