hey there again, fanon. Did you miss this story? I hope you did, because I brought you all this new chapter. Hahahah~, I dunno either why I'm so determined with this fic. Maybe it's because I'm hyped about the last episode of BorN. As a first anime-watcher then LN-reader, I must say, those changes were a little forced, even for someone who liked the Akame ga Kill! and school Days endings. So I'm kinda excited, yet not so much about the finale. Are they gonna pulled it megnificantly so much it might end up in a 4th season, or things will go out of control and goodbye anime adaptation? BTW, jitsu wa watashi wa had it's trailer! Yay, more supernatural harem shenanigans! Well, enough of that, let's go to the fic!
As always, DxD does not belongs to me.
"Woof, woof, Ichijou-sama~."
"Wan, wan! Rina loves you, Ichijou-sama~!"
"Me. Good bitch?"
"Take me to heaven, Hong Long~..."
"W-what...?" And then I woke up in a completely different place, laying on the cold floor, without any cover or something to comfort my stay. My eyes are a little sensitive to the light now, but soon they grew used to the new light, I found myself in a completely different place: I was not in the Tsukino Household where once I played video-games with Ichijou's sisters. Oh, no. I was in some kind of palace, laying on the black polished floor, surrounded by gigantic statues of the previous Satans, in a long corridor with several drawings of epics and black details. I was not just in a palace, but also in some kind of throne room corridor! "Ah... What the hell...?!"
"Oh, look. It looks like my favorite one has awaken!"
"Eh~? But you said I was your favorite, Ichijou-sama~."
"Rina wants to be the favorite too~!"
"Choose me. Good bitch."
"We can share the same place. As long as he doesn't forget us~."
"Oh~, Great idea, Ryuubi-chan~!"
All those voices... They seemed so familiar, yet in a tone so bizarre and deranged for me. Only one of them was from a male, an coarse and smug at that, what all the others were feminine and pretty weak and broken, it was like sanity wasn't even in them anymore. I turned my eyes to the direction where I heard those voices, and at first, everything was pitch black. After a few seconds, I could now see further into the darkness, but the image by the other side of the lounge made me wish otherwise...
"Ichijou...?" I said, trembling. Yes, by the other side of the corridor, sitting on a Crimson throne, there was the current host of the Gauntlet of the Red dragon Emperor. However, a smug, eerie grin was spread all over his face, as he was now wearing the robe of the Lucifer Satan, his Boosted Gear holding four black leashes. Those four leashes... We're holding the collars of four girls wearing skimpy clothes by his feet. Four girls I knew way too well. "Foxy?! Gremory?! Witch?! Ryuubi?!"
"Huhuhuh... Thanks for solving this little problem, Ryuubi-chan. You deserve a reward." That... Man that looked like Ichijou said with a grin, as he pulled one of the leashes and consequently the pink-haired devil whose collar was linked to it. Instead of pain or horror, she seemed delighted, to an erotic degree, for being treated like that. Ichijou hooked her by the collar and Forcibly kissed her. They started a making out session right in front of me, as Liu Bei trembled like she was having some King of nirvana. All the other girls moaned and sobbed seeing such scene.
"Aww~, no fair~. I want a kiss too~!" All the other moaned, clinging on him like really horny dogs. I gulped in horror as he turned his Emerald eyes to them, discarded Liu Bei to a random side like a ragdoll, as she was now panting and drooling on the floor, and began another sessions with every girl on his possession. In the end, he was surrounded by panting, trembling girls in minimal outfits and dull, lifeless eyes.
"I... I never want to be apart from my master..."
"Woof, woof... Rina wants to be with master forever..."
"Me. Happy slave."
"Those are... The chains of love... I won't ever break them... My master..."
"Good girls. I love you all so dearly. Now, let's take care of the remaining one, shall we?" He said, as he lifted his other hand to reveal another leash, that one loose and longer than the rest. He pushed it, and suddenly, I felt a strange force choke me. No... This can't be... Hesitantly, my eyes followed the trace the black leash was leading, to the floor, down all the way to the stairway from the throne, rolling forward and then...
... Attached to the collar in my neck.
"My dear, dear... Annabelle."
"A-Ah...!" I stood up and tried to reach for my ninja weapons in my clothes, but all I felt was skin. Lots of skin! My pajamas were now a lewd set of nightgown and lingerie, covering almost nothing, but just enough. I sneeze due to the cold wind blowing on my exposed skin. An stronger force pulled me to his direction, and I ended up at the bottom of the stairs. I tried to get up, but again the invisible force pulled me closer to the Sekiryuutei at the throne, as now his... Slaves were surrounding and clinging on him, moaning his name. I stopped completely still, straight and magically unable to move in front of him. "What... What is all of this, Ichijou?! What is that?!"
"Oh, you. Don't you remember? Being the Red Dragon gives me power even higher than a God's, so it was only natural for me to simply cheat my way to the top and make this world the way I want. Power is the answer for everything, right?" He said still with a smug smile on his face. Instead of a snark, I gulped. Huh, so power did corrupt him. "As you can see, dear Annie. I'm the King now. Everything is on my hand! The white dragon is gone, heaven is gone, the Satans are gone! Now I'm the supreme emperor on this world. I'm at the top, a place not even my pathetic senpai could reach."
"You... You chose domination instead of the righteous path. Can't say I blame ya, I would do the same." I said as a joke, as he chuckled like he wouldn't if he were in his right mind. Shit, I can't even reach the suicide seal on my back to end everything here. Not that it wouldn't make a difference. "But not on this magnitude. Using even your allies and peerage."
"Well, well, listen to this! This is just rude, Annie!" He said laughing, as he shook all of his slaves away standing up and walked to face me, our faces just a few inches. He picked me by the chin, and smiled devilishly. "Dear, dear Annie. There's no such thing as allies and peerage anymore. The world for me now is divided in three things: my slaves, the dead, and those lovely women whose minds I didn't break yet..."
"Why... You...!" That was the last drop. I opened my mouth and tried to bite him, but the invisible force stopped me when I was just a few nails from his neck. He put two fingers in my open mouth, and began to massage my tongue with them.
"You're so cute, you know that, Annie? Despite your lack of assets, you're smart, cunning, cute and an awesome ninja. I'll enjoy breaking and modeling you to be my slave." He said, as he removed his fingers from my jaw, and I coughed in disgust and uncomfortableness. Dear mother, I knew that power could corrupt people, but... This is just... Too much. He picked me by the collar and forced me to open my mouth. "But trust me, you'll enjoy this as much as me~."
"S-Stop...! Y-You monster...!"
"No, no, no, dear... Not 'monster'. 'Master'."
And then he forcefully kissed me. My mind went numb in a blink of an eye. I tried to fight against it, but everything went so quick. His tongue invading my insides and making me feel strange, while the taste of his saliva made me feel dizzy. I lost control over my body, as soon enough, I wasn't struggling anymore. I couldn't move, just feel... Everything... Is going... White... I can't fight... I'm... Too weak... Too weak...
Too weak...
Too weak...
Mast-...
*BAM!*
"Yeow!" And the next thing I faced was the hard wooden floor. Literally, I just literally kissed the floor from the ceiling, and I think I almost break my neck. What a way to start a day...
Wait... Was that a dream?
I pinched my own cheek, and soon regretted it as a red mark appears on my pale skin. Yep, that was a dream! A dream where I was a fucking slave! Of the red Dragon, no less! Geez, that's so uncool. Like hell I'd let that happen!
But again, he IS the legacy of the red dragon emperor, the host of the gauntlet of the Crimson Welsh Dragon Ddraig. It might take decades, but he'll be strong. Ridiculously, even. Huh... Now I'm doubting myself, while wishing for the best of him. Kuh! Whatever, one day I'll be the king of the Vampires, and so strong not even the red dragon will be able to fight against! Besides, he's an idiot. Even with all that power, there's no way for him... To be... Anything but... An idiot.
'Being the Red Dragon gives me power even higher than a God's, so it was only natural for me to simply cheat my way to the top and make this world the way I want. Power is the answer for everything, right?'
...
Power can corrupt people, can't it?
Ah, I'm overthinking! I'll just go downstairs, eat and go to school. I'm back to my old and boring routine, so better be on my best on the first day. I yawled, stretched myself a little and walked to the stairs leading to the ground floor. As soon I was there, a divine(sowwy...) scent invaded my nostrils. I walked to its direction, and it led me to the kitchen, where the rest of my group sans Foxy and Gremory was having a small breakfast.
Scrambled eggs and sausage, what a strange one for a Japanese house. The one who was cooking was of course the dragon, as the other two busty girls were eating on the table. Also, for some reason, the cast on Dragon's arm was gone, and he was dirty all over.
"Okay, what the hell just happened upstairs?!" Ichijou said turned to me with a frown. He was finishing the eggs on his fridge, and as he mixed them, he continued. "I can ignor that sound from earlier, but I just have to ask when you have a massive bump in your forehead!"
"I do?" I said as I reached my hand for my forehead and winced in pain as I could feel the swollen bruise in there. Ouch. "Sorry, I was sleeping in the ceiling, but then I had a nightmare."
"Please consider sleeping in the bed next time." He sighed, as he finished the scrambled eggs and placed the fridge on the table, as he sat next to Liu Bei. "You're not a bat... Completely. Right?"
"Right~..." I said as I picked a plate to myself and sat next to the witch. The purple-head looked at the plate, and sighed.
"Eggs. Sausage. Morning blowj-...?"
*PINCH!*
"Finish that sentence, and I'll murder you."
"Good. Good food. Thank you." And soon I released Witch boobs from my grasp. Normally, I would laugh at her, but my current mood wasn't in it's finest. I tossed my eyes to the dragon in front of me as he picked his own bowl and put rice and the eggs in it, wincing in pain as soon as he tried to take one bite.
"How's your arm, Ichijou? And where's the cast?" I asked him. He stopped rubbing his arm and looked back at me. Images of the nightmare flashed within a second, and made me blush a little. Shit, no. That was just a nightmare. Just a piece of my mind.
"Well, the cast disappeared midway night. And my arm is doing pretty good despite the usual pain. It doesn't bother me that much, but still hurts." He answered, clenching his hand in a fist a few times to prove his point, only to grimace in pain for that. Idiot. "Thanks for asking, though."
"No prob."
"We can always use this medicine Lady Gremory gave us!" And out of nowhere, China boobs reached for under the table and from there picked a exaggeratedly big jar, sealed with a robe and cotton cover. Wasn't that the strange ointment red boobs III tried to push to us? "Succubus's ring! The best medicine you can find in the demon world! You can almost feel the healing and warm aura from it, a true divine medicine!"
"I'll pass, thank you!" And the brunette in front of me facepalmed and lifted a 'stop' sign in front of the monkey girl. She pouted a little, putting the jar back to its place. "Just... Put that in another place."
"Speaking of Ladies, where's Foxy?"
"She left earlier today. Said she have an encounter with other supernatural faction leaders across the country. She'll be back by tonight." He finished his meal, picked five lunchboxes and placed them next to us. "She prepared those for us. How considerate."
"Cute." Said Tasha, poking the cloth of the lunchbox. I gotta say, that's kinda adorable, even comic from that fox. Ichijou looked at the again, and blushed, turning to a side and coughing a little.
"Huh~, don't want to know what she wants back with that." He said nonchalantly, but the spark in his eyes was screaming that he liked the present quite a bit. Oh, you idiot, you can't escape me. I'm a ninja, after all...
'Be my slave...'
...
Grrr...!
"Hey, Ichijou!"
"Yeah...?"
"You're... You're weaker than me, right?"
"Dick-move, Annie! What the hell?!" He grunted. Liu Bei only smiled and picked her own lunchbox, as Tasha turned her eyes to us, and took a deep breath.
"Dick move. Futan-...?"
"Shut it, Tasha!"
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What a unusual morning. First sleeping on the sofa because I accidentally locked myself out of my own room, then climbing all the way usto my window to pick my uniform and open the door. I got stuck in one branch on my first try. Then I had to prepare some improvised breakfast because I was too busy feeling sorry for myself to buy some proper things at the market. And after that, Hellsing said something about being stronger than me.
She looked troubled, but she's the third one to be. Gremory is in a coma, Akabane is acting strange, and now Hellsing is saying nonsense out of nowhere. What the hell is wrong with everybody?! To have an idea of how much screwed I am, the sanest members of the group are the battle-crazy monkey girl and the perverted witch.
Speaking of which, no pun intended because I'm not that lame, I left Ryuubi-chan on her own in my house, since is gonna really rain anytime now, while Campbell was walking beside me to Kuoh academy. Yeah, apparently, she enrolled here when we're all training back during golden week, making her also my fellow student, not just some random pyromaniac girl that appeared before me. The more you know...
"Does this makes you my classmate? Worse, my senpai?" I asked her miserably, trying my hardest to pass unnoticed by the crowd of students next to a busty, pretty, tall and aloof purple-headed girl. Since this is Kuoh, if any group of students ever found you like that, the boys will hate you and the girls will spread rumors about. Shit! Damn it all!
"Me. Second year. Your senpai. Deal with it." She said in her usual monotone and broken tone. This is just great. "You. Call me Tasha instead."
"No, not here. At least not for now." I said back, grunting. Please, don't make a dirty joke, we're right next to the entrance gate~. And then... We passed. Phew, at least now we can part ways. "Well, that's my cue. Going now. See ya later, Tash-... Damn it!"
"Later." Was her only response, as she waved a girly goodbye and walked to another part of the new building. When I took a peripheral view, all I could feel were deadly glares and sick giggles. Now, I've been caught in a Kuoh net of lies and jealously. Just my luck...
I dusted my worries away, and hurried to my classroom. Ninja is probably also around since she left home earlier too when we're all washing the dishes. I walked through the corridor, and entered the 1-B class, my own class. Man, never thought I would say this, but I missed this place. Maybe it was the enough-of-this-shit mentality, but my place one seat away from the wall feels so inviting now. And, like always, there was Kamiyama Shiori, devouring a fish vanilla sandwich. She took a bite out of it, and then looked at me.
"Oh, Tsukino-kun. Good morning. How was you holiday?" She asked, mouth stuffed with bread, vanilla ice-cream and sweet beans. I sighed, and smiled weakly.
"Worse than I was hoping for, but better than expected." I said. That's true, actually: hellish training, Insane rating game and some sessions of creepy medical procedures from hell aside, I actually feel more relaxed, calm and I have now more control over my Boosted Gear, not to mention I got some pretty good friend-... Acquaintances in the underworld. Like I was expecting, she gave me an confused look, and I just waved that comment away. "No, nothing. It was good. Kinda. You?"
"Mine was good. At least from what I could do. Grandma is doing great, and I won the price for a trip to the hot springs." She said, as I snickered in bitter irony. She smiled for the second time for me, and that one made me calmer for now. A sat beside her, and she picked another vanilla fish under her desk to give to me. "Hungry?"
"Ah! Thank you." I said as I picked the ice-cream and unfolded the plastic bag, taking a bite out of it. Huh, by the taste of it, it came from Osaka or somewhere near it. Neat. By the way, every time I see Kamiyama Around, she's always eating something. I hope it's not a serious thing. Maybe a disorder? But I'd be rude to ask, so none of that for now. "It's good!"
"Really? I don't like it very much." She said, taking one final bite and grimacing from it. "Better than what I've been eaten, though."
That one... Hit kinda hard.
The rest of the classes was the usual one. Teacher came, teacher went, I didn't understand half of things and had to ask for help from nearby classmates. Typical things. It ended in a blink of an eye, and lunchtime arrived. I unwrapped my lunchbox Akabane made, and started to eat it. It was surprisingly good. A simple lunchbox with rice, sausages, some fish slices and pickles, but everything good, tasty. I looked aside, and Kamiyama unwrapped one bigger than my own, filled with other good stuff. More: her one was a three store box filled with food. She's indeed a great eater!
*Din~, Don~, din~, Don~!*
"What? An announcement so earlier?" I wondered with myself as I finished my lunch. What unusual, an announcement in the middle of lunchtime just right after Golden week. We all stopped our doings to hear it. A few seconds later, the voice of Nemesis Gremory, or Morimoto Shizuka as her alias goes, came.
'Attention! Tsukino Ichijou-kun, from class 1-B, please present yourself to the headmistress' office! And please, come alone. That's all. Have a nice evening.'
typical. When it's not Rina, it's the other Gremory who calls for me. That's sad. Maybe for now I'm really the servant boy going right and left at someone else's order. Doesn't mean I don't wanna change that. But for now, since this is also from the headmistress Morimoto, I guess I have no choice...
"Huh, how unusual. What did you do, Tsukino-kun?" And Kamiyama asked turning to me, her mouth filled with rice and meat strips. I don't have time to come up with an excuse, so I'll go with the usual...
"I don't know." And without further ado, I took my way to the headmistress' room. Can't I have a normal lunchtime? As long it's not any supernatural problem, I guess I'm okay for now. But who Am I kidding? If it's me, then of course it has something to do with the devil society. At least Kaichou will be there to explain things to me.
And here I am. Headmistress' office, a simple door in the middle of the corridor. Being the ultimate loser that I am, I knocked a few times, and soon a voice as smooth as silk said I could come in. I opened the door, and there she is: long blackish-blue hair tied in a low madam's ponytail, blue eyes, fair skin and measurements close to none, wearing a suit and doing the Gendo pose. Headmistress Morimoto Shizuka, Nemesis Gremory's alias, by the other side of the table, beside a very known blonde. My... Spiritual Sister(?) Aria Argento, whose breasts came back to their gianourmous regular size. Phew, now all those pervert old men at Lilith's hospital can stop threatening me for, albeit unconsciously, shrinking her sizes.
"Good morning, Nem-... Headmistress Morimoto, Aria-San." I said, coughing a little because of that little slip. Of course, she's headmistress Shizuka now. She let out a sigh, and picked a few papers and organized them the toss to the other far side of her table.
"Yeah, good morning, alright." She said, probably bored about something. Intuition tells me is about Gremory again. I wonder how she is now. Not that I care about her... That... Much? "Say, are you free this afternoon? Since you don't have any... Clubs, to attend to..."
"..."
"... I was thinking that you could help a certain someone to take a trip around Kuoh."
"A transfer student? But why me? I mean, don't you have Kaichou Serena to take care of that?"
"Meh. I don't like her."
"What? Why?"
"Because her gramma Sona was a whorish hypocrite! Now suck it up and do as I say, you faggot!" She screamed and leaned at me, and soon blinked a few times, sighed and sat back on her seat. "I'm sorry. I'm really not in the mood today. Look, I just want you to walk around with this person and show him the place, he's not a transfer student, so just showing him around wil be enough. Anything, just ask Aria."
"Right. Well, so where's my protegee? I gotta knew him before I can have any kind of..."
*ZING!*
"Huh...?" I looked up to the ceiling feeling that uneasy aura around, and under closer inspection, there it was, a part of outlines were different from the rest. Ninja? No, a head popped out of it, and it was not ninja, but a handsome face with fair skin, spiky short white hair and yellow eyes, just like ninja's.
"Oh-hoh. You've spotted me. I'm impressed. Nothing less from the Sekiryuutei, it seems." A rather hoarse voice spoke from it, as it pushed the disguising cloth away and landed on her two feet in front of me. There he was, wearing a typical gakuran uniform, more or less my on height, lean and pretty stoic face with handsome features. I can't believe it: there's another male around here! "Yo. Tsukino Ichijou, right? The name's Ren, and I'm your baggage for today."
"Uhh~... Yeah, I'm really Tsukino Ichijou, host of the Sekiryuutei. Good afternoon." I said back, the boy in front of me Giving me the thumb up. "I'm your escort for today. Am I?"
"Yeah. That's Ren. He's a shinobi from the Hanzō ninja village or something. Take care of him and take him to a ride around the school." She said. Aria-San, on the other hand, walked towards us and gave me a little tap in the head.
"I'll put in you a seal here. If anything, you'll just have to activate it for me to contact you." She said, while I rolled my eyes wondering what cellphones are for. But I guess that'll do for now. And then, she flicked my forehead, with enough force for it to leave a bruise in there. ouch! I don't get it.
"Ouch!"
"And that... Is For shrinking my breasts during the Rating Game. Watch for your hands next time, bro." Aria said in mock(?) seriousness, smiling soon and giving me another pat on the head. "But I forgive you."
"Thank... You?" Sugar-Ice personality on its finest. Ren was eyeing us so curiously, while headmistress sighed.
"Okay, okay. Okey-dokey. Second period is coming closer. Better not waste any more of your time with this. You can go now." She said, picking up some more papers and organizing them file by file. Aria-san gently turned us around to the exit and pushed us to there, but before closing the door, she pushed Ren further and pulled herself next to my ear.
"If anything goes out of control, just tap the rune twice. I'll run at lightspeed to help you out."
And she pushed me away from the headmistress room. What was that about? Ominous as crap, I tell ya. Well, here we are, facing each other in front of the headmistress office. Wow... I always wanted to have a boy friend, but this is... My first contact with someone with my same gender and age. I'm nervous.
"So... Ren-san... Ren-kun..." We faced each other for a whole minute, as I coughed his name a few times to get used to it. In the end, I couldn't do it. I couldn't make a conversation with a guy around my age. So much for that, my dear sisters. "I'm sorry, Ren-san. I just can't talk with a boy my age. I hope you can understand."
"..."
"...?"
"What kind of declaration is that?!" He said stomping on the ground and screaming at me. Oh, look, another straight man! I'm so glad that I've found someone out there like that!
Wait, does that makes me the idio-... Ugh, I'm thinking too much!
'PEEEEEEEIM!'
"Oh, it looks like second period is on. So I'll be going for now. See yah later, Ichijou." And he picked a small black sphere out of his pocket and tossed it to the ground, lifting a great curtain of deep and thick smoke. In the next moment, when the most died out, he was no more here. A smokebomb like those from cheap ninja movies.
Oh, well. Bygones to bygones, I'll have to show him around anyway. Huh... This makes me feel kinda relieved, I'm not the only boy in the world. Not to mention the priest, Nero-San and Hyung, but now I have someone who's around my own age and isn't trying to kill me... For Now. I returned to my class without any problems, and sat next to a Kamiyama Shiori who was just finishing eating her riceballs. Geez, she's really a eater, huh...
Second period came like a lightning, and as always, I completely off'd during the lectures. I'm not... That interested by now. My mind went afloat elsewhere. First I thought about Kamiyama. Maybe I should ask her on a date... In a restaurant, maybe? She's always eating something, she'll accepted it... I guess. But then, my trail of thinking went elsewhere.
Akabane? Huh, she seems upset. Since I came back from my training, she's been acting all strange. I wonder what happened... She's probably afraid of her snack being taken away. But why Am I so worried about her? I mean, she's only interested in me because of this arm of mine. And since I don't have anything to give her, I shouldn't be giving a crap about her. Yet, I do... My mind went adrift again. And landed on the least likely person.
Gremory... I'm thinking about Gremory. She's in a coma, and I shouldn't care... But for some reason, I'm kinda worried about her. Thinking about her being on a coma... Is making me shiver. No. I don't care! Of course not! If anything, I'm glad that she's like that! No more pretty freeloader! No more naked calls and stupidity around my house! No more misunderstandings! What I know about her?! Nothing! She didn't even tried to know me! She's the wrong one! I hate her!
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...
But why?! I can't be comfortable?! Why can't I simply say 'thank Nemesis-San that witch is away from me!'?! Why can't I think that?! Why I can't stop thinking about her and a way to make her better?! This is ridiculous! Am I... Am I an idiot?! What the hell?! Why?! WHY?! WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY?!
"WHYYYYYYYYYYY...?!"
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...
"Uh... Because by producing air, the plants also produce their own aliments. We already talk about that in the previous lesson, Mr. Tsukino." And when I snapped back to reality, the whole class was eyeing me as I was standing on my two feet upward, hands on the head, mouth hanging open, sweating buckets. Everything was so quiet, a falling nail would be heard for a mile. "Mr. Tsukino, are you okay? You're crying."
"Am... Am... Am...?" I couldn't finish my sentence, as I started to hiccup and feel the hot tears running down my cheeks and chin. What the hell... I can't... Why Can't I... What... I don't get anymore! I don't get anymore! I picked my stuff, shoved inside my case and put it by my back. "I'm sorry, teacher... I can't... I can't... Please, excuse me...!"
"Ah, wait, mr. Tsukin-...!" And I ran away from the classroom, crashing the door open and walking away through the corridor. I don't care where, I just want to get away from here! I slipped, and kissed the floor. My stomach hurts! What the hell?! Why... Why am I crying?! Why am I doing this?! I'm scared; I'm so scared... I can't simply punch or shove the reason away! I can't do anything because I don't know what the hell I'm feeling! I'm feeling sick now...
I ran to the bathroom and once there I threw up in the toilet. What the hell is wrong with me?! What am I caring?! What is this in my chest?! I can't... I can't understand... What the hell is wrong with me?! I can't... I can't...
*KNOCK KNOCK!*
"Ichijou... Are you in there? What's wrong?" I heard a voice by the other side of the door. It's Ren. Because that's the only male voice I've heard in a long time, despite being a little high-pitched and too hoarse. So he came here to check on me. How considerate of him. "I saw you running in the corridors, is something to matter?"
"Go away. Can't you see I'm mourning the death of my sanity and the upcoming storm of madness that will probably wash away my mind of any kind of happiness that might come?!" I said in a rather bombastic way, as I slid all the way to the toilet floor, in the same level as my dear friend of toughest times... The toilet.
"What the hell are you saying?! You're being poetic... In the toilet?! That's disgusting!" He said, looking probably upset.
"Begone, friend of mine! For I am turned into the beast that can no longer understand the ways of this world! The revelation made me mad! The intelligible drove me into the abyss! The light now scares me, so my only path is through darkness!"
"You're just messing with me, aren't you? Stop being melodramatic!" Ren began to hammer the door with his fists, clearly annoyed and wanting to open the door. I hiccuped repeatedly as my angst grew even further.
"Is there someone out there... that Can fill my dark soul with LIIIIIIIGHT...!"
"Oh, c'mon! That's low even for now!"
Okay, okay. I'll stop. C'mon, give me a break. I was the straight man for almost two months, I need to be the over-dramatic fool once in a while or else I'll become a grumpy jerk for the rest of my days. Huh, maybe taking extra poetry classes has it's downsides...
"Okay, fine. Sorry about that. I had a minor case of mental breakdown." I said as I opened the door of the toilet and let the light come in. Arms crossed and frowned eyes, there was the albino Ren, tapping one of his feet. I ignored him for now and walked to the sink to brush my teeth and gargle my mouth with some water. Disgusting. I can still feel the fried tofu in my mouth~...
"Minor case of... What?" I dived my head into the water again and washed out all the bad feelings and vibes in my system. Sheesh, okay, deep breath, deep breath. C'mon, put it together, stupid Ichijou. Since all the women of my life are either 'bitchy' or 'caring', I can't really say that I have the best experiences with this. I mean, I was either spoiled or dragged around by them, so there was no much chance for me to feel something back, and those things... Are making me sick~.
"I dunno. Maybe I ate something bad, or I'm feeling things I've never experienced before. My body is rejecting new emotions as a disease. MY BODY IS REJECTING NEW EMOTIONS AS DISEASES!" I said as I turned to him and grabbed him by the shoulders, saying every word like my life depends on it. She looked surprised for a moment, then annoyed.
"Well, you're sick, that's for sure."
"REN...!"
"Oh gosh, what?"
"Will you be my best friend?!"
"Wait, what?"
"We have so much in common!"
*SLAP!*
"Jeez, snap out of it! You're making me feel sick, y'know!" And then, the albino guy slapped me. He slapped me in the cheek. My messy mind suddenly became clear again, and soon I returned to normal. Oh, so that's how being a Boke feels like. It's not bad, but I better stay focus for now. I slapped myself a few times, and sighed.
"You're right. Sorry for that. Let's try this again." I said coughing a little and trying to hide my blushing face. That was lame. I turned to him, extended a hand and waited for his response. "But yeah, let's be buddies. I mean, you're the first male who wasn't hostile towards me, so this makes you a person of respect. Even if not, well, we can just cross swords and be rivals. This is how it works, right?"
"..." Ren went quiet for a while, frowned at the hand in his reach, and turned his eyes to me. "You know I'm a ninja, right? 'Never compromise' is the first rule."
"So what? It's not like you'll be the first or the last to ever want my head or something. I can handle being friends with a ninja." I said, sighing. I have other ninja friend too. So I guess one more won't kill me... Yet. 'Never compromise'... Let's call this an alliance, then. I'm your escort, anyway..."
"This does not makes friends." He said, crossing his arms. A few seconds passed, and I saw Ren sniffing and scratching his nose, turning his eyes around, playing with his fingers, tap his arms with them, and then finally landing his eyes on my hand. He blushed, and extended his own for us to shake hands. "So... Let's stick with alliance."
"Yeah, that's right."
And we shared grins and a moment. Yet, I can't stop thinking about those other two... Shit! Are those girls growing into me?
Yeah, how about that? I might try to put some kinda emotions and development into the characters in this fic, but being a crazy chick and making everyone goes hamlet is also funny. besides, ichijou needs some idiotic moments, or else this straight man persona will be his only one. Now, to harem... Or not to harem? BTW, his arranged marriage with Irene plot has not being dropped yet. Let's have just a miniarc regarding ren and his reason for being at Kuoh academy. So, until next chapter! Stay golden~.