Maybe Ai isn't war (Hayasaka X reader)

Fubuki Kahogona wants to sabotage (part 3)

Fubuki Kahogona wants to sabotage (part 3)

Shirou’s POV
School was about to be out… in other words, my date with Hayasaka was about to begin soon. After Aisaka told me how we should go to multiple different locations I practically stood up all night trying to chain places together. Hopefully, Hayasaka would like it and who knows, maybe she might even confess to me! I was inside the student council room finishing the last piece of work I had vigorously. Prez seemed to notice when he asked me, “You seem extra hyper now, Shirou-kun. What’s up?”
“Nothing much,” I replied, “It’s just that I’m very excited for something after school.” Kaguya-san immediately pieced everything together and she asked me with a grin on her face, “Are you going out on a date, Shirou-kun?”
“Wh-what!? I-I mean… yes I guess…” Kaguya-san was playing dirty! She already knew what was up!
“Ha!? Really!? With who Shirou-kun!?” Chika-san asked me energetically. I replied, “Do I have to tell you? It’s kinda embarrassing…”
“Yes, you have to! There’s no keeping any secrets inside of the council room!” Chika-san urged me. Prez’s ears were perked up it seems he’s interested too.
“I don’t remember that rule.”
“Well, it is a rule! Now come on and tell us, Shirou-kun!” Chika-san said while shaking me vigorously.
“F-fine I’ll tell you just get off my back already!” I gently pushed Chika-san aside. I need to figure out a way to get out of this without telling Chika-san my crush. Wait no, it’s not like I like Hayasaka it’s just that if she would confess to me then I suppose I could go out with her. Aha! I got an idea!
“I’ll tell you that is… after Kaguya-san reveals her crush!” I pointed to Kaguya-san who was caught off guard.
“Wha-what!?” Kaguya-san asked shocked.
“It’s your decision Kaguya-san. You either reveal who your crush is right here and now and I’ll reveal mine, or you don’t and we both go scot-free.”
“Th-that’s not true! I don’t have a crush on anyone!!!”
“Oh really? I still remember how you talked so passionately about him yet you deny that you have one.”
“C’mon Kaguya, tell us!” Chika-san started to urge Kaguya-san. I could tell Prez was also silently wanting Kaguya -san to confess.
“N-no! I refuse to tell any of you!”
“*sigh* Then I guess I won’t tell mine either. Adios!” I quickly handed Prez the papers and threw myself out of the council room only to see Hayasaka there waiting for me. She looked a bit disappointed in something. That would've been a close one if I had revealed that I had a crush on Hayasaka (even though I don’t have one.) Though maybe if I had… we would start going out if each other… No! Don’t think of those thoughts of false hope! Hayasaka is in a way higher league than me. There’s no way I could go out with a girl like her.
“You know that’s going to bite you in the bud later, Tatsuo-kun. Kaguya-sama isn’t going to let you go off so easily” Hayasaka told me.
“Yeah, I know. I prepared myself for whatever she’s going to throw at me. Now c’mon, we have a cafe to go to!”

Timeskip
“So Shirou-kun, why’s Kahogona-san so… touchy?” Hayasaka asked me. Of course, it’s about Fubuki-neesan. Though is she touchy? I guess I’ve been around her for too long and simply dismiss the skinship we regularly have (not that type that you’re thinking of, I mean it in a friendly manner.)
“Oh her? She’s always been since we were kids. It seems she still hasn’t grown out of it, unlike moi.” I replied.
“You can’t change the fact that you can’t speak french.” Hayasaka dismissed my integration of Japanese and French.
“I-I can too!”
“Are we really going to go through that phase again Tatsuo-kun? Just admit you can’t and it’ll all be fine.” Hayasaka looked at me with an expression that read, ‘really?’
“B-but I can!” I persisted. It’s somewhat true that I can speak french now. After the French Student Exchange party, I’ve been practicing my french so I won’t get embarrassed again. Though I still don’t have 100% mastery over it, I have more of a 75% to 90% mastery.
“Ok then, how do you say ‘I love you’ in french?”
“That’s an easy one! Je t'aime en tant qu'ami! (Translation:I like you as a friend.)”
“Y-you jerk!” Hayasaka punched me in the shoulder just as Fubuki-neesan always does.
“O-ouch!”
“Y-you didn’t have to word it like that!”
“If I said it regularly… it would’ve been too embarrassing…”
“... So you’re embarrassed to say that you like me?” Oh no! I’ve unknowingly trapped myself! If I deny it then she’ll ask why I didn’t say it correctly. If I say yes… well… that’s out of the question! Only if we had an outside force that could help me in this time of need!
“Nii-chan!” Aisaka appeared from behind me. Once again it seems like she has the power of teleportation. Well, her teleportation saved me at least so I guess it isn’t a bad thing.
“Aisaka what’re you doing here?” I asked her.
“I’m coming back from school, duh.” She answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Something isn’t right though. If she was going home from her school, we should be behind her since we have not yet passed her school.
“But if you were we should be the ones behind you-”
“Anyway, I don’t want to interrupt your date with Hayasaka-chan! Bye!” She quickly interrupted me. As fast as she appeared she was gone. I suspect she was following us the whole time. Who knows she might still be following us right now.
“So what are your plans for summer break this year, Tatsuo-kun?” Hayasaka asked me after Aisaka was gone (or was she?)
“Summer break? That’s still a far way off.” I answered.
“Who cares. I want to know.” Hayasaka brushed it aside.
“My plans… My dad always makes me work at our cafe from noon to three on the weekdays so I have that. Other than that I plan to go to the local pickup games and y’know beat the amateurs and teach them how to be better while I’m at it. I might also go to the beach to the pool or something… maybe even take a trip to somewhere tropical once my dad gives me a break. What about you?” I wonder what her summer vacation is like being Kaguya-san’s personal valet and such.
“Same old same old, tend to Kaguya-sama’s needs and get a three-day vacation. It’s pretty boring.” That was not what I was expecting. A mere three-day vacation after working all summer?! I mean I work at our cafe and such which is nowhere near the level of work Hayasaka does yet my dad gives me somewhere from three to four weeks of a vacation.
“Say, Hayasaka, when you do have that 3-day vacation, do you wanna go to the beach with me?!” If I can get her to come to the beach with me then I could see her in a glorious bikini. With those curves of hers, it must be glorious. Hayasaka in a bikini… I unknowingly started to drool.
“Tatsuo-kun, that’s pervy.”
“I-I didn’t mean to gawk at you!” I quickly denied it. Darn it! She saw through my plans!
“Tatsuo-kun…” Hayasaka looked at me with dead fish eyes.
“O-oh look at that we’re here!” We entered Muteki Cafe. Whenever we entered we got seated quickly despite almost every table being filled with people. I scanned through the menu and something caught my eye. Golden ramen is their specialty dish. It was served with pork, green onions, seaweed, egg, and finally their special Miso Soup. It also said that the way the pork is cooked makes it so soft that sometimes it breaks into pieces as soon as you catch it with your chopsticks. I’ll test their ramen out to see how spectacular it truly is.
“Why do you look so serious, Tatsuo-kun?”
“You wouldn’t get it, as a Food Critic I have to see how spectacular their specialty dish truly is.”
“Ok?”
“What are you going to order, Hayasaka?”
“I was thinking about their okonomiyaki.”
“Okonomiyaki huh? I’m getting their Golden Ramen and yakitori.”
“May I take your order?” The waitress asked us.
“Um, an Okonomiyaki, Yakitori, and Golden Ramen for us please,” I said.
“Okey Dokey, will there be anything else?”
“No thank you,” I replied.
“Ok! Please wait while we make your food.” The waitress turned around and left us alone.
“Good thing their waiting time is suuuper low. In most cases, it takes up to thirty minutes to get served. Here it’s only five to ten minutes” I told Hayasaka.
“Actually?!”
“Yeah! You would think that it would be poor quality or undercooked or something but it’s not!” After a few minutes (seven to be exact) the waitress came back with our food… and something extra.
“Here’s your Okonomiyaki, Yakitori, Golden Ramen, and Couple’s cake.” C-couple’s cake!? She must think me and Hayasaka are dating!!! I wish we were… Wait no! We are going to date after she confesses to me! Yeah!
“Um, actually-”
“Thank you for noticing!” Hayasaka interrupted me with a bright smile on her face.
“It’s no problem. You have a very impressive boyfriend.” She turned and left me and Hayasaka. I looked at Hayasaka in disbelief and she said in response, “What? Is it that it's a free cake and you're too honorable to take it without paying or is it that you're too embarrassed to be called my boyfriend?”
“N-neither!”
“Good. Now say ‘Ah’!” She cut from the Couple’s cake with her spoon and held it up for me to take a bit from it.
“Wh-what!?”
“You did the same thing for me earlier so I’m just returning the favor. Don’t tell me you’re too shy.” She said in a mocking tone. Hayasaka’s on the attack! Well, I guess I have to. I reluctantly opened my mouth and Hayasaka fed me the Couple’s cake. She had a grin of triumph on her face while mine was bright red.
“What an adorable couple,” I could hear another customer say which only made me even redder.
“Aw, you're blushing Tatsuo-kun over something so trivial. Is this something so trivial causing you to become so embarrassed?” Darn, you Hayasaka! Though it was pretty nice...
“W-well yes! Any boy would get flushed over such a beautiful girl feeding them a cake intended for couples!” I quickly covered my mouth after I said that but it was already too late. I couldn’t take back my words because either A) Hayasaka would tease me about it some more, B) Hayasaka would think I don’t find her attractive or C) it would seem like I was insulting her. Because of this, I merely looked away from Hayasaka and avoided eye contact.
“So.. you think I’m beautiful Tatsuo-kun?” Hayasaka asked after a couple of seconds of silence had passed.
“Y-yeah, what about it?”
“Nothing,” Hayasaka buried her head into her hands and stayed that way for a couple of minutes before she finally came back up with a completely neutral expression on her face. She must’ve had to reactivate into Kuudere mode. She continued to eat without a word before saying to me, “I think you’re cute, Tatsuo.” N-Nani! I could see a faint smile from Hayasaka. This must be her way of getting back at me.
“Th-thanks, Hayasaka…” I responded before I started to slurp my ramen. I can’t pass judgment on the ramen while I’m in this state. I’ll have to return to pass my judgment on them. Two men dressed fully in black suddenly appeared through the door followed by more of them. I could barely see a girl in the middle of them. She seemed to notice me too and she motioned the men to let her through. That’s when I saw who it was, Fubuki-neesan. What a coincidence.
“Oh, Shirou! What are you doing here?” She asked me in glee. When she saw Hayasaka her face immediately shifted away from joy to disgust. Hayasaka merely looked back blankly as if she didn’t care that Fubuki-neesan was here. That poker face sure is good! I wish I had one like that. Fubuki-neesan sat down at our table as if someone invited her there.
“That’s what I should be asking you, Fubuki-neesan. What are you doing here?” I asked her.
“Oh me? I’m just here… to buy Muteki Cafe…” She immediately looked away with a blush when  I looked at her with an expression that said, ‘Really? You had to flex your money on me?’ Even if I asked her she probably wouldn't give me a single yen.
“That seems very suspicious, Kahogona-san.” Hayasaka pointed out, “You somehow came here at the same time we did. You probably have a very busy schedule being the heir to the Kahogona Group and yet you somehow managed to come at the same time we were here. It’s almost as if you’re stalking Tatsuo.”
“W-well!”
“That is a bit hard to counter Fubuki-neesan,” I added. The sooner Fubuki-neesan leaves, the more time Hayasaka and I spend together.
“Well actually it isn’t. I’ve decided to buy it because despite it only having its grand opening a few days ago, it’s been a major attraction to the people so it coming under the Kahogona Group would be most beneficial. Because of this, I asked Oto-san if I could personally come for the negotiation for the Cafe and he approved as long I took the minimum amount of bodyguards with me,” She motioned around to the fifteen bodyguards that he was with, “There would be no way I could come before school because I would have to wake up early and you Shirou know how much of a mess I am in the morning. So I decided to come today after school to negotiate with the owners of Muteki Cafe.”
“She has a point Hayasaka. Coming today at this time does seem like the most reasonable time for her coming. Besides, there’s no way Fubuki-neesan would stalk me!” Yeah, there’s no way Fubuki-neesan would stalk us… right?
“I suppose that could be true.” Hayasaka unwillingly agreed. I took another slurp of the ramen I ordered. I could now somewhat rate the ramen but I have to be at the best of my rating skills to rate the ramen fairly. I have to come back later myself so I can rate it fairly as I said before.
“So Fubuki-neesan, don’t you need to go negotiate with them now? You can’t leave them hanging ya know.” I asked. When Fubuki-neesan leaves it’ll be a perfect time to run off with Hayasaka but first I have to finish my yakitori.
“And I’ll do just that.” Fubuki-neesan got up and left with the bodyguards that accompanied her. I sighed a breath of relief. I thought she was never going to leave us alone. Now it is time to fish my yakitori.
“C’mon, Tatsuo-kun, let’s leave before Kahogona-san comes back,” Hayasaka said with the same thoughts I had before.
“What?! I haven’t even touched my yakitori yet!”
“You can take it to-go.”
“Ok then, let me pay first. I don’t want to become a criminal via dine and dash.”
“Ok but make it quick.” When I saw the waitress again I quickly paid with my debit card and then Hayasaka practically dragged me away.
“So where are we going next Tatsuo-kun?”
“I was thinking of going to the movies…”
“The movies! What are we waiting for!”
“Wait Shiiiiiirou!” Fubuki-neesan was running after us. Dang, it! I forgot about her superb negotiation skills! I thought she would take longer. Fubuki-neesan caught up to us quickly and asked me, “So where are we heading next to Shirou?”
“We?!” Hayasaka butting in. I gave her a sign that we should just deal with her for now. The movie we’re watching is a scary one and  Fubuki-neesan hates scary movies. Besides, I only have enough money for one ticket! Heh heh heh, I’m impressed with my lack of preparation, now no way Fubuki-neesan can interrupt me and Hayasaka’s time inside the theater.
“We’re going to the movies, Fubuki-neesan but I only have enough money for two people. You’ll have to wait outside.”
“I can pay for my own ticket, you know Shirou.” Fubuki-neesan pulled out her wallet to reveal five thousand five hundred fifty yen. Curse you and your money!
“But Fubuki-neesan, the movie we’re going to watch is a scary one and you hate scary movies.”
“Bish bosh, as long as I’m with you, Shirou I think I'll be fine.” Gah! I guess there’s no helping it, Fubuki-neesan is going to come watch a movie with me and Hayasaka. Though I wonder why she’s being so attached to me.

To be continued…

A/N: These parts were supposed to be one chapter but it’s super long so I decided to split it up into smaller chapters. I hope it’s alright with you guys.

Word count: 2868