The Orphan Flower

Too young to understand

And to learn

Kids these days

Answer from what they know from their hearts

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"Leave you out there in the rain?" Takato repeated, seeing her glare at him. He shook his head, "I think the fever is getting to you" he began as he felt her forehead.

She moved away slightly. "Don't touch me!" she began to argue.

"Izumi, I'm only checking to see if you have a fever. I take that as a yes since your face is pretty red right now." he explained.

"Don't be such a pervert" she glared again at him, slightly blushing. "I don't get this guy." she thought. Glancing at him, he smirked making her blush even more and threw a pillow at him. "Stop staring!" she yelled as he dodged the flying object at him.

"Yep, just as I thought" he announced.

"Thought what?!" she glared.

Walking closer to her, almost face to face inches apart, he said, "You need to stay home today."

"Y-You idiot! Stop joking around!"

"I'm not joking."

"Then why are you laughing?!"

"It's the reaction on your face that I'm laughing about."

"I GIVE UP!" finally giving in.

Patting her head, he smiled. "That's a good girl, just stay still and rest up."

"You make that sound wrong."

"At least we aren't doing "anything" wrong…"

It was silent between them, before she threw another pillow at him.

At School

"Hm…" Takato thought looking over at his friend's desk. "Takuya is absent today…" also checking another desk that was empty. "So is Orimoto…"

Juri who also noticed Izumi's absence began wondering. "I wonder if she was still mad at us about yesterday, she tends to do that now and then. "But" since Takuya is gone also…" glancing at the empty seat, "I have a feeling that they are both together for some reason."

At that very same moment, Juri and Takato caught eye contact, quickly turning away blushing. "Oh no, why am I blushing?" Juri asked herself.

Takuya's House

"At least her fever is gone." Takuya mumbled to himself as he took the wet cloth away. He felt her forehead to see if she was fine and smiled. "That Izumi, when she's sleeping, she's like a regular girl…" enjoying the sight that she looked innocent when she slept and not the rebel like girl he saw at school.

Closing the door behind him, he felt tired. "She better not be spreading the fever on me. I'll just rest for a moment until she wakes up." he planned out, before falling asleep.

After a few hours, school had already ended, Izumi began to wake up feeling better. She rubbed her eyes and looked around. "I forgot…this is someone else's house." she remembered before getting out of bed. Quietly opening the door, she peeked both ways in the hallway for anyone. "I guess no one is around, she shrugged as she walked downstairs seeing a sleeping Takuya on the couch.

"That stupid google head, falling asleep like that." she muttered as she got closer to him. For some odd reason, she began to smile. "You still are an idiot."

"At least you're feeling better." he answered opening his eyes to look at her. She stared at him in disbelief. "Were you pretending to be asleep?"

"At bit of that. I woke up when I heard you coming downstairs, and decided to be "asleep" for the moment."

Before she could say anything, they both heard a door open and close and a woman's voice announced. "Takuya could you please lend me a hand-" she began and noticed the blond girl and smiled. "Oh! I didn't know you had a visitor today!"

"Mother, meet Izumi Orimoto, my girlfriend" he introduced.

Her eyes lightened up. "This is your girlfriend?!"

"TAKUYA KANBARA!" Izumi began as she chased after him as he continued laughing.