The Clothes

When a boy scares you...

After a week of that incident with Fubuki, I managed to get use to the school.

"Anyway, Haruna told me that the FF was coming up!" Aki told us in our lunchtime on the soccer field.

Did I mention that I managed to be a manager (get it?) in the team? Well, I did! Luckily, a lot of boys seemed to respect me.

"Oh, yeah!" Kato said.

"I'm sure Aphrodi would be getting revenge on us..." Sasaki said.

"You mean the one from Zeus Academy?" I asked them.

"Yeah!" Sasaki replied.

"Well, what's the problem? I'm sure you could beat them again," I said.

Aki bit her lip and said weakly, "Well, it's not that easy..."

"Why?"

"Well," Kato started, "for starters, our striker, the Truly-Annoying Majesty, Burn, is a close friend of his."

"So?"

"SO! That tulip-headed freak might make Aphrodi win!" Sasaki explained.

I rolled my eyes and asked, "How can you be so sure he'll do that?"

"Yeah, Sasaki-senpai... how can you be sure?" a voice that I knew too well, said.

"Urm... Nagumo-san..." Sasaki stammered and bit her lip.

I looked behind me, and glared at Nagumo. I retorted, "Excuse me, Nagumo, but I believe this is a matter for girls only."

I swore I heard Kato whimper beside me. I looked Nagumo straight into his eyes, daring him to criticize me.

"I need to talk to you..." Nagumo grumbled, "Privately."

I frowned at him, but said; "Sure."

I stood up, said goodbye to my fellow managers and followed Nagumo... who was practically 10 meters from me now. I managed to catch up to his distance. He looked at me with a poker face, though Nagumo's eyes looked like he can kill someone.

"What happened?" I asked.

Nagumo stopped and turned around to face me. He snarled, "Could you shut up for a moment?"

"Then why did you ask me to come?" I snapped.

Nagumo rolled his eyes and bit his lip. He said, "I need you to help me."

"Help you in what?"

"A hissatsu technique."

"What about it?"

"I need you to do a technique with me."

"Uh... why?"

"Please! Besides, we have a deal on-going."

"Fine..."

"Great! Meet me tomorrow at the soccer field."

"Wait... afternoon?"

"Yes, princess!" Nagumo said, and stalked off.

I grinned in my mind, and then went back to my fellow managers. If my cheeks were red, at least the gals only saw it...

But that wasn't the case.

"Kiyama?" I asked a red-head as I stopped in front of the bench.

Kiyama snapped his head up, and then looked at me. He exclaimed, "Suzuno!"

"Er... what're you doing?"

"Drinking, why?"

"Uh... do you know where the others are?"

"Mmm... they went back to the club room."

"Thanks."

I walked, passing by him. When I did, I swore I heard him mutter something at me. I shivered, but continued walking to the club room. I looked at Kato waiting at me near the entrance.

"Hey! The managers have a meeting going on!" she yelled at me.

"A-ah! Coming!"

'You'll be mine, Suzuno. Wait for it.'

My eyes were drooping at the last subject.

I snapped back up quickly.

Whoa, Suzuno... when did you start falling asleep in class? I thought bitterly.

Ever since you started dreaming about Kiyama, my conscience answered back.

Did not! I answered back.

RING!

I fixed my things quietly as the teacher started blabbing all kinds of things.

"Gazel-san?"

"GAZEL!"

"Huh? What?" I shrieked and shot my head up. I saw Aki and Fuyuka frowning at me.

"Yes? Can I help you?" I asked them.

"You're drowsing off, again!" Aki sighed.

"I-I'm sorry... it's just that... a lot's been happening..." I murmured.

Aki and Fuyuka looked at each other and then grinned. I looked both of them with one of my eyebrows raised. They were starting to scare me more than my mom when she's angry.

Well, not completely scary than when mom's angry... but, you know what I mean.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked them.

"Oh, nothing~!" Aki teased and grinned.

"What?!" I cried out.

"You wanna go to the carnival tomorrow?" Fuyuka asked.

I bit my lip as I thought what Nagumo said earlier. I hesitated, "Erm..."

Aki rolled her eyes and insisted, "Come on! It would be fun!"

"I'll try..." I reluctantly give in and smiled softly.

"Come on, let's go to the soccer field," Fuyuka said.

RING!

"Urhmm..." I opened my eyes, groggily.

Sunlight met my eyes.

"Ow..."

"Come on, princess! Wake up!" a rather familiar voice called.

I sat up quickly, and then turned around. "Nagumo?!" I yelled.

"Better get ready! You're going to the carnival, right?" Nagumo asked and grinned at me.

I stuck my tongue out to him and replied, "No! And I thought you and I were going to make a hissatsu technique!"

Nagumo rolled his eyes and carried me over his shoulder.

"That can wait," I heard him whispered.

"Put me down!" I yelled at him as I punched his back.

CREAK!

The bathroom door creaked rather loudly. Nagumo shoved me in slowly and closed the door.

I hate that pervert.

After I showered, I opened my door and went all ninja moves to see if Nagumo was there...

So far, so good.

My eyes narrowed at the middle of my bed. Clothes were laid out. Black leggings, short silver skirt, a blue-green short-sleeved shirt and at the foot of my bed were black ankle-boots.

I did the most obvious thing: I wore them.

I went down cautiously and peeked at the dining room. On the table, facing each other, were Nagumo and Fumio. I raised my eyebrow at this, but seeing that they can't see me: I stopped my eyebrows half-way.

I went down some more and cleared my throat.

Both of them looked at me quickly. I grinned at Fumio, who had his mouth slightly opened, and had my heart in hysterics as Nagumo smirked at me, but had pink tainted on his cheeks.

"Sorry for bothering your pep talk, but Nagumo and I have a carnival to get to." I said.

Fumio closed his mouth and nodded slightly.

"Come on, Tulip-head, the carnival's a-waiting," I winked at him.

"Whatever, Ice Princess." Nagumo said and stood up.

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