Chapter 5 : High School Principle was Sick!?
“Aiiichoooo!!!”, the high school principle was sneezing in his room after he woke up from his sleep. The principle changed his clothes and had a breakfast. After that, he went out and walked toward his office. “Good morning, Principle.”, the students greeted him as usual and after he lost from their sight, the students especially girls screamed like they were seeing their favourite idol. “Tch! Girls.”, he mumbled himself and sneezed again and again. “Do you catch a cold, sensei?”, one of his students asked him while he serving him tea. “I guess… AIIICHOOO!”, he answered and again, he sneezed. “You better go back to your room and have a rest.”, the student suggested him. The principle nodded his head and walked away.
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“Ne, Mika chan… Have you heard about it?”, Misaki sat in front of her and asked. Mika stopped her reading and looked at her best friend, Misaki and Tsubasa. “Heard about what?”, she asked them back with her confused look. “Our high school principle is sick. And you know what again?”, Tsubasa said and asked her with a smirk on his face. “Knowing what?”, she said and wanted to continue her reading but both of her friends prevented her and said, “That’s a first!!”. They answer had made Mika fell from her chair. “Are you okay?”, they helped her to get up and she felt a bit embarrassed. “If you two haven’t yelling or surprising me with about your answer, I won’t be like this.”, Mika whispered to them and they smiled. “Miss Mika Sakurakouji, please come to office. Again. Miss Mika Sakurakouji, please come to office.”. Three of them heard the announcement and look at each other. “Go on, Mika. Good luck for your first mission, I guess.”, Tsubasa pushed her. Mika turned her head around and asked them, “What first mission?”. As she stepped out from her class, she saw many people wished her luck for her first mission. Mika still thinking of herself and continue walking. Then, came a group of girls around her and wishing her luck. “Good luck for taking care of him and stole his heart too, Mika chan.”, a girl said and hold her hands. “Uhh…”. “Yeah, good luck!”, as they cheering her from outside. What’s wrong with them? She thought.
Knock! Knock! “Please, come in.”, a voice from the office asked Mika to come in as she knocked the door. When she entered the office, she saw a few students including Subaru who tried to hide his blushes but Sakurano noticed it. “Did you call me?”, Mika asked them. “Yes and you probably noticed all the students were cheering for you right?”, the student council representative, Akira Tonouchi asked her. “Yeah… But why?”. “We will give you your first mission, usually all the student from Dangerous Ability class will do the dangerous mission but you, we just made an excuses because the principle told us that your alices unstable… So…”, Tono explained and walked towards Mika. Subaru felt a bit jealous as Tono putted his right hand on the wall and his face a bit closer to Mika’s. “There’s one mission that you have to do… You must going on date with me at the Central Town, just you and me…”, Tono touched her hair and give her a wink. Subaru couldn’t stand it pulled Tono back and gave him a cold glare. Sakurano knew that his best friend felt jealous but he tried to keep his calmness in his expressions. “Gomen… I was joking just now, what I want you to do is take good care of our high school principle, Kazumi Yukihara. You probably know him, right?”, Tono apologised and tapped Subaru’s shoulder. “Emn.. What’s wrong with him?”, Mika looked at the girl who standing beside the bookshelf. “For the first time in our academy, our high school principle gets a fever and it makes us worried… Because of our schedule are too tight, we have no time to take care of him, either with our teacher…”, the girl said. “And the person that will take care of him is you, Mika kun. This is your first mission.”, Sakurano added behind her sentences that she couldn’t finished it. “You mean I will..”, Mika felt surprised and didn’t know whether to believe it or not. “Yes, will you take it? We’ll feel appreciated when you accept and you probably don’t want to let us down, will you?”, Tono asked Mika if she agree. Mika couldn’t choose one of them but what she knew was, she felt sorry for principle so she took the mission. Subaru felt so shocked about her agreement to take mission quickly stepped out from the room. “Ohh.. Don’t mind him, maybe he wants to take some fresh air outside… l think I better catch him.”, Sakurano said and gave a ‘hi-5’ with Tono. Mika didn’t know the real situation continued discussed about her mission with the others.
“C’mon, Subaru… don’t make a face like that.”, Sakurano tried to cheer up his friend. “I know what you mean… And leave me alone for a sec…”, Subaru walked quickly until he lost from Sakurano’s sight. Jealous… Sakurano smiled and turned back to the student council room. “Got it?”, Tono asked her and she nodded her head. “He said he needed to be alone for a while and told us don’t disturb him…”, Sakurano said as he stepped in the student council room. “That guy sure is stubborn.”, Tono smiled and Mika only looked at them both. Weird… She thought and excused herself to leave the room. “Ahh- don’t forget… Your mission will end until the principle recovered.”, Tono reminded her and Mika only waving her hand behind. “Do you think it’s be okay to continue this?”, the girl asked him. He giggled gently and answered confidently, “Yeah… Because, it isn’t unfair if she the only one who didn’t do a single mission even the easiest one… and a new atmosphere will soon begin, trust my words.” The others looked at each other and still thinking about his plan.
The next day~
“Etoo- this is his house, right?”, Mika talked to herself while holding a map and stopped in front of the principle’s home. Knock! Knock! “I’m coming…”, as the principle opened the door, he saw Mika standing in front of him and greeted him. “W-W-W-W-W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!!? Don’t you have a class you need to attend?”, Kazumi, the high school principle felt surprised and fell over. Luckily, Mika grabbed his hand as fast as lightning. “Emm.. I got a mission from the student council… they said I have to take care of you until you recovered, sensei… and don’t worry, they already give me permission to take holiday, if I want, to take a GOOD care of you…”, Mika tried to hide her shyness by turned her face to side. Kazumi watched her with full of shock without blinking his eyes. Mika saw him tried to wake him up by waving her hand in front of him. Kazumi felt his forehead touched by someone soon realized that Mika had putted her hand on it. Kazumi’s face became extremely red and stepped backwards. “So- Sorry… I just checked out how hot your fever was. Nothing much.”, Mika apologised and entered his house. Kazumi with his blushes suddenly coughed and that makes Mika pays attention about his healthy. “Oh… You should take a rest, sensei. Let me do the house chores and cook some porridge to keep you warm.”, Mika wore apron on her body and began to do the house chores. Like the other men in the world, his house totally in mess. I guess I start from the living room first. Mika thought. Kazumi watched her from felt a bit excited deep inside his heart by covering his gentle smile and eventually sleep like an innocent child.
After finished doing the house chores, Mika checked Kazumi fever as she waited the porridge cooked. She saw Kazumi breathes heavily and his face turned extremely red. Mika had a bad feeling about this putted her hand on his forehead. His head burned her hand like the hot kettle. She pushed away her hand and rushed to go to get the water and towel. She gently putted the wet towel on his head and watched him with the worried looks. “Worry about me?”, she heard the voice as she was worrying. She looked at Kazumi with the cute smile on his face. “S-Sensei, please don’t get up and have a rest for a while… I’ll bring you the porridge that I’d make…”, Mika covering her worries and ran towards the kitchen. After a few minutes later, she brought a bowl of hot leeks porridge to him. “Please do eat it, I hope it taste good and help you to recover.”, Kazumi just looked the porridge and gave Mika a puppet eyes. “What? You can’t eat it yourself?”, Kazumi nodded his head. Mika sighed and fed him gently. She cooled the porridge down by blew it gently and fed him. Kazumi felt his heart beating so fast that can make him fainted but tried to hide it from her. He looked at her with the cool eyes while she blew his meal. He couldn’t stand the way of his heart beating turned his head to side while Mika fed him. “Why?”, she asked and putted the spoon back. “N-nothing. I’m full and I want to go back to sleep.”, he answered but prevented by Mika. His face began blush as she touch him. “You can have your sleep right after you eat your medicine.”, Kazumi nodded his head while Mika holding him the medicine. Kazumi just stared at the medicine. “Don’t tell me…”, she couldn’t finished her sentences as he cut off and said, “Feed me by mouth to mouth.”. Mika became extremely red yelled at him. Kazumi smirked and said, “I was teasing you just now, it’s not a big deal. Now, give the medicine.”. Kazumi breathes heavily as he ate his medicine and drank the medicine before he went to sleep.
It was getting dark, Mika wanted to go back to her room but she couldn’t leave Kazumi sick alone. She putted off her shoes and took care of him until late night. She checked his fever and it’s getting higher. His fever still didn’t cool down? She thought and changed the towel every minutes passed by. She took a good care of him until she slept besides him. Kazumi woke up and saw her sleeping next to him. He smiled gently and putted his mouth besides her ear and whispered. Then, he gently covered her with the warm blanket. He felt his forehead and thought, she’s good… I already recovered this faster than I thought… she managed to take good care of me until this late… Kazumi lifted her and laid her on the sofa next to him. He couldn’t stop smiling while watched her sleeping and gave her a kiss on her cheeks. This is reward for your nursery… He realized his feeling towards her even though it was too soon for him to know it. He never felt like this since he was young and he knew it was selfish for him to take her for himself forever.
In the morning~
“Aiichoo!”, Mika sneezed while she was in class with her friends. “It looks like you’re catching a cold after you take care of principle, aren’t you?”, Mika nodded her head as Misaki and her friend laughed. Kazumi watched them from his window’s office smiled alone. “It’s been a while you didn’t smile, principle.”, Tono said and stand next to him. Kazumi smiled and continued his work. I wonder if Subaru knew about this… it’s getting interesting.. Tono thought and leaves the principle working, alone and smiled away.
Note: sorry if the story didn’t interesting and my english language are kind of, you know, a bit terrible and also didn’t understand about the story.. but as long as I have your support, I will do my best for it… ganbatte!