Complications
Read the A/N later on if you need some clarifications, oh and acknowledgements will be given at the end of the chapter as well.
-Start Chapter-
"Buchouuu!" Akaya latched on Yukimura as soon as he finished his laps. The serene male looked at him and just as he opened his mouth to say something, Sanada interrupted.
"Tarundoru, Akaya!" He shouted as he approached the two. Akaya, still latching on Yukimura looked at him with slightly challenging eyes, and the fukubuchou shook his head, "Mattaku, you are already a first year high school. I thought that you have gotten rid of this childish attitude when you become captain of the middle school tennis club last year!"
"Now, now, Sanada," Yukimura smiled, and then he said, "I bet that you missed this kind of Akaya yourself, didn't you?"
Sanada lowered his cap, and then Marui whistled in the background, saying, "Don't deny it, fukubuchou."
"Heh," Niou smirked, and then he adds, "After all, you probably stalked Akaya last year."
"Stalked?" Sanada glared at Niou, and disagreed, "I did no such thing. I only went to check out the form of the tennis club regularly."
"Eh, Genichirou," Yanagi joined in, "Did you not check the tennis club every single day?"
As Sanada became redder and redder with obvious embarrassment, Akaya added insult to the injury, as he asked, with puppy eyes, "You missed me, fukubuchou?"
"Ano, Akaya-," As Sanada started explaining, the other tennis regulars in the vicinity laughed, loudly. And then, Sanada shouted at Marui and Niou, "Tarundoru! Marui! Niou! 50 laps around the courts each."
"Eh?" Marui popped his gum, and then whined, "Muraaa, Sanada's bullying me."
Niou laughed at that, and Yukimura smiled amusedly, saying, "Just run your laps, ne, Bunta? Or else Sanada will just increase the number."
Marui sighed dejectedly, and then he said, "I'm running, I'm running."
Niou strolled at the bench a little more laxly, and before Sanada can open his mouth to comment, Niou said, "I'll be running my laps, I just need a small water break."
Sanada opened and closed his mouth like a goldfish, twitching and glaring pointedly at the trickster taking his sweet time drinking his water.
"Ne, Akaya," Yukimura asked, gently detaching the arms of the younger boy, "What were you going to say a while ago?"
"Hmm," Akaya paused, and then he smiled, "Ne, Mura-buchou, can I come with you the next time you visit your cousin?"
All regulars at the place looked weirdly at the youngest regular, and then Marui, who finished a lap, and listened to a little of the conversation, popped his gum as he said, "What?"
"Eh?" Yukimura looked at the youngest boy, and then saw Niou's reaction. Contrary to his natural smirk or apatheticness, he was looking at Akaya with narrowed eyes. Yukimura cleared his throat, and then asked, "Why would you want to visit her, Akaya?"
"Did you fall in love with her, eh, Akaya?" Marui commented with a grin, which turned into a blank smile as he felt Niou's glare pierced him at the side. The others looked at Akaya, after all, if he made the wrong answer, who knows what Niou will do.
"Huh, of course not, sempai." Akaya said almost immediately, with a casual shrug. The other regulars sighed, and then Akaya looked at Yukimura, explaining, "Ano, buchou, well, I thought that she would be lonely at the hospital."
As the others looked at him, he explains further, "I mean, I bet she must be feeling what buchou felt when he was at the hospital, and I think that she might be lonely, and that's… kind of sad."
"Huuh.." Marui popped his gum, and then he said, "That's actually something nice you think of."
"Akaya," Sanada ruffled Kirihara's hair, and then he almost smiled, as he said, "That's nice of you."
Yanagi smiled, and then he said, out loud, "I should document this moment for… later use."
"Hm," Niou smirked, and then he said, "You had some self-reflection lately, Aka-chan?"
Akaya narrowed his eyes to Niou, but before anyone else can give their say, Yukimura smiled, "Actually, it's a good idea that you would visit her, Akaya."
"You can visit her this weekend," Yukimura said and Akaya beamed. Yukimura chuckled, and then he said, "I need to go somewhere this week-end, and I don't think she'll have company on the morning to afternoons, so it would be a big help if you would come."
"Eh?" Akaya pouted at Yukimura, and then he whined, "But it's awkward and weird to be alone with girls, buchou. I don't think I can handle it."
"What are you saying, brat?" Niou grinned, and then added, "You're gay or something?"
"Hahaha," Marui laughed as Akaya intensified his glare to Niou, and then he patted the youngest regular at the back, saying, "I'll come with you, alright."
"So, that's it, then?" Yukimura asked, and then he clarified, "So this weekend, Bunta and Akaya will visit Chiyoko and accompany her for the whole day?"
"Muraaa," Niou drawled. Yukimura smiled slightly at him, an amused grin, and with a nudge from Yanagi and Marui, Niou sighed and then said, with a wink, "Don't forget about me."
"Eh?" Akaya looked at Niou as if he grew fie other heads, and said, "Why would you come with us, Niou-sempai?"
Marui chuckled at this, and Niou glared at him. Looking back at the younger boy, he said, "What's wrong with me coming with you?"
"Well," Akaya shrugged before he said, "I bet you would scare her, and you might prank her, and if you prank her, she might cry, and then buchou will get mad at us and punish us."
"…" Silence passed as crickets appeared and chirp. Yanagi looked at Akaya amusedly, then turned his attention to Niou. Sanada was sighing, Niou was stunned, and Yukimura smiled amusedly. Everything was silent, before Marui popped his gum and laughed loudly at this.
"Hahaha," Marui said, and then calming himself down, he patted Akaya's shoulder as he said, "Don't worry, Niou would not do such a thing."
"Oh," Akaya said with a nod of his head, and before he was to add something, another freshman, not a tennis club member, called him, "KIRIHARA-KUN!"
Niou whistled, and then he said, "Oh, so you do have a girl now, eh, Aka-chan?"
"Eh?" Akaya said and the girl who called Kirihara blushed while Marui smirked, and then Akaya shook his head as he disagreed, "She's our class representative."
"So," Akaya looked at the girl, who was still madly blushing. He asked, in a cool tone, "Why are you here?"
"U-uhh," The girl fidgeted before she said, "Our homeroom teacher is looking for you."
"Oh." Akaya nods his head, and before he ran off, he turned around and said to the regulars, "Buchou, fukubuchou, sempai-tachi, I'll be going first."
Yukimura smiled and said, "It's alright, Akaya."
"Oh," Marui said, and then he nods at the girl, "You should follow Akaya to see there's no trouble."
The girl nods and runs after Akaya as she yells, "Wait up, Kirihara-kun!"
"Kirihara-kun, eh," Niou smirked as soon as the girl was out of sight. He adds, "Never expected Akaya to be popular with the girls."
"He's a tennis club regular," Marui shrugs, "Of course he'll be popular."
"Hmm," Yanagi enters the conversation as he informs, "Akaya's popularity has considerably increased after he became the captain of the middle-school tennis club."
"Well, duh," Niou grinned, "He needed to control himself and try to at the very least live up to the legacy that Mura created for the club."
"Hahaha," Yukimura chuckled, and then he said, "That's an exaggeration."
"Not really," Marui disagreed, and then he said, "After all, Mura, you're like the tennis club legend you know, and that's not counting the Three Demon of Rikkai you three set up, the moment you joined and eventually handled the tennis club, well, I guess the standards sky-rocketed."
Yukimura gracefully shrugs as he smiled, commenting, "Oh, well. That's the legacy of the kings, after all."
"Oh," Marui piped up after a considerable silence and then said, "Akaya was funny a while ago, eh."
"Funny?" Niou said, dangerously serious, and he adds, "Really, Akaya was funny, eh, Marui?"
"Hahaha," Marui fearlessly laughs, and then he adds, "Calm down, Haru."
Niou exhaled before he rants, "So you think it's funny that Akaya might like her? And I should calm the down because she's fuc-"
"Haru." Yukimura intercepted in a cold tone, "Bunta is just worried, and so is everyone else."
Niou bit his lips, and then sighed, "Sorry, Mura."
"It's fine," Yukimura said as a sincere smile came back on his face, and then he adds, "Aren't you two going to run your laps?"
"Eh. Oh." Marui said, a little dumbfounded. He looked around a little, and then he asked, "Where's fukubuchou?"
Yanagi smiled before he informed, "He went off during the time that Akaya's class representative approached us."
Niou grinned as he said, "I knew that the guy is rock. Marui didn't even notice that he left."
"Oh well," Yukimura chuckled, before he said, in a somewhat smooth tone, "Run those laps now, Bunta, Niou, or else Sanada will slap the two of you, and I won't be lenient if I see you two slacking off."
At the end of Yukimura's statement, both guys straightened up and ran, but not before making a salute and shouting, "Y-yes, buchou!"
"Those two are so amusing," Yukimura commented as he saw the two running their laps.
"They don't fear Sanada, or anyone else for the matter, that much," Yanagi off-handedly commented, "But when it comes to you, Seiichi, they would obey with little to mostly no objections."
At that, Yukimura can only chuckle. Then, after a while, Yanagi said, "You don't actually have to go somewhere this weekend, don't you, Seiichi?"
"Do you doubt me?" Yukimura asked jokingly. He laughed at the slight surprise and fear that appeared at Yanagi's face before he adds, "I actually do have somewhere to go to this weekend."
Yanagi remained silent, but raised a brow at this. Yukimura noticed and then he sighed, explaining, "Well, there was an appointment which I temporarily placed on hold because there's no one to take care of Chiyoko, but then Akaya decided to volunteer, so I guess I can attend the appointment."
"But Niou and Marui will accompany Akaya," Yanagi mused out, "That's an interesting turn of events."
Yukimura smiled and then he agreed, "Indeed."
"Seiichi," Yanagi cleared his throat, and trying not to piss Yukimura off, he safely asked, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"What?" Yukimura answered immediately and smiled knowingly at Yanagi, and the latter slightly trembled out of fear.
Seeing Yukimura's expecting face, Yanagi sighed, this is a losing battle, and then he said, "You're thinking about bringing back Chiyoko's memories."
"…"
"It's for the best."
-Next scene-
"So," Marui started, as the two troublemakers laxly ran their laps, because they were far from their buchou, and then continues, "What's with that outburst you had earlier, huh, Niou?"
"Well," Niou shrugs, "I don't know."
Marui looked at him incredulously, and Niou looked back, sighing, "Geez, Bunbun, I don't know what happened either."
"You don't… hmm." Marui kept quiet, musing to himself for a while, before he said out loud, "It must be jealousy, or maybe you're still you know…"
Niou looked at him skeptically with raise brows and Marui replied by shrugging. Then Niou smirked, as he said, "I don't know."
"Geez," Marui shook his head, "You're so stubborn, I bet you're even more stubborn than Yagyuu."
Niou gave him a blank face, and then he smirked, "Puri."
-Next scene-
"Kirihara-kun," the class representative called out as Kirihara ran out of the tennis courts, and she shouted, "Wait up."
"Honestly," Akaya sighs, and then he stops and turns to the girl, "All you've been doing is yell Kirihara-kun, Kirihara-kun, class rep."
The girl flipped her long and shiny black hair as she pouted, "Mou, I have a name, Kirihara-kun."
"So?" Akaya raised his brow. This was the reason why Akaya did not like majority of the girls, they always pouted and make problems out of everything.
Feisty and tomboyish girls like An were fine, at the very least they can handle themselves and it would probably against their pride to pout and whine like other girls do. Delicate and dainty girls like Chiyoko and that Seigaku girl Ryuzaki are fine, too, well as long as they try their hardest and as long as they aren't faking it. Chiyoko is a different kind of delicate from Ryuzaki, while the former is only kind-of delicate, it must be because of her physical state, but Ryuzaki has been delicate for a long while now.
There are also the bookish nerdy ones, the kinds that doesn't associate much with Akaya since they are not too keen on sports, not that Akaya minded, as long as there are no interruptions within personal boundaries, then all is well. There's also the competitive and sporty girls, which are good. Atleast they're fit, and they know the essence of competition and hard work, but sometimes, this kind of girls are a little too competitive and over the top.
However, the girls like the class representative were a little annoying. Sure, they may be pretty, Akaya recognizes beauty, but they always pout and whine, and try to make awkward conversations, plus they also have little sense of humor. And they think that every boy must like them, Akaya grimaces at this, after all he experienced this before. First came the blushing, if you overlook it, they'll pout, and then for longer periods of time, they whine.
Atleast boyish girls or delicate girls don't whine, or pout, or maybe they do that, but it's so rare it's kind of a surprise when they do that, and most of the time it's the good kind of surprise.
"Hey!" The class representative shouted in Akaya's ears and Akaya stopped in his trail of thoughts to look at the girl. She sighed, and then with a little pout, she adds, "Look here, I'm not just class rep, okay? I have a name and it's Ono Haru."
Akaya was going to tell her off, but then relented, and so he just sighed and casually said, "Sure, sure."
Before Haru can add anything, Akaya walked off, and with a wave, he coldly stated, "We need to get going, Ono-san. The teacher is probably waiting for us."
-Next scene-
"Hey." A fuzzy image of a boy held out his hand to Chiyoko, smiling a little.
Chiyoko nervously fidgeted, and then said, "Are you sure this is safe?"
"Hahaha," Another boy, a red head, though other details were fuzzy, laughed and incredulously asked, "You're seriously doubting him?"
"It's not that," Chiyoko answered, shaking her head, and then explained, "I just want to make sure."
"Of course you do," The first boy repeated, and then he poked the redhead as he said, "Stop bullying her, fatty."
"I'm not bullying, Chiyoko," The red head replied, sticking out his tongue, and then he adds, "If anything, you're probably the one who's bullying her."
"Geez," the first boy shook his head, and then he smirked as he said to Chiyoko, "So, are we going or not?"
"Hmm," Chiyoko paused for a while to contemplate, and then she looked up at the two as she said, "We're going, but we should be back by about 6 in the evening."
The redhead shifted as he reacted, "eh?"
"Honestly," the first boy smirked, and then he inquired, "Do you have curfew? Cinderella's curfew is more lenient than yours."
"That's not it," Chiyoko immediately answered, "I'm meeting up with him to pick out his cake. You guys don't want us to spoil the surprise now, don't you?"
Both boys shook their head, and the first boy said, "Of course not."
"Oh, I remembered," The redhead looked at the first boy, and then reminded, "We should pick him up later on, too, so six is fine."
The first boy tilted his head with a nod as he asked, "You mean-"
Chiyoko's dreams were cut off as soon as she heard the nurse enter the room to say, "The dinner will be given out in ten minutes, is there anything in particular that you might want to eat, dear?"
"Oh," Chiyoko straightened herself a little at her bed as she replied, "Anything is fine."
"I see," the nurse smiled warmly at her, and then she adds, "I'll be giving you your daily dessert as well. Chocolate or Mocha?"
Chiyoko paused for a bit, before she replied, "Mocha, please."
"Okay," the nurse said, and before she exits the room she replied, "I'll be back later, Akashi-sama."
Chiyoko nods at the figure of the nurse, and then sighed to herself. Somehow, the dreams were kind of real, and she heard that there was probable chance that she might have amnesia… so does this mean that the dreams were actually memories? But then-Chiyoko sighed. There was nothing to do about it, after all, if memories are forgotten, maybe that's for the best, and unless she remembers it without forcing herself, maybe it's fate.
-End Chapter-
A/N: First of all, only the italicized parts are dreams, okay? Haha, I mean you might mistake that the entire chapter was a dream but noo- for those who are confused, only the italicized part is the dream. The other scenes are well real-life events. Besides that little clarification, I would like to thank everyone for their continuous support and for reading this fic :DD
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