It's starts with a lie... The sun had set quite a few hours ago but all Nanto Yaya wished was that time would stop and end her pain. She stared at the button she had picked up by the hall this afternoon before she had rescued her best friend, Konohana Hikari, from Kenjo Kaname and what could have been one the most traumatic experience any girl can experience in her life. Kaname's words rang in her head... "...The only thing that can stop love... is love..." Those words meant so many meanings to her after hours of pondering... and each one made her think of more and different ways to claim Hikari for her own, just like Kaname had almost done. But with each new idea she wished that time would slow down. She practiced what she would say and make herself and Hikari believe. She was not sad, she was not brooding, that nothing deep was in her mind, no troubles and no love...? "Welcome back! You dropped this!" She said to her reflection on their bedroom window. But she saw that it was no good; her pitch was a little low, her face slightly contorted and her eyes looked a bit red from not blinking enough. How she just wished to the gods that her best friend would not open those doors just yet. But sadly... her wish fell on deaf ears... Their room's doorknob click and the moving brown wood door swung open causing Yaya to suddenly turn around in surprise. "I'm back!" Hikari called out happily as she rushed towards Yaya. "Welcome Back." Yaya had managed to say even though it sounded way off how she wanted it to be. But that didn't seem too matter as her friend was just too happy to notice her dilemma right now. "Yaya-chan! Thank you so much for today!" The raven haired girl stiffens in surprise as the blonde haired apple of her eye wraps her arms around her in one of the most grateful though short hugs the girl had given her. It was rare that Hikari would be affectionate towards her; it was usually her that was showing affections even though they are mostly disguised as playful teasing. "You're welcome." She said trying to sound happy or at least casual so that the girl wouldn't suspect that something was wrong. She can't let her know... despite the great desire to let her know. "Listen, Amane-senpai wants to see me again!" "Oh..." she paused, it hurt... she was defeated but she somehow manages to force herself to give even a little encouragement to her best friend. "That's great then." She told her as she forces a smile on her face. "Yeah!" The blonde girl happily nodded before opening her purse and looking for something special she had picked up her Yaya. Yaya recalls that she still had Hikari's button, it would require sewing but thought it would be best to get it off her hands as soon as possible. She hoped that without it she'd think about the incident with Kaname and her words a little lesser. "Hikari, this..." But before she could finish... Hikari holds up her handkerchief in front of her and softly says; "This is a present for you." "eh?" Yaya's eyes widen in surprise when she heard those words and she was sure that her cheeks felt even a few degrees warmer that they were before she had said it. In a blink, her eyes darted to the soft sky blue fabric that the girl was holding up. "Here." The blonde girl carefully unwrapped the thing that she had safely hidden between the folds of her handkerchief, slowly revealing a beautiful Sakura colored sea shell. "A Sakura shell... for me?" Yaya actually sounded happy when she said that just then. She looked at Hikari with happy smile that said volumes. "Unn." Hikari nodded happily still presenting the shell to her best friend. Yaya didn't know why, but she found her hands rising and holding Hikari firmly on her shoulders. "Eh?!" Hikari looks at her best friend's face in surprise. She immediately wondered what was wrong; Yaya's serious face puzzled her, despite the raven haired girl's outgoing personality... Yaya's mind was an enigma to her and she knew she'd only know what was wrong if she asked. "Yaya-chan?..." She paused, hoping that just calling the girl's name would be enough to warrant the other girl's attention. But it didn't. She blinked a few times and tried to calm her now accelerating heart beat. She decided to try to snap the girl out of her daze again. "Yaya-chan...What's wrong?" she gently and calmly asked her. "..." but the raven haired girl remain silent and continued to stare at the girl. 'should I?' she kept asking herself as she slowly closed the gap between their faces.. 'At least if she rejects me... I will hurt but it can all be over...' she desperately tired to convince herself to try. Their lips grew ever closer to each other. Hikari didn't move; the surprise, confusion and worry held her in her place aside from Yaya's tight hold. 'At least this way, you won't hate yourself for trying! So what if you loose her friendship? The two of you will eventually part anyway... someday...' "Ah!" a low and soft sound of a kiss echoed in the room. Hikari's eyes grew wide in surprise as Yaya had kissed her forehead. 'I can't do it...' she told herself as she continued to softly kiss the blonde girl's forehead. She slowly moves her hands around Hikari and wraps her in the warmest hug she could give at the moment. 'I don't think I can take knowing that she'll hate me for that. I don't think even my best friend status will grant me some pardon for it.' 'I'm sorry, me... I'm sorry.' It took Hikari a moment to realize what Yaya was doing; she then decides to return the raven haired girl's warm hug. It was rare that Yaya showed some of her real feelings to her or at least to her knowledge. 'This is enough...' she told herself... there was no desperation, just surrender... But it had been minutes since Yaya had last moved and Hikari grew a little worried for her friend; "Yaya-chan? Are you okay?" 'I'll have to be.' She told herself and will the strength to say her first lie... "Yes... I'm fine."
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