Reader x Hatsuharu: Beanstalk - Part 2

It’d been a month since then and no one had even dared to glance at you. This was exceedingly better than them making fun of you. You and Haru had been hanging out in the hallways and whatever chances you got. Haru’s idea was that people wouldn’t mess with you if he was around and he seemed to be right. You become friends fairly quickly and you learned a lot about him. But for the last few days, it seemed that Haru had been avoiding you. Every time you thought you had him cornered, he disappeared somewhere else. It wasn’t until you were walking through the halls after school one day that you saw him again. Or, rather, heard him.

“DAMN IT!” You jumped when you heard the shout followed by a crash. It sounded like it came from one of the classrooms down the hall. You slowly approached the classroom that the noise came from. When you opened the door you saw Haru stomping through the classroom and knocking things over.

“Haru?” You asked quietly, a bit frightened of his angry state. He turned and looked at you with the utmost hatred.

“What do you want, Beanstalk?” He growled at you. You cringed at the name and took a step back.

He must be really angry, you thought. You decided that the best course of action at this point would be to try and calm him down.

“Calm down, Haru-“ You were cut off by Haru.

“You want me to calm down?! Do you have any idea what happened to me?! You can’t even begin to understand what happened!”

You felt tears spring to your eyes and tried to hold them back. You didn’t want to cry. You weren’t even upset, it just happened. You hoped he wouldn’t notice.

“Haru…” Your voice cracked and a couple tears escaped. You quickly wiped your eyes to prevent anymore tears from coming down. So much for not noticing.

His face filled with guilt and he looked away.

“I’m sorry,” he barely whispered and quickly tried to get past you and out the door. You quickly grabbed his wrist to stop him.

“Haru, look at me,” you said. He didn’t look at you and tried to pull away. “Damn it, look at me, Haru!” This got him to look at you. You could tell there were thousands of emotions running through him. You released his wrist and lifted your hands to his face so he couldn’t look away.

“What’s wrong?” He removed your hands from his face and walked towards a wall in the classroom.

“Everything,” he said in a quiet voice. “Damn!” He punched the wall in front of him. “Everything’s wrong and I want to tell but I can’t because part of what’s wrong is that I can’t tell you anything!” He turned and looked towards you, he had a somber smile. “There’s so much about me that you don’t know and I want to tell you so bad. I just can’t though.” He looked away again.

“Why can’t you tell me?” You asked, walking towards him.

“It’s part of what I want to tell you. If I told you, you’d understand why I can’t tell you. And it’s not just what you don’t know about me, there are other things that I could tell you but I can’t because of what I can’t tell you!”

You giggled a little. “Sounds complicated.”

Haru laughed dryly, “You have no idea.”

You decided to change the subject to get his mind off of it for a while. “So, what’s with ‘Beanstalk’?”

He cringed a bit. “I’m sorry. I really wasn’t thinking about what I was saying.”

“No it’s okay. I kinda like it. Beanstalk, like the giant in the beanstalk. But, if I’m the giant in the beanstalk, you have to be my golden goose.” You smirked mischievously at him.

“Beanstalk and Golden Goose, huh? I could live with that,” He smiled a genuine smile. You smiled back.

“I think I’ll tell you,” Haru said suddenly.

“Tell me what?”

“Something about me. But you have to keep it a secret.”

“Sure.”

“C’mere,” he gestured for you to come closer. You stood in front of him and he leaned in to whisper in your ear. “I really like you, (f/n).”

Your eyes widened and you smiled and motioned for him to lean closer. You whispered, “I really like you, too.” Then you turned and kissed him on the cheek and took a step back. Then he took and step forward and pecked you on the lips. He grabbed your hands and pecked you again. You smiled and just as you were about to kiss him…

“I don’t mean to interrupt, but shouldn’t we be going Haru?” You both jumped back from each other and looked over towards the door to see Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru standing there. Kyo was rolling his eyes and Tohru was blushing and looking away.

“Ack! Yuki-senpai!” You said, startled. He smiled kindly at you then looked to Haru again.

“Let’s go, Hatsuharu.”

“Alright. See ya, Beanstalk.”

“See ya, Golden Goose,” you winked at him. He walked out and started walking with Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo.

“So what’s with this Golden Goose pet name?” You heard Kyo ask.

“Shut up, Kyo,” was the only response you heard from Haru. You giggled.

“You know,” you thought, “I think being a giant in a beanstalk is perfectly fine, as long as I have my golden goose.”