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When the bell rang for the next class to start, Kagome blinked and groaned inwardly. She'd forgotten to ask Morinozuka about the Kendo Club! Shooting a bitter glare out the window, she resolved to corner the taller senior later when lunch rolled around.
'It'll be more fun to test him with lots of other people around. To see if he loses the cool that he's apparently known for.' With that wicked thought in her mind, the miko settled herself in to put up with another couple of classes before the lunch break.
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Mori mindlessly tuned out the girls in front of him in the lunch line as he scanned the cafeteria for his cousin. Seeing the small senior conversing with some of the other people in the Karate Club, he turned his attention back to the line and stepped up to order his food.
After receiving and paying for what he ordered, he made his way to a couple of the boys from the Kendo Club as they waved him over. Contrary to popular belief, he and Mitsukuni didn't spend every waking minute together. They had their own friends too. Taking his seat, he noticed that they all looked fairly tense for some reason.
"Is something wrong?" the stoic senior asked, furrowing his brows when one of his fellow classmates rubbed his hair and sighed.
"Hey, Mori, did Higurashi talk to you at all today?"
He shook his head. The girl, in fact, hadn't even spared him a glance today. And for some reason, his stomach had been twisting all day. He was sure it was something he'd eaten for breakfast.
"Really? She seemed pretty determined to talk to you when she came by the dojo yesterday after you'd left," another boy countered, a confused look on his face. The Host blinked slowly and tilted his head in question. "Well, I mean, she said-!" He was cut off when a pair of delicate palms slammed onto the table. The group of six young men jumped, a younger student yelping in fear and ducking down when a distinctly feminine body pressed against his back.
"N-Nakago! You okay?" a second year stuttered to the boy, sweat beading down the back of his neck when he looked up and met brilliantly cold blue eyes as the girl they'd just been talking about leaned forward until she was nose to nose with a frozen Mori.
"Morinozuka," Kagome murmured in a sweet tone that caused several of the boys to flush. Nakago scrambled under the table and came out on the other side, hiding behind the tall senior and shaking.
"Higurashi-san," Mori countered quietly, forcing himself to swallow the dryness in his throat. Her eyes had captivated him again and he could feel everything else falling away. Why was she having such an affect on him?
"You are the Captain of the Kendo Club, correct? Or have these fine gentlemen been wagging their tongues with lies," the shrine maiden asked, sending an evil smile at the other boys. Every one of them other than their brave Captain shivered in terror. The girl sure knew how to intimidate!
"I am."
Her piercing gaze focused back on him, a bright gleam entering the ocean depths, "Oh good. I want to join."
Mori blinked and it seemed to break the spell she'd cast on him because he was suddenly aware of the noise in the room and the bated breaths of his fellow club practitioners.
"Are you sure you want to. There are no other girls in the club. If you decide to, you have to prove you can hold your own." He had to make sure that she understood that.
"Are you telling me I can't join because I'm a girl?" Kagome growled, fury flaring in those expressive eyes of hers.
"No. I'm telling you that if you join, you have to be capable," the quiet Host countered. She deflated in surprise, then sent him a dazzling smile that made him lose his breath all over again. And judging by the way his fellow club members reacted, they were just as affected as he was.
"Okay! I can do that! Thanks for the opportunity!" the miko cheered, her happy smile becoming smug all at once. It made the boys feel as though they'd suddenly been cheated. "I guess I'll see all of you after school." With that and a wave, she sauntered off, that smug smile never leaving her face as she left.
A few moments of silence later, the Co-Captain of the Kendo Club groaned and shook his head. "Why do I have the feeling she's going to beat all of us up?"
Mori couldn't agree more. The girl knew how to be lethal to a man's general health.
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