The distance between us [Nagikae]

Part 8 & 9

*Ding Dong*

Sakura stood up and quickly went to open the door, she's having mixed feelings of excitement and nervousness while opening the door. Seeing Itona at the door made her feel relaxed and she forgotten how nervous she was, she welcomed Itona to the house. Itona smiled towards her as he come inside the house.

" Horibe-kun wants some tea? " asked Sakura and Itona replied with a nod

He took a look at the house, trying to find if there's any hidden cameras watching both of them. He felt restless when he got a call from Nagisa telling him not to do something weird with his sister and hung up before Itona could reply, I mean what does he mean by ' weird ' ?? 

Sakura came to the living room with two glasses of hot brewed tea, Itona took a sniff of the aroma from the tea, the smell went inside his nose up to his brain, magnificent how from leaves can turn into this aromatic drink. He took a big gulp into his throat, a translucent steam came out from his mouth. 

Sakura drinks her tea while eyeing Itona who is enjoying the tea, she felt a little happy that he enjoyed the tea she made because her older brother never said anything about her tea. ( Actually Nagisa did enjoy her tea and always ask her sister to make tea for him, he didn't want to comment a lot about how he really appreciate the tea she made because he didn't want his sister to misunderstood him for a siscon )

" Sakura-san " Itona called as he put down his glass

Sakura also put down her tea and look up to Itona, she flinched that Itona had a serious look on his face, she can feel the gaze from his eyes to her, her kokoro go doki doki because the nervousness she felt. She gulped and asked why he called her without looking like a nervous-wreck.

" I think we should hang out less than what we usually do " he said 

" What? Why? wait is my brother telling you something weird that you made this conclusion?? " Sakura replied 

" Well that's true and I think what your brother said is for your safety too, I mean an old man like hanging out with a high schooler? I'm scared how there will be rumors will be spreading at your school, people these days really like to gossip and I don't want you to be their hot topic. "

" So what? I'll decide who will be my friends and who will be my enemies, besides if they want to know they should've come straight to me rather making up nonsense. If things get worse than before I'll do my best to stop their misunderstandings " she said with fire in her eyes

Itona was awed how she knows to stood up for herself, a huge grin formed at his lips. He reached out his hand to her head, and gave her a pat on the head.

" That's my girl " he said with a happy face

Sakura blushed and told Itona to stop his patting, but he kept on ruffling her hair till it made a mess. Sakura wanted to get revenge for her hair so she did the same, both of them laughed out loud because they enjoyed their time together. 

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" Chibi Sensei!!!! " Yelled a blonde boy with piercings at his right ear

Nagisa frowned at the nickname, he took the attendance book and hit his student's head.

" I told you to stop calling me that, Akio-kun. Call me Shiota Sensei will you? " angered the small teacher

" Shiota-Chibi sensei, there seems to be problem with the lead singer " said a dark blue haired boy with a scar on his face 

" What's wrong with Hikaru, Hideo-kun? " asked Nagisa

" I don't know but he shut himself in the toilet for some time now, I'm worried he's not up to it being the lead singer on stage " said Hideo with a composed look

" *sigh* Why now of all times~ Thanks for telling me, I'm going to see Hikaru-kun so please look over the stage for me " Said Nagisa before he hurried to the toilet

Hideo kun nodded and went to the stage with Akio tagging along. Class 3-5 ( which the class Nagisa is teaching ) is going to perform singing for their school cultural festival, this was decided by Akio-kun who knew that Hikaru-kun is good at singing, both of them including Hideo-kun were bestfriends since elementary school. The idea was accepted with a few students who can play instruments well, Nagisa praised his students for giving a wonderful idea and with this the class will be recognize by the whole school since they were feared by many students.

Nagisa stood in front of the occupied stall ( he thought Hikaru was in there since the others were empty )

" Listen up to your sensei here, I know you're having trouble about being a lead singer because you have to face the whole school who feared you, talk trash about you, giving you glares, isolated you and made you feel as if you didn't exist at all. But it's okay, life have ups and downs and what you're dealing now is the downs, it's okay because surely after all this you can rise up and become a better person to them. Show them, show them who you truly are, don't worry because I'm here so does your friends. So, will you be our star today? " said Nagisa as he wanted to convince his student

" Shiota sensei? " Asked a brunette with odd eyes ( blue on the right and green on the left ) stood behind Nagisa

" Eh! Haruki-kun?! " 

" Sensei who were you talking to? Don't tell me you thought I was in there pfft " said Haruki-kun and almost laughing at him

" Hideo told me you're in the toilet for a long time so I- " explained Nagisa but he stopped because Hikaru's giggling

" Oh that.... Well I went to the toilet because I need to do the number 2, as soon as I got out I realized that my keys were missing. So I searched at the toilet and searched at the hallway, thankfully someone found it and gave it to me " said Hikaru as he showed the key

Nagisa sighed out of relief, they went back to class to change. After a while, the door of the occupied stall was opened revealed a confused student because some teacher gave a motivational speech to him while he's doing the number 2.

Sorry Guys I'm not dead yet, the huge delay was a big mistake I made. Don't worry I'm still writing this fanfiction, see you guys later~