Kodoku
"Really, I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that you two thought you could hide what was going on, or that you thought you had to do so," said Anzu, seated in the big chair and smiling a Cheshire cat smile at her two subordinates, standing in front of the desk rather than on either side of her behind it, for once.
"In retrospect, the former was a bit foolish of us," Momo allowed uncomfortably. "As to the latter ... well ..."
"There are a number of moral behavior clauses in the student council regulations," Yuzu reminded the President.
"Oh, morality," Anzu replied with a rather disturbing dismissive wave of the hand. "We're practically graduates and famous celebrities, the administration won't do a thing to us. And as for me ..." She trailed off into silence for a moment, then let out a sad sigh. "I am happy that two of the people I care about most in this world are finding happiness with each other," she continued, "even though I must admit to a certain envy as well."
"Envy?" Momo asked, blinking rapidly.
"President ..." Yuzu said, hand coming up to her mouth.
"Never mind, my dears, never mind." Anzu turned her chair so that she could look out the window behind her, giving them a profile look of her face. "Such is the loneliness of command, and I knew that burden would come to me when I began to walk the path that has led me to this point. This is the life that I chose." Her eyes closed as she fell silent.
"President!" Yuzu gasped, eyes filled with tears.
"I'm so sorry, President, I never considered your feelings!" Momo added, no less visibly heartbroken. "We'll avoid reminding you of this, we'll keep our relationship quiet, and -"
"So no PDA?" asked Sodoko as she walked in carrying a rather large stack of reports from the Morals Committee. "That'd be nice, less work for my people. And incidentally, Vice President, Manager, the President has been dating a class president in the Naval Studies Department since she was a first year." She dropped the reports on the desk and turned to go.
"Thank you, Sodoko," Anzu said into the silence that had fell, just as the chairman had reached the door to the office.
"Don't call me -" said chairman snapped as the doors shut in front of her.
"Pres-i-dent!" Momo growled.
"Oh, what?" Anzu asked, hands spread. "Did it really seem likely that someone as cheerful as I am wasn't getting her ashes hauled?"
"But you said -" Yuzu began to protest.
"Never did."
"You implied -" Yuzu continued.
"Well, that is kind of my thing, you know," Anzu said ... and cheerfully began crunching on a dried potato she'd produced from nowhere.