Actually, in my plan chapter seven and eight are one, but then when realize if it's too long for just one chapter, i devide it into two.
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So, this is chapter eight, guys! Please enjoy it and don't forget to leave review! _
Disclaimer: I start to get bored every time I write it. As you know, Fullmoon wo Sagashite forever belongs to Arina Tanemura.
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- Love You, Love You Not? -
Chapter Eight ~ Cinderella's Glass Shoes ~
Mitsuki's memory rolled back to the past time, when she was still a kid. She was in the bedroom with her mother sat beside her comfortable bed. She was going to sleep now, and it was time to Hazuki for telling a story for her.
"And in the end, Cinderella and the prince life happily ever after," Hazuki ended her story.
Little Mitsuki listened carefully to her mother's story then asked, "So Mom, the first time Cinderella and the prince meet is in a dance party?"
"Yes, sweetheart," Hazuki nodded, her smile appeared.
"And they are falling in love while dancing?" Mitsuki innocently asked again.
Hazuki nodded again.
"Then will I meet my prince someday, Mom?"
"Of course, Mitsuki. Every girl has their own prince in this world," answered Hazuki and she pecked Mitsuki's forehead.
"In a dance party?" Mitsuki continued her innocent question.
Hazuki lifted her shoulder, "Maybe."
"But Mom," Mitsuki paused, she wasn't sure for saying it or not,
"I can't dance."
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Mitsuki's eyes widened as she saw Kira Takuto who gave his hand to her. She got a bad feeling, she knew what was that mean. That gesture, when a man stretched out his hand to reach the woman's while said:
"May I have your dance, Mitsuki?"
Kira Takuto said the line. And it made Mitsuki's face turned pale.
Shouldn't a girl be happy if someone like Kira Takuto asked her to dance with him? Yes, she should.
But not for Mitsuki.
She was too panic, "I-I can't dance," Mitsuki spoke haltingly.
"Girls always said that, but in fact they can," Takuto said and shook his head, "Come on Mitsuki, be my partner."
Mitsuki still refused it with shook her head quickly, "You don't know how terrible I am in dancing."
"So, let me know it," Takuto pulled Mitsuki's hand in force and brought her to the ballroom.
Mitsuki tried to lose herself from Takuto's grab, "No, please. You'll humiliate yourself if I'm the one who become your dance partner."
"But I'm a good teacher, Mitsuki. Let me teach you how to dance," he said while a smile plastered on his face.
They were in the middle of the ballroom right now and Mitsuki became more panic, "Just ask someone else, Takuto."
"How can I do that? I want you to be my dance partner. Only you. Shouldn't you proud of it? Since I'm the one who ask you," he was too confident.
Mitsuki's face expression turned into the bothered one, same like a few days ago when Takuto still used to tease her.
"Now Mitsuki, take my hand," he streched out his left hand once again. Mitsuki wasn't really sure at first, but then she encouraged herself and took Takuto's hand slowly, and that Koutei's smile widened in satisfy.
"I warn you, I can't dance," Mitsuki threatened him again. She really hated this kind of thing, dancing specifically.
"Don't worry. I'll lead you," said Takuto sincerely, as he gave his best smile to that brown-haired girl.
Then unexpectedly, her cheeks began to turn red. She didn't expect it too. She thought that she wouldn't feel this kind of feeling to anyone expect Eichi. But tonight that idea was exactly wrong, since her face became warmer though the man who stood in front her right now wasn't Eichi.
"Just follow my step. Okay, Mitsuki?" Kira Takuto said and he started the dance with took a step to the right.
Mitsuki nodded in timid then took the same movement as Takuto's. She was really nervous, so she kept stared below without she realized it too, just to keep out her foot for stepped on Takuto's.
"What's wrong with my shoes, Mitsuki? Seems that you have interest on it," Takuto said, while held his laugh.
Mitsuki sighed, tried to be calm, "I just want to keep my step right, Takuto. Do you want me to step on your foot?" her eyes still on Takuto's feet.
He laughed, "Of course not. But it's too uncomfortable to dance with someone who keeps staring on under part of my body, Mitsuki."
"I AM NOT!" Mitsuki squeaked while her face became all red in a short time. She automatically lifted her head and faced Takuto.
That Koutei smiled then said, "Yes, just like that, Mitsuki. Keep your eyes on mine. That's how you treat your dance partner."
And once again, Mitsuki's face became much warmer. She couldn't even see straight on Takuto's eyes after that sentence out from his mouth. She just hung her head and tried to hide her red cheeks from him.
They danced as the music's flow. Mitsuki who was really clumsy at the beginning started to enjoy their dance. She followed Takuto's steps perfectly, but still couldn't get her eyes off of his feet. When she wanted to do as Takuto said before, to treat him well as her dance partner, she tried to lift her head and looked up at his deep blue eyes. But suddenly something that she was afraid of that time happened.
She loosed her concentration, and then stepped on Takuto's right foot.
"Waa! I-I'm sorry, Takuto! It is hurt, isn't it?" Mitsuki panicked, and her movement started to go messy.
"It's okay, Mitsuki. It doesn't really hurt me," he said. He realized Mitsuki's wrong footsteps, and then told her, "Just relax, Mitsuki. Don't mind your mistake in dancing. If you get panic, you'll mess up your steps," his blue eyes met the brown ones.
"O-Okay. I'll try," Mitsuki answered, and she looked below on Takuto's feet again, tried to take the same step as him.
Looked at Mitsuki's effort to master waltz, Kira Takuto smiled widely. And when Mitsuki could make her steps the same as him, he said and praised her, "Look, Mitsuki. Now you can dance, can't you?"
Mitsuki surprised when he said that, then looked at her footsteps, "Yes, I think I can dance now," her cute smile appeared.
"Congratulation then," the Koutei said to her, "I'm a good teacher, am I not?"
Mitsuki chuckled, "You praise yourself too much, Takuto."
"Since there are so many things that reasonable enough to be praised from me," his over-confident side appeared again.
And that ridiculous saying just made Mitsuki felt irritated once more, but she tried to be calm. She sighed deeply.
Takuto laughed, "You get tired of me, don't you?"
"Is that something that needs to be asked?" Mitsuki started to get angry.
After heard Mitsuki's answer, Takuto laughed again, "Yes, you're right. An over-confident guy like me must be really annoying, right?"
"There you know it," Mitsuki answered simply.
Then they stopped their conversation for awhile. No one talked between them; they just felt the music and moved as their body flow.
Mitsuki opened her mouth again, "Since when did you dance? You seem to be experienced in it."
"When I was a kid, my parents sent me to a school which had many lessons related in self-development. And so, from that school I learnt how do dance," Takuto answered and Mitsuki listened to it carefully.
"Including that piano playing ability of yours?" she asked again. Then Takuto nodded.
"What about you, Mitsuki? What kind of ability do you have?" that Koutei asked Mitsuki the same question.
Mitsuki thought about the answer for awhile, "As you know, I can sing. And when I was in middle school I learned to play violin."
"Violin? Do you still play it till now?" Takuto asked in the middle of her sentence. But unfortunately Mitsuki shook her head.
"I didn't have time to train it at home. So I began to forget how to play it," she explained, "Seems that you have interest in violin, Takuto."
"My mother was a violinist, so I know a bit about violin," he said, "I think if you still play violin, you'll be match with her."
Mitsuki smiled sadly, "Sorry."
"Why are you apologizing? There is nothing to be apologized," Takuto told Mitsuki.
"Yes, you're right," Mitsuki's smile widened.
They kept silent for awhile. And then Takuto opened the conversation again.
Takuto looked at Mitsuki's dance steps now, and he satisfied that it was going better, "Seems that you have mastered waltz now, Mitsuki?"
Mitsuki surprised, "Eeh? Re-Really?" she startled that Takuto praised her.
"Yes. You take the right steps without my lead. Moreover you move more calmly now. And I can see that you start to enjoy it," he said.
"Am I doing well? Am I a good waltz dancer now?" asked Mitsuki very enthusiast.
Takuto rolled his eyes, "Umm… I can't say that you're a good dancer right now, since you're still a beginner," and after heard that, Mitsuki pouted her mouth. Then Takuto continued his words, "But it's good enough to make your dance partner feel comfortable while dance with you," as he smiled.
Mitsuki never thought that Takuto would praise her like that, "Tha-Thank you," she said and Takuto just showed his smile.
But suddenly, Mitsuki remembered something, "Then I can meet my prince with this," muttered her while giggled shyly.
"Eeh? What did you say, Mitsuki? I can't hear you."
Mitsuki shook her head quickly, "Nothing. It just my inner mind."
"Tell me then," Takuto forced her.
That brown haired girl sighed again, "Do you know Cinderella?"
"Of course. Who don't know Cinderella? It's a really popular fairytale," answered Takuto, "Then what?"
"Then you exactly know the story, right? When the fairy gave her a pair of glass shoes, and then she went to the ball. There, she met the prince, she danced with him and in the end they fell in love each other."
Takuto just listened to Mitsuki carefully.
"Then, do you think if the prince fell in love with her just because of her dancing?" Mitsuki's brown eyes stared straight at the blue ones.
Heard Mitsuki's question, Takuto a bit confused how to answer it. But then a good answer popped in his mind, "Say, Mitsuki. Do you think that Cinderella really could dance well?"
Mitsuki nodded, "Of course. She was brave to dance with the prince, wasn't she?"
"Yes. But do you think that her dance was really that good?"
Mitsuki hesitated to answer it, "Maybe?"
Takuto shook his head, "In my opinion, she actually couldn't dance."
"How can you say that?"
"Do you remember what her job in that house was? A housemaid, right?" Takuto said and Mitsuki nodded. He continued again, "Then how could a house maid dance well?" Takuto said as looked straight at Mitsuki's eyes.
"But she was an Earl back then, so it would be impossible to her for not dancing well, right?"
"Yes, maybe she could dance well back then. But do you think how much time passed since her last dance? After her dad passed, her stepmother made her became a housemaid, right? And of course she was busy with her stepmother's orders. She couldn't train her dance anymore," Takuto argued.
Mitsuki surprised at his answer.
"It's same as your capability in playing violin, she started to forget how to dance," Takuto continued, "She still could dance, indeed. But not as good as before," he ended his explanation.
"Then, if Cinderella's dance wasn't the reason why the prince was in love with her, then what made it so?"
Takuto lifted her shoulder, "Her personality, maybe?"
"How could the prince knew her personality?"
Suddenly his smile appeared, "It's the same like us. While dancing, they talked a lot about themselves and knew each other more, so that was how the prince fell in love with Cinderella."
Mitsuki couldn't say anything, since she amazed at his answer, "Seems that you understand the prince's feeling well, Takuto."
"I just answer your question, since I saw that you wanted to hear my answer so badly, Mitsuki," Takuto said.
That brown-haired girl laughed, "Then thank you for answering my question, Koutei-san."
"You're welcome, Koga Mitsuki-san," replied him.
Their conversation was over, so was the music. People ended their dance, and bowed to each other.
"Thank you for become my dance partner, Koga Mitsuki-san," said Takuto in his modest way.
"You're welcome, Kira Takuto-san," Mitsuki bowed in front of that Koutei.
Afterwards, they gathered with their own family again. They talked with each other very friendly, and so did Mitsuki and Takuto. Seemed that Mitsuki has forgot about her first purpose to get closer with Kira Takuto just for using him as her puppet, since she looked really enjoy the whole night with that honorable Koutei. Their dance and all their nice conversation, it was grateful that she came to that party and met him.
The time when that party had finished, the two families parted to get back to their own houses again.
Then, as Mitsuki and her parents got in to their car and the driver began to ride it, all of sudden Hazuki asked her beloved daughter with a high anticipation, "How is it, Mitsuki? Did you meet your dream prince in that party?"
Mitsuki startled and she couldn't control her cheeks from blushed, "I-I don't know, Mom," she murmured slowly.
"Hey, just be honest to your Mom, Mitsuki. I won't scold you anyway," she persuaded her again.
The only one daughter in that family sighed then thought about the answer again in her mind. But it was really strange that the face which pictured in her mind that time wasn't Eichi's like before, it was Kira Takuto's. With his brilliant smile which appeared many times when they dance waltz together.
Mitsuki felt something weird happened to her, since every time she saw Takuto's face in her imagination, all she could do just tried to control her heart which beat like crazy. That was the same as when Eichi was about to kiss her several days ago.
That was deadly strange. She didn't know what to do.
The brown-haired girl was calming herself, "I really don't know, Mom. It's just─," Mitsuki paused her sentence to sigh deeply, "─very confusing."
She said while felt her fast heartbeat by put both hands on her left chest.
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And that is chapter eight, everyone! Would you mind to give me some reviews?
Preview for next chapter : 'As Campfire Warming the Night'
"For God sake! What are you doing?"
"Strawberry, huh?"
"How dare he─ I hate him! I really hate him!"
"One of our friends is missing. We are going to search for her."
