Chapter 11.
"Ino-an-"
Kahoko felt a hand touching her arm very lightly.
She stared at the hand, unconcerned.
"Hino-san?" a soft voice spoke into her face.
She focused as well as she could.
Kahoko trailed with her eyes upwards towards the head of the person in front of her.
She flinched away, slamming herself into the front door.
"Gahh!" she uttered as Yunoki stood before her, his expression a question mark.
Kahoko's whole self stood flushing and stammering, staring bewildered at her handsome senpai.
However, within herself she was glaring uncontrollably at the two-faced, fake guy whose appearance was fooling everyone, even now, but her.
Yunoki-senpai … you would be smiling wickedly at me if we were alone.
ALONE!
"GAHH!" Kahoko exclaimed as she managed to snap out of her horrible thinking.
"Hino-san?" Yunoki asked with a 'concerned' look upon his handsome face.
"Eh ya-ya wah … eh heh heh n-nothing, Yunoki-se-senpai." Kahoko stammered, politely trying to shove him away from her as he was still rather close.
It was uncomfortable, somehow … it always was.
Why?
"MARGH!" Kahoko exclaimed trying in vain to flinch away from herself.
Her thoughts were too troublesome, too bothersome, everything she would like to avoid.
And yet they came to her calmly and swayed themselves around herself and her fellow schoolmates, making a mess of everyone.
Well, technically her thoughts wasn't actually causing trouble to any of the others around her, it was Kahoko herself who was being troubled by each of their personalities.
Everyone within this small group of students were making her feel oddly and ridiculously self-conscious.
Amou's camera flashed bright light at Kahoko once again.
A wicked 'oh ho ho' escaped Amou's gritted teeth.
Kahoko was too annoyed at her to snap back at the flashing lights.
"Amou-san ..." Kahoko muttered and hung low her head.
It was slightly getting dizzily uncomfortable, however, she was determined to not faint: that would be pathetic!
Kahoko looked up at the still surrounding people, they didn't seem to notice her as she felt her head become blurry and slightly hurting.
She spotted Osaki and started muttering something along 'somewhere to get water?' and then she leaned her back up against the front door, sliding down to a sitting position on the floor.
Her hands were curled into fists, each pressing hard against her temples.
"Hino-san!" Kaji's exclaimed in a high concerned musical voice.
She felt a hand upon her forehead.
Tsuchiura's.
"What's the matter Kaho-chan?" Amou asked, stopping her crazed photographing.
Kahoko didn't answer, her teeth gritted, her lips pressed tightly together as to not risk making any pathetic noises.
Her tongue pressed up against her teeth.
Her throat hurt yet not really … huh?
It was her head that felt like a hazy, fast-spinning merry-go-round.
She felt feverish.
The warmth felt like burning from her skin.
She gasped loudly, regretting it as she closed her lips tightly together out of mere embarrassment.
"She's burning up." Tsuchiura's deep, sweet sounding voice spoke just before her very face.
"Hino-san, is something hurting?" Osaki asked placing both of his slender hands upon her shoulders.
"Hino ..." Tskukimori muttered somewhat troubled by seeing her like this; sitting all curled together before everyone's eyes.
"You're right , she is -kun, please take Tsuchiura-kun with you and get Hino-san get some cold water in her face."
"I'll come as well" Amou insisted, thinking that she couldn't possibly have a girl, one of her friends, be taken to a room in an unfamiliar house, by two guys, without Kahoko even knowing so fully herself.
Tsuchiura nodded without any complaints and grasped Kahoko's arm, intending to seize her up into his arms but Kahoko wasn't letting him.
Even if it made her look silly she tried forcing all of her weight down into her legs, making it impossible for him to lift her from the ground.
"Hino, don't be silly." he complained at her, obviously lousy attempt of stopping him from doing as planned.
"I won't let you!" Kahoko angrily hissed at him as her head was still feeling as if it was on fire, her temples aching beyond anything she'd ever felt before.
"Too bad, you don't have much of a choice." Tsuchiura said in an aggressive tone, his touch still gentle.
He swung her legs up with his other hand and followed Etou who stood smirking at Kahoko's maidenly declines, as he led the way up the stairs.
Amou walked beside Tsuchiura, watching Kahoko folding her hands across her face, either out of pain or embarrassment.
Kahoko's entire body was burning, and not just out of feverish reasons.
Tsuchiura gazed down at her secretly whenever Amou wasn't looking, no reason to give her any reasons for seeking him out later on this trip, which was to last for, how long?
Through his shirt he could feel the feverish warmth boiling from Kahoko's body.
"She's seriously burning." Tsuchiura said with a pale face.
Etou, silently, led them through elegant light hallways, flowers everywhere, and opened the door to a beautiful light bathroom.
In one side of the rather large room, stood a large bathtub.
Tsuchiura stared at it the moment he went inside the room and muttered; "Guess there's no helping it."
He walked straight past Etou who gladly seemed to let him through, with Amou following him inside the room, and placed the burning, gasping Kahoko in the tub.
"Wha-" Kahoko muttered weakly, her hands still curled lightly around her face, her eyes peeking out through her fingers at the serious looking Tsuchiura who stood bend over her.
Tsuchiura's large gentle hand was placed firmly yet carefully in the back of Kahoko's neck and she gasped weakly, in surprise.
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