The One That Got Away

I Remember How I Started to Develop Feeling For You...

Ever since that day, Yuki and I kept on hanging out with each other. It turns out that she plays shogi, and she plays good. She even defeated me once. By that, I made her vice president of our Student Council so we could play shogi after school.

But Yuki kept on getting letters from my fan girls. Stating that should just leave me. Or she doesn't deserve to be friends with me. Yuki didn't feel affected by those letters and didn't really care about them either.

Sometimes, she even got beaten up because of me, being her friend. One time, I was searching for her since we had student council duties. I then saw her being punched and kicked at the very same spot where we met.

I was about to give an earful of a lesson until one yelled at her.

"Why are you with Akashi?! You are only bringing trouble to that red midget! Leave him alone!"

Within mere seconds, that same person was punched in the face so hard that I could see blood dripping.

"Don't ever call him a midget! Someone like you shouldn't talk about him like that if you have a crush on him, let alone look at him! You can say all you want about me, but don't you dare say anything like that about Akashi-kun. Or so help me that I will give you a beating that is much worse than what you are giving me!" Yuki exclaimed, scaring the girls that made a couple of them take a few steps back and stood in that spot for a few minutes until one said "Whatever," and walked away with the other following.

Yuki then turned around and saw me, looking worriedly at her.

"Are you okay?" I asked, putting my hands on her shoulder gently so that she doesn't wince.

She just nodded her head and gave me the sweetest smile I ever got from her. "Of course Akashi-kun! I have never been better. Now let's go back, we have work to do and a game to play." She then started to skip her way back to class as I followed her.

I was very confused to point where I didn't know what to do. When she smiled like that to me, my heart was fluttering.

"What is this feeling?"