LIKE VERY MUCH! [INCOMPLETE]

6.Where they stand

Some of the Cafeteria's chatter had dyed down and paid heed to Shinonono and Alcott's outburst.

Kanzashi struggled to hold eye contact with any of her interrogators, becoming increasingly nervous. She was used to the odd gossipy comments behind her back but so being boldly confronted was daunting. The added attention of the girls near their booth made her feel ambushed, as though the whole cafeteria was against her. Kanzashi dismissed anxiety as best she could mustering a response.

"Me and Ichika aren't-" 'Wait- what is our relationship? We're more than friends right?!' Her own questions now arising.

"You're calling him by his first name! Are you that close already?!" Rin growled.

"I mean I w- wanna be closer with him... We haven't.... discussed..." She tried to express, growing more quiet with every word; eventually becoming inaudible. Houki picking up the first few words withheld her fearsome glare.

"Right, of course you haven't done anything... unacceptable" Houki said with a smug relief about her. The others did the same, retracting their hostility and giving Kanzashi room to breathe. However, Kanzashi paused for a moment...

... ... ...

"Of course?" The shy girl reiterated. Did they think she didn't have it in her to make a move on Ichika? Kanzashi was irked by the assumption that she hadn't the guts to take the initiative and take their Ichika.

'Even if I'm not as Daring as them- I'll be damned if these- these- harlots think they can have him now!' Kanzashi officially felt challenged, the same way she'd feel clawing to go head to head with the student council president. She stood up, excusing herself with a calm yet calculating expression, catching the representative's attention.

'But I've already made the first move...' Kanzashi thought, devising a few words to leave them in agony; so long as it meant showing them where they stood in Ichika's eyes... Below her!

Kanzashi held down her blush, delicately adjusting her glasses, contemplating her half-bluff to demolish the girl's false hope. As she began to leave, Kanzashi halted next to Houki; despite being shorter than the kendo champion she was rather determined to assert herself over Shinonono especially.

Kanzashi dawned a confident smirk in the corner of her mouth to complete her act; turning so she was still audible to the others and steeling herself with a swift breath...

"He accepted ALL of me~" She stated in a dare she say; suggestive tone!

A stupefied silence washed over the representatives. The glass in Charlotte's hand had spilt from her grip as her mind wandered off, much like Rin and Cecilia trying to process what they'd heard with a hollow stare. Laura on the other hand appeared to be fighting every instinct in her body not to unleash her full arsenal upon the cafeteria whispering homicidal nothings in her mother tongue. Now Houki had a vice grip on the table she stood in front of cracking its holographic lamination as her head creaked towards Kanzashi with a smile oozing with animosity.

"What is that supposed to mean Ms Sarashiki?" Houki all but demanded she answer, through her fake smile.

"Please Call me Kanzashi." She replied. "I- I mean we should get along since Ichika's is so... inclusive of me lately. W- we'll be seeing each other more often now." Kanzashi added, as if to add salt to the wound that was her insinuation, leaving the girls without a target for their distress to attack as Kanzashi took her leave.

*Meanwhile at the I.S Dojo*

*Creak* The floorboards groaned through the empty Dojo. Ichika had been leaning up against his bokken for the past half an hour. *Creak* "Am I actually gonna swing this..?" *Creak* "Or maybe I'll just keep standing here..."

Ichika would usually be moving non stop in here with Houki whining about how unfocused he was during training. But focused was the last thing the love struck boy was. *Creak*

'Where do we go from here?' Ichika wondered, a little scared but giddy. "Man what would the girls say?" *Creak* "*Huff* What would chifu-." *Creak* *Crea-*. Ichika paused, holding still in distraction.

'Weird...' He thought suspiciously. He thought he heard something else out of place for a moment, but now, it's like the silence is almost... trying too hard. Ichika leaned forward ever so slowly... ... ...*Creeeeak* *-eak*.

"What is that-" *Nibble* Before a semi-dazed Ichika could wake up a warm wet sensation attacked his ear sending a jolt down his now straight up spine! He swiftly stumbled forward from the sensational.

"AGH!" He called out, unsettled, looking round to find the source of his disruption. "Tatenashi again!?" Ichika groaned as he found the student council president behind him. "Wait- You're out of the med bay!" He stated in relief.

"You better believe it Ichika! Aside from stating the obvious, you're getting more perceptive. I can tell.'' Tatenashi smirked. "That being said... being bed ridden for so long made me all stiff, maybe you could help me limber up" She said in a suspiciously playful way stretching her arms up blatantly exposing her assets...

"That's... gonna be a problem..." Ichika pointed out, now using 110% of his brain power to change the subject ASAP. Tatenashi looked at him in pouty confusion.

"Uh uh, I'm gonna need more reason than that to stop receiving those criminally blissful massages sweetheart."

... ... ...

"The thing is..."

A/N

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