Summary: Everyone has their secrets. But what Len has isn't what he calls a covert—but his likes. And a number of those things revolve just around one person. 10 chapters of uncovering what his likes (and probably his hates) could be. BETTER! R&R!
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"I don't get to understand anything at all. She acts more like a child than a 5 year old does and I just don't get it. She doesn't care if there are people to laugh out loud at her or if she has to make a fool out of herself just to do such crazy things, it's just so idiotic. But when she does the same thing to me, I try to not solve the puzzle anymore"
Tsukimori Len was not a people person, and neither did he like kids.
It was his spring of human nature to avoid people, it didn't matter whether he knew them or not, he just hates the fact that he is sealed away from his solitude with a crowd who doesn't empathizes his need of running away and escaping to a place as far as possible. Not everyone really grew aware of that. But the kids in Seiso Academy did, and they only needed one rule around him—don't bump into Tsukimori unless you mean it.
Yeah, he was that scary.
Even his own mother didn't understand his own temperament. A lot of people couldn't and they didn't even want to bother anyway. His friends only considered the thought that he had issues—everyone has issues but they don't take it the way like how he does, those emotions don't show habitually nor do they show at all. The emotions that he locked away in a tightly sealed box, hidden beneath the impassive, hardened demeanor everyone at Seiso saw day after day, week after week. No one could ever reach his boundaries, or into his personal space, because he was as hard as a block of cement. That kind of doing is what earned him to be popular in school; minus the part where he is a hot violinist and a music genius.
Well, despite of the fact of what he can do, he still had a lot of fan girls. That's right—fan girls, and a lot of them. Not two, not five, not ten but just a lot. He was, in spite of everything, still adorned by many…girls that is.
He's a guy. A very hot guy. Admiration can't escape the picture, but he could escape from them.
People just knew how to act around him.
"Tsukimori-kun!"
Okay, maybe except for one.
"Tsukimori-kun!"
Kahoko Hino, 2nd year Gen. Education student was that exception to the rule. Her red hair bounced behind her as she tried to run to him, her red violin case swinging vigorously beside her while she held it at her right hand as her legs pushed harder to catch up with the blue-haired boy who didn't even seem to hear his own name. He ignored her again. Kahoko sighed at this and could only run a bit faster to him, she grabbed a hold of his sleeve when she had got to his pace and practically got him turned around to face a panting red-haired girl.
It was something no one else could've ever done.
"You walk…pretty fast…Tsukimori-kun" She said in between pants. Still holding onto his sleeve, she regained her composure and could finally breathe normally again. She only smiled at him when he didn't say anything.
"Ne, didn't you hear me earlier? I was already shouting your name" A drop of sweat rolled at the side of her face and she could feel her heart beat inside her chest real fast just after running like that for him. Their silence took an amount of seconds and he only bothered to answer her with his glare.
"Will you stop staring at me, Tsukimori-kun?"
"Will you let go of my uniform first, Hino?" His irritated voice told her. Nothing really new from that gesture.
"Ah! O-of course, sorry about that" She instinctively let go of her hand the minute he told her to. She looked at him with apology and could only sigh at her actions. Silence was already broken
"What do you want from me, Hino?" Len asked, covering up his warm cheeks with his cold hands as he brushed them through his face. Glancing at her, Len discovered her frowning slightly and raised her eyebrows at his expression. He could tell she was thinking. Her eyes gave it away, they always did.
"What do you mean 'what do you want'? We have practice today!" Hino said and Len shrugged and let it go, he walked away from her but Hino came up to his side and walked beside him through the corridors where people were staring.
"What was that shrug about?" the red-haired asked, a bit fumed at it, "Did you forget that we practice everyday after classes?"
Len rolled his eyes but she was oblivious to even notice. He had made that deal with her 2 months ago that he'd teach her free violin lessons only if she was really determined enough to pursue her career with the violin, and when she answered to him a wholeheartedly 'yes' he simply gave in and everything started from then on to now. He couldn't say that he didn't like being with her, she was fun—yes, he admitted that to himself long before, but how she could act around him like he was any other person sets him off with her because he isn't just any other person to deal with. He was made of steel, apparently his heart was too. He's just different from Ryoutaro, Yunoki, Hirara and all the other soft guys out there; it was just with him she could be so carefree and innocent and not be like everyone else. She wasn't scared of him like all of them were. He had no idea why or how, but it had him pissed off. To Len, this was anything but comfortable.
"Don't you ever get tired from our practices? I'm sure another hell of a lesson with me won't help you from another stressful day in class" He shot back gravely and Kahoko grinned good naturedly at him, not minding his intimations from the moment she got used to them.
"Why would I? You were the one who told me to keep on striving, so why would I have to give up now only when I'm finally starting? Don't you think that's incoherent, Tsukimori-kun?" She replied, shoving her hand in the pocket of her skirt and watching as a number of students walked passed both of them, thinking how rash thoughts they would have seeing them together without any malice. She laughed it off in the back of her mind.
"There's nothing to rush about, Hino. You have plenty of time to still improve, what I'm implying is that you're pushing yourself too hard. It's not like you won't be able to play the violin tomorrow or something" Len commented suddenly and she blinked at him, suddenly realizing that she'd been staring at him for more than a minute, thinking that she was lucky to spend hours in a closed room with a guy like Tsukimori Len. Deadpan to what only the eyes can see but vivid to what the heart can only tell, and it was her heart which can do that. Maybe not hers alone, but her heart was the first to have known. Every girl would've been jealous of her and they were. Hell, they would've skin her alive for it. But she loved that fact.
Gah, stupid hormones.
"You never know that, and neither do I. Why would I have to still wait for it to happen? It's better to start now then regret about it because I could've done something but didn't, right?"
"It's undisputable" Len said in defeat and he saw her smile widely at him. The funny thing about it was he found himself smiling with her as well. It was strange how much of him she could actually move.
"Oh, I've learned the piece you asked me finish just the other day. It was really tricky though. But it's amazing how you can do it so perfectly on stage!" She said with amazement as they turned into the hall which leads to Seiso's number of music rooms.
He only furrowed his brows at her and concentrated his way through the number of people they passed by. Whenever a student tried to look at them defiantly, he threatens them with his golden ambers and with no second thoughts would they run away like scared wolves that have seen a bear. This happens all time, but no one really got used to it. The girl who walked beside him tried to suppress her giggles but she gave it away when Len did the same thing again for the second time.
"It's not funny, you know" He said to her and Kahoko and managed to walk away from the students without bursting into laughter again.
"Sorry. I can't help it. You're like a death God where everyone has to avoid you" She replied with a grin and glared at him as Len only narrowed his eyes. That was when her smile began to falter.
"Really Tsukimori-kun, you take everything too seriously. Will you just relax for once and be all…not scary?"
Like that was an easy thing to do.
"Look who's talking" He shot back and Kahoko could only swing the violin case she had with her, as if she didn't hear a word he told her. I guess he had a point—but she doesn't give a death glare to everyone they meet down the halls. She was serious for a reason, but not how he took it.
"Maybe you're forgetting Tsukimori-kun that people aren't scared of me. In fact, they're all my friends! Well, not everyone but a majority of them are and my seriousness is way different from yours. I'm doing this because I love playing the violin and I want to get better. You, however is…I don't know, you're just terrifying and have no fun" She said sounding sure of herself, making a face that would have been comical to anyone watching when she realized that Len was opening his mouth to say something but rather closed it instead. Admitting to himself that she had a point as well.
"Do you remember the first time you made me cry?" Kahoko asked randomly and he stared at her, thrown by her question, "The time you said my performance was horrible and you walked out on me just like that. I hardly knew you and you insulted me out of the blue, I said to myself you weren't a really good person"
"That was only last year" Len answered, wracking his brain for the memory and managing to latch onto a very faint one. "Why'd you ask?"
"I dreamt about it this morning. Those weren't so good memories of the both of us and yeah, I didn't like you back then. But it's really funny you know if you try to think of the situation we are in now"
"Really? Why?" He asked. And her eyes looked at him thoughtfully.
"Before I actually despised you for it, I was naïve that time so maybe I didn't quite understand what you mean but now that time flies, I think I get it now. You only said it to make me better, to mold me into this violinist who'll be resistant to those people who'll do the exact same thing while I'm still well on my way to where you're going. It's to remind me where I stand and to not get my hopes up so high. I was dumb, that's why I cried" Kahoko smiled weakly at the memory.
"This means nothing to us now"
"Maybe to you it doesn't but it does to me, Tsukimori-kun. I think it was because I was trying to figure out how many times you'd made me cry in all the time we've known each other. I can count them on one hand you know, and I guess I was thinking about that when I fell asleep this afternoon in class too" She replied and Len grinned slightly, as he added yet another reason to his list to keep the promise he'd made.
He promised to not make her cry again. And she agreed to that, she had every reason to.
"Think whatever you want to. I still think the Hino who was so naïve before isn't different from who she is right now. " He, yet again, gave another insult just like last time. But this time, Kahoko didn't need to cry. She was stronger than before.
And he made her that way. Only him.
"But you put up with it. Because you hate to see me cry" She said cheekily
Tsukimori Len didn't like kids. But when she tried acting like them that was a whole different issue to muddle.
"Ne, Tsukimori-kun are we still going to have our practice today?" She asked him, hoping for an answer she'd be surely pleased with.
Kahoko Hino was a complication, the only one that had breached his defenses. He thought it was impossible, and everyone had thought the same. But moments like these made him understood why she succeeded. The answer was so simple; he deeply cared for her too. Maybe no one knew what he really felt for her, and maybe he doesn't still know it in him but the piece will still remain hidden until he's ready to face the answer. They weren't 'actually' best friends, they're just two people who greatly came along with each other and it speaks for itself, doesn't it? Len had taught her many things and so did she. Not literally though but in a sense on how he would look differently at her now, unlike those times where he'd hurt her just for nothing. To top it off, it had been amazing.
It was simply Len and Kahoko.
A boy and girl.
And their situation could've been more complicated.
"Fine. But be sure to act accordingly this time" He turned to her who was watching him, a casual smile on her juvenile face. Len watched her go with excitement as she skipped happily ahead of him and then looked at her once more. Just as when he told her to act accordingly, she still does the same thing again. But she was right; he hated to see her cry.
That was because he didn't know how to make a child stop from crying.
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