The plan,Yukihanas part. To woo with words.

Uncle Goji came home an hour later looking like a bomb of glitter was thrown on him and that it was a dream come true kind of good.
So much so that anything I told him he just agreed to in an instant,he refused Kenshins offer of a meal and told me to go in his stead which made me as relaxed as a fish thrown out to land.

Uncle Goji knew it too and winked towards Kenshin who smiled just as deviously.
"Do I have any allies at all???"

"Of course...Hello."
Arata walks in past Uncle Goji ,holding some of the bags when they had finished unloading uncles car of groceries(This whole exchange happening within a matter of five or so minutes).

Aratas words were warm on sight of me and like a cold breeze on sight of Kenshin who nodded the head but let no words out at all,meanwhile,I am sitting here feeling so awkward so fast but I still look up to say hi.

Aratas glasses and his bangs seem to hide an expression and his lips keep closed while following my Uncle into the kitchen.
A brief moment is all though I needed before he became so icy.

He looked like I cut him,much like my third story volume where my samurai hero is torn between the choice of saving his master or his brother and the request was made by a long time love of his making the whole situation worse.

I have made no decision.

Right?

THE NEXT DAY,SCHOOL

Goofy does not describe accurately the joy on Kenshins face as I near him by the gate,he somehow doesn't or won't hear the sounds of people moving in the bushes,the flashing of lights and smartphones snapping away at us.
My feet are off in a dash trying to evade what will possibly become my new fate if this pans out and we succeed in making this program a reality.
I try not to,I really do but I fail at it.
I sneak peeks of the phones that are out as I walk by the students holding them and all of them are looking at the photos that the gossip sites are posting about Kenshin and me.Most are of the day by the water and us at a table while he ate chicken(somehow every photo he looks like a prince while I am caught with a piece of cake in my mouth that I nabbed after the first meeting and in my holed pajamas taking out the trash the day after.Evil social people...evil.)I need to look away but I don't.

Even more so when my eyes land on a site someone clicked that details in video montage my incident.
"They got all of it still..."
I mutter to myself,trying hard to keep my head up and failing as I enter the school and search for my locker evading even more sounds like the words of some of the guys from that horrible day trying to stop Kenshin in his path to his locker by showing him that very video.
I don't even think I should stop them.

My heart feels the unexpected flutter again though.
At the foot of my locker is a pretty sakura and rose flowered box and inside it was the prettiest slippers I have ever seen with sunflower and sakura embroidery with nice squishy insoles making them soft like a cloud to the touch.
A small like a finger size kendo stick is in the box on top of the shoes.

Kenshins sign he told me,between us to know if something really is him or not in case someone may try to trick me or trap me in some mean game again.I peer around the lockers to see him putting his on and walking softly up with casual words coming out of his mouth and no one the wiser that this happened save I and the janitor who looked pleased by the gesture.

AFTER SCHOOL.

Kenshin is following the plan to the letter.
He told everyone to join him in the yard at the back of the school after it was ended for the day.I set up the site last night to get others who follow him on socials and for other reasons to join in,I wrote though in my name, which was his no retreat condition and entirely non negotiable to have it any other way,a message for those who would come.

"Hello.
My name is Yukihana Mori.I have been to four schools and have seen a number of money troubles.It is known so I do not hide the fact,for a true heroine which it is my desire to be should only be face forward to herself and not a supporting character that adds nothing good or bad to the narrative.That I went to therapy for a year,that I have to make myself come to school every day and make myself be a person around others when I feel like a worm.Yet,That?That is not the issue here.I hope my words and the young man,Kenshin Itos action will be counted as something noble."
"I,for one,Have seen the effect it has on someone to lose a dream over a lack of funds,I am one of them to be honest.
My father got fired from an office job he hated because of an accident,an accident!My mother and he had to work together at a convenience store and it drove them apart somehow by being around each other too often as you all here know at the school and most on the internet do too now so I shy not away on this."
"This kids here?Some I asked over this sites poll last night,Just last night i posted a poll on a new site I made and it got answered by five hundred kids and teens.Guess what the majority said?
'There is no way though I can be an engineer,CEO,artist,actor and on and on because my parents can't afford it' or 'Because there is no way I can do it I have no help or no motivation or encouragement.'That can end beginning today."
"I am not saying it will be easy or fun.But what can it hurt to try this out?Learn a large part of our culture,our history and become healthier!This is a way to get major credits that if this program takes off the best universities in our home of Japan and maybe world over can become accessible to us,to anyone."
"What can it hurt?I may be a crazed lunatic to some,I may be a villain to others but what I am doesn't matter.This kids?
Our future?
That does.
So choose."