Azusa
A week has passed since the incident with Naomi. As expected from Miketsukami, that bastard will do anything to make our lives a living hell. Tsubaki and I kept an eye on Misaki since Naomi is with some anemic guys who drinks Kool-Aid. It made them look like vampires. Their names were Mukami Ruki and Sakamaki Ayato. They're Naomi's childhood friends.
Natsume told us to stand down, though he didn't want us to. He spent the whole day in his room. The next day he went out of his room, a walking mess. I asked him if he was ok but he just ignored me. It was unusual of him since he never acted like a depressed teenager who got a taste of rejection.
This morning is even worse.
We were eating breakfast when Yusuke mentioned Naomi's awesome fighting skills. Natsume left out of the blue. Tsubaki and I both smacked Yusuke on the head.
I was on the way to the library when I saw Naomi being like her vampire friends. She was by the trees being one with the shadows, drinking Kool-Aid. I went over to her.
"Hey, Naomi, how are you feeling?"
"Awesome," She replied.
"Naturally. Hey, did you and Natsume had a fight last week? He's acting weird,"
"Potentially speaking, he is weird," She said, taking the last sip of her Kool-Aid. "I don't know if that was a fight or an argument. I don't know. I just told him that he doesn't have to protect me and put your lives at stakes for me. He kept insisting that I am his priority and he is relentless. Our fight or argument, whatever, end when Ruki showed up and Natsume just left,"
"Did you talk to him after?"
"I tried talking to him this morning about this photograph," She showed me the picture Iori found at Naomi's doorsteps. "but he just ignored me,"
"I'm sorry on behalf of his rude behavior. Are you ok?"
"Of course. Why wouldn't I?"
"Well, we actually knew about your past relationship with Natsume. I'm assuming it's bothering you,"
"It doesn't bother me. I don't know what the hell is Natsume's problem. Natsume's the least of my problems. My problem is this stupid picture,"
"What about the stupid picture?"
"Of all pictures he could give me like something scary and horrible or something scandalous, he gave me a picture of a cherry blossom blooming in spring. Why? Why a freaking cherry blossom? What is he implying?"
"You do have a point. Did you figure it out?"
"Sad to say, no. I'm working on it. I'll notify Natsume if he's in a stable condition. If not, I know where to find you and the others,"
"Be careful, Naomi,"
"Noted, Dad."
I head to the library to do some research about Biology which is more about how cells are formed, how they regenerate, et cetera. I saw Misaki having a hard time reaching an Economics book so I went over and helped her. I'm a few inches taller than her. She thanked me and smiled.
"Report?" She asked.
"Yep," I replied. "What subject are you reporting?"
"Economics. I hate this subject. I literally crawled my way to Economics last year if it wasn't for Naomi and Sebastian,"
"It isn't only you who crawled a horrible subject. I crawled my way to Biology if it wasn't for Masaomi," We both laughed. Gods, it's so good to hear her laugh.
