Hey there! I had this idea for a story on my mind for some time, and I'm going to tell you ahead of time that this story is SLOW! There won't be kissing in like, the second chapter. I wanted to make this story realistic but it's not my main story. I'll make occasional updates but it won't come out as fast as my most important story 'A Mistake' so if you feel that it's taking a while for this story to progress, read my main one instead. So with that, let's get onto the story!
I do not own anything I mentioned in this story, none of which I mentioned belong to me and I do not own the characters in the story.
Tomoe sighed as he rested his elbow on the wooden desk in the library. He spent most of his dull days here since there was nothing else to do and there was no screaming people here unlike the hallways. The boy never understood why they'd scream he sort of just assumed that they were just mentally unstable or something like that.
He was smart, he finished all of the courses in the school flawlessly and the teachers didn't know what to do with him. Tomoe finished all his classes before the rest of his classmates could even finish the first trimester. School was a place he could be in without feeling depressed at home. He helped out in the library most of the time, actually he spent the entire day in the library except gym because he was forced to do that atrocity.
Books were nice, the weren't great or anything, they appealed to him slightly so he did whatever he liked. The librarian in the school gave her job to him practically so she could focus on other things. Because of that the school had a great book fair and a lot more presentations. Tomoe checked books out for people, checked them in, rearranged the shelves, put up displays, and did everything pretty much.
But he had one job that he took very seriously. Tomoe scared people.
No, it wasn't like the movie 'Jaws' or like Jeff the Killer, Tomoe did what he had to in order to keep the library the way it should be. He protected the library from those mongrels who would 'Woop' and 'Dab' all the time. The geeky people called him 'Guardian of the Library' as a pun from 'Guardians of the Galaxy'
Tomoe had many fangirls who'd send him love letters and flirt with him, but he brushed them aside ignoring them the entire time as if they never existed. Whenever someone in the library would misbehave in his eyes, he'd stealthily scare them horribly.
Tomoe had this, 'loner dude; beware; do not mess with me' sort of atmosphere around him so he'd use it to his advantage. Just when the student had their backs turned to him, he'd strike. Tomoe would linger behind them, his scary aura sort of hung over them sending chills down their spine and when they turned around and... well Tomoe scared them.
With his unusually sharp canines baring and his pale cold hands out and stretched out to grab the person, Tomoe would ominously mutter, "What business do you have here?" letting his cool voice slither on their necks. He'd always chuckle when seeing all their reactions, some would turn around and try to pick a fight but turn to jello at the sight of him, others would just full out run like there was no tomorrow. Either one, he enjoyed them all.
So today went the same as usual, Nekota-san would bring down stacks of paper for the printers and chat with him, well, she tried to chat. Tomoe would just grunt and work, he was listening, but he didn't give her his attention. She didn't need it, so he wouldn't. Tomoe refilled the ink cartridges in the printers and log the computers out. Today was a gross day, rain was heavy and so was the smell. The murky smell made the boy moody, but it wouldn't matter, he wasn't outside anyways.
Picking up the trash from the students, Tomoe tossed it out for the next round of students next period, it was a free period for him here so he decided to clean up. At the end of the day he had gum which stunk since that's when most students came to fool around.
BRINGGGG!
"Great, now for more morons to make a mess again..." Tomoe grumbled, he sincerely wondered why there was a lack of students who actually cleaned up their messes.
Ami shuffled down with papers stacked up to her nose, "Mikage-san! I brought the flyers you wanted!"
Tomoe glanced over, What a moron, she takes all of them down, she could've fell down the stairs... "Thank you Nekota-san, please go put them on the counter."
"Hai!" Ami squeaked, letting the papers down onto the table with a thump, "So how's your day Mikage-san?"
"Hn"
"I take that as a yes then? Do you have any tasks for me?"
Tomoe pointed to the half finished World War II display, not even bothering to say a word
"Okay!" smiled the girl as she scurried off.
CLINK!
Tomoe turned to the now open door and smiled inwardly when it was actually a studious person who had some actual work to do. The girl sent him a nod and went to a table to work. The door opened again and this time he wasn't as lucky, a girl with orange hair with another girl with brown hair came in. They didn't have any books, Tomoe took that a clue.
"What's your purpose here?" Tomoe asked coldly.
The girl with the brown hair stuttered nervously, he never saw her before but the orange girl shot back, "Books!" she snapped sassily.
Tomoe glared, such disrespectful people they were, but he himself was one too. Another boy opened the door with blond hair, Isobe, "Hey Hey! Wusap Na-Na- Nanami Mo-Mo-Mozono?" rapped the boy while he made all these rapper moves.
"LEAVE" Tomoe growled, the ear bleed worthy rap was horrible enough, but his presence was just entirely too infuriating.
"O-OH! M-Mikage-san!" stuttered the boy as he dashed out. Tomoe snickered, what wusses these boys were. He turned to the two girls from earlier, the orange haired girl left leaving the brown haired girl behind.
Tomoe stomped over, the girl was just merely poking at the spines of the books and just standing there. Letting his fearful presence wash over her, Tomoe hissed, "What business do you have here?"
The girl jumped a bit and shakily turned to him and her eyes widened, but not in the way he expected her to. Her eyes widened in amazement, Tomoe trembled a bit, What is she doing?! What's her problem? Isn't she scared? Tomoe cleared his voice, his voice more erie, "Do you need some help? He sneered, letting his long fingers creepily touch her shoulder, but the girl remained unfazed.
"No, not really. I'm just here I guess. I have nothing else to do." she confessed pissing the boy off, she doesn't get scared and now she just flat out admits it?! What sort of person even does that?!
Tomoe hissed, "THEN LEAVE!"
"But I don't wanna"
"What"
"I said I wanna stay, I'm not going"
Tomoe stood there stunned, did this girl just tell him off? No way. No way at all. He scared the entire school away except for this one measly girl? The girl crossed her arms and looked at him in the corner of her eye, pissing him off even more, "I SAY LEAVE!"
"Nope, I'm staying. No one said you could just tell me to leave, only a teacher can really."
Tomoe fumed, this girl! This girl! Tomoe was about to blow his top, but he coldly walked away, "Fine, just don't fool around"
The girl stood there dumbfounded, did she just tell the fiercest kid in school to leave her alone and he did? That was pretty amazing of herself. Impressed with herself but with nothing to do, Nanami strode up to the counter where Tomoe sat reading over some documents. The boy looked up expecting a person who needed a book to be checked out and glared at the sight of her. "What is it?" he grumbled lowly.
"Nothing."
Tomoe hissed and went back to the documents but the girl lingered. She was really pissing him off.
"What?!" Tomoe spat.
"I'm just watching, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like? I'm reading, now go away." Tomoe snapped, shooing the girl with his hand but she stayed like an obedient dog.
"Is there something I can do here?"
"Read."
"Can I help you in the library?" she asked completely ignoring his response of 'read'.
Tomoe sighed grumpily, "Go clean the computers with the cleaning wipes."
"Okay!" chirped the girl as she skipped off with the wipes in hand. He watched from his desk and sighed again when the girl couldn't even manage to pull out the wipe from the tube and was pulling out all the wipes.
Tomoe stomped over, grabbing the wipes out of her hand he snapped, "Look kid, you just pull it out like this."
"My name is Nanami Momozono, you are?" she asked, not even bothering to tell him 'okay' about his statement earlier.
Tomoe mentally face palmed, "Mikage Tomoe" Tomoe uttered, "Just wipe down the sides of the computer and screen, just use the left over wipe to clean the mouse and then the keyboard."
"Okay Tomoe-kun" Tomoe's eye twitched at the sound of the honorific, was this girl serious?!
"When you're done meet me at the counter, Nanami-chan." Tomoe puffed, adding force on the 'Nanami-chan' but the girl smiled at him and went back to work, not even caring about what he said. Tomoe groaned, she was definitely a handful. Tomoe strode over to the desk and within four minutes the girl had cleaned all of the library's 20 computers. Nanami ran up to the desk and placed the tube of wipes on the counter.
Tomoe looked up surprised, did she really finish that fast? Tomoe got up from his chair and yawned, "Let me go check the computers." Nanami pouted, he obviously didn't trust her that she did a good job, but she did and waited for him to look at her surprised and impressed that she did good, but Tomoe didn't. He grunted softly and went back to his desk making Nanami grumble.
Nanami hissed, "So? Is it good or not?" she wasn't usually this grouchy but this guy was being a total and complete jerk!
"Hn..." Tomoe grunted making the girl be even more irritated even though he didn't see anything wrong in what he did.
"Fine," Nanami huffed as she complained mentally on how curt Tomoe was, "Do you need anything else? I'm going back to class."
Tomoe wanted to shoo the girl away quite frankly, but he needed someone to do work for him while he attended gym class, "If you have nothing to do, cover for me during 8th period." Tomoe muttered as he stacked the papers he was reading together neatly by hitting their bottoms on the desk with a clank and straightening the sides.
"Sure, I have a substitute for gym anyways, I'd rather not be stuck in that crazy place." Nanami grumbled as she picked at the knots in her hair.
"Don't do that!" Tomoe snapped startling the girl as she stared at his eyes with confusion.
"D-Do what?!" she spat, thinking she did something horribly wrong.
"That!" Tomoe pointed at her hand that was intertwined in her locks, "It's unsightly! Now if you may, go hand these papers to the main office, tell them that Mikage-san wanted to give you these, got it Momozono-san?" Tomoe handed her the papers and pushed her out of the room leaving Nanami to walk down the hallways herself.
Nanami sighed, What's his problem? He's so mean! I didn't even do anything! Well I guess some people are like that. Nanami strode down the hallways and swept her hair from the side of her face to behind her ears, He's kind of cute though.. That Tomoe guy... he's really good looking for someone our age.. WAIT, what the heck am I thinking?! That guy thinks he's some big shot! I'm just hanging around him since I have nothing else better to do
Nanami faced the main office door and swung it open and laid the paper on the table, she opened her mouth to speak what Tomoe wanted her to say but a spike of mischief arose from her since she was pissed off at that Tomoe guy, although it wouldn't do much she spoke, "I've brought some papers Tomoe-kun wanted me to bring, have a good day."
The staff behind the table looked at her with surprised faces, no one called him 'Tomoe-kun', no one did. The guy hated being called that, so this girl was clearly someone important to him... was she? No way... And that started quite the rucus in the office.
Nanami strolled down the hallways, just to kill some dull time but she later opened the library door to see Tomoe's face beet red and him screeching at some boys who were teasing him. Tomoe was being teased? What? The boys looked over to see Nanami and they starting bawling out in laughter even more, Tomoe snapped, "Shut up you fools! She's nothing to me! Just someone who helps me in the library!" But the boys snickered and when Tomoe saw Nanami, his face grew ominous and his horrifying presnece filled the room sending chills down Nanami's spine, "YOU! GET OVER HERE!"
Nanami scampered over obediently but was ready to run out of the room terrified, "Y-Yes?" she squeaked.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"Do what?"
"I'M NOT INTIMATE WITH YOU SO DON'T GO STARTING LIES!" Tomoe spat his face redder than a cherry
"Lies?" Nanami asked, completely dumbfounded, but one of the boys informed her as he laughed uncontrollably.
"You're Mikage-san's girl friend!"
"WHAT?!" Nanami screeched, "WHO SAID THAT?!" Nanami's face grew pink, this guy was good looking but she wouldn't fall for a jerk like him! Never!
Tomoe inhaled sharply to regain his composure, "Which is what I said, now... care to explain what happened?"
Nanami shivered at his angry tone and explained in a jumble of words and Tomoe groaned into his palm, "This is going to take a while to settle down, but until then, DO NOT, and I mean 'do not', SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN. Got it?! Good, now I'm going to PE, take care of this place well." Tomoe packed his books and walked out the door leaving the girl to maintain the library herself.
Nanami looked over to the boys who stood there terrified as well, her face serious, "Beat it!" the boys scurried off as Nanami sighed, today was one heck of an awkward day. Luckily no one checked a book out that period and Nanami didn't know how to operate the library computers.
The girl had nothing to do, why? Because she hated class and all she really did was doze off in class or just skip it in general. She missed a lot of school because of that reason and not many teachers liked her if any. So for most of the time in the library, she twidled her thumbs and rearranged the books. But there was one shelf that was so unorganized, the girl couldn't fix it. No matter how she set it up, it would always look that way, was Tomoe frustrated by it too? The girl wondered as she hummed to herself at the desk, fumbling with a pencil in her hand as she spun it around. But the bell rang again signalling the end of the day as Tomoe entered the library, he gazed around and smirked.
Nanami rolled her eyes, he probably didn't think she'd last by now, but she did so Nanami smirked back. She was quite surprised that Tomoe wasn't a sweaty mess like how most kids were after the class and how she was too. The boy had slightly glistening hair from the sweat but that was all quite frankly, he didn't reek of grass or sweat but he also didn't overkill your nose with AXE body spray.
Tomoe yawned, was this guy always tired? Anyways, the boy glanced over to Nanami, "You did good, I'll see you later." His eyes were gentle and relatively calm which contrasted his normal cold and harsh blue orbs. (in the early parts of the manga Tomoe did have blue eyes, but since purple eyes are not really possible in reality, I made them blue)
For a moment, Nanami felt a bit proud, and that was a feeling she rarely received since she was always really an academic failure. She beamed before exiting the library, waving to Tomoe she smiled warmly, "Bye Tomoe!"
And surprisingly, Tomoe's lips curled gently to form a boarder line smirk and smile,
"Hn"
(A/N)
My gawd, that took me forever! Not really, but it took me a long time to let the story roll and surprisingly, sticking to Tomoe and Nanami's personalities in an AU is really hard. Well, for me that is. I hope you guys enjoyed this pilot chapter with many more chapters to come.
