tampered | Log: Ongoing

Log: Ongoing

When; Today sometime in the afternoon.
Rating; G
Characters; Koizumi Risa [[Bad username or site: not_a_giantess / @ livejournal.com]] & Otani Atsushi [[Bad username or site: so_not_short / @ livejournal.com]]
Summary; After Otani settles into the temple after he's just arrived yesterday he tries to explain everything that happened between the two of them since Koizumi she's from an earlier time than him.
Log;

Having just arrived in the city yesterday, Otani had already come to find things to be confusing, and not to mention get a lot more complicated this Koizumi didn't remember a thing about the two of the two of them getting together since she seemed to have come here during the time he had injured his ankle.

He has finally settled into the temple, and was thinking of how to go about explaining everything to her. He momentarily thought telling her would change things if they did manage to make their way out of this city, but because she really wanted to know, he figured he might as well try and explain everything to her and show her he did care about her.

After all, it just felt strange to him not having her know what he was talking about and just dismiss it as if he were joking about her being his girlfriend now.

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Koizumi really didn't know what to expect.

Clearly, according to Otani, something in their relationship had taken a definite turn from what she knew it to be. And apparently, whatever it was, happened not even long after the point she'd been yanked into the accursed city in the first place. Curiosity got the best of her, as well as the desire to understand just what could have changed things between them so drastically and quickly, and thus she decided she wanted Otani to tell her. Even if there were consequences for the knowledge at a later date, it certainly wasn't her problem now.

Her aimless promenade down one of the temple's corridors led her toward the short boy she was thinking about, his back turned to her and seemingly lost in his own thoughts. For a moment, she felt oddly awkward and her pace slowed, but she quickly brushed it off---afterall, they were the comedic duo and All Hanshi-Kyojin of Maido High---there was no need to be subtle and shy about things, right?

As if to accent that thought, she grinned widely, stalking right up to him and playfully smacking a hand against the back of his head. "Hey, midget boy! You'd better be careful spacing out like that here or someone's gonna run right over you!"

When in doubt, act like things are normal.

Otani was so caught up in his thoughts, trying to figure out what to exactly tell Koizumi when suddenly he felt someone smack a hand against the back of his head. From that he immediately knew Koizumi was behind him, in which he quickly turned to face her.

"Ouch--hey!" He said, as he rubbed that back of his head, "How is that any way to treat the guy who is going to explain everything to you?"

She scowled in reply, resisting the urge to offer another swift smack to same area. "I was just trying to lighten the mood a bit, jeez. Then you gotta go and say something like that." Huffing to herself, she crossed her arms in a defensive manner. "Hmph. If I try to act nice or cute or something, you just say it's disgusting anyway."

"How is that lightening the mood? I only said that because you hit me...and of course I say it's disgusting--it's because it is" Otani frowned, though in all honesty, he really only said it was disgusting because he found it weird to even think that about Koizumi. The thought just wasn't able to process in his mind, even if he did return her feelings.

Koizumi shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. "What? It's not like I did any brain damage, did I? Sheesh." Her expression sours again at his next comment, arms falling from their crossed position. "It's not disgusting! I try hard to be a little more girlish and you end up looking at me like I grew an extra head or something! It's---!"

Cutting off the end of her sentence before she could finish, she sighed, waving the subject off. "Anyway, that doesn't matter right now. Don't you have something to tell me?"

"Maybe, you never know" Otani sighed, he was just about to respond to Koizumi's last statment when suddenly he remembered what he was actually planned to talk to her about "That--oh yeah. I did...where do you want me to begin again?"

She briefly debated continuing the banter, but ultimately decided to let it go for the time being. "Wherever you want to begin, I guess. I don't know anything up to the point I told you I came from. So...anything you think might be important after that."

"Okay, let's see..."He looked thoughtful for a moment, as he considered what to say. "After I took over to pedal the bike to take you home since it was pretty late, we didn't really talk much to each other until you spoke. You said you'd stop saying things that troubled me--that you'd stop loving for real. I told you not to stop...I had to repeat it a few times because you thought I was speaking without thinking, but I meant it, compared to that time before when I rejected you, it felt different at that moment. Whenever you kept going on about Maity before, it just annoyed me and I didn't want you stop liking me either. I'm not sure how to explain it, I didn't know how to at that time either, but that was when it started I guess..."

[ooc: Going by the manga version for this part~ ]

Her hazel eyes widened slightly as he explained, blinking as his words sunk in slowly. "So you... you actually told me not to stop?" Koizumi couldn't keep the note of surprise out of her tone. She never expected he would say something like that--dared to hope he would, maybe, but for it to be true was nothing short of stunning. She swallowed briefly, recalling what Nobu-chan and the others had told her. Did that mean that they were right...?

"Were you...actually jealous of Maity-sensei?" she ventured with a little uncertainty.

It was a little hard to believe given the circumstances that took place beforehand, but nonetheless, she felt like Otani really was telling the truth. He was being serious for a change and sounded sincere---something she rarely saw from the shorter boy.

"I--yeah, I did" he nodded in response.

"Were you...actually jealous of Maity-sensei?"

The words caught him off guard, but as he thought about it he figured he probably might have been.

"Jealous? No, I mean--well I don't know" he shrugged.

Koizumi couldn't help but feel a little pleased that all her hard work had finally amounted to something in terms of their relationship. After she'd thought everything had been so hopeless and that nothing would change no matter what she did---finally something did. Even if she hadn't had the opportunity to see it for herself.

"So...I probably didn't give up then," she decided to herself, nodding once before glancing back to Otani again. "And that means we..." She gestured helplessly at the air, a bit at a loss for words and suddenly feeling rather awkward. "Er...kind of got together after that then?"

"Well considering what you did after that, I don't think you did either" Otani continued, "Ah, no...that came later, I said it happened after your birthday,right?"

Curiosity piqued, she inquired, "Really? What did I do? ...And something happened on my birthday?"

It was more than strange to hear, much less ask about things she had done from the point Otani came from, but she couldn't help but wonder how it all fit together.

"Yeah, something like that. Well after that not much really happened, things pretty much went back to normal between the two of us. My last basketball match was coming up, and we found out we were facing last years champions" Otani frowned slightly remembered how depressed he felt,"After meeting the opposing team,it made me think there was absolutely no way of us winning so I went off somewhere. You came to look for me, I think, and you said something about part of a 'Otani fanclub' so you could cheer me on with banners and everything. I told you it was lame, and that you didn't have to because I would lose anyway--you punched me and you said somethings which knocked some sense back into me. You were going to leave but I stopped you, and told you to cheer for me, because I'd make you fall in love with me again"

He looked away for a moment, before continuing "We lost but afterwards the two of us were sitting outside on the bench. I played well in the match though, because of you...and just when I was in the middle of telling you something else you fell asleep on me"

Koizumi nodded as he continued to explain, languidly coaxing herself down into a seated position as she listened to his account of what had taken place.

"Otani fanclub? ...Sounds like you deserved that punch, too." She chuckled at the thought, but oddly enough, both things sounded just like the type of action she would take in that situation.

The tall girl blinked as he spoke about what happened after the match, distantly wondering what it was he had meant to tell her when she fell asleep. "...What happened after that?"

"Yeah, and I guess I did" Otani let out a sigh, "Hm. Eell after...for school the two of us had to take summer classes. Anyway, we went to hang out with everyone else...then they brought up the fact your birthday was coming up soon and were going on about getting you sometihng. Apparently they all heard what I told you too when you fell asleep--"

One eyebrow raised in question, her expression clearly confused. Whatever he had said, it must have been important...or embarrassing. Either way, she was very curious now. "...So what exactly did you tell me that time I fell asleep?"

Otani froze as she asked him what he told her, he averted his gaze as he quietly told her what he said "I--I said that I can't be without you Koizumi"

She felt heat immediately seep into her cheeks, staining them a reddish hue. Otani could be sweet sometimes--she knew that. Afterall, he'd blown off his ex-girlfriend to spend time previously-arranged with her on Christmas and he'd said a few surprising things now and then.

But this was on a whole different level.

After a moment of silence, she opened her mouth to reply, but found that words fled her. "...O-Oh," she managed to mumble somewhat awkwardly, at a loss for decent response.

Otani noticed her turn red at that, completely at a loss for words.

"Ahh, yeah...the others were making me fun of me, since they heard that so I denied it at first" Otani stretched his arms momentarily before he turned to face Koizumi again. "But anyway, your birthday was coming up right? So I asked you what you wanted for a present but you said you didn't want anything from me and were just asking about what I just told you. Later Hakura and Seiko were throwing you a birthday party but I refused to come because you said you didn't want anything from me, because I figured you didn't want me celebrating your birthday..."

Her eyes looked up from the point she'd been staring at on the floor as he continued the explanation, the remnants of the blush still tinting her face.

She frowned slightly at his deduction of what the future her had apparently said. "How did you come to a bizarre conclusion like that?" The taller girl paused briefly and then shook her head. "Ah, nevermind. So then what?"

"I don't know--at the time it made sense" Otani shrugged, "Well anyway, despite that, I went and got something for you anyway, I didn't come to the party until later...when you were all watching the fireworks. I was at the back and I messaged you to come over to where I was sitting. I gave you your present, but you kept talking too loudly wanting the others to come over since you liked it. I didn't really want them to since they would just make fun of me like they did earlier"

Otani paused momentarily "Oh yeah. Not too long after that, you pretty much said the same thing to me that I told you I said at the basketball game,...and then I kissed you. Thought you thought I was acting weird, and had a fever again but it wasn't like that"

The flush to her cheeks returned full-force as he finished, her mouth falling open in silent surprise.

Didn't he tell Nakao-kun that kissing her would be weird and comical? He had mentioned earlier when they were talking over the network that he had kissed her back home, but to talk of it openly to her, face-to-face like this and not even sound that embarrassed about it... Otani really must have cared for her more than she thought. And that revelation made her heart leap with something almost akin to joy.

Seeing Koizumi's reaction to what he said, he wasn't sure how to really respond or continue onwards "You're really that surprised?"

She immediately closed her mouth, glancing sheepishly away as she attempted to fight down the blush. "Erm...Sort of? I mean--You seemed to change your mind about a lot of things pretty quickly."

"Well considering everything that happened, it was bound to happen. Besides, we didn't exactly get together right after that though..." Otani added, as he thought back more on what happened then.

Koizumi blinked, looking up at him again. "We didn't? Then what happened after that?"

"Not exactly. That would be your fault though for being an idiot and not thinking we were after I kissed you" Otani frowned slightly, "Then we go to look for at some Umibouzou CDs, you meet one of your friends from Juniour High. She asks you if I'm your boyfriend, and instead of saying I was--well you just said we were friends, which annoyed me and I stopped talking to you because you couldn't figure it out..."

She scowled from her position below. "Well how would I know if you didn't tell me? I can't just go and assume something like that!"

"It would have made sense if you thought about it. We were talking to our teacher and even he knew we dating...you asked me why I didn't deny the fact when he said it and I thought you would at least figure it out why by then" Otani retorted,"I headed home and you met up with me shortly after--since you said you gave up trying to figure out why I was mad, I told you if I only thought of you at a friend, I wouldn't have kissed you in the first place"

Koizumi was still having a little trouble connecting this Otani to the one she was familiar with, but nonetheless, she was glad things changed between them, even if it was difficult to understand at some points of his explanation. "Oh...I guess that sort of makes sense. But it still wouldn't have hurt to be clear about it anyway."

"I was though... because after that, you were cr--" Otani cut himself off, his cheeks were momentarily tinged red, remembering the rest of the conversation. "I mean, the point is that, it was from that point we got together"

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