Midori no Hibi: Extra Days

Days 1

It was another ordinary morning, and at the Kasugano mansion, all was well, apart from one thing.

"Aaaauuugghhh!"

Clothes were flying everywhere in Midori's room, and all types of clothes there were too: dresses, T-shirts, the G-string Sawamura had given her for her 17th birthday, shorts, short shorts, miniskirts, everything but the thing Midori was looking for. "Have you seen my 'I Heart Seiji' dress, Mum?"

"Didn't you put that in the wash, Midori-chan?"

"I don't think so… And besides, last wash cycle was colours! I need that dress for my date today!" Midori's room looked like a bomb test-site. Clothes covered everything – her mirror, her dresser, her bed, her windows, even the railing of her balcony! "Come on Mum, help me think!"

"Um… Wait! I think I put that in the second-hand bin… Perhaps you should check there."

Midori was enraged. How the hell could she put it there! That's a handmade dress! Damn…. I can't believe it! She looked in the bargain bin, and there it was, on top! It was still clean, so she took it back up to her room.

She took off her pyjamas after closing the door, and crossed the pile of clothes that now made up her floor to her full-length mirror.

Midori, she thought, you did well, to get such a great guy. He did even better, to get you! She put on a bit of Perriot Netegé body perfume under her white dress, emblazoned with her favourite design, that she had thought up previously in Midori no Hibi DAYS 2: the "I Heart Seiji" that spoke so loudly. Over the years since she had gotten her body back, Midori had seen Seiji grow more used to the ways which he had called embarrassing back then.

Meanwhile, Seiji "Mad Dog" Sawamura was getting out of bed. He rolled awkwardly into his pile of porn magazines, still sprawled all around the floor.

"Geez, I really need to clean this place up, if I ever want Midori to live here…" He got to cleaning, but as soon as he had put one magazine in the box, he realised something. "Shit! My date! I totally forgot!" He looked at the clock on his wall, with its round face and hard hands. It read 10:55. "She'll be here in 5 minutes! I have to find something to wear!"

At 11:01 Seiji Sawamura was dressed in a smart outfit, but not too smart that he couldn't be seen going out of his house. He went to the front door, and he opened it to find Midori Kasugano standing there in that loud white dress, her hand poised to knock.

"Konnichiwa, Seiji-kun!" The accent she always put on the –kun annoyed Seiji, but not too much.

"Ohayo, Midori-chan. Where can we go today, with you looking like that?" Seiji, as usual, was teasing Midori, and it wouldn't be the last time that day. He ruffled her hair, shut and locked the front door behind him.

"Well, that new horror movie, 'Killing Time', is premiering today, and I thought we could go there." She spotted two black-clad figures, both with brown hair, one with long, one with short, walking down the sidewalk, talking about some reference or other to the popular anime Trigun.

"What are you looking at, Midori? Anyone would think that you were off looking at sakura and drinking sake!" The two figures laughed at a joke they made about a reference to Azumanga Daioh, and vanished into the night, even though from where Seiji and Midori were standing, it was day.

"Let's go, Seiji-kun!" Midori's watch read 1:23 PM.

All throughout the movie, Midori was clinging to Seiji, under the pretence that she was scared. The happy couple both knew that that wasn't the case, and Midori was just getting closer to Seiji. They both liked it that way, and sometimes Midori would scream at a scary part, to look like they fitted in. Seiji saw a blonde-haired seventeen-year-old who looked a bit like him sitting in the front row, and as he shouted the words, Seiji was reminded of a time back in DAYS 1 when he had said the same: "Stop flirting around me, okay?" The couple laughed, and Midori swore she could have seen the two figures again, chuckling at a loop in the story. Midori considered asking them their names, and made a mental note next time she saw them to do so.

Seiji, meanwhile, was busy gripping Midori, who moved his hand up a bit from the position it held on her waist to a position more near to her shoulder. They stayed in that position for a while, then the movie ended and they left the theatre. After a choco-banana ice cream from a nearby street vendor, Seiji invited Midori home. Midori, however, said:

"That's really sweet, Seiji-kun, but I know the state of your house, and I know the state of your room! Why don't you come to my house for the night? I promise you, you will not forget this night!" Of course, Seiji had slept at Midori's house many times before, always in the guest room, and Midori never once bothered him while he was sleeping. She always said that he wouldn't forget those nights, but this was not true. In fact, Midori's mother was a heavy drinker, and ever since he had turned 18, Seiji had joined her every night he was there, so he usually passed out on the couch.

"Okay, let's go! I wonder what Makie-san has cooked for dinner tonight?"

"Well, it's Saturday, so it might be one of fifty exotic dishes!" The couple took the train to the Kasugano mansion, which, as always, was filled with the scent of a beautiful Hawaiian dish. "Konbanwa, Makie-san! What's for dinner?"

Makie, the maid of the mansion, replied, "It's ham-steak, Hawaiian style. Over here it's called 'Koyo'." The two dark figures strode past the window, laughing at some joke they made about Azumanga Daioh. Midori excused herself quickly, leaving Seiji to make himself at home, and rushed outside. The two figures were standing, staring at her.

"What…. Do you want….?" The one with longer hair said.

"I want to know who you are."

"We're the creators of this world. Our names are Sakako –" and here he indicated his companion, who resembled Shingyouji Kouta, in a way, "and I am Kenji." He looked a bit like Watanabe from Excel Saga, and when this was pointed out to him by Sakako, he laughed, and they both disappeared.

Midori returned to the house to find Seiji and her mother passed out on the couch with goofy grins on their faces, so she ate her helping of koyo, and went to her now clean room to sleep.

That night, Midori had a dream, that Sakako and Kenji replaced both of her hands, while she was back on Seiji's. It was very weird, and it ended with the figures' piercing laugh, like a wolf's cry.

DAYS 1 END.

This is the first chapter of a new series of Midori no Hibi, which I started to write due to the utterly crap ending of the show. Many people may not share my view in this, but there you are. More to come later, please R&R.

--Sakako, Class 1-3