DISCLAIMER NOTE: I do not own Oresama teacher. The characters are borrowed.

PATCHES OF HUE

Title story: When the wind blows it all away

Pairing: Nonoguchi X Nogami

'Mom, buy me that one!'

'Hug me bear san!'

'Ah, I want the blue balloon!'

The squeaky voices of the children went grating through his ears and the man behind the bear mascot found himself cursing under his breath once again upon his incredible luck. He decided to just tap those eager bouncing heads and after a good while, the stupid big bear dashed a one-hundred meter sprint away. Whining and crying ensued after.

'I'll make sure that bastard will pay' Nogami Kento, Kiyama high's current banchou, said between gritted teeth as he stomped his way through less crowded area of the park.

'He didn't say –'

'Bear-san, look here!'

Automatically like a mechanical robot, he stopped and posed a peace sign, though he's not supposed to be that stiff. And the camera flashed.

'—that I was going to dress as a freaking bear! Dammit, he flees just to see his girlfriend! I'll beat that guy to pulp later.'

Another flash and laughs and flash again.

'Gah, didn't he know this is embarrassing?!'

He has been sending silent daggers to the innocent crowd, if it's not by his mascot; the young lad would have long sent his poor audience running for their lives just by the way he looks now.

'EVERYONE, DUCK!'

Two men came flying in opposite directions. The blond guy landed on a fountain, and offered himself a free swim. The other one, though, hit himself hard in something incomprehensible. He glanced up, about to rant when suddenly the mascot-guy, with colourful balloons clasped between paws, glowered upon seeing him and leaked a ridiculous amount of killing intent.

'WAAAHHHHH, GOMENASAI!' the said man ran in total fright.

'Hugh, serves you right, perverts.'

A cold voice broke his concentration of emitting deadly aura. He turned around and found a girl in a plain pale yellow dress, her hair gathered in two pigtails and was standing undeniably freaky along with her ever intimidating green eyes. Yep, he knew the girl –none other than the extreme man-hater Nonoguchi Kanon. It didn't take a genius to deduct that she was the one responsible of kicking the unfortunate duo in the ass. He smirked at the thought. It was perhaps that she just did that to protect the particular young girl who was standing behind her saviour and was now bowing at Nonoguchi for courtesy. The ponytailed girl waved her hand and headed to the nearest bench where she promptly sat and produced a book out of her pouch like nothing but ordinary had happened.

He continued staring and unconsciously loosened the hold of the tiny strings of his balloons.

'Crap!' too late to gather them again as they were now soaring freely, colouring the clear blue sky with moving circles of mint green, lavender, yellow, azure, tangerine and pink.

He had a mental note to pay for the damn balloons before the manager got a word about it, the children on the other hand were being jolly at waving and pointing somewhere above.

'Oh, right! She – ' he spun on his heels and felt relieved that she was still there. Something hit him lightly upon his movement- a weird floating object, and a scarlet one. It was tangled in his bear paw which was why it wasn't able to join the other escapees.

He eyed the girl on the bench and then the remaining thing in his hand.

A very huge shadow came hovering above her and blocked a nice light for a good reading. She flipped another page then heaved a sigh. Slowly, she tilted her head with those freaky eyes that seemed have the ability to dart arrows. Funny how ironic it is for him-the top fighter in their prefecture, adored by his subordinates for being all strong and ever so ready in punching some sense to whoever has the guts to piss him, was actually cowering in fear at the presence of a girl who was holding a book not a gun- for goodness sake! It took him a lot of courage to approach her but upon realizing that he wore a mascot (he thought this awful clothing sure has a good use somehow) and was pretty sure she wouldn't recognize him, he launched his steps forward with the hopes of seeing his love-interest in a much closer look.

Nonoguchi found a huge chocolate-coloured bear mascot- a funny hat on top, big frozen smile plastered on its face and a paw with a string that goes upward, standing right at the corner of the bench.

20 seconds.

One minute.

One minute and a half…

She closed the book. He flinched.

She stood in her feet. He stepped back.

She reached her hand…

...and took the balloon from him. He gulped.

And then at the least expected response he could get, Nonoguchi gave a very radiant smile, cheeks tainted with shades of beautiful red much prettier than any orchard flowers or anything there was in this universe. She produced a penny out from her pocket and put it innocently on the bear's paws before taking a quick bow and strode away, humming a song he hardly recognized.

For the second time that day, Nogami silently thanked the heavens that he was wearing a mascot today or the people would most likely think that he was utterly stupid for standing there frozen at middle of such busy crowd with a veeeery huge grin reaching ear to ear, cheeks flushing with remarkable pink, and long lost dreamy eyes drifting far-away somewhere.

And then he concluded, 'It isn't such a bad day after all.'

Tender thoughts:

This was inspired by a picture I randomly saw at a particular website –the boy handed the girl a red balloon when all of the rest were coloured black and gray.

Most of the Oresama fandom is generally covered by our dearest mighty brunette who comes in the name of Mafuyu, (not that I'm complaining, honestly) so why not try Kento and Kanon for a change? If you liked the story, I'll give an update sometime soon depending on the encouragements you will give in your reviews; of course (blackmail isn't it?) Writing is a lot of fun; well especially when you really have something in mind and the motivation to do it, otherwise you'll end up banging your head against the wall (that would seriously hurt though)

Thanks for reading and do please review! : )

God blesses always!