Fight for Love!

10th Fight: Back to Taekwondo Club

I knew that it would feel really awkward. True enough, it was indeed extremely awkward for the two of us to be standing here among the crowd of noisy fan girls. Wait, maybe this only applied for me. The one and only me...

By the way, why was I in the gymnasium? Could someone mind telling me again?

"Because you are the spy," Nobara whispered into my ear as she was busying pressing her camera shuttle without bothering to see what she was taking. "And your job here is to watch Tsubasa-senpai with your sharp eyes. That is your project from Shizune-chan."

I shifted my gaze from the boys who were doing warm-ups to Nobara whose face was entirely facing me but her left index finger was pressing the shuttle as if it was programmed to do so. I doubted that she knew what kind of photographs she was taking.

"Nobara-senpai, you are taking Ruka-senpai's butt," I whispered back to her.

"Oops! Did I?" she gasped and looked at her camera. "Oh no! Misaki-chan and Shizune-chan will kill me! This picture will pollute her innocent mind."

"Go and delete it."

"But you want it, right? I can call Misaki-chan to laminate the photo for you so you can hang on your bedroom wall and see it everyday," Nobara teased with a blush.

I could feel my face burning up and quickly retorted loudly, "Like I would want to see his butt everyday!"

After saying that aloud, I began to feel many stares directing towards me. Those glares from the fan girls, startled gazes from the Taekwondo Club members and those surprisingly wide eyes from Luna's gang were staring up to me. I shuddered at the sight of it.

Nobara continued to press the shuttle and the light from the camera kept flashing throughout the gymnasium. Before that, I was pretty sure that Nobara did not activate the flash light of the camera because we wanted to keep our profile low in order for me to spy smoothly.

I guessed she had just purposely switched it on. What an embarrassment.

"Mikan! Is that you?" I heard Hotaru's voice echoed in the gymnasium.

I slowly turned to look at Hotaru with sweat rolling down my forehead. She was holding onto a water bottle and her face was in a total shock. That was my first time seeing her with that look.

"I... I thought you've quit this club. Why are you here?" Hotaru asked. "And what's with the butt thing?"

"I... I am... I..."

I was in a loss of words as my mind was in a mess, or should I say blank? I could not possibly say that I was spying on Tsubasa, right? That would make me sound like some stalker.

"Mikan-chan and I have become fan girls of Tsubasa-senpai. We love him a lot!" Nobara interjected with the cutest smile and the rosiest blush I had ever seen, and then she giggled sheepishly.

"Ye... Yeah!" I agreed absent-mindedly. "Tsubasa-senpai is the coolest Black Belt I have ever seen!"

Then, I pretended to giggle along with Nobara.

For the sake of Special Club, I was willing to put my status as a normal high school girl at stake.

"So... what about the butt thing?" Hotaru questioned suspiciously as her eyes trailed to Tsubasa who was looking practically stunned at me. "Don't tell me you two took a picture of Tsubasa's butt. Perverts!"

"N... No... You're wrong... We..." I stammered panicky and saw Tsubasa's face turned extremely white.

Everything sounded so wrong. Those fan girls of Tsubasa were glaring at me as if they could use their eyes to slaughter me. And what was wrong with Nobara? She was still busying pressing the shuttle like nobody's business.

Standing behind Tsubasa was Natsume and Ruka. Just by looking at Ruka's intrigued face, guilt overwhelmed me. I knew I should not feel this way because that butt shot was not taken by me. Maybe because I sub-consciously wanted it.

Yeah, me and my perverted self which could be influenced by Natsume and Special Club.

As for Natsume, he was looking away from my direction. I had not seen him for quite some time, since the day when he had apologised to me. That was not like him at all. His behaviour was totally out of character. I wondered Ruka had already told him about my resignation. Maybe he had found out by himself. I wondered what his reaction was.

Wait, what was I thinking? He had treated me so badly and even taunted me whenever we met. I bet he would not care if I quitted or not. If he did, then that guy was definitely not Natsume Hyuuga.

"You mean the butt thing?" Nobara suddenly stopped pressing the shuttle and asked Hotaru. "I was just teasing her about..."

I gasped in horror and interrupted her, "Stop! Don't say it!"

"... About Narumi-sensei's butt."

There was absolute silence.

"Because my senpai has a picture of him wearing a tutu and when she took a picture of him doing a swirl, she accidentally took a snapshot of his backside. Haha!" Nobara giggled again and turned off the camera. "Mikan-chan, let's go!"

She grabbed hold of my hand and we jostled our way out of the crowd of relief fan girls. As we headed towards the exit of the gymnasium, I turned to look at Hotaru who was still giving me that suspicious look. I grinned sheepishly at her. Returning my gaze to the front, I ran out of the gymnasium and both of us went to the garden to take a breather.

"Phew! That was close!" Nobara heaved a sigh of relief and sat on a bench. "I can picture Shizune-chan's face glaring at me if she found out that we were exposed."

"You should have deleted that picture. It's very... obscene," I panted.

"It's not like he is naked or something. It's a zoomed in picture of his clothed butt," she laughed and punched my arm playfully.

"Just delete it already," I murmured tiredly.

"Fine. Fine."

She deleted that photo and smiled at me.

"So there! It's deleted," she said and kept her camera. "Oh yeah, how's your observation of Tsubasa-senpai?"

"Nothing. We ran out a bit too early because of that stupid photo. Maybe we should continue spying the next time," I suggested.

Nobara shook her head and said, "I think you should do the spying job all by yourself from now on. Today, I was just guiding you because it was your first time doing this."

"But you didn't even guide me."

"I did. Just use a camera and snap whatever photos of whomever he or she is and record down his or her moves. It's very simple."

"I don't think so..."

"Mikan-chan, I think we should it a day. After all, I have managed to take quite a few photos of the boys," Nobara giggled again and stood up. "See you tomorrow!"

"B... Bye," I said as we waved to each other and parted.

I walked back to my classroom to pick up my bag and just as I was about to enter the classroom, I saw a group of boys and girls gathering around Narumi at the front of the classroom. Everyone was bombarding him with many different questions at the same time and I could not listen to any of them. It was too noisy and messy.

Suddenly, a person shouted amidst the noise, "Narumi-sensei, is that true that you have worn a tutu before?"

"Eh?" Narumi gasped and cupped his cheeks exaggeratedly. "Who told you this?"

I could not believe this. Could news really spread that fast? I quickly rushed to my seat and grabbed my bag. Before I could even escape from this classroom, someone called out my name.

"It's Yukihira-san and her friend!"

My eyes widened in shock and without even looking at those people who were already obviously pointing at me, I paced out of the hellish place.

"Mikan-chan, care to explain it to me?" Narumi's voice was so close and was as clear as...

Wait, I thought I was already out of that classroom. There was no way Narumi could catch up with me and I swore that I had walked pretty fast! I turned my head around and almost immediately, I wished I had not done so. He was skipping towards me like a little child and he even had a grin on his face.

"Mikan-chan!" he called out gleefully and he opened his arms wildly as he came towards my direction. "Wait up!"

I was scared-stiffed. I felt like vomiting in front of him. All of a sudden, he stopped abruptly about a few inches away from me and placed his hand on my shoulder.

I shuddered.

"Mikan-chan," his usual cheery voice was replaced with a scary tone. "What's with the rumours about me wearing a tutu and my butt?"

I stammered, "I... I don't know. Ask Nobara-senpai. Sh... She was the one who said it. N... Not me! I'm not lying!"

"Hmm?"

"It's true!"

Narumi seemed to be in deep thought and suddenly broke into laughter. I was even more frightened when he did that. If he laughed on purpose, then I did not see why he had to. It was freaky.

"Tutu... I did wear it before. That oba-san told me to wear it," he laughed even louder and his arms wrapped around his stomach.

"Oba-san?"

He tried to control his laughter but failed, "Yeah. Haha! It's Serina Yamada-san. But that was last year."

I still did not see the 'funny thing' about wearing a tutu. Maybe it was funny but not to a guy, I thought so.

"Seriously, it was not me who said it. It was Nobara-senpai," I sighed.

Luckily, he removed his hand from my shoulder and stopped laughing. Looking around me, I realised there were many stares from the students along the corridor and classrooms. One thing I must comment about Narumi. He was a 'thick-skinned' person.

"I guess I can trust you," his usual cheery voice was back. "Shizune-chan had once told me that bad liars like you will never succeed to..."

"Narumi-sensei, thanks," I interjected sarcastically and took a step back. "I need to rush home now. Goodbye!"

I hid my beloved face and ran out of the school building. I knew it. The members of Special Club must be saying something behind my back. What was up with me being a bad liar? Since when I became a 'bad liar'?

"Hey, flat-chested boxer."

Upon hearing that familiar voice, I looked up. Standing before me was Natsume with a small towel wrapped around his neck and a small bottle in his hand. I guessed Taekwondo Club was having a short break.

"Hi Natsume-senpai! Fancy meeting you here," I greeted with a fake smile.

Yeah, fancy meeting him at the back of the school building where not many people would pass by. I should have taken another way out of the school building. All thanks to Narumi that I had to meet this guy here coincidentally.

Both of us stared at each other for a few second without saying anything. His crimson eyes were as if searching something in mine. Was there something in my eyes?

"I... I need to go now," I muttered uncomfortably and waved.

"You didn't tell me a thing about quitting the club."

"Eh?"

"But you told Ruka instead."

So he already knew it. Ruka must have told him. And what was wrong about me telling Ruka instead?

"For a moment, I thought you have returned to the club just now."

When he said that, his face softened for a short while, unlike the usual arrogant and cheeky face I had always seen. Furthermore, whatever he had just said seemed to be so sincere and had a hint of remorse in his tone but it was so unlike him at all.

The Natsume Hyuuga I knew was not like that at all.

"And I didn't know you like Narumi's butt," he suddenly snorted loudly and crossed his arms. "And since when you like that tattoo guy too? Fan girl of him, eh? Hmm?"

His face drew closer to mine and I swallowed. His eyes were glaring immensely at me and his lips formed into a straight line. I took a step back with my arms crossing each other in front of me. I was not going to fall for his whatever trickery or perverseness he had in his mind.

"Go away, pervert!" I hissed at him.

"Says the one who likes butts," he mocked and flicked my forehead before I could even react.

"I don't!"

"Oh yes, you do. Perverted woman."

"Aren't you the one whom you should be saying it to yourself?" I retorted angrily.

"Me? I'm perfectly normal, not like some flat-chested boxer."

Ah, that was the annoying Natsume Hyuuga I knew.

"By the way, is Ruka the one who told you about my resignation?" I queried.

"Nope. He didn't tell me anything, except for the gay part," he smirked. "You said that I'm a gay, right? And you don't think a gay will have any kind of romantic intentions to you, right? Furthermore, you don't mind if he tried to harass you, right? After all, he is a gay who has no intention to rape your precious body and steal your heart."

"Yeah? So what?" I snorted. "It is not like you are not a gay."

Just then, he pulled my arms towards him and our noses were barely touching each other. My face was burning hot because I had never been so close to a boy like this before. His eyes were indeed staring into mine and our chests were pressing against each other. I could feel the fast rhythm of his heartbeat and the heaviness of his breathing.

My heart was thumping rapidly against my chest. Could he feel it too?

What the hell was I saying?

Stupid me.

Suddenly, his low and husky voice interrupted my train of thoughts, "What if I say I'm not a gay and had that kind of intentions to you?"

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