Hiii! HanaJima here! Here is Chapter 1! We told you it would be up soon didn't we? =3 I wrote this one All by my self!
Janel: *clears throat*
Oh, sorry, at the beginning Janel gave me some ideas ^_^'
Both: Hope you like it!
"Where is Bun-Bun! Where is she!" a small blonde girl ran frantically tearing through the yard of the Kimikoto American estate.
Just then a semi-tall brunette teen carrying a stuffed pink and blue bunny under one arm, while on the other shoulder multiple boxes and bags were slung over it.
"Hanajima. Stop fretting, I have your bunny right here, you left her on the stair rail." She said in calm monotone.
The little girl swiveled on her heels and ran to the girl and took the bunny, "Thank you Janel!" she cried wrapping her in a tightest hug she could manage.
Hanajima stood below Janel's shoulder, small enough to jump on her back for a piggy-back if she was feeling tired.
Janel stood about 5'10, and was strong enough to lift about two hundred with ease so she was in charge of carrying the bags to the car while their friends sat inside in the air conditioner drinking soda and being lazy while the smallest and the tallest members were hauling the baggage to the car.
"Hey Jay, we are out of soda, can you run and get us some more?" a woman in her mid twenties with long jet-black hair peeked her head out of the door.
"Why can't you go buy some Yuzu-chan? Get Thomas to drive you to the store, me and Janel are busy." Hanajima hugged her bunny closer with little blue imaginary flowers around her.
Almost immune to her charm she tried to brush it off but caught her big blue eyes and gave in, "Aww… fine Hannah. You win…" Yuzuki slunk back inside followed by a sigh of defeat.
Hanajima giggled "Silly Yuzuki."
"you mean lazy." Janel grunted setting the load in the trunk.
"Aw come on Janel, be a little nicer to Yuzu-chan, she is piling everything up for us to pick up." She clambered on her friends back.
"okay. Ill try to not to make so many mean comments." Janel gave one of her rare non-bored smiles.
"yay! Now lets hurry and finish packing the car. I wanna hurry and get to the airport! I can't wait!" Hanajima leapt off Janel's back and ran into the house.
Janel chuckled and followed her.
When they went back outside, Hanajima had her bunny strapped to her back and was carrying boxes piled so high that she couldn't see over with ease and Janel was carrying multiple duffel bags that weighed easily fifty pounds each in each hand without a single look of strain on her face.
"is that it?" Hanajima laid the boxes in the back of the car neatly in order to save space and Janel laid the duffel bags on top.
"yeah. I think so." She confirmed.
"I'll go check! Guard Bun-Bun while I'm gone, okay?" she passed the stuffed bunny to Janel and ran back inside, arms spread out as she ran.
After a minute, Hanajima ran back out giggling, "we are all done! Now all we gotta do is wait for Yuzu-chan to get back and we can go!" she announced happily throwing her arms in the air.
Janel laughed and passed Bun-Bun to Hanajima and went to the front stairway and sat on the railing.
Hanajima clambered up a low-branched tree and hung her feet off, waiting at see the black limo that had their friend in it.
There was a tiny black spot on the distant hill and Hanajima jumped up happily, " I see her! I see- whoa!" she toppled sideways and almost fell completely off the branch when her reflexes kicked in and she tried to grab the branch with her hands and when that didn't work, she hooked her legs to the branch and hung upside down, hugging her bunny tight in one hand, holding her shirt down with the other while giggling.
Janel chuckled and walked over to Hanajima and picked her up and tried to put her back on the ground when she swung over her shoulder and wrapped her arms around Jays neck.
"Fast little Usagi aren't you?" Janel chuckled and shifted Hanajima to a more comfortable position.
"Um… Usagi… that is rabbit right? Yeah I am a rabbit! Like bun-bun!" Hanajima giggled.
She was a beginner in Japanese but was learning from Janel, they were going to need it too where they are going.
"I see her again! Linda-chan, Shari-chan, Kira-chan, lets go! Yuzu-chan is back!" Hanajima cried happily.
She hopped down again and ran to the house and grabbed one of the girls by their wrists, "come on Kira-chan, lets go!" she yanked on her wrist.
"ouch! Let go! That hurts!" she tried to pry her hand from Hanajima's iron-grip, but to no avail.
"is she any closer?" Hanajima asked impatiently, the little blue flowers floating around her again.
"yeah, she is in the drive way I gotta buzz her in." Janel ran back inside and pressed a button beside the front door and ran back outside.
There was an impatient aura emanating from the usually calm girl too. "I can't wait to see my cousin again! And my brother-in-law, man are they gonna be surprised!" Janel thought her stomach fluttering excitably.
A long black limo pulled up and the girls piled into it, "onto the airport!" Linda cried loudly.
There were cries of agreement (surprisingly even from Janel) around the car as it started off.
"I just know we are gonna have a awesome time in Japan!" Shariana was shaking with excitement.
"I wanna see all the sweets they have! I wonder if they eat a lot of cake there. But what about straw- I mean ichigos. I'm wanting some strawberry shortcake right now. But do they even make it Japan? I want some" Hanajima's excited rant went down to a mummer of curiosity.
"of course they do. Hanajima." Janel assured her
"why are you already calling Hannah her Japanese name? We aren't there yet." Kira asked.
"practice." She replied in monotone.
Kira looked over to her 'twin'.
Shari shrugged and found something and flicked it at Linda who picked it back up and threw it back at her.
"here. I have some of my cookie cake. Have a piece Hanajima." Janel reached over to a box and pulled out a cake with white frosting with cookie crumbs sprinkled over it and with pieces of cookies baked into it.
A cake lovers paradise.
Hanajima's eyes widened with joy and she began eagerly reaching for the cake.
"can we have a piece too Jay?" Kira asked.
"yeah, please? You make the best cookie cake." Shari agreed and matched Kira's look of pleading.
Janel hesitated and then sighed, "if there is enough after Hanajima gets some."
They shared a look of sadness, "but she will eat it all!"
Yuzuki chuckled, "well of course. That is why she said that." She saw right through Janel's little 'offering' to the twins.
"is that true?" Shari asked with a puppy-dog look on her face.
"wow Yuzu-chan! You can tell what Janel is saying when she isn't saying it? Can you read her mind or something?" Hanajima asked.
"do you forget that I am her older sister? I have been able to tell what she meant when she said something ever since she was born." Yuzuki smiled devilishly which earned a light glare from Janel.
Janel cut off a piece of cake and put it on a plastic plate and gave it to the small blonde.
Kira and Shari pelted Janel with puppy eyes until Hanajima asked her to share the cake.
She cut off a sliver and passed it to the twins who nearly inhaled it and asked for more the next second.
"no." her voice was stern. "One piece for now."
Hanajima passed her empty plate to Janel and stretched with a yawn, "Janel. Do you have my blanket?" she asked tiredly.
"no, I'm sorry, I left it in the box that to your room and its in the other car." She said apologetically.
"okay." She laid her head on the window, pulled her knees to her chest, clung tightly onto her bunny and closed her eyes and dozed off. Everyone went deathly quiet and all that was audible was their breathing and the car engine as they continued to drive to the airport.