"Stay away from my Onii-chan."
These 6 words were all that echoed in the small room. Chifuyu stared, nonplussed. as the red eyed bluenette simply gave a raised eyebrow and a small smirk at the younger girl's warning. The reason she was surprised being that the student council president never showed a hint of surprise and hesitation when she head her words. Even the raised eyebrow was due to curiosity and nothing else.
"I refuse," Tatenashi leaned back in her seat, "It's my job to report and help all of the school staff, and this applies especially to teachers. Besides," She smirked again, "I'm not sure it's really the little sister's place to decide who big brother should or shouldn't spend time with~" Her voice had taken on her normal cheerful tone again.
The room they were in was small, at least for the standards of the Academy. Despite all the trials and tribulations one had to endure in order to become the student council president, it seemed completely disproportionate when the office looked so narrow and cramp. Even if she wanted to get up, summon her IS katana, and smack the irritating bluenette in the face, it just wasn't possible. No matter how much she wanted to.
And she really, really wanted to.
"What you're doing isn't helping! It's, it's......." Chifuyu's face suddenly reddened, "It's harassment, plain and simple! I-I don't want Onii-chan to get fired because of something his student did!"
Tatenashi still looked unimpressed, "And what kind of harassment would that be, hm? I assure you that everything is completely wholesome and I'm not doing anything that will get him in trouble."
Chifuyu gripped the small table between them tightly. She was really tempted to just throw the damn thing at her smirking face, consequences be damned. She had the gall to lie to her face? even after what she saw her do to her Onii-chan? Did she have no shame?
"How is leaning across his back in nothing but a bath towel count as wholesome!?"
Chifuyu smashed her hands on the wooden table so hard that cracks began to form. Amazingly enough, Tatenashi didn't look so much as surprised at her actions or its effects.
"Hm, I really don't know what you're talking about, Chifu-chan~" She gave an open toothed smile and Chifuyu's face grew redder, "Maybe you're confusing something you read for reality? I heard it happens a lot~"
"Don't screw with me!" Chifuyu rarely cursed, but this was special, "I saw you do it! I heard you whispering things to him when you thought no one was there! Don't try to pretend to be innocent!"
Many who knew Chifuyu often remarked that she was unflappable. Someone who would greet a former enemy with nothing but a nonchalant gaze and a raised eyebrow. She could be three feet from an explosion and she'd still stare at it head on with nothing but slight disdain. The times when she showed anger were rare indeed.
Sp why was it exactly that Tatenashi looked more amused than anything else? Even her brother hesitated when she got like this.
"And how exactly would you know that" She asked curiously, "The last I checked, me and Ichika-kun," Chifuyu seethed at the informal way her brother was referred to, "Were the only ones in the room. That must've meant you were..."
She let that sentence hang. The implications of what she was suggesting were enough to send Chifuyu into another fit, however.
"Th-Th-That's...!" Chifuyu racked her mind quickly for an excuse, "I-It's because Onii-chan told me, that's why!" She nodded rapidly, "Th-That's exactly it! Onii-chan told me that a temptress was trying to seduce him and make him lose his job!"
Many who knew Chifuyu would also say she was an honest person. A lie rarely passed from her lips, and if it did it was only to benefit others and never herself. Of course, those same people never knew her when she was talking about her Beloved Onii-chan.
The truth was that she had seen them by accident. She was looking through her brothers closet for his lesson plan (Not his underwear!) so she could review the discussed topics. When she heard Tatenashi and Ichika walking down the hallway, she panicked and hid.
"Hmmm, Really~?" Tatenashi gave her an "I really doubt you're telling the truth" face, "Well then, I must admit I'm sort of flattered that Ichika-kun," She emphasized the honorific, "Would think of me that way. If he says I'm a temptress, then that must mean I have some effect on him."
Chifuyu cursed her sense of wording.
"There's one thing I'm curious about, though...."
Chifuyu watched in confusion as Tatenashi tood up from her seat and made her way towards her. She was half-expecting the older girl to start a fight right then and there and made to summon her IS. If she was going down, she was going down fighting. Unfortunately, the truth was much much worse.
Tatenashi leaned across the small chair that Chifuyu was sitting in, making sure her face was level with the younger girls. Chifuyu backed up instinctively and cursed when the unyielding wall that was the back of the chair refused to move. She was trapped.
"I wonder, what exactly did you hear me say?" She was so close that every word she spoke seemed to magnify, "Can you tell me?"
Chifuyu was sure her face was completely red at this point, "T-That's......Y-You said something about how...." She paused and swallowed. Despite rumors at her old school, no doubt spread by Dan as a joke, Chifuyu was very much a pure hearted girl. Something like this was an absolute nightmare for her, "O-Onii-chan was.....you were......!"
Tatenashi giggled internally as the younger girl stammered out more and more fragmented sentences. Teasing people was an old hobby of hers and the best targets were often those who were easily flustered.
"Maybe it was an offer? You know, kind of like this?" Chifuyu's eyes widened in horror when Tatenashi leaned cupped her cheeks in one hand and leaned closer, "Ichika-kun was really nervous as well. You two are extremely alike." Tatenashi was only teasing, of course. She was as straight as a sword. Chifuyu was as well, or at least that's what she heard.
Chifuyu didn't hear her. In fact, she didn't hear much of anything. Her mind was a scrambling mess, not helped by the close proximity of the infuriating bluenette. It really didn't help that their lips were only a couple of inches apart and her every breath smelled strongly of peppermint. Just one push and they would make contact.
There was only one thing to do.
"Oniii-chaaaaaan!" Whatever Tatenashi expected her to do, it certainly didn't include pushing her off and running for the door like her life depended on it. Tatenashi watched in astonishment as the black haired blur opened the door and shut it behind her with a loud thud.
"....Well, I guess they're different in a lot of things after all~"