Heightened Senses

Chapter 6: Recovering Days

I yawned loudly as I boarded the bus, sitting in a seat next to the door so that when my stop came I would not once again miss it. I kept my bag on my shoulder and folded my hands on my blue school outfit. I had missed school on Saturday, but I was sure that I could make up anything that I missed today, May 19th.

The bus once again stopped and the doors opened. I listened to the people get on and the seat next to me become filled.

"Suzoki-chan?"

I looked up to the voice of Kirihara,"Ohayo, Kirihara-san."

I felt his arm fold around my shoulder,"I missed you on Saturday- English was horrible!"

I shook my head and slightly moved him away,"Aha, I had some trouble getting out of the jhouse, sorry about not being at school."

"Naa, it's not your fault."

I nodded. We both sat there in the silence as we continued on our way to school.

Akaya's POV

There was something different about Dea today, though I couldn't put my finger on what it was. I watched as she stared forward, or, um, however you would describe it. I noticed that our stop was coming up and pulled on the string, the bus slowly coming to a stop. I grabbed Dea's hand and we both got off of the bus.

Neither of us said anything as we made our way onto campus. I smiled, it was nice to have someone to talk to in my grade.

"Hey, looks like Seaweedhead's got a girl, eh? Who is i- Suzoki?"

Dea's POV

I turned to the voice that belonged to Niou,"What are you babbling about, baka?"

"You and Kirihara? Seriously?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Um, don't you plainly see that you two are holding hands?"

I ignored the fact that he once again forgot that I was blind and felt that my hand was in Kirihara's. I moved it,"Well, now it isn't."

I turned away from the two,"I'll see you in Japanese, Kirihara-san."

I gripped my hair as I walked from Math into Japanese, I was feeling so irritated today. I plopped into my seat after having some trouble finding it because of the desks being moved around the room. There was a desk facing mine that soon became occupied by my friend.

"Hey, Suzoki-chan."

I smiled to him,"Hello, Kirihara-san."

Tachi-sensei told us that we were beginning some activity today that we would work on throughout the week. I was slightly angry that I would probably need help with it, but I would find a way to work this all out.

"So, do you get any of this?"

"If you could explain to me what the project is than maybe I could tell you if I get any of it."

"I'll take that as a no."

I tried my best to give him an angry look, he was a real pest sometimes.

"Aa, you look different today, Suzoki-chan."

I stopped trying to give him an angry look and rose an eyebrow,"What do you mean?"

Akaya's POV

I moved my eyes away from Dea, trying to think of how to word my sentence. How was she different today? Well, I don't know.

"I don't know, you just seem different today."

She twisted her mouth and tapped her purple nails on my sheet of paper from this class,"Well, can you explain to me what this project means if you don't know what's different about me?"

I smiled to her,"Sure. Well, let's see... Um..."

She sighed and put her hand on her forehead,"Hopeless."

That was what was different. She was sighing more, not being as angry,"That's it."

"What's it?"

"You're not getting as angry with me like you usually do."

"What?"

"Yea, usually you're calling me a baka. You're not today." I said as a matter of factly. I was proud in finding out what was so differe-

"Itai!" I shouted and gripped my upper arm from the pinch that Dea had given me.

I hissed out air, it had really hurt with her long nails,"Fu-"

"Kirihara! Suzoki!"

"Hai?" I heard Dea ask as I did my best not to curse with sensei right there. I had done that before and I didn't enjoy detention.

Dea's POV

"Do you two need to be split up?"

Sensei sounded quite angry. I could feel the whatever-it-was coming off of Akaya. He better not do anything stupid.

"Nope! But neither of us get what this is."

Well, there goes the not being stupid thing.

Sensei went on to explain the project with some details, but not many. We were to write a paper on a thing in Japan, geographical or cultural, and than make a posterboard. I bit the end of my pencil as he walked away.

"I'll do the paper."

"Wait, why do- Oh yea."

I couldn't help but smile at his stupidness. I'm learning to tolerate the boy much more. That's what it probably was.

I sighed in geography, trying to keep my pencil on my fingertip. It was difficult to do without my sight, but it was not impossible. I let the utensil fall to my desk once the bell rang- signalling my freedom to English. I hurried down the hall and into the English classroom, eager for the day to be ending.

"Suzoki-chan, Suzoki-chan!"

I looked to my right, the seat where Kirihara was to be,"Hai, Kirihara-san?"

"The Prefectuals are this Sunday! Are you going to come?"

I tapped my nails on the desk, thinking to myself. I had no idea what a real tennis match would be like. I also guessed that with Sanada, who I had heard was very frightening, as the vice captain there would not be any very loud cheering people. I moved my face back up to my friend and nodded,"Sure. Why not?"

Something that should be made known to all readers: I have decided to make this a roughly 17 chapter story. It may be a bit shorter, maybe a bit longer. I usually do not give myself a timeline structure thingy, but with this one I think I need to because of my difficulty to push everything into words. This being said, this story will not be a straight-line one like I try to make my stories. The timeline will skip. It could be monday than sunday the next week suddenly. This story is a bit more difficult for me to process. Apologies!

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