"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! AH-- [ NAME ]! FIX THIS!"
Takemichi, who was overwhelmed with embarrassment and anger, stomped over towards the girl who coughed into her clenched fist to maintain her composure, her eyebrow furrowing at what the blonde one said.
His hand shot forward and gripped her wrist, tugging her upwards causing a few gasps and whispers to travel through the crowd. Her chair skidded against the ground, the legs scraping against the floor and creating an ear-grating noise that made some flinch, the impact of the back of the chair hitting the floor creating an awkward silence.
As she was dragged out of the classroom without voicing any complaints, Takemichi's four main friends looked between one another and shared a mutual nod that silently agreed that they would definitely follow.
The bathroom door slammed open with a harsh push as Takemichi and [ Name ] walked in before the weight of the door began to close it by itself, though it was quick to shoot open again as four more sets of footsteps walked in.
Yamagishi swung open all the stalls to make sure no one was in there with them, which was quite rude considering this was a public restroom, while Makoto walked up to Takemichi and grabbed the collar of his shirt before shaking him back and forth aggressively.
"Alright, what the hell is going on! I'm beyond jealous right now."
Before Takemichi could stutter out a response, the voice of the girl who was curiously looking at the urinals before echoed throughout the bathroom.
"Ah... looks like I took it too far."
Everyone stopped what they were doing upon hearing the voice, turning to look at [ Name ] who was remaining quiet this whole time. Yamagishi's hand pressed on the door of a stall as he turned around to face her while Makoto's eyes trailed over to her, not letting his grip on Takemichi falter in the slightest. The other two watched silently with equally intrigued expressions while Takemichi still looked irritated.
[ Name ] bent forward as she dipped her head downwards and lightly caressed one hand over the other as she pressed them against her [ Skirt / Pants ], a small non-exaggerated bow that she hoped would convey her sincerity.
"I should apologize. My name is [ Name ], and it is true that I will be transferring here. I was just teasing earlier, me and him have nothing going on— also I was unaware he had a significant other... that "Hinata" person you mentioned, I will be sure to apologize to them myself."
Lifting her gaze, she analyzed the expressions of Takemichi's friends which ranged from respect to relief.
"W-woah..." Bewildered at the very formal way of talking and apologizing, Makoto continued to stare while blinking repeatedly, forgetting he still held onto Takemichi.
"You can let go, ya know." Takemichi said as he pushed Makoto off of him and fixed his collar.
Makoto stumbled back a few steps but didn't bother to scold Takemichi as he stared at the girl with an unnerving blank stare, Yamagishi voicing his thoughts as he pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose and stepped away from the stall.
"Man... she's--"
Before he could finish his sentence, Takuya, who seemed to be the only one aside from Takemichi who acknowledged she wasn't some delicate artifact from a museum but just a regular human, looked over at them and shook his head.
"Guys!" He hissed, making the two look over at him and give arguing looks.
Stepping forward with his hands shoved in his pockets, Akkun walked over to his blonde-haired friend as he glanced over at [ Name ], who was watching everyone closely, scrutinizing their reactions.
"Takemichi, explain please."
Nodding his head as he shifted from one foot to another, Takemichi's calm outlook completely contradicted his inner turmoil. He knew they were going to ask questions, and well, it's only been a few days since he's met the girl and so he hasn't thought of a reason other than the ridiculous truth as to why she was here.
Coughing awkwardly into his fist, Takemichi looked up at his red-haired friend whose eyebrow was curled up in curiosity as he awaited to hear what he had to say.
"Yeah... Uh, this is [ Name ], she is living with me but it's true we have nothing going on." He decided it would be best to let them know they lived together since matters would be far worse if they showed up to his house one day to see her lounging around or something-- to which he doesn't know how he would explain that without seeming like he was lying.
Takuya and Akkun knew he was telling the truth because if it were any other girl, he would definitely be a foolish mess (Hinata and his interactions full proof of that).
"LIVING WITH YOU?!" Makoto screeched suddenly making them all look over at him, some agreeing for them to further elaborate on that while Takemichi and Takuya looked at him in disappointment.
"Dude, drop it! There's surely a reason." Takuya defended his friend, seeing how uncomfortable the implications made him and knowing just how extreme Makoto can get regarding girls.
"Lucky bastard..." Yamagishi muttered as he clenched his fist in his pocket, thinking no one heard him but he caught [ Name ]'s apathetic stare-- something so threatening about it making him want to look away, but he didn't back down.
"You have weird friends." She said, making Takemichi nod his head subtly at that as she looked away from the glasses kid who was beginning to sweat under her glare.
Since Takemichi calmed down a bit and was able to gather his thoughts, he felt he found a pretty good solution as he internally cheered for himself.
"Actually, she is... living with me as a host family since she's from another country!" He exclaimed, making a few of them give skeptical looks while [ Name ] followed along as she nodded her head to confirm what he said.
They seemed to ignore the confirmatory action as Akkun was quick to interrogate,
"I can believe she's here from another country, but host family? So, like to attend school? That makes no sense, this school is shitty."
"Ah, it's complicated--"
Cutting off Takemichi from rambling, [ Name ] began to take over as she explained with no hesitation or signs of conflict, making every word she said believable even if it were lies.
"That's just the term Takemichi and his family use for me staying with them. I was kicked out of my home so now I live with Takemichi and Mrs. Hanagaki since they so kindly accepted me. I am very grateful for that." She explained while sounding pretty damn genuine to everyone there. I mean, that's not something you would lie about since going to the lengths of transferring and living with Takemichi just for attention or something was just dumb.
Someone whistled as they were suddenly very interested in her backstory more than her relationship with Takemichi, his eyebrow raising as he wondered what she could have done to get kicked out.
"Kicked out? What did you do?"
"Technically, I was pulled through a--"
Takemichi's eyes nearly rolled out of his sockets before he shouted far too loudly to cut [ Name ] off from continuing.
"Gang violence!"
There was a mutual look of astonishment that everyone shared, both confused and in disbelief as they looked at the elegant girl who stood with a posture more akin to a royal than a gang member.
"A gangster?! What gang does she belong to?" Yamagishi asked as he wondered if she was in some renown gang in the area or was a leader herself-- her looks used to deceive opponents or something like that he sees in comics. Or maybe it was a chivalrous gang who defeated bad people like loan sharks to help common innocent people since she looked like the type in his opinion. Either way, her being in a gang just made him far more curious about her being here.
Takemichi went into another panicked frenzy, his hands clamming up as he wiped them against his pants while his mind scrambled to come up with something cool.
"A foreign gang. Called... the... the uh..."
Helping Takemichi out, [ Name ] shook her head slightly at how nervous he looked before saying what had first popped in her mind when she thought of a 'gang'.
"The Yaksha."
There were mutual sounds of interest as the name itself sounded pretty intense and the notion of a foreign gang piqued lots of interest. They could tell she was a foreign student by her looks alone, but with her being in a foreign gang as well only solidified her background.
"Sounds badass!"
"Hmm, are you sure we can believe you?" Akkun asked as he looked over her and couldn't really find anything gang-like. She was weirdly intimidating with how she looked like she looked mysterious and cold, but that could be said for a lot of people.
Takemichi began to feel sweat gather at his eyebrow as he wondered what he could say to prove she was in a gang, but to his surprise [ Name ] nodded before motioning for them to come closer with her hand.
"Here."
From her beckoning them forward, they curiously looked over as she unfastened the button on her sleeve and began to fold it upwards, so her forearm became visible, the more that was revealed the more they were in awe-- including Takemichi.
Her whole dominant hand was decorated with a [ color ] tattoo sleeve, intricate designs and a dragon making an intimidating picture be imprinted on her skin.
"A symbol of our gang. I wear it with pride." She explained as she rotated her arm to show the full thing, a pattern similar to the ones all her fellow Yaksha wore as she truly embraced it with pride to be one of them.
"COOL!"
"How far does that travel up—"
Before anyone could continue and branch off into interrogating her and her background, Takuya glanced up from his phone with a worried expression, about to tell everyone the time and how they had to go even if he was just as curious and interested in this foreign girl as everyone else.
"Guys class is going to start, we should at least make sure no rumors go around so let's have her do a proper introduction. It would be best to explain your host family situation-- but leave out the gang part."
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(I know yall have seen that one thing on Makoto in Takemichi's house...LMFAO... I do realize he's a good friend tho, but like as bad as Mineta perverted wise. Check the Tokyo revengers wiki on him and scroll to Trivia to see what I mean if you're curious.)