It was valentines day, you entered your class humming an upbeat song. You were greeted by your few fellow classmates and you returned their energy. They were all so excited afterall it was Valentines.
"Hey Kitten~" Hanma greeted in his playful tone as you sat next to him, he had started calling you that for some reason. You didn't mind because you two had gotten closer, although sometimes Hanma would skip school to beat up a deliquents on a daily basis his academics never faltered. It honestly impressed you, sometimes you would actually skip school with him.
"Shuji, wasn't expecting to see you here today" you smiled. You had thought he would skip school today, especially today. "Huh? Why would I?" He quirked up an eyebrow staying his usual playful self."You know, with all the boring confessions and people laughing" you said. "Come on I'm not all that bad~" he said shoving his hands into his pockets as he leaned back on his chair.
"Yeah... and since you're here I've been meaning to give you this" you took out a nice wrapped small box from your bag, it had a pink bow tie on it. Everyone turned to you guy's surprised, he was just as baffled as everyone else.
He opened the gift to find the a Ying bracelet, the yang was missing from it. "Where's the other half?" He asked, you showed him your wrist, the other half was nicely worn on your wrist. "I have the other half. Matching bracelet I got them during Christmas but never had the perfect time to give the other half to you."
'It's a bit corny' He thought staring at you but when he saw how excited you were about them he felt bad for thinking that. He put it on his wrist, "so we'll be each other's half?"
"Yeah, you can think of it that way."
"Sounds like you're asking for my hand in marriage Y/n" he teased making you realize he was right, but you had grown accustomed to his constant teasing.You slapped his back playfully "oh please I'm way too young to start thinking about marriage."
It was only lunch time and you had already had twenty confessions plus chocolate from different people, you were honestly happy and a lot of love notes in your desk."You're pretty popular..." Hanma yawned standing up ready to bounce. "I'm done here" he was about to leave when you grabbed his hand.
"Wait for me... too many confessions are making me all whoozy" you said grabbing your stuff, you took half of the chocolates you got and left some since there wasn't enough space in your bag.
You were delighted when Hanma took you out to the arcade to play games, you were having so much fun with him.
"Shuji, shut up" you grumbled while playing with the claw machine, he was constantly muttering about something to keep you distracted. You manuavered the claw machine to grab a gacha ball, you were about to pick it up and Hanma blew air into your ear making you all flustered and drop it.
"Dude! That's cheating" you whined, covering your ears moving away from the raven haired boy and he only gave you an amused smile. "Come on we both know you wouldn't be able to get it" he stuck out his tongue at you.
"Huh? Don't just talk like that of course I was going to get it. I play guitar and piano so my hands are pretty good at this type of stuff" you showed him your hands, he studied them for a bit. Your hands were perfectly fine. Most guitarists had a few cuts on their hands or rough fingers but yours were perfect fine.
"Anyway we should really get going," He said turning around but you didn't move you only crossed your hands over your chest with pouted lips, he cocked up his head confused. "Please don't tell me you're about to throw a tantrum" he sighed as he spun around to face you.
You averted eye contact, glaring at the claw machine hoping he would get the signal. You really wanted to get the Pikachu plushie and you weren't living without it but you also didn't have money to play.
"Whatever I'm going" he said, marching away from you but you grabbed his hands, he was getting annoyed at how you were acting. "Shuji...please it's valentines day be nice to me and get me that" you pointed to the Pikachu in the claw machine.
He groaned. He went back to the claw machine sliding a coin inside before playing the game while you admired his hands as he played, the way he was manuavering the joystick was magical. He didn't show any signs of struggle and he actually won it, he shoved it your hands.
"Now let's go" his voice was tired and demanding, you didn't say anything and just followed behind you had already annoyed him you didn't want to cross the line so you stayed quiet. He stopped at the vending machine inside the acarde by the door to get himself a drink.
"Wanna see something cool?" You asked flashing him a cheeky smile that made him feel weird inside he had never felt that before. He nodded his head you pushed him aside and started pressing the buttons on the vending machine and seconds all the drinks fell out.
Hanma's mouth dropped and the clerk noticed and started shouting profanities at you two, you grabbed two drinks before running away with him. He let himself be pulled by you.
You guys made it far, laughing from the thrill of almost getting caught. You had managed to lose the store manager. "That was so fun" you were still holding his hand while hiding behind a building.
Hanma was quiet just staring at with an unreadable expression on his face, you stopped laughing feeling a bit uncomfortable from his gaze. He raised up his hand and you closed your eyes expecting something harsh.
He smiled at how adorable you were, he flicked your forehead and you grabbed your forehead opening your eyes. "Aww what was that for?" You whined playfully.
"That was for making me run and I didn't even have time to grab the drink I wanted" he replied sighing as you handed him a drink. "Sorry" you apologized, "but you gotta admit that was fun."
"It was" He admitted opening the can you handed him, he took a sip and was pleased with the flavors hitting his tongue. "But now the fun is over. Let's get you back home."
You nodded your head getting upset long with him. You started making your way back home.
While you walking back home when you saw two teenagers getting kicked out of a liquor store for being underage. You two paid no mind to it, he dropped you five neighborhoods away from home and bid his farewell.
When you arrived at your gate you saw Mitsuya holding a box in his hands, it was beautifully decorated. His eyes narrowed on the bright yellow plushie in your hands. He couldn't help but wonder who gave that to you. "Oh my are those for me?" You beamed standing infront of him. "How long you been waiting here?"
"About ten minutes.... yeah these are for you, I just thought that since we were friends it was natural" you grabbed the box from his hands. "Thank you very much Mitsu-chan. I'll be sure to enjoy them, sadly i have nothing to give you"
He smiled at how kind you were, he really didn't want anything in return he just wanted to see you happy because in his eyes you were one of his little sisters. "That's okay seeing you happy is enough" he hadn't realized he had said that outloud.
"You know Mitsu-chan you're gonna become a smooth talker" you said. You guys stayed there talking for a while before he left.
The rest of the night was going normally, your parents went out to a love hotel. Ai had a date with her boyfriend apparently she had started dating someone so it was just you home alone.
The doorbell rang and you opened the door to find Yukio standing outside. "You have no sense of security, you check who it is before opening the door" you were surprised to see him after such a long time, he had dark circles around his eyes that weren't noticeable and the first thing he had to do was give you a lecture.
"You could get robbed or even worse killed" he walked into your house welcoming himself in, you closed the door confused on why he was acting like he hadn't ghosted you for a month.
"Where have you been?" You asked sitting down across from him.
"I visited the Philippines with my mom, I wasn't allowed to have any screen time. I returned last week but I was so exhausted" he explained calmly.
"That must've been fun! Wait here i got you something" you ran into your room before returning with the cute white fox plushie you had gotten for Yukio. "So what you think?"
"It's okay.... girlish but okay" he commented and you shoved it in his hands. "I got it just for you! It was supposed to be a Christmas gift though" you sighed.
"I like it." He said. You guys started talking about his vacation, he had heard a lot of fun based on the stories he had told you about his adventure with Fuyumi. You had missed spending time with him but something was wrong.
You couldn't explain it but something didn't feel right it was like all of this was the calme before the storm. "What's wrong?" Yukio asked noticing how spaced out you had become.
"It's probably nothing" you replied pushing down your thoughts, nothing could possibly go wrong you had the ability to travel back a day so Shinichiro couldn't possibly die.
'But something still feels wrong.'
After he left you told Emma about everything that had happened today, from the love letters to Yukio's return and she was so excited for you. She told you about how boys were afraid to approach because of Mikey but she didn't mind because she didn't like them anyway.
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You yawned, you were heading back home late at night after a study session at Fuyumi's house. She had offered to walk you home but you humbly declined saying you need to gather your thoughts.
On your way there you bump into a family black haired boy and you were. "Hanemiya-san, what are you doing out so late?" You increased your speed to catch up to him.
"Oh I was with Mikey and the others" he said, trying to walk faster away from you but you kept up your pace so he wouldn't escape you. You knew he hated you but you wanted to rub it in his face that no matter what he did he couldn't get rid of you.
"That must've been fun!" You raised up your voice because you knew he hated how loud you could be. "I just finished studying at Fuyumi's place! If you ever need help with school I'll be free to help you."
He walked faster. So did you. You saw a bunch of guys kicking a box while cackling like a bunch of morons. At first you didn't pay any mind to it, instead you annoyed Hanemiya, "Hanemiya you're so funny."
Rough!
You paused as your eyes returned back to the boys kicking the box, you saw a cute puppy jump out of the box barking at them. One of the guys kicked the defenseless puppy against the wall injuring it greatly. Without think you yelled at them.
"Oi! Stop that!" They all stopped to look at you annoyed that you had stopped their fun. You ran towards the puppy kneeling down next to it, "Y/n I don't think that's a great idea" Hanemiya warned slightly scared of the glares they were receiving from the guys.
"HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??"
"STUPID BITCH! GET AWAY FROM HERE BEFORE WE MAKE YOU REGRET IT"
"ISN'T IT PAST YOUR BED TIME"
You ignored them, trying to grab the puppy but it harshly bit your hand telling you to stay away from it, you didn't flinch instead you used your other hand to gently carrass its back. It leaned into your touch, snuggling against your palm ceasing its crying.
One of the delinquents grabbed your shoulder, applying a lot of pressure on it. He attempted to push you away but you didn't barge only ignoring him. "Hey you stupid girl!" He didn't say more when he was cut off by Hanemiya who punched him in the gut.
The other two got alerted and started throwing hands. Hanemiyawas starting to struggle against the three while you were comforting the animal. After it let it's guard down you picked it up letting it lay on your chest, you were carrying it like a baby.
"Hanemiya-san look it's so cute!" You squealed, while Hanemiya was getting the shit beaten out of him, he looked your direction but was immediately punched on the face causing him to fall on the ground. "Holy shit do you need help?"
One of the delinquents kicked him square in the jaw. "YES!!" He shouted annoyed by your question, the guy was about to kick him again but Hanemiya managed to grab his foot. You stuck out your tongue at him.
"Say please!" You wanted him to beg for your help. He didn't know you could fight but he was very desperate he was willing to believe anything. He stayed silent as the other two beat him.
He didn't beg but the fight was looking really bad for him. Those guys were stronger than any average day punk even you could tell they were definitely stronger than Kuragari and his lackeys.
"PLEASE HELP" he begged. He thought you were going to run and get help from someone but he was shocked to see you jump over him planting your feet onto the leaders face while holding the puppy. Time seemed to move in slow motion and for the first time he noticed how pretty you were, it was like a magic spell had been cast on him in that moment. Why did he hate you again?
He was brought back to reality when the leader roughly hit the back of his head and he instantly passed out, he would probably have a concussion from that. You put your feet on the passed out man's chest, standing on top of him. "I suggest you leave before I break you guy's skulls as well" you smiled sweetly at them.
The other two screamed as they started fleeing away from the scene fear written on their faces it was like they had seen death staring at them in the face.
You got off the guys body gently stroking the cute puppy's fair, all the fear from its beady chocolate brown eyes had vanished but it was still wounded on the leg. "We better call him an ambulance" you spoke referring to the knocked scum beneath you.
Hanemiya got up from the ground wiping away blood from his lips. That kicked looked so familiar, it was the same one that Mikey sometimes used. He was impressed and shocked at how you were able to do such a complicated kick, he underestimated your strength.
"Yeah you're right" he fished in the scums pocket for his phone before calling for him an ambulance. After you made sure it would come you two walked away leaving him alone in the street.
The puppy had fallen asleep in your hands, it was so cute. 'Poor thing, I wonder what kind of heartless person would leave such a cute being in the streets to die. I hope Kyoko won't mind me bringing it back home.'
"What do you plan to do for the puppy?" He asked breaking the silence, you smiled at him. This was the first he had ever initiated a conversation with you before.
"I'll ask mom to let him stay with us till I can find him a stable home" you answered before sighing. You couldn't understand why people were so cruel, the world was full of terrible people you knew that part like that motherfucker Kisaki and it sometimes slipped your mind. Today you were reminded again.
"Don't you sometimes feel like there is no meaning to life" you asked, your eyes devoid of any emotion, Hanemiya was surprised by your question and instead chose to listen to what you had to say but you kept quiet.
"Arghh nothing," you sighed deciding to change the topic. "Woah Hanemiya who knew we lived in the same neighborhood. We could always walk back home together you know."
This time it was his turn to keep quiet. The word home... what did it mean? He didn't understand. He could never understand, no one could make him understand.