Memory Lane [Already Busukan]

5 - Suto

Bizarrely. There was something strange about everyone suddenly looking at him as he walked to school. Kurumi as much as possible did not attract attention.

But this morning he was like a celebrity who was always a byword. Don't know if it looks weird? Shame is seen by many eyes. And he kept bowing his face by letting his hair dangle cover.

"Kurumi!" risa's exclaiming was stirred up to him at the table. "Your fotom with Rui is already scattered on the internet! What the hell is going on?" in short, it really looks impatient to ask questions. "Calm down first. I don't understand what you're talking about." Then Risa shows her phone screen in front of Kurumi's face.

Instantly his eyes glared at the picture. "Geez! It's a misunderstanding..." Moaning in disbelief, Kurumi continued, "the truth is not so. He just helped me blow dust in my flickering eyes. But why in this photo do we look like we're kissing? Oh christ..." Kurumi put her hand on her forehead and her long hair dangled. Ah, it's worth it today something strange. It turned out to be rooted from the cheap gossip of the two of them.

Suddenly Kurumi got up from her seat. "Where are you going?" Risa asked. "Rui must be in trouble. I have to see him now." A second later, Kurumi's steps quickly left the table without Risa stopping her.

"Where is he?" kurumi heartily searched for the presence of the famous model Rui in the corridor because she did not find him in class.

Sreth!

It struck his mind when he felt his hand being pulled suddenly by someone so that he was now in a spacious room with foreign nuances of luxury. Has many windows. The curtains look heavy and are made of the best materials. A shiny marble floor, some sofas, even a white grand piano on the side of the room. What room is this?

"Ren..., you guys... are here?"

"Taku, really horrendous," Kentaro sighed folding his arms. Rui looked grimacing while scratching her nervous cheeks. "Yes.., I didn't know it was going to be like this either" she responded.

"Ku-chan's chat. I'm sorry. You got into a scandal because of me."

"Rui, how are you going to explain it to your crazy fans?" added Ren. "They chase you like a zombie" Rione remarked mockingly.

"Your side, Kurumi-san's name has become polluted." The words spoken by Shion with a poker face and his classmates make Rui stuck.

"Waah Rui has Kurumi cheered on by your fans," Jiro added, sneering in a lazy tone while eating her snack of potato chips.

"You're evil!" Rui nangis. His imagination again. A second later he grabbed the phone from his pocket. "All right, I'll be there" he closed after hearing a message from someone across the line.

"Kurumi's. You take it easy, I'll sort this out. Now I have to go to the school gate. There's already my manager there, but how? There are so many people waiting for me outside."

"I suggest passing through the east corridor," Kentaro said. Here Rui began to carefully open the door, look left and right, then sneak out like a thief.

"Kurumi, from now on you don't worry about us. How ever you're part of this family." He looked at Ren who said so softly. Her deathly smile calmed Kurumi's uneasiness. They all stood around him in their own style.

It's unbelievable that he was involved with these eccentric people. It seems that God did not grant his prayers.

***

"Hhhh!!! It's right there!!" point Kurumi up, where her bag looks stuck on a tree branch.

While in the second floor window, Risa's sympathy look was unable to do anything to Kurumi who was trying to reach for the bag outside. His heart was heavy, filled with a hint of guilt.

"Hey! What are you guys going to do with Kurumi's bag?!" tegur Risa found the three girls under a shady tree by holding a bag that she was very familiar with. Red teddy bear hangers are the hallmark of Kurumi's purse.

"Return, Naomi!" Risa knows the root of this problem. A warm photo is the conversation! But who would have thought that Naomi, judging her own classmate?

"Risa, huh?" Naomi twists her heels in a haughty style. "Sawaguchi Risa is a poor girl who can't tell her feelings to the ace, Rione."

Stunned Risa's mind heard it. "You-you!" Risa squeezed both sides of her skirt with a furious feeling. "You want to tell Rione?" Naomi's tone and eyes looked demeaning.

"Don't!"

"Eh? Don'tdon't? You are such a coward. If you like, just say like. The hunt is taken."

Risa did not reply immediately. Her heart was like two sides of a sword, and she had to choose between letting Kurumi bag or letting them say her pent-up feelings to Rione.

Both are equally unfavorable. Because he is not ready to accept rejection before there is an approach first. In short, Risa has arranged about her romance with one of the basketball team members.

At that moment Naomi's lips grinned at the doubt on Risa. A second later he swung his hand and the bag got stuck on the bull of a big tree.

He clapped his hands as if he was doing something. Together with Shinoya, they snobbed past the shoulder of Risa who was still pecking on the spot.

Then he straightened his eyes to return to listen to the teacher's explanation.

"Do I have to climb this tree?" He looked at the tree in front. Imagine how he rode it with great difficulty.

"You're so noisy~ can't let me take a little nap, Kurumi." The heavy sound came from the top of the tree. And when the figure woke up, Kurumi's eyelids revealed to recognize who was relaxing during the lesson.

***

"Riname...." Right, the owner of the voice above the tree is Rione. "Can you throw my bag?"

"No" said Rione. "Take it yourself."

"But..." Seeing Kurumi's face glazed over from above, Rione sneered. "Tsk! There's one condition."

"What's that requirement?"

"Easy enough. Just accompany me shopping for shoes for next week's tournament."

"alright. When are we going?"

"Let's tell you."

At that moment three pairs of steps students entered the classroom. A haughty style is seen in students who walk in the middle. His hands were crammed into his pants pocket. "I'm curious about the girl the schoolboy is talking about warmly." Because hearing the insinuating speech that seemed to be heard belonged to a male voice, Kurumi's body froze silently.

"It turns out to be much prettier than in the photo" Nashika said as she graciously grabbed Kurumi's hair from the side of her ear where she and her two friends were standing at the moment.

Then Nashika stepped into the front seat of Kurumi's desk which happened to be empty. "I heard you're the new kid. Go home from school we play yuk," he asked. But a second after that time seemed to slow down when he was surprised to receive a slap in his hand that still carried the girl's long hair.

Nashika did not think that he had any resistance from the owner. Withstanding her annoyance, Kurumi dared to jerk at the hands of this unknown man before her who was considered brash.

"Well, well, there's also an expensive selling girl like you, huh?" comment Nashika. While the seriousness of the sharp gaze appears in the mimic of Kurumi.

"Na-nashika!" call Mori in shock.

"Huh?"

"In-she's the girl we told you about!" he said along with a thin student named Akira.

Nashika mumbled thinking. "Did? Rione? So you're Shimizu Kurumi?"

"I'm not afraid of him" Nashika said. "Hey Miss Shimizu, will you be my girlfriend?" her door, one hand that returned outstretched to caress Kurumi's hair again had to be stopped in the air when grabbed by another hand. Nashika's gaze rolled up and found a pair of sharp eyes stabbing her behind the glasses.

"Don't touch Kurumi," Kentaro pressed seriously. His grip that Nashika felt could have been bone-defeating had his strength been enhanced once more. "Damn it," Nashika's annoyance flung out, and Kentaro did not block it anymore.

"Come on." This time the bespectacled young man pulled Kurumi's small hand. Take him out of class.

"Stare at me and the food in front of you, don't look around" Ken's orders instantly turned Kurumi's gaze away from the dozens of pairs of eyes that were gossiping her in the canteen.

Kurumi blinked gawking at Kentaro's attitude today.

***

The discomfort Kurumi felt along her steps towards the house when everyone noticed her, be it on the bus to get off at the next stop. He continued to try to cover his face with hair when the gazes and pointing pointed at him were directed at him.

The pull of someone's hand suddenly jolted Kurumi and a second later she was already in the van. "Hey what's going on?" kurumi protests but is quickly interrupted by the adult woman sitting next to her. "You're Kurumi, right? Look, don't even get seen talking or being close to Rui once if you don't want to be the center of attention anymore." Words are threatening but there is a point also that was not immediately reciprocated Kurumi who was digesting who was a red-lipped woman with thick makeup in front of her.

"That's right, Ku-chan." A familiar voice chimed in and Kurumi only found out when she saw Rui's face looking behind the seat near the wheel. "For the time being I won't be taking classes until this news goes away on its own. It's for your own good, too. Because of me, you got bullied by school friends, didn't you?" Chief Kurumi shook her head slowly understanding something. "What if you stay in class? It's because of me. You should stay in school, Rui." Seeing the self-blame streak of the girl, a faint smile rose on Rui's lips. "You don't have to worry about me. All you have to worry about is yourself. Your face is everywhere thanks to this rumor. I'll add to my schedule." Rui paused her sentence for a moment. "Promise me."

"No way." Instantly his shoulder was forcefully touched and he now turned to look at the woman. "I, as his manager, don't allow people like you to interfere with Rui's work," his hard as his chin is slightly raised conceited and his sharp eyes twitch Kurumi's guts to refute. "But.." whispered. He glanced at Rui who was waiting for him. "I'm not authorized to anything." Then Kurumi shifted the car door open and stepped her foot out until her back was not visible anymore as the door moved closed. Rui caught a glum look at the girl. He stared at the departure of Kurumi. Rui secretly felt even more guilt towards the girl who had given him a shot of spirit without the girl even noticing.

Meanwhile Kurumi will not let this problem make Rui must be absent.

***

The beautiful silhouette of twilight dimmed as the sun slipped into the western horizon replaced with the darkness of the air filled the sky Tokyo. Between the glitter of urban traffic and the hustle and bustle of the night market, two gender-different teens are clashing inside a dim alley flanked by two gaming buildings.

"I told you! Stop following me! I'm not going to date you!" Flushed that pretty face because of the rising anger.

"Is it because of that guy? Lookatme! I'm even better than that tired guy!"

"So talk! Once again saying Rui's ugliness, I'll-" Naomi's threat has not been finished uttered when the man named Nashika charming his lips full of naps.

Meanwhile from the other direction Kurumi looked pensive. "But, what do I have to do so that Rui can go to school again?" his monologue. Suddenly the movement of the shoes stopped and Kurumi was like fixated. While Naomi's eyes glared at the girl's existence.

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