Those Above 3

Saki was suddenly drawn to the window that snapped everything in Yuki breaking his legs making him sprint to the window. The look on Saki had him worried at what she was seeing. When he looked down from the classroom to the grounds below he could see Ayumi surrounded by several boys.

"Ayumi's in trouble!" Yuki turned on his feet immediately followed up by and quickly passed by Saki.

"Aw, come on, don't you want to come have some tea with us?" one of the boys said pushing in on Ayumi as she could only hold her hands up in panic.

She had been unable to say more than a few words to them, but they were not taking 'no' for an answer.

"P-Please…"

"Hey, if you don't like that, we can get a soda."

"Yeah, cutie. Come on. We're friendly."

"Nothing to be scared of."

"…I-I-I…"

Ayumi tried to back away from them, but was held in place with them circling her. The tears in her eyes began to trickle down as she wanted it all to end, but could not take it anymore. The boys grabbed on to her arm still wanting her to come along with them even by force if it was necessary.

"…no…s-s-some-one…"

None of the other students that were watching even seemed to budge towards her. She was alone with no one willing to help her.

"Come on!"

Suddenly, there was a large shadow cast over everyone grouped together. As everyone looked back behind them all they could see was a dark figure with gleaming eyes of a demon staring down at them.

The boys all fell backwards into the grass frightened by what they saw. When the figure leaned in towards them it made them all turn blue in the face with fear.

"What do you think you're doing? The girl doesn't want you bothering her, understand?"

"Y-y-yeah!"

All of the boys said quickly as they turned around and fled on all fours until they were able to get back to their feet leaving only a trail of dirt behind them. The rest of the students turned back to their regular lives no longer concerned by what was happened.

The dark figure leaned in offering a hand out to Ayumi with the shade breaking through revealing the person to be a female student and by the looks a senior.

"They shouldn't mess with you anymore. Are you alright?"

Ayumi cautiously accepted the hand getting pulled up to her feet.

"T-thank you…"

When they were standing up back up Ayumi looked up and up realizing that the girl was very tall. She had very long dark brown hair, held down to her edge of her skirt, working in contrast to her green eyes.

"Umm…"

Saki came charging through the door out into the school grounds, to where Ayumi was, blindly going after whoever it was that was near Ayumi. Yuki followed up the rear trying to get to Saki before she got too out of control, but he caught in a moment that the situation had changed. In the speeding enraged scene that was about to occur, Yuki extended out his arm quickly bridging the gap between them through sheer will.

"Saki! Stop!"

Unfortunately, he could tell that there was no chance of that with the way that Saki was running like a bull. He did the only thing that he could and jumped off into Saki knocking her off her target and coming to a sliding stop on the other side of Ayumi and the senior becoming a new scene of embarrassment and entertainment for the students.

"Yuki! What do you think you're doing?!"

Saki grabbed Yuki by the throat throwing him off of her so that she could get up and do what she had intended to do.

It had been a long time since he remembered being on the receiving end of Saki's hands. He choked through his words to calm down Saki.

"Ayumi's safe now, Saki! Look!"

"Huh?"

Saki looked away from Yuki back to Ayumi and the senior that rescued her, who were now staring down at the two of them a little puzzled by their actions.

"Umm…well…"

"C-can you let go of me?" Yuki said starting to feel his throat really tighten in Saki's hand as she became embarrassed.

"What?! Ah!"

Saki pulled back her hand from Yuki letting him drop to the grass suddenly as he was able to breathe.

"Well…I-I-I…"

The senior bent down and offered her hand to Saki, who was still flustered by everything, accepting the help without thinking. Yuki was given help up as well with everyone finally back on their feet.

Yuki turned and looked at Saki getting the same thought going through them.

'She's tall! I think she's even taller than Seiji! Is she really a student?'

"Uh…thank you senpai!" Ayumi said bowing to the senior with Saki quickly following up, but apologizing instead.

The girl waved them off a little becoming embarrassed by the formality.

"I'm just glad you're safe. No thanks is needed."

"I'm Ayumi Nishimura."

"Saki Furukawa."

"Yuki Hayashi."

"Oh, well I'm Fumiko Terauchi. It's nice to meet you."

Fumiko politely bowed back to them returning the formality that everyone was giving.

"Thank you for helping, Ayumi," Yuki said not even acting with the thought that Ayumi was pretending the entire time not even coming to him.

"She's new to the school and hasn't gotten used to everything."

"I see. Well those boys aren't how everyone is in the school, Nishimura," Fumiko said leaning in to Ayumi to give her reassurance.

There was an almost charming look in her eye that left Ayumi gasping for air and Yuki and Saki stuttering a little themselves.

"It seems you have good friends to be at your side, but if you're ever in trouble I'll be there to protect you."

Ayumi felt her face become a little red as she was still unable to keep breath inside feeling a strange pounding in her heart.

"…uh…al-al-right…"

"I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time."

Fumiko stepped back quickly letting Ayumi go and bowed politely once more.

"My club is meeting today, so I must be going."

She turned around and rushed off like she was late going off towards the club building of the school.

Yuki and Saki finally pulled themselves together and took up sides on Ayumi, who was still recovering from her encounter.

"Who was that?" Yuki said not sure if he could believe what he saw just an instant before.

"…Fumiko…Terauchi…"

"Ayumi?"