Title: Leisure Days
Author: Hikari Kou Minami
Disclaimer: Kagerou Daze © Jin (Shizen no Teki-P)
Warning: Bad grammar (English isn't my native language, anyway), many head-canons, a OOC's possibility, some of AU!situations (for the next chapter)
Note: It has been a long time since the late update. I'm so sorry. Many test came one by one, and I didn't get the plot of this chapter orz. I think this chapter is so short and crappy, sorry again. Please, enjoy~ :]
05: Expression
Sometime, he wondered about his classmate who sat beside him. His only friend who talked much with him. His only one closest friend who always smiling every time. Sometime, he really didn't know about her, her smile exactly. He wondered why, why does she always smile every time, why does she looked so cheerful everyday. He really didn't know about it.
Her expression always same every he see her; smiling cheerfully as if she never gets hurt in her heart. He really didn't know, but it didn't mean he wanted to know. He just wondered. How could a person so cheerful without any burden like her. He didn't get it.
He didn't know why she could talk much with him as well, even though most of time, he didn't respond her says. According to his attitude, it was so clear that everyone would avoid him or maybe got angry like a certain twin-tail girl who they met one day long ago. But he didn't find that kind of thing on this girl. No one.
He wondered as well why she looked only talk much with him. Except himself, he never know who did ever talk much to her with. Did she not get many friends? And why could she stand with him—his attitude exactly. Did she feel lonely so she was able to stand with his attitude? He never know her reason at all.
Actually, he wanted to ask her about it. But, the thing on himself didn't want to do it. Sometime, seeing on her smile make him got irritated but wondered as well in one time. Like today. Today, she was so cheerful like usual. Her expression didn't change a bit. Smile still plastered on her sweet face. Her red scarf that used as her thew swayed on the air as she walked a little bit behind him. Today too, they walked together as usual with the expression that was so different each other. He was with his cold expression from his dead-fish eyes, while she was with a cheerful face.
"Hey," he said without looked at her.
"Yes? What's matter, Shintaro?" she replied and looked to him. A black-messy hair boy be silence for a while.
"Why do you always follow me?" he asked (still) without gave a sight at her, so he didn't notice her surprised face. Her expression became softer and somehow, became cloudy. She then closed up her red scarf.
"I ... I can't tell you the reason," she replied with a gloomy smile. But that smile changed into a bright smile when he suddenly turned his head to her. For some reason, it was like she didn't want he caught her gloomy smile.
"Hey, sometime, I get irritated every time you smile," he said again as if ignored her reply before.
"Eh?" Ayano's eyes blinked for a while. "Y-You are so cruel, Shintaro," she replied with a hurtful expression that he was sure it was fake.
"Because you can smile foolishly in every condition, like at time you got bad score," he said as he turned his head from her. "How could you smile like that at that time? That's not make any sense,". Finally he asked her about that thing.
Ayano who was surprised a bit, then smiled again. "I don't know Shintaro noticed it, hehee,"
"It doesn't mean that I noticed it. Everyone will notice and think about it too," a slight red appear on his face. She didn't notice it. She turned her sight into the floor. Her expression turned softer.
"Happiness.." she murmured with a low voice as if she whispered to herself alone.
"... What?" he asked as he couldn't catch what she said before.
"No. I mean ... I just want to be happy," she said with a bright smile for the umpteenth time. "Smile is a symbol of happiness. So, I smile everyday to be happy," she added again.
"Even though you got a bad score?" he asked.
"Yes. I can't be sad just because of that. I could take a summer course to fix my grade up," she replied.
Such a non-sense, he thought. He guessed, he was wrong to ask about it. Nevertheless, he didn't get a message behind her reason. He didn't know that it was one of her true reason.
"Just forget what I ask to you," he ordered and turned his head away from her.
"Huh? Why?" she asked and turned her sight to him.
"Just forget it!" he didn't reply. He was so foolish, he guessed.
"O-Okay." She responded, although her mind still thoght about that question and the real reason behind of it that she couldn't tell to him. Her only one reason. And they walked with their own thought; Ayano was with her reason and Shintaro was with 'he shouldn't ask her about it' thought.
Because he will know the real reason immediately. The real reason of her smile and that cheerful expression.