「Okaeri」

Lunch Break

It was lunch break, Tenma and Senan were heading to the cafeteria to grab some food whilst Tenma was acting very reserved.
Although he was able to act his regular self around Senan and he felt comfortable around him, he still acted so paranoid, never talking about himself or his family at all.
They made it to the cafeteria and stood in line together.
"What are you thinking of getting?" Senan asked the small boy, although he looked around the room rather than looking down at Tenma.
Tenma gulped and rubbed the back of his neck anxiously.
"I...U-Umm..Well.." he stuttered, "I-I'm fine for food, I don't eat too much anyway..." He mumbled.
Senan shook his head.
"You need to eat..plus, you are miniature..You need to eat more if anything." He said. "At least buy something.." He added.
The smaller male kept his head down.
"I-I...I can't.." He whispered.
Senan crouched down.
"What did you say? I didn't quite catch that..." he spoke quietly.
Tenma looked up at Senan in a desperate anxiety.
"I...I can't.." he whispered. Senan simply nodded and patted the boy's back, standing up straight.
"No worries, go find us a table." He whispered.
Tenma nodded and scurried off. He looked around, there were quite a lot free tables.
He spotted a table with two extra spaces, but as soon as he made eye contact with the students that sat there, they shuffled along to take up more room, causing the rest of the students on surrounding tables to the same.
Tenma sighed and went to where he usually sat, on the floor in the back.

After Senan had bought some food, he carried it on a tray and began to look around for the small lilac haired boy. It took him a while to find him before he finally spotted him in the back. He strolled over and crouched down to him.
"What are you doing sitting down there? There are lots of spaces." He whispered.
Tenma gulped and looked at his hands.
"They moved across so I couldn't get on, all of them did." He mumbled sadly. "It's fine, I'm used to it..."
Senan shook his head and sent a glare around the cafeteria hall.
He held the tray of food with one hand and grabbed Tenma's hand with the other, yanking him up.
"Come with me.." he said, dragging Tenma along by his hand. Before they got to the main body of cafeteria table, he let go of Tenma's hand.
Tenma followed the tall male as he approached a table of girls who obviously moved along for Senan to sit down.
"Hello ladies." He said in an aloof yet charming manner. The girls squealed.
"Hi yamasaki-kun~!" They all said.
Tenma sat down next to Senire, immediately the girls looked at Tenma is a weird way, a couple looked disgusted whilst others worried, although one of them simply looked away.
"W-...Why is that guy here?" One of the girls whispered to Senan.
Senan raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean, he has a right to sit here. Does he not?" Senan whispered back.
"W-Well it's just...isn't that guy..a huge pervert..Don't you know the story?" She asked. Senan shook his head.
"I don't want to hear the 'story'..Yancha-kun is nothing of the sort, He is actually very shy and finds it hard to talk to people so please don't be hard on him, he may be a guy but he is rather vulnerable." Senan said, looking at the girls at the table as he spoke, Tenma just kept his head down. The girl across from Tenma who was previously looking away soon spoke.
"Yancha-kun, are you alright?" She whispered. Tenma jolted a little and looked up cautiously.
"O-oh u-Uuh, yes..I-I'm..okay.." he mumbled. Senan patted Tenma's back.
"You can relax, they will be nice.." He said before moving the tray in between himself and Tenma. He placed a carton of orange juice, a bowl of miso soup along with a side of sticky white rice infront if Tenma.
"Here, eat up.." he said quietly to Tenma. Tenma looked up at Senan.
"F-For me?" He whispered.
"No it's for the cafateria's ghost..of course it's for you, squirt." He said with a straight face. Tenma simply stared in awe at the large Male for a second or two before smiling.
"Thank you so much.." He said before digging in, Senan doing the same. 
As everyone ate, one of the girls began to speak.
"Yamasaki-kun, you're from America right? Can you tell us something in English?" She asked, the other girls nodded excitedly.
"Well..." Senan started before he began to speak in English. "Hello, my name is Senan Yamasaki, how are you?" He spoke in English, making the girls squeal.
Tenma then took his chance to show off to Senan and surprise him.
"I'm great, how are you?" He said in completely fluent English. Senan then stared at Tenma in shock.
"You speak English?" He asked, once again in English. Tenma nodded,
"Yup! I'm actually a transfer from America too, I came here when I was 13 and since my mother is Japanese I am fluent in that too." He explained.
"Ooh, I couldn't hear any accent when you spoke Japanese at all..I assumed you just spoke Japanese although you don't look to be entirely Japanese.." Senan said. Tenma nodded and smiled brightly at him.
"We have something in common, so cool." He said, the girls on the table looked entirely confused, since the two males were conversing entirely in English.
Tenma turned a bit red.
"A-Ah, sorry..heh..I speak English too.." he explained. The girls just nodded to him before turning to Senan again.
"So, Yamasaki-kun~~! What do you do for fun?" They asked, completely ignoring Tenma, making him just look down at the table and eat quietly as his heart sunk in his chest.
"Oh not too much, I guess exercise can count as a hobby, would it?" Senan answered.
Senan chatted to the girls for a while before realising the depressing aura around the smaller male.
"Oi, Yancha-kun...." He said, causing Tenma to perk his head up immediately. Senan then began to bring Tenma into the conversation so he wasn't left out.
"What do you do for fun? Have any hobbies?" He asked Tenma.
Tenma gulped before nodding.
"W-Well, I like singing and dancing...I play piano too...I've been having lessons since I was really little but stopped my lessons a few years back.." He explained. Senan tilted his head.
"Why would you stop?" He asked.
"Oh, I-I still do it, I'm just somewhat self taught from now on...and I had already finished my last grade in piano." He said, "I didn't really have a choice in quitting the lessons." He added quietly. The girls seemed to become more interested.
"Well on Thursday I think we all have a music class together right? Maybe you can show us then Yancha-kun ?" The girl who asked a Tenma if he was alright before suggested, causing Tenma to become slightly bashful.
"Oh?...M-Maybe if there is time." He said and rubbed the back of his neck, smiling shyly.
One of the girls smiled at Tenma.
"Maybe you're not so bad after all Yancha-Kun." Another girl said, causing the other girls to smile and nod a little too. Tenma smiled down at his lap before up at Senan, who gave him a slight hint of a smile back, something that was very rare for Senan, who never usually smiled at anybody.
Suddenly another girl spoke up, seeming to act shy and nervous for an unknown reason.
"I can say for sure that...I-I'd be really looking forward to hearing you play piano Yancha-kun." She said in a quiet, wavering and almost whisper like voice.
Tenma tilted his head at her, not quite hearing her.
"Sorry, I didn't hear you." He said. She turned bright red and turned away.
"I-It's nothing..!!!" She exclaimed in embarrassment. Senan peered down at the smaller male then at the girl.
'She must like him...' he thought to himself, feeling an odd hint of irritation. 'Why....does that bother me so much..?...' He suddenly realised, however his eyes lit up for a moment.
'He really is similar to...Ugh, I told myself I wouldn't think about her again...although....he is nicely similar to her...this could...this could be okay....' he pondered, planning in his head. 'Argh, But He is a very fragile guy...actually considering using him like this is cruel....It'd make me a monster for sure....but...if he didn't know....it could be okay...right?...it'd just be for a little while after all, replacements are only temporary anyways right?' He came to his conclusion and nodded. He then looked down once again, realising someone had been calling his name, a sweet voice that seemed to sound so perfect to Senan's ears somehow.
"Yamasaki-kun?...Yamasaki-kun...everyone has left, it's time for class now." Tenma said, looking around anxiously, clearly he was worried about being late.
Senan nodded,
"Ah, yes...come on, let's go." He said, standing up swiftly.
"But...your food, you haven't eaten too much, isn't that a waste?" The small male asked. Senan wofted his hand behind him nonchalantly and shook his head.
"Give it no mind.." he mumbled, ruffling Tenma's hair before striding off with his handsomely long legs. Tenma gulped, turning a little red in the cheeks before scurrying after him.
"Ah, Ya-Yamasaki-Kun Wait for me!" He exclaimed.