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Disclaimer: I claim no ownership of characters used. All are licensed to their respective owners. I am not making any money through authorship of this fic.
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Chapter One
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It was early Saturday afternoon and Yukari Tanizaki finally found herself rolling out of bed.
Stepping over broken bits of alarm clock Yukari cringed.
'Uh oh, Nyamo is not going to be amused with me when she sees this mess.'
Making a mental note to clean it up after having something to eat, Yukari wandered over to the kitchen to see what she could easily pour into her mouth.
Before she got to her intended destination however, Yukari found herself staring at a thick brown envelope sitting on the floor by the door.
'Hello, what's this? Mailman must have just slipped it through just now,' the language teacher said.
Letting her innate curiosity get the best of her, Yukari snatched the envelope from it's resting place and opened it at once.
Sifting through it's contents Yukari's sleepy look slowly evolved into a deep frown.
"Arranged marriage?! What in the hell is Nyamo's mother thinking?! She's sorted out a date for their first meeting and everything! What to do, what to do… gotta figure out what to do before Nyamo gets home."
Yukari sat down for a minute trying to figure out what the best plan of attack would be.
Her brain managed to come up with three options. Unfortunately for her, the first two options were illegal.
Naturally Yukari had to go with the third option.
"Right. The only option I have is to call in the troops."
She picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number.
"Hello? Mihama residence…"
"Hi it's me. Listen Chiyo-chan I need you and your little gang to come over to Nyamo's place and help me out with a little something. Call up the rest of them and I'll pick you up ok?"
Chiyo-chan paled as visions of the Yukari-mobile filled her mind.
Luckily for her she though, she was a genius so she thought up an easy way to get out of it.
"Pick us up?," she asked her teacher. "Don't worry yourself Miss Yukari, I have a bike so you just stay right there and wait for us ok? After all, isn't it your breakfast time right about now?"
"Wow Chiyo-chan, how thoughtful of you. Good girl. Ok I'll stay here, see you all soon ok?"
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Once Chiyo-chan's colour had returned she made the necessary phone calls, readied her bike and Mr. Tadakichi and found Miss Sakaki waiting outside her gate.
Sakaki gave her usual 'hello nod' and they cycled off together towards the apartment with Mr. Tadakichi easily jogging next to the bikes.
On the way there they met up with Tomo and Yomi who both gave Chiyo inquisitive looks.
Chiyo shrugged.
"Miss Yukari just called me this morning. She sounded a little distressed."
"So we get called in to save the day!" said Tomo excitedly.
"So why do we get called in to save the day?" asked Yomi, opting to reply in the manner expected of any normal high school student.
Sakaki was just happy to be in the company of Mr. Tadakichi.
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'Dammit where are those girls?' thought Yukari who was pacing the apartment while staring at the profile of the suggested 'arranged groom'.
"Eldest son, business oriented family, refused his father's company in order to become a doctor, young, well-traveled … God! What's with this guy?!"
Yukari's thoughts were interrupted by someone knocking on the door.
"Must be them now, it can't be Nyamo, she's off training the swim team."
Walking over to open it, Yukari invited in the four girls and one pony.
Taking another look at Mr. Tadakichi, Yukari realised that he was indeed a dog and not a pony. She made a mental note not to try and ride on his back later on.
"Right, roll call," Yukari began.
The girls laughed.
… Until they figured out she was serious…
"Tomo."
"Here!"
"Yomi."
"Here." 'But I have no idea why.'
"Sakaki."
"Present."
"Chiyo-chan."
"I'm here!"
"Osaka."
Yukari looked around at the lack of reply.
"Osaka? Where's Osaka?"
Yomi shook her head.
"None of us thought to get her? She'll never make it here on her own! She'll be standing still somewhere thinking something weird again."
"Right. Any volunteers to go and retrieve Osaka?"
Yukari pointed at Mr. Tadakichi.
"You! Dog, will you go?"
"Bark."
"Ok, dog says no. Anyone else?"
"I'll go," said a voice at the door. "What'd you want me to go do?"
Yomi took her glasses off and gave them a wipe.
"Wow. I don't believe she made it."
"Osaka! You're late!"
"I brought cake…"
"You're forgiven! Everybody sit down and have some of Osaka's cake. I have some dire news to share with you all."
"Another one of your friends decided to get married?" asked Tomo.
The rest of the girls moved away from her general vicinity for fear of Yukari's wrath.
"No Tomo! Comments like that are not welcome here!" growled Yukari.
"Bark!"
"At least the dog understands me."
Yukari sighed.
"Well to tell you the truth, Tomo over there was almost right."
'Another quiz coming up soon?' Thought Sakaki as she stroked Mr. Tadakichi's head.
Chiyo-chan smiled happily.
"Congratulations Miss Yukari! Did you call us over to tell us that you're the maid of honour?"
Again, the other girls gave the stupidly brave one a wide berth.
"NO!" screamed Yukari.
Chiyo-chan teared and Sakaki wrapped an arm around the scared child.
Mr. Tadakichi positioned himself between Chiyo and Yukari.
The teacher sighed and mumbled.
"Nyamomightgetmarried."
"Really? Oh wow!" said Osaka.
"What'd she say?" chorused the rest of the girls.
"If we don't do something, Nyamo might get married!" repeated Yukari. "To this guy!" she added holding up a photograph that came in the brown envelope. "I can't let her get married to this guy!"
"Ooh, what's the deal Yukari? You got a thing for the guy?"
"Oh Tomo, sometimes you make me embarrassed to be a knucklehead." Said Osaka knowingly.
Sakaki blushed as soon as she picked up on Osaka's meaning.
Yomi rolled her eyes.
Chiyo smiled blankly.
"Geez you guys, what's the matter with all of you? Tell me how to stop this wedding!" Yukari said, tossing the envelope in the middle of the group of girls and dog.
Osaka picked up the envelope and passed bits of the contents around to everyone.
"Yukari what the hell, there's nothing about a marriage here at all!" Proclaimed Tomo. "All this stuff just say things about 'meetings', what meetings?"
"Meetings in which both parties discuss the upcoming marriage Tomo!!" said Yukari who was now lying flat on the floor.
"Tomo maybe it would be better if you didn't say anything from now on." Said Yomi.
Chiyo crawled over to her homeroom teacher.
"Miss Yukari? Are you alright?"
"Nyamo might get married." Yukari said with a pout.
"No way." Said Tomo taking Yomi's hand off her mouth.
"If you want this guy that badly Yukari, we'll stop this wedding for you!"
"You will?" Yukari hopefully wondered aloud.
"We what?!" asked Yomi.
"Tomo, she doesn't want him." Said Osaka.
"Of course we will Miss Yukari." Said agreeable Chiyo-chan cheerfully.
Sakaki remained silent for a while before nodding her head toward her teacher.
'Even Miss Yukari can be cute sometimes.' The tall girl mused before speaking.
"I'll help too. In fact, think I have an idea."
"I have an idea too!" said Tomo.
"We'll go with Sakaki's idea." Said Yukari.
"But you haven't even heard either of them yet!" whined the Takino wildcat.
"I think we should consider ourselves lucky that we didn't have to hear yours." Said Yomi matter-of-factly.
"Ok then Sakaki out with it." Said Tomo. "Since your idea is sooo much better than mine…"
"I don't think we should show Miss Kurosawa this envelope at all."
"Hey it was the same idea!!" said Tomo while bouncing up and down.
"No wait." Said Sakaki. "Her mother will probably call to see if she got the envelope right? So I think we should replace the photograph and other information about this man, with information we've created about another man."
Yukari thought about the idea.
"How about we think of something that ends in Nyamo not getting married to any man?"
Sakaki sighed.
"No Yukari, sheesh even I got what she meant." Said Tomo.
"We get some other guy to pose as this arranged marriage guy and get him to go to the meetings."
"And then we make sure that this man," Sakaki continued. "Somehow convinces Miss Kurosawa that she doesn't want to marry him after all."
"Then Nyamo tells her mother and no marriage!" finishes Osaka.
"Great plan Sakaki!" said Yomi who was sincerely impressed.
"But then…,' began Chiyo. "Wouldn't the first man be expecting to meet with Miss Kurosawa?"
"That's easy enough I guess. I'll just call and cancel." Stated Yukari.
"And also,' added Chiyo-chan. "Wouldn't all this be lying?"
"Uh huh." Said Osaka with a nod.
"Yeah." Said Yukari. "So?"
Yomi shrugged.
"Of course Chiyo-chan! Isn't it exciting! It's kind of like we're spies on a mission!" said Tomo.
Chiyo-chan sighed and thought to herself: 'At least Miss Sakaki looks a little guilty…'
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On the walk home.
"Oh man, this is gonna be so cool!" said Tomo who was even more excited than usual. "Let's call the whole thing 'Operation Wildcat!'"
"You can't just name it after yourself!" Yomi replied.
"Yeah Tomo," said Osaka. "I think we should call it 'Operating on Miss Kurosawa's Heart'"
"Umm no Miss Osaka, I don't think that's such a good idea." Chiyo-chan said.
Sakaki just looked alarmed at the suggestion.
"Fine fine." Yomi said, sighing in defeat. "Operation Wildcat it is."
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AN: Thanks for reading the first part. Again, just trying something out. Will continue and make this a chaptered fic if there are enough people interested. Hope you enjoyed it!