Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara! And definitely never will...


-Chapter Six-

"Souma! Heads up! The ball is coming your way!"

Kuukai's head shot up and turned to the direction where the voice came from and saw someone from the opposing team come is way with the ball. His reflexes kicked in and he skillfully snatched the ball away from him. As he headed towards the goal, nothing occupied his mind but his surroundings and the priority to score a goal. Suddenly, he heard a whistle blow. The sound of the whistle instantly reminded him of the flute he had heard some time before which in turn, reminded him of Tenshi. Her sorrowful eyes clouded his mind.

"Oi Souma! Be careful!"

Kuukai tripped and fell. Thoughts of Tenshi cleared out of his mind as he jolted back into reality. His friends all crowded around him.

"Hey captain! Are you alright?" Marada asked nervously. He had noticed that Kuukai had been spacing out a lot lately.

With some help from his friends, Kuukai got up and tested his legs gingerly and flexed both his arms back and forth.

"Yep, I'm alright Marada," Kuukai reassured him with a grin. "See?"

He did a huge star jump to show that he was alright.

"Right as rain. No bones broken no nothing. I was just a little careless. That's all!" Kuukai said.

Marada sighed with relief. Kuukai was just like his normal self so he didn't pursue it any further.

"Well, although nothing is broken, I can see that you've got some cuts and bruises though," Marada said. "I guess it's enough soccer for today, Captain."

Kuukai gave him a questioning look. "But athletes always get hurt! Isn't that normal?"

By now, the rest of their friends had dispersed and were scattered all over the field, waiting for the game to resume.

"Indeed it is normal, but no offense, if I may say so, I think something is bothering you. Am I right?" Marada questioned. "If you're like this, you're more likely to cause more injury to yourself by not being careful. And I'm sure you don't want to be disabled during the soccer season."

Kuukai was about to protest, but he knew that his friend was right. He nodded in defeat.

"Alright. I understand. Due to that fall, I, Souma Kuukai have gotten a serious injury which is making my skin turn a strange blue-black color and watery red lines which sting are appearing as well. It might be some new and exotic 's enough soccer for me today and I shall proceed to the infirmary to get cleaned up and go home to rest," Kuukai said, giving Marada a huge smile.

Marada saluted him. "All right captain. I shall take charge of the practice soccer match while you have your injuries tended to."

Kuukai nodded. "Thanks. I'll go now."

He went to grab his belongings from the benches and proceeded to the locker room to clean up before heading to the infirmary.

'Is it really that obvious that something is bothering me?' Kuukai mused to himself.

It had been two days since the incident with Tenshi after she auditioned for the drama club. Since then, both of them said nothing to each other about it, and Tenshi was just like her normal self. But Tenshi's pained look and her sorrowful eyes kept haunting his mind. He knew it was definitely none of his business, but Kuukai was curious and worried at the same time. He couldn't just brush it off like how Tenshi did. If something as trivial as dancing was a painful thing for Tenshi to do, then something must have happened to her in the past related to dancing. Kuukai couldn't help but ache for wanting to know what the reason was which made dancing painful for her. From his point of view, he understood that Tenshi had no physical disabilities or health problems which might cause her to not be able to dance.

Kuukai walked straight into the infirmary because the door was wide open. Inside, he noticed that the nurse wasn't there. But he noticed someone, a girl who was wearing a light blue fedora with her hair tucked up into it, sitting on one of the beds, bent over something. Her back was facing Kuukai so she couldn't see him. Kuukai self-consciously coughed to let her know that he was there. The girl seemed to jolt and then turn around.

"Kai-kun!" Tenshi's hands were placed on top of a large wad of cotton over her right knee.

Kuukai's eyes widened in surprise. "Tenshi!"

He walked over to his friend. "I couldn't recognize you with that hat on. Nice hat, by the way."

Tenshi grinned cheekily at him. "Thanks! What are you doing here? If you're looking for the nurse, she left to get some hot water. She'll probably be back soon."

"Oh I see…. well, we were having a practice soccer match against each other. I kind of tripped and fell and have several minor injuries. Marada told me to get them tended to so I took off for the rest of the day," Kuukai explained.

Tenshi ran her eyes over Kuukai's form. "Well, they don't look to serious…"

She grabbed some surgical tape off from the bedside table where a huge first-aid kit sat, opened. She taped the wad of cotton in place and carefully slid off the bed.

"Here. You sit down-" Tenshi put her hands on Kuukai's shoulders and pushed him downwards onto the bed. "And I'll help you take care of them!"

With a bright smile, Tenshi took some alcohol wipes and set about, tending to Kuukai's injuries.

Kuukai felt increasingly awkward as Tenshi tended to his injuries in silence. To break the silence, he spoke up.

"So uh- what happened to your knee? And why are you here so long after school?"

Tenshi looked at her covered knee. "Oh. I was working on the script that I needed to give to Chisaki-senpai by the end of the week. I got into a little accident and injured my knee."

"Then you should tend to your injury first before mine!" Kuukai exclaimed, looking at the makeshift band-aid on her knee, steadily soaking up more blood. "It looks much more serious than my petty ones! What happened to it?"

Tenshi seemed to hesitate before answering him again, "I told you, I got into a little accident."

Kuukai took her repeated answer as a sign to stop pursuing the matter any further. He watched as her fingers carefully spread various band-aids over his cuts. Her fingers felt cool and comforting this time. The last time he felt her hand, was the first time he met her.

"Uh…. is there something on my face? Kai-kun?" Tenshi asked, looking at him with a confused look on her face.

He blinked. "N-no. What makes you say that?"

"You were smiling."

"Okay Koigokoro! I've got the water and now we can-" the nurse stood a few paces away from them with an awkward expression on her face. "Eh- Am I interrupting something?"

Tenshi and Kuukai had been staring at each other, with Tenshi's hands on Kuukai's right leg. They had been very close together and one might've gotten the wrong impression. Like said nurse. Both of them withdrew and blushed.

"Um. No. I just helped Kai-kun here. He got some minor injuries while playing soccer. I thought I might as well help since you were gone and all…" Tenshi explained, embarrassed. "And I'm done."

"Oh! Thanks then Tenshi." Kuukai got off the bed and grinned at the nurse. "Sorry and thank you as well."

He hurriedly exited the infirmary and continued walking. As soon as he was sure that he was safely away from the infirmary, Kuukai found a bench outside and sat down.

"What was that?!?" Kuukai asked himself bewilderedly.

'You were smiling.'

Kuukai's face heated up once again at the memory of Tenshi's words.

'Did I really smile just because I was looking at her? What's wrong with me?'

Kuukai gripped his hair in frustration and moaned. "Man… I must've looked like some idiotic fool!"

He slumped backwards into the bench and looked up at the sky, sighing.

"Well, I guess I'll just head home now," Kuukai muttered.


'The end…'

Tenshi stared at the pile of papers in front of her while tapping her pencil against the table she was seated at. She turned her head in the direction of a nearby clock and looked at the time.

"5.45…I should get going soon or Ryuu's gonna get into hysterics," Tenshi said to herself. She gathered up the papers and started stacking up the books that she had taken off the shelves for reference.

Tenshi was in the library to complete the script that she was planning to give to Taku tomorrow. Her earlier encounter with Kuukai in the infirmary had been unexpected. The injury on her knee was caused by an accident that she didn't really want to talk about to anyone. Especially not Kuukai. She had told the nurse that she had just tripped and fell outside on the concrete pavement, but Tenshi knew that was not the reason. The nurse accepted the explanation anyway and had helped her dress the bloody injury.

She heaved up the stack of books and proceeded to return them to their original shelves but she crashed into someone else.

"I'msosorry!" Tenshi ran the words together, rubbing her head.

"Well, you certainly don't look like you can carry all those books," a familiar voice replied. She looked up.

"You!" Tenshi exclaimed. "Don't move! "

"Eh-what? That's a pretty nice way to greet someone," Yoshi said sarcastically as Tenshi stepped a few paces backwards, away from him.

"Keep your distance," Tenshi warned. "Please move away. I need to pick up the books."

"Not gonna," Yoshi answered, sticking out his tongue at her. He got up and went about, picking up the books that Tenshi had dropped. "I don't have a contagious disease you know. Nor do I have any dangerous objects on me."

"I can pick them up myself! Thank you very much," Tenshi grumbled. "Just leave them on the floor."

"Ah! But how can I? Aren't books supposed to be treated with respect? I'm pretty sure leaving them lying there on the floor where anyone could step on it is called respect," Yoshi ignored Tenshi's request and continued picking up the books off the floor.

"Whatever," Tenshi muttered. "Why are you here anyway?"

Yoshi gave her a bright look. "Oh! So you are at least a teensy bit polite!"

She rolled her eyes. "You're welcome."

"Anyway," Yoshi said, straightening the stack of books in his arms. "I just came here to borrow some books on this project I'm working on."

"I see. So you do read, in fact," Tenshi said.

"Yes, if I must say so myself, I'm not too shabby at recognizing familiar words and understanding them," Yoshi grinned at her. "So? Where do the books go?"

Tenshi made a grab for the books, but Yoshi evaded her by turning around.

"Nu-uh. I have some manners as a gentleman you know," Yoshi told her, winking. "Can't let a lady to this all by herself. It's just too much manual labour."

"Well, thank you very much Casanova. But I'm a transvestite and I don't think I can count as a real, proper lady," Tenshi said with a straight face. "In the past I left behind, I was a pretty strong guy."

Yoshi laughed. "Very good poker face -turned-girl. But in my opinion, you count as a girl anyway, so I'll help you."

"Fine," Tenshi said. "But don't say I owe you."

"Sure, sure," Yoshi assured, as he followed Tenshi to return the books back to their original shelves.

Both of them were going around, returning the books for quite a while when Yoshi broke the uncomfortable silence.

"So…done with the script yet?" Yoshi asked, trying to sound casual. 'Can't ask her if she's still mad at me about the dancing thing....'

"Yeah, I guess. Just gonna put it together tonight and hand it over to Chisaki-senpai tomorrow," Tenshi replied. She tiptoed to slide a book back onto one of the top shelves.

Yoshi realized that she couldn't reach it so he cut in. "Here, let me."

He reached upwards and took the book from Tenshi's hand and slid it onto the shelf.

"Thanks I think."

"No problem. Carry on," Yoshi answered.

"So what's the script about?"

"Just something I put together."

"Is it a tragic love story like Romeo and Juliet?"

"No. It's not that tragic. Although it is somewhat of a love story. A romantic comedy with a pinch of heart-wrenching sadness. Sad at first, sweet ending," Tenshi slid the last book back to where it belonged. "There. All done. I should probably get going."

Tenshi headed back to where she was working and gathered up her belongings. As she hitched her bag onto her left shoulder, Yoshi put on her fedora for her.

"-turned-girl mustn't forget his pretty hat," Yoshi grinned, winking at her.

"It's pretty isn't it? Well, I'll go now, if you don't mind," Tenshi said, giving him a curt nod.

As she turned to leave, Yoshi grabbed hold of her left arm. Tenshi turned around to give him an exasperated look.

"What now?"

"No goodbye or thank you?" Yoshi pouted. "Not very lady-like you know."

"Oh. If you insist." Tenshi dropped her bag and walked in front of him.

She stood very still in front of him for quite a while, staring so intently at him that Yoshi thought she was having a standstill or something.

"Hey-" Yoshi was about to say something when she suddenly cut in.

Tenshi tilted her head to one side and gave him a heart-melting smile and curtsied femininely and politely. "Thank you for your kind help, Yoshi-san. I really appreciate it! Goodbye!"

"Wha-?!?" Yoshi's face burned up and his heart thumped wildly.

Tenshi left Yoshi standing and exited the library.

'God! That girl gave me the shock of my life!' Yoshi thought, sliding into a chair and putting his head into his hands. His pulse was still racing and his face still felt hot.

"It was truly unexpected," Yoshi told himself. 'I never expected her to be able to pull off an expression like that. So…. angelic….'


(Next day)

"Hmm..…yes…" Taku mumbled to himself, twirling a pencil in his right hand. "Interesting. Very interesting."

"What's interesting Taku?" Yoshi asked, suddenly popping up like a jack-in-a-box in front of the desk where Taku sat, reading the script Tenshi had handed to him this morning before the first bell.

Taku wasn't taken by surprise because Yoshi always did that, but his eyebrows twitched in annoyance.

"Hello Yoshi. What the hell, may I ask, are you doing here? You gotta stop coming by into my class all the time you know."

Yoshi dragged an empty chair over and sat down in front of his president. "But I'm bored! I've already eaten lunch and now I've got nothing to do. Then I thought 'Hey? Why not pay Taku a visit?' And so, here I am!"

Taku sighed heavily and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Where are your other friends? You know, the ones who are in your class?"

"Aww! But I wanna play with you!" Yoshi whined.

"It's not that I don't want to play with you, Yoshi. I have to finish reading this script that Koigokoro gave me," Taku explained.

Yoshi's face brightened up. "Oh? So she already gave it to you?"

"Yeah? Why so interested?"

"She finished it yesterday after all then!"

Taku arched a brow. "You were with her yesterday?"

Yoshi nodded happily. "Yep. Yep. I met her at the…."

Then he stopped. Yoshi felt his temperature rising as the scene where Tenshi said goodbye to him yesterday replayed in his mind.

"Yoshi?" Taku looked at him. Yoshi seemed to have gone slightly red and was staring off into space, his face wore an awkward expression.

"YOSHI!!" Taku called sharply, snapping his fingers in front of Yoshi's face.

Yoshi jolted back into reality and blinked a couple of times. "Uh..."

Taku sighed. "Honestly! What happened with you? You suddenly spaced out when you were telling me that you met Koigokoro yesterday! Are you feeling unwell? Your face is red. Are you running a fever or something?"

Yoshi laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head. "Well, no. I just remembered something that's all. Umm…. anyway, met uh, her at the library y-yesterday."

"So anyway. What do you think of the script?" Yoshi quickly changed the subject.

Taku looked at his friend suspiciously. 'Hmph…. perhaps the girl gave that idiot a good scolding about forcing her to dance...'

He coughed. " It's very well written. Quite imaginative. It's not like one of those typical, cliche romance stories. I happen to think it's quite interesting, really."

"So? You're asking her to join us then?" Yoshi asked eagerly.

"Yes. The music division loved her as well," Taku told him. "As it happens, their head wasn't present. But I don't think your input is needed."

Yoshi frowned. "Hey! I was… busy."

"With?"

"Basketball," Yoshi mumbled. "I might be in the drama club, but I'm in the basketball club too you know!"

"Uh-huh… "

"Don't look at me like that Taku! Basketball doesn't interrupt drama club! Their club meetings are not on the same days. You know that!" Yoshi protested.

"Yes. But I wonder how Koigokoro felt when she saw that the head of the section wasn't there. Upset perhaps?" Taku said nonchalantly. "Maybe glad?? So that she didn't need to see your face? I wouldn't be surprised if the girl was pissed at you and gave you a scolding yesterday. After the way you provoked her to do something that she clearly didn't want to do."

Yoshi's eyes widened in realization. 'That's right! I made her mad at me! Oh my God! I gotta apologize! I gotta apologize!'

He shot up, slamming his hands on Taku's desk. "Prez! Tell me which class Tenshi's in!"

"Why do you want to know? And did she say you could call her by her given name?" Taku asked, surprised.

Yoshi's face reddened as realized that he had called Tenshi by her name. "Ahh! Nevermind! Just tell me! I need to apologize to her!"

Taku raised his eyebrows. "Oh! You're gonna apologize are you?"

His friend looked downwards. Taku smirked and told Yoshi which class she was in.

"Thanks Taku!"

And Yoshi was gone.


"Tenshi! I managed to get lunch for us!" Kuukai called from the doorway as he was walking into their classroom.

Tenshi looked up from her work on her desk and smiled. "Thanks a lot Kai-kun!"

"No big," Kuukai carefully held the bag that contained their lunch as he dragged his table from beside Tenshi's and placed it in front of Tenshi's table.

"So.." Kuukai said, as he took out their lunch and placed in on the two joined desks. "Done with your homework yet?"

Tenshi nodded. "Miraculously. Wait…" Tenshi wrote some more in the notebook and placed her pen down. "There! All done!"

Kuukai smirked. "So how exactly did you remember to do your other homework except this one?"

"I was working on the script for quite a while and I was doing homework in quite a rush. I guess I overlooked this one. Thank God that you reminded me," Tenshi said, a hint of embarrassment in her voice. She cleared her table.

"So anyway, what's for lunch?"

"Sushi and tempura!" Kuukai grinned. "Bet you didn't know that this school had sushi did you?"

"Sushi?" Tenshi cocked her head to one side. "Really."

"Yep. They sell sushi in these small packages," Kuukai explained, pointing at the food. "So, let's eat!"

Kuukai took out a paper plate and proceeded placing food onto it and putting it in front of Tenshi. "Your share!"

"Uh… that's too much I think," Tenshi said, looking at the plateful of food uncertainly as she snapped a pair of wooden chopsticks in half.

"No worries, no worries! Gotta eat to stay energized you know!" Kuukai said enthusiastically as he snapped his own chopsticks in half and began to eat. "Iff delifus!" (It's delicious!)

Tenshi chuckled and also began to eat.

Kuukai swallowed a mouthful of food. "So have you finished the script that is needed for you to join the club?"

Tenshi nodded. "Yeah. I just handed it over to Chisaki-senpai this morning."

"I see! That's why I couldn't find you this morning!"

"You were looking for me?" Tenshi asked, surprised. "Not playing soccer? A match is coming up soon right?"

Kuukai froze. 'I can't tell her that I was worried about her….gotta change subject. Gotta change subject.'

He looked at Tenshi's plate and saw that she had not touched any of the tamago sushi which had been all pushed to one side of the plate.

"You don't like that?" Kuukai asked, smoothly changing the subject and pointing his chopsticks at the ignored sushi on her plate. "It's pretty yummy you know."

"Don't like it. It looks weird," Tenshi said.

"Have you tasted it before then?"

"No."

"Well you have to at least try!" Kuukai told her. "Don't judge a book by its cover. Besides, I don't think tamago looks weird."

Tenshi folded her arms and shook her head. "No. I won't," she said stubbornly.

A mischievous look appeared on Kuukai's face. "C'mon."

He picked up a piece of tamago and leant over, his hand cupping her cheek.

"What are you doing?"

Kuukai grinned cheekily and using his left hand, he squished both Tenshi's cheeks so that her mouth was open.

"Kai-kun!" Tenshi said with difficulty. She gripped Kuukai's left wrist with both her hands. "No!"

Kuukai snickered. "You look funny Tenshi! Like a goldfish!"

Tenshi gave him an annoyed look, but Kuukai knew she wasn't really annoyed because her eyes were sparkling bright.

"Just one Tenshi! One!" Kuukai said. He was about to put the sushi in her mouth when someone interrupted.

"Koigokoro-chan!" a male voice called.

Both Kuukai and Tenshi didn't stop what they were doing but averted their eyes to their classmate who had called Tenshi.

"Yes?" Kuukai asked in place of his friend.

Their classmate gave the pair a weird look. "Just what are you doing to her? Nevermind. Someone's here to see Koigokoro-chan."

"What are you doing to her?!?" a new voice spoke up.

Tenshi's eyes widened in recognition. "You!"

Kuukai looked at the doorway and saw a boy with messy charcoal hair and forest green eyes with a pair of headphones around his neck standing there. The boy immediately came over to them.

'What the hell?' Yoshi thought.

He had hurried towards Tenshi's class as soon as Taku had told her which class she was in. Yoshi had already been prepared to apologize to Tenshi when he found her. But he wasn't prepared to see Tenshi being fed by someone else. That someone else who was a guy. A guy. Yoshi's eyes only focused on the fact that Kuukai was feeding Tenshi and he did not see that Kuukai was forcing Tenshi's mouth open whilst Tenshi was trying to push him away.

"What do you mean what is he doing to me?" Tenshi asked huffily. Kuukai seized the chance and popped the sushi into her mouth. He drew back into his seat, grinning contentedly.

Tenshi chewed slowly and swallowed. "That's good…"

Kuukai nodded, grinning. "Heh… see? I told you it was!"

A nerve popped up in Yoshi's temple. "Excuse me, but I'm still here?"

Tenshi turned to look at him. "As I was saying, what do you mean by 'what are you doing to her?' Kai-kun's my friend."

'Friend?!? Are you serious? Guy friends don't feed their female friends lunch!' Yoshi thought.

Kuukai blinked rapidly. 'Wait… who's the dude? They seem to know each other though….'

"Umm Tenshi?" Kuukai asked tentatively. "Maybe you'd wanna go somewhere private to talk to your friend?"

"Yes. I'd like that," Yoshi said stiffly, giving Kuukai a dirty look.

Kuukai averted his gaze nervously. 'Is he another brother? He doesn't look anything like her though...'

"Fine," Tenshi stood up. "Sorry Kai-kun. I'll be back soon."

Kuukai nodded. She followed Yoshi out of the classroom and out into the gardens. He led her to a quiet area where not many students were around.

"Why can't I interact with my friend?" Tenshi asked acidly, angrily putting her hands on her hips.

Yoshi looked at her straight in the eyes. Her lilac eyes were flashing, an extremely clear sign that she was angry.

Yoshi exhaled noisily, annoyed. "Guy friends don't feed their female friends."

"Feed?" Tenshi repeated. Her eyes rolled heavenwards. "For God's sake Yoshi, Kai-kun wasn't feeding me! He was forcing me to try something that I didn't want to!"

Yoshi unconsciously blushed as he heard the blonde say his name. He looked away. "Well you didn't look angry…."

"Angry?" Tenshi asked. "Why would I be angry?"

"He was forcing you to try something you didn't want to!" Yoshi said, his voice raising. "When I somewhat forced you to dance, you got pretty pissed at me!"

"That's not the same thing," she said quietly, her voice almost a whisper.

Yoshi noticed that her mood had changed when dancing was mentioned. He looked at her eyes as well. He was surprised to see that her eyes were no longer flashing angrily and were now somewhat dull.

"Anyway," he said, looking at his hands. "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for doing that."

"Doing what?"

"Making you dance even though you didn't want to," Yoshi replied, embarrassed. "I'm sorry..."

"It's nothing," Tenshi muttered, looking away as well, her left hand rubbing her right arm.

"W-why are you so uncomfortable whenever anything related to dance is mentioned to you?" Yoshi asked, trying to be subtle.

Tenshi's form went rigid and she looked at him, her eyes were more sorrowful than ever, full of hurt.

"Why?" Yoshi repeated softly. He was about to put his hand on her arms when someone else called out.

"TENSHI!!!!" Kuukai came out of nowhere.

The soccer jock had gone looking for his friend after trying to finish the rest of his lunch. He couldn't stomach the food as he found that it was pretty lonely and that the food didn't taste as great when his fair-headed friend wasn't with him to share it. He had asked a couple of students and they had directed him to here. As he reached Tenshi and her friend, he only heard the last snippets of their conversation , Yoshi asking her why she was uncomfortable with anything related to dance. He had planned to politely interrupt, but when he saw his friend and her hurt look, he couldn't contain himself any longer. So he shouted her name, hoping to catch her attention and draw her mind away from Yoshi's question.

"Kai-kun?/ You!" both Yoshi and Tenshi said at the same time, with Tenshi more like asking a question.

She looked at him blankly. "Kai-kun? What are you doing here? I thought you were…"

Kuukai felt a rush of emotion as he saw that her eyes were not their usual beautiful, sparkling lilac. It had gone dull and showed hurt. "Tenshi…"

He walked up towards her slowly and Yoshi slowly withdrew his arm from Tenshi. Yoshi left the area and walked where his legs and natural instinct brought him. Taku's classroom.

'Guess I'm back to square one again huh?' Yoshi thought as he rested his hand on the door handle. 'But I sure as hell can't redo the whole thing with her...'

He opened the door and walked up towards Taku's desk and again, took a chair and sat down in front of his friend angrily.

"Why am I so stupid Taku?" Yoshi moaned, messing up his hair in frustration.

Taku stared at the younger boy. He wondered what was wrong with the usually bubbly and cheerful DJ. He sighed and closed Tenshi's script and placed it in his drawer.

"What happened? Couldn't find Koigokoro?"

"No…" Yoshi folded his arms on Taku's desk and buried his head in them. "I went there and saw this guy feeding her, but I thought he was feeding her but she told me he was making her try to eat something she didn't want to. Then I asked her why she didn't get angry with him 'cause she got angry with me when I made her dance and she didn't get angry with him when he made her eat something she didn't want to. And then I said sorry to her about making her dance then I asked her why she's uncomfortable about dancing then she got all sad and I wanted to cheer her up but that guy who was previously feeding her came out of nowhere and I immediately came to you."

He paused for a while. "Guy friends don't feed their female friends do they?" Yoshi asked quietly, his voice muffled by the material on his school blazer."Unless they're special to one another?"

Taku evaluated the words that just came out of the brunette's mouth. He smirked and reached out and ruffled Yoshi's hair affectionately.

'Looks like you're the one falling for her…' Taku thought.

"Just what do you mean by a guy was feeding her?" Taku asked. "How did he feed her?"

Yoshi raised his head. "Oh."

He took hold of Taku's cheeks and squished them and pretended to hold a pair of chopsticks. "Like this."

Yoshi took one look at Taku's face and grinned evilly.

"Hey, you look like a goldfish!"

..……….

..…..……

SLAP!

"Oww!!!" Yoshi whined, rubbing his head. "You asked me how he did it!"

Taku's eyebrow twitched and he folded his arms. "You idiot! He wasn't feeding her alright? That was definitely forcing her to eat something."

Yoshi pouted and folded his arms. "But she didn't get mad at that guy but she got mad at me!"

"That's your problem, Yoshi," Taku huffed.

"And, and, he called her by her given name as well! Doesn't that make you suspicious??" Yoshi protested.

"Did ever occur to you that they might be ,well, I don't know, best friends?" Taku said, emphasizing the word 'best friends' sarcastically.

Yoshi folded his arms stubbornly. "It's still not fair!"

'Jealousy huh?' Taku thought, looking at Yoshi. 'That's something new for this guy...'


"It's okay, I'm fine," Tenshi said quietly. "Can we go back to class?"

Kuukai shook his head. "No. We can't. You're not yourself right? Don't force yourself alright? Just stay here or maybe go home to get some rest?"

Kuukai had immediately brought Tenshi to the infirmary after Yoshi left.

"But I'm really alright!" Tenshi protested. "I'm healthy and it's just that I have my mind on some…. things."

Kuukai sat down beside Tenshi on the bed. He looked at her straight in the eye. "Mind telling me what those 'things' are?"

Tenshi nodded. "Yes. I do mind."

He sighed. 'Well at least I tried.'

"Alright. I won't make you tell me. But I just want you to know one thing," Kuukai said, looking downwards.

"Yes?"

"Y-you can confide in me. I-I'm your friend a-and I promise that I'll keep whatever you say a secret," Kuukai said, his face turning redder by the second. "I'll also always be here to lend you a shoulder to cry on…. Tenshi."

'What the hell am I saying?!? This is not what I'd usually say!' Kuukai thought furiously. 'But this is what I really wanna say! Arghh!! But it sounds so girly….and not to mention cheesy!'

Tenshi looked down at her hands for a few moments.

"I'll tell you… when I want to. Just give me some time to make up my mind about it. If telling you about this matter is really worth it or not," Tenshi said quietly. She got up.

"I'm going home. See you tomorrow…Kai-kun."

And she left. She left Kuukai all alone, trying to process what she had just said. Ever since she had appeared in his life, Kuukai realized that although he initially thought that was growing closer to her, he really didn't know much about his blonde friend. Sure, she was fun, caring , funny and all sorts of things. But she was also secretive and mysterious. He realized that she had a secret that she couldn't tell him. Possibly more than one secret even.

His mouth was set in a grim line of determination.

"I'm gonna do whatever it takes, to get that girl to trust me. I'm gonna show her that as far as friends come and go, I'll be the one she can always trust."

Kuukai was going to win her trust. Tenshi was going to win Amu's affections for him.

Who's going to win first?


Author: Yes! I actually made updates to two of my stories in a space of one month. Originally, I had hoped to post this chapter at least five days earlier, but I went away on vacation. I know the plot is extremely weird. I honestly never thought that it would turn out like this! The ideas were just popping up into my mind randomly and I kept contemplating whether to throw them into the plot. After hours and hours of hesitation, I was like, what the hell!!! And just incorporated the random ideas that were popping up in my head into the story. Hope you all like the story so for and hope that you guys liked this chapter! Thanks to the people who actually read this! Oh and before I forget, I have authored another story, which is on fictionpress under the same current penname. If you have time, please go read and review! here is the link, fictionpress(dot)com/s/2697994/5/Bad_Angel

p/s: the link doesn't work if you copy and paste it. replace the '(dot)' with an actual fullstop and it will.

Merry Christmas!

-MCB