After the concert we all headed out and Pucca stuck with us. I noticed her face slowly growing red as she remembered I was holding her hand inside. I chuckled, "so where do you guys want to-"

"oh Garu-kun~!!!" Niko runs towards us and hugs me. I try to push myself from her grasp but fail. But I keep pushing her away. "Oh hey Niko-Chan!" Ching chirps. Niko finally let's go of me. "Hi! I have a day off and I noticed you guys here! Where are you guys headed?" I clear my throat and clean myself off. "We were about to go eat somewhere-"

"Yeah wanna join?" Niko nods, she looks over and points at Pucca. "Who's that? Did you guys just meet her?" We shake our heads, Pucca gets closer to me. "This is Pucca. Our friend we told you about." She looks over at Pucca and her eyes furrow. "Is something wrong?" I asked. Niko quickly snapped out of her thoughts and smiled, "nothing is wrong Garu-senpai~!" I grab Pucca's hand as I lead everyone to a restaurant nearby. We all take our seats and order our meals.

Niko on one side and Pucca in my other. Niko scoots closer to me, "so is she the one that annoys you?" I shake my head, "huh? But you said-"

"I said she used to. Not anymore Niko." Her face looked hurt. Is it because I didn't say Niko-chan? Whatever it is I don't care. I Scott away from Niko and Closer to Pucca. I place my hand on Pucca's shoulder so I could talk to her. Instead of her turning around calmly my touch scared her making her jump, "EEP! O-oh! Sorry Garu...I'm not used to human contact.." she looks away as I remove my hand, "s-sorry...I just want to talk." She looks at me, "about what?"

"I'm sorry.." she tilts her head confused. "I used to push you away and hate you a little." She looks away again, shit.

"Look...once you left I thought I could have peace and quiet and be able to train and meditate alone but it didn't feel the same. I couldn't do it either way, Pucca, I realized it was because you weren't there. You always made my days super interesting. I never had feelings for you, but if I did there was a good reason for me to act like I didn't."

"Didn't? Garu does that-"

"If I did like you I wouldn't want you to get hurt in my problems with Tobe or Muji. Or anyone else. I want you to be safe and being with me just isn't a good thing and-"

I quickly shut up when Pucca places a small kiss on my cheek. I hear Niko gasp. She gets up and takes two steps to Pucca.

"Listen here miss. I don't know who you are or who you think you are but Garu-kun is my boyfriend!" We both stare at her in silence. "W-wait...Garu...?" My eyes widen as I registered what Niko said, "WHAT!? I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND!"

"oh Garu~ you don't have to deny it! We should make it public!" She giggles. She makes me sick now. I grab Pucca's hand, Niko quickly slaps me. "Don't touch her!" She growls at Pucca. Pucca flinches, something she didn't do back then. Something must of happened in school for her to act like this. "L-listen...I don't want to get hurt ok? I-I'll leave I guess..." Pucca gets up and pushes her chair in. She walks away, turning to look at me and waves with the saddest of smile I've ever seen. I get up but Niko pushes me back onto the chair. She sits on my laps and sloppily kisses me. I push her off making her land on the floor.

I run after Pucca. I lost her once I don't want to lose her again, in the distance I can hear Niko cursing in Japanese. Ching and Abyo yelling at her as well. I leave the building and look around, "Pucca! PUCCA!?" I hear quiet sobbing in the side of the building. I look into the alley way and see Pucca crying. Her sleeves are down and I see purple marks all over her body. My eyes widen. I run over. "What happened!?" She jumps at my voice and quickly pulls up her sleeves. "N-nothing... don't worry about it..haha...you should go back to your girlfriend.." I get closer and sit infront of her. "She isn't my girlfriend, and you're lying to me." She looks away. "I-I'm fine...honest...hehe.."

"Pucca." I cup her face. Tears falling. I begin to wipe her tears and suddenly she throws herself onto me. "Oh Garu! School is hell! People hate me! I get bullied and physical hurt! Just Friday this guy threw me into the lockers almost killing me!" My eyes widen. I sit back up and hold her in my arms.

Her heart beating fast as she cries. As if a child had lost their mother. I hold her close and try to comfort her. "Don't listen to them. You are an amazing girl! You are smart, generous, beautiful-" I quickly cover my mouth when that comes out, she looks at me and giggles. "Y-You think I'm beautiful?"

"I-I-I NEVER SAID THAT!" She giggles again. I love to her see smile. It's my mission to keep her happy and safe, but I seem to have failed once she left. "Ok. I did." She smiles as she looks at me again. "I think you are pretty- no beautiful- wait no.. not beautiful or pretty." Her smile fades and she looks away, "I think you're gorgeous!" She quickly looks at me. "W-what..? Me gorgeous!? No way! Something's wrong in that head of your's Garu! First you say I'm gorgeous what's next you'll kiss me? Hahaha-" I do as she said, mainly to keep her from doubting herself. I softly kiss her lips.

Her lips are soft, I melt into the kiss I started. She doesn't react at first but then she returns the kiss. Everything fades away the noise and all, it's just me and her. I pull away, she stays silent and her eyes grow wide. "Y-You....YOU KISSED ME!? GARU!? ATE YOU OKAY!?" I chuckle. "Yeah, I'm feeling wonderful!" Suddenly we hear yelling. "GARU BABE WHERE ARE YOU!?" I look back at Pucca, she looks hurt and I don't like it. I carefully get up holding her close to me. I walk out of the alley way to be met with an angry Niko. "What do you want Niko?" I sternly ask. "OH!" she turns around her cheery voice quickly changes, "I said don't go near her! Damn it!" She raises her hand to hit Pucca, but I grab a hold of her wrist. "Don't lay a hand on my girl." Niko's face grows with anger. She pulls her arm away and storms off. "I hope you both die in hell!"

"I don't think so, I'm already in heaven!" I shout back. She gets annoyed and runs off. Ching and Abyo walk out of the restaurant and sees me cradling Pucca. Our faces glow red as they smirk. "Hey Pucca can we stay with you for tonight?" Ching smiles, Pucca nods. "Oh! Garu can we pack our stuff from the hotel and just stay with Pucca for the rest of the week?" I shrug, I look down at Pucca. "Is that ok with you?"She nods smiling. "Alright, I set her down as we head to the hotel. Forgetting about our meals, either way Abyo told me they didn't bring out the food cause of our commotion. At least I didn't pay. We arrive at the hotel and we head to our room. We quickly pack all of our belongings and leave the hotel. I return the keys to the lady up in the front desk and tell her our plans were cut short. She nods and asks for my card to return the money for the other nights, I do so and hand her my card. She swiped it and then enters some numbers, she smiles and hands me back my card.

"All you're money should return within the next 3 hours. Sayonara!", She smiles. "Sayonara!" I call out as we leave the hotel. We all walk for about an hour until we arrive to Pucca's small apartment. "Did you buy this?" She shakes her head. "No just renting it for the four years I'll be attending the school." We all look around and see she has four bedrooms. "Why so many bedrooms?" Pucca shrugs, "it came like this and it has more space so I took it." We a nod. We all head to a room and unpack our things. We settle in just fine. I lay on the bed and turn on the TV. As I watch some random show I begin to slowly drift to sleep.

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I hear someone open my door. I look over to see Pucca walking in, "h-hey...sorry...um...can I sleep with you? I'm kinda scared Niko-chan might of followed us here and could attack me.", I chuckle. "I-Its not funny!" Pucca whisper-shouts as she walks up to my bed. Blanket in hand, so cute. She looks like a child! I nod still sleepy. She crawls up beside me she lays down and smiles at me. I wrap my arms around her small body and put her closer. She curls up and soon enough she falls asleep. Her quiet snores fill the room, and with that I too begin to drift to sleep.The last thing I said before I fell asleep were, "I missed you Pucca."As I lay there arms wrapped around Pucca, finally I close my eyes and fall into a deep sleep.