The Deity Is Being Target By The Pop-Star Part 1

MIKOTO

Fwaahhh~

"(o_ _)ﾉ彡 At last, the class is over or else, I feel like my brain is gonna explode at any minute soon", I complain while stretching my arms.

The human deity just giggled at my helplessness. Luckily, she's beside me and guided me throughout the class. The teachers allowed me, for now, to have her read for me but they remind me to enhance my Nihongo(16) reading skills. I can actually read a few katakana and hiragana characters, but I can't understand the meaning of the words, especially kanji characters unless someone repeated the word for me or I repeated how it was pronounced in my mind so that I can understand through my auto-translate that was installed in my brain by Mikage-sama, perhaps.

But what's more important, I'm glad Nanami seems doesn't feels down anymore which makes me happy for her too. After what happened at lunchtime, other students started to atleast stop treating us rudely and Kurama didn't bothered us anymore, especially since he needs to leave early for a commercial shoot.

"Hoshino-san, we're all amazed how smart you are. You managed to answer correctly that last question in math that no one else in the class can", said by a female classmate who introduced herself as Fujima-san before we left the school. Yep, she wasn't introduced in the anime but since I'm living in this world, I might as well respect everyone here.....as long as they'll also respect me and Nanami

We eventually reached the shrine and Tomoe welcomed us warmly with his properly prepared dinner for us. We both relaxed inside Nanami's room while doing our schoolwork for today. She reads for me and I help her in the lessons that she had difficulty understanding. Even though Nanami tries to patiently teach me how to read Japanese that I'm not familiar with, she's not, let's say, a good teacher and it just frustrates us both.

"Nanami, how do you read this part again?" I was about to tap her shoulder when I noticed that she's already snoring while resting her arms and head on the table.

"Ahhh... she falls asleep", I smiled to myself while covering her with a blanket. I looked at the clock and it was already past midnight. I feel sorry for keeping her awake with me until this late at night and she deserves a good night rest. Since I can't carry her to bed by myself, I stood up to look for Tomoe and it didn't take a lot of time finding him sitting on the porch. Approaching him slowly, my plan to spook him failed when he spoke even without turning his head, "Why are you still awake Mikoto? Is there's something wrong?"

"And I thought I could surprise you", I pouted. " (・ω・)ﾉ? How did you know that it was me and not Nanami?"

"That girl has heavier footsteps that you", he simply replied before facing me and asked. "So, do you need anything?"

"Ah! Yes, Nanami falls asleep while teaching me to read Nihonggo so I kindly need your help to move her to her bed", I shyly explained while slightly scratching my cheek.

Tomoe slightly smirked and started teasing me, "Not only you were useless in the shrine, but you're also stupid enough for not being able to read."

"You are the stupid one. I already told you that I'm not from this country. Isn't it's already wonderful that you can hear me talking fluently your language even though I'm just a new foreigner here?" His taunting backfired to him when I just brushed it away with my solid reasoning.

"Hmph!" Tomoe just snubbed at me and pretended that he doesn't care. Then he stood up quietly and walked past me towards Nanami's room.

Fufufu... <(￣︶￣)>

I can't help but snicker inside my head because of Tomoe's display of cute reaction. I feel like I've just won a battle.

Still holding onto the book I was trying to read earlier, I took Tomoe's seat earlier and looked towards the waxing crescent moon shining beautifully in the night sky.

The curve on my lips slowly fades away while I think about my life in the other world. I feel like ever since I came here, I was freed from my shackles. I don't need to act like an elite student and a role model daughter anymore, but I still miss those I truly cared and loved from my world, including Mom.

But I can't do anything about it for now.

I stood up and stretched my hand towards the moon and the other hand onto my aching heart, few words slipped softly from my lips into a little lullaby.

Just after I finished my singing for the second time, my body felt lighter and groggy that I tripped on my feet when I was about to turn back inside the temple.

"Kyaa~!"

Thud!

" ٩(× ×)۶ Ittaii... " I'm still groaning painfully at my fall when I felt someone stood in front of me and spoke.

        ﾊ _ ﾊ " (￣ヘ￣m) What do you think you are doing?" I looked up and saw that Tomoe still look unpleased towards me. Is it still because of my teasing earlier?

" \(Ò//д//Ó)/ EEEEEEEHHHHH!! How long are you standing there? Did you somehow heard me earlier?"

"Don't shout or you'll wake Nanami. It's already late at night so you should rest for tonight too", he simply said without replying properly to my questions.

Then thankfully or not, he picked me up under his arm and carried me like useless luggage back to my room. Maybe I look so funny this way.

" (；'-﹏-') Anyways, I still appreciate your assistance for bringing me back here", I sleepily thanked Tomoe.

"Mikoto", he called me back again in his tone returned to normal before I retire to my bed. "Earlier, did you just---"

Yaaawwn~ His sentence was interrupted by my unfeminine show of weariness in front of him. His expression dimmed like I disappointed him or something.

"Ahh..err..., sorry Tomoe, ahahah. I can't helped it. What were you saying again?" I acted.

"Nothing. Go to sleep", he snapped and slammed to close the sliding door of my room.

"So weird", I thought before my eyes finally lulled to sleep.

On the other hand, unknown to Nanami and I who were already both fast asleep, Tomoe is still lying down on the rooftop looking at the night sky, wondering what's that scene he had just witnessed was and how on earth did I guessed the events at school earlier. It made him feel amazed because amongst us, he's the only one who has full comprehension of the range of our spiritual powers.

"It seems that woman has a lot of secrets and mysteries. Even though, she doesn't seems dangerous towards Nanami, I still must stay vigilant", he mumbles to himself with a frown.