Relinquish
Chapter 2: "She left again"
Author's notes: I just want to inform everyone who will read this fanfic; this was based on the 1st and 2nd episodes of the Jdorama series 'Hana Yori Dango 2' and not from the manga. Feel free to comment afterwards.
Back to the fire exit - Tsukushi and Rui's territory. Tsukushi seemed uncomfortable so she started to talk again to begin a conversation with Ryoko.
"I think you're really so intelligent since you were accelerated to four years ahead than to those who were in your age and successfully entered an International University for your college education." Tsukushi cheerfully complimented her companion but to her dismay that she found Ryoko not happy at all. "Uhh, did I say wrong?" She asked worriedly while approaching Ryoko.
"Ahh, no. I'm just not really happy of what happened recently even though others always say that I'm so lucky to have all of those." Ryoko said in a sad, softer tone.
"Uhh.. those?" Tsukushi asked, confused.
"Wealth, intelligence, etiquette, talent, body, beauty, and a cute brother. No, I mean scratch the last one since that stupid Rui kicked his ass." Ryoko backbit Rui.
"Ohh, yeah. I guess you're really lucky to have all of those." Tsukushi said. "Can I sit down beside you?" She asked Ryoko.
"Yeah, sure." Ryoko permitted. Tsukushi sat on the remaining space of that last stair where Ryoko is sitting. "Since you're a commoner, I know you'll also say that." She said in a dismayed manner.
Tsukushi raised her eyebrow because she was insulted by her, by the word 'commoner' but she admitted that Ryoko was right. Compared to her, she's a commoner who dreamt to be a lawyer. an international lawyer like her idol Shizuka, but landed on the Eitoku Academy with those rich bastards who can't even produce money out of their own hands. Poor Tsukushi.
Ryoko immediately realized what she said and get her words back. "I didn't mean to insult you with that!" She exclaimed. "Honto Gomen-nasai!" She apologized while sligthly bowing to Tsukushi.
"No, no. It's okay to me." Tsukushi accepted her apology smiling.
"Oh, thanks. That was a great relief." Ryoko said inhaling some air and exhaled it after. "You know what, I sometimes think that what if I was born on a poor family, would I be happier or it would make me a better person than I am now. But, if I was born like that then I couldn't have those things that you can only buy if you have money. And if I'm dull, a clueless stupid who couldn't even understand algebra then I couldn't have studied many things."
"But, are you happy with it?" Tsukushi asked.
"Mmm.. I can't say yes nor no." She replied. "Do you know Todou Shizuka?" She asked, changing the topic.
"Yeah! Of course. She's actually my idol and my role model that is why I entered Eitoku Academy." Tsukushi answered happily.
"Really. She really inspires anyone. And of course, everyone who knew Rui should know her." Ryoko said, now with delight on her eyes. "She's a great woman. I even envy her once. Can you tell why?" She said, letting Tsukushi guess something really strange to her and looking at her to the eyes.
"Uhhh... I don't have any idea." Tsukushi claimed. "About Hanazawa Rui?" She asked, doubting.
Ryoko smiled and look away. "Yeah. Because of him. Rui-chan was a very good friend of mine when we were still on the junior high. Though our paths only crossed when we were inside the classroom. We only met once purposely. He was like an angel to me during those times. Since F4 were exempted of wearing uniforms from the day they entered school, he had been wearing white. I don't know but white attracts me even now and since I met him, the color 'white' already resembles him. I know it sounds stupidity especially because it came from me." She chuckled after saying all those things to Tsukushi.
"Wow. Both of you have really something." Tsukushi teased.
Ryoko shook her head twice. "No, not both of us, it was only me. I've known that fact since from the start. He was reserved for Shizuka-san. He was, and always be. That was what I thought but it changed when I met Tsukasa last month in New York."
"You mean, you met Domyouji, in New York??" Tsukuhi asked her halting.
"Umm.. yeah. I was having my first and major exhibit in Museum of Modern Art. Many sponsored my exhibit that was why it was a successful one and many came to watch some of my works. I was busy doing something when a band of Americans in black suits came and got the attention of most of my viewers. Then a man spoke. I almost kicked him out of the museum when I confirmed that it was him, Tsukasa Domyouji. The bastard who can't even took care of himself because he's almost always bringing those stupid bodyguards." Ryoko, again, backbit an F4 member.
"Uhh, that was really likely him." Tsukushi murmured, loud enough for Ryoko to her it but soft enough to sound angry.
Ryoko saw her reaction. She remembered that this girl, Tsukushi, is connected to Tsukasa emotionally. "Ahh, anyways, I remembered that he said there is this special girl on Eitoku that is being protected by F4 and if I want to go to Japan again, I should meet her since she kinda changed him. Do you know that girl?" Ryoko asked.
Tsukushi blushed inwardly. She knew that there is a 75 possibility it was her Ryoko meant. "Uhh... yeah. Maybe. But I think you should scratch the part that 'F4 is protecting her'." Tsukushi indirectly corrected her.
"Oh, I see." Ryoko smiled. "Can you be my friend now?" She asked to Tsukushi leaving her shocked and left her mouth slightly open for some seconds. "I don't mind if you won't so don't worry." The smile on her face didn't fade.
"Uhh... of course you can!" Tsukushi gladly accepted.
"Thank you. If I was not accelerated, maybe I have been your friend since you had tamed the famous F4. Continue to be like that Tsukushi-san, I know you'll help other stupid people to change like what you have done to Tsukasa." Ryoko said cheering her.
"Ahh, not really, I guess. I didn't really change him instantly. It was a very tiring job." Tsukushi added.
"Really. He's really disrespectful, arrogant and boastful like he owns the world and I admit, we never talked like friends until I was planned to be engaged to him by his wicked mother." Ryoko revealed a secret never been told to Tsukushi by anyone.
"You were engaged to him?" Tsukushi blurted out.
"No, just almost." She corrected. "By the time that the Furniture Business of my family blossomed on the industry not just in Japan but worldwide, her mother called me on my house. She said that she wanted to meet me then we met on a 5-star restaurant near Tokyo Tower. I also saw Tsukasa but it seemed his mother Domyouji Kaede reserved the conference hall just to talk to me. She said she wanted me to be her daughter-in-law. I burst in laughter when the words came out from her mouth. I knew it was a very disrespectful action but I just didn't help myself. The thing that circled on my mind was the fact that the monster chairwoman of the Domyouji Financials was asking me to be the wife of his bastard son." After saying her last sentence, she laughed.
"Ahhh... really." Tsukushi said, not quite pleased of what Ryoko revealed but she's kinda laughing on the other part and badly wanna see how Tsukasa's mother reacted.
"Yeah and it was like I was watching a comedy film." She stopped talking again and laughed like she was really watching a comedy film. "I really couldn't believe it. But I immediately pulled myself and said that I cannot accept that proposal since I know that I'll never like Tsukasa and we would end up divorcing each other after two to three years of being together and after her mother got to the world of Furniture Business. But she stubbornly talked to me about possibilites which I considered impossible until Tsukasa said, rather lied, that I was connected to Rui. She was shocked, maybe because she knew that the Hanazawa Clan was not a good enemy. My parents called me afterwards and were very disappointed when I told them that I refused. It was only Junpei who tried to understand my situation without knowing anything but since then, my connection to Rui Tsukasa was talking about, which his mother thought in a higher level, became a connection to the famous F4." She smiled after narrating her slight horrible past.
"I have a younger brother too." Tsukushi informed.
"Really." Ryoko said. "If that is it, don't treat him like I treat mine. I never boasted to anyone that he is my brother and even let him called me 'onee-sama' since I was accelerated. Junpei is caring to everyone he loves or those who treat him good that was why I understand him when he took revenge for what Tsukasa did to one of his bestfriends. Junpei never knew that I was connected to F4 until I told him when I arrived here. And as his sister and as your new friend... I'm asking for your forgiveness." Ryoko stood up and bowed in front of Tsukushi.
"Uhhh... " Tsukushi stood up to because of the formality and held Ryoko to stop bowing. "No, no. It's okay now though what he did is really so bad. I understand too that all of those started because of what Domyouji did to his friend. You don't need to bow." Tsukushi assured her.
"Thank you very much Tsukushi-san."Ryoko smiled to her sweetly.
Tsukushi smiled back to her. "You're welcome, Ryoko-san."
"Oh, and one thing, please take care of Rui." Ryoko said, asking a favor.
"Ahhh, take care? Why?" Tsuskushi asked. She knew that Rui can already take care of himself.
"Yeah, I know he's already responsible enough to take care of himself but let the sadness inside him gone whenever he's with you. By that, I can be assured that he's happy every time you're the one with him." Ryoko explained herself.
"Sure. But, can I ask you a personal question?" Tsukushi asked.
"Of course." She replied while sitting back to the stair.
Tsukushi's eyes followed hers and took some confidence to ask her. "Do you, by any chance, love Hanazawa Rui?" She asked seriously.
Ryoko's eyes widened not because of the question but because of the seriousness she displayed. She knew, by the time she asked that favor to Tsukushi, she would suspect that there is something between her and Rui. No matter what happened, she had thought about this for a long time and she already knew what the answer is.
"I loved him." She simply said.
Ryoko look at Tsukushi seriously in her eyes. Both of them knew that feeling of being unsuccesful to get the love of that same person they once laid their eyes on for some times but unlike Tsukushi who slowly fall in love to Tsukasa, Ryoko didn't find another person to love to. Both of them knew.
"I used to but I think I can't now. We can't be together. I just want to live my life as one of his friends. I want to find a guy who can appreciate everything on me like he does. I can still remember how he pushed me to accept that acceleration of levels offered by the school management. I know, I can find someone who will going to be much important than him on my life." She said, in a sad but contented tone.
After hearing those meaningful words, Tsukushi sat back beside her. She cannot imagine that this girl who desperately attacked them on the F4 lounge this morning and aggressively called Rui and everyone who belongs to F4 idiots, bastards and stupid like no one can do without being beaten afterwards has been a big part to the F4's history, especially to Tsukasa and Rui. Her mind wondered through possibilities but she can't think of any but those which Ryoko told her. Then she came into a conclusion - Ryoko Oribe, a very bright student, a daughter of rich and wealthy family and once has been asked to be Tsukasa's fiancée had also fell in love to the cool and always guy-in-white Hanazawa Rui. Like her, but she felt responsible of being Rui's care taker since Ryoko asked her to be and she didn't refuse at all.
While there was a peaceful silence on the fire exit, someone was currently smiling just behind the door of where both of the girls were. And that someone was wearing white, cool and happy. He was Hanazawa Rui to be exact. He heard what Ryoko and Tsukushi talked about. He was not wrong when he thought that those two girls were having their 'girl talk' on the fire exit. It was just a wild guess, maybe his intuition told him to but on his mind, he didn't have any more choices besides the fire exit.
"Now I know. She just didn't admit it for my sake and for my feeling for Shizuka. She's really a very good friend. Like what I've been regretting towards Makino, I wonder why I didn't fall in love to her. To the girl who was always with me during those lonely and boring times without Shizuka. I'm doing this stupidity frequently and if I'll tell her about this, she'll surely curse me until I learn my lesson. I'm really an idiot. She never fails of judging me though I only realize her right judgments a little bit late. Thank you, Ryoko-chan." Rui thought to himself then walked away before the girls learned that he was on there, eavesdropping.
Later. On the F4 lounge, Tsukushi and Ryoko arrived and were surprised to see Rui not reading his book but playing with a Himalayan Cat - it has long light-colored hair with brown markings around its face, feet and tail. It has a round, massive head set on a short, thick neck. Its nose is short and broad, the ears small and tilted forward and its body is cobby - probably owned by a rich person to Tsukushi's point of view since the cat looked well-groomed and it has a white collar on its neck with a small bell. Tsukushi almost dropped her jaw to the floor when she turned to Ryoko. She saw her so shock.
"RUI-CHAN!" Ryoko exclaimed, almost shouted like she wanted to break some Guinness Book records.
Tsukushi wondered and surprised of what she said, rather shouted. "Rui-chan?!"
Rui, the human being, turned to them with Rui, the Himalayan cat, on his lap with its cute face. "Nani?" He asked. "Who are you calling, me or him?" Rui, the human being, asked smiling.
"Uhh… you mean that cat is also named Rui-chan??" Tsukushi asked, clueless.
"Did Junpei send him? Nahh, I must say he did! I'll really kill him!!" Ryoko said in anger and approached the both Ruis -as in plural of Rui - but Rui, the human being, didn't want to give the other Rui to his owner. "Hey, give me her!" She exclaimed.
"No." Rui said in a stern voice. "It is my fault why is he here. Your brother sent a message to Sojiro for you to go home because your cat is kinda ruining your house but I didn't find the two of you so I just told your brother to send your cat in here." He explained.
Tsukushi's eyebrow rose. She thought that it was impossible for Rui Hanazawa to not look at them on the fire exit in that case but maybe he found us, he just didn't intercept.
"Really..." Ryoko murmured, not believing what he said. "Fine. We will go home now!" She said, finally grabbed her cat from Rui's hands.
The cat meowed for some times. It was like it is sad to be away from Rui. Ryoko touched its long hair on its back. "Don't worry Rui-chan, we will go home now." She said, like putting her cat to be calm.
Now, Tsukushi's desperate to know the truth. "Ahhh, Ryoko-san. I have a question, why did you name him 'Rui-chan'?" Finally, the question was asked, Rui Hanazawa was also interested to hear her answer since it was only him on there and if Sojiro and Akira were there, they will badly want to know why too.
Ryoko was cornered. She couldn't think of a possible alibi so she decided to tell the truth in front of them. "When I first saw him on a pet shop, I just thought he looked like him." She simply explained.
"Huh?" Tsukushi was so shocked of her explanation she didn't know how to react.
Rui burst out in laughter. "Ahhaha!" Both of the girls looked at him. "You're so funny. You even compared me to a cat!" Rui exclaimed and laughed again.
"Is that so funny Tsukushi-san? I just told the truth." Ryoko asked her.
"Uhhh... I guess he was just shocked." Tsukushi guessed.
Later on, Ryoko, Rui - the cat- and Rui Hanazawa are already riding on his white car. Ryoko was on the back seat. She didn't take Rui's - the human being- offer of sitting next to him on the passenger seat. Her cat is beside her, licking its furr.
"Are you sure you won't go with us? We can pass your apartment while going to her house." Rui informed Tsukushi. She was outside of the car, of course, smiling and holding her bag with her lunchbox prepared by her mother.
"No, don't mind me and besides I still need to go to the Dango shop of Okami-san." Tsukushi said.
"Why, you'll buy some sweets before going home?" Ryoko asked, her head was slightly tilted and like a child approaching Tsukushi's gaze.
"No, it is there where I work." Tsukushi informed her.
Ryoko was shocked. She admitted, she never thought of Tsukushi being a working student. "Really, I want to go with you but I know my cat will mess up on there so I should not go to avoid problems." Ryoko said.
"Uhhh... yeah. You should go for another time." Tsukushi gladly replied.
"Well, then. we will go now." Rui Hanazawa announced before he started his car's engine and went off to the road.
"Take care." Tsukushi shouted while waving to them. Rui looked at her through the side mirror and smiled. Ryoko noticed it.
"She's admirable." Ryoko stated while looking outside the car's windows. "Right?"
"Yeah." Rui replied.
Then silence came. Both of them wondered what each other was thinking but didn't have any guts to ask or even to start any conversation. Though they knew that the gap between them created by circumstances was big enough for them to not talk to each other like they used to be on the old days except for how they called and cursed each other and added by what Ryoko revealed to Tsukushi a while ago, every little thing might lit up an explosion of truth both of them knew but Ryoko was on a disadvantage since she didn't know that Rui already know it.
Until he spoke, "When will you go back to Paris?" He asked while looking at her through the rear mirror of his car.
Ryoko didn't notcie him looking at her through her reflection at the mirror. She just kept on looking outside. "I'll not go to Paris." She said.
Rui's face became serious, though she didn't notice it until he asked again in his stern tone. "You'll go back to Boston?" He transferred his gaze back to the road.
"My break was over. I stopped because I wanted to do something to change the flow of my life and I found painting would be a nice way. I've had my exhibit already, my first and can be my last." She said in a sad tone.
"You, by any chance, met her in Paris?" Rui asked, pertaining to someone.
Ryoko looked at him and ended looking at his back. "Yeah. She told me that I should fight for my love of painting. Shizuka is really a wonderful woman. But I never wanted to be like her." Ryoko said, her tone grew from sad to content. "I'm not worthy to be like her and besides someone told me that I should just be myself. The sassy, logical and sometimes stupid Ryoko."
"I believe I know that someone." Rui said.
"Of course, it was actually you from the start." Ryoko replied with her sophisticated tone.
Rui smiled. "Then, when will you go back to Boston?" He modified his question.
"Tomorrow afternoon." She said. "I'm glad that I met all of you once again before I enter the fate that was destined to me since I was born with the last name 'Oribe' again."
"Then when can we meet purposely again?" He asked.
Ryoko was shocked. The thing he just asked seemed to be part of those things she revealed to Tsukushi on the fire exit. A suspicion grew in to her mind that Rui knew something about what they had talked about a while ago and it seemed not right. Never been right.
"What?" She asked again, to make things sure.
"Do I need to repeat myself?" Rui asked, smiling. He knew she was already suspecting of something.
"No, of course. I heard it." She stated, crossing her arms. "Whenever will be fine after four years."
"Whenever, after four years."He repeated. "I see. I'll remember that."
"You should." She said in an ordering manner.
Rui looked at her once again through the rear mirror. "You've talked so much the entire day, I wonder if that was also an effect of some gaps we have since we never seen or talked with each other for a while. What do you think?" He asked.
"Maybe. Just making things worth the while. I don't know if I can still talk to you like this after four years." She explained. "Don't you like it?" She asked.
Rui smiled again and now, Ryoko saw it through the rear mirror. "Why did you take up Psychology anyways?" He asked, now looking at the roads.
She smirked. "Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind. I am interested to those things that were why I chose that course." She explained.
"I wonder why your parents didn't stop you from taking that course. I think it is not related to your business." Rui said.
"Of course, Psychology can never be apply to those furniture business or those clothing lines and whatever but I told Oka-sama that being a psychologist is a very, very important profession wherever around the world and I can deal money whenever I want. You knew her, she always believe what I say. And through that, I can understand how people behave on different circumstances. She said that I need to establish our name to that field so the Oribe clan can also undergo the medical industry of the country." She said, twitching the end of her right eye in dismay. "I couldn't believe that she would let me study Psychology for the fact of having much more money."
"You should be. You're still the genius of our generation and the Oribe clan is very lucky to have you." Rui supposed.
"Nahh... whatever. Let's change the topic. I hate to talk about myself. How about you?" She asked, pulling something in her bag. "Any topic?"
"I don't have any." He immediately replied.
She frowned. "Think, idiot." Now she got what she was pulling in her bag and smiled. "Look!" She exclaimed, waving something in front of her. Rui glanced for a while of what she was holding because he was still holding the wheel of the car they were riding.
"What is that??" He asked. His glance was so fast he didn't even see what she was holding.
"I found this when I was going to the Airport on France to ride the airplane bound to Japan, a four leaf clover!!" Now, she almost shouted in gladness.
"Really. You're so lucky." He complimented her.
The four leaf clover she was holding was laminated with plastic in a 7in by 4in measurement. She was holding in her eye level while looking at it with elation in her eyes. Different elation.
"I was even almost late to my flight because I went to the mall for this to be laminated. I don't want to ruin the luck I found so here it is." She happily said. Like a child who found a treasure while playing. Unintentional luck.
"Good for you. I know you'll be so lucky and you'll gonna find your happiness sooner." Rui said.
Realizing what Rui said, Ryoko turned sad. "Yeah, maybe." She murmured.
Rui understood her. She is a very lonely person deep inside though she always displays a very cheerful, tough and brainy attitude. She is very serious on everything that makes having fun seems a bit difficult. Having fun in terms of going to parties and some social gatherings for the people who belonged to the high society. But she is the only girl of the Oribe Clan, she cannot and will never escape the spotlight of the society and to add her extraordinary intelligence, that will be impossible. Everyone will know her someday. Rui thought those things after knowing her until second year junior high. Ryoko Oribe is not meant for him because of two facts: She is a prodigy who makes her stand out from the crowd without doing anything and she needs someone who can cheer her up even with the smallest thing that someone can do for her. And Rui knew he couldn't do that for her, since he - himself - needs someone like that. They cannot complete each other and relationships are bound to complete each other.
Then they arrived on the Oribe mansion, sitting beside a lake. The reddish light of the setting sun is painting the lake. That has always fantisize anyone who loves nature, even those who don't, but the most fantisize among them all is her, Ryoko. Though she have seen that very dramatic display of nature, she always admire it. During summer, spring, autumn and sometimes on winter. The place was quiet; it has been like this since Rui's first visit. The gates were opened immediately, Rui drove until they reached the facade of this marble mansion. Two maids went out to meet them and an old guy, the butler, Rui assumed. Ryoko held her cat on her lap. The door of the backseat was opened by the old guy.
"Welcome back, mistress." The old guy addressed her.
"Thanks." She replied. The old guy got the cat and one of the two maids immediately went near to got the cat and tamed it by touching its fur on the back smoothly.
"Then, I'll go now." Rui said to Ryoko.
Ryoko smiled at him. "Thank you very much for the ride. Take care." She said. Then she got out of his car, the other maid immediately approached her and got her bag.
The old guy tilted his head and told something to Rui, "Thank you, young man." He whispered.
Rui just smiled for his response. The old guy closed the door then Rui started the engine. Ryoko waved slightly to him on the windows. He then hit the roads. After his car passed the gates, Ryoko turned to the doors so she can get inside but she was a bit shocked to found Junpei leaning on the wall looking to them.
"He was the one who beat me, as I can remember." Junpei said, sort of informing his sister.
"Don't worry, he had knew his lessons already." Ryoko replied, while walking forward.
"Really..." He said.
"Yeah." She answered.
Before she passes him, he held her wrist and whispered something, "Okaeri nasai." He greeted, welcoming her back.
Ryoko smiled at him. "Tadaima."
Then, Junpei held his arms around his sister for an embrace. Ryoko embraced him back and pulled herself afterwards. Both of them walked happily, into their marble mansion.
The next day, on the airport. The F4 - minus one for Tsukasa - together with Tsukushi went to the airport to say their goodbyes for Ryoko.
"Take care always, okay?" Akira said like a mother concerned for her daughter.
"Of course." Ryoko answered then Akira gave her a small hug, next in the line was Sojiro.
"Just send me some of your paintings in case you remembered us while studying." Sojiro reminded.
"Sure. Just don't forget to send me some Holiday Greeting Cards too." Ryoko answered, smiling to him. Next, Rui.
"Be careful." His simple words never fail to comfort her.
"Hai." Ryoko replied.
And then, on the back was Tsukushi. She approached Ryoko and she welcomed her with her hug. "Tsukushi-san, though we only knew each other yesterday, you've been a very good friend of mine. Please take care of the F4 for me and if they acted like spoiled brats again, just give me a call and they'll learn their lessons." Ryoko said smiling. Then she pulled herself from the hug.
"You are also a very good friend and sister too." Tsukushi said, sadness could be noticed on her face but she was forcing a smile to conceal it. "Thank you for your time."
"No, I should be the one saying that!" She corrected. "Always take care of yourself too and if you need some help, you can count on me."
"Really... thank you very much Ryoko-san." Tsukushi said gladly. "Anyways, where is your brother? I was expecting for him to be here." She asked.
"No, he couldn't be here. He hates saying goodbyes so he apologized last night. He did not also came with me to the airport when I first depart from Japan. He is just so childish." Ryoko explained.
"Ohh, I see. Anyways..." Tsukushi's tone lowered, hiding something from the others that only the two of them could hear it. "I remembered you said that you only met with Hanazawa Rui purposely just for once, can I know when that was?" She asked, curiousity was obvious on her eyes.
Ryoko chuckled. "Ahah, that! My last day in Japan, before I went off for Boston. We had a date, and you know what we did?" Ryoko asked, making the curiousity on Tsukushi's eyes became tension.
"Uhh, what?" She asked.
"We watched a concert for classic songs with those classical legends, ancient people, you know. We, on some aspects, have the same likes. But if people like Akira and Sojiro were with us, I'm sure they would only fell onto asleep." Ryoko said, smiling.
Both of them chuckled. But they were disturbed by that same old guy on the Oribe mansion Rui saw, whom he assumed as the butler. He approached Ryoko immediately.
"Mistress, there was a call from your grandfather." The old man said.
Ryoko was shocked. "What? What did he say?" She asked, thunderstruck.
"He said that you need to ride to the private plane you and your brother owned." He informed.
"But I can't. I have a deal with Junpei that we will not ride that plane if there is one of us who will not ride too. I'll be alright with those commercial flights since the other private planes are not available. It's grandfather's fault he let my bastard and idiot cousins with their classmates use those for a trip to Madagascar." She explained and cursed.
"You don't need to worry about that deal mistress, master Junpei is already on the plane." He said, with delight on his tone.
"What??" She was more thunderstruck.
And Ryoko finally said goodbye to Tsukushi, Rui, Akira and Sojiro.
"Arigatou guzaimasu." Ryoko said while bowing to them all.
Tsukushi smiled at her, "Hope you can be back in here sooner."
"I hope so, too. I've enjoyed your company although we only knew each other within a very short time." Ryoko said. Then she turned to the guys. Her arrogant stare lay to Akira, "I didn't be able to meet your Mom during my short stay in here, please tell her that I miss her."
"Sure, she never forgets you." Akira replied.
Then Ryoko looked at Sojiro, "Oi, get yourself a good girlfriend before I come back, okay?!"
"Uhh, you're really so mean. I have too many girlfriends; I can select from them and present her to you." Sojiro said arrogantly. Ryoko smiled at him because she knew him, he's a playboy... a rich and bastard playboy.
Ryoko came to Rui, "So, until next time then."
"Yeah, sure. I'll miss you again and take good care of yourself." Rui said in a fatherly-like manner.
"Okay." Ryoko replied to him.
The old man came to Ryoko, "We need to go now Mistress."
"I see." She nodded.
And Ryoko finally departed from Japan to Boston, Massachusetts to continue her college education which was stopped by her need of break from the pressure-filled limelight of the society.
In case you don't kow what these words mean:
"Okaeri nasai" - Welcome back
"Tadaima" - I'm home
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