**✿❀ Chapter Thirteen ❀✿**

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"That was delicious, L/n! Thank you for having us!" Kaidou said excited and patted his belly.

"Please, just call me Y/n. We're friends now, right?" You smiled as you began to clean up the food and empty plates.

"A-Absolutely!"

"You should open a ramen shop!" Nendou said as he continued to gorge himself on your homemade ramen.

"I'll keep that in mind, Riki, thank you." You smiled sweetly and placed the dishes into the sink.

'It's too soon for them to be on first name basis.' Kusuo thought to himself as he just looked at you.

"You're the one that made the food, at least let me clean it up while you have fun." Fuyuhiko said and grabbed the dishes from your grasp.

"What's gotten into you today?" You asked with a smirk on your face and bumped Fuyuhiko with your hip.

"So what now, captain?" Kuboyasu asked.

'Captain?!'

"I bought a bunch of mini pumpkins so we can all carve a couple." You turned around with a wide smile on your face and a glistening knife in your hand.

'S-Scary!'

'That's my cousin.'

'Is she some kind of former delinquent?'

'Believe me, it would make more sense if she was.' Kusuo talked to himself as he watched the four of you converse and get the supplies ready. He understood the emotions he was having, and yet, he also had no clue how to handle them.

He had found that if he was just staring off, his gaze would always land on you. If he saw something cute or pretty, he'd think of you, and would want to show you. He started to get desires that 'normal' teenage boys would have around a pretty girl, and the thought of that scared Kusuo.

'Who the hell can I talk to about this? I never even thought about a girl the way I think about Y/n...' Kusuo then looked at you, loving the way you smiled and laughed as the others carved pumpkins.

"Should I try to make the eyes with my pistol?"

"You have to pay for any damages."

"What happened to that sweet attitude, Fuyu?"

"BITCH THIS IS MY HOUSE!"

Kusuo watched you laugh and joke with Fuyuhiko with a sad expression.

'Can I make her laugh like that? God, why am I being so possessive? I don't want to be a hormonal teenage boy.' Kusuo scowled and continued to watch you laugh with the others.

'I thought I was incapable of romantic feelings... So why...'

"Kusuo, you haven't even started yet!"

Kusuo couldn't help but look at your smiling face.

'Why does my heart ache?'

Kusuo thought to himself. All the while being completely oblivious at the fact that you felt the same.

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"Thank you for having us over, Y/n! It was really fun!" Kaidou waved as he stood in your doorway.

"I'm gonna go home and eat my pumpkin! Since I carved a bowl of ramen on it, I bet it will taste like ramen!"

"No it won't, idiot."

"I'm glad you all had fun. Be safe, alright?" You smiled and waved at Kuboyasu, Nendou and Kaidou.

"You too! Bye Saiki!"

"See ya."

"Bye buddies!"

"Goodbye and never return." Kusuo said to them and shut the door, sighing in relief.

"You alright, Kusuo? You hardly said anything all night." You asked with a worried expression on your face. Sure, Kusuo wasn't the most social person in the world, but you couldn't help but notice his constant gazes at you.

"I'm alright now that it's just us. So what do you want to do?" Kusuo asked.

"Well, I was thinking we could finish that one anime I've been watching together." You suggested and guided him upstairs into your bedroom.

"The alchemist one, right?"

"Yes! I'm on the last 10 episodes. I was hoping we could finish them together!" You said as you opened your bedroom door and threw yourself on your bed so that you were on your back and your head was over the edge. In the position you were in along with your corset, your chest popped out even more than it did before.

'Oh god... Down boy, down!'

"I'll go home and change real quick. You should do the same." Kusuo suggested.

"Oh, I guess you're right. I'll be changing in the bathroom so you can teleport back whenever." You said as you rolled yourself off of the bed and walked towards your dresser. Kusuo nodded, and teleported back to his house.

You pulled out a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood hoodie and your ramen pants.

"Ah, sweet release." You said to yourself as you undid the corset and took off your bra. You quickly got changed and exited the bathroom, seeing Kusuo on your bed wearing a black hoodie and grey sweats.

"You mind getting it started? I'll go grab the coffee jelly."

"You mean there's more?!" Seeing Kusuo's reaction made you laugh.

"Of course there is. I'm on episode 56, and make sure it's Brotherhood." You instructed and went down into the kitchen. Opening the fridge, you cleared a bunch of the stuff to reach the bowl that was in the back of the fridge for the coffee jelly. You smiled, knowing that you purposely saved the better looking batch for Kusuo, and headed back into your bedroom.

Without thinking, Kusuo stretched out his arms and made grabbing motions with his hands. Upon seeing this, you handed him the bowl of coffee jelly.

"Not the jelly, get over here."

Without another word, Kusuo grabbed your wrist and pulled you into his lap. He then placed the coffee jelly bowl in your lap and wrapped his arms around you to reach it.

'A perfect win-win scenario.'

"The episode where Roy faces Envy is coming up!" You jumped excitedly on Kusuo's lap, stirring rather... Strange... Emotions in the boy.

'Focus on the show. It's a good show, it's a great show! It's a great Y/n- I mean anime.'

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"There's no such thing as a painlessness lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although...if you can endure that pain and walk from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah... a heart made of Fullmetal."

The ending song began to play as you and Kusuo just looked at the screen. It was around 2 am now, and the coffee jelly bowl had long been discarded.

'I don't normally cry from anime, but holy shit.' Kusuo thought to himself as he quickly rubbed his eyes before looking down at you. Like him, you had tears falling down your cheeks, but Kusuo had a feeling it wasn't the show that brought those on.

"Kusuo...?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you think... We'll always be by each other's side?" Your voice was barely audible, but Kusuo knew what you were saying. He pulled you tightly, knowing that you were thinking about your parents. He thought that his actions would be stronger than words, so he turned off the television and laid the both of you down on the bed. He pulled you to his chest and pulled the covers over you both.

'I'm so sorry, Kusuo. I'm afraid I haven't been honest with you. Nonetheless, please... Don't leave me...'


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