A Painful Melody

Chapter 2- Gym

3rd person POV

"Isn't Ayaha-san supposed to be really quiet?"

"Who is the person beside her?"

"Oh, that's the new transfer student."

Ayaha slightly trembled, "Ayaha-chan!! Why are you so close to the newbie?" A rather.. busty, blonde ran up to them. Ayaha merely shifted her eyes somewhere other than the girl.

"I.. friends.. Hari-san." Ayaha mumbled. Her small body shook, possibly because she didn't want to be talked to. Akagawa noticed and hurried to put her gym uniform on.

"Yumi-chan, shall we go on ahead?" Akagawa glanced at Ayaha and began to walk out of the locker rooms.

The blonde whistled, "If I was a guy, I'd totally tap that." She laughed. The blonde looked at Ayaha, "Introduce me sometime, Ayaha-chan. She must be a really good person for you to approach her."Ayaha nodded and went to follow Akagawa.

When Ayaha opened the door, she saw Akagawa standing near the entrance. The red haired girl smiled, "Shall we go?" Her black orbs met up with with Ayaha's green ones.

Ayaha smiled, "Hai!".

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"Ladies, today we will only be running laps." Coach spoke. The Coach pulled out a clipboard and began taking attendance. One by one, she roll called, of course mis pronouncing some by accident...

"And finally... Akagawa, wait what?!" Her eyes began to scan her class and when her orbs met up with Akagawa's then she paused.

"Are you really Akagawa Ryuu's daughter?" Akagawa sighed. The coach brought unwanted attention to her. She thought for a moment.

"No, it's merely a coincidence." She spoke formally. Akagawa didnt feel good about telling lies, but her connection with Ryuu shouldn't be revealed, yet.The coach merely sighed disappointedly, "Anyway, girls just keep running till the end of the period."

"Hari-san, can I run with you?" Ayaha walked up to Akagawa and grabbed her sleeve. Akagawa chuckled and answered with a yes. Ayaha was so cute, but she was hard to talk to and she was so pretty it was hard to approach.

According to others anyway. Akagawa found it really easy to approach Ayaha, like the little sister she never had. "You didn't have to ask you know, if I can be with you then that's fine." Akagawa smiled.

"I-i just had to ask." Ayaha pulled lightly on Akagawa's sleeve hinting that they needed to start heading towards the track. She got the hint and gladly let Ayaha pull her along.

Outside, Akagawa saw Shuichi and the boys. A wave of comfort and familiarity washed Akagawa from her doubts and fears. She ran up to Shuici, "Tadao! What are you guys doing?" The silver haired male turned his head immediately and faced his master.

"We are to run 20 laps and then play a game of soccer. If there's time afterwards we have to do a bunch of called exercise." Shuichi smiled gently, but his gaze turned towards the black haired female behind Akagawa.

Ayaha didn't know why she hid behind Akagawa, but Shuichi's aura made her frightened. Shuichi looked at the girl, "Who?" He leaned over Akagawa's shoulder.

He was close enough, that Akagawa felt his breath on her neck. Though these two were together since birth. If they weren't used to the closeness, that would have been troublesome. Akagawa pushed against Shuichi's broad chest slightly, "You're scaring her."

Shuichi sighed, "Of course. Though it seems like you have the same effect with your classmates. Only this one was courageous enough to get close." He ran his hand worriedly down his pure hair.

Akagawa looked at him straight in the eyes, "This one has a name." Shuichi's blue orbs looked away from her black ones. He slightly bowed, "My apologies."

"I-I'm Ayaha Yumi. What's your r-relationship with H-Hari-san?" She mumbled, her voice trembling to the point of it cracking. Embarrassed, she just decided to stop talking.

"Shuichi Tadao, I apologize for my rudeness earlier. I am Riga-sama's bodyguard." He smiled. Ayaha blushed deeply once more, her heart couldn't take it. Not only did her meeting with Akagawa make her heart race and face heat, but also her meeting with Shuichi did the same.

"I-it's fine." Akagawa chuckled at how Ayaha was reacting in front of Shuichi. Akagawa's black orbs met up with Shuichi's blue orbs and they seemed to have a private conversation with their eyes.

Shuichi nodded, "I shall be on my way then. You should start running too Riga-sama." Though he wasn't concerned about that.

"I only need to run the whole period, I don't have a time limit unlike your class." Shuichi smirked at her response.

"Even with a time limit, I'm not worried." Akagawa turned to leave, she didn't want to start hearing Shuichi's rant about what he worried about and what he wasn't worried about.

"Yumi-chan, I'm going to be jogging the rest of the period. Is that fine?" Akagawa slowed down her walking pace.

"Hari-san, you must have incredible stamina. This whole time I thought you were jogging. I can imagine your jogging is actually running to other people." Sweat decorated Ayana's forehead.

Akagawa tied up her waist-length red hair, "It's not that fast though. I'm just slightly better than the normal standards." Ayaha knew Akagawa was just being humble.

If Akagawa truly wanted, Ayaha believed that she could possible be Olympic-worthy. Despite her body aching, Ayaha daringly agreed, "You can start running. I caught my breath."

With a slightly smirk, Akagawa started to jog. Akagawa knew that Ayaha was already tired, yet this girl still dared to continue. Akagawa might as well take up her efforts, and let Ayaha bite hard work.