Chapter 9: Frogs

(Tomo/Yomi, Kagura/Osaka Nyamo/Yukari)

"So, what will we do for our culture festival this year?" Yukari asked

Right away suggestions of a haunted house and café were thrown out. It seemed that high school students weren't that creative.

"What about a music festival?" Kagura called out "You know we can put different types of music in different parts of the room and feature information about some genre's and bands?"

All of the class agreed readily to the idea. Their class would truly have a unique exhibit.

"Yeah! Finally I'll be able to beat Nyamo." Yukari said pumping her fist into the air.

"Ms. Yukari I love how honest you are! You don't bother pretending to be a competent teacher. That takes guts!" Tomo exclaimed receiving a book to the head



With that "love tap" the lunch bell rang not a moment too soon. As always, Yukari was the first one out of the room.

"You need to stop pissing her off." Yomi scolded Tomo

"Why, it's fun?" Tomo asked "I can handle her attacks. I've had practice with you."

"You sound proud of that." Sakaki muttered

"Shouldn't we wake Osaka so she can come to lunch?" Chiyo asked

"I think her lover should do it!" Tomo said nudging Kagura causing her to blush.

"Idiot, at least try to be tactful." Yomi said tugging Tomo's ear

Kagura went to Osaka's desk. She smiled lovingly and chuckled at the sight of her girlfriend muttering something about vampire woodchucks.

"Osaka, honey wake up." Kagura said shaking her girlfriends shoulder. "It's lunch time."

"Ahh! Demon Ostriches!" Osaka shouted shooting up in her seat

"Demon Ostriches?" Sakaki imagined the image and blushed "Cute."

Osaka came back to her senses and saw Kagura.



"Hello love squirrel." Osaka said yawning

"Love squirrel?" Yomi asked grinning

"It's her nickname for me." Kagura said blushing "That I told her never to call me in public."

"That's hilarious!" Tomo said bursting into laughter "So embarrassing."

"Tomo! Don't insult them." Chiyo said trying not to laugh

By this point Kagura was about ready to die. She put her head down in embarrassment.

"Did I say something wrong?" Osaka asked confused "You like when I call you that. You even have a nickname for me……."

Kagura put her hand over Osaka's mouth to prevent further embarrassment. Without another word she dragged Osaka toward the lunch room at lightning speed.

"I'd never want a weird goofy nickname." Yomi said

"Really?" Tomo asked sounding strangely disappointed

"Yeah, I mean I'd just want to be called by my name." She replied

"I think it's cute." Chiyo said



"There is such a thing as too much cuteness." Tomo said

"There is?" Sakaki cocked an eyebrow

The girls reached the lunch room to find Kagura and Osaka sitting at a table. They went to join their friends. They sat down and began eating and causally chatting about the culture festival.

"So, love squirrel what type of music are you going to bring." Tomo teased

"Hey, I call her that too." Osaka commented putting her arm around the blushing girl.

"To answer your question, I'm bringing my Avenged 7 Fold album." Kagura said

"Metal? I never would have thought." Yomi commented

"It's good for exercising." She shrugged

"I thought I was the only one here who liked American music." Tomo said "I love Queens of the Stone Age!"

"Perfect for you rude and sexual and blunt." Yomi teased

"Hey, you like them to Yomi!" Tomo said

"They are good, but I was just saying. My favorite band is Muse. Matt Bellemy has a haunting voice." Yomi said "What about you Osaka?"



"Oh, I like a lot of music. My favorites are System of a Down and the Flaming Lips." She said

None of them were really surprised it figured that Osaka would like weird stuff like that, but they agreed that the bands were good. They were all anticipating the next day when they'd set up their culture festival. None of them could concentrate on their classes for the rest of the day. The final bell couldn't ring fast enough for them. They all walked home extra fast to compile their music.

"See you all tomorrow!" Yomi called as their friends went their separate ways.

"Looks like it's just you and me." Tomo grinned

"Joy! I never told you how much I love the fact that our houses are close." Yomi said sarcastically

"C'mon Yomi! You know you'd die without me!" Tomo said dramatically

"Die happy you mean." She sighed

"You're so mean!" Tomo said pretending to cry

It was the same every time they walked home together. Tomo would always be…..Tomo. This continued until they reached Yomi's house.

"See you tomorrow." Yomi said



"See you." Tomo started to walk away

She sighed. She couldn't bring herself to say anything besides stupid stuff to Yomi. She had a huge crush on the brunette. Or as she would put it, liked her a lot. Unfortunately, she sucked at this kind of thing. It always came out as an insult or random comment.

"Wait Tomo." Yomi called

"What is it?" Tomo said turning around

"Well…..nothing, never mind." Yomi said

"Oh, okay." Tomo took her leave.

"Stupid!" Yomi hit herself on the head as soon as Tomo was out of range "Why can't I just say it?"

It was your classic situation. Two people who liked each other, but were too scared to admit it and too stupid to figure it out. Although this case seemed extra stupid because it had been going on for years. If Yomi and Tomo didn't feel this way about each other, they'd probably have fought to the death long ago.

"I have the perfect idea." Tomo said rummaging through her CDs "I play a song at the festival and tell her that this represents how I feel! It's perfect!"



She looked through her CD's and found her Queens of the Stone Age album "Songs for the Deaf" and found the perfect song.

"Everybody Gonna Be Happy. It's perfect Track 6." Tomo smiled

The next day everyone came to class to help out with the set up. Tomo was one of the last to show up as always. They arranged the classroom putting four different genres of music throughout the room including Rock, Metal, Jazz, and Techno. They included small posters with some information on each genre and information about some bands.

"Wait until Nyamo gets here!" Yukari exclaimed "I beat her this time for sure!"

"Is it me or has she gotten more competitive?" Kagura asked

"It's probably worse since Yukari and Ms. Kurosawa are dating." Yomi said

"Aw! She wants to impress her girl friend!" Tomo said jokingly "She really needs to or Ms. Kurosawa will find someone better."

"What was that Takino?" Yukari said from behind her.

"Nothing?" Tomo smiled innocently

"Good." She said menacingly "Now let's start the festival!"



"We should alternate music. Like some songs of a certain genre then another and so on." Chiyo said

"Great idea!" Tomo said patting Chiyo on the back rather hard.

"Th-Thanks" Chiyo coughed out

So the music festival began. Tomo wait for a few songs to finish before enact her "fool proof" plan.

"Hey Yomi! C'mere for a second." Tomo dragged Yomi toward the boom box and pulled her CD from her pocket.

"What's that?" Yomi asked curiously

"It's a CD, but I have a song on it that I want to dedicate to you." Tomo smiled

Yomi blushed slightly hoping that it wasn't a joke. Tomo popped the CD in and went to track six. The song started, but Tomo was surprised that the intro didn't sound like "Everybody Gonna Be Happy." As the lyrics came on Tomo realized that this wasn't even Queens of The Stone Age. It was the Flaming Lips' song "Frogs." Tomo looked on in horror as Yomi's expression turned angry.

"You think I'm a frog?" Yomi asked angrily "I should have known you wouldn't do anything nice! Just another joke! You're the worst friend ever!"



"Hey, I was trying to do something nice!" Tomo yelled defensively "It was supposed to be a different song! It was in my Queens of the Stone Age case!"

"Queens of the Stone Age?" Yomi asked "What were you going to dedicate the Mosquito Song to me?"

"No! It was supposed to be a song saying that I love you." Tomo put her hand over her mouth realizing her mistake.

"I love you? Wait……." Yomi's eyes widened "You love me?"

"Yeah" Tomo sighed and looked away "It was supposed to be a romantic song."

"I love you too." Yomi smiled

Tomo turned to Yomi and put her into a bone crushing hug.

"Tomo..I can't breathe." Yomi choked out

"Sorry." She let go "Can I kiss you?"

"Sure." Yomi shrugged

Sure, it was less romantic than the "Blade Runner" love scene but neither of them cared. Tomo smiled and leaned upwards and caught Yomi in a kiss as the singer sang the lyrics "Waitin' for the frogs to fall down on me." They both seemed to 

forget the fact they were in the middle of a crowded classroom. They drew stares quickly.

"I kind of forgot about them." Yomi said "Ah, who cares I've been waiting for this for five years."

"Five years? Me too!" Tomo exclaimed

"Wait……we liked each other for five years?" Yomi mused "Why didn't we say anything."

"Cause you're both stupid!" Kagura said from behind them.

They turned to see Osaka and Kagura.

"Tomo, you know it's the darndest thing." Osaka said "I just remembered that I lent you my Flaming Lips CD. You can return it after the festival though."

"Sure thing." Tomo said hugging the Osakan "Thanks so much for lending it to me."

"You see! I told you they were good!" Osaka said

"Tomo, I can't believe our first kiss was to Frogs." Yomi said

"Maybe I should call you Love Frog." Tomo mused

"Please don't." Yomi massaged her temples



"That's sweet, isn't it Yukari?" Nyamo asked from her spot next to the English teacher.

"Yeah, I guess." Yukari shrugged watching the two from the front of the class "At least it's better than our first kiss song."

"Wait, what was it again?" Nyamo asked

"Rape Me." Yukari grinned putting her arm around Nyamo

AUTHORS NOTE:

All those songs are real and great.

If you want to know, look up:

Rape Me by Nirvana

Frogs by the Flaming Lips

Hope you enjoyed it. Sorry I didn't put Sakaki in this one for too long, but I couldn't find a genre of music that matched her personality.

We all know Kaorin would be listening to emo (kidding)



Well time for some wise words from Osaka

Osaka says: "Friends don't let friends breed mutant goats."