The day was horrible and rainy but love is in the air and Y/n has her bow and arrow at the ready to pair some lovebirds together. After Amao went missing, she's been trying to find anything to distract herself with anything. Now, she's planning on stopping Ayato from making a train wreck off Taeko and his relationship with her.

All she had to do was to get Taeko and Ayato to love eachother, well one step was already complete. Ayato was in love and Taeko being as blind as a bat can't see that. She's practically married to that book she's always reading, but maybe once she looks away from the pages of fictional characters and made up worlds she'll see him.

She needs to talk to Kokona, then Saki, an actual murder has happened and she needs to try getting as much evidence as possible to save herself from Info-chan's blackmail. She guesses, she has to stop this murderer from killing people too but it's not like she likes anyone at this school. Since, Amao has....Died, Saki isn't apart of a club so she's probably hanging out with Kokona in the gym. Y/n can't believe he's dead, she was so nervous to talk to him not knowing that would be the last time she ever saw him.

He was her first friend, her neighbor and her escape from her life at home. Why did he have to die? Why him? One of the people who actually cares about her and yes, they haven't spoken in whole but it still hurts just as much. She opens her locker to see at the very back a picture of a young Y/n and Amao, running through his grandma's field. Amao stayed with his grandma a lot, since his parents were busy with the bakery and they always had a fun time together. A tear unintentionally falls down her cheek and she is startled by Budo, leaning against the locker behind her.

"I came to see how you were holding up, Y/n" Budo says, opening his arms out to hug her, which she excepts, "I know Amao would want you to celebrate his life not cry." Budo wipes away her tear, Budo really is a nice person and he can cheer her up so easily. "Thank you Budo. I really appreciate it." Y/n thanks, Budo nods with his signature grin, revealing his perfect teeth and he walks off with his club members following behind him.

Ayato spawns out off nowhere and starts dragging her away and starts chatting about Taeko's every move like a stalker.

Like we get it, you like Taeko.

He definitely lives by live, laugh, love Taeko.

Anyways, Y/n is patiently waiting around a wall for her victim to walk up the hallway (maybe she shouldn't say victim if a murderer is in school). She pokes her head around the corner to see her target and then goes, thud right into her.

Her book goes flying and lands at Ayato's feet, he flushes as pink as the cherry blossoms around school and picks it up. Taeko has been knocked onto the floor and Y/n has to act like she didn't just knock her over intentionally, "Oh, I'm so sorry! Your name is Taeko right?" Y/n said holding her hand out to Taeko, which she takes, Y/n ignores the fact she already met her vomiting in a bathroom.

"Yeah, I'm Taeko Yamada and your Y/n. Nice to meet you?" Taeko spoke wearily, shaking Y/n"s hand with a firm grip, Taeko turns around to see a boy blushing madly and breathing in and out deeply and overall looking like a weirdo about to drool in her prescense. This is going to be more harder than she thought.

Y/n's face scrunches up seeing this shocking display of his attempt to talk to someone he likes. "What's up with-" Taeko gets interrupted by Y/n, Y/n does Ayato a favour by snatching the book out his hand and shoving him out of her view, "Sorry, about him..." Y/n leans closer to her to whisper into his ear, "He's a bit socially awkward but he's nice once you get to know him." She stands up straight and pulls Ayato back by his collar and grabs his wrist so hard his blood vessel was about to pop and gently grabs hers to shake his hand.

Y/n looks up to Ayato to notice a trail off blood pouring out of his nose when he stared into Taeko's eyes. She's feeling major second hand embarrassment, "Sorry, excuse us for a moment -" Y/n pushes Ayato into the classroom they where standing near and locked the door, "Are you trying to look like a total creepo?" Y/n questions, digging her hands into her pocket to find a scented pack of lavender tissues.

She opened the packet and tossed him a tissue, which he uses to help with his nose bleed. She stands there impatiently waiting for an answer with her feet tapping against the floor and her arms folded. "Even I could do a better job than you. You need to fix your act up and stop embarrassing me in front off that loner. Do you know who she was looking at when you were hyperventilating and suddenly lost all oxygen in your lungs? Me." Y/n glared at him, Ayato spotted her clenched fists, he could tell she was ready to choke the very soul out of him.

"I just can't find the right words when I'm around her...She just has a subtle smell of coffee on her, her hair flows like silk in the wind, her eyes are so dark and beautiful, she even hums her favorite classical pieces in class-" Ayato rants, his hand on heart and a mad blush on his face. "Okay, stalker. If you want her to like you maybe lose that stalker vibe and- You know what? Scrap that, don't be yourself. Just repeat whatever she says but phrase it slightly different with a tone off agreement at all times, nod even if you're not listening to what she's saying and most importantly don't be you." Y/n smiles, even though she practically listed every bad trait that he has.

"Yato, you can do this. I'll introduce you, just follow my lead and I'll signal you to join the conversation by kicking you or I'll just do it for fun." Y/n holds her thumbs up, with a grin too wide to be natural and she slides the door open with Ayato following behind her to speak to Taeko.

"Taeko this is Ayato, Ayato this is Taeko. We are ALL in the same class after all and Ayato is such a HUGE fan of the author of the book your reading." She spoke with haste then gives Ayato the harshest glare he's ever seen so he nods his head at her fake claims, and winces from her kick. His hands are wet and he feels like he walked into a shower with his clothes on, his clothes are sticking to him and this feeling is uncomfortable.

"Why don't all three of us go to a library after all he's such a nerd you can't get him out of libraries, right Ayato?" Y/n stares him straight in the eye and gives him a threatening stare that says it all so he nods, and his foot is immediately stomped on causing him to blurt out a "Y-yes, I would love to go to a library with you." He stutters, not meeting her gaze

Ayato wasn't too fond of libraries, though anything Taeko liked he liked aswell. This definitely wasn't the plan, he trusts Y/n to go down her own path to help him be more calm around Taeko. His heart did quicken in pace around Taeko but he didn't know why it was so rapid with Y/n.

From her smiles, hugs and by just being her made him warm inside and at home, she made him feel, human. Taeko felt more foreign to him and he didn't know how to feel. He was feeling two different feelings all in the same place.

She was his Senpai...right?

He definitely should call his mother but for now, he let Y/n drag him around while mainly Taeko and her chatted away. Till, she forced him into the conversation then kicking him back out when he started blushing at Taeko or stuttering.

It was now after school, and Y/n apologized to Frueddo, and he said he understood and she's always welcomed. Week 2 was drawing to a close and Taeko Y/n and Ayato began to walk out if school in a line in that specific order and Y/m turned to see Kokona and was going to go up to her when a firm grip dug painfully into her shoulder.

Kokona had a look of worry in her eyes and began walking over to them till Ayato turned Y/n around and told her to carry on walking ahead with Taeko. He gave Kokona a harsh side glance, he knows she knows more than she leads on and he will gladly tear Y/n and her apart even if it hurt Y/n. He knows what's best for her and she wouldn't need to know the details on why their friendship crumbled.

He then turned to walk away leaving a stunned Kokona and he caught up with the two.

Ayato headed home and decided to change his outfit to match Taeko's favourite colour and he arrived an hour early at the library. He had to make sure he was right on time and he didn't mind waiting till they arrived. Once they arrived they all went inside off the library and Taeko being the nerd she is says, "Wow, I just love this place! I've been here countless times but it still makes me happy to come here almost every day! The smell off new books is so comforting!"

Ayato knows she goes here already, this is old news, he nudges Y/n's shoulder and she gets the hint and sits around a table in the corner of the library along with Taeko and Ayato.

Y/n conjures up a plan in her head and spots Taeko's book on the edge of the table and 'accidentally' knocks it off. Ayato and Taeko go to pick it up and their hands brush against eachother, there it was that sensation he felt when he first saw her his heart was on an overdrive and his face flushed.

Call Y/n Cupid because she's the one shooting arrows round here.

Ayato immediately drops the book and begins staring at her intensely with a blush on his face "Are you...okay?" Taeko asks, perplexed by him staring at her for so long without saying anything. Y/n pulls him back up by his collar and laughs awkwardly, how did he end up being the third wheel on his own library 'date'.

"Anyway, Taeko so... What's the next book your gonna read next?" Y/n interrupts, turning Taeko's gaze to her. "I've grown a recent interest in bugs and I have gotten a book to study them. Sometimes, on the weekends, I look through my gardens and I find ladybugs and butterflies." Taeko replies happily, after Y/n was forced to hear 'interesting' bug facts and how to tell if it's a male or female.

"Sorry, I have to go. I have to watch the house since my parents are going out to dinner, it was nice talking to you, Y/n. Um... Nice seeing you as well Ayato?" Taeko mumbles Ayato name at the end, she nods at Y/n and exits the library. Y/n watches as she leaves the library, trekking into the rain, where Y/n sees Taeko trying to pull up her jacket hood and bumping into a lamp post. Y/n lets off a silent chuckle, those two are made for eachother, Ayato bumped into her when they first met and Taeko crashed into a lamp post.

Love at first sight? She supposed. She sees Ayato drawing a heart on the condensation on the window and she taps his shoulder knocking him out the trance. Y/n rolls her eyes and takes notices off his dissociation, she thinks it would be a great opportunity to get Ayato to offer Taeko his umbrella but he doesn't have one.

It's not like she's willing to share her umbrella.

The pair eventually walk out the store, Ayato holding her umbrella while providing her with shade and they get to Ayato's house shortly afterwards.

"Yato, what were you doing in the library? Staring her down like you two were having a staring contest, like do you want to date her? Or traumatize her?" Y/n rambles on following him into his house and leaving her shoes at the door.

"It just happened." Ayato responded, heading towards his kitchen and taking a few vegetables out, which he skillfully chops up and uses his knife to push to the side for more room on the chopping board.

Y/n notices a cute family photo of him and who she'd assume are his parents, she picks it up to have a real good look at it "You're so cute in this photo aw, with that flower crown and those chubby cheeks and your mother is so pretty." Y/n stares at the picture in awe and gently places it down.

"What is that smell? It's like rotten, can your parents not smell that?" Y/n sniffs the air and coughs and looks in different directions to have an idea on where it's coming from.

"I'm on my own, my parents are on a business trip, something has most likely gone off in the fridge." He speaks, sliding the vegetables in a sizzling pan along with some pieces of meat.

She remembers him saying that he was busy grocery shopping when she asked to hangout, so how didn't he notice something going off? She didn't push on.

"Can I help you cook?" Y/n questions and he replies with an mhm. They talk about random topics and Taeko and she asks how he can cut vegetables so quickly. He goes behind her to help position her hand on the knife's handle and he helps her cut through the vegetables with his hand on top of hers.

Y/n smiled as she got the hang of it and began to get ballsy when she tried copying what he did earlier, by looking away from the board while cutting still. Her overconfidence caught up to her and he heard an, "Ow ow ow." Y/n gasped flapping her hand in the air to somehow stop the bleeding.

Ayato grabs her hand in his to stop her moving it and to inspect the cut. It's only then when she looks up, she notices the major height difference between them. His eyes...they looked so dark, so blank. With eyes you could tell a lot about a person but he remained a blank slate yet she noticed the light blush on his face, he is handsome now that she thinks about it.

But his heart has already been promised Taeko, not Y/n plus she doesn't like him like that anyways. She doesn't really like anyone at the moment, her mind is already to preoccupied to be focusing on someone else. Even with Budo, yes he's a great person but she has a feeling he'd go out of his way to try helping her and eventually getting himself hurt.

Their hands separate and he returns with bandages and gently wraps it around her bleeding thumb, the kitchen smells lovely and the food quietly bubbles as he finishes it off.

"Thank you, Ayato." Y/n mumbles, she's sure she's never called him his actual name, only calling him Yat short for Ayato, she doesn't know why he's called that but she decided to join in and call him that too.

He seems to notice the same thing and his eyes widen for a second but return neutral, there hands part and things seem dull for her now and cold.

How did she mess this up?

It's supposed to be him and Taeko not him and her, she thinks it best she leaves the area he's in, " Hey, Yato? Can I see your room while you cook?" Y/n asks.

"Go ahead." Ayato replies, with his back facing her, he's glad he planned ahead and took the shrine and the pictures off Taeko out of his room beforehand, he's almost done with dinner anyways.

She ascends the stair to his room and notices his computer in the left hand corner of his room, along with a tv on a dresser and his bed with plain white sheets. He had an empty cork board on the wall and another stand in the corner and he had some patterned carpet on the floor, overall this room was a 4/10.

She sat on his carpet to inspect his manga and videogame collection till she noticed his phone and notification from her sister!? What. He's lucky she can't remember his damn long password but Musume's phone is getting stolen when she comes home, she then focuses on a box in the corner with a some kind of listening devices? It's possibly a bug so she snaps a pic of it.

Click.

And click send.

She sits down cross legged, when is Ayato coming up- "Ah!" Y/n yelps, and snaps her head in Ayato's direction glaring at him in a joking manor, "You scared me!" She gasped with a hand on her heart.

Ayato shrugs his shoulders and holds two delicious smelling bowl of curry, her favourite... Maybe it's his favourite as well, he gives her a bowl on a tray, "Let's watch something." Ayato inserts a DVD and the movies intro starts, "Oh, yeah just remembered something do you have a tape player? I need to borrow one, please." Y/n blinks her eyes rapidly while staring at him and awaiting a response.

"You can have it when your about to leave." He answers not moving his eyes away from the screen.

"What's got you so annoyed? What is it because the King of drama himself is returning to school and might steal...Your precious beloved Taeko away from your arm's?" Y/n taunted laughing but immediately stopping when he started glaring at the screen.

"Oh, you didn't hear? He broke his bones or something and then started announcing on Yaobook that Taeko was going to be his Juilet or something but why even do a 'romance' play were you AND her are supposed to di-" Ayato tunes out Y/n's words, and his hands are in a fist with his nails making crescent moons on his palm.

There's always someone trying to take Taeko away, they don't understand she makes him feel alive and normal.

"-And Musume hates him so much because according to her there can only be one drama lover in the school and that's her." Y/n spoke, she turns to look at Ayato who's been staring at the side of her face, if she didn't know him she'd be freaked out but she's come to terms that he just does that.

"Taeko really is popular with the guys." Ayato mumbled under his breath, she heard him, suddenly asks her a question.

"Are you okay?" Ayato asks, it takes Y/n by surprise and her eyes widen and the tenseness in her muscles loosen, revealing a frown on her face, he decides to continue, "Normally, you talk to Kokona more often and Saki but it seems something other than Amao's disappearance has effected things. You accepted helping me with Taeko quite quickly. Was it a way for you to take your mind of something? You can always talk to me Y/n, I will always be there for you." Ayato said, she knows he changed the conversation to distract her but she hasn't heard those words in a long time.

His hand finding itself on top of Y/n's, he then did something he's never done to anyone before, hug her.

Tears fall like rain droplets from her eyes, maybe she's just wanted someone to ask.

Maybe she'd let the wall around her heart fall, even just for a moment.

And she hugs back, he hears sobs and sniffles come from her.

There you go, Y/n, lean away from Kokona and Saki.

I have been watching how they have acted around Y/n, they want to say something but I won't let them.

He pulls her to his chest, and gently combs his hand through her hair as she holds his shirt in fists, this is a side of her he could get used to.

Her being dependent on him. Her being weak and letting her emotions control her, makes her more malleable, his heart jumps at the sight of her holding onto him.

"I'm...Just so tired, Ayato." Y/n sobs, holding him as tightly as she could, afraid he'd disappear. He's never seen this side off her, before she'd go out of her way to go down different paths just so they didn't run into eachother and they slowly become more than acquaintances. She always had this wall around her heart, she seemed to be holding back her feelings but recently she's started being more open.

She looked up at him through tear filled eyes and choked out, "Thank you." Ayato smiled down at her and wiped her tears away, he felt warm inside when she was here with him.

Maybe he had to start holding onto her a bit more.

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