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I think that since this is a different kind of episode, no dramatic italicized text is necessary for this one. We've been doing this for 6 chapters, and it's nice to have a change every once in a while, don't you think? Well, here's the fic.
Mitsuba and Kou had been waiting for this day for a while. Summer was just around the corner, and they were going to the beach. School and having to hide a relationship from everyone but your close friends had been exhausting, but they were about to have a break from that. They had the whole thing planned out, and it was going to be a great time. Nothing was going to stop that. Until everyone else caught on.
Suddenly, everyone wanted to take them to the beach. Akane, Yashiro, Aoi, and even Hanako, who couldn’t leave the school grounds, was trying to set up a vacation inside of a boundary. Kou and Mitsuba did not plan on this obviously, this was supposed to be a getaway from these people. One night Kou heard something tapping on his door, and thinking it was his sister after having a nightmare, went to open the door. When he opened the door, to his surprise, he encountered the antagonist of this here fic, the one and only Teru.
"I heard you and Mistuba were going to the bea-", That was all Teru was able to get out before Kou slapped him and went to call the police. As it had turned out, Teru had broken out 2 days prior, and no one at the jail had noticed. He had hung around outside the school, even dropping by Akane's office to listen in...
"Y'know, I think I'll tag along on those two's trip, I mean, I hope Teru didn't rub off Kou," Teru had to control himself in order to not exercise Akane right then and there, but he wanted in on the action. And that took him right back to being behind bars.
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Mitsuba and Kou met up the next day and talked about what had happened the night before.
"So he was just standing there at the door tapping on it like a crazy person?"
"That's pretty much what happened,"
"I mean, what did he think was gonna happen? We were just like 'Ok! We'll have the guy that kidnapped you and stabbed me in the leg on our beach trip !'"
"I knew my brother could be dense, but this is ridiculous! Who does he think he is?". They started to think the situation was funny,
"He thinks it's some story where he can just be redeemed somehow, and everything will be all dandy! WELLLLLLLLL MR. YOU CAN'T JUST WALK IN HERE AND GO TO THE BEACH! WE'VE BEEN PLANNING THIS! WE GOT A WHOLE PLAN," Mitsuba was laughing maniacally at this point, "WE'RE GONNA GO AND WRITE IT DOWN, AND AFTER THAT," he swung his arm to the side, " NO. MORE. CHANGES."
"So is it just gonna be us?", Kou asked after a little silence.
"TO THE PLAN!". And with that, they ran to Kou's room.
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The two of them, after many phone calls and discussions, had decided to bring along Yashiro to the beach, since Akane being there would be too awkward, and Yashiro would spend all her time with Aoi if she came. They were there to have the beach, but to also have each other, and bringing the only other person who knew about their relationship was the safest option. And then they waited. There was a week before they planned to head out with Yashiro to the beach. It would be a long drive, but they had saved up some money, and had just counted on getting a ride via one of those apps. This was a bad plan, but surprisingly, it worked better than most of their ideas before this.
They all arrived just after noon, rented a hotel room to spend the night there and drove back the next morning, and then set out to conquer the beach itself. They spent some time just looking at the sea, as none of them had actually seen the ocean for this point. It's weird seeing something that should end but never does. They moved in on the territory, building small castles as a sort-of wall. Mitsuba planned on making a hole to bury Kou or Yashiro up to their head in sand, but quickly realized that he was not up to that task, and continued marking their territory. By 3, they had solid grounds to collect themselves on the beachfront. They swam around in the ocean for a while, which was mainly splashing, as if they went too far, the land could be invaded, or, dare I say it, taken over. They spent the evening sunbathing away from the water, as their capture of the sea was complete, with a job well done. They went back to their hotel room that night, and watched some show on TV about a band, since Mitsuba had been trying to get the other two into things like that. They slept well, and drove back the next morning satisfied with their trip. They had a good time at the beach, and sometimes that's all you need. Being together can be good enough, daily struggles can sometimes just bring you down. They said goodbye to Yashiro for the time being and spent a good weekend at home, happy with their start to the summer.
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The day after they got back, Mitsuba had an epiphany, "You know what I've noticed?" Kou turned his head over, as he was making eggs. "There seems to be, well I’m not entirely sure how to say this, but sort of like chapters to our lives," Mitsuba continued, "Especially ever since I came back to life and we got together."
"What do you mean by that?" Kou asked.
"Well, there's when we first met," Kou nodded along, "There's me being attacked by your brother, then you getting kidnapped by said brother, and the time you came over to my place late sticks out to me as well,"
"Now that you mention it, you coming over here when we saw the movie and me telling you about that girl also sticks out to me,"
"It's as there's someone writing this down,"
They're onto me.