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This chapter was going to be longer but I decided to cut it here rather and have the next chapter more focused, sort of. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 3: Guess Who's Back
Just as I thought, by the time school ended that afternoon, I was exhausted.
During the day my uncle had told me to take my luggage to his office and from there he'd gotten someone to take it to the dorm.
Glad that I could just go to the dorm and get to sleep as soon as I could, I fetched my bike outside and drove the little way to the dorms.
The dorms were separated into 2 separate buildings, one for guys and other for the girls, connected in the middle by a large courtyard with a fountain as a centre piece and benches scattered here and there all leading to a massive dining hall.
I had parked my bike near the entrance of the boys' dormitory and had made my way into the dining hall.
Fuck this place is huge.
"Oh hi, you must be Sohma Kyo, right?"
I turned around only to come face to face with possibly the cutest girl alive. This must be the chick that Sou was talking about.
"Er ya, hi. You're... Honda Tohru?"
She smiled happily, "Yes! You can call me Tohru. I'm so glad that you've come to Kaibara Dormitories. Your room is on the bottom floor, that's where all the seniors stay. Would you like me to give you a tour of the dorm or would you like me to show you to your room instead?"
"The room!"
She laughed good-naturedly. Dammit Kyo! Stop blushing like a damn school boy!
"I thought as much. Hayato-san mentioned you'd probably be tired after your trip. Have you eaten? I could make you something to eat if you'd like."
"You don't have to go out of your way, you can just take me to the room." I said almost harshly but her cheery disposition never faltered.
"Right this way then."
I followed her out of the hall and into the main building.
We walked down the hallway until we reach Room 113.
Tohru knocked swiftly. "Hey Kazuki-kun? It's Tohru. I've got your roommate with me."
The door opened to the face of a guy with red hair and vibrant light brown eyes, "Ah Tohru-chan what a lovely surprise." He smiled swiftly at Tohru, lifting her hand to press a kiss against the back of it before holding out his hand to me as a greeting.
"So I guess we'll be spending a lot of time together then, I'm Shiba Kazuki but you can call me Kazu."
I shook his hand firmly, "Sohma Kyo."
His eyes widened, "Really? Related to Sohma Yuki by any chance?"
My eye twitched. Does everyone know that damn kid?
"Thankfully not."
Kazuki smiled, "Not a fan I see."
"He's nothing special."
"Ho ho. So where's your luggage?"
"Kazuki-kun... it's already in the room..." came Tohru's soft voice.
"So that's what that was. Thought it was a bomb or something."
I saw Tohru's eyes widen, "A b-bomb?"
Kazuki smiled and swung his arm over Tohru's shoulders. "Just kidding. Thanks for bringing him over Tohru-chan. I'll help him get settled in."
With an almost nervous smile Tohru left us and Kazuki closed the door behind me.
"So? What do you think?"
"It's something to get used to but it seems cool enough."
Kazuki laughed heartily before clapping me hard on the back. "Don't worry, we have loads of fun here, you'll enjoy yourself. Do you want me to take you around the place or has Tohru-chan already done that?"
I took off my shoes at the entrance and made my way into the room behind Kazu.
"Nah it's cool, maybe later though, I want to catch a nap first."
"What? First day back's got you that tired?"
"Nah, haven't slept for more than a day."
"Damn man, well get right to it then. I'll wake you up for supper and then take you around the place after."
"Thanks." I made my way over to where my luggage was on my bed, took the bags off and just collapsed onto it.
I heard Kazuki make his way over to his desk and put his headphones in. I could hear the faint hum of his song through the headphones and it acted as a sort of lullaby which soon had me falling into a deep sleep.
The last thing I could remember thinking about was a pair of soft, violet-coloured eyes.
I sighed as I lay back on the grass.
The week had gone by relatively quickly and it was now Friday.
I haven't seen Kyo for 3 days. I shook my head, hoping that Kyo would leave my mind already. Kyo hadn't been hanging out with us much after that first day. He'd preferred to spend more time with his new friends from the dorm.
I wonder if he'll still be coming to the dance tonight. I growled in irritation and flung my right arm over my eyes, noting that I hadn't gotten rid of him yet. Damn it all to hell!
My sun was blocked by a shadow and I looked up annoyingly into the eyes of Sou.
"What do you want?"
"And here I thought I'd bring you some positively amazing news, oh well guess I'll just leave again."
I could feel the sun fall upon my face again. I need all the good news I can get.
"Wait." I could practically hear Sou smiling. "What is this amazing news?"
"Guess who's back."
I shot up into a sitting position and stared at Sou with disbelief.
"Don't kid with me Sou!"
Sou merely wiggled his eyebrows and I couldn't help but jump up and hug him.
I pulled away and hit him lightly on the chest.
"Are you serious?"
"Yip. Came in this morning, he said he would come to visit during lun-"
Before I could hear more of what Sou said, I ran towards the doors and made my way to the entrance.
I practically threw the doors, leading to the outside of the school, open, bumping into someone head-on this time - both of us falling to the ground.
I groaned as my ass hit the floor. "Ouch... er, sorry about that."
I looked up to see who the unfortunate idiot who'd been at the end of my very unusual happy mood was.
Oh fuck no.
"Dammit, how about you be more careful next time and look where you're going instead of bumping into people like that!"
I snorted, "Says the idiot who's at the entrance doors of the school when it's break-time."
He finally looked up at me, apparently as shocked as I was initially.
"Yuki?"
"The one and only."
That seemed to trigger Kyo's usual mood and soon I found myself lifted up by my shirt staring into angry red eyes.
"Bump into me again and I'll kick your ass once and for all."
I glared at him coldly and practically hissed my reply, "Really? I thought we'd already established who'd win in a one-on-one battle when we met in the Principal's Office. Need me to remind you again?" Nice going Yuki. Make him hate you even more.
I saw Kyo's face go from annoyance to anger and then surprisingly to confusion just as I felt hands cover my eyes.
I couldn't stop the grin from appearing on my face and seconds later I felt Kyo's grip on my shirt loosen and then finally release.
"Haru?"
The hands left my eyes and I was turned around to face Sou's older brother, Hatsuharu.
"Hey there, Yuki. Not getting into any trouble, I hope."
I smirked, "Oh please, we all know who taught me exactly how to get into trouble, you loser."
"So what? Don't I get a hug?"
"So what? Don't I get a hug?"
What the fuck? Who the hell is this guy?
I don't know what it was, I hadn't even met the guy but I already felt like ripping his arms off.
I'd never seen Yuki being so friendly before, not even with Sou, as he practically fucking skipped into the guy's extended arms.
Finally the guy seemed to notice my presence.
"Oh sorry, was I interrupting something?"
Yuki blushed for what seemed like a millisecond before regaining his cool.
"No, not at all. Haru this is the principal's nephew, Kyo. Kyo – Haru."
He seemed to be studying me at first before he held out his hand, "How do you do?"
I looked down at his hand, not taking it. Much better before you appeared.
The atmosphere grew even more awkward as Haru and Yuki seemed to realise that I wasn't going to shake his hand.
Yuki glowered at me before turning back to the fucker, taking the outstretched hand in his. "Come on, let's go see the others."
As they walked away, I looked down at their conjoined hands, my fists clenching at my sides, I felt like punching someone in the face, preferably someone who had black and white hair. My anger never left me as I looked up at the guy again who seemed to be staring at me with amusement, a smug smirk plastered on his face as if he knew something I didn't.
A few minutes later, after Yuki and the fucker had left, I realised I was still standing on the same spot. My anger peaked even more and I kicked the door in front of me, making my way angrily to the dojo on the campus.
Fuck that fucker, this is all fucking bullshit!
In this story Hatsuharu's full name is Sano Hatsuharu and he's the middle son of the Sano family. I think it's pretty obvious as to why I didn't add his surname during his introduction to Kyo. If not, well you'll find out in the next chapter!
The next chapter will be the dance and more information about Haru and Yuki's relationship will be enclosed as well as other relationships between characters already introduced into the story and characters which haven't been introduced yet.
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