A Romance Story Between Friends chapter 01: Chocolate
BW: Hello. I'm sure I know what you all are thinking. Why is there a new Romance Between Friends fic, when there's two of these Akihisa/Hideyoshi shipping fics. Well, I decided to recreate A Chocolate Between Friends and A Budding Romance Between Friends, and fuse them into one story instead of separate entries. One can say it's an updated re-release of both, except their they're packed into one story, and the chapters will have some slight modifications. Plus, I'll upload another chapter sooner or later. I hope you enjoy it like most of you have before. For those just tuning, please enjoy as well.
Fukuhara: By the way, BW doesn't the Baka and Test series. This is an original story.
Today at Mizuki Academy, is February 14th, which is a very special day for young lovers, and for those who are in love. It is also a stressful day for those who are receiving chocolates, particularly two second year boys in Class F named Yuji Sakamoto and Akihisa Yoshii.
Yuji meets with Shouko on the roof of the school.
"Yuji, happy Valentine's Day." Shouko said happily, as she handed Yuji a heart shaped box of homemade Valentine's chocolate. Unfortunately, Yuji just stands there staring at the box of chocolate in front of him. He doesn't look like he wants it either. "You don't want it?" Shouko asked, her smile disappearing.
Normally, this would be something he would refuse with all this might, but first he would ask, "What would you do if I said I didn't want it?"
"Then... I would force down your throat." Shouko said, giving off a threatening aura, and menacing stare. This instantly makes Yuji accept it, for he knew he would not survive should his childhood friend/psychotic self-proclaimed girlfriend decide to shove this chocolate down his throat and potential choke him to death.
"That chocolate looks good. Thanks a lot." Yuji said, quickly taking it away from her, and started walking away, "I'll see you later." Yuji said as he headed towards the exit, hoping to make a hasty retreat, however...
"Yuji..." Shouko said, making him stop, "I want see you eat it." she said, with a sweet smile and blush on her cheeks. Yuji felt nervous enough, now he's being put on the spot. The threatening aura from Shouko put gravity on his feet. It seems he has no choice eat it while she watches him.
(-Class F-)
Meanwhile, Mizuki and Minami had also caught our lovable idiot Akihisa in the classroom. His is practically pinned to the wall.
"A-Akihisa-kun…" Mizuki said, blushing.
"Aki…" Minami said, also blushing. Akihisa waited patiently, and nervously.
"Please, take this!" the two girls said almost simultaneously, presenting a box of chocolate in their hands in front of him. Mizuki's box is pink in color and a cute decorative design of red hearts and a red ribbon tied around it, while Minami has a red box with yellow on it, while it had an orange ribbon.
Seconds later, the two girls look each other in the eye and stare each other down. The two are otherwise good friends, but today, they are rivals in love with the same boy.
"Hey, Mizuki, what do you think you're doing?" Minami asked Mizuki, in an annoyed tone. Is she trying to get in of the way her chance to give Akihisa her chocolate?
"You too, Minami-chan, what do you think you're doing?" Mizuki repeats to the question to Minami, with a stern stare. She wasn't about to let Minami get in the way of her giving chocolate to Akihisa.
"I'm trying to give my chocolate to Aki! Don't get in the way!" Minami demands.
"What does it matter! He doesn't necessarily have to take yours!" Mizuki said, and then turns to Akihisa, "Right, Akihisa-kun? You can take mine, if you want." Mizuki said to Akihisa innocently, and naively oblivious to her own killer cooking, and baking. Akihisa envisioned a dark aura surrounding the box.
"I'm sorry, Himeji-san. I want to take your chocolate, but on the other hand, I don't wanna die yet." Akihisa said in his thoughts, already knowing what'll happen to him if ate it, considering he had experienced it first hand, and the other unfortunate times that followed thanks to her cooking. All without her knowing. Akihisa didn't want to say it directly as to not hurt Mizuki's feelings. This is one of the times he wished he had told she's a terrible cook. "Curse my chivalrous ways!"
"Aki! Just choose! Which one do you want!" Minami yelled, "You're a man, aren't you?! Hurry up and make a decision!"
"Uh, no, w-well…" Akihisa stammered and stuttered.
"Akihisa-kun, there's no need to feel pressured. Just ahead and choose which one you want." Mizuki said, with a little bit of a sad look in her eye.
"But, I do feel pressured. It's a life or death situation…" Akihisa thought. If he chose Mizuki's chocolate, he'd either die once more, or probably get his ass handed to him by Minami again. But, if he chose Minami's chocolate, he'd end up making Mizuki cry. Either way, he's screwed. The pressure of both impending dooms was too much to bare.
"Akihisa-kun!" "Aki!" Mizuki and Minami shout together. Suddenly, feeling the pressure building up, Akihisa had no choice but hightail it and get out of dodge as quickly as possible.
"I'M SORRY!" Akihisa screamed as he ran away. He dashed out of the classroom, and ran as quickly as his legs could carry him down the hall.
"Akihisa-kun!" Mizuki cried.
"Stop right there, Aki!" Minami angrily shouts at Akihisa, only to make him run faster. The two girls were about to chase after him, however, a distraction to Minami named Miharu showed up.
"Onee-sama!" Miharu cried as she popped out of nowhere as she usually did.
"Miharu?!" Minami exclaimed in surprise and annoyance. Why did she have to show up now of all times?
"Is that a chocolate for me?" Miharu asked, noticing the chocolate bag in Minami's hands.
"Of course not!" Minami yelled, but Miharu, given her affections towards her "Onee-sama", ignored this answer and deludes herself into she said "yes".
"So wonderful! I was planning to give you my chocolate, as well!" Miharu said, showing off a giant heart shaped chocolate, "This is proof of my love for you!" Miharu proclaimed.
"And your insanity! I can't eat that!" Minami yelled, "And I'm not giving my chocolate to you, anyway!"
"In that case, I'll take it by force if I have to!" Miharu declared with a demon like stare.
"Eh?!" Minami could believe what she just heard.
"There is no way I can let some smelly, ugly, pig of a man sink his teeth into Onee-sama's wonderful, delicious chocolates!" Miharu yelled, and started chasing after Minami, who ran for her life, leaving Mizuki behind.
"Minami-chan…" Mizuki said to herself, standing there dumbfounded. She turned her head to where Akihisa was running, "Akihisa-kun…" she mumbled, in disappointed, "Maybe we were pressuring him a bit." she thought. She didn't intend to scare him away. She only wanted Akihisa to take her chocolate. Had she known this would freak him out so much, she wouldn't have gotten so competitive with Minami.
"Akihisa Yoshii…" breath a slightly familiar voice.
Mizuki turned around to the see FFF Inquisition, in their infinite numbers, standing right behind her.
"Akihisa Yoshii, was about to be given chocolates from two girls in this classroom." said Sugawa from under his black hood.
"Unforgivable!" the group says.
"Yoshii must be put to death!" declared Sugawa.
"PUT TO DEATH!" the group shouted.
"Wait! It's not like that!" Mizuki proclaimed, catching the group's attention. "W-well, A-Akihisa doesn't get very many, so I thought that…" Mizuki began saying, and paused. The group was still waiting for an explanation. Mizuki suddenly let out, in a sweet voice "Kya!"
"PUT TO DEATH!" the group repeated, and so the FFF Inquisition charged after Akihisa.
In mere moments Akihisa's voice could be heard exclaiming, "Whoa! Hey, what're you- no, stop! WAAHHH!" (end of story)
Meanwhile, back on the roof of the academy, Yuji nervously nibbling on Shouko's chocolate, while she gleefully smiles.
"Please enjoy, Yuji." Shouko said. She got Yuji to eat her chocolate on Valentines Day, the day where lovers give each other gifts of affection. And where new love can be born.
"..." Yuji didn't say a word. He could swear he could hear Akihisa's dying screams wallowing in his ears. From this, he could guess he was suffering too. "I feel your pain, man... I feel your pain..." he muttered while slowly eating. He had to admit though, Shouko's chocolate actually tastes pretty good.
(-After School-)
Akihisa, still alive after the brutality he took from the FFF Inquisition, is now headed towards the shoe lockers near the entrance to the school, getting ready to go home. Thoroughly exhausted, he sighs to himself.
"Today was rough day. Even if it was Valentine's Day, why would they go so far to kill me...?" Akihisa asked himself, thinking about the Minami's and Mizuki's homemade chocolates, and FFF Inquisition's brutal attack earlier. Today is most certainly not his day.
Unbeknownst to him, Kubo was waiting for Akihisa to arrive, hidden behind a shoe locker.
"Yoshii-kun... I didn't have enough courage to give this to you earlier, but..." Kubo whispered to himself, holding a box of chocolate he, himself made, "But, right now... At this very moment...!" Kubo began clutching the chocolate, with a big grin, and he was about come out of his hiding place. But, something unexpected happens.
"Akihisa." Hideyoshi's voice called out to him. Akihisa turns around to see Hideyoshi approaching him.
Kubo stayed quiet, but uttered in his thoughts, "Kinoshita-san's brother? Why...?" he decided to observe and find out.
"Hideyoshi?" he asked.
"You look tired. Something wrong?" Hideyoshi asked Akihisa.
"Yeah, well... a lot happened." Akihisa said, "You seem kinda tired too, Hideyoshi." Akihisa noticed some small bolts of sweat on Hideyoshi's face.
"Yeah, a lot of stuff happened to me, too. Earlier today, several male students tried asking me if I had any chocolates, and would go crazy trying to get it from me, if I did." Hideyoshi explained, with a sigh after word.
"That sounds like a lot of trouble. Today was pretty depressing for me too. Not getting any chocolates from other girls... Sugawa-kun and his buddies trying to kill me..." Akihisa sighed.
"I find that rather odd. I thought Himeji and Shimada would've given you Valentine chocolate." said Hideyoshi.
"Oh that. They tried, but I ran away as fast my legs would carry me. If I stayed, I wouldn't have survived the pressure." Akihisa said, "Or Himeji-san's cooking..." he whispered the last part. Oh yes, this is indeed a day where he cursed his chivalrous and polite ways. Because of that, Mizuki still tries to unwittingly poison him. Today might have been the last day he ate chocolate had he not run away like a coward.
"I see. Well, I think this'll cheer you up." Hideyoshi said, reaching into his school bag. To Akihisa's and Kubo's surprise, the mysterious object Hideyoshi is holding turns out to be a green and yellow box of chocolate. Normally, Hideyoshi wouldn't carry a box of chocolate on this particular day, for anyone. But, it would seem that Akihisa was a special exception, this time around.
"Hi... Hideyoshi...?" Akihisa breathed out, in utter shock. He had a box of chocolate with him? Today of all days? Then, does that mean...?
"I was meaning to give this to you earlier, but what with all the crazy stuff happening today, and all." smiled Hideyoshi, given a short chuckle.
"B-But, why...?" Akihisa asked, shaking with sweat rolling down his back. He honestly couldn't believe or comprehend what he's seeing or hearing.
"I thought you wouldn't get very many this year, so I figured I'd give you one. Of course, it's not handmade or anything, it's just a cheap one I bought yesterday. And it's just an obligation chocolate, so you don't really have to take it, if you don't want-" Hideyoshi was soon cut off by Akihisa, who had suddenly taken it from his hand.
"I'll take it! I will most certainly take it!" Akihisa cried with tears of joy. Hideyoshi has a good heart. His generosity today is exactly what he needed.
"Uh, okay..." Hideyoshi said, a little bit surprised by Akihisa's hasty actions. Nonetheless, he's glad to see Akihisa so happy. He didn't like saying Akihisa depressed, and honestly prefers his friend to be cheerful. That chocolate certainly helped to cheer him up.
"Hideyoshi, your so kind to an unworthy soul like myself. Your an angel, a pure angel sent from heaven." Akihisa said, still crying with tears of joy, while tightly holding the box to his chest. "I'm so glad you're a nice girl, Hideyoshi."
"Once again, I'm a guy." Hideyoshi remained him with a small frown, "And I wouldn't say I'm angel or anything. I'm just doing something nice for you. After all, what's a chocolate between friends?" Hideyoshi smiled. Akihisa's body turned to stone, while his heart sank beneath the floor.
"Anyway, take care, Akihisa." Hideyoshi said, and began to take his leave.
"Hi... Hi..." Akihisa mumbled.
"Hm? What's wrong?" Hideyoshi asked his idiot friend.
Akihisa, with tear filled eyes, turns around and began leaping towards a shocked Hideyoshi, while proclaiming, "Hideyoshi! I love you!"
"Ahh! Wait! I'm a guy!" Hideyoshi cried, while being hugged by the idiot. He's now struggling to get free, but Akihisa is simply too strong for him right now.
"I don't care! I love you the most out of everyone here!" Akihisa declared.
The second he heard that, Hideyoshi felt his cheeks heating up, as it turned bright red. This happens a lot, because Akihisa can't exactly control himself in these moments, but for once, he's legitimately embarrassed, and thanks to that, he felt his heart pounding.
Meanwhile, as the Akihisa starts hugging onto Hideyoshi, Kubo began sobbing, "Oh~! Yoshii-kun... how could this be...?" Kubo cried in his mind, and then, he, with a broken heart, ran away, "Goodbye, Yoshii-kun~!" he cried, while leaving his chocolate behind.
"Akihisa..." said Yuji's voice. Hideyoshi and Akihisa look towards Yuji, who had an unimpressed look on his face. He just finished eating Shouko's Valentine chocolate. Yeah, it wasn't bad, and it tasted good, but he couldn't exactly enjoy it with Shouko hanging over his shoulder. Now he's eager to go home as quickly as possible. Despite his straight face, he wasn't prepared to see this, however.
"Yuji...?" Akihisa said. "Are you done talking with Kirishima-san?"
"Yeah..." Yuji answered, "And it looks like we have a new couple in the school." he commented on his classmates.
"H-Hey wait, Yuji! This isn't what you're thinking! This is just Akihisa being..." Hideyoshi couldn't finish, too embarrassed to say another word. He felt his face heating up again, as it slowly turned red, and his heart started beating faster each second that passed.
"Don't worry, Hideyoshi. I'll pretend I didn't see anything. So, go on with your business." Yuji said, and started walking away to get his shoes from his shoe locker.
"Wait! I'm serious! This isn't what you're thinking!" Hideyoshi yelled. Yuji just ignored him and went home.
"Did you hear that Hideyoshi? Yuji thinks it's okay, so let's spend as much time as possible." Akihisa squealed, making a octopus face all the while trying to kiss the boy he just confessed to.
That's when Hideyoshi finally blows up, "AKIHISA YOU IDIOT!"
The day ended shortly. Wow...
Meanwhile, watching, and hiding in the shadows was Hideyoshi's twin sister, Yuuko. "What're you staring at?" Yuuko asks with a scowl, before disappearing into the shadows.
BW: Okay. This is just the start. Bye for now.