You Illuminate My Path

Chapter 10: Kurama...is a tengu?!

In the back of the class, near the window I sit with Nanami.
Class is very exciting, since the teaching is pretty different from the one at home.
While I'm scribbling notes in my textbook, I feel a poke on my shoulder.

Urgh! Leave. Me. Alone you stupid people!!

I put down the pencil and sigh in annoyance, before turning around in my seat.
Isobe hands me a little piece of paper and gestures towards Kurama, who has his gaze fixed upon the blackboard.

My face scrunches up into an angry expression, but yet I'm confused....why would he all of a sudden send me a note during class?

More or less, why do I want to read it and not just throw it out a nearby window?

Hesitantly, I unfold the paper that says:

(Y/n), meet me on the roof after class.

-Kurama

Oh, no. What do you want now?

~Timeskip to after class~

Damn that Kurama...why does he have to be so...annoying?!

Swiftly, I walk through the hall and up the stairs that leads to the roof of the building, while wondering about what he wants.
Everybody doesn't really seem to like me very much, and honestly, I couldn't care less about their impressions of me. But Kurama is keeping up my status by telling all sorts of positive stuff about me during class. And I can tell that he isn't serious about what he is saying, but others seem to believe whatever is coming out of his mouth.

I find my way up to the roof by instinct.
Now that I think about it, I have never been on the roof before. Wonder what it's like up there....

I push the door open and eye Kurama who stands near the railing with the wind in his hair. As soon as I set foot on the roof he turns around to face me.

"You're seriously doing the whole 'meet me on the roof ' cliché?" I question, holding up the note I got from earlier.

Kurama merely stares at me, before coming towards me.

Silence...

"What is it? Why are you staring at me like that?!" I ask annoyedly.

"Earlier today you said you hated me. Why?" he finally says, with a calm expression.

"Because you.."

Because he....what? What did he really do to make me straight up hate him?
I mean, he was a bit rude towards me and Nanami, and he put her in a bad light; I can point out many things that I don't like about him, but why hate him?

Since the first time I heard his name I decided that I didn't like him, and again, why?

I glance up at Kurama who patiently awaits my answer.

"Because....I don't know..." I mumble while looking away in defeat.

"You don't know?" he questions. He isn't angry, nor does he seem irritated.

"It's hard to explain...." I mutter.
Shaking my head I turn away to go back inside, until something grabs my wrist.

"So I assume you don't remember then.." I hear him say.