Energy Wasting Drabbles From Here And There
Konichiwa! (Bows) I'm the newest rookie on fan fiction and it's also my first time writing a hyouka ff! I'm very bad at my English, and I have only one request- please take care of me! Arigatou! :D
Disclaimer: I do not own Hyouka. If I did, I would've fluffed it up to the extreme! :)
#Drabble 2
Houtarou Oreki, 16 years old, first year student of Kamiyama High School, stood in front of the wall of his room, and took in a very deep breath.
And then he began banging his head against the wall.
"Darn it! (Bam) Darn it! (Bam) Darn it! (Bam) Darn it! (Bam) Darn it! (Bam)"
His sister, Tomoe, came running into his room. "Houtarou! What the heck are you- eh? (-_-)"
Her brother was lying crumpled at the corner of a room like a paper-ball. Tomoe had never seen such a deep dark depressing aura (that was looming over his head at that moment), at least not outside anime and manga.
"E to, Houtarou…" she sweatdropped. " What's wrong?"
The brown haired teen sighed so deeply and hopelessly that she wondered what could have gone wrong with her energy saving, quiet and nonchalant and uninterested little brother that he took refuge in such an energy wasting procedure.
Someone seems to have all his energy sucked out.
Oreki was really drained. And why- he didn't even want to think about it.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
What the hell am I supposed to say to her?
Why me, of all the idiots in that school! What is so darn special about me?
(Let's go back to the proceedings that took place an hour ago- ^_^)
After the Classics Club activities had been officially called off for the day, Mayaka had forcefully dragged poor Satoshi to the library for adding some woes to his misery- chiefly because of his hideously low marks in History and Mathematics, and because Mayaka had engraved it inside her head to tutor Satoshi using the strictest procedure possible.
Oreki sighed as he helped Chitanda stack up all the books, put the pages of the Hyouka notebook in order, and stuff everything in the shelves.
His part of the job over, he sat on the table reading a book on age-old literary classics, feeling utterly bored. He occasionally stole glances at the small petite girl beside him.
He sighed again, as he returned to his book.
[Crash…]
"Whoa!" Oreki perked up at the sudden outburst.
"Itai." She grimaced slightly, nursing her leg, books and papers lying all about her.
"Seriously." He muttered as he stood up and went towards her. As he stooped down to pick them up, he thought he saw Chitanda stiffen a bit.
"You really should be careful, you know."
"A-ano, subemasenteshta! I didn't mean to bother you-"
She's fidgeting unnecessarily. What's up with her?
"No, it's fine."
[Picking, picking, picking]
"O-Oreki-san?"
"Yeah?" He continued with his work and did not even look at her.
"I think something's wrong with me."
He paused. "What?"
"Well...actually to be honest I'm not even sure whether this is the correct way of putting it...demo-" she fidgeted with her fingers, while her white cheeks coloured slightly.
"Is there a problem?"
"I don't think it's a problem. It's more like confusion."
"And that is? C'mon Chitanda, spit it out already. We haven't got all day."
Chitanda suddenly neared him, her purple amethyst eyes sparkling, her white heart shaped face just inches away from his face. Oreki found himself almost in a flat position with her above him, her black ebony hair falling on his face. His heart forgot to function as he stared at that horribly familiar look on her face.
"It's just that for the past few days, a certain someone has been hovering round me and inside my head day and night! I can't seem to concentrate on anything else but him! Whenever I see him at school every morning my heart always beats so fast! I think like running up to him and hold his hand and hug him! I feel that he is the most special person in my life! That is to say, I think I have liked him from the first day itself, and he's more than just special to me, he's very important to me as well-" she poured in sentence upon sentence in her usual non-stop falsetto voice.
I know where this is going.
"I'm...Curious, Oreki-san!" she exclaimed with a kind of a resolute look on her face.
"Why do I feel like this? I have to know! You must have made something out of it Oreki-san? You have, right?"
He was still for a few moments, staring at her as if he had heard wrong.
No way…
This could only mean that she...Likes him, right?
Why do I feel so...Stupid?
Am I feeling jealous or something? Why should I be?
"Umm..Oreki-san..?" she climbed off from him as he sat up rather stiffly.
"Do you like him, Chitanda?" He thought his voice sounded a bit mad.
"Eh?"
"Do you like that guy, Chitanda? All that you have said sums up to this, you know."
They were silent for a few moments. Everything was still, in that afternoon of the summer season, which was now turning from orange to red.
"I think…yeah. I like him." She said hesitantly. "How stupid of me, I didn't realize something this obvious..." she giggled softly.
"Who?" He blurted out even before he realized it. Her giggles stopped.
"Who is it, Chitanda? Who is it that you like?" He asked unabashedly, his face darkening.
She stood in front of him on her knees, her purple eyes serious, and her lips devoid of her previous smile. Oreki thought that he noticed fear in her eyes.
"He is a member of this club, Oreki-san."
His green eyes snapped wide open. This club? The Classics Club? That would mean either Satoshi..
Or me..
"Oreki-san," her face coloured even deeply, and her amethyst eyes sparkled as they widened. She caught hold of his left palm with both of hers.
"SUKI TTE, ITTE MO DESUKA?"
Oreki felt as if time had stopped around them. He couldn't move, he couldn't breathe. He couldn't even register what she had just said to him. His mind had become completely blank.
Me….
Chitanda...Likes…me..?!
(Snaps Back To Reality ^_^)
Oreki nursed his head as he fell back on the floor, staring aimlessly on the roof. His entire body felt so hot. His face was feverish and flushed.
What else could I have done?
I don't know how to answer…
I can't say yes…
I don't want to say no either…