Week 4
Monday
They ran into each other by the water fountain and instead of Sakuragi demanding first go like he always does, he actually, strangely let him go first.
He even waited, like actually waited.
And the fountain hadn't been tricked or bobby-trapped.
And he drank as much as he wanted without Sakuragi's usual shouts of "hurry the hell up" or "are you a whale?" or "where is the sea in your stomach?" and all forms of impatient shouting.
It was…weird.
Tuesday
He dropped a book.
And Sakuragi had actually picked it up for him.
He was probably dying because there was no other reason for this kind of…
Was he sick?
He had to be sick.
"Here"
His face was all red. He probably had a fever. It probably had killed what was left of his brain cells.
He was probably half blind from the fever.
"You dropped your book."
"Have you lost your mind?"
Wednesday
Sakuragi opened the door for him.
Without slamming it in his face.
WTF.
Thursday
Sakuragi pulled a chair out for him.
Without him somehow landing on his rear at the end of the gesture.
OMGWTF.
Friday
He'd gotten into another fight with an oblivious group of upperclassmen. They were shouting and threatening him and he was going to wipe the floor with every last one of them. But instead of things going down like he had planned, Sakuragi had suddenly jumped out of nowhere and was now currently wiping the floor with them.
And he was staring and wondering what the hell Sakuragi thought he was doing. It could be all those times Akagi had slammed his head into walls, and lockers, and floors, and...other people. Maybe the brain damage was accumulative and this was the result.
Sakuragi had shouted some derogatory words at them and for a second there, he had forgotten that originally this had been his fight. But Sakuragi was just so annoying that it doesn't even matter who started it, because they all want to take his face apart by the end of it.
Sakuragi however, beats them all down like pancakes.
He then hops over all the groaning and bloody piles of worthlessness on the ground, as he wipes his hands on his pants and…fixes his shirt? Sakuragi stands in front of him and suddenly out of nowhere he asks him which class he's headed to.
Rukawa too stunned to stop himself answers automatically "HomeEc."
"Yosh!" Sakuragi says determinedly, and then he's marching ahead of him and turning the corner in the direction of his…Home Economics class?
Saturday
He sees Sakuragi using the outdoors basketball court where he usually practices on the weekends and turns his bicycle right back around because he is not in the mood to be confused.
Sunday
He had eaten something weird and now he was sick with a mild case of food poisoning. He blames Sakuragi for this on account of 1) He had been thinking about the redhead when it happened and 2) The thought of Sakuragi's actions for the past week makes his head hurt.