Before this chapter starts I just want to thank Khelc-sul Renai for, intentionally of not, giving me this idea in a review of chapter seven in the first Trigger XD


Love

All the world's love should be directed towards Ore-Sama.

Well…that was productive. Atobe had spent a grand total of one and a half minutes on his project and he was pretty much already finished. He really needed to waste some time.

Not that he would ever say that, Atobe never wasted time; he made good use of every moment. And that was why he was making marvellous use of his time by counting the fibres in his bedroom carpet.

The phone rang, a godsend.

"Aahn?"

"Hi Buchou!" ah, it was Jiroh, and he was hyper. Perfect, Jiroh was the expert on wasting time. "I'm doing my project and I'm stuuuuuck. I've got like one line and it sucks, a lot, it's not sugoi at all. It sounded really easy but Ruriko is being so annoying and she keeps stealing my pen and telling me to call you and seven year old things Buchouuuuuuu!"

Wait, did Jiroh not breathe throughout that entire sentence?

"Breathe, Jiroh, breathe."
"Sorry Buchou, but I'm so stuck! What word did you get? I know we're not supposed to tell but nobody will care right? Right? What word did you get?"
"Ore-Sama…" Atobe paused, wondering if he should lie. No, nobody lied to Jiroh and got away without being dragged to hell for it later. Even if Jiroh didn't care it just wasn't done to lie to him. He was too fluffy. "…has to write about love."
"Sugoi!" Ouch, Ore-Sama's delicate ears. "Write about Ruriko, she loves you!"
Now that was a good idea.

Maybe not all the world's love, some exceptions need to be made, after all. Married couples, for example, they already have enough love for each other.

And Ruriko, she doesn't need to love Ore-Sama either. She just doesn't.

If all the world's love was directed towards Ore-Sama, that wouldn't be fair, especially if it was from people on the other side of the world who will never meet Ore-Sama. Maybe things need to be brought in a little closer.

"…Ruriko says she's gonna marry you one day, Buchou, you're her handsome prince and she's going to marry you because she's a princess." Oh, had Jiroh been talking that whole time? Probably nothing vital that affected Atobe's life in any major way. "I keep telling her she should marry Gakuto-kun's brother instead but she says Eiki smells."

"Jiroh, what word do you have?" Atobe said quickly, almost too quickly, but if he didn't say it fast enough Jiroh would have started rambling about Gakuto's sister, who was dating Shishido's brother, and wouldn't it be so sugoi if they got married and Gakuto and Shishido became related?

"Smile, isn't that sugoi?" Oh yes, it was, Atobe suddenly got the mental image of Jiroh with his cutest smile on his face. It was enough to make him drop his pen in a moment of weakness. "If it wasn't for Ruriko I'd have so much more done. Lots of stuff makes me smile, like sleeping and the park and sleeping and pretty things and sleeping and tennis and sleeping and-"

"Ore-sama will write with you tomorrow" Atobe rushed, anything to stop him rambling on and on and on. A little babbling was endearing, but sometimes Jiroh really took the biscuit. He took the biscuit, ate it and got very, very hyper on it.

"Okay! That's a great idea, Buchou! Trust you to get good ideas!" oh yes, trust Atobe to get ideas, damn. But a morning with Jiroh, and just Jiroh, didn't sound like too much torture the more Atobe thought about it. "Oh, and if you need to write about love, ask Oshitari-kun! He's always reading love books!"

Jiroh hung up, and Atobe silently thanked whichever glorious deity that was watching over him for making Jiroh so naïve and oblivious. Books about love, Atobe's backside; behind the perfect posture and flawless manners, Oshitari Yuushi had one of the filthiest minds Atobe knew of.

All the love in Hyoutei Gakuen should be directed towards Ore-Sama.

Wait, almost all of it already is, and Ore-Sama doesn't like it. The fangirls are annoying, and because it is in bad taste to refuse a gift, Ore-Sama is constantly bogged down by offering upon offering from admiring females and males alike.

Most of these get fed to Jiroh later, which makes him even more hyperactive. No, all of the love in Hyoutei Gakuen should not be directed towards Ore-Sama.

As much as Atobe disliked texting, it was the only way to ever get through to Oshitari. When asked about this, he simply replied that calling was reserved for family matters or naughty voicemail from Gakuto. Atobe did not need to know that last part.

You lose all tone of voice through a text and I like to get a clear picture when Gakuto sends me these things Oshitari had said, delighted to be completely freaking Atobe out. You say you have four phones, but I bet you have a fifth somewhere full of filthy candid photos of Jiroh in the showers. Cell phones are marvellous things.

Oshitari was a scary, scary person, Atobe decided.

All of the love within the Hyoutei Regulars should be directed towards Ore-Sama. Except the love between Oshitari and Gakuto, Ore-Sama wants nothing to do with that in the slightest, no thank you. Yes, all the Hyoutei Regulars' love, except Oshitari and Gakuto.

Aah…but what about Choutarou? The boy was like a younger brother to Atobe, and countless lunch hours or even entire practices had been spent in the music rooms, consoling Choutarou through some hang-up he was having over his mother or Shishido. Or a lot of the time, what his mother would do if she found out his feelings for Shishido. Choutarou's love needn't be directed towards Atobe, after all. He deserved - no, he needed – Shishido's love, as soon as the oblivious arse got around to noticing his kouhai's feelings.

Whoops, had he written that down? Where was the ink eraser…?

Alright, all the Hyoutei Regulars' love except Oshitari, Gakuto and Choutarou. And Shishido, he needs to love Choutarou. Oh, and of course Ore-Sama wouldn't make Kabaji give his love to anyone he didn't want. He has already done so much for Ore-Sama. Hiyoshi…Hiyoshi doesn't really love anything so Ore-Sama won't make him do anything, and Taki is so obviously enamoured with him, Ore-Sama may as well leave them both be.

Perfect, all the love within the Hyoutei Regulars, except Oshitari, Gakuto, Choutarou, Shishido, Hiyoshi, Taki and Kabaji.

Atobe did a little counting on his perfectly manicured fingers.

That only left Jiroh.

Yes, that seems about right.

Jiroh has a lot of people's love to make up for.