AN: Finally written! I tried to write it all last week, but I couldn't get
the idea out. Sorry about the late update. Just a warning, but this chapter
is kinda boring. I just put in everything that I hadn't explained before,
so its just a long stream of explanations. No funnies .. or not much. Heh
heh, but I still hope you'll like reading it! This is it! The final
chapter! I'm done! W00t! Lil notes to ppl are at the bottom of the page.
Thx to all you wonderful reviewers.
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Disclaimer: I don't own HYD.
~*~*~*~ Last Chapter ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Yuki, its not what you -" But he never finished his sentence. For at that exact moment, Doumyouji had knocked him out again.
That was not, however, the source of everyone's attention. Our eyes were trained, instead, on the girl who had shrieked "Nishikado!" and latched herself onto his neck.
A girl who seemed strangely familiar..
~*~*~*~ Ch. 12 Salt From Your Tears ~*~*~*~
I watched amusedly as Tsukasa knocked Yamamoto out for the second time. Before I could properly deliver a line like "You're safe now, Yuki," this horribly high pitched voice yelled, right next to my ear too, "Nishikado!"
I staggered slightly under the sudden weight on my back, turning to look at the girl that was grinning at me. "Who -"
Hey, she's kind of hot.
"Who's this?" I purred, playboy mode kicking into full power. Then I remembered that Yuki was in the room.
My head whipped around to see her reaction to my flirtatiousness and as the room swam around, I noted the astonished looks on F4, Makino, and Yamamoto's faces.
"What?" I asked, completely oblivious as to what was going on as the girl on my back rubbed her cheeks against mine.
"Dude.." Akira groaned, shaking his head with exasperation before turning his back on me.
Tsukasa and Makino were whispering to each other in hushed voices. "Wow, I never imagined his memory was THAT bad." Makino said.
"I think that is probably because of the many times I.. uh.. accidentally hit him on the head." Tsukasa explained.
"Nishikado," the girl on my back said now, "I'm so happy you came to see me!"
See you?
Who?
"Don't make me punch you to make you remember." Akira said, his voice muffled by his hands as he buried his face in them.
Make me remember what?
Then I remembered the flash of pink I saw as I passed one of the rooms on the way from barging into the basement. Pink, fluffy, girliness.. how could I have forgotten?
"OH! Hey, Slut Girl!" I exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
But then.. her room is here, isn't it?
"I live here," was her chirpy reply.
My hands shot up, prying her off of me. "What do you mean?"
"I mean," she said slowly, as though explaining to a second grader, "I live here. As in my car is in the front, my clothes are in the closet, and I come here everyday to sleep."
The six of us, F4, Makino, and Yuki, turned to Yamamoto.
"You mean, you didn't kidnap me?" Yuki asked in shocked voice.
"Why would I ever do that?" Yamamoto said, his voice somewhat slurred by the blood that was streaming down his face.
Makino turned incredulously to Slut Girl who stood there with a stupid grin on her face. "Don't tell me that you kidnapped Yuki."
She looked completely taken back at the question and answered, "Well, who else?"
We had to carry her into her own living room while dragging Yamamoto with us as Makino's punch knocked her out.
But Slut Girl? At first I had thought it was her, but then nothing else happened. And then.. the phone call.. So, where does Yamamoto fit in the picture?
"I guess I owe you all an explanation, because I sure don't understand what would have caused you to attack me like that." Yamamoto said in that deep voice of his as we waited for Slut Girl to revive. "I'll start from the beginning.
"I'm sure you all know about the accident in which my sister passed away. It was three years ago on a night much like this one. Ai was only ten at the time. I loved her so much. My mother had died giving birth to Ai, but I didn't hate her for it. I loved her even more. She was a sister whom I sheltered and protected all my life.
"I - I had met Yuki when Ai was nine. I remembered how much I envied her innocence, her youth and how much it reminded me of Ai. But I soon came to realize that I did not view Yuki as a little sister. It was wrong of me to even think that to begin with. That night of the accident; I would never have - I never planned to kiss Yuki.
"When the police officer told me Ai had passed away, I had just lost everything important in my life, or so I thought. I wanted to hate everything. I felt like the world was so unfair. And for the longest time, I felt like it was all Yuki's fault. It wasn't that I blamed Yuki for Ai's death more than I blamed myself. They dragged me off to the mental asylum, thinking I would harm Yuki and others. But I wouldn't, not now. It was only at that moment, when I realized Ai was dead; it was that moment that I had gone crazy."
"So you felt that it was okay to blame Yuki?" Makino asked in a soft voice, obviously torn between feeling sorry for the guy and wanting to punch him.
"No, I know it wasn't right. I wanted to kill her because.. I wanted to blame someone for all the sorrow I had to go through. Yuki was there with me and thus, I turned to her as a sort of relief. That's what the psychiatrists keep telling me." Yamamoto said, his eyes pleading with Yuki to forgive him.
Yuki wasn't looking at him though; her eyes were trained on the girl sleeping on the sofa, her head resting against my shoulders. I doubted she noticed that she was leaning against me, but I left her to her own thoughts.
"I blame myself for everything. I thought I was definitely cursed. But.. after three years of that place. Anyone who wasn't crazy would surely go insane. Things were always rounded. They didn't give you knives or forks even. They were always watching your every step, ensuring that you weren't trying to kill yourself or anyone else.
"I had to escape. But when I did, I couldn't stop the past from haunting me. Every second of my time I was thinking about Ai or Yuki. I had the fortune of meeting Linda in the photo store a week ago."
He nodded toward the innate form with a grateful smile on his face.
"I saw her with all these photographs and on a closer look, I saw that they were all of Yuki! I was thrilled. I didn't stop to think of why she had the pictures; I only knew that I had found Yuki again."
I don't think it crossed his mind that Yuki may well be living in the same house she was in when he was sent to the hospital three years ago. But heck, what do I know? Maybe she did move.
"It was Linda who found out her new cell phone number. I called Yuki once hoping to talk to her, but then she hung up on me."
The Linda girl groaned, interrupting him in his little speech. She rolled off the sofa and hit the ground with a soft "Oof!"
We watched silently as she climbed back onto the pink sofa and turned big eyes on us.
"Hi," Makino smiled sweetly, and I knew Slut Girl was in for it.
"Hello.." She replied, uncertainly.
"Would you care to explain, or would you rather I hit you again?" said Makino.
Rui turned to me and said softly, "Soijirou, ask her again."
I sighed. Of course, the girl was too lovesick with me to be in the right state of mind. I should have known I would have this affect on people and tried to save female kind from my devastatingly good looks.
"By the way," Akira whispered, leaning over to me, "her name is Linda, not Slut Girl."
Right, that was her name.
"Linda, why did you kidnap Yuki?" I asked.
Yuki buried her head in my shoulder, turning away from the girl who was the actual source of her troubles.
"Nishikado, I did it for you."
My eye's practically popped out of my head. When did I ever ask her to do such a thing for me?
"What are you talking about?" Akira remarked acidly, "I assure you, Soijirou never asked you to do it."
"I - well when I saw her.. I thought you two were together. I was so mad, Nishikado. I thought you loved me. I put out for you, and then you turned around and kissed another girl. I love you." Linda whispered, "This Yuki, she brainwashed you! She made you dump me. I hate her. I wanted to save you from her. I followed you around everywhere. I thought that if I scared her away, then everything would be fine and you would come back to me. So I followed her and took pictures, just to scare her."
"You were stalking her?" I asked incredulously.
"You were stalking him?" Yuki asked at the same time.
We turned to each other and though I suddenly wanted to laugh, I refrained from doing so in this situation.
"Yes, of course. I continued to stalk Yuki after the pictures were sent. Then once I slipped a note into the dango shop where she worked. You were all there, but were so distracted." Linda pouted, trying to remember what she did next. "Well, let's see.. I didn't realize my actions would make the two of you get even closer together. I was furious. I took more pictures of Yuki, intent on sending it to you, but that was when I met Hiroaki. He took them from me, wanted to keep them. We both wanted something so I realized we could help each other. See, if he took Yuki away, then I would have Nishikado all for myself."
The girl was speaking now as though there was no one else in the room; like she was talking to herself. I frowned inwardly, Slut Girl was obviously deranged.
"But nothing happened! Hiroaki didn't do anything, he called but then he told me that if Yuki was happy with someone else, then he didn't want to bother her. I was furious. All the hard work I went through and to still lose Nishikado to that girl. So I kidnapped her. It worked beautifully. No one suspected me. I left the house after tying Yuki up and went to the beach house in which Nishikado should have been at. You weren't there so I went to your house. Finally, I went to Hiroaki's house to tell him that I had Yuki, but no one was there either! I came home to find the front door open. And that was when I saw all of you here. What are you doing here, anyway?" She finished.
F4 turned to each other. "We came here to save Yuki." Rui explained.
"I believe I was the one who came to save Yuki. You guys came to kill me." Yamamoto slurred.
Whoops. That reminded me that we had beat him to a pulp for really.. no reason at all. Poor man, when the F4 wants someone dead, it must really hurt.
I scratched my head and laughed. "About that, my good man," I said, clapping him on the back. But all the punches that he received must have been taking a toll for he keeled over in pain and fell on the floor.
"Nishikado!" Yuki cried, hitting me on the arm.
Ouch, jeez, I was just trying to help.
Instead, I mumbled, "Sorry," while she knelt by him to help him back up.
I turned to everyone else in the room. Makino was collapsed in Tsukasa's arms. Akira and Rui were calling the police. The matter cleaned up nicely.
I'm glad that everything's over now. We won't have to worry about this anymore. I smiled and suddenly wanted to cry. I don't have to protect Yuki anymore..
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"Yuki." I said softly into the night air. It had stopped raining by the time we got back to the beach house to pack up and leave. I asked Yuki to take a walk with me, just a little bit around the beach.
"Hm?" She asked, smiling at me.
I smiled back. "I like you."
Just like that.
It wasn't love, but for me, I'd say that's close enough, isn't it? I spent my entire life formulating this perfect plan where I would never fall in love, never like someone. But that's just it, this is my entire life I'm weighing in my hands.
Her mouth had fallen open and she gaped at me. I put my fingers under her chin and closed her mouth.
"You see," I said, "I've never liked anyone before. I'm quite amazed at this myself. But .. I'm a playboy."
I'm a playboy and I want to stay that way..
"I can't be with you, Yuki." I said softly.
I don't want to throw everything away. I can't.. not for something that won't last.
She turned away from me and I had a strong suspicion that she was crying.
"Yuki?" I asked.
God, please don't be crying. That wasn't the point of it all. I should be good at these things, but the second a girl starts crying I don't know what to do.
Well, that's not true, if it were anyone else, I would just walk away. But this is Yuki.. and I felt a need to comfort her. For the first time in my life, that playboy side of me was suppressed.
"Thank you for telling me." She replied stiffly and she started to walk away.
"Yuki, stop, please."
She continued to walk but I wouldn't let her.
Walking briskly up to her, I yanked her around. "Yuki-"
Tears were streaming down her face, forcing everything I had wanted to say out of my mouth.
"Damn you, Nishikado!" She yelled, yanking her arm away from my grasp. "I liked you too. I spent an entire year of my life idolizing you. I thought you would never notice me. And now when the one thing I had always wanted to hear to say is said, you.. you ruin it! WHY did you tell me if you can't be with me? Why would you torture me like this?" She cried out.
I pulled her towards me and bent my head and kissed her. It was truly a beautiful kiss this time. I could taste her salty tears, feel her whacking sobs, but most of all, I could feel the utter bliss of it all.
I pulled away, finally, forcing myself to do so. "I'm sorry," I whispered in her ear.
She pulled herself out of my arms and walked away.
This time..
I let her go.
:End of Chapter 12:
AN: That's it. THE END! Don't kill me! I'm going to have a epilogue. And sorry that it's not really fluff. As much as I like fluff, I suck at writing all those nice cutsy little scenes. Review! Cuz I love reviews! And this was originally my story idea, but then my friend told me that it was practically the same thing in the TV series which I haven't seen. So I wasn't trying to steal TV idea. -_- That's why I'm going to stick on an epilogue. Yup, that's done and over with. I'm so relieved!
cuppajava: I'm so glad to reviewed again. Sorry about my not so funnyness before. I went through a phase where I was very bitter about life and was very depressed about everything. I think that influenced my writing style greatly. Unfortunately, this update isn't exactly too happy either. I still hope that you will review. ^^ Thank you for your compliments. I love making people laugh, so I'm glad you found my sense of humor.. humorous. ^^ Thank you again.
jestina: Hehehe *runz* It really wasn't THAT much of a cliff hanger, it was better than last times. ^^ Glad you found the chappie funny, I tried. Haha. Yea, and I totally sympathize with Hiroaki. That's why I dedicated a whole page to him this chapter! WOW. Haha, no, he'll get lucky in the epilogue. ^^ Thx for ur reviews!
ToinKs: Thx for ur awesome reviews. Haha, yea, wasn't that obvious. Sorry if my last chapter confused you. The girl was actually latched onto Nishikado, not Hiroaki. I guess it didn't sound like that was what I was trying to say. So, sorry to disappoint, but Ai does not come back from the land of the dead.
Lirpa: See, I explained why he wanted to kill Yuki, JUST for you, lirpa. Feel special, feel very special. Hahaha. Is this chapter long enough? I hope so. ^^
Yoitzjgirl: LoL, I kno, it was strange reading about such a serious thing in such a light tone. But I couldn't help it! It was the truffles or whatever else I was eating that made me bounce off the walls.
Sheen: WOW. Thank you SOO VERY MUCH for ALL your reviews and for finding the time to review every chapter all at once. ^^ That really really motivated me. I loved reading about your favorite lines, and I'm so glad you like my story. Also very happy for a new reader! Thx so much!!
Celina: Yea, Hiroaki should get some credit too, thus this chapter, he got the clap on the back! And thank you for your support all throughout my story. All your ideas really helped out. Thx again for sticking around.
Kara: Hope you enjoyed the update. ^^ Thx for all the reviews and support you have given me, they were VERY much appreciated.
*HUGZ* to ALL my reviewers! You guys ROCK!
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Disclaimer: I don't own HYD.
~*~*~*~ Last Chapter ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Yuki, its not what you -" But he never finished his sentence. For at that exact moment, Doumyouji had knocked him out again.
That was not, however, the source of everyone's attention. Our eyes were trained, instead, on the girl who had shrieked "Nishikado!" and latched herself onto his neck.
A girl who seemed strangely familiar..
~*~*~*~ Ch. 12 Salt From Your Tears ~*~*~*~
I watched amusedly as Tsukasa knocked Yamamoto out for the second time. Before I could properly deliver a line like "You're safe now, Yuki," this horribly high pitched voice yelled, right next to my ear too, "Nishikado!"
I staggered slightly under the sudden weight on my back, turning to look at the girl that was grinning at me. "Who -"
Hey, she's kind of hot.
"Who's this?" I purred, playboy mode kicking into full power. Then I remembered that Yuki was in the room.
My head whipped around to see her reaction to my flirtatiousness and as the room swam around, I noted the astonished looks on F4, Makino, and Yamamoto's faces.
"What?" I asked, completely oblivious as to what was going on as the girl on my back rubbed her cheeks against mine.
"Dude.." Akira groaned, shaking his head with exasperation before turning his back on me.
Tsukasa and Makino were whispering to each other in hushed voices. "Wow, I never imagined his memory was THAT bad." Makino said.
"I think that is probably because of the many times I.. uh.. accidentally hit him on the head." Tsukasa explained.
"Nishikado," the girl on my back said now, "I'm so happy you came to see me!"
See you?
Who?
"Don't make me punch you to make you remember." Akira said, his voice muffled by his hands as he buried his face in them.
Make me remember what?
Then I remembered the flash of pink I saw as I passed one of the rooms on the way from barging into the basement. Pink, fluffy, girliness.. how could I have forgotten?
"OH! Hey, Slut Girl!" I exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
But then.. her room is here, isn't it?
"I live here," was her chirpy reply.
My hands shot up, prying her off of me. "What do you mean?"
"I mean," she said slowly, as though explaining to a second grader, "I live here. As in my car is in the front, my clothes are in the closet, and I come here everyday to sleep."
The six of us, F4, Makino, and Yuki, turned to Yamamoto.
"You mean, you didn't kidnap me?" Yuki asked in shocked voice.
"Why would I ever do that?" Yamamoto said, his voice somewhat slurred by the blood that was streaming down his face.
Makino turned incredulously to Slut Girl who stood there with a stupid grin on her face. "Don't tell me that you kidnapped Yuki."
She looked completely taken back at the question and answered, "Well, who else?"
We had to carry her into her own living room while dragging Yamamoto with us as Makino's punch knocked her out.
But Slut Girl? At first I had thought it was her, but then nothing else happened. And then.. the phone call.. So, where does Yamamoto fit in the picture?
"I guess I owe you all an explanation, because I sure don't understand what would have caused you to attack me like that." Yamamoto said in that deep voice of his as we waited for Slut Girl to revive. "I'll start from the beginning.
"I'm sure you all know about the accident in which my sister passed away. It was three years ago on a night much like this one. Ai was only ten at the time. I loved her so much. My mother had died giving birth to Ai, but I didn't hate her for it. I loved her even more. She was a sister whom I sheltered and protected all my life.
"I - I had met Yuki when Ai was nine. I remembered how much I envied her innocence, her youth and how much it reminded me of Ai. But I soon came to realize that I did not view Yuki as a little sister. It was wrong of me to even think that to begin with. That night of the accident; I would never have - I never planned to kiss Yuki.
"When the police officer told me Ai had passed away, I had just lost everything important in my life, or so I thought. I wanted to hate everything. I felt like the world was so unfair. And for the longest time, I felt like it was all Yuki's fault. It wasn't that I blamed Yuki for Ai's death more than I blamed myself. They dragged me off to the mental asylum, thinking I would harm Yuki and others. But I wouldn't, not now. It was only at that moment, when I realized Ai was dead; it was that moment that I had gone crazy."
"So you felt that it was okay to blame Yuki?" Makino asked in a soft voice, obviously torn between feeling sorry for the guy and wanting to punch him.
"No, I know it wasn't right. I wanted to kill her because.. I wanted to blame someone for all the sorrow I had to go through. Yuki was there with me and thus, I turned to her as a sort of relief. That's what the psychiatrists keep telling me." Yamamoto said, his eyes pleading with Yuki to forgive him.
Yuki wasn't looking at him though; her eyes were trained on the girl sleeping on the sofa, her head resting against my shoulders. I doubted she noticed that she was leaning against me, but I left her to her own thoughts.
"I blame myself for everything. I thought I was definitely cursed. But.. after three years of that place. Anyone who wasn't crazy would surely go insane. Things were always rounded. They didn't give you knives or forks even. They were always watching your every step, ensuring that you weren't trying to kill yourself or anyone else.
"I had to escape. But when I did, I couldn't stop the past from haunting me. Every second of my time I was thinking about Ai or Yuki. I had the fortune of meeting Linda in the photo store a week ago."
He nodded toward the innate form with a grateful smile on his face.
"I saw her with all these photographs and on a closer look, I saw that they were all of Yuki! I was thrilled. I didn't stop to think of why she had the pictures; I only knew that I had found Yuki again."
I don't think it crossed his mind that Yuki may well be living in the same house she was in when he was sent to the hospital three years ago. But heck, what do I know? Maybe she did move.
"It was Linda who found out her new cell phone number. I called Yuki once hoping to talk to her, but then she hung up on me."
The Linda girl groaned, interrupting him in his little speech. She rolled off the sofa and hit the ground with a soft "Oof!"
We watched silently as she climbed back onto the pink sofa and turned big eyes on us.
"Hi," Makino smiled sweetly, and I knew Slut Girl was in for it.
"Hello.." She replied, uncertainly.
"Would you care to explain, or would you rather I hit you again?" said Makino.
Rui turned to me and said softly, "Soijirou, ask her again."
I sighed. Of course, the girl was too lovesick with me to be in the right state of mind. I should have known I would have this affect on people and tried to save female kind from my devastatingly good looks.
"By the way," Akira whispered, leaning over to me, "her name is Linda, not Slut Girl."
Right, that was her name.
"Linda, why did you kidnap Yuki?" I asked.
Yuki buried her head in my shoulder, turning away from the girl who was the actual source of her troubles.
"Nishikado, I did it for you."
My eye's practically popped out of my head. When did I ever ask her to do such a thing for me?
"What are you talking about?" Akira remarked acidly, "I assure you, Soijirou never asked you to do it."
"I - well when I saw her.. I thought you two were together. I was so mad, Nishikado. I thought you loved me. I put out for you, and then you turned around and kissed another girl. I love you." Linda whispered, "This Yuki, she brainwashed you! She made you dump me. I hate her. I wanted to save you from her. I followed you around everywhere. I thought that if I scared her away, then everything would be fine and you would come back to me. So I followed her and took pictures, just to scare her."
"You were stalking her?" I asked incredulously.
"You were stalking him?" Yuki asked at the same time.
We turned to each other and though I suddenly wanted to laugh, I refrained from doing so in this situation.
"Yes, of course. I continued to stalk Yuki after the pictures were sent. Then once I slipped a note into the dango shop where she worked. You were all there, but were so distracted." Linda pouted, trying to remember what she did next. "Well, let's see.. I didn't realize my actions would make the two of you get even closer together. I was furious. I took more pictures of Yuki, intent on sending it to you, but that was when I met Hiroaki. He took them from me, wanted to keep them. We both wanted something so I realized we could help each other. See, if he took Yuki away, then I would have Nishikado all for myself."
The girl was speaking now as though there was no one else in the room; like she was talking to herself. I frowned inwardly, Slut Girl was obviously deranged.
"But nothing happened! Hiroaki didn't do anything, he called but then he told me that if Yuki was happy with someone else, then he didn't want to bother her. I was furious. All the hard work I went through and to still lose Nishikado to that girl. So I kidnapped her. It worked beautifully. No one suspected me. I left the house after tying Yuki up and went to the beach house in which Nishikado should have been at. You weren't there so I went to your house. Finally, I went to Hiroaki's house to tell him that I had Yuki, but no one was there either! I came home to find the front door open. And that was when I saw all of you here. What are you doing here, anyway?" She finished.
F4 turned to each other. "We came here to save Yuki." Rui explained.
"I believe I was the one who came to save Yuki. You guys came to kill me." Yamamoto slurred.
Whoops. That reminded me that we had beat him to a pulp for really.. no reason at all. Poor man, when the F4 wants someone dead, it must really hurt.
I scratched my head and laughed. "About that, my good man," I said, clapping him on the back. But all the punches that he received must have been taking a toll for he keeled over in pain and fell on the floor.
"Nishikado!" Yuki cried, hitting me on the arm.
Ouch, jeez, I was just trying to help.
Instead, I mumbled, "Sorry," while she knelt by him to help him back up.
I turned to everyone else in the room. Makino was collapsed in Tsukasa's arms. Akira and Rui were calling the police. The matter cleaned up nicely.
I'm glad that everything's over now. We won't have to worry about this anymore. I smiled and suddenly wanted to cry. I don't have to protect Yuki anymore..
~*~*~*~
"Yuki." I said softly into the night air. It had stopped raining by the time we got back to the beach house to pack up and leave. I asked Yuki to take a walk with me, just a little bit around the beach.
"Hm?" She asked, smiling at me.
I smiled back. "I like you."
Just like that.
It wasn't love, but for me, I'd say that's close enough, isn't it? I spent my entire life formulating this perfect plan where I would never fall in love, never like someone. But that's just it, this is my entire life I'm weighing in my hands.
Her mouth had fallen open and she gaped at me. I put my fingers under her chin and closed her mouth.
"You see," I said, "I've never liked anyone before. I'm quite amazed at this myself. But .. I'm a playboy."
I'm a playboy and I want to stay that way..
"I can't be with you, Yuki." I said softly.
I don't want to throw everything away. I can't.. not for something that won't last.
She turned away from me and I had a strong suspicion that she was crying.
"Yuki?" I asked.
God, please don't be crying. That wasn't the point of it all. I should be good at these things, but the second a girl starts crying I don't know what to do.
Well, that's not true, if it were anyone else, I would just walk away. But this is Yuki.. and I felt a need to comfort her. For the first time in my life, that playboy side of me was suppressed.
"Thank you for telling me." She replied stiffly and she started to walk away.
"Yuki, stop, please."
She continued to walk but I wouldn't let her.
Walking briskly up to her, I yanked her around. "Yuki-"
Tears were streaming down her face, forcing everything I had wanted to say out of my mouth.
"Damn you, Nishikado!" She yelled, yanking her arm away from my grasp. "I liked you too. I spent an entire year of my life idolizing you. I thought you would never notice me. And now when the one thing I had always wanted to hear to say is said, you.. you ruin it! WHY did you tell me if you can't be with me? Why would you torture me like this?" She cried out.
I pulled her towards me and bent my head and kissed her. It was truly a beautiful kiss this time. I could taste her salty tears, feel her whacking sobs, but most of all, I could feel the utter bliss of it all.
I pulled away, finally, forcing myself to do so. "I'm sorry," I whispered in her ear.
She pulled herself out of my arms and walked away.
This time..
I let her go.
:End of Chapter 12:
AN: That's it. THE END! Don't kill me! I'm going to have a epilogue. And sorry that it's not really fluff. As much as I like fluff, I suck at writing all those nice cutsy little scenes. Review! Cuz I love reviews! And this was originally my story idea, but then my friend told me that it was practically the same thing in the TV series which I haven't seen. So I wasn't trying to steal TV idea. -_- That's why I'm going to stick on an epilogue. Yup, that's done and over with. I'm so relieved!
cuppajava: I'm so glad to reviewed again. Sorry about my not so funnyness before. I went through a phase where I was very bitter about life and was very depressed about everything. I think that influenced my writing style greatly. Unfortunately, this update isn't exactly too happy either. I still hope that you will review. ^^ Thank you for your compliments. I love making people laugh, so I'm glad you found my sense of humor.. humorous. ^^ Thank you again.
jestina: Hehehe *runz* It really wasn't THAT much of a cliff hanger, it was better than last times. ^^ Glad you found the chappie funny, I tried. Haha. Yea, and I totally sympathize with Hiroaki. That's why I dedicated a whole page to him this chapter! WOW. Haha, no, he'll get lucky in the epilogue. ^^ Thx for ur reviews!
ToinKs: Thx for ur awesome reviews. Haha, yea, wasn't that obvious. Sorry if my last chapter confused you. The girl was actually latched onto Nishikado, not Hiroaki. I guess it didn't sound like that was what I was trying to say. So, sorry to disappoint, but Ai does not come back from the land of the dead.
Lirpa: See, I explained why he wanted to kill Yuki, JUST for you, lirpa. Feel special, feel very special. Hahaha. Is this chapter long enough? I hope so. ^^
Yoitzjgirl: LoL, I kno, it was strange reading about such a serious thing in such a light tone. But I couldn't help it! It was the truffles or whatever else I was eating that made me bounce off the walls.
Sheen: WOW. Thank you SOO VERY MUCH for ALL your reviews and for finding the time to review every chapter all at once. ^^ That really really motivated me. I loved reading about your favorite lines, and I'm so glad you like my story. Also very happy for a new reader! Thx so much!!
Celina: Yea, Hiroaki should get some credit too, thus this chapter, he got the clap on the back! And thank you for your support all throughout my story. All your ideas really helped out. Thx again for sticking around.
Kara: Hope you enjoyed the update. ^^ Thx for all the reviews and support you have given me, they were VERY much appreciated.
*HUGZ* to ALL my reviewers! You guys ROCK!