We got the next chapter in Yo-Kai Journey here. This one I sort of had fun writing it because it involves some progress in Nate and Katie's relationship but I added my own OC who I'm not a fan of so she'll only appear in this chapter unless you guys want to see more of her.
Now I didn't get much replies when I asked if I'm losing my touch in writing these chapters so I ask again can you guys please tell me if some of my latest chapters aren't as good as my others.
Also I've been getting a whole bunch of controversy on the timeline since I added Inaho and Nate hasn't upgraded his watch yet. Ok I will say this again, the timeline is something I didn't dwell in when writing this story so I'm sorry if it's confusing. Well with that out of the way, enjoy.
Couple of days have gone by since the whole Oni incident and life for Nate and Katie has gone as normal as their life was. Things have been especially well for Katie since that day. She knew Nate had cared for her, but not as much that he went in a full blown hug when she almost got hurt. This made her question if Nate really cared for her as a friend, or if he actually liked her as she liked him.
This new found discovery has given Katie the courage to do something she never thought that she would do. She was getting ready for school, only needing her pullover left from her closet, when she bumped into Sailornyan, a Yo-Kai who lived with her that looked similar to Jibanyan but was pink and wearing a sailor suit. "Hey Katie, where you off to today?" she asked.
"Where I always go to, school," Katie replied.
"Okay but I want you back here as soon as it's over, no crewmember of mine is getting a day off today," she said demanding. When Katie first met Sailornyan, she was haunting an old boat in Gourd Pond, scaring anyone who came near. As a result she comes off as a bossy and sometimes a selfish Yo-Kai, but was actually pretty lonely so Katie invited her to stay with her. Katie is actually amused with her act and finds it humorous sometimes.
"Aye-aye captain," Katie said while saluting her. She was actually more cheerful than she usually is which didn't go unnoticed from Frostina. "Wow Katie, you seem more cheerful than other days. Care to explain," the ice Yo-Kai said while having a suspicious look.
"No reason in particular, I just feel like today is going to be a good day," she said while opening her closet to get her pullover. While doing so she was met with the familiar figure of Shadow Venoct, who tried to scare her with his black dragon scarves lunging forward and letting out a frightening roar. While Frostina got so scared that she hid behind Sailornyan, Katie however was unfazed, "Excuse me Shadow, can you please move over so I can get my pullover."
Seeing that his attempt didn't work, Shadow Venoct moved over so Katie can get what she needed, "What's the point of being a scary Yo-Kai if you can't scare anybody." "Sorry S.V., maybe next time," Katie said while calling him the nickname she came up with so she doesn't have to say his full name all the time along with his other nickname Shadow.
"That's what you said the other 10 times I did it," he said while Katie closed the closet, "And don't call me S.V.!" he shouted and Katie only giggled knowing he didn't approve of that nickname.
"Remind me again why we invited him to live in your closet," Frostina said, still looking a bit shaken up. "He was lonely, everybody misunderstood him and I felt bad for him," Katie said while putting on her pullover.
"Whatever, back to your good mood, this doesn't have anything to do with that hug Nate gave you is it," Frostina said with a smile. Katie was blushing when she heard what Frostina said, "What? Don't be ridiculous. That has nothing to do with how I'm feeling."
"Yeah sure, Katie I've been living with you for at least a month and I know when you're hiding something. Why not just tell us?" Frostina said.
"Yeah Katie, as your captain I order you to tell us what is happening right nyow," Sailornyan said. "This will be interesting," Shadow Venoct said now joining in on the conversation.
Seeing that she was outnumbered, Katie gave up on arguing with them, "Fine I'll tell you guys. But you can't tell anyone else ok. Alright, the reason I'm in such a good mood is because later on during the day… I'm going to tell Nate how I feel about him," she confessed leaving her friends with shocked looks. "You see ever since I first met him, I keep getting this warm sensation whenever I'm around Nate. Sometimes I catch myself staring at him in awe; he's just so kind, caring, and kind of cute," she continued with her face becoming red at the word "cute." "I wanted to tell him this for a while but I was unsure if he felt the same way towards me. But when he hugged me after that whole Oni incident, I feel like he does like me, that's why I'm going to tell him today to confirm my suspicions."
The Yo-Kai just stared at her surprised on what she had just said. The silence was then eventually broken with Frostina squealing and flying circles around Katie, leaving snowflakes everywhere she went, "Oh Katie I'm so proud of you. You have no idea how long I been waiting to hear that," she said with glee.
"Have you been waiting for at least a month, now can you please stop flying circles it's starting to get cold," Katie said while shivering up, causing Frostina to slow down to a stop. "Sorry, it's just I'm so excited that soon you and Nate will finally be a couple, even though you guys are technically a couple already," Frostina said.
"We're not a couple, why does everyone keep saying that," Katie says with an annoyed look, "Besides don't get your hopes up, there's still a chance he doesn't like me like that and I'll just be in the friend zone."
"Katie you have no reasons for worrying, I've been around you for the shortest amount of time and I have seen signs that Nate sees you as more than just a friend," said Shadow Venoct, "You may have not noticed it but by the way he looks at you, he sees you as one the most caring people he knows." Everyone just stared at him with surprised looks; they never thought Shadow would be the one to give such romantic advice.
"Wow Shadow, you sound like you know from experience," Katie said with a smile. "I don't like to talk about it," he said while returning to the closet.
"Well anyways, thanks for the encouraging words. I just hope they won't be for nothing," Katie said as she heads out her room with Frostina beside her. "You sure you're ready for this Katie?" Frostina asked. "No not at all, but I can't keep ignoring this. I need to know," Katie replied.
*10 minutes later*
Nate is just waiting outside the school for Katie to show up. He got a message from her saying that she wanted to tell him something that is very important. "Wonder what she wants to tell me, her message made it seem like it was serious," he thought to himself.
Unbeknownst to him, there was an unexpected guest staring at him with love struck eyes in the distance. They belonged to a girl about his age and wearing a black sweater over her light blue shirt. Her brown hair was pulled back in pig tails and she was wearing long black jeans and black sneakers. This was Lilly Platz, a young girl who is new to the school and is in the same class as Nate. She is usually kind and gentile but may come off as aggressive sometimes.
Since she moved to the school, she made a couple of friends but also developed a huge crush on Nate since she first laid eyes on him. Today she was going to tell Nate how she felt and has high hopes that he feels the same. "This is it; soon I'll be together with the boy of my dreams. Well let's do this," she said to herself as she walked towards Nate.
She was going to call for him when she was beaten by another girl calling for him. "Are you serious I'm beaten by her? Calm down Lilly, they could just be friends I'll just wait and see what happens," she said as she hid behind the wall and eavesdropping on what they had to say.
Nate had heard Katie call him and he turned to see her coming his way. "Hey Katie, how's it going?" Nate asked starting the conversation. "Oh, nothing much just been meeting a lot of new friends," she replied while her and Nate were laughing at her joke. (A/N: Surely you guys get it right?)
"Good one Katie, now you wanted to tell me something," Nate said.
Katie knew that the time was now to tell Nate how she felt, "Yeah Nate, it's been something I wanted to say this for a while." "Really, what is it?" Nate said now curious at what she wanted to say. Katie could feel her heart beating madly. She was nervous about this so much that her face was starting to burn up. "Well Nate…um…what I wanted to say is…hehehe…I…" she stuttered trying to get the words she needed. Before she could finish her sentence, the bell saying that school had begun was ringing.
Katie sighed in relief releasing all the tension that was on her, "Talk about saved by the bell," she thought. "Oh well guess we better get going, think maybe you can meet me on the roof after school?" "Yeah definitely," Nate replied as he and Katie started to head to class.
Back with Lilly, she was furious with how she was almost beaten by Katie. "So she likes him too, I can't let this happen he's meant for me," she said. She then noticed the watch that he's always been wearing since she has been in the school, "There's something about that watch that makes it special to Nate. Wait, I know what I must do," Lilly said while having a wicked glee on her face.
In class, Nate could only think about what Katie wanted to tell him. "She seemed so nervous, not to mention her face was all red and she was stuttering trying to talk to me. Wait a second, could it be she was trying to tell me that she likes me," he thought to himself realizing that she might have feelings for him. "Could that be it, I hope so. Guess I just have to wait until we see each other again."
Meanwhile, Katie was also lost in thought about her earlier encounter with Nate. "Well I definitely messed up on telling Nate how I feel about him. I just got all flustered and couldn't find the words to tell him. If I can't tell him before, will I be able tell him later on," she thought to herself. Frostina, who was bored out of her mind from class going on, had noticed that Katie was looking distressed, "Katie are you still thinking about what happened earlier? You need to snap out of it, so you messed up it's always like that when you try to confess your feelings. Look you'll be fine later on," she said trying to reassure her.
Katie looked at her and showed a smile seeing that she was starting to feel better, but there was one question that was in her mind after what Frostina said, "How does she know how hard it is to tell someone how you feel?"
*Near the end of school*
Lilly was just about to start her plan to get together with Nate. She saw him walking in the direction she was in and knew now it was the time, "Let's see how special that watch is to you," she said as she "accidentally" bumped into him.
"Oh sorry about that, I'm such a klutz," she said trying to keep calm while her mind is going nuts on talking to him. "No no, I should've seen where I was walking. I'm sorry about that," Nate said looking up to see who he bumped into, "Hey you're the new kid in our class, Lilly right." All she did was looked up in shock, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! He knows my name! Calm down Lilly, you need to keep talking in order for this to work," she thought, "Yep that's me, and you're that Nate kid, the one that everyone says is just so average."
Nate grumbled when she said "average" but kept it to himself, "Yeah, that's what everyone says about me. Here let me get your stuff," he said while bending down to grab Lilly's bag. "Oh no it's ok I got it, but thanks anyways," she said while bending down as well. While going for her bag, their hands brushed past each other causing Lilly to blush which Nate didn't notice.
Soon the bell rung saying that school ended and gave the signal for Nate to see Katie. "Well I need to get going, see you some other time Lilly," he said as he walked towards the roof. "Yes Nate, I'll see you soon. Sooner than you expect," she said while looking at what she held in her hand. She was holding what she actually reached down for, Nate's watch.
On the roof, Katie was frantically walking around, trying to find the right words to tell Nate, "Perhaps, 'Nate, since I met you I had this strong feeling about you.' No, maybe 'Nate I wanted to say that I like you, been like that since I've known you.' No not that either."
Frostina just watched her while sweat dropping, "Now I see what Whisper and Jibanyan meant when they said this was just sad to watch."
"Did you say something Frostina?" Katie asked seeing that her friend seemed annoyed. "It's nothing. Katie don't you think you're making a big deal out of this," Frostina replied.
"Maybe but you don't know what it's like when you want to confess your feeling towards somebody," Katie said.
"If only you knew Katie, I know all too well how that feels like," Frostina thought with a depressed expression.
Before Katie could say anything to Frostina's expression, she saw Nate coming her way, "Well it's now or never," she said as she walked towards Nate.
"Hey Katie, how was your day?" Nate asked trying to start the conversation at a good start.
"It was fine how was yours?" she replied trying to stall as much time as possible.
"It was ok thanks for asking. So what was it that you wanted to tell me," Nate said.
"So much for stalling time, well I guess it's time," "Well Nate I've been meaning to say is…you see…" she said while her stuttering returned along with her red face.
"Get in line sister," a voice said to them. When they turned to see who it was, they saw Lilly with an agitated expression. "Lilly, what are you doing here?" Nate asked curious on her sudden appearance.
"Oh nothing much, I'm just here to ask you something," she said with a smirk, "How would you like to go on a date with me?"
Nate and Katie just stood there with shocked expressions, Katie was however furiously thinking about what just happened, "Wait what, did she just ask that. Why didn't I say anything earlier?"
"Um Lilly I'm flattered but we just met, I barely know much about you," Nate said in an awkward tone. Katie sighed in relief knowing that Nate declined Lilly's offer. However, Lilly wasn't done yet.
"Really, well then I guess you won't mind if I keep this with me do you," Lilly said while holding up Nate's watch in her hand. Seeing that she had his watch, Nate checked his wrist and saw that he didn't have his watch on, "How did you get that?"
"Back when we bumped into each other, I grabbed this while you were picking up my bag. Tell me Nate, how important is this watch to you," she said with a smirk.
"It's really important, it's a family heirloom. I need that back," Nate said while lying about what the watch really is. "Oh really well I'll make you a deal, you can have your watch back if you go on a date with me. How about it?" Lilly said.
Nate and Katie just stood there with shocked expressions not knowing what to say. This girl who they barely know is blackmailing Nate to go on a date with her in exchange for his Yo-Kai watch. Nate was about to say something before he was stopped by Katie. "Could you excuse us for second?" she said before pulling Nate away from Lilly.
"Well this is unexpected, do we have any plans on how we are going to get the Yo-Kai watch back," Whisper said. "Nate what are going to do?" Katie asked.
"The only plan I can think of is the one you guys won't like," Nate said.
Katie gasped in shock when she realized where Nate was going with this, "Nate you aren't actually considering doing this do you?"
"I wish I wasn't, but there's no other choice. I have to go with her if it means getting back the Yo-Kai watch," Nate said. "WHAT!" the Yo-Kai shouted at Nate's decision.
"Nate I don't think this is a good idea, surely we can find another way," Katie said frantically. "Katie calm down it's not like I want to do this. If there was another way I would take, is everything ok with you," Nate said seeing that she seemed to be against this idea a bit more than he expected her to be.
"Now may not be a good time to state this, but perhaps Katie is jealous that Lilly asked you on a date and not her. In fact I have a feeling that was why she…" Whisper said before getting interrupted by the humans showing red faces. "Shut up Whisper!"
"Anyways, what you can do Katie is try to get the watch from her so that we can end this quickly," Nate said.
"Alright Nate, you can count on me," she said. "I know I can," Nate said before walking back to Lilly.
"Sigh, what time do you want to meet," he said with signs of grief. Lilly let out a small squeal so that Nate wouldn't hear it, "I was thinking in about an hour from now at Gourd Park, how does that sound," she said gleefully. "Whatever, it'll do."
"Alrighty then, I'll see you then," she said as she left Nate and Katie alone. "So far so good, if all works out he'll decide to be with me instead of Katie."
Nate then turned towards Katie who had a worried expression on her face, "Really hope this works."
I hate myself for doing this, but cliffhanger. Before anyone starts saying stuff, this won't be a long arc like the Oni Rampage. It'll probably go until the next chapter and then we'll move on. Now I want to take this time to announce a few things.
1. I'm officially on spring break so now I'll have more time to write these things.
2. After much thinking about it, I have decided that Eim espina's OC will be in this story starting next chapter, you'll see what I mean.
3. I really did not enjoy writing Lilly but if you guys want to see more of her then I'll find a way to implement her in other chapters.
4. I got a request for Eddie to meet a Yo-Kai called Sunao, now I might find this interesting but I can't come up with a good storyline on how so if you can review how that'll happen I'll see if I can add it on.
5. You all might be wondering why Sailornyan and Shadow Venoct are Katie's roommates, they have some roles to play in other stories that I have plan.
6. I should announce that soon I'll be posting the first chapter of another story I'm doing called "Katie's New Friends," which will be some oneshots on how Katie met some of the Yo-Kai.
7. Before I get any controversy on Katie thinking so much on how Nate feels towards her because of a single hug, keep in mind that this is my first fanficiton and I'm new to the whole romance stuff.
8. Again I ask for you guys to honestly tell me if these newer chapters aren't as good as my previous one, I only got one review on that but I need to hear from more of you guys.
9. Lastly, starting next chapter I will start to review some reviews you guys have so if there are any questions you have I encourage you to tell me so I can try to answer them to the best of my ability.
Anyway with all that out of the way, as always if you guys enjoyed please leave a review and a suggestion for the story. Thank you and stay alert for the next chapter.