Hi Everyone, you might know me as the author of "It started with a Hi":
It started with a Hi I have good news and bad news.
Bad news: I have gone hiatus for over a year and all my ideas for "It started with a Hi" are a blur, so it was very hard for me to continue the story. I have been writing the chapters, but I have been having a hard time which is why I haven't been able to update, so please forgive me. I really apologize. So, I am temporarily taking a break from the story. (Don't worry I am still writing chapters for it but it might take me a while to upload them.)
Good news: starting to focus on one-shot/two-shot/short stories as my break from the first story I wrote. I apologize to everyone for such delay and not doing a good job at all. I honestly have no confidence in myself, so thank you for supporting me for so long. I really appreciate it. I recently discovered two pairings: Okada Nana x Murayama Yuiri and Mukaichi Mion x Mogi Shinobu from Akbingo 370 (go check it out if you haven't!) I only did a little research regarding the pairings and I fell in love with them that I might put them in "It started with a Hi". This is my first time writing about the pairings so please forgive me if their personalities are off from real life. Please excuse my mistakes and typos. With further ado, please enjoy! Let me know what you think!
YuuNaa = Murayama Yuiri and Okada Nana
Note: Okada Nana = Naachan & Owada Nana = Naanya
Which Nana?
School has already been over 30 minutes ago, almost everyone left for home except for four girls who are inside the music room.
*doki doki* The girl can feel her heart beating fast as she is preparing for her confession to the girl she had a crush on since the day she laid eyes on her.
How did she got herself in this situation? Well...she can only blame her good friend, Kojima Mako, for talking her into this. She can remember it clearly as it was just yesterday they talked about this.
-- Flashback --
"Which one?" Kojima Mako firmly asked.
The girl being interrogated calmly replied, "Which one, what? I have no idea what you are talking about."
BAM! the sudden sound caused the customers at the nearby tables to be startled and bewilderingly looked at the two girls to see what happened.
Kojimako just slammed the table with her hand as she was getting frustrated with the girl in front of her. Just then, the owner of the cafe, Takayanagi Akane (aka Churi), walked to them and strictly declard, "I will have to ask you to settle down and lower your volume. If you both are going to cause a scene, then I will have to politely ask the both of you to leave my cafe as you are disturbing the rest of the customers here."
"On behalf of my friend, I apologize for her irrational action. We will keep it down. Nothing will happen. I am sorry about that." the girl apologized.
Churi nodded and walked behind the counter to resume her work. Kojimako bowed towards the other customers and stated her apologizes.
Kojimako sinked back to her seat and sighed for the umpteenth time for the day as she was going nowhere with this girl.
"What is with everyone about which Nana? Why does it matter to you? You are the last person I thought would care about this." The girl nonchalantly questioned.
Kojimako exhaled a breath and took a sip of her tea before telling the latter the truth, "Because...you're my good friend, Yuirin and I don't want this to get between our friendship!"
"Why would this get between us? I don't understand." Yuirin confusedly stated. Kojimako just shook her head and looked helplessly at her friend as she doesn't even realized how popular she is when it comes to love. Yup, there are actually two people in love with her right now and yet she is oblivious about it.
The girl in front, Murayama Yuiri, is currently being targeted by two Nanas: Okada Nana and Owada Nana. Everyone at school can see they both have interest in Yuiri yet Yuiri is the only one who doesn't seem to know what is going on.
"You are joking right? Come on, how can you not see that Okada Nana and Owada Nana likes you?!?!" Kojimako exclaimed.
After a few seconds of silence, Yuirin speaks up, "Baka, Mako, of course I know. I am not that blind. I just didn't say anything about it. "
"Seriously! Why didn't you say anything!?! I wouldn't have make such a fuss in the first place if you just told me you knew!"
"Again, how does this affect our friendship?" Yuirin asked again.
Kojimako paused for a second and nervously played with her fingers. She quietly mumbled, "IlikeoneoftheNanas."
"Speak louder. I can't hear you."
"I said I like one of the Nanas!" Kojimako proclaimed a bit too loudly. She quickly covered her mouth and apologized to her surroundings again for her loud volume.
Yuirin blankly looked at Kojimako before bursting into laughter. "Hahaha! The friendly and smiley Kojimako finally admits her feelings!"
"Wait...what!?! You knew!!"
"Baka! I told you I wasn't blind. Of course I knew! Why do you think I always invite you to our hangouts and pair you up with her? I was waiting for you to personally tell me your feelings rather than me asking you. But, I didn't know that you would proclaim your love so loudly to everyone in this cafe...HAHAHA!"
Kojimako blushes slightly, "Yah! Stop laughing! Besides how are you so sure the her you are thinking of is the same person I like?"
Yuirin's face turns very serious and firmly stated, "Because I am in love with the other one."
-- Music Room --
After I told Kojimako who I was in love with, she became relieved to know that our friendship isn't ruin because we did not like the same Nana. Then she started to ask me a whole new set of questions about my feelings for my crush that I was not in the mood of answering. Before I knew it, Kojimako came up with this crazy idea that both of us should confess together. At first, I was against it because it will be embarrassing, but she threatened to not let me go home if I didn't agree to it so here I am now staring at my crush.
Since it has been silence for the past few minutes, one of the Nanas begin to speak up.
Okada Nana concernedly asked, "Is everything okay?"
"You both look really nervous and anxious." Owada Nana stated.
Kojimako nudges Yuirin with her elbow as a signal to start first. Yuirin nervously looks at her, but Kojimako whispers "Ganbette!"
Yuirin takes a deep breath and gathers up her courage, "Mako and I have something important to tell you both. Please listen to us until the end!"
Yuirin looks firmly at her crush, "Naachan, since the day I saw you make that serious speech for the student council president election, I knew you were different from other girls. When you smiled at the end of your speech, it was one of the most beautiful smile I ever saw in my life. I unknowingly smiled along with you. Since that day, I was determined to get close to you. You were troubled and overwhelmed with your tasks as the student council president which I was the only one who noticed. I offered to talk to you and I was glad you accepted. Ever since then, we started to have long talks on the phone and my feelings grew for you. You started to become someone who I want to protect with my life. I love you. Please be my girlfriend!" Yuirin stretches out her hand for her to take.
Naachan is speechless as she is still processing what just happened. After a while, Yuirin starts to lose hope as Naachan did not accept her confession. Kojimako looks on sadly at Yuirin. Before Yuirin can retract her hands, Naachan pulls her in for a hug.
"Thank you, Yuu-chan for your confession. To be honest, I had feelings for you after we had our first long talks on the phone. I am so glad you feel the same way. You have always been there for me when I needed someone. I really appreciate everything you have done for me. I am very happy to be your girlfriend because I love you too." Naachan sincerely declared.
Yuirin lifts Naachan up and spins her around as she is full of joy. Kojimako smiles brightly and claps her hands as she celebrates for her friends' success.
After Yuirin puts Naachan down, she looks at Kojimako and signals that it is her turn. Then, all of a sudden, Kojimako turns 360 degrees from happy to panic as she forgot about her own confession in those few seconds. She nervously turns to Naanya and sees her silently staring at the new formed couple in which Kojimako mistaken the silence as sadness and quickly grabs her attention by holding onto Naanya's shoulders.
"Naanya, listen, I know you have feelings for Yuirin, but please give me a chance instead. The truth is I have always had a crush for you since the day I saw you at the school musical. I fell in love with your voice, your smile and just everything about you. Many people told me to give up on you because you started to get close to Yuirin and even develop feelings. I knew I have lost my chance with you so I have silently love you from afar. I wanted to move on, but I couldn't stop this heart from beating everytime you are around. I know you are sad because Yuirin is now with Naachan, but I am very serious about you and I really love you, so please give me a chance and be my girlfriend!!!" Kojimako bows and stretches out her hands. If only Kojimako had her head up, she would have seen the relieved and happy expression from Naanya's face. Naanya quickly takes Kojimako's hands.
"Thank you, Kojimako! I would love to be your girlfriend!" Naanya hugs her.
Kojimako is a bit taken back at her crush's acceptance to her love, "Really!?!" Naanya giggles at her reaction.
"Baka, Kojimako, the person she have feelings for is you all along! You are the actual oblivious one, not me!" Yuirin stated.
Naachan added, "I am so glad you confessed to Naanya. She was getting worried that you didn't feel the same! Thank god!"
"Eh!! But I thought..." Naanya interrupted, "Mako, the only reason why I got close to Yuirin was because I wanted to have the chance to be with you. I made Yuirin promise me that she will not tell you about my feelings for you. I have always love you." Naanya proves her feelings by kissing Mako on the cheek in which the latter quickly blushes.
Yuirin pretends to be sad and pout, "Oh, I feel used." Naachan kisses her on the cheek, "Yuu-chan, Kawaii"
Kojimako starts to laugh, "Hahaha!!! You are red as a tomato! Yuirin, I have never seen you like this before! You were always so calm!"
Yuirin started to chase Kojimako around the room as Kojimako continues to laugh while running away. Naachan and Naanya just shake their heads as they watch how silly their girlfriends are. They both looked at each other and smiled, feeling glad that their love was returned.
"Naachan, let's leave them and get ice cream on the way home!"
"Okay! Ice cream sounds delicious right now!"
Kojimako and Yuirin both said, "Hey, wait for us!"
The two new formed couple walks out of the school while holding hands with their respective partners as they embark in a new journey with one another.
The End
I hope you all enjoy the one-shot. This is my first time one-shot. I am sorry if it is not a good story! But, thank you for taking the time to read it! I hope you all enjoy reading the one-shot as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you for your support! Please comment below to let me know what you think!