Next scene : On the way home...
(Ukiyo and Kaoru are both silent inside the train.)
Kaoru :(thinking about what happened earlier) ... (whispers to herself) I still can't believe it... Iguchi Yuuya... likes... ... (shakes her head) What am I thinking? Muri, muri!
Ukiyo : (glances at her)
Kaoru : (notices him) What are you looking at?
Ukiyo : Who else. You're acting weird.
Kaoru : I'm not acting weird!
Ukiyo : Sure you are. Ever since we left GZM.
Kaoru : ...chigau. [You're wrong.]
Ukiyo : What did Yuuya discuss with you?
Kaoru : (changes expression) ... nothing much.
Ukiyo : Really?
Kaoru : Just thanked me for the photos...
Ukiyo : Ah... is that it?
Kaoru : (nods nervously)
Ukiyo : ... he had to go all the way to GZ to just tell you something like that...what a guy.
Kaoru : ...err... I was thinking the same. (looks away)
(After getting off the train. Ukiyo and Kaoru walks for a while. Kaoru's mind is still floating.)
Ukiyo : You sure Yuuya didn't do something weird to you?
Kaoru : (shakes her head) Chigau.
Ukiyo : You're really acting strange.
Kaoru : (becomes tensed and fans herself with her hand) No. Just really exhausted. I've got a lot in mind.
Ukiyo : ... wait here.
Kaoru : Huh?
(Ukiyo goes inside a nearby convenient store and comes back in a few minutes.)
Kaoru : What did you do?
Ukiyo : Kore. (gives her a popsicle ice cream)
Kaoru :(shocked) For me?
Ukiyo : I don't really know what's going on... but you really seem troubled. So,here... cool down.
Kaoru : ...uh... arigatou. (accepts it) (notices the bead bracelet Ukiyo was wearing) That bracelet-...
Ukiyo : What?(notices) Ah... this? (raises his hand)
Kaoru : ...
Ukiyo : (smiles)Did you forget already? It was you who gave me this.
Narrator : I knew that. I remembered it clearly until now that I was the one who gave it to him... on his birthday.
On the same day, I gave him a compliment for his work.
>flashback<
(Their group had a presentation in front of a panel and it went smoothly. After the presentation...)

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FanfictionKaoru's first love was a guy named Ukiyo during her college days. Even though they were totally opposite and often mess around with each other, Kaoru had always believed he was a good guy but couldn't admit her feelings until their ways separated af...