Irie was walking through the corridor to his college lecture when he heard shouts of "Irie!" accompanied by the sound of squawks and thudding feet. He turned around to see two of Kotoko's idiotic friends running towards him. Satomi and Jinko, if he remembered correctly.
"NAOKI IRIE! Stop RIGHT there!"
Surprised, he stopped, only to be dragged-one arm by Satomi, one arm by Jinko-to the school cafeteria.
"Oye!" he shouted, more than a little annoyed. "Where are you taking me?"
"To the cafeteria!" Satomi said through gritted teeth-it was hard pulling a grown man across campus-and continued, "Something is off with you and Kotoko and we need to find out WHAT."
"Everything would be fine if it wasn't for that blond haired idiot." Naoki grumbled.
The two friends exchanged a look. They had finally found the reason.
Later, the three college students were sitting at one of the tables at the cafeteria. Jinko and Satomi had offered to pay for his lunch in exchange for, in Irie's words, "wasting his precious time."
Naoki looked up at them from his rice and soybeans. "So...why are you wasting my time like this?"
"Well," Jinko said, "you've kinda…
"BEEN A TOTAL JERK TO KOTOKO!"
The doctor-to-be raised an eyebrow. "Is that any of your business?"
"It SHOULD be!" Satomi exclaimed with a 'hmph'. "Kotoko said she was SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING being- what's his name again?"
"Watanabe," Naoki supplied. "He used to be my close friend back in high school."
"Used to be?" Jinko asked, slightly suspicious.
"Used to be...until, never mind."
"Until what?" Jinko prodded.
"He...took Kotoko away from me." Irie hesitantly said. Why was he spilling his heart out to Kotoko's idiotic friends?
"TOOK KOTOKO AWAY FROM YOU! KOTOKO WASN'T EVEN YOURS IN THE FIRST-owwww!"
"Jinko, shut up!" Satomi whispered after kicking her friend under the table.
"Well, sorry to say, buster-but you screwed up big time!"
"Oh, that redheaded idiot can go with whoever she wants. It's not like I care." He regained some of his icy bravado.
"Ohhh, yes you do care!" Satomi shouted. "Well, if you must know, Kotoko likes that Watanabe guy a lot, A LOT. And I mean A LOT!"
The man's face showed no reaction, but Jinko could see his fists clench.
"In fact, she thinks you're a TOTAL jerk and she's DEFINITELY going to say yes to him!" Jinko added on, enjoying this thick pile-up of completely false facts just to get Irie riled up.
"Aaand…" Satomi added, "She wants to MARRY HIM, too!"
Jinko sent her a look that said, isn't that a little TOO much?
But Satomi only winked back.
Jinko caught on.
"She even said she's going to have babies with him-first, a girl with his blond hair, and next, a boy with her red hair! And then twins, with her father's black hair!"
Irie abruptly stood, narrowed his eyes, and literally ran out of the place.
"HAHAHA!" Jinko burst out laughing, once Irie was out of earshot. "Only he would fall for that!"
"Honestly, our 'facts' were so STUPID! He might be a genius everywhere else, but when it comes to Kotoko, we can give him poop on a plate and call it French Fries! He'll still believe us!"
They laughed for a while more and then called Mama Irie.
"Hello? Irie's mother? Mission Accomplished!"
An 'evil laugh' came from the other end. "Good."
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