AFTER SCHOOL (I)
After around one hour, since closing ceremony was done, with all people can be talking with each other, with their classmates, with their upperclassmate, of course, all was happy. And beside that situation, a guy with his quite high body and a hair with dark blue color, packing up all around things that was given to him when the ceremony was held ago. Some of that things was unique, but fortunately not so big so he can put all that things to his bag without hesitated.
When he just packed it, he looked some things that lie around, no, but something that made him feel really disturbed. Yeah, after looked that, he walked up straightly, after dropped his bag. Picking up with his hands. He just not feeling strange at all when do that. After that, walked to a trashcan that was appear in a building corner, and put in all that things in there. Back to his bag, he looked somewhere around. Well, he just made sure to himself that all was done. After that, he picking up his bag, and running slowly to go out. Outside of the building, a girl was looked leaning back on a wallside of the building. Her eyes looked to a school gate with blank stare. Though this day the weather not so cloudy, but her face seem not so good as the weather.
"Hey... Taiga... !" said dark blue haired guy with his slowly running to that girl. Then the girl move her head toward that sound came. Her face suddenly changed. All about cloudy scene was suddenly changed.
"Ryu...Ryuuji..." said the girl quietly.
"Hey... Where're the others ?"
"...Hem..."
"Eh... I mean... Kushieda, Kitamura, and Kawashima..."
"Hem..."
"..."
That guy was silent. He looked the girl. He was doubtful. He was only talked normally. But this girl only say Something that can't be understood correctly to him after all.
"Well... yeah... you know... it was time consuming... I just helped other staff, fixed some things around me, tidy up some table and chair to usual position... yeah... maybe it was bit tired now...but still..."
"you wanna know ?"
"Eh ?"
"Do you know why I was still all alone here ...?"
"W-Well... I mean..."
"This is all...BECAUSE OF YOU, YOU MONGREL !"
"HKK!"
Now this guy can't be talk again, and pressed his stomach so deeply, after some heavy punch was already landed to hisself. Now he just bent over her. But, luckily he still aware and try to open up his hand.
"W...Wait ! Please ! Please ! Don't do that again ! I...I... Okay... I was wrong... OK... so..."
"After all you're done, you can only do that... geez... eh ?"
"W...Why ?"
"..."
Hm ?"
A moment later, an atmosphere in that place became more silence. Wind that earlier just like empty, now step by step can moved some leaves tree near a school fence. Meanwhile in wallside of athe building, a pair of figure human stood face to face. after a moment, one of them started bowed the head.
"eh...hm..."
"..."
"eh... Ryuuji..."
"..."
"Are yo... Do you know ? "
"...What ?"
"I mea...eh..."
"Ryuuji... are you know... why this day I came to this school ? "
"Hm ? Why... Why you're ask that ?"
"..."
"... Actually... there're something ... it's just like..."
"...lost ?"
"Eh ? No... Not like that ..."
"Then, What ?"
"on this place, there're something that made a feeling in the memories was grew back again... and now... that feeling was grew and bloom after fall asleep so long in a very deepest ice sea... "
"... ? "
"Hey, Hey...What was with the word, Taiga ? Are there was a something that happen to you after leaved this school so you can just say some word that not norm... eh ? Taiga ?"
"...So... only say that... ?" the girl that earlier just bowed her head, slowly make her palm hand moved, and make it a strong fist.
"He...hey... just kidding okay..." said dark blue colored hair guy while lift up his palm hands.
"... you know... I just ... waiting until now... until this... time..."
"?!"
Her hands now clenched more tightly. her body that earlier was steadfast slowly started to loose it's balance. And after that..
"Taiga !"
a pair of hands that earlier just lifted up, now weaked, but shortly after now it's just can be right before her body. His leg that was exhausted, now became strained and shaked. He just can hold it with all of his power can do, and after moment later, the girl was right in the dark blue haired guy's embarced.
"..."
"Ta..Taiga ! you right ?! "
"...eh..."
"...I... I'm right..."
"..."
"Ryuuji... "
"I have a request... can you..."
GRUUU...YUUUUK...
"Oh... is that so...?"
"EH ?! N-NO ! IT'S NOT THAT ! I MEAN... EH ?!"
"Then, What's problem about... ? "
"That's..."
"Well, whatever, looked at you, even you wanna say else... it's just hard to do with this conditions, right ? "
"..."
"OK... so beside in this place too long, let's go home, there will be more things that waited for you, you know ? " said Ryuuji while moved up Tiga's body to his back.
"Ryuu...Ryuuji..."
"OKAY ! LET'S WE START... ! "
"start ?"
"I mean come home, hehe..."
Dark blue colored hair guy started to move his foot to make a run.
"..."
"So... IS THAT YOU WANNA GO ?! HEH! "
"GGG !"
"Go back quickly and go to class, NOW !"
"W-WHAT ?! W-WHY ... ?!"
"JUST SHUT UP AND DO IT ! NOW !"
In an instant, Ryuuji was rolling back his body and came back to entered a school building. Without teke off his shoes, he just running through all coridor until arrived on front of a class door. After opened and running, he put a small bag that was lying on a table. Quickly he just running again until he was came back to a school gate. After all, he just stood without running like before. He just bent over a bit, and make his breath panting fastly. Well, after all he just done it. Meanwhile, the girl that liyng down in her back, only make likely gloomy face. Her eyes was inside her hair. But from that face, it can be said more what was her feeling like. Now, her grip in the Ryuuji chest was more tight. And her head was bowed down.
Ryuuji now stood again. With some remnant of his stamina, he running again, but now more slowly.
"...Hey.. , are you know ? "
"What else ?"
"You're still same... Ryuuji..."
In a moment later, a figure of guy walked around road where the traffic lamp was still red. After that, the figure slowly erased from scene while sunray showed a time that getting late. And some scenery more surely noted that evening was came.