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A/N: Akihiko/Hiroki ahoy! Starting with a bite of Minimum :D non-fans keep out!

6.

"Ne, ne, Usami-kun's so cute!" he can hear a girl squeal. He looks down from his tree to see a gaggle of his new classmates, all of them girls, giggling and chattering. Each one of them has bento boxes with them.

"Aya-chan, don't you think so too?" The small spectacled brunette with a bob-cut looks up at the other girl. "Huh? Usami-kun?"

"Yeah! I even thought of getting him a bento box, but he's so rich, I bet he doesn't like stuff like that..."

"Mm hmm, I think so too!" another girl pipes in. The girl called Aya merely stares at both of them.

"Actually, I think Kamijou-kun is cuter."

" EEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?!" All the girls squawk at the unheard of concept. Kamijou-kun, cute?

"Well, he is!" Aya seems determined to make her point. Akihiko narrows his eyes as he stares down at her. Who is this little chit who likes his Hiroki?

"But he's so mean!" another girl whines. "You can't even talk to him without feeling like an idiot!"

"That's because you don't read at all, idiot," her friend points out dryly. "He's really smart! And you're right, Aya-chan, he's really cute when he's not yelling. I wonder who would be intelligent enough for him though! I heard he's read half the library!"

"Two-thirds."

"Huh?" The girls turned round to face Akihiko, who had just jumped from the tree-branch, catlike.

"He's read two-thirds," he informs them. He turns to Aya, who is the only one not going fangirl-mode at the moment. "And by the way, he's off-market. Hiroki is my best friend."

And then, after dropping the proverbial bomb, he placidly walks away, leaving a group of shell-shocked girls in his wake.

"Akihiko?"

"Hmm?"

"Why are all the girls giggling at us?"

"I haven't the least idea."

The girl from yesterday- Ayu? Ana?- comes up to them bravely. "A-ano, Kamijou-kun?"

"Huh?" Hiroki's face radiates confusion. He can't blame him- most of the time they're looking for Akihiko when they talk to him. The girl blushes and looks down. "I-I like you, Kamijou-kun! W-will you make me your girlfriend?"

Akihiko will later say that he has no idea what possessed him in that moment.

But right now, he just sees red.

The next thing he knows, he has his arms wrapped around the cinnamon brunet and is glaring a hole into the cowering girl's head.

"Aki-AKIHIKO!" his poor best friend hisses. "W-what?!"

"I told you," he says to the girl, ignoring the blustering boy in his arms. "Hiroki's mine. And I don't like to share."

"KYAA!" the girl backs away with a half-squeal. Bemused, Akihiko realizes she looked more excited than disappointed.

"It's all right!" she says in a more normal-sounding voice. "You two are so cute!" And then she runs.

And that, Akihiko reflects, is why he will forever be scared of women.

As soon as she's gone, he gets his head conked. "BAKAHIKO! She totally misunderstood-mmmph!" The shut-up-and-cheer-up tactic really works wonders on him. Hiroki blushes beet-red to the roots of his hair and puts his hands over his mouth.

"I just said you're my best friend and no one's sharing you, what's there to misunderstand?" Akihiko asks, and the brunet is thrown for a moment before he puts his head in his hands. "You made it sound completely different..." he mumbles, before letting the subject drop. Hiroki shakes his head and looks up at the sky. "It's sunny today- want to go to our base after school?"

"Sure." They fall into step again, heading back to class after break, Hiroki still avoiding eye-contact. Akihiko walks on as if nothing has happened.

As if his entire world doesn't tilt on its axis whenever their lips meet.

The blond surveys the cinnamon brunet quietly out of the corner of his eyes. The other's eyes are firmly trained on the ground.

You are so loved, Hiroki, Akihiko thinks.

Too bad you'll never know.

End drabble six.

A/N: Akihiko's complex feelings for Hiroki (my version) will be explained in the next Minimum drabble /loves/ And if you didn't get the Egoist reference here, I'll conclude that you didn't even watch the first episode :P