Chapter six of You and I. Thanks for the reviews. Hope you like this chapter! Sorry, if there were many mistakes in grammar. Okay then, enjoy the story and don't forget to leave some reviews!
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"Wake up, Polkadots! I have been waiting for you for a half hour" Natsume said. Mikan hasn't wake up.
"Great! So you won't wake up, huh?! I'll just burn you until you're awake" he said to her but it mostly like that he is speaking to himself. Natsume's fire is around Mikan, she starts to sweat.
"It's hot..." she murmured.
"It's HOT!!!!" she exclaimed and awoke right away
"Have you awaken, Polkadots?" Natsume asked with an annoying voice
"How can you burn me, Natsume?!" she asked him
"I just want to wake you up. It will be cruel if I leave you alone in a place like this" he said
"But, you can use another way to wake me up!" she still angry with him
"I have shouted to you for countless time, but you didn't wake up. You kept sleeping. And I guess I have no choice" he explained
"Alright. I forgive you" she said
"Who wants you to forgive me? I'm sorry, I never asked you to forgive me" Natsume said
"Oh yeah, by the way, where are we?" Mikan asked
"Inside the book" Natsume said
"How could you know we're insde the book?" Mikan asked him again
"Your best friend did it, why don't you ask her? Oh yeah, I guess she isn't here" Natsume said
"How can we get out of this book?" Mikan asked again with her silly face
"Don't know. I just want to walk. Who knows, we might get to know how to get out of this book" Natsume said and he walked into the forest.
'What is this book about? I don't remember about this forest at all' he thought. 'Is this really my book?'
"Natsume, we're in your book. You're supposed to know the way to get out" she said and broke his thought
"I know it, just follow me" he lied. 'Damn it! How I supposed to know how to get out of this place? I have never read this book... Maybe, this book is Ruka's... No way! I haven't read it he let me borrow it two weeks ago, but I've got no time to read it' he thought
"Are you sure you know the way? I think you're not sure..." she didn't really believe in him
"Just follow me..." he said again.
"Alright.." she followed his steps. "There's a village.."
"We might find a clue if we asked the villagers about this world" Natsume told her
'I guess I'm true that you didn't know this place at all...' she thought and laughed
"Why are you laughing, Polkadots?!" he asked sternly
"Nothing.." she tried to stop laughing. The village is still far away, maybe they will reach it if they keep on walking for kilometres.
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"Hey, Ruka do you know about this place?" Hotaru asked
"I'm sure that I knew this place... but I forgot. Can you give me time to remember it?" he asked
"Sure. It will be easier if you know about this place" she said. The two of them were sitting under an apple tree.
'Pluk'
An apple fell from the tree and hit Ruka's head
"Aww.." Ruka said and pick the apple. And staring at it for a while
"Are you okay? What's with the apple?" she asked
"Hey, I remember this story, this is the last story in the book" he said
"How many stories are there in the book?" she asked
"Five stories. We're in the last story"
"We're a character from this story now. From your clothes, I'm sure that you're the poor guy in the story. So what's the story about?"
"Leaves of hope" he answered. "Leaves that could grant any wishes"
"The main character?"
"A noble girl and a farmer" he answered
"So, I'm the noble girl" she said.
"You must go to the noble man's house, you're his daughter-in the story. And you must tell him that you have met a farmer, and you like him-" Ruka said and suddenly stop talking. "Oh my, we're going to marry and have ten daughters and sons in the end of the story!" he said with a loud voice
"What!? That couldn't be happen...We couldn't have any children..." she said, uncertain of what she had heard
"I don't know about it. But let's finish the first act, first. Think about the children later" he said and regained the control of himself
"I agreed. Oh yeah, Ruka-kun, once you talk with someone in the story, you won't be able to control yourself, so you only can talk to yourself without voice. That's all I want you to know this time.." then Hotaru waved her hand at him
"Hotaru.." he called her
"What is it?" Hotaru turned at him
"Ahh.. Nothing" he said to her and then she ran to a house that Ruka told her to go to.
'What is it? I'm happy that I could be with her. I wish I could stay with her longer. Eh? What did I wish?' he thought. 'I didn't even remember Mikan, though I love her. Is this mean I have fallen for Hotaru?'
Ruka didn't even realize that someone's watching him, he was really deep in his own thought.
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"Father, I'm back" Hotaru said cheerfully
"Oh my dear daughter... welcome back" her father-in the story- said. His hair was just like Hotaru's, his skin was pale, and he had beard on his face. His smile was warming. It made Hotaru like him in the first time they met
"Why are you waiting for me in front of the gate?" she asked
"I want to meet you, I have something for you, my little princess" her father said
"What is it? What is it, father?" she asked impatiently. 'The wrapper is working well. I didn't even need to act. My body has worked on its own' she thought
"Let's come inside first. It's cold outside" he said
"Okay" she said.
Her father sat on his chair. The chair was made of velvet, and it had a suitable color to match the room... red... a perfect chair for a place like this house. Hotaru herself sat on a carpet near her father's chair.
Her father took something behind his chair.
"This is for you, princess" he said. He looked really old and Hotaru realized that maybe his father was really old
"Thank you, I love you father" she said and stand up to give a kiss on her father forehead
"I love you too" her father said. And give the present to Hotaru, it was beautifully wrapped.
"Can I open it?" she asked
"Not here. Go to your room and open it. Think of something you want when you open it" he told her. "It'll grant you any wish"
"Alright, see you, father. I'll be back after I open it"
"..." he nodded
Hotaru went to her own room. She got something from a man that she didn't really know, but she called him father.
'I really want to know what is inside this beautiful gift. But what should I wish for it...?' she thought
"I wish for a beautiful dress" she said. It's not her who want a dress. It's the noble girl who wanted it.
'Oh yeah, I'm just following the story, no need for thinking that hard' she thought. And then she began to open the gift.
'What a beautiful dress!' she thought
"Wow, beautiful!" Hotaru said. And once again it's not her who want to said something like that. And she ran to meet her father who was still sitting on the same chair.
"What did you wish, daughter?" he asked
"A beautiful dress. Look I got this!" she said
"Ah beautiful" her father agreed
"Yes, father. Thanks for this dress" she thanked him
"You've already said thanks to me... before you opened the gift"
"Oh yeah, I forgot..." she said. "But, isn't it alright to said thanks many times as you could?"
"It's alright..." he answered and laughed
"Oh father, don't laugh like that. You like to make fun of me, your only and precious daughter" she said
"Okay, okay I'll stop laughing.." he said, but still laughing, and finally stop."Why don't you wear the dress?" he asked her
"No, I'll keep it until I must wear it"
"Alright"
"Father, I want to tell you something." she said
'What is she going to tell her father?' Hotaru thought
"What is it?"
"I met a handsome man under an apple tree"
'So this is the part that Ruka mentioned' Hotaru thought again
"Do you like him?" he asked
"Very much.." she answered
"What is he? A merchant?" he asked
"No, a farmer" she honestly answered
"A farmer?" he asked
"Yes, a farmer"
"Can you let me meet him, princess?" he asked
"Sure, I'll tell him that you want to meet him"
"I'll be waiting for him" he answered
"Don't worry, I will tell him as soon as possible. An I think that he would like to meet you. He is really kind" she said. And went back to her room, and try her newest dress. She looked beautiful. The noble girl in the story want to show the dress to the farmer.
"I'll wear it for you" she said.
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"Natsume, how long should we walk? I'm tired. Don't you feel tired?" Mikan asked
"Not at all. Only Polkadots will feel tired" he said
"Damn you, Natsume! Anyway, I think we only walk and end up in the same place. Why don't we leave a sign? So we could know if we were really walk in circle" she suggested
"A really good idea for Polkadots to think of" Natsume said and picked up a rock on the road.
"What's that rock for, Natsume?" she asked
"Just see.." he said. And write something on a tree with that rock
"Oh, I see, you make a sign with it"
"Yeah, let's walk again. No complains" he said
"Alright"
They walked again.
"I think this is the place where we made a sign..." Mikan said. Natsume looked for the tree that has a sign that he has made before.
He found it.
"We're really walking in a circle. We must find a place to rest, because we musn't be exhausted" he said
"Yeah, I agreed" she said and looked around her. "Natsume, there's a cottage"
"Let's go there. Maybe we can ask the owner to let us stay for a night" he said
Mikan nodded and they went there.
"It's empty" she told him
"It's better, we don't need to ask anyone's permissions then"
"Someone has just moved from here, I guess. Because it is still clean"
"That's quite reasonable. I guess so" he said. "Let's get some rest"
"I'm hungry..."
"This is for you..." he said and gave her a bar of chocolate
"Aren't you hungry, Natsume?"
"No, I'm not" he said. That's true, he had forgotten about his own stomach. Because he really wanted to get out of the book, the other reason was he had eaten two bars of chocolate on the way to the cottage.
"Thanks, Natsume..." she thanked him
"No, problem. I will rest over there, see me if you need me" he said as he pointed his finger to a corner and left her by herself
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"Hey, what are you doing? You haven't moved a bit since she left" suddenly a girl appeared and surprised him
"Whoaa...!!" he shouted. Ruka was shocked by her. She suddenly appeared behind him. She just like Sadako Yamamura
"Hey, why are you shouting?" she asked
"Oh nothing..." he said
'I don't want to say 'nothing'...' he thought. 'Oh yeah, I'm controlled by the farmer's boy in this story'
"So, why are you keep staring at the nobleman's house? " she asked. "And the girl who was with you hours ago, she is the nobleman's daughter, right?"
"Yeah, you right. She's his daughter. I'm waiting for her" he answered
'My God, this boy is really fallen for the noble's daughter' Ruka thought
"You like her?" she asked
"Kinda" he said
'Quite true, I like her, too' Ruka thought. 'Not the noble girl, but Hotaru'
"I see. I'll help you to win her heart"
"What are you going to do?" he asked curiously
"I'm a fairy actually. It's quite an easy job" she said
"Thank you,... what should I call you?" he asked
'The fairy will help me until the end of the story. Thank God' Ruka thought.
"Ilya, call me Ilya..." she told him
"Thank you, Ilya-san" he said. "And can I ask you something?"
'He's going to make her mad...' Ruka thought
"Okay what is it?" she asked, she looked seriously at him
"Ummm... usually, a fairy has a long life, how old are you? A century?" he asked curiously
'Look at her, she is mad now, my God... he is such a fool. How can he asked that kind of question to a girl' Ruka thought
"How dare you asking me that question!!! I'm not that old!" she said. "No answer!"
"Sorry... well then, let's start winning her heart!" the farmer's boy said
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TBC
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Sorry for the late update, the internet connection wasn't working for weeks, so I can't make progress in the story.
And Sorry for grammatical mistakes in this chapter
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