It was cold...very...cold. Heizou was about to stuff himself up inside the box full of clothes. It was Valentine's Day and nobody seemed to enter H&M so easily because of how Shinobu wanted the air conditioning to be put at the lowest temperature at the maximum fan gust.
"Brrr, Shinobu whyyyy!" Heizou whined, shuddering from the cold room.
"Because this is the only way that the customers will buy more clothing from us. Now be quiet, act up," she put a finger to her mouth to shush Heizou. A customer walked over with three bagfuls of clothes from H&M. Most of them were sweaters, slippers, socks, beanies, scarves and puffy jackets."Hello Sir," Heizou greeted the customer in a sweet and forced tone with a sweat bead dripping down his forehead. It froze into an icicle.
"Yes, hello there!" The man lifted the three bags onto the counter and Heizou couldn't be seen because of how full it was. He was really holding the urge to ask the man if that was all for today. Obviously it was... he hopes. "It's very chilly today isn't it?" The man shuddered in his coat.
"Yes, sir, its extremely cold! So cold it feels like an air conditioning." Heizou was scanning the items and Shinobu elbowed him from the side. "Ow!" He let out a loud yelp."Two thirds of these are all for my wife for Valentine's Day. I wish her the best since we're LDR," the man smiled, thinking of his loved one. The clothes had a mix of women's and men's.
"Wow, such wonderful choices," Heizou saw the lingerie and grimaced.
"I know, can't wait to ship them to Fontaine today."
The man left the store, immediately putting on the clothes he bought himself with the price tags on before leaving the store and put the three paper bags aside. Lord... Heizou huffed and cold breath left his mouth. But his attention was soon brought to two boys. They were both drinking boba tea with ice in the store and holding hands. They seemed to be dating. Heizou wondered how they were surviving through the A/C. One boy had short dark purple hair. His clothes were from outside H&M. Heizou working at H&M for as long as he could remember felt astonished by his style.
The other boy had ashe blonde hair that was tied up. A strand was dyed in red. Heizou wanted to get their attention, immediately taking a jacket from the storage boxes next to him. The jacket was black with a cool print and red Japanese characters at the back and an outline of the dragon making an "S" shape around the characters. The two boys noticed him and Heizou gave a hand wave with a charming smile."What are you doing?!" Shinobu yelled in a whisper at Heizou.
"Shhh, they're coming," Heizou didn't stop smiling at those boys.
Heizou stared at the two of them up close. They both looked like the best duo you could ever meet. It made Heizou a bit nervous because of how attractive they both looked.
"Hello," the ashe blonde guy greeted with a hand wave."H-hey," Heizou pathetically stuttered.
"Do you sell tech-wear or Harajuku street-clothing around here?" You could hear the smile in his voice. Heizou felt warm and the A/C gave no effect. This ashe blonde boy didn't need to show off or even talk one bit about his hobbies to be charming. He just naturally was. Heizou stared admiringly and responded, "yes sweetheart, it's right at the shoe area with a shelf of platform boots." Heizou accidentally flirted. He stared blankly with an anxious face at the ashe blonde, but the dark purple hair didn't give him a good look and slurped his boba tea even more aggressively.
"Thanks dear, that's all I need," the ashe blonde scooted away the purple guy to the section.As Heizou exhaled and looked at Shinobu, she was giving him a face of disgust. "What!?" Heizou yelled in a whisper.
"Sir, I'm about to fire you if you bias your customers with those nicknames!" Shinobu pointed a finger at Heizou to show her seriousness.
"Hey, what biases, I am nice to all customers?" Heizou backed away as Shinobu looked like she was about to throw a punch.
"Sweetheart? Sweet-HEART!? What is your goal here?" Shinobu used hand gestures to represent how messy Heizou was doing.
"I'm trying to get a raise Shinobu. You better get that heat on your forehead checked cause I don't think the A/C is working for someone like you anymore.
"Oh you little-!"
"Ahem," The dark purple hair cuts off the argument.
"Oh hey, is that all for today?" Heizou switched faces and put his friendly mask on, but the boy didn't answer back.
"Yes, that'll be all, thanks," the ashe blonde had to answer for him.
"Wow I love these!" Heizou picked up an outfit from the boys' shopping basket and stared in awe at their pick. "This is such a cool choice, you two really have an interesting style!"
"Wow, thanks, it's kinda like the norm for us to wear like this in public in my country," the ashe blonde smiled, getting out his credit card. The dark purple hair came from behind and hugged the ashe blond, his head dug into his neck. He looked like he was having a fatigue. The ashe blonde jumped, but tried to show no reaction. Heizou stared in surprise at how they showed such affection in public, but he still continued to do his job.
"That'll be $17.00," Heizou smiled and got the chance to stare at the Ashe blonde's red eyes. He seemed to get a little bit lost in them for a while, but his senses came back as the Ashe blonde picked up the clothes and left with a "thank you."
"Oh yeah, thanks, come again!"
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HeiKazuScara || The H&M Employee
FanfictionHeizou works as an employee in H&M. It wasn't so bad, he just wished there were more company. Shinobu, the manager, would talk to him for a bit and then leave and go back to work once a fortnight. That was the usual. That was until on one special da...