I need you (Saioma) *Finished*

-Chapter Seven-

        I woke up from my dream of the past, and heard Shuichi calling my name. I opened my eyes to see him standing over me with a concerned look on his face. I went to wipe the sleep from my eyes when I noticed my entire face was soaked. Shit, when I cried in my dream, I really cried. Soon he spoke up, "Kokichi, you were crying in you sleep. You kept apologizing to me for some reason too. Did you have a nightmare?". The only way I could easily get out of this would be to tell him the truth.

"I'm okay Saihara-chan, I just had a bit of a dream about our first day here. I kinda miss it a bit." I explained casually as I began to sit up.

"But that doesn't explain why you were apologizing to me" Shuichi interjected.

"I thought I wasted your day on helping me move in back then. It upset me in the dream." I lied.

"You didn't waste my day back then, it was my choice. And it was probably one of the best choices of my life. Don't be too bent up about it." He smiled back towards me. Once he said that I felt like a knife stabbed me in the heart. I was absolutely honored by his kindness and gratitude of our friendship, but he was doing it because he felt bad over a lie that I told him. Still, I couldn't help, but smile towards him in return. Before I got out of bed, I looked towards my clock to see that it was only 9:00. I got up soon after and went to shower after teasing Shuichi for being up so early. Once I reached the bathroom, I closed the door behind me and began to undress. I turned on the water and stepped in the shower. I took this time to think to myself as i washed my body. One of the main things on my mind was why did I think of that day out of nowhere. Why? Why? Why? I asked myself. A few things stuck out that could be the reasons why. The biggest one would have to be that I felt my feelings for Shuichi growing stronger and stronger everyday. It was even stronger now that he was staying over all the time. All I want is to be with him, so it's my mind showing me why I love him to get me to do something about these feelings. I now switched to washing my hair as I continued my thinking. There was another slight reason why I think I had that dream. And it because I miss being friends with Maki. She really cared about me and I cared about her, now I pretend to hate her at school and she literally despises me. It was all my stupid school persona's fault too. God I'm so stupid for having that in the first place, but it's too late to change it now. I shook myself out of my thoughts and quickly shut off the water. I grabbed my towel and left to grab clothes from my room. Once I opened the bathroom door, I heard music along with Shuichi's voice sing along with the song. I smiled ear to ear and continued to grab my clothes and went back to get changed. Today I decided to wear purple jeans with a cropped black shirt and my famous scarf in my back pocket with a chain clipped to my jeans. I left the bathroom once I was completely dressed.

        As soon as I left the bathroom and walked towards the kitchen, Shuichi's singing was now louder and he seemed to be making some kind of food. Once he saw me he seemed to be really excited. "I made us breakfast sandwiches!" He yelled. I smiled back in response and sat at the table. My kitchen table was now cleaned and set neatly with a breakfast sandwich on two placemats at two chairs. Shortly after I took my seat, Shuichi joined me at the table and we began eating. I thanked him for everything after we had finished them all up. Once we had finished I grabbed both of our plates and rushed to clean them so Shu wouldn't feel obligated to himself. Before he could interject, I was already finished all my cleaning. This caused major pouring from the blue haired boy. Although he was joking, he did look really cute and I just had to make fun of him. However before I had the chance to speak, my phone began to ring.

       Shuichi lifted my phone from the table to reveal a private caller was trying to get in contact with me. Regardless, I still took the phone and picked up right away. Before I could even speak again, all I heard was yelling from the other line; "BOSSSSS, BENNY ISNT EATINF BREAKFAST WITH THE REST OF US AT THE DICE HOUSE!". It was DICE, my organization, which in reality was only ten people, but still the closest I have to a family. I rolled my eyes and finally responded.  "Victor, it's okay he doesn't always have to eat with you guys. But I gotta go, bossman has some plans today. Before I go, you tell Benny that if he isn't being nice he can't go on the next hit with us."  I kindly responded back.

  "Thanks Boss, I will! And have fun today. We love and really miss you! Byeeeee!" Victor yelled before hanging up. I slowly smiled to myself as slipped my phone into my pocket. A confused Shuichi met my eyes. It was then I decided to explain the call and he understood well. I'm really glad he understood too, considering he was the only one to know that there's only ten people in DICE. That just proves how much I like him too. Out of nowhere Shuichi spoke up that we would be going out of campus for the day to explore the town and I was pleasantly surprised. Just as I was putting my shoes on so we could leave, Saihara ran to my room and came back with my old NASA varsity jacket. He told me to put it on before we left, and right after I did, we were on our way. The walk out of campus wasn't too long, this was probably considering the amount of times I've had to run it before just to make it to class. After some light conversation, while we walked under the cherry blossom trees, we were finally out of campus and in the main city. At this point it was 11:00 and we had time to waste together. We spent two hours just getting to the main shopping center of our town, but it was worth it. Out of the corner of my eyes I see a cute little ramen place a short block away. Shuichi stared at the place in awe and dragged me over into the little restaurant.

     Once we got in the restaurant, we were seated immediately and it was for one reason only. Turns out Shuichi had made reservations for us at this place last night once I passed out. I couldn't help, but smile the whole time. I was really grateful for him. Soon we had eaten enough ramen to feed 4 people. And it was amazing. The whole time we laughed and ate, and talked about everything going on with life and Shu's detective work. Soon the bill came and Shu tried snatching it up, however I grabbed it up first and pulled out my wallet. The bill was only about 40$ and to me, I could handle it. I quickly handed my card to the waiter and insisted that Shuichi just paid the tip. He said fine and went to head to the bathroom. After a few minutes, he returned with a huge smile on his face. Once he had sat down he handed me my card and placed the tip on the table. While he handed me mine back, I grabbed the receipt too, only to see that my card wasn't even charged, but Shuichi's was. "Saiharaaaa-channn, whyyy are you being so kind to me? I just wanted to return all your good deeds! Paying for the bill was supposed to be a thank youuu." I whined towards him. He silently giggle to himself and pulled me up to leave.

"Ouma, it's okay, you can spend your money on shopping. This is no problem to me." He responded. I complied and we went out to start shopping. The whole time we wondered aimlessly exploring random shops, and looking at cute little trinkets. I quickly ran into a little shop and purchased a little Sherlock Holmes figure and a little silver ring with small pair of wings on it. This was all for Shuichi, I planned to give it to him tomorrow, so I made sure he saw nothing. After exploring a few more places, we decided it was time to head back home, so we began our hike. Once we finally arrived, we were both too tired to eat or do anything. I carefully slipped Shu's stuff into my top drawer, switched into Pjs and slipped into bed. By the time I had hopped in there, Shuichi was already asleep. Before I had passed out myself, I recounted all of today and smiled to my hearts content. Soon, my thoughts and fantasies of the detective next to lulled me to sleep.

    Thank you for today Shuichi, I'll make it up to you I swear. You're gonna love me someday.