Students glanced at the Hajime and Hashimoto but quickly looked away from them. Hashimoto smiled proudly at Hajime while winking at other female students who passed by. The vice-captain felt his jaws clenching.
Hashimoto's a girl so you can't punch hi-her, Hajime repeated on his mind while staring at the crossdresser who was currently complimenting a girl with a charming smile.
Hajime chuckled darkly.
He was supposed to eat his lunch but somehow, Hashimoto appeared out of nowhere and decided to ask Hajime to come along with her to the mall, again. Her reason? To help her dress as a lady and walk around in public as a woman and not a crossdressing female.
"How does she expect me to go with her when she flirts with other girl while talking to me? That little…" Hajime aggressively mumbled under his breath. He clicked his tongue and caught Hashimoto smirking at a lady and gesturing a finger heart at her.
Screw it, Hajime thought before approaching Hashimoto and smacking the crossdresser's head, not too hard but not too soft.
"Ouch! My hair!" Hashimoto gasped. She instantly fixed her hair and whined about how long she had to style her hair so she would look like a male student.
"Stop saying it took you hours to fix your hair! You just tie it then style your fringe easily! It just takes you five minutes to do that!" Hajime exclaimed angrily.
Hashimoto stares at her senior and smiles teasingly "Woah, you remember small details about me? That's so sweeeet!" Hashimoto pushes Hajime lightly.
Hajime blushes and covers his eyes before groaning. He curses at the crossdressing junior on his mind and decides to just go. So he walks away from Hashimoto.
"Go help yourself out. I'm busy." Hajime says while walking back to his classroom, glad that he denied to help Hashimoto. He hears the girl call out to him but he ignores it without hesitation.
Once Hajime entered his classroom, that was the only time a pang of guilt stroke him. He was tempted to go back to Hashimoto but he stops himself. He starts to think about the all the positive things that would happen if he goes to Hashimoto and notes all the negatives.
He shakes his head and ignores his guilt. Hajime walks back to his seat, confused. He tried to do his best to ignore the confusion but he fails to do it so he just groans.
Oikawa glances at him and approaches Hajime. "What's wrong, Iwa-chan?" Oikawa raises an eyebrow at his childhood friend and leans on Hajime's desk.
Hajime side-glances at Oikawa and remembers his friend's personality. He groans and shakes his head.
"She's like you and it's so annoying." Hajime complains. "How is that even possible? She's a girl yet she resembles you in so many ways! God, she's stressing me out and pissing me off!" He continues ranting.
Oikawa just eyes his friend "Who's 'she'?" He asks. "Hashimoto." Hajime answers.
The captain looks at Hajime. Stunned by what he heard, Oikawa rethinks about the reason why his friend is acting weird.
If he recalls, Hashimoto has been approaching his friend lately. Is that why Hajime's distressed?
Oikawa nods and clicks his tongue repeatedly. "Don't worry, Iwa-chan. I'll do something about Hashimoto Seijun. Leave it to your bestfriend." Oikawa grins cheekily before happily going back to his seat.
Hajime stares at him, confused.
Class ended and immediately, Oikawa bids goodbye to Hajime. He lets his flirty friend go before looking at the board. He sees his name written on the board, under the cleaners for the day, and without a word, he cleans the room.
It took him forty-six minutes to clean the whole classroom without anyone's help. Hajime glares at the name under his name while wiping a sweat on his forehead. His classmate decided to ditch cleaning duty leaving him cleaning the room alone.
Hajime puts all the cleaning tools on their respective places and grabs his bag. While cleaning, he decided to go talk to Hashimoto and help her. Somehow, he couldn't bear the idea of her trying an outfit alone and if she did suceed on wearing a female clothing, Hajime couldn't accept the idea of her walking alone in the mall, as a lady.
He rushes towards Hashimoto's classroom and once he was in front of her classroom, he stops and thinks. Hajime gulps and opens it. He hears voices and soft laughters from the classroom so he carefully inspects the room and spots two people inside.
Hashimoto and a blonde girl.
The crossdresser sits on chair while the blonde girl sat on a desk facing Hashimoto. Both were laughing heartily and their cheeks were dusted in pink. The crossdresser placed her hand to cover her mouth while laughing softly.
Hajime blinked and took a better look at her. While the curtain waved because of the wind, the evening sunlight entered the classroom filling it with orange. Hajime noticed that it suited Hashimoto's appearance then realized how well her auburn brown hair complimented her porcelain skin especially when her face was slightly flushed in pink.
Hashimoto slowly stopped laughing and a sincere smile appeared in return. The crossdresser accidentally glances at Hajime while smiling gently. She stares at him for a while, tempted to wave at him but instead, her smile drops and her eyes suddenly flickers with something similar to hurt. She turns her attention back to the blonde girl and smiles at her.
Hajime eyes Hashimoto, confused. What was that?
He wants to walk up to her but he stops himself. Something tells him that he shouldn't go near her and it's most likely Hashimoto's eyes that's telling him that.
The next day, Hajime walk to his school and along the way, he recalls always meeting Hashimoto at the koi pond near Aoba Johsai. He feels a small rush of excitement enter his system but he remains calm and walks to the koi pond.
He sees a person wearing a similar uniform while taking a picture of the koi pond. Hajime gives a small smile and approaches the person.
"Hashimoto!" Hajime calls out to her, causing Hashimoto to stop taking pictures. She faces her senior and grins, only to drop her smile again and stare at Hajime emotionless.
Hajime's eyebrows furrows "What is it?" he asks. Hashimoto shakes her head before bowing to Hajime and walking away.
Hajime stands in shock.
There is only one time that Hashimoto Seijun bowed to Hajime and that was her first meeting with Hajime, after that she never bowed to him anymore.
The vice-captain gazes at the female crossdresser and calls out to her but she doesn't look back nor does she stop. Hajime feels offended.
He thinks about Hashimoto and guesses that maybe, she's not in a good mood today. Hajime nods and lets Hashimoto have space for the day. He decides to talk to her later.
So he continues walking to his school. He goes to his classroom, sees Oikawa flirting with his female classmates, hits Oikawa to stop him from flirting, listens to the teachers attentively, eats his food at recess, continues studying, eats his lunch, and proceeds to study hard.
Classes finally ends but Hajime realizes that the day passed by without talking to Hashimoto. Something that seemed strange when Hashimoto always went to talk to Hajime every lunch and asked him questions about her previous lessons.
Hajime, grabs his bag, tells Oikawa to go home first before exiting the classroom. He rushes towards Hashimoto's class and bumps on other students on the way.
Once he stands in front of the door to the crossdresser's classroom, he opens it without hesitation and goes face to face with a familiar girl. Hajime stares at her and observes her blonde hair then he guesses that she was Hashimoto's companion yesterday after school.
Hajime hears a cough coming from the blonde girl so he looks at her and slightly blushes.
"Sorry…" Hajime mutters embarrassingly. "Is Hashimoto Seijun here?" He asks shyly.
The blonde girl stares at him sharply. Hajime slightly backs off and avoids her eyes. Something in her screams danger.
"What do you want with her?" The girl suddenly speaks.
Hajime thinks before answering "I want to… talk to her."
Hajime watched as the girl observed him. He felt like he was being judged but he didn't say anything. He feared that he might say something upsetting. Suddenly, the girl smiled at him sweetly, devoid of anything evil.
"I'll call her for you, wait here." The girl told Hajime before shouting the crossdresser's last name.
Hajime sighed deeply. He didn't know what her relationship with Hashimoto is but he what he does know is that he needs to avoid her no matter what the situation is.
Hajime observed Hashimoto's classmates and saw that no one minded Hashimoto crossdressing. His eyes roamed around the classroom until he finally saw the crossdresser conversing with the blonde girl before going to him.
Hashimoto had a straight-face as she walked towards Hajime. When she was finally an arm away from Hajime, she spoke "Let's talk somewhere less crowded."
Hajime simply agreed and followed the crossdresser without hesitation.
They went to the rooftop silently and awkwardly. Hajime's suspicion rised. Hashimoto wasn't speaking nor was she smiling. This unnerved Hajime and he wanted to get down to the whole business and solve whatever the problem is yet he remained quiet and composed.
Once they were at the rooftop, Hashimoto closed the door and leaned on it with her hands inside her pocket.
Hajime felt his heart beat faster. He gulped nervously as he remembers all the anime that shows girls confessing at the rooftop. He glances at Hashimoto and sees her looking down.
Hashimoto abruptly raises her head and the two accidentally looks at each other.
Hajime takes note of her solemn expression. His nervousness remains but the heat on his face disappears, only to be switched by a worried look.
"Listen, Iwaizumi-san… you don't have to force yourself." Hashimoto speaks.
Hajime breathes in and out. He mutters a soft "what" while staring at the crossdresser. He suddenly hears a chuckle from her.
"Oikawa-san told me that I'm stressing you out and that it's pissing you off."
Hajime's breathing hitches and he recalls telling Oikawa the exact same words that Hashimoto told him. He grits his teeth, mad at his friend for telling Hashimoto his distress.
"If it's making you more stressed, then you should say 'no', in fact, I've realized that I'm being unfair." Hashimoto continues to speak.
"What do you mean?" Hajime mutters.
"I mean… You help me and I gain something but you don't. You're exerting effort knowing that it wouldn't give you anything in return and I take your help not giving you anything for your efforts so I think that's unfair... I'm unfair."
Hajime blinks. Then he blinks again. Then he laughs.
Hashimoto stares at her senior questionly. "Wha-why are you laughing?! I'm serious!" she exclaims.
Hajime ignores her and continues laughing until he calms down and decides to speak.
"Oikawa's a piece of crap so don't listen to him, okay?" Hajime says smiling.
Hashimoto frowns and shakes her head. "I don't think you understand."
Hajime stops smiling and listens to what Hashimoto will say.
"It's not what he said but the impact it had on me, the realization that dawned on me when he said that I'm stressing you out, and the guilt that came afterwards. I'm not doing you any good but you didn't avoid me so Oikawa-san was being a good friend by telling me that I was putting you in stress and I finally realized that I was being too clingy to you just by because you reminded me of my brother! Don't you think that's wrong?"
Hashimoto breathes heavily after ranting without stopping. Hajime was taken aback by her sudden outburst and forgot how to speak at the moment.
Hashimoto gulps and sighs. She gives a sad smile to Hajime and speaks again.
"I'm sorry for not realizing it earlier. Thank you for trying to help me and being kind to me… I really appreciate it. You should stop helping me now, my sister will take care of me. I'll still be your friend though so… this isn't a goodbye! It's just an apology." Hashimoto smiles and sighs before looking at the sky above.
"See you then." She said calmly as she gripped the doorknob and opened it before walking away, leaving Hajime alone on the rooftop.
Hajime slowly but surely took in all of Hashimoto's words, each of it adds more sense on why she was avoiding him. Yet despite understanding Hashimoto's reasons on avoiding him, why does Hajime still feel lost?
A/N:
I'm here~~~
This story doesn't end here, don't worry. I always had a knack for my characters ranting out their problems so be ready for Seijun ranting her problems at Iwa-chan in the near future chapters
By the way
Okay then, hope you enjoyed Iwa-chan's suffering for the day. Please read the next one if you want Iwa-chan to suffer more~~
