This is my first fanfic and I really REALLY need some advice to improve this story (it's not that I'm not sure about it, but I just want some opinions to make it better) or at least, a review. Also, this is the fanfic that means a lot to me because there are some things that I have truly experienced in the past (or just in this past few days) and likewise, I do not own PPGZ (only Matamoto 'cos he's not in it). Enjoy! ^^
Cat love
Chapter 1: It's been 8 years, Moto-kun! (Momoko's P.O.V)
I remember of this guy that I met 9 years ago. Yes, how long it had been since. My first love, first crush, had my first blush... first EVERYTHING (except KISS). Hrmmm... I can still remember who he is...
FLASHBACK
He has his black hair that just goes along with his almost smiling face.
That famous grin of his that always makes me blush.
His attitude that always puts him in the lead.
He's always been around girls; fakingly grinned and staring at them (I know this cause I just know), but today he was gazing at me like I'm his most shining star. The most famous girl in the world. His precious little princess that he price always. That evening was the evening of our pre-school graduation. That evening, I think he just sees me as a little sister and that he just think of all the changes that might happen to him. I looked at him and just smiled as I noticed that he could be gazing at me forever (He's been gazing on Momoko whose going to the park). He just grinned back at me.
"You know, I always like your attitude Momorin. Your not like those girls who just have a crush on me just because of my face and that", a blush crept out from my face.
"Er... you know me. I'm not your hungry-for-love fans. Besides, I'm not looking at your boy-band side"
"I know, Momorin", he kept on grinning. I just laughed uneasily. Wait, what did he call me?
"Don't call me Momorin!", Matamoto falls anime style. "What?"
"Huh, you just figured that out now?", he shouted, confused.
I then left out a heavy sigh, then just remembered what he had just said. "Wait, you've started calling me that since when?"
"Yesterday", he said. Wait, why didn't I remembered?
"Yesterday? Huh, you lied!"
"No, I didn't. Just ask Kaoru and Powder (Momoko didn't know Miyako until elementary ^^), they heard me right", he said innocently. I just stared at his dark brown eyes. His eyes... they just look so cool in this autumn breeze... "...then again... hey, Momorin?"
I want to have the guts to tell him something he has to know. I'm just... not ready to tell him that. "Momo?"
"Hmm? Yeah?"
"Momo, who are you staring at?", he said, innocently and blinking his eyes rapidly. He's lying.
"You", huh? Really? Without hesitation? He blinked at me more than once.
"Oh. So you were", he said while rubbing the back of his head and turning away. He tries to look normal, but I know that he's actually... b-blushing? Blushing?
"Yeah", I said, also looking away from him without hesitation. I looked to see the squirrels gathering up nuts for winter and birds snucked up their childrens to bed. I also saw a group of cats; which is just a mommy cat and her four children snuggled up into a ball. I giggled a bit of the thought of this. But something breaks my heart as I saw one little cat, a girl to be exact, trying to snuggled up into a ball, but still shivered. She tried and tried and tried, but failed at the sight of it. I almost want to cry, but another cat, a boy to be exact, walked up to her. He then snuggled up to her, trying to warm her up. Now that cat that was shivering to death suddenly fall asleep in his warmness. The boy, also does the same after a couple more of snuggling up and curling up to a ball. I felt warm after I saw this, but then... Swooshed! The autumn breeze fell onto my arms, but it's not even autumn yet. "Atchoo!"
Matamoto saw this and he just placed something warm on my shoulders. "Matamoto.."
"Already cold, huh? Well, I guess this jacket will have to do since I bring no tissue...", I could feel him grinning, but... that jacket that he had told me... I take a look at the right side of it that had M&M (not the M&M candy logo, but it's handmade and written in Times Roman and Italic) written on it.
"Matamoto, I thought your..."
"Giving this to a special someone? I already did", I frowned at what he had just said. "What? I've given her just right now"
"What?", I didn't know what he was talking about, but I just smiled when I ask him that. He gazed at me again, but let a small sigh and only said, "I wish I can tell you everything"
And with that, he left to join his friends playing soccer. I still don't understand what he was saying.
A year passed between us and I've got some surprising news...
"Eh? Your leaving us? Why?", Kaoru shouted.
"Kaoru...", Powder tried calming her down.
"Why are you leaving?", Matamoto asked, frowning and looking at the ground. I hate seeing him at this state "'Cos... mum's got to teach to a school in America"
"Why don't you just stay here than goin with your freakin' mother?", Kaoru said, still in a cheesed off state.
"Kao!", shouted Powder and Matamoto.
"Er... I don't know. I guess Daddy and Mummy have planned this all along!", I shouted in fury, but looking at the ground. I let out a heavy sigh, then a teardrop came from my eyes.
"Momo-chan, are you OK?", asked Powder.
"Momo-chan, your not... crying, are you?", asked Kaoru, who stops being angry ages ago.
"No, not at all, Kao and Pow-chan", I said softly. "I-it's getting late, shouldn't you all get home now?"
"Oh yeah, me and my family are going to watch dad's wrestling match tonight versus da king-kong...", said Kaoru.
"...And besides, mum will get worried if she knows that I've been going here all day long", Powder said.
"Well, then, see ya', Momo!", Kaoru said.
"Bye", I said flatly.
"Bye, Momo!", said Powder.
"Bye", I said in the same tone as before. Now they all left me. All alone. But I felt like I've been watched by a pair of eyes. I turn around to see a boy my age, gazing at me. I sighed sadly. Would he still gazing on me when we meet again?
"What?", he said, confused and innocently.
"Your gazing... why are you always gazing at me? My mum even told me that you gazed at me in graduation. She had a photo to prove it", when I look at him in the eye as I said this, he blushed! A-again?
"You-your... not mad when I always do that to you, don't you?", I shook my head.
"Never, Matamoto"
"Then... wait a sec", he takes off his M&M jacket and puts it on my shoulder. I just stand there and stare at him blankly, not knowing what would he do next. "For the coming years, this will be yours. But when we came back, you'll have to return it to me. Then, BY then, I will explain to you why I gaze at you so much. Understand?"
I felt my cheeks turning red and look at him confusedly. "But... what if it wasn't you who would receive this?"
He was surprised at my answer. "Momo, you'll know whose me and whose not me"
I shook my head in sadness and gives him back his jacket. "No. What if I'm mistaken you for an actor, or a singer? You know that... you looked a lot like them"
He sighed then gives me his final answer, "Alright, I'll keep the jacket. And when we meet again, I want us to be under this old oak tree and I'll warm you up with the jacket. We'll meet at the same day, same month. Deal?"
I nod, "Hai. Arigato, Moto-kun! I shall get going..."
"Akh, Momorin!", he shouted and grab my hand before I walk any further. I turn around to see that he wasn't finished yet. "Then... how will I recognise you?"
Gyaa! I don't know! What will I do? Then the answer came as the wind blows. "Easy. I've a high pony and is wearing a big red bow!"
"But... wouldn't you change your hairstyle?", gyaiks, he's too smart!
"Well, I'll try not to", I smiled. He grinned back as fast as lightning. We then started to walk together.
"Arigato, Momorin"
"No problem, Moto-kun", as I end the chat, things goes silent. We then stopped at a 3 way road.
"Well, I have to go left, so..."
"Moto-kun", I said, cutting his sentence. "Will you come to the airport this Sunday"
He stared at me for a moment, then putting his hands behind the back of his head as he started walking to the direction that he was supposed to walk in.
"Moto..."
"I will", he said cutting my sentence as he turned his head to me. A crescent moon then came up in my face.
"Bye, Moto!"
"Bye, Momo!", he said, as he turned to walk on his side of the road.
FLASHBACK *ENDS*
But he never came round to the airport to say his goodbyes. And when I was 11, when I came back, he never really did as he have promised me. He never came round to the old oak tree and giving me his jacket when there was a breeze. He never really did show up. Even when I saw the crowds as Blossom, he was never there. Even when I want to believe that maybe one of the villain was him (like one of the ruffs or the green gangs), they aren't him.
This has been eight years since the last time I saw him. Last time I saw him, I just want to cry, but now I can cry all I want because he's not coming back. Even when I ask Kao when Miya wasn't around, she didn't even know where he is now. She said he's gone, like the same way I was gone but somehow different. I didn't even want to ask her what it is because I feared that she might say death. This is eight years since I've changed my last ponytail. I kept hold onto his promise about this, but in this last few years, I've been falling for every guy that's famously cool, or at least the ones that looks like it. I also have like tons of boys that's been secretly liking me. It's not like Miya's, but there still are. But I dump them all just to see that one guy. That one special guy.
I see the old oak tree as I walk to school. It's not like it used to eight years ago. The birds have immigrated south, the squirrels hide in the inside and the cats? They just didn't hang out in the outdoors anymore because they are too old and that it wasn't entirely safe for them to go there. I've seen the two cats that I saw eight years ago when I was Blossom just after winter. They both are skinnier and wrinkler (I don't even know if cats actually do have wrinkles when their too old, but who cares?) and their colours are getting even more dull by the years.
I sigh again as I now see my BELOVED school building. Today was suppose to be a happy day as it shows that today is the day that we promised we would meet again. But I have put my faith on it too long and now, look at me. I'm Momoko Akatsutsumi, a.k.a Hyper Blossom. I'm a 13-year-old middle school girl and I haven't seen the boy of my dreams for eight years. Today is the 31st of August, and he have promised me something about today and I still remember who he is. Matamoto Yoshida Lee... where are you?
Me: Well, that's it for now. Matamoto's initial is my first love initial by the way. He's SO cool! ^^
Momoko: I fall for a guy called Matamoto?
Miyako: You have a first love?
Kaoru: YOUR A GIRL?
Me: *sweatdrops and blush* WHAT IN THE WORLD! YOU GUYS NEED TO CALM DOWN! Yes, you fall for a guy when you were young, Momo. Yes, I already have him a long time ago, Miya. But I don't even know where he is now...
PPGZ falls back anime style
Kaoru: So... it's based on your life story?
Me: YES! Sort of. Oh yeah, Kao, I AM a girl! What makes you think that I'm a boy?
Kaoru points out at my fanfic name
Me: *sweatdrops* DOESN'T MEAN THAT I'M A BOY! What about you? You LOOKED like a boy!
Kaoru: What did you say-
Momoko and Miyako: Thx u. Read the next chapter to find out the rest
Me: *gripping on their legs* THX GUYS! 3
Momoko and Miyako: Don't grip on our legs!
Kaoru: Read the next chapter when it has been uploaded
Every one of us glares at her
Kaoru: What? I'm only telling them the truth!
Momoko: You don't have to!
Me: Until the next time! *sweatdrops*
