JaPan numba 2!!

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"Azuma-kun," Tsukino said awkwardly. She didn't know how to address this matter in a way that wouldn't be seen as rude, or anything that would make her seem like she didn't like him. She was just curious.

Tsukino fumbled with her hands as she stood in the kitchen of the Southern Branch of Pantaisa. Azuma was baking bread- like he always did, twenty four/ seven – with the same determination to bake the most delicious bread that he could.

"Yeah, Tsukino-san?" Azuma continued to look at the unfinished bread.

"Aaaahh….I was…I just wondering…" She faltered again. Why was this so hard to say?

"Yeah?" His eyes were still on the bread.

"…Do you…Why do you always keep the same hair style?!" Tsukino blurted. 'At least that's one way to ask it…'

Azuma took his eyes off the unfinished bread and looked at her. He blinked a few times, and then said, "Why? You don't like it?"

"N-No! No, it's not that at all, Azuma-kun! But it's just…the hair band that I gave you-"

"Do you want it back?"

"Noo! " said an exasperated Tsukino. "Azuma-kun, why do you keep such acheap, disgusting, pink thing? You're a professional baker!" Tsukino instantly covered her mouth and regretted saying any of that. But hey, it took her fifty eight words just to ask that. New record.

Azuma was still looking at her in his childish, naïve, kind way. Still looking at her, he touched the "cheap, discussing, pink" head band that was placed on his head. His eye brows furrowed and his lower lip jutted out a little. "…But I like it."

'……What…?'

"Yeah, I like it a lot. I don't care if it's pink- it's a nice color. And look," Azuma walked to her, taking off the head band, and held it in his hands. "See? There's no stains on it, or nothing disgusting what so ever on it. And who's gonna know if it's cheap? I don't care."

"Azuma-kun…" Tsukino looked at him. Was he actually defending her old hair band?

"And besides- this is a present from Tsukino-san!" He looked happily at her. "When ever I look at it, so many memories come back! That's why I wear this- -I wear it for the memories and the happiness, and the sadness, and all that happened in-between!"

"…Azu-" Azuma grabbed her hand and shook it.

"Thank you, Tsukino-san! Thank you so much!"

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Hmm...I think I made Tsukino a little OCC.

What do you think?