This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Saiki and Lotus at the same time

~This is the normal thoughts of other people~

Chiyo Trying to Reach Saiki - That's a Far Reach!

Another day, more school.

Lotus opened her school locker reaching for her shoes, but as she reached for them her hand touched something else.

"Huh?"

Lotus slipped her hand out and instead of pulling out her shoes she pulled out a blue envelope.

"A Letter?"

Lotus stared quizzically at the letter.

~"Yosh, she's got!"~

Lotus quickly whipped her head to the left hearing a voice. She looked just in time just to see a mess of blonde hair duck behind a set of lockers.

"He's got to be the one who gave me this."

Lotus was about to open the letter but paused when more thoughts flowed into her head.

~"Man, to have a girl as hot as her be my girlfriend would be awesome! I could brag to all the guys and-"~

Lotus's face turned red as the boy's thoughts drifted to the more perverted side.

"Now I really don't wanna open this letter. But if I just throw it out it'll be rude, it's not like he knows I can read his thoughts. Okay, I'll open the letter then turn the guy down, just like any normal girl who can't read thoughts would do."

Lotus went to open the letter again but stopped as the school's bell went off. She tucked the letter into her pocket going to read it later.

Lotus made her way to class and sat down. With her new seating assignment, she conveniently gets to sit right next to Saiki.

Other students were up and about gossiping about various things. Mainly love and relationships.

Since she had a few minutes before class officially started Lotus decided to open and read the letter. Even if she couldn't read the boys thoughts she probably would have turned him down anyway. She's not one to really rush into relationships. So many people take love so easily and act so careless with it. A lot of people seem to force themselves into it, thinking that being in a relationship is an absolute necessity like food or water. I mean how can you declare love for someone you haven't even talked to? She understands having a crush and finding someone attractive but the way the word "Love" was thrown around so much just made no sense to Lotus.

Don't get her wrong is not like she was against love or anything like that but she wants to have a meaningful love, something like what her sister has. Not some guy who simply has interest in her just because of her looks, but a guy who actually loves interest in Lotus just because she's Lotus.

Lotus took out a folded piece paper from the envelope, and as soon as she read the first words her face paled.

The letter was for a lack of better words a sappy attempt to declare undying love to Lotus.

"I've loved you the moment I set my eyes on you, I watch you every day. All of your habits are adorable and I love how we share the same interests." Lotus read.

"Is this guy stalking me?"

The letter just got even more disturbing as the boy made suggestive innuendos that she assumed that the guy who wrote this thought was clever and charming.

Saiki didn't need to even look at Lotus, he could feel the uncomfortable waves flowing off her.

Lotus quickly turned to Saiki holding out the letter.

"What are you doing? I don't want that."

Lotus pointed at the letter. "Tell me you can teach me how to summon fire, so I can burn this."

Since Saiki couldn't teach her fire yet in class, Lotus took the next best option by crumpling up the letter and discarding it in the nearest trash bin. Any girl would have done the same thing. After that, she sat next to Saiki listening, like she had a choice, to Saiki's thoughts.

"It's like Cupid shot everyone in my class. I don't get love at all. For example, take Teruhashi. Every guy is obsessed with her."

Lotus looked over to see Teruhashi surrounded by other girls.

"Is she sparkling?"

"Meanwhile I have zero interest in her. That's because I know who she really is."

"Hmmm? If Saiki says that then I wonder what Teruhashi really thinks."

Listening in on Teruhashi's conversation Lotus concentrates on what the blue haired girl is thinking.

"Come on Teruhashi, when are you gonna get a boyfriend?" One of Teruhashi's friend asked.

"Well, I think I'm just too young to be dating. Studying should be our only focus as students." Teruhashi smiled.

Lotus concentrated and tuned into Teruhashi's thoughts and the words she said definitely did not match up with the words she thought.

~"Actually I don't date immature brats. They have to at least have an annual income of 40 million yen!"~ Teruhashi thought

"Whoa….now I get what Saiki says. I guess it must be hard for him to find a relationship if he keeps hearing thoughts like that. But then again when he does find a girl who's genuine then it'll be nice. I guess reading minds has its ups and down."

"Also this is what she really looks like to me."

Lotus didn't understand what Saiki meant by that until she looked back over at Teruhashi and she had to hold in her yelp as the other girl's skin vanished just revealing her muscle beneath.

"Gah! That's disturbing! You have X-ray vision?" Lotus questioned

"Yup, and I can control that about as much as I can control my telepathy."

"Now I really see why you don't go looking for a relationship. Who'd wanna go in for hug or kiss and have that pop up into their field of vision."

Saiki kept his gaze on Lotus, and she just stayed Lotus. Since Lotus just absorbed any power Saiki directed towards her the x-ray vision didn't affect her. So all he saw was the pink haired girl. It was kind of a nice change of pace for him seeing someone not turn into muscle and bones.

Lotus turned away but then a thought popped into her head. "Oh crap! I just realized that's gonna happen to me too! Man, I already see enough guys leering at me, making those gross perverted looks. But being able to hear their thoughts is going to be a nightmare. That boy's thoughts from this morning are probably tamed to what I'll hear from older men. That's it I'm not riding the bus anymore."

Tears start pouring down Lotus's cheeks as she turned to Saiki.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Saiki….I feel your pain."

"Oooookay then."

Even though Saiki didn't think so, Lotus thought that she and Saiki were building up a nice friendship. And like any good friend Lotus was ready to help if said friend was facing a serious problem. Which according to Saiki he was.

Sitting a few seats away from Saiki and Lotus was a girl who went by the name of Chiyo Yumehara. She often spent most of the class gazing at Saiki, which to Lotus looked more like a feral beast stalking its prey.

~"Ahhh, Saiki always looks so dreamy."~ Chiyo thought

"He looks more bored to me."

~"Saiki…. Lately, I just can't stop thinking about you."~ Chiyo thought

Lotus did not get other girls. How can someone seriously fall in love with someone they've never even talked to. The way Chiyo thought you'd think Saiki was a prince on a white horse coming to the rescue. The vision of Saiki doing so made Lotus cover her mouth trying to stifle the laughs.

~"Sweet Saiki, I have such-what?!"~

Lotus was confused by Chiyo's abrupt thought exclamation until she looked over at Saiki. She had to push her face into her desk to hold back more laughter. Chiyo had been startled when Saiki made the most ridiculous face resembling a fish, which Lotus found hilarious.

~"What was that?!"~ Chiyo thought

"Saiki as funny as that face is if you keep making it people are gonna pay more attention to you." Lotus giggled telepathically.

"She's right. If I keep this up I'll be labeled as a freak and I really don't wanna stand out."

~"I wonder what he's thinking right now?"~ Chiyo thought

"I need to crush her hopes."

~"I have to find out and in order to do that,"~ Chiyo got a determined look on her face. ~"I have to get close to him!"~

At the same time, Saiki was thinking. "I have to get as far away from her!"

"Well….this is gonna be interesting."

So Saiki's plan for the day was to avoid Chiyo by any means possible. Saiki and Lotus, mainly Lotus all on her own, appointed herself the official goalie of this plan. Chiyo was the ball and Saiki was the net. Saiki didn't really seem to care what Lotus did.

"It doesn't matter to me just don't draw any attention to me," Was Saiki's response to Lotus's declaration.

Which Lotus responded with, "Right! Operation Block and Avoid Chiyo is in commence!"

So here Lotus was following Chiyo around who in turn was following Saiki around. Right now Chiyo was hiding behind the corner of a hallway Saiki was walking down, clutched to her chest was a pile of papers. Lotus was hiding in the corner classroom standing right at the doors, being able to clearly hear Chiyo's thoughts.

~"Here he comes and he's all alone. Here's my chance! Just remember the plan. First Saiki and I will bump into each other at the corner, papers flying everyone where."~ Chiyo went over the plan in her head.

Lotus had to hold in her giggles as Chiyo imagined herself bumping into Saiki then the boy helping her up while complimenting her eyes.

She knew it was a little mean to laugh at the girls love fantasy, but it was just so funny how Chiyo imagined Saiki.

"That's not Saiki in the slightest." Lotus snickered quietly to herself.

~"Okay, here it goes!"~ Chiyo threw herself from around the corner causing Saiki and Lotus to act.

Using his powers Saiki did a flip over Chiyo missing her completely. Lotus came out of the classroom and with Saiki's help made all the papers fly into her hands. This all happened so fast Chiyo didn't even notice what had occurred. Saiki was already down the hallway disappearing around another corner.

"Man that was close you almost dropped all of your papers." Lotus smiled to Chiyo handing the shorter girl back her papers, "Make sure to be careful next time." Lotus gave Chiyo a pat on the head before walking off in the same direction Saiki had.

Chiyo just stood there stunned not sure what had just happened.

Chiyo's next attempt happened during class. Saiki sat his desk his normal expressionless look on his face. Lotus had a Magna in her hands happily reading it.

The two's attention were quickly turned to Chiyo when the girl thought out her next plan.

~"Okay, next plan! The handkerchief! First I'll casually drop this handkerchief by Saiki's feet then he sees it and says…."~ Chiyo drifted off into another love daydream over Saiki.

Lotus hid her face behind her Manga holding back more giggles over Chiyo's love fantasy. Especially the part where she imagined Saiki picking up her handkerchief, smelling it than describing the scent of the pink cloth as a "Sunny Day".

"The way she views Saiki...it's cute, but so funny."

~"The best thing about this plan is if he doesn't even notice the handkerchief I still have an excuse to talk to him."~ Chiyo finally walked into the room. ~"Give it your best shot Chiyo!"~ The love-struck girl casually strolled by Saiki dropping her handkerchief. ~"Now to see if Saiki takes the bait."~

Lotus observed as Saiki simply used his telekinesis to put Chiyo's handkerchief back in her pocket.

Chiyo stood still not moving as she waited for Saiki to say something. ~"Hmm, he's not saying anything. Oh well on to plan B."~

Chiyo pretended to check her pockets. "Oh my goodness, that's so bizarre my pink handkerchief-is right here!" Chiyo exclaimed as she pulled the pink fabric out of her pocket.

~"How the heck did that happen!"~ Chiyo thought. ~"Oh no another disaster!"~ She thought running away.

Lotus sweat dropped watching the girl flee, "I kinda feel a little bad for her."

These attempts went on throughout the day Chiyo not giving up on any attempt to talk to Saiki.

During gym class, she "lost" her ball which was conveniently rolling towards Saiki. The pink haired boy simply just used his powers to force the ball back into Chiyo's hands.

Next came Chiyo carrying a large stack of books. She loudly stated how she wouldn't be able to open the door with her hands full. That's when Lotus appeared a smile on her face opening the door for the girl.

Another attempt was Chiyo offering cookies to Saiki she had made in home economics. Lotus was actually quite amazed as she watched Saiki switch places with a random guy, completely surprising Chiyo.

After that failed Chiyo decided to go with a plan where she would pick up a pencil and ask Saiki if he had dropped it. Giving her the opportunity to spark up a conversation. That plan was quickly stomped when Lotus interjected taking the pencil from Chiyo thanking the brunette for picking up her dropped writing utensil.

So, in the end, every one of Chiyo's plans failed.

A dejected looking Chiyo stood in one the hallways staring out the window.

~"Maybe Saiki and I weren't meant to be."~ As she stared outside it started to rain. ~"Oh great and I forgot my umbrella today."~ Chiyo gasped a sudden thought coming to her mind. ~"That's it!"~

Chiyo now stood alone outside the front of the school as if waiting for someone. ~"I bet Saiki brought his umbrella to school he seems like the responsible type."~

Chiyo drifted off into another one of her daydreams about Saiki, her thoughts silent to all but two people.

~"His smile is as bright as the sun."~ Chiyo thought giggling

"Has she ever seen him smile?" Lotus tilted her head confused glancing over at Saiki. "Cause I sure haven't." Lotus thought about and the large bright smile Chiyo had painted on Saiki's face and it just didn't really suit him.

~"This is the perfect plan!"~ Chiyo cheered to herself.

Saiki stood with Lotus on the school's roof, Lotus holding a pink umbrella over both their heads, so they wouldn't get soaked. Saiki had a slight frown on his face, Lotus could tell he was rather exhausted from having to deal with Chiyo all day.

"I wonder what he's gonna do this time?"

Lotus got her answer when Saiki lifted his hand into the air pointing up. A large beam of light shot out of his hand bursting through the clouds dispersing the bad weather.

"Holy crap!"

While the rain was momentarily paused Saiki made his way down to the school entrance and casually walked by Chiyo.

~"The rain just stopped,"~ Chiyo looked up confused, ~"And there's Saiki."~ Her confusion turned into depression as she watched the pink haired boy walk away without as much as a glance towards her. Lotus walked out of the school too her presence going unnoticed by the now crying Chiyo.

~"I give up. It seems like Saiki and I are always destined to be apart. Goodbye Saiki."~ Chiyo thought

"Goodbye Yumehara. Please find someone else."

"You gotta admit the girl's determination was a little admirable, but I guess that means nothing when someones going up against you Saiki."

"I'm sure another guy will come along soon for her."

As soon as Saiki thought that someone appeared next to Chiyo.

"Wanna share my umbrella?" A quite handsome black haired boy asked

Chiyo didn't look up as she answered." But the rain stopped."

"But not the rain of tears falling inside your heart." The boy said

At the sweet words, Chiyo blushed finally looking up at the boy.

"Please let me be the umbrella for the overcast over your heart." The boy smiled

~"This boy…I just met my soulmate."~ Chiyo thought

"Okay, that's a little too soon!"

"Man Saiki, I didn't know you could change the weather that's so cool. When are you gonna teach me that?"

"First we gotta do the basics. The last time you sneezed you blew down a wall and you still make things float when you get scared or surprised."

"Fair point."

Since the two were a good distance away from school Saiki allowed Lotus to walk with him. She agreed upon the rule if he sensed anyone from school nearby she'd have to step away. As he said before Lotus attracted a lot of attention. Lotus, however, saw this thought as a step forward towards their friendship.

As the two walked a raindrop hit Lotus's cheek. She looked up to see the gray clouds rolling back in.

"Looks like the rain is coming back." Lotus was about to pull out her umbrella but paused when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Wha-"

Lotus's words were cut off as she and Saiki vanished.

"Gah!" Lotus gasped as she appeared in the street in front of her house.

"What the-" Lotus turned seeing she was right next to Saiki. "Not that I don't appreciate the lift home but please….warn me next time."

"That was my thanks for the help today. You know I don't like owing people"

Lotus was stunned for a second but gave Saiki a large smile. "You know I didn't do it so you could owe me something. I did it because we're friends. Even if you don't think so." Lotus stated before walking to her house. She stopped at her door turning back to Saiki. "Mark my words, pink boy we will become friends!" She gave Saiki one last smile before going inside.

Saiki stood still watching Lotus disappear into her house.

"That girl is….." Saiki could finish his thought because he had no real words to exactly describe Lotus. He stood there for another second before going to his home.