Oishi
Work was over for the day and Oishi got in his car, started it, and went home. Once he got home, Oishi started cooking his dinner rice. Once he finished, he started prep work on the dishes. As he did that, Oishi thought about the other Regulars.
The majority of them were married. Ryoma was with Sakuno now, Tezuka was with Keiko, Eji was with Satsuki, Fuji was with Sakura, and Kaidoh was with Tomo. Finally, Momo, was with An. Only he, Taka, and Inui were not married.
To be truthful, he had been surprised when Fuji, Ryoma, Tezuka, Momo, and Kaidoh all ended up marrying before him. He had thought that he would marry first out of all the Regulars. Well, maybe Momo would marry before him, but not Ryoma, Eji, Tezuka, or Kaidoh. Even now, he did not have a girlfriend.
Many times, Oishi had wondered why he couldn't dedicate himself to a girl in a relationship. There were plenty of women in his workspace who wanted to go out with him. He could easily go out with any girl he wanted, not that he was bragging. Maybe the reason he still could not find interest in a girl was because none could quite match up to a person he had met in his third year of high school.
Eyes clouding over with memories, Oishi stopped chopping the vegetables and the knife in his hand dropped out.
It was the third year of high school. Oishi was single, though his fan club was still as large and his popularity had risen even. However, he did not find interest in any of the girls. They were just…not right for him.
Then, Seigaku High had gotten a transfer student. Her name was Minori Yukina. From the time he had seen her for the first time, Oishi knew she was no ordinary girl.
Yukina had been truly unique. She had been blunt and truthful with her words at all times. True, at times she had been even cruel with her words, but that was because of her truthfulness. Oishi could still remember when Yukina and Satsuki had first met. They had immediately gotten into a spat and fought. At first, Oishi had panicked when Yukina and Satsuki first started physically fighting. Then, he had quickly found out something about Yukina. She was no weakling. Yukina actually was a master in kendo and other sword fighting techniques. He and Eji had been amazed when Yukina had actually been able to keep up with Satsuki in fighting; afterall, Satsuki had been a master of martial arts.
Then, she had furthered amazed him by her skill in tennis. However, what further amazed him was her unselfishness. No one ever had seen Yukina cry. The reason? She did not want to burden others with her feelings, so she always put on a façade of strength and toughness, refusing to cry.
When Oishi saw more and more of how strong Yukina was, not only physically, but mentally as well. That only caused him to fall more and more in love with her.
Somewhere halfway into the semester, Oishi asked Yukina out on a date. To his great surprise, she rejected him. Then she told him she was not an adulteress. It was at this point when Oishi found out Yukina already had a boyfriend named Akira.
He had been devastated. For a while, he could not look Yukina in the eye. Then, one day, his class went on a field trip and he and Yukina were stuck together. The entire time had been uncomfortable, with neither really talking to each other. On the last day however, he kissed Yukina. Right on the lips. After getting over her shock, Yukina pushed him away, slapped him, and ran away to her room.
After they returned to school, Yukina moved away.
Oishi jerked back to the present time as the timer on his rice cooked went off loudly. He noticed that the knife was now on the floor. Sighing, he bent over, picked it up, washed it, and commenced slicing.
Yukina…
Somewhere in Kyoto, a girl coughed.
"Is there something wrong, Yukina?"
Iye, betsuni anata,"