A bookish moment
She walked awkwardly down the halls of her high school, she was carrying a bunch of library books and was currently taking them to the library, and it was supposed to be a favor by the student council president. Natsuki groaned when she passed a clock, she was already ten minutes late to working with Kurosaki because of these stupid books, he was going to kill her, or worse, make her wash more spore and mold infested wood. Gritting her teeth she used her back to push the double doors of the exit doors open and slowly turned herself around, she sighed when she felt the warm sunshine on her bare skin and prayed for it to stay like this, just until she got home that is. While walking Natsuki was too busy thinking up ways Kurosaki could go bald when she felt herself slip and fall,
"Aaahhh!" she screamed, looking to see the damage to the books she realized only a few were scuffed none too badly, maybe no one will notice?
"Servant, that you?" she turned to see Kurosaki rounding the corner, they locked eyes and Natsuki ducked her head in shame as she began to pick up the dropped books, hoping he didn't see the blush on her face, she heard him sigh and his footsteps got closer.
"You're late" he told her,
"Really, gee, I hadn't noticed" there was silence as she began to stack the books and picked up the very heavy and very tall stack, Natsuki didn't even take one step when she felt the stack become less heavy and looked to see Kurosaki with a slightly larger stack standing next to her,
"Where to?" she blinked, meeting his eyes,
"What?" she asked stupidly, he sighed again,
"Where do the books go?" she felt herself flush and looked to her own stack,
"Library" he nodded, following her lead as they walked in silence while going across the courtyard and headed to the library. Natsuki snuck quick peaks at the man that walked beside her, normally she didn't ask for help and he never offered, that's how they're work relationship was like, it made her wonder why he's helping her now of all times. She shook the thought and focused on getting this task done and to whatever torture her 'master' has come up with her now; she sighed sadly as they came upon the doors to the school again. Natsuki skillfully transferred all the books to her left arm and opened the door for them and held it open with her back, after Kurosaki walked past her she entered herself, letting the door close behind them with a soft click.
"So, is this the reason you're late today?" he suddenly asked, Natsuki nodded,
"Yeah, the class rep asked me to take the books back for her since she was busy helping other students with their math work" she saw Kurosaki nod,
"Hm, well, next time you think your going to be late again, tell me or find someone else to tell me so I don't have to hunt you down again"
"Okay" was all she said to him, the rest of the walk was peaceful as they basked in each others silent company. When they dropped the books off the two headed to the back of the school like usual and had their usual school end work. Though, the whole time Natsuki worked on the flower beds, she had to wonder, why did he help her out this time?