Round 2

Teppei has lost count of how many yawns he has made since the beginning of the day. It had been another restless night, like every night since their last game in the winter cup. Since the end of the winter cup season he had been hunted with the same nightmare every night and awaked him in the middle of the night with panic and fear.

Teppei rubbed his tired eyes, and decided to do some voluntary job for the shop since the café was currently empty. The main sign of the café was kind of dirty and maybe he can do some cleaning and shine it up? After he decided to clean the café's sign, Teppei started to collect the equipment for the cleaning and started to walk toward the entrance while humming his favorite old Japanese folk song.

After placing a chair below the sign he stepped on the chair and started to clean the sign with a big black cat painting on. The job went pretty smoothly until he reached the top of the sign, even with his height plus the chair's height he still had some challenges with reaching the top of the sign. Teppei tiptoed and stretched as far as he could to complete the cleaning. A strong wind suddenly blew past the café out of nowhere which caused Teppei losing his balance and he started to fall backward from the chair. Normally with his super reflex he could have reacted easily, but because of his lack of sleep his head suddenly started to spin and everything went blurry for him in a sudden. He tried to move his body desperately but his body felt too heavy to move normally, so all he could do was to close his eyes in panic and pray that he won't hurt his leg more than it has been hurt.

The pain of hitting the ground never came instead he fell onto something that felt much softer than the ground.

"Baka..."

To Teppei's surprise, he actually fell into Murasakibara's embrace. He looked dumbfounded at the much taller man and was totally lost with words.

"It seems you are not only clumsy on the court but also in your daily life too! And how long do you want me to hold you?"

Teppei's face turned into crimson red when he suddenly realized that Murasakibara was actually carrying him like he was carrying a girl in his arm. It must be an awfully weird sight for the passer to see him being carried by another man considering his huge size compared to the standard Japanese size.

"Thanks… please let me down…" Teppei wish he could dig a hole on the ground and bury himself right away after he realized it had been the second time that he had blushed in front of another MAN, which was totally not-like-him!

"Are you trying to clean the top of this sign?" Murasakibara pointed lazly at the black cat sign.

Teppei nodded and smile embarrassed, "Yeah… Let's get inside and I can complete the cleaning after taking your orders".

"The cloth…"

"What?" Teppei looked confused at Murasakibara who didn't follow him into the café.

"Give me the cleaning cloth, I will clean the top for you. You are too small!"

Before Teppei could react the giant hand already reached for his cleaning cloth and snatched it away. Murasakibara turned around and stepped on the chair and started to clean the top of the sign easily.

Wait, did he just call me 'small'?

When he finished cleaning the last area which Teppei couldn't reach he stepped down from the chair and picked it up along with the rest of Teppei's cleaning equipment before he started to walk inside the café, leaving a dumbfounded Teppei outside.

"Why are you standing outside like an idiot? Hurry up and take my orders, I'm hungry…"

"A… right" Teppei scratched his head confused and started to walk toward the counter.

"Baka chibi…" Murasakiabar muttered (*chibi means mini)

Oi oi oi… how many times are you going to call me idiot and baka? You should at least call me sempai for some time... But if I protest, I am sure he will just call me baka again… Maybe I should tell him my name again, but I am sure he will never remember my name and continue calling me baka… And I'm not a chibi... I'm actually ranked one of the tallest guys in our school! But comparing my height with his…

Teppei sighed defeated.

TBC.