Disclaimer: I do not own Clannad. Although, I wish I did own Kotomi... sigh... lol
Learning
Lesson 1: New Tutor, Kotomi
"Tomoya-kun."
A massed lump grunted underneath a bundle sheets as he heard the sound of his name.
"Tomoya-kun."
Thinking to himself, he wondered who it could be. It was probably Tomoyo again, trying to make sure he wasn't going to be late for summer vacation supplementary classes. Great.
"Tomoya-kun."
The sheets suddenly flew off his lumped figure.
"Okay, okay! Geez, Tomoyo, always waking me up so early in the morn-"
Finally opening his eyes and turning his head sideways, he found himself wedged between two considerably large breasts.
"What's this?" Tomoya quickly thought to himself. It couldn't be Tomoyo, her assets weren't this well endowed. Maybe it was Fujibayashi? No, she would've already chucked him out from beneath his sheets and through the window by now. He knew it definitely wasn't Nagisa's chest he was firmly planted in between.
"Kotomi?" Okazaki said with the muffled voice.
No response.
"Kotomi?
Again, no response.
"Kotomi-chan."
"Okazaki-kun, I'm glad you're finally awake."
Yup. It was Kotomi. Kotomi?!
Finally removing his head from the two mounds, Okazaki looked up to behold his visitor. "Kotomi-chan, what are you doing here?! Did Tomoyo put you up to this? What, she too busy to intrude upon my personal life this morning? Damn president…"
"What are you talking about Tomoya-kun? Don't you remember? I told you yesterday that I was going to come and tutor you on the weekends, and if I had time, after school as well." Kotomi said in a matter-of-factly tone.
Looking at the calendar beside his bed he realized that it was indeed Sunday, and no supplementary classes were being held that day. Tomoya blinked away the grogginess in his head, as the memories of Kotomi telling him that she was going to come tutor the delinquent student came flooding back into his mind.
Tomoya grunted loudly. "Oh, yeah… I remember now."
Slumping back against his headboard, he looked over his new tutor in the morning sunlight. She was wearing a light yellow blouse along with some knee length khaki colored cargo pants. Her purple hair was tied up in her trademark red barrettes, and her evenly toned skin was reflecting the golden rays that were peeking through the crack in his navy blue curtains. Curiously enough, she was holding a light brown bag in her right hand, along with some books in her left. Kotomi looked absolutely stunning in the sunlight, but Tomoya didn't seem to notice this. The only thing he saw in front of him was another annoyance that came in the form of his new tutor: Kotomi Ichinose.
Realizing that Tomoya had been staring at her for quite a long time a slight blush came to Kotomi's cheeks. "Tomoya-kun, are you okay?"
Shaking his head, Tomoya finally snapped out of his daze. Looking quickly away, it dawned on him that he may have been staring at Kotomi for a little longer that he should have been.
Grunting loudly once again, he began to rise from his bed. "Yeah, sorry about that, I was just thinking about this whole tutoring thing."
Shuffling his feet across the floor to where his closet was, Tomoya grabbed for some cargo pants of his own. "Look, Kotomi, you really don't have to do this, I'm fine. I don't even plan to go to college, so…"
Before he could continue Kotomi cut him off. "Nagisa-chan told me to give you some of Sanae-san's bread if you said something like that."
Holding out the bread in her right hand she offered it Tomoya. The words '…Sanae-san'd bread…' echoed throughout his mind. The bag's aura was ominously reaching towards Tomoya, as if it wanted to devour him instead of the other way around.
"She said to make sure you ate it all, without leaving a single crumb."
Tomoya knew that eating a single bite of Sanae-san's bread wasn't advisable, but a whole bag would certainly lead to death… or at least a very severe case of diarrhea. Plus, if he didn't eat it all he knew that Kotomi would report this to Nasiga (because Nagisa probably instructed her to do so), who would then report the same story to her parents. Tomoya could already imagine Nagisa's mother running out of the Furukawa bread shop crying about how she was only a burden to them all, and the old man coming to his house, with his bat, ready to play some… 'baseball'. Man, Nagisa could be pretty merciless when it came to his education.
Sighing, he knew he only had one choice. "Okay, Kotomi, let's get started on this tutoring thing."
Drawing the curtains, and opening the window, Kotomi smiled softly at Tomoya, letting the quiet morning breeze lift through her purple locks. Her soft violet orbs gazed intently at Tomoya's own dark blue ones, seeming to pierce through his very soul. Kotomi's eyelids drooped down a bit, her whole face relaxing, as even more of the sun's rays glinted across the flawless white skin of her face. The slight aroma of flowers came to his nose along with the morning breeze, as Kotomi's eyes began to relax as well, creating a special kind of translucent shimmer that only Ichinose Kotomi could create.
Her light pink lips curled up a bit as she spoke, setting the books she held in her right hand on the bed beside her. "Tomoya-kun?"
This time a slight blush came to Tomoya's cheeks, as he quickly averted his eyes away. "Y-yeah…?"
Kotomi continued, her voice slightly softening. "Tomoya-kun... would you…"
Okazaki's heart began to beat faster with each word that came out of her mouth.
"…would you…"
Yes.
"…would you…"
Yes!
"…please get out your notes and books, so we could begin?" Kotomi asked with an innocent smile.
Okazaki's head twitched violently to the side.
…
…
… Does she do that on purpose?
Author's Notes: And that's Lesson 1! I don't think there really is a lesson to learn within this chapter, but you probably wouldn't get the ending sequence if you didn't watch through at least the Kotomi arc of Clannad. Then again, you wouldn't be reading Clannad fanfiction if you didn't finish the series itself, so I have nothing to worry about, right? Oh, and if you hadn't realized yet, I love the Tomoya x Kotomi pairing!!
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