Summary: Yamouri Tetsuka has always focused on studies and trying to live a normal life without parents, but what happens when she falls head over heels for a boy that is in love with someone else? Will he realize she'd been there all along and fall for her too?
AN: I love maid-sama! I felt reallly bad for Hinata and I think he deserves someone too so there's my inspiration :) Please R&R
The sun slowly rose from the horizon. It illuminated its light through the glass window of the room of a sleeping girl. She shifted herself in her bed moving her blankets off of her face as her alarm finally rang for school. Her long brown wavy hair shifted to the side of her face as she gently rose up and threw her pillow at the sound, making it knock over a framed picture instead. Angrily, she pressed the off button before she plopped back onto her fluffy white pillow. She closes her eyes for only a second and then a sudden loud knocking at her door causes them to open wide again.
"Yami-chan! Get up or you'll be late for school again!" Her brother called from the other side of her door. She whined before getting up and pushing her spiky brown bangs back resting above her eyebrows. She slide out of bed and rummaged through her doors, laying out her Seika uniform on her bed before retrieving to the bathroom. She turns on the shower's hot water and lets it run while she gently brushes her hair in front of the mirror. Her big emerald green eyes look back at her as she places the brush down. A few moments later she steps out of the shower with a towel and makes way to her bed. She puts on her white long sleeve shirt and folds up the sleeves to her elbows, followed by a tan skirt, black stockings, and last but not least a red bow tie. Her green jacket sits at the end as she goes back to the bathroom to braid her long hair to the right side.
Officially dressed she grabs her bag, putting a little blue book inside and grabbing her green jacket on the way out. She rushes downstairs and immediately smells the refreshing aura of her brother's cooking.
"Well it's about time Yamouri," He sighs before tossing over his egg omelet which smelled like it had a hint of some kind of herb.
"Sorry Koji…" She mumbled taking a seat at the table. Something vibrated from her bag and she quickly zipped it open to see her purple phone flashing. She flipped it open to find a text message from her closest friend Aya Kazayra, it read:
"You won't believe what I heard! I'll tell you all about it at school!"
Yamouri closed her phone and sighed noticing her brother studying her face curiously. She averted her eyes and looked out the window to watch a bed of sunflowers sway side to side on the window still.
Yamouri and Koji lived in a comfortable apartment with no parents, due to the fact that their father died before Yamouri was born, and her mother dying of illness just a few months ago. Her brother, 17, took responsibility of being her guardian seeing as he was almost a legal adult. Everyone was quite surprised at how calmly Yamouri, 16, was taking it. She proceeded to do well in school and was in the top 15 for best qualifying grades. Whenever Koji would bring up their parents, however, she would disregard it and change the subject while still maintaining her joyful aura, though it was an act. He knew she was hurting inside, but decided not to make it worse by constantly bringing it so the subject was dropped completely.
She bit into her breakfast and noticed her lunch was already packed on the counter and smiled slightly as her brother took of his blue apron. He was like a new mother figure and she found it amusing. She checked the clock and grabbed her bag and jacket before rushing out the door with her phone apologizing for not being able to finish.
"Later Koji!" She shouted and sprinted down the sidewalk, he watched from their window on the second floor. Her brother also attended Seika High, what once used to be an all-boys school that recently became for girls as well. Yamouri was second year, and her brother was a third year. You'd think since they were going to the same place they'd walk to school together, but her brother had a stop he made every morning that usually made him late and insisted on going alone. Besides, she had friends to catch up with.
"There you are!" Aya called. Yamouri ran faster and finally reached her, still panting out of breathe. Aya was taller than most girls. Besides her height she had long curly blonde hair that made her stand out. Since there weren't many girls attending the school she was considered one of the prettiest. Yamouri thought of herself as just an average girl with average looks, but she also had admirers that would sometimes leave her love letters in her locker. Another girl came with short black hair, Izumei, or Izie for short, waving towards them. The three girls continued on till the school was coming up in the clearing.
"So what were you going to tell me?" Yamouri blurted out, interrupting Aya and Izie's conversation.
"Oh right! Well apparently the letter I found in my locker last week was from Kei!" She stated slightly blushing. Kei, a boy in her class she'd been crushing on since last year.
"Oh…" Yamouri added not really caring much. While her friends discussed boy matters she simply looked down at her phone and texted her brother, thanking him for the breakfast. She blasted out of there so fast she had totally forgotten. She never wanted him to feel unappreciated after all he had done for her. She looked at the gates and saw the student council president greeting the students.
"It's Ayuzawa!" Aya cheered. All three girls wore a smile on their faces as they approached her and accepted her greetings. Misaki Ayuzawa was probably the hardest working girls out of all of them. She had the best grades, and she was also pretty herself, along with being the first female president of Seika High. She made it her goal to make all the girls comfortable here and her work was definitely paying off. Yamouri remembered when she first got here how rude the boys were and how they've really shaped up by their fear of Ayuzawa. Yamouri felt her pocket vibrate and she looked down noticing her brother's reply.
"Hey who's that!" Aya screeched. Yamouri's head rose up slowly before noticing a boy she had never seen before at the gate. Misaki must have gone inside as there was no one else standing by the gate. He was slender, had dark hair, a slight tan adding a glow to his skin, and amber eyes that captivated just about anyone's gaze. Yamouri noticed a group of girls standing by a tree as they whispered among themselves as he slowly walked towards the school.
"Wow he's so cute! You think he's new here?" Aya and Izie began chattering among themselves. Yamouri put her phone back in her pocket and rolled her eyes taking her bag with her and heading towards the school. She never really showed much of an interest in boys, for she thought a relationship in high school was meaningless. She'd seen how most girls and even guys were so shallow towards each other and fell in love quite easily. You could call Yamouri a hopeless romantic, but she just thought that Love was something that couldn't be forced; it had to be something magical that would come and sweep you off your feet when you least expected it. She'd seen so many girls get hurt because they fell in "love" so fast, that she was quite sure she wouldn't date until college. In college boys were more mature about things and so were girls. Besides that she needed all the time she could to maintain her grades and look out for her brother who always seems stress now that he had to take care of all the bills and keep his own grades in shape.
"Yamouri wait up!" Aya called reaching for her wrist. She turned around slowly as the breeze caused her side braid to whip against her shoulder. "Don't you think that boy is cute…?"
"I'm going to be late for class, Aya-chan," She added with a fake smile. With that being said she turned around and headed for class. When she walked into the hallway she noticed a group of girls staring somewhere and to her dismay noticed that same boy walking her direction. She hurried up the stairs and into class where she saw Ayuzawa already seated. She took her seat in the back and rested her chin on her hands watching as other students entered the class. Wanting to go back to bed, she lays her head down onto her arms before hearing all the chitter chatter in the class come to a halt abruptly.
"Class, today we have a new transfer student, Shintani Hinata," The teacher announces. Yamouri slowly raises her head and stares at the amber eyed boy from earlier.
"Greeattt..." She sighed and watched as he walked to a boy in front of the class. Just like a dog, he was able to detect what flavor candy he had underneath his hand, hidden from the teacher. The wrapper wasn't even opened and he could detect it so easily. A string of drool comes from the corner of his mouth, reminding her of a four year old boy. The boy offers him the candy and he takes it with joy, the teacher than adds no one is allowed to eat during class. He makes a pouty face that even Yamouri finds in a way adorable and the teacher gives in. Until Ayuzawa butts in that is, stating firmly no one is allowed to eat anything. Yamouri watches as they argue a bit in the front. They finally take their seat and a few minutes later Yamouri realizes she'd been staring at him the entire time. Slightly embarrassed she breaks her pencil and lays her head back down onto the desk top.
"Why'd he have to be in my class? Why?"
The teacher was finally doing attendance and she started to get annoyed as some girls in the back of the room eyed the new student with dazed eyes and whispered among themselves. It was more of that shallow attitude where they only liked what they saw from the outside. Yamouri promised herself long ago that she would not become one of those types of girls and would get to know someone from the inside before she started to be obsessed. Little did she know, that was something that was out of her control.
"Yamouri Tetsuka?" The teacher finally called.
"Here!"
~::.::.::.::.::~A few minutes later~::.::.::.::.::~
Finally it was time for lunch. Yamouri hurried to her locker to take out her lunch box. She was anxious to eat having to rush breakfast and endure the embarrassment of her stomach growling and making really loud noises in class. She hated when that happened, but then again who wouldn't? Especially during the silence of the classroom. She walked the hallways and noticed Hinata walking her way with a dazed look in his eye. She rolled her eyes and noticed Aya waiting for her at the end of the hallway and started to run towards her.
"No way! Hinata-kun is in your class? You're so lucky Yami-chan!" Aya squealed. Yamouri slapped her forehead and dragged her friend away by the hand as they walked outside. She spotted the perfect place right underneath the biggest tree and in the shade and hurried there.
"Did you not eat breakfast? Why such a hurry!" Aya laughed. Yamouri took out a rag and placed it on the grass before sitting down. She hurriedly opened her lunch box and immediately smelled her brother's special curry. On the side was her favorite dessert, a box of Ferrero rocher chocolates, each piece finely wrapped in gold. Her mouth watered just looking at it, reminding her of Hinata and how he reacted with the piece of candy in class. He acted like a food deprived child and it made her wonder why he traveled all the way from the south to come here.
"Hm… isn't that candy from America?" Aya cut in. Yamouri nodded slowly before picking up her curry dish and taking some bites. "My brother buys them at this one store near this one café downtown."
"So did you learn anything about that Hinata boy?" Aya added lying down on her back to watch the clouds float by.
"Can we stop talking about that already… why not about what movie is playing this weekend!" Yamouri exclaimed.
"Eh? Isn't your brother going somewhere this weekend? You're going to have the house to yourself, why not throw a party!" Aya shouted. Yamouri slightly glared at her before taking the last bite of her curry. She looked down at the box before removing the lid. Such a tempting combination of luscious, creamy, chocolaty filling surrounding a whole hazelnut, within a delicate crispy wafer… all enveloped in milk chocolate and finely chopped hazelnuts. It was a joy just to look at. She plopped a few in her mouth ignoring her friend's comment of where that treat was going. She didn't care though. Besides, she maintained the same slender body since elementary school and on top of that exercised about every day. She even liked to run track.
The bell soon rang again and her next class was her favorite. Gym!
She said her goodbye to Aya and headed to the locker room putting two pieces of chocolate in her pocket and throwing away the empty box. She checked her phone to read a new message from Aya that read:
"Let's hang after school!"
Yamouri sighed and turned the corner, to her surprise coming into contact with something hard sending her to fly back and land on her butt. She blinked twice and opened her eyes again to see Hinata sitting in front of her rubbing his forehead.
"Aw…so sorry…" She mumbled. He offered her his hand to help her up, but she brushed it away and attempted a smile. Her smile soon faded when he started to sniff around and making his face inches away from her making her blush furiously. "What are you doing!"
"Aw chicken curry for lunch with a hint of oregano? And…" He adds and then gasps looking down at her pocket.
"Wow you're really good huh?" She stutters before taking out the two finely wrapped pieces from her pocket. "You want one…?" She mumbles. He smiles big and takes the piece from her hand gently before stuffing the deliciousness into his own mouth.
"Thank you Tetsuka!" He cheered locking eyes with her, before walking off. She stared after him slightly blushing.
"He remembered my name? He wasn't even paying attention… wait what am I thinking?"
She slaps her forehead and continues on to class taking her own piece of chocolate into her own mouth and entering the locker room with a slight smile.
"Ah gym class!"