I'm sorry for doing this to Kenji, but for the story to progress (and change), this needs to happen.
I wake up at five in the morning again. I basically do the same thing as I did yesterday, with a few changes. While I was on my walk, I noticed a tall blonde girl walking through the gardens. She looks really at peace, I should probably *Crack* leave… "Hello, Is someone there?" she says. I wave when she looks at me. "Um, Hello?" … Oh, she's blind. Well this is awkward. I slowly walk towards her and grab her arm lightly. She flinches slightly, but she stays where she is. She has a confident look on her face.
I quickly let go and knock a tree. She looks at the tree confused. But then realization hits her. "Oh. Oh. You're mute aren't you?" I knock the tree again. "Oh, well, I'm sorry, but I've got something to do." She quickly left the gardens and left me. I shrug and continue my walk.
When I got back to my room and headed to the showers, the bespectacled boy shows up again. Still nude. I quickly get dressed and leave, to prevent a repeat of yesterday. But he grabs my arm while I'm leaving and says quickly "Listen man, you shouldn't go out this early anymore. The girl with the crazy legs comes out every morning looking for prey! She always makes this squeaking sound, which means her super-weapons are charging up!" he says before grabbing me and screams "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?!" He starts shaking me before he accidentally hits my neck. That's when I stop him. I flick him off before heading to my room. I check the clo-… why does my throat tickle? I dab my throat with my finger before looking at the finger. There's blood on it. The clock says 6:36. I grab my throat before heading down to the nurse's office.
I knock sharply on the nurse's door before he says "Come in" I don't hesitate and walk in. He turns around with the huge smile on his face, before he starts frowning and his eyes widened. He must-of noticed the blood dripping from my throat. "Lay down" he says commandingly. This is a huge change from the normally smiling man. None the less, I comply quickly. "Let go of your throat" he says once again. He pulls out a first aid kit while saying "It's not too deep, so we don't need to take you to the hospital. We just need to clean and stitch…" It went like this for several minutes before he was applying bandages. "There we go. Crisis adverted" he says jokingly, his smile returning before disappearing again.
"How did this happen?" he ask me before handing me a pen and pad. I then proceed to write down the story which he then reads. "Hmm, we have had problems with Kenji before, but nothing serious. Mostly just insulting comments toward the female members of the school. I may have to give a Psychological quiz to him, see if there's something with him." I nod and he says "I would suggest keeping bandages on, so that something like this doesn't happen." I nod once again. "You should go to class now. Be careful." He says before smiling at me.
He quickly ushers me out before slamming the door shut. I head back to my dorm and grab my stuff. I look at 117 and feel a slight sense of guilt. But I keep moving. I soon reach the class. 7:28. Just in time. I quickly say hi to Shizune and Misha, who look at me worriedly. I quickly get to work, to get it done so I could tell the girls what happened. It's just reading and two questions anyways.
After all three of us had finished, we held a private conversation in sign. Misha starts off with her blunt [What happened to your throat?] I reply with the story. I didn't pin the blame on him directly, because I know it wasn't his fault, but Shizune still looks pissed. Before she starts ranting Misha interrupts with [He has always been a bit, well, you know, crazy. Especially after his first year here. I wonder what happened.] I speak up with [He was always going on and on about Feminists that would take over the world whenever I heard him speak.] Shizune thinks and says [Maybe he had a bad fight with his girlfriend. Anyways, where are we going for lunch?] Along with that the arguing of Misha and Shizune quickly fills up the room. The Dumass Tacos? Is that even real? I let my eyes wonder over to the girl with scars. She seems to be studying, with the occasional glance over towards Misha, who is now speaking very loudly.
Best to not distract her.
As the lunch bell rings the girls quickly come up with an answer. "[We're going to town!]" They say and sign together. What did I miss? [Don't worry Hisao, it's not far.] I nod and gather my stuff and head with them to the door. As soon as I step out something hits me in the chest with force of a runaway train. Shit. I open my eyes briefly to see two bright green eyes staring back. She has two prosthetic legs. Shizune helps me up with worry in her eyes. The girl before us says "Ahh, I'm sorry! Are you alright?" I look at her blankly, letting my heart settle down. I nod once. Shizune seeing that I'm fine starts signing furiously. Her hands look like a blur. Even Misha can't translate that. I sign something to the girl, which Misha quickly translates "[Maybe it's better if you don't hear that. Anyways the general gist of it is don't run in the halls.]" Shizune looks at me quickly, disbelieving the fact that I just brushed off that I nearly died so easily.
"Ah right! Are you ok? Should I get a nurse? You blanked off for a second there." [No, I'm fine] "[He says he's fine.]" Shizune looks at us still with a shocked look on her face. But she regains control quickly and looks at the girl [Emi! You should know better! Running in the hallways is strictly prohibited!] Misha regains posture as well and says the same thing, but with a small frown instead of her usual big smile. Emi sees this as well and gets a scared look in her eyes.
"Igottagodosomething!" she says quickly and runs off. She has very good instincts, because the look in Shizune's eyes is really scary. Shizune huffs loudly. She quickly spins onto me, while her gaze softens a bit, still has a steel edge to it [Why didn't you say anything?] I look at her in the eyes and say [Because I'm fine. A bit roughed up, but fine.] She replies with [But didn't you say that impacts to the chest could be fatal?] I smile and say [Potentially fatal.] She glares and says [That doesn't change anything! You could've died!] Misha seems to have left, probably wants to let us have our alone time to sort this out.
I grab her hands and silence her. She looks at me, with a glare at first, but softens until I notice she starts tearing up in the corner of her eyes. I give her a hug. She seems surprised at first but quickly returns it. The smell of her shampoo fills my nose. Lavender. She quickly learns the reason behind the hug. She listen to my heart beat for a while. She gives a tight squeeze before letting go. I let go of her as well and I smile at her. She smiles back.
[You calm now?] She nods and I sign [lets go, Misha's waiting for us.] she quickly looks around and nods. We head down the stairs and towards Misha. Misha quickly notices and smiles widely "[Let's go~!]"
We quickly come to a tea shop called 'The Shanghai'. Interesting name. I don't bother asking as we head and see a woman standing there. "Welcome! Thank you for patronizing this establishment!" The front half of her body drops quickly like an axe. "[Hey Yuu-chan! How's the library?]" So this is the librarian. She looks a bit fidgety. "I-it's doing fine. Should I g-get your usual's?" Misha nods and then "[Hicchan, what would you like?]" [Do they have Coffee?] "[Do they have coffee?]" Misha thinks about this and ask Yuuko real quick. "Y-yes, we do." She says in her timid voice. Then I nod and she takes that as an order. She quickly heads to the back and we seat ourselves. I quickly look at the girls and notice that the sun's hitting them just right, making them look all the more attractive. That, along with the slightly tight shirts their wearing.
Shizune's glasses are slightly hanging off her nose a little lower than normal, and she's staring right at me…
As Yuuko returns with our drinks, Shizune says [To Hisao living another day!] quickly picking up her drink and swallowing it all. Misha does her "Bwahahaha~!" and I deadpan. Shizune smiles slightly. I turn to my coffee and start drinking in my usual fashion. Shizune goes into her 'business' mode. [We have to start working on the festival.] Misha and I both nod and Shizune says [We have to get started tomorrow, or we won't finish in time, even with Hisao in the Student Council. I will talk to you as soon as I have it planned.] We both nod. [We should head back to school, it started about, 10 minutes ago.] I say, looking at my watch. [We can be a little late, that's one of the advantages to being in the Student Council.] Shizune says.
Which reminds of another thought. [How many people are in the student council? You never told me.] "[That's because you never asked, Hicchan~!]" Misha said loudly, looking a bit nervous. [You didn't answer my question.] Shizune and Misha look at each other, before Shizune nods slightly [It's only the two of us...] That shocks me a bit. I didn't think that it would be just them. I nod once and say [okay] and take a sandwich from the tray in front of us. That shocks them. And then Shizune smiles. And Misha remembers her parfait. When did she get that again? As the three of us finish eating, [Now it's 30 minutes late] I say as we sit there. Shizune glares at me. Misha calls over Yuuko and says that we want a refill.
I shake my head at them. By the time we leave, I've not only missed one class, but two. These two are going to kill me. Then they take me on a tour through the town. It's pretty small, but I like it.
When we do get back to class, the day goes on as usual. Well, except when class got it. Shizune and Misha leave the class without me, they must have planned on getting more work done in the Student Council. Before I could wonder about it some more, I notice I'm the only one left in the class. As I go to the front door, an arm stops me quickly on the shoulder. I look and see Shizune and wave. She smiles and waves too, before a pair of hands wrap around my face, before a sharp laughter rings out. I can't really do anything, so I just go along with it. [It couldn't possibly be, hmm, Misha could it?] Misha laughs and swings around in front of me. [Hisao, are you busy right now?] I shake my head say, [Not, really no]. "[Could you go into the art room and get a couple of things for us?]" I nod and say [Sure.]
I head up the stairs and to the art room, and upon entering, I noticed an auburn haired girl in the male uniform. And she's eating with her feet. And she doesn't have arms. We stare at each other for a while. Her green eyes staring at brown. "Hello." She says. That snaps me out of it and I just nod. I head over to what I assume is the supply cabinet. She doesn't really say anything after that. Which is fine with me. As soon as I grab the stuff I head into the hallway, the supplies are surprisingly heavy. I start to slowly head down the stairs, thankfully there are no students in the hallway. When I reach the second floor, I see Shizune heading up before seeing me. She smiles at the awkward way I hold the supplies in both my hands, and I smile back.
As we head down, I see a blue haired man smiling, and waiting. When we reach him he looks at me and says "Hisao, what a happy coincidence! And miss Hakamichi as well!" he nods to Shizune who nods back, but is noticeably annoyed. I set aside the supplies and decide that I could sign for her, in place of Misha who must be at the student council room. "There is something I forgot to mention on Monday." I nod and wait for him. "It's about your medication, since you haven't been on your current medications that long, there could've been an unexpected side effect, which might require adjustment in dosage, or even a switch in medication. So we will do a few tests regularly, but what I want you to do is keep an eye on your condition. Nausea, headache, depression, anything like that." I nod my head solidly. "So how are you? Everything fine?" he asks. I nod and pull out a notebook and write down 'Everything's doing fine' he reads it and says "That's great, and my sources have told me you've been to neither the swimming pool, nor the track, so I'd like to know if you've been doing that." I see Shizune look at me weirdly, I think she thinks I don't do that. I write down 'I've been taking walks around the school several times early in the morning, and if one of your sources is Emi, then I saw her yesterday morning running down to the track.
He nods several times before saying "Alright, well that's all I needed to know, have a good day." I nod and grab the supplies and start heading to the student council room, with Shizune saying [I didn't know you got up early.] I nod, and Shizune nods as well. By that time we got to the Student Council room, and I set the supplies in the corner of the room. [Thanks Hisao, that's all we needed for today. You can go to your room now.] I nod and head out.
