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Hello, Totenwelt here! So we are getting close to the end. I wonder how is it going to end up? Are they all going to live happily ever after or will that only be a beautiful dream?

Well, you all will see very soon, i'll try finishing the last chapter by friday hopefully as i finally decided i would write another story before wrapping this story up, this time though it's going to venture forth to the depressing and dangerous reality of Metro universe, so if you're fan of that or you enjoy stories with that sort of theme feel free to hit me up as a favourite writer or just simply check out my stories in like a few days. I might extend this story to a one more chapter to make the ending a bit more rewarding (though no promises)

Anyways, would you all like an afterstory to this fanfiction? I'll leave a poll down here where you can choose whatever option you want (It's going to nullify in a month from me writing this, so i'm sorry viewers who might be watching this after that time)

You can vote anonymously to tell me if i should continue writing this story or not, anyways here's the link, . ?p=5dee3980e4b033f78237110e

i'll also leave it at the last chapter when i make it.

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Anyways, apologies for the length of this chapter, i tried to making it longer, but i decided it would destroy the pacing quite a bit if i did that. But still i hope you'll enjoy this chapter.

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I'm sure you all heard this countless times from me already, but thanks a lot for reading this, every single view on this story makes my day better. So once again Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

Special Shoutouts:

Dreamer15147 Sorry that i cut it off like that, i just felt it would add more tension leading into this chapter. Also thanks so bloody much for still leaving reviews on every new chapter, it makes me really happy to see that someone likes my works that much. But yeah, it is what can one do? All i have left is trying to survive and write these stories for you all.

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Taiga smiled from ear to ear as she arrived at Ryuuji's house in her mother's car, finally after 3 days she would see her boyfriend again! Taiga was ecstatic the whole trip from her mom's place all the way here. The girl bought her boyfriend a ton of chocolates because Valentine's day was coming up, and what sort of a good girlfriend would she be if she didn't gave her wonderful boyfriend some chocolates? Honestly everything about that relationship was just magical to her, she knew him for a year and yet she only noticed her feelings to him about half way, how nice was he towards her, and just how well he treated her specifically despite her always screaming and insulting him, she finally thought she found the true love.

The small girl got out of the giant car in comparison to her body, still smiling from ear to ear with a bag in her hand.

"Thanks for driving me out here mom, and for giving me tips about love and all that" Taiga thanked her mother as she turned her gaze away for a second as a blush formed on her face because she was embarrassed she had to ask her mother about love and about what she should do.

"Don't worry about it my little Taiga, though if something doesn't work out i'm always here for you okay?" Taiga's mother said rather stoicly, something was a bit off with her mother, especially with her being on a phone texting someone whenever she could, and when asked about that she would always reply "Some business deal"

Though Taiga payed no mind to it, as it was a great day for her.

Aisaka simply nodded back with a smile

"I know. i'll see you later mom, love you" Taiga waved her mother goodbye still with a giant smile on her face.

Her mom nodded back.

"See you later honey, love you too" Her mother waved her daughter back as she drove away leaving Taiga alone once again.

Taiga wasted no time and started walking up the stairs leading to Ryuuji's home. One of the things her mother adviced was giving him a surprise visit, thankfully she still had a key on her to his apartment that he gave her when she started coming over way back when they were just friends and didn't even felt anything towards each other.

Though it was a bit strange that she never got any texts back from him, and he would never pick up her calls

"maybe he lost his phone or something" Taiga thought in her head trying not to fall into the inescapable rabbit hole of doubt, nothing could make her day bad, she would make sure of that.

Taiga kept climbing up the stairs as she reached his door. Sneakily she slid the key into the keyhole, trying not to make a sound as to give him even more of a surprise and maybe even scare him a little bit.

As Aisaka entered his apartment she heard Ryuuji's lovely voice talking to someone, though she couldn't recognize it at first, it was a female voice, it had calm and mature tone to it unlike Yasuko's cheery and sort of childish tone, so it couldn't be her, and she couldn't figure out who it was either, but she knew it was someone very familiar. She only had one choice, find out herself.

Taiga walked to the middle of a kitchen and looked in the direction of the living room, still with a cheery expression on her face and a bag of chocolates in her hand.

However that expression very quickly changed as she saw her boyfriend lying on top of her friend and a foe Ami Kawashima and kissing her. It was a pure horror scene in her eyes.

How could he? Wasn't she enough for him? Were those 3 days of separation just too much for him? Or was he lying about loving her the whole time?

So many questions yet no answers.

Taiga's face very shortly distorted to a one of pure dread and sadness as tears formed in her eyes. Aisaka couldn't take it anymore mentally, she ran out of Ryuuji's apartment dropping the bag with the chocolates in the process, thus letting them shatter on the kitchen floor.

Stunned as to what happened Ryuuji reached out his hand and tried to ran after Taiga but someone was holding him down, he looked down to see that it was the mastermind of all this thing, Kawashima. Ryuuji still didn't understood what happened and why. Why did she kissed him? And why was Taiga there at that time?

Takasu got her body off of his and begun running to Taiga's apartment, he only had one instinct that told him what to do and that was going after her, though just as he exited his apartment he realized that it was futile, as she already ran away from his line of sight.

Though despite this the delinquent looking boy continued to try and explain things out to Taiga.

He walked down the stairs with somber and dread filling his mind as he begun realizing and piecing together what happened and how did she had to feel seeing her boyfriend lay on top of another girl and it seeming like he was kissing her, those feelings kept pushing him to try to explain things to her.

Ryuuji in the matter of seconds made it to her apartment and to the door that lead to her flat.

Takasu knocked on it as hard as he could.

"Taiga, please open up!" he begged her to open up, he knew if he could get her to open the door he would explain everything to her and it all would be okay again.

Yet only silence greeted him, the door kept shut as a door to a vault.

Ryuuji knocked even harder, bruising his hand in the process and making a slight dent into the door.

"Please, Taiga it's not what it seems, she tripped me and made it seem like i was kissing her, when in reality she forced herself onto me without consent" The boy tried to explain the situation as he rested his head on her door and just cried his heart out.

Yet she didn't replied a word or even a sign that she was okay.

Ryuuji kept bashing at her door with desperation as his bashes got slower and less impactful by each strike. Bashing at her door worned him out so much only think he eventually stopped knocking completely.

Ryuuji turned around and sat by her door in defeat as he though about all the time he betrayed her.

Flashbacks of his past mistakes filled his mind, he left her all alone a lot of times but eventually he was able to help her and made up for leaving her alone, though this time that wasn't the case. The realization make Ryuuji cry even more.

It was most likely the last time he ever met her let alone talked to her as a lover and overall. He screwed up big time and there was no way he could reverse that.

Taiga lied on her massive bed bawling her eyes over what happened. She felt betrayed, sad, heartbroken and most importantly not good enough, that was her reasoning as to why he cheated on her. She just wasn't enough for him, she never was, she was extremely short, flat and most importantly childish and mean, how could anyone seriously love someone like that? She thought.

Just as Taiga kept weeping she overheard someone knocking, it was Ryuuji for sure and she really wanted to open the door and accept his apology and act like nothing happened because she still loved him more than anything but she just couldn't, she knew that he loved Ami and that he would dump her one way or the other and she didn't wanted to be lied to, or so she thought.

Aisaka kept listening to hear what he had to say if anything, she heard him beg her to open the door and something else but she couldn't make out what he was saying as he was muffled because he started sobbing and crying.

Hearing that made her cry even more than she was before.

They both continued to cry few meters next from each other but it felt like they were worlds apart for a while, until Ryuuji decided to get up from his spot and confront the one who was behind it all to make things right, he had to, he didn't knew what he would do without Taiga by his side, so he marched on with tears in his eyes and snot clogging up his nose determined to find out why did Ami Kawashima did the things she did.

No longer caring about the consequences Ryuuji opened his door aggressively with such a force that he almost ripped them off completely.

Was that the reason why her demeanor was so weird the whole time Taiga was missing? Did she planned this all along or did she just happened to use the moment? Those and so many questions filled his mind besides the mindless rage and that stemmed from her actions, though the answer to that didn't really mattered to him, all he wanted to know why did she do it? What lead her to frame him to make it look like he was cheating on her girlfriend?

Well, there was only way to find out.

As Takasu made his way into the kitchen where the crumbled bag filled with now shattered chocolates lied, just a simple look on them sent Ryuuji into even greater rage and sadness than ever before, as those chocolates symbolized that she wanted to give him these chocolates as a gift since tomorrow was Valentine's day.

Ryuuji looked in the living as Taiga did a few minutes ago, there she was. The mastermind of that wicked plan herself Ami, she looked away in shame and embarrassment as her eyes met with Ryuuji's eyes that were burning with rage, making them even more scarier than usual. Takasu looked as if he wanted to kill someone, and if he didn't controlled himself he would have.

On second though Kawashima had a really horrible feeling about her plan right before commencing it, she tried to reason with herself to stop it, but it was simply too late. Kawashima could only try and clench to his body to try to make him stay as the deed was done, she thought that her actions were just and that Taiga's were wrong, that she could help him and not make him feel any pain, so she tried to make Taiga break up with him, but as she looked up and saw the desperation and utter shock and confusion in Ryuuji's face as he tried to reach out to her girlfriend Ami realized that she was wrong, she knew that her actions were wrong yet she simply blinded herself to that fact because she justified it with love and that everything is fair in pursuit of it. Everyone around her told her that it was wrong, yet she didn't listened, she turned to the Ami of old.

The Ami that hurt and used other people just for her benefit, how could she? She destroyed everything that she built in the span of 3 days.

Before she could think about her actions anymore Ryuuji tore her off of him and started running towards the hurt Taiga with tears forming in the corner of his eyes.

The fall hurt like a hell because he threw her on the table next to them, yet what hurt her the most wasn't the places where she landed the hardest, it was her broken heart that she shattered herself.

Ami lied motionless for a good few seconds reminiscing on how great everything was before she went ahead with the plan, she was very friendly with him and it was apparent that he enjoyed her company. Kawashima had the blast of her life being near a person that truly got her, yet she had to go ahead and be greedy. If she hadn't been so greedy and just accepted that she couldn't date him no matter what everything would be fine, but she let her dark side dictate her life again.

Her delusions haunted her once more.

Kawashima placed her knees to her chin and placed her head into the space between her knees as her tears hit her bottom body, she just couldn't take it anymore so she just wept over how stupid she was, Taiga wasn't the one who would hurt him eventually, it was her all along.

That kept on going for a few minutes as she drowned in her sorrows with tears that just wouldn't stop flowing out of her eyes, truly she was a monster in her and everybody else's heads and there was nothing she could do about it, she only hoped that Ryuuji was able to talk to Taiga properly and explained the situation, she wouldn't mind taking the bullet, it was her and only her fault afterall.

After a while she heard someone open the door very aggressively so much so that the door almost got ripped away completely.

Kawashima knew exactly who it was and that person had a bone to pick with her for her actions.

Enraged Ryuuji Takasu appeared from behind a corner of the door leading to kitchen like a ghoul with such a fire in his eyes that it genuinely seemed like he wanted to murder her on the spot for what she done to him and his lover.

At first Ryuuji didn't noticed her, but in a matter of a few milliseconds he traced over to her position where she was sitting up, no longer folded in a ball because she didn't wanted to show him her weak side.

Ryuuji walked up to her with the most pissed off face he ever had, still enraged as ever.

Kawashima kept looking away because she was just that ashamed that she couldn't look Ryuuji into his eyes.

"Why?" Ryuuji asked silently at first as tears once again started to appear in the corner of his eyes. Kawashima kept looking away and didn't gave him an answer

"Why did you do it?" Ryuuji uncharacteristically raised his voice on Ami who yet again didn't responded and just kept looking away to not meet his threatening and rageful glare.

Takasu had enough, he grabbed Ami's shoulder forcefully, forcing her to finally turn her gaze to him. Ami didn't had a expression of smugness which surprised him a bit as he expected her to bask in the fact that she destroyed his and Taiga's relationship, yet only a face full of regret and sadness met his gaze.

Takasu realized that he went over the board with the anger, he was losing the track of himself, the last thing he truly had left.

"Why did you do it?" Takasu once again repeated more calmly, looking straight into her eyes. Ami gazed back as tears filled her eyes uncontrollably

"I-I don't know anymore" Ami whispered silently as she put Ryuuji's hands off of hers shoulders and tried to hide her face from his eyes as she didn't wanted to let him see her crying, but her hands were caught by Ryuuji's.

"Don't give me that, i know there had to be a reason, i know you didn't do it just because you wanted to spite me and Taiga" Ryuuji pressured Kawashima who calmed down with the crying after he held her hands together, though she knew that he didn't hold her hands in a friendly way, yet despite everything it made her a bit happy.

Kawashima kept looking him in the eyes with a sad expression and told him exactly how it was.

"I-I just wanted to be with you, and i though i was doing the right thing since i believed Taiga was going to hurt you, but i didn't seem to understand that i was going to hurt you even more than she ever could" Kawashima confessed as she looked away in both embarrassment and shame once again.

Hearing those words was completely unreal to Ryuuji, he didn't understood the meaning of those words, or rather he did he just didn't wanted to believe them, that his good friend did that heinous act all in the name of love.

"What do you mean?" Takasu asked the blue haired model who was still looking away to hear it from her own mouth.

Kawashima closed her eyes, still looking away from him

"I did it because i love you okay?!" Kawashima lashed out on Ryuuji as she looked him in the eyes with a mix of sadness and anger in her voice and expression. Her eyes once again got filled with tears that just wouldn't stop flowing.

Ryuuji stood there dumbfounded, did she really planned all of this just to make him love her? Though before he could try and explain it more clearly to himself Ami cut him off by continuing.

"And i just, was blinded by it, so i did what i did" she continued to explain as she tried to wipe away her tears.

Ryuuji finally understood what she meant by her words and why she did the things she did.

Kawashima tried to make them break up so she could date him, because she was in love with him the whole time.

"I see. Though tell me, did you planned this through?" Ryuuji looked at her once again, this time with a sinister look that looked really emotionless.

Ami was shocked to see that side of him, she thought he would atleast say something to her about the fact that she had feelings for him, but he just skipped over it, as if she didn't said it at all.

"I did..." Kawashima once again confessed to her crimes. That made Ryuuji's look on his face even more sinister, she felt his gaze just piercing her with shame and hatred.

"I planned out everything out, I made sure Taiga's mother would be with her for 3 days as i reached out to her and got an agreement with her because of my contacts as a model. If i made you and Taiga break up she would take her back to her home so noone else would be around to take you so i would start eventually dating you once you got over the break up, that was the plan atleast. That included her mother changing her sim card so you couldn't reach her and changing the numbers of the contacts in her phone when Taiga wasn't looking so she couldn't text or call you and the rest.

Of course originally i was just going to try and win you over, but i saw just much you loved Taiga, so it wasn't possible that way, so i thought i had to be more aggressive about it, i'm sorry" Kawashima looked away as she explained her actions once more to Ryuuji who didn't moved an inch and neither did he changed expressions, he just stood there unwavered. God knows what was going on through his mind

"And what about Kitamura and Kushieda?" Ryuuji asked once again with a very unfriendly tone as he still had that unwavering, sinister look on his face. He knew that her actions lead to Kitamura and Kushieda breaking down mentally, and he wanted to know why that was and what happened.

"I-I..." that question caught Kawashima completely off guard as she didn't expected to be asked that question out of the blue.

But then she recomposed herself

"They both came up to me and tried to steer me away from doing what i did, and when i told them that it wasn't no longer possible it made them break down, not to mention i told them that it was futile to even try and resist to my plan as i had everything planned out" Kawashima explained as she finally looked at his eyes again to see what he had to say about that, she was okay with being casted by and hated till the end of times, everything was her fault afterall.

Ryuuji's expression finally turned some what softer as he prepared to tell her his opinion on the matter, though he still had a very unfriendly expression on his face

"You know what i realized after hanging out with you for so long? That if you told me how you felt and i was single i would return the feelings any day of the week. But because of how you acted you shown me that you haven't changed a bit since the old Ami that i knew, so now i can't say i'm feeling anything for you other than disgust for what you done. I'm sorry but i can't forgive you for what you done, so please get out of here" Ryuuji gave her a cold shoulder as he pointed to the exit. Kawashima tried to protest, but she knew it was pointless, plus she deserved it, it was all her fault, though she hoped if anyone would be able to forgive her it would be Ryuuji but she was wrong.

It was ironic, if only she told him how she felt about him before the mountain trip he could have been his and everything and everyone would be okay, but she had to go ahead and ruin it all by doing that stupid plan.

Ami simply nodded and walked out of his house with tears still filling her eyes.

Ryuuji shut the doors behind her, he simply sat down by the door as he sat by Taiga's door a few minutes before and just sat there emotionless, he didn't knew what to do anymore.

He lost everything, his lover, his friends.

And he was devastated because of it.

Takasu sat there for ages, not even thinking anything, as if he was in a coma. It turned to midnight and his mother walked in, drunk as usual.

She opened the door leading to her home only to see Ryuuji sitting by it like he was dead, though he visibly wasn't as she was still blinking, though still Yasuho got really scared for a second when she saw him sitting like that

"Ryuuji? Are you okay what happened?" Yasuho asked, but she knew exactly what happened, he broke up with Taiga, or the other way around. She knew because she was the same way when she broke up with her previous boyfriends before she met his dad.

Ryuuji didn't responded and just kept being silent.

"It's okay baby, i know what happened, let's get you to bed okay?" Yasuho said as she comforted him with a hug. Her motherly instincts overpowered her drunkenness, so much so that she completely forgot she was even drunk in the first place.

Ryuuji still didn't replied, but he began crying uncontrollably as he hugged his mother back, after a while of crying in her embrace like he did when he was a child he fell asleep like a baby.

Yasuho helped him get to his bed, despite her stature she was very strong. And prepared him his futon and put him to bed. She knew she couldn't help him any further, she just had to hope everything would work out fine.

Though what she could do was talk to Taiga about what happened.

End of Chapter 7 - Reality

Writer's notes

7/12/19 17:21

As of right now i'm starting to write this chapter, should be done in like a day or two hopefully

8/12/19 21:26

Almost finished this chapter today, i just sat down and wrote for like a good 4 hours so i'm just going to post this once i'm free tomorrow

9/12/19 12:58

Alright, got everything done i'm about to upload it.