Restart (Free! x K-ON fanfic)

Chapter 3: Whales

"A prince shouldn't sprinkle his love so easily." ~ Renge

Makoto Tachibana || 6:30 PM

"Haru! I swear it was her! The girl I was talking to you about the whole time! It's Ritsu!" I exclaimed as I ironed my clothes for school tomorrow. Haru is currently cooking in the kitchen of my apartment, and was busy admiring the rich crispy brown color of the mackerel that he was cooking.

"That's nice." His response says. It's been a week since school started and we had a new member. A girl named Akiyama Mio. Haru isn't really fond of her yet but I think she's nice and cute. And she's always around Ritsu. A short brown haired girl named Yui was also with them along with a blonde girl that was really cute by the way.

Really cute.

Ritsu never changed from the moment I last saw her. And I think if she heard me saying those, she'd probably kick me in the face.

"Oi. Makoto your clothes." I snapped out of my daze to see that my clothes are- THERE'S A HOLE IN MY SHIRT!

"What the." I turned the iron off and lifted my plaid shirt, to see that there was a huge gaping hole in the middle of it. I sighed. All of my clothes are at the laundry shop since my washing machine is broken.

"Idiot." Haru mutters as he places hot rice on both our plates. He sets it down along with our viand and looks at my direction.

"Dinner is ready."

•••

2:45 PM

"Mr. Tachibana, what is wrong with your shirt?" Professor Levi said in his monotonous voice as the class giggles. I scratched the nape of my neck, feeling myself heat up from the embarrassment today was going to give to me.

I don't know why but Professor Levi hates me. A lot. I don't really know why but he hates me a lot.

"I wasn't actually planning to have my stomach on display sir but the fact that I was neglecting my household chores last night led me to having this really huge hole." I say, feeling myself getting embarrassed. In the corner of my eye, I see the Blonde girl who giggled.

She giggled not like she was laughing at me but I think. I just think that she's into me you know.

"You really shouldn't jump to conclusions." Haru read my mind and I jumped from my seat. I look at him as I felt myself going red.

"Haru you're such a party pooper." I hissed. Yeah,

"You should go for it." I heard Rin whisper behind my ear since he was behind me. I look behind to see him shrug as Rei, bemused was shooting small mini cookies into Nagisa's mouth while he took notes.

"What? Rin it's just-"

"I'm going after her." He says in a low voice before pointing at Ritsu. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. Before I can even open my mouth to say that it isn't really a good idea, the bell rang and some of the students started to head out.

"See you in practice." Rin smirks as he went to catch up with Ritsu. Rin, please you're a tsundere!

"Makoto." Haru says before nudging his head in the direction of the blonde girl.

He's really being my wing man right now.

I gulped before I nodded and went up to the blonde girl who was busy fixing her things.

"H-Hi." I stammered, and she looks at me with a kind smile. I felt my heart melt at that smile that she has shown me.

She is so cute.

"Hello Makoto-san." She replies.

"A-ah! You know my name!" I say with a nervous laugh as she giggles at my actions.

Damn phooey Makoto! Get your self together!

"My friend Mio is the only girl in your swimclub so of course." She smiles. "I'm pretty sure I know you since Ritsu basically purges those things out of her like crazy." She sighs as she shakes her head.

"Yeah I know." I say. An awkward silence was obvious in the atmosphere and I just. I just had to... "Ja ne! Gotta practice!" I darted out the door, just to be bumped by one of the girl swimmers in the school; Eri Takano a gold medalist in Butterfly.

"Oh, Makoto-kun." She says with a surprised tone in her voice.

"Sorry Eri." I apologized profusely as she shook her head and gave me a small smile before saying good bye.

"You're easily embarrassed Makoto." I felt a hand on my shoulder and I was sure that it was Haru's hand.

"I can't help it! She's too cute! I didn't even know what's her name-"

"Tsumugi Kotobuki." He cuts me off. "Or... Mugi I guess."

"Wait how do you know?" I exclaim at his face. A little too loud as some students looked at me and Haru for a moment.

"You make me spend time with Mio so I guess that's why." He replies cooly. I cocked an eyebrow.

"So you finally listen to her." I say.

"What the heck are you talking about?" Haru says with a poker face. "I don't like her."

"Yeah right."

"No right." Haru replies. "Come on, we have to practice for the tournament on Friday."

"Oh... Right. Right." I muttered.