Title: Farewell my love

By Uchiha-chan aka. Hayashi11

When Shizuru first heard what Natsuki asked for, she was very much shocked and amazed. Seriously, who would have thought the ice princess of Fuuka, badass biker chick and the anti-traditionalist would do something so traditional.

Collecting buttons from your sempai is a high school tradition that's stilled practiced today. Girls would ask the one she loves for the second button of their shirt or blouse as it's the button closest to the heart of the wearer and said to contain all the emotions from the three years of attendance at school. Some see it as a way of confession while for others; it's a symbolic gesture for the receiver to remember the wearer even after they have separated after graduation.

"I'm sorry?"

Unsure if her hearing had just failed her, Shizuru asked.

"Your second button on your blouse…"

Natsuki pointed to Shizuru's chest with flushed cheeks.

"Natsuki? Is that really you?"

Shizuru asked just incase she was dreaming one of those enjoyable dreams again. 'My Natsuki would never do something so cute!' She gushed to herself.

"I never would have thought Natsuki would be so traditionally romantic.."

"No! … I'm not ro-romantic. I.. I just don't want…. Mai warned me about this…"

Shizuru was amused to the point of giggling. She could hear a distant click of a phone camera and some rustling of dried leaves being crunched under a shoe.

'Must be Harada-san…' She secretly reminded herself to get some pictures from the girl later. 'This would be memorable...'

"I just want your button…before some fangirl sets her paws on it…"

Natsuki grumbled with an alarming shade of red and stared at the ground some meters behind Shizuru. 'Ohhhh Someone is jealous..' Shizuru made a low whistle in her mind.

"But Natsuki is the only girl I allow to set her paws on…"

Shizuru smiled gently and removed the red necktie from her uniform.

"If you want it, come get it." The graduating Kaicho-sama lured her puppy closer towards her.

Natsuki didn't know where to put her hands. Unsure of what to do, she staggered forward with a whole new shade of redness, her fingers fumbled with the jacket buttons. The ever sneaky Kaicho circled her arms around the younger girl who was dead focused in undoing her jacket.

"Umm… Natsuki.." Shizuru let out a breathless sigh just to trigger some reaction from her favorite pup.

"Shi-Shizuru! Don't make weird noises. It sounds so wrong!" Finally, Natsuki won the battle against the stiff jacket button and moved on to her next conquest. On the first two tries, the button simply won't budge, so she moved closer and peered at the little object that's causing her distress.

"B-but.. Natsuki is being so passionate…"

"Passionate in taking your button! Nothing more!"

Natsuki was quick to save her reputation, but Shizuru was smarter.

"N-Natsuki! Use your teeth!"

Shizuru urged the ice princess. Natsuki was just about to take the bait when suddenly she lifted her right leg and whipped sharp looking object hidden at her ankle under her sock.

"A nail file? Natsuki want's to play dangerously?"

"No! And don't even ask where I got it."

Within seconds, the button dropped nicely into her hand after she cut the thread off.

"Yatta!"

She held her trophy in the air and with a silly grin.

"Thank you for your confession Natsuki…"

The older teen kissed the younger on the cheek and whispered.

"What?! What confession?"

"…You don't know what you just did?"

"I took your button.."

"….and?"

"And?"

Shizuru felt like laughing and crying at the same time. Natsuki was totally clueless about the meaning of her actions.

"Tokiha-san didn't tell you the meaning of this did her?"

Then, things clicked in her head and started to make sense.

"TO-KI-HA-MAI!!"

The roar of Fuuka's strongest biker girl echoed through the forest.

Omake

(Somewhere in another part of Fuuka Academy)

Kanzaki Reito was left standing with a buttonless shirt. Cold wind whipped past his body, sending him chills. He recalled moments ago where a mob of fan girls (and a few boys) mobbed him, stripping his black jacket's button. The second wave of attack left him jacketless and the third left him as he was at the moment.

"I don't think I can survive my way to the dorm…"

Omake 2:

The night before the graduation, in the female dorm of Fuuka Gakuen, Shizuru ironed her uniform one last time. She sighed as she held her uniform up before her. As if remembering something, she quickly took out her sewing kit from the bottom drawer and starts to sew the buttons of her blouse while giggling madly.

"Fufufu… This should be fun."

End words:

Hurraz! This is the fastest story I've ever written. Having recently graduated, I regretted that I didn't have a chance to sing Aogeba Totoshi at my graduation ceremony. I want to say a big thank you to all my lecturers and classmates. Go checkout youtube for "graduation" by ginjineko. I had fun writing this while listening to her.