Chapter 5:

The cherry blossoms fell silently around both of you. From a third person's point of view, it looked like the perfect confession scene. But, alas, it wasn't.
"Reject Oka."
Taro's words were cut off by your sudden command, it took him a second to reply.
"What?" His dumb response seemed to annoy you more.
"You heard me! REJECT HER!"
"W-wait! What do you mean 'reject'? W-what?" Confusion filled his veins while he tried to piece together what you said. Sighing with annoyance, you looked him in the eyes and replied in the most calm you could be.
"Oka, my future bride and mother of my future children that we shall name Rosalind and Lillian best friend, has a crush on you and will confess soon. You must reject her." Taro attempted and failed to cut in there. "I don't care what you do or say, just break her heart and make her hate you."
Silence filled the air as Taro tried to absorb the information given. Oka was the friend you had comforted the previous morning, the one in spiderweb stockings and gloves. Now, Taro hardly knew the girl, but still, he didn't want her to hate him. He was about to ask you why, when he saw your tear soaked face. Suddenly, he wanted to do anything you pleased, just to make you stop crying. Walking close to you, he held your hands and whispered with a smile.
"Ok."

Oh good! He's still there!~
Oka stood at the exit of one of the school's back door as she looked up to her senpai's lone figure standing under the cherry blossoms. Her beat was faster than ever before. This was it! She was finally going to confess her feelings to Taro! Her heart leaped with excitement, because the thought of kissing Taro filled her with determination! (Sorry, not sorry.)
Forcing herself to walk instead of run, she slowly made her way towards the boy that made life beautiful. Taro was like the sun, the source of life's food and energy, if it wasn't for it, life would cease to exist. Plants would die without the ability to photosynthesise, plant-eating animals would follow and so on. Taro was her sun, without him... well, you get the picture.
Arriving at the bottom of the hill, she slowly and nervously made her way up, until she was standing face to face with the boy. Silence surrounded them. This lasted roughly around 56 seconds (she counted), until Oka finally broke the silence.
"Umm, hi." Looking up to Taro, she saw that his usually cheerful face, was covered with a frown.
"Hello."
Silence. Neither moved. All that was heard was the wind.
"Umm..." She was not expecting this, because suddenly, all her confidence had disappeared. She started to contemplate fleeing when his voice broke through the wind.
"Look, Oka. I know what you're going to say. You're gonna confess that you like me, right?" All the nerves and muscles in her body froze in that moment. "But, you see. I don't like you, you're weird and creepy. So do us both a favour, and leave." And like a thousand mirrors simultaneously shattering, the waterworks came. Not noticing Taro's regretful face, she fled.

Taro stood there, full of shame and sadness. He never wanted to hurt Oka, much less make her cry.
"Thank you." Turning around, he saw you standing there with a pleased, yet sad smile. "I know that must have been hard, but it was necessary."
"Why?" Was all Taro could say.
"I'd prefer not to say. So, let's keep this between the two of us. Okay?"
Taro only nodded as you followed Oka in hopes of reaching her before she did anything drastic.
Unknowing to everyone, there was a girl listening to the entire conversation through a hidden earpiece on the cherry tree. And she did not like that her senpai was being used.

Running through the halls, you searched desperately for your little angel. You had already checked the occult club and her locker (which still had her outdoor shoes and bag inside), you were now panicking until you spotted her lone figure sitting on your shared bench, crying.
Walking up slowly, you bent down and removed the hands from her face. Her face was all red and wet from both tears and snot, but to you, she looked beautiful. You put on a sad knowing face on, and she immediately started crying again. Not being able to stand looking at her devastated face anymore, you in circled her in a hug... which just made her cry more. But after a few seconds, she returned the hug. The pair of you stayed there until a teacher came up and found them, asking you to leave. Still clutching each other, you slowly made your way down stairs to grab your bags and leave. You walked her all the way to her place (totally not in attempt to find out where she sleeps and maybe steal her underwear while she wasn't looking, that would just be creepy... right?), and without a word spoken, you parted.
Walking home, you felt a chill go up your spine, as if someone was watching you. Paranoid, you turned around but found no person following. At that point, you practically sprinted all the way home.

The girl is paranoid, and careful.
The shadow noted. She had been following the pair ever since they left school grounds. She watched as you had carefully surveyed the area, your eyes wide and defensive, as if an enemy were to attack at any given moment. You were paranoid.
Not a good trait to carry... well, at least not in Ayano's mind. Being paranoid meant you were more likely to keep an eye out and had a higher chance of noticing her. Making you harder to attack. But to make up for your defensive eyes, you were a loner, which meant you were alone quite alot (obviously).
Between Oka and your house, was atleast a mile and a half, and seeing as you were Oka's friend while she was heartbroken, meant you were likely to walk her home tomorrow. So tomorrow evening, during the mile and a half trip to your house, you were vulnerable.
Smirking, Ayano entered her bedroom and open her favourite draw. Looking down, she couldn't help but smile.
So... The katana? Baseball bat? Or classic kitchen knife? ... Or something else...
Senpai will be hers.

Thank you Shiranai Atsune for following my story, it means alot to me!
Sorry for the inactivity, I have been busy with work and...
You now what? I won't lie. I've been doing nothing but read fanfics of Septiplier for about 3 days straight. Yes, I know. Bad Reyna!
So anyway, on a different note. You get to pick what weapon Ayano with use. Review or PM (or whatever) what weapon you want me to use in the next chapter. If I don't get any suggestions, I'll go for a random weapon. Also, later on in chapter 8, there will be torture/death of a student (I won't explain, cos that will spoil the story), and you get to chose that too. Write the name of any student (that isn't part of the main story) and the one with the most votes (or first one written) will be killed. Muhaha!
Anyways, that's all. Happy birthday to moi and anybody else that was born on the 13th (apparently I'm too old for confetti...).
And I'll see you, in the next chapter. :3