Chapter 5

I was still sleeping when I heard Koshino shriek. I rolled over and use the pillow to cover my head. Lot of good that did, Hiroaki ripped the pillow out of my hands and screamed, "What in the world did you do to your kitchen?!?!?"

I rubbed my eyes, "Hiro-kun please calm down."

"Calm down?! Calm down?! It looks like you repainted the kitchen with batter, flour, and things I can't identify! It reeks! And there will be roaches…eeeeew, eeeeew, eeeeew!!" he cried at the thought.

"Please calm down. I'll clean it. I promise. And those things you can't identify are probably blueberries, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, chocolate that I put in the pancake batter and probably a bit of raisins, eggshell…" I began trying to recall the ingredients I used.

"Enough! And your promise means nothing to me! Look at your room! Just tell me what the heck you did!!!"

"I was planning on making a gingerbread room except, it'll be made of batter instead of gingerbread?" I suggested sheepishly and realizing he wasn't taking my joke well I quickly changed the subject, "so why are you here?"

He took a couple of deep breath, "I was planning on cooking you breakfast and waking you so you won't be late for practise. Remember your promise?"

"Oh right. I'll get ready now. And you don't have to cook breakfast. Look in the fridge and I think there are muffins and bagels in the cupboard," I said quickly escaping to the bathroom not wanting to suffer Koshino's wrath.

I was brushing my teeth when he shrieked again, "What's wrong with you Sendoh Akira?!"

I rinsed my mouth and stuck my head out the door, "Nani?"

He was holding onto the bags of bagel and muffins, "It'll take you a month to finish this."

I ducked back into the washroom and put a blob of gel onto my hair and began styling my hair, 'Well I wasn't sure what flavor Kaede liked so I had to buy three of everything flavor in case he really liked one.'

Finally I was satisfied with my hair and went out just when Koshino let out yet another cry. I ran to the kitchen and discovered he had opened the freezer and must've gotten hit on the head by something since there was a growing bump on his head, 'Uh-oh.'

"Your fridge usually has nothing other than lemons and lemonade. Why the heck is it filled with sausages and crap?!? I was going to put this freakin' bag of waffles in the freezer only to discover you stuffed it full and this got hit on the head repeatedly by containers of rock hard spread that you jammed in there!!" he screamed hitting the container of spread on the counter.

'Oh he's got to be mad, he's swearing,' I thought, "now, now Hiroaki calm down."

"Don't tell me to calm down!!!" he yelled.

There was pounding on the door, 'What is it now?'

I opened it to find a group of people out there looking quite pissed off, "Ohayou minna-san."

"It's 6:45! A lot of us are trying to sleep so keep it down, damn it!" they yelled.

I forced a smile, "Hai! Sumimasen. I'll keep it down."

When they finally left, Koshino looked considerably calmer as he came out.

"Are you alright? Want me to get you something for that bump?"

"I'm fine," he muttered, "you are cleaning up that mess after school, understood? And what kind of person cooks and buys enough breakfast to last 2 months?"

I smiled, "Hai. Actually if I eat it 3 meals a day, I'll probably be done in 15 days. You want to help me eat some of it?"

"No," he said making a face, "your cooking sucks. You are unbelievable."

"Why, thank-you."

"That wasn't a compliment!"

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I managed to sneak out before Koshino could catch a hold of me but I know I'm in for it when I get home. I sighed. I reached Shohoku, 'Ok, I hope this works. I'm in serious need of inside info and help.'

I considered giving up when I realize Kaede likes Sakuragi, but I've never been one to give up. And now I know he likes guys too, so I got a chance. But when he said, Just because I like men doesn't mean I'll like you hurt a lot. I mean, that's the first complete sentence he decides to say to me? But when he said he wanted to protect Sakuragi and how he longed to be like Sakuragi I fell in love with him all over again. He looked so sad and wistful when he said those words. I just wanted to hold him and comfort him. I need to make him realize that I really care for him and I can make him happy. I'm going to make him see! But I should probably do this slowly. I don't want to scare him.

I spotted Kogure but he was with Mitsui. I shrugged, 'Guess this is as good a time as any.'

End of Chapter 5