Falling For You

Changing

The early evening sky shone gently around the Beigoma Academy building. A mixture of blues and orange mingled across the sky just above the school.

Several bladers, who were on the school's rooftop, watched the sky with soft smiles.

No words were exchanged as one by one the group of bladers disbanded to go do their own thing. Only two bladers remained by the time a certain Roktavor blader left.

With the rest of the team gone, Valt sighed, biting his lower lip.

Being on the school's roof, alone with Shu, staring up at the sky, felt a little embarrassing.

Sure the two had done this before - staring at the sky together - but this time felt different some how.

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that back then Valt didn't have any special feelings towards the scarlet eyed male.

Considering the fact that the bluenette had just discovered new arising feelings for the scarlet eyed make - it could be true.

Back when the two were younger Valt never felt his heart go a flutter when he was with Shu. Nor did he think such caring and loving thoughts of said friend.

No, everything had just become recent.

These feelings were all new and slowly blooming. Day by day they had been growing without Valt even realizing it until, one day when he caught himself thinking of Shu after running into a couple outside his home.

At first the thought of liking his best friend brought the bluenette to his knees, panic stricken. He couldn't believe for a second that he actually liked his best friend romantically.

The first thoughts that coursed through his mind were very practical ones, for like a second! Then they went a little haywire...

There's no way I can like him that way! We're best friends and best friends don't do anything like- WE'RE BOTH GUYS! HE'S GOING TO THINK I'M CRAZY!!! But then again he's really understanding... But what would everyone else say if I told them how I felt about Shu?! WHAT IF EVERYONE MAKES FUN OF ME AND ABANDONS ME AS A FRIEND!!!

All sorts of questioning thoughts coursed through the Valtryek blader for days until he came to the conclusion of bottling up his feelings.

This action worked for a good week until he let out some thoughts to Daigo and Rantaro during after school training.

The thoughts were harmless, just Valt going on about wanting to grow stronger as a blader like Shu. But the thoughts eventually became more excessive as the bluenette's feelings grew.

Just yesterday he had spent an hour spitting out irrelevant facts about the Spryzen blader.

To think that he could spend such a lengthy amount of time talking about his best friend on the same rooftop he had been on just the day before.

Glancing over to Shu, Valt smiled softly. He knew all these feelings were probably just one-sided and that he could never truly be with the scarlet eyed male in a loving relationship. That this was probably just a phase and would vanish one morning when he'd least expect it.

But knowing that these feelings were real at the moment and true, he would cherish these feelings and allow them to blossom for as long as they could.

Obviously he'd keep the feelings to himself, but that doesn't mean he couldn't throw out little hints every now and then of his true feelings for Shu, right?

If he couldn't speak his feelings then the next best thing was to show his feelings at every opportunity he got.

"Valt?" Shu questioned. The scarlet eyed male had been observing his friend for several minutes.