Hashira's happiness

Water Hashira

I saw Tomioka-san by himself (as usual) and decided to go annoy him (as usual). "Ara Tomioka-san, I see you have yet to find yourself some friends." I say as I dance around him. "I have friends." He says bluntly. I giggle and say, "seems like you're still in denial."

Suddenly, he grabs my arm which catches me off guard. He says sadly, "Kocho, are you not my friend?" I turn red at his sudden hand placement. I move back and calm myself down. "Tomioka-san, of course I am....not." I chuckle at my humour. He looks at me sadly and walks off. 

What's his problem? 

I see Aoi looking at me oddly. "Something wrong?" I ask her as she walks towards me. She says, "you really don't understand other peoples feelings since you don't understand your own." I guess she's somewhat right. "What are you doing here?" I ask her as she isn't supposed to be in this section. "Just reminding you that I won't be coming home with you." I nod as I already knew that.

"Also..." She begins to say but stops. I look at her confused. "What's wrong?" I ask. "Check on Tomioka-san. I think he was upset and your comment made it worse." The smile on my face creased up. "I hate when you're right." I say and walk off.

I see Tomioka-san in the distance. "Tomioka-san!" I call. He turns around and stares at me with his cold eyes. I say, "I'm sorry. I lied before, you are my friend." His eyes widen. "Why would you lie?" He asks and I reply, "I want you to make other friends, not just me. That's why I always tease you."

"I like it when you tease me." He says blankly which makes me blush. "I'll tease you more then."

At lunch I sat with Mitsuri and Tamayo. Mitsuri says, "Shinobu-chan! Are you going to confess to Tomioka?" Tamayo choked on her water. "You like Tomioka? As in Giyuu Tomioka?" She begins to say as she shakes me. 

I turn bright red, "no I don't! Mitsuri stop spouting nonsense!" I shout.

"But." Mitsuri says. "No buts!" 

Tamayo asks, "wait fill me in!" I shout at her, "there's nothing to fill in!"  The rest of the day Tamayo kept pressuring me about it. "Fine! I'll tell you." A wide smile appears on Tamayo's face. "Finally!" She exclaims.

"I might. Just a little. Like a very very small amount. Have a tiny crush. Not big just tiny. On Tomioka-san." I admit. My face turned a bright red and I could feel it burning. Tamayo hugged me. I have no idea why. "The cold Shinobu Kocho likes a boy!" I whisper, "shush! Top secret. None of my sisters know!" Tamayo giggles.

It was the end of the day and I see Tomioka-san waiting near the staff room. "Tomioka-san! What are you doing alone?" He looks at me annoyed as he already sees where this conversation is going. "Ara...I'm sorry. I forgot that you are always alone." I giggle at my comment and also see Tomioka crack a smile. I can't help but smile too.

"I'm waiting for my sister to finish," he says to me. "Oh I forgot that Tsutako-sensei is your sister. She's so pretty and kind unlike your gloomy self..." I say. Tomioka's smile creases up. "You're a bully..." He says to me. I chuckle and say, "I know!" I say bye to him as Kanao will get angry if I take too long.

"Kanao!" I call as I walk towards her. She mumbles, "you took a while." I apologise and we head home. When we go home, me and Kanao play some games.

The next day at school, I hold a council meeting. Iguro sighs as he sits down on the sofa, "what is it ms president?" I look at him oddly, "ms president?" Mitsuri nods and says, "you are the student council president!" Tomioka-san teasingly says, "ms president is getting flustered." I turn red at their comments.

I sigh as it can't be helped and I tell them what the master told me. We discuss things and call it a day. 

Tomioka stayed behind as if he wanted to talk to me. "Is something wrong?" I ask him. He shakes his head and says, "I just wanted to ask...If you want to get some drinks with me after school..."  My eyes widen as he asks me. Tomioka starting a conversation was rare, but him asking me out was even more rare. 100 years ago, this would never have happened. "Like a date?" I ask teasingly whilst putting some books away. He stops for a moment and mumbles, "yeah..."

He was sitting on the sofa and not looking at me. You could tell he was embarrassed. I walked over to him and tilted my head so that I could see his face.  "Sure...It's a date." I say. I could feel my face burn up as I left the school council room.