

Pushing Sawako to thank Ryo for having saved her, Sawako learns a lot from the silent young man who tells her about feeling as well as a secret about the girl he has always loved. What does Kazehaya mean to her? Is it more than just respect and gratitude for all he has done for her? Kurumi uses Sawako’s confusion against her and even more so when a wild pitch nearly hits Sawako but is grabbed by Ryo …. Of course, Sawako isn’t able to give her an answer.

Kurumi makes it clear that she feels she is the right person for Kazehaya and asks Sawako what he really means to her. In a hilarious turn of events, Sawako loses a shoe during the match and as Kurumi is about to explode with anger that Sawako is speaking comfortably wit Kazehaya the shoe drops from the sky and smacks Kurumi over the head.ĭuring her break, Sawako hangs out with Kurumi who has come to watch Kazehaya play baseball and is quick to insult Sawako and tells her to learn her place. With the sports festival underway, Sawako surprises everyone including Kazehaya during girls soccer game. So begins a most unusual rivalry with one party trying hard to get her way and the other still believing the other is a good friend. While she wants to come off as menacing, Kurumi becomes enraged when Sawako just doesn’t get that she’s angry with the oblivious girl. While she likes the girl well enough, Sawako refuses to help her and things quickly turn sour as the seemingly sweet Kurumi shows her dark side. In the final chapter of Volume 3, a pretty girl named Kurumi who happens to not only be popular but also seen as the nicest girl in school “befriends” and asks Sawako to help her win the heart of Kazehaya who this girl had a major crush on since Junior High. All seemed to be going well until she met a popular girl who – in Volume 4 of Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You – is forcing our girl to reveal her true feeling for the boy who made her life so much better. There was a time that everyone in her class thought Sawako Kuronuma was a walking curse but, thanks to Kazehaya and his small group of friends, the girl who looked like she stepped out of a Japanese horror flick has learned to open up and trust those around her.
