Partners in Crime (Ayano x Budo)

Martial Arts Club Disbandment?

Budo clenched his fist. Mina Rei was deep into the kiss. Budo almost vomited at the thought of someone else's lips on his other than Ayano's. He aggresively leaned his head backwards separating their kiss, and spitting into her eye.

Shockingly, instead of being mad, Mina Rei became joyful. She took the remaining spit and quickly put it in an empty jar that was on a table. She looked at her watch.

"Well it looks like it's time for me to go to school, but before that-" Mina Rei suddenly stopped her sentence to open a drawer and slid out a roll of duct tape.

"Wait- NOO-" Mina aggressively slapped the tape onto his mouth and tied a piece of fabric over it.

"That should stop you" She grinned.

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Ayano arrived at school replacing her outdoor shoes to her indoor ones, half expecting for the buff Martial Arts leader to unsuspectingly scare her, she then saw Mina Rei run towards the headmasters office while panting heavily. Ayano could tell she was acting frightened.

Ayano waited, prepared for a deep, heroic voice to comfort her ears or his comforting fingers embracing her. But he never appeared. Ayano checked the time.

This was the time he usually came to school Ayano thought. Then suddenly she heard the headmaster announce something over the speakers.

"Students, please come to the assembly area, immediately" the Headmaster spoke in a saddened tone.

Ayano and a few other students immediately ran to the assembly area where the drama club students usually practiced in. Most knew that it was a memorial but for who?

Ayano arrived and looked at the stage, she could see a portrait but it was blurred as she sat at the very back corner. She could hear many students crying, sniffing and yell in shock and agony.The Headmaster instructed the students to sit down, Ayano was concerned they found the body of Osana but she kept her calm. Sitting down didn't help her vision, but she could see it more clearly. She could distinctly see someone with dark hair, she couldn't tell if it was messy or neat.

"Is that a white headband around the forehe-" Ayano said out loud and her heart suddenly dropped as soon as the headmaster spoke.

"Today we hold a memorial for a great student, and an even greater friend. A lover of the martial arts and the leader of his own club, Budo Masuta"

Ayano felt her throat clog up, and something forming in her eye, she couldn't speak or breathe. Is this what sadness felt like?

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She let out a tear, gulp and a weird agonising sound which made people look at her with saddened expressions.

"His poor girlfriend"
"I wonder what his Ayano is feeling right now"
"She must feel so hurt and lost now"

Ayano heard those faint whisperings which made her let out a quiet but saddened scream followed by attempts of trying not to breathe loudly. The headmaster looked at her direction with a saddened expression.

"My condolences to his loved ones, especially the ones present with us today, a saddened lover."

Ayano tried to say something but her throat got even more clogged.

"How did this happen?" "Why wasn't I there for him?" "When did this happen" "I wish I could have said my final goodbyes" "where did this happen?" And suddenly "what will Senpai think of me? I have caused such an outburst, even the headmaster thinks of me as Budo's girlfriend"

"Unfortunately, since the leader of the Martial Arts Club has passed, his beloved club will have to disband. To honour his legacy, the club room will be left as it is"

Ayano stood up.

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Budo sat there, hopeless. His felt his strength let go of him, he felt his limbs weaken and his muscles shrink. All he could think about was how he was going to have to live with Mina Rei for the rest of his life, when suddenly the thought of Ayano kept flashing in his mind which made him grab his strength back. He broke the rope around his wrists apart and slipped his feet away from the ropes keeping them down.

He then heard someone running down the steps of the basement, but he was not afraid, he took the chair as a defence mechanism. But to his surprise it was neither Mina or her parents but it was-

"Ayano?" Budo questioned.

He then centred his vision to the beauty standing in front of him.

"AYANO!" Budo cheerfully exclaimed

Ayano let her arms out gesturing for him to give her a hug. Then she noticed him limping towards her and started noticing the bruises all over his body and the blood and cuts on his forehead where his band once stood.

Ayano quickly took action and carried Budo in her arms.

"I-it's my turn" Ayano said while shaking. Budo's muscles weighed too much causing her to weaken.

Budo stared into her eyes. "What did I miss?" He chuckled while crossing his arms.

"Well the whole school thinks your dead" Ayano shrugged.

"what?! What about the club, are they going to demolish it?!" Budo exclaimed

"The headmaster did say he was going to disband the club " Ayano said.

Ayano and Budo arrived at the school and went into the backstage of the stage where the drama club student's costumes were. They were prepared to announce that Budo was not dead after all.

"A fellow student here suspects the killer to be none other than the "saddened lover" Ayano Aishi"

The students gasped.

"Now the-" the headmaster spoke but was interrupted.

"I am not dead!" Budo shouted as he emerged from behind the curtains.

"And my lover *winks* certainly did not harm me in any way" Budo shouted across the auditorium. Followed by a number of gasps and hoorays.
As Ayano suddenly blushed.

The headmaster glared at Mina Rei who was sitting at the front. Gesturing her to come forward.

"You are expelled, for falsely accusing an innocent student of murder and even falsely announcing a very much alive but hurt student" The headmaster quietly whispered to Mina.