"Rikka Hasegawa!"

The girl who's name has been shouted turned around. She has medium length hair, bleached into ash grey with the tips blue as well as on some part of her bangs.

Her green eyes showed a glint of mischief in them as she faced the adult who shouted her name, her female teacher that was obviously annoyed while taking big steps towards her.

"Oh, Miss Aiya!" Rikka chirped with an energetic wave of her hand. "I missed you~!"

"Did you take a break from school just to dye your hair?!" Aiya exclaimed before shaking her head, a grimace plastered on her face. "That's against the rules!"

The student female smiled deviously. "But Miss Aiya, dyed hair or not I'd still pass your class." She remarked with innocent eyes.

"Anyways, I know you also think I look good in this hair tone." Rikka winks at another female student who was watching the scene from a close distance.

"Augh, my heart! Take me to the hospital, Hikari-chan!" The girl got winked at dramatically says while her friend grimaced and said,

"Go have that heart attack and die."

[Y/n] who just got out of the bathroom let out a small snort at what she heard. She starts to walk forward while hearing a teacher scold a student because of their hair.

She and Rikka locked eyes when she got a bit closer. The girl with dyed hair smiled at her, a charming one at that.

"I knew it! Though [L/n] and Mitsuya do make a good match...!" The previous girl who's name was Hikari shout whispered. "A beautiful girl is for another beautiful girl! This could make a good story idea!" Then the squealing person dashed away while dragging her confused friend with her too...

The [h/c] girl walked pass Rikka after shooting her a smile and walked her way back to the classroom as lunch break will be over soon.

'What a familiar person.'

Now inside the room and sat on the chair beside Mitsuya, her seat mate, the boy smiles at her.

"Oh, that's right. You didn't forget to do your homework in math, right?" He asked. "After this subject, the teacher will have us pass it immediately."

[Y/n] smiled brightly as she faces Takashi after taking the english textbook out of her schoolbag and sets it down on her desk.

"What homework?"

"...I'll let you copy mine."

Due to having a lot of things going in her mind, the [h/c] completely forgot to do her math homework.

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"I'll see you tomorrow, Taka-chan!"

[Y/n] says with a beaming smile, visibly satisfied whilst waving hand at her also smiling male friend.

"You'll forever be my life saver, thank you." She adds while bowing her head which made Mitsuya chuckle and grin.

"You're exaggerating." He says while gently caressing her head. "Seems like you've been having a lot of things in mind lately. If you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here."

Hearing his comforting words made the [h/c] smile tenderly, and of course as usual, Takashi Mitsuya feels the butterflies in his stomach as he feels like he's fallen in love all over again.

Bidding each other good bye again, the two teens each walked in their own separate ways and while [Y/n] was walking, she heard the ringtone of her phone from inside her bag which she of course took and expects that it was from her time leaper blonde friend.

Upon checking the message, she rolled her eyes and muttered a curse word under her breath.

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[Y/n] raised an eyebrow when Taiju didn't reply but just seen her message. She starts to have second thoughts about what she replied because she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

Ever since that day, where she and Akio had that dinner over the Shiba household...plus when she drowned and got herself saved by the none other than the older Shiba himself, he would either text her a very short message like right now or call her which would be the same length as his text.

And naturally, [Y/n] has been annoyed for the past few months he's been ordering her around. That guy has such a huge appetite that he'd go bother her most of the time.

Though, there are times where Taiju would be the one treating her to restaurants and coincidentally...it'd be the ones she's been dying to have her mouth taste.

And lastly, she's silently imagining herself in a coffin as this is her first time rebelling because all those times where she just want to strangle Taiju, her brain reminds her of how strong that man is, not as strong as Mikey but still...he can still kill her.

"Should I just have Mikey deal with him after the bloody halloween fight...?" She pondered with a small hum. "If that does happen then not only will I be satisfied but It'll also make Yuzuha and Hakkai's life easier..."

Now [Y/n] truly considers about her condition. It wasn't that long since her and Yuzuha's last conversation.

Her friend may have told her that Taiju's abuse are not that bad or even often unlike before it still doesn't mean they're safe.

And since it seems like she's such a good distraction to the older Shiba, Yuzuha even went ahead and thanked her.

[Y/n] didn't know how to exactly feel when heard those words.

"That guy needs someone to teach him a lesson or two." She mumbled, a scowl now present on her face as she takes a quick stop to buy herself a drink and resumed with her walking.

Not too long, she saw Takemichi – the complete mizo mid crew laughing and making fun of each other with bright smiles on their faces.

It was...a warm hearting sight to see people smile so beautifully bright and be carefree.

"Shit, it's [L/n]-san!" Yamagishi first noticed as he suddenly went stiff before turning his face back to his friends. "Quick, how do I look?"

"Stupid." Makoto replied seriously before letting out a loud laugh making for the chestnut haired boy to punch his friend which lead them to start fighting, throw insults at one another.

"Hey, quit it." Akkun spoke with a disappointed look and a slight shake of his head. "You're embarrassing yourselves."

"Sorry. Were you waiting long?" Takemichi asked as he left his loud friends be after Takuya nodded his and agreed with their leader's words.

"No, I just arrived the moment you did too." [Y/n] replied with a smile then shifted her gaze to the blonde boy's friends, greeting them with the same smile which they returned.

"What do you think are they talkin' about?" Makoto asked while watching from the distance with his friends as they were all now in a park.

"Can't tell, but they do look serious." Takuya was the first to answer the question. "And it's not like one of us have some super sonic hearing or whatever..."

"Must be important..." Akkun mumbled, curious just like his friends as they continue to watch the other two teens on the seesaws.

The atmosphere around them didn't look too good and their blonde friend seemed a bit pale while the female emitted a scary vibe around her unlike earlier.

"Suspicious." One of them mumbled before letting out a dramatic gasp. "As soon as school was over, Takemichi immediately left and even almost ditched us...and the atmosphere around them doesn't look too good..." Yamagashi blabbered.

"Takemichi with a person as pretty as [L/n]-san...talking so seriously.." with a serious expression, he then declares, "There can only be one answer to that! Takemichi's cheeting on Hina-chan!"

He exclaimed those words with confidence oozing out of his tone before suddenly letting out a sniffle and clenching his teeth. "Damn you, Takemichi!!"

Truthfully, the reason why Takemichi was in a hurry was because he was afraid of making [Y/n] wait and anger her...he's visibly scared of the girl but his encyclopedia of a friend doesn't notice it as he's blinded with rage and jealousy.....

"Wait, s-seriously?" Makoto starts to think consider his friend's words with a look of disbelief even though there's really nothing to consider in the first place....

"How the hell does he even do it?!" Yamagishi grits his teeth. "How can he get both beautiful girls at the same time?!"

"Don't you think that's being too much..?" Takuya rejects his dramatic friend's conclusion.

"The hell you take Takemichi for?" Akkun chimes in with a small frown. "He's practically head over heels over Hina-chan, and I don't think [L/n]-san is the type of person who'd do such a thing, especially to her friend."

He sends a smack on the back of both Yamagishi's and Makoto's heads as he adds, "If [L/n]-san were to hear you right now, I bet you'd get more than just a hit on the back of your heads, idiots."

"Ah!"

"Shit, that hurts!"

Yeah, tell them Akkun.

"I..see." [Y/n] replied quietly as she let out a deep sigh after hearing the summary of the new information Takemichi learned.

"Hatsumi, huh..?" She muttered which earned a confused look on the boy's face because of the expression she showed. "As far as my memory tells...she's in Europe because that's where she attends school and she'll return here by December for Christmas and new year."

A moment of silence passed by and [Y/n] glanced at the boy beside her. Takemichi looks like he also has a lot of things going in his mind right now.

"Lemme ask you this, in the future..." she trailed as she hesitated while fiddling with her fingers. "I'm really dead, right? It wasn't fake or something...and I'm not leading some kind of a gang called Doku Sasori, right?" She finally asked, her heart slowly starting to pick up its pace and beat loudly.

"Huh? No, and it's my first time hearing that kind of gang name." The blonde boy answered. "And even if that really exists, Naoto or Draken in the future would've informed me about it."

As he finished saying his statement, he saw [Y/n] let out a small sigh of relief and the expression she showed looked more at ease than before.

"Yeah, right..." The female says after glancing at her hands and letting one of it run through her hair. She smiled as she mumbled with a low head, "There's no way I'd resort to killing..."

She then raised her head. "Thanks, Takemitchy." She grinned which made the boy to return the same bright smile.

Takemichi always thought of how extra pretty [Y/n] is and how it could get extra when she smiles so brightly, but there's just no way he'd think of her that kind of way.

He's afraid of her, and even the thought of making her angry just makes him shiver, especially when he always recalls the scary faces she made during their time on the cafe.

He thinks of her more like..an older sister because of how caring she can get to Mikey and the others when tending to their wounds or childish wishes, specially to her own littler brother, Akio.

She may be warm, kind, gentle at times but when the time comes where she's angry, Takemichi always wants to just flee.

"Well, anyways." [Y/n] cuts the boy's thoughts as she stands up from the see-saw. "The fight's getting closer. You nervous?" She asked with a faint smirk on her face after stretching her arms straight forward.

"Don't remind me..." Takemichi replied, looking as if half of his life force has been sucked out if him just now..

"Don't worry, I'm sure everything will work out." The female said through a reassuring smile just to comfort her friend even though herself was having doubts about it.

"Just be sure to keep your eyes on Kazutora. He's the one who'll be stabbing Keisuke." She shows a toothy smile while patting his shoulder. "Until then, let's both do our very best!"

After the talking and comforting, the group went to a fast food restaurant.

"Sorry, [L/n]-san..." Takuya apologizes with a troubled look on his face after swallowing the bite he took out of his burger.

"Yeah, if we only we had more money then you wouldn't have to treat us." Akkun sighs out before glancing at two of his friends who were happily stuffing their cheeks like some type of squirrels.

"To think my queen is such a kind person..." the boy with glasses among the group trails as he eats his own food while shedding crocodile tears. "I'm so sorry..!"

"We're so sorry!" Makoto apologizes too as he sniffled.

Takemichi sends a weird look at his two crying friends. "What're you two being so over dramatic about...?" He mumbled to them.

[Y/n] blinked her eyes and wondered what the two boys were apologizing about exactly...it didn't seem like it was only because of the food she bought for them.

"Ahaha, it's fine." Was the girl replied as she smiled brightly at them. "You boys had to wait for Takemichi because of me, so think of this as my thank you for being patient."

She takes a tissue on the table and wipes the red ketchup away on the boy who's sitting across from her which was Takuya and without having anything on her mind while doing so.

The boys went quiet and slowly, after processing what happened...Takuya's face became beet red while [Y/n] wondered what's up on the look on their face.

"Oh! Sorry, that was rude of me." Slightly embarrassed, she instantly apologized after realizing what she did too. "I unknowingly did that because my little brother is a messy eater and that was a natural reaction of mine...sorry, sorry."

Takuya nods his head while averting his eyes. "It's...alright." He mumbled, the back of his hand in front of his mouth.

"Takuya, you..!" Yamagishi shouts as he grabbed his friend by the collar. "I didn't know you're such a sly bastard!" He cried out.

"I can't believe you'd go for the girl I like..." pursing his lips, he glared at his friend. "I don't care if you like her! I won't lose, okay?!"

"The hell dude..." Takuya could only sigh out as he found his friend somewhat pathetic.

"You're being too loud." [Y/n] laughed a little, a bright smile on her face. "Continue eating your food." She shoved a french fry inside the loud Yamagishi's mouth.

"Idiots..." Akkun mumbled while shaking his head as Makoto laughs at his friend with glasses.

"Sorry about him, [Y/n]-san." Takemichi whispered to the girl before shooting a disappointed look towards Yamagishi.

"It's alright." She replied, a smile still present on her face. "Your friends are a cute bunch." Hearing those words made the blonde boy look at his friends and doubt her comment...

"There you are." A smooth voice spoke which earned the group's attention. "We've been looking all over for you."

"Shit." [Y/n] muttered under her breath at the sight of Koko who's in his gang uniform. "What brings you here?" She asked with big innocent eyes.

"You know exactly why." The black haired boy replied with a smile before glancing at the other people that was with her and they all seemed wary at him after their encyclopedia of friend gave a brief introduction about Koko and the gang he's in.

"It seems like you tend to get along with a lot of people so naturally." He said with a certain look on his face which no one could tell what exactly.

"Anyways, I'd like for your cooperation and obediently come with us." Koko states with a smile as Seishu appears from behind.

"Hey, [Y/n]." The scarred boy greets her with a cute smile who's looking like a dog that was happy to see a person he likes but he droops when [Y/n] doesn't return his greeting.

"No hard feelings, just the boss' orders." Koko says making the female roll her eyes while paying no mind to the other customers' or employees' eyes in the place no mind.

There was no need to since there's more bigger fish to fry...

"If it wasn't for that you guys wouldn't be here anyway." She grumbled as she begrudgingly stood up from her seat. "Well, whatever. I don't wanna cause you two a painful problem so alright."

"What?? You're going with them?" Takemichi asked with an incredulous look. He and his friends then glanced at the two boys again.

"Yeah! These guys won't care if you're a girl or not, they'll still beat you." Yamagishi whispered to her, afraid that Koko and Inui would hear and beat him up while Makoto agrees with him but quietly.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to." Takuya joins in, clearly worried just like his friends.

"We may not be able to protect you well like your other your friends, but we can still buy you some time to at least go somewhere safe and ask for help." Akkun joins with a glint of determination in his eyes just like the others.

"Y-Yeah! Just leave it to us." Makoto slightly nervously said as Takemichi let out a chuckle and spoke again with a grin on his face,

"Think of it as our way to pay you back for you treating us to a delicious meal, [Y/n]-san!"

[Y/n] stared at the boys, her chest felt warm as she showed a genuine smile at the boys' words and having the desire to protect her even though it wasn't even that long since they all met.

"Seriously, you guys are a bunch of worry warts." She said, her lips curling up. "I appreciate you all looking out for me but there's nothing for you boys to worry about." A hearty laugh she let out which astonished them all, yes even Koko and Inui.

What they witnessed simply tugged the heart strings of their hearts and even made it skip a beat.

"It's fun hanging out with you boys." [Y/n] says after taking a step forward. "Let's do it again sometime, and of course, you'll be the ones who'll treat me next time."

After sending them a playful wink, the girl walked out of the restaurant with her two black dragon gangster friends.

"I can't believe you were having fun while we were suffering just to look for you." Hajime shows a sarcastic smile as he mounts his friend's bike.

"Is Taiju pissed?" She asked while hopping on another black dragon member's bike since her black haired friend didn't wanna ride one of his members' vehicle.

"He's been in a bad mood ever since this morning." The light blonde boy replied while in the middle of starting his bike.

"Yeah. After he texted someone on his phone which was obviously you," Kokonoi deadpanned as he turned his head to face her.

"The boss went,'Go look for that woman. I don't care if you have to search every corner of Shibuya. Don't come back without her or else I'll kill you all.' Is what he said with that scary voice and face of his." He finished with a nonchalant look on his face.

"I see." [Y/n] nods her head and faced her two friend, a serious and determined look on her face. "I can't die yet so I'll remember your sacrifice." Was she said before trying to hop off.

"Wait. Did he lay his hand on one of his siblings?" She asked which they all replied with a no immediately making her smile out of relief...though surprised.