Title: Fireflies in Your Hair (Chapter 1)
Author:
Hannah Ree Banfill (and Kiya Pritchett)
Pairing: None
(centered on Mizuki Ashiya and Shoichi Nakatsu)
Fandom:
Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom
Theme: Invincible
Friendship.
Disclaimer: PFK (Purple Fuzzy Kitty): Of COURSE
BS (Breathing Stars) and KC (Kiya-Chan) don't own Hana-Kimi! It
belongs to Nakajo sensei and that moves them to tears but…OW!!!
HELP!!! They're throwing rocks at me!!! HEEEELLLPPP!!!! KC breaks
out laughing while BS struggles to lift a heavy boulder.
Notes:
There really isn't much about the funny friendship between Mizuki
and Nakatsu. I came up with this by just reading over random parts of
the manga with them. Writing this fanfic with me is my sister Kiya
(so this is my story while Home Again is hers! HA HA HA!!!!) You'll
hear from her in even chapters. Hope you like!
Mizuki had nodded off to sleep long before Izumi came home. He tucked her into bed before settling in a chair across the room to read, but also to keep a close eye on her should she begin to stir. She had left the window open again, a sometimes annoying, but not completely hateful habit of hers. Tonight, Izumi was surprised to find he needed the fresh air. He smiled to himself as he thought of just how special Mizuki was. How she could make anyone in the world happy just by knowing them for a little while, although she could be amazingly dense at times. Everyone at Osaka High was lucky to have her…even of they didn't really know she was a girl.
The chapter of the day wasn't long that night. Izumi was just closing his book and getting ready for bed…when the door to their room suddenly flew open and slammed against the wall. Izumi was on the floor in surprise as Nakatsu bounded like a happy rabbit into the room.
"Mizuki! Mizuki where are you?! Oh my god, you won't believe what just happened! I thought of something great…!" Nakatsu stopped screaming just long enough to realize what was going on around him. Izumi felt like throwing him out the window and hoping he hit hard. As for Mizuki, she was barely even stirring after all this commotion. Geez, Izumi thought. I forgot. Once she's out, she's out.
But did that stop Nakatsu? Hell no. For he had great news he needed to share with his little sweet at that very moment. But when he tried to walk forward, he ended up tripping over his own feet and landing right in Mizuki's lap. This woke her up…or could it have been the extreme heat from Nakatsu's face because he was blushing so hard? While this was going on, Izumi rolled his eyes and hauled himself off the floor.
"Oh. Good evening Nakatsu," Mizuki said jokingly. She half pushed him off her stomach as he rolled the rest of the way over and hit the floor by her bed with a loud clunk, completely stunned. Izumi stomped over and grabbed the collar of Nakatsu's shirt. He dragged him up into the air as if he was a dirty dishrag and smacked him upside the head before letting him fall again. "Ouch," was all Nakatsu had time to say.
"Uh…I'm sorry Mizuki. I…um…guess I caught you at a bad time," he stammered, half crawling, half oozing against the wall. He turned to Izumi and said, "And I'm sorry to you too Izumi. I scared you didn't I?" Nakatsu smiled brightly and laughed. "That's so me isn't it?"
Izumi looked at Nakatsu, and couldn't help but brighten up himself as Mizuki ran over and hugged the life out of each of them. She apologized for sleeping so early and not being able to meet either of them after school (she had to talk with Dr. Umeda. Please don't ask for details.) Nakatsu concluded that he hadn't caught her at such a bad time after all.
After a little while, the three friends were hanging around talking about different things. It felt more like family. All they needed was Kayashima's sense of creepiness and Noe and Sekime's complete talents of being unpredictable assholes and everything would be normal.
"Oh yeah, Nakatsu," Izumi suddenly remembered, turning to his friend, "when you crashed through the door, weren't you saying something great has happened?" Mizuki barely had time to look intrigued before Nakatsu was at her side, hugging her so hard she knew Umeda would get pissed at having to heal every bone in her body (which would all be broken.)
"YES IZUMI!" he squealed happily, pulling Mizuki even tighter if that was possible. "Oh Mizuki you won't believe what my parents gave me for my birthday! It's so awesome, and I intend to share it with you!"
"Uh, Nakatsu? Two quick things," Izumi broke through the thick wall of red hearts that was built between his friend and Mizuki. "First off, your birthday isn't for another two weeks, so you shouldn't be getting any presents yet. And let go of him before he dies on us." A terrified Nakatsu let go of a gasping Mizuki by the word of an annoyed Sano, and they decided to discuss this so it would make sense.
Nakatsu's parents had given him the early gift of a trip for two to Hawaii for two weeks. He wanted Mizuki to go with him so they could have some special time to spend together, and then they could return to school on his eighteenth birthday. When asked how the school would take this, he stated he really didn't care, that he just wanted to get out of here and take his "love" with him.
"You'll come with me, won't you Mizuki? I refuse to go if it's not with you! It just won't be the same, and I'll give it to someone else! If you abandon me there I will throw myself to the waves and wait for you on the other side! I'll-"
"Okay, okay! Just shut up Nakatsu, I do want to go! It sounds like a lot of fun!" Nakatsu eyes widened at these words and Mizuki gave him her sweetest smile. "We really don't spend enough time together, do we? So this trip is a great opportunity! Just you and me, best friends, for two whole weeks!" They hugged, and agreed to leave as soon as possible…but do something to keep up with school.
Izumi sat in the corner, his arms crossed and a slightly angry frown on his face. Nakatsu was getting ideas. He had no problem at all with him taking Mizuki on a fun tropical trip where they could have fun, but with his supposed "love" for her he felt uneasy. Would she be able to keep her secret from him? But Izumi couldn't bring himself to bring these up when she looked so happy.
What he didn't know was that Mizuki was thinking the same things. And even though excitement controlled her emotions, there was a distant voice in the back of her mind that whispered, "I have a bad feeling about this…"
