It's 4 pm in the afternoon, students of Shoyo high had been dismissed. Some
scattered around to catch up on what they had missed for the day, some went
home straightly, and some went to their afterschool activities club.
Hanagata exit his classroom. He had to bent down a bit in order not to bump
onto the top doorframe of the class. Sometimes being so tall is just too
complicated and annoying. Hanagata walked over onto Fujima's classroom to
get a walk together to the locker room. He stopped before a room that bears
the sign of 3-4 and veered his head inside, rolling his eyes around in
search for Fujima's figure.
"Konnichiwa, Hanagata-kun." The friendly girl that he had known since junior high greeted him. Riiya is the name.
"Aa… Konnichiwa, Riiya-dono. Is Kenji around?" He lowered his head to smile at her before he continued to browse for his best pal.
"Kenji-kun? Umm," she rolled her eyes and started to think. "I think he just left. I believe you can catch up with him if you rush a bit." She then answered as she erected her index finger. Hanagata like her smile. She barely frown, though, Riiya was a cheerful girl. Even though she smile a lot, the famous tall center of the prefecture wasn't bored of looking at her hearty smile.
"Aah… Arigatou, Riiya-dono!" He left her quickly and ran down the corridor. Just as expected, came the sight of Fujima, both Shoyo's captain and coach. "Kenji!" He hollered out his name, wanting him to slow the shorter lad's pace to make it easier to catch up with him. "Kenji, matte yo!"
Fujima turned his head and looked through his back. He smiled and waved his hand. "Hello, Tooru…"
Finally they were close enough. Hanagata stopped his feet and his breath labored as he wiped off the sweats from his face. "Next time remember to wait for me, Kenji…" He put on those threatening looks on his face as he himself warned the famous Kanagawa point guard.
Fujima Kenji only giggled. "Gomen, Tooru… Saa, let's go. The others are waiting for us in the gym."
***
Even though Shoyo had lost against Shohoku on the Inter High premilinary tournament, they hadn't lose their fighting spirit. Instead, even the seniors, they practiced harder than ever. They promised to themselves that they will take on revenge against both Shohoku and Kainan on the winter tournament. Therefore, they can't let themselves down anymore and face losing. They got to win.
"Okay, minna… Let's take a break," ordered Fujima. The Shoyo members then loosen up and disperse around the gym. Hanagata decided that he should go out and take fresh air. It would help him soothe down his fatigue. On his way out, he heard squeals of girls that were gathering up, watching the practice. Well, they must be eyeing on Fujima again, just like usual. Hanagata smiled to himself as he inhaled deep air. But somehow the number of Fujima fangirls seemed to decrease. Usually, there would be approximately 50 or more. Now, there's only 9 of them. Perhaps those are the true fans of Fujima Kenji, who's fallen for him deeply from the depths of their heart.
"Aah… I lost my interest in him," a girl started. She was talking to her friends and fanmate. They become still and silent when they heard her complaints. "Fujima Kenji, yeah, he's cute and he's great… Demo, I don't think he's able enough to bring his team onto the national tournament. That sucks… I prefer Rukawa Kaede… ya know, he's just so cool…!! Especially at that Kainan match! Even though he lost, he still looks gorgeous!"
"Yeah," rejoined the other two, "Rukawa Kaede, he's hot… You're right about one thing, Tanaki-chan… I think I lost my interest in Fujima-kun."
Hearing that, Hanagata almost exploded in angst. He tried to pull it back and soothe himself, though. Thinking about Rukawa's plays at the tournament and during that mixed practice game, it made himself pissed. He is great, yet he's too arrogant and proud of himself.
"How dare you guys!!!!"
Hanagata's eyes suppled up and looked towards the direction of the voice. Who could that be, she sounds angry. He hadn't been catching up on what they previously said except about losing interest thingy. But whatever that is, it must be big enough to make her so mad like that.
"How dare you guys! I know Shoyo lost, but still they played a good game! And you can't blame Fujima-kun! He had tried his best and he had done too much in order to raise Shoyo and keep him alive at the tournament. Don't you know how much pain and responsibility he must bear? Remember, he himself is the coach of the team, and yet he's a player and one of them. He tried his best to focus, even though he still had those other school task! You guys are so… are so… shallow!!" And after she finished her sentence, she ran away from the groupies with teary eyes. She kept her eyes shut while she was running. And because of that, she bumped onto Hanagata's tall body and fell down to the ground.
"Are you okay?" The lofty lad reached out his hands and offered her help to stand back up. She was crying, she kept lowering her head all the while, trying to hide her face from Hanagata. "Are you hurt? Can you stand up?"
She only shook her head. She didn't accept Hanagata's hand. Sighing, he patted her tan-dyed hair and ruffled it around a bit. "Don't cry… Now, can you stand up?" She tried to stand up on her toe but she faltered back to the ground. It seems like she hurt her own feet pretty badly.
"Daijoubu yo…" Her voice was shaking. "I'm alright, Hanagata-san…"
"Kusso… You scratched your knees. Look. Gomen ne, Ojo-san. Here, I'll take you to the health center." Without waiting for her response, Hanagata slid his hands beneath her back and her waist, and carried her slim body to the health unit room.
She remained silent all the while. She's still sobbing, though, and it even grew harder than before. "Did you… Did you listen to me all the while?" Her high-pitched voice asked him with a plea.
"…Hm. Fans of Kenji, aren't ya?" He chuckled softly.
"Yeah… I like basketball. I really wanted to be a manager, demo… I'm still a freshmen…" She replied softly.
"Ya, you can be one next year."
"Demo!! Next year there won't be no more Fujima-kun!" She exclaimed aloud. Quickly after that she cupped her mouth and blushed. Hanagata only giggled to himself as he carried the girl in her arms all the way. They finally reached the room now. It was empty. The doctor had gone to the toilet or the canteen, probably.
"Ara… Where's the doctor…? Your wounds must be taken care of as soon as possible or else it'll get infectd." He stepped outside into the corridor and looked around. Nobody was there, and the sky's getting darker each moment. "Well… I guess Kenji's waiting for me. You wait here until the doctor comes, alright?"
"Iya!" She shrieked on the top of her lungs. Hanagata, who was half-way out of the room, turned his head and stare at her with stupefaction. "I… It's getting dark and I'm afraid to be here on my own…"
"Maa… I believe he won't be long either…" Hanagata Tooru tried to be calm and face her with patience. She didn't answer, but her tears began to well up in her eyes again. "Then I'll crawl back with you…"
"Don't be ridiculous," Hangata started, accompanied with a wide smile, "Your knees are hurt, you can't crawl around on wounded knees."
"On my tummy," she added.
Hanagata looked at her with blank expression. He was both startled and confused. He can't hold it anymore, he finally bursted out into laughter. "Hahahaha… You're so funny, hahaha!!"
"I'm serious…" Her face meant what she said.
Hanagata heaved a sigh and placed his hands on his hips. This girl's kind of weird. "Well then I guess I have to treat you all by myself."
The straight haired girl threw her hands in the air in excitement. "Yayy!! Hanagata-san, you're so nice…" The tall center knelt before her, who was sitting on the bed, and then starts to clean the wound alcohol-dyed cottons. "Itai!"
"Just a little… Anyways, what's your name?" He asked her while he was preparing the bandages and the betadine.
"Houjou Nanaki desu. You can call me Nanaki. Houjou sounds weird."
"Mmm… Nanaki. I see. You're a big fans of Fujima, aren't you?"
She blushed at the inquiry. "I… Well I… kinda admire his skills, and he's… kinda cute too…"
Hanagata sniggered to himself. "Girls are like that… Demo, I really appreciate it when you fought back your friends who were mocking at our club. Me myself's kinda pissed with them."
"Oh… They… I don't know. They jus't don't seem to think much. I don't like it. Well, Shoyo may lost. Shohoku too. Even any other teams, I bet they'll lose to someone someday. Demo, it doesn't mean that they suck, no. Even though Shoyo lost it doesn't mean that it wasn't hardwork. Fujima-kun… He has to bear a lot of responsibility and tasks as both coach and player," she paused to take a deep breath, "Maa… If only our team has our own coach, I believe Shoyo will win against Shohoku that time…"
"You're right, Nanaki-san," Hanagata finished dressing the bandages on her knee. "Kenji, he's kinda depressed when we lost. Demo, I look up to him because he still has a lot amount of fighting spirit. Yeah, if only Kenji's one of the starting five, we would be equal to Shohoku…"
They both agreed at one point, and their thoughts seemed to blend with each other. "Basketball is so much fun desu ne? I wish I could play basketball and be a good player."
"Why not?" Hanagata finished his tasks, and he then took the empty space beside her and sat down with her. "I mean, even if you're a girl you still can be a good player."
She kept her face facing forward. "Nah, I can't. Besides that, I suck at sports."
"Beside what?"
"Aa… Betsuni…" She smiled. "Maa," Nanaki jumped off the bed and landed on her feet, as if she wasn't hurt, "let's go back. You should, or Fujima-kun will be mad at you…"
"It's alright… We don't need to rush."
***
"Where have you been, Nanaki?" One of her friends, Rumiko, asked her with concern. The other three who mentioned about lost interests, were still there. Their face was being unpleasant to Nanaki, though, as if they're piling up their hatred and was ready to spit it at her.
"I… Gomen…"
"Hey, Fujima freak," one of the three started in a mocking tone, "I saw you, you were bumping onto that tall Hanagata on purpose, aren't you?!"
Nanaki's eyes narrowed as she clasped her fist on the side ot her waist. "It wasn't done on purpose!"
Rumiko gasped and she placed her hands before her own mouth. "Nanaki… You cheater! You tried to suck up onto Hanagata-sempai in order to get closer to Fujima, aren't you?!" What's happening now? One of her good friends are now filled with evil thoughts too like the other three.
"Rumiko-chan! I… I already said it, I didn't do it on purpose!!" She tried to explain it to her but she doesn't seem to listen and care about it.
"You're doing things behind my back to get to know Fujima, aren't you. How come you never tell me? I mean, we… We're best friends, aren't we?"
"Rumiko-chan!!"
"Fraud! Get lost! I don't think I wanna befriends with you anymore, Nanaki!" And she left with the other three, leaving Nanaki alone in the dark before the gymnasium. Now she had to walk all the way home by herself. It's dark and she hated dark. She wished she could just run straight home but her knees won't support her this time. It felt cold, and she was lonely, she broke to the ground and cried.
***
"Tooru where have you been?"
Hanagata fixed his shoelace before he grabbed his bags and carry it on his shoulder. "I don't know a girl bumped onto me and got her knees hurt. I gotta take her all the way to the health center…"
Fujima waited for him outside the gym with the keys in his hands, ready to lock up the vacant building. "I see… Finally Hanagata Tooru gets himself a suitable girlfriend." He teased Hanagata, nudged him on the ribs and winked at him.
"Fool you," Hanagata retorded with a quite stutter as his face were flushing red. "He likes you, Kenji…"
"Are?" Fujima Kenji stopped his feet and then looked his head around in the air as the gentle wind blew against his light cheek.
"Yeah he likes you, I said…"
Fujima lifted his hands and cupped Hanagata's mouth tightly. "Ssh… Did you hear that?"
"Heich wufn geyya nhensh ob maie!!! (Hear what and get your hands off me!!!)"
"Aa… Gomen…" He let go of his head. Still, his focus was still pointed on his hears, trying to listen to the sounds in the night. "Listen!!"
They both stayed calm for a while and converged on their hearings. They tried to hear even the lightest sounds in the air. There were sounds of woman, it was indistinct though. "What the…?!"
"Sshh!" The sound became clearer as they took a few steps ahead. "Someone's…. cryi…ng?" And then immediately Fujima jumped off the ground and then clung onto the taller youngster beside him.
"What?! Kenji!!" Hanagata pushed Fujima off his chest onto the ground.
"Gomen it was my reflex heheh.." He grinned sheepishly as he ran his fingers through his brown strands of hair. "Demo, could it be, Tooru?"
"Be what?"
"Don't you know?!"
"…Huh? What?!?"
"Ghost!!"
"Don't be ridiculous, Kenji…" Hanagata muttered with a low and soft voice in his throat.
"Gomen, Tooru, demo… I have this thing about spooky stuff…"
"And so…?"
"And so," Fujima Kenji slid his hands into Hanagata's arms and held it close to himself. "Heheh, may I?"
"Geez, Kenji, you're a guy and an adult. Can't you stop acting childish and be too credulous?"
"Suman, I have a distressing past about ghosts therefore I…" He grinned wider but it looks out of place.
"Oh well alright…" He surrendered to the captain of Shoyo and let him cling close to himself. "Let's go check it out whether if it's a ghost or not…"
"Aa… You walk in front, alright?"
'Yare yare… What if those fangirls know that Fujima Kenji's such a scaredy- cat like this?' Hanagata sighed and then turned to him. "Demo, Kenji… What if the spirit disappear from our sight and then reappears behind your back?" Hanagata was fooling around and bullying him like a little kid with ideas of terrors.
"Ack..! Alright, alright I'll walk beside you…" And with that the two, steeling their nerves, walked forward and peek over behind the walls to see what lays in front of them. Could it be ghosts? Or was it just nonesense?
And then… Hanagata opened his eyes wider in search of the unfamiliar figures or shadows that lays before them. There was nothing, nothing but a girl, kneeling down and burying her face on her palms. "Are… A girl?"
"Don't, Tooru… It could be a face-less woman or other horrible things," warned Fujima, his hands still clinging to Hanagata's uniform shirt.
The glasses boy ignored Fujima and walked closer. He then knelt before the girl and patted her shoulder softly. "Nanaki?"
She looked up and stared deep into Hanagata's soft dark eyes. "Hanagata…san?" It was Nanaki, yet her face were red and her eyes filled with tears. She had been crying. Her hair's messed up, her cheek's stained with teardrops. "Aah… Gomen!" She tried to find a piece of clean clothing to wipe her face, but she can't find any since her uniform's filled with dirt.
Hanagata immediately smudged of the tracks of tears from her face with his hands. "Sssh… What happened?" He asked her patiently. Fujima was still standing behind, confused of what's happening.
"Aah.. It was nothing, Hanagata-san… I… I really should be going home right now…" She threw her face and then rose to walk off but Hanagata caught her on her arms.
"Don't… It's too risky for a girl to walk home by herself at night. We'll walk you home."
"…We?"
Hanagata winked playfully at her and then smiled at her. "Yeap, me and Kenji…" He pointed his thumb to his back towards Fujima, who was still standing there in bewilderment.
"Fujima-kun!!"
a.n : okay… my first shoyo fic… the main character's not fujima, but hanagata… hee hee…
neways.. fujima, he looks like a coward, doesn't he? Yeah… well… what can I say… just pretend that he had once saw a ghost once when he was a child and was really afraid of ghosts till right now. Gomen ne, fujima fans! I don't mean to make him a coward and a gutless lamer. Hehe other than superstitious things, he is really a brave in heart. Anyways, please review…! ^__^
"Konnichiwa, Hanagata-kun." The friendly girl that he had known since junior high greeted him. Riiya is the name.
"Aa… Konnichiwa, Riiya-dono. Is Kenji around?" He lowered his head to smile at her before he continued to browse for his best pal.
"Kenji-kun? Umm," she rolled her eyes and started to think. "I think he just left. I believe you can catch up with him if you rush a bit." She then answered as she erected her index finger. Hanagata like her smile. She barely frown, though, Riiya was a cheerful girl. Even though she smile a lot, the famous tall center of the prefecture wasn't bored of looking at her hearty smile.
"Aah… Arigatou, Riiya-dono!" He left her quickly and ran down the corridor. Just as expected, came the sight of Fujima, both Shoyo's captain and coach. "Kenji!" He hollered out his name, wanting him to slow the shorter lad's pace to make it easier to catch up with him. "Kenji, matte yo!"
Fujima turned his head and looked through his back. He smiled and waved his hand. "Hello, Tooru…"
Finally they were close enough. Hanagata stopped his feet and his breath labored as he wiped off the sweats from his face. "Next time remember to wait for me, Kenji…" He put on those threatening looks on his face as he himself warned the famous Kanagawa point guard.
Fujima Kenji only giggled. "Gomen, Tooru… Saa, let's go. The others are waiting for us in the gym."
***
Even though Shoyo had lost against Shohoku on the Inter High premilinary tournament, they hadn't lose their fighting spirit. Instead, even the seniors, they practiced harder than ever. They promised to themselves that they will take on revenge against both Shohoku and Kainan on the winter tournament. Therefore, they can't let themselves down anymore and face losing. They got to win.
"Okay, minna… Let's take a break," ordered Fujima. The Shoyo members then loosen up and disperse around the gym. Hanagata decided that he should go out and take fresh air. It would help him soothe down his fatigue. On his way out, he heard squeals of girls that were gathering up, watching the practice. Well, they must be eyeing on Fujima again, just like usual. Hanagata smiled to himself as he inhaled deep air. But somehow the number of Fujima fangirls seemed to decrease. Usually, there would be approximately 50 or more. Now, there's only 9 of them. Perhaps those are the true fans of Fujima Kenji, who's fallen for him deeply from the depths of their heart.
"Aah… I lost my interest in him," a girl started. She was talking to her friends and fanmate. They become still and silent when they heard her complaints. "Fujima Kenji, yeah, he's cute and he's great… Demo, I don't think he's able enough to bring his team onto the national tournament. That sucks… I prefer Rukawa Kaede… ya know, he's just so cool…!! Especially at that Kainan match! Even though he lost, he still looks gorgeous!"
"Yeah," rejoined the other two, "Rukawa Kaede, he's hot… You're right about one thing, Tanaki-chan… I think I lost my interest in Fujima-kun."
Hearing that, Hanagata almost exploded in angst. He tried to pull it back and soothe himself, though. Thinking about Rukawa's plays at the tournament and during that mixed practice game, it made himself pissed. He is great, yet he's too arrogant and proud of himself.
"How dare you guys!!!!"
Hanagata's eyes suppled up and looked towards the direction of the voice. Who could that be, she sounds angry. He hadn't been catching up on what they previously said except about losing interest thingy. But whatever that is, it must be big enough to make her so mad like that.
"How dare you guys! I know Shoyo lost, but still they played a good game! And you can't blame Fujima-kun! He had tried his best and he had done too much in order to raise Shoyo and keep him alive at the tournament. Don't you know how much pain and responsibility he must bear? Remember, he himself is the coach of the team, and yet he's a player and one of them. He tried his best to focus, even though he still had those other school task! You guys are so… are so… shallow!!" And after she finished her sentence, she ran away from the groupies with teary eyes. She kept her eyes shut while she was running. And because of that, she bumped onto Hanagata's tall body and fell down to the ground.
"Are you okay?" The lofty lad reached out his hands and offered her help to stand back up. She was crying, she kept lowering her head all the while, trying to hide her face from Hanagata. "Are you hurt? Can you stand up?"
She only shook her head. She didn't accept Hanagata's hand. Sighing, he patted her tan-dyed hair and ruffled it around a bit. "Don't cry… Now, can you stand up?" She tried to stand up on her toe but she faltered back to the ground. It seems like she hurt her own feet pretty badly.
"Daijoubu yo…" Her voice was shaking. "I'm alright, Hanagata-san…"
"Kusso… You scratched your knees. Look. Gomen ne, Ojo-san. Here, I'll take you to the health center." Without waiting for her response, Hanagata slid his hands beneath her back and her waist, and carried her slim body to the health unit room.
She remained silent all the while. She's still sobbing, though, and it even grew harder than before. "Did you… Did you listen to me all the while?" Her high-pitched voice asked him with a plea.
"…Hm. Fans of Kenji, aren't ya?" He chuckled softly.
"Yeah… I like basketball. I really wanted to be a manager, demo… I'm still a freshmen…" She replied softly.
"Ya, you can be one next year."
"Demo!! Next year there won't be no more Fujima-kun!" She exclaimed aloud. Quickly after that she cupped her mouth and blushed. Hanagata only giggled to himself as he carried the girl in her arms all the way. They finally reached the room now. It was empty. The doctor had gone to the toilet or the canteen, probably.
"Ara… Where's the doctor…? Your wounds must be taken care of as soon as possible or else it'll get infectd." He stepped outside into the corridor and looked around. Nobody was there, and the sky's getting darker each moment. "Well… I guess Kenji's waiting for me. You wait here until the doctor comes, alright?"
"Iya!" She shrieked on the top of her lungs. Hanagata, who was half-way out of the room, turned his head and stare at her with stupefaction. "I… It's getting dark and I'm afraid to be here on my own…"
"Maa… I believe he won't be long either…" Hanagata Tooru tried to be calm and face her with patience. She didn't answer, but her tears began to well up in her eyes again. "Then I'll crawl back with you…"
"Don't be ridiculous," Hangata started, accompanied with a wide smile, "Your knees are hurt, you can't crawl around on wounded knees."
"On my tummy," she added.
Hanagata looked at her with blank expression. He was both startled and confused. He can't hold it anymore, he finally bursted out into laughter. "Hahahaha… You're so funny, hahaha!!"
"I'm serious…" Her face meant what she said.
Hanagata heaved a sigh and placed his hands on his hips. This girl's kind of weird. "Well then I guess I have to treat you all by myself."
The straight haired girl threw her hands in the air in excitement. "Yayy!! Hanagata-san, you're so nice…" The tall center knelt before her, who was sitting on the bed, and then starts to clean the wound alcohol-dyed cottons. "Itai!"
"Just a little… Anyways, what's your name?" He asked her while he was preparing the bandages and the betadine.
"Houjou Nanaki desu. You can call me Nanaki. Houjou sounds weird."
"Mmm… Nanaki. I see. You're a big fans of Fujima, aren't you?"
She blushed at the inquiry. "I… Well I… kinda admire his skills, and he's… kinda cute too…"
Hanagata sniggered to himself. "Girls are like that… Demo, I really appreciate it when you fought back your friends who were mocking at our club. Me myself's kinda pissed with them."
"Oh… They… I don't know. They jus't don't seem to think much. I don't like it. Well, Shoyo may lost. Shohoku too. Even any other teams, I bet they'll lose to someone someday. Demo, it doesn't mean that they suck, no. Even though Shoyo lost it doesn't mean that it wasn't hardwork. Fujima-kun… He has to bear a lot of responsibility and tasks as both coach and player," she paused to take a deep breath, "Maa… If only our team has our own coach, I believe Shoyo will win against Shohoku that time…"
"You're right, Nanaki-san," Hanagata finished dressing the bandages on her knee. "Kenji, he's kinda depressed when we lost. Demo, I look up to him because he still has a lot amount of fighting spirit. Yeah, if only Kenji's one of the starting five, we would be equal to Shohoku…"
They both agreed at one point, and their thoughts seemed to blend with each other. "Basketball is so much fun desu ne? I wish I could play basketball and be a good player."
"Why not?" Hanagata finished his tasks, and he then took the empty space beside her and sat down with her. "I mean, even if you're a girl you still can be a good player."
She kept her face facing forward. "Nah, I can't. Besides that, I suck at sports."
"Beside what?"
"Aa… Betsuni…" She smiled. "Maa," Nanaki jumped off the bed and landed on her feet, as if she wasn't hurt, "let's go back. You should, or Fujima-kun will be mad at you…"
"It's alright… We don't need to rush."
***
"Where have you been, Nanaki?" One of her friends, Rumiko, asked her with concern. The other three who mentioned about lost interests, were still there. Their face was being unpleasant to Nanaki, though, as if they're piling up their hatred and was ready to spit it at her.
"I… Gomen…"
"Hey, Fujima freak," one of the three started in a mocking tone, "I saw you, you were bumping onto that tall Hanagata on purpose, aren't you?!"
Nanaki's eyes narrowed as she clasped her fist on the side ot her waist. "It wasn't done on purpose!"
Rumiko gasped and she placed her hands before her own mouth. "Nanaki… You cheater! You tried to suck up onto Hanagata-sempai in order to get closer to Fujima, aren't you?!" What's happening now? One of her good friends are now filled with evil thoughts too like the other three.
"Rumiko-chan! I… I already said it, I didn't do it on purpose!!" She tried to explain it to her but she doesn't seem to listen and care about it.
"You're doing things behind my back to get to know Fujima, aren't you. How come you never tell me? I mean, we… We're best friends, aren't we?"
"Rumiko-chan!!"
"Fraud! Get lost! I don't think I wanna befriends with you anymore, Nanaki!" And she left with the other three, leaving Nanaki alone in the dark before the gymnasium. Now she had to walk all the way home by herself. It's dark and she hated dark. She wished she could just run straight home but her knees won't support her this time. It felt cold, and she was lonely, she broke to the ground and cried.
***
"Tooru where have you been?"
Hanagata fixed his shoelace before he grabbed his bags and carry it on his shoulder. "I don't know a girl bumped onto me and got her knees hurt. I gotta take her all the way to the health center…"
Fujima waited for him outside the gym with the keys in his hands, ready to lock up the vacant building. "I see… Finally Hanagata Tooru gets himself a suitable girlfriend." He teased Hanagata, nudged him on the ribs and winked at him.
"Fool you," Hanagata retorded with a quite stutter as his face were flushing red. "He likes you, Kenji…"
"Are?" Fujima Kenji stopped his feet and then looked his head around in the air as the gentle wind blew against his light cheek.
"Yeah he likes you, I said…"
Fujima lifted his hands and cupped Hanagata's mouth tightly. "Ssh… Did you hear that?"
"Heich wufn geyya nhensh ob maie!!! (Hear what and get your hands off me!!!)"
"Aa… Gomen…" He let go of his head. Still, his focus was still pointed on his hears, trying to listen to the sounds in the night. "Listen!!"
They both stayed calm for a while and converged on their hearings. They tried to hear even the lightest sounds in the air. There were sounds of woman, it was indistinct though. "What the…?!"
"Sshh!" The sound became clearer as they took a few steps ahead. "Someone's…. cryi…ng?" And then immediately Fujima jumped off the ground and then clung onto the taller youngster beside him.
"What?! Kenji!!" Hanagata pushed Fujima off his chest onto the ground.
"Gomen it was my reflex heheh.." He grinned sheepishly as he ran his fingers through his brown strands of hair. "Demo, could it be, Tooru?"
"Be what?"
"Don't you know?!"
"…Huh? What?!?"
"Ghost!!"
"Don't be ridiculous, Kenji…" Hanagata muttered with a low and soft voice in his throat.
"Gomen, Tooru, demo… I have this thing about spooky stuff…"
"And so…?"
"And so," Fujima Kenji slid his hands into Hanagata's arms and held it close to himself. "Heheh, may I?"
"Geez, Kenji, you're a guy and an adult. Can't you stop acting childish and be too credulous?"
"Suman, I have a distressing past about ghosts therefore I…" He grinned wider but it looks out of place.
"Oh well alright…" He surrendered to the captain of Shoyo and let him cling close to himself. "Let's go check it out whether if it's a ghost or not…"
"Aa… You walk in front, alright?"
'Yare yare… What if those fangirls know that Fujima Kenji's such a scaredy- cat like this?' Hanagata sighed and then turned to him. "Demo, Kenji… What if the spirit disappear from our sight and then reappears behind your back?" Hanagata was fooling around and bullying him like a little kid with ideas of terrors.
"Ack..! Alright, alright I'll walk beside you…" And with that the two, steeling their nerves, walked forward and peek over behind the walls to see what lays in front of them. Could it be ghosts? Or was it just nonesense?
And then… Hanagata opened his eyes wider in search of the unfamiliar figures or shadows that lays before them. There was nothing, nothing but a girl, kneeling down and burying her face on her palms. "Are… A girl?"
"Don't, Tooru… It could be a face-less woman or other horrible things," warned Fujima, his hands still clinging to Hanagata's uniform shirt.
The glasses boy ignored Fujima and walked closer. He then knelt before the girl and patted her shoulder softly. "Nanaki?"
She looked up and stared deep into Hanagata's soft dark eyes. "Hanagata…san?" It was Nanaki, yet her face were red and her eyes filled with tears. She had been crying. Her hair's messed up, her cheek's stained with teardrops. "Aah… Gomen!" She tried to find a piece of clean clothing to wipe her face, but she can't find any since her uniform's filled with dirt.
Hanagata immediately smudged of the tracks of tears from her face with his hands. "Sssh… What happened?" He asked her patiently. Fujima was still standing behind, confused of what's happening.
"Aah.. It was nothing, Hanagata-san… I… I really should be going home right now…" She threw her face and then rose to walk off but Hanagata caught her on her arms.
"Don't… It's too risky for a girl to walk home by herself at night. We'll walk you home."
"…We?"
Hanagata winked playfully at her and then smiled at her. "Yeap, me and Kenji…" He pointed his thumb to his back towards Fujima, who was still standing there in bewilderment.
"Fujima-kun!!"
a.n : okay… my first shoyo fic… the main character's not fujima, but hanagata… hee hee…
neways.. fujima, he looks like a coward, doesn't he? Yeah… well… what can I say… just pretend that he had once saw a ghost once when he was a child and was really afraid of ghosts till right now. Gomen ne, fujima fans! I don't mean to make him a coward and a gutless lamer. Hehe other than superstitious things, he is really a brave in heart. Anyways, please review…! ^__^
