Hanahaki... The most beautiful disease of all. No, not beautiful. It is the most terrible, heartbreaking and desperate. It causes more pain than anything else in this world can. No matter how much everyone romanticizes it, tries to embellish it, admires it, in the real world it is much more dangerous.

Chifuyu was able to see it with his own eyes. He can't describe the feelings that rose up inside him when he saw flowers mixed with petals falling from your mouth. It happened so suddenly, at the exit from school, when you were, as usual, going to fool around and go home together. And at that moment your gaze caught on a certain person who passed by you laughing with someone and smiling brightly. Everything happened so quickly that Chifuyu only had time to hold you by the shoulder so that you wouldn't fall when your throat itself was famous from the inside. He hoped that this disease would never creep up on anyone around him, he hoped that this particular curse would simply pass everyone around by. But no, then he saw how you, his best friend, were growing flowers from the inside that filled your lungs. You might miss the fact that this was quite common in your time and that it was impossible to fight. Although he hadn't allowed himself to panic for a second since then, every time he saw you could barely stand on your feet during the attacks, he was just there helping you reach the paper bag. It quickly filled with everything that came out of your mouth.

Despite his strength and endurance, he couldn't hide the fact that it was even painful to watch you suffer. The worst thing is that the person because of whom you started to feel this way really didn't have any emotions towards you, and when you found out about this, your condition only got worse. No! Chifuyu wasn't discouraged! It's not his style. He just started spending more time with you, even though you were practically inseparable before. And one of those days, the idea just came into his head. Why not try to outsmart this disease? For example, if he makes you fall in love with him? He will definitely be able to avoid hurting you, he is sure of it. He understood that you were friends and had exactly these feelings for each other and that it would be incredibly difficult to change this, but why not try? He immediately set about it: more soft, sweet talk that couples usually had, more physical contact, more attention to walking around in all sorts of places for those same couples. He is confident that his plan will work, even if it takes time. He is absolutely confident in himself.

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This has been going on for quite some time now. And as ridiculous as it may sound, you feel a little better... Either this confident guy's plan is working, or you've just gotten used to living side by side with the disease. You want to lean toward the first option.

"And here's another one. I literally rummaged through my entire closet to find all this." Chifuyu chuckled as he laid out a whole pile of packages of discs with movie posters on them in front of you. He sat on the floor by the bed like you, but he did it in such a way that you were pressed against his side, maintaining a small physical contact that had become habitual for you lately. The two of you were now in his room because you came to him for a sleepover, he promised you that you could watch all sorts of movies all night long, and tomorrow you would just get ready and go straight to school. That is, you will just fool around all night and tomorrow you will die in all those terrible lessons. "I watched them all, so it doesn't matter at all which one you choose. They are all cool."

He was proud and pleased with himself, after all, he had such a large collection. And he wanted to say something else like "Aren't I great?", but his gaze fell on you. Or rather, on the way your shoulders suddenly shook slightly and your face turned pale. He recognized these actions.

"{{user}}?"