SEEING YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME

Chapter 3A: Daytime and Nighttime Trips

Disclaimer: Nurarihyon no Mago characters are not mine. Also, the last name of Wakana is just a fictional name that was added for the purpose of the story. There are also some original characters created for the purpose of the story.

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Author's note: The story is slightly different than usual. However, I will not move away so much. The overall plan is to end up in the same story. About the onmyoji characters, wait and see.

Note for the chapter: the first part of Chapter 3 would be really short. So please be patient with me. Chapter 3 part 2 will definitely dwell more on the real plot of this story.

"Where have you been going?"

Nurarihyon was leaning on the wall of the front porch of the Nura household. For the past weeks, Rihan has been going somewhere every morning in his human form, wearing what humans refer to as a suit. Not that Rihan looks bad or something, for the First, he always had this bias about wearing traditional Japanese clothing. As of the moment, the questioned is putting on his "leather" shoes ready to head out again.

"Somewhere fun." Rihan replied not looking up and still putting on his shoes.

"Fun? Does that place have a lot of girlies?!" Nurarihyon teased. "I'm coming with you!"

"STOP!" Rihan placed a hand in front of his dad. Nurarihyon paused looking a little surprised with the gesture but not really intimidated. "Bye."

In a second, Rihan was out of the house. That one startled the older man.

"That brat, where has he been going?" Nurarihyon said out loud, huffing and puffing as if putting on a tantrum like a kid that was left alone by the parent. "All dressed up and all…"

"Rihan-sama refers to the place as school." Kubinashi responded, Karasu Tengu flew in front of the commander.

"It's where kids go these days to study." Karasu Tengu added.

"I know what school means you dolts!" Nurarihyon snorted. Of course he knew what school meant. It's the haven of young ladies and not to mention where some guys go there, which is basically negligible. "So, why is that guy going there?"

Karasu tengu looked sneakily at Kubinashi. "You better tell the commander Kubinashi."

Kubinashi debated to himself if he should put his master on the spot and avoid the question of their commander while risking losing his head (not really the neck part anymore since it's not there) or obey the hierarchy and tell the supreme commander.

"Nevermind." Nurarihyon said shaking his hand towards a wide-eyed Kubinashi. "He's old enough."

Kubinashi let go a sigh of relief. Karasu Tengu followed his retreating master. The second hand of Rihan looked towards the open gate of the Nura household thinking about his master. Indeed, the supreme commander was right. He is old enough to know what he's doing, but how come during the past days, he's acting like he's a child. There were days wherein he would muse alone staring into space. The days wherein Wakana-sama joined them for their night patrols, Rihan-sama would be too excited that he'd be a few steps ahead of them and around 10 minutes ahead of schedule. But when he's with Wakana-sama, he'd be as cold as ice as if acting like the "mysterious cool guy".

Kubinashi smirked. He hoped that his master already knows how deep he has fallen.

But he highly doubted that.

Conceited? That he is.

Dense. Another description.

In love?

Kubinashi smirked.

Yes. Definitely. But I don't think he knows.

Wakana shook her head while letting go of the long held sigh. They've been planning for hours for the haunted house project but all they came out was nothing. Why was that, it was because their idiotic class president and selfish homeroom teacher have been glaring at each other since the meeting started. Amina on the other hand was too busy observing the catfight and Kimiko has been staring at their teacher non-stop. In her mind, she remembered what happened in the classroom during their planning session…

Testing their listening skills to the plans that she presented, she wrote down a nonsense proposal asking them to sign as an agreement. Guess what, they all signed.

Wakana slammed her hands on the table startling the rest of the team. They almost jumped out of their skin. Looking up to her, she looked really pissed off. She tore the piece of paper.

"You know, if you (pointing at Sousuke) and you (pointing at their teacher) have nothing better to do than glare at each other, and you (pointing towards Kimiko) would want to lose your eyes as you act like a lost fan girl, and you (pointing at Amina) have nothing better to do than enjoy the childish glare-game, I have better things to take care of." Wakana took out her bag and stormed off the room.

"Waka…na…" Sousuke stood up, guilty as charged. His face with cold sweat. He didn't notice the time, he was too busy getting mad at their very arrogant and cocky teacher. "Damn…"

Rihan almost shook his head but caught himself. Well, indeed that was a little too childish of him too. Playing a staring game against a child barely 1/16th of this age. But he was feeling very territorial. This brat seemed to be breaching his human blood and obviously showing him how fascinated he is with Wakana. Although to be honest, he had no idea why he was being possessive and obsessive about it. Not that they have any relationship, but he thought that the days that they have been going out and their frequent night patrols would have made them closer.

Closer?

Um…

Why do they need to be close?

Why is it important for him?

Amina stood up and giggled making them look at her. "Well that was amusing. Hahaha, keep it up Sousuke-kun, …."

She kept on giggling to herself as she left the room headed towards the direction Wakana is going. Sousuke stood up getting his bag dragging himself out of the room while feeling very bad about the sermon and also being so immature. But he still looked back at their much more juvenile teacher.

"Tsk…", He felt really annoyed with his teacher's obvious possessiveness. "What do they have anyway, .they're neighbors alright but not really lovers. Annoying teacher…"

Rihan felt his stare but he didn't want to act any more childlike as he could. He is the "teacher". He heard Sousuke leave the room leaving him with Kimiko, the girl who has been showing her intentions towards him. He looked at the girl and smirked.

"Time to go home. I'll see you tomorrow." He said. Kimiko nodded obediently while not leaving her gaze at Rihan.

He shivered at how intense her stare is. He opened the door, left the room, closed the door, and then vanished in a hurry. He had a woman to catch.

Wakana kicked that small stone in her way. She was really pissed off. She worked hard the entire night on that plan for the school fair and all they did was stare at each other. They passed the test of being insensitive today. She kicked another stone. She heard a small "ouch" towards the direction that she kicked it and then she looked up. She saw a small demon holding its face.

The demon looked like a child with green hair. But he was obviously a demon because of its horn. Trying to sense it's intentions, it didn't look particularly evil. She stepped forward towards the child-like demon.

"I'm sorry." She apologized. The demon was looking extremely petrified at her. Who won't be scared? You just got hit by a stone by a human woman who's not supposed to be seeing you.

The demon slowly looked up. From this side she could clearly see the bump on its head caused by the stone. She slightly winced. She took out her handkerchief and extended her hand towards the demon.

"I'm really sorry, that looks painful." She smiled slightly. The demon looked at her. It seems to have acknowledged her to be a nice person. The demon child raised its head and smiled towards Wakana's direction.

"It's alright nee-chan." The child demon nodded. It took the handkerchief and ran away. It waved towards Wakana before totally vanishing.

Wakana waved back at the small demon. She berated herself by being too disrespectful. She could have hurt someone else or perhaps a vindicated spirit would have been hit instead of that nice demon. By then, she could have been in a very dangerous situation. She made a mental note not to kick anymore stones, perhaps she could just do something else instead.

"Yo!"

Wakana felt her soul evaporate due to the shock. She held her chest to calm her rapidly pounding heart. She looked up and saw her teacher in his demon form. No longer wearing the suit as Rihan-sensei, he's now in his striped black and green kimono with the sword on his waist.

"Do you honestly want to kill me?!" Wakana asked in a fairly loud tone.

"Of course not." Rihan answered quickly. "What got you so unfocused? I've been here for about a minute or two already."

"Minute or two?" Wakana was amazed. How can that even happen, she was that much in the zone to not notice his awfully noticeable presence? "What do you want?"

"Nasty, nasty…easy there woman." Rihan teased, she only glared back.

"Who won't be nasty, you pretty rude half demon, half human or whatever you are!" Wakan crossed her arms showing him how pissed off she was.

She thought she could treat him brashly since they're no longer in school. He's no longer the teacher and she's no longer the student. They have been treating each other in this manner for a while now. Rihan sighed. He knew that she probably felt a little annoyed, okay correction, really annoyed with his behavior a while ago.

His hand reached the back of his head and he looked away. "…ummm… Sorry."

Wakana looked up, in shock for the second time in a few minutes. Did she hear that coming from none other than the heir to the pandemonium? She stared at his features, he was blushing ever so slightly. She smiled, this time sincerely smiled.

He looked absolutely handsome. His dark locks, which seemed like it was glued together swayed with the wind. His golden eyes staring into the sky. The sunset only made him look more surreal. She took in every detail, from his nose, eyes, skin, chin, neck, everything looks really unearthly.

Unable to notice how her body moved, her hands reached towards his face shocking Rihan. He immediately looked towards her. She seemed to be out in a trance with her gestures. Her hand reached his cheek. Rihan looked at her and saw how her eyes sparkled in the afternoon sun. The orange rays reflected back in her light brown orbs. Her light skin blushed in light pink in this comforting but dimming sky.

The lights in the lampposts started to flicker as it readies itself for the night. A warm touch was something he thought he longed for a while now. But he never knew he missed it this much. His eyes staring intently into hers. His hand slowly moving to reach towards her cheek. Before he being able to reach it, she slightly slapped him twice in the cheek pulling him back to reality. She could see the playfulness in her eyes.

"Bad boy." She teased. "You deserve that slap."

Rihan's eyes widened and to their surprise, both of them, he blushed. What was he thinking? He almost…

No, he didn't want to think about it.

He didn't want to think that he wanted to…

Touch her…

To…

Kiss her…

Argh…

Wakana laughed to herself, but trying her best to hide how nervous she was. Honestly, she felt the moment. It was as if she was being dragged into a black hole. But luckily, she pulled herself out. She stepped out of the room and started to head to the direction of her home. Rihan was still in his own thoughts while looking at her.

"See you tomorrow, sen-sei…"

Rihan watched her retreating form while still lost in thought. He whispered to himself,

"See you tomorrow…Wakana."

To be continued.

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