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Rui placed his notebook underneath his desk, ready to pull out a small robot he's working on when the door loudly opened, and a booming voice was heard. "GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!" He glanced over his shoulders to see Tsukasa with his usual grin, some classmates groan, while some also enthusiastically greeted Tsukasa back. The blonde went to his seat to drop his bag before approaching Rui.
"Good morning Tsukasa-kun, you seem energetic as usual." Rui greeted with a smile, focusing on the blonde who grinned. "Ofcourse! I'm a star after all!" Tsukasa proudly declared, panting. Rui raised an eyebrow at his panting and flushed cheeks. "Are you okay Tsukasa-kun? You seem tired?" Rui pointed out, shocking the shorter.
"Oh! Don't worry Rui! I just ran all the way here since I thought I'll be late!" Tsukasa exclaimed, borrowing the seat infront of Rui. "I see, well, a star should have a perfect attendance after all." The purplenette grinned, chuckling at the way the other immediately agreed.
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It's their lunch break, having it on the rooftop as usual, Nene already left a few moments earlier to sneak Emu out of their school. Rui peacefully eats with one arm, his other arm resting on his thighs while the blonde played with his sweater's sleeves. The shorter accidentally touched the taller's hand making Rui flinch and move his hand away. "What's wrong Rui?" Tsukasa asked, packing his half empty lunch. 'Tsukasa always empties his lunch, is he having a bad day?' Rui wondered.
"It's nothing, your hand just feels weirdly warm." Rui replied, finishing his lunch with ease. Before he could pack his lunch too, he realized what he said, immediately grabbing Tsukasa's hands, feeling that it's indeed warmer than usual. "Oh that! I was rubbing it together earlier, and besides! My lunch is still hot when I brought it out." Tsukasa explained, slowly moving his hands away.
'Then shouldn't the heat be gone by now?' Rui failed to question, packing his lunch in silence. There's something wrong about Tsukasa today but he cannot pinpoint what it is exactly. Tsukasa covered his mouth and barely excused himself to go to the bathroom. Tsukasa covered his mouth tightly and ran off the rooftop. "Is he okay?" Rui wondered, grabbing their lunches.
"Well I'm sure he ate something bad, maybe he'll get some medicine in the infirmary or something." Rui stated, going down the stairs to return their lunches.
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Toya suddenly entered the third year's classroom, looking around. The two of them made eye contact, making the younger stop peaking from the door. "Kamishiro-san, may I speak with you?" Toya requested, earning a few whispers from Rui's classmates. He abandoned his notebook to hurriedly walk towards his junior. They simply talked infront of Rui's classroom so that it will be much easier. "What is it that you wanted to talk about?" Rui gave his signature smile, sensing that the younger is worried about something.
"You see... Tsukasa-senpai had a fever yesterday, and his sister messaged me telling me that he probably went today without fully recovering, I told her that I'll watch him, I saw him almost passing out on the bathroom and had to take him to the infirmary." Rui's eyes widened at Toya's explanation, mentally slapping himself at how oblivious he had been. Realizing that Tsukasa's behavior was weird from the start.
"Ah, how come I didn’t notice?" Rui clicked his tongue, wondering what to do. "Please don't beat yourself too much Kamishiro-san, that's just how Tsukasa-senpai's sickness works since he was young. He would feel alright on the morning, and when afternoon hits, it would get worst. I asked permission from the teachers for you and Tsukasa-senpai to be absent on the afternoon classes." Toya added, taking out the pass he managed to get for them.
"Oh! Thank you Aoyagi-kun." Rui grabbed the pass from him, pocketing it. "I'm sorry for the trouble I caused Kamishiro-san, I wanted to do it myself, but I have a presentation due later." Toya's frown deepened making him take pity. "It's alright, I'll take care of Tsu-" Rui stopped, seeing Tsukasa slowly sitting down on his seat, some classmates looking at him in concern. "Sorry Aoyagi-kun, I'll be going now." Rui rushed inside after Toya bowed down and left.
Rui tapped the blonde who weakly lifted his head. "Tsukasa-kun, you have to head home now!" Rui grumbled, gently pushing Tsukasa to sit upright. "No.. I'll bear it until school ends." Tsukasa stubbornly replied, trying to prevent Rui from grabbing his bag. Rui wore his and Tsukasa's bag on his back. "You stubborn one, you look worse than what you imagine." Rui snickered, trying to persuade Tsukasa off his seat.
When the other refused, he sighed in defeat, crouching down and carrying the other on his arms instead. "Rui..." Tsukasa covered his mouth and coughed, turning his head away from Rui. Some classmates watched them go out of the room in silence, other than Tsukasa's occassional coughs and groans.
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Tsukasa woke up feeling much better, and he's not even lying at this point. He looked down and saw that he's wearing his pajamas and Rui's blue sweater, not forgetting what Rui said before.
"I started wearing blue because you said you liked it."
Just luck that he ended up having a fever after that hang out, he didn't know what caused it though. It's so random. He straightened his arms up like he was driving, watching the sweater fall down on the tips of his fingers, he raised his hands up and watch it slowly fall down, he shaked it back down, now bringing the sleeves into his nose. 'The smell isn't strong, but it's still smells nice.' Tsukasa thought, halting when he heard a chuckle.
He stopped what he's doing, looking down to see Rui with his arms crossed on his bed with his head on top of it, looking up at him and laughing. "Ahh... Tsukasa-kun really looks good in my sweater." Rui teased, being smacked by a pillow by the older who got annoyed.
After that time, Rui would take any chance just to lend Tsukasa his sweater, deeming it cute enough to fit a pretty boy like Tsukasa.