Desire - H. Umemiya

Chapter 29. A Little Situation

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"What are you even talking about?" She asked when Umemiya along with Tsubaki approached their group.

Umemiya had his eyes wide and lips into a playful smile. He rested his palm at the top of her head and slightly bent to meet her gaze.

"Hmmm? It's fine, right?" Yuki immediately avoided his gaze when he winked at her, feeling a little bit flabbergasted by the unexpected action.

He stood up straight and let go of his hold.

"But where's your teacher?" He inquired and faced Nirei when he saw no instructor reacting to him when he asked to sit in. 

He roamed his eyes across the room and confirmed that the instructor really wasn't available at the moment. Now that he thinks about it, the first years were also all caught up busy in their own groups having conversations of different sorts when he arrived with Tsubaki. 

"He's out. We don't know where he's gone to, Senpai." Nirei responded while looking at his senior with eyes filled with unnecessary admiration. Though, Sugishita pushed him out of Umemiya's vision and stood at Nirei's earlier position as he bowed at Umemiya a few seconds after.

The Umemiya-obsessed fanatic as he was didn't even care to look at Nirei who was seriously surprise about being pushed away. Sakura clicked on his tongue and pulled him from his seating position on the floor, even Suo helped him up.

"That's not very nice, Sugishita-kun." Umemiya told him so he had no choice but to bow down in apology to Nirei who just raised his hands up in a forgiving manner as if it wasn't a big deal at all.

Yuki up until now seems to be really confused with his sudden sitting in arrangement but then decided not to dwell on it too much when she saw Anzai.  She approached him leaving Umemiya with Sakura and the group. Umemiya noticed it, but then just let her be.

He was here to observe potential opponents anyway. He roamed his gaze at the group of guys mentioned to him by Tsubaki. The latter by now was so caught up with Sakura and Nirei whom were both flustered by their distance. It felt like they were being teased.

Sugishita who was so eager in front of Umemiya stopped when he noticed him roaming his eyes on him. In response, he was trembling with glee. This kind of attention was new to him, so he felt uncontainable excitement welling inside of him, heavily unaware to what was going on inside of Umemiya's head like how is he planning to eliminate these hindrances, for example. Still, on the outside he had this bright smile which was then directed next to Sakura which gave the latter the creeps.

Sakura unable to take it any longer threw what he was able to grabbed towards him which Umemiya had unfortunately caught. He stared at it. It was surprisingly a book. 

Sakura, on the other hand, swallowed a lump on his throat when he saw what he had thrown and gaze at Suo who had a twitching smile on his lips.

Umemiya threw the book back which was surprisingly caught by Suo while Sakura flinched and dodged the book without even being able to look at it.

'As I have thought... these two are quite different... with their reflexes.' He thought, not really considering the two as possible opponents when they're of greater potential to be, just he could feel it somehow.

He gazed at the other three whom were just busy in their own. 

With Sugishita, visibly admiring him, he concluded that it was impossible for Yuki to catch his attention at all.

Nirei, was also busy taking notes on Tsubaki whom he finds charming as a Senior. It felt like his ears where clapping from the information the latter was feeding him. He'd rather keep his time collecting data than to spend his time giving affection to Yuki.