KISS Me!

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Chapter1 – And she came to sweep him away…

I groaned as I lay on the bed. I can't imagine all that happened last year. I closed my eyes as I recalled the terrible blunder I made last year, when I mistook Kyoshiro for Kyo, a senior that I had a major crush on since I first saw him from a distance.

It was two months after the incident when I met Kyoshiro again. We were awkward when we first saw each other, but the tension loosened when we started talking and laughed about it, and now, I am one of their good friends, although I hardly saw Kyo-senpai. Kyoshiro often told me that Kyo is a flirtatious student, and that many girls he dated never went past three months into the relationship.

Mibu Kyoshiro is his twin brother, and he is nicer person to get along with. But Kyo-senpai… I closed my eyes and formed an image of him. A tall, slender height of 6 feet, with a mass of dark hair, and fiery red eyes that burned a certain passion inside himself stood in front of me. Just the thought of him made my insides melt.

"Yuya-san!" a voice cried out from downstairs. "Come down for breakfast!"

"Yes! Akira-hun!" I yelled back. I picked up my books and headed downstairs.

In the dinning room, a table set with plates and cutlery greeted me. "What's for breakfast?" I smelled around. "Waffles!" I looked at Akira, one of my brothers.

"Haha! Yuya-san! You got that right!" He smiled as he set the plate of waffles down. Akira, or better known as Aki, is my 17 year-old brother, and in actual fact, blind since young. But as far as I am concerned, he had no problem in his movement and speech. In fact, he can "see" better than most people by relying heavily on his remaining senses. He looked in my direction and asked for the time.

"It's 7 in the morning." I replied.

"What is taking the brothers so long?" he looked up the stairway. "Hotaru! Shinrei! Get your asses down NOW! And I mean it!"

Minutes later, a mass of fiery orange hair bobbed into the room. The "owner" of the mass of untidy hair, Hotaru, rubbed his eyes, greeted me with a slight smile and sat himself down. Following up was his brother Shinrei with his neatly tied gray hair, who smiled cheerfully around the table, stared at Hotaru coldly and sat opposite him.

"Let's start!" Aki smiled merrily as he placed the last plate of waffles on the table.

We ate.

"Pass me the syrup," Shinrei asked. I passed it over.

Hotaru narrowed his small eyes and replied, "Fine, I shall eat my waffles plain."

Shinrei rolled his eyes as he shoved the syrup bottle to him after pouring it over his waffles. "Must you be the opposite from me? Just take it, you won't die!"

Hotaru shook his head. "Anything you like, I'll despise."

I smiled to myself. The four of us sitting at the table are not blood-related at all. Shinrei and Hotaru are brothers and they were born almost at the same time, with Hotaru borne after Shinrei a few minutes. However, they are born from different mothers. Therefore there was always an enmity between the two of them, always competing and never wanting to be of the same blood. However, deep down inside, I know, ever since the "incident", both brothers cared for each other a lot.

Akira and Hotaru had always been good friends with Kyo, Kyoshiro, another guy named Sanada Yukimura and his ten "warriors". Shinrei was not with them, because of the unresolved conflict between Hotaru and himself back then.

People often tell me that it was inappropriate for a girl to live with three guys, but I don't care. I have been living with them for almost 3 years, and with Aki ever since he found me in the rain.

I can remember so well. It was raining on a gloomy December. My parents had just chased me out of their house for something I did not do, and slammed the door straight at my face, telling me that they do not want me. I was sitting in the corner of the streets avoiding the rain, crying.

Aki found me, picked me up, and brought me to his house. I was then adopted by his parents. I've always thanked Aki in my heart, for picking me up 10 years ago, and not abandoning me ever since.

"Hey, Yuya-san," Shinrei asked. "Are you still going to confess to Kyo this Valentine's Day?"

The first time I told the three of them that I had a crush on Kyo senpai, they guffawed with immense hilarity, telling me to give up. Kyo is a flirt, I remembered Hotaru telling me. It's not worth it. But nevertheless, I held on to Kyo senpai for a whole year.

"Duh I will this year!" I cried, flushing.

"Make sure you recognize the right person!" Aki laughed.

I remembered the responses they had when I told them about my blunder in mistaking Kyoshiro for Kyo. They roared with so much laugher, I secretly hoped they'll wet their pants. Even expressionless Hotaru was chuckling!

"Valentine's Day… when is it?" Hotaru finally looked up from his waffles.

"The 14th of February." I replied. He gave a nod and went back to his waffles.

"Hotaru… Aren't you going to do something?" Shinrei teased.

"…… What?"

"Like… some girl called Kosuke….."

"SPLAT!" The waffle landed straight on Shinrei's head.

"Don't you dare tease me about her." He warned him, his fiery orange eyes burning with anger.

"What about Kosuke?" I asked eagerly. Kosuke is Sanada Yukimura's twin sister.

"You mean you have no idea? Hotaru has a crush on…" Aki started.

"SPLAT!" The waffles decorated Aki's face before he could continue.

"I said… Don't mention her…" He glared at Aki. He looked at his waffles. "Darn…" I looked at him. "I lost two of my waffles…"

"Oh! I can give you my share!" I offered cheerfully. I pushed my plate to him. "I don't have much of an appetite anyway." I stood up as I walked up to my room. I went to my room and decided to go to school early.

"Bye guys! I yelled behind me.

"Be careful on your way to school!" Akira called out. Behind him was chaos of Hotaru fighting with Shinrei for more waffles. They can come to school later. I thought to myself.

"Kyoshiro!" I called. The same young man, whom I mistakenly confessed to last year, turned around and grinned.

"Good morning, Yuya-san!" He greeted me. The two of us walked together down the avenue. I looked at him. He was talking to me, his clear blue eyes staring at me. I couldn't believe how much the Mibu twins look alike!

"Yuya-san? Are you going to talk to Kyo again this Valentine's?"

"Of course!" I cried. I slapped my chest. "I must make sure I confess to him this year!"

"I wish you all the best, okay?" He grinned. "Is it still that KISS chocolate again?"

"Of course! It's the 'traditional' way of confessing your feelings!"

He laughed. "What's so famous about that chocolate?"

"Well, since everyone is using them," I shrugged. "Besides, who's the one that got hooked up on the chocolates himself?"

He turned beet red. I smiled in victory of his speechlessness. I asked, "What's your favourite flavour of the chocolate?"

"Without a doubt, my favourite chocolate flavour is 'Cookie Dough'!"

I was surprised. "Are you serious? Me too!" The both of us laughed heartily at the coincidence. I started, "I thought girls are the only ones that like the flavour, because it is too sweet for the guys' taste buds!"

"Hey! What are you trying to imply here? Are you trying to imply I'm gay?" He yelled in mock indignation. "That was a generalization you are making here! Some, not all, but SOME guys like 'Cookie Dough'!"

"Don't throw your languages at me early in the morning!" I teased his flawless grammar. He had a knack for the languages, and for that he uses it as a "weapon" to counter-attack our little quarrels.

"Hey… it's early in the morning, woman." A voice came from behind. "Don't go waking up everybody else."

I turned around, to my horror; saw Kyo-sempai behind us. He normally disappears after I joined Kyoshiro. He will usually look for his current girlfriend, Izumo No Okuni. He has been dating Okuni-san since March, a short while after Valentine's Day. I overheard about them when the gossipers were trading juicy gossips during lunch break.

I was surprised, and disappointed, that the two of them have been dating for such a long period of time. Are they serious about each other? I thought. Okuni-san is just as much of a flirt than Kyo being a fickle-minded legend. She hardly talks to me, she just appears whenever Kyo-sempai does, and leaves when he does. It doesn't leave me much chance to talk to Kyo, so I always look at him from afar.

Kyo sen-pai never calls me by my name, as far as I'm concerned. He gives me names like, "Woman", or "Bitch". I found that irritating, but I kept mum, for some reason. Kyoshiro was concerned. He knows that his brother is a crude person, and he wished that there was a way to cheer me up.

"O…okay…" I stuttered. As if on cue, Okuni-san suddenly appeared beside Kyo-sempai. She whispered something in Kyo's ear, and the both of them left, leaving Kyoshiro and I. I looked at them, unhappiness stirring in my heart.

Kyoshiro probably noticed it, because he asked if I wanted him to accompany me to buy those KISS chocolates.

"Forget it," I muttered. "He won't care about my measly chocolates."

"Yuya-san..." He said with concern. "Just give it your try, even if you fail. But I seriously don't think Kyo will ignore your chocolates like that!" I looked at him with doubt. "Well, you will never know if you don't try!" He smiled. Reluctantly, I agreed that we meet on the coming Saturday.

Hi readers! I hope you like this chapter! Well, sad to say, Aki, Hotaru and Shinrei will NOT play a major role in this story yet. Well, this is the thing. I realized that there are many loopholes in this story, therefore I think there will be many sequels and "pre-story" to fill the loopholes so that this story will not be confusing. But please give me your opinions on this decision? Thanks a lot!