Obnoxious Silence -A Kuroko no basket story-

Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Tired

*Edited*

“Everyone” a smooth baritone like voice spoke from his spot in the front of the room, “We have a new student here at Seirin.” The teacher turned towards the open door and motioned me inside. Placing a hand on my shoulder my new teacher, Mr. Ryo gave me an encouraging smile, “This is Oboro Tyki, he’s from America and so you all know he is mute. Now I don’t want you all to treat him differently than you would anyone else.”

Looking over my classmates I saw two familiar faces. “Kagami?” I signed to the red head

The tall monster had lifted his head from his desk when he had heard my name and looked at me in shock, “Oboro?” he asked getting out of his seat, “What are you doing here?”

“I go to school here.” I signed bluntly, “It was just a coincidence that I’m in your English class.”

“Kagami-kun” Mr. Ryo looked between the giant and me, “You know Sign Language?”

“Yeah…” Kagami said slowly not sure what Mr. Ryo was getting at

“This is fantastic!” Mr. Ryo smiled widely, “Kagami-kun, you shall now be Oboro-kun’s partner in this class!”

“What!?” Kagami and I roared in horror. Don’t get me wrong it’s nice that I’ll be able to communicate without my phone or paper, but I get the feeling that kindness shown to me was a onetime deal.

Biting the inside of my lower lip I hold my messenger bag close to me and walk to the seat next to Kagami. As I was walking I kept my eyes downcast seeing as I couldn’t wear my sunglasses in the school, I guess they didn’t like seeing kids in shades. “Hello Kagami” I signed hesitantly as I avoided eye contact with his crimson eyes.

“Hey” Kagami greeted boredly as he sent Mr. Ryo a slight glare

‘Seems I was right…’ I thought sadly to myself. Setting my things down, I turned towards the front and listened to Mr. Ryo’s lesson. That is until a snippet of paper got flicked onto my desk. Opening the folded paper I read

‘Are you going to the Basketball club after school? – Kagami’

Reading it over I grabbed my mechanical pencil and replied

‘I’m not sure – Oboro’

‘You should come – Kagami’ was the response I got from the taller teen. Staring down at the paper with Mitch-match eyes I asked

‘Why? – Oboro ’ sending the paper over when Mr. Ryo wasn’t looking, Kagami only took a couple seconds to reply

‘Do you need a reason? - Kagami’

Sighing quietly I rubbed the back of my neck and quickly wrote, ‘Have it your way, I’ll come. I might not be on time, but I’ll come. - Oboro’

Kagami didn’t respond after he got the paper back. Glancing at him I saw what looked to be satisfaction on his face, ‘I wonder why he looks so happy’ I thought before brushing the strange actions of my English partner aside and went back to focusing on Mr. Ryo. Truthfully I wasn’t even sure why I was in English, I mean I lived in America all my life, and in Japan we are leaning the language that I can speak fluently.

“Tyki-kun” Mr. Ryo pulled me from my thoughts, “Could you come up to the board and translate this into English?”

Nodding my head I walked up and read the words and wrote them on the black board.

‘Forever we live in obnoxious silence. We remain in solitude and no longer try to communicate with those we don’t understand.’

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