Desire - H. Umemiya

Chapter 3. Furin High's Top Dog

Umemiya Hajime seems to always know what is going on around despite not being present in the scene, a frightening leader for real, but what if there's something out there, that he, himself was not aware of? A mysterious individual that he had no knowledge of, not even a single bit. Of course, it would pique his interest and probably even something deeper...

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It was a new day... Shinomiya Yuki stared at herself in the mirror, her long hair now gone, instead it was turned into a boyish undercut with long bangs in the front. She opted to leave her bangs be, with the intention to cover her pink-colored eyes and to not surprise everyone she was hanging around with. It would be quite a shock if she's going to change her appearance too much - she was wearing a brown-colored wig for the last two weeks, therefore, she decided to leave it as it is.

After making sure that her look would not arise unwanted attention from the students of Furin High, she took her bag from the top of her desk and exited her home. On the way to school, she was surprise to see the half-half haired kid getting out of a gate. She stared at the apartment he had gone out of.

'Of all people, he just got to be my neighbor.' She thought. Yuki squinted her eyes a little, hoping that she was just seeing wrong but it only confirmed her vision. It was Sakura Haruka.

She was about to call out his name when a certain white-haired individual sneak on his back and took the boy on surprise.

"Umemiya-senpai!" The former let out a yelp in surprise and hurriedly step away from the stranger's grasp.

"Yo! Haruka!!! Let's go together!" The older happily invited him but Sakura only sped off him leaving his Senpai right there.

She saw the stranger brush his hair back and chuckled.

'Right. A Tsun.' Yuki stifled a laugh from her classmate's reaction, yet immediately halted and hid when she saw the stranger, Sakura called Umemiya, turn around, as if he had heard her laughter from the distance which was quite impossible since she was about twenty meters behind them and it wasn't even loud.

When she sneaked a glance to the stranger, she saw him mutter something and shrugged before running after her classmate, yelling his name out loud. She heaved out a sigh of relief and decided to stay there for a few more minutes.

When the coast is clear she went out of her hiding space and continued her stroll towards her way to school. She walked in a slow and relax pace, but when she caught sight of the time in her wrist watch she immediately sped off too, because she was obviously running late.

Upon arriving to her room, Yuki took a seat and was abruptly welcomed with Nirei's information speech. She had no qualms about it though, since she was getting to know every popular student in Furin making it all the way easier for her to dodge them, though, she thought that she was already failing at it, hard. After all, she's now acquainted with the grade representatives of First year Class One.

"And there is Furin's Leader, Umemiya Hajime-san." Nirei continued.

Her curiosity got the best of her. She knew she had heard that surname just a while ago.

"Umemiya?" she asked but then immediately stood up and dragged Nirei to the side when she sensed something was off.

Suddenly, a chair was sent flying to her seat, she knew it was a deliberate move but she was confused on what was the cause.

"It is san to you. Umemiya-san." The guy who had thrown a chair yelled that right into her face. She didn't know how fast he could have been that he was now right in front of her face.

'What? Is he a fanatic?' Yuki thought.

"Heh... don't want to." she played along but was surprised when the guy swung his fist to her face which she had fortunately blocked with her palm. She let go of Nirei's wrist and faced the guy who had dared to swung his fist unto her.

'That could have probably thrown me off if I didn't react fast.' She thought.

Despite her small figure, there is one thing Shinomiya Yuki was blessed with, it was her inhumane strength and incomparable reflexes. She was not taught of Martial Arts or any fighting technique though, after all, she was not granted to, but she had no need for it since every time she was faced with danger, she had overcome it naturally with sheer strength and speed, as if she was a genius in that field.

Therefore, as she closed her open palm that had the long-haired guy's hand, he couldn't help but yelped in pain when her grip tightened.

She immediately let go though, when she felt the sudden change of air in the room.

Right, she was still an outsider, there's no use gaining hostility at the den of the tigers.

"Oops... Al-alright, geez. It's Umemiya-san, whoever he is. I'm sorry long-haired dude." The long haired only scoffed and turned around but is undeniably still holding unto his reddened hand. It was probably swollen, somehow, she felt genuinely sorry about it.

This effectively ceased the heavy atmosphere in the room. The silent students immediately returned to their previous conversations as if nothing had happened.

Shinomiya Yuki set upright her seat and decided to sat down. Nirei whom was talking to her a while ago dragged a chair and also sat in front of her.

She looked at him with a gaze full of curiosity, it was as if she was asking him why he still chosen to speak to her despite what happened a while ago, but the latter gave her a warm smile, much to her surprise.

"Why?" She can't help but whisper which Nirei had seem to caught on to.

"Thanks, Shinomiya-san you saved me right there." That's what all he said before continuing what he was once telling her.

"Umemiya-san is the leader of Bofurin." He started as she showed him his note on Umemiya Hajime.

"Bofurin?" For once she was really interested on a topic.

"Bofurin is-" before Nirei could finish his talk the sudden ringing of a sound system stunned everyone in the room, making a lot of the students to jolt from their seats.

"Uhm... Mic test... Mic test... Hello, everyo-"

Note:

I would probably be switching on the pronouns used for Yuki. So, I hoped that it would not confuse everyone.