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Warnings: OOC-ness, typos, grammar error, AU
Chapter 6
She told herself that she shouldn't have kept this secret any longer. Yet, she didn't know when, or how would she wants to tell this secret to a whole students and teachers of Hakuou Academy. She wasn't sure who's the right person that she could tell of her real identity, actually. Despite she's really good friends with Saitou, Yamazaki, Okita, and Ibuki, yet she doubted herself that they wouldn't believed her if she revealed her secret then. Telling them of her true secret might have changed everything already… right?
However, the person that she definitely wouldn't want to tell is none other than the Oni President. He is, after all, the President of Student Council. And his job is to make sure the Hakuou Academy has a good population. Once she told him about the truth, what he's gonna do then? The only thing that's been in her mind is expel her of course. Chizuru is a girl. The Hakuou Academy has been decided to be for an-all boys high school. Kazama might have expelled her without hesitated already, as long as she's a girl..
Chizuru also couldn't helped but to feel about if Kazama would find out of her true gender after then. After all, he has always taken liking of Taiki much more than Chizuru. Once he finds out the truth, would he ended heartbroken that all this time..? Just thinking how heartbroken the President is, it's just makes her sadden even more..
One day, class is almost starting, as usual, so Chizuru took some stuff that she needed to bring it for the Classic Literature subject, making sure not to encounter the President or she'll definitely going to have a punishment by that strict and grumpy teacher already..
"Yo Taiki!"
Chizuru turned around and met three of her classmates, though she hardly remembered their names much, and rarely spent times together too. The only classmate that she able to close with is Ibuki only. Despite he sometimes had a bad mouth, yet he's really kind actually.
"Um… yes?" Chizuru said nervously, tried to be polite even if they'll end up treating her in rude way.
"Can we talk with you for a moment?" Student 1 said, used a very gentle tone so that he won't scared the boy away.
"What is it?"
"Can you come with us for a moment?," without hearing Taiki's answered, the three students left to the hallway, as they were intending to take the boy someplace quiet and lonely.
The brunette thought hesitantly, having a bad feeling followed with her classmates. Running away from them is one of the worst option she could ever do, so Chizuru had no choice but to follow them in the end.
Once they arrived at the back of school, the other students were already in the middle of class, so it's only Chizuru and her 3 classmates left that haven't came to the class yet.
"Um… is there anything I can help you?" she murmured, as the brunette realized that they have been stared at her in suspiciously(more suspicious than everyone thinks she and Okita were dating). She could felt herself sweating in both panic and nervous already. Chizuru definitely had a very bad feeling about those three..
"Taiki, we've been meaning to ask this ever since school holidays started." Student 2 said.
"Yes…?"
"We've heard from your brother that you couldn't able to go to the swimming pool, right?"
Chizuru nodded, didn't know what to answer anymore.
"When the three of us gone to the swimming pool, we saw Kaichou-sama with another girl." Student 2 spoke again.
Chizuru couldn't help herself but to widen her eyes already. She didn't knew these boys would ended up the one that knows her secret instead of her friends that she has been closed for. Her heart starting to beat in swift, as if it's going to get explode inside her body already.
"That girl looks really a lot like you and we were wondering if there's any connection between you two."
Lying would be furtile. Chizuru is obviously wasn't good much in lie as she was once lied to the President and it ended up awkward between those two. What if her classmates? She doubt that things would turn out good..
This is bad… this is really bad..! How can she tell them about this..?! What's going to happen if they find out that the girl that's been with Kazama was really her? Will she be able to go to Hakuou Academy then? Will she able to continue to study here? Somehow she couldn't help but to feel sad. Sad for not going to study here even if it's full of boys.
Every time she closed her eyes, not knowing what she wanted to say to them anymore, her mind was nothing but filled of none other than the certain President and her memory along with him. She wasn't sure why her mind was full of him. Was it she wants him? Was it she wants him to be the first one that knows that she's been a girl for a whole time? Was it she wants to rely on him once again?
The moment she opened her eyes instantly, Chizuru finally make a moved by running away from those three, knew what she's going to do after this, whether it's too late or not, whether he'll expel her once he finds out, but she really wants Kazama to know that she's not a boy all this time.
She wants to be honest to him…!
She wants him to know that she's a girl..!
Even if it ended up make him heartbroken...
"Wait, you bastard!" one of her classmate then tried to stop her by reaching out his hand to her hair, able to hold it, and tried to pull it even if it's going to feel pain.
"Ahhh…!" Chizuru exclaimed, not because she was in pain when her classmate pulled her hair away, but her wig suddenly took off, and it revealed her true identity.
The three classmates gaped like a fish, stunned of what they saw in front of them with their own eyes already.
"What the..?! Taiki really is a girl?!" Student 3 exclaimed in surprised. "But how the hell did she ended up into a high school for boys?!"
Chizuru gave a hard look on her face, gripping her fist tightly as she could felt a bead of red liquid starting to fall down on her palm of hand when she dug her fingers into her skin deeper, and went backward slowly.
Their shocked and angry expression suddenly turned into an unknown one in which she can't tell what kind of expression they used, but at the same time, she also had a bad feeling what's going to happen to her after this.
"This Taiki.. is he really a girl for real..?" Student 1 said, still couldn't believed of what he sees right now.
For a moment then, the Student 3 gave a playful grin that she could felt shivered in fear already. It was more creeps than Kazama's nor Okita's. "I don't know if Taiki is a girl or a boy.. but, might as well if we take a closer look."
The other classmates of her then agreed to what the Student 3's just said now, coming closer to the brunette slowly, gave a same grin as Student 3's as well.
Chizuru then walked backward once more, as she realized she has no place to run anymore the moment she could felt she leaned against on the wall already. The brunette closed her eyes shut once again, knowing what's going to happen to her after this, and biting her lower lips hardly, couldn't do anything except feeling regretful for not telling them of her real secret..
Feeling regretful despite how her friends believed her so much, and yet, she didn't being honest to them in the end.
Of all the person that she felt regretful for not telling of her real gender is none other than Kazama Chikage. The President had done so many things for her despite he kept teasing her sometimes, but she still rely on him a lot.
She can't even do anything without his help.
Just what happened then when she confessed everything to Kazama, anyway? Would he forgive her then? Would he believe that she's a girl? Would they.. still continued being friends? When the world turned dark, she lets her classmates do whatever they want..
As if this would be the last day she could ever live..
"GYAAARGH!"
Before she felt herself falling into a pit of darkness, Chizuru could sworn she heard one of his classmate yelled out in pain, as if someone punched him harder.
As she opened her eyes slowly, her almond-brown orbs widen like a saucer, shocked to see him again. There, Kazama was the one who's been punched that bastard who intended to check the brunette whether she's really a girl or not. She wasn't sure if she should be happy about it since the President had come rescued her at the right time.. but at the same time, she also could felt regretful for seeing him once again.
The other of Chizuru's classmates then looked at the President in feared, went backward slowly, afraid of what Kazama wanted to do to them after this.
"K-Kaichou-sama…?! Wh-What are you doing he.. here?" Student 1 stuttered in fear, but tried his best to fight the President back. No matter how scary the-so-called-Oni-President-rumors are.
The moment Kazama has punched one of the brunette's classmate satisfiedly, he glared the others in so much furious and anger. There was a very dangerous aura around him. It was different when he was with Kaoru.. it was different when he was with Hijikata bastard.. it was more dangerous.. evil.. dark aura he had around him.
Like an Oni.
"What do you think you're doing just now?" Kazama avoided answering Student 1's question, came to them closer, as they felt they could almost dying just getting closer with the demon.
"We.. we're j-just…"
"Answer me." He spoke in a cold and stern one, and there isn't any sarcastic nor tease tone that he usually speak with Taiki. This is why no one could ever dare make fun of the Oni President. "What do you think you're doing just now?"
As Chizuru's classmates became even more feared of the President of Student Council, they decided to run away, give up of what they intended to do, leaving their own friend who it seemed to be unconscious already.
The moment the President came to rescue her, Chizuru had been watching him all the time, care less of her classmates' presence at all. She was amazed of what the Oni President's rumors were true after all, but at the same time, she also couldn't helped but fear of those eyes that Kazama used when he gave an icily glared on her classmates.
She had never seen Kazama looked cold nor angry before. The President had always enjoyed teasing her and making her flustered so easily. Is this man really Kazama? The President whom he invited her to eat together with him in the Student Council room? The President whom he teach her a subject that she weaken of? The President whom she had always rely for and yet couldn't able to return a good favor in the end?
Somehow, she didn't know if this is the real Kazama though..
Once it was only Kazama and Chizuru all alone already, the President glared at her, she could felt shivered down in all over spine once more just seeing that cold expression from Kazama's. It felt.. strange and foreign seeing him looked so angry.
He must've become a fool for not realizing it that she's a girl, huh…?
Trying to avoid the President away, Chizuru decided to take a leave already. "I-I'm sorry Kazama-senpai, but I have to go. Hijikata-sensei is already in my class.." she excused herself.
Without looking at the President's furious expression, Chizuru tried to turn away to run as fast as she could not to ever come near to the President anymore.. not to ever see the President anymore.. not to ever amazed of the President anymore..
Just then, she could felt her wrist was gripped harder and it stopped her from walking. The next thing she knew, she realized it was belong to the President, who still had an anger and cold expression on his face.
"No, you're coming with me."
"W-wait!" she pleaded, but the President ignored her, pulled her arm to get to the Student Council room. "I.. I have to go to Hijikata-sensei's class already. I'll get a punishment if I'll be late in his class and-," her words suddenly stopped as she could felt his grip starting to become harder and harder as if he intended to break her wrist if she ever continued blabbing again. At that, she had no choice but to let Kazama took her to the Student Council room, accept whatever punishment that the President would give her then.
Once they finally arrived to the Student Council room, Kazama opened the door, lets her came into the room first, in which Chizuru came in without hesitated, the President then shut the door quietly, locked it to make sure Shiranui and Amagiri won't come in.
"Sit over there," Kazama commended her coldly, pointed the chair where it place in front of the President's fancy table and chair.
The brunette took a sit just like he commended for, her almond-brown eyes laid on nothing except her knees, waiting for the Oni President to expel her from the Hakuou Academy. After all, this school has always meant for boys. Not included for girls. Not even for Chizuru..
Slowly, Kazama went toward to his fancy chair to take a seat on it, putting his knuckles on his cheek like he used to do whenever he was too damn bored, and took a looked on the brunette, who had pretended herself to be a boy for a whole time.
"So…" Kazama began. "You've been a girl for a whole time then, Yukimura Chizuru."
The brunette didn't know what kind of tone Kazama used just now. Was it angry? Cold? Sarcastic? Teasing? She didn't know.. but what she believed that Kazama wouldn't forgive him for deceiving the President already.
For quite some time then, Chizuru nodded hesitantly, decided to be honest to the President like she's been wanting for: "Yes.. I've been a girl all this time, Kazama-sama." The brunette explained, trying to call the President even more respectful. "I was.. pretending myself to be a boy just for the sake of studying here, that's all."
She could felt the President staring at her for quite longer now, but she didn't cared. She didn't care how long this man is going to stare at her because this would be the last time she could ever see him again. Once he expels her from school, she would no longer see Kazama anymore. It somehow sadden her more if she no longer seeing the President in the future after this…
For a moment then, she could sworn Chizuru just heard Kazama was smirking. When she finally faced him, it was true after all. Kazama is smirking to her and there's no cold or anger expression that he used when he punched one of her classmate.
"Well, that took a while," Kazama said. "And here I thought you're going to pretend to be a boy forever."
Eh…?
"It seems that it's game over already, eh? How boring." He said, leaning against his chair as he crossed his left leg.
"Wh-what do you mean by that, Kazama-sama..?" Chizuru asked in confusion. What does he meant by a game? Has he known of her that she's been a girl for a whole time?
When his smirk suddenly gone, and showed his serious expression once more, Kazama spoke in a cold tone this time, "Do you really expecting that I wouldn't recognized that you've been a girl for a whole time?"
"N-no.. that's not what I meant. It's just.." she trailed off the words, not knowing what to say anymore except questioning him.. "How.. how did you know that I'm a girl?"
"Do you remember when you introducing me as Yukimura?"
"As Yukimura..?"
"I'm his twin brother, Yukimura Taiki.."
"Yukimura…?"
She remembered how his crimson-red orbs suddenly widen when he heard her name for the first time. But what would make him surprised just hearing her last name…? Is there any connection between the Yukimura family and Kazama's?
"I've known for Yukimura family since they are used to be one of tea ceremony schools. For your information Kazama family is also one of the tea ceremony families as well." He explained simply.
"You.. you've known of my family?" By meaning of tea ceremony family, does that mean he's like Sen..?
"I've known them just a little. But from what I've learnt of your family that I don't remember the Yukimura has two sons."
"Ah…" At that, Chizuru couldn't answer anything except remained silent and looked down on her knees instead, feeling guilty and fool. "..Why don't you just tell me earlier then?"
As he heard that question, Kazama began to smirk then. "If I had told everyone that you've been a girl for a whole time, you wouldn't have come here anymore and I wouldn't have find something to have fun."
"…"
So all this time he had known that she's a girl, yet he pretended himself not knowing it just because he actually wants to find a fun? She should've known that this man known of her family the moment he muttered her last name for multiple for the first time they met back then..
As his smirk began to fade away once again, Kazama decided to ask her something much more serious about it: "Since your classmates had known that you're a girl, what are you gonna to do then?"
"What.. do you mean?"
"I doubt that you can continue study here and pretend yourself as Taiki again. If those three find you once more, they might report to the teachers this time." He predicted to himself, yet knew it possibly going to happen if Chizuru continued on studying here.
The brunette couldn't help but to fight those tears back already. His words were cold and like a sharp dagger already. She could felt it stabbing her heart deeper and deeper, starting to bleed very slowly, each word by word.
"So.. are you trying to expel me from Hakuou Academy then?" She whispered quietly, tried not to let herself crying already. Yet, it's true though. What if, they ended up telling Hijikata then? The Classic Literature teacher has always been a very strict one and follow the rules without any complaint.
It's hurt so much if she transfers to another school already. She's been in Hakuou Academy for quite longer now and her friends were like a family to her. Even she happily to see Kaoru sometimes.
And Kazama.. Kazama is much more special to her..
"...I want to know that if there any school that you'll able to go to study beside here?" Kazama avoided her question, gazed on her then. His expression was very hard to tell, but his voice wasn't in neither sarcastic one nor the teasing one that the President usually used.
Despite the President avoided her question, but she can tell that he'd really intended to expel her from school already. Just like how the rumors of Oni President. Whether he decided to expel her from school or not, she decided to stop going to Hakuou Academy first, even if it'll make her very lonely in the end.. Standing up from her seat, Chizuru bowed lowly, thanking for Kazama everything he'd done for her even if she couldn't able to return his favor in the end...
"Thank you.." Chizuru muttered. "Thank you for helping me when I was in trouble and relying on you. Really, thank you."
At those words, Chizuru choked herself for not wanting to cry once more, turned around, about to leave the Student Council room already, but the President gripped her wrist once more but gently this time, stopping her from leaving first.
"I'll ask you once again." Kazama said. "I want to know.. that if there any school that you'll able to go to study beside Hakuou Academy?"
Chizuru didn't answer the President's question in the end, pried her arm away from him, and left the Student Council room, leaving Kazama alone in the room.
How funny. The moment she finally left the Student Council room, tears finally fell down on her cheeks already. Yet, she didn't care once more. Despite how everything looked blurring, she didn't care anymore. She ran away all over the hallway, intended to leave the Hakuou Academy and never comes back. Although the President hadn't expelled her from school yet nor the teachers find out of her real identity, yet she lets herself being the one to quit her own school.
If the only she had told them earlier..
But it was too late now, and she knows it.
And she can no longer comes to Hakuou Academy from now on..
Even if it ended up hurting her..
In Hijikata's class, Ibuki couldn't help but to give a very big yawn because Hijikata's class has always been damn bored to him. As he laid his eyes on the window, he blinked multiple, desbelief of what he saw just now. He could sworn he saw a familiar student just ran off to the school gate already..
Was that.. Taiki?
More importantly, since when Taiki has a long hair?
He must have hallucination already, so he shook his head slightly, returned to focus of Hijikata's class already. However, the moment he saw Taiki at the school gate just now, he wondered what's going on to Taiki...?
When Chizuru finally arrived to her house, shutting the door quickly, leaned against it, and slowly fell down on the floor already, letting her tears falling once more just because she could no longer go to Hakuou Academy anymore. She didn't know how long have she been crying now. She had nothing to do anymore since Hakuou Academy is the only school that she could study..
What is she going to do now…?
A few days later then, Okita, Saitou and Yamazaki noticed that Taiki hasn't comes to school anymore. Usually, the brunette boy would always greet them first. But now, they hadn't seen him lately and wondered what happened to him..
"Taiki-kun hasn't comes to school lately. How suspicious..." Okita said, held his hand on his chin, curiously wondering to know why would the boy suddenly stopped going school already. It was very unlike Taiki at all.
"According from Harada-sensei, Taiki is having a fever now so he couldn't able to go to school.." Heisuke said, he had gone to see the red-headed teacher before he went to the cafeteria with Okita and the others. It worried him a little after he heard about his childhood friend's health.
"Yukimura-san is sick..?" Yamazaki said, feeling a little concerned of the brunette boy. "I hope he's going to be fine.."
"Since we've already knew of what's happened to Yukimura-kun now, we might as well wait for him in patiently until he'll be much better then," Saitou said, despite he, too, worried of the brunette too, praying himself that Taiki is going to be alright later then..
"Yeah, I agree. Although I'm still worried of his health.."
Meanwhile in the Student Council room..
The President doing some his usual thing he done before Taiki came, putting his knuckles on his cheek, as always. For a moment then, Shiranui went toward him and leaned against the wall, feeling a little bored so he decided to tease the Oni President.
"So... what happened to your boyfriend? He hadn't gone to school lately.." the tan-skinned man said, couldn't helped himself to grin.
"What boyfriend shit are you talking about?"
"Oh come on, Kazama. Don't lie to me." He teased the President once more. "Weren't Taiki always comes to the Student Council room in recess already? He doesn't seem coming anymore."
Kazama remained silent as he continued on doing his job as the President of Student Council already, care less of Shiranui's stupid babbling despite how annoying the tan-skinned man is...
"Were you two fighting a few days ago?"
"..."
"Have Taiki had told you how much you annoyed him and hated you from now on?"
"..."
"Or have Taiki-"
Before Shiranui could finish it, the President grabbed his head and pushing him to the nearest wall as hard as he could to release his rage.
"Talk about her once more and I'll definitely throw you out from the window already," Kazama hissed in anger, decided to leave from the Student Council room to leave from the tan-skinned idiot already, wasn't in a very good mood to finish his work thanks to that bastard.
"THAT'S HURT YOU BASTARD!" Shiranui exclaimed, but for a moment then, he could sworn he'd just heard something odd from the Oni President just now. "Hold on a sec! What do you mean by her?!"
Chizuru couldn't help but to feel regretful for lying her own Homeroom Teacher that she's been sick for a whole time. She didn't want to concern of the others anymore. It's because one of her classmate had known of her identity, she had no other choice but to stop going to Hakuou Academy anymore. She needed to find a suitable school that she could able to study for other than Hakuou.
The brunette sighed softly, as she took a looked at her cellphone. There were so many photos that she took a shoot when she was in Hakuou Academy. Some of it she spent together with her childhood friend, Saitou, Okita, Yamazaki, Harada and Ibuki together. However, the picture that has the most is none other than she and the President together. By looking of it, it seemed that Amagiri and Shiranui took a picture of them together when she wasn't aware of where she put her cellphone back then..
She sighed once more, wondered what she's going to do after this since she can no longer going to Hakuou anymore…
For a moment then, she heard the door has been knocking for a while now. Quickly, Chizuru stood up from the couch, wearing her extra wig just in case it's one of her friend from her school. As she opened the door slowly, and took a peek for a moment then, it surprised her a little that the one who's been knocking is her Homeroom Teacher.
"Harada-sensei.." she whispered softly.
"Hey Yukimura-kun." Harada greeted gently. "Are you alright? How's your fever?"
The brunette answered hesitantly. "I.. I'm not sure...," she said, avoiding looking at her teacher.
"Are you sure?" the red-headed teacher questioned, opened the door a little wider, in which it surprised her little.
"Ahhh!" She squeaked softly, as Harada touched her forehead with his as if he's trying to make sure if she had a fever or not..
"Hmm... it doesn't seem to be burning up much.." he muttered under his breathed. "Are you sure you had a fever?"
"Ah.. well, I.. that is... um," she mumbled panickly, not knowing what she had to do since she's not good in lies much.
"But, more importantly, here." Harada said, took out some papers from his bag that he's been brought for a whole time now.
"What is this?"
"Some of homework that you need to finish up." Harada replied. "There's also from your Classic Literature teacher too. You have missed a lot of subjects, Yukimura-kun."
"Ah... I'm sorry..," Chizuru said, feeling a little guilty.
The red-headed teacher then sighed softly, and patted the boy's head. "Don't worry about it. Just make sure that your fever will go away then. That's what I wanted"
At that, he said goodbye then, and left her. The brunette sighed tiredly, not knowing what she's gonna do with the homework since she couldn't able to go to Hakuou anymore.
Another few days passed once more, the door was knocking and Chizuru without hesitantly opened it, expecting that Harada pay a visit again, but instead, it was her childhood friend in the end.
"Hei.. Heisuke-kun.."
"May I come in, Chizuru?"
"Ah, sure." The brunette lets her childhood friend came into her house, trying to prepare soda since Heisuke prefer soda more than tea or coffee.
As Chizuru prepared some sweets too, Heisuke took a looked around on the house, couldn't helped himself but to grin because his childhood friend's house never change. The old TV is still able to use, despite the vase was broken a little, yet it still kept it there, and of course, he couldn't forget of taking a looked on the photo frame of her, Kaoru and Heisuke together before her parent died from car accident.
He remembered how Chizuru pleading on Kaoru that she's been wanting to fishing together with her father and Heisuke, but Kaoru was being too over-protective brother, couldn't let her going on fishing since it's too dangerous and it's not suitable for her.
It sure brings back memories already..
"I'm sorry for bringing a little late," Chizuru laughed awkwardly, brought a tray of two soda cans, and some of her childhood friend's favourite sweets.
"Oh, don't worry about it, Chizuru," he grinned widely, took a soda and starting to drink it before he ate sweets first. For a while then, Heisuke has been meaning to ask this for a while now the moment Chizuru has suddenly stop going to Hakuou Academy anymore. "Hey Chizuru. You don't have to hide from me. We're childhood friends, right? You can tell me everything. So, why would you stop going to school so suddenly?"
She would've expected Heisuke was going to ask this already. But what he said just now is right. He is, after all, her childhood friend. Despite how they haven't seen each for such a very long time now, Heisuke is still Heisuke for her. The brunette boy would always understand of her feeling when she tells of her problem.
If she told him the truth, would he be able to cheer her up...?
She sighed softly, and told him everything she knows of what happened back then, but of course, Chizuru didn't told him of how Kazama knew she's been a girl all this time.
"Your classmates knew that you're a girl?" Heisuke said in shocked and surprised. Although Chizuru have been pretend herself as a boy for like months now, yet it somehow felt like it's only a week she became as Taiki..
Chizuru nodded, feeling sad and guilty.
"I don't know what to do anymore.. It's been fun studying in Hakuou Academy, yet I knew that I can no longer going there anymore. It's been decided..," she sighed weakly. "It's been decided that the school was meant to be for high school boys only.."
"Chizuru.."
Heisuke didn't know what to do, except watching her fell in sorrow since it's been so much fun in Hakuou Academy a lot. And now, her life as Taiki is no longer there anymore. Taiki is no longer exist..
"What should I do now..?" she whimpered quietly. She had told herself for so many times that she had to go and transfer another knew school where it close to her house, yet her memories of being Hakuou Academy could never leave her.
Especially a memory with the President..
Slowly, Heisuke reached on his childhood friend's cheek, tried to wipe her tears off. "You may can not going to Hakuou Academy anymore, but maybe.. maybe next time, I'll bring Souji, Hajime, Ibuki and Ryuunosuke over here. They may didn't know that you're Taiki, but they're still your friends too, right?"
"Heisuke-kun.."
"It's alright. Once they're close enough with you just they had with Taiki, I think you might be able tell them the truth," the brunette boy grinned widely.
For sometime then, she couldn't helped but to return her smile back to her childhood friend. It's been a while since she last saw that kind of grin from Heisuke. It's been such a long time they hadn't been together..
"Well then, I need to leave already." Heisuke stood up after he finished his soda and ate up all of his favourite sweets. "There's a part-time job that I wouldn't want to miss it already."
"Oh.. alright then. Do be careful, Heisuke-kun."
"Of course I'm going to be fine. See ya then," at that, the brunette boy left the house with his usual cheerful expression on his face, waving to his childhood friend until he no longer sees her anymore.
Chizuru watched her friend go, still not knowing what to do when she still hasn't go to school for quite some time now. What she had to do now...?
*RING* *RING* *RING*
When her cellphone was vibrating, it was surprised Chizuru the most that this was her very first time getting called by Kaoru. They never had a contact before until now. Without thinking longer, Chizuru took her cellphone and answered quietly:
"H-Hello...?"
It took a while that Kaoru answered as if he wants to make sure the person that he called was the right one. He took a breathed and exhaled softly, trying to answer in gentle one like he was once done back when they were still a child.
"I've heard what happened from Toudou Heisuke, Chizuru."
There it was, standing there for quite some time now, remained silent, not knowing what to say anymore to her own older twin brother, feared that Kaoru gave a threat again of how she should no longer comes to Hakuou Academy anymore. But what she's been expecting for never happens. Instead..
"Since they've known of your true identity, I suggest that maybe you should try and convince Sen and Kosuzu for letting you study in Shimabara Girls' High School. The fund may be expensive, but if they convince the Principal there, she might gave an exceptional for you."
The moment she heard of Shimabara Girls' High School, she remembered of what the older Suzuka when they were in dating:
"But if Chizuru-chan's school is not suitable for her, I might be able to convince to teachers to let you have a Shimabara High School Girls'.."
How idiot she was.. she should have convinced them since a few weeks back then! Why didn't she thinks of Shimabara Girls' High School a for a moment anyway? Despite how the fund is expensive, that's the only school that she could study beside Hakuou.
Chizuru returned back to her reality then, curled her lips upward and said, "Thank you Kaoru.. even though we rarely spend each other, I'm still glad to you have you as a brother."
Without any reply anymore, Chizuru stopped calling her older twin brother then, praying to Kami that Sen and Kosuzu would let her on studying in Shimabara Girls' High School. Even if the fund may not be change, that would make her taking some lots of part-time jobs then..
Sen blinked, as if this is like a dream to her somehow. Here she is, with her younger adoptive sister, along with her best friend, eating and spent times together in weekend once again, hearing a good news from Chizuru somehow.
"What did you just said, Chizuru-chan?" Sen questioned, still couldn't believed of what she's heard from her best friend just now.
"Like I said.. I would like to study Shimabra Girls' High School with you guys," the brunette stated.
"Why?" the older Suzuka asked curiously. "Don't you love Hakuou Academy?"
"I love it very much, but..," she trailed off, looking anywhere except the Suzuka Sibling, didn't know what to say anymore.. "A lot of things happened just now, that's all." She whispered at the end of it, remembered how they intended to check on her whether she's really a girl or not. It just gives her shivered down in all over her spine just thinking of that memory already.
Sen noticed how sad her best friend is. She was really, really happy when she heard Chizuru wants to transfer to the Shimabara Girls' High School, but she couldn't helped but curiously wants to know what's going on between her and the Hakuou Academy.. Asking that the older Suzuka would doubt that she'll got an answer. Instead, she nodded, and smiled warmthly for her best friend.
"Of course!" Sen replied. "I've been waiting for you to study in Shimabara Girls' High School for a very long time now. I'll try and convince the Principal as best as I can especially about the fund thing."
"Th.. thank you so much, Osen-chan!" Chizuru couldn't help but to cry in happily already.
Sen replied back by smiling to her best friend once more, then faced to her younger sister. "Say Kosuzu, do you have a spare of Shimabara Girls' uniform? If so, can you give it to Chizuru-chan?"
"Well, yes. I do have a spare one. I'll bring it before school starting, ne, Chizuru-chan?"
The brunette ended up nodding once more, continued on doing their usual stuff until they bid farewells. As she was on her way to her place all alone, her almond-brown orbs laid on the above sky, wondering if she truly no longer going to see them anymore. Especially..
Would she ever get to see the President again?
Once again, she still hasn't got of what kind of feeling she had for the President. No matter what happened, she couldn't take her eyes off from him. Of course, who wouldn't actually? Kazama is, after all, a very one gorgeous creature she has ever seen. Despite how most students describe him as an Oni President, yet for the brunette, he was more like a handsome, yet prince nothing-much-like-charming.
For a few days later since she had stopped going to Hakuou Academy, the President hasn't come seeing her anymore, in which it sadden her a little without knowing any reason as to why she felt sorrow for not able to see him for a while now...
She remembered how this man was so close to her as if they were like a couple, yet Chizuru knew all this time he's been looking for something for fun; never thinks of her neither a woman nor a friend. It's hurt a little that all those teasing that he once done to her is actually intending to lose his bored away. Even if that man used her to lose his boredom, even if that man teasing her for fun, yet, that man still very special to her no matter how much she denied once.
I wonder.. will I ever see Kazama-senpai this time...?
For couple days later then, Chizuru got a call from the Principal of Shimabara Girls' High School that she lets the brunette studying there since Yukimura family were still one of the tea ceremony schools, in which it relief a little.
Before she ready to go, she wears the Shimabara Girls' uniform from Kosuzu's spare clothes one. Once she finally finished wearing it, Chizuru couldn't helped but felt foreign somehow. She's gotten quite used to wear a male uniform school lately but she knew she's been wearing that just for the sake of studying in Hakuou Academy. Now that she can no longer going to Hakuou anymore, Shimabara Girls' High School would be her new school life this time.
Before she took a leave from her house, Chizuru took a glanced on her Hakuou Male uniform where it's been hang on the back door of her bedroom for quite some time now; she couldn't have courage to throw it since how much she loved Hakuou Academy very much. But she knew there's no more life in Hakuou Academy..
Taiki is gone..
And there's no reason she's going to Hakuou Academy anymore..
Shaking her head, slightly as she tried to forget of Hakuou from now on, focus on Shimabara Girls' High School more, eagerly to spend her times with her best friends like they used to done back when they were still young.
Once everything's done and prepared, Chizuru opened the door, about to leave from her house already, but an unexpected figure appeared in front of her house...
A/N: Welp, that's it for this chapter. I don't really like creating OCs much, so yeah, I ended up naming Chizuru's classmates as Student 1, 2 and 3 xD I was planning to add almost non-con scene between Chizuru and her classmates too but the story might have a bit awkward after then so, I skip it in the end. Btw, 'Kaichou-sama' means President.
Aaaaanyway, thank you for reading a new chapter Change. Hope you enjoy it. You'll find out soon what's going to happen whether Chizuru continued on going Hakuou Academy or not
Honestly, I can't stop staring at my new desktop background already XDD(which is, it's in my new fanfic icon too)
Btw, I wrote AmaSen SSL fic aka Amagiri x Sen SSL fic, somethin like Change you could say. So, if any of you guys interested in that pairing, try and read of my Amasen SSL ver :3
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To my reviewers:
StariChanx
I've got this idea for along time now where the students found out Chizuru is a girl first after playing Kazama's route for numerous time now lol i never get tired playing his route xD
It's not that I don't have an idea of how they find out of Chizuru secret or something. I just thought it'll be great if I follow in canon one, but changed into as SSL version :)
Mia(Guest)
Not a fan of Hijikata nor hijichi much, but I do have an idea what's going to happen between him and Chizuru once everyone find out that she's a girl
oxCuteKataraox
Haha well, I'm not really a fan of writing suspense fic since I might ended up having an author's block after then xP