100 Days with Mr. Arrogant
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Chapter Eight: Yamato's Alter ego Arrives!
"It's a nice day, isn't it?" Mimi cheerfully asked.
"What a nice day," Yamato murmured nonchalantly. "Look, Mimi, I'm not happy. I want to eat on a restaurant outside the campus!" He frowned childishly, with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
"C'mon, Yamato-kun! Remember, there is only a day left, and you should learn to accept me!" Mimi tagged him to the cafeteria.
"Not if I can help it…," he mumbled.
"Anyway, what is wrong about eating here?"
"You should follow my orders. That's what slaves are supposed to do, right?" he told her bluntly.
"But---"
Yamato noticed that her happy expression turning into a frown. He sighed. "Okay, okay…" he finally surrendered. Mimi's smile returned.
"I wonder what their dish today is…" Then Mimi was shocked. No person is to be seen at the cafeteria. The usual number dropped down into zero. Yamato approached Mimi.
"I've changed my mind; we'll stay here the entire break." He told her.
"Alright." She said. "Now what do we eat?"
The kitchen maid hurried in serving them. Mimi suddenly thought of the crowd before. "I wonder what happened to all those customers." She sighed.
"There was a large crowd emerging on the dean's office." The kitchen maid replied. "It's another guy the girls were crazy about."
Mimi glanced at Yamato who was idly staring into the empty space. "You mean there is a new guy at school?"
"Yes. I've seen him come here through a tour. It's a foreign student, I guess. Students from other countries transferring here are given a special tour around the University."
"Oh, I see…" Mimi got the tray. She went to the table where Yamato was sitting. "Here you go,"
"What's the commotion all about?" Yamato asked, pointing to the crowd walking past the cafeteria.
"It might be the foreign student." Mimi answered him.
"That is good news." Yamato was smiling happily, and Mimi hasn't seen him smile that way before. Mimi, in turn, was smiling too.
"Wow, I wonder if your fans had seen that smile," she murmured, looking straightly at Yamato. Yamato averted from Mimi's gaze. Mimi chuckled.
"Don't get annoyed again, please be used to my presence. I'm sorry if I bugged you," Mimi said. Yamato just continued eating, face down and eyes centered to his plate. Little did Mimi know, his face was flushed…
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"Hey, Tai, why are you hurrying home?" Sora asked. "I thought you'd stay a little bit longer?"
"No way, Sora. I have heard that a new campus crush has arrived! I better check him out for Yamato!" he exclaimed. "Catch you later!"
"For Yamato?" Sora's tone sounded doubtfully. He eyed Taichi, and he nodded.
"Yup. I'm sure he's not interested in seeing him by himself. I would gladly do this for him,"
"You were just curious…" Sora murmured. "I'll go with you. Let's check it out."
"Great!" Taichi exclaimed, walking ahead of Sora.
"He's really got a cute face!" a girl replied "and his smiles will really make you drool!"
"And have you noticed something? He was just like Ishida-kun when he first came to our University!" a girl said.
"Yeah, I remember that. We were just college freshmen. But Takaishi-kun is friendlier than Ishida-kun."
"Yeah, but don't you see that they look alike?" a girl was flushed. "But he smiled at everyone. And he does not hide himself."
"I guess with that characteristic of his, he already has a girlfriend."
They all frowned. "We all have no chance again!"
Suddenly, out of nowhere, another boy-crazy girl entered the scene. She was carrying a folder, and she was really hurrying to go to the group of girls.
"Check this out!" she cried, "This is the all-out info about Takaishi-kun! The office had released this, and Takaishi-kun approved about releasing these!"
"WOW! That's sooo cool!" the other girl cried out. "Isn't he an American?"
"No…" a girl continued reading the file. "Look at this! His first name is Takeru!"
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"Thanks for everything. Don't worry, I'll go here tomorrow as a regular student."
"It's nothing, Mr. Takaishi. It was a real pleasure that you picked our University." The dean said.
"Okay. Goodbye." He bade.
Outside the dean's office, many girls crowded and watch the 'cool' guy walk away the office. Some were yelling, and some people are just there to watch. Taichi and Sora were standing at a bench just to look at him. When Tai saw him, he almost fell from the bench.
"What's so shocking? Haven't seen a cute guy before?" Sora teased him. Taichi somewhat did not hear what she said.
"Hey! Doesn't he just look like Yamato!" he exclaimed. "The hair! It's just like the color of---"
"C'mon, not all cute guys resemble him…" Sora murmured. "Let's go home now; Mimi won't be able to go home with us today."
"Why?"
"…because she'll be brought home by Yamato."
"Really? He is so nice to her." Taichi said. "Yamato was never good in dealing with women. That is a fact."
"Try telling that to his fans," Sora said mockingly. Tai just shrugged.
"Hey, we totally forgot where Hikari is!" Taichi yelled.
"Taichi, she's already college! She's not your very little sister now." Sora explained. "I guess she knows how to go home. Right?"
"I hope she's fine."
"She'll definitely be fine,"
"Okay. Let us go home. And I will call Yamato about the new guy…" Taichi said, walking side by side with Sora.
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After the crowd has disappeared, Hikari decided to go to the cafeteria. She was on her way there when the crowd appeared, and she's not aware what the crowd was about, though all of her female classmates knew it beforehand. She remembered what Mimi told her, to wait for her there.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a person approaching against her direction is briskly walking. She wasn't able to dodge or turn away his direction, so they collided with each other.
"I'm sorry," he said, helping her out. "I wasn't looking at the path I'm taking. Sorry for my carelessness."
His gestures are gentlemanly. Despite the fact that it was a short moment, there was an odd feeling that Hikari felt about him: as if he knew him already…
The guy finally left, and Mimi was already there. "Hikari!" she called her.
Hearing that, the guy looked back, gazing at the two girls. He's alarmed by the name Hikari.
"…There he is!" girls yelled. Mimi and Hikari looked at the direction of the running girls.
"Who might that be? Yamato?" Mimi asked.
"No… it's not Yamato-niichan…" Hikari smiled at her. "I wonder who he is…"
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A/N: I made this short because… I had to finish my other Naruto fanfiction and it will end soon. Please bear with me.