Kagura rushed off to the 3-z classroom to get the bento in her bag. When she opened the door, Ginpachi-sensei shouted. "Kagura since you're late, you'll be Juliet."
"Huh? What are you talking about Gin-chan?" Kagura curiously turned to her teacher.
"And the Romeo will be ..." Ginpachi ignored her and tried to look for Sougo when he saw Hisashi smiling. "Hisashi-kun. Okay that's it, class dismissed." Kagura's eyes shrunk when she heard the teacher mention his name. Hisashi turned to her with a smile.
"Yoroshiku ne Kagura-chan." The Yandere's smile turned into a dark glare that sent shivers to her spines as she gulped. Cold sweat ran down her temples. She couldn't utter a word.
"Ara, isn't that nice Kagura-chan? You and Hisashi-kun together as Romeo and Juliet!" Otae shouted with glee.
"Y-yeah ..." Kagura answered as she bit her tongue.
"What's with this role? Who the hell is servant #3? All of you did this on purpose didn't you? It's because I'm plain isn't it?!" Shinpachi shouted in anger and depression. Yamazaki comforted his classmate.
"Atleast you're not Romeo's horse ..." Yamazaki mentioned with a dull voice and dull eyes. Shinpachi patted his friend on the shoulder and they both shed tears while smiling and sulked in the corner. Kagura grabbed a 6 layered bento from her bag, like Dorae*on grabbing a gadget from his pocket, and dashed outside. Sougo grabbed her arm and pulled her under the ground floor stairs. He blocked both her ways with his arms.
"Where do you think you're going, huh China?" he grinned. Kagura tried to shove him away but she failed. He kissed her and tasted blood and became slightly addicted. She pushed him away.
"Move it Sadist. I'm in a hurry." She ran but he pulled her arm.
"What's wrong with you today? Is it that time of the month?"
"I'm really in a hurry. Meet me later at the rooftop!" She said as she sprinted on the way to her brother's school. The Metropolitan Yato Industrial High School was in the same district as Gintama High. It attracted notorious students. When she arrived, she saw the broken glass windows, the walls full of vandals and the dangerous looking students that glared at her. A middle-aged man with a dirty blonde hair and a huge build approached her. It was Abuto and beside him was Ungyo.
"Are you lost ojou-chan?" He asked with a smirk. And the hooligans at the back were laughing.
'I think I'll transfer ...' Ungyo thought while staring blankly upwards. Kagura smirked and stared at Abuto.
"13x1=13, 13x2= 26, 13x3=39, 13x4=52, 13x5=65, 13x6=78, 13x7=?" She smirked and glared at Abuto. His pupils shrunk and turned to the guys at his back. He started to count with his fingers.
"Ungyo! Lend me your hands!"
'I think I'll transfer ...' Kagura walked past them and through the school. She saw her father Umibozu. He was so happy and thought that Kagura made the bento for him.
"Kagura-chan! It's so nice of you to bring your dearest pappi a bento for lunch!" He shouted with glee when Kagura punched him."What's wrong Kagura-chan? Domestic violence?"
"It's not for you baldy... It's for Kamui-nii ..."
"But why Kagura-chan?" He said while holding tightly onto her legs.
"Move it Usura or I'll kill you!" She said while struggling to get her father off of her. She kicked her father and left him crying on the floor. Kamui slept on the rooftop. His ahoge (idiot hair) was swayed by the wind. She put down the bento on the floor and moved closer to her brother's side. She stared at him. He spoke while sleeping.
"Umai ... Imouto-chan's bento ..." He was chewing as if he was eating. Kagura giggled and took a picture of him while sleeping. She felt sleepy and stretched her arms and yawned. She slept on his arms. When she woke up, it was already afterschool. She remembered her promise to Sougo and stood up. She noticed her brother who held the empty bento boxes with a grin. "Good morning imouto-chan! The bento was delicious but it wasn't enough ... I'm still hungry ..." He pouted and held his stomach.
"The deal was to bring you bento. I don't care if it's not enough."
"Oi Usura-!" Kamui shouted and pretended to call their father when Kagura grabbed him.
"Okay, okay I get it! I'll treat you to food but first I need to go somewhere. Just wait." She sprinted to Gintama High and on her way she saw an old lady who was carrying a heavy baggage and couldn't cross the street. She had a black curly hair and a big mole below her lips and above her right eyebrow and wore glasses. "Crap ... Why now of all times?" She thought and drifted back to help the old lady cross the street.
"Thank you little girl." She said and then waved goodbye. She came to Gintama High and no one was there. She went upstairs. She hesitated to open the door. She paused and thought.
'It's impossible ... As if he'd wait for me ... Sadists don't have long patience ...' Tears fell from her cerulean eyes. She curled up and cried. She gasped when she heard the door knob turn. Sougo came out and looked as if he just woke up. His eye mask was still in his forehead. He glanced at Kagura and walked passed her as if he didn't saw her. Kagura grabbed his sleeve and stared at him with her wet cerulean eyes. He pulled his sleeve back and turned to her. "I'm sorry ..." She whispered
"I thought it was hard to make you mine ... But it was harder to keep you mine."
"Wait. I promise I won't do it again ... That's why ... That's why, forgive me ..."
"I need space China ..." He then walked away. Kagura stood there and sobbed regretting everything that had happened when she felt warmth in her wrists. His big hand held her wrist.
"... Sadist ..."
"I haven't forgiven you yet but ... I should at least take you home." He said with a deadpanned voice but not looking at her. He pulled her up and dragged her down the stairs. When they reached the gate, they were panting really hard. He let go of her hand and started walking in the dark. "The bus stop is just a few steps away ... And the bus arrives after a few minutes."
"You know ... Uhm ..." She shouted hoping for him to stop but didn't. "About Takasugi-kun he ..." He stopped. "He has trouble expressing himself ... He was lonely and never opened to anyone else except me and Gin-chan. That guy ... He's lonely because he was always alone. After losing Shoyou-sensei he was always suffering. "
"Shoyou-sensei?" He turned around.
"He was our homeroom teacher back in kindergarten ... And also ..."
"What?"
"Gin-chan's pappi ..."
"Losing you meant ..."
"Yeah ... That's why ... That's why I can never leave him alone. I'm sorry."
"I see. Well then you've made your choice." There was silence when the bus arrived. Kagura stepped in because Sougo started walking away again and disappeared in the darkness. She felt a stabbing pain in her chest. She sat at the back and leaned on the window and cried.
FLASH BACK!
[Pls play the song 'I Left You' by REMEDIOS from the anime Ano Hana to have a better time reading. ^_^]
"Sensei, sensei! Shinsuke-kun and Kagura-chan are fighting!" A small blonde kid told the long haired man.
"Wait a little bit I'll be finished checking your papers soon. Okay?" He smiled gently as he started aligning the edges of the papers he was checking.
"Shinsuke you idiot! That's not how the Pegasus-Comet-Strike is!" The small girl with blue eyes and vermillion hair whacked the violet haired guy on the head.
"What did you say you ugly pig! It was like this! Don't you even watch the series?!" He pulled both her cheeks. It already resulted to violence when their teacher came. He patted him on the head.
"Shinsuke, you know it's bad to pick on girls."
Kagura rolled down her tongue.
"She's not even a girl! Girls are pretty and cute! She's not cute at all!" He shouted while blushing.
"Hmp! I don't need your opinion! Kamui-nii told me that I'm cute." She snorted.
"I-I too, think Kagura-chan is cute ..." Hisashi added.
"Teme, Hisashi! Are you betraying me?!" Shinsuke glared at the teary-eyed Hisashi who was hiding behind Kagura.
"Don't worry Hisashi-kun! I'll protect you from that beast!" Kagura shouted.
"Now, now don't fight."
He picked Takasugi up and placed him on his right shoulder. The little boy was shocked and embarassed. "Let me go!" He grunted as he struggled from his teacher's grip.
"Sensei!" Kagura shouted as she hugged Shoyou's leg.
"Here we go." He then lifted her to his left chest. "Now, now just what are the two of you fighting about? Care to share it to sensei?" He then again smiled. That innocent and gentle smile that was carved on his lips made the two of them calm.
"Sensei it's all that stupid Shinsuke's fault! He doesn't know how to do the Pegasus-Comet-Strike! It goes like this, doesn't it?" She lifted her small and fragile arms and straightened them until they meet each other above her head and bended her wrist.
"You idiot! It goes like this!" He then position his arms in a snake-style and moved his shoulders in a horizontal zero like figure.
"Stop fighting you two. Ah I know, let's go to my house. I made a strawberry cake enough for five people." The three kids shouted in glee and raised their arms. They reached an old Japanese styled house. It was wide especially the garden.
"I'm home." A silver haired kid shouted as he entered the kitchen and opened the fridge. "Hey pops, where's the cake on the fridge?" As he turned around, he saw the long haired man who sat there eating with the kids beside him.
"Welcome home." Shoyou greeted.
"Welcome home Gin-nii!" They greeted.
"Anyway where's my cake?!" Ginpachi complained seeing them covered in icing.
"Don't worry Gin-chan, we saved some for you!" Kagura offered him the cake while blushing. The two guys turned to her.
"Hmmp!" Takasugi cocked his head to the side.
"Eh?! It's just one slice! I'm a growing kid. I need a lot of sugar!" Ginpachi complained and started lecturing them with his knowledge of sugar and pubescence.
"If you don't want it then I'll take it!" Takasugi tried to snatch the plate of cake away but Gin suddenly hit him on the head. "Ouch! You bastard!"
"Heh! You need to grow up bigger than me to beat me!" The silver haired teen boasted.
After they ate, Shoyou and Takasugi sat on the porch watching the three playing tag. The violet haired kid and the long light-blonde haired middle aged man were both deep in thought. Takasugi felt irritated seeing Kagura with Gin but if he played with them, it would mean swallowing his pride.
"Shinsuke..."
"What's wrong Sensei?"
"Do you like Kagura-chan?
"Eh?! Who'd like a tomboy with a huge appetite and ... And pretty hair ... And beautiful eyes ..." He said as his eyes focused on her and erasing the others from his view. "I ... I like her but she likes Gin-nii and Hisashi-kun also likes her..."
"Is that so?" He patted the child's head. "You know, if the person you love doesn't love you, you just have to be happy for them ... If it's a love without sacrifices then it's not true. You must patiently wait and never leave her side because she might not see it now but as time passes, love becomes greater. And we might not know maybe in the future, it'll be you and her." He smiled and patted the boy on the head. His student's eyes widened and felt better after hearing that from him.
"I promise to always be by Kagura-chan's side and protect her!"
"Then it's a promise." They held out their pinkies and joined them. It was a pinky promise that Takasugi could never forget even if he died, because it was from the only person to understand him. The only person who never judged and left him like his parents.
That night while Kagura was at home, her pappi [with hair] was talking with someone on the phone.
"Yes ... I'll tell her ... Yes. Thank you."
"Papi who're you talking to?" Umibouzu kneeled and held her shoulders.
"Kagura-chan, Shoyou-sensei is ... Shoyou-sensei is dead ..." Her cerulean eyes shrunk and tears streamed down. She dropped the doll that she was holding.
"Liar! Shoyou-sensei would never die! Never ever!" She struggled and ran outside.
"Kamui stay here I'm going after your sister." He said to the confused boy watching TV. She ran as fast as she could to reach her teacher's house but no one was there. She was shouting, calling out Gin and Shoyou's name exasperated. "Kagura-chan calm down."
"But Shoyou-sensei is ... Shoyou-sensei is ..."
"Kagura-chan, I know it's hard but I want you to think who is hurting the most." She gasped and Takasugi's face appeared on her thoughts. He patted her head and held her small shivering hand. "Then shall we go? Let's pay them a proper visit tomorrow okay?" She pouted and followed him. The next day at the funeral, she looked around but saw neither Gin nor Takasugi. Hisashi was sobbing beside her.
Years passed and Takasugi got further and further away from everyone else and became possessive towards his friends. Meanwhile, Takasugi was sitting on the classroom while reading a book when he heard his classmates chatting.
"Ne, ne did you hear? Class 1's Yuki-kun confessed to Kagura-chan! But he was brushed off by Takasugi-kun."
"Eh? No way! Is Kagura-chan and Takasugi-kun were going out?"
"No, no. Apparently they're just friends. But don't you think Takasugi-kun is cute? With the emo look and all ..."
"I kinda' like the kind and gentle Hisashi-kun though."
"Kagura-chan is lucky to have them as childhood friends don't you think?"
END OF FLASHBACK!
Same memories crossed the violet haired teen as he was standing in the alley full of knocked-out delinquents. The cold wind blew his hair fully showing his eyepatch. He touched it gently and murmured. 'Kagura ... I will always protect you ...'
I would like to thank evangel rose, korenai88, rennomiya, princesstheripperislove, wassabi cake and lulu.c1t4 for their reviews TT^TT thanks guys! I love you all!
It's kind of dramatic with flashbacks and all ... Sorry I took too much time update coz there's been a lot going on in school :) Oh and I appreciate REVIEWS! Tnx
