A Painful Melody

Chapter 3- Locker rooms

3rd person POV

Whistles were blown, signaling that the students were to go back to the locker rooms to change. Akagawa had the most energy so she went ahead first. The whole gym period was merely a work out period for her.

Heading into the locker rooms, she saw red. Akagawa's face flushed deep red, "Harigae, what are you doing here?" Akashi didn't even care that he was half naked.

Akagawa looked everywhere except for where Akashi was standing. She should have been used to seeing guys shirtless because of Shuichi, but this was a person she barely knew. "I'm in the locker rooms, why are you-"

Akashi smirked, "This is the boy's locker room." He interrupted and Akagawa's face turned darker than her hair. "I'm sorry, I guess I'm still figuring out the school." Akashi tched.

That voice made him frustrated. Akashi turned his back, "Leave. I don't want to be within the same room as a peasant." He scowled.

"I'm-" Akagawa's apologizes were interrupted and she just decided to leave. Akashi's cold treatment stung badly. When she opened the door, Shuichi was about to go in.

"Riga-sama?" He looked in the locker room and saw Akashi shirtless, with a deadly scowl on his face. As well as Akagawa's frown full of depression, he knew that something happened between them two. Though whether Akagawa talked to him about it, was completely up to her.

"I walked in the wrong locker room haha.." She spoke and Akashi covered his ears. Akagawa sighed, did Akashi hate her to the point of where he didn't want to hear her voice? Akagawa's heart clenched at the thought, she didn't want anyone to hate her.

Shuichi's glance shifted from Akashi and Akagawa, but after a while he sighed, "Should I walk you back?" Akashi pressed his hands harder against his ears. Akagawa shook her head, no words escaping her lips.

The silver haired male sighed, "Okay. I'll see you later." Akagawa wrapped her arms around Shuichi's waist. As the locker room was closing, Shuichi hugged Akagawa back.

"Tadao, am I a hateful person?" Shuichi patted Akagawa's head.

"No, in fact it's the opposite. You're a lovable person." Akagawa slightly smiled.

They stayed in each other's arms for quite a while. Akagawa was extremely fond of Shuichi and his intimidating aura. It made her feel safe, and with the incident with Akashi today, she needed all the reassurance as possible.

Shuichi didn't mind. He treated this as part of his duty as Akagawa's body guard, and as her childhood friend. He ran his hand down her red hair, "Are you calm now Riga?"

Akagawa only smiled, "Yeah, do you realize how distant it feels when you call me Riga-sama?" This morning, Shuichi suddenly started to call Akagawa, Riga-sama instead of Riga. She felt distant from him and it truly felt like a master-slave relationship instead of friends.

"I must call you Riga-sama in public though. I can't risk your reputation, but I will always call you Riga in private though." He laughed softly.

"How are you risking my reputation?"

"It will be damaging if they assume an Akagawa is dating someone as inferior and ugly as me." He spoke softly.

"Stop thinking that way, you're pretty attractice Tadao. You're being too humble and besides, it won't matter if I taint the name with our relationship." Akagawa wanted to say more, but Shuichi already knew what she was going to say.

How can you taint the name even more? Especially if you are the taint? They let go of each other when the other students started to arrive. Akagawa smiled, "Im fine now. Thank you for putting up with my foolishness."

"It is my greatest honor to be useful to you. Riga, you should know this." Shuichi returned the smile.

With a small chuckle, Akagawa began to leave. She certainly had enough of drama for one day. It's certainly will continue because she had Akashi for two more periods.

For Akagawa, it will be a long day...