LCT: Finale
A/N: as you can tell from the title, this is the last chapter of this story. The late update was partially because I wanted to add suspense but mostly cause' I'm a lazy fuck. Besides that, thank you for sticking with this kooky author and reviewing for this story, for a first try, I think it was pretty good. ANYWHO, onto the big ending!
Disclaimer: I don't own Baka and test.
Kouta's POV
What?! Why the hell is Akihisa kissing me? I feel my body stiffen and Akihisa begins to pull away. What the hell has gotten into him?! He never liked me before! What am I supposed to tell him? I like Minami, not him. I even told him this and he still kissed me. I don't want to hurt his feelings, but I also don't want to date him. Akihisa then removes his lips from mine and looks at my face. My expression must have given me away his face contorted into a hurt expression. He must have surprised himself with the display of affection.
"Akihisa…" I say, but he's already spun around and is running off, out of the mall. I know it would be best for me to go after him, but I can't bring myself to do it. I'm too caught up in my own thoughts to even think about going anywhere. It doesn't make any sense to me. If Akihisa had decided to go gay for someone, I would have assumed it'd be Yuuji, but he chose me. Why does everything have to be so complicated? It's like no one in this group can have a successful relationship with someone before it blows up in their face. Now, everyone's caught up in this giant mess of unrequited love. Mizuki likes Akihisa, Minami likes Akihisa, Akihisa likes me, I like Minami, and Miharu likes Minami. No one can get what they want without someone else getting hurt. Except for Yuuji and Shouko, ironically, they're the easiest couple out of all of us, even if Yuuji denies it.
"Watcha' doin'?" a voice by my ear says, snapping me out of my thoughts. I turn my head and see Aiko standing next to me with her hands on her hips.
"Just…thinking" I say, trying to subtly let her know I don't want to talk.
"Looks like you're thinking pretty hard" she says coming in front of me.
"Yeah, I'm just overwhelmed right now" I say rubbing the bridge of my nose.
"No kidding, if one of the girls just up and kissed me like that, I don't know what I'd do" she says nonchalantly.
"Wait, you saw that?!" I say removing my hand from my face.
"Everyone in the mall saw it Kouta" she says like it's the most obvious thing in the world. "So, do you like him too?" she says tilting her head slightly.
"Aiko, you of all people should know that I don't swing that way" I say beginning to walk away.
"Hey, I know some pretty pervy gay guys" she says, following me. She begins to walk beside me as I make my way towards the park, maybe I could ask Hideyoshi for advice, he turns guys down all the time.
"So, if you don't like Akihisa, then who do you like?" Aiko says. I sigh, might as well let the cat out of the bag. Maybe it'll convince Akihisa that I want to date Minami instead of him.
"Minami" I say continuing to walk.
"Awww, I knew it!" she says, clapping her hands together. "You guys make such a cute couple" she says. I feel the blood rush to my cheeks.
"What couple, she likes Akihisa" I say letting my head droop.
"No she doesn't" she says causing me to stop.
"What?!"
"It's pretty obvious. Before, you could always tell she liked him because it was super obvious, but now, she seems less interested in him.
"With my luck, she probably developed a crush on Miharu" I say depressed.
"Definitely not, it's blatantly obvious that she doesn't like her. I'm surprised Miharu still tries" Aiko says matter-of-factly. If Minami doesn't like Akihisa, then who does she like?
"Do…do you think she likes me?" I ask.
"No idea, but I could find out" she says. She sees me begin to panic and rolls her eyes. "Don't worry, I'll be subtle" she says and I calm down a bit.
"At this point, I'm willing to try anything. I've got nothin' but pride to lose" I say. Hopefully, this whole Akihisa situation blows over and he realizes that I don't like him that way, but judging by the way things are going, I doubt things will go that smoothly. It's more likely that Akihisa will confess his undying love for me and Mizuki will confess her undying love for Minami or some crap. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me.
Hideyoshi's POV
I finally make it to the forest and can finally begin my search for the Shimizu demon. I walk through the forest, making sure to watch out for stray roots and fallen branches. As I pass a tall tree, I hear a muffled voice. I stand still and listen for the voice. Once again a small voice is heard from my left. Being the idiot that I am, I decide to call out to the voice.
"Hello? Minami? Mizuki?" I say making my way towards the voice. As I walk, I can't help but feel stupid. I had just watched a horror movie and now I was playing that stupid person who gets killed for snooping into the murderer's house. I push through crumpled leaves left over from autumn and balance myself on nearby oak trees to prevent myself from falling. Eventually, I hear the voice again. As I close in on it, it sounds less and less like a voice and more like whimpering.
"What the hell are you doing here" the voice says. Although it is small and raspy, I recognize the voice as Miharu's.
"Miharu?" is that you?" I say, trying to locate the voice.
"What's it to you…" she says weakly. After a few seconds of searching, I spot her bright orange hair, huddled in front of a tree.
"Are you okay?" I say, sliding down next to her. She hurriedly buries her head in her arms, which are crossed over her knees.
"Yeah, I…I'm just tired is all" she says. As she forms the sentence, her voice cracks and she starts to tremble.
"Miharu? Are you crying" I say, scooting closer to her.
"Go away you dirty pig" she says weakly.
"Why are you crying?"
"Why are you still here?"
"Are you hurt?"
"Are you brain dead?"
"Did you fall or something?" Miharu then snaps her tear streaked face upwards and yells at me.
"No! I didn't fall, Hideyoshi! Is it wrong for a teenage girl to cry in a forest because her love is unrequited?!" I freeze for a moment.
"Miharu…"
"What?! What is it now?!"
"You…you called me Hideyoshi" I say shocked.
"And?!"
"Well…you always call me a dirty pig or an idiot. You've never called me by my actual name before now"
"Well I did now, so consider yourself lucky" she says, putting her head back into her lap.
"Why we're you crying" I ask, hoping for a less violent response.
"I already told you" she mumbles.
"No you didn't" she then sighs in aggravation and lifts her head again, wiping away stray tears.
"It's not exactly a nice feeling when you find out that you're too dense to notice that you're crush hates you're guts" she says looking down. "Especially when everyone else knows it".
"Minami doesn't hate you" I say.
"Don't try to be nice, I know she runs away because she hates me" she says.
"No, she doesn't hate you, she's just afraid of you"I say looking up at the sky.
"Why? Why am I o scary?" she says looking towards me.
"I guess it's because you're really outgoing. You tend to get very passionate about things and you usually end up coming on really strong.
"Oh great, I'm loud and clingy. Just what I needed to hear, no wonder Minami doesn't like me,"
"That's not it, Minami doesn't like you because she likes someone else, not because of the way you are. I happen to think it's cute when you get super passionate over something you love." Miharu's face reddened and she looked down at her shoes. I then stand up and brush the dirt off of my legs. I hold my hand out to Miharu, who cautiously takes it. "C'mon, let's go meet the others at the mall"
"Y-…you want me to come with you?" she says as her eyes glaze over.
"Of course, it'd be awfully mean to leave you out here all by yourself." I say, leading Miharu out of the lush, green forest.
BACK WITH THE KOUT-MEISTER
As I walk down the street, I explain our group's complicated love life.
"Wow, that sure is a pickle" she says shaking her head.
"Tell me about it, no matter what we do, someone gets their feelings hurt,"
"Well if it's like that, you should just go after who you like,"
"But what about-"
"Nope! No buts mister. Like you said, no matter what happens, someone gets hurt, so you should follow your gut feeling and go for Minami. Akihisa and Miharu will get over it, sitting around and feeling sad won't make anyone happy"
"I guess you're right, but that'll only fix half of the problem"
"Yeah…Hey, go get Yuuji and Shouko and bring them to the park. I'll meet you there"
"Why?"
"We're having an intervention" she says pulling her phone out and punching in multiple text messages.
_TIMETH SKIPETH_
We all stood in a big circle in the park. By 'we' I mean; Akihisa, Minami, Mizuki, Hideyoshi, Yuuko, Yuuji, Shouko, Aiko, and Miharu, who was standing next to Hideyoshi instead of Minami. I shift o my crutches nervously and wait for Aiko to begin the meeting, not knowing how awkward we would soon become.
Aiko steps into the middle of the circle and clears her throat. "Alright! I have called you all here for an emergency meeting. It has come to my attention that certain events have led to various confusions of feelings towards each other. I have come to solve these problems!"
"Wait what?!" Yuuji says. "What the hell happened?!"
"Zip it pig!" Miharu yells. "Continue Akio"
"Thank you Miharu, any who, I'm going to go around the circle and clear up any misconceptions. Starting with you!" she says pointing at me. "Now it has come to my attention that you, Kouta Tsuchiya, have developed feelings for someone correct?"
"Y-yeah" I say looking away as a red tint crept up my cheeks.
"And that person is?" she says insistently. I mumble Minami's name as softly as I can and Aiko makes me repeat it louder.
MINAMI'S POV
"Minami! It's Minami alright" Kouta says and my heart leaps. He likes me? Since when?
"I-is that why you had this?" I say holding out the picture I had found almost a week prior to this whole thing. It seems like a life time ago now after all of the drama that has occurred. Kouta's eyes darted towards the photo and back at me.
"When did you get that?!" he yells coming towards me.
"A week or so ago" I say handing him the picture. His face turns bright red as he shoves the picture in his pocket.
"I didn't know you felt that way.." I say nervously.
"Minami Shimada!" Aiko yells snapping our attention back to her.
"Huh?" we say simultaneously.
"Do you return 's feelings?!" she yells.
"I…uh" I begin touching my fingers together.
Kouta's POV
"It's okay if you don't, I wouldn't expect you to-" I begin but for the second time today, I am cut off by a pair of lips on mine, yet this time they belong to a certain maroon-haired girl. I feel the butterflies in my stomach that had been fluttering about before, begin to flutter more rapidly. She then pulls away and lunges forward, trapping me in a hug.
"I like you too…" she says hugging me. Just as I'm about to respond, my mind wonders somewhere else and I am flung backwards due to an extreme nose bleed. "Kouta?! Are you okay?!" Minami yells leaning over my collapsed form.
"I…I felt them" I say as I lie on the ground.
"Dude, what the hell are you talking about?" Yuuji says.
"He's talking about her chest," Hideyoshi says.
"You! You Perv!" Minami says punching my arm.
"Once a perv, always a perv," Yuuko says.
"Yeah, but hes my perv" Minami says smiling down at me, causing me to counter her smile. Before I can respond, Aiko moves on to the next person.
"Miharu Shimizu! How do you feel about this new development" she says pointing at Miharu.
"I, uh…I guess I'm happy for them" she says, shocking us all. "Don't act so surprised you dirty pigs! I can be nice" she says. She acts tough on the outside but I can see out of the corner of my eye that her hand is trembling. I also happen to notice Hideyoshi slip his hand between them and interlocktheir fingers making Miharu's hand stop shaking.
"Akihisa Yoshi! How does this make you feel?"
'Well…I don't really know. Today's just been a really confusing day for me, but I'll get over it." He says rubbing the back of his neck.
"Wow you seem to be taking this pretty well for someone who was head over heels in love with Kouta ten minutes ago" Aiko says suspiciously.
"Wait what?! What the hell happened when I was gone?!" Yuuji yells again.
"Sorry about that, I was really confused back there and I couldn't deal. When I ran off, I thought about it and realized that I was mad because everyone had someone to care about except for me. I guess I just felt left out and didn't want to be a third wheel, or a seventh wheel for that matter. "
"Excuse me" Yuuji says. "Don't include me in this"
"Shut up Sakamoto! We all know you have feelings for Shouko so just man up and deal with it!" Aiko yells at him.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he says looking away.
"Akihisa…" Mizuki says " You wouldn't have been a seventh wheel," she says. "B-because I like you" she says looking down at the ground.
"Holy freaking crap, you do?" Akihisa yells.
"Yeah, I've liked you ever since the entrance exam"
"Why didn't you tell me?" he says.
"Well…I was nervous and I thought you liked Minami" she says.
"Well I don't, Minami and I are just friends, same with Kouta" Akihisa says.
"You should've thought of that before you stole poor little Kouta's first kiss" Aiko says teasingly.
"Doesn't count" I say. "Akihisa's like family so it doesn't count"
"If you say so" Aiko says rolling her eyes. "In any case, it looks like I've solved all of the problems here,"
"Yeah…I guess you did" I say. "Thank you Aiko"
"No prob, anything for a friend" she says walking off "Later love birds" she yells leaving the newly formed couples to begin a legitimate first date and begin their new relationships.
A/N: And theres the end to my first story, Love, cars, and Triangles! Thanks to all of you who reviewed or favorite, or followed or even took the time to read this story. Sadly all good things must end, but if you want to request what my next fan fic should be on then you can either participate on the poll on my profile page thingy or just pm me a request. BAII KISS KISS 4 LUUVV!
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