Iris
Salty- Rather abrupt ending, yes? Well, I'm sorry. Truly. I meant it to be soo much better.
Thanks for the review Cocoa96! The boy's I've been around are gross, anyway(practically grown up with three slightly older uncles.)
Also, I realized that I contradicted myself in the last chapter. Kazuma has caramel brown eyes, not lavender. And, the most important of all, please review! The more reviews the better and faster I write!
3. Friends?
Upon arriving to school, I thought I felt the eyes of every single person at Seishun academy on my back, and I didn't know why. Perhaps it was because Kazuma, who girl's apparently found cute, was walking next to me, holding my hand. Just kidding, even I knew what was going on. They were probably thinking 'Hey, why's that plain looking girl with that guy?' or something along those lines. But he looked nothing like me so the rumors continued to spread, unfortunately.
And I didn't understand why Kazuma wanted to hold my hand, honestly. He said something about being scared about his first day, but I was positively sure that he was joking.
We cleared up the 'he was in love with me' misunderstanding yesterday too, when we got home. He was joking, thank God and the angels. But still, he was going to be grounded for about a week. No TV, video games or hanging out with Momo-Chan and Kikumaru-kun. It was good to be the oldest person in the house. Bossing people around was awesome!
Some time later, me and Kazuma split up by the main office after he got his paper work and he went off to class 1-4 while I went up the stairs to class 3-6. We both had homeroom, which he thought was amazing until I told him that everyone had homeroom. We had laughed about it for a while...
Some minutes later, I was adjusting to the classroom and arranging the inner space in my desk with my books and the books I'd need for the next period. It was until I finished some minutes that I realized that I was the first one there. How strange. I hadn't realized that earlier...
I wasn't even early. Class was going to begin in twenty minutes. I swore that I saw my classmates down when I entered the school...In fact, I was sure that I someone from homeroom sleeping on a tree...Weird.
On a sudden random urge I looked out of my window and saw people down at the tennis courts...tons of girls, to be precise. Tons of boys were at another tennis court. It was hard to tell the exact faces of the people though. After about ten minutes of staring endlessly at a boring white board some people began to file into the room hurriedly-shoving one another-and sat in their seats. Fuji-kun and Kikumaru-kun were the last ones to enter some five minutes later. Unfortunately for them, the red haired lady(I forgot her name) that is our teacher came in early.
"You're both late," she stated the obvious while tapping a finger on her crossed arms. Both were gasping or clutching their sides, obviously having ran here from the tennis courts.
"Sorry..." Fuji managed to choke out in a rather hoarse voice. "We-we had tennis...practice..." He had a rather violent coughing fit while Kikumaru nodded.
"Well, all of your other team mates will be getting detention as well, and furthermore-"
"Um, teacher?" I raised my hand, surprising myself. "The clock's set early, actually. They're five minutes early."
Kikumaru-kun and Fuji-kun both sent me grateful looks, which made me feel really happy. Well...yes, happy and a bit proud too. I'd never really stuck up for anyone before. It was awesome!
"Hm?" The teacher looked at her wrist watch. "I suppose they are. Be thankful to Saitou-san, Kikumaru-san, Fuji-san." She took down the stern look she wore and gave them her usual wink. They both nodded, panting a little less heavily before walking to and collapsing into their seats. "Now today class..."
Both Fuji-kun and Kikumaru-kun said their thanks to me in whispers with their backs turned away, to which I smiled. They didn't see me though.
~I~R~I~S~
Some hours later I was sitting in my desk after a grueling hour of history and opening the handkerchief that was on top of my bento-box. It was leftovers from the dinner that I had made me and Kazuma the day before(the day we met Kikumaru-kun and Momo-Chan at WacDonalds.) I was pretty starving by that time so I increased my rhythm when getting out my blue bunny chopsticks and saying my thanks to the Angels(in my mind)before opening the case over the food and staring at my cold sushi and udon noodles. In my desk was a plastic water bottle, the reusable kind, that I'd probably drink. Probably not.
"Hey, Saisai-Chan!" called a voice while I was slurping a rather large noodle. It was unnecessary to look in order to recognize the voice-but I did-and I saw Kikumaru-kun running towards me and then sitting next to me.
"Hi." It was always awkward to talk to old crushes. In fact, there was without a doubt some bright pink on my cheeks.
"Thanks for saving us back there, really," said Fuji-san, smiling as he sat in the chair in front of me.
"We would've gotten detention for life, nya!" whined Kikumaru, frowning seriously.
"Yeah," I laughed. "A really close call." Though I tried my best, I couldn't keep a straight face.
"Nya, how's Kazuki-Chan?" That was the nickname he had made up for Kazuma. He didn't know his last name, after all.
"Uh, good. He was nervous for his first day of school."
"Who's Kazuki-san?" I looked to Fuji-san and felt a little guilty for having excluded him from the conversation.
"Um, his name's actually Kazuma."
"He's Saisai-Chan's boyfriend!" Oh no! I had forgotten to clear that whole thing up! NOOOOO!
"Oh, uh-"
"Whoa, having a boyfriend at this age?" Fuji looked at me, shockingly blue eyes opened in amazement.
"Ah, that's I've been trying to tell you, Kikumaru-san. Kazuma's my little brother. He was just teasing me."
The look that Kikumaru-san was one that was in no doubt surprised or shock. Fuji-san was just looking back and forth, seeming pretty amused, I think.
"B-but he's older than you!"
"Nope. Just a tall first year." He probably wasn't gonna get over his shock any time soon so I looked at Fuji to see his opinion on the subject. He didn't seem to have one. Suddenly, it dawned on me how strange it was to be talking so regularly to people. I really should have treasured it or something.
"Ah, you should really come to see us play at Tokizawa garden," said Fuji. He seemed to have wanted to say it for a while. "The tennis matches really are interesting." He chuckled. "At least, people seem to like them."
Me and Fuji both chuckled. He was still chuckling as he pulled out his bento-box—likewise wrapped in a handkerchief—which looked so good that I almost drooled. Fresh chuckles followed when he saw the way I looked at his lunch.
"Do you want some?" he asked, pausing to laugh in between. I shook my head. My family had a rule about taking food from others. No one around me knew about it though. They wouldn't understand and would probably think I was weird or something.
Even when I was talking a little with Fuji-san, I couldn't help but look at Kikumaru-san next to me, who was frozen in the same position for several minutes. Was it even possible to do that?
Finally, while me and Fuji started chatting about Kazuma—it was so exciting to hold a conversation!—he spoke up.
"So you guys are siblings and you're dating?" Was he...paying attention to what I was saying at all? Or, wait, had I said it wrong? Fuji seemed to understand, didn't he? What did I say?
"NO! No, no, no. No. No. NO." My ears were probably red and my cheeks were no doubt pink. "I-Didn't I-Uh-We're not dating. Really."
He sighed, relieved. "Ah..." Was all that he said before leaning back into his chair and slouching comfortably. And suddenly his face was right next to mine—so close in fact, that his face was almost a blur. "But, you're coming to Tokizawa gardens, right? Right?"
"Uh...Yeah." So, he was probably paying attention earlier..."When is it?"
"Next week Saturday," said Fuji-san, giving me a chance to look away from Kikumaru-san. "Around nine o'clock-ish. Can you make it?" I nodded. Though they didn't know, I was ecstatic! I'd never been invited to anything but birthday parties before!
"I'll definitely go!" Me and Fuji-san and Kikumaru-san ate our lunches and talked. I'd never been so happy!
~I~R~I~S~
About a week later I was looking for an outfit that would be suitable for a tennis match. Should I have gone casual, with jeans and such, or should I wear my uniform to show school pride? Should I have worn something nicer, like a button up shirt and a skirt? The idea were eating me alive until I found a loose dark red t-shirt and some nice skinny jeans. I wouldn't look great but I'd be comfortable. That's mostly what mattered.
Several minutes later, after taking a tram I arrived near the Tokizawa gardens and saw a sign on a brick wall that said Tokizawa Tennis Guardens. Beneath that was a small flier that spoke about the games that day. They also showed the match ups and how the people were 'seeded' or whatever. I didn't really understand it all so I just walked around the large, large, large tennis courts and tried to look for where Kikumaru-kun and Fuji-kun and Momo-Chan were playing—they had told me that Momo-Chan was on the team too!
After a really long time, I arrived in the correct tennis courts and found everyone in Seigaku bowing to some other people from across a net. Both sides were wearing different uniforms so I guessed that they were the different teams. And in a few moments, when the teams started to go through different exit gates, I knew what happened. Guess what?
A. I finally married Fred Figglehorn/Lucas Cruikshank.
B. Justing Timberlake shot me with lightning because he thought that I was cheating with Fred.
C. I was late.
Yup, it was A. We're gonna be so happy! Not, it was C. I wish it was one of the other two. Except B. I don't want B. Not at all.
"Saisai-Chan!" There in the middle of the line was Kikumaru-san, looking at me with a pout. "You didn't see my match!"
"Sorry!" I called to him as the cheering crowd surrounded him and the other players.
"Come to the sushi party then!" Dang it! I was already gonna be late for work.
"I have something! I'm sorry!" I called back. There was no response. He was gone and I felt a bit ashamed of myself.
~I~R~I~S~
Salty- Katsumi, how dare you? Till next time everyone, please review! Oh yeah, by the way, this is before Echizen comes to the team.