A new story requested by my friend! I hope you will like it!

~Mid-September~

Akashi Seijurou, the only son and inheritor of the Akashi group, walks down the hallway, holding his notes on his hands. His red hair and red eyes are once again entrancing the others. Girls and boys looked at him with admiration. His absolute aura lingers still, but they knew he changed since he is smiling back towards them, a kind smile from the emperor.

"Sei-chan!" Mibuchi Reo called him at the end of the hallway, and with high tension, he then approached Akashi

"Mibuchi-Senpai, good afternoon"

"Stop that, just call me Reo or Mibuchi."

"I cannot do that. I can only call you that during Club activities. Anyway, is there something wrong? You are in the second year's building"

"Ah, right! Have you seen (L/N) (F/N)-chan?" He asked holding a paper "I need to give this to her. We are both in cooking club right? And I need to give this to her since this is one of our project. She did this and she asked me to check it."

"If she is not in the room, then I don't know. But I'll hand that to her once I see her"

"Really?! Thank you Sei-chan! Here you go. And see you later~!" He giggled then left.

Akashi smiled to himself, a very enigmatic smile.

He walked towards the sky bridge on the 4th floor connecting the 2nd year building and the unused building next to it. He flight down towards the empty hallway on the 2nd floor, and at the end of the hallway there was a sign saying "art room." He entered the room and there he saw her at the corner table, busy writing. She is by herself, and the ray of the sun brighten her surroundings, and in his eyes, there's an angel, since behind her, a wall painting of an angel was painted behind her, and it was as if the wings were hers

"Akashi!" She called him with glee when she noticed him standing at the door, looking at her.

He smiled and walked towards her, then sat down across her. "You are here already"

"I am doing my English report. And, as I said, this place is calming me, even though it's an empty building."

"Correction. Because they are renovating the 1st and 3rd floor, they decided to empty the building until further notice."

"It's been like this since the beginning of this year"

The reality is, Akashi knew where to find her. It's been five months, and every single day during lunch, they always meet in this particular room.

And the reality that Akashi had became interested of her couldn't change.

It started on Valentines Day during their first year, when every girls from their class handed chocolates to the boys. Everyone gave Akashi chocolates, very different from the other guys, except for her. She gave the guys same amount, same design, except for one particular guy from their class and it wasn't him.

Slowly, his eyes watched her, and it irritated him, since her eyes didn't even turn to him. She has no interest, zero interest of him. At first, he didn't care but he realized to himself that he became curious of her.

Since he got curious of her, his eyes followed her, and as he observed her, he saw the changes from her smile and stare. It became blank, and sadness covered it. And when they became second year, her usual smile faded, and she suddenly became aloof.

One Thursday afternoon in the middle of April, he was only there in the library, looking for a reference book. Akashi noticed her, just staring blankly outside the window, with her chin resting on her palm. No books on the table, just her.

"-shi, Akashi?! Can you hear me?" Akashi returned to his senses then looked at her "are you okay?"

"I apologize. I just remember the first time I talk to you in the library last April. You were very sentimental" he chuckled then she pouted her lips.

"Why? All of a sudden? Well, I apologize about being sentimental. But..." she laughed and nodded "I was really being sentimental that time. If you didn't talk to me, I would be so stressed and depressed." Her eyes looked straight at him and a big wide smile flashed upon her.

/flashback- mid-April/

"Can I sit here?"

"Eh?"

"Everywhere else is full, and your table is rather... empty"

"Ah, yes... I apologize Akashi-sama..."

"Akashi is fine, (L/N)" he sat across her, and silence covered them. She stared blankly once more "I am used to this silence, but this is suffocating."

"I apologize. I'll leave-" but her eyes widened as Akashi set his things aside

"I can hear your problems. I'm all ears. And I can promise you that I will not tell it to others."

"But-"

"It's better to say it to people not close to you, since it's easier to say it." Akashi insisted "and, you seemed like you will cry thus you don't want your friends to see it."

His words pierced her, and a sad smile flashed on her. Her eyes still not meeting his.

"Probably... I am hiding from my friends. But I quite don't label myself as their friends though. Besides, they will never go here. They will look for me when they only need me"

"Why?"

"I am only their so called friend when they need me. Though I have five closest friends." When she said that, Akashi knew who they were but he only knew three "two guys and three girls. They were my friends ever since. But, my closest friend, she went to America to. The other one, he went to Tokyo. So four of us entered Rakuzan. It was okay, until... Sae went out with that 3rd year senpai. Shouta and Ririka, are now going out with each other."

"So now, even those three, forgot about you?" He asked and her silence answered it "or should I say, that because Kazuki and Wada started going out, you are trying to distance yourself since you like Kazuki" Akashi was expecting for her to deny it but she chuckled, and for the first time, her eyes looked straight at him, a sad honest eyes

"I am, probably?" She honestly responded "I like him that is why I am distancing myself. And since they never think that I would be here in the library, I hide here."

"That's unexpectedly honest from you." Akashi responded "so since then, you are by yourself. How about lunch? You cannot eat here"

"Yes, I cannot eat here. It is embarrassing, but I eat at the washroom sometimes if I couldn't find an empty area"

Akashi felt pity towards her, but as she again looked outside, Akashi's eyes widened; her surrounding brighten up, he could see her face clearly, her eyes glittering, and he could smell a vanilla scent from her, a scent that pulled him more to her.

"Then tomorrow, go to the 2nd floor of the empty building, the last room on the right once you got out of the east staircase. Use the skybridge on the 4th floor"

"That's the vacant room of Art. I tried entering there, but it's lock"

"Just go there. No one will go there and there, you can cry." Akashi smiled at her that surprised her

"Akashi-sama really changed."

"I told you, Akashi is fine. Anyways, I am here to do our chemistry homework. Have you finished it?"

"Yes, I like our topic in chemistry after all that I finished it right away."

"You, you are smart but not showing it, huh?"

"I don't want myself to stand out. If I do..."

"If you do...?"

"Nothing."

"You'll be hated by your friends?" Akashi asked and her smile once again answered it "then, those are not your friends. I also had problems with my friends, that I didn't want them to leave me so I changed. But I was wrong."

"Honestly, I also don't care if I lose them. As long as my real friends believe in me and trust me." She responded

"But your real friends aren't here." When Akashi pointed it out, she laughed that surprised him

"You really are straightforward"

Akashi couldn't help but smiled at her. "Okay, I'll start my homework now. If you've finished it, why not help me?"

"Give me a break. You are way smarter than me. I'll silently stay here until our next class. Also, Akashi, thank you very much. I never expected that you will talk to me, thank you very much"

"I know it is hard for me to say this, but I can be your friend. Also, you can trust me that I will not tell others about what we talked about"

"Yeah, I do believe in your words. Thank you."

"By the way, I wanted to ask this. Can you smell a vanilla scent or something?"

"Ah, this" she extended her arm and chuckled "I apologized, you didn't like it? It's my perfume, vanilla scent. I don't usually wear perfume, but my cousin gave it to me yesterday. I like vanilla scent. Even though I don't wear perfume, I will smell like Vanilla. I apologize if you don't like it"

"No, I really don't mind. Just... curious of that smell."

And Akashi was caught in an unexpected troublesome scent

~TBC~