"Just another boring day...", the black-haired boy grumbled as he sat on a chair with an expression on his face that looked bored.
A girl with red scarf who was sitting next to him, replied, as she clenched her hands in front of her chest. "Don't be like that, Shintaro-kun! Tomorrow is the day of the school festival! You must be excited!"
The black-haired boy stared at the girl, and said with a furrowed brows, "You're weird, huh? School festival is so boring. Beside, I couldn't do anything."
The red scarf girl shook her head, then she grasped the boy's hand. When the girl grasped his hand, the boy's face was flushed, and he slightly turned his face because the girl's face was too close with his face. Though, she did not care about it.
"W-What...", he said with a vague tone.
Still looking at him, the girl's eyes sparkling. "This year, school festival will be amazing! Takane-san and Haruka-san will join the festival too! Even though they are in special class!"
"O-oh... Yeah..." Actually, the boy didn't really listened to her. Her face was way TOO close. He couldn't really listened to her because of that.
"Shintaro, Ayano-chan!"
They both turned to the voice that called them. The voice was coming from black-haired girl with twintails hair; Takane Enomoto. And, she was together with her only friend in her class; Haruka Kokonose, the plain boy with messy hair.
After Takane called them, she and Haruka went into that deserted classroom. Just four of them there, because it was getting late. The sun began to set, and many students in the club activities had gone home. The school was now noticeably quieter. Like they were just the only one to be there.
"Tomorrow will be the school festival... What will your class do?", Haruka asked as he and Takane sat in front of Shintaro and Ayano.
Ayano smiled and replied, "Our class will do the haunted house."
As he heard this, Haruka's eyes was sparkling like Ayano before, and he exclaimed with a happy tone, "Whoaaa! Haunted house! I want to go there later!"
Seeing Ayano's and Haruka's happy face, Shintaro just stared at them and sighed. "Why are you guys so enthusiastic with it? It's just school festival..." Takane, who had been silent only, looked at Shintaro and sighed too. "I agree. It's very annoying. There will be loud noises from people's scream and after the festival end, a lot of garbage will scattered everywhere. It's uncomfortable to be seen."
Heard them murmur, Haruka and Ayano stared at each other with different expression on their face. Haruka confused and Ayano smiled. They didn't think the same thoughts.
Ayano exclaimed, still decorated her face with a smile, "It will be fun! But, It's still a secret!"
After said that; Shintaro, Haruka, and Takane were puzzled. They silent until some minutes later. And then, like always, they go home.
( The real story begins! )
- Tomorrow -
The school festival began. Although it was still early, many people have started to arrive. Among some people there, two kids walked through many people that passing by. One boy and one girl. The boy had blond hair and cat-eyes, he had a grin on his face which is his characteristic. And, the girl had green long hair, she wears a jacket and some clothes in it.
The cat-eyed boy ran ahead of green-haired girl. He shouted, waving his hand, "Tsubomi! You're sooo slooow~!" The girl known as Tsubomi, replied him as she sighed and walked beside him again, "Shut up... We are here because Onee-chan asked us to come to her school festival." The cat-eyed boy grinned and began to pat her shoulder, "Eeh~ Isn't it alright~? School festival is fun!" Tsubomi frowned, then she removed his hand as she whispered to him, "Well... Whatever."
After Tsubomi said that, the two kids began to quiet. Maybe they ran out of topics. A few minutes passed. They were still walking to the school building. After they entered the building, they planned to look for her big sister's class. They just wanted to visit and greet her, because her big sister was the one who asked them to visit her school festival. Well, that was the one of the reasons though. Actually, they just wanted to playing. You know, they were still kids. So, content of their thoughts just to keep playing.
They arrived in front of a class, and beneath the '1-2''s word, there is a word written in black bold, says 'HAUNTED HOUSE'. The two kids just stared at the words. Tsubomi started dropping her sweat while cat-eyed boy grinned like he always do.
"Onee-chan is in class 1-2, right? Shuuya?", Tsubomi asked her brother as she began to tremble.
The boy known as Shuuya giggled, "Yes, I think. Kukuku! I know that you're scared, Tsubomi- Ugh!" Tsubomi punched him right in the stomach when she heard 'scared''s word. Shuuya grabbed his stomach as he winced in pain.
"I-I'm not scared! I-I just... want to see onee-chan first! So, let's skip this. We are gonna see onee-chan!", Tsubomi replied with a face as red as a tomato.
"Kuku~ Okay, okay~ Buuut!" He gave pause to his words. This makes Tsubomi a little curious about the continuation of his words. He continued, "I heard that nee-chan is also in the haunted house~"
After she heard it, Tsubomi gulped. She asked again to make sure what she heard, "W-What? Why onee-chan is in this haunted house?"
Still grinning, Shuuya replied, "Because she is the one that pretends to be the ghost in this haunted house~ So, what will we do? We go into the haunted house together?"
Tsubomi was dropping her sweat again, and tremble more than before, "I-If you insist..."
Shuuya grinned, then he grasped Tsubomi's hand and pull it towards the long queue in front of the haunted house, "Then, let's go~"
As they arrived at a long queue that now could be seen in front of them, Shuuya lets go her hand, then they queued as well. Around 30 people waited at outside of the haunted house. Why is this haunted house is so popular?
Shuuya looked to the right then left to look for a people that he could be asked. Then, he's found the right man. The person was a boy with black hair and he holds an iPhone on his hand. Before he walked to that people, he asked Tsubomi to waited. She nodded. Then, he walked to the people, and he asked him, "Umm.. Excuse me. Why is that haunted house is so popular? It has a very long queue."
The boy with black hair turned his face and looked at him after heard Shuuya's voice, "Uh, Oh... I don't know... But, I think I heard those people said that the haunted house will be very scary," he said while pointed at the queue.
Shuuya looked where the finger was pointed, then he looked back again and stared at the black-haired boy, "Hm~ Thank you!" He grinned as he thanked him. Then he went back again to Tsubomi, who was had dropped a lot of sweat from her cheeks, maybe because she always wears very thick clothes... or she was scared...?
Shuuya, with his widened grin, raised his hands up to the air. He walked a little by little... until he was very close to Tsubomi... then he tapped her shoulders quickly while shouted, "Buuu!"
"GYAAAAAA!", Tsubomi screamed very loudly and jumped up after shocked by Shuuya's. Some people who had heard her scream, looked at the two kids. Tsubomi realized it, she looked down to floor as she blushing very much because embarrassment.
Regardless of people's eyes, Shuuya poked Tsubomi and said, "Hey, hey~ Your face is pale. Are you sure you want to enter?"
Tsubomi -being a tsundere- then replied, "Y-Yes! I still want to get in! A-And my face is not pale now! I-I like haunted house...!"
As she said like that, the haunted house opened, and people had started to enter the haunted house. Tsubomi's heart was beating very fast as she and Shuuya walked into haunted house. After they arrived just one step in front of the haunted house, Shuuya began to replied her words, "Kukuku~ If you say that~ We gonna enteeeer~" Tsubomi gulped. Then they entered.
In the haunted house, it was so dark and calm. Nothing around there. Maybe because they couldn't saw anything in this very dark place. But, even though she couldn't saw anything, Tsubomi still tremble. She imagined some ghosts popping up in front of her. Shuuya realized it. Then, he tapped her shoulder again, which could made Tsubomi startled.
"Wh-What... You shocked me," Tsubomi replied while holding her chest.
Shuuya grinned as he tapping her shoulder repeatedly, "It's okay, Tsubomi~ Look! Nothing is here!"
Tsubomi turned her face from Shuuya, and whispered to him, "I-I'm not sca-scared..."
Then,with his grin on his face, he walked ahead, followed by Tsubomi (who was scared like a scaredy cat) behind him.
... And then ...
...
Nothing happened...
"... ? Shuuya..."
"What?"
"Nothing happened here."
"Yeah... What happened, huh?"
Tsubomi runs immediately next to Shuuya, then she exclaimed with sparkling eyes, "Like I said! I'm not scared!" Shuuya just replied her with a small grin, didn't know what had happened. However, look at the Tsubomi's cute behavior, Shuuya chuckled and thought, 'She is so cute~' Then, Tsubomi started to walk ahead of him, for showing him that she was not scared.
But... Tsubomi suddenly smells a strange's smell... The smell like...
Tsubomi looked up as she smells it. Across from her, there was a girl's corpse, the girl had a long black hair that cover her face. The girl hanging by ropes that bind her neck. Crimson bloods smearing her body. But, the corpse could said something, she said like: "... Tsu...bomi..."
As the corpse said like that, Tsubomi couldn't said anything. Her mouth was opened. Her eyes moved relentlessly. And, her body suddenly feels like to fall. Then, she was really fallen.
"Tsubomi!?", Shuuya shouted as he looked at her rare reaction. Shuuya hold her waist with his right hand, and her leg with his left hand. He was carrying her.
"... She fainted... She was really that scared, huh?", he whispered to himself.
As he whispered to himself, he then heard a shouted which seemed to come from the corpse, "Tsu-Tsubomi!? Shuuya!?"
Shuuya heard a familliar voice. He looked back. He then saw a brown-haired girl with red scarf entangled in her neck, which was standing beside the corpse. Shuuya widened his eyes.
"Nee-chan!?", he shouted again.
The red scarf girl walked to him, then she stared at Tsubomi's pale face who had fainted. "She fainted..."
Shuuya looked at Tsubomi's face too. "Right... Anyway, Why nee-chan is here?", he questioned.
"Ah, I was the one who will shock someone who passes here," she said while she sratching her head.
Shuuya grinned. "Heh, nee-chan, you're good at surprising people. You could... *kukuku* make... *kukuku* Tsubomi fainted... *kukuku*"
As Shuuya laughed like an idiot, the brown-haired girl puffed out her cheeks and replied, "I didn't know that Tsubomi was so scared of ghost... I knew that she was scared of it, but I didn't think that she would fainted like this..."
Shuuya nodded, agreed with her big sister's words. "Yeah~ Pfft! Bu-but what will we do now... Kukuku!" Shuuya laughed again, but he was tried to holding his laugh from coming out anymore.
The brown-haired girl didn't care about his laughed, and with a panic look on her face, she started to thinking about Tsubomi who was fainted. The brown-haired girl then got an idea. She asked to his brother, "Shuuya, please carry Tsubomi out of here. I'll show you the way."
Shuuya, who was still grinning, nodded his head and carried Tsubomi. He followed her big sister until outside of the haunted house. Then, the brown-haired girl said again, "Over there," she pointed at a room with white door. "Please carry Tsubomi to there, I think the teacher is still there."
Shuuya nodded again. But, before he could walked to it, someone called her big sister.
"Ayano."
Shuuya, and the brown-haired girl named Ayano, looked at the voice. They saw a boy with black hair not far from there. He walked to them, and said, "Ayano... What are you doing? You're the one who will shock people in haunted house, right?"
Ayano puffed out her cheeks again, and replied him, "Shintaro-kun, but, you're not helping our class too."
The boy named Shintaro step back then looked away. "I can't do anything. And, I guess they don't need my help."
As Ayano heard his words, she shook her head and gave him an advice, "No, Shintaro-kun, If you want to help people, you should offer them a help. And they would happy to receive your help."
But, even though Ayano gave him an advice, Shintaro just rolled his eyes and whispered, "Well, whatever... It's not my business anyway."
As she heard his words again. Now. She looked at Shintaro, with wide eyes and sad face, and then whispered to Shintaro. "Shintaro-kun..."
Shintaro realized her sad face and feel guilty for said that. Then, he immediately found a word to calmed her. But, he couldn't. He couldn't found a sweet words. They stay quite, each other feel guilty.
Shuuya, who just stared at them, feel uncomfortable in the silence between them, even though it was noisy because a lot of people was talking and screaming. But, he didn't care about that. Shuuya then lowered Tsubomi briefly and clapped his hands once. Shintaro and Ayano looked at him, which reacted to his clap.
Shuuya grinned and said with a teasing tone, "Hey, Nee-chan~ Who is he? A boyfriend~?"
As he said that, they blushing really hard. Their face was really red, like an apple.
Ayano shook her hands, "N-N-No! S-Shuuya! He is just my friend!"
Shuuya giggled while seeing her big sister's blushing face. He acted like he didn't hear her big sister. He said, "Soo~ He is gonna be our brother-in-law in the future~ I should tell this to Tsubomi and Kousuke~"
"N-No! Sh-Shuuya! I've told you t-that he isn't my b-boyfriend...!", Ayano still evasive as she shook her hand in front of her chest.
After calmed his heart, Shintaro questioned as he tried to stay emotionless. "A-Ayano... Who is he?"
Ayano looked at Shintaro and said, "He is my brother, Kano Shuuya."
"Ooh...", he replied.
"E-Emm..." Tsubomi voiced as she began to opened her eyes slightly, then she really opened her eyes. She looked to the right and left. She saw Shuuya, Ayano, and black-haired boy near her.
"Are you okay, Tsubomi?", Kano asked her. Then, she nodded her head, as a signmark to said 'yes'. But, while she was nodding her head, she realized one thing. His hand... Shuuya's hands... Shuuya was carrying her with a bridal style.
As she realized it, she blushed really hard, then she wiggled her body in order handed down by him. Shuuya then grinned and shook his head. Seemed like he got a crazy idea as always. He said to Tsubomi, which was still wiggled her body. "Because you lied to me, I'll carry you with a bridal style for one day~"
Tsubomi then just widened her eyes and shouted in embarassment, "W-What!? People will stare at us! Put me down! Beside, you always lie too!"
As she shouted, many people who was passing them, blushed and whispered, and some of them pointed at them too with a red face. But, Shuuya still didn't care, while Tsubomi's face seemed like an apple now. Shuuya, who still carried her, grinned, and walked with ease. Tsubomi were shouting at him repeatedly, but he just replied her with a grin on his face.
He turned his face, "Nee-chan, I'll go. See you~" Then he looked to the front again.
Shuuya and Tsubomi were no longer visible. Shintaro and Ayano were speechless, not knowing what happened. They stayed quiet until some minutes later. Then, they looked at each other. Shintaro was the first who dared to cut the silence, he said, "They are... really intimate, huh? Although... they are still kids... What did you teach to him?"
Ayano replied him, "I... Ah, but Shintaro-kun, Tsubomi is my little sister too."
Shintaro was a little shocked, but he was acting cool again. He replied her, "O-Ooh..." Then, he continued, "So, the 'amazing' thing is about your sister and brother coming to our school, huh?"
Ayano nodded her head. And they went silent again.
Until... someone called Shintaro. "Onii-chaaan!"
Shintaro and Ayano looked behind them. There were Shintaro's little sister, who was pulling a girl with lower pigtails and wears a pink dress and a boy with brown hair and wears a blue hoodie.
As she arrived near them, the little sister stood across them and breathed heavily. Confused with what happened to them, Shintaro asked her little sister, "What's wrong, Momo?"
The little sister named Momo answered with difficult breath, "A lot happened... I... was... in a shooting booth... and then..."
"And then?", Shintaro asked.
The boy beside her, answered for her, "I will tell you what happened."
And then, the boy named Hibiya started to tell him what happened, with a girl named Hiyori and Momo beside him, listened intensely. Shintaro, and Ayano who was silent since before, listened to his explanation too.
Author's Note : This is my first fanfiction that use English language. And my third fanfiction that I've written. Well, I'm not sure about my grammar... I plan all the pair will appear in this fanfiction, like: KanoKido, SetoMarry, HibiMomo, HaruTaka, and ShinAya. The first chapter is KanoKido... But I think this chapter just has a little romance in it... The first chapter lack of romance...
But, I hope you understand it and like this story!