Coconut Shampoo~ A Reigisa Fanfic

Five: Kou-chan's POV- Too Short

Matsuoka Kou's POV:

Everybody at the University of Iwatobi seem to be staring right at me. Word must be spreading of what occurred on Kyoto Street yesterday. That would explain why Onii-chan has sent Sousuke-kun to follow me like a friendly shadow. To others, he would be a tall and daunting looking uy that could scare you to death. I'm glad he's following me, it's keeping a lot of nosy idiots away from me, as well as some of those creeps. Who would have thought that my friends would be so desperate to know if any of those kids got jumped? Who thought that those fools from last night would want to approach me?

On the plus side, Sousuke-kun hasn't been given any grief, so I guess I can assume that the same can be said for Onii-chan.

My classes have been plagued by bratty intelligent girls begging to know whether anything happened to Chiz' and Nagi-chan. And even some creeps that wanted to know if any of the upperclassmen had their way with me! Like Sousuke-kun and Onii-chan would have let them touch me! ...Right? Even though they didn't jump in, in a violent manner, to help Chiz, they would have still protected me...What am I thinking! I'm sure they would!

Lunch time was even worse, Mikoshiba and his cronies tried to approach me, despite the fact that I was in the company of Sousuke-kun. That older brother has a cool look, and incredible muscles, particularly in his arms, but he's clearly a douchebag, only a man with a death wish would try to convince a girl to go across the borders of Kyoto street and coax my friends onto our territory! I'm not a fool, I would be jumped before I could get to the quaint coffee shop that Chiz' works in and Nagi-chan frequents.

Sousuke-kun is walking me to the library so I can return some books that will be due back tomorrow, he is hesitant to leave me alone encase I could be hurt by one of the upperclassmen, not that I've seen any of them since lunch.

"Um...Sousuke-kun, are you okay? You're practically attatched to my hip today." I muse.

"Mhm...Rin asked me to keep an eye on you."

"But why couldn't Onii-chan keep an eye on me, Sousuke-kun?"

"Because he had something important to do today." My brother's best friend shrugs as I return my heavy biology books into the stack of returns.

"Oh? Well...will you help me, Sousuke-kun, I need to get some biology books and..."

"You're too short, huh, Gou."

My face heats up in embarrassment. I'm not that short! I'm taller than Nagi-chan!

"I'll take that as a yes, Gou, just tell me which books to pick from the shelves. " Yamazaki Sousuke smiles fondly, aqua blue eyes twinkling like gems.

"Fine." I huff, smile crossing my lips as I suppress my blush.

"The biology section is over here , right, Gou? " I am asked.

"Yep." With a nod, I lead Sousuke over to the part of the library that I harvest from. These books are truly a gold mine! I'm acing my major thanks to my use and ability to devour the information from the library.

"Whoa, Gou, haven't you read like half of these books already. "

"Pre-reading the information in the summer was a great idea, thanks for that tip, Sousuke-kun. It's helped me get really far ahead in my class. Hopefully I'll have read all of the books for first year majors before we have our after summer midterm exams. " I beam.

"I'm sure you will, Gou. Which books did you want?" Sousuke asks.

"Um...those two..." I point to two of the heavy leathery looking books on the top shelf. These are anthologies of biological theories from the industrial period, it was removed from the syllabus a year or two ago, but the University of Iwatobi isn't one to give up their resources due to a discontinuation of a topic.

"Okay, I'll grab these, you take a step back, Gou." Of course, Onii-chan would kill Sousuke if he bumped into me and hurt me.

Taking a step out of the section, I bump into a figure. He topples onto the floor clumsily.

"Falling isn't beautiful. " The teen with the baritone voice mutters, kneeling down on the floor and pushing up his red glasses.

"Are you okay?" I ask, handing him the books that he hurled on the floor.

Meeting my gaze, the blue haired teen gasps and makes a weird spluttering sound. "You're that girl from yesterday! "

I grimace. How does this guy know me? I've seen him around the science department, but more so the chemistry and physics classrooms than my department. Doesn't he have a girly name, like Onii-chan? What was it again? Ran? Ren? Rei! I swear his name is Rei!

"Yeah...Pretty sure we're talking about what happened just off Kyoto Street... " I rub the back of my neck awkwardly.

"Yes, my colleague, Hanamura-san and her friend, left our workplace in search of you! I saw them afterwards, but are you okay, Matsuoka-san?"

Hanamura-san? He works with a Hanamura-san? Who works near to the border on Kyoto Street. He works with Chizuka Hanamura! He works with Chiz!

"I'm fine...Um..."

"Ahh, sorry, I'm Ryugazaki Rei. " he bows his head. Why is he expressing inferiority?

"Matsuoka G- Kou." I smile, holding my hand out for him to shake. He does so and we rise to our feet.

"How was Chiz- uka Hanamura?" I ask.

"She and her friend were fine, scared, but fine." I am assured.

"Oi! Gou! You need to check the books out! " Sousuke shouts from the front desk.

"Right!" I nod, rushing to my brother's best friend.

"C'mon, let's go. Rin's beat us back to your place, Gou. " Sousuke smiles, handing me the two heavy books, I wave to Ryugazaki-kun and the librarian as I leave, heading homeward with Sousuke-kun.

We idly chat about anything bit yesterday, trying to avoid any topic that could evoke ideas about seeing Chiz. If we're going to visit that café, we'll have to be much more sneaky than before.

I open the door to my house, not even bothering to invite Sousuke in, and walking straight into the living room to relax, when I meet the blazing garnet eyes of my older brother, Matsuoka Rin; one of which is framed by a gross looking black eye.

"Onii-chan... Did Mikoshiba do this to you...?"

"I can't believe this..." Sousuke mutters, making a fist.

I glance at my brother, trying to work out what happened.
But before I can speak, he simply looks away; translation, yes. Yes it was, it was Mikoshiba.