10 Things

Chapter 1 : The First Five - Her Appearance

I. She has blue eyes.

They're blue, he noted. Raku adjusted his head as he observed Chitoge's eyes while they were scanning her textbook. They were studying at her house when Raku's attention floated from their Math homework towards her eyes.

Her eyes were really wide and for some reason, they were really close. It took him a few seconds to process that they were looking at him up close questioningly.

"What is it Beansprout?" she asked scratching her head. "Is there anything on my face?"

"No."

"Then what are you looking at?"

"Your eyes."

"What about them?"

"They're blue."

Rolling her eyes, she poked his forehead and sarcastically said "No, they're purple. You didn't know?"

"When you were a kid, they were brown, right?"

She grinned lazily "Yeah, now get back to work."

"Whatever, Gorilla Woman." he huffed. He felt her feet settling on his lap, her usual way of showing that she didn't mean any of the insults she threw at him and he didn't move away, his sign of doing the same.

II. Her hair is soft.

"Hey, Raku." she poked his nose.

"What?" he asked her in a whispering manner, looking up from his book.

At the moment, they were at the library, filling in for the library assistants who were away running some errands for the head librarian.

"I'm bored." Chitoge said as she slumped over the reception desk.

"Then you should've thought twice before volunteering to fill in for one of the assistant librarians." he said nonchalantly, flipping to the next page of his book.

The library was currently deserted, since after all, class hours were already over and most students were already heading home.

He looked from his book to the window beside him. A storm was coming, he deducted from seeing the dark clouds looming over the school. He'd probably get soaked on his way home.

His gaze lingered on the storm brewing outside when soft snoring suddenly cut through his thoughts. He looked to his left and saw Chitoge still slumped over the reception desk. She probably fell asleep, he thought.

He flipped his book closed and just stared at her sleeping form when it hits him.

He has never touched her hair before and for some weird reason he had a sudden urge to do so.

He looked from left to right. Nobody else was there so it should be safe.

Carfully, he runs his fingers through her long yellow hair. He had always thought her hair would be soft but finally getting feel it, it had a different feeling. It felt softer than it looked. It felt warm. It felt good.

He smiles softly as he removes his hand from her hair and watched her sleeping face. She was drooling but he wasn't going to tell her that, that's what a good boyfriend would do right?

III. She has a bright smile.

School picture day.

Raku never thought much about it and he thought everyone else did too. Apparently he was wrong.

He surveys the scene around him. Onodera had been fixing her hair for 15 minutes now. Ruri had been cleaning her glasses for the fifth time today. Marika had even directed her attention to something else other than him. In this case an orange mirror. And countless of his classmates running around trying to fix their looks. Even Tsugumi was nervous. Raku had noticed her fixing her ribbon for about three times now. Meanwhile, Shuu was taking pictures of everyone.