Who is He?
Chapter Eight!
Authors Note: Well I'm out of school and finally have time to finish up my story! Hopefully I won't be going too many places this summer!
Disclaimer: No I do not own Digimon! ^^
Summary: Izumi has met the man of her dreams, so she thinks. Yuuhi is a very attractive guy whose personality seems to have Izumi struck with "love" Meanwhile Kouji finally shows some signs of liking her but Izumi feelings lie elsewhere. Junpei is still an idiot, Kazu keeps popping out from nowhere and Ms. Akito and Tasuki aren't getting along at all.
Story continues from there.
"I wonder if he really is a flirt…" Izumi thought while she lay in bed. Her mind suddenly switched to Kouji. "Kouji's not a flirt. He's more of a your-not-allowed-to-have-a-crush-on-me kinda guy…. but Yuhhi is so cute! But so is Kouji!" she sat up in bed. "What am I doing????? I'm actually comparing guys!! I've never done this before! How do I even know if Kouji likes me? Well he probably doesn't! And Yuhhi I just met him! I really don't know what he's like at all!"
"Izumi stop talking about guys and go to sleep." Her mother called out from the other room.
Izumi lay back in bed she closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep.
Izumi awoke to the sound of her alarm clock. It was 5 o'clock.
Izumi had set it that early because she just felt so restless.
She got up and stretched. She remembered Yuuhi from last night and blushed deeply.
Izumi sighed. "Man I gotta stop thinking 'bout the guy!"
"Izumi what are you doing up so early?" Izumi's mother asked standing at Izumi's door.
"Well I just couldn't stay in bed any longer, so I thought I'd wake up early today and do something since today's Saturday."
"Well okay. Have a nice day then. I'm going out for my morning jog." Izumi's mother said before she left.
Izumi cleaned herself up and sat down at the breakfast table eating her cereal.
"I wonder if Yuuhi knows I like him…" Izumi said to herself. "Rei better not have told him! Errr!! I feel soooo alive and the world seems so dead right now! I need to do something!!!"
Izumi stared at her cereal as she pondered what to do that day. Suddenly an idea sprang to her head.
"I'll go see Kouji!" Izumi said. She remembered Kouji's father and shuddered. "Yea maybe I can try and get him to tell someone about his problem."
Izumi jumped up and pulled her sneakers on. She wrote a note explaining that she went out and left it on the kitchen table and ran out of the house.
She stood at the bus stop wondering how she was gonna talk to him. She tried out a few ideas out loud.
"Hey Kouji! How'yah doing! Well isn't this a great day!" Izumi groaned. "Why am I doing this? He might not even be up at this time and he doesn't want my help!"
Izumi remembered when he hugged her and unconsciously smiled.
She felt a tap on her back and saw Junpei smiling at her when she turned around.
"Izumi! I was just coming over to see you today!" Junpei said.
"At five-thirty in the morning?" Izumi asked lazily. She was just to use too having Junpei springing out of nowhere.
"Well yea! I didn't think you'd be awake so I was gonna secretly watch you from your bedroom window while you were asleep. Hehe! But it's a secret!" Junpei chuckled.
"Oh okay! I promise I won't tell!" Izumi said with sarcasm.
"Hehehe! Thanks!" Junpei chuckled thinking he had said something smart.
Izumi groaned. "It's too early for this." She said as she whacked Junpei with her handy dandy mallet.
"Ouch!" Junpei said. "So where're we going?"
"Where I'm going is none of your business and you're not coming with me." Izumi said as she bus approached.
"But-But! I wanna come! Please Izumi! I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!!" he cried.
"No Junpei! Go home!" Izumi said as her anger mounted. She tried to get in the bus but Junpei grabbed her hand.
"IZUMI PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!" Junpei cried.
"Err!! Junpei!!! Let go of me!!"
"Noooooo!! Wahhhhhh!!" he cried even louder.
The lights from the houses surrounding the bus stop started coming on.
"Shut up! I'm trying to sleep!" someone said from one of the houses.
"Junpei you're waking people up!" Izumi hissed.
"Hey are you getting on or not?" the bus driver asked. "I have a schedule to keep you know!"
"Sorry! Junpei!" Izumi said angrily.
"Izumi! I wanna come!" Junpei cried.
"Errrrrrrr!!! FINE!" Izumi said.
Junpei's face lit up as he and Izumi boarded the bus. Izumi had to pay the bus fare for Junpei since he had no money.
"You owe me!" Izumi said as she looked around the bus for a one-seater.
"Izumi come sit beside me!" Junpei cried. The people on the bus stared at them.
"No. It' okay Junpei I got another seat." Izumi said as she sat down.
"But Izumi!! I want you to sit beside me!"
"NO Junpei!"
"IZUMIIIIIIII!!!" Junpei cried.
"Junpei…" Izumi began.
"Please!!!!"
"No!"
"WAHHHHHHHHH!!! Izumi!!!!!" Junpei cried louder.
"Please, please just sit beside the boy!" a man on the bus said, looking at Izumi. "He's driving me insane!"
"Fine!" Izumi said getting up. She took the seat beside Junpei.
"Izumi. Why exactly are we going to Kouji's house?"
"Well I was going there because I need to speak to him."
"About?"
"About…something! It really isn't any of your business!!"
Junpei stared at Izumi and then gasped.
"Izumi…are you…bbrr-br-breaking up with me?" Junpei asked.
Some of the passengers on the bus turned to stare at Izumi and Junpei. Some of them stared at them openly while others tried not to make it seems too obvious.
"We were never together!!" Izumi shouted back.
The bus came to a stop and people started pouring in.
"Izumi! I-I-I can't believe you're doing this to me!! After all we've been through!!"
"We haven't been through anything together unless you're counting all my painful memories with you!!" Izumi said. She was just so annoyed with him.
"I can't believe it! You're going to his house because you hate me!!" Junpei said crying. He jumped off his seat and ran off the bus screaming that he couldn't believe it.
Izumi sighed; she wondered how Junpei was going to get home. She looked outside the bus window and saw that there was only a few more stops 'till she'd have to get off. She then looked at her watch. 6:12.
The bus stopped at a red light and Izumi looked out the window again. She saw Tasuki running down the street and calling out to someone. She opened her window so she could hear whom he was calling.
"Riku! Ne Riku!" Tasuki called.
Izumi looked down the street to see Ms. Akito. He was calling Ms. Akito!!! But why was he calling her Riku? Of course! That must be her first name! Izumi had never known Ms. Akito's first name until now.
It was obvious that Ms. Akito could hear him but was choosing to ignore him. Finally Tasuki caught up with her but before Izumi could spy on them anymore the bus began moving again.
"Darn it!" Izumi said to herself. I wonder what Tasuki wants with Ms. Akito.
Finally the bus came to her stop. Izumi hopped off the bus and walked slowly towards Kouji's house.
"Maybe he's sleeping…I might just be bugging him actually. It really isn't my business though is it…?" Izumi said as she reached his house.
She stood outside the gate, which was the border between the sidewalk and his front yard. Suddenly the door swung open. Izumi ran behind some bushes that happened to have a nice view of Kouji front door.
A man stepped out of the house and Izumi recognized him to be Kouji's father. He was wearing a business suit.
He walked towards his car and opened the door but didn't get in.
"KOUJI! Where is it?" he called out.
Kouji walked out of the house holding his father's briefcase. He watched the ground as he walked towards his father. He handed his father the briefcase and turned to leave but his father caught his shoulder.
"WELL?" his father said.
"Well what?" Kouji spat.
Kouji's father looked around and then grabbed Kouji's right ear when he was sure no one was watching. (Izumi's watching this though.)
He twisted Kouji's ear.
"Don't you know how to act around your father?!!" he hissed. "I expect a goodbye every time I leave for work SON!!
Kouji was finally able to make his father let go of his ear and stared hard at his father.
"Don't you know how to treat your son?!!" Kouji asked angrily.
"Why you little" his father began but stopped when he saw his neighbor get out of her house. Their neighbor waved at them. Kouji's father smiled back and waved. He got into the car and shut the door. He rolled the shutter down and stared angrily at Kouji.
"We'll talk about your manners when we get home!" he said quietly but dangerously.
"When have we ever bothered to talk?" Kouji said calmly but not without force. "It's usually you bang my head into a wall and then beat me up a bit more. I don't remember ever having a discussion between you punching me in the face and choking me!!!"
Kouji father looked hard at Kouji and made to grab Kouji's hair but Kouji jumped back in time.
"Oh wait! You do swear at me now and then…so maybe that could be classified as have a discussion!!!" Kouji said sarcastically.
"When I get home…!" Kouji's father said threateningly before pulling out of the driveway.
"Sure dad! I'll have you're evening snack ready! Bye dad! Enjoy your day at work! You're the best father ever!!" Kouji called sarcastically.
Izumi stared wide-eyed at Kouji, who had just spat on the ground.
"Orimoto get out from behind that bush and tell me what you're doing at my house!" Kouji said.
"Ohhhhh!!! Is this YOUR house?? I didn't know that!" Izumi said laughing fakely as she stepped out from behind the bush.
Kouji stared at Izumi and turned to walk inside his house.
Izumi watched as he walked towards his door. That was the dumbest thing you have ever done Izumi!! Now of course he won't want to speak to me!!
"Well why are you just standing there?! Get in!" Kouji said looking at her.
"But I thought…" Izumi began.
"Fine you don't wanna come in?" Kouji said about to shut the door.
"WAIT! Yea I wanna come in! That's the reason I came all the way here!!" Izumi shouted angrily.
Kouji smirked at her.
Izumi gasped. I can never keep anything in can I? She thought to herself.
"You can never keep anything in can you Orimoto?" Kouji said as if he had just read her thoughts.
Izumi walked towards Kouji and stood in front of him, glaring. Kouji was taller than her of course but she still looked at him angrily.
"Stop reading my thoughts Minamoto!" Izumi said angrily.
Kouji stared at her blankly and said. "What?"
"Never mind! Just let me in." Izumi said pushing past him. Kouji stood at the door for while just shaking him head and smiling, but Izumi didn't see this.
Kouji shut the door and turned around. He expected to see Izumi standing in front of him but instead he saw her sitting on the couch biting an apple that she had snatched off the fruit basket. She was sitting crossed legged on his couch just eating an apple.
Kouji was very surprised with her manners. He burst out laughing.
Izumi dropped the apple she was eating and almost choked on her bite.
She looked to see Kouji holding his side while laughing. He was laughing!! Kouji Minamoto was laughing!!
His laughter was contagious so Izumi found herself laughing with him, even though she didn't know why she was laughing.
It took them a while to stop laughing but when they finally did Izumi found she was sitting right beside Kouji.
Eeeehhhh!! Okay Izumi thought! Now what?
Kouji stared at Izumi before saying, "You're the strangest person I have ever met…except for Junpei."
He looked at the ground.
"Well I'm so glad I'm not as strange as Junpei. You know he almost followed me here but he left when he thought I was breaking up with him." Izumi said.
"So I guess that means you're still dating." Kouji said yawning.
"Yea…sadly I have a feeling he's going to come back and say, Izumi I'm sorry about last time! I just wasn't thinking. I know you'd never abandon me!" Izumi said trying to imitate Junpei's voice.
Kouji and Izumi sat there for a while. It was silent and very awkward.
"Well you have a really nice house!" Izumi finally managed to come up with a topic. "I wish my house was as nice as this!"
"Yes but I bet you're happy living where you are." Kouji said this without even a hint of self-pity in his voice.
"Yes I am. That's why I came here. I wanted to talk to you about your father abusing you."
"Izumi, this doesn't concern you." Kouji said, "It's not any of your business."
"No it doesn't concern me but you're not doing anything about it so I'm making it my business!!" Izumi said.
"Izumi. You better not have told the police about this." He said.
"No I didn't but you should do that!"
"If I told them where would I go?!! ,What would happen to me??" he asked her. "I'll probably end up in some orphanage, and I don't have an intention of going to one!!"
"Kouji! Do you want to live the rest of your life abused by your father! Don't you see that one day it might just go too far and you might be hurt real bad..or…or even end up dead??!!!"
"Well if that happens at least he'll go to jail and I won't have to be stuck in an orphanage!" Kouji said standing up.
Izumi stood up too and they both stared at each other.
"I know why you're doing this." Izumi said looking at the ground.
"Yea? Why?" Kouji asked.
"Because you want revenge for your mother. You want to avenge your mother's death."
"Orimoto you know nothing about me or my mother so you have no say in my life!!!" Kouji said angrily.
"Maybe not!! But think about your mother!! Would she want you to do this??" Izumi said, her voice rising.
Kouji looked away from Izumi.
Then softly, "Kouji, life is…is…a gift given to you by your mother and unfortunately by your father too. The way you spend it is up to you but I want you to know that you're wasting your life here. You won't make it any better if you hurt him because it won't bring your mother back!"
Izumi's voice began to falter and croak as she spoke a bit faster, "No matter what, there will always be a hole in your heart! Yea it'll never go away! But you can make it smaller! I know you don't want to tell anyone because you don't want to leave this house. It obviously reminds you too much of your mother and you think that you'll have nothing left of her if you leave it…but you will. The memories of your mother aren't in this house Kouji. They're in you! You hold the memories!"
Izumi looked sadly at Kouji but he didn't look back at her. She turned around and walked towards the door and shut it lightly. Only then did Kouji dare to look somewhere else. He stared at the door and sighed.
Izumi walked to the bus stop feelings weird and sad. Really sad. Not just like you feel bad for someone but you're actually hurting too.
She didn't know if Kouji would ever speak to her again but she did know that she had told him the right thing and now it was up to him to make the correct decision.
When Izumi got back home she plopped down on her couch and closed her eyes and sighed.
"Izumi you're back! Well you just had a call." Izumi's mother said sitting beside Izumi.
"Yea? Who was it?" She asked while she wiped her tired eyes.
"Oh you know! That boy!" Izumi mother said smiling mischievously.
"What boy?" Izumi asked. Could Kouji have called her house?
"You know! Rei's brother! Yuuhi!"
"Yuuhi?" Izumi coughed. "Why? What did he want?"
"Oh, he said to tell you that he called when you got home so you'd call him back."
"Oh. Well I guess I'd better call him."
"Yes dear call him." Her mother said laughing to herself.
Izumi picked up the phone and dialed the number. She put the receiver to her ear.
"So where do you think it'll be?" Izumi's mother asked her.
"Where what'll be?" Izumi asked.
"You know! Your first date with Yuuhi of course!!"
"MOTHER!" Izumi said annoyed.
"Hello?" someone said.
"Oh hi. Is Yuuhi there?" Izumi asked.
"Yes hold on."
Izumi waited while the person went to call Yuuhi.
"Hello?" Yuuhi said.
"Hi! It's me, Izumi! My mom said you called while I was out."
"Yah, I did."
"Well? Was there something you needed?"
She heard Yuuhi laugh through the phone. "What I can't call you unless I need something from you? What if I just called you to talk?"
"Sorry. I just had a bad day so far." Izumi explained.
"Oh. Sorry to hear that. Maybe we can discuss it over a pizza at the Pizza Palace…say maybe around 12 o'clock today?"
"Ummm…are you asking me out?" Izumi asked, kind of shocked.
"Ahem, ahem!" her mother said while she walked by Izumi into the kitchen.
"Well I'm certainly not asking your mother out." He said laughing at his joke.
"Ah well…it came as a surprise!"
"Izumi! I'm not asking you to marry me. It's just a date!" he said laughing.
"Sorry. I'll be there."
"That's great! Well I have to go now. See yah then!"
"Bye." Izumi said as she hung up.
"Mom! He asked me to meet him at Pizza Palace today!!"
"That's great!" her mother said crying.
"Mom what's wrong??"
"My Izumi is going on her first date!!" her mother sobbed as she hugged Izumi.
"Mother…" Izumi said a bit irritated.
Izumi spent the rest of the day picking out what she was going to wear and wondering how she was going to do her hair. She spent 2 hours in the shower and came out looking as pruned as a raisin. Finally her sin smoothed out after a while and Izumi promised herself that's she'd never take a bath that long ever again.
She didn't forget about Kouji though. Every now and then, he'd just pop into her head.
Finally it was 11:45 and Izumi decided that she should be leaving for the diner soon. She left house and walked to the pizza place. It was 11: 50 when she arrived.
"Am I too early?? Shoot!! I knew I should have came a little later!" She mumbled to herself as she found a seat that would be suitable for them.
A waitress came up to her.
"May I take your order?" she said rather lazily.
"Umm…not right now. I'm waiting for someone."
"Alright." The waitress said
Izumi sat at the table alone watching people talking to their companions. She stared at her watch. It was 12:05.
I wonder where he is. Well it's only 12:05! I mean…I did come way too early! She thought to herself.
Suddenly Ms. Akito and Tasuki walked into the diner. They both took their seats at a table a little way from Izumi's.
"Well Riku? What will it be?" he asked smiling.
"Why did I ever agree to accompany you to this…this…thing!" she said as she looked around the diner.
"It's a great place Riku." Tasuki said smiling.
"It's a pizza place!"
"They serve spaghetti here too you know."
Ms. Akito snorted. A few heads turned to stare at her and then went back to talking.
She snarled at them.
"What are they doing here?" Izumi said to herself.
"Now Riku. I brought you here because I wanted to tell you something that is very important to me…something very dear to my heart…" he said smiling his flashy smile at her.
If Izumi didn't know any better she would say that Ms. Akito was blushing. SHE WAS BLUSHING!!
"Well what is it?" Ms. Akito asked. She seemed to have lost her scratchy voice, which was now replaced by a sweet nervous voice.
Izumi smiled to herself. She guessed where this was going to be going.
The door swung open again and Yuuhi walked in. He spotted Izumi and smiled at her. Izumi checked her watch. It was almost 12:30. She frowned as he walked towards their table.
"What's wrong?" Yuuhi asked as he sat down.
"Ah nothing…" Izumi lied.
"Okay then! Let's eat! I'm starving." Yuuhi said smiling at her.
"Yea me too." Izumi said smiling back.
The waitress walked up to their table and said, "May I take your order?"
She glanced at Yuuhi then Izumi and sighed. Izumi felt a little embarrassed because this was the same waitress that had come up to her some time ago too.
I must look pretty pathetic to her…waiting this long for him… Izumi thought to herself.
"Yes we'd like one large pepperoni pizza." He said without looking at the waitress.
"Okay. And the drinks?"
"Nestea for me." Izumi said.
"I'll have a Coke." He said.
"Okay. I'll have your order ready in about a few minutes."
"Nestea?" Yuuhi said eyeing Izumi.
"Yea. What's wrong with Nestea?"
"I don't know. I just don't like it."
"Oh." Izumi said without looking at him.
"So why was your day so bad?" Yuuhi said smiling.
"I dunno…Well I went to Kouji's house (Yuuhi raised an eyebrow at this.) and we sorta got into a fight."
"Oh. What about?"
"Nothing really…just some…homework." Izumi said. She wasn't about to betray Kouji to anyone.
"You're lying." Yuuhi said calmly.
"No I'm not…" Izumi said.
Yuuhi smiled again.
"I can tell because you get this funny look when you lie."
"Well I hardly think you know me enough to say that." Izumi said uncomfortably.
Yuuhi laughed.
"All girls are like that! Izumi you really shouldn't flirt with me so obviously."
It was Izumi's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"Flirt? With you?" Izumi said. "I wasn't."
"You're lying again." Yuuhi said smugly.
Izumi stared at him.
"Well you really shouldn't worry about Kouji. He's just an ass!"
"You know him?" Izumi said fighting to keep her temper down.
"Used to know him. He went to my school for a while. My friends and me used to pick on the idiot because he was always reading. Stupid fool." Yuuhi said laughing.
"Well I'm sure Kouji probably taught you guys a lesson then." Izumi said annoyed.
"Well he didn't fight back actually. He just ignored us but then one day he snapped and beat my best friend up really bad! I mean all-all we did was-was rip up that stupid picture of his mother he carried around with him everywhere! Stupid idiot!" Yuuhi said laughing hysterically.
Izumi was about to punch him in the face but Yuuhi got up.
"I have to go to the washroom. I'll be right back." He said as he walked off.
"Stupid ass!! How dare he call Kouji that! How dare he and his stupid friends do that to Kouji!!" Izumi muttered to herself. "Rei's nothing like him!!"
Izumi looked around the room. Her eyes fell on the table Ms. Akito and Tasuki were eating at.
"Well we're finished eating." Said Ms. Akito. "What did you want to tell me?"
"Well it's just that-that…don't take it the wrong way or anything…I just want you to keep an open mind." Tasuki said nervously.
Izumi smiled to herself.
"What is it?" Ms. Akito said. Looking at him just as nervously.
Tasuki stared at her then sighed. "I-I just think you should step down from teaching and let me teach the class from now on."
Ms. Akito stared at Tasuki shocked. "It that what you wanted to say?"
She glared at him and stood up. She walked out of the diner leaving Tasuki sitting there all alone.
Izumi shook her head and walked over to his table.
"Sir?"
"Izumi! What are you doing here? Well your probably eating of course." He said nervously.
"Sir what just happened?"
"Well I made a huge mistake!"
"You need to be more clear."
Tasuki looked at Izumi and then around the diner. "Izumi if I tell you something just don't tell any of the students okay?"
"Okay."
"Well I've realized that I am attracted to Riku…I mean Ms. Akito. Somehow her personality has captured my heart and now I just don't know how to tell her because…I'm afraid she'll reject me!!"
"Wow…well it looked to me like she likes you too." Izumi said.
"You think you? Orimoto?"
"Yes sir!"
"Well maybe I should go after her then."
"Yes you should!" Izumi advised.
Tasuki thanked Izumi and ran after Ms. Akito.
Izumi went back to her seat just as Yuuhi showed up.
"Izumi." He said sitting down. "I just noticed how beautiful your eyes are."
"Really?" Izumi said sort of flattered.
"Yea. Everything about just stands out like the stars."
"Wow…that's really sweet to say."
"But…but…I don't think I should be dating you. I don't think I deserve to date someone as great as you." Yuuhi said looking down.
Izumi stared at Yuuhi. Suddenly he was being so nice.
"No Yuuhi. I'd love to go out with you again." Izumi said out of pity and also because she was feeling flattered.
"Oh Izumi! I just don't get why a girl like you is giving me this chance!!" Yuuhi said.
Izumi was about to tell him that she thought he was very sweet when,
"Hey Yuuhi that's the same line you used on me!" said a girl standing in front of their table.
Suddenly another girl showed up too.
"Yea he said the exact same thing to me."
Then another girl.
"Except he added that he saw the stars in my eyes!" said the other girl.
Izumi stared at all three girls and then back at Yuuhi.
"You said you were going to come to my house tomorrow for dinner." Said one of the girls.
"And you said you were going to take me to see a movie next Friday!" said another girl.
"Or maybe he's decided that he's going to take us all on a little joy ride!!" said another girl.
Yuuhi stared at Izumi.
"I don't know them I swear!!" he said pleadingly.
Izumi stood up and walked out of the diner. She'd leave those girls to take care of him.
She stood near the bus stop.
"I can't believe he did that!! ERR!!" Izumi said. "Well I'm glad I won't have to go out with him again! Stupid cocky, arrogant, pigheaded, two-faced, backstabbing-"
"I hope you're not describing me." Kouji said walking up to her.
Izumi jumped when she heard his voice.
"Whoa…you scared me."
"Sorry."
"Yea."
"I don't mean sorry for scaring you. I mean sorry for being so rude to you…not only at my house but all the time. Some of those words you were using to describe…Yuuhi I presume also describe me. I'm a bit cocky and arrogant."
"But that goes so well with your personality." Izumi joked.
"Ha. Yea that's true." Kouji said smiling at her.
"It's okay." Izumi said.
They stood there at the bus stop for a while.
"Well it's getting dark. Don't you think you should have been home by now?" Kouji asked her.
"Yea but Yuuhi the pigheaded-stupid-no-good…"
"Getting carried away aren't we?" Kouji said smiling at her.
"Oh but I'm not finished yet!" Izumi said. "Cheating-lying-…"
"I get the point." Kouji sighed.
"Well I guess I should be getting home." Izumi said.
**Silence**
"Do…you…want me to take you to your house?" Kouji asked quickly.
Izumi was glad it was dark but unfortunately she was blushing so much that she was sure Kouji could see.
"What you don't think I can get home alone?" Izumi asked arching an eyebrow but still smiling.
"Oh no. I'm pretty sure you can protect yourself. It's just the innocent people who'll be victim to your cruel humor while you ride the bus. I have to protect them for you." Kouji said staring at the sky.
Izumi laughed a bit.
"Okay sure." Izumi said. "Let's go then."
Izumi and Kouji walked in silence, but it was a nice silence where it really didn't matter if you talked to the other person or not.
Kouji walked Izumi all the way up to her front porch.
"Well it seems that I really didn't need any protection at all." Izumi said. Kouji looked at her, not smiling but not frowning. "But thanks for walking with me anyways." Izumi finished off.
"No problem." Kouji said. "Well I have to get going too so see yah."
"Yea." Izumi said. "Bye."
Kouji started to walk off her porch as Izumi opened her front door and stepped in. She was about to close it when,
"Hey Orimoto."
"Yea?" Izumi said opening the door again.
"You know what's happening here don't you?" Kouji said smiling.
Izumi just stood there waiting for him to tell her.
"We're becoming friends." He said then ran down the street.
Izumi smiled. It's true. They were becoming friends.
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WEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!! How did you like the chp ???
It's getting a bit more Kouzumi-ish isn't it? How do you all feel about Yuuhi now?
Sorry again that it took so long!!! I just got off school sometime ago and I finally finished this chapter!!! Thanks to all my loyal reviewers!! And Sorry again!!!! R&R!!^____________________^