Happy 6 Month Anniversary The One for Me!!

The Conclusion of the Field Trip arc is here! Not gonna waste your time with this one, I hope you enjoy the last day of the Field Trip, and the day before the future :)

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"Global warming my ass, it's freezing" you complained as you found yourself on top of a hill absolutely covered in snow. It was the final day of the field trip and for some reason, Skiing was the activity you all chose to do. Snow was everywhere and the temperature was in the minus, cold weather was really not your favourite you were much more of a summer person.

"Y/N, don't be silly, we're here to ski and I'm here to teach you!" Yotsuba boasted putting her hands on her hips.

As much as you weren't a fan of a cold, poor Fuutaro seemed to be taking it a lot worse. He looked green almost.

"Hey man, are you gonna be okay for this, I mean no offense but you don't exactly look like you'd be fit for any physical activity let alone skiing" you say to Fuutaro.

"I'll be fine" he deflected.

You'd learnt by this point not to press Fuutaro so you just let him be, he's a big boy he can handle himself.

"By the way, why are we the only 3 here? where's everyone else?" you asked Yotsuba.

"Ichika's feeling under the weather and Itsuki's taking care of her"

"She got ill on the last day, damn that sucks"

"Yeah, anyways Nino already knows how to ski so I don't need to teach her..."

So she DID know how to ski, I'll be damned.

"And Miku..." Yotsuba paused for a moment. "Ah there she is!"

Both you and Fuutaro turned around to see Miku? or what you could only assume was Miku wrapped up to her fullest waddling her way through the snow ever so slowly.

"Who are you?" Fuutaro said as he got in Miku's face.

"Miku" she stated as she opened her visor embarrassed.

Upon Fuutaro's confusion, you and Miku both let out a synchronized sigh. Yotsuba literally just said it and he still got confused.

"Now that we're all here we can begin Yotsuba's Incridible Skiing Instructions!" she cheered waaaaay louder than she needed to, drawing the attention of several other students nearby.

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After a while, you'd started to get the hang of skiing and you could go, stop and turn pretty naturally, you weren't doing backflips anytime soon but it was a good start anyway. Fuutaro and Miku on the other hand were not picking up anything at all from Yotsuba. After a while you decide to split off from the others and go and find Nino and hang out with her instead.

Eventually you see her with a group of her friends, you hadn't really talked to her friends much before but you weren't going there for them so it didn't matter to you.

You slide down and start to approach the group.

"Hey! Nino!" you shout as you were coming down the hill. Her and her friends all turned towards you. Being as careful as you could you managed to almost come to a stop right in front of Nino, but she did have to catch you a little bit to stop your momentum.

"Thanks..." you sheepishly said.

"Well if it isn't Prince Charming" one of the girls said.

"S-Shut up!" Nino protested

"Yep, Prince Charming in the flesh" you bowed, almost causing you to fall over due to the sheer weight of your clothes.

"You shut up too!" she ordered which made you and her friends all laugh.

"We'll leave you to it Nino, but don't play in the snow too much" her friends teased as they continued down the slope.

Nino was left a red mess as per usual, I guess your teasing wasn't the only one that could get under her skin like that but it was cute regardless.

"So you really could ski"

"I told you you'd be surprised I'm a natural and, what about you?"

"Okay I guess, but I still have some things to learn"

"Well then, I'll teach you, but I'm doing this for my sake not yours!" The Tsundere Switch, I thought this phase had passed, guess it was baked into her very core.

"How would this benefit you more than me?"

"Because I get to spend more time with you dummy" she playfully grinned. That made your heart skip a couple of beats but due to the insane amount of clothes you were wearing, Nino couldn't see the blush appear on your cheeks.

"Anyway, let's get started" you suggested in the hopes to change the topic.

"Sure, just try to keep up, I'm doing the tutoring this time" she winked

"Yes Ma'am"

Nino was actually a lot better than you anticipated, she was zigzagging, swerving, spinning and even doing tricks, in all honesty it was blowing you away.

Meanwhile, you both witnessed Fuutaro speed like a bullet down the slope and crash at the bottom, luckily he wasn't hurt but you and Nino couldn't stop laughing about it. By now, Ichika had also made an appearance and she was a pretty decent Skier, not on the level of Nino or Yotsuba but still better than you.

Nino was actually a pretty good teacher all things considered, you didn't learn how to do backflips unfortunately but you did improve your overall control and stability.

"Who would have thought you'd teach me to ski the day I teach you to dance" you huffed, tired from all the skiing thus far.

"Yeah, I guess you're not half bad, whaddya say we meet back up with the others at the top?" she suggested.

"Sure, I can already hear the ski lift calling my name"

It was a nice scenic view over the entire slope as you both sat on the ski lift and just took in the view, nothing was said between the two of you, you simply just enjoyed each others company on the short ride up.

Upon arriving, Yotsuba Miku, Ichika and Fuutaro were all huddled together.

"Hey guys, what's with the team meeting?" you ask as you and Nino both set down your skiing equipment beside the wall an approach the group.

"Hey have you guys seen Itsuki?" Fuutaro asked you both.

You and Nino both turned to each other and shook your heads.

"No we haven't why is something wrong?"

"Hm, so this is more serious than we thought"

"Hey! What do you mean, where's Itsuki?" Nino shouted with clear concern echoing through her voice.

"I think she might be stranded" Fuutaro bluntly put

"Stranded?" Nino hesitantly replied.

"Yeah, take a look" Fuutaro said as he pulled out a map of the entire slope, he pointed to where we were and a bunch of places that Itsuki might be in. "Even if this place is spacious, it's weird that the 6 of us haven't run into her yet"

Miku looked over to Ichika "Itsuki did say she was definitely going skiing right?"

"Mmm Yeah..." Ichika solemnly said. For some reason she sounded a slight bit different but maybe that was the illness catching up to her so you let it go.

Looking over at Fuutaro, this guy was getting sicker by the second, he started to stare off and space out a lot which was usual normally but here it seemed different, he looked exhausted.

"Hey, Fuutaro take it easy" Miku pleaded to him, it was sweet how much she cared about him.

"She's right man, c'mon we can look for Itsuki you need to rest" you assured him. "I won't... We won't let anything happen to her"

After a few more gruelling seconds of his silence he suddenly perked straight up.

"I think I know where she is.." he suddenly said, making all of us turn towards him.

"Really?" Nino asked.

"Trust me, I'll find her" he reassured

"But can I really trust you?" Nino said, hesitant on Fuutaro's current state.

"Yeah, Ichika can you come with me?" Fuutaro said as he turned his attention from Quint 2 to Quint 1.

Seemingly confused by the sudden request, Ichika looks hesitant but decides to follow Fuutaro.

Leaving you, Nino, Miku and Yotsuba behind, you all have your worries but no one spoke a word.

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Time passed and you could all make out Fuutaro and Itsuki riding the Ski Lift together. So that's why she sounded a bit off... you thought to yourself before arriving at the drop off point along with everyone else.

However, when Itsuki and Fuutaro touched down, Fuutaro was collapsed. Your eyes widened and you quickly rushed to his side.

"Hey, Fuutaro...., FUUTARO" you shouted at his as he was seemingly drifting out of consciousness. You tried shaking him awake but it was to no avail.

"We have to get him inside to a teacher!" Itsuki pointed out.

"Right, I know, shit..." you muttered. "Brace yourself buddy" you said to him, not knowing if he could even hear you or not.

You scoop up Fuutaro and hold him in your arms before making a demonic sprint towards the lodge as fast as you could. You'd practically left everyone else behind besides Yotsuba who was running behind you barely keeping your pace.

As you burst through the doors of the lodge, immediately everyone looked at you including a teacher who happened to be nearby. You took a second to catch your breath and approached the teacher.

From just looking, the teacher could already tell what was happening.

"I see, Follow me upstairs, we have a bed for him"

You complied as the other Quints walked through the door, you all proceeded upstairs with Fuutaro still in your arms.

Eventually you arrive at a door and the Teacher takes Fuutaro from you and hangs Fuutaro's arm around his shoulder.

"Good work bringing him this far, we'll keep him hear and monitor his health in the meantime can one of you go and grab his stuff? The rest of you should go and gather in the square, the bonfire will start soon."

"But he's Ill, someone has to stay with him!" you protested.

"All teachers are busy elsewhere, we'll do periodic checks on him, that's all we can do."

"That's all you can do? I'll stay with him then!" you shout a bit louder than intended. That granted a shocked look from Nino. As much as you wanted to dance with her, if Fuutaro needed, you would be with him no question. Bros before Nakanos.

"You're on thin Ice Y/N" The Teacher turned to look at you. "After your incident on the bus, you sneaking off when we stayed at the inn and you being missing when your partner returned from the test of courage doesn't bode well for you, so I suggest you don't try and start this argument because the consequences will be VERY severe" he boomed.

He was right, but that didn't make you any less angry.

"Y/N, there's nothing you can do, just leave me alone and go and enjoy your night" Fuutaro said weakly as he turned his head back towards you.

"But Fuutaro..."

"You heard him Y/N!, now go!" The teacher shouted at you again.

You let out a sigh and began to walk back to your room knowing there wasn't much else you could do.

"Wait, Y/N!" Nino called out to you as she caught up to you. She looked up at you with her sparkling eyes.

Wiping the anger off of your face as best as you could, you put a hand on her head "Don't worry, we're still dancing, I'm not going back on that promise" you reassured her. Her face lit up in response and she walked with you back to the rooms.

You eventually split away from each other to go and get changed, the plan was to meet outside in 20 minutes at the square as that's when the Bonfire started. Until then you were both left to your own devices.

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About 15 minutes later, after you change into some more fresher attire you leave your room and are stood in the corridor. After a stretch, you decide to head towards Fuutaro's room despite what that teacher said.

The room seemed quiet when you got there, the lights were off and Fuutaro was barely awake in his bed, the teacher was no where to be seen. You did hear a teacher call out that they needed additional help outside so you assumed you'd be safe to go and check on your bro.

"Hey" you approached him, you left the light off as to not completely flashbang him.

"Y/N...?" he weakly said as he turned his head in your direction.

You smiled and pulled up a nearby stool to sit next to him.

"How you feeling bud?"

"I've had better evenings..."

"Good to know your sense of humour didn't get sick too" you laughed.

"What are you doing here, don't you have a dance to go to?"

"I wanted to check on you first, you're my priority until we start dating"

"And when is that going to be?"

"....."

"You idiots obviously both like each other, I'm not into all this love stuff but I don't see how this could go wrong"

"Everyone has their anxieties that don't adhere to logic, It's just the way we humans were created"

Fuutaro sat silent for a moment but a smile crept on his face.

"Right, if that's how you feel, never thought of you as the type to heave those kind of thoughts" he weakly chuckled.

"You're the only person that would get this kind of info outta me so consider yourself lucky!" you pouted

"You're even adopting her Tsundere style"

"ugh shut up dude..." you frowned.

Fuutaro faintly chuckled "Anyway, how long are you gonna stay here? Nino's probably waiting for you by now " Fuutaro asked.

"Ah shit, you're right!" you exclaimed as you checked the time on your phone. "Make sure you get some good rest or I'm gonna make your life a living hell when you recover!" you shouted as you made your way to the door.

"Sure thing..." he smiled as he laid back down.

Giving one last look at Fuutaro you turned your back to him and put a hand on the door handle.

"Well, time for the main event" you quietly said to yourself as you left Fuutaro's room.

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Nino POV

"Where the hell is he?" You impatiently thought as you were tapping your foot in the square. Y/N was five minutes late to your meetup, that bonfire dance was going to begin any time now.

"Nino, has he still not come yet?" you hear one of your friends ask from behind you.

"..." you said nothing as you kept your gaze fixated on the exit of the building, waiting for when Y/N would show up. This bubbling feeling stirring inside of your reminded you of how you felt when you first met him, it was like he took the reigns of your feelings and rode them straight into the sunset.

While being lost in your own thoughts, you contemplated some things, like what would happen after today. As much as you liked Y/N, you didn't feel the need to confess your feelings to him as weird as it sounded. Besides, randomly blurting out your feelings may just make things worse because there's no telling if he would even receive it well.

Y/N was the only boy who made you feel complete, like he was this abstract piece of the puzzle missing from your life. But he didn't seem like the type to just stand you up after making a promise.

Suddenly a group of three boys approached you and your 2 friends, you turn to face them and see 3 guys you'd see around school before standing in front of your group. You'd never spoken to them but you were fairly confident you'd seen them ogling you and your friends on more than one occasion.

"Hey Ladies, care for a dance?" one boy held his hand out to the girl on your right, he seemed like a player on first glance but you didn't say a word.

"S-Sure!" she obliged and went off with him as he twirled her around as they walked.

"What about you babe?" asked one of the other guys, he was tall and pretty well built but not your type.

"O-Okay, bye Nino!" your other friend said as she waved goodbye to you and walked off into the centre of the square with the other boy.

That just left you and the last boy, he seemed like the leader of the pack and you already could tell what was about to happen.

"Yotsuba right?, I wanted to ask if you wanted to dance with me tonight?" he said in full seriousness.

You deadpanned then crossed your arms and scoffed.

"First of all no, and Second of all I'm Nino, Ni-no at least get that right before you try and make a move on someone"

"Oh c'mon it was an honest mistake!, why should such a beautiful girl like you be standing here alone anyway?" he said as he took a step close, clearly trying to intrude your personal space.

"I already said no, I'm waiting for someone" you raised your voice.

"Clearly they don't care otherwise they'd be here so I'm taking you to dance instead!" he cheerfully said but his tone was full of bad intention.

He began to reach his arm out towards your hand when-

"Yo" a familiar voice said as someone else gripped the boys forearm.

You looked to your left and there he was, your prince charming Y/N! The sound of your heartbeat resonated throughout your entire body.

"She's mine, and don't you think for a moment I'm letting some shithead like you take her to dance" he said with a dead stare at the boy. His grip was tightening around the boys forearm.

"Y/N!" the other boy squealed, "I-I-I didn't know!"

"Didn't know what?, that she didn't wanna dance? She told you herself twice yet you kept pushing"

"Yeah! I already told you creep!" you backed Y/N up.

"Or was it you didn't know she already had a partner, and who exactly is it that doesn't care?" he boomed.

The guy who Y/N had a grip on looked like he was going to have an accident.

Y/N, looked past the guy for a moment, turned his attention back to the boy in front of him and then released his grip on him.

"I'm really inclined to kick the shit out of you right now. but I have something much better to attend to, so in that case...." he trailed off.

A large thud was heard, and around that shivering guys shoulders was a huge arm.

"Kaito?" you said shocked.

He smiled at you and leaned in closer to the boy. "So buddy, whaddya say we have a little talk over there" he pointed behind him towards his group of lackeys.

"N-No I'm sorry!" he cried out.

"Sorry don't cut it" Y/N said in response as he smiled venomously "You have fun now!" as he waved goodbye

Kaito flashed you both a thumbs up and dragged the boy away with him into the darkness of the distance.

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Y/N POV

You watched happily as Kaito and his goons rounded a corner with their victim in tow.

"Well, that's that" you said as you dusted off your hands and flashed Nino a smile.

"Idiot, where were you?!" she stood on her tip toe's and pouted at extreme close proximity to your face.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to be late but I wanted to check on Fuutaro first"

"Oh..." she trailed off, seemingly feeling bad.

"Oh? you're not wishing for his untimely demise from this illness?, you really have grown to like him" you teased.

"Shut up, it's nothing like that..." she became quieter. "It's just, if he means so much to you I should try and like him a little"

"Awwww"

"But I still think he's a gross, annoying, creepy stalker weirdo!" she contested.

You laughed at her remark but it was interrupted by the speakers placed around the square.

"The Countdown will begin shortly, please prepare yourselves everyone!"

"Wasting no time huh..., Shall we?" you gestured your hands out to Nino. A big smile appeared on her face as she energetically locked your fingers together.

"Let's see if you can live up to your own hype" she smirked.

Taking that as a challenge, you rhythmically motioned Nino around the square, her hands were soft and she looked as beautiful as when you saw her for the first time. Thank god you had a good sense of rhythm and you knew how to dance like this, a lot of eyes were on the both of you and you both defiantly revelled in the attention.

Inside however, you were bolstering with emotions and it felt like a volcano was about to erupt. Looking at her now, all of your anxieties washed away, when you were with her the world completely changed for the better. The realization hit you like a truck.

This was it.

"Okay Everybody, 10!"

"Make sure you're holding on tight" she teased

"9!"

"I am, I wouldn't let you go at a time like this"

"8!"

She squeezed your hands tighter and gave you one of the most pure smiles you'd ever seen.

"7!"

You could feel your heart trying to escape your chest with how much it was beating.

"6!"

"Hey Nino?"

"5!"

"What is it?"

"4!"

"There's something I want to tell you"

"3!"

She tilted her head to the side in confusion. Her cheeks were a slight shade of red.

"2!"

You looked straight into her eyes. She looked back at you with hopeful anticipation.

"1!"



"I Love You"





*BOOM*

Fireworks shot into the air one after another, a continuous harmony of light and explosions filled the skies above you both.

Nino's eyes were wide open upon hearing the three simple words you just said, it was the first time one of you had outright ever said you loved the other. You simply stood and smiled as she took it all in.

"Following that" you continued, barely letting her catch her breath.

"Will you be my Girlfriend?"

Her grip loosened and unexpectedly, her eyes began watering as she stuttered to get her words out. "I-I..."

She ran into your arms and enveloped you in the most deep and loving hug you'd ever received.

"Of Course I would Dummy!" she cried out as she sobbed tears of joy into your chest.

Wrapping your arms around her back, you let her be held in this moment, her ever-building emotions were all spilling out at once. The fireworks boomed above you both, decorating the sky in a mirage of different colours and shapes. After a minute they slowly started to fade out and everyone around you both started to leave the square and head back to their rooms.

It took her a solid minute before she composed herself. You wiped the remaining tears off of her face as she began to laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"It's just, now we're finally dating it doesn't feel real" she smiled.

"Yeah, you're right, to think it's only been a few months but here we are"

Suddenly, you remembered something you were meant to do way back at the start of the trip.

"Oh yeah" you said as you let go of Nino's hands momentarily.

She pouted for a split second but regained her composure as you pulled something out of your pocket.

For some reason you were super embarrassed to give her this... "Well um... here" you said as you opened up your hands and showed her what you were holding.

"Wow!" she said as she picked it up. "It's an origami butterfly right?"

"Y-Yeah, I was originally gonna give it to you on the bus but well you know how that turned out..."

"I love it Y/N" she said. As she played with it for a few moments before looking back at you.

"Really? Even if it's not a ring or some necklace?"

Nino took a few steps closer to you, holding the Origami Butterfly against her chest.

"Idiot, do you really think I care about something like that, knowing you, you had no clue how to do origami so you must have gone out of your way to do this for me right?"

Your silence apparently spoke volumes, as Nino stood on her tip toes and made your lips connect for the first time.

It was a short Kiss but it felt like your world transformed in an instant the moment your lips touched. After a few seconds she backed off, hands behind her back and blushing.

"That was our first kiss" she cutely pointed out.

"..." Your cheeks were bright red and there was no hiding it.

Nino laughed at your embarrassment as she took your hand in hers.

"So, what do you say we go and show ourselves off a little bit?" she winked.

"That's my girl" you smiled back.

"You know, you saving me from that creep reminded me of the day we met"

"I guess it all just came full circle then huh"

"I'm glad you saved me then, even if I wasn't outwardly appreciative of it so much at the time.."

"You're welcome, for then, now and hopefully forever" you smiled, she smiled back at you, her eyes lit up like diamonds in the sky. God you loved this girl.

Before you moved, you looked behind you to see Kaito way back in the distance giving you a big thumbs up, you gave him one back before turning your attention to Nino.

"Ready babe?"

"Babe!?" she said flustered before flashing a confident smile. "I like it, let's go" she blushed.



Hand in Hand, both of you were ready to show the world just how strong your love was, together.





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I'm gonna ramble a bit here like I usually do but it's gonna be quite a bit longer, still I hope you'll read, or not it's up to you lmao :)

So, It's been exactly 6 months at the time of publishing this since is started writing The One For Me. Honestly, I don't regret starting this at all and I probably never will. It's nice to finally have a hobby I can really say I enjoy besides playing games/reading manga.

No, this isn't the end of anything, this story isn't anywhere close to being over so don't worry. I'm not sure how long it'll end up being but I have ideas for some of the existing arcs plus some original arcs I wanna try my hand at.

When I started this in August, I'd recently just gone through probably the worst 4 months of my life. April-August 2021 was complete dog water for me but I wont get into the nitty gritty of it.

As some of you know, there's another Nino fic out there called Butterflies by dpriest22. I'm sure most who've read my work have read his but ultimately, his work inspired me to try and write my own and I'm glad I found it when I did to be completely honest. I was also just in a big QQ phase in august so Nino was on the brain every day pretty much. So after just watching a bunch of Nino Edits and reading Butterflies I said Fuck it, I'll try and write my own and see how it does, which turned out to be my saving grace all those months ago and it really helped me pull myself out of the place I was in at the time.

Also, shout out to Ribbons by Relentlezz41, I read that story a while before August but that was also a really big inspiration for me. If you haven't you should check out both of those Nino stories, they're both so good it's insane.

A while ago, probably in November. I talked about writing other books. I'm still writing them but my number 1 rule is this story is the priority over anything else and it most likely will stay that way. When I eventually do get around to releasing those other stories I'll let you guys know. Its a KnY x M Reader story and a DDLC x M Reader story so far, but I kinda wanna do a Yotsuba or Itsuki x M Reader story at some point but If I do, I'll make it shorter than this Nino one, they wont be the entire series as I would 100% just burn myself out by doing that completely. No telling when any of these stories will come, I only add a small part to them every few days or so, most of the time writing is for this story.

MY BOX SET FINALLY CAME TOO. After ordering this shit a week after I started writing this series, my QQ manga boxset finally came almost 6 months later. I got the Nino poster above my bed and the Itsuki poster on the opposite wall. Unfortunately there weren't any Nino cosplayers at that convention I mentioned last time so oh well, maybe at the Premiere of the movie I'll get to meet a Nino cosplayer.

But yeah,

I'm really thankful to all of you who have read this story so far, at the time of writing this the story is almost at 30k reads which is insane to me that something can get this much reach without any promotion of sorts anywhere else. So thank you to all of those who still read this story, there's some people who I still recognise from when I uploaded some of the first chapters way back in August so thank you for your support, I love you guys for real.

As Always guys, Take Good Care of yourselves, Mentally and Physically and I hope to see you in Chapter 21, where we take a backseat from arcs for a little while and just return to form. See you guys then!