Finally, I got out of bed and went over to the window to open the curtain. As soon as I moved the fabric from the window, the warm and nice sunlight fell right in my face. On normal occasions, I would be cursing the sun for even existing. Damn you, you big ball of fire but right as I wake up. It feels nice having some sunlight hit your face. It really wakes you up.
"Okay Ai, you go and freshen up first while I go and do the other chores. I do need to take the clothes out of the dryer and fold them along with deciding what to make for breakfast and lunch for us," I said and walked towards the door. I looked behind me one more time and as I expected, Ai was having her face planted in my pillow. "Looks like I’ll go and freshen up first," I muttered and chuckled to myself.
I left the half-vampire in the room and entered the bathroom. I quickly freshened up, brush my teeth, and got my clothes out after having a nice bath. The water was already set to the perfect temperature and was almost filled up to the brim of the bathtub.
"Forgot my towel," I muttered and went back to the room seeing Ai still wrapped up in the blanket. "Ai, you need to really wake up now. If not, I will go leave for school without you."
"Eh? But Kazu-kun you always wake up two hours earlier before school starts. I will have enough time to get ready," she said with a cute grin on her face holding up a thumbs up. "Everything is under control. I just need my daily dose of Kazu-kun’s scent."
I chuckled and moved towards the bed in the hope of teasing Ai. Bringing my face closer to her, I got attacked by the unexpected.
A hand grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me down on the soft mattress and immediately something really cold and soft was on my body. I decided to not even try to retaliate because retaliating against Ai who is in this mood is like going against God in heaven. You just can’t win if you are in their own domain and Ai’s domain appears when she is really close to me giving a death choke of a hug probably breaking the ribs of a normal human.
I heard loud inhales from her and she started smelling each and every corner of my body. I just lay down there being a victim of her affection with a big smile on my face. This is the only thing that can make me stop moving at all.
"Hehe, Kazu-kun’s smell," Ai said and crawled up to my face. "I’m pretty sure you were going to say "Then smell it from the real source Ai" and make me blush but I have seen through your tricks Shiba Kazu-kun."
She even puts Kazu-kun in my real name now. I will never give her any official document to try my full name for any reason whatsoever. I can’t risk having to go to the office to redo everything because of that one mistake that she "unintentionally" made.
"Wow Ai, so now instead of Shiba Kazuki, I am Shiba Kazu-kun?" I asked amused and nodded her head happily.
"Yea, you are Shiba Kazu-kun now," she said in a cute childish voice that made my heart melt.
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"Okay, if you say so."
"But only I get to call you this, to the world you are Shiba Kazuki," she said with a pout on her face and soon after sunk her head in my chest. "But for me, you are Shiba Kazu-kun, also known as my Kazu-kun."
"Okay Ai, I am Shiba Kazu-kun now," I said patting her head and she leaned into my hand happily accepting the gesture. Sometimes she just acts like a puppy who loves giving and having affection.
I would say cats but I also understood that cats have a mood of their own.
I still love them though since every cat I come across on the street is just the sweetest thing ever. They come closer to me minute by minute and when they are really close, they snuggle their face against my feet and I pet them.
"Okay Ai, now let go of me. If you keep this up, we will get late and then be held back after classes," I said and she giggled again.
"Hehehe, held back after class with only Kazu-kun. Ah, then it will be just us in the classroom with the sun slowly setting on the horizon. I want that," she said hugging me tighter but as cute as she was. I have to really make her let me go now or we will actually be late. This is not even a joke anymore.
I started pushing her myself to let her go off me in the hope to see an exit and get out of her grasp. My hand was on her waist trying to get her off me but then I got hit by something even more unexpected. I looked up at her and she was looking at me with puppy dog eyes. No, I know what you are doing Ai. Stop.
"You don’t want me to hug you Kazu-kun? Is that it?" she said in a sad voice looking at me with the most innocent.
And so.
I melted right then and there.
"This is the first day and you got some nerves to be this late Shiba. You should be lucky I let you even in the class, to begin with instead of asking you to go back," Sensei said scratching her head with a book. The same book that I got hit in the head with. Yes, she is back to her normal teacher mode.
"I’m so sorry Sensei. I will not repeat this ever again. Also thank you for letting us in," I said bowing down profusely but getting hit again in the head with the book but lightly this time.
"If you understand what you did is wrong, that’s all that’s needed. Make sure you never repeat this again," she said and I nodded.
"Sorryyyyy," I said playfully with a smile on her face. Oh, come on now, don’t be happy about this.
She looked at the both of us and sighed before telling us to go to our seats. Ai was in her usual front seat and I was sitting way at the back of the class in the corner near the window because of course I was.
After all, I am the main male lead of this story. The one telling it to all of you guys.
"Okay, open your textbooks to page 167," Sensei said and we did as she instructed and the class started.
For a moment, I got my eyes off the book and looked around the classroom seeing the concentrated, inattentive, and half-asleep students in the class. Coming back here after all the things that happened during the summer break sounds a bit crazy to me. Moreover, now that we had a very strong enemy in our way. I wouldn’t really want to spend my entire day worrying about it. This is a nice change for us honestly. It was welcomed.
I looked out of the window looking at the trees swaying lightly with the wind blowing outside. The birds on the branches were sheltering themselves from the sunlight and the heat. Even though it is about twenty-seven degrees right now, it feels way much hotter than this. I think this is one of the.
I decided to look back at my textbook and got snapped back to my senses as I felt something hit my head. I looked down and it was a little crumbled piece of paper. I looked at it finding some spots of ink on it. I looked up to see who threw it at me but I couldn’t figure it out. I would have thought that this one was from Ai but it didn’t come from that direction. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket to open it later because if even by mistake, Sensei saw this piece of paper, I am done for.
I don’t want to face her rage again honestly.
I was making notes about the lessons along the way as she was teaching and then. The bell rang indicating her class had ended and she asked us to read till page 180 as homework since she was going to ask us our thoughts on what we read. With that, she left the class and I decided to open the piece of paper finally.
It was really crumbled into a small ball meaning it wasn’t that big of paper, to begin with. Probably something that was torn from the back of the notebook to be used as a little note.
I finally opened the note and raised my eyebrow reading something I didn’t really expect. I looked around the class thinking if someone is looking at me and I turned towards the window re-reading the contents of the note and looked back one last time hoping I could pinpoint who had written this note but no one was doing that.
I read the note again and then crumbled it again and looked back at the board with the contents in my mind. All it said was, "Meet me at the rooftop during lunch period with Tsubaki Ai."
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