Chapter 20
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy;
We can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Hiroki jumbled the exercise sheets altogether as soon as the students had left the class for the ending period of the school. He had decided that if he found out one of his students didn't pass up the sheet as he demanded – a toss of the thickest book that he had across the head would make an excellent reward.
"Kamijou, osukaresan~" Miyagi shoved his head at the doorway, greeting him.
"What do you want, Miyagi?" Hiroki returned a sour greet to him.
"Oh nothing, I just felt that it has been a while since I had huggled my cutie Kamijou..." The raven dashed to the brunette with his arms spread apart. "Let me hug you~!"
"Argh! Get lost!"
"Such a meanie as always, Kamijou!" said the raven as he was being pushed away, giving a sulking look to him.
"Anyways," Miyagi cleared his throat for a moment before he continued, "The principal wanted to see both of us now, there's something that we need to talk."
"Huh?"
Hiroki and Miyagi made their way to the principal's office altogether. As they arrived, the middle-aged principal was sitting on his large black chair and being accompanied by his son, Shinobu who was standing at a corner while leaning his back against the wall. The blonde shoot a murderous glare to Hiroki who was hanging out with his lover.
"Oh, Kamijou-sensei and Miyagi-sensei... Thank you and I'm sorry that you have to come during this hour."
"It's nothing serious, sir. So what is this issue that we need to discuss with?" asked Hiroki, pulling one of the small chairs in front of the principal's table and sat down. Miyagi also did the same.
"One of your students had been not attending for a long time now and several warning letters had been sent to him but he's still didn't show up. I don't know that whether I should get him expelled or not, because maybe he's experiencing some problems."
"So who is this student? There are so many students in our class that it's hard to detect it."
"His name is..." The principal paused to briefly inspect one of the papers lying on his table; his fingers rammed his glasses upwards. Then he put a photograph on his table for the view of both of the professors.
"Takahashi Misaki."
Hiroki and Miyagi startled to saw the photograph of the student and also Shinobu who approached out of curiosity.
"Oi Kamijou, isn't this..."
"I had done some research about this student; I found that he's a quite interesting kid. Other than currently staying with the famous writer Usami Akihiko, he does well in his studies and he had a hard past..."
"Do you want us to investigate about him?"
"Yes, if you wouldn't mind."
Hiroki, Miyagi and Shinobu were sitting on a bench at a park nearby to Mitsuhashi while waiting for the principal, as the latter had some more work to finish before all four of them car-pooling to somewhere more appropriate to discuss. (WTF)
"I think that Misaki guy is having some terrible moments with Usami Akihiko right now! We should call the police!" Shinobu theorized with his thinking face.
"Shinobu-chin, that is something that we need to be sure of in the beginning... We can't just easily just jump into conclusions like that."
Hiroki had both doubt and trust juggling inside him regarding of his childhood friend, Akihiko. Is Akihiko doing something wrong to the student that they have to work with, or not? From the last time he had saw him, it was like he was meeting a different person.
"Say, Kamijou... You are an acquaintance of Usami-sensei, right?"
"I've been friends with him since elementary school. Before I knew Nowaki, I used to be in love with him."
Miyagi and Shinobu looked towards each other's faces upon Hiroki's reply.
"Whoa, are you telling the truth?"
"Have you ever confessed to him, Kamijou-sensei?"
"Unfortunately no, he had his heart for someone else whose name is Takahashi Takahiro."
"Wait, things are getting more confusing here. If he was in love with Takahiro, then why he's dating someone else?"
"Maybe he could only fall in love with anyone named 'Takahashi'?"
"That's absurd Miyagi; 'Takahashi' is such a common surname out there. To think that I once easily surrendered my pride by pretending myself as Takahiro to him several years ago... That Bakahiko."
"Probably he got heartbroken with Takahiro so he took Misaki under his wings and fuck the hell of him in order to satisfy his sexual needs in place of Takahiro."
Feeling knocked for six by Shinobu's theory, Hiroki clenched his fists in agony.
"Takatsuki-kun, I've known Akihiko for a long time and although he is the very definition of a weirdo he wouldn't do something like that. He has a hidden heart of gold deep down inside him."
"But sensei, do you remember the day me and Miyagi saved Misaki? You and your lover did saw his condition and how Usami treated him afterwards."
"...Akihiko would never hit someone, not even barely a noogie but that would make the first time of me seeing him doing so."
As they talked, a man wearing a coat, hat, sunglasses and surgical mask walked pass them. They ignored him.
"Maybe he's changed?" figured Shinobu, rubbing his chin.
Hiroki swallowed his saliva down his throat. "There's no doubt that he is..."
"Sorry to keep you waiting," the principal appeared, waving his hand to them.
"So... Do you want us to pay Takahashi-kun a visit, sir?"
"That would do. Now we need to – "
BOOM.
All of them were shocked to hear a very ear-splitting explosive sound coming from Mitsuhashi. They were traumatized by the terrorizing sight of Mitsuhashi being destroyed into thousand pieces...
He smirked upon his triumph from afar. He didn't expect that his mission, blowing up the whole school were a total piece of cake. He didn't imagine that planting a bomb inside the school was very simple, as easy as wiggling a finger.
"That's what you deserved for being a bother to me and my property, with your stupid warning letters."
The mysterious yet suspicious man who had passed by Hiroki, Miyagi and Shinobu earlier turned away and left the scene while taking off his hat, sunglasses and surgical mask to reveal himself as...
Akihiko.
~Omake~
Sasaki Naoto: Is anyone here a fan of action movies? xD Well I am one! I always loved one of the cheesy scenes where a character leaves a place and then the place suddenly went BOOM!
Hiroki: What the hell, lass!? Are you trying to kill us!? That was so dangerous!
Miyagi: Luckily we have safely left the school before the explosion happened. *sweatdrop*
Nowaki: HIRO-SAN...! ;A; Do you hurt at anywhere!? Uwaaaahhh... Hiro-san! *hugs Hiroki *
Sasaki Naoto: Don't worry... None of you are going to die. :P Because you guys are canon characters!
Shinobu: That's good to hear then. OCs are stupid.
Hotsuma's spirit: I heard that...
Nowaki: OAO A ghost! EVERYBODY, RUN!
Shinobu: No need to worry, we just have to do something to repel him! *takes out cross and garlics* I will exorcize you!
Miyagi: Is that going to work, Shinobu-chin...? Let's call the Ghostbusters instead!
Hotsuma's spirit: Chill down, guys. I'm here just to return my script or else I will be unable to rest in peace... *returns script to Naoto*
Sasaki Naoto: Thanks, Hotsuma-san! Now get out of here. YOU'RE FIRED.
Hotsuma'spirit: Geez... *leaves*
Sasaki Naoto: But Hotsuma's not only the one who's going to die... Misaki also here even though there's a 50% chance that he WILL die. But not from committing suicide though. From Akihiko's hands of course... *evil smirk* Oh yeah readers, don't call the police that I'm secretly making a snuff fiction here, killing one of the actors...
~Survey Question~
Which one of these is your favourite pairing in SIH?
a) Nostalgia (Takano and Ritsu)
b) Domestica (Hatori and Chiaki)
c) Erotica (Yukina and Kisa)
d) Trifecta (Kirishima and Yokozawa)
For me it's Trifecta *_* what an interesting pairing.
You know what? While I was studying math, I discovered something... random.
- Misaki plus Hiroki plus Shinobu equals to Ritsu.
- Ritsu plus Chiaki plus Kisa equals to Misaki.
- Takano plus Hatori plus Yukina equals to Akihiko.
Bwahahahahaha... LOL