Chapter 11
-Fuutarou-
The last thing that I could remember was Goro saying something about me thanking him later. I stirred in my sleep, enjoying the softness of what my head was resting on. "So... soft... wanna sleep... forever..." I murmured, before hearing someone giggling right behind me. I turned and hugged what I thought was a pillow, the softness of it making me feel even more comfortable, until I smelled a hint of lavender.
"Fuu... Fuutaro! Wake up please!" said a familiar voice, I slowly opened my eyes and saw a familiar black jacket. With my arms still surrounding her waist, I slowly looked up to see a very flustered Nino. "Hi... Um could you please let go of me? You're hugging me a bit too tight!"
I immediately let go and tried to sit up, only to come face to face with a softness I hadn't felt since I was a child. "Oomph! What the heck? I swore I didn't see anything when I was sitting up... how did I..." I then looked at Nino, bright red and a mysterious aura surrounding her. She looked at me with the intent to kill.
"Fuutaro... You've been a very indecent boy the last three minutes since you woke up... I think a little punishment is in order..." She moved towards me, I tried to run away but my body just wouldn't move.
"I suppose this is what usually happens with Hiro when he misbehaves?" I asked, my whole body shaking from fear. Nino silently nodded with her hand already raised, and within a second she slapped the living daylights out of me. And the next thing I knew, I was out cold.
I woke up a few minutes later, instead of seeing the sunny sky from the pool I was greeted by the white ceiling of the infirmary. "What in the world... Ow!" I felt a sharp stinging pain on my left cheek, I looked into the mirror and saw that I was seriously beaten up. "Could Nino have done all of this? I can only remember the slap, but what if she was even more brutal on me when I was unconscious?"
Suddenly I heard someone cough in the background, turns out the nurse was there listening to what I was saying. "You're finally awake, Uesugi-san. Gotta say, you look really different compared to earlier."
"Well obviously, I got beaten up in the most ecchi anime protagonist way possible! I mean look at me, how could a girl beat the crap out of me for accidentally groping her?" I said as I gestured to my bruised face
"Well... you literally just said the reason, but anyway, Ms. Nakano only slapped you based on everyone else's report. The reason why you were so beat up was that after she slapped you, your unconscious body fell down the stairs, so don't be too harsh on her later, okay?"
"I... I see, I suppose I'll have to apologize for causing the entire mishap. If I may ask, where's Nakano-san right now?" I asked as I laid down on the bed.
"You've been unconscious for around an hour now, so she's probably about to start her next class, she insisted on staying here with you till you woke up, but I told her to attend her classes since I was informed about her grade situation."
I nodded, "Okay, I guess I should rest up a bit more, thanks again for your help, Tachibana sensei."
She smiled, "Don't mention it, next time just be a little more careful… and less indecency, you understand?"
I nodded and got my phone from my pocket, I noticed that there was a huge crack on the screen, probably from when I fell down the stairs. There were a bunch of messages from my brothers asking me if I was okay, but a message from an unknown number got my attention.
It read "Fuutaro! Hi! This is Nino, I didn't have your contact info so I asked Ikku for it, hope you don't mind. I'm really sorry about earlier! It was just the spur of the moment and I didn't mean to slap you so hard, I hope you can forgive me! If there's anything I can do to make it up to you, I'll do it!"
I smiled, "Why are you the one apologizing when it was my fault to begin with? Honestly, this girl..." I then typed out a response, "I'll take you up on that offer, I think I'll sleep for a bit while I'm in the infirmary, so could you just pick me up later? Wouldn't want to spend the night here by oversleeping. But focus on your class first or you're never gonna hear the end of my scolding, you got that?"
Out of all the possible things I could have asked, I asked for a girl to pick me up. I could have asked her for cash or for some sort of gift, so why did I just want to see her one more time? I guess that fall did something to my head, I guess a good sleep would get it back to normal...
-Chapter 11 End-