The Princess and The Devil - Karma Akabane x OC

E I G H T E E N : TALK

Normal POV

The next morning, Karma woke up with a foul mood. Hime had her arms and legs around his figure and her hair all sprawled out. He knits his eyebrows together and shoves her away from him.

"Don't think your little trick of clinging onto me will make me any less mad, Hime." Karma yawns and walks out the room. To think he couldn't get any decent sleep due to the disturbing message Hime got from Asano makes him angry. He slams the refrigerator door open and close after he rummages for leftover food. He puts the leftover porridge from yesterday in the microwave as he walks over to the opposite counter to the kettle. He turns on the tap and waits patiently for it to fill.

He then puts the electric kettle on and walks back in his room to take a shower. He clicks his tongue in annoyance; an obvious sign he is still annoyed.

"What does he mean, 'violated our agreement'. What agreement did Hime make? If she already made an agreement with him then why must we make one with him too?!" A creepy smile suddenly emerges from his handsome features. "Ah I see.." Karma's eyes sharpen as he lets out a little laugh. "It's all a game to him isn't it?" Karma looks at Hime over his shoulder and proceeds on wearing his clothes. Looking back at his own reflection in the mirror, he wears his black blazer and walks out the room.

He pours the porridge equally in two different bowls and takes a spoon out from a drawer in one of his counters. He eats his porridge quietly and places the other half of the porridge in the middle of the table. He makes a mental note to cover it up before he leaves. When he was done, he quickly washes the dirty bowl and pours himself a glass of plain water. He drinks it up before refilling his bag with wasabi, jalapenos, nose clippers and only god knows what Karma puts in there and to whom he tortured that requires the refill.

He slings his messenger bag over his shoulder and covers up Hime's porridge before slipping on his shoes and exits his own house. He locks the door and the minute he does, he stays on guard. Taking out his phone, he slides to unlock the lock screen and taps on the phone book icon. He taps in the first two alphabets of the chosen person and calls the person.

"Yo, Ichiro-san."

"Karma? What do you want?"

"Ah~ So cold as always."

"Unlike some of us, I actually have work to finish, Karma."

"Okay, okay. I need you to do me a favour. It's about Hime and Haru." Karma feels a vibration coming from his other pocket and takes the blue metallic source out. The source had received a message and he couldn't help but grin when he sees the ID. He unlocks the screen and finds his picture with a giggling Haru getting his cheeks pinched by Hime on his lap during Haru's birthday last year in the background. He taps on the message.

There is a short pause on Ichiro's end when he finally asked, "What can I do for you?" Karma locks the other phone

Karma smiles and walks to the train station.

***

As soon as Karma gets off the train, he walks to the school forest. He smiles when he finds a certain strawberry blonde with mauve eyes leaning against a tree with his arms crossed.

"Heh~ What's the president doing here alone in the woods to the E Class? Are you shunned away by the principle too?" Karma has his chin up as he observes Gakushuu. Gakushuu smirks a little when he hears Karma's voice and pulls himself away from the tree.

"Where's Hime?" He asks. He knows better than to join in Karma's pesters.

"Hime?" Karma asks back, raising his eyebrows. Ah.. I see. So this is how he wants to play. "Ne, Asano. Stop playing dumb or you'll really become one. We both know that you know where she is. So why bother asking?" Karma buries his hands in his pockets and looks at Gakushuu with his chin up.

"So you must know that she has violated my agreement with her." Gakushuu chuckles deeply. "You know, she worked hard to get me to agree. She even got on her knees as she begged me to never lay a hand on you or the E Class." Gakushuu observes how Karma tenses when he said this. Gakushuu grins when he knows that Karma has fallen to his trap and will dance to his tune. "You know, I wonder if she would get on all fours and beg me to continue the agree-"

Karma wouldn't have any moment of Gakushuu's wondering out loud. He finds himself in front of Gakushuu and his fist comes in contact with Gakushuu's left cheek. Karma has no emotion plastered on his face as he watches Gakushuu regains his posture. He is taken aback when Gakushuu laughs. "Do you know what is your main problem?" Gakushuu asks and Karma looks at him with stone hard eyes. "You care too much about Hime and I realised that she has the same problem."

Karma closes his eyes and chuckles a little. When he reopens them, the mischief is present again. "You know nothing about her, Asano."

Gakushuu scoffs. "You're the one who doesn't know her. You only know her by who and what she chooses to show you. But I, I know her by who and what she truly is." Gakushuu looks at Karma and decided to play with Karma more. "I'm guessing that you don't even know why she's transferred to Class E." Karma is silent and shows no emotion but that is enough of an answer to Gakushuu.

He doesn't know.

But what surprises Gakushuu is when Karma suddenly smiles his signature smile. "Sorry to disappoint but Ii still think I know her. What she chooses to show me and who she chooses to be whenever she's around me is her own choice and what you think doesn't matter. I've been with Hime longest and I know things you will never know. And didn't you summon her here to talk about an invalid agreement?" Karma smirks. "I'll just tell you her decision then. I don't think she cares about the agreement anymore because if she still cares, she wouldn't have showed up at my apartment yesterday. So, Asano. I think it's you who doesn't know who and what Hime Sakuragi of Class 3E truly is."

Karma leaves after he said what he needs to say to Gakushuu and walks to another path deeper in the forest.

"Where are you going, Akabane?" Gakushuu asks as he made a mental note the pathway to the satellite campus is straight forward and if Karma is taking a detour, he wants to know.

"Oh~? Are you concerned about me, Asano?"

"Not at all. I just want to know the whereabouts of the satellite campus. It's a better way to get more information to blackmail my father."

"Talk about ungratefulness of a son." Karma snickers.

"Ah, good morning!" Isogai greets the both of them.

"Ah!" Maehara's eyes widen when he sees Gakushuu Asano. He points a shaky finger at Asano. "What the hell are you doing here?!"

"Maehara-kun, it's rude to point fingers." Isogai reprimands his playboy best friend. "And Karma-kun.." Isogai turns to where Karma was a few seconds ago and sighs. Of course he's not here anymore. "Anyway, Asano-san-" Isogai turns to where Gakushuu was a few seconds ago and he's not there anymore. Isogai sighs and turns around where he sees Gakushuu's retreating form.

"Why does everyone keep disappearing when I talk?" Isogai frowns and he was about to turn to where Maehara was when he heard Maehara's constant bicker to Gakushuu and sighs.

***

Right, so first of all I would like to apologise to everyone for not updating the past few weeks. I just got back from my trip to Korea.

And Korea was AWESOME.

I thought it'd be scary travelling alone and Ii was right XD but mainly because I have no idea how to speak Korean and ended up using google translate throughout my stay. Pretty sure I tickled some bones here and there but the people are awesome nevertheless. I'll update 4 more chapters whenever I can. 

Sorry again, guys.