A little highlight on the life of Naho and a drepressing chapter as well. A bit of gloom is always nice here and there. Good read ! 'll probably post another chapter in the week for one of my fics ! Stay tuned !

I woke up at the first light of the sun, it was probably around 5am. I have always been a light sleeper, the tiniest bit of noise or light would wake me up. Well at least I got used to sleep little. My hair was a real mess, I'm terrible in the morning. Big dark circles under my eyes. I quite look like a zombie. One time I scared myself shitless when I saw my reflection in the mirror. It's way too early to prepare for school. I guess I'll just do my morning jogging as usual then eat a nice cup of coffee with my breakfast. That will leave me around an hour and a half to do whatever I want before going to school.

Going down the stairs I heard some noises coming from the kitchen. Appearing in the door frame I saw my dad asleep on the couch with some bottles of sake lying everywhere. He stinks, he reeks of alcohol. Again he wasted money drinking with his buddies at the bars. Sighing, I just took a cover and put it on him while putting his head on a pillow. It wasn't always like this. He was a nice responsible dad when mom was with us. After that he fell deeper and deeper into despair. I can't really blame him, it was hard for both of us but I had to be the strongest of us. I had to be the mother in the family. I have a little brother after all. Since we're lacking the father figure, I need to be the mother for his future despite my handicap. At least he never hit us while drunk, he's not the violent type. He just falls asleep.

I drank a glass of hot water like always then I go to my room and change into my sport outfit. Black leggings with a grey cross tank top. I put my green jacket from the P.E. Uniform from school and that's it. I put my headphone on and I go running. I'm already living quite the modest life since we're not that rich and I work at my part-time job at night too help my father provide for the three of us, so I don't really need to exercise all that much but it helps me to evacuate the stress and all the negative things.

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I'm sweating a lot but it's always refreshing. I'm fully awake now. Dad visibly got up and went to work. I fold the cover and throw away the bottles on the floor. I go to the bathroom and have a cold shower to heal my leg muscles. Then I finish the shower with warm water to evacuate all the tension. I then get into my uniform for school. Then I go to my little bro's room and wake him up. He's a deep sleeper unlike me. He's always dizzy and lost in the morning. I then go down to the kitchen to make breakfast. I prepare a little miso soup with a hard-boiled egg for my brother. I pour him a glass of. For me just a bowl of natto is enough with my cup of coffee. I pour him a glass of hot milk. I then see him coming to his chair. He sits on it and smile at me still a bit dizzy.

"Morning nee-chan. Thanks for the food."

I smile back and nod to him. I take my seat and we both start to enjoy our food.

"Itadakimasu." He said.

Ah I wish I could talk too...

Finished with the breakfast, I do the dishes while he gets ready for school. After all this I'm finally done and I walk him to his school. We moved in recently, I hope he was able to make friends. Unlike me he has more time to do so.

Waving at him, I see a cheerful little girl coming his way.

"Morning Yoi-chan !"

"Morning Kei-chan !"

Ah, seems like he got himself well surrounded already, I'm happy. I can't say I've done much to socialize in school but at least I'm on good term with Yuigahama-san and Miura-san as well as Ebina-san. I don't know about this Hikigaya Hachiman guy though, he's strange. I also caught him staring at me from the school roof while I was drawing some backgrounds on my sketch book. I felt flustered and fled when I noticed.

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I finally reached my classroom, Yuigahama said hello to me as well as Miura and Ebina. Waving back, I went to them and listened to their stories quite a bit since there was still ten minutes before the start of the day.

"So Naho, what did you do yesterday, I was like so booored. There was nothing to do..."

I had already taken out my notebook to write my answers and questions.

'Nothing much, I practiced my instrument and drew a little while watching some Gintama.'

"Oh ! You play an instrument ? Which one ?"

'I play violin in my free time. I'm not that good with it but I like to play sometimes.'

"I see, I'd like to hear you play one day, why not in the cultural festival with our group !" said the overexcited Fire Queen.

'I'll think about it, thanks for the offer.'

I looked on my left and saw Yuigahama being gloomy and glancing at Hikigaya-kun from time to time. He was sleeping on his desk again. I poked her cheek and it scared her.

"Waah !"

I held my notebook in front of her with a questionning look.

'Did something happened yesterday with Hikagaya-kun ? I saw him on the roof back then.'

"Ah... Yeah, everybody had a fight in the club. Things are a bit tensed hehe..."

I didn't pry further, I only looked his side one last time before going to my seat.

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Lunch time, I'm hungry but I don't have money to go to the cafeteria, I already used my spare money to pay Hikigaya back. I did the right thing to make myself a bento of natto. At least I won't die starving. I roamed the school to find a place. Sadly every spots that I knew were already taken already. I decide to sit on one of the stair of some staircases. I opened my bento and started to eat my how so little lunch. I like eating alone sometimes. The silence is soothing.

I was about to take my first bite when the box flew right into my face with a sharp pain on my nose. I almost hit my head on the stairs from the push.

I opened one of my eyes even though I was in pain and full of sticky natto. I saw three figures, recognizing them I could only widened both my eyes. It was her again. I wanted to yell for help but of course I can't. There was nobody in the corridors at this hour. Fearful, I could only accept what was going to happen, nothing I could do. I lowered my head and guarded myself as much as I could from the possible upcoming bullying.

"Already cowering out of fear huh ? How boring. It's really nice that you can't ask for help. Really convenient for me."

Both her friends laughed with her and I felt another sharp pain on my head. She grabbed my hair and pulled me with her dragging me with her. I thought it wouldn't end until I was thrown into some girl restroom. I fell onto the floor. I tried to stand up but her two colleagues pulled me up before I could do anything. I was now being held by both my arms. I was quivering, my teeth clenched. What was she gonna do to me.

"You know, at first you irritated me by not answering or even saying 'Hello' when you transferred here. I was like 'This girl is so full of herself.'. But then, I really understood that you were really handicapped severely with your voice. I thought it was kinda sad but I don't know why there's something about you that really pisses me off. You come here out of nowhere for only a year and you're already almost a member of Hayama's clique and friend with Yui. This I can't understand. Then I found you weird for having lunch with this fucking creep of Hikigaya. You seem to be on friendly term with him, too bad for you. Do you know what this bastard did to me at the cultural festival two years ago ?! It pisses me off so much that I can't do anything against him ! He doesn't care about anything. I could bully him, I could insult him, I could harass him and he wouldn't flinch even a bit ! I could try to hurt his surrounding to hurt him but I wouldn't do anything to Yui. She's someone I appreciate and I can't do anything to her because of Miura. I could hurt Yukinoshita but she's untouchable, I could try Kawasaki but that's out of the question, she would destroy me, she's way too scary. I'm not even talking about Isshiki Iroha who is the student council president ! AAAAAAAAAAAH ! Talking about this pisses me off even more ! How can a low life like him be surrounded by so much big figures of the school ! But then... You came. Heh... I'll pour my frustration on you."

I gulped my saliva and looked at what she was doing. She approaches me slowly and touched my hair, gently, running her fingers through it.

"So smooth and silky, they are indeed beautiful. It pisses me off too !"

She grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled them violently. I winced and let out a little cry of pain. Tears started to fall from my eyes. Why me ? Why did I do to deserve this ? I just want to make friends and have a peaceful school year.

Sagami took a pair of scissors out of her pocket and showed them to me. I tried to get out of the hold her friends had on me. She pulled me by my hair closer to her and started to cut my hair randomly here and there.

When she was done I closed my eyes, I really didn't want to see the result but she forced my head toward the mirror and forced my eyes opened. I could only make some noises from fear.

"Well, aren't you really beautiful now ? Hahahahaha !"

She had almost cut the entire right side of my hair. It was horribly done. I looked like nothing.

"Look how much hair you have on your face because of me. I'll help you clean yourself !"

She ordered the two to push me into one of the cabin and then she grabbed my head and forced me to knee myself on the floor by kicking me behind the knees. She plunged my head inside the toilet, I hadn't breathed in because of the surprised and was panicking. I struggled out of their hold in vain.

She flushed the toilet and I felt more and more water soaking me. Sagami pulled me out of it and laughed for a long time.

After calming done they simply released me and pushed me out of the cabin. I was finally free but I felt humiliated, I couldn't ask for any help. I hate it so much. Why do I have to be different !

"Don't forget, if I ever hear that you try to tell the teachers about what happened, I'll make your school life a hell."

Without looking behind me I just got out of this shithole and walked in an ashamed way to my classroom. I was soaked, my hair a mess and ugly, wet, drenching my jacket with the flowing water.

I just didn't have the strength to face the others now. I decided to just ditch the day to isolate myself.

I went to a secluded area and took a sit. I stayed there, silent, I cried, for a long time I just couldn't hold the tears. I cried a lot and buried my face into my legs while hugging them.

"Are you alright ?"

A calm and composed voice interrupted me. She had long blueish silver hair. She was tall and had a nice body figure despite her delinquent like look. I looked up a bit to see her face.

"Hey girl, what happened to you, come with me, I'll help you to dry."

I felt that I could trust this person, she looked kind and genuine. I grabbed her helping hand and she helped me to get up. She was guiding me to a restroom.

"I'm Kawasaki Saki by the way. You don't have to write anything. We'll just get done with drying yourself first. I wouldn't want you to catch a cold."

I nodded, looking at my feet.

"My sister Keika keeps telling me how much fun she's having with your little brother. It's nice that they both are getting along like that. I hope we can get along too, she said smiling at me. I could help but smile back a little at how honest this person was.