It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular!
Is This Friendship?
Disclaimer: Do not own, OC own…
A/N: I don't know if this will be successful, so to do it like a real manga artist, I will make this a One-Shot. If people like it, I'll make it an official full story with chapters. If not, then oh well. Enjoy!
Tomoko wakes up on a sunny Saturday morning, and wipes the drool off her face.
"Man, why must I go to school. I just want to stay home, and enjoy my life of otome games and Internet…", Tomoko grunts as she walks the bathroom.
After her restroom routine, she got into her uniform, and went down for some breakfast. Tomoko sits at the table, and lays her head on the table.
"Even though I have to get up, it would at least be nice to have a hot guy as a butler to serve my food…"
"But what do you mean? I'm right here…" A soothing, male voice calls.
Tomoko raises her head in rapidly, and sees the guy of her dreams serving her breakfast.
"R-R-Ryosuke-san… Y-You're here…" Tomoko blabbers.
"Ryosuke-san? Who's that?" The man's tone changes to a female's. Tomoko blinks, and rubs her eyes.
She sees her mother putting her breakfast on the table, "Are you half-asleep? Hurry up and eat. You don't want to be late…"
Tomoko sighed from her disappointment, and just ate.
Class felt like a lifetime for Tomoko, sitting at a desk made her feel exhausted, she was just glad it was lunch break. Tomoko was also glad that the school festival was done, she could finally eat alone near the roof with the extra tables again.
"Just a few more hours until I can get out of this hell, it's tiring as it is with that annoying class…", Tomoko munches on a sausage.
Tomoko had some time left before the class bell rang, so she took out her PSP.
School finally ended, Tomoko got out as fast as the bell rang. On the way home, she passed the Book Off store.
"It is the weekend, I might as well take a look what's new…"
Tomoko walked in, and found that it was crowded.
"Damn it, I should've known this would have happened on a weekend." Tomoko pushes herself through.
She sees her book, and she's glad that nobody was standing there. She grabs her book, and reads from where she stands. Before she started on the book, she noticed something on the person on her left. On the young man's head, Tomoko saw that he had Skullcandy headphones on.
Tomoko grinned to herself, "Sorry pal, Beats are way better, even if they are expensive…"
After Tomoko's internal bragging, she took out her Beats headphones to make herself look better than him.
Tomoko went back to her book, but had occasional sneaking looks at the person to see if her bragging worked. After a few minutes of checking, there were no results.
"Damn you! You're suppose to be jealous of my better headset! Why aren't you noticing!?", Tomoko yells at the stranger subconsciously.
At that moment, the person put back his book on the shelf, and left the store.
Tomoko glared at him as he left, "You will notice I'm superior, everyone will!" She yelled out the last part, making everyone turn their heads to her.
Tomoko's face turned red, and high-tailed out of there.
On the following next week Saturday, Tomoko rushed to the bookstore right when the school bell rang. She was excited to know that her favorite book got a sequel, and she wanted to get to it badly.
"My only salvation! A good read for the weekend!"
Tomoko ran in the store, and through the barrage of people. She found the book on the shelf, and immediately opened the book. Within a second, Tomoko suddenly jumped back in surprise. On her left, was the same guy with the same Skullcandy headphones.
"Why is he here?! Is he following me? No, I would've noticed on my way here…"
The young man took notice of Tomoko's shocked expression, making her more nervous.
The man taking one speaker off his ear, "Are you alright?"
Tomoko starts to sweat, "U-Um, y-yes… I'm o-okay, sorry for disturbing you…"
The man blinks at her, shrugs, then goes back to his reading. Tomoko composes herself, and tries to focus on her book.
"Something's fishy about this guy…", Tomoko flips through the pages, and finds a little card in the book.
"Hm? What's this?", Tomoko finds eight empty circles on one side, then turns it around.
"Hah! This is!…" She gasps as Tomoko reads the following:
On every Saturday evening, get this card to be stamped. If all the circles are stamped, you get a special signed prize from the author of this series! Good luck!
"This is it!", Tomoko raises the card in success, "A grand prize like no other!"
The man next to her looked at her funny, making Tomoko realizing what she just did.
"Crap! I just did that out loud! Someone, kill me now!" Tomoko mutters as she lowers her head in embarrassment.
The man snickers, making Tomoko raise her head.
"That asshole! He dares laugh at me!" Tomoko going through a subconscious rage.
The man saw Tomoko trembling, "A-Are you okay?"
Tomoko turned away, and ran through the huge crowd as fast as possible. Outside the store, Tomoko breathes heavily from the shoving, and rests her hands on her knees to catch her breath.
"I can't believe that guy… At least I know I can get a good thing out of my book…", Tomoko starts walking home.
"Oi! Shojo!" Tomoko turns to hear a familiar voice, she sees the same guy with the headphones running to her.
Tomoko panicked, and ran with the guy following.
"Wait! Shojo! Come back!" The man kept yelling as Tomoko kept running.
Tomoko starts hyperventilate, "No, no, no!… He read my mind somehow, now he wants to kill me!"
Tomoko heads towards the train station, "Why must this day become worse? It was just becoming good!"
Tomoko finds a security guard, and taps his arm.
"Yes? Do you need help?"
Tomoko points backwards, and just breathed heavily.
The man caught up, and grabbed Tomoko's shoulder, "Finally… You *exclaim*, have to…"
"Excuse me…" The man looks at the security guard's attention.
"Are you harassing this girl?" The guard asks, only making Tomoko answer with a furious nod.
"Ah! Oi, wait! You misund-" The man suddenly gets his hands behind his back by the guard and starts to drag him away.
"Wait, I didn't do anything to her…", the man tries to struggle away, "The bookstore clerk told me to get your attention, because you didn't pay for that book!"
The guard looks at the man, then Tomoko.
The guard's eyesight made Tomoko shake, as she slowly took a look at her book. The book still had it's price tag on…
"Oops…" Tomoko's mind blows a fuse from her embarrassing act.
The guard lets the man go, "Sorry about that, be sure to take the girl back."
The man nods, "Come on, I'll go back with you…"
Tomoko's eyes widen, "Wait, he's helping me?"
Tomoko just shakes her head, and follows the stranger.
On the way back, the man spoke up, "Sorry if I spooked you…"
"…N-N-Not at all… Ano… O-Oji-san…", Tomoko tries to speak out.
"Oji-san? I'm not that old to be called that, my name's Kyuken." The man introduces.
"Kyuken… D-Desuka?" Tomoko tries to say it.
"Yup… By the way, whenever I'm at the store reading, why do you keep looking at me?" Kyuken asking, making Tomoko freeze in place.
"A-A-Ano… Et-t-to…", Tomoko freaks out, and pinching her leg to calm herself.
Kyuken chuckles, then laughs out loud, "Haha! I'm sorry, but I love your facial expressions! Hahaha!…"
Tomoko's eyes open wide, and concentrate on Kyuken.
"H-He… Loves?…"
Kyuken wipes a tear away from laughing, "Okay, come on. Let's hurry up before they close."
Tomoko stood in place, watching Kyuken walk further, and pondering on what he meant.
Kyuken looks back, "Come on! You don't want to be late!"
Tomoko snaps back to reality, and catches up to Kyuken.
-X-
Both Tomoko and Ryuken stand at the cashier of the bookstore.
"S-S-Sorry…" Tomoko nervously hands her book to the store clerk.
"It's alright, it was just an accident… Here you go, thank you for shopping. That will be 654 yen."
Tomoko looks in her bag, she finds 500 yen, but tries to look deeper for more change.
"No…" Tomoko rummages through her bag furiously.
Kyuken sighs, "I'll pay for it…"
Tomoko shakes her head at him.
"Don't worry, I caused you trouble today, I should repay for what I did…"
The clerk smiles, "You have a thoughtful boyfriend!"
Tomoko's mind exploded from the word "boyfriend", so much thought of her having a boyfriend made her head spin.
"Oh no, I'm not her boyfriend…", Kyuken hands the money, "I'm just being a Good Samaritan."
Tomoko's reality suddenly broke when she heard those other words.
"Thank you for your patronage!" The clerk bows.
-X-
Kyuken and Tomoko walk out of the store, noticing it was sunset already.
"Well, I guess I'll be leaving now…" Kyuken turns the other way.
"Wait! I want to keep talking with you! You might have been an ass at first, but I want to keep this mysterious bond!" Tomoko's subconscious screams at Kyuken.
"Oh right…", Kyuken turns to Tomoko, surprising her, "Ano… What was your name?"
Tomoko gulped, "T-T-Tomok-ko, K-Kuroki T-Tomoko…"
"Wah… Cool name…" Kyuken sounded impressed.
"He thinks my name is cool!" Tomoko's mind goes off.
"Well, Tomoko-chan. I was wondering if you want to hang out some time…"
Tomoko's heart bursts with her brain, she was so stunned, Tomoko was speechless.
"Tomoko-chan?" Kyuken tilts his head at her ever long staring… And drooling…
Kyuken waves his hand in front of her face, "Tomoko… Moshi Moshi!"
Tomoko shakes her head, "E-E-Eto… Ano…"
Tomoko looks up at Kyuken's smiling face, then nods her head.
"Great!", Kyuken takes out his phone, "Here's my e-mail so we can chat."
Tomoko furiously finds her phone, and exchanges the e-mails.
"Yosh. Well, I'll see you later, Tomoko-chan.", Kyuken turns around and waves while walking, "Jana!"
Tomoko just stares at him while he walks away, after she couldn't see him anymore, Tomoko ran back home as if she was dying to get there.
-X-
Kuroki Tomoki, Tomoko's little brother, just gets home from school.
"Tadaima!" Tomoki opens the door, and starts to close it.
Before he can move the door, his sister pushes her way through.
"TADAIMA!", she says quickly, takes off her shoes without placing them right, and dashes upstairs into her room.
"What the h- Oi!", Tomoki snaps his tongue and fixes Tomoko's shoes.
Wondering what the fuss was, Tomoki looks in her sister's room, only finding a weird scene. Tomoko was bouncing and rolling on the floor as if she ate tons of sugar.
"I'm not going to ask…", Tomoki walks off and let's her sister do whatever she's doing…
