Hello!! After reading various fics that have been posted on this forum, and elsewhere, I have finally decided to make my own and share it! I hope you all like it as this is my first time writing an AKB fic!
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“Yuu-chan…” Kojiharu whispered into the air as she stared at the smaller girl’s sleeping figure. Her eyes glistened as her thoughts drifted back to a
day she wished she could go back to; a day she wished she could change.
It had been months since Yuko had confessed to her; months since Kojiharu had rejected her. She was relieved when the younger girl had
seemingly shrugged it off and agreed to remain friends. She had even told her to act as if she had never said “I love you” to her. She had smiled;
they had hugged; nothing seemed wrong.
At first it was as if nothing had changed. Yuko would swing by Team A’s rehearsals and embrace the older girl despite her reluctance. Kojiharu
would attempt to remove the squirrel from herself but fail. Nothing had changed.
As weeks passed, Kojiharu began to notice that Yuko wasn’t always around anymore. She would look for the younger girl during rehearsals, often
messing up the dance routine in the process, resulting in a not so pleased captain and an even more exhausted team. She would take every
chance she had to look for the girl, but every time she did the girl was either sleeping or busy talking with the staff or another member.
After about two months, the amount of time they had spent with each other had dropped enormously. They barely spoke to each other, whether it
was directly, over the phone or through a simple text message. Whenever they had to film for a variety show Yuko would sit at a distance. During
breaks she would run off with Mii-chan and barely arrive back on time to resume filming.
Kojiharu hated to admit it, but she had begun to miss the girl that had always been by her side.
“Just tell her you miss her already,” someone had whispered into her ear causing her to jump slightly. Her eyes met with those of AKB48’s captain,
Takamina.
“It’s not that easy…” she mumbled as she turned her gaze back to Yuko. Takamina frowned at Kojiharu’s reply. She knew both of her teammates
had been suffering these past few months and she had hoped they would have been able to resolve the problem themselves, but that obviously
wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. She had to give the girl a push.
Takamina placed her hand on Kojiharu’s shoulder before whispering into her ear, “Keep this up and you’ll only keep growing farther apart. Right
now the only thing keeping you two close is AKB, but the day this all comes to an end you probably won’t see her ever again.”
Kojiharu’s eyes widened at hearing her captain’s words. Her words were true and it was exactly that which Kojiharu feared would happen, but she
just couldn’t build up the courage to confront Yuko. She was afraid. Afraid that Yuko would act as if nothing was wrong and only further push her
away from her life.
She had looked back to find that Takamina had already walked out of the room and only she and Yuko remained. Now it was up to her to decide
whether to try and fix things while risking getting hurt if she fails, or not doing anything and walking away while letting things remain as they were.
She rose to her feet, slightly shaking as she approached the sleeping girl. Thousands of thoughts ran through her head with every step. What if-
Maybe she- I can’t-
What if this is the end for us?
She was only two feet away when she heard footsteps behind her.
“Ah! Kojiharu, I thought you left already!” Mii-chan exclaimed as she made her way towards Yuko, immediately laying herself down beside the
sleeping girl and wrapping her arms around her.
“I was just leaving…” came Kojiharu’s reply as she quickly grabbed her bag and made her way out of the room. It had hurt watching her fellow
No3b member act that way towards the smaller girl. For some reason she had wished it was her that was holding the other girl, but she knew she
had no right to feel that way. Not when she had made it impossible for them to be that close again. She knew she couldn't go back and change
anything, no matter how much she wanted to.
Back in the room, Mii-chan slightly shook Yuko as an attempt to wake up the girl, but was surprised to see that the girl was already awake. She
had made an attempt to turn the girl’s body in her direction when she had heard a light sniffle.
“Yuko, are you crying?”