A/N: hello again! so this is the second chapter... just waiting for some reviews in case...since I'm not that updated with KnB and all, I'm scared of having some OoCness but oh well, can't help but to accept the fact that I had to do that ... but in the next chapter I'm trying to make it in line with the anime's Inter high part. anyway, someone PM'd me, regarding the concept for Ayuzawa...I really planned to base her personality with Midorima, except for the horoscope and lucky charm part, but then i decided to just make her a tsundere. (hehehe) and those who asked why first aid? I'm a med student so that's the only thing I can come up with, (Actually we did a drama about CPR when we were in High school hehehe)
So R/R and give me some ideas hehehe (thanks for stopping by)
Aomine was walking sluggishly towards the Home Economics room, he's not one to participate easily but seeing the fact that he needs to pass this subject for him to play (now that he thinks about it... he's a bit lazy to play too, maybe he can skip both), he probably needs to meet with that silver haired braniac.
There are things that quite surprised Aomine about Ayuzawa Satomi, she could be pretty but she has a terrible tongue, that could have been the reason why she seldom talks and she had no idea about idiomatic expressions and dirty talks. In reality he's not quite familiar with her, though he knows she was an honor student, he never had anything to do with her.
He also find it quite perplexing why she wanted to have a practice in the home economics room, this time there won't be any more people in the gym, so why choose such a cramped location. He was suddenly stopped in his track, when a delicious aroma passed through his nose.
Hamburger Steak? his hunger pangs were signalling him, he felt hungry since he didn't quite fancy Momoi's prepared 'after practice' snack, which she forced everyone to eat. The smell was getting stronger as he approaches the Home Econ room, and as soon as he opened it, he was surprised.
Ayuzawa was wearing an apron and was stirring something in the pot, she took a portion in the spatula and tasted it, and she made a thumbs up sign, "What're ya' doing?" she almost dropped the small plate when she heard his voice.
"Oh you're here." She said before putting what she cooked in a plate. "I got quite hungry so I cooked."
"You cooked? Are you nuts? You know that the ingredients here are – "
"School property and for demo purposes only? Yup I know. Don't worry I bring some ingredients most of the time." She then squatted on the floor and sniffed the steak but before she could eat the one piece she cooked, he grabbed the fork from her and swallowed it whole.
"What the – "
"Shit, that's awesome…" he said as he swallowed. "Never knew you're a cook." He licked his lips as she looked open mouthed at him.
"Why did you do that?"
Somehow there is a sudden shift in her character, suddenly she's a cook, it really surprised him. "You do this all the time?"
"I stay here all the time, in breaks, after class for rest, in review times. If I get hungry I eat, that's a normal human mechanism, I feel that my brain malfunction if I don't have some glucose or carbohydrates in my system."
"So what do we do today?" Aomine leaned on a counter top, getting a magazine with some idols on it, as she leaned across the one he's using.
"You... listen to my plan. If you have something to add you can speak. However, I would like to suggest that you play the victim and I'll be the rescuer."
"I think you're more suited to be the victim and I'm the rescuer, that's more ideal."
"Why? Because I'm the smaller one and you're the bigger one? I don't think that's the case in first aid. No matter what size the victim is, it's the move and the techniques that matter." She said as she reached for some things, of course it was placed in a first aid kit. "Our part is about stopping a bleeding episode."
Her fast and quirky mouth really gets on his nerve. "Yeah, yeah I'll be the victim." And his eyes reverts back on his magazine.
She sighed and face palmed, how can she get an A+ with a partner like him? "So first I'll explain about sources of bleeding, one would be the open wounds, like abrasions, incisions, punctures and avulsions. Sit down, will you?" he looked at her and obeyed, she moved closer, astounding him, and then she reached for his arm.
"Then?"
"Abrasions will be like scratches, they are painful and they must be disinfected quickly because of bacterial entry, this are the wounds you get from encountering rough spaces." She stretched out his palm then looked at him and her finger traced the edge of his palm somehow it made him quite fidgety. "Common in this part. Next…" she held on to his wrist. "Incisions, you know cuts especially when using blunt or sharp edged materials. This part radial (the wrist) is the most severe incised part encountered in emergency cases due to suicides." She let go of his arm. "The other two would be punctures and avulsions, punctures is when some blunt object, commonly a fish hook or a nail penetrates your skin, avulsions would be severed limbs and – hey?"
Aomine was looking straight at her eyes, both were in proximity with each other and he felt something drip from his nose. Yup, its blood from information overload, his finger instinctively touched the liquid to confirm that its really blood. "Fuck, I'm bleeding with that info."
Ayuzawa suddenly reached for a towel in the kit she brought and went back to his side again.
"'M'fine... just give me the towel, I'll do it myself." He tilted his head and he reaches for the towel.
"Why don't you just follow what I said? Don't make things too difficult, seriously." She glared.
"I'm not making anything difficult! I'm even making it ea – Oww…" she pinched his ear and dragged him down to the floor.
"Stop talking, you'll aggravate the situation!" she scolds. When he's slumped on the floor she knelt beside him and she motioned him to tilt his head. "You see in cases of nose bleeding, pressure must be applied directly at the site of the bleeding, that would be done by pressing the bleeding nostril up to the mid line." she did what she said, somehow making him amazed. "If bleeding continues a gauze should be inserted to the nostril while pressure is applied so that the blood will be absorbed and if it continues, medical assistance is needed, in your case…" she removed the towel. "the first method's fine.
"Wow…It's like you did the demo already. I think that's an A+" he kids, and she smiled at him.
"You think?"
"Yeah…Why'd you know a lot about things like this? Its just a demo but you seem to know everything about it." He stood up and flexed his neck.
"I've studied first aid things since middle school."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah." She said as she gets the kit. "So Mr. Victim, here's the bandages" she waved the bandages in front of him.
"What'll we do with those?"
"Use it in the demo. Duh, I won't waste them in practice, since they cost quite much."
"What about the practice makes perfect?."
"I'll be able to perfect tying different bandages, you don't need to worry about that."
"You sound really confident. I like that." He smirked.
"Thank you, so are we going to proceed?"
"Okay, Do your thing."
"Lie down." She said pointing the counter top.
"What?"
"Lie down. On the counter top, since you won't like it in the floor."
He looked at her with the 'seriously?' look and she just nodded. "Can't we do it while I'm seated?"
"I like it more with a horizontal position." She said monotonously though it quite rang in a different way to Aomine.
"Oh really? I like it more in a horizontal position too, though we could do it vertically, perpendicularly or whatever makes you feel good." He smirked.
"Then lie down." She said and looked away from him, he remembers, she doesn't talk dirty.
Today is their fourth day of practice, and they'll be doing the stopping of bleeding via elevation techniques, and since Aomine's the victim, he should follow what his rescuer says, he did lie on the counter top.
"Now what?" he adjusted his back. Ayuzawa reached for his arm again and yanked it away from him, forcefully. "Oww! What the fuck?" he was taken by surprise.
"The main objective of elevation is to reduce the flow of blood, since it was said that the blood flow follows the Bernoulli's principle, though I'm not really certain - " She said before she was interrupted.
"So this Linguini principle is?"
"Its Bernoulli. In fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's principle states that for an inviscid flow of a nonconducting fluid, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy. " she stopped. "Never mind that. Stop asking those questions, I won't treat a bleeding nose again." She said.
"Then don't mention hard things, like vermillion." He sighed.
"I didn't say vermillion, and vermillion isn't a hard thing, it's a color, Merriam-Webster defines it to be a bright orange-red color."
"Oh God, please stop."
"Okay, I'll stop." She smiled. "Up now."
She moved away from him and he got down from the countertop. "You're so hard to understand."
"I'm sure you think about that to most women, men always consider women as complexities, because men are more objective in aspects as women are subjective, Dr. John Gray, a psychologist said that – "
"Is that even part of the first aid?"
"Nope, just explaining."
"You join debates?" He asked while he cracks his knuckles.
"Sometimes. But I think those competitions are just for vocal persons, I'm more on quiz bees and math contests. We'll continue our practice next week." She said as she turned off some of the opened apparatuses.
"Oh what's this do?" Aomine looked at a weird contraption near him, its like a pulley.
"What?" Ayuzawa, stood beside him and tried to take a glimpse of what he's checking out. Suddenly, Aomine pulled out the crank and a splash of water fell on Ayuzawa.
"Oh shit!" Aomine swore, he placed back the crank and the water stopped.
"That's the emergency shower, in cases of fire casualties and chemical spillages on your body." She cringed a bit as she felt cold water seep into her. "Can't believe I did another demo for you." She wiped her face.
"Nice…" Aomine stared at her then his gaze fell downwards. "I didn't expect that."
"Of course, mostly, only laboratories had emergency showers installed inside however – "
"You're a D-cup." He grinned.
"D?" she asked suddenly realization dawned to her, slowly, she looked down her clothes and saw her wet (and now almost see through) blouse which perfectly revealed her black brassiere (and because of the water, her wet blouse clung to her figure). Her face was a perfect color of red because of embarrassment and her hands instantly hugged her chest. "Pervert !Ihhh…" she screeched because of the cold air in her body.
"Well… You'll need a shower" he smirked. "Want me to join?"
"A shower after a shower." She glared at him. "I'll go ahead…Don't even think of peeping or following because I will have you castrated!" she hugged herself tightly and walked as fast as she could out of the room, while he laughed at her.
Ayuzawa was busy reading a book regarding statistics, she was also trying some of its sample problems, which she thinks are easy. When her eyes looked up, Aomine came inside their room after a yawn and slumped on his chair. Somehow his eyes met hers and he grinned like an idiot (though he really is) and Ayuzawa rolled her eyes at him and continued reading.
After their first week, they seem to get along (though neither of them will admit that.) Ayuzawa tried her best to bear his stupidity (as she always say), she did even helped him on some of their subjects (because she felt pity on him), while Aomine can talk to her normally now, they can have a few story telling sometimes but mostly, he forces her to cook because if she doesn't he won't participate in their practice. (She kept reminding herself, they'll be together until and ONLY until the first aid demo, she needs the A+ no matter what.)
"Ayuzawa-san." Annoyed, she glanced up and she felt guilt as the guy in front of her flinched. "I-I'm sorry, have I disturbed you?"
"Not really, Sakurai-san, what is it?"
"Oh…" he borrowed a chair and decided to sit across her while their teacher's not there. "Ayuzawa-san, I was hoping you could clarify this part for me, I'm really sorry to disturb you, really…" he points something on the book.
"Yes, its fine." She smiled at him. "So its about the factorial, isn't?"
"Ahh yes." Sakurai Ryou, he's the guy Aomine always bother, he's too kind to be affiliated with that idiot, she thinks, so it could have been Aomine who forced himself into his life, sometimes she feels pity as he watched the bigger guy steal Sakurai's lunch, grab some of his things and the worst case is, Sakurai will be the one to apologize... Men are such alienated creatures. But maybe Aomine have something for Sakurai that's why he always teases him...they say if guys like you, they will tease you...Ayuzawa quivered for even thinking about that idea.
"Are you alright, Ayuzawa-san?" Sakurai noticed she's thinking of something else.
"Yes, yes I'm fine." she dismissed him, but the idea...
Aomine, from afar, was watching the two of them interact, he was thinking of a way to annoy his partner and he thought of teasing her with Sakurai later, but he watched as she smiled and conversed nicely with his mate, it was really different with how the two of them interact, but its not like he wants to be all friendly with her anyway, one Momoi is enough, though she isn't quite in league with Momoi, she has a different (sometimes more annoying than Momoi) personality, but in filling the right places? Yep, she can be like Momoi.
"You understand it now?" she asked and Sakurai nods.
"Thanks, Ayuzawa-san, I'm really sorry for being a bother."
"Really, again…its alright."
"I'm sorry for being so repetitive." She just forced a smile, she doesn't want to speak or he'll find something to apologize again. A few minutes later their teacher came, and they all went to their respective seats.
"Aomine-san, you should come to practice." Sakurai suggested as he stood up to the taller guy.
"Maybe next time." He retorted and continued walking, he's not in the mood for a basketball practice nor for a first aid practice.
"You shouldn't say next time to someone who asks you nicely." He stopped on his tracked as he heard Ayuzawa's voice. He then looked back and saw her standing in front of him.
"Tch." Aomine smirked. "Heh…You like Sakurai, don't you? You're pretty obvious, standing up for him."
Ayuzawa stared at him blankly. "No, I don't"
"Really? I think you do, just think of it, you're being really considerate of him." He smirked, he wanted to annoy her so that he can just go and do his thing.
"No, I dont." she answers. "Idiot."
"Again with the idiot, huh? Bitch." He's really a person with a bad mouth.
Ayuzawa sighed and looked at him with condescending eyes. "I've read about this before..."
Sakurai was watching the whole bantering, feeling responsible for their fight and the worst part is, he doesn't know how to stop them.
"Please stop, I'm really sorry…"
"You just like Sakurai. C'mon admit it." He teased and she frowned at him.
"Oh… are you jealous?" she asked somehow catching Aomine off guard.
"Whoa, now you've become an ambitious girl, didn't you?" he snickers at her comment. "There is no way I will like y – "
"You have a crush on Sakurai" she said with 'matter-of-fact' tone. "That's why you brought that topic up." Aomine was flabbergasted even Sakurai whose mouth was left agape.
*the cooking in the home econ was a concept I got when I watched Otomen...see they can freely use the room and the appliances there, so I thought it is possible... in my previous school, that's also allowed but you provide your ingredients... and the emergency shower scene, that happened to me (only my part was Aomine's, hahaha, I let someone take the shower hihihi)
*Momoi's gonna be in the next chap...she's gonna clear this mishap anyway (kidding) and I know, Ayuzawa's pretty smart but she's really stupid in terms of relationships (hehehe) high IQ and low EQ.