A/N: Its been a while my readers. I apologize, but you can be happy to know that I know where I'm going with this story. Most of the time I come up with everything as I go along but not with this…I planned ahead. Yay. So on with the chappy!
Disclaimer: Almost forgot it.
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(Two Weeks Later, Monday)
"Again Yuzu, How many times do I have to tell you?!" It was another day of tardiness for Yuzu.
"I'm sorry Marika."
"That's what you say every day, why is waking up such a hard task for you?"
"I don't know?"
"And you would think that now that Shouta waits for you in the morning you'd be a bit more eager to get up and get to school on time."
"I know, I know."
Yuzuyu said goodbye to her aunt and walked out the door with Marika who was disappointed with her once again. They began to walk down the sidewalk and Yuzuyu stopped dead in her tracks.
"OH MY GOD!" Yuzuyu ran back inside her house. Marika protested but waited for her anyway, Yuzuyu came back to Marika with a bag in her hand.
"What's that?"
"Um, it's a bento for Shouta?"
"Oh my gosh are you two going out?"
"No, but I thought that it would be nice to make him lunch. He hates the cafeteria food and he says his mom would never make lunch for him. Plus he can't cook."
"So tragic."
"Yeah, so I just thought I'd make him lunch, I did wake up extra early today to do it even though I was still late."
"I'm sure he'll appreciate it."
"I hope so." Yuzuyu said looking at the bag in her hand.
(At the School)
They reached the school building with Ken catching up.
"But come on Yuzu, you've never made one of those for me before."
"I'm sorry Ken, I figured it would be Marika's job."
"WHAT! YUZU!!"
"I kid I kid."
Shouta smiled when he saw Yuzu. Seeing her every morning always put a smile on his face.
"Good morning guys." Shouta said.
"Morning Shouta." Yuzuyu said with a smile on her face and blushing. Shouta raised and eyebrow. He didn't know why she was turning so red so fast, he was curious though.
"Yo! Shouta look what's in the bag!" Ken said pointing to the bag.
"Huh?" Yuzuyu raised the bag to Shouta.
"I, um, made this for you this morning." Shouta took the bag gently and took out a blue bento box.
"This is for me?" Yuzuyu nodded. Shouta opened it and saw rice in one section of the box, omelets in another section and dumplings in the last section.
"Thank you very much Yuzuyu." Yuzuyu could see the happiness in his eyes.
"You're welcome Shouta."
(Lunchtime)
"You know Yuzuyu, you didn't have to make me lunch."
"But I wanted to. I hope it tastes good."
"It looks great." Shouta smiled and took out an omelet with his chopstick and put it in his mouth. He closed his eyes for moment; he took the chopsticks slowly out of his mouth. Everyone seemed to inch closer to him. A tear ran down his eye.
"Is it that bad?" Yuzuyu asked beginning to feel depressed to learn that her food was bad.
"Bad? Yuzuyu…THIS IS BETTER THAN MY MOM'S COOKING!!! IT'S SO GOOD I COULD KISS YOU!!!" Shouta put more into his mouth and helped himself to all of the other goodies in his bento. Yuzuyu was shocked when she heard the word 'kiss' but she pulled herself together. There was no way he liked her as much as she did him, having only been there for three weeks.
"Hey Shouta…can I have some?" Ken asked looking very desperate.
"No Ken. Let Shouta eat his own bento." Marika objected.
"Just one little omelet, come on please."
"Sure Ken." Shouta said and moved his bento so Ken could take an omelet.
"Thanks Shouta." He ate his omelet and felt like crying himself.
"Aw, this is SO good!"
"Actually Ken, Marika makes better omelets than I do. Don't you Marika?"
"Well I'm not one to brag but I was the one who taught Yuzu how to cook omelets so…of course mine are better." Yuzuyu smiled at how blatenly honest Marika was, somehow it was what she loved about her, although, she'd feel a little sad if Shouta would rather have Marika's cooking than hers.
"Marika…can you make me a bento one day, full of omelets? They're…my favorite food." Marika looked at Ken's adorable eyes.
"Fine."
"YES!"
"Yuzuyu, I'll have to make this up to you." Shouta said once he finished his food.
"No you don't."
"But I want to. How about we go out sometime?"
"REALLY??? I mean I mean…I'd like that a lot."
"Great, I'll pay for everything, hey Ken, Marika, maybe you guys can come too? It can be a double date thing? Whaddya say?" Both Ken and Marika blushed.
"Well…I think that's a fun idea." Ken said shyly.
"Um, yeah…very fun." Marika replied, just as shy.
"YAY! Alright!" Yuzuyu said. The bell for their next class rang.
(After School)
Shouta and Ken had cleaning duty and told Yuzuyu and Marika they'd see them later.
"Shouta what made you come up with that idea in lunch today?" Ken asked as he swept the floor leaving the erasers for Shouta. He knew Shouta could clean them better than him anyway.
"Well, I just thought, "Ken likes Marika, I like Yuzu, hey let's all go out somewhere together." Sounded like a good idea at the time, why? You don't want to go?" Shouta asked, stopping what he was doing.
"Well of course, I do. I'm just glad you're here; I don't think I would've had the guts to ask her myself. And then to have to be by myself with her…the thought makes me sweat."
"You're that nervous to tell her how you feel?"
"Well duh Shouta! I don't even know when I started having these feelings for her."
"It's probably been longer than you think."
"Then why do I feel like I'm just finding out?"
"Pssh, I don't know."
"Well you're a big help."
"Well what do you want me to tell you?"
"Something useful maybe?"
"Sorry I'm all out of useful, how about I give you confused and clueless because that's what I am." Ken laughed at Shouta's reply.
"So where do you plan on taking the ladies and me?"
"Um I planned for a movie and dinner."
"You mean dinner and a movie?"
"That's what I said."
"No you said a movie and dinner, it doesn't go that way."
"But I want to go see the movie first."
"Oh…well still."
"Which ever way. That's what I wanted to do. You pay for dinner and I'll pay for the movie."
"What? You said you were paying for everything!"
"Well, that was between me and Yuzu. You and Marika are coming, I'm not that loaded."
"Darn…fine. Or or how about you pay for you and Yuzu through the whole day and I'll pay for me and Marika the whole day?"
"Okay, I think that's a much better idea."
"I'm starting to get all excited. We should go see a scary movie so when they get scared we can put our arms around them and tell them it'll be ok."
"Um no, because only stupid guys do that and then their date winds up figuring out that all they wanted to do was touch them, they'll get mad and want to leave. We're gonna see what they want to see because that's what a gentlemen would suggest."
"Oh, right. I knew that…I'm nervous ok, I can't think straight."
"Well try to think straight Saturday. Marika doesn't look like the type to like screw ups."
"She's not."
"Well then my friend. I suggest you calm down and do everything that your heart says to. Because if you go by what your mind wants…you're gonna get slapped or something." Ken dropped the broom and ran over to Shouta and grabbed his shirt.
"Help me please! I don't think I can hear my heart when it talks!" Shouta looked at Ken and gently pulled his arms off his shirt.
"Calm down Ken. It's not that hard. And you're naturally a nice guy so you won't have too much of a problem. Just do what feels right. Um, maybe I can help…ok if Marika's cold, what do you do? Give her your coat or say, "I'll warm you up"?"
"Um, give her my coat?"
"Exactly. See, you'll have no problem at all. Ok, if Marika is falling behind, do you tell her to "hurry up" or do you grab her hand and walk with her, while making sure she's ok?"
"Walk with her and make sure she's ok?"
"Good job. See, you can hear your heart just fine, and Ken, Marika likes you, she can't even hide it anymore, so if you treat her the right way like you know how, you'll have no problem asking her to be your girlfriend. I hope Yuzu enjoys herself too, with me that is."
"Shouta, you are a ladies' man."
"I am not, that makes me sound like a player or something and I just think that all girls should be treated with the respect they deserve."
"Hey you're right, you're not a ladies' man; I guess that makes you a… gentlemen? I didn't know that guys still acted that way." Ken said incredulously.
"Ken, you're a closet gentlemen. When it comes to girls you sometimes act like every other stupid guy out there when girls are looking for the gentlemen that you really are. Almost all girls believe that guys like us don't even exist anymore. If we love them too much we only want one thing from them, and when we get it we leave, we never just want love. Or if we're too happy with them, we're cheating on them with another girl. I'm doing my best to break that trend. And you should too; no matter how hard it is since the other ninety-eight percent of the male population are actually the way they think." Shouta explained. Ken looked at him attentively, making sure to pay attention to every word.
"I mean they can see you're a gentlemen too, if they didn't do you think they would even associate themselves with you? You're the type of understanding guy most girls wish they had. Yuzuyu and Marika just happen to be the lucky ones you're friends with."
"You really think so?"
"Yeah. You're a good guy Ken, and you understand everything there is to know about those two girls. I just hope I get to understand as much as you do."
"You know Shouta, you're a real confidence booster…thanks." Ken hugged him, sniffing like he was going to cry. A student walked by and giggled.
"You're welcome Ken…" Shouta looked around a bit waiting for Ken to let him out his loving hug. "Um Ken, not that I don't appreciate this hug, but I'd rather not give anyone the wrong idea, if you get what I'm saying." Ken let go immediately.
"Totally! Ha, sorry." Ken rubbed the back of his neck.
"Nah, it's fine." Shouta smiled at him and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Hey Shouta, to celebrate our new friendship, I say we go to the arcade! And then scarf down hamburgers and French fries!"
"I'm so there! Let's hurry up and clean the rest of this classroom!"
"Yeah!" They began to speed clean so they could go have some fun. They both knew that this friendship was going last a good long while.
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There ya have it. A little Shouta and Ken bonding, I really liked this chapter. Don't you wish more guys were like Shouta? I know I do. Anywayz see ya next chappy. I'll do my best not to make you wait too long ok.
