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"Should we hit the gym?" Chifuyu asked when he noticed that his friend is being restless.

Baji's walking back and fort inside Chifuyu's room for almost half an hour now while he's feeding his cat, Peke J. Chifuyu pat Peke J's head before standing up to return the cat food container above the shelf.

Baji on the other hand suddenly dropped his back on Chifuyu's bed and blankly starred at the ceiling. Thinking about that hug he did last night.

He couldn't believe that he was able to do that for the first time. Eichi didn't even react to push him or nag at him for such an action. The warmth feeling of the hug still lingers inside him. It's a miracle that he was able to got home safe after that though. This feeling!

He suddenly smiled that followed by a chuckle. Baji can't believe that he's acting like this after the hug. It seems like he won a very prestigious award in the whole planet. He can't explain what he is feeling, all he knows is that he like... love the feeling of being able to hold Eichi in his arms.

"Should we go to the hospital instead? It seems like your mental state is unstable, Baji-san." Chifuyu said who's silently watching him. Actually, he somehow find it creepy that his friend is acting like this. He's not his usual self. I wonder what happened to him. Chifuyu thought.

Baji sat up and looked at him. "Say, Chifuyu, should I court Eichi?" he asked.

Chifuyu's brows raised, "Aren't you courting her already?" he asked confused. 

With his friend's reaction from the time Eichi won the Council President title up until now, that is someone's reaction when they truly support an individual. And supporting an individual with his heart is also somehow defined as love. Which means, Baji-san is inl ove and in order to court a girl, you need to like her first or you can just love her straight away. Isn't what Baji-san doing right now is already courting?

"Not yet, man. I'm just trying to get close to her." Baji answered. He sighed in amusement. All this time he really thought Baji's already courting their senpai. Then what was that all about? Fooling around? Chifuyu cannot handle how hard this wordplay his friend is doing with him right now.

"So what'd you say? Should I court her?" why is he asking me?

"If you really like her, then why not? Go for it." he responded. Crossing his arms. Suddenly, Baji pouted. Wah, this guy. Since when did he became like this? Chifuyu thought.

"But what if she rejects me? How am I supposed to live again?" he dramatically said making Chifuyu frown.

This time, Chifuyu really can't bear Baji today. He doesn't have any idea what happened to him but he's sure that it's quite related to Eichi or...it is actually. And he can't stand it anymore unlike it used to, every time something happened he's getting weirder and weirder. Draken-kun is also in love but this doesn't happened to him, so why the hell it happened with Baji-san?

Chifuyu grabbed Peek J's yarn toy and throw it at Baji's face that made him mad. "What the hell?!"

"Stop acting like a child, Baji-san. It does not suit you. If she rejects you then move on. With your status with her now, rejecting you has a lower possibility." he simply said.

"Really?!"

"Really." he seriously said. Baji is kind of smart, but with this kind of thing? He's too dumb. Chifuyu sighed, even him will turn into a dumbass of he keep getting involve in Baji's love life problems. He just hope that when the time he'll be in love come , he won't act like this. It's the worst.

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Sunday came by but Eichi just stayed home. Actually, it's her rest day. No school works involve or anything just laying on her bed chilling. Her parents both have their own work and his older brother were out to somewhere. She's left alone with Toshiki who's totally just annoying her.

Ever since Toshi was bought by her brother two years ago, the both of them were not in good terms to begin with. Despite the fact that she like animals, Toshiki is an exception . The cat really has some attitude issues, he's a bitchy bitch.

"Come on, drink your milk already. Why is it hard for you to follow me?" she's getting annoyed. But Toshiki really don't like her and instead of drinking his milk, he intentionally spill it so that Eichi would clean it up. He's a fine smart ass cat, indeed.

Eichi groaned in frustration. Being left alone with Toshi is inevitable for her who's a home buddy. There's nothing she can do about it. She grabbed a rag and cleaned up the mess Toshiki made. If she didn't bother, then who else would when she's alone?

"That's it!" she exclaimed. She pointed at the cat who doesn't even give a damn about a thing, "You stay here. I'm going out. Don't you dare leave the house or else no one will come to find you." She knew that no matter how much she nag at the annoying cat, he won't follow her and definitely will sneak out again.

If he sneak out again then her brother should find him. Toshi's not my pet to be my responsibility after all.

She changed clothes or rather changed into pants before going out. She let her hair down and wore her glasses instead of her contacts. Should I visit a shrine to cleanse my mind?

These past few weeks, she's been busy with the council as the school festival is finally approaching. She's obligated to do a bunch of paper works and visitation to every club about the upcoming festival. The stress she had been enduring will be gone by the time the festival is already over, which is 2 weeks away from now.

Just like she said, she visited a shrine near to their house. Musashi shrine to be exact.

The sun is about to set when she arrived, only to find a bunch of motorbikes parked there and a lot of guys wearing the same clothes, a pair of black jacket and baggy pants with a pair of white boots.

She didn't bother to look at them and just walked pass by to get into the shrine. But some dude suddenly gripped her wrist and pulled her. What the...

"Hey cutie, you goin' there?" a guy with a cigarette in his mouth said and pointing at the stairs that leads to the shrine.

"Obviously." she answered and starred coldly at him. Geez, the smoke and smell. He stinks really bad, honestly.

"My, my. You think you're scary enough with that attitude?" the guy said, spitting the cigarette at the side. What is his problem? I'm just visiting the shrine. What's with the gangster-like get up? Is this some kind of movie or what?

"Hey fucker! Get your hands off her!" Eichi was startled when someone shouted. When she turned around she didn't expect to see Baji standing on the stairs. Wearing the same as the other guys and his hair is surprisingly tied up. This is the first time I saw him with his hair up. He looked clean.

The guy suddenly let go of her wrist, leaving it red. She massaged it to lessen the redness. Silently cursing the cigar guy because of what he did.

On the other side, Baji saw her massaging her wrist from the stairs he's standing, it made his blood boil in anger. He just beat up some guy and it seems like he's gonna get someone beat up again. He immediately walked down, clenching his fist, tightening his jaw. Members began to make way for him to pass in. When he reached them he suddenly kicked the guy that shocked Eichi.

"Stop messing around her, you fucker! Who's your captain, huh?!" Baji was furious that it actually scared Eichi. She tried to remain calm and grabbed his hand when he's about to punch the guy even though he already kicked him.

"Hey stop! What's wrong with you?" she asked nervously after he saw the guy kneeling and holding his stomach. She hold Baji's hands tightly. She looked around and see that everyone is watching them. Damn it! Now people's attention are on us!

Baji's breathing deep as he tried to stop himself from beating the guy. "Answer me, you piece of shit!" he shouted.

"Mitsuya's.... Sir" he guy talked. He turned around and looked at Mitsuya who's crossing his arms, watching them. Beside him is Draken and Mikey as well as Chifuyu.

"Stop it already. They're looking at us, damn it." he suddenly realized that Eichi is holding him tightly and her hands is turning cold. She looked scared and she got the eyes that's begging him to stop.

Baji snapped out of it and sighed. He got no other choice but to carry Eichi onto his shoulder. If he carries her in a bridal style, he's sure that Eichi will just refuse. They moved to another place where Toman guys won't see them. Specifically at the back of the shrine covered with trees.

He gently sat her down to the bench he saw. "What's with that?! Why did you kicked him?" The moment she sat down she nagged at him. Eichi is angry because she doesn't have any clue who are those guys and he just beat the man up like he's some kind of shit.

"He hurted you." he said, keeping himself calm and took her wrist to show her the reddening wrist of hers." See? You got hurt and I can't stand it. I'm sorry. " he looked down and closed his eyes.

" Yes! I got hurt but that's not an enough reason to hurt someone that badly! Geez!" she's obviously angry by what he did. If only she knows. He thought.

Eichi took a deep breath." Just... just don't do it again." she doesn't want to argue about it anymore, it's pointless though." You scared me. "she whispered.

All she wanted was to visit the shrine. Why did it ended up like this? And who are those people?

"I'm sorry." he said again, "What are you doing here by the way? Its Sunday." Baji knew that every Sunday is Eichi's rest day. Rest day means her staying all day to her room. He just knew.

"Just wanted to visit the shrine but after what happened maybe I'll be heading home for now." she said.

Baji can't speak up, afraid that his anger would take over himself so he just sighed.

Eichi took her leave but no matter how he much urge of wanting to drive her home, he can't because they have a meeting so returned to the shrine instead.

"Is that your wifey? Why'd you bring her here, dumbass?" Draken asked when he came back.

His friends except Chifuyu, don't know that he has someone he like. But it seems like they already know it after the incident. Its pretty obvious by how he reacted.

"She said she wanted to visit the shrine and I didn't know that she'd go here." Baji said, "But that guy hurt her so I countered. Who is he to hurt Eichi, that thick face lizard? Will you punish me for doing such a thing, Mikey? "he said and undo his hair tie that leaves his hair down again.

Mikey chuckled," You got a valid reason to that, I guess. The meeting's not even starting yet so I guess no. "

His friends laughed at him. Finding it cute that Baji suddenly being childish because of a girl. Well, anyone from them would do the same but it's new when it's Baji.

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