Momoshiro sat down on a bench inside the locker room . He clenched his fist hard .
"This wasn't suppose to happen … This wasn't suppose to happen !" he shouted . Sakuno and tomoka stood beside him . Sakuno walked towards him and knelt down beside him . She held his hands .
"Momo...it's okay ..." She said .
"No its not okay !" Momoshiro shouted and pushed her hands away . Sakuno looked at him with her eyes wide opened . She was shocked that momoshiro pushed her hands away .
"S-sorry.."
"Sakuno ...i'm sorry but... can you leave me alone …?"
Sakuno stood up and nodded . She walked out of the locker room with tomoka , clenching her fist near her heart .
"Momoshiro-senpai really took it hard..." Tomoka said .
"Hey Sakuno ! Tomoka !" Kikumaru shouted and came running towards them follwed by other others . "How's momo doing ?"
"Kikumaru-senpai , erm , momoshiro-senpai is sort of out of it right now …"
"I see … why aren't you guys with him ?"
"He wants to be left alone ..."
"Tomo-chan... I'm going to get a drink..."
"I'll come with you then !"
"NO ! I want to go alone ..." With that , sakuno walked away from the gang and head towards the vending machine . As she was walking , she kept thinking about the match . The others at the locker room stood around in a circle . Fuji , on the other hand stood aside and placed his hands on his chin . He was deep in thought . Inui saw that and walked over towards him .
"What's wrong fuji ? You seem to be thinking about something ..." he asked .
"Oh , its nothing . Just that ..."
"Just what ?"
"Never mind … i'm going to continue to look around the school festival … you guys head on without me ." he said and walked away . He headed towards the school garden and the tennis courts . He was looking around frantically like he was searching for something .
"Why is the school so big ?" he thought to himself . He walked all over the place .
"I give up ..." He was about to make his way back to the others when he heard a voice . He opened his eyes and ran towards the direction of the baseball court .
"I finally found you ..." He said as he looked at ryoma , chiyo , kaidoh and oishi .
"What do you want fuji-senpai..?" Kaidoh asked .
"Wait , i'm not here to fight . I just want to have a chat .."
"We have nothing to talk about … come on , lets get out of here..." kaidoh said . The others were about to walk away when fuji stopped them .
"I'm starting to have doubts about momo...and there are a lot of doubtful points that I don't understand . Like why did kaidoh side with echizen all of a sudden and why Oishi made up with kaidoh .. I thought he cut off all ties with all of us .. but now .. you two are friends .. I just don't know what's going on.."
Inui , who have been following fuji the entire time , walked out from behind a tree .
"Fuji .. you too ?"
"Inui ?"
"I'm here as well ..." tezuka came out from behind them .
"Tezuka ..." Fuji and inui said as tezuka approached them . He nodded and turned to face ryoma .
"Tezuka .. did you notice it as well ?" Inui asked . Tezuka nodded . It seemed like Fuji , Inui and tezuka have been thinking about the exact same thing . Ryoma looked at all of them . He said nothing but instead , he walked away .
"Echizen , wait-" Fuji wanted to stop ryoma from walking away but he was stopped by kaidoh . Kaidoh Glared at him .
"Kaidoh..."
"Leave him alone … haven't you all done enough harm to him ?" He stormed off . Oishi was the only one left . But he never walked away . Instead he stood there and looked at Inui , Fuji and Tezuka .
"Oishi .. Its been a while .." Tezuka said .
"Tezuka ..."
"Oishi … can you tell us ...about echizen ? I want to know what's going on … Why is kaidoh siding with him all of a sudden . And you as well .." Inui asked .
"From the beginning , I never sided with anyone .. all I did was trust my instincts .. I never believed those stories about echizen and you know it .." Oishi closed his eyes and explained .
"Do you know the truth ?"
"Even if I do .. I won't tell you ..."
"Why ?"
"If you want the truth , you can either find it out yourself or you get echizen to tell you .. But , it really depends on what you guys truly believe ..I'm going now ..." Oishi said and he walked away , leaving tezuka , fuji and inui lost in thought .
"What do you think tezuka ?" Fuji asked .
"By the looks of it .. it seems like we have to find out the truth ourselves if we want to know what's going on.."
Sakuno , on the other hand , was sitting down on a bench next to the vending machine . She thought of nothing .. the only thing that was on her mind was the match between momoshiro and ryoma .
"Why am I thinking that ryoma-kun looked cool when he played tennis ?" She thought to herself . She shook her head . "No , why am I thinking like that ! In fact , I should be more worried about momo .. I can't believe he pushed me away .. It really hurts my feelings .."
As she was sitting there and thinking , she never noticed that Ryoma and chiyo were walking towards the vending machine . Since the bench is beside the vending machine , ryoma and chiyo never noticed sakuno sitting there .
"Ryoma , don't you get tired of drinking the same drink every time ?"
"No...i don't , and besides weirdo , you drink the same drink all the time too.."
Sakuno noticed ryoma and chiyo . She wanted to go away . She stood up . she was about to leave when she accidentally kicked a can that was on the floor which made the two looked towards her direction .
"Sakuno-chan ?" Chiyo called out to her which made her jumped . "Sakuno-chan.. you okay ? You don't look very good ? Are you unwell ?"
"I'm fine !" She shouted .
"But you look pale , why don't you go to the nurse office ?"
"Look I said i'm fine ! Leave me alone !" She took a step back . But , there was a pile of water there and she stepped on to it . She fell backwards and was about to knock her head on the bench .
"Sakuno-chan Watch out !" Chiyo shouted . Chiyo tried to reach out to her hands to stop her from falling but sakuno was out of reach . Sakuno closed her eyes as she braced herself for the impact . BUMP ! There was a loud sound . However , sakuno was not injured .
"Ryoma !" Chiyo shouted . Sakuno opened her eyes and looked behind . There , was ryoma . He took protected her head from hitting the bench and he took the impact instead . She got up immediately and looked at ryoma .
"Ryoma-kun..." she said .
"Ryoma ! You okay ?! Oh my god you're bleeding !" Chiyo shouted as she pointed at ryoma's elbow . Ryoma stood up .
"I'm fine ..."
"No you're not !"
"Yes I am ...don't worry about it .. its nothing.." He started to walk away . Chiyo followed him and she kept on insisting for him to go to the nurse office .
"Ryoma-kun...why... why did he save me ? After all that i've done to him .." sakuno thought . She ran towards him before they left .
"Ryoma-kun !" She shouted . Ryoma turned around and looked at her . "Why did you ..save me ?"
He didn't say anything . Instead he walked away .
"..Thank you .." Sakuno said .
"It's nothing..." he gave a reply and walked off . Sakuno stood there and stared at his back .
"Ryoma-kun ..you've changed..." was what she thought .
Back at ryoma …
"Okay okay okay ! I'll go to the nurse office already ! God , you are worse then oishi-senpai !"
"Excuse me ?! I'm just worried about you ! What if you get an infection ? Or a scar ?"
"Is that something a guy should be worried about ?"
"Er.. well ..."
I patted her head .
"I know , I know . I'll get it disinfected . Anyways , we're here .."
The both of us stopped in front of the school nurse office . We opened the door to the nurse office but , there was no one there . Okay .. now what ?
"Looks like the nurse isn't in right now ." She said as the both of us entered the office . "I'll help you disinfect it , why don't you sit down ?"
I walked over and sat down on the bed . I looked down at my injury . Sigh . Looks like a pretty deep cut . This is not going to be good . Takanishi-san came over with a bottle of disinfectant and some cotton wool . She put some disinfectant on the cotton wool .
"Here give me your hand ."
I said nothing and stretched my hands out to her . This is not going be- OW ! I flinched . This is the reason why I hate to come to the nurse office ! Because I hate disinfectant ! It bloody hurts a lot ! Takanishi-san looked at me and started to laugh .
"W-what ?" I asked .
"Nothing .. you just look … hahaha ! You should have seen your face !" she burst out laughing . I could feel my face getting hot .
"Shut up weirdo ! … Its not that funny .."
"But .. but .. I just didn't imagine you'd be the type to be scared of disinfectant ." She tried to talk while controlling her laughter .
"Ah ! Stop laughing already weirdo !"
"Pfft .. okay okay .. sorry .. Hehe . And anyways , how long are you going to call me weirdo ?"
"what ?"
"I mean , you asked me to call you ryoma and to stop calling you by your last name . So , i'm asking you the same thing now . Stop calling me weirdo , call me by my name ."
"Your name ?"
"That's right ! Call me chiyo !" She gave me a big smile .
"..Yadda.."
"Eh ? Why not ?!"
"Because I don't want to . Weirdo suits you better .."
"Hey !" She pouted .
"Heh , are you going to disinfect my wound or what ?"
"Ah right !"
She continued to tend to my wound .
"Ow ! Can't you be a little gentle ?!" I shouted as she wiped the blood off my arm .
"Oh please , you're a guy and you can't take this much pain ?"
"What ?"
"Geez , stop moving already !" She commanded . "Argh , this is not getting anywhere ! I can't tend to your wound properly if you keep on moving ! Hold still !" She stood up and sat down beside me , holding on to my arm . Her face closed in on me and now , it was only inches away . As she was busy tending to my wound , I looked at her . To be honest , she's really cute when you really look at her . Now , I know why guys are head over heels for her … but .. the only thing they don't know is that … she's weird . Heh . AH what am I thinking ?
"There you go ! All done !" She pasted a plaster on my arms . She went back to placed the disinfectant back to the shelf . "hey look ! The bond fire dance is starting ! Come on ! I want to watch !" She came over and dragged me to the school field where many students gathered . The students started the fire and then there was an announcement .
"And now ! The bond fire dance is starting !"
"Wow , the fire is so big !" She said with glittering eyes .
"You seem excited about this .."
"Well yeah .. but I don't participate it the dance , i'm pretty bad at it you know ."
Hmm , so there's something that she's bad with . I guess she's pretty normal as well .
"Hey weirdo .." I called out to her and stretched my hands out . She looked at me and then at my hands .
"E..eh ?",
"Don't make me say it …." Shit , I can feel my face getting hot . AH WHAT AM I DOING ?!
"B-but i'm bad at-"
"Don't you want to enjoy the festival ?"
"Y-yeah.." She said and she took my hands . Around the bond fire , people were dancing . Among them , were me and takanishi-san . I don't know why i'm doing this , but I just want her to be happy .
"Hmm , you're not a bad dancer after all .."
"What are you saying ?! I kept messing up !"
"No .. you're not ..."
Chiyo
Ryoma and I danced to the bond fire . I could feel my face getting hot . I'm blushing ! He's so close to me . Its not the first time that we've been close . But this is a different feeling . My heart is beating so fast ! I can't think straight ! I can only hear my own heart beating . The surroundings sounds feels cut off from me . What should I do ?
"Weirdo , there's something i'd like to give to you .." he stopped dancing and took something out from his pocket . "Open your hands ."
"O..okay .." I did as he told me to . Then , he dropped a key chain with a shape of a bear on my hands .
"I got this at the can's game earlier …"
"Eh ? Why are you giving it to me ?"
"...Because you're special ..." he said and he walked away , leaving me standing there .
I'm special ? Wh-what does he means ? I'm just his weird friend right ? Maybe he means that . No , if that were the case , he would just said I'm his weird friend . Heh ? What's going on ? My face feels hot . I can't control it ! My mind's in a mess . I don't understand ! No matter what I hear , what I see , everything seemed blank to me . He's occupied my mind ! He's seized my consciousness and my body ! What's going on ? I... I can't stop thinking about Ryoma ..
Tada ! I'm finally done with another long chapter ! Whahahahhhha ! Added a cute scene at the end :D Hope you liked it ! What' this ? Chiyo can't stop thinking about ryoma and ryoma thinks she's cute ?! And not to mention , even sakuno finds that ryoma has changed . Whats going to happen from here onwards ? Read to find out ! :D Thanks for the reviews guys ! Love it ! Hope you'll continue to support me ! Hearts ! :D
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