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Kaho walked to center stage, her bow gripped in her right hand, her violin in her left.

After staring in the mirror for a couple minutes while applying rosin on her bow and fine tuning her violin, Kaho straightened her dress, and walked backstage, waiting for the program director to signal her to go onstage.

"And now, Shinobu and Hitomi's special guest, Hino Kahoko," boomed a voice over the loudspeakers.

As soon as she reached center stage, Kaho turned to face the audience, raised and positioned her violin, and poised her bow, ready to let her excited emotions flow.

She nodded to her accompanist, who, yet again happened to be Ryo.

Kaho shut her eyes, and closed the distance between her bow and her strings.

As Kaho began playing the beginning measures to Pachelbel's Canon in D, she poured all her emotions into her music.

At the beginning, the notes began low, which allowed Kaho to show her sadness at the rift that had separated her from Len.

As the notes rose, she let her happiness at having found a new pair of siblings shine through her music.

Towards the end of the song when the notes fell again, she allowed her unhappiness to shine through again.

As Kaho lifted her bow from her strings, and opened her eyes, no applause came.

Instead, tears were pooling in her audiences' eyes.

Eventually, after a few, long awkward, perpetuous moments of Kaho standing in stage holding her violin and bow by her waist, a man stood up, and clapped , and soon many others followed his lead.

Pretty soon, the whole dining hall was filled with applause.

Kaho's eyes were shining with happiness.

Ryo stood up, and much to Len's distaste, hugged Kaho in front of the whole hall.

She curtsied while Ryo bowed, and they walked off the stage.

Everyone backstage was in a row, applauding her.

Kaho blushed and said, "Arigatoo gozaimasu minna-san," as she walked to the prep room.

She stopped before the door and sighed in relief.

'Thank God that's over,' thought Kaho.

She closed her eyes, and stepped into the room.

Five steps into the room, she collided with something.

"Eeeeehhh," she exclaimed, "Nani?"

Kaho took a step back, and took a good look at what she had collided with.

Almost immediately, her heart began beating quickly.

Trying desperately to keep her cool, Kaho said, "Oh. It's only you Tsukimori-san."

Len winced at the "only".

He walked up to Kaho and put each of his hands on one of her shoulders.

"Kaho-san. I wanted to talk to you... To talk about us," he said hesitantly.

Kaho turned away from him.

"There's nothing to talk about Tsukimori-san," said Kaho in an icy voice.

Len grabbed Kaho again and took her violin and bpw from her hands and set them down on the counter.

"Don't say that," he said forcefully, "What that person did, meant nothing. NOTHING! I don't love her! I never did! It was you that I loved the whole time!"

Kaho's eyes widened at Len's forcefulness.

She backed up against the wall of the prep room and turned her head to the left.

A tear slid down her right cheek, in full view, as she murmured, "I just don't know if I can trust anyone anymore."

Len walked up to Kaho, and put his hands on either side of her head against the wall.

He took his right hand, and used it to turn Kaho's face towards him.

"Tell me you don't love me," he pleaded.

"Tell me you don't love me Kahoko, and I'll leave you alone forever," he murmured.

Kaho's eyes were wide with shock.

After a couple moments, she recovered and mumbled, "I can't do that Tsukimori-kun. But my largest regret is that I wasn't good enough for you."

Len shook his head in frustration.

"Baka! Don't you get it??? I'm the one that's not good enough for you!!! I never have been," Len exclaimed in frustration.

At this point, tears were running freely down Kaho's cheeks.

She shook her head.

"I just don't know what to do," she said forlornly.

"I do," said Len.

Len turned Kaho's face towards him, and leaned in, not stopping until their lips were a hairbreadth away from one another.

"The rest of the way is your choice," he murmured, his breath tickling her lips.

After a couple moments of silence, Kaho closed the gap between them.

Len pushed her against the wall, tilting his head to deepen the kiss.

'Dooshite? Why is he making me feel like this? I feel as if my legs will cave in beneath me if i try to stand up.... He's turned my entire body into jell-o,' thought Kaho as she made out with Len.

Len broke away for air.

When he saw Kaho's blushing face, it was all Len could do to keep himself from locking the prep room door and taking her right then and there.

'Shit,' he thought, 'I guess I really am an average, hormonal teenager.'

Kaho pulled him back down for another kiss.

At first, Len's eyes widened at Kaho's boldness, but after a couple moments, he closed his eyes as well and put his hand behind her head, pulling her closer to him.

'What am I doing,' thought Kaho, 'I thought he didn't love me.'

As if reading her thoughts, Len pulled back, looked straight into Kaho's eyes, and said, "YOU are the only one for me. Not that person from the garden, no one else. YOU, and you alone. I swear on my violin Kaho. No one but you. You're my one and only."

Hearing that caused Kaho so much happiness that tears actually started flowing again.

Len saw this, and gently kissed her tears away.

"I love you so much Kaho. So very, very much."

Kaho leaned into Len's chest, taking a whiff of his scent.

She sighed contentedly.

'I am now happy enough that if nothing good happened for the rest of my life, I'd still be smiling,' thought Kaho.

Unknowingly, Kaho had said that aloud.

Len brought Kaho a few inches away from him, looked her straight in the eyes, and said, "Now you know how I feel when I'm around you."

Kaho blushed.

"Come," said Len, "Everyone must be wondering where we are."

Kaho nodded her head into Len's chest.

Len wrapped his right arm around Kaho's waist, and she held onto it with her left hand crossed across her abs.

She stood beside him, and rested her head on his shoulder.

They walked that way to their table.

Azume saw them walk past and his brow furrowed.

'Why the hell didn't it work??? I thought for sure that if Kaho thought that Len was cheating on her that she'd dump him and come crying into my arms,' thought Azuma angrily.

Shinubu walked up to Azuma with a smile on his face.

"Frustrated Yunoki-kun?"

Azuma looked at Shinobu in shock.

"Iie Ousaki-sempai, what would make you think that?," lied Azuma, smiling a princely smile.

Shinobu gave Azuma a look that wiped the smile off his face.

"Why are you so intent on breaking Kaho and Len apart," inquired Shinobu.

Azuma's eyes widened in shock.

"I have no intention of doing so," he said.

Shinobu smiled.

"Then why is Kanako-san crying in the cellists preparation room right now? She seems to be murmuring your name," said Shinobu.

It was all Azuma could do to keep his jaw from dropping in shock.

Figuring that his cover was already blown, he smirked.

"Kahoko will be mine. I'll make sure of it. Even if it comes to blackmailing Tsukimori into breaking up with her, I'll make her mine," Azuma said in a low voice.

Shinobu smiled.

"That's all I wanted to know. Arigatoo Yunoki-san," smiled Shinobu as he walked away.

Azuma stared in surprise as Shinobu sat down between Hitomi and Kaho.

Azuma shook his head slightly.

'Forget that. I'll make Kaho mine. Besides, Ousaki has no proof that I said that,' thought Azuma.

At his seat, Shinobu put his hand in his pocket and clutched the tape recorder in his hand.

'You'll never get between Tsukimori and Kaho,' thought Shinobu.

(A/N: A new chappie!!! I'm happy too!!! :) Thanks for reading my story!!! Ja Ne! ~Franfran)