"Kenichi, we'll be right back." My mother whispered into my ear, she kissed my forehead, brushed my hair aside and then left along with my father.
That was the last time I ever saw my parents alive.
***
"S-Saruyama are you alright?" Sairenji, who was kneeled down to check on me, asked, her purple eyes filled with concern looked into my black ones.
"Huh?" I was confused, I looked around, my eyes met with the girl whose future I now knew.
I was surprised to say the least as I realised the reality of my situation, or maybe the fake reality, is a better way to put it.
To sum up what just happened, when I was hit with the tennis ball my thoughts finally fixed themselves as I realised that I am a side character in a poorly written manga, called 'To love ru'. I could also see other things, realities that wern't related to people I knew.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Sairenji." I lied. Looking around at my surroundings. I watched the figures of several people pass by, and I was surprised to see faces that I shouldn't know register as ones that I did.
The girl with short silver hair that was walking home after school, a girl who I never met was someone I knew, her name was Sen yarizui. A character from an anime, called Ben-to. Yet there she was a real person, not a drawing.
"Saruyama, are you sure you're okay?" Sairenji, concerned with my well-being asked again.
"Yeah, I'm fine…better than fine actually." I closed and opened my hand that felt so weak, the feeling of weakness, felt familiar, yet foreign.
I had been weak for years now, so why did it feel weird to be weak, it felt like I was forgetting something important.
"Saruyama," Rito said my name, turning my attention to him. "You're crying."
"What?" I brought my fingers up to my cheek and felt the cold unmistakable feeling of a tear, when was the last time I cried?
"Ah, S-saruyama is crying, On no! Rito do you have anything that can-" Sairenji panicked at the sight of my tears. She attempted to find a solution but her brain stopped working when she felt a hand brush against her head.
"There's no need to worry, Sairenji. I'm fine." I quietly said as I patted her head.
""Ack!"" The sound of shock came out of both her and Rito's mouth as I situated myself back up. Sairenji looked at me, her face flushed red, a scene that hardly worked on me as I-thanks to my new knowledge of 'to love ru'-have seen her in much more compromising situations. Still cute though.
"Hup," I fixed myself back into a standing position and reached my hand down to Sairenji, who was still in shock from my previous action. "Need a hand?" She looked up at me, her face still red and slowly reached her hand out to mine.
"Uh, hey Saruyama, I can take care of Ha-" Rito stepped forward attempting to take my place to get closer to her. However in classic Rito fashion he tripped on a root of one of the trees, and was falling right toward Sairenji, more specifically her breasts.
I noticed this and having seen situations like this hundreds of times in his story I grabbed her outstretched hand and pulled her into my chest.
*Sairenji Haruna POV*
I felt terrible,
He was hurt because of me.
And worse, he was crying.
"There's no need to worry, Sairenji. I'm fine." Saruyama said, his voice gentle and caring, it was a tone that I found hard to believe came out of him. But his next actions were even harder to imagine, something that he would never do.
He took his hand and gently pat my head,
My brain stopped working, it made no sense, how was he, how could he. The same boy who only a couple days ago I head heard yell out,
"I want a girlfriend!" Be acting so calmly in this situation?
"Need a hand?" I looked up to see Saruyama stretching his hand out toward me, his figure basked in the sunlight looked like a knight, the kind you would find in the romance books I read.
My face grew a deeper shade of red as I looked at him, my heart beat a faster pace but only for a moment as I was reminded of Rito.
"Uh, hey Saruyama, I can take care of Ha-" Rito was talking but tripped, his destination, right on top of me.
Or at least that's how it should have been, Saruyama, noticing this, gently grabbed my hand and pulled me into his embrace.
"Wh-what?" I whispered my words into his chest, his existence seemed so different in this moment, almost like a-
"AGH!" Rito, who had not collided with me, had instead collided right into a tree.
"You good rito?" Saruyama asked.
Rito could only give a shaky thumbs up as the tree he ran into shook a little, this scene made me laugh a little, Rito had an unnatural talent for making comedic situations happen.
"Squeak!" Out from the tree came a squirrel, the squirrel seemed to think his tree was being attacked and jumped onto Rito, attacking him.
"Ahh, no stop it, bad Squirrel, stop it! AHHH!" Rito was being attacked by a squirrel, and the squirrel was winning.
Rito Could barely control his body, the squirrel seemed like the one in control, maybe that's why he bumped into me, who pushed a bit back on Saruyama, who tripped on a loose tree root.
We both fell backwards, I fell on top of Saruyama, my head near the top of his chest.
"Sorry," I apologized, attempting immediately to get up, but that isn't what happened.
I moved myself forward, attempting to get off him, but Rito, who was still in a losing fight against the Squirrel, found himself tripping over things left and right.
Eventually he tripped on us, causing my body to fall down, right on top of Saruyama.
"Chu~"