Amajiki x Reader: Blossoming Romance

Final Chapter: Blood Red

It was exactly as you had feared; she has poisoned Tamaki against you, just like before, and he couldn't even see it happening! 'How could he let her do that?!'  You wondered helplessly, clutching onto your pillow tightly. You tried to find his love at the bottom of a tub of chocolate ice cream, to no avail. 'You should know I wouldn't lie to you, Tamaki! I thought you knew me better than that...'  You were still shaking with anger, bitterness and wretched jealousy towards Izabel and her beguiling ways filling you to the brim. You knew the tears would come soon.

'Maybe I should just... give up on him...'

You could only recall one other time that you had fought with Tamaki, and it wasn't really much of a fight. One day after your literature and speech class, where Amajiki had just given a presentation, you made an offhanded joke without thinking.

"Oh my gosh, Tamaki! I just realized how you could be great in front of crowds!" When he inquired out of curiosity, you replied with a tactless, "All you have to do is join a heavy metal band. Then all you'd have to do on stage is scream."

Your thoughtless quip was not meant to be hurtful, or even to make light of his suffering, but it seemed that it had unintentionally accomplished both. Tamaki didn't talk to you for days and you thought your world had ended. But Mirio and Nejire managed to bring him around and you felt terrible about it for weeks after he had already forgiven you.

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Amajiki let out a frustrated huff behind the door you just slammed shut. It was almost instantaneous that his fuming frame of mind morphed into a sickening mixture of anxiety and guilt. He hated you being mad at him. In fact, at this particular juncture he couldn't think of anything he hated more.

No matter how he fought or tried to deny it, you were eclipsing the sun of his heart, becoming the only source of his focus. His actions began to reflect yours like a mirror. When you were sad he was miserable, but when your confidence blazed bright he felt like he was capable of anything, even flight. That may already be a facet of his quirk, but that's beside the point; it was a different kind of flying.

Tamaki sighed as the memories of that night returned to him once more. He recalled how Izabel perfectly manipulated the situation- manipulated him- only to quickly cast him aside shortly after Homecoming. She stopped speaking to him as well, but back then he assumed it was because he was too embarrassing to be around. He couldn't blame her for avoiding the most hated person at the school. But he always knew deep down that she definitely was not innocent in all of that. Tonight he had flown off the handle a bit, which he rarely does, but something about you always managed to elicit strong emotional reactions from him. He wanted to talk to you... but he was afraid now that you wouldn't want to talk to him.

'I at least... have to try...'

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To your immense surprise, it was when you had emotionally reached rock bottom that there was a knock on your door. Tamaki was beside himself with anxiety. 'Oh gosh, what do I say?!'  He wrung his hands. 'I should just apologize and beg for forgiveness... We're friends. And F/N is kind. So kind...'  He bit his lip as his neurotic side began to take hold. '...But what if she sends me away? What if she says she never wants to see me again?!'  His panic approached terminal velocity as he heard footsteps on the other side of the door. 'Oh no! I didn't come up with anything to say!'  The footsteps were nearer now. 'If I run right now, she'll never know it was me!'

CLICK

'I CAN'T DO THIS!'  Amajiki gulped as the latch unhinged and the porch light flickered on. Was it a light from heaven? From hell? Tamaki didn't know; but either way, the one who had come to claim his soul had arrived. The door swung open.