The alarm clock woke both Naho and Kakeru up suddenly, shocking them both. As they came to, they realised the situation they were in, and remembered the conversation the previous night. Naho leapt out of bed, her face completely flushed with embarrasment.
"G-Good..." She was so embarrassed she couldn't get her words out, and turned to run out of the room, however Kakeru grabbed her hand before she could.
"Good morning, Naho." He said with a smile. A smile which cleared all embarrassment, and brought her back to earth.
"Mhm. Good morning." They proceeded to get ready to leave for school seperately, each changing while the other was using the bathroom.
"I'm off." Kakeru called, and as they walked away Naho politely followed suit.
"Thanks for having me." she said as they began to walk away.
"Naho-chan." Grandma stopped her, "When you're leaving for the day you don't say that, you say 'I'm off'."
Naho felt a smile sweep across her face, and as she turned back she excitedly shouted "I'm off!"
Kakeru and Naho grinned at eachother and Grandma watched from the doorway as they walked away, holding onto eachother's hands tightly as they began their commute to school.
As the days progressed, Naho's problems began to vanish, and by the time she realised it, it had been 2 weeks since she'd began living with Kakeru. However it was on that day that those she trusted used that trust to hurt her greatly.
She and Kakeru had left the house to school as normal, classes continued as normal, and everything was going well. At the end of the day, however, Naho was called to the principal's office. Kakeru said he would wait at the lockers for her, and everything seemed fine.
However, upon reaching the principal's office she immediately knew something was off. Sat around a desk was the school nurse, the principal and a third person. A tall, thin man dressed in a suit wearing a "Visitor" badge.
"Ah, Takamiya-san! Please take a seat. This here is Hideko Akane-san. He's a certified counsellor who has been working with our school." Immedately Naho panicked. She was filled with fear and was struggling to breathe. "We've called you here because we recieved a call from Naruse-san's Grandmother stating that you had been experiencing problems at home in regards to your family."
Hideko stood up and bowed towards Naho, but Naho didn't care. As soon as the principal had finished she spun and ran out of the room. She ran towards the exit. As she passed the lockers Kakeru was waiting and tried to stop her.
"Naho! Wait" he screamed. But it was no good, Naho kept running. Kakeru chased her and upon catching up with her, he found her sat on the park bench again, crying. Kakeru took a deep breath and walked towards her.
"Why... Why was he there?" She said through her tears. "I didn't want anything else to do with that situation. I was fine with running away from it. It did nothing but hurt me!"
Kakeru clutched his shirt. A tear fell down his face, and as he was about to speak she turned and screamed.
"Whenever I think about this shit it makes me wonder why I'm still on this fucking planet."Kakeru's heart stopped with the sound of those words.
[Hello! First of all thank you all for the kind words, and I'm glad you're enjoying the story. I owe you all an apology for taking so long to upload this chapter. As you may be able to tell I'll be starting to head into a more open style, as suggested by a few of you. I know I'd tried to keep the language clean up until now, but I felt like having Naho say it so suddenly would give an insight of how uncontrollable a situation can make a state of mind like this.
I'll be writing some more of this over the coming days so there'll be a lot more updates hopefully! We are starting to head towards the end of what I have planned, however I may change this to a normal story between Kakeru if you guys would want that (Let me Know)]