Chapter 9 : Friend

The last update before I start my hiatus, I wanna post it few days ago but I had writer blocks T^T

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It's just another day in the weekend where the raven haired girl could sleep all she wanted, until she gets woken up by the churning feeling in her stomach. It seems like she feels even more moody than her usual mornings. She went out of her room and walked downstairs, spotting a tanned teen still sleeping on the couch.

Yes, Aomine Daiki survived. Even though he still had some bruises on the face caused by the shooting guard of Shutoku. After the commotion it was late so Mrs Shirokawa insisted him to stay the night.

"Morning honey~" Yuna turns her head around and saw her mother on the dining table filled with breakfast while drinking her favorite white coffee.

"Morning... And mom, please fix your coffee addiction... It's not good for your health..." She said in her morning grumpy voice, while dragging her legs to the dining table, she pulls out a chair and sits beside her mother.

"Oh you know how I can't live without this 'drug'~" She grins while replying cheerfully.

"Mom, you drink at least a cup of it daily, sometimes even two to three cups.... Don't drink so much just because it fixes your headache TEMPORARY." She said in an annoyed tone and specifically emphasized the last word.

The elder woman just giggles and ignores her daughter's lecture. "By the way there's a business party tonight, and you're coming with me."

The sandwich that almost reached Yuna's mouth stopped in mid-air when she heard that. She faces her mother while still holding up the food. "Why? I though I don't need to go any of these gatherings."

"Your dad is not here so you're gonna accompany me, I won't accept no as an answer young lady." Yuna sweatdropped at her mother's order.

"But I don't even have a dress..." She mumbled and finally get the sandwich into her mouth to fill up her stomach.

"Hmm... That would be a problem...." Mrs Shirokawa heard Yuna's mumble and worried that her daughter doesn't have a proper attier for tonight.

The mother and the daughter just continue their breakfast and some simple conversations between, mostly consists of the mother teasing the daughter about the incident yesterday where the still sleeping male is involved too. And of course the mother is amused looking at her blushing child.

"Yuna-chan~~~~~ I'm here to pick up Dai-chan~ Oh good morning Mrs Shirokawa." A pink haired girl barged into the house and bow immediately when she spotted the elder women at the dining table.

"What's so noisy in the morning...." The tanned teen finally woke up and groaned while complaining.

Since Momoi came to pick up Aomine, the middle aged woman took this opportunity to ask the young girl. "Satsuki-chan, could you bring Yuna to buy a dress? We need to go out tonight and she doesn't have a appropriate dress."

"Mom, she might be busy-"

"No problem!! It's been awhile since I went shopping anyway~ C'mon let's go right now!" And the pink haired girl drags Yuna by the wrist and tries to pull her childhood friend up. "Dai-chan!! Wake up!! You're coming with us too!!"

"Why do I have to...." He complained as he clears his field of vision, somehow the first thing he saw clearly is Yuna that's in front of him and he looked away immediately blushing. "Erm... Yuna I think you might need to change your pants before going out..."

All the people in the house including Yuna herself focus their eyes on her white pajama pants, that's stained red.... "Holy shiat... That's why I feel so irritated for the whole morning..." And she walks to her room to get changed.

~~~~Time skip to shopping centre~~~~

The trio have been visiting a few shops for the last few hours, instead of buying a dress for the black haired girl, Momoi is the one that had her hands filled with bags of clothes. Did I mentioned that Aomine is holding another bunch of bags that's his childhood friend's belongings too?

"That's it Yuna-chan!!! You can't keep saying that you don't know what to buy!! Dai-chan you stay here and give some opinions later!" Momoi grabs a few random dresses and drags Yuna into the dressing room to help her change.

Aomine sighed and stand beside the room. Waiting for the girls to get out. The curtain of the room slides open and the boy looks to their direction with a bored expression and starts to judge the dress.

"Too old-fashioned."

*slides close* "Wait Tsuki-chan it's too tight!!!!" "Just a little more!!" *slides open*

"You want her to die due to lack of oxygen?"

*slides close* "THERE IS NO WAY I'M WEARING THIS!!!!" "Just try it out!!" *slides open*

"T-too exposed...." He turns his head away trying to stop his nose bleeding using his hand.

*slides close* "I don't really like this..." *slides open*

"*chuckles* What is this? Traffic lights?"

"Okay Dai-chan!!YOU choose a dress for her!!" Momoi gives up and pouts while her hands are placed on her hips.

He gave Momoi a 'whatever' look and walks to the dress section, searching the piles of dresses and pick one out. The black colored dress is then threw to Yuna before she got pushed into the room again by Momoi.

After awhile the curtain is opened again with a smirking Momoi standing in front covering Yuna that's hiding behind.

"What?" Aomine looks confused at his childhood friend. He is sure that the dress will definitely suit her, and he was correct since it stunned him when Momoi moves away and reveals the girl behind.

A simple sleeveless dress that has its length reaching her knees. A black rose on the left side of her chest as decorations that enhance the shape of her chest. The black colored fabric covered her slender body that shows her curves but not too tight for it to be uncomfortable. The dress is simple yet Yuna's natural beauty is enough to bring out its elegance.(This is totally made up as author-chan has no experience in writing this kind of shyt lol.)

"This is it!! We're buying this!!" The Touou basketball team manager said cheerfully while clapping her hands together, while Yuna just smiles lightly and went to change back into her own clothes. However she didn't notice the price will make her face turned pale when they go to the cashier.

~~~~Time skip to random cafe~~~~

"Thanks for accompanying me to buy the dress~" Yuna said while sipping her ice blended mocha. Her heart still hurts a little at the price of the dress. 'I could even buy a series of manga from that money... T^T' She though herself.

"It's more like she is the one we are accompanying here..." The only male in the group turned his gaze and points to the pink haired girl.

"Shopping is every girls' hobby." She replied as if it's the most obvious answer.

"Well not for me..." Yuna smiled apologetically at Momoi's statement.

"You're different~ By the way the dress is for a business party right? Who's the organizer?" Momoi asked while staring at Yuna curiously.

She gives a long sigh before answering. "No idea, I hope that I won't accidentally meet him there." Yuna's face changes into a worried expression and she stares at her drink.

It's been a week since their last encounter with the red head captain of Rakuzan. Being the only heir of the Akashi, there's a big chance that he would attend it too. The two girls sighed at the same time.

Aomine just sit on the chair lazily with his arms behind his head and yawns. Even though he looks as if he doesn't care, he actually felt worried at what will happen if the two met again. After all from the last encounter it seems that Akashi doesn't plan to give up on the girl.

"*sigh* She might be avoiding me right now, I will definitely make her forgive me..." Is what Akashi said after Yuna left the scene that day...

The captain not giving up, the ace didn't plan to back down either.

~~~~Time skip again~~~~

"Remember, behave like a lady Shirokawa Yuna." Her mother warned her before entering the venue.

"Yes mom, you don't have to repeat every five minutes." She replied in a bad mood, after all she in is her period.

She walked behind her mom and followed her around to greet every business partner they met with a business smile. Her cheeks start to hurt due to the constant smiling. That's why she doesn't like to attend these parties. After greeting most of the people, she ask permission from her mother to have her own free time, and her mother agreed eventually.

Yuna walks her way to the balcony to get some fresh air. It feels like déjà vu, just like the time when she just came back to Japan. Getting fresh air, the breeze making her hair swaying in the air, and meeting someone unexpected.

"Yuna." A familiar voice enacted behind her, just as she expected.

She turns her body and face the person, and tried to remain a smile but it didn't cover the awkwardness. "Nice to meet you here. Akashi-kun."

Akashi walks to the balcony beside Yuna, resting his hands on the fence. Looking at the sky that's barely filled with stars since it's the city. "Let's have a talk..."

"We don't have personal anything to talk about. If it's about business I would kindly advise you to meet my mother to talk about it since I didn't really have the privilege to make decisions." She replied in her business mode.

"Just listen to me!" He grabs Yuna's shoulder pulling her to face him and look straight into her eyes. It's rare for the emperor to lose his composure. Suddenly being stared into the eyes, Yuna turns her head away to avoid his sharp gaze, but it doesn't hide the blush forming on her cheeks.

"Please stop this Akashi-kun, we're not in a relationship anymore..." She said it lightly, trying to stop the tears that threatened to escape her eyes. She pushes the hands that's on her shoulders away, walking back into the hall.

Realizing the girl in front of him is leaving, he grabs her wrist and pulls her to his chest, smashing their lips together. Feeling warm skin againts her lips, Yuna's eyes widened at the shock of it, she tries to push him away but her efforts are futile. That short moment seems like eternity and the red haired make finally let go of the girl, and received a loud slap from her.

"Akashi-kun, I still consider and respect you as a friend but please don't play with my feelings..." Tears are streaming down on her face as she said those words. She runs away from the building before Akashi could even react to it.

He touches his face where it still stings, a red hand mark slowly appears on the area she slapped. "Respect as a friend?" The emperor smiled bitterly.

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Another long chapter~ As is said in the beginning, this is the last update before my hiatus for the whole November~ So don't expect an update until November ends. This chapter is kinda rushed since I wanna update one last time before I'm away for one whole month...

By the way IT'S FREAKING 500 READS OMG~~~ Another milestone...*wipes tears*

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~Erein-chan~