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Day 1
His first day of high school started in 5 minutes, when the students waited for the principal's presence to appear in that grand hall.
Takaba Akihito was one of freshmen, and felt his heart beating loudly against his chest. He was so excited upon hearing his application was accepted so easily by the that elite school that he himself couldn't believe it. He couldn't feel any more proud than his achievement that day.
Finally, after a good 10 minutes or less of waiting, the old bald man made his way towards the stage that was highlighted by the students' gaze. He cleared his throat once more before speaking,
"Good morning, my beloved freshmen! Welcome to F Academy!", he then kept on babbling other things like 'we should thank the God', 'your hard work was paid', 'you should appreciate your parents' care' and so on. He said the most cliche things that any other principal would say to the freshmen.
A guy who stood beside Akihito yawned with a loud voice but not loud enough to be heard by the teachers' radar, so Aki just brushed it off and giggled. The guy suddenly got embarassed but instead, made friend with Aki. The name's Kou, he said. From there on, they kept talking about other things, not sparing a last glance for the poor old man. Sometimes when the principal said a wrong thing between his maybe-he-memorize-it-first speech, they could stiffled their mouths and giggled until one of them gave up and pretended to tie their shoelace, so that they could rest their worked-out stomach.
They couldn't keep out their laughs until a "Your orientation days will start from today" came out from that baldy man and the two set their full attention towards him. What? Orientation? Students orientation days?!
Akihito had ever been through those days, well in Junior High School, the orientation days lasted for 3 days. He never had any good memories from that. He remembered the upperclassmen told him to do a lap dance on his own bag in front of the class because he forgot to bring his name tag. Those senpais of him just used their authority to fulfill their perverted minds!
"Oi Aki! You heard that? Orientation days!", Kou whispered a little heavy for only Akihito to hear.
"Yeah I heard that. Damn it, how many days will it lasted?", he huffed grumpily under his breath.
Like hearing his earlier question, the principal answered, "This students orientation days will lasted for 5 days straight. For this, I will give full authority to the student council member."
What?! 5 days?!
The blonde boy nearly screamed if it wasn't for Kou who tapped his back so he could calm down.
When the both of them glued their gaze onto the polished floor and facing their fate, the sound of girls shrieking and fangirling around them echoed through the grand hall. They were too lazy to know what it was so they just let the girls be. Maybe a handsome guy just took over the show, Aki guessed.
He didn't even realise that Kou had been elbowing him for awhile now.
Until,
"I believe that you should put your full attention towards the person who's going to say a word or two, blonde-haired boy.", his heart jumped as he slowly pulling his head back to face that caused the uproar from earlier.
A black raven haired guy with a pair of mesmerizing golden eyes stared at him with his evil smirk. His one eyebrow arched up and girl screamed even more. Hell with his looks, why did he bother with me anyway? Just go on with the fucking speech!
Aki glared at the man who seemed to be a powerful one but not saying a word. He promised himself to not make any trouble for his first day, not if he wished his orientation days to be over peacefully without any shameful memory.
After that, everyone averted their gaze from the fury freshman into the idol-like person on the stage. The man then cleared his throat and continued his earlier speech, "For you who didn't take full attention earlier, I'm Asami Ryuuichi and the student council president. From here on, me and the other student council members would gladly guide you through this school. And soon when you've finished your students orientation, I'm sure you will enjoy your time in this academy. You will be guided by 3 student council members for each class, and you'll get to know them sooner or later. Well, maybe it's best to get to the main event already. May I?", he turned to face the principal, and the older man nodded. He then climbed down the stair and compounded himself with another students, giving the student council members each class to put their hands on.
"Well, while we are at it, we should just enjoy this, Aki.", Kou patted the fury boy softly on his shoulder to calm his new friend.
"Yeah right.", he huffed.
Akihito's eyes got wide opened and his mouth gapped in horror. And there his friends, sitting closely to him, making the same exact face as his mate. No, they were not in the 'The Most Comical Face Ever On Earth' contest, but they just couldn't hold up the weird faces they were making because of the sight in front of them.
Yeah, the sight.
The three student council members who were destined to guide them thrilled them in terror. They were all black-haired, dammit! The first one seemed to be chinese, his hair was really long and smooth like a silk, maybe that hair that could be envied by the girls. The second one was a girl, a delicate girl with small figure. His hair was smooth too but a little bit short, about her shoulders length. Her eyes shone a perfect color of brown/gold and her smile was really pretty. The one smile that could melt every men's heart, including Akihito. But her pretty aura was pretty much disturbed by the aura who soared from beside her, decreasing the flowery and girly and pinky that roared from her tiny body. There, the third senpai, who Aki knows from the start that this kind of personality was the one that he hated the most. Eyes colored of gold stared down at him as it screamed power. He sworn that, every single presence who didn't have any guts could faint in a second. Asami Ryuuichi, huh?
"Hello freshmen! As I was saying before at the grand hall, we will be your guide in the next 5 days. I hope you'll enjoy our company.", Asami spoke as the girl squealed in heated sensation. What's with these bunches of fangirls?
The girl beside him smiled and now it's time for the guys to get excited. Kou and Akihito synchronized with the other guys in the room but their excitement soon die down by the long-haired senpai's glare towards them.
"My name's Fei Long, and beside me here is Asami Rinka.", the long-haired guy who just revealed his name gestured his hand toward the beautiful girl who Akihito adored since the moment he laid his eyes on her. Rinka.. Even her name is beautiful as her face..
Wait.. Asami?! Asami Rinka?!
"Oh s with three stars Kou, that Rinka is an Asami..", Akihito whispered low enough for only Kou to hear.
"Huh? 'S with three stars'?", Kou looked at him confusingly as he waited for an answer.
"Yeah, when someone wants to censor a word, they change some words into stars, right? Like this.", Akihito then scribbled down what he meant by scribbling a 's***' on the blank paper. Kou then nodded. "My mom couldn't stand it when I throw tantrums at people using that word, and another dirty words.", Aki explained.
"For our first meeting, we'd like for all of you to introduce yourself.", Rinka said with her sweetest smile and the boys just roared. Hell yeah pretty girl never gets old.
Akihito sure he imagined this but the big brother of Rinka seemed to stare at him intensely, he just brushed it off by joking with Kou.
"How about the blonde guy from earlier to be the first one to introduce himself?", Ryuuichi's baritone voice echoed throughout the room and stabbed Aki's eardrums mercilessly. He brought his eyes on the golden-eyes man and glared. He just smirked, "So?"
Aki stood abruptly with his head held high, "The name's Takaba Akihito. Satisfied?", then he sat with the same pace as when he stood. Kou stared at him in admiration.
Rinka could see her brother's smirk grew even wider by the kid's behaviour towards him. This could be interesting, she mused.
"Okay then, next?"
The lunch break time hit the school's ground like a miracle given by God. Aki and Kou sat, eating their sandwiches and drinking their juices under the big apple tree. The wind whistled softly and brushed their hair in a cool sensation. The blonde boy enjoyed it so much that sometimes he could unconsciously close his eyes and felt the wind. Kou busied himself with his juice when suddenly a chatter sound could be heard from the back bushes.
"Hey, Aki. You heard that?"
Kou's question knocked him out to reality as he turned to face his friend, "What?"
"Ssh! Lowered your voice!", Kou put an index finger in front of Aki's lips as he gestured like that spy in his favorite movie. He squatted and slowly, stepped further into the suspicious bushes. Aki just obediently followed him since he had nothing to do. He tailed his friends on all fours and crawled.
Kou continued his journey towards the said bushes while Aki stucked behind. His knees gave up and he decided to rest for a bit. This is because of that long, long holiday.. My knees aren't as atheletic as before, he thought to himself.
"Interesting play you're playing, Takaba. Whose act are you enacting? A kitten's act?", a deep voice came from behind him and startled the skin out of him. He didn't move an inch as he drew his breath, calm down Aki.. Calm down...
"Ha-ha, you're good at sarcasm..", he slowly came back to his standing position but didn't turn to face the owner of the voice. He knew who it was even before looking at it, "..Asami-senpai."
Asami chuckled richly with his arms crossed in front of his muscular chest, "I assume you enjoy your first day."
"Yup, meet new friends, meet new teachers, meet new environments, meet good senpais, meet bad senpais, meet annoying senpais.", Akihito inadvertently emphasized the word 'annoying' with his grumpy voice. Seconds later, he felt bad talking to his new 'annoying' senpai with his back facing him, so he turned around but regretted it when the golden eyes locked immediately with hazel ones. A smirk of amusement curled up in the man's lips.
"Oh? So there are 3 types of senpais? Which one am I? Good, bad, or annoying?"
"You're annoying.", the freshman talked blatantly with his eyes jerked to one side, avoiding the senpai's gaze.
"Hm.. Is that so? Well, I feel bad then.", but your actions didn't say the same! Akihito wanted to shout.
The man who stood before him was like a prince who came out of everybody's fairy tale. Handsome face, big built muscular body, a charismatic expressions and that voice of his. Everything that featured him seemed to be a blessing. From head to toe. His aura screamed power, fearless, undefeatable. In the chessboard he would play as the king, the one who's surrounded by the guards, many guards that are willing to protect him no matter what. He would be the last one standing, but once he's gone, the rest of the empire lost too.
And that was the person Aki hates the most.
This man thought he would be the king, the one who controls everything. Well, maybe almost every normal girls and abnormal boys that attended this academy had already fallen for him from the first sight, but he couldn't, wouldn't let it happen for him. Aki was a man with pride, falling for this man meant no good, so much harm. He knew this from the start but he always thought that there's something in this man that drew him in, even if he wouldn't want to admit it out loud.
Especially those golden eyes, oh God those eyes that seemed to try to absorb me..
"Are you done staring at me?", the baritone voice woke Akihito up to his reality as the boy blinked several times before speaking,
"What?"
"You just kept staring at me for about 2 minutes, without blinking. Am I really that attractive to you?"
50 shades of red spread over Akihito's face as his eyebrows furrowed into a curvy line and his eyes narrowed dangerously at the man who still smirking at him. His palms clenched into fists as he held his breath deep in him to stiffle any possible tantrums or curses his mouth could produce at that moment. Just.. Breath..
Inhale..
Exhale..
Inhale..
Unfortunately, his inhale-exhale procedurs could only help little to his self-control as his fists finally flew from his sides and targetted the flawless man's face.
But suddenly a gust of wind rushed in front of Akihito as a larger hand swapped in front of his face and gripped his flying wrist. He winced in pain as the large hand kept on restraining his poor wrist, maybe there would be a red mark circled his wrist after this.
Their positions were kinda awkward with Akihito's eyes glued to the grassy ground and his hands stopped mid-air in front of Asami's face, while Asami kept his head held high and his hand gripped the other's.
"I don't know if it's your habit to throw your fist to someone when you're nervous, but please get rid of that habit because it would only cause trouble for you."
The fresman's eyes met with golden ones and he soon opened his mouth, "You son of a bi--", at that very moment, Akihito's mom's face came into Aki's mind as she scolded his son from saying dirty words, "--cycle!", huh? Son of a bicycle? Can't I get another insulting words without using the dirty ones? Akihito thought deeply.
Asami couldn't help his laughter that swelled in the pit of his stomach when finally he laughed whole-heartedly in the boy's face. "You're truthfully a good boy, but your tsundere side could get you in trouble.", Asami then let go of the already bruising wrist and turned his back towards the boy with the red blush still tainted the freshman's cheekbones.
"D..Did you just call me 'tsundere'?!", Akihito yelled grumpily but his protests went unheard as his senpai just waved his hand in the air, indicating that 'this conversation is over'.
"Where the hell have you been Aki?", Kou's voice rang his hearing senses as Akihito finally pulled his head from the wooden table to face his friend's confused expression.
"Never mind that Kou. How's your investigation mission back there at the bushes?", the blonde boy sighed a little then rubbed the bridge of his nose to ease the tension that built in his temple. But that went unnoticed since Kou remembered his cool attempt on being a spy.
"OH! You remember! Yes, when I reached deeper into that bush, a pitiful meow was heard and clenched my symphatetic heart, so that's why I crawled on all four because of the narrowed space and focused my vision on the object of the sound! Turned out it's a kitten! I've taken care of the kitten and now it's taking a nap under that apple tree."
The word 'crawl' and 'kitten' sent shivers down Akihito's spine.
"I tell you just don't crawl on all four..", Akihito mumbled under his breath.
"What?"
"Nothing.", Aki waved a hand on the air when the girls' squeals echoed through the room so out of the blue.
They sounded 'kyaa kyaa kyaa' until Akihito and Kou couldn't take it anymore. They cocked their head towards the corridor only to be faced by groups of girls who surrounded the source of the fangirls. Kou couldn't make it out clearly who's the victim but seconds later he could see a black raven hair came into view, as the owner's body came into surface.
"Hey, Aki. Look, that's Asami-senpai.", Akihito looked at the direction of his friend's index finger and he immediately pouted.
"Why can that kind of guy be so damn famous? I mean, it's not like he's the last guy on earth, right?"
Kou sensed something fishy and decided to dig things out, maybe he could get something bigger from a little root. "Hmm.. What happened to you? You seem to be a little bit sensitive, are you jealous? What? Did that guy steal your girlfriend? Your first kiss? Your virginity?"
Akihito ran a hand to smack his friend's upper arm as his face got red from the steam that suddenly crept up into his temple, "What the hell Kou?! Why do you even guess that 'first kiss' and 'virginity' thingy? He's a guy for fuck's sake! Besides, I'm not jealous of him or anything!"
"Well, a guy being in love with him is kind of normal to me, because, who wouldn't? He looks like a Greek God, doesn't he? Nahh.. Tsundere alert..", Kou loved to tease his new friend. Hell, his reactions were too funny to handle.
"Yup, whatever! Call him Greek God or whatever you want but that guy is not my type at all! I wouldn't fall for him, that's for sure! And what the hell with that tsundere alert?!", Aki kept yelling at Kou who's still snickering at his place.
"Easy Aki. You're aiming for the little sister, 'member?", with that said, Akihito's mind flew to the clouds up in the sky, with Rinka's face spread over the breeze.
"Oh damn it, Kou.. How can a human be so damn beautiful? Her beautifulness even crosses the limit..", the black-haired friend then chuckled to see the blonde one's eyes looked dreamy and far away, as his drool threatened to fall.
Like making his wish come true, a familiar girl in Akihito's dream walked toward them, with her hips swung elegantly on the white tile. The freshmen didn't even realize her presence when suddenly the girl herself announced it, "Akhem.. Excuse me, boys?"
The two of them startled comically as they focused of the latest intruder, who turned out to be a pretty woman. A pretty woman whose beautifulness crosses the limit. The blonde boy couldn't hold his eyes from widening as the woman in his dream approached them first. His hands twitched ever so slightly, got itched from the feeling of want to touch the girl right now. Kou could sense it, very well.
"What?", Kou asked nonchalantly, as he brought his hands into his pants pocket, looking casually at the golden-eyed girl.
"Umm.. I'm just searching for Takaba Akihito, are you the one?", she faced the now flustered blonde boy as he finally gathered his voice back to stutter a weak 'yes'.
"Great! I just felt so inspired by your harsh behavior towards my brother. I clearly remembered that first encounter when you didn't pay attention to 'big brother's important speech'. Well, I think you're just.. Cool!", she grasped the boy's hands in her and brought it between their faces. Her eyes glinted with girly dreams and promises as she grinned a wide smile, forming dimples on her sweet pink cheeks.
Akihito felt that his body had drowned into a deepest abyss by the great force of gravity, no, bigger than gravity itself. The way this girl charmed him and pulled him in with her was kind of a mystery to the blonde boy. Her brother may be kind of a jerk, but this girl seemed not. Her personality, her smile, her voice, screamed angel rather than evil. Akihito felt like he would kill just to get this girl in his grasp. She's so perfect.. Only if the big brother's not that fucking Asami Ryuuichi...
Kou elbowed his friend to wake him up to reality, but it's too late since Rinka sensed the stiffness that radiated from the boy. So she ran a soft stroke on the boy's cheek and Akihito immediately woke up with a start. "You look pale, what's wrong?", she asked softly, making the cocoons in Akihito's stomach wrecked and revealed the butterflies.
"I..I'm fine..", he slowly grabbed the girl's hand off his cheek and brought it down, along with the other tiny hand that still glued with his.
"If so then, I'm going! Bye!", she turned around and showed them her last smile, only to run off with high pace.
Akihito and Kou was left speechless at spot.
"Wow Kou.. Just.. Wow..", Akihito hit his friend's cheek with his fist and his friend suddenly got irritated with his friend's teenager act.
"Cut that out already! Don't look at her like she's some kind of worshipped God or something! Be a man! Look cool!", he brushed off Aki's hand but the boy beside him still looked at Rinka's direction in his dreamy eyes, like the girl's footsteps were some kind of the lead to the candy house that once was eaten by Hansel and Gretel.
"But dude.. I got symphonies in my head when she held my hand..", Aki dazed off, Kou got irritated.
"Just make another symphony and make it more famous than Beethoven's.", he said off-topic-ly, as he walked away from his drooling friends. Soon, Akihito caught up with his sulky friends and they continued their chat.
They didn't even realize that there were two set of golden eyes observed their every moves.
Two lonely boys came to their basecamp which was the old apple tree to do their mission. The evening wind brushed off their hair softly and gave off a rather nice feeling, because this whole day they've been mistaken as new servants by their senpais and the senpais have told them to do anything inappropriate (for Akihito) such as doing their duty to clean the men's bathroom for example.
Their sore muscle screamed to be cared, to be rested, but the high-spirit that lie in them didn't grant its wish and here they were, sitting under the giant tree, feeding the poor kitten a milk (re: their mission).
The kitten licked the warm mirk hesitantly, then brought up his big, round eyes. Met with Kou's kind face, it assured itself that that milk wasn't poisoned or anything. So, the furry little thing continued its dinner and slowly, the milk got drained out. Kou looked so satisfied by his good deed, but didn't realize the sulky one beside him. Yes, Akihito has been sulking since God knows how long, and he seemed not interested with the kitten, at all.
"Cheer up dude, life's still long. You can't keep on sulking because the dirty water was sprayed on you when we cleaned the bathroom right? Besides, it was a mistake!", Kou convinced his friend but Akihito didn't lower down his temper.
"It's not a mistake dammit! That blonde 2nd year senpai.. What's his name again..?"
"Su.. Su.. Suda- Sude- I think it's Sudaru.. Sudaru shuu!"
"Yeah.. Sudaru -- whatever -- senpai. He did it on purpose! Giving me that evil grin while apologizing isn't apologizing at all!", the blonde freshman pouted but his hand didn't cease on stroking the soft fur of the animal.
Kou thought deeply before speaking, "...maybe you're right.. But I don't understand any possible idea why he did that on purpose.. You didn't steal his girlfriend, did you?"
Before Aki could open his mouth, Kou brought a hand in front of his face indicating that 'please don't speak' like a teacher, "..no.. It's not possible.. You're not attractive enough to steal that senpai's girlfriend.. So maybe we should sweep away that option.", the black-haired one giggled and Aki just glared at him, hard.
An apple suddenly fell onto the ground, exactly in front of Akihito. He got surprised and jumped on his seat, earning another snicker from his mate.
The school bell rang loudly, signaling everybody that it's time to leave the school immediately because the school gate would be closed for the rest of the evening. The two boys groaned because of the sudden movement, but soon find themselves limping to the front gate. They were so tired and the only wish that they would want God to grant that very moment was to teleport them straight to their room, on the bed, with the blanket covering them whole, with their clothes changed.
But unlucky them, they have to walked to the train station and went with the train. Hell, the walking session didn't please them at all, especially Akihito.
Kou's home was quiet close from the school because he only have to drop off at the first station and his house aren't so far away, he just have to walk around a block or so, and -- ta-da! -- He would find himself standing in front of his lovely front door.
But, in Akihito's case, it was too horrible. He has to drop off at the third station, then walk his way home for about three blocks. He groaned at the pain that ached on his back since his walking session started.
When they reached the station, they immediately bought their ticket and waited obediently until the train arrived. Upon arriving, they stepped behind the yellow line and waited -- again -- for the door to slide open. Once it's opened, they both stepped in and fought their way to get a chair. Akihito cursed his luck, because Kou was the one who got it, and he have to stand for the entire ride.
"Hey Kou.. Could you just give me the seat? I have another walking-slash-limping to my far-far away house after this.", Aki grunted his opinion, and his friend just grinned sadistically.
"Just wait until I drop off at the next station, after that, the seat will be yours."
The ride to the next station was like torture to the poor blonde boy. His legs shaking and his back protested. His head didn't do any good as it started to throb, increasing Akihito's current misery. Kou even dared to sleep, damn him!
The woman's voice saying that they've arrived at the next station sounded like an angel's voice in Aki's ears as Kou started to open his eyes and yawned rather big. He rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand as it started to focus and the first thing -- person -- that he saw was Akihito, with a rather smug, evil looking face.
"Did you have a good dream, my son?", he asked, sarcastically.
Kou just brushed it off and readied himself to stand, as the train came to a halt. A lot of people got off included Kou who gave a wink as an indication of 'goodbye', but soon filled up with a lot of business people. Akihito flopped himself onto the seat and relaxed by the nice feeling it gave off. His back felt like 'phew'-ing as soon as it touched the cool surface of the plastic seat. Akihito nearly closed his eyes but soon a picture of an old granny looking so confuse got caught in his vision radar.
She looked so old and fragile, but her eyes ran back and forth, as if searching for something. And -- oh my God -- she brought plenty bags with her and seconds later Akihito couldn't take it anymore.
"Do you want to take a seat?", Akihito kindly offered and her eyes widen in happiness and excitement.
"Is it okay, young man?"
He nodded and moved to stand as the old woman took a seat in front of him. Half of him wanted to curse the sudden situation but the other half felt happy after doing that tiny little good deed. Maybe this is what Kou felt when he fed that kitten, he mused.
The journey felt like a thousand years before finally, finally, that woman's voice came into his hearing sense, saying that they've arrived at the third station. His inner childish side just wanted to jump off and spring into the surface of sea of people. But he held himself tight as he sprinted off of the train.
Finally out of the station's area, he dazed off a little bit at the thought of him walking another three blocks to his home. He has done this before, sure, plenty of times, but this time, it felt harder than the other times. Every muscles in his body protested for the countless times, but Akihito just ignored them and looked out to the great amount of people walking in front of him and dazed pitifully like a lost puppy.
He didn't have enough money to take a cab, and his mother will surely scold him if he do so, saying that they have to appreciate what they have and do their best until the end of the day, including to walk besides taking a cab for instant, showing God that they appreciate the money He has given them.
He decided that it's better to move than to protest all night. He wanted to sleep that very moment and grunting wouldn't help anything. He sighed deeply as his feet started to fly and stepped on the pavement, the other feet followed the other and soon the two joined in the move called walking.
"You look so tired, do you have a bad day?"
Akihito wanted, no, wished, no, demanded, to every gods or evils or angels or whatever that could help him that time to shove that voice away from him. He didn't want to hear, reply, or deal with the voice's owner. He was fucking tired and it's possible for him to shout when he's desperate and stress out.
The blonde boy ignored the voice and sped up his walking, only to hear another footsteps behind him walked faster than before.
"Why are you running away?"
Oh no, please, ground, earth, sky, sea, wind, please please please swallow me whole now!
A pat on his shoulder prevented him from walking any further as he stopped dead in his track. A cold sweat started rolling down his temple as his eyes closed, praying silently and muttering something that came out as an order to himself.
'Run!'
His legs suddenly got a mysterious power from God knows where and ran his bone out through the crowd of people.
The hand that seconds ago was on his sore shoulder appeared out of nowhere and caught his whole body-control, flipping the blonde's body to face its captor.
"He-Hello Asami-senpai..", the boy nonchalantly greeted his senior and laughed sheepishly because of the awkward situation. He just did an attempt on running away from his senpai!
"I see you're so full of energy even at night times.", he smirked devilishly and Akihito immediately knew that whatever came into the man's mind didn't mean anything good.
They stared at each other then finally Asami spoke to break the tension that slowly built itself between them, "What are you doing here?"
"Going home, what else?"
The older man just hum-med at him, "Do you want me to accompany you?"
Akihito was caught red-handed dazing off -- again --, "Wha-? Why?"
"Because your legs have been shaking since minutes ago, and I don't think you can limp your bones until you reach your home."
The freshman wanted to open his mouth to protest again but Asami gave that 'I'm not talking anymore' expression and Akihito decided that his words were final. "Fine.."
"Where's your house?"
"Seven blocks from here.", let's see if he could keep up his words to send me home after that words, the boy wickedly planned things out in his head.
"Okay.", with that said, Asami grabbed the boy's hand and dragged him through the street. Akihito was -- of course -- bewildered by the man's strong commitment.
A "You still want to send me home?" Blurted out from his throat before he could stop it.
Asami didn't turn his head when he replied, "Yes."
Akihito shrugged off his hand and glued his eyes to the cold pavement, "I lied."
The senpai took a hold of the freshman's hand once again, "I know."
Aki scowled and cursed under his breath, earning a rich chuckle came out from Asami's mouth.
Soon they found themselves on the neighborhood area, from there on they only have to walk three blocks. Akihito has to admit, that his legs have given up minutes ago, when they passed the playground park and kept on walking instead of taking a break. His legs were already screaming for help at this very minute and his head kept on throbbing mercilessly.
"Ah.. F with three stars..", he growled and Asami caught the boy's situation.
"Are you tired?"
"What do you think?", he glared at the older teen. The sleepiness that crept into his mind didn't help him at all, as his body started to move wobbly on its own.
-- Super -- surprisingly, Asami knelt with his back facing Akihito and Akihito just confusingly stared at the wide back spread before him. "What?"
"I will lift you."
Aki's eyes got widen and he couldn't hold the blush that invaded his cheekbones, then his whole face.
"What?! I.. It's embarrassing!", he cried out.
"Stop your tsundere act and jump. You'll find yourself faint in any minute if you don't get on my back now."
Akihito pouted at the word 'tsundere' thrown at him but he still has to agree with Asami at some point. He's dead tired and need to rest. Well, if a 'rest while moving' option was possible to be available, then being lifted by Asami was the right choice.
After minutes of thinking, measuring, and concluding, Akihito finally found himself on Asami's back, with his hands encircled the older teen's neck. Asami lightly held his wobbly legs and jumped him a little bit, signaling that he's ready to go.
The whole ride seemed so silent when Akihito found his eyes drew heavier and heavier within minutes. The freshman's snore rang softly in Asami's ear as his rumbling laugh trembled in the cold night air.