Previously on The Power of Everything:

Makoto Itou has managed to feel the power sleeping within him but is still far from awakening. Meanwhile, Saionji Sekai managed to befriend with Kotonoha Katsura to help Makoto Itou form a relationship with her. Makoto has gotten a chance to be with her. Sometime later, he was being called to Velvet room again and listened to Igor and Abigail's message. The prediction told was that Makoto will have obstacle in the future, thus will become shambled and forever lost if remains unsolved. From there, his destiny began.

CHAPTER 3

CONFESSION

I finally arrived at school. It's sure close to being late and I am glad I didn't. I went to my sitting desk and bell just rang. I was quite more focused with Sekai's report status with Katsura-san rather than earlier dream events. I wanted to ask her but I had no courage to do so. Because, if the report ended up bad, then I guess I wouldn't have chance to be with Katsura-san anymore. It's a gamble risk. However, I trusted Sekai for this. I was sure she would make it success. When I was about to ask her, she wrote letters to me first.

"I have known several things about her," Sekai told me in writing.

"Her hobby is reading."

I tilted my head and my expression was like "*sigh". This is not something new because I have already known as it is easily recognized when I am on train with her everyday with me watching her reading a book.

"I know that," I told her that with no surprising expression.

"Every day she eats lunch in cafeteria. She likes to eat chicken ramen, sometimes spaghetti."

That was something new to me. I never know that she loves noodle that much. I asked Sekai again.

"She's a noodle person?"

Without answering my question, she told me this instead that made me unexpectedly shocked.

"Her breasts are huge," Sekai told me without shame.

My mouth opened wide and my face turned to her with white eyes and I was thinking that she must be kidding in order to tease me. Then, she told me further about something.

"I HAVE ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE," Sekai wrote to me with high excitement.

"Today, I told Katsura-san to come and eat lunch with us on the roof. Let's get a-l-o-n-g."

When I read that, I stood up and burst out loud and whole class attention was on me. I noticed that and quickly sat down with embarrassment. I apologized to the teacher with a little laugh hinting nothing wrong. Then, my attention turned to Sekai and I looked at her with fierce sharp looking.

"Wh…. What have you done?" I thought while looking at her and she smiled.

I have very little courage to do that, especially when it's just one day difference from yesterday and today that I saw her and wanted to get to know her. Not only that, it's almost lunch break and that made me even panicked and sweating. Not for long, the bell rang which that's the last thing that I wish it would happen at the moment. Sekai pulled me with force from my sitting desk and managed to pull me until the staircase. In that, I managed to resist with lots of effort.

"Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can't do this," I told her while she still pulled my arm.

"It's fine, just come," she told me to ease my worries.

"Between yesterday and today, how did this happen?"

"We talked over phone and this is how it happens," she told me that.

I couldn't believe she did that. My heart was totally not ready, yet she already did something like this. Just imagining this already trembled my legs. I tried to give whole excuses not to go with her even by saying not becoming a man was fine and I had many reports to be finished. No matter what reasons I gave, she always manages to counter it back. One thing that stopped me from resisting is that Sekai told me that Katsura-san has someone she interests and if I would like to know, then I need to advance. As if it were that easy to begin with. She also told me that Katsura-san is not going out with anyone. This gave me half good news and half bad news. Sekai assured that I could still have chance if I tried hard. Just knowing that from her mouth already satisfied me for sure. But, Sekai got annoyed and pulled me with force again until I reached the roof with such an embarrassing act.

I arrived at roof and first thing I knew that she was there. I was totally blushing and embarrassed. I could tell that she was too by looking at her face.

"Um…. Um…," she uttered those words meaning that she's totally shy.

"Sorry, sorry. Did you wait long?" Sekai asked to make sure Katsura-san didn't wait too long

"No, I just came here."

I laughed and smile a little until Sekai knocked me and asked me to say something.

"He… hello," the first word that I spoke to her.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you. I'm Kotonoha Katsura" Katsura-san greeted me with smile.

"I….. I'm Makoto Itou," I introduced myself to her with shyness covered me.

After a brief of introduction, we sat down together and had our lunch. I couldn't eat anything as my heart was beating too fast. Katsura-san had made some food for us since Sekai invited her. It was homemade sandwiches. I was very happy that she offered so I took one and ate. Sekai also took one so we ate at the same time. But, something was odd. The taste of the sandwiches was not delicious. Katsura-san noticed our expression and she mentioned that it must be not good. Sekai assured her that it was good and trying her best to cover it up and also asked me. I told both of them that they were delicious but my face couldn't cover it up. I was sweating hard to hold the taste. An unusual taste that I have never experience. Judging from this, I bet she must have done it first time. I asked her if her cooking was first time but before I could finish my sentence, she told me that it was until my guess came true. Her next question had forced me to eat all the sandwiches as I didn't want to make her sad.

"Was… was it not good?" she asked me with such a sweet face.

I couldn't see her sad. If I were to see her sad, I would rather chew all these sandwiches despite the bad taste instead of rejecting the next sandwiches and came up with a lie saying that I was full. I finished the sandwich that I was holding and then, I took the lunch basket filled with many sandwiches and forced them to my mouth one by one. Sekai cheered and supported me up. That many sandwiches had almost caused me to suffocate.

"I have got some warm tea over here, so don't force it down, okay?" she tried her best to calm me down.

As she took the warm tea, I forced them through my throat, last thing I knew was I got suffocated. Katsura-san was shocked to see me suffocate. Sekai was also shocked too. I fell down because I couldn't breath and then I took the warm tea and drank it fast. Finally, I was able to stuff them through my throat. Her tea was delicious at least.

"*drink, *sigh, I stuffed too much in."

"Are you alright?" Katsura-san asked me and cleaned my mouth with handkerchief.

I felt even greater embarrassed compared to before. I didn't know she would do that to me. Katsura-san took notice of it and became embarrassed too.

"Ah…. I just…..," she flustered.

Sekai interrupted us and told us that she wanted to go to restroom leaving us two behind. Katsura-san and I looked at each other. Another shyness and embarrassment covered us. I fell down again until I got up after Katsura-san asked me if I was alright. We talked to each other and she found out that I am an interesting person. She smiled at me. Her smile was so cute that I could die by just looking at her. I never expected to get to see her closer like this. Time passed for long and the bell rang. We both smiled each other and said our goodbye for now. I continued studying in classroom until I went home. Night falls in.

In my apartment, at that night, I decided to call Sekai to give my thanks to her for helping me form a friendship with Katsura-san. I called her and we talked about how amazing I could talk to Katsura-san like this. It was wonderful. If Sekai hadn't stepped in, this would never have happened. The cowardly me would never do the first approach to her, thus leading to never happening friendship. I thanked her so much that she must have been happy too. I decided to tell Sekai that I am going to confess to Katsura-san tomorrow. I thought about it. This is too fast, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was fully aware that I might be rejected, but I wanted to convey my feeling. Sekai supported me and cheered me up. My inner flame is burning even hotter to tell her my feelings. I decided to sleep and prepared for tomorrow's confession.

The day when I would confess my feeling to Katsura-san came. I was still shy and not fully ready yet, but there's no turning back. I prepared everything and decided to take off fast to go to train station in hoping that I could see Katsura-san since she's on the same train as me. I arrived at train station but hadn't seen her. Suddenly, I saw her and she came. She saw me and approached to me and greeted me.

"Good morning," she smiled.

"Go…. Good morning," I am still flustered.

"You are on the same train as me," she said.

"Ye... yeah," I replied.

This is it. There's no turning back. She noticed I was in a brief of silence. So, she asked me something.

"Itou-kun?"

"Umm… well… Katsura-san. I have been wanting to tell you since the first time I saw you," I finally mustered enough courage to tell her.

"I love you Katsura-san. I wish to be your boyfriend and um…. Do you want to go to Sakakino after school together? I remember you love reading books, so how about we go look around book stores at Sakakino and then to Sakakino hills?" I said to her with extreme blushing.

"It…. Itou-kun?" she replied me back with even extreme blushing.

"It…. It is okay if you don't want to. Um… how do I put it? I…. ermmm…. Is…. Is it…. Not good?" I looked at her eyes and hoped for the best.

She was shocked at first. She's totally blushing and couldn't say another word. Then, she was able to say something.

"Are you alright with me?" she asked me.

"Yes," the word that I am happy to answer.

A brief of silence filled the atmosphere again. The next thing happened was a very happy moment that I wouldn't ever forget even if I got amnesia.

"I'm looking forward to it. I accept you, Itou-kun," she accepted my confession with a big cute smile.

"Ye…. Yes!" I replied back to her with huge joy.

I couldn't believe the day has come that I would be in relationship with her. What's even more strange thing is I just met her and we already became couple. The world surely is strange. We both went to train and went to school together. I studied and run my daily activities at school with extreme happiness. Then after school, I went home from school to prepare for tomorrow's date as I couldn't wait for that.

I was at train station alone sitting down on the bench waiting for Katsura-san until Sekai approached me. We both talked about earlier and she was happy for me. She gave me an advice not to do anything funny to her. As if I would do that. I wouldn't do anything that would risk my new relationship. Come to think of it, I never see Sekai took train. I asked her what she was doing here. She said I was dumb and told me that she also took train line at that place. She told me her house was the opposite direction from my house. I remembered that Sekai had been helping me all the time. It's hard to believe that she would do this far for me. I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask her now. I stood up and asked her about this.

"Sekai? Why are you doing all these for me? I was just a classmate who happened to sit beside you. Also, you didn't have to go this far just because you saw that picture in my phone," I told her that.

"That's true," she answered me.

"I'm grateful but why did you do it?" I tried to thank her while asking her why.

"Because it's interesting."

Interesting? What has gotten into her? That's what I would think at the moment.

"It's fun to watch other people's love affairs like those scandal news on TV or those serial dramas. I would love to meddle with that world."

So, I am one to be meddled with? I still don't understand what her thinking is. But, I told her I was grateful with what she had done for me. I felt like I owed her a lot. I said that to her. She teased me that it's so much that I could never repay her for the rest of her life though she later said she was kidding. I still told her I would definitely repay her someday. Despite her rejection of not wanting to be repaid, I still insisted that I would repay her.

"What should I ask then?" Sekai asked herself.

"I'll do anything," I said to her so that we could be even.

After saying that, something happened to me again. When I was looking at her, I saw a vision in my own mind. It was a clear picture of her. The pictured moved as if it was played as a video in my mind. The train came and the Sekai version in my mind came close to me and grabbed my shoulder and kissed me. I was totally shocked. What is this vision in my mind for in the first place? Is it a future vision? But, Sekai would never do that to me. I never recalled she had ever confessed to me or had feeling. But still, the place and the environment are clearly the same which might indicate this is a future. Before I could figure it out, I came back in reality. I was still daydreaming from that vision. Sekai's words snapped me out.

"Well then…," she said.

The train came not long before she said that. I kept looking at her and then she grabbed my shoulder and kissed me. Just as what the vision showed me. What is going on? I was shocked not only with the vision came true, but also the reality that Sekai kissed me. She kissed me long enough until the train stopped and open the door.

"This is enough," she told me and then run to the train.

"Good luck with your date," she told me as the train door closes.

Not only could I not say something to her but also, I was totally black out from these shocking moments. This is beginning to become strange with these events. I was able to forget all thanks to the confession. But, this comes again and Sekai kissing me was not something what I expected. I had just confessed with Katsura-san and just this moment, I was kissed by Sekai. It's hard to swallow all these at the same time. I decided to go home and pretend that this never happened with the exception of confession.

TO BE CONTINUED