Swans (itafushi)

Natural high

Swans chapter 5
"Wait, guess what. You know what I found out? Megumi is actually kinda rich. I think it was some senior who said they saw him in some big ass mansion."

All the boys occupying the table lean in and let their mouths hang open slightly. The seats creak beneath and the only one who doesn't move is yuuji, in his own world but still keeping his ears open.

One boy puts his elbows onto the crumby surface and speaks out, "genuinely, if I was rich and I looked that bad, I would just get a ton of plastic surgery. Why would I even live like that." Waving his hands in the air.

Another boy, blond, laughs to the group. "You think that's why he's so weird? He's, like, been locked away by his rich parents?"

Yuuji's curiosity grows and he can't help but ask, "who's this megumi girl?"

"How do you not know who Megumi is?" The brunette shrieks.

"Also, megumi isn't even a girl. And, I think he's in Mr., uhh what's his name?" He looks to his side.

"Mr. Doe's." The student next to the guy that was just talking filled in.

"Oh yeah. He's in Mr. Doe's homeroom. And he looks like sickly, and he's super super skinny., his hair is dry and mangled looking, I've never seen it look good ever."

Yuuji doesn't really like this group of people very much, they are rude and don't have any manners, but he's learned to deal with them. Something is better than nothing he guesses? But he is also still completely confused. He's thinks of all the people in the school he remembers but none of them fit the description very well.

"He's in our grade and his eyes look really small because of his glasses." 

"He literally looks like I could snap him. He would probably have a seizure if someone tried to fight him. Like you need to see him to understand."

He racked his brain again and could only think of one person. The boy from the hall.

"Is he like 5'3 and has the braces with the blue bands." Yuuji questions.

He also thanks his great eye sight for the fact that he saw his braces in the first place.

"Yes! That's him! Do you see what I mean though. He genuinely looks like he would seize out of someone punched him."

As yuuji was about to voice his exact opposite opinion and tell the table about what he saw in the hall, he thought to himself, 'they don't have to know, I'm guessing if nobody knows he's
fighting he doesn't want people to know. It could be a little secret between me and him.'

"Haha, yeah, totally." Rubbing the back of his nape.

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The next several weeks pass and yuuji finds himself encountering this Fushiguro megumi guy a lot more than should be possible.

Every week, at minimum once, he sees Fushiguro in a fight with another kid who happens to be known for being a bully. After their fight is over, he bends down and whispered something softly to them, they promptly run away as he backs up.

And everytime he finds him, fushiguro never sees him watching. Always seeming to go the opposite direction of his hiding place, or always looking straight ahead.

He wonders how he always watches the beginning and the end of each match. It can't be a coincidence right? Maybe he's thinking too much into it? Those occult books he reads only the first ten pages of seem to be getting to him, he laughs it off in his own mind.  

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As this thoughts are consumed by him, he also realizes sees Fushiguro a lot out of his usual fights too.