Seiichi stood in front of the entrance doors of the Ogawa residence. For the first time in his life, he was unsure of what he's doing. He was a careful person, thinking of each and every step he took, not wanting to cause any problem to anyone he knew but of course, he did try to be reckless once but his teammates stopped him from doing it and he was grateful to them. He sighed, Maybe I should leave before Bunta sees me, he said mentally but the very thought of seeing Kaori made him stay and with that, he pressed the doorbell once and waited.

He heard a small crash inside and distinct footsteps became louder by the second. The door swung open and before him stood Kannon, looking dishevelled as usual. "Good you arrived on time!" He said while panting.

The Rikkai Buchou stared at him. What happened to him? "Ah yes."

"Well come on, get you butt in here." He said scratchily as he stood aside to let him enter. "She's in her room as usual." He whispered.

He nodded once and both of them went to the blind girl's room. He somehow felt his heart beating faster knowing that he would finally meet her again.

Kannon made a stop and knocked the door twice. "Kaori-chan, you have a visitor for today." He said casually as he opened the door and motioned his companion to enter with him.

"Eh? Is it Bunta-kun?" Kaori asked innocently as she sat motionless on her sofa.

"Not really but you also know this person." Her brother said casually as he gave Seiichi the signal.

Seiichi made his way towards her and knelt before her, giving her a bouquet of purple Hyacinth. "Kaori-san." He said softly.

Kaori gasped a little as she felt his hands touching hers. "Seiichi-san…" She accepted the bouquet carefully and placed it on top of her lap.

"I'm sorry for suddenly not visiting you." He said honestly. "I didn't mean to worry you."

"I-it's okay…Bunta-kun told me that you were busy with schoolwork and tennis practices and I don't want to be of burden to you." She said gently.

Seiichi frowned inwardly and wanted to tell her that he had time to visit her as many occasions as he wanted but he knew better not to tell her anything about it at all. "I was rather busy before but now I have the time to be here with you and that's what matters the most, ne?" he said with a smile.

"I understand." She nodded but a tear escaped from her eyes.

He noticed it right away and raised his hand and wiped it away gently by using his index finger. "Don't cry. Please smile for me."

"I'm crying because I'm happy that my friend is here." She said simply as a smile graced on her lips. "What kind of flowers did you give me?"

"Purple Hyancith." He answered.

"You don't need to say sorry again." She whispered. "I'm not mad at you."

"But I didn't call you---"

"It doesn't matter. You visited me and I'm fine with just that." She said that.

As they talked silently, Kannon was watching them with utter displeasure. He was happy that he was able to make his sister smile again but he was deeply annoyed at the same time because she became like that because a certain high school boy visited her. She's too young to have a boyfriend! And with that statement inside his head, he chose to slightly interrupt their moment. He faked cough and said sarcastically, "You two are quite chummy there while I'm still here. It's as if I'm not in this room right now."

The two teenagers flushed slightly and this made the young adult smirk. "I-I'm sorry Kannon-niisan. If you want, you can join us." Kaori said quietly, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"Oh thanks for the offer but I'd rather not." He said dismissively. "So, I'll be leaving this room and do some important stuff on my own while you two have a wonderful time talking to each other like a couple and oh don't mind me rambling here and think that I'm annoyed but I'm definitely not."

Seiichi and Kaori sweat dropped as the Kannon continued to talk. He's definitely annoyed. As soon as he left the room, neither one of them uttered a word. Seiichi felt uncomfortable all of a sudden and so did Kaori, all thanks to Kannon. Finally, Seiichi decided to break the silence. "Ne you look nicer with your new haircut." He complimented.

"You think so?" She asked. "Kannon-niisan said that my hair was too long for me so he and I went outside to get it cut." Her hair was shorter; semi-layered just above her shoulders and her bangs with a bit uneven, giving her off a look of cuteness for some reason.

"Well, you look cuter with it." He chuckled and he didn't know that what he said made her blush.

"A-ah thank you for the complimenting me."

While they were talking, they didn't realize that Bunta was already at the entrance of the house. The self-proclaimed genius knocked the door thrice and waited for Ami to open the door but he didn't expect Kannon to open it for him. "Ah Kannon, I'm here to visit Kaori-chan." He chirped.

"Is that so? Well, bad timing because she's sleeping right now. Why won't you visit next time or better yet, call me so I can fix a schedule for you. he said to him hastily. This is a bad timing.

Marui stared at him in disbelief. "What? A schedule? What for?"

"Ehhh for personal reasons that only I am capable of knowing." He reasoned with him. Stop asking, will you?

"Why? Did something bad happen to her?" he insisted as he tried to enter but the other male stopped him. "You're acting suspicious, you know." He stated.

"Suspicious you say? Then you must be hallucinating." He said persistently.

"Am not."

"Now really Bunta, you should really let her rest for a while. I mean, it's not like she's going anywhere, right? And besides, you don't want her to get fed up with you visiting her three times a week right?"

The last bit hit him really bad that he said, looking defeated, "I guess you're right there. Well, I'll be off then. Tell Kaori-chan that I was here."

"Will do." He said with a wide forced smile on his face as he waved at him. Glad that's over. When the redhead was out of sight, he let out a deep sigh. "This is beginning to get troublesome."

Six days after, Seiichi visited Kaori again with the help of Kannon. He did everything to not make his visits obvious (yet he didn't realize that Renji and Sanada knew about it) and somehow after doing it for a month, he was able to pull off the stunt. He and Kaori did things as usual and they were content about it. They didn't speak too much towards each other; they knew that as long as they did things together, words didn't matter as they spent time tending the gardens at her place.

"Ne Kaori-san," Seiichi called. They were at the backyard where the two of them sat on a bench.

"What is it Seiichi-san?" she responded.

"You want to visit my house next Sunday?" he offered but stopped and realized that what he proposed was a mistake.

"E-eh?" she flushed slightly.

"I'm sorry. What I mean to say is that would you want to visit my garden at my place?" he corrected himself.

"O-of course. I would love to." She said with her cheeks a bit red.

"Your brother will have to come though." He added. Because he might strangle me for god-knows what he thinks. "Is that all right with you?"

"I don't mind at all."

"That's good, then. My sister wanted to meet you, after all." He said, looking relieved.

"You mean Reiko-san?" she perked up. It's been a while she last talked with another female other than the maids. "I wanted to meet her as well."

"I'm sure both of you will get along just fine but she's a bit energetic than usual." He said with a smile.

Five days after, Sunday finally arrived. Around midday, Kannon helped his sister go inside the car they're using. He entered inside as well, buckled himself with a seat belt, and ignited the engine that caused the car to come to life. Grumbling slightly, he drove all the way to Seiichi's house with an assortment of thoughts swimming inside his head. After a couple of minutes, they finally arrived. He pulled over but made no attempt to go outside.

Facing his sister, he said seriously, "Are you sure you want to go to his house? You can still escape you know."

"That would mean I broke my promise with him." She said simply.

Kannon sighed deeply. "There's no helping it, huh?" Why must this happen?! He finally got out of the vehicle, and walked over to the other side where he opened it for her. He held her hand and helped her got out of it as well. "Well, we're here." He walked beside her as he continued to hold her hand until they finally reached the entrance door. Reluctantly, he raised his hand and pressed the doorbell and waited shortly.

In less than a minute, the door finally opened and in front of them stood a young girl. "It's you visitor-jiichan!" she exclaimed.

The young adult sighed mentally. "Didn't I tell you last time that I'm not that old? Look, I don't have white hair." He insisted as he pointed his head but he knew that it was futile so he had to let it go. "Never mind. Is your brother there?"

"You mean Seiichi-niichan? He's upstairs. I'll call him!" she said with a toothy grin as she let the two of them enter the household.

When she left, Kaori giggled a bit. "She's a lively one, isn't she?" she asked her brother.

"Quite lively." He said. "Let's go to the living room." He said dismissively as he led her to the living room.

"Eh? You know where it is?"

"…yes." He replied.

When they entered the room, he made her sit on the couch, him sitting beside her and waited. Not long after, they heard footsteps getting louder by the second and finally, Seiichi arrived with his sister behind him. "You finally arrived." He said with a smile.

"Yeah, we did." He nodded once.

Seiichi motioned his sister to move forward and said gently, "Reiko, her name is Kaori-san. Be nice to her, okay?"

"Okay!" she responded. "My name is Reiko! It's nice to meet you!"

Kaori smiled softly in return. "It's nice to meet you as well. My name is Kaori."

"Ne Kaori-neesan, are you dating Seiichi-niisan?" she asked randomly.

Seiichi choked slightly whereas Kannon gaped and Kaori blushed deeply. "What?! Both of them dating? Impossible!" Kannon protested.

"Why not? They look good together!" she said happily, making the two of the teenagers blush even more. "You don't like it, do you visitor-jiichan?"

Kannon shook his head furiously. "Of course I don't! She's too young to date anyone!"

Seiichi intervened. "…now is not the time you should take her seriously, Ogawa-san."

"All I'm saying that my dear sister is not ready to date anyone---" he rambled but stopped because his cellphone rang. Sighing, he pulled it out from his pocket and answered it. "Kannon here. What? You're joking, right? No, that's highly impossible. Have you checked it? No? Well, do it. Yes. I'll be there. Ah. Bye." Muttering some words to himself, he faced them with a grim smile on his face and said sadly, "Well, I can't stay here. Something came up just now so I have to leave." He turned to his sister and bended himself, giving her a small peck on the forehead. "I'll pick you up later, okay?"

She nodded. "Take care, Kannon-niisan."

"Ah I will. And as for you," his tone of voice changed as soon as he put his attention towards Seiichi, who blinked in return. "I could care less if you aren't interested in her but even so, you'll better take care of her or you'll never see daylight again. Got that?" he hissed.

"Hai hai." The Rikkai Buchou sweat dropped.

"Good." He nodded and gave him a short pat on the shoulder. "I'll be off then."

When he left the house, Seiichi let out a small sigh. What a difficult person but he has a reason to be like that. Taking his mind off him, he turned to Kaori and said warmly, "Let's go now, shall we?"

Few days after, Marui muttered a couple of words as he walked towards his childhood friend's house. He knew something was going on and for him, he could care less about it as long but if it was concerned about Kaori, then he'll have to find it out. He decided not to press the doorbell and just knocked thrice. Hoping that Kannon won't be the one opening the door, the door swung open and Ami, thankfully for him, was the one who opened for him. "Ami, is Kaori-chan awake?" he asked hopefully.

She nodded at him once and let him enter. "I'll tell her that you arrived."

"Ah please don't. I want to surprise her." He said cheerfully as he made his way to her room.

The maid wanted to tell him something but stopped. Maybe I shouldn't interfere.

The redhead strode inside the hallway and turned right where the first door he saw was Kaori's room. He opened the door quietly and slipped himself inside, not wanting to be discovered for a while. There, he saw her sitting on a big chair near the window, as though thinking of something deeply. He was breathless at the sight before him and took a quick breath. He went in front of her and held the object firmly in his hand. He then placed it on top of her lap and earned a reaction.

"Eh?" she responded. She slowly touched it and said softly, "It's a bouquet of flowers."

Grinning, he held her hands and said happily, "Ne Kaori-chan."

"Bunta-kun?" she called, sounding a bit surprised.

"You seemed surprised. Are you expecting someone else?" he joked.

Somehow, yes. But she knew that she shouldn't answer that so she said, "No, of course not. I thought you're Kannon-niisan."

"Is that so? Then my surprise is a big success." He grinned. "Ne Kaori-chan," the redhead called her name again.

"What is it Bunta-kun?"

"Guess what kind of flowers I bought for you." He said playfully.

"Um okay." She slowly traced the flower by her fingers and did her best in unravelling the flower until she could not guess it any longer though she could tell that most of it were except the one in the middle were not bloomed. "I'm sorry but I can't really guess it."

"That's okay. You don't need to apologize." He said nonchalantly. "I'll tell you what I gave you anyway and it's simple. Roses."

She felt her heart stopped beating for a second. "Roses?"

"Un. Guess what colour they have."

"…Yellow?" she guessed.

"Wrong. Try again."

"…Peach?"

"Wrong again."

The blind girl pursed her lips slightly. "Red?"

Marui smiled genuinely. "You got it right." He leaned close to her and said sincerely, "I love you Kaori-chan."

"B-bunta-kun---" she called. Sadly, she was stopped abruptly because the volley specialist covered it with his lips against hers. It was light and expectedly sweet like candy, Kaori thought. When he withdrew himself from her, she finally found her voice again and said, "Bunta-kun, I---"

"I really like you, Kaori-chan. Ever since childhood." He said softly. "I don't mind if I wait for your answer but before telling me your answer, can we at least have one date to prove that I'm serious?"

Kaori never expected this. She thought she was dreaming at the moment but she knew that it was really happening to her. "I…okay." She answered. She didn't want to hurt his feelings but she knew that saying yes to date him and having no mutual feelings with him was just as bad as rejecting him. I'm sorry Kannon-niisan…

There you have it.

So the two of them will be dating, huh? Whoop tee doo~ Lol that just entered into my silly brain while I am making this chapter. Just to make things more exciting and at least Marui's going to have his spotlight in the next chapter, right? Good good.

Now, how will Seiichi react to this when he hears this? Hmm…well, we'll just have to find out, right? Please review!