Disclaimer: if they were mine, then Izuki would say to Mayuzumi: "Why are you pissed off because I didn't notice? You look like the type of guy who doesn't give a damn about anything."
Warnings: grammar errors, genderbending, crack-pairing (not anymore!), OOCs.
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i. seashell.
He should've known that when she decides to go to beach. Because she's Izuki and she's strange and she's different.
"What?" says Mayuzumi, tries his best not to look at the small grain of brown stuffs that is making its way between his toes.
"Build a sandcastle." replies Izuki, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, her arms are full of seashells with different shapes and color. "You must have done it before."
"I don't intend to do." And he wonders why on earth he lets her drag him here. "You say you want to eat something just three minutes ago."
Ah, here the dazzing smile.
"You will never starve at beach. Because of all of the sand which is there."
"I still refuse."
"Come on, Mayuzumean-san." Calling him 'mean' is surely a way to ask him. But her tone is pleading and she's pouting and batting her eyelashes at him.
He gives in, but doesn't move an inch.
"Alright. What do I have to do?"
ii. snowflakes
Maybe he's just seeing things, but her hair is seemingly glittering silver in the snow, even though it's black. He reaches out, and brushes the snowflakes out of her hair, surprises himself by the gentleness of his touch.
"What're you thinking?" asks Mayuzumi. "The rational Izuki-san standing outside in the freezing cold to watch the snow?"
She glances at him, a bit embarrased, but not really because it's Mayuzumi-san.
"I know." says Izuki, teasingly. "It's usually Mayuzumi-san to do abnormal thing. But snow is special. Snow on the tree. The winter is being difficult on the trees, but in the spring they are re-leafed."
"You shouldn't be thinking of spring when you decide to watch snow."
"But two snowmen…"
"We could watch it just as easily from inside." He doesn't have intention of interrupting, but another pun and she'll be frozen. Mayuzumi sighs, he drops his coat over her shoulder. Izuki accepts it gratefully.
"Not the same." She murmurs, leaning against him. He smiles, leans down to kiss the snowflake that has just landed on her nose.
"No, not the same."
iii. Pianist
He finds her, one day, in the empty classroom, straight-back and poised and black hair glittering silver in the low light, fingers pressed to the ivory keys.
He knows she's basketball player, the pun master (or as she claims it), but never knows that she's into piano.
She's smiling, long hair pushed back behind her ears as her finger ghost over the whites and blacks. Each note resounds gently in the air and then fades to nothing.
She turns her head - of course she knows he's here ("even without eagle eye" she's said "I always know.") and waves at him.
"I don't know you could play." He says, leaning against the wall.
She hums in delight.
"You don't know many things, Mayuzumi-san. I don't know how to play, at least, not well."
"Well enough." he says.
"Really? Then, let me share with you a couple of keys to playing piano."
"I'm rethinking."
"Mayuzumi-san!"
iv. Yours
The most romantic thing Izuki can ever dream of anyone saying to her is : "I'm yours." Izuki has never had anyone, let a lone a boy, who is exclusively hers. Her father belonged to his word and her grandfather had passed away before she could even walk, and Hyuuga certainly doesn't belong to her - he is somehow far away from her reach, and she can never be his first choice. Kiyoshi is too obvious and he has already a ton of things to worry about. Of course she has friends, but they belong to each other (Hyuuga-and-Riko and Kiyoshi's wistful gaze.) and none of them are just her friends and her friends alone. Sometimes, Izuki wonders if she is too naive to think of anyone being hers, if only for a little bit, but brushes it off because she has her family to take care, her life to enjoy, her club, joke books to read and dozens of things. She needs to help people the way she can.
But even she has the breaking point, she supposes. She usually meets Mayuzumi at time like that, when she's weak and crying and bratty, and she tells him to leave her alone. He just closes his books, coming closer and wraps his arms around her shoulder and says:
"Cry. I'm yours to do whatever you want."
And Izuki swears her heart actually stops for a moment and never beats again, and don't blame her when she tries to push him away or tromps on his foot.
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