This is the 8th chapter!! Hurray!! so, everyone, how are you all?? Thanks so much for all your reviews!! They make me so happy!! Well, Yuki's other half is being evil. And Kakeru and Kimi and Nao caught Yuki in the act of kissing Machi. AAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHHH!!!
Please read and review!!
PS. I don't own Furuba.
Eighth Chapter: The Festival pt 1 (Wrecking it)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Kakeru screamed so loudly that Yuki reverted back to his normal self, pulled away from Machi and felt his ears ring like bells. Yuki stared at Machi, who was trembling and looking ever so scared.
Yuki quickly turned around and screamed back at Kakeru, "Why are you yelling so loudly?"
Kakeru didn't hear him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!"
Machi trembled. She quickly turned away from Yuki and didn't give him a second glance. She pushed past Kimi, Nao and Kakeru and ran out the door and down the hallway as fast as she could.
"M-Machi!" Yuki was so stunned he didn't know what to do. He looked at the other three members of the council. He looked at Kimi.
Kimi was also staring at Yuki, eyes as wide as tennis balls. She would normally have said something, because Kimi could never keep her mouth shut.
Say something!! Anything!! Yuki pleaded. Please say that you haven't lost every bit of respect for me!!!
Kimi turned and sped out of the room as fast as her legs could carry her. Yuki could hear her voice now, chanting over and over: "Yuki kissed Machi!! Yuki kissed Machi!!"
Yuki quickly pushed past the goggle-eyed Nao and the screaming Kakeru and ran after her.
"Get back here, Kimi!!" He cried. He caught up to her and clamped a hand over her mouth.
Kimi struggled. "Uh… Yuki!!"
"Don't... say… anything…!" Yuki said exasperated.
"Yun-yun, why did you…?" the obnoxious vice-president appeared behind Yuki and freaked him out.
Behind him was Nao and Yuki could swear it was smoke coming from his ears.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE?!? DOESN'T ANYONE IN THE STUDENT COUNCIL HAVE ANY SENSE OF RESPONSIBILTY?? AND I HAD THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT WAS BETTER THAN THE OTHERS UNTIL NOW!!! Nao was infuriated.
"It was- Well, actually- I, uh… I don't know!" Yuki cried.
Kimi pulled Yuki's hand off her mouth. "Sheesh, Yuki, what's with you?"
Kakeru narrowed his eyes. "Look, buddy, I know you've really got it for my sister but I really wouldn't think you'd do this…"
"I MEAN, SERIOUSLY?!? YOU TWO WERE MEANT TO BE PREPARING FOR THE FESTIVAL TOMORROW!!" Nao shouted.
"Look, wait, guys-" Yuki tried to say.
"WE'VE GOT A WHOLE TON OF WORK TO DO!!"
"Just wait-" Yuki said.
"What would the Prince Yuki fangirls say?!?" Kimi cried melodramatically.
"JUST LISTEN HERE FOR A SECOND!!" Yuki shouted out.
The other three stopped and stared at him.
Yuki felt it really off that they were looking at him like that because this time, he was the one who felt like he did something wrong- something completely out of place and completely out of character at the completely wrong time and the wrong place.
"H-Hey…" he started. "I know that the student council is under a lot of pressure and we've got a whole heap of work to do… I'm really sorry for what I did, which I should be saying to Machi- since I didn't exactly do it with her permission-"
"YOU DIDN'T GET HER PERMISSION?!?" Kakeru screamed.
"SHUT UP!!" Yuki yelled back.
Yuki could feel all the eyes on him. The students in their classrooms and in their respective school clubs had all heard the commotion and were sticking their heads into the hallways, trying to catch their president in an awkward position.
Yuki stared at his feet, silvery blue hair falling over his eyes. "Okay…" he said quietly, "I'm sorry for causing so much trouble. I don't know what's going on with me myself. That's 'cause I've never really felt like this before, but I'll control my feelings from now on."
Nao's angry gaze pierced through him.
Kimi blinked. "Ohhh… Yuki… that's so cute…"
Kakeru sighed in good nature. He slapped his friend on the back, "Hey, its okay, Yun-yun. I know you're a good guy."
Yuki ignored all the whispers and glances from the other students. "So I know it's not really my place to ask you guys anything, but, I just want you guys to do one thing for me. Just… keep this whole thing a secret, okay?"
"Sure, Yuki!!" Kimi smiled sweetly. "Kimi will do anything for Yuki!!"
Kakeru ran his hand through his black hair. "Yeah, sure!" he grinned.
Nao shrugged. "Yeah, if you say so."
Yuki sighed with relief.
He stood up straighter, feeling a lot better than before. But he looked down the corridor where Machi had run off. He tightened his fists.
I'm sorry, Machi… I promise I'll make it up to you.
The four of them walked into the student council room. Nao was hurriedly placing stacks and stacks of paper onto the desk.
Yuki took a deep breath and spoke: "Let's work hard on this Festival together!"
"Wow!! It's the festival!!" Tohru cried cheerfully.
"Yeah," Kyo replied absently.
Tohru ran ahead of Kyo into the school grounds. The Kaibara Festival started at 5 o'clock in the late afternoon and ended at 8 in the evening. The sky wasn't even dark yet but the Student Council and decorating committee had been busy, and lanterns and brightly coloured lights in all different hues hung from string dangling from tree to tree and pole to pole.
"It's so pretty!" Tohru squealed. She smiled at Kyo, "Yuki sure did a good job!"
Kyo grunted. He followed Tohru. "Hey. Where are your friends, Y'know, Hanajima and Uotani?"
"Oh… Uo thinks the festival is probably a whole bunch of crap and Hana thinks it's a total waste of time."
"So they made you come here by yourself?" Kyo sounded incredulous.
"Well…" Tohru said, "They weren't so sure about that, but I told them you'd be with me and Uo-chan got this weird expression on her face… but that doesn't matter…" She turned and smiled the brightest and most beautiful smile Kyo had ever seen. "…because you're with me, Kyo!!"
"…right…"
"Yuki's helping with the festival stuff, so it's just you and me, Kyo." Tohru said matter-of-factly.
"Yeah," Kyo said.
They walked out into the school yard area and were amazed at the spectacular sights.
The lights and lanterns shone brightly and a bright, happy mood emitted from every corner. There were stalls and stands all around, selling really delicious-smelling food from takoyaki to soba noodles to udon noodles to ramen to onigiri to dango.
Then there were merchandise and craft stands, where the various clubs sold their handiwork. There was also a huge Mogentai stall with a huge inflated rubber Mogentai in the front.
Crowds and crowds of people bustled around, excited. Half of them were cosplayers. There were Rurouni Kenshins; Sailormoons; Sakuras, Narutos, Sasukes, Kakashis; Ichigos, Rukias, Orihimes; Shinjis, Reis, Asukas, Tojis; characters from various anime, manga and video games, and a girl in a most impressive Dark Magician Girl costume.
Everyone was extremely excited, but what brought the most attention to the Festival and had made the festival so heavily attended was the Confession Tree.
Rumours had spread fast and the huge tree adorned with fairy lights was the center of attention.
If you confessed your love to someone under it, then your love will last forever!!
Kyo sweatdropped and jaw dropped when he saw a girl with an inflated Mogentai balloon take it up to the Confession Tree.
He glanced at Tohru, who was amazed drinking in all the festival atmosphere.
Kyo sighed and turned his eyes skyward. …hmph… wonder how Yuki's going with… his 'love'?
"THE YAKISOBA STALL JUST FELL OVER!! There are chairs and tables and noodles all over the place!!" Kakeru cried.
"Yeah!! I'll take care of it!" Yuki yelled back. He took off towards the Yakisoba stall. The Student Council was going insane, running from place to place fixing up every little thing that could possibly go wrong, and that's exactly what was happening.
Mio Yamagishi watched from behind the fallen stand and the confused Yakisoba cooks.
She smiled ever-so-sweetly at her beloved prince. Yeah, Yuki-sempai, run all over the place fixing up the messes- you'll never have a chance to confess to your love… She spotted a whole crowd of girls vying for his attention. And you won't have time to be confessed to either!!
Minami jumped up. So what, Mio? I'm not letting you wreck the Prince's wonderful festival!!
She ran over to Yuki and started pulling up the chairs and tables and setting everything up again.
"You don't have to help with those," Yuki said, "I'll do it."
"Oh, no, it's alright!" Minami said hurriedly. "You're the prince; you should get a chance to enjoy the festival too!"
"Oh… um…" Yuki saw that there wasn't much he needed to set up again anymore. He nodded his thanks. "Thanks, Kinoshita-san,"
Minami sighed as she gazed at her love walking away from her. Mio appeared beside her.
"What do you think you're doing??" she cried.
Minami said, "Well, I'm not letting you wreck the festival after all the Prince's hard work!"
Mio sneered, "Just try and stop me!"
"That's exactly what I'm gonna do!" Minami shot back.
Yuki spotted Machi helping with the dango stall. He headed over there. He hadn't seen her at all since yesterday and he just had to apologize.
"Hey, Machi!" he called out.
"PRESIDENT!!" A group of people yelled, "THE LIGHT'S ARE FALLING!!"
"What?!?" Yuki cried.
Sure enough, all the lights and lanterns that had taken so long to hang up on the strings were falling off and hitting the ground. Yuki immediately abandoned the trip to the dango stall and ran towards the falling lights. He could see Kakeru up ahead, along with Komaki (who Kakeru had invited along), juggling lanterns and lights.
"Hey, Kakeru, how'd they fall off?" Yuki yelled.
"I don't know," the vice-president yelled back. "But, sheesh, and it took SO LONG to put them up!!"
Yuki gazed back at his sweet Machi, serving customers, took a breath, turned and started helping tying string onto the posts again. When would he ever be able to get to her when things kept going wrong?!?
Mio couldn't help feeling just a tiny pang of guilt as she snipped the scissors in her hands. Hey, it's for the Prince, she told herself, I've gotta keep him away from Motoko.
She looked around to find her next target for destruction. She spotted the beautiful Confession Tree with its pink fairy lights glowing in the now darkening sky. Mio twirled the scissors around and stuffed them in her pocket. Hell yeah… here comes destruction!!
Yuki sighed in relief as he, Kakeru and Komaki finished fixing the lights.
"Thanks for helping, you guys," he said, "Sorry for troubling you, Nakao-san."
"It's no problem," Komaki grinned.
Yuki turned away from them and started towards Machi, this time with a resolute expression on his face. I've just got… to tell you I'm really sorry… and I have to confess… to you… under the tree…
He could see Tohru and Kyo out of the corner of his eye.
Yuki and Kyo's eyes met for a moment. Yuki looked away and finally caught up to Machi.
Machi saw him and immediately those odd feelings came back and she felt her heart beat faster. Memories of the day before came back to her and immediately she froze up. She felt helpless as she saw him coming closer. She couldn't do anything else, so she turned and ran.
Yuki felt the life drain from him again. He was already sweaty from all his running around.
It was gonna be a long evening.
This is emichii here! Thanks for reading chapter 8! As you have probably already guessed, the festival will drag on for a while. By the way, I don't own Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, SailorMoon, Naruto, Bleach, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yu Gi Oh or any other anime. There'll be more cosplayers next chapter!
By the way, you guys do know who Komaki is, right? She's Kakeru's girlfriend and she appears in the 19th volume.
Thanks for reading!! Please review!!
