"This is getting fucking ridiculous…." Chieko hissed, glaring at the gunk draining from the corners of her locker. Thankfully, Shiori had something to do so she ran off before Chie had to explain why she wasn't opening her locker. "Three bombs in one? Fuck…." She mumbled, pausing when she heard someone hit the locker beside hers, again. Slowly looking over at Ishiga's grinning face, Chie growled. "How many more times are you going to do this?" She asked bluntly, slamming the locker shut. "'Till you say yes to going out with me," He replied back bluntly, that lazy grin on his face still. "I refuse, again. You should be used to this by now you pathetic sack of shit." Chie growled, walking away from the rather pissed Third Year.

"Little bitch…."

Lunch time came around and Shiori had something to do, so Chie was left by herself on the roof. It was safe to say, she was a little worried now after Ishiga confronted her again. He was becoming…problematic and she didn't want others to know about her growing situation.
When the roof door opened, she was pretty surprised to find it was Atsushi walking in with three bento boxes. "Atsushi?" She blinked; calling him by his first name was a habit she formed since he refused to use anything but that ridiculous nickname. "Shi-Chin said Chie-Chin would be alone on the roof and that I should give her company while she and Muro-Chin help the teacher."
Chie blinked slowly as he settled down beside her without asking for permission, opening each rather unhealthy looking meal. Chie didn't question it; she just pulled her pillow out and lay down on the ground, sighing softly. Atsushi watched her sleep as he ate, amethyst eyes blinking softly. It was only a few minutes before Chie yelped as her pillow was pulled out from under her head, causing her head to hit the concrete roughly.

"Fuck…" She sat up, rubbing the back of her head before she looked toward the very large man, using her own pillow for his head. "What the hell was that for?" She scowled at him, crawling over to the large man to take her pillow back. However, once she was in range a long muscular arm went around her waist and she was yanked onto his chest. "Gah!" She grunted when she hit his rather muscular chest, for someone who ate so many damn sweets, blinking as his arm trailed up and his hand lowered onto her head and kept her down against his chest. "I wanna sleep too, now we both have a pillow." Chie's face was probably as red as a strawberry right now; she realized this because her face felt like it was being burned by a damn hot flame. "You….You're terrible…." Atsushi was already snoring, but he was smiling.
Little did they know that someone was watching them with the disapproving scowl of a jealous asshole.

Sadly, they both over slept and missed the next class, but got to the one after it without too much trouble. Chie still blamed him for not waking them up, but that pouty face he made was hard to get mad at…
Still, he was weirdly clingy all day. He walked with her to every class, even to her locker which she thankfully cleaned out before and there wasn't another gunk bomb, but that didn't stop him from looking at her weirdly when she opened the door very slowly. And now, he wanted to walk home with her.
"Atsushi….My locker is in the opposite direction of yours, I will meet you at the gate…" She stated firmly, but Atsushi wouldn't release her hand. "Don't wanna…" Trying once more to pull away, Chie groaned. "Atsushi! I don't know what's wrong with you, but please just let me go for God's sake!" She blew up a little bit, her voice louder than usual, and that made him slowly retract his hand from her much smaller one. "…Okay…Bye Chie-Chin…." He turned, walking off before Chie could react.
"Why did he look so upset….?" She mumbled before then going to her locker to get her things. Once cleaned out she clean leave her books there, but not overnight it seemed.

As she said, she went to meet Atsushi at the gates, figuring he was skipping practice again since he only went when Chie went with sweets, if not he went with her to the shop. But before she could make it to the gates, she was grabbed from behind and dragged behind the building.
Amethyst eyes wide, her screams were muffled as she stared at the gate where the Giant was waiting for her, eyes pleading for help.

None came.

Atsushi was getting more irritated than anything, why was she taking so long? She said she would meet him at the gate, and it had been twenty minutes already….Staring down at the bag of BBQ chips he planned to share with her, unopened and everything, he sighed. "Atsushi? Why are you here, I thought you'd be at the shop with Chie?" Shiori asked as she jogged up to the Titan. "Shi-Chin, why aren't you at practice?" He asked a question as a reply, making her sigh. "Someone said they saw you at the gate so I was hoping maybe you would come to…." She trailed off as a light breeze sent her hair up, silvery blue eyes blinking as she turned and saw Atsushi racing back into the large school. "What the hell?"

He shouldn't have left her; he shouldn't have let her go to the locker alone and he should have gone looking for her a long time ago.
Sliding to a stop, Atsushi looked at her closed, locked locker with a scowl and grabbed onto the padlock hanging from it. Swiftly, he broke the lock simply by yanking it off with pure strength. And honestly he didn't have to pull that hard….Recalling her previous issues with the locker, he grabbed the door and opened it slightly, jolting from the loud pop and quickly opened her locker to find the purple goo slowly leaking from the locker. "Yuck…" He frowned at the sight, leaving the locker open. He turned around and grabbed a student at their locker, yanking the poor soul over. "Why is there purple goo in Hisoka's locker?" He pointed at it, the boy shaking in fear of the giant's actions. "U-Uh, Hisoka-Chan's been having that problem ever since she turned down Ishiga-Senpai…." The terrified first year gulped. "Please don't hurt me Murasakibara-San I didn't-"Murasakibara cut him off swiftly. "Where's Ishiga?" He nearly growled, his glare sending shivers down the boys spine. "He usually hangs out in the back of the school or the Kendo practice room…."Before the boy could blink the Titan was running down the halls, but the wrong way. "The Kendo room is that way…."
Really was a bad day to get lost easily.

"Guh…" Her back hit the wall harder than she hoped, and was pretty sure there would be a bruise there and on her stomach from the punch she just got from the sadly stronger male. "This wouldn't be happening if you weren't such a cold bitch Chieko, someone really needs to teach you some respect." Ishiga drawled as he cracked his knuckles, staring down at the girl with that cocky smirk of his that she just wanted to punch right off his face….
Her stomach hurt so much, she wasn't sure she could stand let alone punch a man in the face. Instead, she prepared to protect her face from his next hit, but instead it was a kick to the gut that sent her tumbling on her side. "Don't have much bite to back up all that bitching, now do you? Well, I think it's time for the final bit of fun before I go home and study for my math test next week." He grinned, reaching down for his pants. Amethyst eyes widened, but before she could scream someone grabbed Ishiga and lifted him right off the ground, the Kendo Captain crying out in surprise. "What the fu-Murasakibara-San!?" He looked nearly ready to cry when he saw the dark look on Atsushi's face, Chie jolting when she saw the deadly, purple aura coming off the Titan. "A-Atsushi…." She whispered, not aware of how crappy she looked. Probably as bad as she felt….

"You hurt Chieko…I'll crush you." He growled, turning him around in his hands to see his angry face. "W-wait Murasakibara-San we can work this out!" Atsushi paused, but his face didn't lose any rage at all. "Let's just share her! I am sure you-"He was stopped by Atsushi's punch to the face, Chie yelping when the body hit the wall beside her, then hit the ground and didn't get up or move. Hesitantly, she checked his pulse and relaxed. Probably just a concussion, she decided quietly before she noticed someone in front of her. "A-Atsushi….?" She blinked at the tall man kneeling in front of her, brows furrowed. "Where did Chie-Chin get hurt?" He asked quietly, the tie-dyed haired girl blinking softly. "My…stomach, mostly…." He didn't say anything in reply, simply lifting her shirt up to look at the dark purple bruises covering her abdomen. He let out a quiet growl, lying her shirt back down before he reached around and touched her back. As soon as he touched her, she hissed in pain and flinched away, Atsushi pulling back quickly. Carefully, he turned her around and lifted her shirt again, seeing the red scratches and black and purple bruises thus making him growl. "It was just from hitting the wall…" Chie mumbled quietly, Atsushi pulling her into his arms slowly. "I'll take you to the nurse's office…." Merely nodding, Chie ignored the ache in her back as he picked her up bridal-style and curled up his warm arms. "I don't want Shiori to see me like this….or my parents…." She mumbled quietly, Atsushi nodding slowly.
She knew both would worry, and Shiori would blame herself for not being there to help, while her parents would probably cause uproar in the school and she just didn't want to deal with that kind of attention.

"Can I stay with you tonight…?" She asked slowly, Atsushi suddenly stopping in his tracks.
She looked up at him, the tall man furrowing his brows. "….Girls aren't allowed in the boys dorms though…." So now he obeys the rules after skipping practice so much.
"Yeah….But no one has to know….I'll just my parents I am staying at Shiori's and Shiori I am sick and not to come over…." She mumbled softly, looking up at him with hopeful amethyst eyes. His own eyes looked away from her, because he couldn't bring himself to say no. "…Okay."

It was hard convincing the nurse that Chie had fallen down the stairs, but she did and Chie got out of having to go to Physical Education for a while so it wasn't all bad. Chie hated that class, because of how tired she always was. The second hardest part was getting Shiori to agree to not come over while she was sick, Chie's reason being she didn't want Shiori sick, and the third hardest part was getting to Atsushi's dorm room unnoticed. In the end, she hid in his side and walked by the wall so no one really noticed since a lot of the people in the school besides the basketball club, avoided the giant.
She was still trying to wrap her brain around not being able to think of Atsushi as a gentle giant, maybe it started off around the same time he pulled the hoop off his first day of practice….Regardless, she was not prepared for the mess called Murasakibara's room. She'd never seen so many candy and snack wrappers on the floor, or so many pieces of clothing strewn across the floor of a room before in her life, and that giant pile in the middle of the room scared her most of all yet he just walked over it like it was no big deal at all.
"What the hell kind of tornado hit this room….?" She asked rather bluntly as he put his bag on the desk, looking toward her rather calmly. "I just cleaned this room today." Chie felt herself twitch at the giant as he pouted at her accusation his room was a mess. This was clean for him on most days, some days the piles were ankle deep. If she knew this Chie would probably feint on seeing the room if she thought this was disgusting.
So, despite the pain in her stomach and back she tossed her bag on the bed, rolled up her uniform sleeves and started cleaning up the floors, leaving that….pile in the middle alone for now. She tossed the dirty laundry in the basket she was sure he could make on his own considering he was one of the Generation of Miracles, but kept that comment to herself. Sadly, she had to do the pile now…It took about 10 minutes to find out there was a Kotatsu underneath the pile.

"…You have a Kotatsu?" She looked at the giant lazing on his bed incredulously, him just giving a nod. "Yes, I do." She sweat dropped considerably, before going on to picking up the trash left behind and tossing it all inside the trash bin in his mini kitchen.
"You cook a lot?" She asked as Atsushi came into the kitchen, leaning on the counter that sort of separated it from the main room/bedroom. "Every night," he chirped as he went over to the fridge and opened it up. "What does Chie-Chin want to eat tonight?" She felt a little bad for him cooking for her; she was the one imposing on him. "I am not picky….I can cook for you, if you want I mean-"He cut her off with a wave. "Chie-Chin cleaned my room, go rest I will cook dinner tonight." Atsushi heard a quiet sigh before a light tap, and then he looked up to see Chie sitting on the kitchen counter. "Can't I watch?" The giant smiled as a reply, and started pulling things out from the fridge to cook.
Chie was pretty surprised; she took Murasakibara as the type to be unable to do anything right but Basketball from his rather childish brain. But then again, he was able to find her and save her….And this time he didn't get lost on the way to the nurse's office either. While watching him cooking, she decided to talk to him. "Atsushi, why did you come looking for me?" She asked softly, the giant humming. "Chie-Chin was late, you're never late." He drawled as he cooked what seemed to be a Beef Pot. "How did you find me?" She asked next, the purple haired giant not missing a beat. "I found a purple bomb in your locker, and made someone tell me who did it and where they were." Nodding slowly, Chieko looked down and stayed silent this time.
"Why didn't you tell us Ishiga-Senpai was still harassing you?" Chieko jolted, looking up and pausing when she was staring into a set of amethyst eyes that matched her own. "…..Didn't wanna worry anyone, everyone's been busy lately….I didn't t think it would get that bad…."Atsushi turned his head back to the Beef Pot slowly. "I will protect Chie-Chin."
Chieko would not admit she couldn't stop blushing at his words, not even to herself.

Sitting at the Kotatsu and staring at the large beef pot sitting on a little mini-heater caused Chieko to sigh quietly. "This seems….Like a lot of food." She mumbled as Atsushi loaded up a bowl, having skipped the raw egg since neither really wanted it. "For two people, I mean…." She corrected and the Center shrugged. "I can eat all this by myself." Chieko quickly loaded up her bowl so as to avoid being starved from the Giant eating all the food by himself. "You're a monster, you know that?" She asked offhandedly, Atsushi smiling and not at all seeming offended by the comment he'd often heard during his days at Teiko, which wasn't all that long ago really.
"Will Chie-Chin make sweets for desert?" Chieko blinked slowly at the high school kid, and then glanced away. "Che, thought you didn't want me to cook tonight?" She replied as she took a bite of the oddly…delicious beef. "I never said anything about baking."
"…..Touché, what ya got?"
"A lot…." He grinned widely at the tie-dyed haired girl, Chieko merely shaking her head with a smile. "Sounds good…."

In the end, Chieko made two batches of chocolate brownies and two batches of double chocolate chip cookies with purple M&M's, and Atsushi had honestly never looked happier as he ate the cookies under the Kotatsu with Chieko. She wondered though, if he realized spreading his legs out made his feet peek out from the Kotatsu….right beside Chieko's hips. "How have you not eaten your parents out of house and home…?" She mumbled to herself as she took a bite, Atsushi shrugging as he popped another brownie in his mouth. "Dunno." Well, he was in a dorm room instead of home….
"So I guess I will sleep under the Kotatsu tonight," it felt pretty comfortable to her, and it was warm so it seemed like a good idea. "No, Chie-Chin will sleep on the bed." The bed that was probably three times bigger than herself….King sized for such a large man of course. "No I-""Bed." He almost growled, and Chieko found herself shivering as she recalled back to the punch that left Ishiga not only unconscious, but bleeding pretty bad. "O-Okay…." He seemed to pause, as if looking conflicted, before he seemed to get over it and nod firmly. "Well, do you mind if I borrow a shirt or something to wear….?" Atsushi nodded, pointing to a dresser. "In there," she nodded and got up, looking through before grabbing a shirt that looked like it was a dress on her, and a pair of shorts she was sure she could tie to fit her. She went to the bathroom silently, and when she returned everything was gone. "Damn…." She mumbled as he got up and put the dirty dishes away, and then came back and stared at her.
The shirt was indeed too big, the collar itself nearly fell off both shoulders but still managed to hang on and fell around her knees. One couldn't even see the shorts she had on underneath, just her soft legs. Catching him staring, Chieko rose a brow but he said nothing and grabbed some clothes before going to the bathroom behind her.

"Weird…." She mumbled before going over to the bed and crawling underneath, aware she had homework but honestly didn't feel like doing it right now. She'd just have to do it before school started in the morning, if she went….
Soon, the door opened and the light clicked off. Closing her eyes, Chieko curled up under the warm blankets in a ball before tensing when she felt the bed creak and her body nearly slid back as Atsushi settled right behind her. "What are you-"She nearly squeaked when she felt an arm around her waist and her back press up against a very bare, very muscular chest. "Sleeping," he replied against her ear like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "….You're terrible and I doubt you even know it…." She mumbled as his arm slid under her head, making her blink as it was lifted a little.
So now, his muscular bicep was her pillow, and he was snuggling her by the waist and she was pretty sure he was close to laying his head on her own. She was as tense as a pulled rubber band, heart pounding so hard she felt like it was going to pop sooner or later.
"Relax Chieko…." She heard him whisper against her ear, his hand gently rubbing her side up and down slowly. The shirt rode up a little with each stroke, but each stroke had her relaxing against her will. Slowly, she stretched her legs out and felt his clothed legs against her bare ones. So, he was probably wearing sweat pants and nothing else….How did the day turn out like this again?
"That's better…." He mumbled, laying his head against hers and his hand stilled. She could feel and hear him take a deep breath, as if taking in her scent releasing with a soft exhale. In just a moment, he was breathing softly.
"…..He fell asleep….Yet here I lie, my heart pounding in my chest so hard he had to have heard it…."
Regardless of that, she found herself falling asleep faster than she ever had before, feeling safer in the Giant's arms than in her own bed.
So much for being an insomniac.