"Hachiman~ wake up! We'll be late to school if you don't come out!" Kiana loudly says as she knocks on the door, prompting Hachiman to grumble and lament about not being able to laze around before school, as he finishes up washing the dish he used for breakfast.
"Hold on you gorilla woman. I'll be out in a few minutes." He doesn't stick around to hear her reply as he enters the bathroom, which contains only the bare necessities for it to qualify as a bathroom.
5 minutes passes by and a wet naked Hachiman gets out of the bathroom with his towel wrapped around his lower body. He grabs another towel to wipe his hair then upper body while using his left hand to grab his school clothes from his wardrobe.
Taking 3 minutes to finish putting the clothes on, he nods as he walks to the front door while grabbing his wallet, phone, and keys then stuffing them into his pockets.
"Kiana?" Hachiman calls out, thinking that she has already left but he wants to make sure.
"Yeah?" He sighs as he hears her reply but continues, "Nothing, just wearing my shoes right now."
"Ok!" He wiggles his toes inside of his shoes, trying to find the comfortable spot, and he opens the door to reveal a grinning Kiana standing at the door.
"Morning!" She cheerfully greets, though he wonders just how she could be cheerful on a school day.
"…Morning."
"Come on, we'll be late!"
"Oi, it's only seven thirty and the walk there is only fifteen minutes."
"Ah details details. Come on, let's just enjoy the walk there!" They begin to walk to the elevator nearby.
Hachiman sighs as he bitterly mutters, "What enjoy? You threatened to break my door if I ever said no to walking to school with you." Though he soon glances over to her, in fear that she heard his comment.
Fortunately, he sees that she was looking at her phone while walking, so he breathes a sigh of relief.
She presses the button for the elevator while not taking her eyes off of her phone, so he fishes out a book for him to read. Few minutes later, the elevator comes with a ding, prompting both of them to enter, then Kiana presses the ground button.
"Hey, Hachiman, what sort of person is Mei?" Kiana suddenly asks, making Hachiman freeze as he was about to turn to a new page.
He puts a bookmark, a paper in the form of a sharp tooth, between the pages and closes the book, "Well, me and Mei never interacted before… Until you came around. So I only know that she is the most popular person for the second year at least, mostly due to her being the daughter of the famous ME corporation, though there are rumors of her father coming under fire because of something."
"Anything else?" She already put her phone back in her bag, and now focusing on Hachiman's words, "I want to know how she acts since I don't want to scare her away."
"…You already did yesterday. Remember?"
Kiana roll her eyes, "Besides that… I know I can get rowdy and all…" She sassily says before quietly muttering at the end.
"What?"
"Nothing."
Hachiman's turn to roll his eyes, "She's kind… And… Um…"
"…That's it?" He shrugs his shoulders at her incredulous words, prompting her to sag her shoulder, "Right… You don't care about other people."
"Not exactly true, I did try to fit in with people back in middle school but that ended in a disaster and made me move here…"
"Oh? What disaster?"
"…No."
"Awww, come on, tell me of a time where you were happy."
"…I… Can't remember."
Kiana opens her mouth but closes it, leaving the atmosphere in an awkward silence. She finally musters her courage to speak, "Hachi –" But gets interrupted by the elevator stopping.
Hachiman takes this chance to escape her by speed walking out, leaving her behind, "Stupid… Why did I tell her? Why does she make this feeling in me," He silently berates himself as he speed walks to school while silently hoping that Kiana won't pester him about his answer.
"Damn it… Maybe I shouldn't have moved here or gone to Chiba Academy… Stupid, stupid, stupid, -"
"Stop beating yourself up!" Hands grab hold of his shoulder and spin him around, making him gaze into Kiana's blue eyes, "I heard that! Stop beating yourself up because you moved here or went to Chiba Academy! Just stop it!"
Hachiman blinks before his expression hardens, "Who are you to tell me what to do…?" He icily says.
"Someone that cares about you!" He flinches after hearing her words and his expression loosens a bit, so she continues, "I don't want to say that I'm good at reading other people but I am decent at it and I'll tell you this Hachiman. You do not deserve all of the bad things that happened to you!"
Hachiman widens his eyes before narrowing them as he gazes deeper into Kiana's, in search of even a sliver of deceit, yet he finds none, only a resolute will that believes herself to be true.
"…How…? Can you be so sure of yourself?" He quietly mutters that she could barely hear, "Even though… You only came here yesterday."
She takes her hands off of him to shrug, "I met a lot of people due to trying to find my father… So I needed to see through the mask of people… Yet, I never saw one on you. You're right, I don't know much about you, but the things I know are more than enough to tell me that you won't hurt me." Kiana smiles at him.
"So, I hope that we can be true friends."
*A...N*
Welp, got inspired to write a chap for this fic instead of the others. So, Kiana is aggressively tearing down his walls and since Hachiman never had anybody done this before (they just shut him down or make him misunderstand), he's pretty clueless on how to deal with it since he can't say she's a nice girl because one - she does what she wants and two - she just bluntly says what she thinks. At least this is how it goes for this one of a kind fic. *shrugs* Anyway, on to the comments!
calderoneric758 - yep and I did see some scenes involving neptune from hyper dimension
Renashi-RE012 - the similarities are there lol. I always have this image of Kiana being the girl that is really active in whatever she wants, while Mei is the soft hearted one that softly reigns Kiana in. And I did put in a reference to her somewhere in this chapter
Otherrstuf - Apologies but this won't be just them 2 in the harem, though until then, just enjoy the scenes of them both
bluecookie420 - it's more like the enemy of my enemy is my friend situation where they both had the same idea to run. Also, yes
FromBelow - thx and Komachi is plot relevant, so no spoilers
