Forgiveness (Kazuscara)

Chapter I

"- I-I've had feelings for you for a long time ! Would you please accept to g-go out with me ?"

The dark-haired boy looked down at the other blushing boy with a smirk on his face.

"- Oh yeah ? I'm not that surprised to hear that,  after all you weren't very subtle with me... Um, but dating me is a privilege, you know ? So there's a price that comes with it.

- I-I'm ready to do anything you want from me !

- Wow, so you're really into me, huh... Then, hear these few little conditions..."

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"- ...ha ! ...Kazuha ! Are you even listening to me ?

- ...Ah, sorry Heizou. What were you saying ?

- You're always daydreaming lately ! I was talking about that art history teacher..."

Kazuha took a bite of his food as he listened to his friend complaining. 

"That steak is the driest I've ever eaten... Anyways, why was I thinking about that exact moment ? That's behind me... "

Kazuha ate his food even if it was really disgusting, and chatted with his friend Yoimiya about the latest fireworks she had crafted, in an attempt to forget these painful memories.

"- Hey, you could at least pretend you're listening to me !" intervened Heizou, his other best friend. "Oh, right, I actually have some tea to spill !

- Oooh, I'm interested now !" exclaimed Yoimiya.

Kazuha didn't really care, but he pretended to because his two best friends absolutely loved gossiping.

"- So apparently, there's this new student in our art major, and I haven't seen him yet, but I heard that he's veeeery hot ! From what I heard, he was in high school in this city, but moved out and he just came back a week ago !

- Shinobu is going to get mad if she hears you talking like that about someone else." said Kazuha.

"- Oh, my dear Zuzu, if my Cookie was this jealous, she would have broken up with me a very long time ago ! Also, I heard that guy is already dating someone, but it's just rumors...

- Yeah, after all, Hei is literally flirting with everything that moves, I guess Shinobu got used to it...

- You're not wrong Yoi, but the way you phrase it makes me look like a degenerate !

- Isn't that what you are ?

- Hey !"

Kazuha chuckled quietly as both his friends began to fight over nothing. Then, he got his notebook and began reading through it, with no real objective aside from killing time. 

As he was trying to focus on a particularly important point of the lesson, he suddenly heard Heizou let out a big gasp.

"- Look Yoimiya ! That's him for sure !" he whisper-shouted.

"- Shut up, you idiot ! He definitely heard you !"

Kazuha tried to ignore that conversation to focus on what he was reading, but that was until...

"- Oh~ ? Is that really you, Kazu~ ?"

The young man's eyes widened suddenly as he heard this oh so familiar voice. He slowly raised up his head, even if he would have given anything to run out of this place immediately, rather than confronting this person.

"- Scaramouche." he said, so coldly his friends looked at him, surprised. "I don't know what made you think you could call me that. Please leave."

The dark-haired man in front of him faked a sad sigh, before fixing his navy blue eyes into the other's red ones. Kazuha stared at him, his pupils expressing nothing but pure hatred.