A/N: Is this the last chapter? Yeah, I think this is. To tell the truth, I finish all things I started even if I get bored with it. So don't worry if I update my stories reeeeeaaal slowly since I'm not gonna abandon it :) I'm just a being addicted to gaming that's why I update slow :( Anyway, sorry to keep you waiting. Here's the next(last) chapter. Sorry to rush it. RxR~
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Chapter Eleven: Happy or Sad Ending?
"Go for it, Sakuno! I'll cheer for you!" Kosuke said with a smile upon Sakuno's declaration. Sakuno smiled back and nodded.
"Thank you for everything Kosuke-kun. You've always been there when I'm in trouble. You're always by my side. Thank you very much." Sakuno thanked Kosuke over and over again. Her heart is filled with so much gratitude for him.
"Oh please stop that Sakuno. You're making me blush." Kosuke faked being shy as he said that. Sakuno giggled.
"Thank you for always making me smile too."
The regulars, along with Sakuno, walked out of the hospital together. Ryoma was behind the regulars and Sakuno was walking slowly behind him. Sakuno stared at Ryoma's back as they walked and she picked up her courage and grabbed his shirt. Ryoma, feeling a tug from behind, stopped and looked at Sakuno questioningly.
"Ryoma-kun, tomorrow at school at lunch break, uhm, can we meet?" Sakuno blushed and stuttered as she asked.
"Sure." Ryoma answered as he walked away.
Sakuno breathed a huge sigh of relief as the first obstacle in her quest has just been done. Now the next is the real thing.
~xoxoxoxo~
"R-Ryoma-kun... I-uhm, I-I r-re-eally like you!" Sakuno exclaimed as she blushed furiously.
Ryoma, taken aback at the sudden confession, opened his mouth to reply.
"I..." Ryoma started but suddenly, someone punched him out of the blue! Ryoma fell on the ground due to the impact and prepared to glare at that someone who punched him. When he looked, he was shocked to see that it was Kosuke! But wait, Sakuno is in Kosuke's body, how can they be separated. Ryoma looked back at Sakuno and noticed that it was Sakuno's body not Kosuke.
Ryoma suddenly opened his eyes and realized he fell down from his bed.
"...So it was a dream. Or a nightmare?" Ryoma muttered with a deadpanned face. He remembered the events in the dream. Sakuno was confessing to him. Ryoma suddenly realized that he had a goofy smile on his face. He shook his head trying to not overthink things. It was just a dream. There's no way that could happen, right?
~xoxoxoxo~
Dead wrong.
Ryoma stood there in shock as he tried to fit all the things that Sakuno said in his brain. Sakuno actually confessed. They met up at lunch break and Sakuno, while blushing, suddenly confessed. Ryoma watched as Sakuno blushed and fidgeted. She had a determined face but there was a hint of worry in it.
"I..." Ryoma started but no words came out right after.
'Geez, was it this hard to answer her question? But if she can say it straight at me and I can't, that means I lost to her? Hell no!' Ryoma angrily thought.
Sakuno frowned seeing Ryoma's angry expression, immediately thinking that she was gonna be rejected.
"I-It's okay, Ryoma-kun. I understand your feelings. Y-You don't have to force yourself to like me. I-I'll just give up." Sakuno bowed her head, hiding her expression.
'What? How could she think I rejected her?' Ryoma thought, 'Duh, it's because you aren't saying a thing.' Ryoma answered his own question.
"Uhh, no. Don't give up just yet." Ryoma said as he bit his lower lip and looked away. Sakuno instantly looked at Ryoma with hopeful eyes.
"Actually, I..." Ryoma paused for awhile and looked back at Sakuno and stared into Sakuno's eyes, rather Kosuke's eyes, with a slightly shy expression, "I accept your feelings."
Sakuno opened her mouth in shock. Is she dreaming? She pinched herself on the cheek and it hurt meaning it wasn't a dream! Sakuno grinned widely. Her wish came true. She feels as if she's the happiest person on the world.
Kosuke smiled at Sakuno's expression, 'Her wish finally came true.'
Kosuke stopped smiling and stared at Ryoma, 'But this just means that it's goodbye for us. In the end, even if we're always together, I still lost to him. I'm such a loser.' Kosuke chuckled as he thought.
Meanwhile, behind the bushes...
"What a nice atmosphere." Momo said.
Eiji nodded agreeing with Momo.
"But this is wrong. Guys shouldn't fall in love with the same sex." Oishi worriedly said.
"Anything else doesn't matter if it's love." Eiji said.
"But what about Ryuzaki-chan?" Fuji asked. They all turned silence.
After a moment of silence, they all jumped out of the bush and charged Ryoma.
"Echizeeeen!" They shouted as they tackled Ryoma to the ground.
"Wha-?" Ryoma spouted as he fell down.
"Itai. What are you doing, senpai-tachi!" Ryoma shouted.
"You can't do this to Ryuzaki-chan, ochibi!" Eiji shouted as he took hold of Ryoma's shoulders and shook him.
"Don't fall in love with Tsuda, Echizen! It's wrong for the same sex to fall for each other! Besides, you have Ryuzaki-chan!" Oishi stressed. Ryoma and Sakuno sweatdropped.
Kosuke facepalmed, "My image is so ruined."
Ryoma stood up and dusted the dirt off his pants and said, "That's not it at all, senpai-tachi."
"Tsuda just asked me to visit Ryuzaki with him at the hospital later after school." Ryoma used as an excuse and walked away.
The regulars stared at Ryoma's back as he walked away.
"I mean it." Ryoma added, glancing at Sakuno's direction. Sakuno slightly widened her eyes and nodded at Ryoma. The regulars not noticing their silent exchange.
~xoxoxoxo~
After school, Ryoma waited for Sakuno at the school gates and when she came, they headed to the hospital together. It was an awkward silence and they can't possibly hold hands since they're both guys at the moment. Geez, Ryoma feels so gay now, answering a confession from a guy with a girl inside.
They entered Sakuno's room and Sakuno took a look around the room. Sooner or later, she would wake up. She's pretty sure she will wake up soon. Sakuno smiled. Just then, something on the bed right next to Sakuno's real body caught her eye. It was a pink bunny. The same pink bunny Ryoma won for her back at the field trip. Sakuno looked at Ryoma who was staring at Sakuno's real body.
"Ryoma-kun, th-" Sakuno stopped talking and Ryoma looked at her questioningly.
"It's nothing." Sakuno smiled, 'I'll thank him for the bunny when I get back to my own body.'
Sakuno then realized that Kosuke has been quiet this whole time. Since Ryoma knows everything about her situation except that Kosuke is inside her, she spoke normally to Kosuke.
"Kosuke-kun, you're quiet again." Sakuno said. Ryoma slightly widened his eyes.
"Huh? What did you just do? Why'd you talk to me normally in front of him?" Kosuke freaked out.
"But, Ryoma-kun already knows. So why should we still keep that you're inside me a secret?" Sakuno answered. Ryoma jawdropped.
"Inside you? Tsuda's inside you?" Ryoma asked in a threatening voice. Kosuke sweatdropped.
'I'm so dead!' Kosuke thought.
"Yes." Sakuno answered cheerfully, not knowing of the deadly aura Ryoma's letting out.
Kosuke deadpanned, "You're making it worse, Sakuno. Please stop talking." Kosuke whined. Sakuno tilted her head questioningly.
"When are you gonna return, Ryuzaki?" Ryoma suddenly asked.
"Sooner or later." Sakuno answered.
"How would you know?"
"The condition to go back is to get my wish granted. It was just granted so I'm pretty sure I'll get back to my own body." Sakuno said as she stared at Ryoma meaningfully.
"Your wish is?" Ryoma can't help but ask.
"... I wanted to always be by your side." Sakuno blushed as she confessed once again. Ryoma smiled.
"But when I remembered that Kosuke-kun was my friend like Tomo-chan is to me, I can't help but change my wish to make us happy together. But no matter how happy we are, we didn't change back. Maybe it's because deep inside, I still want my wish of wanting to be with you." Sakuno said.
Ryoma and Kosuke listened to her statement. Both with different reactions. Ryoma felt glad about Sakuno's feelings for him but Kosuke on the other hand felt hurt.
'So the only reason why we couldn't change back was because deep inside her heart, she still wished for him.' Kosuke bitterly thought.
~xoxoxoxo~
"Congratulations. You finished your mission. You can now go back to your own bodies."
Sakuno opened her eyes the next morning. Her view was foggy and she blinked her eyes to adjust to the light. She instantly widened her eyes at the white ceiling. Kosuke's room has blue ceiling so that must mean that she's in the hospital and is back to normal? She tried to sit up but failed as her body was still weakened. She looked to her side and saw the pink bunny Ryoma gave her. So she really is back to normal.
Kosuke woke up and was met with his usual blue ceiling. He sat up and realized that he's in control of his body again. Kosuke was about to rejoice but became worried thinking that it was just like last time and Sakuno might still be in a coma. He quickly jumped out of bed and wore casual clothes and went downstairs. He saw his parents and grinned and hugged them.
"I'm so happy to be alive!" Kosuke shouted. Kosuke's parents looked at him weirdly.
"Did you not get enough sleep, Kosuke?" Emiko asked.
"Why aren't you in your school uniform, Kosuke? Are you planning to ditch classes?" Yosuke asked.
"Uhm, can I ditch just this once? I want to visit a friend in the hospital." Kosuke said. His parents sighed.
"Well, nothing can stop you anyway and you're already dressed like that so go." They said.
"Thank you!" Kosuke shouted as he headed out the door.
~xoxoxoxo~
Kosuke ran to the hospital then to Sakuno's room. Some nurses he ran past shouted at him to not run in the hospital but he continued running anyway. When he was near Sakuno's room, he saw figure about to open the door.
"Echizen?" Kosuke spouted. Ryoma looked to his side and saw him.
"Tsuda? You ditched school?" Ryoma asked.
"Uhh, yeah. I can see you're ditching as well. Also, how'd you know I was Kosuke?" Kosuke asked with a surprised expression.
"Ryuzaki calls me my first name. I came here since I just had a feeling that I should go here." Ryoma answered as he opened the door to Sakuno's room.
Sakuno noticed the door open and looked to see who it is and saw Ryoma.
"Ryoma-kun!" Sakuno exclaimed with a bright expression on her face. Ryoma smiled at Sakuno and Sakuno blushed.
"I see you're back to normal." Ryoma said. Kosuke pushed Ryoma inside to take a look.
"Sakuno!" Kosuke cheerfully exclaimed.
"Kosuke-kun! You're back to normal too." Sakuno excitedly said. Kosuke nodded.
"Uhm, It's a good thing you guys are here. I would like to visit obaachan. Can you help me?" Sakuno asked.
Ryoma and Kosuke nodded.
They asked a nurse for a wheelchair and let Sakuno sit there. Right after, they went to Sumire's room. Ryoma and Kosuke went out of the room to let Sakuno and her grandmother have privacy.
"So, you were inside Ryuzaki the whole time huh?" Ryoma asked Kosuke with a threatening voice. Kosuke shuddered.
"T-That's right. But when she takes a bath or changes clothes, she puts a blindfold on so she didn't see anything. Nothing at all." Kosuke stuttered as he was scared shitless because of Ryoma's deadly aura.
"Hn." Ryoma looked away. Kosuke sighed in relief, 'I thought he was gonna kill me.'
Meanwhile with Sakuno and Sumire...
"Obaachan, wake up already. I'm here, I'm back. You don't have to worry anymore so please wake up." Sakuno said as she held her grandmother's hands.
~xoxoxoxo~
The next day...
"WHAT?" The regulars gathered around as they saw Ryoma with Sakuno on the tennis courts.
"You're back! How are you feeling? Are you sure you should be out of the hospital so soon?" The regulars asked nonstop.
"I'm fine, senpai-tachi." Sakuno smiled at them, "Thank you very much for worrying about me."
"Nya! We're just glad you're here now! You see, ochibi's cheating on you with Kosuke-chan!" Eiji said. Ryoma and Sakuno sweatdropped.
'They shall never know the truth.' Ryoma and Sakuno thought simultaneously.
"By the way, where's Tsuda?" Kawamura asked.
"With his girlfriend." Sakuno answered. Ryoma smirked.
"He has a girlfriend?" The regulars widened their eyes in shock. Sakuno nodded.
'It was my fault though that he has a girlfriend.' Sakuno sweatdropped remembering the failed confessions she was gonna say to Ryoma but ended with the random girl.
"Now all we have do is to wait for Ryuzaki-sensei to wake up." Oishi said. They nodded.
"I hope she wakes up soon."
~xoxoxoxo~
After a few days, Sumire woke up and was overjoyed to find that Sakuno came back. Sakuno and Sumire went back to their home together with Ryoma. Sakuno and Ryoma went to Sakuno's room and Ryoma noticed the pink bunny on her bed.
"Oh, I forgot to say thank you for that." Sakuno realized as she saw Ryoma looking at it.
"Ryoma-kun, thank you very much for that stuff toy. I was really happy when I received it when I was in Kosuke-kun's body." Sakuno said with a smile. Ryoma smiled back.
~xoxoxoxo~
Kosuke stared at the blue bunny Sakuno left behind. He tried to return it to her one day but Sakuno said it was his not hers. As if he's gonna accept a gift from some guy! Kosuke laughed.
"It wasn't so bad hanging out with Echizen though. In fact, he must be the one the angel was referring to when he said that I would receive help from someone." Kosuke muttered as he held the blue bunny high.
"I'm gonna move on. My girlfriend is a nice person. I'm pretty sure I'll like her." Kosuke said talking to the stuffed toy.
~xoxoxoxo~
Life went back to normal but sometimes, Sakuno would put on a blindfold when changing her clothes and taking a bath then realizing that Kosuke isn't there anymore. Sakuno would giggle at her own stupidity and somehow kind of missed Kosuke's company.
Oh well, they always meet in school anyway.
End of Story