" It's nice to meet you, Neighbor-Seaweed- San."
Don't call me that!
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The next day
Third person POV
" Echizen-san!"
" Echizen!"
" Echizen Ryomi!" Ryomi looked up sleepily from her desk. She had just been taking a nice nap. In English Class. Again.
She rubbed her eyes and stood up. The class was giggling and staring at her. It seemed that this had turned into a regular comedy routine.
Her teacher looked like he was about to explode.
" Echizen-san! Even if you understand the content, does NOT mean that you can sleep in my class!" An angry vein was pulsing on his forehead. The class muffled their giggles.
" ~Hai~." Ryomi replied. And passed out onto her desk as soon as she finished. Steam was coming out of the teacher's ear now.
" ECHIZEN!"
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Third peron POV
Lunch break
" You're going to make up all your time that you spent sleeping in my class during you lunch breaks from now on. Understand?" Numerous tick marks and veins popped out when he saw that his previous lecture and fell on deaf ears. The two were in an empty classroom in the middle of lunch break.
Ryomi lay on the desk inchibi form dreaming happily about tennis and ponta.
" Oi! " Ryomi jumped up.
" You will be assisting a student from another class that is having a bit of er... trouble with English. Got it?" Ryomi nodded.
" Ok. You can come in now. "
Kirihara Akaya entered the empty classroom.
" So where's this supposed tutor?" He yawned.
" Humph. As expected, Neighbor-Seaweed-san is bad at English." Ryomi smirked.
" YOU! I thought I told you not to call me that!"
The English teacher was surprised. " I see that you two are already Acquainted. Then the introductions won't be necessary."
" Right. Sempai here is my new neighbor." He nodded in understanding. " Then I'll leave you two at it."
The teacher left the room.
Ryomi turned to stare at Akaya.
Akaya started to sweat. He was working on the worksheet that he was supposed to finish in class. Her gaze was really unnerving...
Akaya tried to ignore the gaze on the back of neck. The hairs on his arm prickled. His hair stood on head stood on end."
" Geez! If you have something to say , just say it!" Skaya shouted as he stood up sudddenly stood up and slamed his hands on the desk.
Ryomi seemed surprised. " Whatever do you mean, Seaweed-Sempa? I didn't say a single thing." Akaya could have sworn that he had seen an imaginary pair of angel wings and halo pop out and hover above her head.
" You know! Call me by my real name! With honorifics! " Ryomi blinked.
" But, you see Seaweed-sempai, the problem is that you never introduced yourself-so I had no choice but to reefer to you with a nickname thta reflected you appearance as to make it distinguishable. "
Akaya froze. Now that he thought about it... did he ever introduce himself? He blushed.
" Well, in any case, I'm the junior ace of Rikkadai, Akaya Kirihara! Remember it shrimp! " Akaya rubbed his nose in satsifaction apperently rebounding from his depression quickly.
An angry vein pulsed on ryomi's head. " ... shrimp you say..." an evil black aura started appearing from Ryomi.
Akaya started sweating. 'I don't have a good feeling about this...'
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Rikkadai tennis courts
Everyone was running laps around the courts when Akaya arrived.
'darn! I wonder if I could somehow sneak onto the court...' Akaya started tiptoeing with exaggerated movements behind the changeroom when-
"~Kirihara-kun~ Would you like to tell me why you were late to practice today?" Akaya started sweating at the the danerous tone in the voice.
He turned around. YUkimura was smiling.
" I-I was getting help with my english. Sensei made me." Akaya waited fearfully for his reaction.
" Soka. Is that so?" The black aura receded and Yukimura was as "angelic" as ever. " Well, how did it go?" It was a common fact that as a student, their first priority was supposed to be school, thus Rikkaidai had formed a requirement that all students that participated on a school team had to have, at least a 50% average in every subject. In all fairness none of the tennis regulars actually needed it, seeing as all of them were serious students...
Or at least almost all of them. Akaya Kirihara was a sad exception.
" I got 53 marks!" Akaya remarked proudly. Yukimura smiled. That's good. Who was you tutor?" Yukimura and the tennis regulars had always been continuosly tryng to help tutor Akaya but none had ever managed to have him produce a score so high...
" Ah! It was that girl from the atch the other day! The girl you invited?"
" I see. Now hurry up and join them now Akaya." Yukimura shooed Akaya over to the courts.
'There she is again. Echizen Ryomi... You seem to be everywhere, don't you?'
