Daisuke Doumyoji struts down the halls of Eitoku High School, Hitoshi Mimasaka, Tatsuya Hanazawa, and Masato Nishikado at his sides. Out of the four, only Tatsuya was seventeen while the other three were eighteen, ready to graduate high school in three months.
Girls squeal as the four walk past. "It's the F4!" "Look, its Doumyoji-sama!" "They're so handsome."
Daisuke raises his chin, his ego growing with all the compliments.
"Doumyoji, what do you think you're doing?" The principal stands in front of him. Her arms crossed across her chest.
Daisuke stops and scoffs at the bad timing. "I don't know what you're talking about, Aunt Sakurako."
"That's Mrs. Aoike at school!" she huffs at him. She composes herself again and gets back to the matter she started with. "I found this early this morning. Care to explain?" She waves the red piece of paper in front of him.
"I don't know what you're talking about", he says sarcastically.
She glares at him, "Don't think that just because you're the big man on campus you can get away with everything. All I have to do is mention one word of this to your mother…" Daisuke takes a slight step back and Sakurako smiles at the fact that she has won, yet again. "Don't let me catch you doing anything stupid like this again or I will inform your mother of everything you've been up too and remember how long I've been covering for you all these years. That goes for the rest of you too", she looks at the other members of the F4 as well before switching to her charming, happy smile. "Have a good day and I'll be seeing you all again after school at the Beach House." She walks past them, her heels clicking on the floor echoes in the hallway. Once the sound disappears, Daisuke and the others release their breath.
"It's like she's two different people, the sadistic but supportive principal and the laidback and outgoing Aunt Sakurako." Masato shudders.
The four start walking down the hall again and the praises start up again distracting Daisuke from everything else.
"Hey, idiot, what do you think you're doing?"
Daisuke stops yet again. Hitomi Mimasaka stands in front of him.
Hitoshi sighs, "Is there something you want?"
Hitomi pouts, "Is that anyway to speak to your big sister?"
"You're only older than me by four minutes!" Hitoshi complains.
Hitomi grins at him along with the other members of the group. Hitomi was the older sister figure to all of them and the unofficial fifth member of the F4.
"Hitomi, is there something you wanted?" Tatsuya asks still grinning.
"Yeah", Daisuke adds. "Stupidity makes me tired."
Hitomi glares at Daisuke. "Because of that comment, I completely forgot what I was going to tell you. Have fun boys." She leaves laughing mischievously.
"I hate it when she does that", Daisuke barks and, not looking ahead, charges past the other three.
"Watch out!" Masato calls out too late.
Daisuke run straight into someone else knocking them down.
"Ow!" the girl's voice rings out from the floor. "I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention."
"You're right, you weren't paying attention. Do you know who you just ran into?" Daisuke demands.
The girl looks up at him. Her apologetic expression turns to disgust. "I'm so sorry. I was always told to me nicer to the mentally challenged", she remarks mockingly.
Daisuke scowls at her. "I know you. You're one of the scholarship students, but wait you turned that down, so that would make you just stupid and poor, right well fare girl?"
"Daisuke Doumyoji! Just what do you think you are doing?" Tsukushi Doumyoji's voice rings though the hall commanding and level. She walks over to her son fluidly in her heels and business suit. She stops directly in front of him ignoring the girl on the floor. "You're making the Doumyoji family look foolish." Her hand slaps the back of his head causing him to lurch forward despite the fact that his is bigger than his mother. "Didn't I teach you to treat women with more respect than that?"
"Yes, mother."
Tsukushi bends over and extends her hand to the girl who is still on the floor. It's impossible for the girl not to smile after seeing the one Tsukushi is giving her. The girl takes her hand and Tsukushi helps her off the floor and dusts her off.
Tsukushi leans in to whisper in the girl's ear, "I believe my son has a thing for you. He's a Doumyoji, keep pushing his buttons and you'll get your answer." She leans back and smiles again. "What is your name, dear?"
"Hikaru Tachibana, ma'am", she stutters.
"Well, Miss. Tachibana, I apologize for Daisuke's rude behavior."
"Um, of course, if you'll excuse me now." She bows and hurries as quickly as she can past Tsukushi and Daisuke.
"Mom, what are you doing here?"
Tsukushi tilts her head to the side slightly. "Didn't Hitomi tell you? Yuki and I are here to pick all of you kids up. Then we're going to the airport to pick up your father before going to the Beach House."
Masato pokes his head up in curiosity, "My mother's here?"
"Yes, I'm here too." Yuki walks up beside Tsukushi with a toddler in her arms.
Masato's face lights up. "Emi!" He takes his two year old step-sister in his arms. The girl giggles as Masato lifts her up and down in the air.
"We've already picked up Maria and Reiko", Yuki informs the boys referring to fifteen year old Maria Aoike and twelve year old Reiko Doumyoji. "Any idea where the others are?"
"Hitomi was just here a minute ago", Tatsuya thinks aloud. "I'm sure she'll be back soon since she knew you were here. Izumi and Yasuhiro are most likely at the stairs and Akihiko is almost always in the library." Even though seventeen year old Izumi Okawahara and sixteen year old Yasuhiro Doumyoji were a year apart they had been best friends since they were children and fourteen year old Akihiko Okawahara spent most of his time studying allowing him to skip a grade and join Yasuhiro as a first year in high school.
The group first heads to the library to get Akihiko where they are also joined again by Hitomi on the way. Tsukushi then leads the group to the familiar stairway that she and Rui use to hang out in. There they find the last two in their group, Izumi and Yasuhiro.
Everyone then piles into the two awaiting limos at the front of the school, Maria and Reiko already in the vehicles and waiting. They drive to the airport where another limo is waiting. Karin and Susume, Rui's wife, are standing next to it. All thirteen passengers unload from the limos and join Karin and Susume in waiting.
Karin looks at her watch, "Kazuya, Sakurako, Shigeru, and Eiji said they were going to meet us at the House later tonight. Their plane should be coming in soon." The last addition to their group was Eiji, Shigeru's husband who had taken her name when they got married.
True to Karin's words, a few minutes later, the doors to the airport open and the original F4 walk out side by side, joking around just like old times. The wives go to greet their husbands. Their greetings ranging from Susume's kiss on the check to Karin almost knocking Akira over as she jumps into his arms to kiss him.
"Great, another Christmas holiday spent watching our parents make out and get drunk," Daisuke mumbles.
"If you're going to be that way, I'll wait to give you your present till your birthday", Tsukasa smirks.
"Ok, ok, I take it back." Daisuke looks up at his father, the resemblance is unmistakable. "Welcome home dad."
Tsukasa smiles and throws one arm around his son. "It's good to be home."