Go to School

Night's getting late. Sakurako started to feel sleepy. She brought a pillow to enter a room, before feeling someone tugging at the back of her shirt, roughly.

"Where are you going, eh?" asked Takumi, curtly.

Sakurako turned around and snorted in disgust. "What else? Of course you want to sleep, Takumi-kun." Now even Sakurako uses -kun's honorifics, no longer -san like last afternoon.

"Huh? You want to sleep in my room?" Takumi glared at Sakurako.

Sakurako pursed her lips. What's wrong, she thought. "Usually in the dramas I watch often, boys and girls can sleep in the same room."

"You know the next scene?" asked Takumi.

Sakurako pinched her chin, trying to remember the next scene in the drama she used to watch. "Hmm...then the lights went out and ..."

"And what?" Takumi asked again, curtly.

"And it's pitch black. That's it, then there's an advertisement passing by," answered Sakurako innocently which made Takumi even more irritated erratically.

Takumi took a deep breath, then pushed Sakurako out of his room door. He immediately entered and hastily locked the door before the beautiful creature stained his innocence.

Sakurako froze, not understanding why Takumi was acting like that. Not wanting to bother, Sakurako looked for another room to lie down.

***

Morning greetings. The sun shines brightly, warms the world and dispels the remaining frozen air.

Takumi opened the bedroom door. It's neat to wear a uniform. Again he smelled the delicious aroma from the kitchen.

It must be Sakurako.

"Ohayou gozaimasu," Sakurako greeted with a big smile.

*Ohayou gozaimasu = good morning

"Hmm, ohayou." Takumi replied, pulled up a chair and took a piece of bread.

Sakurako frowned at Takumi's appearance. "Takumi-kun where are you going?"

"School."

"May I join?" she asked enthusiastically.

"Not."

"Come on! Can you? Yes?"

"I said no, no! Stay at home, lock the door and don't let strangers in, understand?"

Takumi finished his breakfast then hurried off without saying a word. Unbeknownst to him, Sakurako seems to have ulterior motives.

Following Takumi from behind, quietly. Walking with the crowd of people passing by while jostling.

Sakurako almost lost track of Takumi, he hastily accelerated his pace without paying attention to other directions.

Thud!!

Sakurako groaned softly, feeling her face hit someone's chest. She looked up at the person she had just bumped into.

Sakurako found a tall, golden-eyed youth staring at her coldly, making her guts shrink even more. Sakurako bowed.

"Sorry I did not mean it."

Without a word, the young man walked away. Leaving a gaping Sakurako.

Sakurako noticed something, apparently the young man was wearing the same uniform as Takumi

Oh, Takumi! Sakurako slapped her forehead. Quickly look for the whereabouts of the young man who has the same color as him.

However, too late. Sakurako has lost track of Takumi. Sakurako sighed, clueless. Without thinking, she followed the young man she bumped into earlier.

"Stop following me!"

Suddenly the young man turned around, throwing a probing look that made Sakurako shudder.

"I just wanted to meet Takumi," Sakurako squeaked.

"Takumi ... Akazawa?" said the bright blonde haired youth.

"You know him?" Sakurako's eyes suddenly lit up.

Without giving a response, the young man resumed his steps. The furious Sakurako soon followed, matching the pace with a slight run.

Sakurako began to shower the bright blonde haired youth with questions.

"Hey! You haven't answered my question. Do you know Takumi Akazawa? You do know him, right? That Takumi Akazawa you know?

He's your friend, isn't he? I see your uniform is the same? Are you too——"

Sakurako fell silent, holding her breath. Unexpectedly the young man lowered his body so that their faces were facing each other at a dangerous distance.

"Tsk, noisy!"

"It's your own fault for not answering my question," snorted Sakurako slightly curtly.

The young man frowned, scrutinizing Sakurako for a long time. "What's your relationship with Akazawa?"

"First answer my question!" said Sakurako.

"I don't know him," snapped the golden-eyed youth.

"You are lying!"

"I don't care," he said nonchalantly. "Then who are you?"

"I am--"

"Rako-chan, what are you doing here?"

To be continued ....