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After school
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"Everyone is dismissed" the teacher said and left the classroom. Immediately almost every student bounced up from their desk and started to say their 'goodbye's and 'see you later's.
"Kaname-kun, come with us to tennis practice!" Tomoka chanted as she playfully tugged Sakuno's sleeve.
"Tomo-chan, I'm sorry but I can't come." Sakuno pulled back her arm and tried to avoid all of Tomoka's pleadings.
"But why?" Tomoka pouted. She fluttered her eyes with curiosity.
Sakuno gulped, she was actaully going to secretly meet Sumire, at her office, after school and confront her Oba-chan about getting a tutor. But she couldn't have Tomoka following her around. She knew that it wasn't going to be easy convincing Tomoka.
"Um, well ... you see I-i-i have something to do. It's very very important!" Sakuno stuttered.
"Like what?" Hoiro, who came out of nowhere, asked.
"Um, my parents are, are uh, leaving to go on a business trip far away and I'm going to living alone for the next few months!" She lied. 'Man, I'm a terrible lair,' Sakuno thought.
"You live alone?! What about food? Money? Why is your parents letting you live alone?" Tomoka shouted. Sakuno stared blankly at her, 'she ... she bought it!' Sakuno thought. The four looked at her like she was a lost child who was left all alone in the park.
"Um" was all Sakuno could say, 'Come one, think of something!' she told herself.
"My parents will be sending me money for food and stuff," Since she couldn't think of a good lie, why not tell the truth? Everything she said was true. Her parents was sending her money for her and her grandma. They also bought her a condo, just in case something happens.
"Oh." the four said unison.
"But you still didn't answer Tomoka's question, why can't you come?" Kachiro bought back up. Sakuno was put under pressure again.
"Ummm, my parents want me to finish my unpacking before they leave." Sakuno made up.
"Oh." Kachiro replied.
"But back to the real subject, Parents don't just leave you alone by yourself for a couple of months!" Hoiro protested.
'Well, your parents might not do that but mine will, and it's not only for a couple of months, Hoiro-kun, but like FOUR YEARS!' Sakuno thought as she watched the four's expressions.
"Actually my grandmother lives in this town but the reason they don't want be to me to go live with her is because they think I should learn to defend for myself," Sakuno quickly came up with, "But I do visit her once in a while."
"Well ok. I just don't to leave a friend alone." Tomoka said, still unsure if she could leave the subject alone yet. Sakuno saw her hesitanetness; she put a hand on Tomoka's shoulder and smiled at her.
"Tomo-chan, I'll be just fine. There's no need to worry about me." Sakuno reassured. Tomoka was touched by Sakuno's feelings and couldn't help but smile back.
Meanwhile the trio, who observed this abnormal act, was crouching in the other corner of the classroom making bets on when they thought Kaname (Sakuno) and Tomoka were going to get together.
"Five dollars on next week." Kachiro whispered bids.
"Ten on two weeks from now." Hoiro whispered back.
"Oi, Katsuo. What do you think?" Hoiro and Kachiro looked at Katsuo, who was staring at Tomoka and Sakuno.
"Observing the suspects, eh?" Hoiro said sarcastically.
"They actually don't look like a couple." Katsuo blankly stared as he put his chin on the top of the desk and continued watching the two girls.
"What do you mean? It's obvious that she likes him." Hoiro protested as he pointed at the two girls. But Katsuo just shook his head.
"Yeah, she might like him but it doesn't seem the same way for him." The two joined him on the desk, staring at the two girls the same style Katsuo was.
"I just can't seem to think those two could ever date, it's more like best friends." Katsuo concluded. The three watched Tomoka and Sakuno talk and surprisingly for them, Katsuo was right. It was more of a friendly and warm atmosphere then a romantic one they thought of.
"So if you're going to be living alone for awhile, why don't we have a going away and living alone party for you and your parents?" Tomoka cheered.
"Party?" Sakuno repeated as she thought of how her grandmother reacted if she told Sumire she was going to have a party in her condo.
"Yeah! We can invite Sempai-tachi, Ryoma-sama and the others! I know Momo-sempai and Eiji-sempai wouldn't want to miss this!" Tomoka exclaimed as she clapped her hands together. Her eyes turned into stars and she squealed.
"B-but Tomo-chan isn't this a bit too much?" Sakuno said trying to decline Tomoka's outrageous offer, "I'm just going to be living alone a-and besides my parents don't really like house parties."
"But, But Kaname-kun~" Tomoka whined as she rolled out her pouting lip. Sakuno gave her a small smile, before she replied back to her friend, "No buts, Tomo-chan." She giggled. Tomoka gave her a glare before she gave up on convincing Sakuno about having a party now, but she was going to give on a party all the way.
"Well~, we don't have to have a party right now, but we can the party later on ... like when you parents leave!" She cheered. Sakuno wanted to bash her head against her desk, but unfortunately Tomoka's her arms there, in the way. Sakuno just couldn't just convince this persistent fangirl NOT to have a party.
Tomoka started to rambling questions and answers about the party, while Sakuno was getting a head ache from trying to keep up with Tomoka's words about the preparations of the party they supposedly are going to have.
But all of a sudden Tomoka screamed out of nowhere, "W-what's wrong Tomo-chan?" Sakuno asked worriedly. Tomoka looked at her straight in the eye.
"Kaname-kun! Look around! No one's here and OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THE TIME! PRACTICE MUST HAVE STARTED NOW!" she said as she looked around the room and to the classroom clock before she grabbed her bag and started to run out of the room.
"Bye bye Kaname-kun!" was the last thing she said before she left. Sakuno sighed, there was no use being in that empty classroom so why stay? She gathered her belonging and headed for the door, just like her friend.
She walked out in the quiet hallways. The squeaks of her shoes echoed.
When I finally arrived at the principals' office, there were a stacks of papers hanging on the front door of the office. There were big bold letters on top of the papers saying, Tutoring Sign-up From. Just what I needed. I grabbed one of the papers and started to read the requirements; name, subject, class, grade, etc.
But one thing really caught my eye; "Gender of your preferable Tutor". I thought about it for a minute, of course I would want a girl because it would be more comfortable for me, but if I do chose a girl then it would seem like a perverted guy just wanting to go tutoring to hook up with those chicks. But then again if I put guy it would be kinda awkward for me cause I'm a girl ... This is too hard.
I sighed. I began to walk to my Oba-chan's office while reading other parts of the form. I know that I'm not supposed to be doing this, especially since my super clumsy and everything, but I still do it anyways.
Surprisingly, I found Oba-chan's office without asking for directions. I looked around before I grabbed the doorknob and entered. I had to be careful, I didn't want anyone seeing me with Oba-chan. I scanned the room, making sure it was only Oba-chan in the office. I silently closed the door and locked it. Just to make sure no one will barged into the room and see us together.
"Oba-chan" I said semi-quietly, because who knows if anyone could hear us.
Oba-chan was sitting down in her black office chair, reading a bunch of papers and drinking some cold tea. Once I called for her she looked up at me.
"Well, well what brings you here, Kaname-san?" She smirked and drank some more of her tea. I pouted, she knew I didn't like her calling me 'Kaname' when she didn't need to, but obviously she didn't care. I sighed and walked towards, holding out the paper to her. She raised an eyebrow, before snatching the paper out of my hand.
"What's this for ... Sakuno?" She said as she read the paper and laid it out on her desk.
"I want to have a tutor, Oba-chan." I stated in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh do you now?"
"Yes." She paused for a couple of seconds before gave me an airy laugh and another one of her devious smirks.
"You're really cutting it close here, Sakuno. Being friends with the Regulars," Well, that was unavoidable, " and now having a tutor, especially in English. Who knows your tutor just might be turn out to be Ryoma." I suddenly felt the temperature drop several degrees.
"I-i don't think that'll h-happen O-oba-chan." I stuttered. She snickered to herself again.
"What? Scared he might find you out and eat you?" she said sarcastically. Actually yes, was what I wanted to say, but of course I couldn't sass to Oba-chan or else I'll have to leave the office with aching arms, because of all the exercises I would be doing as punishment.
"Whatever Sakuno, but I just want to make sure that you do know what might happen if you apply for this kind of stuff." She said seriously as she gave me back the form. I smiled back to her.
"Hai, I know." I said as I grabbed back the paper.
"Now get out of here before anyone sees you, you brat!" she said as she pointed to the door and looked back onto her own papers. I chuckled, Oh my she's back to ordering me around again. And with that said I bowed and left the room.
Sakuno had just left the building, walking out towards the gates, when she came to pass the tennis courts. She stopped and simply gawked at them. She saw Tomoka behind the fence with the trio, cheering her all her might, yelling along the lines of, "GO RYO-MA-SAMA!" and "S-E-I-G-A-K-U! GO!" There were also other girl with her too, yelling the same things, 'Fangirls.' Sakuno guessed as she stared at them. She began to lightly laugh.
She shifted her graze towards the regulars now, who were finishing their daily training as tennis players.
'Practice already done?' She mentally questioned.
Meanwhile in the courts, almost all the regulars were huffing for air, well all expect Tezuka and Inui.
"Oi Echizen, "Momo shouted. Ryoma was already out of the tennis courts when Momo called him, but Ryoma being the way he is just ignored it. He already knew what Momo was going to say, 'Hey Echizen, wanna come and get burgers? I'm starving!' Ryoma thought, replying the normal question Momo usually asks him when practice is done.
Momo ran to Ryoma and put him into a powerful headlock, "Oi Echizen! You should really listen to your elders, you know." Momo scolded. Ryoma just rolled his eyes and began to struggle under Momo's grip, but of course didn't work since Momo just tightened his hold.
"Ochibi, Momo!" Eiji yelled as he waved his hand and ran to his two kouhai.
"Eiji-sempai" the two said in unison. They both remembered how the three: Eiji, Oishi, and Taka, were acting at mourning practice. Inside they were both relieved that the three zombies turned back to normal selves for afternoon practice. The regulars wouldn't be able to stand that kind of atmosphere again.
Eiji stood infront of the two with Taka and Oishi at his side.
"Mou~, I'm starving! Wanna get some burgers?" Eiji asked. Momo smirked.
"Sure! I was just about to ask Echizen that!" He said as he ruffed Ryoma's hair. Ryoma just glared at him.
"Anyways, I'm so glad that you're back Sempai! What was wrong?" Eiji, Oishi and Taka immediately turned into stone.
"Ano ... e-erm, eto ..." was all Eiji could say. 'Eiji, why are you hesitating? Just tell them! But Eiji if you tell them they might get a wrong impression of Ka-chan and think your gay! You to set an example for your kouhai!' Eiji mentally fought with himself.
"Sempai?" Momo said curious what kind of secret his sempai-tachi were keeping from him. Even Ryoma was interested, remembering what they had said when he 'accidentally' eavesdropped on them in the locker room. Now he could finally get more info.
"75% chance that they found out something they weren't supposed too." Suddenly Inui pooped out of nowhere and stood at Momo's side. "Or ... "he continued, "45% chance of them meeting a girl" His glasses shined evilly.
"Ehhhh!?" screamed Momo whose eyes' widened when Inui said the word 'girl'. "No way! You guys can't have girlfriends yet! ... Well at least not without me! I didn't even ask Tachibana's little sister yet!" Momo whined. The group sweat dropped.
Ryoma ignored Momo's whines and focused his attention on Inui's words: "45% chance of them meeting a girl" replayed in his head. 'If Inui-sempai said they meet a girl ... then why were they talking about Kinimoto? Usually Inui-sempai never wrong.' Ryoma thought.
Then he remembered Inui's first words, "75% chance that they found out something they weren't supposed too." 'It still doesn't make sense!' He concluded. Ryoma found himself trying to do an almost impossible puzzle. 'found out something they weren't supposed too','met a girl' and 'Kaname Kinimoto' were the pieces. No matter how many times Ryoma tried putting the pieces together, it wouldn't fit. There was a missing piece to the puzzle but Ryoma couldn't find it.
Ryoma was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't notice the atmosphere and people around him.
Momo let go of Ryoma and glided over to Eiji and the others. Momo got over his little dilema about An and was excited to hear about this girl his sempai-tachi met. He put his arms around Eiji's and Oishi's shoulders and stood in between them. He would have done the same with Taka, but fortunately, for him, Momo only had two arms, not three.
"So you guys found a girl, eh? Oh my! Oh my! I wonder what she looks like? she must have been really cute to impress my sempai-tachi!" He said as he twirled around like a ballerina.
The three of them blushed when Momo said the word cute. A picture of Kaname (sakuno) smiling perfectly with her head titled a bit to the left, flashed in their minds.
"W-what are you talking about Momo, we never met a girl" Oishi said as he turned away from Momo. Momo snickered.
"Oh really~? Then why are the three of you blushing, eh?" Momo said. Eiji turned the other way too and pulled out his pouting lip, "We aren't lying to you Momo!" Eiji insisted, though his face told otherwise.
"Ok, ok" Momo said pretending to give in. "Just tell me, ... why are you blushing if it wasn't a girl then," Momo smirked.
The three were left speechless. Their minds went blank, they didn't what to say. They were 100% sure that they were not gay, but why did this guy make them feel like this?
'I'm not gay! I'm not! He's just girly and cute!' Eiji screamed at himself.
Meanwhile in Oishi's mind, "AAAAHHHH! What should I tell Momo? And I absolutely can't tell him about Kaname-kun! Oishi calm down, you just need to tell them something else, like a girl classmate or something,' he told himself. 'But Oishi you can't lie to them, they're your friends ... But it's only a white lie, they'll understand. But!' Oishi was mentally beating himself up.
Poor, Poor Taka, even the thought of telling Momo and the others about Kaname (sakuno) sent chills up and down his back. He was almost at the point where his eyes would roll up and unconsciously fall down. The only thing that was hold him up was his tensed muscles from all the tension he was receiving from Momo.
"Ano ... you know" Eiji stalled as he startched the back of his head. Momo raised an eyebrow.
"I know what?" Momo said, playing innocent.
"Uhhh!" Eiji's eyes wandered off to where Sakuno was standing.
"AHHHHH!" Eiji screamed, 'Why is he here, right now?! Ahhhh! What to do? what to do?!' he frantically thought. "Ka-chan!" he yelled, unconsciously.
After hearing Eiji scream and call Kaname, everyone turned around to where Sakuno was standing (even Ryoma), not to far away. There was Sakuno, just the way we left her in her disguise. She was talking with Tomoka, and Fuji. She was smiling and laughing.
Almost everyone's mouths dropped, 'Why is he here?' they all thought as they stared at her.
Thanks for reading! Sorry an cliff hanger! ... But I hope you liked this chapter! Please remember to Review! (they really do help!) until next time. :)
- Mika Zaraki
