Ch. 9~ "What in the World Happened to You?"
Summary: Okay, in the last chapter Kazuma and Ayano went out to supposedly do some errands for Jugo, which didn't go as planned. What happened instead was that Ayano and Kazuma ended up sharing an adorable moment together and Kazuma has now fully confessed that he cares for Ayano as much as he did for Tsui-ling, though he did not confess that he loved her. (sorry guys .) Now it is about a week later. Ayano hasn't seen Kazuma in a long time but, has heard that he may be visiting later that day.
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[In the meeting room…]
Where the hell is Kazuma? Ayano thought as she eyed the clock above her father's head.
"Ayano, stop staring into space you look like an air-head, please look dignified." Jugo criticized as he took a sip of tea.
"Whatever…" Ayano muttered under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing father!" Ayano quickly stated.
Right after Ayano finished her sentence, two maids rushed in.
"Prepare an arm rest!" One of the maids said.
"Hold on, I'll go fetch some extra pillows!" The other maid suggested.
"Wha-what's going on?" Ayano asked with a very questioned look on her face.
"Oh, Kazuma Sama has arrived!" Said the worried maid.
Ayano blushed, He's here! He's really here!... wait a sec… I shouldn't be happy! He didn't reply to my texts or calls for a week, that inconsiderate bas…tard… As Ayano finished that thought, Kazuma walked in, with a cast on his right arm!
"Yo." Kazuma said as he sat down on his overly prepared seat. He had a little help putting his cast on the arm rest, but all in all, he was fine.
"Yo?, what do you mean yo? What in the world happened to you?" Ayano commanded as she thwarted a finger towards the said inconsiderate jerk.
"Hmm… what ever do you mean? Ayano?" said Kazuma sarcastically with a smirk across his face.
This really peeved Ayano off. Ayano then got up and walked towards Kazuma, she squatted down on one knee and got a hold of Kazuma's collar in her fists. "Look here you jerk, either you tell me what happened to you or I'll… or I'll…"
"Or you'll what? Set Enraiha on me? Like that's worked before…" Kazuma then yawned and put a hand on Ayano's waist.
Jugo lifted an eye brow, ooh, this is getting interesting… Jugo thought as he took another sip of tea.
Ayano swatted away Kazuma's hand. "Eww, don't touch me there you perv!"
"You didn't swat my hand back then when I touched you last we-"
"SHUT UP!" Ayano screamed as she pulled away, out of Kazuma's reach.
"You inconsiderate, idiotic, perverted, jer-"
"Yo, Ren" Kazuma said as he lifted up his left hand and waved hello.
"Oh… hehehe, hi Ren!" Ayano said, embarrassed by the foul words that came from out of her mouth.
"Ehehe, hi Nee San, hi Nii…" Ren stopped as his eyes fell upon the cast around Kazuma's broken arm.
"Nii San! Nii San! What happened to you, please tell me!" Ren said as he ran off to Kazuma and grasped Kazuma's broken arm in his hands.
"Tch! Ahh… gently Ren…" Kazuma said as he flinched from the pain.
"Oh! –puts down broken arm- gomen ne, Nii San…" Ren said as he looked down at his knees, a tear streamed down his left cheek.
"Oh, don't cry Ren –pats Ren's head- I'm fine… I just kind of… you know broke my arm?" Kazuma said as he smiled down at Ren.
"Nii San, stop joking! What happened, how did you break it!" Ren said his head in Kazuma's lap.
"Okay, I'll tell you…" Kazuma reassured Ren.
"Oh… so your going to tell Ren all nicely when you didn't even say anything about your arm to me?" Ayano protested.
"At least Ren asked like a sympathetic human and not like a hormonal beast." Kazuma replied as a smirk spread across his face.
"-sigh- Fine…"
"Anything else… like… a certain two words perhaps?"
Ayano bit her lip, calm down Ayano, just say –gulp- it… even if he doesn't deserve it, you are a dignified human with feelings too! "-sigh- Kazuma… I really don't want to say this but… I'm…"
"Your what?"
"I'm… tired… I'm going to go take a nap so-"
"Say it Ayano, he is our guest for today." Jugo insisted.
"Fine… Kazuma… I'm sorry…" Ayano muttered.
"What? I'm sorry princess I can't hear you."
"I… I am very very sorry Mr. Yagami, Kazuma."
"Thank you Ayano, but I won't be accepting your apology just yet."
"Waah?" Ayano said as questioned look spread across her face.
"If it's fine with Jugo, I would like you to nurse me around tomorrow… you know, be my personal maid." Kazuma said with a smirk.
"No! No! No! Otou San! Please… say no!"
Jugo looked up and stamped a piece of paper. "Approved, Ayano has consent to come by your place tomorrow." Jugo said with a smile.
"But, but, but… Otou San!" Ayano whined.
"No buts, it's the least you can do for all the things he's done for this family." Jugo stated.
"Ugh… fine…"
"Now that that's settled, Kazuma?"
"Yes Jugo."
"Would you mind telling us what happened to your arm."
"Oh, right…" Kazuma then proceeded to explain.
"Well I was out of town and I was doing some business with Kirika, helping her with some youma in a near by village. The youma was disturbing the village by stomping into town and stealing the villagers' supplies and produce to, i guess feed itself. So Kirika asked me to move it somewhere far away, since it was quite vulnerable looking and it didn't look like it would put up a fight. So on the day I was supposed to move the youma, I was out in the mountains, you know clearing some space to place the damned thing in, when a tree fell and it was right behind me. So I sent a blade of wind flying, but all it did was cut the tree in half… so the bottom half of the tree ended up falling on top of me. But hey, at least I got out of it alive with only a broken arm. How lucky am I?" Kazuma said as he looked up with a smile.
"Oh, that's too bad Nii San! You should be more careful!" Ren protested.
"Yea! You could've gotten killed and then I wouldn't be able to tell you that I… never mind."
"Oh… Ayano, what were you going to say?" Kazuma insisted.
"I said nothing…"
"Hmm… that's not what I heard… c'mon say it."
"No."
'Say it."
"No."
"Say it."
"I said nothing alright!, gosh why do you have to be the only one that's so irritating!" Ayano said with a shrill as she got up and proceeded to leave the room, but before she left Kazuma said this.
"See you tomorrow! Ayano." Kazuma smirked.
"Yea, yea…" Ayano retorted as she stomped off.
Ugh… that… there are just no words… he's just a… perverted jerk, yea! I still can't believe I have to spend the whole entire day with him –gulp- alone… in… his room… Ayano started steaming up, even though she was denying the fact, she knows that she wants to be alone with Kazuma.
Done! Sorry for that long delay, I'm kinda working on my Shugo Chara Fanfict at the moment but no biggie, anywayz… I hope you guys liked this chapter! It's not that good, but I hoped you guys liked it :)
Well time to tell you the next chapter, Chapter 10. "Alone, with him, in his Room!" Ja, matte ne (see you later!)
