Hidaka wanted time to stop. At least long enough for him to change schools and get out of 'joining' the Student Council. The sign on the door read 'Student council, always welcoming new members'. As it always did for the past three years.
Goto patted Hidaka's shoulder, "Don't worry, you'll survive. Maybe it'll be fun."
"Then why don't you join with me Gotti?" Hidaka shot an annoyed look at his friend.
"…I'll see you later" Goto weaseled his way out of Hidaka's question. He gave the boy a sheepish smile as he joined the crowed of students leaving the building.
Hidaka opened the door and entered the classroom. The sounds of the students became muffled until there was nothing but silence. Only the sounds of ruffling papers filled his ears.
Another student was sitting in the room. He must've been too invested in his work to notice Hidaka had entered the room. "Um… excuse me." Hidaka walked up to the boy. The other boy's hair was a lighter shade of brown from Hidaka's.
There was no greeting, no introduction, not even a happy look on the boy's features when he looked up at Hidaka.
"Look here," He stood up not losing eye contact with Hidaka. "I don't care if you're a senior. I've been here longer than you. So you have to do what I say!" To enunciate his point at the end, he jabbed his finger at Hidaka's chest at every word.
"What is this runt's deal?' Those words didn't leave Hidaka's mouth. Hidaka wasn't good when it came to using his words. Especially in cases like this. "I'm not here to steal your job or whatever."
That didn't seem to calm down the other boy. Against better judgment it didn't keep Hidaka from murmuring, "Though you should treat your upperclassmen with respect."
In a cartoon show there would be an audible 'snap' sound to signify a character's anger. Hidaka felt like that kind of scene was playing out with the boy in front of him. For some reason the boy balled up his hand and anything in it was thrown at Hidaka.
"Screw you!" He yelled. "You seniors think you can boss everyone around and get what you want. I'm not having it! Not in this club!"
He got ready to throw more papers, pencils, and whatever else he could get his hands on at Hidaka.
"Fuse!" Someone yelled. Standing at the door, were two students and both of them did not like the scene before them. One had straightened light-brown hair, he called out Fuse's name. The other had blue hair with locks of it going over his right eye.
The two newcomers walked over to Hidaka and Fuse. This was when Fuse started to calm down. Sham overtook his features and he couldn't bring himself to look at the two other boys.
"We do not condone actions like that Fuse. Now Apologize."
Fuse obviously did not want to apologize and only did so because he was told too. After that, fuse began to clean up the mess he made. On the other side of the classroom Hidaka was talking to the other two students.
"I'm sorry about that. Fuse never does things like that. I don't know what came over him." The blue haired boy said. "My name is Akiyama, the founder and president of this club."
"And I'm Benzai." He said. "Excuse me president, but there is still some stuff I would like to say to Fuse."
Shortly after introducing himself, Benzai left Hidaka and Akiyama alone to go talk to Fuse.
"I'm guessing you're Hidaka." Akiyama asked. Hidaka nodded. "I'm happy you're on the team." His voice was soft and genuine. Akiyama pulled out a folder from his bag and handed it to Hidaka.
"I'm sorry to put you to work so soon, but we need to get ready for the homecoming festival next week."
Akiyama explained to Hidaka that he needed to get the Sign-up forms from the other clubs that wanted to make a booth for the festival. The student council handled assigning spots around the school for clubs to set up their booths. So they needed to get the forms from clubs who wanted to participate in the event. All the sports teams have turned in their forms since they have adults running the group.
Hidaka took the papers and looked it over. Thankfully it had the days and classes the clubs where hosted at, unfortunately, the clubs all happened on different days. He didn't know who the club leaders were so looking for them outside their clubs was a big fat 'no'.
"You don't need to come back today, but I need the papers back by the weekend." Akiyama explained.
Well at least he had 3 days to do this. And he didn't have to spend the afternoon with that monster Fuse.
"I'll go with him." Just to show how much the universe hated him today, Fuse volunteered himself to help Hidaka. "I want to make up for attacking him, so please let me go with you."
Benzai and Akiyama both looked at Hidaka, their expressions said they didn't quite believe Fuse but they let him go with Hidaka anyways.
Once the two were outside of the classroom and a little ways down the hall Fuse snatched the papers from Hidaka's hands. "Give me those."
"I know you were faking." Hidaka had to force himself not to yell. "What is your deal?"
"We're not going to get anything this done if you're the one doing this." Fuse didn't bother looking back at Hidaka and just continued to strut down the hall. "You probably don't know where half of these clubs are. Or even that they existed before now."
It mad Hidaka mad that he was right. If he lied he already knew this guy would see right through it. "Half of those clubs don't even happen today. Like you can find the leaders outside of the clubs."
"Yes. Yes I can. I've been a part of the student council since the start of the school year. We over see a lot of what the clubs do so we have way of contacting the club leaders." He waved the papers in front of Hidaka. "We can easily get this done today, no later than tomorrow by lunchtime."
Fuse stormed off. Hidaka had half a mind to just leave the guy but that would only make him look bad since he was the one who was given the job. So he followed Fuse on this scavenger hunt.