My Favorite character next to Ryoma is Fuji then the character I love above all is…Atobe Keigo!…He makes me laugh…He's handsome and he's rich and he's good in tennis and so much more…and he's got this wacky song I can't get out of my head.
Background music: Charm Point wa naki bokuro (My charm point is the tear mole)
Could anyone get me the lyrics? It's so funny.
One Week part 1
Two girls stood in front of each other. They were staring at each other as if they want to talk but no one made a sound. They way they look, it was as if they were looking in a mirror, they are completely identical, which they are going o end now.
"Why are we doing this?" the one on the right said.
"Do you remember that night?"
"Of course, I would never forget that night,"
It was October three and the whole Shinohara family was dining in their mansion, served by maids with anything they want. It was one of those days when Mr. Shinohara would have dinner with his daughters, namely, Riko, Hikaru and Kaoru.
"I want one of you to attend the birthday party of the son of one of my associates, could you do it, Kaoru-chan?" Mr. Shinohara said out of the blue. Everyone on the table stopped, especially Kaoru who was shocked beyond comparison to her two sisters.
Riko looked surprised about the assignment and tried to argue but Hikaru beat her to the game.
Hikaru abruptly stood up from her chair, knocking it down. "How could you? Can't you just let me go instead of her?"
"Yeah, let us go," Riko said.
"No," he turned towards Kaoru who still had her head bowed and her eyes wide. "I want you to learn how to deal with people because that is what you'll inherit from me when the time comes,"
"But Otou-san! You know so well that Kaoru don't like meeting stranger! Especially when we're not there beside her! Just let me handle this stupid birthday party and let Kaoru stay!" Riko argued.
"I'll handle this party." Hikaru said.
"I said no. If you let her back down from her fears then she'll never get over it. It would do her good if she gets to face her fears alone than run from it for the rest of her life. You're her sisters, you should know that," Mr. Shinohara then put down his things and left the room.
Hikaru looked at her twin and sighed. She slowly plopped back to her seat and tried to think things out.
"I'll go talk to him," Riko said and followed their father.
"Let's go to our bedroom now, okay?" Hikaru said and stood up, Kaoru following her closely.
When they reached the room, Hikaru let Kaoru enter then locked the door.
"Do you want to go?" Hikaru asked, sitting next to Kaoru on the bed.
"Of course, I don't." Kaoru said. "Hikaru?"
"Yes?"
"Why am I scared of lots of people?"
"Because they hurt you…" with that both fell silent and looked at their feet.
"If you don't want to go, I could go for you," Hikaru said.
"Father told us that it is me who would go, not you. How do you expect to trick him?" Kaoru looked at her twin.
"I'll be you and you'll be me! That's simple! I'll pose as Kaoru and you'll be Hikaru! I get to go and you get to stay!" Hikaru smiled.
"That's great! I never thought about being identical as my luck, but it sure is turning out to be!" Kaoru lightened up while clasping her twin's hand in hers.
"Here," the one on the left handed the one in front of her a pair of scissors. "Are you sure about this?"
"Yes," with that she cut her hair until it only reached her shoulders.
"You look good," the real shy and quiet Kaoru said to the real noisy and war-friendly Hikaru who just cut her own hair.
"You think Atobe would understand if the Kaoru he knew is not really Kaoru at all?" Hikaru said, playing with her hair while Kaoru cleaned the area.
"Yes, he would, he's not an idiot after all," Kaoru said.
"Then let's go now. I wonder why they came here in the first place."
The two went outside wearing black night gowns that only reached their knees and silver sandals.
The two walked hand in hand down the long corridor leading to the main hall where their visitors are. Maids where turning their heads as the two walked quietly both had a look of excitement in her face.
"Ore-sama demands to leave this place at once! There's no way ore-sama's going to marry-,"
"Who are you going to marry, Atobe?" Hikaru cut off what he was about to say when surprise got her. She had a feeling on what was coming.
"Why did you cut your hair, Kaoru?" Mr. Shinohara asked, sitting on the couch with what seemed to be Atobe's parents.
"I'm not Kaoru, I'm Hikaru. Why is this idiot in here?" Hikaru said, glaring at Atobe who seemed to be in deep thought.
"As of now, I'm formally declaring your engagement to Keigo, Kaoru," Mr. Shinohara declared. "It seemed to us that you two formed a liking to each other during his party,"
The twins both gasp and fell to an empty couch.
"Father, how could you do this to me? You can't run my life for me!" Hikaru intervened.
"Hikaru, Kaoru is the one engaged to Keigo, not you,"
"But I'm the one who attended that idiot's party! I imposed as Kaoru for the past three months!"
"What are you talking about?" their father said.
"I'm sorry father, but I could not let Kaoru go," Hikaru apologized.
"Oh well, then that makes you his bride,"
Hikaru's mouth fell open. Her confession brought much more disaster to her life. If she'll be forced to stay with Atobe, she'll go nuts!
"Like I said, Ore-sama's not marrying this woman! She's impossible!" said Atobe.
"The hell I want to marry you too! I'm not going to marry you even if you're the last man on Earth!"
"Same here!" Atobe and Hikaru were breathing down each other's necks while Mr. Shinohara and Atobe's excited parents discussed their plans.
Kaoru stared at the two and a knowing smile crossed her lips. You've fallen harder than I thought, Hikaru. I wish I could have that much fun with someone too.
Before Atobe and Hikaru take the matters outside, Mr. Shinohara clapped his hands to get everybody's attention.
"Okay, children, listen up!"
"We're not children anymore! And I'm not gonna listen!" Hikaru yelled back.
Her father ignored her and talked to Keigo.
"Starting tomorrow, Hikaru will move into your house-,"
"FATHER NO!!!"
Ignoring her protests, Mr. Shinohara wet on, "You'll get married when you finish high school, understand?"
"Yes, but ore-sama still does not want to marry your daughter, sir." Atobe said calmly trying to make the older man see that he really did not want to marry his daughter.
Mr. Shinohara saw his sincerity on his words and smiled, "We're both businessmen, why don't I strike you a deal?"
"Give it,"
"If you don't fall in love with my daughter within one week…it's off," Mr. Shinohara still smiled as if he was confident that he will win.
"One week? Piece of cake," Atobe stroked his hair and looked at Hikaru. "Let's go home, and one week and you're out of my life!" but Hikaru wasn't even listening. She was busy smouldering her father with hugs to pay attention to him.
"I hope you be a good husband to my sister," Kaoru patted Atobe on the shoulder.
"Ore-sama is so not going to fall for her! Never!"
"Let's see…" Kaoru grinned.
And the longest week in Atobe's life began.
To be continued
Tezuka and Miharu's story will be continued some other time later because the time on all this stories are the same so assume that these stories happen at about the same time. So I won't be completing them but still, I have just begun my story neh?
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