sweets ✧ r.kaji

chapter twelve : smurfs

in the previous chapter, you just talked about how you loved your friends. well, those same friends were currently spreading gossip about you.

"SHUT UP, KUSUMI!" you screamed, attempting to hit his brown head of umbrella-shaped hair with your f/c schoolbag.

however, you failed to do so because kaji, who was behind you, held your bag in place, preventing you from slamming it down on kusumi.

"you!!" you yelled, turning to face kaji. "why aren't you stopping themmm? they're gonna start shipping us again, i swear to god!"

"ooh, l/n has favorites??" kenichi said, peeking from behind kusumi with a sneaky cat smirk on his face.

"and regularly says 'i love you' to kaji??" akemi added, peeking from kusumi's other side with the same expression.

"SHUT UP, I SAY THAT TO EVERYONE!" you shrieked, your face going red as you chased the two brats around the classroom with a knife.

"l/n!! where did you even get that knife?!" enomoto yelled. "don't kill our classmates!!!" he grabbed your scruff when you ran past, holding you up like a cat.

"i had home economics today!" you said, crossing your arms as you stayed suspended in his hold.

"i just saw my life flash before my eyes," akemi said, shivering. you almost caught up to him and was about to stab his head when enomoto caught you.

kenichi nodded next to him, clinging onto fuyuto's head he scrambled up on to avoid you. "scary!!"

"it's harmless." kaji walked past you and sat on his usual spot next to the window. "and don't chase people with the knife. you're supposed to protect the town, not reduce the amount of citizens in here."

"hmph." enomoto let go of you and you crawled dejectedly to sit in the chair next to kaji's. you sighed deeply, then flopped sideways, your head laying on his lap. he was on his phone, but his fingers played with your hair.

"SBSJHAKANMSBJKAJKS" akemi whisper-screamed when he saw you and kaji in such close proximity to each other.

"oh shit—see?!" you said loudly, standing up as fast as lightning and stepping away from the sandy-haired boy. (he almost pulled your hair bc his fingers were tangled in it.) "it's starting already!!"

the others laughed at how fast you performed social distancing.

"this makes me remember the first time kusumi and i tried to set you up with kaji," enomoto said.

kusumi beside him nodded, smiling.

"ooh, really?" akemi and kenichi put chairs surrounding enomoto and leaned in, inviting him to share.

"yeah. it was a time when l/n firrst became friends with us...

"umemiya had introduced a girl into class 1-1 one day, and immediately i knew that she would be trouble. her and kaji seemed to know each other, 'cause they werre like, 'oh! you!' and stuff. turns out, they went to the same middle school and had met each other multiple times alrready.

"well, fast forwarrd to when l/n had befriended kusumi. him being our mutual friend, we got close to each otherr as well. in fact, kaji was probably the one she was the least closest to at the time. kusumi and i talked and decided that they would be a great pairr. we still do see them that way, but have already given up. l/n and kaji only see each other as close friends, and nothing more.

"but we were adventurous and stupid at the time, so we led them to an abandoned building, hoping that we could make something happen..."

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