Call me by my first name

Chapter 2: Serious complications

Ikaros was seriously contemplating how she should go about completing the task at hand. Promptly after she had flown off, and at her speed of Mach 24, she was already at the house. The pink haired angeloid had begun involuntarily fiddling with the hem of her skirt.

What was this new emotion?

She dismissed this new emotion and then retracted her wings into their miniature form and then drop landed into the house. Her eyes stared at the hole in the ceiling and then the hollering of her master switched her gaze towards the stairs.

"OI, OI, OI!" Yelled the familiar voice of Tomoki. "WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT USING THE FRONT DOOR?"

The black haired teenager had run downstairs in a frenzy, zipping up his pants midway down.

"Ikaros! I've already told you-" He began counting his fingers in thoughts. "Twenty, no- er was it twenty three- no well ANYWAY, I've told you far too many times, that you shouldn't crash through the roof like that!"

Ikaros bowed her head in shame. "Sorry Mas-"

Eishiro's voice came into her head at that very moment. He'll like it if you call him by his first name…

The pink haired angeloid opened her mouth to say his name, but she began twitching and contorting. Steam began puffing out of her ears.

Tomoki looked worriedly at her.

"Hey Ikaros are you alright?" He inched closer. "Are you broken?"

"N-n-n-o T-t-t-t-t-buzzt-." A blush coloured her cheeks and she flew away out again, completely missing the first hole she made. Tiles fell from the second hole in Tomoki's roof.

Tomoki stared at the roof momentarily.

What was wrong with his angeloid?

He narrowed his eyes.

And who the hell is going to fix his roof?

"I see you're back."

She promptly nodded.

Eishiro glanced at his wristwatch. She wasn't even gone for 15 minutes.

"Let me guess, you couldn't call him by his name."

Her head slumped slightly when he had pointed out her failure so bluntly.

"I can't make Master happy like you said…" The pink haired angeloid brought out a sword. "I am unsuitable for Master now."

Eishiro quickly made a grab for the sword. Ikaros gave him a questioning look.

"Why are you stopping me?"

"You don't need to kill yourself over it." Eishiro stared at the sword in front of him. "Where'd you get the sword anyways?"

Ikaros turned a head and pointed a finger. "From President."

"Aww, I've been found out." As if on cue the purple haired president popped out from the bushes, leaves and twigs covered her purple head. Eishiro pushed up his glasses.

He should've guessed as much.

"Hello E-kun~"

"Mikako." He regarded her with green eyes. "I thought you've already left."

"I forgot that I left a gun lying around here somewhere and came back to retrieve it."

"…" Her smiling face told him otherwise.

Promptly ignoring her, Eishiro turned back to Ikaros as she stared blankly at him. "I think you'll need to practice before you can actually call Tomoki by his first name.

"Practice?"

"Yes, get Nymph or Astraea to help you."

"Oh..." Her blank green-blue eyes were directed at the sky in deep thought. She warily eyed the smiling president and decided to take her leave.

"If you're having more troubles, just come to me."

Ikaros bowed a single word of thanks and took off once again. The faint sweeping of the wind signaled the silence which threatened to envelope them. Mikako took this as a sign to begin talking.

"Ei-kun, you'd never cheat on me, right."

Eishiro flinched at the sound of here gun reloading.

"…Never." he answered solemnly even though they weren't going out or anything, sometimes he didn't understand her. She gave him an even larger grin.

"Nymph."

"Ikaros, can you not stand in front of the television." Nymph replied, partially annoyed that her fellow angeloid appeared out of nowhere and preventing her from watching her favourite show.

Ikaros decided to stand behind the television, peering at nymph with blank eyes. Somehow that was even more distracting and the blue haired angeloid couldn't concentrate on her show.

She sighed tersely. "What do you want?"

"How do you call master by his first name?"

The simple mention of Tomoki had her head perk up. "Oh, Tomoki?" Nymph furrowed her eyebrows together. "Well… Its different for you since you're his angeloid and you're bounded by obligations?"

"Oh… I… I want to try and make master happy and Sugata told me that calling him by his first name would make him happy."

Nymph directed her a very confused gaze. "I call him Tomoki all the time but he doesn't look happier in the very least. That pervert."

Another blank look.

"Well, just leave me alone for now, I have a show to watch." Nymph waved a hand to dismiss her. Ikaros trudged off disappointed but determined to find another practice partner.

At that moment Astraea came crashing down from the hole made by Ikaros on the roof. "Ah well isn't that useful! Another door on the roof, I wonder when Tomoki became smarter!"

Nymph gave her a simple greeting and invited the blonde angeloid to sit with her.

"Ahh, I can't wait for this week's episode!" Her eyes were filled with stars. "Oh that's right, I brought a little present!"

She brought out some freshly caught fish dumping it on the small table.

"A bear taught me how to catch these!" She laughed triumphantly. "I won't be starving anymore."

Nymph gave her a skeptical stare. Astraea began to fidget. "Nymph stop staring at me like that, it's like you're accusing me that I stole it off the bear instead of getting them myself!"

"Well that explains the bruises." Typical Astraea to be fighting with a bear. The girl had no common sense.

"Well I didn't!"

"Astraea." Ikaros decided to cut in.

"Oh Ikaros-senpai, how are you doing? Would you like some fish that I caught myself?"

The said angeloid shook her hair to politely decline her offer.

"Oh, you're missing out on some pretty delicious fish that I personally caught myself!" She glanced at nymph. "Which I didn't steal from a bear."

Clearly she wasn't a very good liar.

"Astraea… how do you call master by his first name?"

"Who Tomoki?"

"Yes… t-master?" The words Tomoki couldn't make it out of her mouth.

The blond shrugged and began poking at her fish. "I don't know, it just happens? See. To-mo-ki."

Ikaros also decided to copy her usage of saying his name in broken up syllables. "To…. Mo… ki…"

Her eyes glittered slightly at her accomplishment and gave Astraea a deep bow. Saying his names in syllables didn't feel like she was saying his name at all! Sometimes Astraea can be very smart if she wasn't trying.

"Ahhahaha, see, it's easy as fish!"

"Astraea you have to cook the fish before you eat it!"

"Oh well, I had no idea, I didn't need to cook it when I lived in the wild."

Ikaros left them to their bickering and went out to her garden of watermelons. She crouched down and found that one was ripe enough to pick.

Suddenly an idea popped into her head, gears slowly digesting her newly found plan and went inside to fetch a permanent marker.

Her reactor wrenched slightly at the thought of defying her precious watermelon but when she was finished, the results were better than she'd ever hoped for.

The small marker sketch of her master's face on the green skin of the watermelon made her reactor beat wildly. Two of her favourite things in one. She picked up the fruit and then gave it a tight squeeze, resting her cheek on its cool surface.

"To…mo…ki…"

She peered to her left and then her right.

"I… love… you…"

Her cheeks became red and again something was beating against her chest. Whatever processed her to say a thing to the water melon Tomoki?

Tokomi was busily passing by and noticed Ikaros in the gardens. Her upper half was curled into a hug and her back was facing him, her pink wings fluttered ever so gently.

What was his angeloid up to now?

The black haired male grimaced slightly.

Whatever it was, it couldn't be anything good.

Just as he was about to approach her and ask her what was wrong, he heard her words. Three simple words that made him stop in his tracks and race back behind the door, back pressed against the brick contours.

"I love you."

What… Who did she love?

He creased his eyebrows in wonder and frowned to himself. Who could she possibly love? Tomoki put a hand up to his cheek and gingerly touched it. He was feeling flushed and warm to the touch.

That was weird.

What was going on?

How could HIS angeloid fall in love with someone? Someone as emotionless and clumsy as Ikaros. Whoever this guy was, he was going to pummel to the ground…

No, wait… why would he do that.

Tomoki scratched his head clearly confused with himself.

Not only was he confused, he was also coming down with a fever.

The black haired boy stumbled his way to his bed, Ikaros's words echo-ing through his head over and over again.

"Mikako…"

He shot her a stern look.

"You guessed it E-kun!" She chirped happily. "I'm going to host another game."

"I don't think now is the time to cause some trouble…"

"It's not trouble." She smiled happily. "It's a game…"

"Pray tell, why I'm involved in this?"

Her smile widened but said no more and proceeded in dragging him to her limo.

:P Ahahahha, thank you for your continued support and urging me to continue. Honestly, I felt as if I couldn't continue this story after my computer crashed and I lost the finished chapter. Ah the agony.

Err- anyways, enjoy? xD
Very sorry for the very delayed update. For give this lazy author please? xD