Now this is Chapter 2 of Place of Masikawa! Thank you Esperan z-san for your review!
HARUKA'S POV
As I watched them dance and sing, I was thinking of Ichinose-san, Jinguji-san and Syo-kun. I can't help it, they look so much alike. How is it that two people looks so much alike but they're from different time periods? Anyways, I watched Jinguji Renri-san, Ichinose Toriyama-san and Sy- Kurusu Shouki-kun perform. They did it perfectly. Just like it was in the music sheet I was holding, but they didn't have the heart; the feelings that were supposed to be put in this song. I frowned and before I knew it, they were staring at me while Hyuuga Ryou-sensei just looked at them with pitiful eyes.
NARRATOR'S POV
"Well? How… was… it…?" Shouki said in between breaths. Haruka could only just stutter "A-ah… U-u-umm…" Then they heard a loud sigh coming from Renri. "I knew it, you didn't like it…"
Haruka waved her hands in denial "Well it's not that I didn't like it! You did it so well and perfect but…" Haruka looked down "…but…"
Toriyama looked down with a tired face. "You don't have to say that, as many times as we do this. We keep missing something." Then Ryou walked over and let them sit down on the floor. He looked over to Haruka and gave a look that said 'They must find it themselves.'
Haruka got the message and could only nod. After a few moments of silence, a loud growl was heard. They all turned to Haruka who was blushing fiercely as she held her stomach.
"Oh my, it seems that our little ojou-chan here is hungry. How cute…" Renri smirked at Haruka. Then there was another growl, this time, coming from Renri. They all turned to him as he coughed trying to hide the embarrassment.
"Now look who's talking…" Shouki said trying to hold back a laugh. Then his stomach growled. Haruka chuckled and it made Shouki turn red.
"Haha! Maybe we should all eat something before everyone's stomach growls." Toriyama smiled as he stood up and looked at Ryou who in return nodded. Ryou went outside first then Toriyama, then Renri, and then Shouki. Haruka was just there staring out into space until Shouki snapped her out of it.
"Hey!" He shouted which made Haruka jump and look at Shouki. "You coming?" Haruka nodded and ran towards the door following the others. Shouki closed the door behind them.
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"Umm… Ryou-san…" Haruka said to Ryou as she followed behind him. "Hey peasant, call him Ryou-sama!" Shouki shouted at her but she only shrugged it off. She turned her attention back to Ryou who only replied her with a "Hn?"
"Where are we going?" They were currently walking the East Side of Masikawa again. They were causing a lot of murmurs and noise.
"Isn't that guy cool?" Toriyama just sweatdropped.
"He's so sexy!" They said about Renri who winked at them causing them to squeal.
"So cute!" one of the females said about Shouki who in return shouted at them "Who are you calling cute?"
"It's Ryou-sama…"
"That girl is wearing weird clothes." One of the people said that caught the attention of Ryou and the others. Renri and Toriyama then took a quick scan of her and for them it certainly looked weird but then they turned red after seeing so much exposed skin on her arms, and her legs. Ryou just looked at both of his students with interest while Shouki didn't care.
"Um… I'm sorry." Haruka timidly said. Toriyama then patted her head and said "It's okay, Ryou-sensei will find you a new set of clothes right Ryou-sensei?" He turned to Ryou who nodded. Haruka felt a warm feeling inside of her as she looked at Toriyama and smiled warmly at him "Arigato, Ichinose-san!" Toriyama widened his eyes but soon returned to normal as his face was in a frown.
"Ichinose-san?" Haruka asked. Toriyama then looked at her again and instead of a frown, he smiled and blushed "I-its okay… Just call me Toriyama." Why was he feeling that way? It's been a long time that he had felt his heart jumping up and down ever since…. Never mind.
"Ok! Toriyama-kun!" Haruka smiled at her and Toriyama smiled back. They had their little smiling moment until Renri appeared in between them and smirked at Haruka
"What's this? Is Icchi making a move on ojou-chan here?" Renri eyed Toriyama suspiciously.
"I didn't make a move on somebody!" Toriyama denied. Haruka chuckled and then she saw a little cat on the road she went away from the group to pick it up.
"A-Oy!" shouted Shouki. Renri then pulled Shouki, Toriyama and Ryou closer and whispered amongst each other.
"It's surprising right?" He said.
"Yeah. I never thought that this peasant would be so much like her. At first I didn't think it was her, since her hair was short. Now if you look closely, she does look like her." Shouki replied.
"I never expected for their names to be so close. The only difference is the character at the end of their names." Toriyama sighed.
"Well, you guys made her leave. Us teachers did our best. Ah she's coming now." Ryou said pulling out of the group.
"What were you doing?" Haruka said tiliting her head as she petted the little black cat that meowed each time. "So cute! I'll call you Kuppuru… No! Kuppuru #2!" She happily said as the cat meowed again. "You like it?" She then smiled.
"Hey peasant we're going ahead! Hurry up!" Shouki shouted. The four of them were already a few feet far and in front of a shop that says "RAMEN"
"Ah okay! I'm sorry, Kuppuru2, I can't bring you in." She said putting the cat down. "No, he can come in." a voice said from behind.
"Really?! Thanky you! Come back now Kuppuru2!" Haruka said without taking a glance at the person behind. The cat didn't move. The cat just stood there looking at the person behind Haruka. Haruka, noticing this, turned around and she saw…
"Ce-Cecil-san?!" She almost fell down in surprise until 'Cecil' pulled her up straight. She thanked him as the cat finally jumped onto her arms.
"Your welcome." He smiled then he looked at Haruka in surprise but just shook his head as he said "Who's Cecil?" Haruka tilted her head in confusion as the cat meowed
"Eh? A-ah Sorry you look like somebody I know! That man was Cecil not you… Sorry." She waved her free hand and put it down after. Then Haruka looked at the man who is 'not-Cecil-' and noticed that he was a green kimono and his hair was tied back.
"It's okay. My name is Aijima Ceigo. (Pronounced as Sei-gou) Hm? You are wearing weird clothes." He said looking at her clothes and blushed immediately as he saw too much exposed skin. The cat hissed at him and Ceigo finally snapped out.
"Ah…. Err…" Ceigo said scratching his cheek in the process.
"Oy, peasant! Hurry up! Don't make Ryou-sama wait!" Shouki shouted as he went out of the shop. "Huh? Ceigo?" He said noticing Ceigo.
"Huh? Shouki?" Ceigo then looked at Shouki. Shouki was about to say something but he saw Haruka in front of him that he stomped over to her and took her arm and dragged her to the shop.
"Let's go you peasant!"
"Ah wait! Um… See you later Ceigo-san!" Haruka said waving her free arm to Ceigo who waved back. When Shouki and Haruka finally got inside, Ceigo muttered
"Well, see you soon." Then he went inside the shop and taking an apron and tied it around him.
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"That was so good!" Haruka said while the cat meowed. The cat stared at the four men for a while now as he kept on meowing.
"Glad you liked it, this is the best place to eat ramen!" Ryou said.
"Well of course, our cook's amazing that's why." A voice came from behind as he picked up the bowls to clean it up.
"Huh? Ah! Aijima!" Ryou said that caught the attention of four others.
"Ceigo-san/Ceigo/Ceishii/Aijima-san!"
Ceigo smiled "Yes, it's me Aijima Ceigo!" He said finishing up the bowls.
"What are you doing here?" asked Renri
"I work here." He smiled again until he turned his head to Haruka and said as he took her hand and knelt down
"Eh?" Haruka said while turning red as the cat hissed at him. The other four men behind Ceigo, either just sighed, or surprised.
"What is your name?" Ceigo said now looking up at Haruka.
"Nanami…" Haruka said. Then Ceigo's expression darkened but soon lightened up. "Haruka…" Haruka continued. For some reason, Ceigo sighed in relief and stood up.
"I apologize, because from where I once came from, I knelt down when asking for their name." He smiled at Haruka.
"Oh no worries! It's okay, I'm used to things that are like that." Haruka smiled while the black cat proudly meowed.
"Used to?" Shouki raised an eyebrow.
"Ah well…" Then the cat meowed again.
Haruka remembered that one time, where Cecil knelt down and kissed her palm sometimes, hugging her, pulling her for a kiss. Jinguji-san would sometimes do that.
"No its nothing!" She said. The five men just raised an eyebrow and said "huh…"
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"Well take a look at that." Eichouri said watching from a far table inside the RAMEN shop. "She even made friends with an ex-prince."
"Yeah." Kiraki said taking a bite of his ramen.
"Got it, she's the target. Mmm… These are really good!" Nagisa said taking the whole bowl.
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BACK IN HARUKA'S TIME
"Where's Nanami?" Otoya asked the group as they took a break from their practice.
"The Little Lady said she had something to look up." Ren replied Otoya as he took a sip from his bottle.
"Yeah, she said something about Masikawa or something." Syo said.
"She's been there for a long time now… I'll go look for her!" Otoya dashed out of the practice room and started looking for Haruka. The others looked at each other and followed him as they started their search for Haruka.
"Now that you mention Aijima's gone too…" Masato muttered.
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Otoya kept on looking for her and now also looking for Cecil but was not successful. He kept on running until he tripped on a big book. He stood up and then picked it up "The Place of Masikawa." He read until a flash of light appeared and Otoya disappeared and nobody knew what happened.
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MASIKAWA TIME
About the same time when Haruka and the others were eating ramen, somewhere outside of Masikawa.
"Lalalala~~" Haruhi hummed as she hung up clothes on the liner until a flash of light appeared. Haruhi covered her eyes and when finally the light was gone there she saw a red-haired boy on the ground.
"Do you need a hand?" She said holding out a hand. The redhead, looked at her in surprise.
"Nanami?" He said but he noticed her long hair so he had doubts.
"Hm? Ottokai?"
"Ottokai?"
Oh my... What an interesting development... R&R please!