Chapter 4 - I want to protect you...

As they reached Ayano's house Budo stopped at her doorstep and breathed heavily. He had ran without stopping until they had reached her home safely. Budo then looked back at the girl he held tightly in his arms and saw that she had stopped bleeding. Budo sighed in relief, 'I really thought she was going to die for a second.'

"Please put me down." Ayano said as she looked at Budo emotionlessly. She quickly wanted to get out of Budo's arms and wash herself but not because she wanted to wash the blood off of her body but Budo's scent. 'He smelled nothing close to my senpai...'

"Are you sure? Your body could still be…" Ayano really hated it when people didn't listen to her so she pushed him off of her and landed on her two feet in front of him.

"I'm fine now" she said monotonously at him but at that moment her legs gave in, the loss of blood made her lower half weak. She stumbled a bit and unconsciously grabbed Budo's sleeve.

"Ayano!" Budo yelled as he held her arms, helping her up again. When he touched her Budo's heart thumped echoing through his body. But it wasn't a little pitter patter of the heart, no it was more of a craving that he needed to satisfy.

Ayano steadied herself and kindly let go of Budo's hands. She was getting really irritated having someone other than senpai touch her. She sighed as she turned around and opened her door. Budo looked inside and instantly felt a loneliness air that was familiar to him coming from her home. The lights were off meaning that there no one was home to greet Ayano when she came.

Ayano motioned Budo to come in, she wanted to get rid of the evidence he had on his uniform. Her blood mixed with the delinquents. She didn't want his parents asking about the blood on their son's uniform and eventually finding out what had happened that night. That would be more bodies to kill, not that she minded but it would take away precious time she could have spent getting senpai to notice her.

"Where are your parents?" Budo asked, he had never been in a girl's house before or any of his friends at that.

"They're...overseas." Ayano lied.

Budo felt that she was hiding something and eyed her. For a moment his eyes began to lose their light and his vision began to blur. All he could think of was 'I want her.' 'I need her. I want to embrace her in a way that she would never think of escaping me...'

Ayano looked down at her overly bloodied stained body and saw that the delinquents had slashed her uniform to pieces. She could see her bra peeking out. She then looked at Budo who at the same time noticed the same thing. Budo turned around quickly hiding his flustered face.

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to look." But Ayano didn't care. It wasn't senpai that noticed her body.

'I guess I have to wash his clothes, it's the quickest thing to do'

"Take off your clothes." Ayano said monotonously. Budo looked back at her with a surprised look on his face but then he quickly turned it a playful grin. Budo began taking off his school uniform and pulled down his shirt he had underneath, showing his bare shoulder.

"Please be gentle, after all I'm still a vir.."

"Idiot! I meant to wash your uniform!" Ayano quickly grabbed a book she had laying around and threw it at him. Knocking him down with it. Her face began to fluster 'How dare he? The only man I will give myself to is senpai!'

The book hurted more than expected leaving a mark on Budo's face but it was worth it when he saw Ayano covering her embarrassed face with her hand.

"Hahaha!" she was so cute.

Ayano looked at him as her face darkened. 'He lost it.'

"You look so different when you show your emotions." Budo smiled at her. Ayano's eyes widen, 'Me showing emotions? He must be joking I can't show any emotions at all because I am broken.'

Budo noticed the blood on his uniform as he was done laughing, although it didn't bother him he understood why she wanted to wash it. People might think that he had probably had done something to her.

"I'll wash them. In the meantime sit and wait awhile." Budo nodded, he couldn't tell her he could have washed it at home when in fact he couldn't. As Budo took off his uniform Ayano could see that he had his casual clothes underneath. She could see how defined his muscles were under his t-shirt and his nipples peeking out too. After he had given her his clothes Ayano quickly disappeared into one of the rooms.

Budo sighed as he sat on Ayano's couch. What happened at school that night was a lot to take in. But seeing Ayano fluster like that made him blush and his lower half harden. 'She's also washing my clothes just like a wife wou…' Budo sat up realizing what he just thought.

Budo' P.O.V.

What is this feeling? Everytime I think of her I want to touch her. I ruffled my hair in confusion. But there was still something bothering me, why did those delinquents jump Aisha-san? She was known to be a nice quiet girl amongst the 2nd years.

*Sigh, I have to pee. Maybe she won't mind if I use her bathroom. Her house was a single floor home so the bathroom shouldn't be that hard to find. It should be the room at the end of the hall so I walked in. But I didn't realize that the light was on as I went.

...Maybe if I hadn't opened that door and saw what I had seen, I wouldn't be like this. Or was it then that I had noticed my true feelings?

Ayano was in there, she must have taken a bath because her hair was wet. She didn't have a towel on but her back was to me, I could see scars covering up most of her back. Faded ones, recent ones. Some were so disfigured way that I could not imagine where she had gotten them from. She then looked at me, facing me. I slammed the door and waited outside. I layed my head against the door. "I-I…" I couldn't say anything. I had never seen a woman's body before. Her body was beautiful. 'Stop it.'

I didn't know how long I was standing there but I felt her jiggling the door handle. When she came out she had pink pajamas on with emotionless teddy bears. I had forgotten she was naked as I turned away from her trying to keep myself from laughing. The only face that she has made was the same face the teddy bear had.

"Here's your uniform, my washing machine is pretty fast." She handed me my folded uniform.

"Thank you." She gave me a small smile, 'Kiss her…' I shook my head, what the hell is wrong with me?

Ayano's P.O.V.

'Why won't he leave already.' I smiled at him kindly. "Budo thank you for rescuing me, if there's anything I can do to repay your kindness just ask." I said as I bowed. I had to say something to get him to leave. But he looked at me serious. "Why did those delinquents attacked you?"

'Fuck.' I guess I have to go with plan B.

I pretended to cried in front of him. The tears were real but they held no emotion in them. "I..I don't know why. I was really scared… and when they pulled out their knives…" Budo looked real concerned, "we have to tell a teacher."

"No." I wiped my tears away pretending to be brave. "I want to defend for myself. If I ask for help then I'll never know how to solve problems on my own. That is why I beg you Masuta-senpai, please don't tell a teacher." Budo looked at me with eyes that were yearning for something.

"You don't have to go through this alone, I'll protect you." Budo said, his face becoming a deep shade of red.

"N-no Masuta-senpai. You shouldn't."

"You said if there was anything you can do to repay me and I'm only asking you this. Let me protect you. I won't tell anyone." He looked at me his eyes meant that he was telling the truth. But I don't need anyo... Wait. If Budo was by my side I could easily kill Osoro. Her death would just seem like an accident after we beat her to a pulp. I giggled. It was too perfect.

I looked back at him and smiled. "Okay then. Please take care of me from now on. Masuta-senpai. Inside yandere-chan was laughing. 'Soon senpai we will be together.'

...

He looked at her, she had said his name. Well last name but it felt different now. He wanted her to say his name over and over again. Before he realized it his body moved on its own accord. His arms embracing her tightly. Ayano was at a lost of what to do, she did not expected this to happen.

Budo then realized what he had done and let go of her quickly.

"I'm sorry, I'll head home now. I'll see you at school tomorrow." Budo grabbed his clothes and left Ayano's house. The moment when Ayano could no longer hear him she laughed uncontrollably. She now has a pawn of her very own. "Senpai will be mine."

The next day Ayano arrived to school just like always except the air was different the moment she walked in. The students chatted amongst themselves but they seemed afraid of something.

"Aishi-chan!" Ayano jumped a little at her name being called. She was concerned about what the other students knew of the events of last night. It was Kokona that had called her from behind. "Did you hear what happened?" Ayano shook her head innocently. "Some of the delinquents were found dead in front of the school. They said their bodies were badly deformed."

'Damn it, I forgot to get rid of the bodies.'

"But no one saw what happened. Not even the other delinquents." Ayano was a bit disturbed. The other delinquents could have ratted her out by down. "What are the teachers going to do now?" Ayano was a bit curious.

"I heard that some cops were coming later today to investigate all of the students and teachers."

At that moment Budo caught up to them. "Good morning Kokona-chan, Aishi-chan." Budo blushed as he remembered what had happened last night. He could still smell her flower scent on his body. "Hello Masuta-senpai, did you hear what happened?"

"Yeah it was such a shame, I wonder who could have done such a thing. Even if they were delinquents they shouldn't have had to die." Ayano remembered that Budo wasn't there when she had killed the first two delinquents. She sighed in relief, only one person would know what really happened but she was her ally.

Ayano hadn't notice that Budo was staring at her until Kokono had looked at both of them back and forth.

"Ahhh. so that's what it is." Kokono giggled. Ayano looked back at her,

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh nothing, see you in class Aishi-chan."

Kokona left Ayano and Budo behind as she whistled ahead of them. "Come on Aishi-san, I'll walk you to class." Budo said as he held out his hand. Ayano smiled and took it. 'If only he knew what he was protecting.

As they walked passed through courtyard Taro-senpai saw Budo blush a little as he held Ayano's hand but went back to watching the cherry blossoms with a smile.

At lunch Budo bought Ayano to the courtyard to eat with their fellow club members. He wanted to be near her at all times just in case something happened. "The club members will be here shortly, we usually eat together."

"okay." Ayano said with a warm smile, they were sitting behind a tree that was close where senpai sat.

Budo smiled back, Ayano was more kinder than what he had imagined.

Soon Kunin came and sat next to Budo. "Hey Ayano it's good to see you! Did Budo cause you trouble yet?" Ayano giggled, "No. Not yet." She pretended to be 'normal.'

"Hey…" Budo pouted. Ayano could feel Shita's presence from behind and embraced herself for the hug that was coming. "Aishi-senpai! Hello!" Ayano pretended to fall down as Shita jumped her from behind. Both girls laughed together. Ren sat down next to the two girls. "Hello Aishi-senpai. Shita get off of her!" Shita unwilling let Ayano go but she sat next to her anyway.

"Where's Rai?" Shita asked.

"She won't be coming today, she wants to study for the next test coming up." Kunin said as he began opening his bento and stuffing his face.

Soon everyone began unpacking theirs.

"Poor Budo, Rai-chan couldn't make your bento today." Shita said as she ate an egg roll.

Budo couldn't cook at all and ever since they could remember Mina had made his bentos for him.

"I'll go buy some sweet bread, I'll be right back." Budo said as he got up but Ayano held the back of his uniform before he could leave.

Osoro was watching them from the rooftop and she could not afford to make a scene with the leader of the female delinquents while senpai was so close to her. "You can have some of mine, I always make too much anyways." Ayano smiled earning the respect of her fellow club members.

'How romantic!' Shita thought to herself as tears flowed down her face.

'I will always respect you Aishi-senpai', Ren said as he ate one of Shita's octopus sausage. Budo stopped and looked down at her, his heart began hammering so hard on his chest that he thought the whole school could hear. Kunin just watched them.

"But I only have one pair of chopsticks so I guess I have feed it to you." Ayano said emotionlessly, she did not like the fact that she was feeding someone else instead of Taro-senpai. Budo opened his mouth happily as puppy would when it has earned treat, the other club members watched as Ayano picked up an egg roll. But the moment was ruined when Taro-senpai walked in on them. Ayano was frozen in place as Taro-senpai held out his hand. He put his finger on his mouth to signal the others to be quiet. Budo was unaware of what was happening as Taro gave his the eggroll. When Budo opened his eyes he could see Taro smiling at him. At that moment his face darkened. The other club members could not hold in their laugh in longer and began laughing in front of Budo. All the while Ayano stood still. 'Senpai is right in front of me! He's…touching my chopsticks!' Budo swallowed then yelled at Taro, it was a special moment that will probably not happen again.

"Taro what the hell were you doing?!"

"Haha, what do you mean, as your best friend there's no harm in feeding you, unless you were expecting something from this poor girl." Taro said as he touch Ayano's shoulders. Her face became flustered. Although no one else noticed it Budo twitched a little as Taro touched Ayano so carelessly.

"I wasn't. Besides Aishi-san was just sharing right?"

"O-of course" Ayano nodded, she tried really hard to not stutter in front of senpai.

"Aishi-chan? What a cute name." Taro-senpai said as he smiled as her. At that moment the schoolbell rang. "Alright, I leave you guys for now. It was nice meeting you Aishi-chan!" Taro-senpai said as he went back to class. As everyone else got up and waved each other off, Ayano was fill with content. For the first time since the opening ceremony, senpai had noticed her. She quietly walked back to class holding the chopsticks close to her heart. She was going to put them in her shine she had full of things that Taro-senpai has touched.

"Hey Aishi-san." Budo called out to Ayano but she paid him no attention.

Her mind was on senpai and she quietly said his name. "Taro-senpai. "

Budo had heard it and his pupils had shrunk.

"Aishi-san?"

On the rooftop Osoro kept watched of Ayano, she felt rage when Budo looked happy to have Ayano feed him and even worse when Ayano became flustered near that weakling,Taro-senpai.

"Osoro-san, could it be true that she was really the one who killed half of our friends?" Delinquent-chan asked as she took a bite of her sweet bread.

"Of course not. A small framed girl with small delicate hands like hers could never snap a neck so easily." Osoro looked at her own hand it was way bigger that most girls, even Ayano's hand could easily fit in her's. "I will punish those other delinquents for lying to me, they just wanted to take Ayano away from me."

After school as everyone was doing their regular warm ups, Budo had forgotten to say his usual inspirational quotes. Rai watched him but she couldn't see his eyes. His bangs were hiding them from her. "Poor Budo, he looks so disappointed." Shita said as she wiped away tear with her napkin dramatically.

"What happened?" Rai was worried for Budo, she has had a crush on him every since the opening ceremony and it tore her apart whenever she saw Budo upset.

"Aishi-chan was about to feed him when Taro-senpai came in and fed him instead." Kunin said with a smile. 'It serves him right.'

Rai was at a loss of what to say, she would try to feed Budo before but he would always say it was too embarrassing for him to have her feed him. And now he was disappointed that Ayano couldn't do it?

Rai was filled with rage.

At sparing time Ayano had to go against Rai. By then Budo had pulled himself together and was at the middle of the mat.

"Ready, go!" Budo quickly got off and watched as the two girls began to fight. Rai had lost all of her temper on the mat. She swung her right leg with all her might wanting to hurt Ayano's dull face.

Ayano's P.O.V.

This girl was too slow. I was able to block her kick with my arms crossed. Her eyes were full of anger but they didn't intimidate me. As she tried to punch me I dodged and upper cut her in her stomach. She fell on the mat but quickly got back up again. She started to attack me with everything she had, her moves were faster but my dear mother had trained me for moments like this. I waited for an opening and the moment she swung her leg up I grabbed it and pulled her down. She was too tired to get up. "Aishi-san wins." Budo said as raised my hand. Why did he sound so happy? Ren was about to help Rai up when she stopped him and got up on her own.

"Rematch!" Rai said but Budo then looked at the clock.

"Gomenei Rai-chan, it will have to wait another time. Club is done for the day, everyone thank you for your hard work. Please go home safely." The club members sighed, happy that club was over for the day. Rai was the last to leave and she glared at me before she left. But it didn't matter to me, as long as she didn't interfere with my plans to get rid of Osoro she was perfectly safe.

Budo had left to take a shower in the boys locker room, he ask me to wait for him so that he could take me home. I agreed for now, because of him Taro-senpai noticed me. He proved to be useful for now.

I waited outside the boy's bathroom, but I kept my guard up just in case Osoro came out again. She had watched me again from the rooftop. But Osoro was different from my other rivals, instead of trying to win senpai's heart she was trying to keep me away from him. She also had no intentions of confessing to him anytime soon. She might last longer than a week at this pace.

I looked at my phone, Budo was sure taking his sweet ass time. He was the only boy inside so I walked into the boy's bathroom.

"Masuta-senpai?" I saw him sitting on one of the benches in the locker room. He had only a towel wrapped around his waist and he was muffling something to himself I could also hear a pounding sound. "Senpai?" He turned around startled,

"Aishi-san?" he held onto his towel to keep it from falling.

"Hey Budo are you hear?" It was Taro-senpai. He couldn't see me in here, what should I do?

Masuta suddenly grabbed my hand pulled me inside on of the lockers that were in the room. He had also panicked and went inside.

"Masuta senpai what are you doing in here?" I whispered, his body looked like he sweating and I could hear his heart beating fast. What the hell was he doing?

"Gomenei, I panicked too." he whispered back. His body was too close and I could feel his warmth, I moved back as far as the locker would let me, I also sucked in my stomach to give myself some space. Masuta then looked at me and I felt something stiffen between us and graze my leg.

"Budo?" through one of the vents I could see senpai walk in. "I thought he would surely be in here." senpai scratched his perfect hair in confusion. "Guess not."

…

"Senpai..." Ayano could feel her face blush. Budo blushed as well, he had thought that Ayano had felt him stiffen and wanted him. He was about to grab her shoulders when Ayano opened the locker door. "Senpai left already. I'll wait for you outside Masuta-senpai." Ayano left Budo alone hoping to catch a glimpse of Taro-senpai before he left. But he was already gone.

Budo quickly changed as soon as Ayano left, he had hoped that she didn't hear him when he was masturbating to her.

He found Ayano waiting outside, she had just closed her phone when she saw him. She smiled "Ready to go?"

'Aishi-chan.' She had received some interesting news from Info-chan. She now knew why Budo had taken so long in there.