Well, this was trip was off to a great start… Is what Kouji would think if he was insane. They had just gotten here, and he just had to run into some girl from his old school. Sure, Hasua is a nice girl, and he didn't hate her. It's just that she was always a bit… Overbearing.
Oh well, maybe he could try to ignore her. After all, she's here with him, and had no idea he'd be here. Not only that, but the other girls were surely not going to appreciate it too much if he spent that much time with that girl. Then again, it's not as if he was about to do anything stupid.
***
"I'm really looking forward to our little relaxing trip." Isako laid about, rather informally, on the bed. Meanwhile her roommate, Waa, was sitting very uptight. Concerned about what was going to happen between her and the headmistress. After the obviously mean words she said, surely that woman must've held a grudge.
"Y-yeah." She responded. "So… What type of springs does your cousin run anyway?"
"It's the kind where you get nude, if that's what you're asking." Isako answered. "But I'm sure a body likes yours wouldn't really draw any attention." The girl was taken a back by that snide comment, and she felt that it was done as revenge about earlier.
"I'm sorry." She really didn't want to spend this entire weekend with that hanging over her head. "You know, about calling you a Christmas cake."
"Hmm?" Isako had no idea what she was talking about. "I'm not mad at you, I thought you were being self-conscious, so I was trying to make you feel better."
"Self-conscious? Oh no, I'm not worried about how I look." Waa responded. "I don't care what some stuck-up girls think of me."
"Well, it's not just girls that can see you." With a statement like that, there was only one thing that Isako could be suggesting. "You see, my cousin runs a mixed-bathhouse."
"You've gotta be kidding me, does anyone else know?" The answer to that question was a resounding, no. She knew that no one would've been into the trip, if they were aware, so the headmistress chose to withhold that information. Now that the truth was out, Waa showed why she kept it a secret in the first place. "They're all going to blow when they find out."
"I know that it's not easy for all of you." She tried to cheer her up. "Especially since a boy you know is also there. But I assure you that nothing perverted is going to happen."
"Well, I don't care about it myself." After all, Waa had no qualms about Kouji seeing her in just panties. "But I'm not looking forward to being just stuck with just you when we get there."
"I guess we'll just have to convince them." While coercion didn't seem like the best idea, Waa did like the thought of getting the others uncomfortable. Then she'd be able to tease them as much as she'd like. "Kouji's by himself, so we should get started with him." And so, they left to go to his room.
"Hello?" Waa knocked on his door, but oddly there was no response. Weird, since it's not like he had anything better to do in that tiny room. The girl tried the doorknob, and surprisingly, it opened. Inside, there was no one there.
"Oh my, we should call the authorities." Isako had already jumped to the worst case scenario. The boy must've somehow been kidnapped in the short time he was in this room.
"Nah." Waa was more nonchalant about it, since she believe this was something else. Something, that admittedly she wasn't a big fan of. "He's with someone else."
"Then, I guess we'll meet him with the others then." However, the girl had to correct the headmistress's beliefs.
"No, I mean, I think he's with that other girl."
"What other girl?" That was when it was explained to her, the gyaru that they had met when first checking in. That girl apparently knew him from his old school, but more importantly, she also slipped him a note about where she was staying at. "I see, but it's incredibly irresponsible that he'd leave this place unlocked. Someone could've stolen his stuff."
"What stuff?" There was a pause between them, as Waa spoke a harsh truth about her friend.
"You're right." She admitted. "So, are you aware of what room this happens to be at?"
"I do actually." Waa did sneak a peak at what was on the note, when she had the chance. Pretty much all the girls did, but it didn't actually matter. "She's actually just in the next room." She pointed towards the wall, where a girl's laughter could be heard. It was obvious who that was, so it didn't even matter if she saw the note or not.
Both of them left his room, and moved over to the next door over. Isako was about to knock, when Waa stopped her.
"Come on, we've got the element of surprise." She informed her. "If it's unlocked, then we gotta rush in."
"That sounds highly rude." The older lady scolded her. "We shouldn't just invade on their privacy."
"Oh? But surely Kouji wouldn't be doing anything lewd with her." She slyly smiled, as she unnerved her headmistress. "I'm sure that you don't think he'd be having inappropriate relations."
"O-of course I don't" Waa's plan worked, she got the woman off-kilter. "I'm sure we wouldn't be interrupting anything." When the girl called her a Christmas cake, she wasn't wrong. Isako was clueless about why he would go into another girl's room like this, as if sex was the only option.
"Great, now let's give them a little shock." Now that she had the opening, Waa slammed open the door, which was surprisingly unlocked as well. "All right, what's going on he… Eh?" Though, she wasn't expecting the sight she saw.
There they were, on the girl's bed. With the gyaru known as Hasua laying underneath Kouji. All of a sudden, Waa lost all of her bravado.
"Wh-what is going on here?!"
***
Kouji took a look at the note that Hasua handed him. Funny enough, her room was only besides his, so it wasn't a place that he'd have to go so out of the way. While he would've have called himself close to the girl, there was some temptation to do a little catching up. The boy would be lying if he said he wasn't a little curious about what she had been up to these past months.
So it was decided, he would pay her a little visit. At least until it was time to join with the other girls. Then again, since this was a hot springs, he wasn't expecting to be spending any time with any of them. So there wasn't any obligation to be there on time. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to take her up on that offer.
Kouji left his room, leaving the door unlocked because there's nothing important in it anyway, and he wasn't going to be gone long. In hindsight, probably not a good idea by him for more than one reason. Next, he went up to her door, and knocked.
"Kouji!" In a flash, she opened it. That was much faster than he was expecting, as if she was just waiting for him. "I knew you'd come." Without letting him get a word in edgewise, she grabbed the boy by the arm, and pulled him inside.
"Wow." Her room was much larger than his, the biggest difference being that there were two beds here. "Where's your friends?"
"Oh, they should already be at the springs by now." She answered him. "Hm… I bet they're probably chatting it up with some real cute guys by now."
"Funny." Kouji sat himself down on one of the beds. "I thought you'd be there with them." He would've expected a gyaru like herself to be into that type of stuff. But honestly speaking, that girl was a bit of a surprise when they first met each other. Call her a bit more of a gyaru, for the looks of it, and only just a little bit when it came to the lifestyle.
"Hehehe." She laughed at his statement, as the girl say besides him. The big bed got weighed down by the two people on it. Hasua knew, why look for boys, when one was already here? "So why are you here? It looks like you've got a lot of cute girls hanging with you."
"Aww…" He got bashful at the thought of it. "Well, I just wanted to see you for a little bit. You know, catch up a little bit." Of course, he meant things a lot more innocently than she took it. Or perhaps, she was already ready to take it in that direction.
"Well then, how about this?" She pulled him down over her. Kouji did little to resist, but he wasn't prepared for what she was asking of him.
"What… What are you doing?" He said, as his hands were besides her head, trying to support himself over her. It was at this moment, he partially regretted his action. Kouji scolded himself on the inside, for trusting that a gyaru wouldn't be promiscuous.
Too bad for him, that this was also the same moment that Waa decided busting through the door was a better idea than simply knocking.
And thus, we've returned ourselves to the present time, as both the head mistress and student, were staring at him in this terrible position.
"This is… Only half of what it looks like." Admittedly, Hasua was the one that actually wanted what this looked like. So he couldn't exactly say it was entirely not that compromising.
"Kouji, I thought you were taught better than this." Isako glared at him, arms crossed.
"I wasn't trying to do anything, she pulled me down like that." He got up to defend himself. "Come on, Waa I know you've read plenty of manga where this kind of stuff happens." Maybe it wasn't the best idea to appeal to fictional occurrences, but it was a way to get to that girl. Unfortunately, even if she agreed, and might've normally taken his side. There was a part of her on the inside, where some type of feelings were bubbling up.
"I don't know." She said, in a very harsh tone. Her eyes turned downward to not face him, and she crossed her arms as well. "It looks pretty bad to me." Because of her tone, he was in utter dismay over her reaction. Kouji was expecting her to tease him about the situation, but this didn't sound like a joke from her. What he couldn't understand, was why she seemed so mad about it.
"He's right." It was Hasua that came to his rescue. "I'm the one that caused all this." She say up straight, hands down on her thighs. The girl took a genuine stance of shame to both of them, as she told the truth. "You shouldn't get mad at him, he even tried to stop it."
"I understand, young lady." Isako took it well. "Please refrain from doing such actions to my students though. It's highly unbecoming, and you should have some respect for yourself." With that, the trio was about to make their leave.
"Are you still going to the springs?" Waa asked, stopping them for a moment.
"Of course, my friends are waiting for me." Hasua put on a cheerful face, but Kouji knew her well enough, to sense the mask she put on.
"We'll see you there then." He finished the conversation, and they left the girl alone. Well, he wasn't expecting to see her there, but that belief was going to be proven incorrect soon enough.
I can't believe the nerve of that girl." Waa complained, as they walked down the halls. "Or maybe I should've expected a gyaru like her to act that way. I knew that my manga was wrong about pure gyarus."
"That's not fair to say." It was Kouji that came to that girl's defense, even if she wasn't there.
"Then what was it that we saw back there?"
"Look, I'm not dense. I'm very aware that she has a crush on me." Though the reason why, was unknown to him. Of course, the idea of him not being dense was laughable for her. "However, I also know she has a kind heart, and I'm sure you'll all like her if you gave her a shot."
"Pff, I doubt it." Personally, she already wasn't that friendly to the rest of the girls. There was only one reason why she was even a part of the group, and the girl had no power over that decision. Though, during all this, she did find another reason to stick around.
"At least she's nicer than you." Kouji threw in an insult towards her, which earned him a flick to the forehead in retaliation.
"Ehem." Isako fake coughed to get their attention. "It looks like everyone's here now." Before them, were the rest of the girls, sans Anastasia, with some holding not so happy looks at them.
"Took you long enough to get here." Teru scolded them, standing with a hand on her waist. "What was the holdup for?"
"Oh, we just needed to take a little detour." Isako gave up a vague excuse. "Anyway, we should all get undressed so we can enjoy ourselves."
"Finally. Unlike some people, I waited until we were all here." Himawari bragged.
"All right, well I'll see you all later when we get dinner or something." Kouji was about set to march into the changing room, when their headmistress decided to drop the bombshell.
"Well, actually… We'll all be seeing each other in there." She said, which only indicated one thing to the rest of the group that had yet to find out the truth.
"Ehhh!?" They all yelled out in unison.