Disclaimer: TB is by Clamp.
Yui Miyamoto productions presents to you a romantic comedy called:
"It's all in the look."
Chapter 1 – The prey, the hunter…and the prey's sister.
Homeroom had been a perilous trial. You'd think that after introducing yourselves, there would be nothing else to do right? Right. For OTHER students, yes. But for our luckless and cute protagonist, no.
Subaru had downtime while he was sitting down and listening politely for the others to make their introductions to the new teacher. The boys were already mad at him because the girls did nothing but whisper about how cute and charming he was.
"Charming," Subaru thought while rolling his eyes as he stared out the window.
Across him on a ledge was a hawk staring at him. He blinked his eyes and wiped them with his gloves to make sure it wasn't sleep deprivation. After all, Hokuto wouldn't let her brother go to sleep until she had heard every juicy detail with yesterday's encounter….
And when she did, instead of being her possessive self, she slapped him proudly and (painfully) loudly on the back.
"Woohoo! Finally, I'm relieved."
He blinked at her as he slept on his bed. She sat on the edge of it and laughed.
"Why are you relieved?"
That was so NOT the reaction he was expecting.
"You're making friends." Then she nudged him on the arm with her elbow with a wink. "_Friends_."
She burst into giggles and Subaru just tilted his head at her. "I'm sure he'd be an okay-wait a minute," he stopped. "I don't like the way you said 'friends'."
"How did I say it?"
"With this glint in your eye. The one that tells me trouble is sure to come."
She smiled while patting my head. "You're just a people magnet. People love you. Don't worry about it."
"I think he really hit on me."
"Well, duh~!"
"You know I have no idea about these things."
"And that's why you have me!"
"…"
He sighed as he looked at his desk. When he lifted his head, he shouted, "WAH!"
The class stopped everything they were doing and looked at him. He blushed a shade of dark, dark crimson and was greatly annoyed at the person in front of him.
"Well, hello again," Sakurazuka-sensei had greeted with his teeth shining again.
Niko, niko.
Subaru tried to be nice about it. He looked from side to side. He cleared his throat. He even raised his index finger. But, he just put his finger down and just said, "Good morning, Sakurazuka-sensei."
Smiling, Seishirou whispered in a volume that no one else could hear, "It _is_ a good morning now. And I'll teach you later not to be so formal. Remember, my first name's Seishirou."
Getting up from the seat, Subaru wanted to protest, but was frozen like a deer caught in the headlights.
Only, for Subaru, maybe it was the teeth and the deep voice? Maybe, just maybe.
When it was lunchtime, he waited in front of Hokuto-chan's classroom with beads of sweat falling to the ground in anticipation and fear. Fear at what she had heard, what she would react to, and how abused he would feel at the end of the session.
But, being the optimist he was, he smiled softly and tried to convince himself, "Maybe she hasn't heard yet. I still have that one ounce of luck that she hasn't."
When Hokuto came out, she smirked at him immediately.
He sighed.
Oh no…
As they sat on some grassy area in the school not to far from their class, but far enough to be alone, Hokuto did her trademark, "Ohohohoho!"
Subaru gulped. This wasn't good. Not very good at all!
So, he did what he was worst at: Changing the subject.
He looked at the new menu his sister was trying to make. As always, you never question Asian cooking; you just eat it and judge it later. Especially when your loving and playful sister says it's a secret recipe.
"So…how was class today, Hokuto-chan?" He bit into his sandwich.
"Not as interesting as yours I hear." She took out the wrap of her sandwich and bit it too. With food still in her mouth, she pointed at him, "I hear that new homeroom teacher of yours is hot!"
Subaru continued to eat his sandwich and then he swallowed. "That's what they say."
"Why are you so nervous, Subaru?" She blinked her eyes to show her annoyance.
"N-nothing."
She eyed him.
In a joke, she laughed, "What? This was the guy that hit on you yesterday?"
Subaru choked on his food and Hokuto laughed as she patted her brother's back. "Hmm…interesting."
"What's so 'interesting' about that?" He wiped his mouth as he took a sip of Hokuto-chan's homemade chrysanthemum tea.
"I want to see how this turns out."
"What?!" Subaru looked at his sister and sighed. He bowed his head in defeat. "I need help. Not any more supporters for him. The two of you are awful separately as it is."
"I can't help you in everything your whole life," Hokuto answered matter-of-factly while sipping her tea.
"You know exactly-Ow!!!!"
"Rush over to the infirmary nurse's office!" Hokuto commanded while the soccer players bowed their apologies as Subaru wobbly got up. But, of course, Hokuto had to scold those players and mentally put them on her hit list for even hurting her brother.
When they got in front of the office, Hokuto cursed under her breath that she had to rush to class in a few minutes or the terror teacher Sadamoto would mark her absent regardless of her excuses. And that would lead to more problems…ones that already happened the first and last time she was late by one minute to tell Subaru something.
"I'm sorry I can't stay with you, but you know where I'm going next." She sighed as she patted her brother on the back. "I'll be back. And soon."
With a dizzy head, he nodded and said an unassuring reply of, "O-okay, Hokuto-chan."
She left as he opened the door. While opening the door, he greeted politely, "Shitsureishimasu."
As if becoming suddenly sober from being drunk, Subaru looked at the infirmary nurse in front of him. He gulped as he blurted out without much thought, "Excuse me, what are you doing here?"
"Hello Sumeragi-kun~!" his homeroom teacher said as he smiled brightly at him.
"I don't want to be left alone with him. I shouldn't," he thought as he tried to find an excuse and pretend that he didn't need help anymore.
But, fate wasn't with him, as he took his first step to say something, he tripped on something and his sensei caught his waist. "Are you all right?"
"No," he wanted to answer, but instead, he nodded his head while trying to push himself away from the pervert. "I'm okay. Thank you very much."
"What's wrong with you?"
"I was hit by two soccer balls. One on the head and one on the side." He winced in pain though he tried cover up his right side. If he showed how truly hurt he was in front of Hokuto, she would have creamed those players until they were living on life support. She wouldn't kill them. She would love to see them struggling to live.
Hokuto was just evil like that.
Seishirou laughed at him as he motioned for Subaru to sit on the bed before him.
"I think you should just sit out the rest of the day, but let me have a look at the side where you got hit with the ball."
Subaru just stared at him with an embarrassed look.
"I need you to lift your shirt."
Subaru gulped. "Excuse me?"
Seriously, Seishirou repeated once more, "I need you to lift your shirt."
He sighed as he lifted up the shirt and turned red along with it.
Seishirou looked at it closely. "That doesn't look too good."
"Yes…I can feel it," Subaru answered back. He didn't have to see how black and blue it was.
"Can I touch it?" Seishirou looked at him.
Subaru's heart beat a million times per minute.
Was there something wrong in how he asked this?
"Y-yes, you may."
It was then Seishirou poked it lightly and Subaru yelled.
"I think you've got to go to the hospital for this."
Seishirou then laughed as he told Subaru, "I think you should put down your shirt down. Then, he added in a joke, "Though, I like looking at more of you."
Subaru closed his eyes as he immediately put down his shirt in a humph.
"Now, just rest." He helped onto the bed. "I'll take care of everything."
Subaru was so confused as to what this all meant. First he hit on him, then he's being nice, and now he's being really nice.
He became suspicious as he laid there staring at the ceiling in contemplation.
Seishirou turned his seat away from him and began writing some notes on his desk. Then, he tried to look through a book.
"Sakurazuka-sensei?"
"Yes?" Seishirou looked over at the temporarily bed-ridden Subaru.
"It's a wonder that I'm still in my seat and not in that bed with him," he thought as he just continued to smile calmly at Subaru.
"Why are you the infirmary nurse?"
"I'm the temporary one since the previous one will be gone for a few days. Since I am a doctor, the principal thought about me being assigned to this would be okay."
"Oh." Subaru nodded his head. "Thanks for answering."
Silence.
Seishirou - Write, write.
Subaru - Count the dots on the ceiling…
At that moment, Seishirou turned to Subaru. "I need to check some other things. Sorry about this. But I'm trying to do this thoroughly."
"All right." Subaru got up with Seishirou holding his arm.
Seishirou then checked him and he nodded to himself while Subaru what kind of notes were being taken. Was that bad if he took so many already?
But in reality, Seishirou was trying to figure out things of his own. He took notes for the school on his pad, but he sure was making a lot of mental ones in his head.
"He's this kind of person…" he had thought. "With this build…"
When he was finished, he stared at Subaru blankly, "Oh, I forgot to ask you one thing."
"Yes?"
Being off guard, he didn't expect this one.
"What kind of food do you want to eat? Do you still want to eat at the one I pointed to? But since you're sick, maybe we should have take out?"
At that moment, Seishirou pulled his chair closer to Subaru's while Subaru couldn't exactly run away.
Smiling at him with his signature evil grin, Seishirou began to place his hands at each of Subaru's sides.
"You still want to date me?"
"And why not?" He winked at him. "Oh, yes, the little details."
"B-but you're my teacher!" Subaru protested as he dipped his head backwards as Seishirou's face kept on coming closer and closer to his without any attempt to stop.
"That's right." Seishirou smirked at him. "And what would Sumeragi-kun like to learn from me first?"
It was then that Seishirou smiled at him smugly. "Or shall I surprise you along the way?"
Subaru looked from side to side. "I…I…" he stammered.
"What do I do now?" Though Subaru was showing his usual look of nervousness, inside he was really panicking. He kept on looking at Seishirou's amber eyes thinking, "And why is it so hard for me to resist him?"
"Shitsureishimasu!" Hokuto then came in to find Seishirou making a phone call and waving his hand at her.
"Subaru!" she whispered loudly not wanting to interrupt the phone call as she walked over to him.
"School isn't over, is it?" Subaru asked sheepishly trying to not make his uneasiness too obvious.
"Oh no, I ditched the next class because I love you."
Seishirou then finished his phone call and said, "Yes, I'll bring him over."
Subaru looked at him as Hokuto bowed. "Thank you for taking care of him. I hope he wasn't too much trouble."
"Shouldn't you be in class?" Seishirou asked skeptically.
"But I couldn't leave my poor brother alone." She then laughed as she introduced herself, "I am Sumeragi Hokuto. Subaru's twin sister. I'm older and wiser too."
Seishirou laughed at the introduction as he commented, "I didn't know you had a twin, Sumeragi-kun."
But inside of his mind, he knew he really wanted to roll his eyes at all these formalities. Of course he knew who these people were! And they sure were going to get to know him…
Especially Subaru.
Hokuto laughed as Subaru wished he hadn't at the moment.
"I am Sakurazuka Seishirou. I am the new English teacher for this year and Sumeragi-kun's homeroom teacher."
Hokuto tried her best to keep calm as she eyed Subaru and analyzed ever aspect of the man before her.
"I think we better take him to the hospital. It's only a few blocks off since it's on the campus."
Hokuto nodded. "Okay."
"Just say you're my assistant. I'll give you a pass so that you won't get in trouble."
They both helped Subaru to get out of the bed and out of the room.
Hokuto, who had always spoken her mind, didn't cease to do so at this time either. She said to Seishirou, "I like the way you think."
Seishirou laughed. "I like they way you think also."
Subaru looked at them in agony as they all walked to the hospital. And it wasn't from his headache or the rib torturing him by the minute.
"Oh no, they're bonding," he thought.
To be continued.
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Author's note: I told you I'd take a long time to update! So, I made this kind of long for you. ^_^ Well, I'm working on three fics that I really want to get done and then focus on this one. But don't worry. This _will_ get done. These are my two favorite bishies!
And I will soon make my two angst chapters for X Suby and Sei! Now, I feel like angsty Subaru and Seishirou fics. ^^;;;
Yui Miyamoto productions presents to you a romantic comedy called:
"It's all in the look."
Chapter 1 – The prey, the hunter…and the prey's sister.
Homeroom had been a perilous trial. You'd think that after introducing yourselves, there would be nothing else to do right? Right. For OTHER students, yes. But for our luckless and cute protagonist, no.
Subaru had downtime while he was sitting down and listening politely for the others to make their introductions to the new teacher. The boys were already mad at him because the girls did nothing but whisper about how cute and charming he was.
"Charming," Subaru thought while rolling his eyes as he stared out the window.
Across him on a ledge was a hawk staring at him. He blinked his eyes and wiped them with his gloves to make sure it wasn't sleep deprivation. After all, Hokuto wouldn't let her brother go to sleep until she had heard every juicy detail with yesterday's encounter….
And when she did, instead of being her possessive self, she slapped him proudly and (painfully) loudly on the back.
"Woohoo! Finally, I'm relieved."
He blinked at her as he slept on his bed. She sat on the edge of it and laughed.
"Why are you relieved?"
That was so NOT the reaction he was expecting.
"You're making friends." Then she nudged him on the arm with her elbow with a wink. "_Friends_."
She burst into giggles and Subaru just tilted his head at her. "I'm sure he'd be an okay-wait a minute," he stopped. "I don't like the way you said 'friends'."
"How did I say it?"
"With this glint in your eye. The one that tells me trouble is sure to come."
She smiled while patting my head. "You're just a people magnet. People love you. Don't worry about it."
"I think he really hit on me."
"Well, duh~!"
"You know I have no idea about these things."
"And that's why you have me!"
"…"
He sighed as he looked at his desk. When he lifted his head, he shouted, "WAH!"
The class stopped everything they were doing and looked at him. He blushed a shade of dark, dark crimson and was greatly annoyed at the person in front of him.
"Well, hello again," Sakurazuka-sensei had greeted with his teeth shining again.
Niko, niko.
Subaru tried to be nice about it. He looked from side to side. He cleared his throat. He even raised his index finger. But, he just put his finger down and just said, "Good morning, Sakurazuka-sensei."
Smiling, Seishirou whispered in a volume that no one else could hear, "It _is_ a good morning now. And I'll teach you later not to be so formal. Remember, my first name's Seishirou."
Getting up from the seat, Subaru wanted to protest, but was frozen like a deer caught in the headlights.
Only, for Subaru, maybe it was the teeth and the deep voice? Maybe, just maybe.
When it was lunchtime, he waited in front of Hokuto-chan's classroom with beads of sweat falling to the ground in anticipation and fear. Fear at what she had heard, what she would react to, and how abused he would feel at the end of the session.
But, being the optimist he was, he smiled softly and tried to convince himself, "Maybe she hasn't heard yet. I still have that one ounce of luck that she hasn't."
When Hokuto came out, she smirked at him immediately.
He sighed.
Oh no…
As they sat on some grassy area in the school not to far from their class, but far enough to be alone, Hokuto did her trademark, "Ohohohoho!"
Subaru gulped. This wasn't good. Not very good at all!
So, he did what he was worst at: Changing the subject.
He looked at the new menu his sister was trying to make. As always, you never question Asian cooking; you just eat it and judge it later. Especially when your loving and playful sister says it's a secret recipe.
"So…how was class today, Hokuto-chan?" He bit into his sandwich.
"Not as interesting as yours I hear." She took out the wrap of her sandwich and bit it too. With food still in her mouth, she pointed at him, "I hear that new homeroom teacher of yours is hot!"
Subaru continued to eat his sandwich and then he swallowed. "That's what they say."
"Why are you so nervous, Subaru?" She blinked her eyes to show her annoyance.
"N-nothing."
She eyed him.
In a joke, she laughed, "What? This was the guy that hit on you yesterday?"
Subaru choked on his food and Hokuto laughed as she patted her brother's back. "Hmm…interesting."
"What's so 'interesting' about that?" He wiped his mouth as he took a sip of Hokuto-chan's homemade chrysanthemum tea.
"I want to see how this turns out."
"What?!" Subaru looked at his sister and sighed. He bowed his head in defeat. "I need help. Not any more supporters for him. The two of you are awful separately as it is."
"I can't help you in everything your whole life," Hokuto answered matter-of-factly while sipping her tea.
"You know exactly-Ow!!!!"
"Rush over to the infirmary nurse's office!" Hokuto commanded while the soccer players bowed their apologies as Subaru wobbly got up. But, of course, Hokuto had to scold those players and mentally put them on her hit list for even hurting her brother.
When they got in front of the office, Hokuto cursed under her breath that she had to rush to class in a few minutes or the terror teacher Sadamoto would mark her absent regardless of her excuses. And that would lead to more problems…ones that already happened the first and last time she was late by one minute to tell Subaru something.
"I'm sorry I can't stay with you, but you know where I'm going next." She sighed as she patted her brother on the back. "I'll be back. And soon."
With a dizzy head, he nodded and said an unassuring reply of, "O-okay, Hokuto-chan."
She left as he opened the door. While opening the door, he greeted politely, "Shitsureishimasu."
As if becoming suddenly sober from being drunk, Subaru looked at the infirmary nurse in front of him. He gulped as he blurted out without much thought, "Excuse me, what are you doing here?"
"Hello Sumeragi-kun~!" his homeroom teacher said as he smiled brightly at him.
"I don't want to be left alone with him. I shouldn't," he thought as he tried to find an excuse and pretend that he didn't need help anymore.
But, fate wasn't with him, as he took his first step to say something, he tripped on something and his sensei caught his waist. "Are you all right?"
"No," he wanted to answer, but instead, he nodded his head while trying to push himself away from the pervert. "I'm okay. Thank you very much."
"What's wrong with you?"
"I was hit by two soccer balls. One on the head and one on the side." He winced in pain though he tried cover up his right side. If he showed how truly hurt he was in front of Hokuto, she would have creamed those players until they were living on life support. She wouldn't kill them. She would love to see them struggling to live.
Hokuto was just evil like that.
Seishirou laughed at him as he motioned for Subaru to sit on the bed before him.
"I think you should just sit out the rest of the day, but let me have a look at the side where you got hit with the ball."
Subaru just stared at him with an embarrassed look.
"I need you to lift your shirt."
Subaru gulped. "Excuse me?"
Seriously, Seishirou repeated once more, "I need you to lift your shirt."
He sighed as he lifted up the shirt and turned red along with it.
Seishirou looked at it closely. "That doesn't look too good."
"Yes…I can feel it," Subaru answered back. He didn't have to see how black and blue it was.
"Can I touch it?" Seishirou looked at him.
Subaru's heart beat a million times per minute.
Was there something wrong in how he asked this?
"Y-yes, you may."
It was then Seishirou poked it lightly and Subaru yelled.
"I think you've got to go to the hospital for this."
Seishirou then laughed as he told Subaru, "I think you should put down your shirt down. Then, he added in a joke, "Though, I like looking at more of you."
Subaru closed his eyes as he immediately put down his shirt in a humph.
"Now, just rest." He helped onto the bed. "I'll take care of everything."
Subaru was so confused as to what this all meant. First he hit on him, then he's being nice, and now he's being really nice.
He became suspicious as he laid there staring at the ceiling in contemplation.
Seishirou turned his seat away from him and began writing some notes on his desk. Then, he tried to look through a book.
"Sakurazuka-sensei?"
"Yes?" Seishirou looked over at the temporarily bed-ridden Subaru.
"It's a wonder that I'm still in my seat and not in that bed with him," he thought as he just continued to smile calmly at Subaru.
"Why are you the infirmary nurse?"
"I'm the temporary one since the previous one will be gone for a few days. Since I am a doctor, the principal thought about me being assigned to this would be okay."
"Oh." Subaru nodded his head. "Thanks for answering."
Silence.
Seishirou - Write, write.
Subaru - Count the dots on the ceiling…
At that moment, Seishirou turned to Subaru. "I need to check some other things. Sorry about this. But I'm trying to do this thoroughly."
"All right." Subaru got up with Seishirou holding his arm.
Seishirou then checked him and he nodded to himself while Subaru what kind of notes were being taken. Was that bad if he took so many already?
But in reality, Seishirou was trying to figure out things of his own. He took notes for the school on his pad, but he sure was making a lot of mental ones in his head.
"He's this kind of person…" he had thought. "With this build…"
When he was finished, he stared at Subaru blankly, "Oh, I forgot to ask you one thing."
"Yes?"
Being off guard, he didn't expect this one.
"What kind of food do you want to eat? Do you still want to eat at the one I pointed to? But since you're sick, maybe we should have take out?"
At that moment, Seishirou pulled his chair closer to Subaru's while Subaru couldn't exactly run away.
Smiling at him with his signature evil grin, Seishirou began to place his hands at each of Subaru's sides.
"You still want to date me?"
"And why not?" He winked at him. "Oh, yes, the little details."
"B-but you're my teacher!" Subaru protested as he dipped his head backwards as Seishirou's face kept on coming closer and closer to his without any attempt to stop.
"That's right." Seishirou smirked at him. "And what would Sumeragi-kun like to learn from me first?"
It was then that Seishirou smiled at him smugly. "Or shall I surprise you along the way?"
Subaru looked from side to side. "I…I…" he stammered.
"What do I do now?" Though Subaru was showing his usual look of nervousness, inside he was really panicking. He kept on looking at Seishirou's amber eyes thinking, "And why is it so hard for me to resist him?"
"Shitsureishimasu!" Hokuto then came in to find Seishirou making a phone call and waving his hand at her.
"Subaru!" she whispered loudly not wanting to interrupt the phone call as she walked over to him.
"School isn't over, is it?" Subaru asked sheepishly trying to not make his uneasiness too obvious.
"Oh no, I ditched the next class because I love you."
Seishirou then finished his phone call and said, "Yes, I'll bring him over."
Subaru looked at him as Hokuto bowed. "Thank you for taking care of him. I hope he wasn't too much trouble."
"Shouldn't you be in class?" Seishirou asked skeptically.
"But I couldn't leave my poor brother alone." She then laughed as she introduced herself, "I am Sumeragi Hokuto. Subaru's twin sister. I'm older and wiser too."
Seishirou laughed at the introduction as he commented, "I didn't know you had a twin, Sumeragi-kun."
But inside of his mind, he knew he really wanted to roll his eyes at all these formalities. Of course he knew who these people were! And they sure were going to get to know him…
Especially Subaru.
Hokuto laughed as Subaru wished he hadn't at the moment.
"I am Sakurazuka Seishirou. I am the new English teacher for this year and Sumeragi-kun's homeroom teacher."
Hokuto tried her best to keep calm as she eyed Subaru and analyzed ever aspect of the man before her.
"I think we better take him to the hospital. It's only a few blocks off since it's on the campus."
Hokuto nodded. "Okay."
"Just say you're my assistant. I'll give you a pass so that you won't get in trouble."
They both helped Subaru to get out of the bed and out of the room.
Hokuto, who had always spoken her mind, didn't cease to do so at this time either. She said to Seishirou, "I like the way you think."
Seishirou laughed. "I like they way you think also."
Subaru looked at them in agony as they all walked to the hospital. And it wasn't from his headache or the rib torturing him by the minute.
"Oh no, they're bonding," he thought.
To be continued.
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Author's note: I told you I'd take a long time to update! So, I made this kind of long for you. ^_^ Well, I'm working on three fics that I really want to get done and then focus on this one. But don't worry. This _will_ get done. These are my two favorite bishies!
And I will soon make my two angst chapters for X Suby and Sei! Now, I feel like angsty Subaru and Seishirou fics. ^^;;;