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Chapter 20: Not Part of the Plan

"Nidou's been blackmailing you? What the fuck? You better start explaining!" Yuki shouted, enraged.

So much for subtlety.

14 HOURS EARLIER

"Just take him to the stupid club, Sou." I said tiredly over the phone.

"You don't understand, Kyo. Yuki's not thinking straight. Do you know how long it's been since you two were together?"

I sighed, "2 months, I know. The Bitch is planning a special date for tonight, that I'll be late for if we don't end this soon, to celebrate that annoying little fact. She won't let me forget it... especially since it's longer than Yuki and I went out for."

"That along with the fact that he's pissed, Kyo. Getting him into a club like this is just going to make him do something stupid, especially since every time he's done something stupid it leads to him seeing you."

"There's no way that I'm getting away from Nidou tonight. Remember the plan? Make Ni—"

"Ya, ya. I know. Make Nidou believe that you're fully committed. Subtly find out whether Yuki's still hesitant to come out. Get Kazuki to the location and bam! Blah blah blah."

"Hey! I wasn't the one who thought this damn-ass plan through. Gotta think twice about taking planning advice from Haru next time."

"Ya, well, Haru-nii thinks it's going to work. We just have to see if you're worth the risk in Yuki's eyes."

"Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence, jackass."

"Just stating the truth here, loser."

There was silence on the other end of the line but before I could ask if he was still there, Sou spoke up again, "You know, if it weren't for that stunt you pulled earlier then none of this would be happening right now."

"We were surrounded by people! Do you know how suspicious it would've looked if I pushed my girlfriend off? Besides, I didn't even kiss her back."

"That's not what Yuki thinks."

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, "Sou... Just make sure he doesn't do anything stupid, okay?" I practically pleaded.

"Fine, I'll try my best."

"Hate to say this but I told you so, I tried stopping him but he's got this huge guy all over him and said Hulk thinks I'm after Yuki for myself. He won't let me get near him. You've got to come and sort this out, he'll only listen to you."

"Okay, okay! I'm on my way!" I groaned and stood up from my chair, grabbing my jacket. This is not going to be easy to explain.

"Kyo-kun? Where are you going? What's going on?"

"I'm sorry, Kagura. I've got to go, something's come up with my uncle and he needs my help." I lied swiftly, putting my jacket on and grabbing my helmet from the chair next to me.

"Surely he can take care of things himself. He's not invalid. What does he need you for anyway?"

I stared down at her, "Why do you need to know? I doubt you need the exclusive into the principal's life."

"No but you're my boyfriend and it's involving you, isn't it? Am I not important too?"

"He's family, Kagura. I think that's a bit more important." I said, getting slightly irritated.

"I'm going to be family one day." Kagura countered.

I managed to stop myself from growling but nonetheless the words came out harsh, "Let. It. Go."

"Fine," Kagura huffed and then seemed to start batting her eyelashes, "Can't you at least stay for a little while longer? At least until we've had dessert. Your uncle will be fine without your help for another hour or so."

I felt the anger boiling up inside me, "I'm sorry but this isn't something I can put on hold. We can do this again some other time, okay?"

Kagura huffed and crossed her arms, "Fine, but then I want a present."

"Your wish is my command." I said sarcastically.

Kagura smiled gleefully at the comment, obviously having missed the tone behind it or just brushing it off and motioned for me to lean toward her. Confused I bent down toward her and the next thing I knew she was planting a sloppy kiss on my lips, "Okay, you can go."

I faked a smile, cursing at the amount of people staring at us in the restaurant, before nodding and walking away, I wiped furiously at my lips, spitting onto the pavement next to me as I made my way over to my bike. I put my helmet on quickly, mounting the bike and starting it up.

About ten minutes later I was outside of the club, Sou readily debriefing me on the situation inside.

"It's quite dark in there, obviously. There aren't many strobes on so it might be a bit hard to pick him out at first, it's also probably why he's not afraid of getting close to another dude because it doesn't seem as if there are many people from our school here, must be because the people in this club are mainly from that college around the road. He's with the Hulk so you'll probably spot him quick enough though. The only reason we really got in was because of my surname."

I listened as Sou explained a bit more about stuff like what Yuki was wearing before nodding quickly and making my way in to the club.

It wasn't much later that my eyes locked onto Yuki, practically being felt up by the Hulk, as Sou so accurately described him.

I pushed through the crowd and pulled the guy's traveling hand off of Yuki's lower back.

"Who the fuck are you?" The guy shouted over at me, I could barely hear it over the noise.

I grabbed Yuki's hand in reply and walked about 5 steps away before I felt him pull his hand out of my grasp and attempt to make his way to the guy.

"Sorry," I heard him say to the guy, "He's an obsessive ex."

"Well I can understand the obsessive part." Hulk said with a smirk as he put his hands on Yuki's waist and pulled him closer.

Yuki seemed a bit uncomfortable by the contact until he saw me looking and suddenly he was running his hands up the Hulk's arms.

I made my way over again, "He's talking shit." I said to the Hulk and turned to Yuki, "Come on, this isn't funny!" I said, grabbing his arm this time.

Yuki roughly pulled away again, "Get lost, Kyo!"

"Do you have any idea what Ayame will do if he finds out that Sou left you here!"

Yuki seemed to be thinking it through and a few seconds later he cursed and turned to the guy, "Sorry, I have to go."

The Hulk scoffed and shook his head muttering about not needing the drama before he made his way back to the bar, hitting on the next person he saw.

Yuki turned to me and sneered, pushing past me as he made his way out of the club.

Once we were both outside and Yuki was making his way to Sou, I decided to speak up, "Seriously? A guy the size of a wall? What were you going to do if he decided to get rough with you?"

Yuki turned swiftly toward me, "I could've taken him down easily. I'm not weak, anything but actually."

"Ya, and how good would your skills have been when you're drunk?"

"I'm not drunk! I was just having a good time, or trying to at least. Every time I get to have some fun, you have to come in somehow and ruin it! Just leave me the fuck alone, Kyo!" He said roughly and turned around again. The next thing Kyo knew Yuki was falling to the ground and he ran to catch him.

Yuki was drunk indeed. I lifted him in my arms and looked to Sou, "Let him sleep over at your place tonight. Call Ayame to let him know, if he asks why then just tell them that you guys were working late on some project or something."

"I don't need you to look out for me. I can take care of myself." Yuki said weakly as he grabbed a hold of my t-shirt and buried his face in it.

Sou put his hand on Yuki's shoulder, "Come on, you don't want to be alone, right? You can crash at mine."

"Whatever, just get me out of here."

I carried Yuki over to Sou's car and gently placed him in the front seat, strapping his seatbelt on. As soon as I was pulling away, Yuki grabbed a hold of my t-shirt, "Why were you kissing Nidou today? I thought you only liked to kiss me."

"Yuki, come on, let go."

"I want to know, Kyo."

I huffed and looked to Sou who was now strapped up in the driver's seat, "I'll follow you on my bike?"

Sou nodded solemnly, "Sure."

"What are you still doing here?" Haru inquired as he walked into the kitchen, spotting me and Sou at the table, before he poured himself a cup of coffee.

"Good morning to you too, Haru." I said sarcastically but was merely greeted by Haru's nonplussed expression and a raised eyebrow to indicate that I hadn't answered his question.

"Long story short: After evading Yuki's question last night about that stupid kiss, he wouldn't let me go. Kept muttering about me being a cheating liar and then fell asleep. I tell you, he has one hell of a grip."

"What 'stupid kiss'?"

"Nidou tried to make a spectacle yesterday at school. It's been 2 months since we've been 'dating' and Yuki saw." I said, adding the air quotes around dating for added effect.

"How clever of you, Kyo." Haru said monotonously.

"This isn't going to work." I said, plonking my head down on the kitchen table.

Haru looked around the kitchen, before turning to Sou with questioning eyes.

"He's still sleeping. You know he's not a morning person."

"He really isn't." came my soft reply, as I used my arms as a pillow turning my head so I could see both Sano brothers, along with Haru's louder, "It's ten already!"

Haru sat down at the table with his coffee and leaned towards us on the other side, "Look, it's just going to take a bit of time. We can't just outright ask him, we have to give hints here and there and then sooner or later he'll tell us if he's still afraid to come out and think it was his idea."

"What if he says that he's not ready?" I asked worriedly.

"Then you're screwed." Haru said casually, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Fuck, you brothers are too honest sometimes."

"It doesn't matter what his views are." Sou said as he turned to face me. "The moment he finds out about your situation it won't matter what his previous opinion was. You're important to him. He won't care."

"That's what I don't want." I said, sighing and stretching my arms before continuing, "He can't make this decision because of me. It's not fair."

"Well what do you think he's going to do when he finds out that you're only going out with Nidou because she's blackmailing you?"

Suddenly Haru was spitting his coffee on me and I turned to look at him angrily, "You're fucking gross, you know that!"

Haru's face was pale and shocked and I turned to see what he was looking at. Oh crap.

"Nidou's been blackmailing you? What the fuck? You better start explaining!" Yuki shouted, enraged.

So much for subtlety.

I swallowed thickly, "Sou was just kidding, nothing's going on."

"Why would Sou kid about something like that? I swear if someone doesn't tell me what's going on now I'm going to start breaking fing—"

"KyoisonlydatingNidoubecauseshehaspicturesofyouguy skissing!" Sou said frightfully, holding his hands up in surrender towards Yuki.

I punched him hard on his shoulder in return, hissing, "Fucker!" in his ear.

"I'm closest to him! There's no way he's going to break my fingers!" Sou retaliated.

There was no sound from Yuki so far so I gathered the courage to look at how he was taking it. Yuki was standing there with his mouth open, staring at me, utterly speechless.

"Yuki?" I asked hesitantly.

Yuki's mouth closed and I noticed his eyes glossing over. He swallowed hard and opened his mouth as if to speak but nothing was coming out.

"Are you okay?" I asked, worry filling me rapidly with each silent second.

"I.." Yuki started, swallowing roughly before continuing, "I don't understand." He said softly.

"Er... we're gonna leave." Sou said, grabbing Haru's arm as he exited the kitchen, Haru's protests getting softer as they got further and further away.

"I don't know where to start..." I said after a moment.

Yuki walked toward the seat Sou had just vacated and sat down, looking to me with inquisitive eyes, "How about the part where you decided that Nidou was better than me?"

I grabbed Yuki's hands quickly, shaking my head almost viciously, "She's nothing compared to you. I'm only doing this for you."

Yuki looked down at our hands before pulling away, "What do you mean for me?"

I sighed, resting one of my elbows on the counter and putting my head on it. Might as well start at the beginning. "Do you remember that day when we heard something fall over and I found Haru? That day that you formally introduced me to Haru as your boyfriend?"

Yuki nodded but never said anything.

"It wasn't him... the one who knocked something over was Nidou. She was taking pictures of us and when she heard someone coming toward the room she knocked over a bucket in her attempt to try and hide but we... I nonchalantly took it as it being Haru. I didn't think twice about whether it could have been someone else.

"That night... when she messaged me to come meet her. She told me that if I didn't leave you then she would have sent those pictures out to everyone in the school."

We sat in silence for a bit longer.

"Will you just say something?" I finally pleaded.

Yuki made eye contact with me, his orbs shining with emotion. "Why did you do it?"

"For you."

"You're saying that you stayed in a relationship with someone you despise because of me? Why?"

"Because... You told me that you weren't ready to come out to everyone and Nidou... she was threatening that. I couldn't have you suffer when I could do something about it... I care too much about you to ever want to cause you pain."

"But you did cause me pain. You broke up with me and then yesterday you were kissing that bitch!"

"I wasn't kissing her! She kissed me! It felt disgusting and horrible... you have no idea."

Yuki snorted, "Ya, right."

"Why would I have started up that deal with you then? Do you really think I would've struck up something where I would've had to kiss someone, on a weekly basis, that I didn't want to? I did that willingly... more than. I just... I wanted to protect you. I thought that what I was doing was for the best."

"And... how do you feel about me now?" Yuki asked finally.

I smiled at him fondly, "My feelings for you have never changed, in fact, I'm sure I feel more strongly about you than I did 2 months ago."

Yuki blushed and his lips twitched in an almost smile before he frowned again, "2 months... It's been a while, Kyo. I don't-"

I took that moment to rub my thumb across Yuki's hand and leaned a bit closer to him, "Tell me you don't feel this. Look me in my eyes and tell me that you don't want to try this again and maybe I'll think of letting you go."

"That's not fair."

"What's not fair is that I don't get to touch you like I used to, I don't get to kiss you or hold you just because I can."

Yuki breathed in deeply and let out the breath slowly, "If I do this... I need to know just one thing."

"You're going to do this? Yuki... you don't need to. I'll stay with Nido-"

"That's the last thing I want! Just... I need to make sure that you're in this with me. All the way."

"I am!" I smiled, "That's the easiest decision I've ever had to make."

Yuki huffed, finally smiling. "So how are we going to do this?"

"Do what?"

"Come out to the entire school?"

"Oh yeah... that. If I break up with Nidou, sooner or later the pictures will come out."

Yuki shook his head, "If we're going to do this then we're doing it our way, not as if we're some dirty secret that someone's trying to catch out with those photos."

"What do you propose?"

It was on the day that Kagura was walking around the mall looking for a new dress for her next date with Kyo when she saw the Principal.

I'm going to be marrying his nephew, I should at least introduce myself if he doesn't know me already. With that thought she made her way to Shigure.

She tapped hesitantly on his shoulder so that she wouldn't give him a shock and smiled with sickening sweetness as he turned around, "Yes?"

"Hi Principal Hayato! I'm sure you must've heard about me from Kyo-kun, I'm Nidou Kagura." She said as she extended her hand in greeting.

Shigure shook her hand with a smile, his curiosity peeked, "Hi, I'm sorry but I don't think he's mentioned you. I'm sure if he mentioned you I would've remembered, you being such a pretty girl and all."

"Oh, he's probably just shy. I'm his girlfriend."

"His girlfriend?" He asked shocked, "My oh my! Do you attend Kaibara?"

"I'm in my final year," she answered with a smile, "Now that I'm on more romantic terms with your nephew, can I be bold and call you Shigure-san?"

"Er, sure."

"Was that boyfriend of mine a help last night?"

"Last night?" he questioned, bemused. "I didn't see Kyo last night."

"You didn't?" She asked, slowly.

An awkward silence enveloped them.

"Well... As much as I'd like to stay and chat, I've got to get going."

Kagura was brought out of her stupor and nodded to the principal. "Er, ya, sure."

"Well, it was nice meeting you... um..."

"Kagura." She filled in. "And the pleasure was all mine."

"Right. Have a nice day, Kimura."

"It's Kagura!" she shouted at his retreating back.

Someone has got some explaining to do.

To be continued!

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So this chapter shouldn't be out at all let alone started. Writing in a couple of days and haven't sat down to really study. I've been procrastinating all weekend long. Not sure when the next chapter will be out but keep your fingers crossed that I get time to write!