SCP's trouble

by Rhinok113

Summary:

One thing that Nagumo learnt from Yagami (apart from looking for hidden anagrams) was how to read the situation with unnecessary depth.

Notes:

Translation to russian:
https://ficbook.net/readfic/018c9cf0-24a2-7a6f-b08f-97312c0523c1

Chapter 1

The warm rays of autumn sun shone through the windows to the quiet office in a school building. There, on a most comfortable looking chair sat a lonesome man's figure. It was Student Council (SC) president and a student of Class 3-A, Nagumo Miyabi. This student is in no way short of outstanding, always looking dazzling and constantly admired by many. But if someone saw him right now, they would think that he looks kind of haggard. He has a dark circles under his eyes and dishelved hair. The two buttons of his shirt are unbuttoned, complemented with loose neck tie and he is leaning heavily on the desk. Infront of him is a pile of documents that he seems to be working on. But he can't focus properly. 

It's already past lessons and cheerful voices of students leaving school can be heard from outside, further distracting him from his painfully achieved focus. 

"Haaa...." Another sigh. Nagumo already lost track of how many times he sighed today. His eyes once again fell onto the letter on the side of the desk. 

Now you may be thinking, what is written in there to make normaly cool-headed president lose his composture?

Well, it's a love letter.

Make no mistake, Nagumo Miyabi has recieved countless letters in his student carrier, both in the elementary and high school. He is not someone who would be shaken just like that. Moreso when the letter doesn't even have a name of sender, clearly ment just as a show of quiet admiration from unknown source.

But last week, he got to know who the writer is.

It's Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. A love letter from Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. 

"That guy...has a quite nice hand-writting” 

The characters on the paper seem almost like printed by machine, precise and confident strokes combining into words expressing pure and sincere admiration. It can be seen from the composition of words that the author put a lot of thought into writing.

Originaly, Nagumo didn't really pay that much attention while reading it. Just one love letter of many, no need to overreact. But then he found that the letter was a part of elaborate plan by Ayanokoji. Miyabi didn't really understand anagrams that much, but he got curious. So, knowing what words to look for, he read the letter again and again, eventually figuring out the secret message hidden between the lines. And by repeated reading, he also came to appreciate the sophisticated beauty of the sentences, words chosen carefully and ingeniously. It could be easily called the piece of art. 

"All of that...just to get some first year expelled?" This was the main point. If it was only a trap, why bother to make it sound so...poetic? Why does it sound so nice reading outloud? (He only read it aloud just to make sure there is no other hidden message, no other reason). Why do the words scream with sincerity?

 

[...I really admire SC president...]

A brief memory flashed through blonde's head. Could it be...that he really ment it at the time? Nagumo thought about those eyes. They always seem so clear that the only thing you can see in them is your own reflection or so deep that you can't make out even a single speck of light. Either way, you get nothing. 

But it doesn't matter. There is a behaviour coded deep in our bones that makes us act in certain ways. The so called non-verbal commucation gives us about 60% information about how the others feel and what do they think, even if they mean to hide it. And no matter how much you try, you cannot fake it. Afterall, it's impossible to run away from your deepest consciousness. That would require you to be raised away from human society so you couldn't unknowingly learn those habits. Or you would have to have your guard up constantly, which is very draining. Anyway, both of those are nearly impossible. It's highly inprobable that Ayanokoji fits either criteria.

In particular, when people lie, they habitually do not look the other person into eyes. So it means that when Ayanokoji didn't avert his gaze while expressing his thoughts, he was telling the truth. 

 

When Nagumo arrived at this conclusion, he froze briefly. When he came back to his senses, he noticed that, at some unknown point, he started scribbling on one of the documents. He draw a pair of eyes that seemed like they could see through one's soul, with few hair strands falling over them. 

 

Nagumo quicky crumpled the document into ball and then put his hands away, as if it was scolding hot. (The document can't be used anymore anyway.)

 

He pushed his chair back and quickly spinned around a couple of times. 

 

Really, what's that guy doing, writing love letters when he already has a girlfriend? Image of Karuizawa Kei appeared in his mind. Silky blonde hair, sky blue eyes, overall nice appearance. 

 

Wait. 

 

Didn't he just desribe himself? 

Blonde hair? Check. 

Blue eyes? Check

Handsome and good figure? Check and check.

 

"...am I his type?" 

As he thought so, Nagumo unconsciously started straightening the crumpled paper before grabbing the pen again. 

 

But would Ayanokoji, no- Kiyotaka, risk going after him when he already has Karuizawa? 

...

 

Honestly, it's not that hard to imagine. Nagumo takes good care of himself. He uses one of the best shower gels, special hair conditioner on top of a shampoo, has a well-build body from many sport activities and is naturally handsome. Not only are his looks top class, but he is also very smart, athletic, charismatic, popular AND is a president of the Student's council. Karuizawa comes nowhere near that. If Nagumo turned him (Kiyotaka) down, nothing bad would happen. At most, he and Karuizawa would break up. But if the confession went well, Kiyotaka would have a boyfriend leagues above his own. A win-win situation either way. 

 

He looked at the eyes drawn on the paper. Actually, Kiyotaka himself doesn't look half bad. With sharp jawline, soft hair, intoxicating eyes and smooth, pale skin. As if he was in minimal contact with sunlight through his life. His apathetic expression gave him kind of a cool vibe, but his behavior is most often naive and gentle. Now that he thinks about it, this contrast is quite...cute. Can he maintain that apathetic face all the time? Or does he show emotion to the people that are closest to him? 

Nagumo actually knows the answer to this question. You see, he once had the younger man at almost 24/7 surveilance and knows for sure, that Kiyotaka Ayanokoji is man of one face. But maybe his so called girlfriend has seen his more expressive side? If Nagumo started dating Kiyotaka, would he get to see this side of his, too? Does Ayanokoji Kiyotaka get worried? Embarrased? Flustered? Focused? Confused? Does he smile? 

 

Pen strokes grew more agressive as Nagumo felt heat rising to his cheeks. His throat felt dry. 

 

His gaze fell onto the letter again. He thought of Horikita Manabu. How would the precious former-student-council president feel if he realized that Nagumo got to know his favourite kohai so much more than Manabu ever got the chance? Would he be jealous? 

 

Wait, does he want Manabu to be jealous? Jealous of whom? Kiyotaka or him?  

 

One thing is for sure, though. It would certainly attract senpai's attention. The two of them always seemed unexplainably close. 

 

Nagumo's thoughts came to a screetching halt. When did they grow so close? Horikita-senpai was usually cold towards others, at least on the surface. But toward Ayanokoji Kiyotaka? Never. He treated him better than even his secretary (- and that means something). Everyone amongs their classmates whispered that Tachibana-senpai was just a step away from becoming Manabu's girlfriend. Did...did that kohai somehow manage to close the distance even more? In that case, that would make them...

 

No!-- ...I mean, No. That doesn't make any sense, right? Obviously, Kiyotaka couldn't be dating Karuizawa and Manabu at the same time. And since he and Karuizawa started dating since... since the spring break? That-- Did he hook up with Karuizawa due to heartbreak? Or replacement?

Why Karuizawa, though? With no apparent prior contact...

Could it be... Kiyotaka likes partners who are more...dominant? It feels like he has inclinations of going with whatever others want (as if he is perfectly used to taking orders). 

 

So it was like that the whole time, huh? 

"Huuu-..." 

Suddenly feeling anger well up inside of him, he scratched almost finished portrait with powerful lines until nothing could be made clear of the previously handsome face. Only those striking eyes peeked through slits between forest of lines. Like with original, nothing could completely cover those pupils, making people tremble.

But not Nagumo. 

Fingers interlocked and elbows resting on the desk, Nagumo started thinking about his next step. He always gets what he wants, and this time will be no exception. Anyway, Kiyotaka provoked him first, so he only has himself to blame. 

Chapter 2

Summary:

Nagumo's delusions are getting worse. Oh well.

Beware! Set during Y2 Vol8

Notes:

Thank you everyone for your kind and passionate reviews on my works, they gave me so much energy and motivation <3
(Also sorry for all the no-replies, I will get right into it! T^T)

Being the head of the student body had certain perks. You could design the competitions to your advantage, easily sway opinion of masses, get access to some information that you would otherwise never know, and overall quite easily get whatever you want.

For example photos of your latest object of interest.

Kiyotaka had quite photogenic face. It was too bad he usually wore that dead-pan expression of his.

The boy had mostly peaceful time lately. He didn’t go to many meetings with that friend group of his and usually stayed cooped up in his room. Karuizawa, the for-now girlfriend, stopped by every so often. This was quite troubling, so Nagumo had people knock on their room every now and then to disrupt their privacy a little bit. It wasn’t obsessive nor manipulative. The two of them were bound to break up sooner or later anyway, so it would do them no good to get closer now. Anyway, Nagumo already logically concluded that Kiyotaka liked him, so it was entirely in Nagumo’s rights to send her flying.

This thought made Miyabi, for some reason, very happy. It was like a ray of warm sunshine in the cold winter days. Lately, he was feeling quite irritated. Second years have left for their school trip. Of course, these two things have no relation. How could some people being out of reach for a few days make the student council president irritated? He was the one that helped plan their trip.

No. The cause of SC president’s very mild irritation was the answer sheet that he got his hands on.

It was a file containing one particular student’s answers to a „classmates ranking“ task that second years did before leaving for their trip. The student’s name was Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. (What a coincidence!)

You may ask, why would Nagumo have this? Well, there’s no reason in particular. He was just a bit curious. Curious about Kiyotaka’s preferences. You see, there was no specific instruction on how to rank the students. So, it is reasonably deductible that most of the students will rank others according to their liking. Only few of them have the cold detachment and mental capacity to remember every student’s OAA info, after all. Sakayanagi, probably. Koenji, maybe. Possibly some others. But Kiyotaka is not going to be among them. He is too soft for that. And, although he got that perfect math score, math genius does not necessarily mean superb memory. However, it does make Kiyotaka somewhat more eligible as a partner. After all, Nagumo can’t have just anyone next to him because they happen to have nice face and great body (though Nagumo could live with making exception for Ayanokoji, had the need arise).

Anyway, the point is, that the boy almost certainly ranked people according to his liking, so one would expect Karuizawa at the top, right? Maybe even Suzune.

But world behold, Kiyotaka’s number one is Hirata Yousuke.

Yousuke is great guy. Smart, athletic. Quite handsome with light hair and blue eyes, which, so coincidentally happens to collide with Kiyotaka’s ideal type characteristics. The two also seem quite close lately. They even call each other by their first name. Nothing strange there. Miyabi also calls Kiyotaka by his first name…in his head.

The familiar spike of sharp, slight annoyance reared its head again. But it’s not like Nagumo is angry. Or jealous.

Why should he?

Hirata is clearly just Nagumo’s stand in. Kiyotaka must have thought that his love-letter will be forgotten, so he tried to bury heartfelt feelings with cheap distractions.

Honestly, it’s quite sad. Especially since Miyabi himself is still not sure about his stance on this matter. Yes, Kiyotaka is quite attractive, but he won’t become obsessed over the boy just like that. That doesn’t sound like Miyabi at all.

But there were more…concerning things on the answer sheet. Like number 2 – Koenji Rokusuke. That fucker who won Island exam by sheer luck. And would you look at that? Blond hair, blue eyes and dominant! Just lovely.

At least Koenji is clearly more interested in ladies.

…Actually, that doesn’t mean anything. Kiyotaka has already proven that he is capable of bending even the most stellar men.

He may want to consider hiding the dark-eyed cutie somewhere when the time comes.

Otherwise, there is nothing else suspicious on the paper… Karuizawa is not very high – this proves that their relationship is just perfunctory. Good.

*Ding*

Nagumo’s eyes snapped towards his phone. A message from an anonymous sender. He picked the phone up with a slight grin. When he opened the message it confirmed his suspicions – another batch of photos arrived.

Miyabi got comfortable and clicked on the first one - Kiyotaka waiting to board the bus. He stood calmly with his eyes cast upon the blue skies (Kiyotaka liked to do that a lot). Karuizawa was chattering something at him, but the boy had quite absent expression.

The blond took a while to investigate details of the picture, zooming in and out at various places, before he, full of content, swiped to the next one.

This was a photo from the bus. Kiyotaka sat in the aisle, couple of seats behind the hired paparazzi. This time, Kiyotaka was not the dominant point that one would immediately focus on. It looked more like a simple class photo. He recognized Sudo near Suzune, Kikyo surrounded by her classmates and a blob of blond hair next to Kiyotaka.

…Hmm, it doesn’t look like Karuizawa’s ponytail.

Indeed, the girls‘ leader sat right across the aisle. It didn’t take that long for the esteemed SCP to figure out that it was his lovely kohai Hirata Yousuke. Nagumo’s glare, directed at hand resting on Kiyotaka’s shoulder, could almost set the photo aflame. Better move onto the next frame, soothe emotions a little.

 

…

Right, that’s not going to work. Because the next picture was taken in the plane. Kiyotaka is sleeping, sandwiched between Karuizawa and Yousuke, who are as well out of it. Though the proximity dividing both parties is roughly the same, Karuizawa’s head is leaning onto Kiyotaka’s upper arm. And Kiyotaka’s head lies snugly on Hirata’s shoulder, while Hirata’s head is resting on top of Kiyotaka’s (likely due to heigh convenience, but Nagumo was not going to pardon this offense so easily).

Just. Lovely.

To make it worse, he can clearly see Hirata’s satisfied smirk (any sane person would say that no, Hirata’s face didn’t in fact have any particular expression, but, alas, Nagumo wasn’t just going to consult these photos with someone else. They were for his eyes only.)

Luckily, the last photo showed that Hirata and Ayanokoji were not in the same group for the duration of trip, and Kiyotaka’s group members seemed okay (as in not obviously interested in the brunet).

Hmm, it would be better to have some spy informant in the group itself, but there are not that good options. He needs someone that would be on his side in this. Maybe Kushida could work?

---

Kushida is out.

Well, not officially, but she is.

After Nagumo contacted her, she seemed quite reluctant, but, after a bit of pressure gave out some intel. A cute photo of Kiyotaka inspecting icicles was born out of this cooperation. Everything seemed fine.

But Nagumo is a thorough person. And he takes his job seriously. (A few students would maybe like to object, but they are no longer enrolled in ANHS). So, as a part of his student-body-president duties, he also helped with managing this winter trip. He went out of his way to get students as much of a free time as possible, which was, in a hindsight, a mistake, but that’s topic for another day.

Anyway, as a person in charge of many decisions, he had a contact information on some vital employees in the resort.  Therefore, it wasn’t all that difficult to have some extra long-distance cameras (that are usually only for bad-vision weather) in fully active mode. Sadly, Nagumo couldn’t be granted access to the live feed, but he managed to, um, convince, one part-timer to monitor Kiyotaka all the time while the brunet was on the hill. And of course, to send over any highlights that Miyabi would want to see (terribly broad definition for the poor man who knows next to nothing about Nagumo).

And that’s how the next photo that came to the president’s office that afternoon was of Kiyotaka head-patting that traitor Kikyo. Nagumo immediately calmly requested videoclip of that moment and then calmly watched as that sly woman played tricks on gullible Kiyotaka. It was clear as day that Kushida purposefully put on her knitted hat loosely so she would get the boy’s attention when the damned thing nearly flew off. If it was only that, Nagumo still could overlook it, because, honestly, Kiyotaka’s caring side was quite endearing, and he couldn’t really blame everyone that wanted to experience it, right? Well, he could, but he’s saving that for when they actually start dating. However, Kushida also used that moment to place her own hand on Kiyotaka’s. Who cares they had gloves, and no skin contact was made? And she even had the audacity to stare into Kiyotaka’s eyes for a long time just few inches away from his face! Thank god Kiyotaka is so innocent, most guys would attempt kiss in that situation.

So, one Kushida Kikyo was added to Nagumo’s growing list of people-who-don't-know-their-place and Miyabi was convinced that he will later have to play out many seducing scenarios with Kiyotaka, lest he is fooled away by some petty thief.

 

Notes:

Dear student council president is conveniently ignoring the fact that he is also a thief in this situation.