The GazettE : Summer Breeze [3/15]
He gaped, and loses his hold on the pen he’s playing on, dropping it to the floor. He can’t believe his eyes.
“Dozo, boku wa Shiroyama Yuu desu, yoroshiku onegaishimasu,” he bowed, and smiled. Then he writes his name and explains what it means. The girls are already drooling like maniacs when Yuu just blush and smiled sheepishly. Reita shrugged, but when he saw Uruha who has the face like nothing much different from the girls beside him, he winced in a weird way. Uruha isn’t moving, his mouth is slightly open, and his eyes are wide, looking straight to the new raven creature in front of the class.
“Uruha…?” he called in a low voice. Uruha still has his eyes on him.
“Man, Uruha you okay?” no response. Reita repeated his actions with extra tugging and hand swaying, but Uruha still focused on him. He even doesn’t bother blinking even once.
“URUHA!!!” Reita hates being ignored, and finally he shouted right on Uruha’s ears making him jumped and fall from his chair with a lot of CLANG-BRUGH-KABOOM, which of course, drawing all the attention, includes Yuu who’s currently talking about the reason why he moved here.
“OUCH!! What the hell is wrong with you, Rei!?” Uruha snorted, as loud as possible.
“Takashima! Suzuki! Can’t you two pay attention to him and be a good classmate?!” with that, the classmates laughed again. Uruha rubbed his head as he got up and fix his chair, while Reita scoffed and crossed his arms. When Uruha sits again and glanced to Yuu, he saw him giggling. The pale cheeks turn crimson red.
“It is okay, Sawaguchi sensei, I’m done here,” he said, still in the fit of giggling. Mr. Sawaguchi sighed and patted his shoulders.
“You can sit there, beside Kohara, right, beside Takashima’s and Akira’s table,”
“Hai, arigato gozaimasu, sensei” he bowed again, and smiling slightly as he walked towards his seat beside Shou. The pretty brunette grinned to him.
“Hello, onegaishimasu,” Yuu bowed, only to be laughed by Shou.
“Hey buddy, don’t be so polite to me, hi! Here, welcome,” Shou tapped the empty chair beside him cheerfully, Yuu’s smile seemed to be lighten. He nodded and sat comfortably.
“Why from Mie to here?” Shou asked in a low tone while he watched Mr. Sawaguchi started the lesson. Yuu titled his head from his bag a little.
“Um, my grandma just died, and my grandpa lives all alone here because of that. I preferred accompany him here than sulking in Mie with my chipper aunt who keeps saying I’m pretty,” he answered bluntly, a little unexpected by Shou who thought that every new student would be shy and talks less for at least a month. He laughed at that, like… what the hell~
“Oh, yes, nice choice, you’ll get raped,” suddenly Tora had joined the conversation as he turned backwards, facing his friends who sits right behind him and a girl who’s sitting beside him.
“Ah, yes, hahahaha” the raven boy laughed. Well, new nice friends….
“Kids, open your history text book page 256(whoa, so many) and I’ll choose one of you to read!”
Yuu turned to the side of his table to reach his bag when he spotted a honey blonde called Takashima is looking at him. He frowned a little.
“Anything wrong with me?” he asked. The honey blonde obviously snapped from whatever session he was in. Yuu tried not to laugh to his stupid face.
“N-no, nothing… I was just---”
“Takashima Kouyou!!”
“YES SIR! Sumimasen!” Uruha lowered his face as Yuu gasps a little.
“Sir, it’s me who was asking him to talk to me, don’t yell at him, at me, please,” the firm voice of the new student echoing in the silent (and bored) classroom stopped everyone’s activity.
“Oh, is that so, just don’t do it again, now read page 256,”
Uruha is very-very impressed with such actions this new student did. Ah, of course he’s kind, he’s an angel… wait! Angel!! The necklace! But Uruha thought he could do it later. He won’t go anywhere… and it seems like he needs to read the page carefully because Mr. Sawaguchi is preparing papers. Papers mean quizzes, quizzes mean scores; scores mean his life…somewhat.
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“HUWAAA Shouuuww my scores are baaad! What should I doooo?!!” Yuu turned to the whining voice comes. He just walked out from class with Shou and Tora and Saga and Reita (Yuu didn’t dare to ask why he’s nose less) and Uruha (they managed to know each other somehow). He saw a baby squirrel faced boy runs dramatically to Shou with hands apart, hugging pose. And when he gets closer… he really is tiny!
“Aww, how come Pon? Don’t you study last night?” Shou hugged the teary squirrel and patted his black hair. Yuu frowned. Hugging? What for?
“I did! But the meanie teacher said that I was studying the wrong subject!” with the childish and stupid answer, the group laughed, including Yuu, which the squirrel frowned for.
“Aaa…. Anata wa dare?” he questioned to the unfamiliar raven beside his Shou.
“Ah, I’m Shiroyama Yuu, new student here… nice to meet you!”
“Um! Hello, I’m Hiroto! Only Shou who is allowed to call me Pon!” he hugged Shou’s waist tighter, driving the taller brunette laughed and blush a little. Reita caught the questioning frown appeared in Yuu’s furrows once again.
“Ah, Yuu-kun, they’re together,” the spiky blonde tapped his shoulder, smirking. Yuu’s dark orbs widened.
“Rei! Aren’t we going to eat lunch? Come on guys!” a new voice called again. Yuu saw Reita smiled happily.
“Nah, there’s my panda,” Reita walked towards Ruki, and they both laughed together.
“Uru-kun!” another voice, but this one is very feminine and cute. He turned backwards, seeing Uruha smiled and approached a super cute girl, and a boy with glasses. Wait… his face is like Pooh bear. Oh, so… is it only Uruha who’s straight here? Why does this school filled with cute creatures and gays…? And… truthfully even Yuu doesn’t know he likes which gender.
“Heee! So this is Yuu-kun! Hello! Welcome here! I’m Karin!” the cute girl offered her smooth hand-which Yuu knows when he accepted the hand. “And this is Nao-kun!” now this time the Pooh bear smiled.
“OOI you guys! Let’s eat!” only the panda left to get to know. But he looks nice.
Everybody looks nice. Yuu was very thankful that he is in such nice circle of friends.
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Okay now this is really looked like an illegal party on the school’s rooftop. On the corner, ten students are laughing and chatting and teasing each other. Everyone knows them, the Groups. Well, the students there are apparently Uruha, Shou, Hiroto, Karin, Nao, Reita, Ruki, Tora, Saga, and the newbie, Yuu. But this ‘party’ has no inappropriate things like parties have. They just have… bento.
“So, Ruki and Reita are together too?” Yuu asked as he shoved a sausage into his mouth. The said boys smiled, looking at each other for a brief moment and nodded together. “Wow, cool, so everybody have someone here~” he smiled.
“NOO Uruha doesn’t! Uruha is stupid about love things, right Saga chi~~?” Tora mocked as he nudged his boyfriend’s arm. Saga who is currently trying to steal Hiroto’s kamaboko swiftly pulled his hand and nodded furiously. “Totally stupid!” Saga stated. Everyone laughed when Uruha put on the stupid face, again. (It seems like today he’s being so stupid, isn’t he?)
“What….?”
“BUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” they laughed harder.
“Damn it guys! What is it!?”
“Mou, mou, Uru-kun just eat your lunch ne~~ ahaha” Karin patted the honey blonde’s back playfully.
“Ah, is that so,” Uruha shrugged by Karin’s advice and shoved the last rice in his bento.
“EEE Uruha is being so obedient with Karin-chan isn’t he??” Ruki teased.
“NO! It is just because I know Rin-Rin is very nice not evil like you all~~!” Uruha swayed his hands as his friends stuck their tongues out.
“But Uru, Yuu and I didn’t say anything,” Nao said innocently.
“Ah, Yuu is with Karin, you’re not Pooh, you laughed at me,”
“MAN why are you choosing Yuu? Heee is there something behind this~~? By the way Yuu laughed at you too!” Tora said suspiciously, making Uruha gaps and blush. The honey blonde throws his head to the side, while Yuu is blushing too.
“It’s just---”
Just right then the bell rings. They all jumped in shock but then laughed together again. Hiroto and Ruki entered their class together, and then Karin and Nao, and the rest are laughing like no other to their class.
“Hey man, do you think Yuu is a good boy?” Reita asks to Uruha in a low tone when they had sit on their chairs. Uruha blinked.
“He is, don’t you think so?” he saw Reita nodded. “What’s with that?”
“I don’t know but I have a strong feeling our group will be ten teens, permanently,”
“Indeed,”
They smirked in their own way and focused to the next lesson.
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The bell rang. Uruha banged the thick, dusty kanji book in victory. Reita did an ‘ALRIGHT!’ and started to pack his things. Uruha patted Yuu’s back on his way back from collecting the kanji book. Yuu smiled back at the honey blonde.
“Hey, let’s go home together,” Uruha offered, even if he’s not sure about where Aoi’s house is.
“Huh…? Well okay, but… it’s kinda far from here… and… my house is…” Aoi looked down.
“Yeah? I brought a bike, and don’t worry about anything, at least I won’t hit the ceilings…”
Yuu laughed lightly. Oh how Uruha loves his laugh.
“It is not that bad, y’know….”
“Uru! Yuu! Let’s go to the ice cream shop first!” Tora called out. Both smiled and ran out from the class.
The ice cream shop is just a block away from their school. It was on the side of the small street, right in front of the traffic light. It has a brown roof and traditional theme. Uruha and friends always go there after school, especially in summer. The burning sun forces them to buy.
Uruha, Karin, Kousuke, Tora, and Nao are walking with their bikes while the other walking slowly. A group of teenagers walking and chatting and laughing on the side of the road actually draw a lot of attention. Moreover, they have fine faces.
“This is the shop, Yuu-kun!” Hiroto, who ran first to welcome Yuu, shouted.
The shop looks small, and it worries Yuu. It might collapse if all of them enter this old looking shop!
But it is long to the back. They took off their shoes. The others except Uruha and Yuu ran as fast as they can to the back of the shop to order first and make a parade like noises.
“Nice shop, isn’t it?” Uruha said smiling. Yuu nodded as he inspected the posters.
“Come on, aren’t you thirsty?”
When they reached the ice cream bar at the back, the others are already shouting and struggling like hungry cats, swaying their moneys. Uruha’s and Yuu’s sweat dropped in concern. When the others busy shouting and gone mad, Uruha took Yuu’s hand and sits him on the corner sofa. Yuu blushed.
“Man…they’re so childish,” Uruha shook his head. Yuu giggled as he watched the crowds there too.
“Are they always like this?”
“Yeah, can you believe it? I’ve been watching them from here alone since we were all in the sixth grade… can you believe how many times I should hid in the toilet for several minutes until they tamed?”
Yuu laughed so hard that he holds his stomach and hits the sofa repeatedly. Uruha twitched his eyebrows in confusion. Wow… Yuu is actually laughing his ass off!
“Hahahaha…!! I’m sorry!! I don’t know whether should be amused or concerned! Ahahahahahah!”
“Well, you’re already amused, really,” Uruha can’t help but laughs too.
After they managed to stop laughing, they realized the noise had gone. And the hungry cats are… looking at them suspiciously. Both blinked and gulped.
“They looked so close aren’t they… Tora-shi?” Saga asked while licking his raspberry ice cream.
“Yes, yes… they looked like two love birds, flirting on the corner branch,” Tora agreed, the others nodded too.
“What the hell?!!” Uruha yelled.
“Ne, Kouyou-nii, you haven’t order your ice, Yuu-san too,” Kousuke pointed the smiling Hime---the daughter of the shop’s owner. She’s just at the same age as Kousuke himself.
“Oh…. Right,”
“Konnichiwa, Kouyou-san! And who is this nii-chan?” Hime chimed, showing her dimples.
“I’m Yuu, nice to meet you,” Yuu smiled back.
“Hime… give me the usual flavor,”
“Hai! Its grape, isn’t it? What about Yuu-san?”
“Uhh, what do you have…?”
“Vanilla was ordered by Ruki-san, chocolate by Reita-san, mocha by Tora-san, raspberry by Saga-san, green tea by Nao-san, orange by Karin-san, strawberry by Hiroto-san, cappuccino by Shou-san, and mango by Kou-kun! We have green tea flavor, and grape,”
“I love grape,” Yuu murmured.
“Eh? Same flavor?” Uruha turned to him.
“Can’t I?”
“No… well, it is okay!”
“I ordered it because you seemed to like it, then it must be good,”
Hime is back with two cones of grape ice creams. She handed it to them and says thank you.
“Whaaat?! Same flavor???” Hiroto commented on their purple ice creams. Uruha shrugged and Yuu just smiled. He takes the first lick and…. He falls in love.
“This…”
“Very nice, isn’t it? You should try the entire flavors and find your own, just like us!” Karin said.
“My own flavor…?”
“Yes! It describes your personality, as Hime’s mother said,” Shou added.
“But I don’t think I have enough money to try them all,”
“Silly! We have so much time!” Reita laughed as he munched on his cone.
“How’s the grape…?” Uruha asked.
“It… is… wonderful,”
Uruha loves another thing about Yuu beside his smiles and laughter; his sparkling eyes.
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“Kousuke-kun is your little brother?” Yuu asked on the way to his house. Uruha is riding the bike, he’s at the back, and holding on the honey blonde’s shoulders.
“Hmm? Yeah, he’s fun to tease,”
They laughed. Yuu said to Uruha he should turn right. And when he did, he stopped. In front of them is the beautiful sunset, sinking on the edge of the horizon, drawing orange and pinkish spectrum. The sea is sparkling like small diamonds faraway there.
“How beautiful…”
“Yeah, I love the pink and purplish and orange streaks it is making,”
Yuu, unconsciously leaned to Uruha’s back after stepping down from the pedal. They watched until the sky got dark together….
“Thanks for fetching me,” Yuu bowed to Uruha. They stopped in front of a small traditional house a minute later. It wasn’t so far if you ride a bike.
“Well, it’s getting late now; maybe I should visit later,”
“Yeah, it is thank you… Uruha,”
“No problem, Yuu, see you tomorrow then!”
“Just call me Aoi,”
“Oh, ‘kay… see you tomorrow, Aoi! Bye!”
Aoi waved to Uruha and watched him until the corner road swallows him. He sighed and smiled. What a nice first day of school… just if he could find his necklace….
“I’m home,”
“Welcome home, young master,”
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A/N: wooow chapter three!!! I’m so very much thankful that I could finish this between the other abandoned fictions and my schedule. You know what; I should study seriously in this 8th grade! I should start thinking about my future! >:D Wish me luck on periodic test~~ I hope I will update fast ^^ and for those who read “Call Me” be ready for SEQUEL! Fufufu :)