Chapter 10. Deep Thoughts of You
A dark coloured skin teenage was heading to the school gymnasium, he was deep in his thoughts, and did not noticed that a girl with a ponytail was running to his way.
"Ouch! Don't you look while you're walking," shouted the girl, "Heiji! I've told you many times already. This isn't the first time!"
"Kazuha! You're the one running towards me! So what're you doing at the school gymnasium?"
"I've told you hundreds of times already, I've joined Aikido club last summer!" The Aikido club and the Kendo club share the same gymnasium for practice, so Heiji and Kazuha could see each other during the practice time.
"Oh, I see. You started learning aikido last summer, so how is it? Beware don't break your arms," said Heiji.
"Awwwww! Hattori-kun!" Lots of girls were already standing at the entrance, waiting for Heiji to come to practice.
"Of course I won't! Go and practice your kendo now." Kazuha immediately went for aikido practice, leaving Heiji alone.
Heiji had just finished practising kendo, he was about to go but suddenly someone grabbed his kendo uniform, and pulling him backwards. Heiji thought that it must be his friends playing with him again.
"Don't play around," said Heiji, "Satomi!" To his surprise, it was Kazuha grabbing his clothes. "Kazuha, what're you doing here? Shouldn't you finish practice already?"
"Eh…Heiji, have you finish practice?"
"Of course, what's it?" Heiji grinned at Kazuha, "or you broke your arm finally?"
"Aho! I'm having some extra practice, you know…. there's a aikido competition soon…so…um…can you help me to practice some aikido skills?" Kazuha was begging Heiji for help, she was still a beginner on aikido, and she needed to practice hard.
"Sure I can help you!"
"Heiji, Thank you!"
Heiji then smiled slyly, "but you need to buy lots of tacoyaki for me to eat!"
Kazuha decided to join the school aikido club last summer; she felt so boring watching Heiji practising kendo every day after school, so she decided to join the aikido club. Tomorrow would be Kazuha's first aikido competition, and she was glad that Heiji was there to help her for some extra practice.
"Thank you Heiji," said Kazuha.
"You're welcome, but don't forget about tacoyaki!"
"But how come you know all those aikido skills?"
"Oh, I've been watching you practice it every day."
"Eh…every day?" Kazuha noticed that her face flushed slightly.
"Kendo club and Aikido club are practicing together, so I know some of the skills."
"Oh really? Show me!"
Heiji had his hand on Kazuha's shoulder, and he was ready to grab her. Kazuha could not keep his balance and was about to fall onto the floor; Heiji then immediately had his arms around her head.
"Daijyoobu, Kazuha?" Heiji was on top of Kazuha and their faces were only a few centimetres away. Kazuha could feel her heart was pounding so fast that it could almost escape from her body. She pushed Heiji away at once, "I'm alright."
"It's already late now, let's go home now."
"Right, let's go home now." Kazuha still had her hands on her chest, feeling her heartbeat. She was wondering what had happened to her.
Heiji and Kazuha were finally reunited in the same classroom in their second year of junior high. Kazuha noticed that Heiji, sitting in front of her, was not listening to class. His face was hiding behind the textbook; he had fallen into sleep already.
"He must be staying late at night again, reading the latest released detective fiction," thought Kazuha. Kazuha suddenly remembered the night he helped her practising aikido, and her face blushed again. She immediately shook her head hard, trying to shake Heiji out of her head.
"Toyama-kun, Toyama-kun," said the teacher, "please read the following." Kazuha stood up at once and looked at the textbook, trying to find the correct passage she was suppose to read.
"Toyama-kun, I've noticed that you're not listening already, and you know exam were approaching, if you don't work hard, beware you'd fail!"
Kazuha was about to protest herself, but she suddenly saw Heiji's head had just fallen from his hands, and his head hit hard onto the desk. She could not help but laugh out loud.
"Toyama-kun, go out and stand at the corridor until the end of the lesson," said the teacher, "Hattori-kun also!"
"It's all your fault, Heiji," said Kazuha, blaming Heiji, "this's my first time to stand outside of corridor."
"If you pay attention at class, you won't be here now!"
"Aho! I've found you sleep during class, so I'm thinking how to wake you up! I've promised obaasan to take care of you at school! But you prefer reading those stupid detective fictions then paying attention at class."
"How dare you call my fictions stupid! It's so interesting to read about all those tricks and mysteries. I'd solve all kind of mysteries now, and I could be a good detective in the future."
"I see. But I don't think you could even guess what I ate this morning."
"Let's have a bet! If you ask me three questions about yourself and I can answer it correctly, then you need to listen to my orders for a week."
"Huh? Listen to your orders for a week?"
"You're afraid?"
"Of course not! If you lose, you need to go shopping with me for one whole day!" Kazuha thought that this might be a good chance to win Heiji finally, "let's start. So what did I eat for breakfast this morning?"
"This is easy, you eat toast this morning," said Heiji, with a winning smile on his face, "you see, there're still some bread crumbs on your lips." Heiji then rubbed gently on Kazuha's lips, showing the crumbs on his fingers.
Kazuha was quite surprise to Heiji's action, she never knew that he could be that gentle to her. She could feel her heart was pounding so loud that she thought that she could only hear her heart beating. She was so confusing about her feeling on Heiji…
"Eh…. Kazuha! The next question!" Heiji's voice drew back Kazuha to the real life.
"Huh…oh, the first one is a gift for you, the next one is more difficult," said Kazuha, blushing slightly, "why did I come late for school today?"
"Um…this's a tricky one," said Heiji, thinking seriously, "you stay up late at night to watch drama, so you can't wake up today."
"How did you know that?"
"You're the one talking about the ending of the drama every day. Only one more question and you'd listen to my orders for one week!"
"Don't rush me, I need to think of one very difficult question," Kazuha was thinking very seriously, she did not want to lose the bet. "Okay, can you guess what shower gel I'm using yesterday?" Kazuha was grinning; she knew that she would win finally; she had just changed her shower gel yesterday.
"Are you sure this is your last question? This is so easy," said Heiji. "You're using…. wait a second." Heiji was sniffing Kazuha's neck, "you smell different."
"Aho, what're you doing?" Kazuha was trying to push him away. The school bell had just rang, "you don't answer it, so I win." Kazuha was heading back to the classroom, but Heiji held her arms immediately.
"You're using the latest released 'strawberry mix' shower gel! Am I correct?"
"Aho, how did you know?"
"I'm a great detective," said Heiji, "and you need to listen my orders for one whole week, my little slave." Kazuha lost to Heiji once again, but she was not as angry as she had thought. She was still puzzled with her weird reaction towards Heiji.
To be continued…
Sorry for the late update, quite busy recently…so happy to see Heiji and Kazuha finally appear in the manga!! Kauzha finally had weird feelings for Heiji, so what happened to them? Next chapter --- Kazuha and Heiji finally have some sweet moments?!
