Chapter 2 - Looks like love
'Your existence is the craving I cave in to but it shall be okay as you're myone and hence, my only craving.'
Kaori
He could sense her all around him. Her presence was something he absolutely could not miss.
Even if he tried.
Her charisma? Brilliance? How well did she shine for Hanamiya's infamous dark presence to alter itself?
"….fuck! I sound like I'm in love with the bitch."
"Ha-na-mi-ya-san right?" Her high-pitched voice pierced his ears and he felt the urge to slap her shut.
"Yeah. What?"
Her eyes bulged so much that he looked around for a cup to catch them. He would catch only one though. Of course he would let the other one stay in place so she could watch him bite into one of them. Which would then cause the other to drop out in horror as well and this time he would make her eat it.
"What?! You're asking me what in such a casual tone? How could you even do that to me? We're supposed to be seated together and I wait and wait and wait for you on the first day and the next and the.. and you're a no-show. So it went on until I was in danger of dying of the loneliness and boredom which was when I begged this guy to swap seats with me. He was pleased and I didn't know why except that I did find out why and its because Seto-san just sleeps and sleeps and sle-"
She hadn't realized she had been walking ahead of him. She hadn't noticed him take a turn and head to anywhere but near her.
It was the right move on his part. For the both of them- not that he cared about her safety.
"HANAMIYA-KUN!" She had somehow deduced his disappearance to mean something totally different as she freely dropped the –san and switched to –kun.
This time, however, Hanamiya refused to acknowledge her and continued to make his way home. Kaori signaled to a man standing beside a posh car before running behind Hanamiya. The man got into the car and drove away from the school gate.
"Ooh I must have caught you at a bad time. You should have told me you were busy. I know you wanted to stay and when you left it was because you had to, had to, haaad to leave. Anyway, how is it that you're walking?"
It was strange how Hanamiya continued to walk in complete ignorance.
He would not give the girl the attention.
"You're not much of a talker, are you? That's okay. If you're thinking of the right topic to talk about then you can talk to me about anything. I'm doing the same, see? I'm talking about everything that's in my mind right now and yo-"
"Shut the fuck up." He would never be more proud of an introductory phrase as he was of this one.
"Ehhh?! Who? Who are you so angry about?" Kaori looked around her and was surprised when she saw that the two weren't accompanied by anyone.
"Makoto-kun, what's on your mind really? Why won't you just talk about it? My family always says that opening up is the cure to every single problem."
He would have smirked if he wasn't having a hard time controlling himself.
"What I'm thinking right now is how much trouble I'd be in if I smashed your head to this pavement. It would be a lot so I'm just cursing myself for not having something to choke you with. All so you would just shut up the yapping in that annoying tone of yours that sets my blood on fire." Hanamiya surprised himself with the honesty in his reply.
"Huhh! Oh my god Makoto! Could you be more intense?! I-"
Hanamiya's eyes had scanned the green colored string-like chain she wore around her neck. His finger slipped under it and one tug was all it took for Kaori to come crashing back to him. He moved before her choking body could meet his to stand beside her and spoke in his best intimidating tone.
"If you keep appearing in front of me- I will kill you. Not because I want to but because I'll want to. Now get lost already."
Because as much as he wanted to kill her, even he did not want to kill.
MIZUKI
Her eyes never strayed from the book in her left hand while the right stayed busy trying to keep the hair from falling all over her face.
"… such a clichéd appearance, huh?" Hanamiya spoke to himself while making his way to her.
He brushed past them- all of them. For, in that moment, she was all that existed to him. He knew that it had all ceased to exist when his eyes had fallen upon that surname of a certain freshman trying out to join the basketball team.
"I was thinking of heading to the ice cream place but then I decided that coffee would be better. I have to drop by the gym before I leave so you can go right ahead, okay?"
The silence that surrounded Hanamiya and her, as she was all that existed for him was what one could call deafening. Because the others did exist and they were speechless.
His words, had been audible to everyone in his vicinity. His ignorance did not make them disappear or stop their existence.
The girl, was the oddest of them all but would anyone even notice?
The chill of his presence had crept up her bones way before his calm voice that screamed of normalcy. But was there anything normal about the whole issue?
It all went unnoticed.
Mizuki's already erect posture turning rigid, her large eyes enlarging themselves a lot more, the right hand that abandoned the strands of hair to catch the book that she dropped, feet that applied sudden pressure with a desperation to smash a hole in the ground to disappear into… and lastly, but obviously- the once steady heartbeat that did not slow down or speed up but chose to give up.
All eyes that did not exist in Hanamiya's perspective rested upon him in stunned breath. They ignored Mizuki just as strongly as Hanamiya ignored them.
In a little over two years, they had seen it all about the black haired male whose doings worsened the deeds of Satan himself. And yet, they were witness to an occurrence of this event.
Thus, they watched.
It was, after all Makoto Hanamiya's girlfriend they were sharing living space with.
"Hmmm. So you have to make it look like you're in love with her, huh?" The silence managed to drown Seto's voice as well.
A/N : Tell me what you think of them. Both of them. Kaori and Mizuki. Who do you like (even if it is kind of early to say that). Your thoughts about Hana-bae. Hold nothing back in your reviews! :D
