Author's note: this week, we have an introspective chapter from Renji's POV…I hope you'll like it
VII: DISTRACTION
Three months, two weeks and one day ago
Sighing, I rest my chin on my hand as the teacher keeps on blabbering over some stupid poetry.
Who cares about this!
I mean, I can't even remember the goddamn difference between a metaphor and simile – let alone why should I know it.
Damn.
This is so boring… I don't need to know all this human stuff.
Hitsugaya calls it "one of the many troubles of being undercover."
In fact, here he his, tacking notes as if life depended on it.
As if this poem by I-don't-remember-his-stupid-name could ever help us against Vastrodes.
Maybe we could try to read it to them – at least they'd fall asleep and we could kill them. Or at least it would give them a headache.
Uff… this stuff is so boring.
What can I do, what can I do…
Ok, Renji. Stop looking at her.
Right now it's not the best thing to do – even if you did choose this seat because it allowed you to watch her undetected.
Column on her right, one row behind.
Simply perfect.
Right now…
Damn it! I was looking at her again!
She's not even doing anything worth noticing!
She's only taking notes like the rest of the class – even if I must admit she looks much more interested than the others.
I wonder if she likes this subject… She looks so absorbed…
Damn it! Who cares about the way she looks!
Stop staring at her, Renji.
I should at least try to listen to the teacher…
"This image relates to the simile we analyzed at the verse 130, where the hints to the platonic doctrine concerning metempsychosis and…"
What?
Damn.
I'm not in the mood for literature right now…
I'm not in the mood for anything since I met Hitsugaya on my way to school this morning.
Back home they call me dense – behind my back, of course… if they did it in my face, that would be the last word they say ever – what was I saying?
Oh, right. I immediately understood that it was no chance meeting, even if he wished for it to appear so.
Considering that he lives on the other side of the town, I don't know how he hoped to pull it off.
And he's supposed to be a genius…
I can't believe what that- that flea had the nerve to tell me!
"You are losing your focus on our mission."
As if that could ever happen!
Who does he think I am?
No, more importantly, who does he think he is, ordering me around like that!
He wasn't even chosen for the mission to begin with!
Unfortunately, the brat is a damn Captain – so that makes him the higher-ranking official among us. And unofficially our leader, although he wasn't fucking chosen.
Why did he have to come too?
Why do I have to put up with him?
Why? Why?
…
Why am I staring at Tatsuki again?
Ack! Luckily he can't see me from his seat or I'd be getting another earful at lunch!
Which would be extremely annoying, since he's just… just… hallucinating!
Yeah, right.
Either that or he's just making things up to bug me!
I mean, I haven't developed any fascination toward the human world!
And certainly I'm not attracted to Ta- the Evil Midget!
A distraction, he called her!
Tsk! As if I could be distracted from the likes of her!
I peek at her as she listens to the lesson, eyes glued to the blackboard.
When we fight, she focus on me like that….
Bah! Probably her only positive trait – good attention span, I mean.
A distraction… I really can't see how could I be distracted by her!
She's nothing special, just another face in a class full of meaningless humans.
There's nothing that makes her stand out – apart from her fighting skills and her bossy manners.
She's not beautiful either.
A sneak another glance. No, definitely not beautiful.
Not to mention she has the worst temper ever!
She doesn't even try to look at least more feminine!
Let's not forget the most important thing: she's a human.
Only a weak, useless, clumsy, stupid human teenage girl with serious attitude problems.
How could he even think that?
I know we fight all the time, but it's not a distraction! It's merely a-a…well, a pastime. Really. Nothing more and nothing less.
Why did he come to talk to me?
The problem simply doesn't exist!
Instead of bothering me he should have a talk with Ichigo and Rukia.
They're just like us, aren't they?
Always fighting and bickering – well, they're also obviously in love, which we aren't.
Oh, the Hell with that!
I slightly turn my head to the side and watch her.
Watch her as she frowns and underlines a few sentences on the book. Watch her as she copies down the words on the blackboard, then starts toying with her pen. Watch her as she checks on her watch, then draws a random sketch on the corner of the page.
I sigh.
Hitsugaya is plainly crazy.
Tatsuki's only a weak human….
Out of the corner of my eye, I see her smile to a secret thought in which surely I have no part.
…but she does make such a powerful distraction.
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