The little siren

Chapter 13

"weren't you playing cards? Why don't you come back?"

"They have the concentration of a toddler, at this point they've gotten bored and started doing origami instead, plus I'm not their designated babysitter."

"But it suits you." The green-haired girl raised the corners of her mouth and made a small smile, as if she found it funny.

"R-really? oh.. you're messing with me?"

Sakura cocked her head with an expressionless face. "hm, am i?"

"W-well, anyway! I wanted to ask something."

"Is this about last time? I told you i'm really not interested in these kinds of things, didn't I?"

"Yes, I got it, but it's not about that... It's about these guys over there" he pointed at the table where Tsukasa and Nene were folding cards as if they were papers.

"Yes? why?"

"Last time I knew something about that girl... well wasn't she... sleeping with the fishes?"

"...what?"

"... Didn't you hear about the incident from a few months ago?"

"No, i'm not that interested in rumors unless it's bout work, please explain what you mean"

"Well, the short asnware is: that girl over there, is dead-dead. Seems like she was involved in some kind of accident. It was some days before winter break, so the new didn't spread that far. Just look at her ccompanions, where have you seen a fish swimming on air?" he pointed at the fishes around the cream-haired girl. "apart from that, doesn't she act quite different from when we met her? i mean, I would anticipate some wariness or maybe 'i remenber you' from her,  y'know "

"so you are aware that what you did back then was wrong right? how did you ended up kidnapping her? i would be wary after something like that too."

"That's the matter, why isn't she in the slightest concerned?"

At that last sentence, sakura trembled slightly, Natsuhiko seeing this turned around and found Tsukasa peeking at them quietly without stoping his hands from folding the cards, yet not moving his eyes from them.

His soul left his body for a second, how the hell is he folding that without looking??, no, more importantly, did he hear them?

"let's stop talking about this. why don't you go and bring some snacks?, we ran out of them a while ago. "

"so suddenly?"

"I happen to crave something sweet right now, would you be so kind as to bring some candy?"

Natsuhiko found the change of subject strange but decided to go along with it the way he knew best.

"Anything for you my lady" he asnwared as he reached his hand to hold sakura's hand and was about to kiss it in a novel-like way, just before his lips would touch the white hand, sakura removed it and pinched his nose instead.

"Ow!" he let out a groan.

Sakura frowned "You should ask before doing things like this, that's what a gentleman would do." and kicked him out of the room.

Natsuhiko stood outside the broadcasting room for a moment, pondering.

'Did i get it wrong? no, but clearly she wanted me to leave there... does she want candy that bad?'

Nevertheless, he belived it was a sudden whim from the girl and thus, left to buy some snacks, shaking off that uncomfortable feeling of incompatibility.