Love is everywhere || Izuki Shun

If you think that you have enough of hearing puns…

“I’m sorry but I don’t feel the same way you feel about me” you turned around on your heels and tried to get away from the place you were currently in as fast as you could. It didn’t feel right to just leave that boy alone but you couldn’t do anything to help him. No, if you stayed with him in attempt to cheer him up, it would only worsen the situation. Hearing so many love confessions over one month taught how to behave, what to do and what you shouldn’t even think of doing.

Days begun to get warmer, insects and animals came to life. Flowers decorated empty grounds and green leaves appeared on the trees. People got nicer and towns started being more lively. Yes, spring begun, the most cheerful season of the year. You were seeing more and more happy couples around the school and on the streets. Everyone wanted to find their true and only love.

Of course you did too. At first.

You were just a face in the crowd. You always said that you’re just average. You were good in things you liked and tried your best in the ones you weren’t really interested in. You never liked when girls compared themselves to the other females. Your motto was to never complain about your beauty. Sure, you had imperfections but you were aware of what made you beautiful in your own special way.

Seirin was your first choice school and you were happy you passed your exams and got there. Very fast you started being friends with Riko and after that you got to know the guys from the newly created basketball team. After months of cheerful time spent with them, you got especially friendly with Izuki Shun. Yes, sometimes his puns were annoying but you didn’t understand many of them so usually you just ignored his jokes. The both of you were often seeing together in and outside the school.

In your free time, you often sat in the gym. You loved watching Seirin’s basketball team’s trainings. You cheered for them and wished for the best. Your life was just perfect to you. You had friends, hobbies and avoided making enemies.

But it all changed next year when your school’s team started getting popular. You weren’t scared of your friendship with the team or about Izuki’s fangirls. Most of them were too absorbed running away after seeing his joke book to even notice you.

No, their popularity caused you to get many adorers. In one moment you stopped being “that one girl from the second year” and started to be “this cute girl that is always seen with basketball team”. You didn’t mind that at first. People started to know who you were, in the mornings you were greeted by people you’ve seen for the first in your life. You even started to like the idea of being popular, but still you spent most of your time with your friends. They were too dear to your heart to just forget about them because of popularity.

After some time you started getting love letters and few guys confessed their love to you. You didn’t know most of them so you politely refused their feelings. Like every woman you liked affection you were given but on the other hand you felt bad for the poor guys.

“Don’t look so down, they will get over it eventually” Izuki would say after yet another confession and then he would say some bad pun about your adorer, trying to cheer you up somehow. You would just wave your hand and tell him that it wasn’t necessary but deep in your heart you were grateful for that.

Izuki had a special place in your heart. He was always there for you and he knew where to find you when he needed your support. You never thought about taking your relationship deeper. You loved him in another way than the rest of your friends but you didn’t think that it was in romantic way. Indeed he made your heart beat faster but you never felt flustered or insecure when you were with him.

“Excuse me, I just noticed you noticing me and I just wanted to give you notice that I noticed you too.”

Just one note changed your peaceful and calm school life. When you opened your shoe locker you weren’t expecting to find a nice folded letter on your shoes. Izuki read it aloud and started laughing.

“And you are complaining about my puns” you looked at him unamused. You had strange feeling about that note. You heard many pick-up lines before but you never get one in a letter. It was creepy in some way.

“Stop worrying, (l/n)-chan. this expression doesn’t suit you at all” he patted your head and took the letter from your hands. After tearing it to little pieces he dropped it in the bin and put his arm on your back, directing you to the class.

First four lessons passed really quickly and soon you found yourself sitting with Izuki at your desk, eating bento. In the meantime you were looking at the colourful magazine about something that didn’t really interest you and Izuki was on his phone looking at new puns, showing you the ones he liked the most.

“I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Hah, that’s a good one!” he smiled and saved it to use later. A small smile crept on your lips as you watched him for a moment. You put away your magazine remembering that you had to ask Izuki about one of the math problems you couldn’t solve. You took out your notes only to find another letter stuck between pages. Your eyes travelled up, to look at your friend.

“Another one” you whispered loud enough for him to hear it.

“So open it” he said looking at you from his cell phone. He was starting to hate all of these guys who sent you so many love letters. Confession after confession. It never mattered if he was or wasn’t standing next to you when they came and asked you if you loved them back. He thought that it was just stupid of them. Sometimes he would use his ability to avoid all of your potential adorers when you were walking somewhere but it wasn’t always working. Really, did he have to put ‘taken’ sign on your head for them to just give up?

“I only thought about you once today--I just never stopped.” you read it aloud making a grimace. It was too creepy for you to take lightly.

“You start to attract very strange people, (f/n)-chan” Riko said putting hands on her hips.

“It’s just Izuki who is a bad boyfriend. He can’t even scare off a few adorers” Teppei laughed loudly ruffling your hair. You sighed after hearing his joke. No one commented it. You heard it just too many times to even take it to the heart.

“But she never got so weird pick-up lines before. You know from who is it?” Riko asked pulling a chair for her to sit next to you.

“No, the first one wasn’t signed too” you answered her putting head in your hand.

“First one? You have it here?”

“No, Izuki ripped it” you said doing the same with the second one. Riko looked at the said male and crossed arms on her chest. Sometimes she wondered how it was possible that you never understood his feelings toward you.

“Hmmm… But I wonder why I don’t have so many adorers, I mean, I am their coach and all!” she said pouting.

“I think that here lays the problem” Koga appeared from nowhere surprising you. All of you, beside Riko, looked at him asking what he was doing here. He started telling a very interesting story about a crow which stole a coin from his hand and then he had to chase the bird around the whole school but he couldn’t catch it, so he got here to ask you, if you could lend him some money.

In the end of his story you felt that it got colder. You looked at Riko to see a dark, thick aura surrounding her. All of you moved as far from her as you could. Koga stood behind your chair using you as his living shield.

“Where exactly lays the problem, Koga?” she asked in somewhat inhuman voice. Koga smiled nervously and dashed out of the classroom.

You burst out in laughter. After a few seconds you heard the bell, signalling that the next lesson was starting. When your friends were moving to their seats, you gathered ripped paper pieces into the small pile, wanting to throw it to the bin later.

Later that day everything quieted and you almost forgot about that weird letters. You spend the afternoon doing your club activities and after that you went to see the last minutes of basketball team’s training. When they finished you all went home together. You and Izuki lived close to each other so almost every day you spent time in his or yours house after school. That day wasn’t different and soon you found yourself in your room talking about pointless things with your friend. You cherished all of these moments with him. Even if it was only a short while before he had to go home.

“You have the cutest smile when you sleep” you read the third letter that you found in your bag. You were terrified in that moment. You didn’t know when someone could put it in there. It was your first lesson that day and you didn’t leave your bag anywhere earlier.

“He must have been in my house” you said with a shaking voice. Izuki took your hand in his to calm you down.

“Stop panicking, maybe he slipped it when you weren’t looking” he said smiling. To tell the truth Izuki got scared too. He wouldn’t forgive himself if something happened to you because of some psycho.

“I'm sick. My medicine is to talk to you.”

“You're like a dictionary - you add meaning to my life!”

“Girl, you gotta be tired coz you been runnin through my mind all day.”

One letter after another. You were finding them everywhere. In your notes, in your locker, in your desk, even in your bento! You didn’t touch your food that day. Every one of them was torn apart. Izuki was getting more and more angry. He couldn’t believe he didn’t spot that person who hid them in your things.



A relieved sigh escaped your lips when the lessons ended. You had no clubs that day so you could watch your friends’ basketball training. When you got to the gym, you sat with Riko on the bench waiting for boys to change their clothes.

“You look really pale, (f/n)-chan” you heard her saying “It’s because of this mysterious guy? Stop worrying about that. You received many unsigned letters before and nothing serious happened”

“Yes, I know but... They never had pick-up lines inside before... And they are really creepy” you said shivering.

“But maybe it’s some stupid joke from Izuki’s fangirls?”

“No, I don’t think so... You know how they react to his puns...” you looked at each other in agreement and laughed. For a moment you forgot about your “letter” problem and your heart filled with joy.

Suddenly your phone rang. You picked it up. It was one of your friends from the club you were attending to. She asked you, if you could take a few documents from the club room. You didn’t have anything against that and agreed immediately.

“I have to go take something from my club room. It will take only a few minutes” you said standing up.

“Sure!” Riko said and did the same when she saw boys coming inside the gym “Take your time” she smiled but when she turned to face the team, you could swear you saw a tiny horns on her head. ‘Poor guys’ you thought and exited the room waving to them.

You got to your destination really quickly. The sun was slowly setting down, colouring the sky in warm colours, mostly red and orange hues. The last birds' songs were heard and you could smell the flowers scents in the air that flew from the opened windows. A small smile appeared on your face as you slid the door open.

“Where you can be...?” you asked yourself searching for the pile of papers. After a short moment you heard the clicking sound, as if someone locked the door. You didn’t pay attention to that. You were alone so you though that you were probably just hearing things. It changed when you heard a masculine voice. It made you jump a little and immediately you turned around.

“Are you looking for me, maybe?” the unknown to you male took a few steps in your direction. He was much taller than you. His eyes were dark and he had blonde hair. You had never seen him before.

“W-who are you?” you asked taking a few steps back.

“Oh, don’t be silly, you know who I am, my dear. Did you forget about my letters already?” your eyes widened and your heart started beating faster. But it wasn’t the same as it did when you were with Izuki, no, in that moment you were purely terrified. Something about him made you feel very uneasy.

“Ah, I saw the lovely expression on your face when you were reading them. Sadly, that idiot was too jealous and didn’t let you keep them, but I don’t mind” you knew that by “idiot” he meant Izuki. After he took another few steps in your direction you backed away even more, until your back hit the wall behind you.

Scared, you didn’t know what to do. Suddenly he started touching your hair with loving expression on his face.

“I can’t believe that we are alone like this. I always wanted to touch you. I love you, (f/n). I always had. At first I only looked from afar but when all these horny guys started to flirt with you, I had to do something”

You looked around the room to find some way out from that situation. You were sure that he locked the door and you couldn’t use the window, it was the second floor!

“And now we can always be together, (f/n)!” he embraced you tightly and nuzzled his head in the crook of your neck, whispering the sweetest things that made you sick. You didn’t like it and didn’t hug him back. You did the opposite. Gathering all the strength you had you pushed him away, and tried to run. But he was faster and caught you by the arm and kept you in place. After that he did the unexpected- he slapped you, making you stumble a bit.

Your hand flew to your cheek and tears started to gather in your eyes. You couldn’t believe he did that!

“You’re mine, know your place, woman!” and in one moment he stopped being lovely and nice adorer. You hated him. No one would talk to you in that way! You were angry. In one moment you forgot about being nice and politely, about hating violence. You kneed him in the stomach, hardly.

He fell on his knees. You ran to the other side of the room and took your cell phone out. Quickly you phoned to Riko, hoping that she would pick up.

“(f/n)-chan? What’s taking you so long? Izuki went to look for you”

“He locked me in the class! Please, help me!” you told her. You didn’t have the time to explain her everything.

“But what...” you couldn’t hear the next part. The phone was taken from you and thrown somewhere in the room. The next thing you register was your back pressed to the cold floor and his hands on your body, trying to get your uniform from you. It didn’t help that you had a skirt that ridden up showing too much of skin.

You were yelling as loud as you could. Izuki’s name left your lips more times than begging for help. He was saying to you that no one could hear you and that you were his and his only. But you still had hope. Riko said that Izuki was looking for you so that meant that faster or later he would come there. You’d rather prefer the first option.

And suddenly the door pried open with a loud noise. Your predator was taken from above you. You quickly sat up and saw Izuki taking some heavy book from the table and hitting your adorer in the face with it. When you were sure he was unconscious, you ran to Izuki and hug him tightly. He embraced you, patting your head slowly.

He didn’t remember when he was as angry as in that moment. Maybe it was only a second but seeing some other male, touching you was enough for him. His heart almost died when he heard your loud pleas for resue. Taking a deep breath he calmed himself down. The most important thing was that you were safe.

“It’s okay now, don’t cry, (f/n)” he kissed your forehead, reassuring you. You knew he was right, but still you couldn’t stop your tears.

Suddenly Riko burst through the open door with teacher and basketball team close behind her.

“It’s him!” she pointed at the guy lying on the floor “He attacked my pure (f/n)” she looked at you for some kind of agreement. You nodded your head and told the teacher the whole story. After hearing that, your friends wanted to beat him up even more but you stopped them, saying that it won’t change anything. With their help you calmed yourself down.

When your predator was taken out of the room, Izuki picked up the book he used to hit your adorer. It had big ‘dictionary’ written on its cover.

“Well, maybe that will teach him something” he chuckled lightly and put it back on its place.

“Please, Izuki, not now!” he got many unhappy faces and a loud reprimand from Riko, but still it made you smile a little bit.

You didn’t return with your friends to the gym, you preferred to sit somewhere alone and think about the whole situation. Suddenly a cold can was pressed to your head. You took it in your hands and smiled, seeing who gave it to you.

“Izuki!”

He sat next to you on the school stairs.

“Hey, how are you feeling?”

“Ah, it’s okay now... Thank you, for helping me” he took your hand in his and gripped it lightly.

“Don’t mind that. Everyone should know what happens when someone touches you” he said looking deeply in your (e/c) eyes. You didn’t know why but suddenly your cheeks tinted in deep red. The time has stopped. Nothing existed anymore, only you and his, your small hand in his strong and bigger one. His face was getting closer and closer and then his lips captured yours.

The kiss was long and breathtaking. There were so many emotions in it, which you never know you held deep inside your heart. You would like it to never end, to just stay like this forever, with Izuki. You knew you loved him, and then you realised that it truly was in different way, in beautiful, pure romantic way.

“I’m sorry, I will protect you from now on” he said leaning his forehead on yours.

“Let’s just forget about all these unpleasant things for now.” you smiled warmly and hugged him tightly. He agreed and held you close to his body. There was a peaceful silence between you. But it didn’t last long.

“Hey, (f/n), did you invent the airplane? Cause you seem Wright for me.”

You pulled out from the tight embrace just a little to look at his face.

“Did you just…”