I just wanna take the time to thank all of you lovely people out there for reading this story, even though I'm just getting started. I'm really motivated to write after the way this chapter ended!
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All day, the girls, except for Ema and Kana, had been humming various tunes since Nagisa had left earlier in the morning. They couldn't wait for the concert and had to exert some of that extra energy somehow. So, singing was the outlet they had. At the moment, Rin was sweeping the floor and just so happened to pass by Tsubaki and Azusa as she sang one of the American-type songs from her Ipod.
"Since you been gone, I can breath for the first time. I'm so movin' on, yeah, yeah. Thanks to you..."
"What on earth are you singing?" Tsubaki said as she tried to take off Rin's headphones as she dodged every single attempt.
"A Kelly Clarkson song." she said as she removed them herself, causing her to put the broom down.
"I could of done it you know." Tsubaki pouted.
"And risk you breaking them? Yeah, I don't think so buddy. And besides, don't you have someone to bother who's not me?"
"Oh, you're right! I wonder where Ukyo is?"
Tsubaki took Azusa by the hand, who probably wanted to kill Rin for suggesting the plan to his brother, and went off to find his older brother. Rin put her headphones back on, picked up the broom , and continued sweeping once more. Just then, Umi came around the corner holding a pair of blue jeans in one hand and a pair of space-looking jeggins in the other hand. She tapped Rin's leg with her foot. Rin turned around, putting the broom down and taking her headphones off in the process.
"Why are you feeling me up with your leg?"
"Because it's my dream to feel somebody up with my leg."
"That's a pretty disturbing dream. Maybe you should go see Masaomi for that kind of thing, don't you think?"
"Shut up and stop being stupid! Which one should I wear? And mind you, he's a doctor not a psychologist, you dummy!"
"Why don't you just ask Louis-nii?"
"Because, he went with Nagisa to help her get ready."
"WHAT!" The girls looked up to see Futo in a fit of rage.
"He went to go-" Umi started
"Yeah, yeah, I heard you! Wear the jeans, you'll look like a freak if you wear the space pants."
"They're not space pants, you fool! They're jeggins!"
"Either way, you'll look like an idiot. So, you can wear whatever you want as far as I'm concerned."
Umi was so upset that, without thinking, she picked up the broom that Rin had put down and threw it over at Futo. It ended up hitting the wall next to him, but you could see that he was visibly pissed and scared.
"What the hell is wrong with you?! Are you mad?!" he hollered.
"No, but you're an idiot! I don't care what your fanbase says, Futo. You're a heartless monster who enjoys looking down on people, you sadist!" Umi said as she pointed at him.
Subaru walked around the corner at that point and hit his head on the brushes of the broom. He saw that Umi was arguing with Futo and went to put an end to it. "Come on, we have to get ready to go. " he said as he went over to Umi. "Give me two minutes." Umi went up to her room via the elevators and ended up wearing a purple skort to match with her blue v-neck shirt. She came back downstairs with a jacket and went over to Subaru.
"Are you two going to meet us there?" she asked Rin, not even paying any mind to Futo.
"Yeah. Go on without us."
"Fine. Come one Subaru, I don't want to be late and miss anything. Besides, Ema made dumplings!"
With that, the two older teens walked out the door and started for the park. Futo left soon after that, too, saying something about wanting to see how this thing would turn out. Rin was left alone in the house, or so she thought.
"You're still here?" she jumped at the voice and recognized it to be Hikaru's.
"Yeah. I wanted to change into something else before I left. I didn't know you were here. Don't you live on your own or something?" Rin said as she passed by Hikaru, who was at the bottom of the steps. She went up the stairs and reached the top, only to go over to the broom and try and pull it out of the wall.
"Yeah, but I was hungry and this the best place to get free food!" Hikaru said as watched on from where he was, smiling at his little sister's ditch efforts to remove the poor broom from it's current position.
"You know, as much as you're enjoying this, I could use the help. So get up here and start helping me now please." Rin said with a little attitude as she continued to pull on the broom.
Hikaru came up the steps and went behind her. He positioned himself so that he wouldn't end up hurting her in case the broom went fly in their general direction. "Ready? One, two, three, PULL!" The two pulled as hard as they could and just when it seemed like luck wasn't on their side, the broom came out from it's position and flew over the railing. Rin slid down to the floor in pretzel style and thanked the lord, as Hikaru huffed and puffed. She then got up and went to her room so that she could change into something new. She ended up wearing a blue Hawaiian halter dress with white hibiscus flowers on it. She wore matching white flats and tied up her hair into a bun and placed a white flower hair-tie to keep it in place. She also had a white bag with her. When she came out of the room, Hikaru was standing there with a suspicious look on his face.
'Okay...Hikaru acting creepy. Nothing new, but I still want to know what's on his mind.' Rin smiled at him and passed by him, walking down the stairs and out the door, with Hikaru following her, of course. About halfway down the road, Hikaru started asking his questions.
"Why do high-school girls wear skirts all the time?"
"Because it's part of the uniform."
"Why do they wear all that make-up, then?"
"To impress boys that they like. And not all of them do that, just a handful. The ones that don't are usually down to Earth and only wear it sometimes."
"What's it like to have a high-school crush as a girl?"
"I don't know. I've never had one."
"So what if you were swimming and-"
"Hikaru! Enough with the questions! You're not at work right now. If you hadn't noticed we're going to a concert and you're supposed to have taken off of work because of it. So, why don't you try talking about something that's not work related, okay?" Rin said in one breath.
"Okay! So, what were you doing in Kaname's room yesterday?"
"Giving him his laundry? Why?" Rin said as she eyed him, waiting for the answer.
"Because you didn't come out until, like, three hours later."
"Yeah, that's because I took a nap."
"It doesn't take three hours to take a nap, Rin."
"Are you implying what I think you're implying?! Because if that's the kind of person you think I am, you are wrong as rice! And how did you even know that I was Kaname's room to begin with?!"
At that moment, Rin didn't see the Hikaru had stopped infront of her, so when she bumped into him, she didn't notice that he had bent down to kiss her. Rin was at a total loss for words. To her, it felt like the world had stopped and wasn't going to catch back up to pace until it wanted to. When they finally broke apart, Rin stood there, completely shocked and stunned that Hikaru had kissed her.
"I'm not going to loose to him of all people. Not without a fight anyway." Hikaru said as he held her hand and pulled her along.
Rin walked along with him, not really paying attention since she vaguely remembers Kaname saying the same thing to her, something about not loosing to Hikaru or something like that. When they arrived at the park, they were searching for the others. Masaomi said something about sitting on a blue blanket with green butterflies on it, so that's what they were searching for.
"Rin-chan!"
"!" Wataru flung towards Rin and wrapped his arms around her, causing a smile to go onto Hikaru's face.
"Come on, Rin-chan! Over here, over here!"
Wataru pulled on Rin's arm like they were playing tug-o-war. 'Damn, this kid is strong! What the heck is Ukyo feeding him?!' Rin thought. When they finally got over to the blanket, Rin sat down next to Ema and laid her head on her shoulder.
"What's the matter Rin?" Ema said in her nice tone.
"I'm just not used to having music in my ears or my headphones on my head." Rin said as she looked at Ema's outfit. She had worn a white cardigen sweater with tan colored tights underneath and some nice brown boots. Rin looked over at Kaname and noticed that he was wearing a suit instead of his usual perverted attire. He happened to look her way and winked at her, causing Rin to blush very faintly and look away. She looked over at the twins, who were showing Umi what exactly voice acting is.
"Like I said, you're just adjusting your voices so that you can fit the character that you're voicing."
"No we're not! We're getting into character!" Tsubaki squeaked.
"Yeah, okay. Whatever, baka-san." Umi said as she went back to her book. She took of sip of the soda she bought and looked down at her skort. She then moved over to where Subaru was sitting, noticing that he was by himself. "Why are you sitting alone?" she asked.
"N-No reason! I just wanted to sit here." he said frantically.
"Well, do you mind if I sit with you?" she asked as she sat down without permission.
"S-Sure! I mean, I don't really mind or care..." he said as he watched her sit down and continue to read her book. 'She looks really cute...' he thought as she moved a piece of her hair back.
"Why is a piece of your hair dyed green?" Subaru suddenly noticed
"Because it shows my individuality as a person. It's my only outlet..." Umi said as she trailed off.
'That's pretty weird...I'll ask her about it later.' Subaru thought
"I sense that that orange-headed stubborn person is upon us." Umi said as she closed her book.
"Hello to you, too."
Umi turned around to Natsume standing over her, his shadow cloaking her in darkness. He sat down on the other side of her and looked at the book she was reading. "Harry Potter? What's that?" Umi fell back on the grass and looked at Natsume like he had just been in a hit-n-run accident. "Yo don't know who Harry Potter is?! He's the greatest wizard of all time!" Umi said as she began explaining to Natsume, and unintentionally, Subaru, the 411 on Harry Potter. Natsume was too busy looking at Umi's suggestive position to listen carefully. Meanwhile, Kana was asleep on Wataru's tummy because it was the softest thing there at the moment. Wataru, apparently didn't mind, not as much as Masaomi did anyway. He was constantly looking back at them just to make sure Wataru didn't do anything sneaky. But his eyes, and everyone else's were soon on Louis as he came back to the blanket.
"Louis, what happened to your hair?" Ukyo questioned. "I mean, it looks great, but why?" Ukyo's glasses sipping off his face.
"Looks great, don't you think? Nagisa did it yesterday before she had her accident! But there's one thing I can't understand." he said as he looked off to the side.
"What's that, Louis-nii?" Ema said as she patted Rin's head.
"A bunch of people keep nodding at me and I don't know why." he explained. When Umi heard, she stopped her explanation and started laughing a bit.
"Louis-nii, that means that you've been accepted as a hoodlom and if you ever go out on the streets, people aren't going o mess with you because they'll remember your face and go, "Yeah, he's okay in our book.", okay?"
"Oh...okay."
"And don't forget to nod back." Rin added
"Okay"
Louis sat down next to Ema and picked up a sleeping Juli who was resting on the blanket and started petting him. "When does this thing start?! We've been here for, like, and hour." Futo whined as he drank a juice pouch. "Actually, some lady is on stage right now. Look!" Yusuke said, gaining everyone's attention. Kana instantly woke up and sat up.
"Welcome to the grand opening of Nine Tails Park! We have a special treat for you today! All the way from America, Iris has come to sing a couple of songs for us today!" the lady announced, trying to talk over the screams of the crowd.
"Who's Iris?" Iori asked.
"Nagisa's stage name." Kana answered in her sleep, which creeped everyone out just a little
"Um, I thought that Nagisa wasn't signed as a singer?" Futo said as he watched the crowd at the stage go wild with excitement.
"She's not, but we never said she wasn't a hit. Back in America, she took the musical world by storm, she was also a hit internationally. So, it's not uncommon for her to have a fan base here." Umi explained. The other brothers listened in amazement at the youngest sister.
"And now, introducing, Iris!"
Nagisa had come on stage wearing a frilly, blue dress with matching boots and a white vest. Some dancers were behind her wearing similar outfits and were in ready position. As soon as the music started playing, Nagisa and the dancers started dancing to a particular:
Dance With Me Tonight - Sung By Nagisa (Iris); Originaly Sung By Olly Murs
Ladies and Gentlemen we've got a special treat for tonight
I'm gonna call my friend Olly up here to sing to you ladies
Iris!
Let's go girl
My name is Iris nice to meet you can I tell you baby
Look around there's a whole lot of pretty ladies
But none like you, you shine so bright, yeah
I was wondering if you and me could spend a minute
On the floor up and close getting lost in it
I won't give up without a fight
I just wanna, oh baby
I just want you to dance with me tonight
So come on, oh baby
I just want you to dance with me tonight
We're getting sweaty, hot and heavy in the crowd now
Loosen up and let you hands go down, down
Go with it girl, yeah just close your eyes, yeah
I feel the music moving through your body
Looking at you I can tell you want me
Don't stop keep going till the morning light, yeah
When I saw you there, sitting all alone in the dark acting like you didn't have a care
I knew right then, that you'd be mine, and we'd be dancing the whole damn night right
Oh baby, I just want you to dance with me tonight
So come on, oh baby
I just want you to dance with me tonight
Break it down now,
(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Shake it like that,
(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Now bring it all back
To dance with me tonight
One more time, one more time, come on now
(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Do your thing,
(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Everybody sing
(I just want you to dance with me tonight)
I just wanna, oh baby
I just want you to dance with me tonight
Everybody everybody come on now
Girl, just close your eyes
We can dance all through the night,
I just want you to dance with me tonight
And everybody sing
Girl just close your eyes, we can dance all through the night
I just want you to dance with me tonight
So come on girl just close your eyes
We can dance all through the night
I just want you to dance with me tonight
At the end of the song, everyone was clapping and some people were even crying. The brothers were astounded and taken back by the performance. Even Futo was staring in awe at the stage. "Come on. Let's go back stage and congratulate her." Louis suggested. Everyone nodded and followed suit. When they reached the backstage, Nagisa had already changed out of her stage closed and into a nice, light-green long-sleeve shirt and a light-blue skirt that reached to her knees. She wore a pair of old sneakers with it and her hair was in a ponytail. She was fooling around with one of the balloons and was sucking in some of the air.
"Nagisa-chan, that was amazing!" Ema said as she went over to hug Nagisa.
"Ya think so?!" she said in a squeaky voice. The others looked at her and were about to freak out when she explained. "I'm just sucking on the helium in the balloon. Pretty neat, right?" she said as she started imitating Juli.
After that was sorted out the siblings separated and went to go try the different activities at the park. "I wanna go roller skating." Umi said.
"But you're wearing a skirt." Natsume said as he looked down at her attire.
"No I'm not. It's a skort. There are pants underneath it, so it's okay." Umi said as she walked up to the skating tent. Subaru and Natsume followed her as she rented some skates. Once they got their skates, they started going down the trail. Umi looked up at the trees and started spinning.
"That's p-pretty cool. When'd you learn to do that?" Subaru asked as he rolled up next to her.
"I used to do ice skating as a sport."
"That's not a sport." Subaru said bluntly just like when they were at the other park.
"Omg, Subaru, yes it is. Like Natsume said, just because it doesn't have a ball, doesn't mean it's not a sport." Umi said as she took his hand and Natsume's and started spinning them around in a circle. 'This feels nice..but I'm in love with Ema!' Subaru thought as he spun around. 'Maybe she's as bad as I thought...' Natsume thought as he spun around with the people whom he referred to as his siblings
Nagisa's Back-story
Nagisa had moved away from the stage and started to explore the park a little bit more.
"Oi, baka-Nagisa." Nagisa knew that voice like the back of her hand. She turned around and saw Futo standing there, holding a bunch of flowers.
"Oh, who are those for?"
"You, you moron!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever?" Nagisa said as she took the flowers. "So, what can I do you for on this glorious day of days?"
"Walk with me." Futo said bluntly
Nagisa shrugged her shoulders and continued walking with Futo by her side. "So, what do you know about Ema?" Futo said in a demanding way. 'Oh, so this is about Ema...' Nagisa thought as she slumped.
"Well, I know that she's my sister and that she's not interested in sleazy, mean-spirited guys like you, Futo-kun." Nagisa said as she looked over at Futo with a serious look.
"What are you talking about? If you're implying that-"
"Yes, I'm implying that you like Ema. And you're not going to get anywhere if you keep acting like some animal straight out of hell!"
"I think I'm sensing jealousy in your voice, baka-Nagisa." Futo said, causing chills to go down Nagisa's back.
"You know what, Futo? You can do whatever the hell you want! I was actually going to try and help you win over Ema, but if all you're going to do is be an ass to me out of nowhere, than fine! You wanna be alone for the rest of your life, fine! Starting today, you're alone!" Nagisa said as she dropped the flowers and crushed them with her foot. Futo stood there with a look of anger on his face, but on the inside, he was feeling something he'd never felt before, and he knew exactly what it was: guilt. He'd bent down to the flowers and picked one of the petals up and let the wind carry it off.
Nagisa on the other hand was seething with rage, angry, and most of all, hurt. She was only trying to help. 'I guess some people are just to far along to receive help.' Nagisa thought as the tears welled up in her eyes. As she kept walking, she suddenly bumped into someone. She fell to the ground, but before she could fall flat on her face, a hand bought her up by her waist. She was turned around and bought face to face with one of her other brothers: Asahina Iori.
So, what'd ya think? Can't wait till next week, and sorry for taking so long. This chapter required a lot of thinking and I wanted it to go in the right direction so that you guys could enjoy just as much as I did writing it. Later!