Futago
Buddies.

"You heard me four eyes. Haha." The belittling laughter sounded mutually simple.

"Relse ..! quadrupedal. Didn't I tell you to buy four loaves of bread why there are only three here, huh!." Shouted one of the three of them, someone who looked powerful. Even so they look pretty scary.

Yuki observes a student being bullied by three mischievous students.

I've never seen anything like this, I guess it's only in books and movies, Yuki thought.

Buk.

The sound of a punch was quite loud heard by Yuki's ears.

"Heh, be a sweet first-class kid basic rancid boy." Shoot them.

"Listen to four eyes." The cold and low sound was enough to frighten the victim.

"From today until we graduate, you'll officially be our servant." Threatened, continued the sound of laughter that menji* echoed in the quiet hallway.

Yuki took a deep breath and then came out from her hiding place.

"He .i, you're there." Yuki shouted to the victim.

See, you managed to be the center of their attention Yu-ki, the inner girl mocking herself.

Yuki stepped over to the four of them and immediately put on a surprised face after arriving at the scene.

"Sorry Senpai, what's the matter with this guy?." Yuki's question looked at one by one the three people that Yuki made sure were his seniors. They were silent for a moment because suddenly someone came to them.

"Mom!." Yuki's making a cheerful face.

"Ara ra ra ra, you guys are so nice. Senpai wants to give food to the new junior?." Yuki asked pulling the corner of her lips as she glanced at the first grade child standing down, frightened.

" Ha hah ..?!." Yuki could clearly see the confused faces of the three of them.

"You don't have to hide to do good." Yuki continued not giving them a chance to retaliate.

Proks.

Yuki clapped her hands in front of her chest.

"Mrsne. I see now, you do not want anyone else to see your kindness, because that is ., senpai did it secretly. Uhaeh ... Very good." Yuki was trying to show her best smile.

Seeing Yuki who looks happy and amazed by the misunderstanding makes one of them embrace the victim of bullying to be pretentious.

"Yes that's how." Her speech.

"I'm sorry I'm so talkative, I haven't introduced myself yet." Said Yuki about to bow but was stopped by their leader.

"No need, we already know who you are. Let's go." He told his two friends.

"Yo first grade, eat, and grow up fast." Said their leader while giving the three buns to the first class.

Yuki smiled sweetly at their deeds of course the smile Yuki made was such. The three third graders left without saying a word.

Very bad acting, and ... It's funny, Inner Yuki.

"Surprising." Said Yuki picking up her junior bag.

"Having a different eye color does look strange. Maybe that's why they know me." Said Yuki who sounded confident while handing the bag over to the owner.

"Thank you." He accepted his bag back.

"Do you know me too?." Ask Yuki who is a little curious.

The man raised his head which had been looking down, looking at Yuki's face. The junior fell silent, gulping down his saliva violently.

"I-I just saw you." The answer from his junior made Yuki happy.

"Thank God." Mumbled Yuki.

"Yabaii (Danger), we're late." Yuki realized something.

"We need to get back to class." Yuki immediately turned her body about to leave however, she turned to face her junior looking at him for a while.

"If you feel you're useless, you're wrong. Whether you are useful or not you choose." The thick-eyed man glazed over for a moment.

"The strong man doesn't always win, but the one who wears," Yuki pointed at his head.

"It'll always get a way out, that's what I think." Yuki said then ran away leaving her junior.

Every passage that Yuki passed by was already very quiet, the girl hastened her run up the stairs. Oh no, inner Yuki.

Yuki braked his feet right in front of the classroom door, faintly hearing the voice of his teacher who was teaching. With a deep breath Yuki steadied her heart knocking on the door slowly three times and then shifted it.

"Sorry sir I'm late." Yuki said regretfully. He was never late for class, not once.

"Where's your bag?." Ask a flat math teacher.

"There sir." Yuki pointed at his stool, after finding his student bag the teacher looked back at Yuki, intensely.

"Where are you from?." Ask again. Congratulations Yuki you managed to make your teacher angry as well as get the bonus of being a spectacle of the entire class, inner Yuki mocked herself, again.

"I'm out of the toilet sir." Kilah Yuki lied.

"Do two things, after that you can sit." Absolute orders from a math teacher.

"Hi'." Yuki took chalk (sma school in Japan still uses chalk), glanced briefly at the matter written on the board.

Yuki filled two whiteboards full of answers, he placed a quick chalk bow to his teacher and walked to his bench.

The hours of lessons that felt long for Yuki were finally over as well, the math teacher had already left the classroom a few seconds ago.

"Hachibara and you're sick?." Ueno asked, turning her body.

"No." Answer Yuki.

"You're really out of the toilet?." Now Natsume is in their conversation.

"No, actually I'm from the perpus. There was a little trouble earlier that's why I got back to class late." Clearly the lecherous Yuki got a questioning look from those two friends.

"Sou ka (So yes)." Natsume then changed his sitting position sideways facing Yuki.

"Ne Ueno chan, can you sing?." Ask Natsume suddenly.

"Eh?. I can only be a little bit, not worth hearing." Answer Ueno.

"I want to hear your voice." Natsume said in a cheerful tone.

"Can't you sing too, why throw it to someone else." Yuki said seeing the look on Ueno's face that looked agitated.

"What else is your club's problem." Yuki's words hit Natsume's heart.

"A ano .., Hachibara san, your words are too harsh." Ueno Lirih.

"Ueno Chan is okay, it's a band club thing." Natsume took out some sheets of paper from his desk drawer.

"We club members are looking for someone who can sing the song I made. We set out early in the morning to look for him but haven't found him either." Natsume.

"So what are you doing here?." Sobot Yuki's.

"I've found Yu Chan's man." Natsume replied he smiled mysteriously looking at Ueno.

"I heard from one of kohai (junior), Ueno Chan used to be in the choir club, right, Ueno chan." Said Natsume. Yuki glanced at the glasses girl sitting in front of him.

Ueno smiled stiffly.

" I was first." Answer stammering.

"Please Ueno Chan help me." Natsume put his hands together staring expectantly at Ueno.

"But I'm a member of Natsume chan's music club, I can't get into your club." Lirih Ueno Natsume raised his head quickly.

"No problem, you only need to sing one song." Sergey Natsume.

"We wanted to show how cool the band club is with our music to attract new members." Obviously Natsume with sparkling eyes and a fluffy smile.

"Ueno chan, yes." Imbuh Natsume.

"I'll try to help you as much as I can." Ueno's decision, he could not bear to see the look on Natsume's face like that.

While the girl acting shed tears happily making Yuki shake his head.

"Here, you can see the song first, then take our afternoon break to the clubroom for rehearsal." Natsume handed the paper in his hand to Ueno.

Ueno read carefully. Yuki who had been a listener since then propped up her chin observing every expression of Ueno. Natsume squeezed his hands while smiling impatiently.

"Natsume chan this is impossible for me." Ueno's chirps wiped the smile on Natsume's face.

"Why Ueno chan?." Ask Natsume.

"The tone is too high, my voice cannot be this high. Sorry Natsume chan, I can't." Reject Ueno.

"If we haven't tried, we won't know whether or not we can." Sergey Natsume doesn't want to lose Ueno. Yuki slightly leaned her body forward glancing at the contents of the paper.

"Sorry Natsume chan." Ueno Lirih. Natsume looked at Ueno with a smile even though he felt disappointed.

"Ung, it's okay. I just need to find again." Natsume said with his cheerful tone.

"Ne Hazuki (Hey ... Hazuki)." Call Yuki.

"Nani? (What?)." Natsume turned to Yuki.

"Heeeh ...?." Ueno was surprised to hear Yuki suddenly calling out Natsume's last name.

"You said this song you made it." Yuki took the paper from Ueno's hand.

"Ueno san what do you think, this song?." Ueno was surprised to be suddenly asked.

"The song is so good, just reading it makes my heart beat fast." Ueno's comment, Yuki raised one eyebrow.

"Really?, thank goodness. I made it all night, this morning I just showed it to the members, and we just rehearsed a little with this song." Natsume.

"Well! sugoii (cool)." Ueno.

"Hehehe doesn't either." Elak Natsume blushed in embarrassment.

"Evening." Reload Yuki.

"Pick." Answer Natsume's spirit.

"So you can sing it." Yuki said without taking his eyes off the notes written on the paper.

"Eh?." Then Natsume fell silent.

"Make songs only overnight, very detailed and neat. Deep psyche delivered with the right lyrics. Hazuki, you can sing." Yuki's explanation made Ueno and Natsume the songwriter himself speechless.

Yuki lowered the song paper away from her face. Things that Yuki never expected and suddenly happened to him.

PLAQUE.

A hard slap landed on Yuki's right cheek making her face flung to the side.

Silent.

Yuki did not move in the slightest, he saw Natsume's eyeballs trembling withstanding emotions, the girl's face was flushed red. Natsume's angry.

Yuki slowly turned to look for the perpetrator who was standing at the right side of his desk.

"Yes?." Yuki asked the girl who was looking at him sharply.

"Rancid girl. Who are you! how dare you hurt his heart. Because of you since yesterday Ko has always been moody!." Yuki calmly heard the nagging of the woman he guessed was his senior.

In contrast to Yuki, Natsume who felt that he did not accept his friend was slapped directly stood up pushing his chair violently.

"What are you." Yuki raised his hand stopping Natsume, he still continued to stare at the girl who was crashing at him.

"What does senpai mean, Yamashita san?." Tanya Yuki made sure.

"You shouldn't reject it." The girl then gripped onto Yuki's sweater uniform.

Uh! captain of yesterday's basketball, Inner Yuki.

"Bas arrogant, I'm sick of seeing women like you." The girl said with emphasis.

"You're wrong senpai." Yuki's words made the girl even more furious strengthening the grip of her hand.

"Yamashita san is just curious about me, it can't be called a taste of like." Yuki.

"Still you shouldn't reject her, you arrogant chick." Reply the girl pulled Yuki's sweater closer to their faces while looking at the blue bead.

"Let's rest when you meet Ko and tell her you accept her to be your girlfriend." Tell the girl, Yuki returned her senior's sharp gaze with a gentle look.

Yuki raised her hand to gently pat the girl's shoulder letting her hand stay there. Yuki's gentle smile made the girl surprised, not realizing that her hand was loosening the grip on Yuki's sweater.

"Snapai ..." The calm and gentle voice that came out from Yuki's lips bewitched every ear that heard it.

"People like me don't deserve Yamashita san, some are more deserving of her. Senpai is very beautiful, has a firm eyebrow line and thick eyelashes make senpai look charming." The girl was stunned by the response she got.

"That strong and sincere feeling I can't ruin it. Senpai really likes Yamashita san not." The exact guess of Yuki made the girl take off her grip.

"Believe yourself, lest senpai regret." Yuki's voice squeezed slowly onto her senior's shoulder providing support.

"Ganbatte kudasai (Spiritual)." Added Yuki.

The girl covered her falling tears with both hands, Yuki smiled as she pulled her hand back.

"Sorry." Said the girl lowering her hands, bowing.

"It's okay." Answer Yuki.

"I'm leaving." Pamphitt.

"Hi'."

Yuki looked at the back of the girl who ran out of the classroom. It turns out this is what it feels like to be run over by an upperclassman, Inner Yuki. Already two people managed to slap me, for the next I will not let, furious Yuki in heart.

"Huh." huh." A sigh of relief came out from the mouths of Ueno and Natsume. Natsume approached Yuki holding her chin checking the former slap from the senior earlier.

"Red, it must hurt." Ueno.

"Dam. Senpai just slap it." Natsume was upset.

Plaque.

Yuki slapped Natsume's hand slowly.

"Get your hand off." Yuki's words were clear, Natsume let go of his hand and sat back down.

"Hachibara and you were so cool." Said Yuki's classmate who had been around her desk since when.

"No." Elak Yuki's.

"Why weren't you angry? if I were you I'd have pulled her hair." The other exclaimed, Yuki just smiled obliquely.

"Hachibara san is so good." The other robot.

"No." Reject Yuki.

"Hachibara san was also humble, unwilling to admit it."

"Hachibara san is like an angel."

No, you guys are wrong. Well can you go, my ears feel like they are breaking, Yuki said in her heart.

"Hachibara san don't-don't the man you're referring to is Yamashita Ko the captain of the basketball team?." Ask one of Yuki's classmates.

"Is she really?." The other one immediately looked at Yuki waiting for a response.

"Pick." Answer Yuki briefly. The babble continues.

Help me ..!, Yuki screamed inwardly.

***

Lunch break. Yuki hides from people who try to get close to her, enjoying lunch near the back garden of the school.

"Meet." The voice that Yuki memorized. Natsume sat down beside Yuki to open his provisions.

"So this morning someone was looking for you." Said Natsume.

"Hm."

" What about the head of the photography club, you've met him?." Tanya Natsume stuffed a mouthful of her provisions into her mouth.

"It." Answer Yuki.

"Continue?." Natsume.

"I refuse." Natsume glanced at Yuki beside him.

"Are you bothered by them?." Yuki took a sip of his drink.

"I don't understand the people here, they easily express their feelings to unknown people." Rutuk Yuki subconsciously, Natsume refocused on his provisions.

"Because they don't want people to like to be taken away by others." Natsume's answer is acceptable to Yuki's brain.

"Ne Yu chan."

"Hm?."

"Feelings that grow are unpredictable with who, where, and when. Maybe just looking at his face suddenly makes your heart beat or with his scent, his voice, personality, or even the kindness of his heart. Many intermediaries can make a person fall in love depending on each other's heart." Natsume looked at Yuki who had been looking at her since when she had looked at him first.

"Do you realize how perfect you are?." Ask Natsume.

In his heart Yuki smiled mockingly at him.

"No man is perfect." Sanggah Yuki's.

"Maybe." Natsume.

Silent.

"How do you know I can sing?." Tanya Natsume changed the topic.

"Just know." Answer Yuki.

Natsume closed his lunchbox, his eyes glaring far ahead.

"When I first saw you I was sure you weren't like those who approached someone with other intentions, having the heart to sacrifice others to get what they wanted. Just you as you are, that's what I saw from your eyes at that time Yu chan." Natsume said at length.

"What'sthis? you're complaining to me, using the implied message." Natsume laughed at Yuki's reply.

"I can't sing anymore, that's what I want to say." Natsume smiled, a smile that hid his true feelings. Of course Yuki will not be fooled by Natsume's smile.

"Would smiling relieve sadness?." Yuki's question again struck Natsume's heart.

"You should try it yourself." Answer Natsume.

"We haven't exchanged numbers." Natsume pulled out his phone.