Chapter 43: Kurumu Kurono #1 – (Back to One-shots!)

"Excuse me! Can you help me with something, senpai?"

Hachiman Hikigaya looked at the woman. She had shoulder-length light ocean blue hair that was tied in a ponytail with a purple maid headband that had one gold star on the left side. She had thick long black eyelashes and purple eyes and despite her short stature which he guessed was around the ball park of five feet, she had rather large breasts.

Hachiman didn't think twice about helping her. No wait, somehow that paints him in a horrible light. It's not like he was helping her because she had huge breasts. No, not at all. It was because he was a respectable senpai who cared for his kohai on campus. Yes, that was the reason, nothing else, of course not.

"What's your name?"

The kohai looked at him and bit her lips. She looked worried for some reason. "My name is Kurumu Kurono. I would bow, but I'm afraid I can't do that at the moment."

"Ah," Hachiman looked at her breasts. "Trouble with your back?"

Kurumu Kurono blushed red. "Of course not! What gave you that idea? Do I look like an old woman to you, senpai?"

He tried to calm her down. "No of course not. You look quite young and short. I mean young, just young. I mean, not that young. You are clearly a university student. Dammit! What's happening to me?" He mumbled. "It's like I'm back in high school having trouble talking to women. I thought I went through that shit and left it all behind."

Kurumu Kurono gave a secretive smirk. Her eyes twinkled. But she acted coy. "You see senpai I have had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction. You know what that means don't you?"

"Of course I do. It's when women show their -" Hachiman floundered around for a proper word, something subtle and polite, but the only thing that came to his mind were euphemisms and innuendos. What the hell was happening to him, he thought worried.

Unwittingly, he used with his hands to mimic the size of big breasts. He noticed that his kohai didn't shout at his crude behaviour or shy away from him. In fact, she looked a bit proud and smug about something. Wait a minute, was she thinking he was talking about her breasts in particular.

He wasn't, but there might have been a Freudian slip.

"Show our what?" Kurumu Kurono asked.

"…Lady bits." Hachiman said lamely.

"I believe that is what we call flashing someone." Kurumu Kurono explained. "You know when you get out of the bath, wrapped in nothing but a fluffy towel and then before the person you have waiting in your bed, you let it all fall and show everything."

Hachiman Hikigaya tried not to feel embarrassed. "Well, I wouldn't know anything about that."

"Of course not. If you came out of the bath, dressed in nothing but a towel and then before some pretty woman you exposed yourself, you would be lucky if you are left breathing with several whacks to the head. Worst case scenario, you are arrested for sexual assault. I know it's a bit of a double standard, but it's the way the world is. Think about it, if I exposed my breasts or showed you my panties, what would you do?"

"I…" He had no idea how the conversation had devolved into this. "I would think it was some kind of sting operation and I would turn around and run for my life."

"You're so funny, senpai." Kurumu Kurono lightly giggled. "She never told me, you had a sense of humour."

Hachiman Hikigaya picked up on it rather quick. "Whose she?"

"Oops! I said something important. Don't worry about it. It's nothing. Just some silly talk. You know how I am." Kurumu Kurono tried to play dumb.

"Actually I don't know who you are." Hachiman said. "This is the first time we talked."

"But you have heard about me, right?" Kurumu Kurono asked.

Hachiman cocked his head to the side. "No, not particularly."

"Oh, well then." Kurumu Kurono looked at him pitifully. "I guess, since you haven't heard about me, I guess it would be too much to ask to borrow a bra."

Hachiman blinked. "Excuse me!?"

Kurumu Kurono went on, unperturbed. "This always happens to me. The bra hooks snaps in the middle of the day and I'm left without any kind of support. I have to walk around, braless. I can't ask my friends, I can't ask my roommates. They always say I wreck their underwear, like that is even possible. How can bra and panties be wrecked, you tell me. Besides, it's not my fault, I have such amazing tits. I mean look at them – huh? Where did you go? Senpai!?"

Hachiman had run for his life in the middle of her rant. He couldn't handle another woman who went on and on about her breasts. He had enough of that while hanging around with Miura. Maybe now he should visit Rio Futaba for some kind of rehabilitation. Yeah, that should do the trick. He should definitely do that for now.

Meanwhile, upwards, at a vantage point, Akeno Himejima smiled.

"Well done, Kurono-san." Himejima-san said with a smile. "You taught my precious kohai a well deserved lesson. Now he should know how to treat the likes of me better in the future."

A/N: This is a short chapter to announce that the one-shot style of chapters is back. The TWGOK arc is pushed back for now. It didn't get much views, visitors, lost follows and favourites and got less reviews. So clearly something was wrong with my writing or approach. I will think about it later.

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