Sakura laughed noticing that she couldn't remember almost anything from when they played against St. Rudolph. The most she remembered was mostly making fun of Fuji's younger brother, Yuuta, and then yelling at him for using the twisty thingy as she called it. Mizuiro could only sigh and shake her head as she gave up reminding Sakura it was called a twist shot.
"We need to choose something to do for the festival" Fukui, the male class representative, declared snapping Sakura out of her thoughts
"Does anybody have any ideas?" Hikoto, the female class representative, asked
Mizuiro and Sakura shared a look, it was too obvious how they liked each other. They often saw their class representatives glance at each other before looking away and blushing.
"How much longer you think?" Sakura whispered
"Soon" Mizuiro replied with a giggle "Looks like one of them will confess soon"
"A game stand!"
"No! A make up stand!"
"How about a clothes stand?"
Mizuiro thought for a second before voicing out her idea "What about a dango stand? It's popular and not too difficult to make if you know how."
"Ah! That's a great idea!" Hikoto grinned
"I agree!"
"We should do that!"
"Tsukioka-sama is so smart!"
Agreements and compliments continued to sound making Mizuiro blush a bit. She wasn't too used to getting compliments like the ones being voiced nor was she used to getting a lot of attention. Sakura giggled realizing that this time Mizuiro wasn't ignoring the compliments she was getting for once and that she was getting a bit embarrassed.
"Now, now everyone. You're embarrassing Mizuiro-chan" Fuji chuckled as he got the class to quiet down a bit
"So we'll have a dango stand" Fukui smiled "Now let's discuss who will do what and costs."
On their way to practice they discussed what their favorite dango was and what dango they wanted to make for the festival. After they changed for practice Tezuka had called everyone for a meeting. Mizuiro and Sakura frowned noticing that Tezuka was more serious than usual and it was starting to worry them. Tezuka's next words stunned them all though.
"You're… You're really leaving for Germany Kunimitsu?" Mizuiro asked breaking the silence as Tezuka nodded in reply
"I'm going to miss you Kuni-chan!" Sakura cried as she tackled him with a hug. Tezuka didn't dodge like he normally did though. He simply stood there and allowed Sakura to cling to him near tears. Everybody could tell he was serious from this.
"I'm leaving after the Spring Festival" Tezuka said
Tezuka turned to Ryoma as Sakura let go of him but clung to his jacket like a child as she looked down sadly. She nearly flinched at the memory that lead to his reason to leave for Germany. It was something she rather not remember, she never saw so much anger or pain before that day.
With a quick challenge from Tezuka, Ryoma was left defeated. Ryoma was shocked. With a quick message, Tezuka left him on the court and allowed practice to be cancelled.
"Onee-chan…" Sakura said quietly
"I know" Mizuiro replied as she held Sakura's hand softly "I feel the same"
Mizuiro was laughing at Sakura as they eyed the kimonos they were being forced to wear. It was a few hours before and the other girls wanted to make sure the kimonos fitted as the boys were setting up the stand. Although Mizuiro didn't want to wear a kimono either, Sakura's face was just too priceless to her. It was a mixture of horror, disbelief, depression and wanting to just jump out of the nearest window to get away.
"Why?" Sakura cried out getting ready to just run away, but the other girls were blocking any exit Sakura could take
"The class chose Sakura-san and Mizuiro-san to help sell dango at the stand" Hikoto smiled as she showed them the results
"What?" this time Mizuiro cried out
"I'm not wearing it!" Sakura pouted as she turned away. Mizuiro grimaced at the kimonos, both were pink with cherry blossoms on them.
"Kura-chan, just face it. We can't get away. We'll have to wear it" Mizuiro frowned with a sigh
The other girls were excited as they helped Sakura and Mizuiro put on their kimonos.
"Oh Sakura-san and Mizuiro-san look so beautiful!"
Sakura was still pouting as the girls went on how Sakura looked cute and that the kimono suited her since Sakura meant cherry blossoms.
"Did you guys hear? Tsukioka and Hikari from 3-6 are wearing kimonos!"
"They look so cute!"
"Please buy some dango!" Mizuiro smiled as hearts formed in the boy's eyes. Mizuiro laughed a bit nervously, Fuji could be a bit protective sometimes and knew when she hated attention. Taking advantage of his absence she continued to use her popularity to lure in customers.
"Do you really think this looks good on me?" Sakura twirled a bit "I normally don't wear these kinds of stuff"
"Definitely looks cute on you Hikari-san!"
"Really?" Sakura giggle "You think so?"
"Yeah!"
"Ah! Would you like to buy some dango? I made them with Mizu-chan earlier!" Sakura smiled. Inside though, she was crying from still having to wear the kimono.
"I think our class will have no problem with getting first place for earning the most money" Hikoto smiled at Fukui
"A-ah" he replied
"Is something wrong?" Hikoto asked a bit worriedly. Fukui mumbled something too fast for her to hear making her a bit confused "Could you repeat that?"
"I really like you Sayana-san" Fukui said after a deep breath as he tried to keep from stuttering
"U-uhh" Hikoto sounded in shock as she started to blush
"I-I understand if you don't feel the time" Fukui said sadly looking away
"I-I really like you too" Hikoto smiled as she turned away still blushing
"W-will you be my girlfriend?" Fukui was blushing as well now
"A-ah" Hikoto stuttered blushing even more
"Woo!" Sakura cheered "Took you two long enough!" she then laughed as Mizuiro whacked her for being rude
"Go have fun" Mizuiro smiled "We'll be fine here" Sakura nodded in response as she waved bye to the newly formed couple
"Take a break! You planned so much already anyway!" Sakura smiled
"Syu-kun, lets go take a break since it's a bit slow now" Mizuiro smiled as Fuji nodded. "Ja, Kura-chan and Eiji-chan I'll let you take care of things while I'm gone!" Walking out with a smile on her face as she took Fujis hand
"Hoi hoi! Wait! There's no more dango!" Sakura said tiredly and wanted to cry in frustration as the rest of the class left or snuck away
"It's okay Kura-chan" Kikumaru smiled "We can do this!" Giving Sakura a quick kiss as she pouted be began to help make more dango
"I can't believe her!" Sakura cried out angrily as she kneaded the dough for the dango "I know she's tired and can be lazy, but I'm tired too!" Kikumaru just chuckled nervously as he made the sauce for the mitarashi dango. With Sakura's frustration, the dough was kneaded much faster allowing the dango to be made much faster as well. When they were finally done, Sakura eyed the stack of packed dango tiredly and angrily. She just wanted to curl up and take a break now.
"Hey Sakura-senpai!" Sakura turned to the familiar voice to see Momoshiro and everyone else
"Momo-chan… why are you all here?" Sakura asked tiredly as she leaned against Kikumaru
"Like we would all miss a chance to see Sakura-senpai and Mizuiro-senpai dressed up" Momoshiro lauged
"You looked really cute Kura-chan" Kawamura said with a smile "Where's Mizuiro-chan and Fuji?"
"Right here!" Mizuiro smiled as Sakura glared at her
"I can't believe you left me and Eiji to make all that dango!" Sakura cried frustrated as Mizuiro laughed nervously before she ran off with Sakura running after her
"Now, now Kura-chan! No need to get to mad" Mizuiro laughed
"I'm tired as hell! Of course I'm going to be mad!" Sakura shouted as they ran through crowds
"But look you're running!"
"I have enough energy to catch you first!"
