Chapter 7: The rainbow which encounters the light
It already got slowly dark and Juudai and Sho already strode slowly to the accommodation of Ra Yellow which came into view already soon. Disguised by the bushes and undergrowth which fortunately was available on her way was also Yubel which always had an eye on particularly Juudai but had started to worry also about Sho strangely enough. She stopped when also Juudai and Sho stopped.
"Juudai ..." Sho asked, "about what have you argued with Yubel right now?"
But Juudai simply ignored his question by asking a new one on his part: "Where did Kenzan want to meet us?"
"Am, here in front in front of the entrance to his accommodation."
Juudai nodded and just when he did it, someone already found them and Kenzan ran over them.
"Good evening, Aniki! I am happy to see you both here, and thanks for being ready to help us!"
"Is Rei also here already?"
"Of course, she and I have carried out the main planning of the celebration. This means we also must organize most."
"Where exactly have you planned the party, then? You haven't decided to do it here or in one of the other dorms, right?", Juudai asked.
"No, they aren't big enough for this and we have hundreds of new students here which want on the party, inclusive of the older years which also will come. We will have to hold the party in the big lecture room. I must therefore ask you to go with me there. And please help me to carry, we have tons of material that we have to bring there. Follow me!"
And Kenzan took some steps forward, towards the yellow dorm, and he led them into some kind of storeroom, which was full with boxes everywhere. Sho wasn't badly astonished while Juudai was nodding only willingly.
"And we shall bring all this to there?!", Sho asked doubtingly.
"Yes", Kenzan grinned, " but no worry I help you and we still have been able to organize some other helpers therefore this will be very fast possible." At these words some further pupils still strode into the room and took the next boxes along with themselves.
"We at least don't have to make the job by ourselves completly ", Juudai nodded, " and with so much help we will be done pretty soon, there you are right, Kenzan." Sho went there and took one box, but it was a bit too heavy for him, so he nearly dropped it.
"Uh, what is actually in the boxes inside, then?"
"What one just needs for a greater party. well, decoration, table, chairs, everything!",Kenzan thought with a shrug, " but only don't plead tiredness as an excuse, soldiers! To the work!" And he also took a box with that and made progress with a good example.
"As one must leave for him, Kenzan really has developed into a real leadership personality ...", the small blue-haired boy said astonishedly, and admiring.
"Yes, I have always already believed him capable of it. But Sho, if this box is too heavy for you, then give it to me and you take a smaller one, ok?" "Good."
The hall in which the party should take place was already about and about of boxes, and students which ran to and fro between them, who built up tables and chairs and checked lists and inventory. When Juudai and Sho entered the hall, they could immediately find their friends in the apparent mess. Rei just gave some other students instructions, what has to be done next, and even Siraj was present, and just hung the garlands on the blanket of the reverberations. Johan just decorated one of the built up tables, but when he found Juudai he finished the decoration and went straight to him.
"Hello Juudai, good to see you. So, Kenzan asked you too?"
"Yes", Juudai replied, "and as I can see he also asked all the others."
"Of course, I am helping a firned when I am asked to and I knew that would also come can never either let down your friends."
Juudai would go a little bit red at the comment of Johan, even though he didn't know why he didn't want to hear that from Johan right now. Or was it embarrassing for him that he almost had given everything up for Johan and that he for a short time was even more important to him than his other friends?
This thought caused him to go even redder, but Johan didn't seem to notice that because he still had the same smile on his face, unchanged. Juudai shook the head, then caught himself again and asked: "And have you already chosen an outfit for you for tomorrow?"
"Oh,not yet, but I have to take a look into my cupboard to see."
"I so have bought a special dress for this opportunity", admitted Siraj which was besides them suddenly, holding the next garlands in her hands.
"I also!",Rei thought, as she joyfully hopped to Juudai. "And you?"she asked him obtrusively curiously and looked him into his retreated, surprised by her sudden appeareance and also because he was afraid that she simply would jump at him at the next moment. He scratched himself nervously at the back of the head.
"I don't know ... I probably simply will wear my school uniform."
"No, this isn't possible! You must certainly look as good as possible!",Fubuki thought, who suddenly was there and put the next box down, too. "If it is because you have too few things, then you can come with me later and borrow from me what might suit you for the evening a little."
"anyway.. no, Fubuki, this isn't really necessary!"
"ahem ... if you say so...but you could really try it out", he said with a shrug.
"But how I see you are progressing really well with the preparation for the party, you don't seem to make a bad job!", Juudai praised Rei who blushed when she heard that praise. "I do what I can do!", she exclaimed optimistically and a sweet smile to Juudai again.
The preparation was already almost completed, and most of the students who had helped already turned for going and Kenzan as well as Rei thanked them for the active support. Almost everyone had gone at the end, Juudais friends were the only left at the end to judge the last things and lay out hand.
"So, I think we are finished for today definitely!", Rei meant as she stroked her hair out of her face. "We can close here for today. Tomorrow, I then hope to see you here primarily you Juudai-sama!"
"Well, I then wish you good night!", Siraj called. Kenzan waved out of all of them from the hall and carefully locked the door behind them. When Juudai, Sho and Johan strode out, Johan tipped Juuai the shoulder briefly. "Can I talk with you, Juudai, briefly?"
"Yes, of course ", Juudai said astonished and stopped, " about what is it, then?"
"Would it be possible if I could talk alone with him, Sho?",Johan addressed the blue haired little boy.
"Sure", he answered, " we then see each other again, ok, Aniki, in the red accommodation?" Juudai only nodded and turned to Johan who now took Juudai by the hand and drew him away with himself, into the darkness of the night and into the proximity of the close trees. Juudai was surprised at what Johan planned, then and he could virtually feel the critical look of Yubel behind himself simultaneously since he knew exactly that she had waited for him in the cold here outside all the time and watched him certainly secretly at exactly this moment. To be so alone with Johan outside, made him damn nervous, especially if Yubel was heretoo. Because, if Johan really wanted to do what he suspected him to do, then Juudai would have to calm down a very furious dragon soon.
And Johan closed Juudai into his arms. The brown-haired one looked taken aback when he found himself again in Johans arms suddenly.
"Juudai, I must confess something to you", Johan began when he had held the quiet boy in his arms for some while.
"What is it, then?"
"Juudai, I ... I have missed you so infinitely in the time in which you have been away, and I had when you arrived back suddenly, no opportunity to speak with you alone, to tell you how I really feel."
Juudai got away from the embrace of Johan after that and looked into the green eyes of the Norwegian astonishedly. "What do you want to tell me with that?"
But Johan avoided a direct visual contact, looked at the ground instead while his cheeks easily blushed, the hair fell into his face and he was silent until he found the strength to talk further. "I hadn't had any opportunity to tell you till now how much it meant to me that you have saved me from the talons of Yubel. In addition, while you were gone, I have heard of the others that you would have done everything for me to be found again. They have told me that you were more then determined to find me back again and that you had been sad and dejected when you had to leave me back after the fight against Yubel back in the other dimension." Johan was silent now a while and it rattled in Juudais head. What did he want to say by that? Juudai blushed when he slowly began to understad what he wanted to tell him. Therefore, he has also noticed it? Has he noticed that they were congenial from the very beginning, from their frist meeting on?
"Johan ... I still don't understand ...", he thought unsafely.
"Juudai ... I am not sure myself anyway ... but I seem to feel more for you then only bare friendship."
When Juudai heard this, his eyes stretched themselves with fright. So ... Johan really thought what he had only suspected. But straight thousands thoughts buzzed in a mess in Juudai. The question why it was so important for him to save Johan was only one of them. Yes, why, why it was so important to him anyway? Even that much that it was no matter what would happen to his other friends, what would become of those who have decided to go with him and stand by his side.
"Johan..", Juudai whispered when he found the courage to speak on, "I think I know what you mean. That we have got on from the beginning so well. That we were congenial from the beginning .... And I think ... that you should know that I also think the same like you."
Johan saw on and in the eyes of Juudai. "You think..."
"Yes", Juudai then turned away from him. "But no matter whatever we may feel, I ask you to pay attention nevertheless. As I have said to you before, I don't want that something happens to you only because you are close to me, you remember?"
"But why are you holding back then? It almost seems as if you would supress your feelings."
"Do I really do this? If so, then only because I am worried, as well as you are worrying about me, which is why you cannot put it into words, right?" Johans fingers touched only timidly his own lips at this remark of Juudai.
"Maybe", he answered while he was nodding. "Any plans for the ball?", the Norwegian then asked to change the topic and grin joyfully again what he always liked to do.
"What do you mean with that?"
"Well, if you already have invited a girl to the party?"
"No, I think that I go there all by myself, and I am sure that I will meet you and the others there anyway, so why should I invite a girl to the party?"
"Ah, I thought that you might invite Asuka to go to the party with you. I nearly think that she wants something from you." Juudai was quite surprised at these words, had to grin to himself, when he also noticed something: "Haha, and I thought that you could invite Siraj, on my opinion she shows some interest in you."
Johan stretched his arms in the height and looked up. "Do you think? Till now, I don't have noticed this."
Juudai had to laugh quite a lot. "Hahah, well, we will see each other tomorrow in the lesson again, right? And if not there, then we will meet at the party again."
"When exactly will you go there?"
"I want to be there as early as possible. well, I wish you a good night!", Juudai waved to Johan when he left him.
The turquoise-haired looked up for him when Juudai disappeared and he sighed. He stayed longer for another while and expected to see nothing exciting when a shine appeared and disappeared again suddenly behind the trees in his proximity.
He first thought it would have been somebody with a flashlight who had gone astray, maybe one of the newcomers, who wants to find his way back to the accomodation. In the hope to be able to help the one who had gone astray, he decided to look after it, and went behind the trees but then he clung almost imploringly to the bark of the tree behind which he could just hide. He couldn't believe what he saw there.
A humanoid stood there, a light creature, surrounded by a weak light, without any real face. Whatever it was, it seemed to consist of fluent light, had no mouth, no eyes, no expression. It seemed to be looking around for something though, as if it was unsure if it was at the right place. Uncertain whether it had the ability to speak, Johan could hear weak words whispering when the nature spoke to itself.
"Where am I here? Yes ... I am sure ... this must be the place, where he is ... my chosen one ... now I just have to do what is needed to find him... but everything will be well and my plan is already in full walk...." The luminous figure stopped when he remarked that he was not quite alone. He slowly turned his head in the direction of the tree behind which the Norwegian stood primarily in the knowledge that it was this creature of whom Juudai was prhaps so afraid of and in front of which he had warned him behind which he had still more crouched down together.
He slowly turned his head in the direction of the tree behind which the Norwegian stood crouched down together primarily in the knowledge that it was this creature of whom Juudai was perhaps so afraid of and in front of which he had warned him. He squinted his eyes and took a fetus position, why he did this he himself didn't know so exactly, but only, that this creature gave him a terrible fear. It might still look so very human or imitate a man in a pitiful way, it still didn't come from this world. And it also couldn't feel anything human. However what was this creature looking for here then? A chosen one? Chosen ofr what? Johan didn't know what to do, if he shall run away, or if staying would be the better possibility, but he still stayed. Maybe this was a mistake, because the light creature only giggled a bit when he took some stepts towards the tree. Every second Johan was afraid to be discovered, but then the creature stopped again. "I feel... a creature which is not quite dissimilar to me ... It is somebody with a tendency towards the light.."
It paused to then adress indirectly to Johan. "Who or whatever is here... it won't disturb my plan..." With that, the creature turned around again and walked away. The behavior of this creature made Johan interested, so he dared to throw a gaze at it when it walked even more away. It smiled quietly to itself when it was sure that he got the attention of Johan and then it whispered a few last words. "The Opening ball..."
All of a sudden a bright light dazzled Johan so much that he could not even see the hands which he hold in front of his eyes out of a protection reflex. The light flooded him, it mercilessly surrounded him until he lost the consciousness and simply didn't get like the nature in front of him disappeared in the light, became one with it.
It was still dark when he woke up again, bathed in sweat and wondering, whether all that he had just seen was a bad dream. But why was he trembling like this, why were those just seen pictures still so alive in him? The more seconds passed, the more sure Johan was that it was this creature that Juudai warned him off indirectly. But something else also disturbed Johan. The creature has mentioned the opening ball tomorrow... did that mean that it would appear there and leave even more destruction behind? Then it must really be the enemy that made Juudai so nervous, that he was so withdrawn. And he still couldn't get rid of the thought that Yubel was somehow involved in this whole thing.
Joahn straightened up again, mopped the sweat of his forehead, stood up and leaned on the tree behind which he had hided when he made this strange observation. Whatever it all meant, he should probably go and tell Juudai about this. But the simple fact that Juudai already was behaving strange, and that he seemed to suffer under the knowledge that there was something out there stopped Johan from telling Juudai immediatly. Instead the Norwegian confined himself to tell Juudai about it tomorrow. The best after the lesson.
"Yubel ... please stop!", Juudai shouted, as he tried to calm Yubel who threw cushions after Juudai through the entire room.
"NO!", she shouted back, "what are you doing behind my back with someone else??!"
Sho just looked at them both, how they ran around the quite narrow room, with Juudai searching for protection, while Yubel tried hard to give way to her anger in a possible harmless way. Thanks God, Sho thought, she wasn't throwing with something more dangerous than just cushions. Knives, Dragon fire, or shells would have been must worse. Much worse. In his eyes it looked as if Yubel would enjoy the cushion fight, as well as Juudai, but when Yubel suddenly stopped and let her head hang down to hide her angry look from Juudai and Sho, he then noticed how serious she was. Juudai also stopped with a guilty look in his face when he noticed the seriousness of the situation, and when he could hear a faint quiet sob from Yubel which was so quiet that he could also thought of it as not being real. Juudai's heart stopped for a second at that sound, and he slowly approached Yubel to calm her down.
"Yubel ... I am sorry for whatever I might have done... but it is not how you think it is... you have misunderstood something here..."
"Oh yeah?", she shouted angrily, when she pushed away his hand, "I don't think so. Juudai, you don't understand anything!!!"
With that she ran through the door, having lost all caution. She left a sulking Juudai and an extremely confused Sho.
"Aniki, what have you done?"
"You know it yourself. I have just talked with Johan, that's all..."
Sho nodded only dumbly and thought then after that: "And you still don't understand what has hurt Yubel? Then I am the one here who understand it even better." He got up with that.
"Don't worry, Aniki, I will calm her down." He grinned at his big brother, when he ran after Yubel to talk with her. Juudai looked guilty to the groud, when Sho left him now, knowing all too well why Yubel was behaving like that, but he still denied to admit it to himself.
"Yubel !!", the small blue-haired boy cried out into the night, but he found her below the stairs to their accomodation. She only sat there and wiped a tear off when Sho came closer to her.
"Leave me alone", she pleaded, "I want to be alone."
"Yubel... you talk about problems with your friends when you don't feel too well,so that you can feel far better afterwards. I want to give you that possibility now by listening to you", Sho explained to her when he sat down next to her. "And because we have just become friends, it is even more imporatnt that you open up to me. So, what was going on right now? Why have you been so angry when you came back?"
"You wouldn't understand that, Sho."
"Can it be that you are jealous?" Yubel looked up and into Sho's eyes.
"Where do you want to know this from?", she gave back.
"You must be jealous of Johan otherwise you would not be so furious just because Aniki talked to him only briefly." With that he had caught Yubel ice-coldly, the formerly so powerful and strong Yubel. She replied nothing but looked away again and avoided visual contact with Sho and this showed to him that he was right.
"And if so", she quietly gave back.
"But in that case I don't understand why exactly you are jealous. Is there a reason for that? I mean, you are living here with us, together with Juudai, while Johan isn't. You can be together with Juudai after his lessons, if you want to, so where is your problem? Or.. can it be that..." Sho went quiet when he started to think more and when a new thought crossed his mind. Naive as he was, he simply said out loud what he thought. "Or can it be that you have indications that they are in love with each other?"
Yubels eyes narrowed and she winced, she then saw Sho furiously in the eyes. "Stop this!", she screeched, "Never mention what you have said right now in my presence ever again!!! I don't want to hear this!"
"So it is true... what have you seen when you have taken control over Johan's body? There you must have gotten the most hints..", Sho rebored curiously, "Oh man, they they DO feel something for each other..."
"Sho..please...stop it!" Sho looked pityingly at Yubel when he noticed that he rather tormented her with that rather than to help her.
"I am sorry Yubel, I am so sorry, sometimes I lack sensitivity too."
Yubel moaned when she finally calmed down a bit and put a hand on her forehead.
"It's okay", she mumbled, "I have just noticed that. But it is not only what you have already mentioned. It is trued that it makes me furious to see that there obviously is something more between them than just friendship. But I am even more angry at the fact that I cannot be with Juudai all the time, really all the time. I am longing for this so much. I also want to go with him to his lessons and the most I wish...", she then looked dreamily into the night sky, "..the most I wish I could dance with him at that ball tomorrow."
Sho looked at how Yubel stared into the sky, with a faint smile on her face, when she dreamed of how it would be like to dance with her lover, to turn endless circles among people who would perhaps admire their love. He would never have thought that Yubel, the so bad and sadistic Yubel, a hermaphrodite, half a man, could cherish such a girlish dream of all things. But Sho couldn't help but to feel some sympathy for her when he saw Yubel smile like that. She had entrusted to him what she wished for the most at that moment. That also made him smile.
"Who knows", he said, "maybe one day it really will happen. Maybe not tomorrow, Yubel, but somewhen. Maybe even here, under this dark sky, under the Slifer Red accomodation. Would you care about where it has to be when you finally dance with Aniki?"
"Yeah, I think so. But I want to have some music and at least a few other people around then", she admitted. Sho had to laugh at that and even Yubel joined in. "But then you gotta be there, Sho!"
"He? Yes, of course!"
They still sat there a while when Sho then rose, knocked the sand of his trousers and said: "so, I have to go back inside now. You can still stay here if you want to, but come back in if you want to sleep, okay? You know where you find the blanekts, right?"
"Yes Sho. Good night." And she really remained in the darkness for a while and wrapped herself into the darkness which she needed for her life.
