Chapter 11. Glad you're here, stay by my side…
Heiji has fallen to sleep again at class, Kazuha was watching him most of the time, and she remembered last time they were both punished to stand outside the corridor. They had a bet, which she lost once again to Heiji. She did not even want to remember the week of punishment as his slave, listening to his orders, cleaning his room, even massaging him once after his kendo practice! But during the last day of punishment, Heiji surprised her by taking her to go shopping. He was quite gentle to her sometimes…
"Toyama-san, Toyama-san!" Their homeroom teacher has called Kazuha several times already, "please go to the office at once! URGENT!"
Moments later Kazuha returned to the classroom, her face looked pale, and she was in a hurry packing her stuff. She rushed to the entrance but someone was pulling her back, "Kazuha, what'd happened?"
"Heiji…Heiji." Tears were already flowing out of Kazuha's eyes, "papa…papa was shot!"
"Kazuha! Stay calm," said Heiji, both of his hands were on Kazuha's shoulders, comforting her. "Let's go to the hospital together."
Heiji and Kazuha were on a taxi to the hospital, neither of them talked. Kazuha felt her body was trembling; she was so worried about her father. Suddenly, she could feel warmth through her hand; Heiji was holding her hand tightly in his.
"Daijyoobu, Kazuha, don't worry." Heiji's words were like magic that all the fearness had disappeared for Kazuha.
They were finally at the hospital. Shizuka was accompanying Mrs. Toyama, waiting outside the ER. "Mama!" Mrs Toyama was already hugging Kazuha tightly.
"Okaasan how is it?" Heiji asked Shizuka.
"Toyama-san and your father were after a long-time criminal, and they finally tracked him down recently," said Shizuka, "but unfortunately it was a trap, and Toyama-san was shot. Heizo was already back to work already, he told us that he will definitely arrest him!"
"Mama, you must have been here for a long time already, I'll go and buy you something hot to drink," said Kazuha.
"Okay, and buy some for Shizuka-san also."
"I'll go with you." Heiji immediately followed Kazuha to the vending machine.
Kazuha was picking up the drinks, and tears started to flow out of her eyes again. "Kazuha?" Heiji already noticed that Kazuha was crying again.
"I've already tried to tell myself not to cry, I need to be strong, I need to look after mama, but..but," Kazuha's tears were already pouring out of her eyes, and suddenly, Heiji hugged her tightly in his arms.
"Daijyoobu, Kazuha, I'll protect you," said Heiji gently, "you don't need to be strong, you can cry whenever you want, I'll stay by your side."
Kazuha was so surprised and embarrassed, she pushed Heiji away slightly. She never thought of Heiji being so gentle to her, "Heiji." She was run out of words at the moment, and she felt her face burning. Heiji had just noticed that he might have said something weird to Kazuha, and there was an awkward moment of silence between them.
"Excuse me," an old lady had just pushed a cart in the corridor, Heiji and Kazuha were being pushed to the wall. Heiji and Kazuha were so close that they could even hear the heart beating. Heiji leaned his head towards Kazuha's, and their lips were about to contact each other…
Ding! Ding! "Dr Suzuki please comes to room 312!" The announcement in the hospital had brought back Heiji and Kazuha to the real world; they pushed each other away immediately. Their faces were still flushed red.
'What am I doing?' They both asked themselves.
"Kazuha!" said Shizuka, "the operation is a success, and Toyama-san would not wake up until tomorrow, so you better go home with Heiji, and take some rest." She then turned to Heiji, "you'd better take go care of her, or else you know what would happen. Also, take her back to our house, I don't want her to be alone, that criminal might still be around. I'd stay here with Mrs. Toyama."
"Heiji, please look after her," said Mrs. Toyama, "and don't quarrel with her."
"Of course not," said Heiji. "Kazuha, let's go home." Not waiting for Kazuha's answer, Heiji already grabbed her hand and headed towards entrance.
On their way back home, Heiji tried to make Kazuha's laugh. "Otoosan would definitely catch the criminal, if he can't caught him, then I will catch him for you."
"Aho, how can you catch him even if your papa can't catch him," said Kazuha.
"Don't you remember that I would be a detective in the future," said Heiji, "I could catch him easily!" Heiji then made a really 'cool' and 'confidence' detective pose.
"Hahaha!" Kazuha smiled cheerfully, "I don't think you're better than ojisan."
"That's the usual Kazuha I used to see," said Heiji, "laughing around, arguing with me."
"Heiji…" Kazuha was running out of words, didn't know what to say.
At last, Heizo had caught the long-time criminal and his gangs; Mr. Toyama had also left the hospital. Kazuha was really thankful to Heiji for staying by her side during all this time. She was even thinking about the relationship between Heiji and her was he just a friend to her?
Kazuha could hardly sleep these days, she fell asleep at last after midnight, but her cell phone rang and woke her up at 4 o'clock in the morning. She would definitely scold the one who call her this early, unless he or she had a good reason, "moshi, moshi."
"Kazuha, you've waken up already, I'm afraid that no one would answer the call!" It was Heiji calling her so early in the morning!
"Aho! What're you thinking, calling me at so early! Are you just finishing another stupid detective fiction and you felt so bored that you think it's so funny to call me in the middle of the night!" Kazuha really wanted to kill Heiji now!
"Kazuha, calm down, calm down," said Heiji. "Is it okay for you to come out? Actually, I'm outside your house."
"Aho! Who want to come out? I want to sleep, just leave me here."
"If you don't come out now, I'll ring your doorbell, and drag you out of the house," said Heiji evilly.
"Aho! Don't you dare to ring the doorbell and wake my parents up," said Kazuha in a panic voice, "you just wait outside and I'll be there in a minute."
Kazuha quickly put on a jacket, and went downstairs as quietly as possible. "Aho!" This was the first word coming out of Kazuha's mouth when she first saw Heiji waiting outside her house. "Don't you know what time is it? People need to sleep now!" She then noticed there was a new motorcycle right next to Heiji.
"This's for your own good," said Heiji, "don't sleep too much, or else your brain would rust!"
"Aho!" said Kazuha, "I never heard that people sleeping too much would like that! You've not told me the reason to wake me up so early! And what about that motorcycle?"
"Don't you think this's cool?" said Heiji, "that's my birthday present from my parents."
"So this is your only reason to wake me up so early," said Kazuha, "oh, that's so great! Bye now, and see you later." Kazuha immediately turned her back and headed straight to her house.
Heiji held her arm immediately, "wait," said Heiji; "you think that I'm coming all the way here, just showing off to you my new motorcycle!" He looked at her from top to bottom, "oh, that's great you're wearing pants, let's go!" Heiji immediately threw her a helmet, "huh? What?" Kazuha still could not understand the circumstances; Heiji already took her to the motorcycle.
"You're my first passenger!" said Heiji cheerfully.
"Kazuha, hold me tighter, or else you'll fall," said Heiji. He immediately grabbed Kazuha's hands to hold tighter around his waist. Kazuha flushed slightly as her body was closely around Heiji's body.
"Kazuha," said Heiji, "we're there now. Look!"
Kazuha was already very tired after a long trip, but the beautiful environment around immediately waked her up. Heiji had brought her to the top of certain hill, "isn't it beautiful, Kazuha? I always want to bring you here to see the sunrise." Heiji was so excited here, "the time is just perfect, and the sun will rise soon."
"Heiji…" Kazuha was so happy about this, "thank you so much for bringing me here. I never know there's such a beautiful place around."
Heiji and Kazuha were waiting for the dawn to come. They were sitting together. "Kazuha," said Heiji seriously, "I think that I can't just treat you as friend anymore…eh…I mean…you're more than just my friend. I want you to be mine only, can you be my girl?" Heiji thought that his face was burning red, and he was just so excited that Kazuha was leaning against his shoulder.
"Eh…Kazuha?" Heiji was then quite disappointed that Kazuha had fallen asleep. Their faces were so close together, Heiji brushed Kazuha's face gently, and he was now approaching to her lips!
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Kazuha opened her eyes suddenly, "eh? Heiji, sorry for falling asleep. Has the dawn come yet?"
"Oh, it's almost time!"
"Wow, it's so beautiful! Arigatou, Heiji!" Kazuha was smiling happily, Heiji thought that he was satisfied already by looking at her happy face.
"We'll be high school student soon, so we need to work harder!"
"Aho! Of course I will work hard!"
"Let's go then!" Heiji then threw the helmet to Kazuha, and he was heading to his motorcycle already."
"Wait for me! Heiji!"
The End
Oh, sorry for the late update(update for Christmas!), I think that's it for this fanfic, they're already high school student, so they're the same as in the manga (just read it!) Please Read and Review! Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!
maybe I would make a Kansai Couple II (about their high school life)in the future (but I need to finish my other fanfic "Start" first!)
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