Sorry it took me long to post a new chapter. I am really thankful to the followers and favorits and also for reviews =)
A/N: In tis chapter I mainly wanted to discribe Karma's house and more of my OC's personality and likes. I have read that Karma's parents have some kind of wierd taste and had an interesting picture of their mansion^^ So please enjoy this chapter and feel free to comment on it. (Besides there are purposly some facts that will be clear later on)
Karma was leading the two students behind to his mansion. Clearly pissed off. Angry. How could Nagisa even dare to invite that woman to his house?! Turning around to look at them, he could clearly see, that the said girl was smirking at him like saying beat you. "Come on, Karma. Don't be so angry." The short boy smiled sweetly trying to calm down his friend. Karma just turned around, throwing a glare at his friend before. How did Karma even agree?
"No" One straight, not misunderstanding, answer from the redhead made it clear. It could have been anyone, really anyone but that girl?! No! Nagisa was insane to even think about it. "Come on, Karma don't be so rude", the blue haired replied with a nervous smile.
On the other hand Rin was somehow offended by that stupid attitude of Karma, but she was sure that Nagisa could convince him. After all he is the only one Karma actually listened to. "Why am I supposed to come a long?" she asked trying to sound not interested and turning head away.
"Karma you feel lonely don't you. So the more the better." Karma blushed lightly as he felt a mocking smirk coming towards him, "Lonely?" repeated the girl amused. "That's not it." Nagisa still smiling reached his hand out and put it on Karma's shoulder catching back his attention. "Come on, Karma. Don't be so rude. We are coming closer to our graduation after all." Also turning his smile to Rin, giving the request to agree too. True though, their graduation wasn't far away and since Nagisa really insisted to, Karma sighed defeated and agreed to the other's request.
Looking ahead he reminded himself of what his house actually was like and let down his anger feeling a mischievous smile climbing his lips.
As they reached the redhead's house, or rather mansion, they went first through a big gate decorated with strange kind of figures on top of it. They somehow looked like children with wings, so maybe angels, carrying a horn or something and wearing strange hats that matched nothing of the image of an angel though, they looked more like helmets, honestly.
Strange thing's to welcome guests, thought the black haired girl. Now being on a small passage to the huge mansion, Rin looked around to see hedges. Nothing strange in that, but what was catching her attention were their forms. Animals. Not just animals, as those you would see in zoos or somewhere.
For example the hedge looking like a lion, but only a lion's head. The body of it was, well Rin didn't really recognize it, maybe a horse, she guessed. So did all of them look like, different mixtures of animals. Somehow creepy. I think creatures like this are called chimera or so.
At the door Karma took out some strange colored keys, red and brown mix. Oh not to forget that the door was even bigger than the gate, and decorated, with things that couldn't even be described. Stepping in, the three students were in a gigantic hall. I wonder if here is something normal.
Four sofas were place in a circle in middle around one big table. Further right from their point of view was a screen as big as their blackboard. Everything pretty expensive and actually nothing of the furniture looked Japanese. Everything was from other countries like India, Germany, and America etc. The floor was covered with colorful carpets nearly everywhere. Green carpets, blue ones, violet oh even pink ones really every color was there on the floor.
"Strange kind of taste, isn't it", commented Rin, while looking around. Seriously it was more like some circus instead of a family house. "Well, Karma's parents do travel around a lot, so they have gotten attached by various cultures", Nagisa explains. Well thinking it all over, there was no doubt that this was that Karma's house.
Despite all the decoration there were a lot of rooms, a huge stairway leading to even more rooms first floor, not to forget the carpets though.(Perfect place to play various kinds of pranks. Definitely Akabane Karma's house).
Judging the number of rooms, one could think there would live many people, a joint family or so, yet no one was there. "Where are all the people?" asked the girl, not really caring about it though. "Gone home. All of the servants and maids", Karma answered, "They are only paid for day time until evening, sometimes maybe even more."
"Parents?" she asked. "Beats me. Maybe this time in Australia", he replied, shrugging. "So you live in this huge building alone?" "Mostly." Pretty sad, no wonder he feels lonely.
He pointed to the sofas in the middle, "Sit down there I go prepare dinner." With these words Karma made his way to the kitchen leaving the others alone. Rin narrowed her eyes in suspicion as she watched the redhead disappear behind the door. "Can we trust him to cook something eatable?" Nagisa smiled softly as he assured her "Don't worry. Karma is surprisingly strict when it comes to cooking. Besides he is very good at it."
"Can't imagine it." Both of them sat down on the oversized sofas, which made Rin wander if everything in this house was oversized. But the material she sat on was extremely soft and comfortable. She leant bag, almost lying, and put her legs, crossed, on the table staring at the blue haired boy in front of her.
Well she started wandering about a plan, how to reach my aim? She had to come up with something, yet taking the two boys' relationship a head, but not making any of them suspicious. It shouldn't actually be too hard for her to come up with something, after all she was pretty intelligent. Of course her marks weren't as good as Karma's but she made it to the third place of the school's best students, but she had somehow the talent to come up with strategies fast and good, maybe even better than Karma.
"So you knew each other since your first year, right?" she asked, managing not to look interested though, rather making this fact certain. "Yes", Nagisa replied. "You know our class actually started to wander whether you two were close or not", she told rolling her eyes slowly to the kitchen door to check up if Karma was coming. No
Good, she thought hoping to have looked at the right one. Nagisa remained silent. "You know I wonder how someone like you became friends with that red haired devil." She smirked waiting for an answer.
"Well it happened that we had same interests and started to hang out together."
Rin sighed. How can she figure out, whether they had some kind of interest in each other or not? "You like him?" That question came out without her actually wanting to ask it, but Rin was good in hiding her expression. Nagisa didn't want to answer, that much was clear.
In the past days there was something off with the blue haired assassin, but no one noticed since he was just a little off and might get better soon. Still, it bothered Rin until now and she finally came to conclusions, may it be without proofs.
Finally Nagisa decided to talk, when he opened his mouth just to be interrupted by the red haired chef coming with something that smelled like curry!
The girl sighed annoyed, wrong timing man! He came to the table putting three plates with spoons and, indeed, the curry on the table. Gaining him confused looks. "What?" he asked in annoyance. "Karma, why curry?" replied the surprised blue head. Karma shrugged, "felt like it. Don't you like curry?" "No, no that's not it. I like curry really much."
"Not as much as a red haired delinquent" said the girl in front of him, with her hand vertically placed on her left cheek, to make sure Karma didn't hear it, but Nagisa and a mocking smirk not to forget. "Rin!"
"Whatever", said the redhead who had not understand what was going on and just filled all the plates with curry and was ready to sit down on the sofa behind him. "Wait", interrupted Rin him, catching one of his glare. "What?!"
"I feel too far away so let me sit there and you take a seat next to Nagisa, so we I can talk better with him", she explained, actually not even bothering how stupid her words sounded. Confusion rose in the hall, both boys staring at her without moving an inch. That led to the girl pushing Karma next to Nagisa and settle herself down to the seat where Karma wanted to sit on.
It's not like some kind of secret that I ship these two though, why am I even trying to make all of this without anyone notice?
From there on the hall was filled awkwardly with silence for what felt like many hours. Maybe just around thirty minutes, but long enough to drive Rin crazy. Why aren't they talking, she wondered, it's not like they are some kind of strangers or so. She took one spoon of the curry with doubt, when she thought of the idea that there was something mixed in. you couldn't be too careful when it comes to Karma. "Don't worry, it's not poisoned", the redhead assured her. That didn't convince Rin, but then Nagisa gave her an assuring sight and she finally ate it.
Surprisingly good, she thought. But obviously didn't show it. Karma indeed was good at cooking.
Again silence. Again Rin wanted to snap and just tell them to open their damn mouths and say something. After all she had also other things to do. Then again it might be possible that they still felt uncomfortable around each other, Rin couldn't blame them, after all their last argument was harsh. It is hard to come over that so quick.
"Hey, stupid Akabane" Karma rose his head from his plate to look at the girl only waiting for more insults. Surprisingly she didn't do anything like that. "What kind of friends have you actually had? Can't imagine the innocent child over there to fit in." Pointing at Nagisa who was offended by her words, Rin gave him one apologetic shrug, though she didn't feel guilty at all.
Karma leant back crossing his arms behind his head. "Well, I don't think any of the others actually could have handled my violent attitude." Rin rose an eyebrow, "which means?"
"Nagisa was back than the only friend I actually had." A bright grin came across he black haired girl's lips as these words reached her ears. To be honest, it wasn't surprising at all, that Karma didn't have many friends, but the fact that Nagisa was the only, should make him even closer to the delinquent.
Nagisa on the other hand tried to keep his calm, as he saw her grin trying to say, that there isn't anything special about it, even though he forced back a blush. He was almost blushing since he could imagine what his female classmate interpreted out of this sentence.
Then again the redhead fell silent, yet looked restless. It felt like Karma wanted to say something, but he was waiting for something else and Rin exactly knew what for.
So she stood up catching once again attention. "Where is the restroom?" she asked not looking at the two boys. "Stairs up, walk down the corridor in front until you reach a red door at the end of it" explained the redhead, hiding his mischief behind his words.
But Rin was aware of his pranks and obviously knew that there was something wrong in that information. With a nod she went to the stairs, sure of the fact that there were definitely more than one restroom, after all this building is huge.
She turned her sight back to the two boys who were now left alone, finally having some privacy and she smirked once again as she watched back to where she sat earlier. I hope this will be entertaining.