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LAST CHANCE
:: sOrbetes ::

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"OKAY!!! LET'S GOOOO!!!" Horohoro roared at the top of his lungs.

"Hai!!!" Pirika, Tamao, Yoh and Manta shouted raising their arms in the air. The fearsome Itako just rolled her eyes with much annoyance.

"YAHOOOO~!!!" The excited Ainu hopped inside a van, provided by the Oyamada company. Horo sat on the driver's seat, while Pirika sat beside him on the passenger's side. At the back, Yoh sat on the far right just beside the window. Anna, of course, sat on his left side. Tamao sat beside Anna while Manta sat beside her.

Ryu was ordered to stay behind and look after the onsen while the rest was gone. Lyserg have something important to deal with in England, while Chocolove is having his debut as a comedienne. Ren, on the other hand, is still in China.

"I'll try." The Chinese shaman said from the other line.

"Okay. Try your best, ne?" Yoh grinningly replied.

"Hn." was all he could hear as response from the Tao.

:::

Horohoro started the engine. "Here we go!"

"Kyaaa~ I'm so excited!" Pirika exclaimed, clasping her fingers together. "I heard Okinawa is great during summer! Oh and the beach! I can't wait!"

"I really hope the others could come. Especially Ren. It's been ages since we've had vacation together," said Manta.

Pirika fell silent.

"Eh! Why would you want that arrogant guy to come with us? He'll just ruin the fun!" Horohoro answered the midget.

He smiled at his little sister. "Ne, Pirika?"

She smiled back, but shifted her gaze to the window.

:::

"Anna, do you want to drink?" Yoh offered his fiancé. Clenched between his fingers was a can of tea.

She looked him in the eyes as a sign of agreement. His famous grin was again pasted on his face. Yoh opened the can for Anna and then handed it over to her.

"Tastes good…" her expressionless voice mumbled.

He just smiled once again, with a little blush creeping on his face.

Tamao, who was seated just beside Anna, wasn't oblivious to the conversation that transpired between the couple. Her pink orbs were all of a sudden beginning to be watery. But before a single tear could drop, a voice called her back to reality.

"Huh?"

"I said you have something on your face. Pirika, give my towel to Tamao." Horo instructed his sister, unable to do so because he was driving.

Pirika took the towel around his brother's neck and gave it to Tamao.

"There's nothing on her face," asked Pirika, confused.

"She got something… around her eyes! Just wipe it off, Tamao." He barked to the pink-haired prophetess.

She looked up and met his gaze through the mirror.

"Just wipe it off!" the Ainu grinned widely.

She hesitantly took his handkerchief he was offering and used it to wipe her tears.

"H-hai… gomen." Tamao answered him, averting from the eye contact that just took place.

:::

The trip has never been long and quiet if it weren't for Manta who kept bubbling facts about the different sceneries they passed by. No one was interested, clearly, but instead of leaving the van in awkward silence, Manta opted to wear his tour guide hat instead.

"KIREI!" Pirika cried in extreme delight, her eyes glittering at the sight before her.

"Sou desu ne?" Manta nodded in agreement.

"What are we waiting for?" Horo appeared before them, nearly ripping his top as he struggles to remove it from his body. "BEACH!!!"

The Ainu shaman frantically ran toward the glistening waters as soon as he had taken off his shirt.

"Your brother lost it." Anna insensitively commented.

"Yes, I think he did." Pirika smiled in agreement. Both were staring at the blue-haired Ainu who frolicked up and about against the gentle waves of the salt water.

"But you'd better loose it too, Anna-san. It's vacation anyway!" With that, she ran away, following her brother.

Anna's gaze was still locked in the view of the brother and sister. Pirika was splashing some of the waters to Horohoro, while he pretends to shoot water at her using his hands. 'An improvised water gun,' she thought.

Her focus then went to her slacker of a fiancé, who seemed to be also enthusiastic about the whole vacation thing, save for Horohoro who had already lost it.

"Yoh." The ice queen began. "Take the baggage in our rooms. I'm sleeping."

"B-but, Anna!" he complained.

"Even if we're on vacation, you still need to train. Carrying the baggage would be good substitutes for your weights."

A chuckle. "That's not what I meant." He started to carry the bags he was ordered to bring then continued, "I mean, we just got here. You should enjoy, Anna!"

He was in his usual grin, as if encouraging Anna to do what he just told her to.

Her fiancé's words painted a faint red on her cheeks. She looked away.

Since when did summer become this hot? She could only wonder.

:::

"Lunch time!" Tamao called. She had just finished preparing their table.

"WOOHOO! I'm hungry!" As everyone had guessed, it was Horohoro. He ran towards the cottage first, drooling over the feast before him.

"Arigatou, Tamao! They all smell delicious!" Yoh praised his secret admirer.

"A-arigatou… Yoh-sama…" she managed to say, her face already crimson in color.

Pirika clapped her hands together and prayed, "Itadakimasu!"

"ITADAKIMASU~~~"

The table was filled with a mixture of Japanese cuisines. There were maki, sushi, tempura and teriyaki, to name a few. Horohoro immediately slaughtered the biggest tempura on his bowl while the rest got their fair share of the meal.

"There are still a lot more. Eat as much as you like." Tamao told everyone but she knew Horohoro was indeed the most glad among all of them.

Horohoro opened his can of soda and shouted, "KAMPAI!!!"

The rest of them raised their own cans and went for a toast. "Kampai!"

"Here," Anna was a bit shocked when Yoh dropped some maki on her bowl.

She looked up at him in confusion.

Yoh grinned. "Hehe."

His smile made her face suddenly hot and Anna knew she was blushing. She immediately averted her gaze.

Anna glanced at her bowl and on the maki Yoh gave her.

Tamao's cooking is really good, but the maki tasted a little different from the rest.

It was the most delicious, Anna thought to herself.

"Oniichan! Don't take that part! It's mine!" Pirika glared at her brother.

Horohoro did not mind his sister's tantrums, instead savored the meal he had managed to steal from Pirika's plate.

"You're unbelievable!" she pouted.

"I know!" He menacingly beamed at her, teasing.

Manta and Tamao sweatdropped. The two of them became instant audience to the bickering Ainus.

In the midst of their peaceful banquet, a tune played out of the blue. A cellphone was shaking on the table, lighting accordingly to a familiar melody –a Soul Bob song.

Yoh opened the fold of his phone and greeted, "Moshimoshi?"

While listening to the person on the other line, his face showed at least four different emotions in a span of one phone call—first he looked sheepish, then he seemed puzzled, and then he was suddenly sad. Finally, his familiar grin was again plastered on his face. The smile lasted even after he ended the call.

"Who was it?" Manta asked.

"He's coming!"

The bickering stopped.

His words caught a certain Ainu's attention. Sapphire eyes were immediately focused on the grinning Asakura. There was only one thing that came to mind, 'He came…'

"Ren-kun?" Manta asked again.

"Hai! He said he'd be here but not anytime soon. He's still in the airport. And, he said to reserve one room for him, with two beds."

"He's with someone?"

"I guess. Jun-san must come too. Whatever that is, I'm just glad he'd be here!" Yoh grinned once more then resumed his eating.

:::

The sun was about to set. After lunch, the ladies planned to visit the gift shop nearby. Manta decided to take a nap. Horohoro and Yoh opted to enjoy themselves swimming in the beach.

Yoh went to the shore and lay on the snow-tinted sand. Horohoro followed and sat beside him.

"Say, Horohoro…"

"Hm?"

"It's nice, right? To be here."

"Sou. The place is really wonderful."

Yoh paused for some thought then continued, "Ne, do you think it's romantic to… uh… p-propose here?"

Blood rapidly flushed the Asakura red. His blue-haired friend surrendered himself to the cushion of the white sand, and lay beside him. "So, you plan to tell her here?"

"Hai."

"I don't know if the ice queen would like it, but I guess it sounds romantic for normal girls."

Both fell silent, admiring the picturesque view of the sun as it slowly faded out of sight.

"Congratulations, then! Omedetou!" Horohoro wished.

Yoh smiled. "Arigato."

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A/N: First chappie done! I seriously don't know why I published this. GOOD LORD, HELP ME. Somehow I think it's too long, but when I read it, it's still not enough. So, whatcha guys think? OOC? Poorly written? Plain ugly? COMMENTS are always WELCOME. :]

Okinawa seemed to be a good beach spot for their summer vacation so I brought Yoh and the gang there! Tamao's lunch was the typical Japanese cuisines I know of so other foods were not included in the list. Maki is my favorite Japanese food, so… special appearance for it! Last, I am not sure with Soul Bob being Yoh's favorite singer, but I'm open to be corrected. :D

I'm not really a writer so be kind with me, please? XD Still, I hope you like the fic so far. And, by the way, thanks for reading! *hugs*