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Title: Bitter Sweet
Author: Mairi (DarkWingedAngelMairiel)
Proof Reader: Kaoru Saotome.
Warnings: OOCness,
Other notes: This is the FINAL chapter of this story
Summary: Aoyama is dead. FUN! Will Ichigo be awake or has the worst actually happened?
Pairings: Ryou x Ichigo, Kishu x Mint, Tart x Pudding, Pai x Lettuce, Keiichiro x OOC, Zakuro x Gin
Where we left off:
"Shirogane-san, Akasaka-san! Come quickly!" Lettuce shouted,
"What is it? What's wrong?" Ryou asked raising his voice that showed concern.
"It's Ichigo shes…" Mint started her eyes beginning to get a little watery.
Chapter 9 Silent Promises
"She's woken up!" Mint continued wiping a tear from her eye, she was happy that her friend had finally awoken from that deep sleep she seemed to be in. Ryou didn't respond to it instead he rushed by Mint, Lettuce and Pudding up the stairs and into the guest room where Ichigo had seemed to have returned to her normal cheery self, Zakuro and Kiwi had taken off the bandages and plasters, and fixed up her hair for her to. They glanced to Ryou who was standing at the doorway, almost crying to he didn't think she was going to wake up. The older girls got up and left, Zakuro prodding Ryou into the room more so she could close the door behind him. The others were now in the corridor, Mint was being so emotional that Pudding started crying with happiness. Kishu and Tart decided to comfort the two girls until they stopped.
Inside the room Ryou had made his way over to the bed and sat next to her.
"Ichigo, how are you feeling?" He asked, placing a hand on her head.
"A bit drowsy but fine, how long have I been asleep Shirogane-san?" She questioned.
"Uh. About two or three days?" He honestly couldn't remember the exact number of days she slept for, but it was long enough either way.
"Two or three days? My parents must be worrying so much!" She said getting a little paranoid.
"They're not. We covered it up by saying you were staying with Kiwi for a while to improve your English for school."
"And it worked?"
"Yep."
"Wow, and…what about, you know who…Aoyama? He hasn't come looking for me…has he?" She asked, getting quieter. Ryou's expression changed a little, he brought her into a hug and wasn't about to let her go even if she was squirming.
"He won't be bothering you ever again, and I mean ever."
"Where did he go?"
"Well, what happened is that… he came in and started up, we all dealt with him and then…Kishu finished him off."
"You mean Kishu killed him?"
"Yeah, he did."
"I see, ne Shiro-"
"Ryou."
"What?"
"Call me Ryou, instead of Shirogane-san."
"Ok then…Ryou?"
"Hm?"
"Thank you, for being there for me." She said a tint of red spreading over her cheeks. Ryou just chuckled at her, it was so cute. He took her chin in one hand and lowered his head to hers and kissed her. Ichigo went a shade redder but quickly hid it as she kissed him back, wrapping her arms around him.
CRASH.
The door swung open and a pile of eavesdroppers fell through the space. Well most of them apart from Zakuro, Kiwi, Pai and Keiichiro.
"Damnit I told you not to lean on me to hard!" Mint wailed at Lettuce.
"Gomen Mint!"
"Ow, will you all get off of me! I'm being SQUISHED!" Kishu complained.
"NE! Look! Ichigo and Shirogane-san are kissing na no da!" Pudding shouted while pointing at the two of them.
"Oh yeah, the hag is kissing the lightbulb!" Tart laughed. Cue sweatdrops.
Ichigo and Ryou twitched at the names that Tart addressed them as and turned to the group, with eyes that looked like they had fire within them. Tart suddenly felt his life was on the edge.
"Ahahahaha, I was kidding guys." He said bringing his hand up, the others about him quickly got up and backed off to the side as the other two headed towards Tart. Tart's eyes widened and then…he was off like a shot, Ryou and Ichigo took off after him as well as Pudding.
"Well, I guess they'll be chasing him for a while. Do you think we'll need to call Ichigo's parents and tell her that she'll be sleeping at Kiwi's again?" Mint said.
"We'll probably need to." Zakuro replied.
"I don't mind really." Kiwi said, her arms behind her head as she watched the chase from the window. "How can they do that?"
"Since we're closed up how about we just get going?" Pai said taking Lettuce's arm and started to head off. Lettuce was blushing brighter than a tomato now.
"Seems like a good idea if you ask me," Kishu agreed taking Mint by the hand and wandering off. Zakuro caught onto this sly plan of theirs and decided to go along with it,
"Ah good thing to I have a date with Gin, laters." She said rather quickly, wandering off. Keiichiro had noticed that Kiwi was still staring out the window and sweat-dropped. He'd caught on after Zakuro had left the café he was wondering if she had caught onto it. Kiwi turned to him.
"They'll pay for doing that you know."
"You knew?"
"Yep. I think I'll do an april fools prank…oh…four months early."
"For some reason I can't bring myself to disagree, we do have a lot of things to clear up downstairs."
"Hehe, let's get started then." She said walking by him.
"Fancy going out to dinner afterwords?"
She stopped and turned her head a small smile on her face, then a nod.
"Love to."
Meanwhile, Ichigo and Ryou had lost trail of the small alien and came to stop at the park, they both sat down on one of the benches laughing now.
"Are you tired, Ichigo?"
"Not really, just out of breath from running after Tart. You?"
"Nope. Hey I realised that we just took off leaving the others to tidy up."
"Ah well. They won't mind." Ichigo giggled. Ryou laughed a bit to before giving her a peck on the cheek making her blush again.
"Ryou you're evil!" She said hiding her face with her hands,
"Awww, don't hide it. I think it's adorable."
"You do?" She asked, her eye peeking through the gap in her now parted fingers. Ryou gave a nod then hugged her again.
"Ichigo, do you…want to…go, out with…me?"
She glanced up to him, not knowing if she was going a deeper red. Ryou thought he'd just screwed up.
"I uh, well… I mean, that is…uh…if…you want..to."
"I will, Ryou."
"You will?"
"Yeah."
"Seriously?"
"Yes!" She said hugging him tightly. They stayed on the bench embracing each other for a while longer and decided to head back to the café, they walked together, side by side, hand in hand. Ryou wouldn't let her go easily not for anyone or anything. From that moment on he vowed that he'd protect her with everything he had until the very end.
- Owari
teehee yes i got the response i was aiming for, a big hug to all of you P What did ya think of this chappie? to short? to long? not enough loviedovieness o.O if you call it that x) anyways i hope you liked it! Now >> if you've read my fic 'Opening Up' you'll be pleased to know that i've began setting out a plot for the sequel but i won't say what it's about. Keep looking at the profile page, i'll put a note of when the first chapter should be up by. Until then Ja ne!