A light breeze blew against Haji’s face as he and gumi walked down the street. They’d already gotten the groceries and they were heading ho, side by side as usual. This is not an unusual setting for Haji since gumi would sotis accompany him ho. She’d always have Franz with her though, which is nice since it would just make the atmosphere more awkward if he wasn’t there.
An awkward silence befell Haji and gumi as they walked, but it didn’t make them feel uncomfortable at all. gumi twiddled her thumbs as she tried to co up with a topic. She wanted to ask Haji about his parents, about the incident, about his sister... pretty much about anything.
But she wasn’t sure whether she should ask sothing that’s so private. That’s why the only thing she did was bite her lips and walk alongside Haji as they made their way ho.
"We bought a lot, are you sure about this? What do you even want to eat for dinner?" Haji asked out of nowhere, snapping gumi back to reality as she turned around with a flustered face.
"Ah- er... anything. You do have a fridge, right? We can stock everything leftover there." gumi simply stated as she walked slightly ahead of Haji. Why was she overthinking things, asking herself if she should question Haji with such insensitive questions. "And no, we’re going to eat what you want." gumi cheerily said.
Haji averted his gaze from gumi before rubbing his nose. They were friends, and he is her bodyguard, nothing more nothing less. But recently, his feelings towards her have gotten warr, sowhat weird... and her simple gestures which didn’t affect him before now made his heart skip a beat. Even her simple smile which she just recently flashed towards him made his face redden in a snap of a finger. Fortunately, the setting sun was directly beaming on his face, and the redness on his face was covered by the reflection of the orange hue from the sun.
They were nearing Haji’s abode and Haji was still trapped in his thoughts. It was obvious that he had developed feelings for gumi... but sohow, he didn’t want to accept it. How could he develop feelings for her? The only reason why she befriended him was—
— wait... how did we beco friends anyways? Haji asked himself. It all happened so naturally as if fate was playing tricks on them. (Sadly it’s not, it’s not the work of fate, but the work of their horoom teacher, an expert wingman by the na of Akamine-sensei)
"Haji?" gumi called out as she stopped short, her gaze fixated on Haji’s house on the other side of the road.
"What is it?" Haji absent-mindedly responded, wondering why gumi called her out of the blue. His eyes then looked up.
And then he saw it...
His house. At first glance, Haji thought that nothing was wrong with it and that gumi was just overreacting. But after he noticed that the door was ajar and that so of the windows had been broken, Haji’s composure disappeared in an instant. He imdiately picked up the pace and went inside the house. The first thought that occurred in Haji’s mind was the deed to the house. He had hidden it sowhere where no one would be able to find it.
But if soone with the intent to steal it broke into the house, it’s only a matter of ti before they’d get it. That’s why Haji was worried about it. He didn’t care about anything else in the house, but the deed was important to him.
As soon as he entered the house, he looked around to see if the thieves were still at ho.
SWISH!
Haji ducked as a bat suddenly flew over his head, missing him by a hair’s breadth. If it hadn’t been for his quick reflexes, he’d have been knocked dead cold as soon as he entered the house. After the duck, Haji rolled on the ground and grabbed whatever item he could throw at his attacker. He was able to grab a pan, and he imdiately threw it at the assailant’s nose, breaking it in flash.
"Aghk~!" The man let out a pained groan as the pan broke his nose in an instant, making his nose bleed in a gross way. "You’ll pay for this!" The man grunted his teeth.
Haji then sensed that soone was approaching him from behind. There was no ti to lose. Haji instantly got up, pivoted on his left foot, and unleashed a jab that landed squarely on soone’s diaphragm. The second one wheezed as the punch took the air out of him. "Who are you guys?" Haji gritted his teeth. "I’m going to call the authorities on you! This is breaking and entering!"
"Heh, this kid’s saying he’s going to call the police." Another man appeared, walking towards Haji while flashing an ID in hand. "You an us? We’re the police." One of the n said. "Guys, take care of him."
"What is this madness?!" Haji snapped. He had never broken any laws so it doesn’t warrant the raid and the breaking and entering that the police did.
But before he could react, the police then pointed a gun at him. "Now, where’s the deed to the house?" The police said, unlocking the safety of the handgun. There was a sinister look on his face, sothing that the police would never wear in the line of duty.
"HAJI!" Soone scread from behind him.
As Haji turned around, his pupils dilated. There she was, gumi, struggling as one of the policen held her down. One of them was tying a towel around her mouth to stop her from screaming. (She had been screaming for quite so ti now, but Haji didn’t hear her since he was too focused on the fight.)
"Oi! We don’t ss with the girl. We’re bringing him to the boss. She’s the son of that guy right, Kikuchi Koji?" One of the n said. "I heard he’s filthy rich."
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