I hope you liked last chapter! Sorry if you thought the Asami-Kasanoda thing happened kinda fast, babbitrulez is a crazed fan girl (don't you dare delete this, babbitrulez – babbitrulez: grrr…).
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I don't know what else to say because I stopped getting feedback last chapter. I don't know if you like it or if I should just stop. Should I?
Oh well. This chapter... is different. Yeeaaah. So go forth and conquer!
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We all turned to face who spoke.
"Kao-chan! Hika-san! What are you guys doing here?" I ran towards my new friends.
Ren smiled and laughed like a little girl. "Honey-chan!" She scampered to her buddy.
Michi and Mori nodded a silent greeting to each other. Tamaki stood protectively behind Haruhi, glaring at Jun, and Kyouya stood as an outcast in the far corner. Mason watched his every move, her face blank of all emotion. I couldn't be sure if she was over him or not…
"…What are you doing here?" I repeated.
Hikaru grimaced. "Kaoru had an idea."
I looked back at my sister, but she was too lost in Kasanoda's small brown eyes. She was being pretty discreet about it while they discussed something, sure, but I knew what she was doing. I'm not sure why, but it sort of hurt me inside.
"What-"
"Shhh." Kaoru put his fingers over my lips. What the heck was he doing? "I was thinking we could go swimming. It would be fun, right?"
I shook my head. "Nah. I don't swim." I hoped they didn't see through my bluff.
The twins gave me a confused look as they leaned against a counter. "You don't swim?" they asked in incredulous unison.
My sister poked her head in. "She can't swim, actually. Neither can I. So uhhh…" She waved a hand at them. "Shoo." Gee thanks, sis.
"No thanks," Hikaru started.
"We'd like to stay here if you don't mind," Kaoru finished.
"Whaaaaaatever," Asami said, rolling her eyes.
The twins shared what was probably the most mischievous look I'd ever seen on a dude's face.
"So… when do you wanna go swimming?" I asked, a little uneasy. Neither Asami nor I could swim and the twins were acting a little unnerving.
"Oh, maybe in a week or in a couple days or... something..." Kaoru muttered, slipping his arm around me.
"...Or now," Hikaru whispered. I probably wasn't supposed to hear him, but c'mon he was pretty loud for the best spies in the world (i.e. my sister and I) (AN - babbitrulez: i.e. disrobing...? i.e. getting nay-key? nude? in the buff? oh-natural? posing for a picture? ... sorry. back to the story now).
Asami and I gasped. It was the weekend, so we could all visit our parent's place in Hokkaido! Plus, it was still summer, right? First week of school still feels like the summer, right? Right?
She grabbed my hand (and finally paid some attention to me, surprise surprise). "We're going on-!" she started.
"-a field trip, yo!" I'd been waiting to say that for some odd reason.
Tamaki rubbed his chin and furrowed his eyebrows. "That sounds strangely familiar..."
I shrugged as Asami and I commented, "Must have been in the atmosphere."
Haruhi waved her hands in front of our faces. "Wait, what do you mean? A field trip? To where?"
I turned to Kyouya. It seemed like he should have said the location by now. Wouldn't he have, like, calculated the invitation chances or something?
His eyes closed for a second.
"Ootori-sama? Where are they planning on taking us?" Mason said his name politely. She was taking this well...
Unlike Kyouya. He cringed like someone had pinched him in a very awkward spot that I'd rather not mention... if you know what I mean.
"Velvet Sea Theme Park and Hotel, Hokkaido location," he answered gruffly as he stared across the room. Well… more like glared…
The twins snickered, muttering the word 'girlfriend'.
I narrowed my eyes at them.
Tamaki and Haruhi nodded, muttering, "That would be fun."
Kyouya continued, pushing up his glasses, "I'm not sure it would be smart to leave this weekend, because we have things to study for-"
Silence for a moment.
"You can tell he's making it up because he's not using big words," I said, and then walked over to him. My sister followed.
"We already passed our entrance exams, right?" Asami coaxed.
"And I bet even though you're such a hot guy, you didn't get to enjoy your summer." Buttering people up was a specialty that I never really dropped from being a kid.
Kaoru looked at me questionably.
I tried to send him the message that yes, I thought he was much hotter than Kyouya.
Mason furrowed her eyebrows at me. Yeah. She still liked him.
"If all else fails to get through, a lot of business guys come to talk to us because we're just awesome like that," I continued.
Asami finished, "...Aaand because they want mom and dad to use their services."
Still no response. "Kyouya-sempai?" I touched his arm.
"Fine, I'll go. But just to show you imbeciles how pointless anything of this nature is," he snapped sharply.
"Sounds like someone's on his question mark," Keiko giggled. We (everyone except Kyouya) laughed along.
"So!" I clapped my hands then unrolled a very large map and schedule. As I did this, Asami pulledout a red marker. Don't ask where we pulled it from. "I say we should drop our stuff off here, and then eat here, then hang out here…"
"Then we should ride these rides, snack over here…"
By the time we'd finished, the map was illegible and marked over several times with random hearts and initials (no, it doesn't matter whose. It's really none of your business! ...KH+YN – and yes, Asami snickered when she saw me secretively scribbling them in there).
Tamaki twitched. Kasanoda peeked at Asami.
"…Or, or, or…," Asami started, catching his drift.
"Seal," I quipped, smirking.
"We could make it an adventure," Asami said after sticking out her tongue at me.
Hmm. I did like adventuring...
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The next morning, we met bright at early at Tessaiga Jet service, where we always board, free of charge, and fly wherever. There's an easier way to get to Hokkaido (via underwater train system), but I find it absolutely terrifying. Most of them won't do anything if one of us doesn't want to. Most of the time.
Keiko's dad, Kohaku Isayama, owned the private jet line.
"Isayama-san!" I yelled. I was a morning person, so I was pretty hyper. Everyone else jumped at my shrill voice.
"Yoshi-san," he said, shaking my hand.
"Do you have room for fifteen? We're going to Hokkaido. ...Well, we're all going to Hokkaido." I looked at everyone.
Tamaki was holding a small stuffed bear while in his matching blue teddy bear-themed pajamas. If looks could kill, then I'd be dead ten-fold because of Kyouya's menacing glare. Mori and Michi looked as nonchalant as ever. In their arms, Honey and Ren lay sleeping. They looked adorable. My sister had fallen asleep against Keiko, Jun, and Mason, who twitched in their sleep. Haruhi looked as if someone had applied muscle relaxer on her whole face. The twins were snuggled next to each other on a bench (aww... so cute...). Kasanoda, strangely, wasn't sleeping.
"Wow. Big group today," Isayama-san was saying, "But yes, I can fly you guys out in twenty minutes."
"Yeah, thanks." I barely paid attention to him.
Kasanoda looked my way and smiled.
"Excuse me." I slipped away from Keiko's dad. "Kasanoda-san?"
"Yeah?" He was pretty fidgety.
"..." I honestly forgot what I was going to say to him. He was just standing there, suitcase slung over his back, lookin' pretty.
"Ami-chan said... she said there's an animal shelter with a whole bunch of injured animals near VelSea. Do you think I could maybe... visit it when we get there? If it's not too much trouble, of course." Gosh, this guy was strange. I looked at him. This guy's looks were polar opposite from his heart. Someone who wants to nurse animals back to health could never be a mob king like his dad wants him to be.
He smiled. "Yeah, I'll show you. No problem." Odd guy.
For the next fifteen minutes, I tried to count how many words I made Mori and Michi say. By the time the jet was ready, I was at a solid zero (aside from a couple chuckles).
I made Mori and Michi cover their sleeping buddies' ears before yelling "ALL ABOARD!" to avoid any morning hostility. I'd heard from his friends that Honey was a complete menace in the mornings if he was awoken before he wanted to be awake. I know from experience (Ren) that the smaller and more innocent the person, the more pissed off they are when they wake up.
Practically everyone stared me down as they stepped onto the sleek black jet, including my mopey non-morning-person sister. The interior of the jet was covered in green and black leather and felt-like material. Up front, there was a TV built into the wall. I sat in front of it and grabbed the remote. Kaoru led his brother to sit beside me, and he smiled as he laid his head on my shoulder. Everyone else collapsed wherever they could find a spot.
I didn't know how people could go back to sleep after waking up: it was absolutely impossible for me to do. I sighed and turned on the TV screen, flipping through the channels.
"Try Grower's sunflower seeds! In honey-roasted, salte-"
"-so go to Bullseye for all of your daily needs-"
"Khorizon phone service is tops! Just ask our custome-"
I settled on Thomas and Jeremy, a show I'd watched in my childhood about an Andean Mountain cat and a chinchilla. The simple plot line and violence always seemed to keep my attention.
"Thirty minutes," the pilot whispered to me. I smiled to myself and thought happy thoughts. Thirty minutes to paradise. Thirty minutes to paradise. Thirty. Minutes. … Pa. Ra. Dise.
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When we landed, I knew I was home. The strong lavender scent from Furano wafted towards us as we stepped off the jet.
"Tell Isayama-san that we all greatly appreciate his letting us use his service!" I yelled to the pilot. "And thank you for flying us!"
He nodded and tipped his awesome pilot's hat. "Anytime."
It was the perfect temperature in Hokkaido. So perfect… we might not even use the limo.
Hikaru rubbed his eyes. "So... where's our ride?"
Everyone else, aside from Asami, murmured agreements.
My sister and I shared a quick look and nodded. "Mopeds, anyone?" we asked.
"What's a... moped?" Tamaki really was clueless. Wow. Maybe he'd just been too lost in his club or something, but he must know there's an outside world. We could show him. If he wanted to see what we had to offer.
"Well, Tamaki-sempai, a moped is-," I started.
"-a motorized bicycle-," Asami continued.
"-that has pedals in addition to-," I explained.
"-a low-powered gasoline engine-," Asami added.
"-designed for low-speed operation," we finished together. It had been a while since I'd taken turns speaking with my sister. I'd been starting to miss it. I'd been starting to miss her.
"AH-HA HA HA HA HA HA!" A piercing voice cackled. The strange sound of a powerful motor drudged from somewhere beneath the ground. The floor began to spin then ascend, slowly spiraling out of the ground. There was a girl with brown hair, sitting in a chair, with a monkey eating a banana beside her.
"MONKEY!" Keiko ran full speed and jumped, landing on the platform. I think she sent the girl into shock. Keiko took no notice, grabbing the monkey and hugging it tightly.
My sister and I tilted our heads to opposite sides. "Who the hell are you?"
Kyouya sighed deeply. "Renge, what are you doing here?"
Mason glared at the new girl. "Renge, what are you doing here?" she mocked, tossing her hair.
Renge regained her composure. "What? A girl can't take a short weekend-long vacation every once in a while?
She did some super girly hand movements then jumped down off the raised area. Keiko was still up there, squeezing the life out of the poor monkey. If you can't tell by now, Keiko loves monkeys (A/N: why isn't it monkies? That's one of those weird words, I guess).
Ren hid behind Honey. "She's scary! I'm so... startled!" (A/N: That's an inside joke to anyone who watched Southpark episodes: Pandemic 1 and Pandemic 2)
The girl cackled again. "So you guys have found perfect matches to your identities!"
"What?" Hikaru said.
Kaoru asked, "Matches?"
"Everyone except for my dear Kyouya, of course!" Renge waved at the dark-haired teen.
Mason snorted.
She twirled around, eventually pointing at everyone. "Honey has an innocent little Lolita! Mori has a tall, cool, silent girl! Kaoru gets a mischievous, yet sensitive twin, the younger of the two. Ooooh, it's so cute!" She pointed at me. I looked half-lidded at Kaoru, who blushed and shrugged. Honey and Ren were running around going "Blehh!" and wiping their tongues.
Renge continued. "Hikaru is paired with the more tomboyish, still devilish twin that was never originally looking for a relationship."
"What? No!" Hikaru, Asami, and Kasanoda said. I giggled.
"Tamaki gets the inviting, spunky girl with crazy colored hair!"
Keiko paused in her monkey-hugging and waved at Tamaki. "Hey."
"And Haruhi, sweet Haruhi, her match is the equally oblivious Jun!"
Tamaki blew off steam as his face quickly turned red like it had filled up with red Kool-aid (yeah, I get that from Asami and I's Louisiana side, sorry). "I WILL NOT HAVE MY DAUGHTER PAIRED WITH THIS PERVERT! I'D RATHER THE TWINS TAKE HER TO THEIR HOUSE AND-" He went on and on, but everyone ignored him. Haruhi peered at Jun, who waved. She blushed. I don't think it registered with Jun, the fact that she's blushed, or the fact that she might... that she might like him. Oh well... Only time could tell how this could turn out. Aaand… then he started breathing fire. "LOOK AT ME! I'M BREATHING FIRE! I'M BREATHING FIRRRRE! YOU'VE TURNED THE HOST CLUB KING INTO A DRAGON! I AM THE DRAGON KIIING!"
We all looked at each other for a minute as Tamaki stopped ranting and began to only breathe heavily. "So..." I started. "I guess we'll just take a limo?"
"Yeah," they all agreed.
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Originally, I wasn't going to put the part after 'thirty minutes to paradise', but then I decided the chapter should be longer.
ANYWAY. Did you like the chapter? I hope you did. Please review. I'm not sure if I should discontinue or not... TO BE CONTINUED? ...Just kidding. I'm still going.
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