"Ah~ that was a meal fit for a Kaslana."
"More like a pig. You demolished food that could have fed five average people in record time."
"Take that back! Or else I'll bite you!"
"Oh? Just try it you gorilla woman."
Hachiman and Kiana banter as they enter the classroom, drawing eyes on them all the while. He feels the stares, prompting him to walk a bit faster, while she looks unbothered by the stares.
"Ah! It's Mei!" Kiana looks to her right and sees the same purple bow tie female sitting while studying by herself, making her change course and approaches her instead. While Hachiman shrugs as he sits down on his seat and pulls out a book to read.
"Hello!" Kiana smiles as she stops right in front of Mei's table, "What's your name?"
"Oh, um, hello. Mei Raiden." Mei slightly flinches at the unexpected arrival, but recovers quickly, though she only briefly introduces herself instead of her usual greeting.
Kiana nods before grabbing Mei's hands with hers, prompting the latter to flinch, "Will you be my girlfriend?" Kiana bluntly asks.
"Eh?" Mei blinks then looks down at their intertwined hands then back to Kiana's hopeful face, "Excuse me?"
"Will you be my girlfriend? I like you."
"Oh, um, no thank you. I don't see girls that way."
Kiana flinches as she steps back, hitting the chair behind her, "No matter! I will win your heart no matter what!" She resolutely declares while standing straight with her eyes gazing intently on Mei.
Mei awkwardly smiles while looking away from her, then she blinks as she sees everybody else in the classroom looking at them, "Um… Kiana, you're causing a scene…" She awkwardly says as she fidgets a little on her seat.
Kiana blinks then looks around before shrugging, "Meh, I don't care. Oh right!" She walks over to Hachiman, who was ignoring the situation by immersing himself in his book, and grabs him by the arms.
"Huh?" Hachiman blinks as he feels the iron tight hold over him, prompting him to look at Kiana smiling at him, "What?"
"Come here!" Kiana lifts him up from his seat, making him yell while spouting profanities at her, then brings him over to Mei, who is watching with a blank expression.
"How about I throw Hachiman into the deal?" Kiana hopefully asks, all the while ignoring the death stare from him.
"Um… I… I'm not looking for a relationship…" Mei glances at him, "We never really talked before, so…"
"Aww… Also this is Hachiman, my best friend! Let's hang out later after school." Both Hachiman and Mei look at her with incredulous, though the former shifts into annoyed.
"Oi, let go of me you gorilla woman!"
"Hachiman, that is no way to talk to a lady."
"Haaaah? Did you even see what this gorilla did to me just now? And I don't want to hear that from you, miss popular."
"Hachiman don't bully my girlfriend!"
"I am not your girlfriend Kiana!"
The onlookers gaze at the trio, consisted of the ever so popular Mei Raiden, the transfer student Kiana Kaslana and the infamous loner Hachiman Hikigaya, with disbelieve, yet too scared to do anything else due to the fact that a certain someone managed to effortless carry a person like they were a piece of feather.
"Alright! Everyone back to your seats! Class is in session!" The English teacher comes in and shouts as a vein throb at his head, "Sit!"
The students reluctantly sit down at their place, some more than others, and the teacher coughs before saying, "Ok class, today we will be learning about sentence structures…"
"Haaaaah finally school's over!" Kiana leans back in her seat before getting up, "Hachiman, Mei, can you two show me around?" She looks around, only to blink as she sees everybody else here except for 2 people.
She grabs her stuff, hastily puts them inside her bag and heads out of the classroom. She gasps as she sees Hachiman and Mei hastily walking away.
"You two are so mean to leave me behind!" Kiana wails as she throws herself at them, almost knocking them down in the process.
"It wasn't like that Kiana, um, we were just going outside to get some fresh air, right Hachiman?"
"No we were definitely going to leave you behind."
Kiana wails even further at his words, while Mei glares at him, to which he responds with a shrug. Though, both of them freeze as they feel their bones threatening to be crushed.
"As compensation for the trauma, please show me interesting places here. Oh and food please," Kiana sweetly asks, to which both of them hastily nod, only then did she release her hold on them.
Hachiman plops down onto his bed, mentally and physically drained after showing Kiana the important places in Honshu and finding out that she lived in the same apartment block as him.
"…Why did I act like that?" He silently asks out loud, "Usually I would ignore people like her… So why didn't I?"
"Nice? No. Bored? No," He keeps thinking of possibilities to his dilemma, yet not a single one sounds right to him, making him sigh as he buries deeper into his bed, "Screw it. I'll think tomorrow..."
Hachiman closes his eyes yet opens them then gets into a sitting position, "Maybe…" His eyes land on his phone then he shakes his head.
"No… I can't do it… I'm sorry that you have such a cowardly and useless older brother Komachi…" He lays down again and closes his eyes, bracing himself for the high possibility of a restless night.
*A...N*
Welp, not really satisfied with this chapter, probably because I can feel myself burning out of my writing spree... Anyway, on to the comments:
bluecookie420: I can always call Kiana for you to be crushed, almost like what happened to Hachiman
Renashi-RE012 - Unfortunately, I don't feel that interested in reading the manga, so I'm taking the info from HI3 timeline fandom (and various of other fics I read about HI3)
ArmantusCumPinnae - Thanks, also this will be hopefully explained later as we go on (I also have no clue why even though I am the writer, more like the bloody piece grabber of the worlds in my head). Also, no worries on not being able to play villain, I didn't mean any harm with my last comment and that I still had a good chuckle from it after some time passed
