File 4: Truth

"His boyfriend? Don't you mean her boyfriend?" Shinichi was trying to correct Heiji's words, although his eyes were obviously laughing at Heiji.

"Right, I'm her boyfriend, so don't you dare to date her, or having any weird ideas on her." Heiji's face was blushing deeply about the stupid mistake that he had just made. "Introduction had finished. See you tomorrow, Kudo!" He then grabbed Kazuha's hand tightly in his, and heading towards where his motorcycle had parked. To Kazuha's surprise, he even put on the helmet gently on her head. "Okay, let's go home," said Heiji, "remember to hold me tight!"

Heiji and Kazuha disappeared on the motorcycle, leaving the others staring at them blankly. "What'd happened?" "When did Kazuha started to be Heiji's girlfriend?" Ran asked Shinichi in a low voice. "I don't know either," said Shinichi, "maybe he had decided just now!"

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Kazuha's mind was blanked; she could not remember clearly how she returned home. All she could remember was that Heiji told the others suddenly that she was now his girlfriend, and she remembered vaguely that how he gently put the helmet on her head and brought her home. She was now seating on the sofa, thinking hard on what Heiji was going to do. Or did he eat something wrong today? Or was he sick?

"Hey, Kazuha," said Heiji, breaking the silence, "are you listening to me? Don't I tell you so many times that stop day-dreaming? Listen carefully to others!"

"Okay, okay," said Kazuha, "what do you want to say?" Her face flushed slightly, wondering if Heiji was going to confess to her.

"I just want to say something about what I've said recently," said Heiji, his face blushed slightly, but thanks for his dark-coloured skin, it was not visible. "I think that I need to clear things up a bit. Eh…"

"Huh?" Kazuha just could not stop her heart beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her chest.

"Since both our parents had told me to take good care about you in Tokyo here, I need to look after you," said Heiji nervously, "and you don't know that people in Tokyo here aren't as naïve as you, you'll be the one usually in trouble and suffer in the end. So, I think that this is the best solution to prevent you from meeting some stupid guys at school."

"So you solution is?"

Heiji took a deep breath before continuing, "Let you pretend to be my girlfriend, we act as a couple at school, so no more stupid guys will be bugging you all day long!"

"But I don't think that's a problem at all," said Kazuha, trying to hide her disappointment, "and I don't think that we pretend to be a couple is a good solution at all."

"Aho! I've decided so no objection!"

"But how could we act like a couple at school, we never know how do we suppose to be a couple!"

"No need to worry, we have a 'model couple' nearby," said Heiji.

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"Hey, Kazuha, you need to wait for me," said Heiji, asking Kazuha who was walking in front to slow down a bit. "Look at there," his head tilting towards Shinichi and Ran, "that's how a couple should look." He then held Kazuha's hand tightly in his, and their fingers were crossing each other. Kazuha was blushed slightly, "oh, so they're the model couple that you're referring."

"Right!" He then observed them carefully to see if there were any other small actions that they could mimic. Shinichi and Ran were walking closer to each other now, and Shinichi's arm was wrapping around Ran's waist loosely. Heiji then noticed his hand was caressing her waist, moving his hand up and down gently. Shinichi then whispered something in Ran's ear that made her giggled slightly. Heiji was too busy looking at the lovely couple; he did not notice that Kazuha had been calling him several times already. "Heiji," called Kazuha once again, and he finally gave her a response.

"Kazuha, what's it?" Heiji was looking at her questionably, not knowing why she was suddenly calling him.

"Your hand," whispered Kazuha, her face was red as tomato now.

"Huh?" Heiji still could not understand it, looking Kazuha puzzledly. She then pointed at the side of her chest; he then saw a dark coloured hand was hugging around her. He thought that he had gotten in touch with something soft near her chest.

Heiji was flushing slightly, and thanked to his dark coloured skin, it was not easily noticed by anyone. He moved his hand down quickly, so that he was not touching anywhere he was not supposed to get in contact. "Sorry," whispered Heiji into Kazuha's ear, "I don't mean to….you know. I'm just looking at Kudo, maybe to concentrate on it, so..." He was trying to explain to her that was just an accident. Kazuha just nodded her head slightly, and said, "I've a lecture now, I need to go."

"Eh, bye!" He then took off his arm around her, "oh, wait, I'll wait for you at the cafeteria at noon, is that okay?"

"Sure, see you then!" Heiji looked at her leaving to the lecture hall; he had a weird lonely feeling when she had gone. He then looked at his hand; he missed her warmth of her body. It was not usual of him having this kind of feeling; maybe he was too tired lately.

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Kazuha had just entered the lecture hall, and her arms were immediately grabbed by Ran and Sonoko. "Kazuha-chan, tell us what'd happened?" Ran asked immediately. "How dare you say we're friends, and not telling us anything about it?" Sonoko added.

Kazuha sighed, and found a seat at the corner, started telling them what Heiji had told her last night. "We're just pretending to be dating; we're just childhood friends, that's it. It's impossible for Heiji to confess to me."

"Wait, that's not impossible now," said Sonoko. "Actually this's a good chance for you two to have a change in your relationship. And this depends on how well you're." Sonoko was looking at Kazuha with half-mooned eyes.

"Sonoko, stop letting us wait, just tell us right away," said Ran, "Kazuha-chan was upset already, we should help her!"

"You've watched lots of dramas or movies already, right?" Sonoko started explaining her idea, "especially those love and romance dramas." Both Ran and Kazuha nodded their heads immediately, and Sonoko continued, "there're lots of actors and actresses fall in love with each other in real life after finished shooting the drama. They can't withdraw from the drama world."

"But they're not actors," said Ran. "Hattori-kun would feel weird and suspect her if Kazuha-chan overacts as his girlfriend."

"Kazuha, this's up to you," said Sonoko, "if you behave more like his real girlfriend, then he maybe getting more use to you, and then you two will finally becoming real couples."

"How can I do that?" Kazuha was looking at them in confusion.

"You're not a little girl anymore, of course you know how to seduce a man," said Sonoko, looking at her with half-moon eyes. "Holding each other hands, hugging each other, kissing, etc." Kazuha's face flushed deeply and said, "I can't do this, it's so embarrassing."

"If you really want to have a change in your relationship with Hattori-kun, that isn't embarrassing at all," said Sonoko, "Ran, let's skip class together and go shopping, we need to get some new clothes for Kazuha. You need to wear clothes that are more feminine and mature, so that you can attract your Hattori-kun."

"But Heiji had told me to meet him in café after class," said Kazuha, "I'm sure that Heiji won't do anything stupid because of a girl is wearing sexy clothes."

"Kazuha-chan, I think that you just need to coordinate with Hattori to act as a couple is enough," said Ran, "and then he will like any actors in romantic drama to fall for you, just as Sonoko had said. No need to seducing him! He'll soon find out how nice it will be to have you as his real girlfriend."

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Heiji and Shinichi were waiting for the girls to meet with them at the cafeteria for lunch. Shinichi gave a welcoming hug immediately when Ran was here finally. Heiji was about to complain to Kazuha about what taking her so long, but he was quite surprised to see Shinji was with the girls. "Why're you here?"

"We've just met so we invited him to eat lunch together," said Kazuha.

"So that's why you come fifteen minutes late!"

"It's only fifteen minutes, that's no need to complain!" Heiji and Kazuha started again their daily arguing.

Shinji was staring the two of them amazingly, and asked, "Were they like this all the time?"

Both Ran and Shinichi nodded their heads promptly, "that's their hobby."

"They're weird," said Shinji, "they didn't look like a couple at all. When did you two start dating?"

Heiji and Kazuha stopped arguing as soon as Shinji asked the question, "of course we're a couple, can't you see?" Heiji immediately had his arm around Kazuha's shoulders, making her leaning closer to him. He then even surprised everyone by kissing slightly on Kazuha's cheek. She was blushing slightly, and that made Shinji looking at them more suspiciously, "Toyama-san, shouldn't you be getting used to kissing with Hattori-kun? Your face is red as apple right now."

"Aho! She's just too shy!" Heiji then whispered into Kazuha's ear, "hey, don't you remember that we're 'couples', so act as my girlfriend now."

"We can't wait to see each other every time," said Heiji. "We're the best here, if the Kudos isn't here."

"You're so confident," said Shinji, "so why don't you two enter TCC?"

"Huh? TCC? What's that?"

"Teitan Couple Competition, it'll choose the best couples in Teitan University," explained Sonoko, "I would love to enter if Makoto is here. It's too bad that he isn't here, so I've helped Ran and her hubby to enter instead."

"Sonoko! I don't remember that Shinichi and I are in the competition," said Ran, "and he's not my hubby!"

"Why not entering it? You could win those attractive grand prizes! Coupons from all the best restaurant in Tokyo, season pass to the Tropical Land, one night at the honeymoon suite in a five-star hotel!"

"That's attractive; no wonder so many people entering the contest," said Shinji, "so wanna enter too, Hattori-kun?"

"The coupons from the entire restaurant in Tokyo, I want that too," said Heiji, showing interests to the contest. "I've always wanted to try all the best food in Tokyo."

"So enter it now," said Sonoko, "either one of them could win it!"

"But Heiji," said Kazuha, trying to stop Heiji entering the competition as she knew that she would be in big trouble, but he just did not listen to her.

"Okay, we'll enter it," said Heiji, "Kudo, I won't lose to you!"

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Kazuha was about to go back to the bedroom after enjoying a nice hot water bath, but she was stopped when Heiji asked her to come to seat next to him on the sofa. "Kazuha, we need to discuss about the contest," said Heiji.

"Right, I want to talk about it too," said Kazuha, "we should withdraw the competition now. We aren't couples, we can't win it, and so it's better to withdraw it now."

"Aho! I've decided already, and it's too late to withdraw now," said Heiji, "that's why we need to practice for the contest now!"

"What practice?"

"I get the info about the contest from Kudo," said Heiji, "and we need to be ready for the preliminary round!"

"So what's it?"

"It calls Kiss300," continued Heiji, "the couples need to kiss for at least 300 seconds as a proof that they're real couples. There're too many fake couples were attracted by the grand prizes, so it's a bit strict on qualification!"

"WHAT? 300 seconds, that means 5 minutes," said Kazuha, her face blushed slightly, "no way! We aren't dating now and…" without waiting for Kazuha to finish her sentence, Heiji kissed her lips quickly. Kazuha pushed him away quickly, "Aho, I'm not ready for my first ever real kiss yet!"

"But I've remembered that we've actually kissed before," said Heiji, "when we're a kid, so this isn't our first kiss. And it's not even last for 5 seconds, how can we qualify?"

Heiji ignored any further objections from Kazuha, and one of his hands was already around her waist, the other hand was at the back of her neck, pressing her lips toward his.

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To be continued……

Sorry for the late update, it should have been up two months before, but I'm moving home recently, too busy in packing and unpacking stuffs. Also too busy in moving my homepage too, feel free to go and have a look! Please Read and Review! Thanks for anyone that had reviewed before, and thanks for telling me I've made a mistake last time about Heiji saying "his boyfriend". I've type it wrong, but then found out that it's more funny to leave it this way! Next File --- Teitan Couple Competition! Who will win it?