Tsukushi finds Tsukasa alone in the ruined greenhouse, sitting among the shattered pots. He looks smaller somehow, stripped of his crown.
Tsukushi is shocked. But her heart still belongs to Rui.
And the story of the boy who had everything and the girl who had nothing but courage… is only just beginning.
Intrigued and enraged, Tsukasa escalates. But one of the F4, the gentle, melancholic Rui Hanazawa, watches her with quiet curiosity. When a group of thugs corners Tsukushi in an empty classroom, it is Rui who steps in, laying them out with effortless grace. He doesn’t say why. He just looks at her with those sad, distant eyes and walks away. hana yori dango season 1
“Why?” she asks. “Why would you give up everything for me?”
“Your weed,” she replies.
Rui, seeing the depth of Tsukasa’s sacrifice, steps back. He tells Tsukushi, “He will burn the world for you. I would only ask you to be happy. Go to him.” Tsukushi finds Tsukasa alone in the ruined greenhouse,
She kneels beside him. She takes his bloody hand. She doesn’t say “I love you” in the way the fairy tales do. Instead, she says, “You’re an idiot, Domyoji.”
Tsukushi, despite herself, falls. Falls for the silent prince who saved her, not knowing that Rui’s heart belongs to someone else: the elegant, mysterious Shizuka Todo, a childhood friend who lives abroad.
But they are together. And against the Domyoji empire, the F4, and the entire world—that is the only victory that matters. But her heart still belongs to Rui
Tsukasa stands before the entire school assembly. He rips the F4’s platinum badge from his chest—the symbol of his power. He announces that if Tsukushi is expelled, he will burn Eitoku Academy to the ground. Then he declares that he, Tsukasa Domyoji, will marry Makino Tsukushi.
Tsukushi nurses him back to health in her cramped home, sleeping on the floor while he takes her bed. His mother sends bodyguards to drag him back. He fights them off. He finally admits it: “I love you, Makino Tsukushi. I don’t know how, but I do.”
But Tsukushi does not break. She spits at Tsukasa’s shoes. She throws a pudding in his face. She tells him to his arrogant, curly-haired face that he is a spoiled brat. This is unprecedented. No one has ever defied the Domyoji heir.