Disclaimer:I do not own School Rumble..... well I own some DVD's, but not the real thing!! X3
Note:The first dream of the year (hatsu-yume), which occurs the night after New Year's Day, is thought to be a foretelling of the year you are about to enter.
The luckiest of dreams are said to include Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant, and any combination of the three is a great sign. So let's see what kind of year awaits us!
New Year Dreams:
Sprawled across his bed on the first night of the New Year, Harima slept rather loudly. He was still worn out from the yearly cleaning, which was so kindly forced on his by his cousin.
He was riding his motorcycle through town, he seemed to ignore the fact that everything was in black and white. He was even narrating his own life, but surely this wasn't a dream.
"My life so far has been one failure afte another." Harima said. "But not anymore, today is the day that I win Tenma's heart!"
He was racing quickly past all of the buildings. All of the city was black and grey blurs around him, and for some reason he was the only person in town.
"I know what you're thinking. 'What makes today any different Harima?' Well I can tell you what makes today different!! Today is the first day of the New Year... today is a new day. Today I am out to find the perfect gift for Tenma Tsukamato and I fill fall to one knee as I present it to her and that is when I will finally tell her exactly how I feel. For years I have planned what I would say to her.. every word. 'The first moment I laid eyes on you my heart skipped a beat, and ever since that moment my heart only beats for you. When I see you walk past me I lose my breath. With the life I live sometimes it is hard to tell if I am really alive or if I am living a nightmare, but every time I saw you... I feel you beside me, and I know that I am alive.' That is what I will tell her, and she will love me. She will admit that she has loved me forever and we will get married and have plenty of babies."
He seemed to have been riding down that long, straight street for an hour, and there didn't seem to be an end approaching.
"There is only one problem." he said.
"I have no idea what Tenma likes." Harima whined.
Suddenly something large and purple flew through the black and white sky and hit Harima in the side of the face. As if in slow motion Harima fell off of his motorcycle that was traveling at nearly one hundred miles an hour. Harima hit the ground and his face skidded across the ground.
"OWW ow ow ow owowwww!!" Harima sat up after he finally stopped rolling across the ground "Motorcycle!! Come back!!" he yelled at his motorcycle, which was still riding away.
"No!!" It called back." You've always loved Tenma more then me!! ALWAAAAAYS!!" the motorcycle replied as he drove into the sunset.
"Stupid motorcycle, after all of the times I sat next to him while he was sick!" Harima walked over and picked up the purple thing that had attacked him. It was an eggplant.
Harima gave it a long strange look.
"Who the hell threw an EGGPLANT at me?!!" he said in a loud, almost whiny voice.
"It was me." A stoic voice said.
Harima spun around, letting his delinquent side take over. What he saw was disturbing.
Or atlease it should have been.
"Why did you throw an eggplant at me Akira?" Harima asked.
Akira was dressed as a mountain. What's worse is it looked like a kindergartener made the costume!
"I am not Akira." she replied.
"Yes you are." Harima replied.
"No. I am Mount Fuji." she corrected him.
"Ah!" he smacked his hand to his head. "Of course! I didn't recognize you Fuji-sama!"
"Don't make the mistake again." Akira replied.
"What brings you here, Fuji-sama?" Harima asked.
"I am here to bring you good luck and information." She said.
"Hmmn, luck huh? Thanks. What's the information?" He asked, confused.
"I have come to tell you the perfect gift to give Tenma Tsukamato"
Harima nearly exploded with joy. "Really?!! What is it?! What is it?!"
"I have it here." Akira said.
"Then give it to me!!" he said quickly. "I am running out of time!! The sun is setting!"
In the gray scale distance one could see a white sun beginning to set.
"I have already given it to you, Kenji Harima." Akira replied.
"What do you mean?" Harima asked, confused.
"You know what I mean." She replied.
"I don't know what you're saying! You have to help me Fuji-sama!!" He pleaded.
"No. You have to make it the rest of the way on your own." She said.
At this moment a hawk landed on the tip of Akira's costume and stared at Harima for a long... long time. Harima continued the staring contest with the strange bird.
Then the bird started flapping it's wings and carried Akira and her Mt. Fuji suit away into the twilight.
"I don't know what Fuji-sama meant!" he yelled at himself.
He looked around frantically trying to find something that was left by Akira, only to find absolutely nothing. Time was running out and he didn't know what to do. He threw himself to the ground and laid there, completely defeated.
"Maybe..." he thought for a long moment. "Fuji-sama meant somthing spiritual. She gave me knowledge... do I give Tenma knowledge?" he stopped and imagined himself tell Tenma his story of meeting Fuji-sama on the way to her house. Then he picture her slamming the door in his face.
"No, that can't be it. Fuji-sama gave me courage.. maybe that is what I am supposed to give her." Harima pictured himself boldly knocking on her door and taking her in his arms and kissing her pasionatly. Then he remembered the first time he tried to kiss her, and how she attacked him.
Harima rolled around on the ground for a few minutes before he took a deep breath lay motionless. Then he felt a sharp pain in the side of his head.
"THAT'S IT!!" Harima stood up and ran over to the area where he crashed and picked up the eggplant. "This is what Fuji-sama gave me!! This is what Fuji-sama meant!!!"
He put two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly. It echoed through out the black and white city, and in the distance one could see his motorcycle racing towards him. As it came up beside him Harima jumped on it without it's stopping and he headed out towards Tenma's house.
"Do you forgive me, motorcycle?" Harima asked his little machine.
"Yes. Only because your love it pure and true!" his motorcycle replied in a very soothing voice. "But I will always love you Kenji Harima!"
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Harima arrived in Tenma's neighborhood with several minutes until night fall.
"I'm gonna make it!!" he exclaimed happily, but no sooner did he say this did a strange creature appeared in front of him and caused him to crash. His motorcycle flew into the distance and exploded in many bright colors before fading back to black and white.
"NOOOOOO!!! MOTORCYCLE!!!!!!!" Harima yelled with tears in his eyes.
He stood up and found many of his classmates surrounding him.
"Hey.. ummm.. Imadori? What are you doing here?" Harima asked the blonde. That is when he noticed Hanai standing a little further back. "Was our class supposed to do something?" he asked.
Imadori had been staring at him, completely emotionless. Suddenly his face twisted into an evil, open mouthed glare, and he let out an evil hiss. As if on cue all of the other classmates did the same.
Harima freaked out.
"ew! What are these guys?" he looked around, they were all creeping up towards him. "They're zombies!" he announced the obvious. He his legs went limp and he started to shake. "oh, I hate zombies." he took a step backwards and nearly dropped the eggplant. That is when it hit him. Behind all of the zombies stood Tenma's house, like an oasis in the desert.
Harima tightened his grip on the eggplant and slowly removed his sunglasses, tossing them behind him.
"You will never keep me from my love!" he yelled at the zombies. He started screaming, feeling his power flow through him until a final burst of energy shot his hair straight up, and his black hair turned blonde.
He started tearing mercilessly through his classmates, throwing them every direction. The only thing on his mind was Tenma, and the eggplant in his hands.
After a half hour of ripping his classmates apart Harima was finally on the front porch of Tenma's house. He was beaten, worn out, bloody, and he had never felt happier in his life.
He stood infront of the door for a long moment, staring at it sternly.
"This is it." he told himself. "After all of these years of being too much of a coward, here I am." he looked down at the eggplant in his hand. He held onto it tight and lifted it up to his heart. "Tenma Tsukamato.. I love you... I've always loved you! I breath only for you! My heart beats only for you!" he practiced his speech. "I love you!!!" he yelled, gaining his courage before boldly lifting up his fist and knocking loudly on the door.
"Oh my God... oh my God!!" he strained to breath. He could hear footsteps on the inside, and his heart beat in perfect time.
Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, he couldn't breath. It was driving his crazy!
The door handle jingled. It slowly turned. The door opened. He couldn't breath.
"Hello, Harima." Yakumo said.
Harima fell over.
"Are you ok?" Yakumo asked. He was still bleeding and he was already covered in bruises. His clothes were all torn to shreds.
"I'm fine." he replied.
"What happened to them?" she asked, staring out at all of the remains of class 2-C.
"Oh.." Harima turned and stared. "Nothing."
There was a long awkward moment of silence.
"Why... do you have an eggplant?"
Harima looked down at the vegetable in his hand, and he gained his courage again.
"This!" he announced proudly. "Is for Tenma Tsukamato!! This will prove my love for her!! My undying love!!" he invited himself into the house and looked around frantically.
He looked very much like a lost little child.
"Ummmm Harima.." Yakumo tried to get his attention.
"TENMA!!" He yelled loudly. "TENMA I LOVE YOU!!"
"Harima." she said, this time it actually caught his attention.
"Hmn?" he asked.
"My sister..... isn't here."
Another long..... awkward silence.
Harima fell on the ground, and upon impact he blew up the entire house.
The shock woke him from his sleep. He was in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. He looked around hysterically, but calmed down when he noticed he was in his own room. Then came his disappointment.
"It.. was a dream...?" he stated the obvious agian.
Long... awkward silence.
"TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
I really hope you liked it!!
I will be writing Tenma's dream next!!
Well, if people like this one enough, that is.
If you want to see the next chapter please review!!
Thank you for reading!!
-Hincaru