Mei: So...here's chapter 2, guys! Enjoy!
Niou: I highly doubt they would.
Mei: Who asked you? -glares-
Marui: Not again. Mei does not own us blah blah. Please read on before they do any further damage.
Marui sighed. After lunch, it had been worse than the lesson with that cranky, old teacher. Everything bored him to hell. Nothing seemed to be able to at least lighten his day up. No. They all had to be so irksome. He felt a headache coming up. If he could just go to the infirmary…
"Wha-" he bumped into someone. He looked up and saw his dreaded teacher.
"Marui-kun. Where do you think you're going? You still have detention" the teacher looked at him sternly.
Oh shoot. I forgot about detention. Damn.
"I was just on my way, sensei" he tried to make up an excuse but sadly it wasn't good enough.
"On your way? Then why are you going in the opposite direction, huh?" the teacher raised an eyebrow at him. "Come on. You can't escape detention."
"Hai" he grumbled as he followed the teacher like some battered puppy trailing after his unmerciful master.
They walked in silence as the crowd began to stare at him as if he was some new, interesting gossip which was probably true. He was going to be in the circle of gossip once again.
People seem to be drawn into pulling others back to be reassured about themselves. He shook his head slightly. He actually felt pity towards them. They can't find anything better to do than to make up the weirdest gossips. They don't have enough confidence in themselves so they have to give others a bad image. They feed out of envy. They pick at people's weaknesses. They pick at it and pick at it until they grow tired and find some other thing to pick at.
I wonder how long this gossip about me is going to last…
The teacher opened the door and walked in. He followed right behind, his head still down. He didn't think much, just went to his chair and laid his head down. The headache was coming again, a lot more painful than before.
He felt a crumpled paper hit his head. Of all the times that someone would do that, oh merciful Kami-sama. He turned around and glared all he could with his headache.
"Whoa. Is it your time of the month again?" Niou put his hands in front of him as if defending himself and acting all innocent.
"Oh. Shut up" he turned the back of his head to Niou. He did not need this problem right now. He has enough in his hands right now, thank you very much. He has many projects in line, and the last thing he needs right now is the trouble known as "falling in love with Niou".
He felt the other's stare. It was slowly getting annoying. He snapped his head back to glare but it was too sudden that he held his head the minute he did so.
"Hey. You alright, Marui?" he heard him question. He looked at Niou and saw the pure concern from him. I t was rare to see this and he felt himself floating above into heaven. He just nodded. He knew he wouldn't be able to talk normally. He would be ranting on and on, jumbling up words.
"Oi! You two! Quiet!" the teacher bellowed at them. He walked up to them and handed them sheets of paper. "Here. Do these."
"Hai, sensei…" they muttered as they took one last look at each other and began the work handed to them. They needed to get to practice soon. They don't want Yukimura to get angry at them and give them more laps than they have now.
After awhile, they finally finished with the exercises the teacher gave them and passed it to him.
"Fine. You may go now" the teacher waved his hand as if to shoo them away with it. "Next time, listen in class if you don't want detention."
"Hai" they said in unison and left the classroom. Marui walked in front of Niou, his walk a bit fast paced.
"Oi. Marui, wait up!" Niou caught up with him. "You alright?"
"Yeah" he nodded, keeping his head down. It helped him relax and relieve him slightly of the pain.
"Whatever you say, Marui, but remember, buchou gave you quite a number of laps. Not really that many compared to the others but with your headache, I don't think you'd last that long" Niou said, walking by his side.
"I'll just eat. It always helps" he said as if to reassure Niou but mostly, to reassure himself. It needed to help. At a time like this, it had to.
"Suit yourself. But I already warned you" Niou shrugged, acting as nonchalantly as he could.
Oh great. Now he shows a lot of concern. It was always when Yagyuu wasn't there that he notices. It was always when they're alone that he actually quite cares.
Marui felt the pain grow. He really needed to calm down. But how can he? The problem was just right beside him, walking with him, caring for him. How he wished he could just strangle himself to end all of this. No. He had to keep himself as sane as possible. Sure. This might be hard but he still wants to live. He's too young to die.
He still wants to see the wonderful beauty of his surroundings everyday. It might not always be a beautiful scenery because of the people that crowd the view he sees but there are still times that it would be so peaceful. There are times when life would be so peaceful, you forget your problems. Those were the times he would always look forward to.
People see him as the energetic, self-proclaimed tensai. He might be energetic but that wouldn't mean that he wouldn't like having some peace. He might be playful and childish at times but he knew a lot of things. He wouldn't be proud of calling himself a tensai if he didn't.
Mei: I hoped you liked it! I humbly request for your reviews. I might be forced to not update if you don't.
Niou: You're in no position to tell that to them. You're nothing without your readers.
Mei: -cries- I hate it when you're right...Sorry for being demanding.
Marui: Don't cry. Here. -gives lollipop-
Mei: Sugoi! -eats the lollipop- Yeay! Thank you so much for reading! 'Til the next chapter!
Niou: This is what I have to put up with. I pity myself.
