Love & Truth - Part 1
Title: Love and Truth
Author: dephi
Pairing: RyoDa, Ryo/OC
Rating: PG - 13 for the angst
Disclaimer: Own the plot, not the people, title taken from Yui's song
Summary: Ryo and Nana were childhood friends and as the grew up, Nana started to have a deeper feeling of Ryo while the said person didn't seem to realize it. Desperate, Nana decided to bring Ueda Tatsuya here to help her, although the result might not be as what she had wanted to have.
A/N: This is only the first part, not much dialogues, more into narration, so hopefully it won't be that boring.. :)
It was quite a cold Autumn day as the wind blew hard even though it was not Winter yet. Brown leaves started falling down from its tree which covered most part of the land since it was already the last days of Autumn. The lazy feeling started devouring people while it was getting even colder each day. Streets were as busy as ever, especially since it was around the time for schools end while parks were occupied by students.
Couples of High School students were seen around the park; some sitting at some benches, some were queuing at food stalls or even eating together, while some were just talking around. It was not an unusual view of course, instead it would be too strange if any of this was not seen in sight of a park. They were all in couple, except for a guy, who was wearing a high school uniform, sitting alone in one of the bench at the park. He looked a bit impatient as he took a glance at his watch a few times while observing his surrounding then sighed and groaned disappointedly every time he did so as he couldn't catch the sight of the person he had been waiting for. It was not because of his anger, it was more because he was worried if something wrong happened which halted the other party's way. He took his phone for the umphteen time and sighed when no mail was sent for him. Nobody accepted his phone too which scared him even more. While he was so into all of his worries, suddenly a pair of cold hands covered both of his eyes, blocking his sight, which surprised him, a lot.
"Ryo - chan~" a girl's voice was heard as the hands had been removed from covering his eyes.
"Argh, Nana." Ryo groaned as he turned his head to face the one he had been waiting for, Nana. "You're late, a lot." he complained while glaring at Nana but actually he was relieved that she managed to come safely, hopefully.
Nana giggles as she heard Ryo's complaint and smiled naughtily when she faced Ryo. "Ahaha, sorry. I have to submit my report first and I couldn't find my teacher anywhere. Nana had to go all around the school to find the teacher and dashed here immediately. But you know Ryo - chan, the teacher was so annoying! She kept calling me with some strange names and others." Nana reasoned while adding some complaints as she saw that it would be bad to joke around with Ryo more than this. "Sorry, ok. Saa, let's go, shall we? Nana still has some homeworks to do later so let's look for the present fast, ok, Ryo - chan?" Nana exclaimed, and before Ryo barely said anything she had walked away, leaving Ryo no other choice but to follow her instead. "How many times have I told you not to call me Ryo - chan.."
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Ryo and Nana had known each other since small as they were neighbours. Ryo, Nishikido Ryo was actually born in Osaka but his family had to move to Tokyo because of his father's job when Ryo was still 7. He had 2 older brothers and a younger sister which might be the reason why he had never felt lonely so far. Both of his parents pampered their children equally (at least they didn't favour one of their children only) thus the tie between brothers and sister was so tight. They had never got any financial problem either which made their family even more perfect.
Growing up in such a happy family made Ryo grew up as a good guy, well practically he is a good guy if we ignore his naughty side. He had already made quite a lot of friends when his father told him that he got transferred into the main branch of the company in Tokyo. Being the healthy small boy he was, Ryo rejected that idea immediately as he didn't want to move and leave all of his best friends. As a child who knew nothing, he even forced his parents in some irrational way, such as refuse eating which lasted for a half day only, and some other childish ways. But strangely in one day he came home crying then he told his dad that he agreed to move, as soon as possible. His parents, who had no idea at all of the sudden change of him, agreed deliberately but later they found that Ryo was so sad because one of his friends was hurt when trying to protect Ryo from being bullied. Yes, Ryo had a small body compared to the other boys around his age. It bothered him so much but luckily Ryo was not the one who gave up easily and he fought back whoever mentioned about his small body too much than needed. His tough character made the other boys didn't dare to tease him more. But not all the boys could accept his straightforwardness. A few of them kept bothering Ryo and at the end this kind of incident happened.
Ryo felt that it was his fault that all of this happened when actually it wasn't, and he somehow understood that this kind of incident could be repeated. He didn't want to see his friend being hurt because of him anymore thus he decided to follow his father at the end, even if it was sad.
Nana was born in Tokyo with Tanaka surname. She had no siblings at all as her mother's health was deteriorating a few years after she gave birth to Nana. His father was a dentist who worked in a hospital.
Nana grew up alone as his father's job made him came home late while her mother couldn't leave her bed for a long time. She inherited her mother's beauty and luckily not her sick body. But growing up alone made Nana became a shy girl and boys loved teasing her as they found her cute, especially when she was blushing because of the teases.
Ryo and Nana first met just right after Nishikido's family arrived at the apartment building. Being the usual small naughty boys, Ryo and his second brother managed to sneak away, escaping from helping with the moving, while his first brother was stuck with helping out. They parted their way as Ryo's big brother was taking an interest on something outside while Ryo preferred to stay around the apartment, in case his parents found their missing (and of course they would know it sooner or later) he wouldn't be punished that hard.
Ryo walked around until he found a small path which somehow led him to a small beautiful flower garden. There were so many kinds of flower which made the garden looked so colourful. It mesmerized the 7-years-old Ryo until a real wide smile was formed in his face. But all of a sudden, Ryo heard a hint of sniffles although he didn't know where it came from. Ryo looked around to see if anybody was around and as he saw nobody in sight, he decided to ignore what he might have heard. Just when he had made up his mind the sniffles were heard, even louder this time. Curiously, he traced where he heard the low voices from with all he might as the flowers were way too high for a small boy like him. Ryo sighed relievedly as he could finally find the source of the voice but he gasped as he saw a small girl, who should be around his age, crying. She was wearing a pink dress with lots of ribbons and her hair was made into a pig tail with a peach ribbon tied nicely there. That was the first memory Ryo had for Nana, a weak crying girl wearing a full of ribbons dress. Ryo didn't know what to do at that kind of situation as nobody had taught him for that. And that was why he decided to remain silence, observing the girl only.
Small Nana seemed to realize that someone was observing her as she somehow stopped her cry and tilted her head a bit to see who it was. Her eyes were widened as she saw Ryo since she thought that Ryo was going to tease her like what the other boys did to her. Nana was left frowned for a while then she stood up and started stepping back, trying to find any escape. But as she found that she couldn't escape anywhere, she started crying again which confused Ryo even more.
'What is wrong with you?' Ryo asked as Nana cried even louder.
Nana, still crying, tilted her head a bit to meet Ryo.'D-Don't come here. You are just going to tease me like the other boys.' she said between her cries.
Ryo gave no reply at all as he only gazed at her and it remained for some minutes. Nana seemed to feel a bit embarrassed as she suddenly stopped crying but still didn't dare to meet Ryo's eyes. 'No, I won't.' Just a simple reply from Ryo and somehow when they realized both of them were already near their apartments' door where both Ryo and Nana's parents were chatting and no punishment was given for Ryo as he found the missing Nana. From that day on, Ryo decided that he would be the one who protect Nana, a girl who was much weaker than him, and he still did that even until they were at their 2nd year of High School, although it was in a different form of protecting. For him protecting the weaker meant he was strong...
As the time went by both friends grew up and had their own life. Although they still considered each other as best friends none of them could deny that things were changed, especially since they went to different schools for high school. The small Ryo we knew had grown up into a fine young man. In his 17 years old age, he was way taller than he used to be, although there were some other boys taller than him at least he was not that short. Ryo was as straightforward as ever especially since he didn't even hesitate to speak his mind at all. He was good-looking too; some girls asked him for a date but he rejected all of it, saying something like he was not ready yet for any relationships when in fact he didn't take any interest of them at all.
Nana didn't really change that much. She was still the same cute girl but the difference was that she was not the same weak girl who could only cry against the teases, instead she had a great confidence and made friends easily. Ryo still tried to protect her though, perhaps it might be the proof of his pride. Nana was not a stupid girl as she clearly understood that there was a high possibility that Ryo still stayed by her side only for his pride but she didn't really mind it. Little did Ryo know that somehow Nana started to grow a feeling on Ryo and that was why she was alright with that kind of situation as long as Ryo was still beside her.
The closeness between the two of them grew some jealousy of the others. Most of their friends thought that they were dating as both of them always rejected others but Ryo always laughed whenever he heard about that kind of idea. Nana only smiled sweetly while saying No although she wished that it was the truth. The girls' who were rejected by Ryo were jealous of her but they didn't dare to harm Nana as Ryo was always ready to protect Ryo. They didn't dare to show their evil side to Ryo as it would leave a bad impression on Ryo.
But Nana's feeling towards Ryo grew stronger and receiving no signal from Ryo hurt her in some way. She wanted him to see him, not just as a girl he wanted to protect, but as a girl he love. Unfortunately Ryo seemed to shave no interest of something like that at all. Nana had tried to make Ryo jealous by telling him whenever a guy asked her out or something along the line but it still made no changes between the two of them. Nana became impatient at the end so she decided to take another step, the step which might give a totally different result than what she had wanted...
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Ryo was standing under a tree near the front gate of Nana's school. Nana managed to convince Ryo to wait for her today as she said that she had something important to tell him. Ryo didn't want to disappoint Nana, and he didn't have much to do either, so he agreed after a long complicated conversation with Nana. His appearance there made quite a ruckuss as Ryo was quite famous especially around girls so waiting for a long time sure was not a real good situation for Ryo. Ryo looked at his watch again and sighed when he realized that he had been there for almost an hour but there weren't any trace of Nana at all. This girl sure doesn't change at all..
"Ryo - chann~" Ryo finally heard the usual cheerful voice he always got. Finally.. -- Ryo thought before he turned his body around only to meet an unusual sight. There was a feminine guy beside Nana, yes a guy although Ryo thought that he was a girl at first. Both of them were holding each other's hand which turned Ryo's overprotective radar on.
"I am so sorry, Ryo - chan. I was chatting with Rina, I mean my friend I've been telling you about all of this time, until I didn't realize that we had been chatting for quite a long time." she apologized while tucking her tongue, "Thanks god Tat - chan came and reminded me about the time." she added and turned her head to the guy beside her and smiled. "Ah, I forgot to introduce both of you. This one is Ueda Tatsuya, my senior and.." she giggled and that guy smiled as he saw Nana's childish side. Ryo was only staring at that guy, observing every little bit of him only to meet a strange stare from that guy. Was it a hatred, or something? Ryo blinked his eyes, trying to ensure whether that guy had just stared at him differently.
"Ehh, what's wrong, Ryo - chan?" Nana asked as she saw Ryo acted strangely. "Ah, and this is Ryo, Nishikido Ryo, Tat - chan. He's my best friend I always tell you about." She introduced to the guy named Ueda.
Ueda gave a light bow to Ryo but Ryo ignored that and kept staring at him. "Wait, don't say that you're with this.." Ryo gave Ueda a strange look, "girly boy, Nana." Ryo asked as he didn't want to believe it although Nana had indicated so.
"You are not even taller than I do, Nishikido - kun." Ueda said unexpectedly, especially for Ryo as he didn't think that Ueda would dare to talk back to him. "Not to mention how I am older that you, even only for a year."
"W-What?! You!" Ryo turned his head to Nana, "I won't approve your relationship with this girly boy, Nana! Now we had better go home!" Ryo snapped furiously. He wouldn't let himself to lose from this guy, of course. It was a matter of pride and he would surpass this guy for sure. Nana would realize that this guy was worthless. What did Nana see in him anyway?
"Ahh.. I can't, Ryo - chan. I have an extra class shortly. Ah, you had better go home soon or obaa - chan will be angry. Ryo - chan has promised to go shopping with her, right?" Nana replied while pushing Ryo away. "Bye bye, Ryo - chan~" she waved her hand. The furious Ryo didn't know how to reply so he decided to go away after giving a single death glare to Ueda.
Ryo was already far away when Nana stopped waving her hand and tip toed her way to Ueda again. "So that's the guy you told me, huh, Nana? He was a bit jealous I guess. What's the need to do this if he's jealous already?" Ueda suddenly asked when Nana was right in front of him.
Nana didn't reply anything as she was only grinning to Ueda. "Nee, that's not the reaction I want, Tat - chan." she said while turned her body around, "I don't want him to just see me as something he needs to protect, Tat - chan." she continued. There was a silence between them until Nana exhaled a deep breath and turned around again. "You'll help me until the end right, Tat - chan?"
"Of course, Nana - chan. I've promised you anyway. Besides this looks interesting. Well, unless for his sharp tongue." Ueda grinned.
"Aw, he's always like that. But I'm glad you're here, Tat - chan. Tat - chan was the only one I can count on nee.." Nana suddenly looked at her watch, "Ah, I really have to go now. Don't you also have a club activity, Tat - chan? See you later ok?" she ran to the school's direction.
Ueda watched Nana amusedly as she really liked a small kid, despite her appearances as a mature type girl. But then he turned his head to see the direction of where Ryo left earlier and stared at it.
Nishikido Ryo, huh? I wonder...if he has even the slightest memory of me.
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Since the day Ryo discovered that his childhood friend, Nana, had a feminine boyfriend, he kept picking Nana up everytime the school ended although most of the time he wouldn't be able to do so as Nana would either have gone home earlier or even had some extra classes while Ryo's schedule was quite tight too. He found it strange how suddenly Nana seemed to be so distanced for him. It was not like he was jealous or something but it just as if a piece was missing from him. They used to be together most of the times and now they weren't. Ryo had to admit that he felt a bit strange that Nana had a boyfriend, or even he didn't really want to accept the truth.
That condition went on and Ryo was outside Nana's school again as usual. Unfortunately for him Nana seemed to have another extra class, again. Just when he was about to leave the school, Ryo accidentally caught the sight of a certain someone thus he quickly approached that someone.
"Ah, Nishikido." Ueda said when he noticed Ryo's appearance.
There was definitely something about Ueda which Ryo didn't like about although Ryo couldn't really point what. Was it about him being Nana's boyfriend? Her feminine posture? Or even his act towards Ryo? If those were the cases then Ryo could freely declare his hatred to the older boy. That was what Ryo thought but somehow it still bugged him. There should be something else about Ueda. Unfortunately even Ryo couldn't tell what that something really was. It was as if Ueda was his natural enemy, yet on the other side he felt like he had met Ueda before, somewhere he couldn't recall. But of course it was impossible. Ryo didn't really want to boast about it but he had quite a good memory so he should have been able to recognize Ueda from the start if they really have met before.
"Hello? Hello? Nishikido? Is your brain got damaged or something? Or maybe your senses?" Ueda's voice was heard and that made Ryo realized that he was too caught in his own thoughts earlier. Being the usual high pride guy he is, Ryo didn't really want to admit that he was lost in his thought since it was so foolish and continued acting as if he had purposely ignored Ueda.
"Is your friend alright, Tat - chan?"
"Oh Jin. He's not my friend. But he's deaf, maybe. I think we had better go now or we would waste our time on something useless." Ueda remarked before he started walking away, followed by his friend.
Ryo felt a bit offended by Ueda's sentence, so he unconsciously grabbed Ueda's hand right when he was about to leave and dragged him somewhere, ignoring his whimpers and protests.
It was until they reached somewhere, which Ryo assumed to be the back garden of the school, that Ryo loosened his grab on Ueda's hand. Right at that time he also realized that he had done something really stupid, moreover unecessary. Although he was feeling rather ashamed, Ryo decided to face Ueda at last, and what he saw was exactly the same as what he had imagined; Ueda's annoyed face.
"Do you have some problem or something, Nishikido? I bet you need to check yourself to the doctor." Ueda said in an annoyed tone while protesting how painful Ryo's grab was.
The ashamed Ryo could only stare at Ueda while hearing his protests. He found it super annoying, especially when Ueda said how painful it was, or something along the line. Moreover his embarrassment added it all. "Don't be such a girl. You are OLDER than I do, right? I thought that was what you told me last time. And you can't take a little pain like that?"
Ueda immediately sent his glare to the younger man but no words came out from his mouth. But it was clearly seen that he was so furious by Ryo's earlier sentence. Suddenly his mouth curving up a smirk while Ryo couldn't help to twitched his eyebrow when he saw the smirk. "You know, Nana wouldn't like you more if you do this to me, Nishikido. Ah, you are lucky that she is not here now while I don't really like the idea of being a blabbermouth." Ueda smirked before he started walking away.
"You!" Ryo shouted before Ueda was able to move away. "Whatever, I don't mean it like that. But prove it to me that you're worth to be Nana's boyfriend. Then I won't interfere anymore. Before that, I'll keep going here and tormenting you in whichever events possible." he declared but only a smirk was received from Ueda as the answer before the said person turned around and was finally completely away from Ryo's sight.
-End of part 1-
E/N : I'm trying to finish the next past as soon as possible, and hopefully this is only a 2-parts fic. But if it's not, then there'll be the 3rd part and that would be the last. For anyone who's reading my multichapters, I might not update it for quite a while since it's been so depressing for me lately so I'm not really int he mood on continuing my multichapters, while anna-chan is pretty busy herself so couldn't do the beta job.. :D
Thanks for reading, and pelase leave a comment. I really need that now, I guess. Sorry for my selfishness. Just hoping that this is not so boring and not many mistakes (since this is unbeta-ed).
Author: dephi
Pairing: RyoDa, Ryo/OC
Rating: PG - 13 for the angst
Disclaimer: Own the plot, not the people, title taken from Yui's song
Summary: Ryo and Nana were childhood friends and as the grew up, Nana started to have a deeper feeling of Ryo while the said person didn't seem to realize it. Desperate, Nana decided to bring Ueda Tatsuya here to help her, although the result might not be as what she had wanted to have.
A/N: This is only the first part, not much dialogues, more into narration, so hopefully it won't be that boring.. :)
It was quite a cold Autumn day as the wind blew hard even though it was not Winter yet. Brown leaves started falling down from its tree which covered most part of the land since it was already the last days of Autumn. The lazy feeling started devouring people while it was getting even colder each day. Streets were as busy as ever, especially since it was around the time for schools end while parks were occupied by students.
Couples of High School students were seen around the park; some sitting at some benches, some were queuing at food stalls or even eating together, while some were just talking around. It was not an unusual view of course, instead it would be too strange if any of this was not seen in sight of a park. They were all in couple, except for a guy, who was wearing a high school uniform, sitting alone in one of the bench at the park. He looked a bit impatient as he took a glance at his watch a few times while observing his surrounding then sighed and groaned disappointedly every time he did so as he couldn't catch the sight of the person he had been waiting for. It was not because of his anger, it was more because he was worried if something wrong happened which halted the other party's way. He took his phone for the umphteen time and sighed when no mail was sent for him. Nobody accepted his phone too which scared him even more. While he was so into all of his worries, suddenly a pair of cold hands covered both of his eyes, blocking his sight, which surprised him, a lot.
"Ryo - chan~" a girl's voice was heard as the hands had been removed from covering his eyes.
"Argh, Nana." Ryo groaned as he turned his head to face the one he had been waiting for, Nana. "You're late, a lot." he complained while glaring at Nana but actually he was relieved that she managed to come safely, hopefully.
Nana giggles as she heard Ryo's complaint and smiled naughtily when she faced Ryo. "Ahaha, sorry. I have to submit my report first and I couldn't find my teacher anywhere. Nana had to go all around the school to find the teacher and dashed here immediately. But you know Ryo - chan, the teacher was so annoying! She kept calling me with some strange names and others." Nana reasoned while adding some complaints as she saw that it would be bad to joke around with Ryo more than this. "Sorry, ok. Saa, let's go, shall we? Nana still has some homeworks to do later so let's look for the present fast, ok, Ryo - chan?" Nana exclaimed, and before Ryo barely said anything she had walked away, leaving Ryo no other choice but to follow her instead. "How many times have I told you not to call me Ryo - chan.."
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Ryo and Nana had known each other since small as they were neighbours. Ryo, Nishikido Ryo was actually born in Osaka but his family had to move to Tokyo because of his father's job when Ryo was still 7. He had 2 older brothers and a younger sister which might be the reason why he had never felt lonely so far. Both of his parents pampered their children equally (at least they didn't favour one of their children only) thus the tie between brothers and sister was so tight. They had never got any financial problem either which made their family even more perfect.
Growing up in such a happy family made Ryo grew up as a good guy, well practically he is a good guy if we ignore his naughty side. He had already made quite a lot of friends when his father told him that he got transferred into the main branch of the company in Tokyo. Being the healthy small boy he was, Ryo rejected that idea immediately as he didn't want to move and leave all of his best friends. As a child who knew nothing, he even forced his parents in some irrational way, such as refuse eating which lasted for a half day only, and some other childish ways. But strangely in one day he came home crying then he told his dad that he agreed to move, as soon as possible. His parents, who had no idea at all of the sudden change of him, agreed deliberately but later they found that Ryo was so sad because one of his friends was hurt when trying to protect Ryo from being bullied. Yes, Ryo had a small body compared to the other boys around his age. It bothered him so much but luckily Ryo was not the one who gave up easily and he fought back whoever mentioned about his small body too much than needed. His tough character made the other boys didn't dare to tease him more. But not all the boys could accept his straightforwardness. A few of them kept bothering Ryo and at the end this kind of incident happened.
Ryo felt that it was his fault that all of this happened when actually it wasn't, and he somehow understood that this kind of incident could be repeated. He didn't want to see his friend being hurt because of him anymore thus he decided to follow his father at the end, even if it was sad.
Nana was born in Tokyo with Tanaka surname. She had no siblings at all as her mother's health was deteriorating a few years after she gave birth to Nana. His father was a dentist who worked in a hospital.
Nana grew up alone as his father's job made him came home late while her mother couldn't leave her bed for a long time. She inherited her mother's beauty and luckily not her sick body. But growing up alone made Nana became a shy girl and boys loved teasing her as they found her cute, especially when she was blushing because of the teases.
Ryo and Nana first met just right after Nishikido's family arrived at the apartment building. Being the usual small naughty boys, Ryo and his second brother managed to sneak away, escaping from helping with the moving, while his first brother was stuck with helping out. They parted their way as Ryo's big brother was taking an interest on something outside while Ryo preferred to stay around the apartment, in case his parents found their missing (and of course they would know it sooner or later) he wouldn't be punished that hard.
Ryo walked around until he found a small path which somehow led him to a small beautiful flower garden. There were so many kinds of flower which made the garden looked so colourful. It mesmerized the 7-years-old Ryo until a real wide smile was formed in his face. But all of a sudden, Ryo heard a hint of sniffles although he didn't know where it came from. Ryo looked around to see if anybody was around and as he saw nobody in sight, he decided to ignore what he might have heard. Just when he had made up his mind the sniffles were heard, even louder this time. Curiously, he traced where he heard the low voices from with all he might as the flowers were way too high for a small boy like him. Ryo sighed relievedly as he could finally find the source of the voice but he gasped as he saw a small girl, who should be around his age, crying. She was wearing a pink dress with lots of ribbons and her hair was made into a pig tail with a peach ribbon tied nicely there. That was the first memory Ryo had for Nana, a weak crying girl wearing a full of ribbons dress. Ryo didn't know what to do at that kind of situation as nobody had taught him for that. And that was why he decided to remain silence, observing the girl only.
Small Nana seemed to realize that someone was observing her as she somehow stopped her cry and tilted her head a bit to see who it was. Her eyes were widened as she saw Ryo since she thought that Ryo was going to tease her like what the other boys did to her. Nana was left frowned for a while then she stood up and started stepping back, trying to find any escape. But as she found that she couldn't escape anywhere, she started crying again which confused Ryo even more.
'What is wrong with you?' Ryo asked as Nana cried even louder.
Nana, still crying, tilted her head a bit to meet Ryo.'D-Don't come here. You are just going to tease me like the other boys.' she said between her cries.
Ryo gave no reply at all as he only gazed at her and it remained for some minutes. Nana seemed to feel a bit embarrassed as she suddenly stopped crying but still didn't dare to meet Ryo's eyes. 'No, I won't.' Just a simple reply from Ryo and somehow when they realized both of them were already near their apartments' door where both Ryo and Nana's parents were chatting and no punishment was given for Ryo as he found the missing Nana. From that day on, Ryo decided that he would be the one who protect Nana, a girl who was much weaker than him, and he still did that even until they were at their 2nd year of High School, although it was in a different form of protecting. For him protecting the weaker meant he was strong...
As the time went by both friends grew up and had their own life. Although they still considered each other as best friends none of them could deny that things were changed, especially since they went to different schools for high school. The small Ryo we knew had grown up into a fine young man. In his 17 years old age, he was way taller than he used to be, although there were some other boys taller than him at least he was not that short. Ryo was as straightforward as ever especially since he didn't even hesitate to speak his mind at all. He was good-looking too; some girls asked him for a date but he rejected all of it, saying something like he was not ready yet for any relationships when in fact he didn't take any interest of them at all.
Nana didn't really change that much. She was still the same cute girl but the difference was that she was not the same weak girl who could only cry against the teases, instead she had a great confidence and made friends easily. Ryo still tried to protect her though, perhaps it might be the proof of his pride. Nana was not a stupid girl as she clearly understood that there was a high possibility that Ryo still stayed by her side only for his pride but she didn't really mind it. Little did Ryo know that somehow Nana started to grow a feeling on Ryo and that was why she was alright with that kind of situation as long as Ryo was still beside her.
The closeness between the two of them grew some jealousy of the others. Most of their friends thought that they were dating as both of them always rejected others but Ryo always laughed whenever he heard about that kind of idea. Nana only smiled sweetly while saying No although she wished that it was the truth. The girls' who were rejected by Ryo were jealous of her but they didn't dare to harm Nana as Ryo was always ready to protect Ryo. They didn't dare to show their evil side to Ryo as it would leave a bad impression on Ryo.
But Nana's feeling towards Ryo grew stronger and receiving no signal from Ryo hurt her in some way. She wanted him to see him, not just as a girl he wanted to protect, but as a girl he love. Unfortunately Ryo seemed to shave no interest of something like that at all. Nana had tried to make Ryo jealous by telling him whenever a guy asked her out or something along the line but it still made no changes between the two of them. Nana became impatient at the end so she decided to take another step, the step which might give a totally different result than what she had wanted...
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Ryo was standing under a tree near the front gate of Nana's school. Nana managed to convince Ryo to wait for her today as she said that she had something important to tell him. Ryo didn't want to disappoint Nana, and he didn't have much to do either, so he agreed after a long complicated conversation with Nana. His appearance there made quite a ruckuss as Ryo was quite famous especially around girls so waiting for a long time sure was not a real good situation for Ryo. Ryo looked at his watch again and sighed when he realized that he had been there for almost an hour but there weren't any trace of Nana at all. This girl sure doesn't change at all..
"Ryo - chann~" Ryo finally heard the usual cheerful voice he always got. Finally.. -- Ryo thought before he turned his body around only to meet an unusual sight. There was a feminine guy beside Nana, yes a guy although Ryo thought that he was a girl at first. Both of them were holding each other's hand which turned Ryo's overprotective radar on.
"I am so sorry, Ryo - chan. I was chatting with Rina, I mean my friend I've been telling you about all of this time, until I didn't realize that we had been chatting for quite a long time." she apologized while tucking her tongue, "Thanks god Tat - chan came and reminded me about the time." she added and turned her head to the guy beside her and smiled. "Ah, I forgot to introduce both of you. This one is Ueda Tatsuya, my senior and.." she giggled and that guy smiled as he saw Nana's childish side. Ryo was only staring at that guy, observing every little bit of him only to meet a strange stare from that guy. Was it a hatred, or something? Ryo blinked his eyes, trying to ensure whether that guy had just stared at him differently.
"Ehh, what's wrong, Ryo - chan?" Nana asked as she saw Ryo acted strangely. "Ah, and this is Ryo, Nishikido Ryo, Tat - chan. He's my best friend I always tell you about." She introduced to the guy named Ueda.
Ueda gave a light bow to Ryo but Ryo ignored that and kept staring at him. "Wait, don't say that you're with this.." Ryo gave Ueda a strange look, "girly boy, Nana." Ryo asked as he didn't want to believe it although Nana had indicated so.
"You are not even taller than I do, Nishikido - kun." Ueda said unexpectedly, especially for Ryo as he didn't think that Ueda would dare to talk back to him. "Not to mention how I am older that you, even only for a year."
"W-What?! You!" Ryo turned his head to Nana, "I won't approve your relationship with this girly boy, Nana! Now we had better go home!" Ryo snapped furiously. He wouldn't let himself to lose from this guy, of course. It was a matter of pride and he would surpass this guy for sure. Nana would realize that this guy was worthless. What did Nana see in him anyway?
"Ahh.. I can't, Ryo - chan. I have an extra class shortly. Ah, you had better go home soon or obaa - chan will be angry. Ryo - chan has promised to go shopping with her, right?" Nana replied while pushing Ryo away. "Bye bye, Ryo - chan~" she waved her hand. The furious Ryo didn't know how to reply so he decided to go away after giving a single death glare to Ueda.
Ryo was already far away when Nana stopped waving her hand and tip toed her way to Ueda again. "So that's the guy you told me, huh, Nana? He was a bit jealous I guess. What's the need to do this if he's jealous already?" Ueda suddenly asked when Nana was right in front of him.
Nana didn't reply anything as she was only grinning to Ueda. "Nee, that's not the reaction I want, Tat - chan." she said while turned her body around, "I don't want him to just see me as something he needs to protect, Tat - chan." she continued. There was a silence between them until Nana exhaled a deep breath and turned around again. "You'll help me until the end right, Tat - chan?"
"Of course, Nana - chan. I've promised you anyway. Besides this looks interesting. Well, unless for his sharp tongue." Ueda grinned.
"Aw, he's always like that. But I'm glad you're here, Tat - chan. Tat - chan was the only one I can count on nee.." Nana suddenly looked at her watch, "Ah, I really have to go now. Don't you also have a club activity, Tat - chan? See you later ok?" she ran to the school's direction.
Ueda watched Nana amusedly as she really liked a small kid, despite her appearances as a mature type girl. But then he turned his head to see the direction of where Ryo left earlier and stared at it.
Nishikido Ryo, huh? I wonder...if he has even the slightest memory of me.
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Since the day Ryo discovered that his childhood friend, Nana, had a feminine boyfriend, he kept picking Nana up everytime the school ended although most of the time he wouldn't be able to do so as Nana would either have gone home earlier or even had some extra classes while Ryo's schedule was quite tight too. He found it strange how suddenly Nana seemed to be so distanced for him. It was not like he was jealous or something but it just as if a piece was missing from him. They used to be together most of the times and now they weren't. Ryo had to admit that he felt a bit strange that Nana had a boyfriend, or even he didn't really want to accept the truth.
That condition went on and Ryo was outside Nana's school again as usual. Unfortunately for him Nana seemed to have another extra class, again. Just when he was about to leave the school, Ryo accidentally caught the sight of a certain someone thus he quickly approached that someone.
"Ah, Nishikido." Ueda said when he noticed Ryo's appearance.
There was definitely something about Ueda which Ryo didn't like about although Ryo couldn't really point what. Was it about him being Nana's boyfriend? Her feminine posture? Or even his act towards Ryo? If those were the cases then Ryo could freely declare his hatred to the older boy. That was what Ryo thought but somehow it still bugged him. There should be something else about Ueda. Unfortunately even Ryo couldn't tell what that something really was. It was as if Ueda was his natural enemy, yet on the other side he felt like he had met Ueda before, somewhere he couldn't recall. But of course it was impossible. Ryo didn't really want to boast about it but he had quite a good memory so he should have been able to recognize Ueda from the start if they really have met before.
"Hello? Hello? Nishikido? Is your brain got damaged or something? Or maybe your senses?" Ueda's voice was heard and that made Ryo realized that he was too caught in his own thoughts earlier. Being the usual high pride guy he is, Ryo didn't really want to admit that he was lost in his thought since it was so foolish and continued acting as if he had purposely ignored Ueda.
"Is your friend alright, Tat - chan?"
"Oh Jin. He's not my friend. But he's deaf, maybe. I think we had better go now or we would waste our time on something useless." Ueda remarked before he started walking away, followed by his friend.
Ryo felt a bit offended by Ueda's sentence, so he unconsciously grabbed Ueda's hand right when he was about to leave and dragged him somewhere, ignoring his whimpers and protests.
It was until they reached somewhere, which Ryo assumed to be the back garden of the school, that Ryo loosened his grab on Ueda's hand. Right at that time he also realized that he had done something really stupid, moreover unecessary. Although he was feeling rather ashamed, Ryo decided to face Ueda at last, and what he saw was exactly the same as what he had imagined; Ueda's annoyed face.
"Do you have some problem or something, Nishikido? I bet you need to check yourself to the doctor." Ueda said in an annoyed tone while protesting how painful Ryo's grab was.
The ashamed Ryo could only stare at Ueda while hearing his protests. He found it super annoying, especially when Ueda said how painful it was, or something along the line. Moreover his embarrassment added it all. "Don't be such a girl. You are OLDER than I do, right? I thought that was what you told me last time. And you can't take a little pain like that?"
Ueda immediately sent his glare to the younger man but no words came out from his mouth. But it was clearly seen that he was so furious by Ryo's earlier sentence. Suddenly his mouth curving up a smirk while Ryo couldn't help to twitched his eyebrow when he saw the smirk. "You know, Nana wouldn't like you more if you do this to me, Nishikido. Ah, you are lucky that she is not here now while I don't really like the idea of being a blabbermouth." Ueda smirked before he started walking away.
"You!" Ryo shouted before Ueda was able to move away. "Whatever, I don't mean it like that. But prove it to me that you're worth to be Nana's boyfriend. Then I won't interfere anymore. Before that, I'll keep going here and tormenting you in whichever events possible." he declared but only a smirk was received from Ueda as the answer before the said person turned around and was finally completely away from Ryo's sight.
-End of part 1-
E/N : I'm trying to finish the next past as soon as possible, and hopefully this is only a 2-parts fic. But if it's not, then there'll be the 3rd part and that would be the last. For anyone who's reading my multichapters, I might not update it for quite a while since it's been so depressing for me lately so I'm not really int he mood on continuing my multichapters, while anna-chan is pretty busy herself so couldn't do the beta job.. :D
Thanks for reading, and pelase leave a comment. I really need that now, I guess. Sorry for my selfishness. Just hoping that this is not so boring and not many mistakes (since this is unbeta-ed).