DISCLAIMER: I'm not own Ojamajo Doremi. I very like this show, so I decided to make this story. Ojamajo Doremi is a show which made by Toei Animation in 1999-2003.

Author's Note: Sorry, I may have grammatical errors. English and Japanese isn't my first language.

Ojamajo Doremi-Poppu Heart-Star

Chapter 22 – I'm Your True Love, and I Love You More than Myself

"Now, I want to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"Would you marry me?"

"Knightly, you don't need to ask it to me. Of course I would."

"Hontou ni?"

"Hontou."

That was the conversation between Pinky and Knightly, when Knightly wanted to marry Pinky, and now, Kotake always thought about it.

'Will I marry with my 'Pinky'?' he thought.

When he thought about it in his class, Doremi and Aiko arrived there. They saw him.

Doremi asked him, "Uhm, Kotake, doushita no? What are you thinking about?"

"Uh, no. I just think about... uh... your secret. I still can't believe that you all have a big secret all this time."

"Okay."

"Demo... wasurenai yo na, Kotake-kun." Aiko said, "Nobody can know about it beside us. I, you, Doremi-chan, Hazuki-chan, Onpu-chan, Momo-chan, and Poppu-chan and her friends."

"But by the way, if Kotake can know about it, can Yada-kun know about it too?" asked Doremi, "He's Hazuki-chan's boyfriend."

"Wakkanai na." Aiko shook of her head, "Maybe... he can, but for now... it's better if nobody know about it."

"Well, maybe you're right."

Then, the bell rang.

At the Math lessons, Kotake didn't pay his attention for the lessons. He saw Doremi, who sat down in front of him, didn't understand with the lessons. He thought, 'How can I've ever teased her?However, now I know that I really love her, but... is it too fast if I think that I want to marry with her? Okay, maybe... someday, I can ask her to marry with me.'

But then, he fell...

...and he knew, if it was just a dream.

Actually, he was in his room, in summer vacation.

He saw his alarmed clock. It was 10.00 AM. He yawned.

"Huh, yume ka..." Kotake sighed, "I think..."

He took his phone cell, wanted to call Doremi, but then he knew that he couldn't...

...because the battery was empty, and he had to charge it.

"Okay, maybe I can call her later." Kotake said, "Although I've already know about her secret with her best friends, but I don't want to disturb her when she assemble with them. I'll wait until Saturday to meet her for our date."

He stood up from the bed, walked to his desk, and sat down on the chair.

He remembered when he learned to call his girlfriend with her right name. Before, he couldn't do it. He called her 'Dojimi' since their first 'fight' in 3-2, but when they learned in the same middle school, he tried to correct it, and it's because... he loved her, and it started since they were in the sixth grade, when they were in class 1.

He took a piece of paper. There was a picture. A heart, which he drew three years ago, when he didn't pay his attention for Seki-sensei.

At the center of the picture, he wrote some meaning letters...

K + D, means Kotake + Doremi.

He smiled, "I remember, how much I love you, until I don't want if there's another boy who comes to you and make you love him."

He remembered when they went to Nara and Kyoto for the study tour. Doremi told Momoko and Hana-chan about Akatsuki in the bus, and he heard it.

He felt angry, not because he felt disturbed, but because he felt jealous with Akatsuki.

"Hmm, Akatsuki..." Kotake said, "Now I know that he's a wizard. That's why, Doremi became near with him."

'But why isn't Knightly Akatsuki?' he thought, 'Or... had Pinky another boyfriend? Who would be him?'

"Huh, however, I don't and never hesitate with her love to me. Now, she really loves me. I know it. Even, she didn't mind when I kissed her in her birthday, and it's because... she's my true love, and I'm her true love.

Saturday.

Kotake asked Doremi to the cinema. There, they watched a movie about a couple's engagement. The boy worked part time (although it was forbidden in some schools) just to bought a pair of engagement ring for them.

When they walked out from the cinema, they talked about the movie.

"Uh, how romantic the boy is! He will do anything for his girlfriend. So... gentleman..." said Doremi.

"You know, I can be more romantic than that boy." Kotake said, "I'll do anything for you."

"Hontou ni? But I'm doubtful that you can do it..."

"Chotto!"

"Calm down. Matte yo. I don't finish my statement yet. Don't cut it. I mean... I was doubtful that you can do it if we were still like in the past, you know, often quarrel, teased each other, fight fight and fight." Doremi said, "Now, I'm not. I trust you."

"Uh, well, thanks for your trust to me. I won't ever make you feel disappointed. I promise." Kotake said, "Even, if you want, I'll really do what that boy do to his girlfriend."

"So, you... really want to be with me? Hontou ni?"

"Mochiron yo. Hontou da yo. Why not? I really love you, more than I love myself, soccer, or anything in this world, and I'm sure that you're my true love."

"Uh, Kotake, I'm happy to hear that."

"I think, maybe... some people who know about us in the past like... our friends in Misora Elementary... they can't believe that our relationship is can be as near as now."

"Sou sou. You know, from anythings happened in the past, I still can't believe that my feeling to you... change from hate to love."

"It must be because of what I did in that time, right? I disturbed you, teased you, took something from you..."

"Took?" asked Doremi, "What did you take from me? And... when?"

"I took your yaki imo (baked sweet potato) six years ago, and traded it with chocolate."

"Uh, that ones..." Doremi smiled, "That was okay. Moreover, I needed the yaki imo just to search... Dodo."

"Dodo... omae no yosei?" asked Kotake, "I think, you are always with her. What do you mean with... search her?"

"Well, she flew out from my house, but... it's okay. The story will be too long if I tell you now."

"Okay, back to all of my fault to you. I kicked the ball to your head, pushed it to your cheek, ate your bit of steak in your birthday..."

Doremi put her right index finger on Kotake's lips, "I don't care with all of your fault. I just see that since three years ago, everything was changed. You care with me."

"But it still not as much as my fault."

"I know, but it's really significant for me." Doremi said, "I think, I can be loving you because of your care to me."

Suddenly, someone called them, "Doremi-chan! Kotake-kun!"

They turned their head and saw who it was, and it was Hazuki, with Masaru beside her.

"Hey, Fujiwara! Yada!" said Kotake, "It's good to see you here."