nameless memories -- [kenta]

[CHIHARU TAKASHIMA]

a light yawn escaped from a young woman’s pale pink lips as she lazily stretched out much like a cat would do as her small alarm clock began to ring beside her. almost immediately, a small nimble hand pressed itself on top of the alarm clock which caused it to stop. it didn’t matter whether if it was morning or night, time to her had no concept. chiharu had never been out in the mortal world where she would have seen the sky during day and night -- only then she probably would have had an idea of what morning and night really was. another stretch had the young woman unfurling like a cat would and propping herself up in the lounge chair that she slept in. because chiharu didn’t sleep in the servant’s quarters or in the dungeons, she actually slept in the main room of the arai household.

normally after waking up, she would wash up and get herself dressed in her usual clothes before going up the stairs in order to do her first duty of the day. that was to wake the young master up. actually she couldn’t remember when she had been tasked to do that seeing any of the other servants could have done that. perhaps it was due to the fact that they could never actually wake kenta up and somehow, for some reason, she always could. maybe that was why, she was assigned to the duty of waking the young master up. however, because she knew him for such a long time, she kind of got to know all of his habits, sleeping wise and such. that, and that he was almost never on his own, that meant that the young master never slept in his bed on his own, he always had company.

also, kenta never, ever locked his bedroom door -- for as long as chiharu could remember, his door had never been closed to her. for some reason, it was always open to her and to her alone. the young woman rubbed idly at her big brown eyes as she let out a small yawn as she made her way up the stairs and before the young master’s bedroom door. she took a big breath as if she was preparing for something to happen. it was then that she placed her small right hand upon the handle of the door before gently pushing it down and pushing it open with her left hand on the woodwork. obviously it was very quiet so the young woman padded along the floor in her bare feet, lightly humming underneath her breath. chiharu slowly approached the huge bed which had two occupants laid upon it.

it was always the same, she would feel somewhat guilty and sorry for the occupant that slept in her young master’s bed because the reactions were always similar although sometimes they did vary. but her young master always reacted the same way that he always did which often contributed to the trouble that his partners would sometimes give to chiharu for the simple reason that the fact that they absolutely hated it when the young woman was the one that would wake kenta up every single day. but to her, she got used to the fact that her young master had countless women in his bed -- it was just how he was, it was in his character to do so. nine out of ten times, her ways of waking her master often worked but that one out of ten was when he didn’t want to wake up and would often wrap his arm around her causing her to stay in bed with him and end up falling asleep.

now, that rarely ever happened but when it did, chiharu cannot help but be frustrated with him because there is absolutely no way that she can get out of his hold. that would mean that she would have no choice but to wait for him to wake up -- and he slept long hours if he could! hence the reason why she was assigned to wake him up -- actually most of her duties involved her young master in some ways such as cleaning his room, doing his laundry, waking him up and the like. but she also did some household chores such as cleaning, and occasionally tidying up the library -- there was even an rare occurrence when she would accompany her masters; both young and old out within the atra court. right now, it was time to wake the young master up -- what would his mood be like today?

seriously, why couldn’t he downsize on the bed though? it was freaking huge and it caused chiharu to often to work hard to climb on top of it. she stood up, wobbling somewhat until she got her balance and suddenly started to jump up and down on the bed, calling for her master to wake up before she pounced onto him, tickling his ribs as she did so. this always effectively worked -- she could hear the woman next to him startling up and screaming at her -- what are you doing, you stupid girl! -- or something like that. she simply turned to the woman in question and gave her a bright smile as she continued to tickle the sleeping master. she simply told the woman that she was waking up her master and this method of tickling him always worked -- otherwise he wouldn’t wake up until later on in the day.

the woman was scowling in a rather venomous way toward chiharu but to her credit, she took it like she always did. of course, it was perfectly logical that the women who slept in her master’s bed would take their embarrassment and frustrations out on her. the young woman always wondered why kenta just didn’t tell the women the night before so that they wouldn’t be caught by surprise by her but he never did for some reason. chiharu slid off kenta’s back and gently shook him, pulling off the bed cover’s off him somewhat. she skipped over to where the candles were and lit them all up. she took one and headed into the bathroom in order to prepare the wash basin with hot water and she squeezed out a small amount of toothpaste on the toothbrush and laid it beside the basin for kenta.

chiharu knew that once her master got out of bed, he was rather sleepy so to make it easier for him, she would fill the basin with hot water so he could wash up, and just use the toothbrush if the toothpaste was already on. he would most likely shower afterwards so the young woman simply got some clean towels ready and in place where he would easily reach it and walked out of the bathroom. because she was so used to doing this, she was out of the bathroom in record time before kenta would make his way. no doubt though, that the woman would kind of yell at kenta about her sudden appearance. chiharu stood outside the bathroom door and bowed deeply to her young master and to the woman. the young woman silently waited for the orders that would come soon enough.

”young master, ohayo~ everything is prepared for you.“