Spoilers: just in case... Aya-chan, Kase
Disclaimer: Weiß doesn't belong to me, if it does then you tell me why am I still writing fanfics? *promptly burst in tears*
Aries Gakuen: An All-Girl School
Part 5: So The Romance Begin
Kisaragi Yuu
"Don't be silly~" Chiyo laughed at that as she went away for awhile, took her towel to cover her body as her friends followed her, and went back to the bathing stall. We could hear the girls surrounded the mysterious bathing stall as Chiyo stepped forward and put her hand on the knob.
Then Aya let go of his hand, slipped his hands between my hips and pulled me closer. I gasped.
The door slowly opened.
Aya moved his face towards me, then his lips touched mine.
"Huh~?" Chiyo exclaimed, stupidly.
My eyes grew bigger than saucers as I saw a pair of pale eyelids closed tightly in front of me. I believed they were just a few mm away from my own eyes. Then I saw roses and sparkling stars all around us, imagine those old manga with gay couple in it? Yep, just like those.
Dammit what the hell was I talking about?!
Aya. Was. Kissing. Me! Oh dear God, AYA WAS BLOODY KISSING ME!!
If my surroundings were not melting, I swore I felt my butts were melting out.
"A-Aya-san~? A-and Ken-san~?"
Oh you stupid moron, do you have to call out our names like that?! She sure knew how to humiliate a man who was being kissed by a man in a shower in front of creatures on the opposite sexes in a school girl while they were supposed to be under covered and the man didn't even ask for the permission of the other to kiss him yet he just kissed him right away since he seemed to not giving a little damn about how the entire nation felt about man kissing man in a shower with—
"Kyaaa~!! They were doing it~!!"
My eyes turned a sudden violence to the source of the voice, Chiyo. Then before I could tear off the kiss first, Aya already did. And he made this funny oh-shit-I-got-caught-kissing-Ken-in-the-shower-by-you-all, which was pretty weird, remembering how impassive his mimic had always been.
I didn't say anything though, I felt my limbs were pretty weak and I felt like digging a deep hole on the tiles, threw myself in it, and stayed there until Aya got himself grandchildren. If that was ever possible.
"Chiyo-chan and friends...? I thought the bathing place was not in use after..." he looked to his watch, "oh my, 2 in the morning? Sorry Ken, I never thought how long it takes us to... you know."
I blushed, Chiyo blushed, particularly all of the girls surrounding us were blushing except a certain redhead.
Damn him. Damn him. Damn him.
"Eh~?"
If Aya and I were cats, our ears would have pointed a vertical direction to that single long 'eh'.
"Aya-san~ your breasts~ oh wow~~"
Oh shit. We forgot the fake breasts!! Chiyo stared down to Aya's *flat* chests and kept her stare at there, talk about rudeness. Aya didn't seem to have thought about that itsy bitsy mistake, and the silence was getting longer, which was not good at all.
"He- er, she forgot to use her bra!!" I loudly exclaimed.
Silence. Stares. A deathglare.
"Huh~? Pardon~~ me~?"
"Um, ah, well I meant... um, actually this was kinda embarrassing, when Aya was little, he—urk—she, didn't grow very well because she was, uh, sick. I didn't know what kind of sickness it was, but it made her became very skinny! And, well, um it made her breasts became kind of small in size and she was thought of being a man all while and it really irritated her, so she started to use..." I felt deathglare from a certain man, oh I'm *so* dead.
"...um, what do you call those things? Chiyo-chan?"
"I don't know~ silicon~? Fake breasts~?"
"Ah yeah those! Or something..." I finished my talk as I tried my best to not face them with my whole body since if Chiyo saw my flat chests too, we got two girls who suffered from an unidentified disease that particularly infected the size of normal breasts.
"Oh~ that's too bad~ but I guess that's okay since you are beautiful even without breasts, Aya-san~! Don't worry~! We won't tell anybody about it~!" Chiyo smiled encouragingly.
"Of course you won't." Aya's tone was flat and he was smiling but his deathglare didn't stop.
I guessed I have to say my last prayers tonight.
"So now that you two are here~ how about joining us bathing together~? I want to try your soft skins, you cute lovers~!" she stated with a biiiig smile attached on her lips. The other girls behind her nodded in unison.
"No thank you!!" I replied too fast. Dammit.
Everybody stared at me again. "Er, I think Aya and I want to go back to our room, it's already late and eventhough tomorrow is Sunday, we have our own plans... so... will you excuse us?"
"Sure~! But do bath with us sometimes, it will be fun~!"
"O-okay, thanks anyway. Good night everybody!"
***
"Ken!! Don't you dare run away from this!!"
"Aaaaaaaah!!"
"Aya-kun! Put that katana down!"
"Will you all cut this out?! I'm trying to sleep!"
"Hey! Stop jumping up and down like that, I'm *so* going to kill you!!"
"S-sorry Aya! I'm sorry! I really am! I feel terrible!! But I really didn't think of anything else, and she could ruin our covers!!"
"But that doesn't mean you could infect my breasts size with that sickness!! You could have just shut up and let me think!"
"Breasts size?"
"Oh shut up and just go to sleep, Yohji-kun!! Aya-kun, calm down!! You are going to destroy our dorm room like that!"
"Ken you little moron, come here and let me kill you!!"
"A-Aya! It wasn't my fault entirely, you made me say it!"
"What do you mean it wasn't your fault entirely?! You made them believed that I got some sickness that made my chests flat!"
"Hey you kissed me without any warning in that shower!!"
"WHAT??!!"
The last one came from the blondes in the Weiß, Yohji and Omi.
After the whole talking in the bathing place, we went out off the bathing stall to the hallway, bringing the pile with us telling them that we threw some of our outfits there. It was thankful that Aya was the one who brought the pile, it slowed him down in running to catch me. I ran as fast as I could from the furious leader to our dorm room, surprised to see Yohji and Omi were already in there with their pajamas on.
For your information, Omi's pajama was coloured in pink with small elephants for its motive, while Yohji's pajama was... well, he didn't wear the top so I will explain the bottom, which was the long pants, it was bright green in colour and had this 'I Love Me' writings everywhere.
Well anyway, back to the main problem.
"A-A-Aya-kun kissed Ken-kun in the shower...?"
"Woo hoo! Talk about kissing spots! How was it Ken?"
Damn Yohji, I wished he burn in hell, "it was pleasant, it was sexy, it was better than your kiss, don't ask me how was it!! I didn't taste the kiss okay?! And it was for our sakes, so our covers wouldn't blow up!"
"Glad you notice."
I twitched, "dammit Aya, you also got to notice that my talk was to cover us up!"
"Yeah sure it was, I'm a sick girl with flat chests afterall."
"Get over it!! I'm so sick listening to your complaints when you don't listen to mine at all, at least I didn't kiss you and I didn't inform the whole goddamn school that we are lovers! Now let me take a bath in peace cause I don't want to catch a cold tomorrow!"
I slammed the bathroom door as hard as I could. And opened it violently as I threw a towel to Aya, sent him my darkest glare and slammed the door back again. The doorsills rattled due to my strength and anger.
I mumbled to myself how Aya really irritated me tonight and how I hated this mission to death. I stripped my soaked clothes off me and I turned on the shower. The water rushed through the metal and it hit my body gently. It was warm, just as like the shower in the girls bathing place earlier.
It reminded me of the kiss.
I felt a sudden heat on my face. "Damn, what am I feeling embarrassed for? It was for a cover-up, like I said..." I exclaimed to myself. I turned to the rectangular mirror the school placed on the side of the shower and saw my cheeks flushed up. I was blushing. And I didn't like it at all.
I wasn't supposed to be blushing! I told myself that as I put my hand on my cheek and stared to the other me in the mirror.
Yes, I wasn't supposed to be blushing... but when I thought about the kiss, I remembered the close radius between Aya's eyes and mine, the gentleness of his lips, how warm it felt, slow but in the same time shared a little lust... it was everything.
I blushed even more. I actually enjoyed the kiss...
God, what's happening to me?!
***
After spending some time trying to look as usual as I could (I practiced in front of the mirror), I opened up the door of the bathroom to the room. I looked around, there was no redhead in sight.
"Where's Aya?" I shortly asked.
Omi's wide ocean eyes looked up, he tried to cover his blush with a book but he couldn't fool me. I saw his blush very clearly.
...Okay so I didn't really *see* the blush, but it was clear that he was covering it since the book he was holding was upside down. How the hell could he read an upside-down book?
"A, Aya-kun went out."
"Out? Where?"
"Well... he said something about 'settling up with his feelings' and without anything, he just went off himself."
I widened my eyes, "but he hasn't bathed yet! He'd catch a cold with those soaked suits in minutes! Why didn't you hold him up?" my voice started to rise as I took my jacket, preparing to catch up with Aya.
"He would but you know how does Aya look when he gets mad, don't you?"
That was the lazy voice of Yohji, he didn't even turn to me when he said that.
I didn't waste any minute at this conversation and rushed out off the dorm's room to find Aya. I ran through the (damn long) hallway to the receptionists on the lowest floor, asking them whether they saw a redhead with scary glooming purple eyes walking through them.
It was very lucky of me that they did see the 'redhead with scary glooming purple eyes', they said that the redhead headed to the center park of the dorm. As soon as I knew that, I ran to the park.
And ran back as I had no idea where the park was, stupid me realized that simple thing after I reached the second floor.
What the hell was this, a dorm or a shitty 5 star hotel?! I cursed in my own way since the dorm was utterly big and I believed that half of the world's nation could be stuffed in here.
After I got the direction of the park, I ran to it – now for real.
There in the middle of the breezy night, I saw a redhead sitting on one of the wooden benches. I didn't take any second to realize that it was Aya, but it did cost a while to clear up my throat.
I mean... the vision in front of me was something that I didn't see in my original everyday life, the vision in front of me was something extremely beautiful that it made me feel guilty to even try to touch it. Eventhough I knew very well that the vision was as sinned as I did.
I gulped down my nervousness and I strolled to his way, while my lungs were trying to rest down again.
"Aya?"
He turned.
"Hey."
Purple eyes looked to me but silent as ever. After awhile, he turned his head back straightly without saying anything. I gulped again, dammit this was going to be harder than I thought.
"Can I sit beside you?"
Oh God I couldn't believe I just said that! Just great, now he would glare at me and sent me a scram-you-noisy-little-brat deathglare that really worked on Omi whenever he caused chaos and troubles. Well, not as much as I did though.
"Suit yourself."
Huh?
"Huh?"
His face showed a little irritation, "if you want to sit beside me, then just suit yourself. It's not like I own this bench."
Silence. A breeze. Aya looked more irritated than before as I got up from his sit. My reflexes snapped my hand which reached out to him and held his naked arm, "wait! Okay I'll sit..."
"You could have made this easier."
"Ah, sorry..." I apologized as I sat down and so did he.
Both of us silenced, I cursed myself that I didn't read more books about conversation with a goddamn statue.
"Why are you here?"
"Eh?" I didn't get the chance to prepare myself until me ears were kind numb, my lips were like a glue attached to two sheets of paper, while his language became Arabic for me. I mentally kicked myself for my dumbness. "What did you say?"
"I said," he paused, "why are you here?"
"Oh that, well..."
I paused, he paused, we looked to each other. Another breeze came as like laughing at me.
"Well...?"
Dammit I almost forgot!
"AYA!"
"H-huh?" he gasped.
"You haven't bathed yet! You could catch a cold without changing your clothes, are you nuts or something?! Tomorrow is Sunday and we are going to take a rest for awhile, refreshing and stuff with Yohji and Omi, so why the hell are you here anyway?! You got to take a bath now or you'll be sick dammit!!"
Believe it or not, I shot those sentences without even a single breath. Maybe I should register myself as the babbling man in Guinness Book of Record or something.
The redhead beside me stared at me with widen eyes, still surprised.
Soon enough, his expression turned into a smile and soon turned again into a fresh peel of laughter. Now it was my turn to be surprised... or more like bewitched.
Aya was laughing?!
"A-Aya... you are laughing...?"
He didn't answer since he was still busy laughing his heart out. Seeing his laughter I couldn't help myself but to laugh out as well. As like the two of us were insane, we laughed heartily in the middle of the night on the park.
Minutes passed and my throat was getting soar due to laughing too much, I supposed he was in the same condition as I did since his laughter was also starting to fade away—much to my disappointment. We ended our laughter with a deep breath and a long sigh.
"Ken... really."
"Uh?" I shuddered as I heard him calling my name.
"You're really..."
My heart was bumping, what was he trying to say?
"Y-yes?"
He smiled.
"Stupid."
As like a hammer was being thrown to my head and made a sound of 'THONG', I sighed in disappointment. I would have guessed, Aya would never say anything like...
Wait a minute, what the hell was I expecting? Aya would never say anything like what? What did I want him to say to me?
Filled with questions, Aya broke down my concentration.
"But I mean, stupid in a good way. More like naivety. It was something that I lost long ago."
"Oh... I understand."
"Nobody has concerned that much about me in a long time, and it was just taking a bath..." he snickered, I blushed, "I suppose you're just being a good friend."
Ba-dump.
A good friend?
"Thanks Ken, and sorry about what happened a while ago. I shouldn't be mad at you since you were just trying to help, back then I was being immature. Sorry, that won't happen again."
Wait a minute...
He smiled tenderly again as he rose up from the bench, without any senses my hand reached out to him and grabbed his soaked shirttail. I was surprised as much as he did. I was sure that I was going to be rejected, like always, but I was wrong. He slowly unattached my fingers to his shirt and bowed down a little.
Then he kissed my forehead gently.
He whispered, "keep being a clumsy friend you are, we are lucky to have you."
Friend?
A strange aching feeling slipped up to my heart. No, I didn't want to be just friends. No, you got it wrong, Aya.
Finishing his last whisper to me, he rose up and headed to the lobby with his hands on his pockets, looking as cool as ever. My throat hurt as I managed to clear up my voice, "w-where are you going?"
He didn't stop walking but he turned his face, "take a bath."
He smiled, I blushed again.
Slowly his back disappeared in the middle of the night, heading to the lights in the lobby. I was still stoned here on the benches. I touched the spot on my forehead which he kissed minutes ago, it felt warm and hot in the same time.
Why did this ache come to me whenever I heard him saying the word 'friend'? Why I didn't want to be just friends with him?
What was happening to me?
I laid my back and stared to the night, full of sparkling stars. Then I remembered the day Omi once told me about his feelings and how his brain was getting a contradiction.
//"Ken-kun what was happening to me? I couldn't wipe off the face of Yohji-kun in my mind, and I really didn't want him to treat me like a kid. I want him to look at me in a different way, not like the way he looks at those women but in other way... goodness what's wrong with me??"
"Calm down, Omi... take a deep breath and re-think again. What does Yohji mean to you? Well for me he's a slack-off friend that needs to be kicked on his ass to wake up since he's damn lazy, but what does he mean to you?"
"For me he means... he means... everything."
"What?"
"Ken-kun... I think I'm in love with Yohji-kun."//
I snapped. Wait, wait a minute... did all of these fusses that came upon me meant that... oh no, could that be?
Could I have fallen in love... with Aya?
~TBC ^^ comments?