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Capítulo 185: Chapter five, 2016, days of waiting: 2

After he kissed Kyoko goodbye outside her house Yukio went in search for a convenience store before heading home.

Urufu's black eyes when told about the car accident still haunted Yukio.

'As if he thinks it was his fault,' Yukio mused. 'Damn it man! Stop trying to carry every burden yourself!' Yukio growled and muttered a few choice curses. 'Don't you see that you're insulting your own friends if you don't share some of the shit with us?'

Because friendship didn't care about over thirty years difference in age. Friends should help to their capacity, and they should be allowed to do so.

Yukio listened to his footsteps in the darkness as he walked between islands of light under the street lamps. From time to time a car overtook him and flooded the street ahead of him with white brightness until it passed him and waved goodbye with red rear lights.

Some ten minutes later he came up to a dimly lit parking place where a few cars waited for their owners who were inside the convenience store. He entered and took a right turn to get to the newspaper stand. A magazine and a bottle of water later he stood making a choice between future microwave victims. Eventually Yukio grabbed something that made a good effort at pretending to be curry on rice.

'Kyoko would yell at me for declining dinner at her place.' But the truth was her parents made him feel uneasy. While it seemed Kyoko's mother more or less had accepted her daughter's new boyfriend it was all too clear her father hadn't.

Yukio whistled tunelessly, held on to his booty and made for the cashier. A couple of thousand yen poorer and with a plastic bag holding too much for a snack but too little for dinner he lined up his feet in the direction of his home and started walking.

"Next week," Urufu had said, but Yukio thought that was unlikely. Five broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and both lungs punctured didn't sound like something that healed in two weeks. If Urufu was let out of the hospital while it was still October he would be lucky. At least that was what Yukio believed, but he wasn't a doctor.

It didn't take all that long to reach the apartment block where he lived during the week with his mother. His father's flat was out of the question this late in the evening. Yukio climbed the stairs hugging the wall and walked to his door. He could have knocked for his mother to open, but it felt better to use his keys so as not to disturb her unnecessarily.

"I'm home," he called when he came indoors.

"Welcome home," his mother answered and let him know she was in their small living room.

Yukio went to the kitchenette and put his meal in the microwave. Three minutes would be enough, and it gave him time to drop the water into the fridge and put his magazine in the room where he slept.

"Any news on your friend?" his mother asked from where she sat in a sofa watching TV.

"Nothing much. He thinks he'll be discharged next week. I think he's too optimistic."

His mother rose from her seat.

"Have I ever said I'm sorry we put you through Red Rose academy?"

Yukio shook his head. "It's OK. You couldn't know. I'm sure it looked like a good school."

"Mm, it did."

The microwave chimed and Yukio fetched his heated dinner and sat down by the kitchen table.

"Mom, midterms are coming up and after that there are parent meetings." He looked at his mother who waited for him to finish. "Can you get time off or do you want me to ask dad?"

She got her handbag and picked up a phone. "No it's fine. Just make sure to tell me the time at least a week in advance."

He nodded and started gulping down his meal. It was about as lacking in taste as he had feared, but it filled him up and banished the worst of his hunger.

While he ate his mother got the bottle of water and two glasses. She filled them both up and sat down across the table.

"How are things with Kyoko?"

"Fine," Yukio said between two mouthfuls.

He finished his meal and downed his glass of water.

"Mom," he began, "mind if I bring her over this weekend?"

His mother gave him a long glance. "For a visit, not at all, but sleeping over, very much."

That suggestion made Yukio's face flare red. "Mom!"

"Sorry, just teasing. Please do. She seems to be a sweet girl. Hold on to her, will you?"

He had no plans doing otherwise. "As long as she wants me." 'Strange, before I met you I'd say she's mine,' he thought wondering how Urufu spent yet another lonely evening in the hospital. 'But you and Kuri taught me love is something you share.' "I'll work hard to make her want me," he added.

"Yukio, you're growing up."

'Maybe because my best friend is an adult.' "Yeah, maybe I am. That's good, isn't it?"

His mother suddenly smirked, and for a moment Yukio saw something empty in her eyes. "Don't be too much in a hurry. You want to remember that you were still a child during these years."

'What was that about? I'll ask Urufu when I meet him.' "OK," Yukio said. He didn't really understand what his mother had meant, but for some reason she looked like an abandoned child when she spoke.

Yukio felt discomfort filling him, as if he had seen something in his mother he wasn't supposed to. Rather than continue the awkward conversation he stood and prepared the dishes. After that he spent the rest of the evening doing homework.

Tomorrow he'd check with Kuri before he told Principal Nakagawa that Urufu flat out rejected any involvement with the student council.


Capítulo 186: Chapter five, 2016, days of waiting: 3

"If Ulf says no then I'm not interested."

Yukio glared at Kuri. 'Damn you and your stubbornness! Are you Siamese twins or something?'

He growled mentally realising the day had come to a bad start. An hour from now he'd deliver not one but two negative messages to Principal Nakagawa.

"Is there anything I can do to get your head screwed on right again?" Yukio said to a choir of amazed gasps from her classmates.

"Listen kiddo, you get Ulf to jump on the bandwagon I'll do as well, but I'm joining crap without my boyfriend."

The high colour in her face had absolutely nothing to do with feelings of embarrassment, and Yukio felt no major need to explore further from whence it came. Instead he sighed and bowed formally.

"I guess I've done my part in convincing you two then," he said and retreated from her classroom. He even managed to give her a polite smile on his way out. Muttering could wait until the long walk through the corridor connecting the two wings.

'I think this is bad. Principal Nakagawa shouldn't attempt to influence the student council elections in the first place, so why is he so desperate to get Urufu and Kuri on the council?'

Turning left at his wing Yukio made for their club room where Kyoko hopefully waited for him. He slid the door open and went inside.

"Yukio, here!"

She was. Waiting for him that is.

Yukio waved back at her and sat down in the sofa next to her. With an angry shrug he zipped open his bag and fished up the bento box Kyoko had given him on their way to school. Tomorrow he'd make their lunch.

"Grumpy much?" she asked when he slammed his box onto the low table.

"Sorry Kyoko," Yukio said. He took his chop sticks in one hand and dug for some rice. "It's just that they're so damn stubborn!"

Her face split up in a wide grin. "Tell me about it," Kyoko said. "Noticed she's seldom here during lunch?" she added.

None of them needed to explain who 'they' or 'she' was.

"Uhum," Yukio said and got in a hurry to swallow his mouthful. "Why's that?"

Kyoko bit off half a sausage and chewed on it before answering. "She's marking her territory. That's why?"

"Huh?"

"There's hardly a conversation where Kuri doesn't insert boyfriend this or Urufu that."

Yukio stared at Kyoko. He hadn't thought of that, but then he didn't spend as much time with Kuri as Kyoko did. "How come?" he asked. "Honestly, she can't really be afraid of the competition."

"Yukio, I love how adorable you are!" Kyoko flashed him a grin that made his heart jump. "But you really don't understand love," she continued as if their two month long relationship had made her some kind of love expert.

He bit down on a retort and mentally thanked his mother for teaching him to listen before he spoke. "How so?" he said to make Kyoko explain her thoughts.

In the background he heard and saw club members come and go, most of them sitting down in groups and pairs proving that the club had been operating long enough for smaller constellations to come into existence.

"You know, I couldn't believe you wanted to be together with me," Kyoko began. "It was so obvious you should be interested in Kuri-chan like everyone else."

Yukio mulled over Kyoko's words before he answered. "I was never interested in her after I saw you, but I understand what you're saying." Hopefully that was the right thing to say.

"Now that's why I fell for you. I can see how you made an effort not to hurt me right now instead of telling me I'm an idiot."

It had been the right thing to say. "Still, I don't see what that has to do with Kuri," Yukio said relieved he had navigated the minefield without stepping on something dangerous. "I mean, it's Kuri we're talking about. It's one thing if people like you and I are afraid," he added and left his real question hanging in the air.

"To begin with she's making it clear she's unavailable. There are still a lot of guys calling her out for confessions."

"And?" Yukio said.

"And I believe she's afraid Urufu will get angry."

Yukio could understand that part. He'd felt the same when Rie-sempai followed him around like a lovesick puppy during the cultural festival. "But there's another reason as well, isn't there?" he continued.

"Mm," Kyoko said and swallowed some food. She nodded at him. "Yeah. I think she's honestly afraid she'll lose him."

"What?"

"She's been pretty down since school started, and I think what happened to Urufu reminded her she could actually lose him if she's not careful."

Yukio shivered. Kuri wasn't exactly the only one who had been reminded. Yukio planned to visit Urufu later for that very reason. "It wasn't her fault," he said. "She can't possibly believe Urufu would think like that."

Kyoko's smile thinned to a white line. "She can, and she made some fairly bad calls earlier, didn't she?"

'So you can see she's not without faults, can you now?' Yukio nodded back at Kyoko. "Uhum, she stood him up a few times. I can see how he'd sulk for a while, but he isn't as fickle as you're suggesting. Trust me!"

"I trust you. But none of us has anything to lose here. Kuri-chan does, and I think that makes her see less clearly."

Yukio looked at Kyoko. He hadn't thought of it that way. "So she's using the time Urufu isn't here to hammer down the message that he's already taken by the Princess of Himekaizen?" he suggested.

"Yes," Kyoko said, but she didn't smile, "and I believe she's making a huge mistake."

"A huge mistake? As in Kuri could actually lose?"

Kyoko nodded. "She's famous, and not everyone likes her. Now she's making Urufu famous as well. There are a lot of people who would want to come between them just to make them break up."

Urufu hardly needed Kuri's help to become famous. Not after the cultural festival, but Yukio understood how people targeting Urufu could destroy their relationship if Kuri was the jealous kind.


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