RP Log: Yumiko and Kikumaru
Who: Kikumaru Eiji and Fuji Yumiko
Where: Yumiko’s classroom
When: 5th of June
What: Kidnapping Eiji for some Tarot reading
Warnings: None ♥
Rating: Um, low.
Comments: Eiji is so eatable!
Kikumaru Eiji was feeling distinctly bouncy, as he always did at the end of classes. It meant another day of half-paying attention had ended without too much incident, and it meant he could finally get outdoors into the fresh early-morning air, and maybe say hi to some of the Day Class members before the Guardians chased them off. He’d been delayed a bit because he’d wanted to ask the history teacher something about their last assignment, so he was in a hurry to get out before he got scolded for lurking around. Halfway through his mad-dash through the corridor, somewhere in the vicinity of the music classroom, he heard a rather unpleasant ripping sound and the tumble of books in a cascade around him. He let out a cry of alarm, scrambling to grab all of his belongings (including entirely random things that he picked up on the way between school and dorms) before they rolled, spun or simply ran away from him.
“Get back here!” he demanded, getting down on all fours to pounce on a particularly interesting marble he’d once found by the lake.
Yumiko heard the commotion outside her class, and went to see what it was. She was quite tired, having been up all night teaching or just staying awake between the classes, even though her classes were relatively small yet and she didn’t have much problems with them. The problem was staying awake at night while being a day person.
She opened the door and a pretty-looking marble rolled into her feet. She bent down to pick it up, even though it meant her breasts nearly falling out of the confines of her shirt. Her heels were that high tonight. The marble reflected a red hair and Yumiko straightened up to see its owner, who, at the moment brought a cat to her mind more than a vampire kid. She lifted the marble to the height of her eyes and levelled an amber look at the cute student. “Is this yours, sweetheart?”
Eiji didn’t recognise the young woman he found himself almost face-to-face with. She looked like a teacher and smelled… well, kinda perfumy, but also very human. A human teacher then, he concluded, before realising he was staring, and not only at her face, unfortunately, considering that from his vantage point her… Colouring profusely before the thought could complete itself, he sprang back up to his feet, a little backwards leap, and bowed. “Ah- um, yeah!” he said, nodding. There was something strangely familiar about the woman, and about that look in her eyes. He frowned slightly, wondering where he could have seen her before, voicing the thought out loud without realising it.
Yumiko brought her free hand on her lips as she chuckled. “Saa, I wouldn’t know. Unless you’ve met my little brother? Some people say we have the same air~“ She stepped forward, taking the boy’s hand in her’s and pressing the pretty little marble in it. “Here, take better care of it, kitten.”
She didn’t let go of the hand immediately, instead she waited until his eyes came up to meet her gaze again. “Say, would you like to keep me company for a little while?” Cute things were good for her eyes, after all, and he seemed like someone who could easily become dear to her.
“Fujiko-chan!" he exclaimed before he could stop himself. "That's who you're like!” He blinked at the ‘kitten’, however. What was with him and animal nicknames, anyway? And she seemed intent on keeping his hand captive too, bringing him to ponder whether she was Fuji in another world or… “You look a lot like him… kinda… in a girly wa… You’re Fuji-nee-san-sensei!?”
”Bingo~” It seemed she was still easily mistaken for Syuusuke. Yumiko smiled sweetly - she remembered the kid now too. From the long nick name if from nothing else. It was the boy who had commented on her journal entry. Syuusuke’s little friend. “But do we really look that much the same?”
Eiji grinned back, somewhat nervously since the young woman was still holding his hand and it was beginning to get a little... unnerving... He shook his head in response to her question, colouring slightly, and not quite looking at her as he replied "You, er, smell the same. Kinda... It's cuz you're family, nya."
”The same smell…” Yumiko repeated slowly thoughtfully. Then she chuckled. “Maa, you’re just like a cat, Eiji-kun~ That’s incredible!” She shook boy’s hand warmly, noticing finally that she had yet to let go. Watching their hands for a moment she made an impulsive decision. “So, you’ll keep me company for a while, won’t you?” she said again tugging the boy with her to the classroom, and closed the door behind them. Technically she had just kidnapped Syuusuke’s little friend, but she let that slide. It wasn’t as if she was about to do anything bad to him.
Eiji panicked briefly. In his experience teachers rarely shut doors unless they had some serious yelling to do, and he knew he hadn't done anything to upset the music teacher. But he was curious... Fujiko-chan's sister would be as mysterious as him, so hanging out with her, even though she was a teacher, would be fun, right? However, there was one thing he had to correct, "Not a cat," he said, half pouting, wondering whether to be pleased or not that it wasn't 'puppy'.
“I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, Eiji-kun.” The woman sighed sadly, letting go of his hand now that she had prevented him from leaving. “I think it’s amazing~”
Yumiko went to the window, pulling the curtains to cover up the light coming from outside. She moved around in her high heels with practised ease, and when she turned to walk back to the boy she was smiling mysteriously. She stopped by her desk and gestured the student to come closer. “Eiji-kun, would you like me to read your future?”
If Eiji had ever doubted that the woman was Fuji's sister, that smile cinched it. It had the same air of mystery, of knowing much more than he could ever hope to know, all in one simple gesture. He was almost intimidated enough to take a step backwards, but what the teacher said next got his complete attention. "The future...? Like- like- fortune telling?" he asked, an excited gleam in his eyes.
Yumiko couldn’t help but chuckle again. She pushed her hair behind her shoulders and nodded. “Maa, something like that.” She crouched down to her purse and took her trusted deck of old decorated tarot cards from it. “Come and sit opposite me. Do you believe in forces of Destiny, sweetheart?”
Eiji blinked at the young woman, wondering what she meant, taking note of the curious deck of cards she drew from her purse. He recognised them, somewhat, from having seen a fortune-teller at a booth in a local carnival once… If he remembered the word for them it was… “Tarot,” he murmured, his gaze fixed on the patterns visible on the back of the deck. When he looked up at Yumiko-sensei again it was with a gleam of interest in his eyes. “I dunno much ‘bout destiny and stuff,” he admitted. “But… you can tell the future with those?”
“Why don’t you wait and see, dear.” Confident in her reading, Yumiko barely needed to assure her cards told the truth in her hands. Her eyes stayed in the student as she released her beloved cards from their binds with practised ease. The cards were larger than normal playing cards but they seemed to fit perfectly in her delicate hands. “Is there something specific you would like to know, Eiji-kun?”
He nodded, raising a thoughtful finger to his lip as he wondered what he wanted to know. “Hmm…” One thing rose in his mind above all others, and surprisingly it was the math assignment he’d been worrying about the past few days and still wasn’t sure if he finished or not. “There’s this assignment,” he began, a little hesitant considering he was talking to a teacher and she could very possibly tell his math teacher about it. “I’m kinda worried about it, nya… I don’t even know if I handed it in an’ I could be in a lotta trouble if I haven’t…”
Yumiko nodded and thought for a moment, before shuffling her cards and dealing five cards on the table in the form of a simple cross, which meant creative process to her eyes, but very little to eyes which knew Tarot only by its name. Before she turned even one card around she drew in a deep cleansing breath, and cleared her mind by letting the air out with all the possible confusing qualities in her mind. “Are you ready, sweetheart? I cannot promise you what I will tell you is what you want to hear, because I have no saying to what my cards will tell you.”
It was all new and quite wondrous to the young Aristocrat, and although the idea of what the cards would tell him scared him somewhat, he wasn't about to admit it; not to himself and not to the young woman sitting across from him. He nodded, "I'm ready," he said firmly, and grinned self-consciously. "This is kinda cool, nya~"
“Then, let’s begin.” Yumiko gave the kid one last mysterious smile and reached to turn over the first card, the one in the middle. The force behind the project was the Three of Cups, Abundance. A time of merriment with friends. “It seems you’ve had fun lately, Eiji-kun. Is it the play? Do you have a part in it?” She didn’t know nearly as much about the play his students kept gushing about as she wanted to, but it really seemed to be a cause of joy for many. She turned over the next card, the one on top. The Imagination, stemming from the creative force, was Strength, raw power.
Yumiko nodded to herself with a solemn expression and lifted her understanding, serious eyes to her student for a short moment. “It must have made it easier to tackle the subject, even if you disliked it.”
Eiji had wondered how mystical a fortune reading about an assignment could be, but that thought was blown out of his mind as she began to turn over the cards. Blue eyes followed her fingers, curious and in more than a little awe, and nodded at her question, smiling brightly. “It’s a really tiny role but lotsa fun nya!” he chirped. “I get to play a duster and my only big part’s with Sae-chan but that’s okay!” That was, he thought, the best part of his role, besides the fact that they all got to perform together like that. He’d grown up in a big house, being around lots of people was fun in itself. He sobered a bit at her solemnity, feeling his enthusiasm a little out of place. “Math sucks,” he said, making a face. “But hanging with Sae-chan… and the others,” he added, “That kinda made it okay!”
Yumiko had just turned around another card, the one on the left, and it fit quite well with what he told her. The emotion awoken by the surroundings was the Magician, Mastery of Word, Mind and Matter. “And still you did very well, even if the subject wasn’t your favourite,” she congratulated him. “Your hard work was rewarded with results.” She turned the bottom card, and nodded. Judgement, a swift and conclusive decision, unexpected turn of events. “Something distracted you enough to make you forget what you did with the completed assignment and now you’re confused, and fear you might have bad fortune coming on you for getting distracted on that important day.”
She reached out and held her hand on top of the last card for a moment for suspense. Yumiko could see the boy’s eyes sparkling as he followed her hands. When she finally turned the card over her expression melted into a relieved smile. Only now she saw she’d been just as nervous about the result as the boy. Talk about tuning her consciousness to match her client’s.
A wheel of fortune, unexpected turn of good fortune, success, luck and happiness. “You don’t have to worry about your assignment, sweetheart. It seems you’re not as forgetful as you feared.” She let the card fall in its place. “And I should say your sensei shall be very pleased with it.”
Eiji had been holding his breath as she made her reading. He was far too easily distracted all the time and if the assignment was gone and he was doomed it was going to be entirely his fault and he’d be in detention and then his parents would find out and…. He saw the teacher smile and felt his heart come up somewhere to the vicinity of his neck, bursting out into a cry of joy when she said it was all right.
“Really?!” he exclaimed, launching him off his perch and flinging his arms around the teacher’s neck in an ecstatic, relieved hug. “I won’t get into trouble then!” he said. “Uwaaa! Thank you so much, Fuji-nee-san-sen…” Eyes widening with the realisation that he was in fact hugging a teacher and a very human one at that, he let go and raised an embarrassed hand to his neck. “Sorry,” he said with a mortified grin.
Yumiko laughed a little startledly. She hadn’t expected such a vivid expressing of joy, though she now felt she should’ve, but she found she didn’t mind it. The kid’s joy was contagious. “I did nothing,” she said, ignoring the apology. She didn’t need one. She collected the cards into her hands and added them back to the deck. “You, sweetie, you did a wonderful job with your assignment. It’s all you.” She leaned closer to the boy and smiled warmly. “Congratulations.”
Eiji shook his head, somehow convinced that the young woman in all her occult-ness had somehow managed to save the day. “It’s amazing, nya!” he exclaimed honestly, eyes sparkling with wonder. “Do the cards tell you everything?” he asked curiously.
“Saa~” Yumiko hid behind her mysterious smile again. Of course she did her best, but she only had her cards. Cards had limited power and they could also be read wrong. But - she came around her table and winked her eye coyly at the boy as she went to pull the curtains from the windows - the kitten didn’t have to know that. He wouldn’t only be disappointed. Not to mention Yumiko enjoyed the admiring eyes that followed her.
She looked out and yawned, hidden from the kid. It seemed more time had passed than she’d been aware off. “It seems it’s about your curfew, little one,” she told him.
He couldn’t help but assume the entire Fuji clan was expert at being mysterious and knowing more than he at least did at any point in time. Even the saa sounded eerily like Fujiko’s, except he didn’t wink like that, he thought, blushing slightly. The orange-red of distant sunrise sent a jolt of surprise through him and he literally jumped in alarm.
“Oh no! You’re right!” he exclaimed, gathering books and bag haphazardly. “I just hope Day Class isn’t around yet or Yuuta-kun’ll tell me off again!” He bowed low to the woman, locks of dark crimson falling into his face. “Thank you again, nya!”
“Tell Yuuta I said hi~” Yumiko said sweetly. “If he scolds you, that is. Now gogogo~!” She waved him off happily, imagining his baby brother’s face if Eiji did run into him.
Eiji nodded, remembering only then that Fuji Yuuta was, of course, a member of the same family. “I’ll do that, Fuji-nee-san-sensei,” he said, grinning and flashing her a victory sign before gathering his bundle in his arms. He half dashed to the door then spun on his heel. “Can I come again?” he asked, bouncing slightly on the balls of his feet in preparation of a quick getaway. “Not to find out about assignments but, y’know, other stuff?” He really hoped she’d say yes.
Yumiko lifted one carefully drawn eyebrow. "Of course. I'd-" She smiled mysteriously. "-be delighted to have you, dear." Her smile lit up a thousand watts when the kid cheered and dashed out fire on his heels. What an interesting little kitten she'd come across~ ♥
Where: Yumiko’s classroom
When: 5th of June
What: Kidnapping Eiji for some Tarot reading
Warnings: None ♥
Rating: Um, low.
Comments: Eiji is so eatable!
Kikumaru Eiji was feeling distinctly bouncy, as he always did at the end of classes. It meant another day of half-paying attention had ended without too much incident, and it meant he could finally get outdoors into the fresh early-morning air, and maybe say hi to some of the Day Class members before the Guardians chased them off. He’d been delayed a bit because he’d wanted to ask the history teacher something about their last assignment, so he was in a hurry to get out before he got scolded for lurking around. Halfway through his mad-dash through the corridor, somewhere in the vicinity of the music classroom, he heard a rather unpleasant ripping sound and the tumble of books in a cascade around him. He let out a cry of alarm, scrambling to grab all of his belongings (including entirely random things that he picked up on the way between school and dorms) before they rolled, spun or simply ran away from him.
“Get back here!” he demanded, getting down on all fours to pounce on a particularly interesting marble he’d once found by the lake.
Yumiko heard the commotion outside her class, and went to see what it was. She was quite tired, having been up all night teaching or just staying awake between the classes, even though her classes were relatively small yet and she didn’t have much problems with them. The problem was staying awake at night while being a day person.
She opened the door and a pretty-looking marble rolled into her feet. She bent down to pick it up, even though it meant her breasts nearly falling out of the confines of her shirt. Her heels were that high tonight. The marble reflected a red hair and Yumiko straightened up to see its owner, who, at the moment brought a cat to her mind more than a vampire kid. She lifted the marble to the height of her eyes and levelled an amber look at the cute student. “Is this yours, sweetheart?”
Eiji didn’t recognise the young woman he found himself almost face-to-face with. She looked like a teacher and smelled… well, kinda perfumy, but also very human. A human teacher then, he concluded, before realising he was staring, and not only at her face, unfortunately, considering that from his vantage point her… Colouring profusely before the thought could complete itself, he sprang back up to his feet, a little backwards leap, and bowed. “Ah- um, yeah!” he said, nodding. There was something strangely familiar about the woman, and about that look in her eyes. He frowned slightly, wondering where he could have seen her before, voicing the thought out loud without realising it.
Yumiko brought her free hand on her lips as she chuckled. “Saa, I wouldn’t know. Unless you’ve met my little brother? Some people say we have the same air~“ She stepped forward, taking the boy’s hand in her’s and pressing the pretty little marble in it. “Here, take better care of it, kitten.”
She didn’t let go of the hand immediately, instead she waited until his eyes came up to meet her gaze again. “Say, would you like to keep me company for a little while?” Cute things were good for her eyes, after all, and he seemed like someone who could easily become dear to her.
“Fujiko-chan!" he exclaimed before he could stop himself. "That's who you're like!” He blinked at the ‘kitten’, however. What was with him and animal nicknames, anyway? And she seemed intent on keeping his hand captive too, bringing him to ponder whether she was Fuji in another world or… “You look a lot like him… kinda… in a girly wa… You’re Fuji-nee-san-sensei!?”
”Bingo~” It seemed she was still easily mistaken for Syuusuke. Yumiko smiled sweetly - she remembered the kid now too. From the long nick name if from nothing else. It was the boy who had commented on her journal entry. Syuusuke’s little friend. “But do we really look that much the same?”
Eiji grinned back, somewhat nervously since the young woman was still holding his hand and it was beginning to get a little... unnerving... He shook his head in response to her question, colouring slightly, and not quite looking at her as he replied "You, er, smell the same. Kinda... It's cuz you're family, nya."
”The same smell…” Yumiko repeated slowly thoughtfully. Then she chuckled. “Maa, you’re just like a cat, Eiji-kun~ That’s incredible!” She shook boy’s hand warmly, noticing finally that she had yet to let go. Watching their hands for a moment she made an impulsive decision. “So, you’ll keep me company for a while, won’t you?” she said again tugging the boy with her to the classroom, and closed the door behind them. Technically she had just kidnapped Syuusuke’s little friend, but she let that slide. It wasn’t as if she was about to do anything bad to him.
Eiji panicked briefly. In his experience teachers rarely shut doors unless they had some serious yelling to do, and he knew he hadn't done anything to upset the music teacher. But he was curious... Fujiko-chan's sister would be as mysterious as him, so hanging out with her, even though she was a teacher, would be fun, right? However, there was one thing he had to correct, "Not a cat," he said, half pouting, wondering whether to be pleased or not that it wasn't 'puppy'.
“I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, Eiji-kun.” The woman sighed sadly, letting go of his hand now that she had prevented him from leaving. “I think it’s amazing~”
Yumiko went to the window, pulling the curtains to cover up the light coming from outside. She moved around in her high heels with practised ease, and when she turned to walk back to the boy she was smiling mysteriously. She stopped by her desk and gestured the student to come closer. “Eiji-kun, would you like me to read your future?”
If Eiji had ever doubted that the woman was Fuji's sister, that smile cinched it. It had the same air of mystery, of knowing much more than he could ever hope to know, all in one simple gesture. He was almost intimidated enough to take a step backwards, but what the teacher said next got his complete attention. "The future...? Like- like- fortune telling?" he asked, an excited gleam in his eyes.
Yumiko couldn’t help but chuckle again. She pushed her hair behind her shoulders and nodded. “Maa, something like that.” She crouched down to her purse and took her trusted deck of old decorated tarot cards from it. “Come and sit opposite me. Do you believe in forces of Destiny, sweetheart?”
Eiji blinked at the young woman, wondering what she meant, taking note of the curious deck of cards she drew from her purse. He recognised them, somewhat, from having seen a fortune-teller at a booth in a local carnival once… If he remembered the word for them it was… “Tarot,” he murmured, his gaze fixed on the patterns visible on the back of the deck. When he looked up at Yumiko-sensei again it was with a gleam of interest in his eyes. “I dunno much ‘bout destiny and stuff,” he admitted. “But… you can tell the future with those?”
“Why don’t you wait and see, dear.” Confident in her reading, Yumiko barely needed to assure her cards told the truth in her hands. Her eyes stayed in the student as she released her beloved cards from their binds with practised ease. The cards were larger than normal playing cards but they seemed to fit perfectly in her delicate hands. “Is there something specific you would like to know, Eiji-kun?”
He nodded, raising a thoughtful finger to his lip as he wondered what he wanted to know. “Hmm…” One thing rose in his mind above all others, and surprisingly it was the math assignment he’d been worrying about the past few days and still wasn’t sure if he finished or not. “There’s this assignment,” he began, a little hesitant considering he was talking to a teacher and she could very possibly tell his math teacher about it. “I’m kinda worried about it, nya… I don’t even know if I handed it in an’ I could be in a lotta trouble if I haven’t…”
Yumiko nodded and thought for a moment, before shuffling her cards and dealing five cards on the table in the form of a simple cross, which meant creative process to her eyes, but very little to eyes which knew Tarot only by its name. Before she turned even one card around she drew in a deep cleansing breath, and cleared her mind by letting the air out with all the possible confusing qualities in her mind. “Are you ready, sweetheart? I cannot promise you what I will tell you is what you want to hear, because I have no saying to what my cards will tell you.”
It was all new and quite wondrous to the young Aristocrat, and although the idea of what the cards would tell him scared him somewhat, he wasn't about to admit it; not to himself and not to the young woman sitting across from him. He nodded, "I'm ready," he said firmly, and grinned self-consciously. "This is kinda cool, nya~"
“Then, let’s begin.” Yumiko gave the kid one last mysterious smile and reached to turn over the first card, the one in the middle. The force behind the project was the Three of Cups, Abundance. A time of merriment with friends. “It seems you’ve had fun lately, Eiji-kun. Is it the play? Do you have a part in it?” She didn’t know nearly as much about the play his students kept gushing about as she wanted to, but it really seemed to be a cause of joy for many. She turned over the next card, the one on top. The Imagination, stemming from the creative force, was Strength, raw power.
Yumiko nodded to herself with a solemn expression and lifted her understanding, serious eyes to her student for a short moment. “It must have made it easier to tackle the subject, even if you disliked it.”
Eiji had wondered how mystical a fortune reading about an assignment could be, but that thought was blown out of his mind as she began to turn over the cards. Blue eyes followed her fingers, curious and in more than a little awe, and nodded at her question, smiling brightly. “It’s a really tiny role but lotsa fun nya!” he chirped. “I get to play a duster and my only big part’s with Sae-chan but that’s okay!” That was, he thought, the best part of his role, besides the fact that they all got to perform together like that. He’d grown up in a big house, being around lots of people was fun in itself. He sobered a bit at her solemnity, feeling his enthusiasm a little out of place. “Math sucks,” he said, making a face. “But hanging with Sae-chan… and the others,” he added, “That kinda made it okay!”
Yumiko had just turned around another card, the one on the left, and it fit quite well with what he told her. The emotion awoken by the surroundings was the Magician, Mastery of Word, Mind and Matter. “And still you did very well, even if the subject wasn’t your favourite,” she congratulated him. “Your hard work was rewarded with results.” She turned the bottom card, and nodded. Judgement, a swift and conclusive decision, unexpected turn of events. “Something distracted you enough to make you forget what you did with the completed assignment and now you’re confused, and fear you might have bad fortune coming on you for getting distracted on that important day.”
She reached out and held her hand on top of the last card for a moment for suspense. Yumiko could see the boy’s eyes sparkling as he followed her hands. When she finally turned the card over her expression melted into a relieved smile. Only now she saw she’d been just as nervous about the result as the boy. Talk about tuning her consciousness to match her client’s.
A wheel of fortune, unexpected turn of good fortune, success, luck and happiness. “You don’t have to worry about your assignment, sweetheart. It seems you’re not as forgetful as you feared.” She let the card fall in its place. “And I should say your sensei shall be very pleased with it.”
Eiji had been holding his breath as she made her reading. He was far too easily distracted all the time and if the assignment was gone and he was doomed it was going to be entirely his fault and he’d be in detention and then his parents would find out and…. He saw the teacher smile and felt his heart come up somewhere to the vicinity of his neck, bursting out into a cry of joy when she said it was all right.
“Really?!” he exclaimed, launching him off his perch and flinging his arms around the teacher’s neck in an ecstatic, relieved hug. “I won’t get into trouble then!” he said. “Uwaaa! Thank you so much, Fuji-nee-san-sen…” Eyes widening with the realisation that he was in fact hugging a teacher and a very human one at that, he let go and raised an embarrassed hand to his neck. “Sorry,” he said with a mortified grin.
Yumiko laughed a little startledly. She hadn’t expected such a vivid expressing of joy, though she now felt she should’ve, but she found she didn’t mind it. The kid’s joy was contagious. “I did nothing,” she said, ignoring the apology. She didn’t need one. She collected the cards into her hands and added them back to the deck. “You, sweetie, you did a wonderful job with your assignment. It’s all you.” She leaned closer to the boy and smiled warmly. “Congratulations.”
Eiji shook his head, somehow convinced that the young woman in all her occult-ness had somehow managed to save the day. “It’s amazing, nya!” he exclaimed honestly, eyes sparkling with wonder. “Do the cards tell you everything?” he asked curiously.
“Saa~” Yumiko hid behind her mysterious smile again. Of course she did her best, but she only had her cards. Cards had limited power and they could also be read wrong. But - she came around her table and winked her eye coyly at the boy as she went to pull the curtains from the windows - the kitten didn’t have to know that. He wouldn’t only be disappointed. Not to mention Yumiko enjoyed the admiring eyes that followed her.
She looked out and yawned, hidden from the kid. It seemed more time had passed than she’d been aware off. “It seems it’s about your curfew, little one,” she told him.
He couldn’t help but assume the entire Fuji clan was expert at being mysterious and knowing more than he at least did at any point in time. Even the saa sounded eerily like Fujiko’s, except he didn’t wink like that, he thought, blushing slightly. The orange-red of distant sunrise sent a jolt of surprise through him and he literally jumped in alarm.
“Oh no! You’re right!” he exclaimed, gathering books and bag haphazardly. “I just hope Day Class isn’t around yet or Yuuta-kun’ll tell me off again!” He bowed low to the woman, locks of dark crimson falling into his face. “Thank you again, nya!”
“Tell Yuuta I said hi~” Yumiko said sweetly. “If he scolds you, that is. Now gogogo~!” She waved him off happily, imagining his baby brother’s face if Eiji did run into him.
Eiji nodded, remembering only then that Fuji Yuuta was, of course, a member of the same family. “I’ll do that, Fuji-nee-san-sensei,” he said, grinning and flashing her a victory sign before gathering his bundle in his arms. He half dashed to the door then spun on his heel. “Can I come again?” he asked, bouncing slightly on the balls of his feet in preparation of a quick getaway. “Not to find out about assignments but, y’know, other stuff?” He really hoped she’d say yes.
Yumiko lifted one carefully drawn eyebrow. "Of course. I'd-" She smiled mysteriously. "-be delighted to have you, dear." Her smile lit up a thousand watts when the kid cheered and dashed out fire on his heels. What an interesting little kitten she'd come across~ ♥