It's the last chapter, so i'd be glad if you could read this
Hello Totenwelt here! And finally after almost a month we're at the end of the line! or is it? Well, as far as this story goes yes. But don't be sad yet, as i do plan to make a continuation of this story eventually (don't know when that'll be though, i'd say like a month or two from now as i have quite the few projects i want to cover before jumping a ship on the afterstory.) before i do though, i'm announcing i'll be doing a remaster of this overall story, because there are parts (especially in the earlier chapters) where i straight up didn't liked how it turned out, but i thought it's good enough and left it be, well no more! i'll do another draft to really make it shine before i'll be doing any afterstory of sorts. Now, when will the remaster will be done? Well i'd say like a month from now as again i got like 2 more stories i want to cover before i'll return to Toradora as writing a fanfiction that long completly zapped all enjoyment i had about that anime, so it'll take me a few before i get the feel for it again, but when i do the first thing i'll do will be write another chapter for it. Also, i really apologize for taking a week to finish but i was writing my novels and a metro related fanfiction together with this chapter so that's why it took me so long, but atleast i hope it's worth the wait since it's about 2 times as long as most of my chapters.
Also, i'll be writing a "Inner workings" chapter right after this to go into all things around this story, why i did some things, etc. So if you're interested in that then check it out.
I apologize for messing up the poll last chapter, but i got a few pms saying i should write an afterstory, so i will.
But anyways, thank you all so much for reading my story all the way through. and to those who didn't, i still thank you for atleast taking the time out of your day to check out a part of it if nothing else.
But as for the usual, here are the shoutouts.
Shoutout mainly to the person reading this, you're epic and you deserve a choccy milk.
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Dreamer15147 Well, i tried my hardest for it to be heartbreaking, so i'm glad that it worked exactly as i wanted :) Anyways, as for the rest you'll see yourself. But anyhow thank you once again for reviewing all my chapters, feedback and support like that helped me out to power through and finish the chapter many times, so again thank you and i hope you have a good day!
Anyways, i hope you'll enjoy the last chapter
Here the story ends, though i hope you didn't skipped what i had to say.
It was very dark outside, so much so that even the stars were visible to the naked eye. Truly it was a beautiful night, atleast to the normal folks, as for the bunch that we all know, it was a bleak, sad night for everyone.
Noone was celebrating, not even the person who caused everyone to be this sad, instead that person was sitting on a sidewalk infront of her crush's house bawling her eyes out on how much destruction she caused and that she lost any and all chances to be around her crush let alone date him.
Someone noticed her crying on the sidewalk from her crush's home, it was none other than the mother of the boy she loved, Yasuho Takasu who've she never met before, but heard a lot about from her son.
Normally she'd run away so that noone would see her crying, but this time she didn't cared one bit. She deserved to be looked upon when crying, so people would laugh at her and look down on her, after all it was only fair after what she done, she thought.
Yasuho noticed her immediately, She walked down the stairs to comfort her, since she could tell that she was coming to the same highschool as Taiga and Ryuuji and looked from the profile as one of his friends who Ryuuji mentioned from time to time.
"Hey, what's up? You're Ryuuji's classmate aren't you? What are you doing up here so late?" Yasuho asked Ami who was still facing nothingness and crying. Yasuho didn't knew what happened but thought that it would be for the best appropriate to comfort her, so she put her hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, Are you okay?" Yasuho once again asked her, now crouching near her.
This time, Ami stopped crying for a second and wiped her runny nose.
"I-It's all my fault, I screwed up everything, i lost sight of myself and it caused everyone to just break down, and now that i finally realized it it's too late to fix it" Ami confessed to Yasuho, at that point it didn't mattered who was listening, as she betrayed everyone who took her as a friend so to who else could she confess to? After finishing the sentence she started crying again.
Upon hearing what she just said Yasuho just stood there completely frozen. So she was the cause of all this? She made Ryuuji and Taiga break up? How could she? That wench! So many rageful comments about Ami came through her mind, she was as angry if not more than Ryuuji was when he was pissed off at her, though atleast Ryuuji knew when to stop, she had a motherly rage that couldn't be stopped in a logical way.
Yasuho's hands started to twitch as she though of what she would do to her and what insults would she do, so much so that she squeezed Ami's shoulder so hard she started to grab it because it hurt her so much.
"Hey, what the hell? " Ami shouted through the tears whilst she looked at Yasuho confused as to why was she squeezing her shoulder so tightly. Only thing she saw those burning eyes that Ryuuji had some time ago, but that look was a bit different from what he had back then, that look had some regret in them, but hers did not.
Before she could say anything further or react a giant slap landed across her face from the furious Yasuho.
It resonated within Ami so much that she was almost knocked out by it, she immediately held her hands on the spot where Yasuho hit her. It stung so much, the pain was unbearable like if half of her face was melting, it hurt her that much.
Kawashima quickly got up and was about to scream at her with rage for hitting, but then she dropped her head as she was reminded to what she did few hours ago.
Yasuho began crying as well as she looked at Ami with a expression that signaled both hatred and sadness towards the blue haired model.
"Why did you do it?! Was destroying their relationship so important to you?!" Yasuho shouted at her, causing her to look away once again in shame, shame for what she caused and done to everyone, but then she looked back at her with a expression that no longer spelled out defeat.
They're all going to hate her? Fine, but she wouldn't shed no more tears for either herself or him. She had enough, Ami would go on her own way now, she would walk the same lonely she did before joining that highschool and meeting Ryuuji and Taiga. She had to, for all of them, and to pay for her wrong doings.
"I did it because i loved him, i wanted him for myself and honestly i wish i didn't done it, but i can't do anything about it now so i have to live with that for the rest of my life" Ami explained calmly to Yasuho in a very stoic tone who's demeanor turned from rage to pure sadness as tears overpowered any thoughts in her head.
Yasuho tried to say something, but couldn't she only stood there in front of Ami and kept on crying.
Seeing that Kawashima turned around and started walking home, there was no point in her being there anymore. Though she stopped for a second before going
"Also, thanks for that, i really deserved it" Ami said stoicly as she turned her head so Yasuho could see it and pointed to her crimson cheek before disappearing to the dark shadows of midnight streets.
Seeing that Yasuho dropped down on her knees and kept on crying for minutes, Taiga saw that from her window and wanted desperately to run out and hug, she was practically her own mother at that point, but she couldn't, not after what happened that day.
Finally Yasuho recomposed herself after a while because she still needed to visit Taiga and ask about what happened and possibly try to fix everything up.
Yasuho but surely made her way towards Taiga's apartment and towards her door.
She knocked on it and tried to open it, only to find it locked
"Taiga, Honey what happened? Did you two got into a fight?" Yasuho asked, yet no response was heard back.
She was determined to make their relationship work again, after what that blue haired wench did.
"I heard from Ryuuji you two got into a fight, and i found out it was all that blue haired girls fault, i want to talk it out with you, i don't want you and Ryuuji to stop seeing each other, afterall you're part of our family" Yasuho kept on pleading with Taiga, who still didn't responded to her pleads.
Desperate and with tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes she tried one more time to get her to atleast reply to her.
"Please Taiga i beg you, let me help" Yasuho begged her for a reply, yet noone replied her.
Yasuho got up and began crying because she couldn't save their relationship after all. Not only did she lost a part of her family that day, but she also failed as a mother. In defeated she walked away knowing she couldn't do anything anymore.
On the other side sat Taiga with tears flowing freely from her eyes as she sat in the same chair she sat last Christmas. Hell, she was even wearing the same scarf she was wearing that day, Ryuuji's scarf brought her so many memories to better times, when they were both nice to each other, when he pretended to be Santa only for her.
He did so many nice things for her, yet she felt betrayed and hurt, and most importantly not worthy of his love. Was Yasuho speaking the truth?
It didn't really matter anymore, because Taiga decided even if she was right that he would be more happier with that dumb chivavua than with her. Like who would want to date such a small and flat girl for the rest of their life? Her insecurities got to her hard, beating away at her core.
Just as she uttered that in her mind she began crying even more, because in her head it meant that he didn't loved her anymore.
And why should he? She didn't even replied to him when he was beating at her door and begging for her to open or atleast talk to her.
It was all her fault again, if she stayed with him maybe he would still be with her, but that's just another "what if" scenario.
Taiga got up from her chair, she was shaking like crazy from the stress and wobbled to a large mirror, or atleast a large compared to her body, the mirror itself wasn't that big. And took a look at herself to decide what to do next.
And there she was, a petite small girl was looking back at her with tears still flowing out of her eyes, and was twitching and shaking like crazy.
Now, she had two choices she could do try and confront Ryuuji about it and try to smooth things out, or give up and run away so that he could be happier with this dumb chivavua.
At first it was a clear choice, tomorrow she would go to his house before school and talk to him about it, but as more as she thought about the more it became too hard for her to do. So slowly but surely she started to lean towards the other choice, run away for his sake.
Afterall, he loved that dumb chivavua didn't he? She would only be in his way and make things inconvenient if she stuck around, so with hesitation she finally chose the way she would handle it.
Taiga walked to her giant king bed and lied on it, no more thoughts cruised through her mind, she just lied there without any emotion or like a doll only having tears in her eyes, eventually though she cried herself to sleep.
Ryuuji slowly but surely woke up to the sound of an alarm. He didn't wanted to get up though, because his life sort of just lost all meaning now that he got into a fight with his girlfriend, hell she meant even more than that to him. She was his soulmate, someone who truly understood him. But now she was gone, so close to him, yet so far away.
Takasu had to turn off the alarm though because it was getting annoying. Ryuuji slowly made it onto his feet as he managed to wobble his way to the alarm clock to turn it off, as he did he wiped away his dried up tears that were there from yesterdays event. As he got a flashback to reminded himself what happened even more tears started to streak out of his eyes and down his chin.
It was all his fault he thought, if only he was a bit more cold towards Ami it wouldn't happen and both him and Taiga would be forever happy with each other. Though that was impossible now, nothing could fix what's been broken that much, and he knew that deep down she didn't wanted to fix it either. Truly after a year or knowing each other their relationship and friendship in general disintegrated in a mere one night.
Ryuuji tried to go back to sleep as he didn't cared about coming late to school and overall didn't cared about much if anything anymore. What was the point if she wasn't around?
But unfortunately for him he couldn't fall asleep anymore, he only lied in his futon and tried to not think about what happened few hours ago. But that was harder than he though, everything lead to her. She was his world and everything in his life lead to her one way or the other.
Takasu couldn't take it anymore and got up from his futon to get his mind occupied to forget about what happened if only for a while.
Ryuuji looked like hammered piece of crap. His eyes were extremely red because he was crying a lot in the last couple days, his posture was bad because he was hunched over and he stenched of sweat because he didn't shower yesterday because of what happened. Ryuuji was more of a car wreck than what he looked few days ago when he was missing Taiga, this time it was definite though.
Takasu looked at the alarm clock who at that point stopped ringing to see the time. It was 7:42 exactly, maybe if he skipped breakfast he would make it he thought, though it didn't mattered to him that much if he wouldn't make it on time.
Ryuuji put on his school uniform slowly, took his bag and sadly walked to the school with only depressive thoughts filling his mind.
Everyone was already in class preparing for it to start, well everyone but Ryuuji who just made it to the school just in time, he was changing his normal boots to the school boots as someone saw him who was in the same mood as he was, Minorin Kushieda.
She stood shocked to see him so down, it finally had to happen, and even though she prepared herself to handle her emotions when it did, she couldn't help but start crying like so many times again, but this time it was the worst. All she did really was in vain, and it was all her fault. Before he could notice her she ran away from school that day with tears flowing freely from her eyes.
Ryuuji looked at his phone, it was 8:05, he was late to the class he thought as he stood infront of the doors leading to the said class. He opened it and bowed down.
"I apologize teacher for arriving late, i overslept" Ryuuji sincerely apologized as he kept his head bowed. He tried his best not to sound sad or depressed, but it sounded more like he just didn't cared and was sarcastic about it.
"It's alright Takasu, please take a seat" The teacher nodded as she pointed to his seat. Ryuuji nodded back and walked over to his seat and sat down, everyone took a look at him as he did because they all could tell something wasn't right with him despite him trying to act like he was okay, though they didn't wanted to ask him as it seemed like he wasn't in a mood to talk, plus it would be pretty disrespectful.
Takasu sat down and slouched on the table looking as miserable as he could. It was apparent that he didn't wanted to be there, but even more so as he just lied on his desk with his face lying on his forearms.
"So, now that Takasu is here only one's who are missing are Kushieda and President Kitamura correct?" The teacher asked the students, who nodded and all said yes in a unisense. Ryuuji wondered why wasn't Kushieda and Kitamura at school, but didn't really cared enough to try and find out why they were missing, maybe he'd ask later when they were in school.
Kawashima was sitting in the back being as miserable as Ryuuji. Her face was slightly bandaged at the spot where she got slapped by Yasuho, she bruiser her so much that she had to get it bandaged. After that incident she completely isolated herself from everyone, not even talking to her two female friends. And despite moving on with her life she still was hurting when she saw Takasu being so depressed, plus it was all her fault that it happened which made it all the worse.
What was said next noone expected.
"I'm afraid i have start off today with a sad note. I just got the news that due to personal issues, Taiga is going to be leaving our school" Teacher said as she stood infront of the chalk board.
Kawashima's eyes widened as she sat there in shock. Why did she do that? What came across her mind? Why did she had to act like a little child? So many emotions came across her at that time, it hit her more than when Ryuuji threw her out of his apartment.
She wished that Taiga was here so she could slap her for leaving, then again she didn't had the right to judge her, after what she done after all.
Ryuuji bolted up as fast as his body allowed it, knocking his chair in the process.
"Wait, what? how? I-uh" Ryuuji tried to say something, but was met with nothing as his brain just shutted down. Was it really happening? It couldn't right? It was just a bad dream, or nightmare it couldn't be real could it?
He slowly but surely sat down as the crushing reality of the situation hit him like tsunami.
The whole class stayed silent, for both they all were shocked as much as Ryuuji was and because they all felt sorry for him because they knew that he was dating her, though that didn't stopped them from texting her about it, though little do they knew none of the texts would ever reach her.
"I'm afraid i can't give more information about the situation as Aisaka's mom requested for me to do so." The teacher looked down in shame and sadness, for losing a member of her class felt heavy on her because she was a good student.
Ryuuji began crying as it slowly but surely as the seriousness of the situation dawned on him.
Kawashima on the other hand just sat there still completely shocked, with so many questions on her mind, yet no answers.
Ami couldn't bear seeing her love being so sad anymore, and she couldn't go ahead and help him. Not to mention she didn't wanted to ruin lifes of others anymore, as long as she was there nothing would change. So she had no other choice but to do the same cowardly thing Aisaka did. Leave the school.
Few hours later.
Kawashima walked to the teacher's office who was sitting in there filling papers about Aisaka's transfer to another school. She knocked politely on her door
"Come in!" Teacher invited Ami inside as she looked towards the doors, when she walked in her office she bowed her head down to show respect.
"Thank you teacher, um i have something i wanted to talk to you about" Ami looked down, her inner self once again doubted her decision, but this time she was right it was the right choice, atleast for everyone around her. This time she didn't cared about herself, Ryuuji needed people to help him get through his demons and as long as she was there others wouldn't be, so she had to sacrifice herself for his sake atleast once.
"Sure Kawashima, what's up? " The teacher asked her as she raised her eyebrow a bit about what she wanted to possibly talk about.
Kawashima closed her eyes and looked straight at the teacher, she was confident about her choice now.
"I wanted to transfer, for personal reasons. You see something happened to me and now well, it's awkward for me to stay here and i know it won't get any better so i want to change schools. Plus i plan to make my comeback to modeling and i can't study at school and be a professional model at the same time." Kawashima forced herself to say all of that, she immediately looked away as she got sad that everything that she made up until that point would be lost, but that sadness was somewhat relieved by the fact that everyone would be better off without her now.
The teacher stood there completely shocked and dazed, not one but two top class students left her classes in the same week? How would she explain that to the principal? She had no idea.
"A-Are you sure you want to transfer? I mean you made many friends here you sure that they wouldn't miss you? Please, reconsider. It seems to me a very rushed decision that you might regret later on in life." Teacher tried her best not to sound desperate and instead caring, and it sort of came off as caring rather than desperate.
Ami smiled, closed her eyes and looked at her teacher
"Yes i'm sure, and no they wouldn't. But thank you for trying to change my mind, i wish it didn't had to come to this, but unfortunately it's the only thing good thing i can do now. Also, i'll have the transfer papers here tomorrow signed by my parents, anyways thank for teaching me so much it's truly been an honor as your student" Kawashima said as she shook her now ex-teacher's hand, who just nodded out of shock and just shook her hand back.
"Thank you for listening to my request, have a great life and goodbye!" Ami said as she faked being cheery and bowed down once again to show her thanks.
The teacher still nodded very dazed as to what just happened as her now ex-student walked from her office with a big (fake) smile on her face.
In reality though she still was so sad, because last year to her was the best year she ever had, up until that mountain trip. If only things were a bit different, everything wouldn't go completely awol. But only thing she could do now at that point was just man up and try to get over it, it would be hard but she had no other choice.
Ami walked down the stairs leading to the outside of the school, she expected atleast someone to wait for her or something like that, but she was all alone at the school, as if she was forgotten all about in the span of a few days.
Ami changed her boots and started walking home, so many thoughts filled her mind as she did. Was it a right choice? Did i made a mistake? Am i doing the right thing? So many questions were once again going through her head though once more, no answers. She would just have to believe in her choice that it was the right one.
After a little while she made it to her home, which was just like her at the time, Alone and forgotten.
Kawashima left her bag at her table and sat down on her chair in the kitchen to relax. Though once more she couldn't as more and more negative thoughts filled her mind, despite saying she would get past her feelings for Ryuuji and throw this whole chapter of her life behind her without any problem, she just couldn't do it. Ami once again began crying about what had transpired and what was about to happen.
It was so painful for her to even attempt to move on, let alone throw everything away in the sake of others.
Kawashima got up from her seat and walked to her mirror. There she saw a reflection of a weak person crying who she didn't recognized anymore. A person who let herself get lost in her own desires. A person she hated more than anymore, and most importantly a person she didn't wanted to be anymore.
Ami wiped her own tears as begun looking herself in a different light. She would have to change her ways if she wanted to ever move on.
She had to change somehow, she just had to, she didn't wanted to be like her again.
"Do you really though? Or can't you simply accept the fact that you're the same person who caused all of it?" a certain part of her though otherwise, truly it was the truth she didn't wanted to hear as she still didn't wanted to agnolige that it was her fault.
"Don't listen to that, you weren't in the wrong, you were simply weren't the same person as who did that thing back then" Another part of her argued with the other, it had to be right, wasn't it? Afterall, it couldn't be her fault.
"Ami, you really believe that? You got consumed by love and greediness, and The only reason why you still haven't moved on is because you can't handle the guilt. And maybe it's too late to be forgiven but atleast you can redeem youself and take that guilt away, please do the right thing atleast once for others and not yourself. " her inner part guided her towards what was right, though admitting the truth and committing to it would be way harder than living in the land of illusions and makebeliefs.
"C'mon, you shouldn't even think of helping them after how badly everyone treated you, even the person you love betrayed you, everyone did. You're the one and only Ami Kawashima and you shouldn't sacrifice yourself for the sake of others" her other inner part guided her towards what was wrong, but she didn't saw it as that, she saw it simply as the simpler and easier solution.
Ami Kawashima took another look at herself as she had to decide what sort of person would she become in the future. It was a hard choice for her, but she eventually came to an answer.
Kawashima once more looked at the mirror having one last look at herself, as she walked away to pack her stuff so she could move again.
It was Showtime.
Ryuuji lied on his bed emotionless and without care for anything anymore.
He tried to reach out to Taiga one more time, only to find out her apartment abandoned, all her furniture and the rest of her things gone. It was even more empty and sad than it was before. Ryuuji looked around the whole house to try and find if she left a note or something atleast before she abandoned that place. Fortunately for Ryuuji there was a note, on her giant king bed. Ryuuji quickly rushed over to it to see what she wrote. Takasu opened the folded note to read what was written on it.
The paper was mostly blank, only one sentence was written on it.
"I'm sorry for not being good enough" Those few words made Ryuuji drop to his knees, he once more began crying over the note as it made him realize just how much it hurt her. He also knew that those words weren't sarcastic but her true thoughts.
Eventually he got back to his home, but he wasn't himself anymore. He resembled more of a husk than a man who was above everything.
Ryuuji walked over to his bed and just lied there, not caring about anything anymore.
Truly he lost even the smallest slither of hope, and there was no way it could change anymore. She was gone, and with her he was too. What remained was a shelter of a man who didn't cared about anything anymore, Ryuuji Takasu was no more.
Truly this was the end of his story. There was no good ending like in those fairy tales.
Or so he thought.
Someone knocked on his door, it wasn't very loud but it was so silent that even he heard it clearly despite being so far away.
At first he didn't wanted to answer because he just didn't cared anymore, but the knock very suddenly stopped which made him somewhat interested as to who was behind the door.
He got slowly up his feet and very slowly and lazily walked over his apartment to the door. At first he looked through the peep hole to look at who was behind the door, yet noone was there.
The person who knocked on his door was already gone. Confused, he opened the door to see if it wasn't a postman or something, but why would they knock then? It all was a bit weird to him.
He looked down to see another note of sorts. He picked it up to see what was written on it.
The husk stood there as he read the note.
He was overwhelmed by what was on that note.
So much so that he ran out of his apartment with tears in the corner of his eyes.
Kawashima sat in a back of a car with a chauffeur driving it somewhere.
"We're here Miss Kawashima" The driver signaled to Ami, she nodded back and got out of the car
"I'm going to park the car around the corner Miss Kawashima" The driver said after rolling down his window.
Ami smiled and nodded once more
"Thank you, i'll be right back!" Kawashima exclaimed as she waved the driver off, he simply nodded back with a stone face and drove off.
Her smile quickly disappeared as so did the car.
Kawashima looked at her phone once more, though this time it wasn't used to plan a betrayal of someone.
Ami looked at it with a serious expression on her face as she placed it back in her pocket and started walking somewhere.
She once again thought if it was the right choice to do after all that happened. She knew that was she was about to do was selfish, but she had to, there was no other way.
Kawashima finally walked to her destination. It was finally about to happen, her drastic final decision.
The destination was a normal japanese suburban plaza that didn't looked any different from any other plaza in Tokyo. One would wonder why she chose that place in particular.
Ami sat down at a bench and just waited for something or rather someone. After a few minutes a familiar looking car appeared on the road next to the bench she was sitting at. The car had very tinted windows so she couldn't see who was in the car, but it was same on the other side. Of course, she knew exactly who was in that car, and she preparing herself to meet with that said person.
The car drove up to her and suddenly stopped. Ami turned her gaze from the backseat of the car to the front seat, she simply nodded with a serious look on her face.
After a few seconds the back door opposite of Kawashima opened, the person got out of the car and closed the door as the luxurious car drove away, revealing that the person in the backseat was none other than the palm top tiger, Taiga Aisaka.
As Aisaka turned around to see who was standing infront of her she froze with shock. Of all people who could have been she was the last person she wanted to see.
"W-w-why?" Taiga tried to get a cohesive sentence out of her mouth, but failed epically at that.
Ami simply smiled as she found that a bit amusing, and she couldn't help but let a small bit of her mean self shine a little.
"Why am i here you mean? Simple, i'm here to stop you from from making a giant mistake, or rather to fix a bad choice that i did" Ami explained as she looked straight on Taiga with a smile. She was smiling in the face of her own mistakes.
"No, this isn't right. He loves you more, and i had to leave because i couldn't handle that, plus i wanted him to be happy" Taiga looked down as started tearing up, she didn't hated Ami for what she done, she just wanted the best for Ryuuji, evecn if it meant sacrificing herself in order to make him happy. Aisaka loved him that much.
Ami heard enough, she was hurting as she was she wasn't in a mood to see Taiga hurting as well, she grabbed Taiga's shoulders causing her to look up right in her eyes
"Do you really believe that? This has been my doing all along, I made him trip so that it would look like he made a move on me before you came in. Same goes with the kiss" Kawashima explained as she looked intensively at Taiga, who stopped crying instead was just shocked on what she was hearing. She wanted to get angry at Ami, but she couldn't, she just still stood there completely shocked
"B-but how did you knew i was coming?" Aisaka asked still dazed from Kawashima's answers, she still had no idea how could she have planned it that well timing wise.
"Simply put, i collaborated with your mother on this, she was the one that i contacted when i decided to go through with that plan and fortunately for me she wanted you to go live with her, so we helped each other out" Ami said as it was, she didn't cared if she would be hated by Taiga, it didn't matter to her anymore, what did was two things. Convincing her to reconsider her choice to leave for his sake, and to buy time.
Taiga's pupils increased tenfold, not only did she just found out she got betrayed by own family once more. But she just found how much her friend was really wicked, how thoroughly she planned this all without even stopping once to question the morality of it.
Taiga slowly got more and more angry at Ami as her sadness began disappearing.
Kawashima saw that and looked around to see if he was around or not, because she felt that she couldn't hold the tiger down anymore.
And there he was, Ryuuji Takasu.
Running like he never ran before, as if he was running for his life, which he sort of did as he would be figuratively dead if he didn't.
Her wildcard has worked, the biggest possible risk of that whole plan of hers.
As Ami saw him running like that smiled to herself as it reminded her of why she fell in love with him, his determination and care was unmatched to others.
Ami once more turned to Taiga and released her shoulders
"Look, just wait here okay? My work here is done, but yours just began now. Goodbye Taiga, and thanks for listening to me" Kawashima said as she walked away from Taiga who wanted to reach to her and grab her or tell her something, but before she could do so she was already too far away, leaving her standing her confused as to what she meant by that.
One hour earlier.
Kawashima finally decided that she would do the right thing and save or rather repair what she broke, Takasu's and Aisaka's relationship.
But where should she start? She couldn't contact Taiga because her mother switched her sim card, and she had no way of contacting Ryuuji anymore as he began ignoring her text. Wait, that was it, maybe she could still get in contact with Taiga's mother.
Ami brought out here phone and scrolled through her contacts to locate Taiga's mother who she had named the "Devil" in her contact, which was fitting as what she did resembled more of a devil's work than human's. Plus her relentless, greediness and lack of care for other peoples feelings made her look very evil and almost devilish.
She pressed the call button on her 2008 phone and pressed it against her ear. The phone rang for a few seconds before reaching the other side.
"Hello Kawashima! What's the matter?" Aisaka's mother asked as she picked up the call. Her voice sounded so mature and kind yet she was the most childish and vile person Ami knew.
"Hello Mrs Aisaka... " Ami introduced herself kindly, though that angered Taiga's mother a bit
"I told you not to call me that Kawashima" Taiga's mother uttered sort of threateningly, ever since her divorce with Taiga's father she had problems with people referring to that name again, which reminded her non pleasant past with that man.
"I apologize, anyways i am calling because i sort need a favour from you" Ami said softly as she wanted to sound sincere and kind, but in reality she was getting sick from just hearing that vile woman's voice, if it wasn't for that favour she would never talk to her again.
"Oh, you should have said so from the start, what is it? I still owe you for helping me get my dear Taiga back home so i'll help out anyway i can" Taiga's mother gave in for once, which was uncharacteristic to her, but then again that was how Ami thought of her, she didn't knew her other than when she helped her in her evil endeavor, so maybe she wasn't all that bad, not that it mattered as she was about to screw her over, or atleast she was about to try.
"Well speaking of which, um say would it be okay if i got to meet with her one last time?" Kawashima asked once more with a soft and kind voice, hoping that her scheme would work out. A few seconds of silence passed from Taiga's mother's side, which made Ami a bit scared as to what she would reply.
"I mean, you sure you want to do that after all that happened?" She asked ami with a voice that sounded a bit concerned for her, which made Ami feel a bit bad about what was she about to do, but it had to be done.
"Yes, i want to talk to her because of what happened" Kawashima was honest this time, she wanted to right her mistakes this time. Sure it would be hard for her to
"I see, well you're in luck. We're somewhat close to her old place eating at an restaurant, if you want to meet up with her you should probably do it soon" Taiga's mother advised, Ami smiled as she got her in her web of illusions and intrics of her machinations. Truly it was what Kawashima was best at, manipulating others, atleast this time she was doing it for the good of someone rather good of herself.
"Thank you, say would it be okay to meet up somewhere in like a half an hour?" Ami once more asked kindly, bit she knew she was in control and there wasn't anything that she could do about it.
"Of course, where do you want to meet?" Taiga mother asked her back asking for the location, few seconds passed as Ami was typing something on her phone, it was a map application.
"Here's the place i'm close to, can you let us meet there?" Ami replied as she sent her the link to the place that she had in mind, it was close by to both herself and Ryuuji's place so he would make it there in a few minutes if he ran which she knew that he would.
"Okay, that isn't so far, well we'll see you in a half an hour then" Taiga's mother said as she ended the call.
Ami put away her now rather sweaty phone from calling with her for so long.
Ami deeply sighed, that was so exhausting for her to go through, but at last she had her wrapped around her finger.
But now came the harder part, she would have to get Ryuuji to come to the spot as well, she couldn't message him and she couldn't meet him head on as he still despised her for what happened, so she had to come with something else.
Then it hit her, maybe she left him a note he would see it.
Ami picked up a piece of paper she had on her table, and began writing something on that note with a pen. She picked up the said paper and put it in her coat pocket as she was still wearing her ex-school uniform.
After that she called her private driver from the time when she was doing modeling actively to pick her up. It took him quite long time as he was quite far away from her, but he got there eventually.
She greeted him, got in and asked if he could drive to Ryuuji's home before driving to the meeting spot and finally to her new home far from that place.
He nodded and started driving to Takasu's place.
Ami was at first very nervous that it wouldn't work after all that because he seemed like a wreck, would he even check that note? Well, she had no other choice but to believe in him.
The driver stopped infront of Ryuuji's home, Ami got out and started walking slowly up the stairs. Each step making her more and more anxious as she was getting closer to that apartment again, she remembered her horrible actions once more, but she had to push through to right those wrongs, so she did.
Kawashima was at the top of the stairs standing with the note now in hand, she looked at it one last time. There was written "If you want to be with Taiga again just go to this location, i'll handle the rest, please believe me on this - Kawashima" on it and underneath it there was a crudely drawn map of the part of the city they were in with a line drawn to the place where she was supposed to meet with Taiga.
She took a deep breath and pressed on to knock on Ryuuji's door. As soon as she did she left the note infront of the door and walked back to the car and drove off to the meeting place, but before she did she took a glance at his home to see him walk out of his home looking like a hammered piece of crap, but as soon as he was reading it his expression turned into shock and then to happiness as he began running for his life. Ami knew that he was going to come there no matter what happened, so with a smile on her face she sat in the back of the car as it drived to the spot where she and Taiga was supposed to meet, and well the rest is history.
Back in current time.
Taiga turned around to the noise of someone running towards her, it was none other than her boyfriend Ryuuji Takasu without breath from running for so long
Aisaka once more was so surprised to see him there, was that what she meant by her work just beginning?
She looked down not knowing how to react.
As Ryuuji caught his breath he began apologizing
"I-I'm sorry for everything Taiga" Ryuuji apologized from a bottom of his heart to Taiga who was still looking down.
Ryuuji stood there realizing that she might not ever forgive him for what he did. Taiga walked towards him, still with her face still facing down. Ryuuji braced for whatever she had in mind to do.
Instead of that though, she hugged him as tightly as she could.
Ryuuji once again looked down her face to see her meeting her gaze with her own with a face full of tears, but it weren't the sad tears anymore, they were the happy tears for finally, she was together with her chosen one again. And this time nothing would separate them.
"No i'm sorry" Taiga said as she brought her face closer to Ryuuji's who hugger her tightly back and brought his face closer to hers as well.
Both of their lips connected in a flurry of emotions. It was the sweetest kiss of their lifes, finally they were together at last despite everything that happened the past few days. if only that moment could last forever. They had to separate their lips because they both were kissing so passionately for so long that they both lost their breath.
As they separated from their kiss they look at each other with a expression that read pure joy despite the tears in the corners of both of their eyes.
They once more hugged as Taiga buried her hand into his chest as she wanted to just relax with him by her side for the first time in so long.
Ryuuji held her tightly as he caressed her beautiful almost golden locks and rubbed her head, normally she would be mad at him for treating her like a kid, but she just wanted him so didn't minded.
Ryuuji looked up for a second as he remembered that there wasn't the person who lead him here in the first place. He looked all around to see of she wasn't around anywhere, but she wasn't unfortunately.
Takasu wanted to thank her for what she done and apologize for how throwing her out after what happened, but she was nowhere to be found.
Until a dark car appeared from behind the corner, instantly Ryuuji noticed a familiar blue haired model who was also his friend despite what happened between them.
Ryuuji started waving and saying "Thank you". He knew that she probably wouldn't see him, but he still wanted to show his thanks to her as she did something not many people would do, Accept defeat and try to right your wrongs.
Taiga looked up as to who was he saying thank you to, she looked at the direction of where he was looking at only to see Ami driving off in the back of the car.
And despite everything that happened between them and what she told Taiga she still was glad that she did the right thing at the right time.
Ryuuji looked at his beautiful girlfriend once more.
"So what do we do now?" Ryuuji asked whilst getting lost in Taiga's ember eyes.
"let's go home" Taiga replied with a smile on her face as she stared back to Ryuuji's eyes.
They held each other's hands as they walked off to the sunset to be happy until the end of times.
Or atleast until life throws something at them again.
"Miss Kawashima, have you noticed that the young couple was waving at you?" The driver asked Kawashima as he looked in the rear-view mirror at her.
Kawashima nodded as she looked at his reflection in the rear-view mirror
"I know, i just don't want to look back anymore. I can be at peace now" Kawashima explained to the driver with her normal demeanor, but was she really speaking the truth? Sure she wasn't feeling guilty anymore, but was that really enough for her? She wanted to be happy too, but at the end of the day she knew that her happiness had to secondary to theirs if she wanted him to be happy. That's how life works, not everyone gets everything they want, she knew that better than anyone. Plus it was her punishment for executing her plan before.
"I see, very well. Anyways, Miss Kawashima where do you want me to go now?" The driver asked once more as he looked at her through rear view mirror. She looked back at him through the reflection of the mirror, now more confident than ever in her choice
"Drive me to my old place, we're done here" Ami said throwing her past behind her, she truly was at peace now with herself. Sure, Kawashima was sad that she had to abandon her friends and her love, but in order for everyone to heal up and for her to find happiness for herself she had to abandon her school life and them.
Kawashima took a one last look at the couple as she drove away to the beautiful sunset
Truly, it wasn't a beautiful dream. It was but a bitter reality.
The End.
Or is it?
One year later.
Ami was finishing up getting phographed for the cover of a clothes magazines.
The outfit she was wearing was very stylish, it was composed of a crimson coat, blue short skirt and a white shirt with a skinny bowtie which looked awfully similar to her old school uniform that she used to wear daily about a year ago. There, she met few of the best people on planet earth who taught her to love and most importantly to be herself. Of course she had to leave that place for her own personal reasons, but at last she was happy doing modeling for living. So in the end it wasn't so bad after all that she left.
"And we're done here" The producer shouted to the crew who all were focusing on photographing Kawashima.
She smiled as she felt good about good day at work.
Ami walked over to a chair they had on set so she could relax after work, and sat down in it. She closed her eyes and wondered off with her thoughts.
Someone came up to her, but she was so occupied with well relaxing that she didn't noticed that person coming up to her
"Hey Ami, a letter came in our mail, it has your name on it and it looks like something important, but i don't know it might be some weirdo trying to contact you. You want me to throw it away or give it to you?" A blond woman in the same age as Kawashima was disrupted her relaxation, Kawashima looked at her with a surprised face as she wasn't expecting her
"Oh hey, um i mean i can atleast take a look at it if nothing else, sure it might be some weirdo, but it might be something else" Kawashima replied with kindness in her voice, truly she was very different from the Ami Kawashima of old.
Her female coworker and most likely a friend handed the letter over to her
Ami started to read it thoroughly, her expression turned from neutral to shocked to pure joy as she smiled from ear to ear.
"Anyways, i was thinking wanna grab lunch tomorrow?" Her female coworker suggested, wanting to be friendly
"Hey, i'm sorry but i'm gonna be really busy tomorrow, you see something came up" Kawashima said as she got from her chair and touched her friends shoulder, leaving the letter on her chair
"Anyways, C'mon let's go before the producer becomes cranky again that we're hanging here out after shoots" Ami said as they started walking to the locker rooms, chatting along the way like good friends that they most likely were.
The letter that she left on that chair was a Ceremony invitation, to the Marriage of Ryuuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka.
The End (for now).
Well, this is quite the litteral end. It's been a blast lasses and gals. Sorry for being so sentimental about this, it's just this story meant a lot to me.
Anyways, if i won't have to plessure to see you again i fare you a goodbye and i hope you will have a good day. And to those who want to stick around my profile and the things i'll write then thank you and welcome aboard since this ride is going to be wild, as i'm pumped to write something even after finishing this story.
But anyways, next stop i'll be writing Metro 2033.
See you all then - Totenwelt
(Sorry but no Writers note as my writing of this chapter was so erradic)