Chapter 4: No Ordinary Love

When Keicho first enrolled at Josuke's school at Budoga-Oka High School...

At Class 1-B…

"Hey! Did you hear? Class D is gonna have a new guy joining them today!" One of the students excitedly announced this to his circle of friends, but it was loud enough for most of the class to hear anyway, "And I hear he's actually already 18 years old!"

A collective gasp and whoa could be heard all over the room as some of the students who overheard turned heads towards their classmate starting the conversation. Questions and rumors started to fly around as the students try to figure out who this new student is.

Higashikata Josuke groaned as he heard this. He was close to ruffling his hair in frustration but knew better than to mess with his own prized pomp. He truly didn't want to see nor hear about Keicho again, but here he is being the center of his classmates' rumours. Even then, he wondered if the older teen can adjust to living this so called "normal life" the older teen always wanted to have. He sighed, 'At least this will make watching over him easier. I'm just glad he isn't in my class…'

Hirose Koichi was undeniably nervous. He wondered many things since that he found out that Keicho was attending the same school as him and Josuke. 'I wonder if Keicho will be all right.' He shifted in his seat noisily, then looked up to see that his classmates seem to be too busy spreading their made up rumours, 'I hope he can adjust here well… sigh…' He thought of what Jotaro said to him and Josuke that they should give Keicho a chance to live a normal life… 'I wonder… if he really can change…'

And at Class 1-D.

It was only a few minutes left before the bell rang, and the students of this class were in their own circle of friends, chatting idly as they wait for their class to start. It is just like any other day, but today was different. One of their classmates has over heard of that they had a new guy joining their class today. They also heard that he was apparently 18 years old. And like any rumor, it spread like wildfire, and it became the central talk of the class. In this freshman class, that spurred wild theories about this new classmate.

"Do you think he might be a member of the Yakuza?" One of guys speculated.

"It can't be that bad, but probably a huge delinquent who probably doesn't even go to his classes besides today." His friend shrugged.

"Ooh... I hope he's hot." One of the girls already day dreamed.

"No way! No one could be hotter than Josuke!" Her friend rebutted.

"I hear he looks like a foreigner…"

"Maybe that's why he's starting high school at that age."

"I bet he's just some idiot who can't do basic math!"

"Why would he be held back anyway?"

"Two years though? That must suck!"

"Well we shouldn't jump to conclusions right?"

To a certain student in this class who sat on her desk, bored as hell while waiting for the bell to ring; she truly did not care for this new classmate of theirs. But of course as far as rumors go, it was quite entertaining to her to hear them speculate about a guy whom they've never met much less seen.

The school bell finally rung for what seemed to be forever, and the students settled down into their proper seats. Their Homeroom teacher entered the class while bringing in the new student everyone was talking about.

Most of the girls in the class blushed at the sight of the new student. And some of them began whispering to each other.

But "she" could only look at him in shock.

"So class..." The teacher began enthusiastically, "I would like to introduce to you, a new classmate of yours!" He then addressed to the teen standing next to him. "Now, young man, would you kindly introduce yourself to the class!"

He was surprisingly tall than an average teenager his age. He's about Josuke's height, one of the girls commented. And he wore a modified school uniform, its buttons from his left shoulder to the right and went downwards. It was shorter that it was close to his pants but not touching it. Though underneath, he wore a light blue shirt. His collar had the words BADC. O. on it. And in one side of his sleeve had the kanji which meant "North" and on the other side had the English word "Trillion" from his shoulder to his elbow. He wore golden down arrows as his earrings. His blonde hair surprisingly stood up and wasn't falling with gravity, and it had a curl in the front of his face and had a braided ponytail in the back. He wore three magenta coloured belts. One was at his waist and two sagging down forming an X shape over his wide legged pants. He had cold, menacing, blue eyes as he observed his new classmates.

He then snubbed at them as he introduced himself to the class. "My name is Nijimura Keicho." He spoke his name as if he had no choice to, and yet remained stoic as he truly did not give a damn for any of them.

The girl's suspicions had been confirmed. She then directed her glare at her new classmate, but also a familiar face.

The older teen then caught the eye of a girl, who sat at the last row, glaring at him. It took only a fraction of a second for him to realize who that girl is. But he pretended to ignore it as the teacher finished his introductions and gave him his seat. "So Nijimura... the only seat left is right next to Yamagishi-san, so have a seat there okay?"

He replied properly with a smile as he was grateful for this arrangement. "Why thank you sir!" He then grabbed his bags to head to his seat.

Yamagishi Yukako cursed the teacher silently as Keicho approached her way. She felt her lower left eyelid twitch, but tried to touch it to prevent herself from getting violent. After he had sat down at his new seat, he then spoke to her with a sly smile and a hushed tone that only she could hear. "Yamagishi Yukako… It has been a while hasn't it?"

She didn't turn to face him nor look up to face the teacher either. The teacher eventually went back to his lesson and everyone else became unaware of the uneasy situation behind them. Yukako hasn't replied to him. Instead, she relaxed her composure, moved her pencil, began taking notes, and remained silent.

Keicho smiled to himself knowing that he got the answer that he needed.

And with that class resumed to "normal".

The Surface Stand User was interrogated by Josuke and Jotaro in the Morioh General Hospital. They asked if he knew who Red Hot Chilli Pepper's User is or anything else that could be relevant. But Hazamada didn't know, as they only talked by phone, never face to face.

"Co-could you…" Hazamada stuttered, he became deathly afraid of Keicho, so he turned his head back and forth, hoping he wasn't around. "Couldn't you have just asked him? Keicho I mean?"

The two froze as they couldn't give an answer to the teen. Josuke quickly turned his head silently telling his older nephew to answer him instead.

Jotaro shook his head and answered, "No… He told me that he doesn't know anything."

Hazamada raised an eyebrow at that answer, "Huh? What do you mean?" He asked, "He was the one who fired the arrow right?" He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I mean even Chilli Pepper told me that it was awakened, because its user got shot by Keicho. Why would he say that he doesn't know anything?"

"He has his reasons for lying to us." The marine biologist replied to brush off that line of questioning, to focus on the more important one "But right now, are you sure, that you don't know anything?"

"Yeah…" Hazamada shook in his words, "I mean… If I knew anything… he could have killed me already!" He gritted his teeth. "But you know… it did tell me something…"

"What something?" Josuke wondered, as he felt this was important for some reason.

"Well…" Hazamada fidgeted in his bed, "He told me…"

"Wait, you knew about that? That..." Josuke was surprised to hear this from Keicho. Hazamada had told Josuke and Jotaro that Red Hot Chilli Pepper had told him that for some way or reason….

"That Stand Users are drawn to each other...? Yes I did." Keicho had told this as well to the Red Hot Chili Pepper user. "That was told to me when I first got the Bow and Arrow…"

"So that's why you didn't come after me..." Josuke came to the conclusion, "Because you knew in some way or another, I'm bound to cross paths with you and your brother."

Keicho fell silent. Josuke was right.

The two were strolling around the town on their way home from school. For Keicho, it was to hear about Hazamada's story. He was banned to see him by the hospital, police, and Jotaro, whom the latter worked with the Speedwagon Foundation to cover up the story. But he wanted to know what the little runt, as he called him, had to say.

For Josuke? He really doesn't want to be "friends" with Keicho anymore. He never wanted to in the first place. Nor hang out with him either, especially after what happened in the train station. That's what he mentioned to Jotaro. But his older nephew only shook his head, and insisted that he still needs to watch over him. They still need the Bow and Arrow after all. The best way to do that is to confront the one who stole it, which was Red Hot Chilli Pepper. And in order to do that, they need the one who previously owned it, Keicho.

Josuke sighed in defeat. 'I seem to be doing that a lot lately…'

"Isn't that Koichi?" Keicho spoke up getting Josuke's attention. The two were passing by the café where they saw their good mutual friend, Koichi. The smaller teen was sitting by one of the outside tables sipping his cola nervously. Keicho waved at him, "Hey! Koichi-" but was immediately interrupted by sight of a girl who approached Koichi with a smile.

The two were confused as to what was going on. But they didn't seem to be bothered by it, "I guess Koichi was meeting with someone..." Keicho concluded, and Josuke shrugged and concluded the same thing. She recognized the girl who smiled at their friend, and then he remembered what he said a while ago. "Josuke!" He hastily tugged his friend by the sleeve, "Come let's get closer. I want to hear what they're talking about..."

The two teenagers silently moved closer to the cafe, hiding behind a tree, to look at their friend and the girl. "Didn't know you were into this Keicho..." Josuke commented, chuckling to himself, as he peeked from the side of the tree, "Who is she anyway?" He whispered.

The girl whom Koichi was talking to was taller than him. She had long wavy black hair past her waist. Despite her sweet smile, she had noticeable overarching eyebrows, which would normally make her look permanently glaring. She wore a blue modified sailor school uniform the female High School Students have. It had a semi-bloomed rose drawn beautifully on both of her sleeves. She sat properly at her chair but was clenching her fists tightly at her skirt, crumpling the fabric. While Koichi was still talking she had not once looked up to him and kept looking down at her coffee. Josuke swore she saw her face turn a hint of pink in her cheeks.

"She's Yamagishi Yukako" Keicho answered softly as they both observed her, "She's from my class. And she's a Stand user too."

"A Stand User?!"

"Shhh… But, I don't even know what her Stand is..."

"Dude..." Josuke became concerned just as Keicho was, "do you think it's okay that-"

"It's because..." Yukako clenched her fists as her face became redder and redder by the second. She knew that she had to do this... "I... I'm in love with you Koichi!"

"Wha-?!" Koichi's face nearly doubled over in shock as his face turned beet red.

"WHAT?!" Josuke and Keicho yelled at the same time but they covered each other's mouths then immediately hid behind the tree again.

"I..." Yuakako stuttered, her face still pink, "I've liked you for a while now Koichi... I keep thinking of you all the time..." She twiddled her thumbs as she continued to say her piece, "its things like... 'I wonder if he already has a girlfriend?' or... 'He'll never like someone like me...' "She turned her head, embarrassed to do any eye contact with Koichi, "I..." She began, stuttering in her words slightly, "I was afraid of telling my feelings to you... But... But I may as well say my feelings even if you do end up hating me..." She shut her eyes in embarrassment.

"Uh…" Koichi was speechless, "Um… are you sure you're not messing with me?" He truly could not believe this. He assumed this just might be some elaborate prank his classmates are pulling.

"No! I'm completely serious!" Yukako looked at Koichi's with much fervour. She hoped what she said and did would emphasise her feeling.

The smaller teen was completely bewildered by this revelation. 'Is this really happening right now...?' He thought to himself, 'A girl... a girl is confessing to me... I can't believe it... But that's what she's saying...' On the outside Koichi kept the same shocked expression, but internally... he grinned like an idiot, 'I'm so happy!'

"Are we really seeing this right now?" Josuke whispered to Keicho, "I can't believe it..."

Keicho was just confused at the overall situation, so he whispered back, "So she what? Told him that she loves him?" He asked, "What the hell is the big deal about that?"

"Huh?" Josuke was confused at his friend's lack of the usual reaction. "What do you mean? Weren't you just as shocked as I was?"

Keicho, caught red handed, chuckled, "Heh, actually I was just joining in. I have no idea what's the big deal with it."

"Never had anyone say that to you before?" Josuke meant it as a joke.

"Actually…" Keicho looked up, thinking about it, "When you think about it… I think I had about 10 or so girls that told me like that."

"Huh?!" Josuke was shocked, also realizing that his joke backfired. To think Keicho was just as popular as he is. Possibly even more, "Didn't know you had girls liking you too!"

Keicho shrugged nonchalantly and continued with their whispering conversation, "I don't know. I don't understand it at all. What's the big deal abo-"

Suddenly…

"WHAT THE HELL IS IT THEN?!" Yukako suddenly snapped, slamming her hands at the table, demanding an answer from the boy he just confessed to, "DO YOU LOVE ME OR HATE ME?! JUST TELL ME ALREADY! I'M POURING OUT MY HEART HERE!" The impact shook her coffee cup and spilled the contents all over her side of the table. "Aaahh! My coffee! Look at what you did! This is all your fault Koichi!" Koichi was speechless but in a different way this time. It was more shock and fear.

The two, who were still behind the tree, quickly turned around to see the scene unfold before them; On what they thought was a lovely confession out of a cheesy love story (at least on Josuke's end), ended up becoming scarier than imagined, as if it was now a horror/suspense show. Everyone became quiet as they continued to watch it continue on.

Then Yukako's eyes widened, realizing what she had done. "I… I got carried away didn't I?" She quickly turned away, covering her face with her hands out of sheer embarrassment "Of course you couldn't make a decision that easily right…" and then grabbed her school bag, "So… we'll see each other then?" She quickly dashed away from the café. Leaving everyone else dumbfounded.

"Whoa…" Keicho finally spoke, still in a hushed tone, "Did you just see that?"

"I'll say… she just did a complete 180 there…"

Koichi trembled as he took another sip of his cola hoping the cold drink will calm him down. But then he felt something came in at his mouth. "Waaaahhh!" he screamed, realizing what was in his cola. "What the?! Why… why is my cola suddenly full of hair! Gr-gross! It's even in my straw!"

"Hair…" Keicho thought to himself, "It couldn't be…."

The school bell rang which signaled the end of classes. Students began standing up from their seats to grab their things and leave for the day. Another day of school was over and some were excited to get out of the building and laze around town. Keicho's groupies (As they named themselves) suddenly came up to him asking of what he was going to do now.

"Wanna come with us to St. Gentlemen?" One of them asked.

"Or maybe the Kameyu Department Store!"

"No way! That's boring! We should just go to the Café Deux Magots instead!"

As the girls were chatting away from their date plans, Keicho looked to see that Yukako was almost done packing her stuff. Knowing she might go to Koichi, he stood up interrupting the girls and already approached her.

"Hey…" He began, "Yamagishi Yukako…"

Yukako stopped at what she was doing but didn't move nor say anything else.

"Mind if we talk?" He asked nicely but in a demanding tone, "Alone?"

The groupies immediately interjected with all of them feeling already insulted, "Huh?! You're gonna talk to her?! What about us?"

They tried to speak their piece but it was all background noise now. As Keicho kept his glare at the girl he wanted to interrogate.

Yukako on the other hand, looked at Keicho glaring back but remained at her seat, finally spoke, "I'm sorry." She replied as politely as possible, "I'm busy today. Mind if we talk next time?" She smiled sweetly as she closed her bag, stood up, and walked away to leave the room.

As she started walking away, Keicho tried to reach to her, "Hey! Do you think I'd take no for an answer?" But as he moved, he didn't see himself move. "What the-?" He turned down to see that his left hand became stuck to the bolts of his desk. "My hand… it's stuck?" He tried to pull it free it didn't move at all. As he placed more effort into it, he felt a twinge of pain from his fingers. "Ow…"

The two girls who sat on his desk were concerned, "Keicho? Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" One of them asked.

"I do have a question for you though?" Yukako stopped and turned back to ask her fellow classmate. "Tell me…" she continued her sweet smile, "Does Koichi have 'that'?"

'That?' He wondered to himself, but quickly knew what she was talking about. So he answered, "No…" he lied knowing it might be used against his dear friend, "I never shot him with the arrow."

"Okay!" Yukako cheerfully replied as if a great burden was released from her chest, "Thank you!"

'Shit…' Keicho swore to himself realizing that the girl was mocking him. His free right hand clenched into the fist out of fear for his friends, crumpling the fabric of his pants, as he can't still move his hand next to the desk. He figured out what Yukako's Stand power was when he remembered the incident at the café. He tried to pull his hand forcefully, and yet again he felt more pain, 'It's hair! She can control her hair strands! She used it to tie my hand to the desk. Once more, no matter how hard I pull, even the desk doesn't even budge. Did she bolt them with it too?' He clenched his teeth, 'I need to get to Josuke and Koichi soon…'

He then silently summoned his stand, turning into small five soldiers, surrounding his stuck hand 'Green Beret! Cut and pull the hairs off my fingers!' The army stand user squeezed his eyes shut as he prepared himself for the pain. The Green Beret army then pulled out their bowie knives and sliced the hairs off each finger that was stuck into the desk.

As soon as he was free, he quickly dashed out of the classroom leaving his groupies completely confused.

"WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The Class President of Koichi's class screamed in pain as she realised that the flames burning through her hair and at her scalp. She ran to the buckets of water nearby the faucet, but hair quickly covered her eyes blinding her as she struggled to get any water to extinguish the flames. She tripped over the bucket of water, spilling it everywhere, "WATER! WATER! Mmmph!" The hair also bound her tongue making her pleas for help muffled.

Then swiftly, Bad Company's Helicopters flew upwards, carrying a hose that was attached to the bottom of its body, pointed at the girl's hair. Keicho turned on the faucet, letting the water shoot out from it to dowse the flames. In a quick work, the Green Beret Army pulled and cut out every strand of Yukako's hair from the Class President's scalp, eyes, and mouth.

Crazy Diamond appeared following Bad Company, to restore the burnt parts of hair and skin.

In seconds, the Class President's hair was fully restored as it was before.

"See Josuke, Yukako's Stand is bound to her hair." Keicho pointed at the torn hair strands, as his Stand disappeared, dropping the hose.

"Well that's just great..." Josuke commented, "But it looks like she ain't an enemy nor out to get him either way…"

Keicho nodded, "So she's just a crazy bitch… with a Bound Stand."

"A crazy in love bitch…" Josuke added, "The kind who would kill someone even if there was a slight chance of getting in the way of the one she loves."

"Didn't know love can make someone do that." Keicho made a disgusted look.

"You don't know the half of it Keicho…" Josuke sighed remembering his own experiences.

The Class President then opened her eyes to see the two teens talking to each other. She then spoke, "Th... Thank you…"

Keicho took notice and shrugged off the gratitude. "Eh, don't mention it…"

Yukako watched from afar leaning on the side of the building, as she continued to stare at Koichi, whom walked away after he had finished his job, completely unaware of what just happened. "Don't worry… Koichi… I'm always here… Always…"

After a couple of days later, during Lunch time at the School's pool area….

The three squatted down next to the pool as they listened to Koichi told Josuke and Keicho about his fears about Yukako. He showed him his recent English test mark. It was a sixteen out of a hundred.

"That's from today… I was so worried about Yukako and everything and I couldn't focus at this test at all!" Koichi sighed already expecting a scolding from his mother. Then he ruffled his hair out of frustration, "Argh! I don't know what I should do? I… I'm just so lost..." Josuke patted him in the back to comfort his good friend.

Keicho was more concerned with the 16 mark, "Geez Koichi, I know English can be hard. But you can do better than this…"

Josuke shot a glare at his "other friend" "Don't make this worse than it already is Keicho!" He scolded. Keicho moved a bit backwards as a way of apologizing.

"In truth I was so glad that someone confessed to me like that… but now…" Koichi grasped his head, thinking of anything that could help him, "It's because I wasn't clear enough with her! I gotta tell her straight! That I don't like her back!"

Josuke immediately shook his head, "No way, Koichi! That chick spent all night knitting a sweater for you! That will just fuel the fire! It will make her want you more! Especially with her Hair Stand."

Thinking about those and the bento she made, Koichi stuttered in fear, "T-then… what should I do?"

"Hmm…" For once Keicho was in deep thought, "This aggravates me…. as I honestly have no idea either. Well… anything that doesn't cause bodily harm…"

"That's definitely not gonna work either, dude! She'll kill us!" Josuke spat back, annoyed at him. Then turned to Koichi and gave his suggestion. "What we gotta do, is to think of way that won't make her pissed off."

"What do you suggest we do then?" Koichi said worriedly.

"If we got her to think that Koichi was nothing but a good for nothing loser and asshole…" Josuke proposed, "Then it'll be all good, right?"

Keicho raised an eyebrow at this idea, "You mean... we'll make her feel disgusted that she even liked Koichi in the first place?"

"Exactly!"

"Wh-what should I do then?" Koichi asked, "What should I do to make her not want to be with me?"

"Well generally…" Josuke began to explain, "Girls don't like momma's boys. Or bad hygiene.

"Really now?" Keicho was perplexed; he thought that girls were weird. He pulled out his notepad and started writing Josuke's ideas down.

"No way I would make the Momma's boy thing!" Koichi declined the first suggestion, "She might kill my mom for that!"

"So bad hygiene then?" Josuke inquired, "That's not bad. That would basically be doing the opposite of what Keicho tends to do a lot?"

"Huh?" Keicho wondered, "What do you mean Josuke?"

"You've seen him do it right Koichi?" Josuke laughed, "Keicho being the crazy neat freak!"

"Are you mocking me Josuke!?" Keicho spat back, annoyed. But Josuke continued anyway, ignoring his friend's words.

"You gotta be as much of the opposite of that as possible!" He patted Koichi in the back, "Maybe keep your hair dirty! Don't need to have a shower tonight! Be a pig when you're eating…"

"But… But… that would make Koichi look like a jobless hobo!" Keicho cringed at the thought alone, "I… I don't think I can handle that…"

"We're doing this for Koichi man." Josuke insisted, "Try to hold it in for his sake okay?

"I… I don't know…" Koichi thought about it, "That might not be a good idea either…."

"You think so?" Josuke thought it was a good idea.

"Well… why not we just spread rumors about him?" Keicho added, "If we say these things to her. She would reconsider liking Koichi in the first place! She won't even kill him with her hair either!"

Josuke's face lit up; taking back the insult he threw at him. "Dude that's a great idea! No girl will ever like a guy who everyone talks shit about! No matter what he does. He looped his arm around Keicho's neck and drew his friend closer to him, "That will definitely make everyone happy!

Koichi's worried expression remained, "I… I still don't know about this, guys…"

Josuke pulled in Koichi the same way he did with Keicho, "Trust us Koichi!" He reassured him, "We'll make sure that she'll hate you no matter what!"

It didn't relieve any of Koichi's worries.

"You know Keicho…" Josuke continued, "Maybe we should also mention something petty, like shoplifting!"

"Definitely!" Keicho slung his arm around Josuke's neck in agreement "No one likes a petty criminal!"

"Wouldn't that make you one Keicho?" Josuke joked, but surprisingly Keicho didn't take it offensively.

"Nah… I just did it cause it was necessary." he shrugged off the joke.

Awkward silence began…

"What?!" Josuke spoke out loud to get Yukako's attention, when she was passing by to leave school. "Hirose Koichi was what?!" He repeated even louder.

"It's true!" Keicho mimicked the louder than normal voice, "The kid is such a slob! Making a mess at everything!" He held his head in pretend frustration, "It just drives me nuts!"

"I know what ya mean man!" Josuke continued with the false rumors, "You try to clean up after him all the time, and yet he just makes it worse!"

Yukako stopped but refrained from turning around to face the two. But it was obvious she was listening to them.

"And you know what else…." Keicho added, knowing their plan has worked. He nudged Josuke lightly on the side with his elbow, "The little shit tried to shoplift at Owson yesterday!" He said the words shoplift and Owson louder for emphasis.

"Are you serious?!" Josuke kept his pretend shock, "That guy really has no dignity doesn't he?! And now that I think about it…" He tapped his chin, "He told us just a while ago on how proud he was and stuff! Like he completed an important mission! I…. Did not think it was that?!"

"Of course it was!" The older teen nodded, waving his hand like a gossiping housewife would do with her friends.

"Plus!" Josuke added to the pile of made up rumors, "He also mentioned sneaking at the girls' rooms at gym and peeking while they change! What a shameless pervert!"

"I'll say!" Keicho went along with this lie too, "The bastard even cheats on his tests! What a low life!"

"The guy never keeps his promises either!" Josuke mentioned more lies, "He still hasn't paid me back the lunch money I gave to him!"

"I'm definitely not gonna hang out with him anymore!" Keicho silently thanked his friend for making such excellent fibs.

"Me too!" Josuke nodded, silently thanking Keicho too. "That guy won't have a good future! I'm sure of it!"

"And I thought I had it bad!" Keicho emphasized the last fact to hit straight home.

Then it went silent.

The other students went by unaware of the situation.

Yukako was still in the same place. As if she was frozen in her spot. But after a good minute of silence, The Hair Stand User went on her way and left the school.

Keicho gave out a sigh of relief once the girl was out of their sight. "That was something. I'm pretty sure she heard everything. But I hate that there's no guarantee it will do anything."

"That would definitely get her off Koichi's back…" Josuke assured, "I'm sure of that…"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Koichi yelled as he woke up from his nightmare, seeing the girl in it, with her hands and face plastered on the other side, staring at him with an ominous look. But before he could fight back, hairs came out the window sill, and it slithered around Koichi's body, immediately restraining him and prevented him from screaming for help. He was then lifted up and thrown at the ceiling.

The girl, Yamagishi Yukako, used her hair strands to unlock the door. She stepped inside Koichi's room as her own hair lifted her beloved love up. She then looked down to see the 16 mark from his recent English test. Her black locks picked up the paper to observe it closer. "Hmm…." She read the answers, "It seems that even your good friends, don't like you anymore either… But don't worry!" She lifted her loose hair on her face and brought it behind her ear, as she smiled happily, "I'm here for you! From now on! I'll stay by your side and make you a real man!" She winked at him "That's why I'm here to take you away!" She spoke the last sentence as if it was the greatest answer in the whole world. "You have something that no other person has!" She praised as her hair brought the helpless teen closer to the window, "You have to become someone that can live up to that! I won't allow those punks to badmouth you like that behind your back!"

Koichi squirmed and struggled but the hair restraints were too strong. He was too frightened even to summon his Stand. His cries of help became muffled as he was helplessly carried away from his room, his home, and possibly even the town.

'Oh no! Josuke! Keicho! The plan completely backfired!'

"God dammit! This is all my fault!" Keicho kicked the trash can out of frustration, spilling its contents, and then proceeded to have his Stand clean it up. He had his hand crumpling his pants out of fear for his dear friend.

"Don't blame yourself over this Keicho…" Josuke assured him, "I had a role to play with it too. It's just we didn't expect Yukako to straight out kidnap him either."

The two had concluded this fact when they found out that both Koichi and Yukako never showed up for school the next day. Josuke went and asked Koichi's parents but they had no idea either. They were even considering filing a police report by the end of the day.

"What would she gain by kidnapping him anyway?" Keicho asked out loud.

"I… I... don't know…" Josuke bit his lower lip as he was just as worried, "But it's not like she'll kill him. Considering how obsessed she is to him…"

"We should still find him as soon as we can." Keicho tried to rationalize the situation.

Josuke nodded, "Right… With Echoes's range of fifty meters, he would be able to call for help easily."

"Of course…" The Stand expert agreed, "But he hasn't. It's either he's knocked out or taken away far from any kind of telephone lines. That's where we should look for first!"

"But where are we going to find any place like that?"

"Hmm…." Keicho pondered. "Do you have a map of the town handy?" He asked Josuke, "I have one, but it's at my home."

"I do." Josuke nodded, "I also have a working telephone. In case Koichi still calls."

"Right!" The older teen agreed, he cursed silently for still not having a working telephone at his house. "There are a few places in Morioh that I think he would be held. Somewhere with a few phone lines and with barely any people nearby..."

"What if he was already taken away from Morioh?" The pompadoured teen thought of the worst case scenario.

"I… I don't know…" Keicho feared that too, as he hasn't let go of his fist. "But I don't think she would have time to do that…." He tried to rationalize.

"I hope so…."

"There's something I've wanted to ask you…" Koichi asked as Yukako was preparing breakfast, "The thing you did with your hair…" He didn't want to mention the word Stand. As she might get suspicious, "How did you do something like that…?"

"You were surprised?" Yukako asked an obvious question, "Most people would be if they first saw that…" She continued as she poured the soup into the bowl, "Around February of this year… Nijimura Keicho shot me in the chest with an arrow." She felt a slight pain from her chest, but continued to do her preparations, "I really thought I was going to die… but the next day… I woke up with the hole gone and I have this power…"

"Ni-Nijimura?!" Koichi said in pretend shock, "You mean my friend, Nijimura Keicho, did that to you?"

"Of course! But I honestly don't have a grudge against him at all." she giggled, "I'm actually grateful for him to give me this power." She closed the pot and opened another to place the boiled eggs into the container, "I was quite surprised really… to see him in our school. Especially as your friend too! So he may be a better person than perceived. But would have thought, right?"

"Y-yeah…" Koichi then asked her something else to confirm his suspicions, "Do… do you know anyone else who can do things like that?"

"Besides Nijimura?" She shook her head in response, "No… not at all. I even asked him if you had one. But he said no." She turned to face him, "Do you?"

Koichi tensed up for a second, but quickly replied as normally as he could, "N-no… I didn't even know Keicho had one either!"

"Good!" Yukako smiled happily as she took off her apron, "Are you hungry? Let's have some breakfast!"

'Whew…. Saved myself there…' Koichi was relieved that this obsessed girl didn't suspect any further, 'Thanks for doing that Keicho….'

"The villas?" Josuke asked his friend as he pointed out the area at the map. "Why do you think Yukako could have held him captive there?"

"Most of those villas are owned by the rich guys. You know CEOs and such." Keicho explained, "Since it's at the cliffside, I doubt they'll have much phone lines besides in the houses and the payphones."

"But wouldn't they-?"

"They're summer villas!" Keicho added, "No one's there till July or August."

"That's great!" Josuke cheered. But then quickly realized another issue... "But that would take at least twenty minutes by taxi! We gotta make sure he's actually held there, before we start going around.

Keicho gritted his teeth, "You're right about that…"

Josuke's house phone rang, interrupting the two's train of thought, the pompadoured teen stood up to grab the receiver, "Hello. Higashikata residence." He announced on the phone, but the caller was nowhere to be heard. "Hello? Hello?" Again, met with silence. It was at this point that Josuke and Keicho immediately assumed who the caller might be. So Josuke raised his voice louder, "Koichi?! Is that you?" Silence. Nothing was heard other than a rustling and crashing sound in the background, suggesting that the receiver was picked up but the caller did not respond. Josuke became concerned with the lack of response. "Where are you? I can hear waves out there!" He then heard a loud click and he was suddenly hung up on their end.

"Echoes!" Keicho realized who could have done it. He was incredibly relieved to know that his friend is alive to use his Stand. "He must have created dial tone sounds to call you!"

"Looks like your guess is right Keicho!" Josuke hung up the phone. "We should hurry! The fact that someone hung up quickly meant that, that girl is the one who picked up the phone!"

"Right!"

Twenty minutes after, the duo had arrived in the cliffside of Morioh, a little bit further away from the town proper. And just like older teen explained it was where most of the summer villas were located. After paying the driver and stepping outside the taxi, Josuke and Keicho started to look around for which house their dear friend would be held at the moment.

"We should look for the pay phones and search the houses nearby!" Keicho quickly suggested. Josuke nodded in agreement.

But not even five minutes of search, Keicho saw in view a house wrapped in black lines, "There!" He cried out getting Josuke's attention. "That must be Yukako's hair!"

"Koichi!" Josuke dashed in first, and Keicho followed after. But…

BOOM!

An explosion came from the house they had thought Koichi was in. Surprisingly, the house remained intact. But the force was strong enough to blow the girl away and fell on the edge of a cliff, unconscious. From the source of the explosion, came their friend whom seemed safe and sound.

"KOICHI!" The two cried out but were still far away from him.

CRACK!

They heard the ground crumble and split as the impact from when Yukako fell on the cliff became unstable. Unable to react fast enough, she fell underneath and her body became dangerously close to be impaled by the sharp rocks below.

But as she thought she was done for…..

Boingy-Boing~~!

"Huh?"

As her back touched the spikes, the rocks softened and squished, but became strong and versatile enough to bounce her back to the cape. Like a bouncy spring.

She realised when she broke off Echoes Act 2's tail, the source of its sound effect creation, that it touched the spiked rocks and the sound effect of a spring retracting and propelling "Boingy-Boing~~" was planted, making her bounce back to safety. The Yandere Stand User was in utter disbelief. She absolutely could not comprehend why the boy she tried to kill earlier had saved her from certain death.

"But now…." She felt her heart pounding faster, filled with feelings of greater love for Koichi, "It… It makes me love him even more! Even if he hates me, even if he doesn't even acknowledge my existence, even if he will never like me, I don't care… I… I'm just so happy!"

Koichi walked away leaving his stalker to admire him from afar. He strode with confidence as he knew he had won the battle. But as soon as he saw his two good friends rushing towards him, Koichi teared up and ran to hug them. "Josuke! Keicho! What took you guys so long!?"

"Koichi!" The two were just as happy to see their small friend safe and sound.

Josuke ruffled his friend's hair and Keicho picked him up to hug him.

Then as Koichi began to explain what had happened, Keicho saw the Yandere girl looking at them. "Yamagishi!" He yelled out in anger but was quickly stopped by Koichi.

"No! No!" The small teen cried out, "You don't need to do that Keicho!" He assured him, "She doesn't need to suffer any more, and I think she learned her lesson too!"

"I don't know man…" Josuke added, as he started to feel creeped out, "She looks way too happy to have been defeated."

"What?!" Koichi blinked twice and clung to his older friend, "Keicho! Josuke! Help me!"

"Hey! Don't just rely on us!"

The three friends, though Keicho wanted to stay behind, but got dragged away with them by the collar, had run away… Far away from the creepy teenage love struck, yet possessive girl who kept staring at Koichi happily.

And at the same time… just a bit further away from the scene.

"Did ya see that Masashi?!" An elderly fisherman, who had his boat nearby the area, had witnessed the bouncing incident, and was shocked to see it unfold, "That rock over there saved that girl!"

Masashi waved the bottle of alcohol around as he slurred his words, "I ain't… hic… that drunk Gramps!"

Morioh Landmark #2 The Boing-Boing Cape!

It was from a fisherman's tale that had begun to spread around. It was of a suicidal girl that was saved from certain death when the spiked rocks had bounced her back to safety from the cliff. It is now a sacred spot and the local fishermen pray to it for a safe journey in their jobs.

Directions: Just ask one of the local fishermen and they will gladly show you where it is.

The next day at school…..

"Congratulations Hirose! You did so well on this one!" The teacher patted Koichi in the head for a job well done. Koichi had just gotten a perfect 100 mark on his English Test.

The smaller teen looked at the mark repeatedly to clarify if it was really true. When he did, he sighed...

"I don't know how to feel about this…."

And then later, during their break times… and even after school...

"And they usually will try to overwhelm you with chocolates and stuff on Valentine's Day! So you gotta learn how to handle that…" Josuke began his explanations to Keicho.

"Valentines…chocolate..." Keicho wrote on his notepad, "Got it…"

Josuke has been teaching Keicho about Love and its significance to humans. The older teen seems to be very keen on trying to understand this concept, and his friend is happy to oblige. In the end it's still confusing to him as it was before...

======TO BE CONTINUED======

AN: "Love is always a hurricane!" ~ Boa Hancock, One Piece

The title is named after the song of the same name from the Love Deluxe Album by Sade!

I hope you enjoy! Please leave a review if you wish :3