Hello people! Ok, this is the new chapter to The Ice Master's New Problems! I actually think the title is too boring but... Anyways, happy 2007 to you all! Since I didn't have enough time to write the second part to day 12/31, I'll be writing it now. Anyways, this chapter should get to be long. Sorry, I was going to go as the days went, but since you know New Year's is busy and all, I didn't have time until today. So, I realize that it is not in time with our world, but please deal with it.
Chapter 9: The Last Day of This Year
The crew went downstairs to the little cafe in the hotel. All they wanted was a little breakfast, and since most people stayed with their families during the last day of the year, not many people were staying in the hotel. They reached the little counter in the front of the hotel restaurant. The attendant was very quick in responding, although he was quite sleepy. "Is there anything you gentlemen and ladies will like?"
Hitsugaya stepped forward to answer, "We would like to eat breakfast here." The attendant looked at him in a peculiar way.
He said, "Hey kid, I was talking to that lady with the orange hair, not a brat like you." Hitsugaya finally exploded.
"Well, I must apologize for being such a brat, as you say," his was getting more threatening. "But I still think that I have more worth of living than a pathetic, human-" Before he could say anything else, Matsumoto stepped in.
"Oh, we just want to get some breakfast here, if you don't mind," she said clearly rushed.
"Our rooms are 309, 304, and 311," said Hinamori quickly. Don't get Shiro-chan angry!
"Ok, right this way please," the attendant said. They sat in a big table for 6 people and since there was no one else there, a waitress immediately came to them.
"Hello, everyone, my name is-"
"Just shut up and take our orders," an icy glare came from a certain white-haired boy who looked awfully mature for his age.
"Ok, if you insist. What would you like?" she was asking Hitsugaya.
"Bagel and cream cheese," he looked towards the rest of them. "Well, what are you waiting for?" Matsumoto was thinking: well, you can't really blame him. He's been called brat or kid two times already and he pretty much hates that.
"Um, I would like a cup of black coffee and French toast please," she then turned to wards Suiran. Just please say your orders so taichou won't be even more pissed! Suiran got her message.
"Ok, can I have misoshiru (miso soup) and two onigiris (rice balls?)" then she quickly added, "Can I also have green tea?"
"Yes, I got that," the waitress turned to Hinamori. "How about you, young lady?"
"Um, can I have ice tea and waffles?"
"Ok, chick. Give me a rice omelet, 5 pancakes, a clam chowder, and hot chocolate for a drink." They all stared at Renji. "Wha-what do you want? We didn't have any dinner yesterday! I'm fucking hungry!"
"Ok, calm down Abarai-kun. Um, can I have a hot dog?"
"Alright. So a bagel and cream cheese, French toast, black coffee, misoshiru, two onigiris, ice tea, waffle, rice omelet, 5 pancakes, a clam chowder, and hot dog, correct?" a nod from all of them. "Ok, they will be here soon." She left still thinking about Hitsugaya's attitude. What the hell was wrong with that kid? After she left, Suiran whispered to Hitsugaya.
"Hitsugaya-Taichou. You really need to control your temper sometimes," she said. "These people don't know that you are actually 100 years old or so, and that you hate to be called a brat by people about a 1/3 of your age."
"Whatever," he sighed. Within 5 minutes their orders were ready.
"Please enjoy your branch (well, it was already about 11,)" she bowed and left. Their breakfast/lunch was deadly quite until Hitsugaya broke the silence.
"I'm just wondering out of pure curiosity, but," he stared at Suiran and Matsumoto. "Are these kimonos your work?" They were really surprised that he actually guessed it was them.
"Um…Well, today there's a New Year's Festival and I thought it will be nice if we wore kimonos to go to it!" Suiran was sounding kind of nervous.
"Why should I go to-" started Hitsugaya.
"Oh come on Shiro-chan!" Hinamori was blushing. "Um, I want to go to the festival with you." She suddenly realized that she added two extra words. "I-I-I-I mean that I want to go to the festival!" She was really red, and when she opened her eyes a very surprising sight.
Hitsugaya Toushirou was blushing, he stammered. "Stu-stupid bed wetter Momo! I never said anything about not going." He turned away. "Well, anyways since we are already done eating, let's go back to our rooms until we leave for the festival." He jumped out of his seat and headed towards his room.
"Hehe, of course Hitsugaya-Jyubantai-Taichou!" said Suiran giggling. "Come on guys before he gets another tantrum." Suddenly she heard a thud. When Suiran turned around to see what was wrong, Hitsugaya had one knee on the ground. Oh damn! It's here already! They all rushed to him.
"Hitsugaya-Taichou, are you ok?" Renji asked first and helped him up.
"I'm fine, thanks Abarai," he said. "Come on let's go to our rooms." What the hell was that? All of my energy just: banished. It's like when I lost all my reiatsu when Hyourinmaru was out of control. But, this time he's not out of control or anything. As, they all left Suiran stood there considering her options. Well, I suppose I can tell him later. She ran up to the rest of them.
So they all went to their rooms until the festival.
Room 304:
"Well, Kira now you have no chance at all," sneered Renji.
"Wha-what are you talking about Abarai-kun?" he stammered.
"I'm saying that now you have no chance at getting Hinamori," Renji replied. "You heard her say "with you." It's kind of been obvious that you like her."
"No, I don't!" Kira turned red. "I just- like her as a friend."
"Yeah right"
"Abarai-kun!"
"Well, either way we should go to Rangiku-san and Ryuzak-Taichou's room to help with the plan."
"Ok."
Room 311:
Hitsugaya and Hinamori were both sitting on their beds, away from each other and the atmosphere was quiet. Then, Hinamori bit her lip and turned to Hitsugaya.
"Um, Hitsugaya-kun," I'm going to tell him.
"What?"
"I want to tell you that I-,"
"What?"
"That I love, love… I LOVE HOT TAMALES!" she was red. Oh no!
"Ah, hot tamales, right…"
"Never mind," I messed up!
"Oh, ok." What did she want to tell me? They were silent for another couple minutes until this time Hitsugaya broke the silence.
"Um, Hinamori?" What am I doing!
"What is it Hitsugaya-kun?" she jumped up.
"Ugh, well, never mind," What the hell am I doing?
"Ah, ok then." This is not working.
Room 311:
"Matsumoto-san, how about this," Suiran pointed to a sheet of paper filled with like 50 plans.
"Oh! That's a good one too! Suiran you really are good at this!"
"Hehe, thanks."
"Ok, this year, we are so going to make them confess to each other."
"Yeah," as Suiran said that, a knock came on the door. "Coming!" She rushed to the door and opened it to find Renji and Kira. "Welcome! You guys ready to go over the brilliant plan me and Matsumoto-san created?"
"Sure," sneered Renji. They headed towards the table where Matsumoto was waiting.
"Ok, Renji and Kira. First of all, we are going to tell you about our little teams," said Matsumoto. Then Suiran took up a piece of paper.
"Renji, Kira, I thought it would be a good idea for us to work in pairs, so it will either be me and Matsumoto-san, or you two together. Also for some entertainments that require couples, it will be me and Renji, and Matsumoto-san and Kira, got it?"
"Roger!" They all put up a hand to their heads. So that is how it went in Room 311 until 6:00 when they were to leave for the festival.
At 6:00 PM:
A knock came on Room 311's door. It was Hitsugaya and Hinamori. "What are you bastards doing?" inquired Hitsugaya. They were all huddling over a huge piece of paper with what looked like some kind of plans.
"Oh, nothing, nothing," said Suiran and whispered to the others, "You guys got it right?" They all put their thumbs up. "Ok, on to the festival!"
At the festival:
There were a lot of people at the festival; families, couples, friends, and a whole lot of other people who were just there for the heck of it. Well, since in Japan, New Year's is really important. There was a lot of chouchin (if you want to see a picture of it go to: http://www.japanesegift.jp/images/ch03maturir.jpg) hang all over the place which took about 10 acres. There were a lot of stations for food, games, and other attractions. The gang received a lot of attention.
"Hey look at that guy with red hair! He's definitely a yakuza (because he has tattoos)."
"Wow, the orange-haired lady is wearing an over decorated kimono. Is she some kind of narccisst?"
"Awwww! Look at that boy with the white hair! He is so cute!"
"The guy with blonde hair looks really emo."
"Look at the girl with raven hair! Is she some kind of super model?"
"The girl with pig tails is like the only normal one."
Hitsugaya was getting irritated. Why must this happen every time we come to the human world? They headed to a food station. Hitsugaya and Renji got yakisoba, Suiran and Hinamori got takoyaki, Kira got a shiskabob ( is that how you spell it?), and Matsumoto got teriyaki. They went to a little table and sat there. Then Suiran suddenly started talking.
"Ok, let's meet back here in two hours so we can all go to some kind of attraction. But, until that time, we should divide into 3 pairs to go around different stations separately. How's that?" No one objected. "Me and Matsumoto-san, Kira and Renji, and Hitsugaya-Taichou and Momo-chan. Right now it's about 6:30, so meet here at 8:30 ok?" Mou! Suiran-chan! Stop trying to put me together with Hitsugaya-kun!
Suiran & Matsumoto:
"Ok, so that worked out well," announced Suiran. "So what do you want to do first?"
"How about scouting for good looking guys to tamper with?"
"No. How about that station over there where you can get goldfish by scooping them?"
"Oh, fine let's go." They went to a little station with a mini pool filled with gold fish, and a little scooper thing that was made of very fragile paper. The guy working there immediately came towards them.
"Hello ladies, would you like to try out?" He handed them two scooping things. Matsumoto tried out, but it ripped before she could do anything.
"Oh man! I couldn't get even one fish!" Suiran went next.
"You have to be gentler with them!" She gently scooped up 4 gold fish and showed them to Matsumoto. "See?"
"Wow, you got skill!" Suiran smiled and said thanks.
"Ok, now on to the darts!"
Kira and Renji:
These two were at an all-eating contest where you compete on how much you can keep eating. Kira was out.
"Ok, please no more!" he collapsed after eating 7 plates.
"What the hell Kira! Ok, I'll keep on going for you. Come one you! Bring the next plate!" The little boy working there was surprised since this was his 20th plate. He wondered why the red-haired dude was so desperate just to get a huge rabbit doll.
Hitsugaya and Hinamori:
These two were still sitting at the little table. "So, where do you want to go to Hinamori?"
"Eh? Oh, um… How about that shooting place over there?"
"Sure," he stood up and headed towards that attraction, Hinamori right behind him. The shooting place was filled with prizes, depending on how many cans the player can hit. Hinamori found a really cute looking plushy of a bear.
"Awwwww! Hitsugaya-kun! Look at that adorable bear plushy! Ok! I'm going to get that!"
"Good luck," he replied.
"Here I go!" She missed the first one. "Oh man! Missed!" she missed the next two as well. "Oh, well I did try." Hitsugaya stepped forward and grabbed a gun.
"I'll go next," he said. He aimed and shot three cans right away. Hinamori looked really impressed.
"Wow! Hitsugaya-kun you're good at this!"
"Ok, boy what do you want?" Hitsugaya pointed to the bear.
"That."
"Eh?" Hinamori was blushing.
Hitsugaya received the bear and gave it to Hinamori. "Here you go, Hinamori."
"Um, thanks." The worker looked at them.
"Are you two a couple?" They both blushed deeply.
At 8:30
Everyone except for Renji and Kira were already there at the little table by 8:30. Suiran suddenly asked Hinamori, "Hey is that bear from Hitsugaya-Taichou by any chance?"
"Um, yeah… He got it in a game for… me," Hinamori was deeply blushing.
Then Matsumoto suddenly said, "I wonder where those to vagabonds went to." When she looked up, she saw two people coming towards them, walking very sluggishly. "Whoa! What in the world happened to you two?" They answered in unison.
"We overate at a contest to get a rabbit doll," they announced. Renji held up the rabbit.
"Ok! Now, we should go to something all together," said Suiran. "How about that haunted house over there?" Again, no objections. They headed towards a very creepy looking house with a bunch of skulls attached to it. "OKKKK! Let's go in!" A guy with a vampire costume came to face them.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen!" he said. "This is for couples only, so please divide into couples." Suiran took Renji's arm.
"Ok I'm with him!" and Matsumoto grabbed Kira
"Um, so I guess, I'm with you Hitsugaya-kun," said Hinamori. Hitsugaya grunted.
Kira and Matsumoto:
They were currently walking through the graveyard of the haunted house. Kira was shaking like crazy. He suddenly turned to Matsumoto, "Um Matsumoto-san, are ghosts real?"
She looked at him like he was crazy, "Oh my god Kira. We are shinigami, and we've seen about a bunch of spirits aka ghosts!"
"Oh, true," he said. Then a one-eyed ghost came out of nowhere along with a very cold wind.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!"
"Why did I have to come with him?" sighed Matsumoto.
Suiran and Renji:
They were walking through the haunted mansion region. "Hey, Ryuzaki-Taichou?"
"Hm? What's up?"
"Well, why do you want to get those two together so much?" he had been wondering that for ages.
"Because they love each other and are too shy to admit it to each other," she replied.
"Oh," he said. "Well, anyways I guess plan 31: "make sure to get them together in a scary place" has gone well."
"Yeah!" Then a ghost appeared in front of them and she started laughing. "These ghost imitations are so adorable!"
"Um sure," Renji was starting to think if she actually loved ghosts.
Hitsugaya and Hinamori:
They were at the graveyard section now. They had heard Kira screaming here earlier, so Hinamori was really scared.
"This is really scary isn't it Shiro-chan?"
"Don't call me that Bed-wetter Momo!"
"But, I'm scared!!!" She was shaking all over.
"It's not even real," said Hitsugaya. He felt kind of sorry for her. A bunch of zombies suddenly touched her shoulder.
"KYAAAAAHHH!" Before she knew it she was hugging something.
"Hi-hinamori?" She opened her eyes.
"Hi-hi-hi-hi-hitsugaya-kun! I'm so sorry!" she immediately let go of him. What was I doing?
"Ah, it's um… No problem," Hitsugaya was redder than she had ever seen him before. "Close your eyes and I'll lead you out of here. That way you won't have to get scared by those cheap imitations."
"Ok," she closed her eyes.
Outside:
When Hitsugaya and Hinamori went outside, they saw a laughing Suiran and creeped out Kira.
"That was very frightening, I am never doing that again," said Kira, still gasping for air since after the grave yard, he ran out of the building.
"HAHAHA! That was completely hilarious! Let's go in again sometime!" No one could understand what was so funny about a bunch of ghost machines.
"Um, sure," said Hinamori. "So where next?" She took out a map of the festival. Suiran peeked over her shoulder.
"Hey! How about the roller coaster?" she said. Kira looked confused.
"Um, Ryuzaki-Taichou, I don't mean to be rude, but how can there be a roller coaster at a festival?" he inquired.
"Actually, this is an amusement park," Kira turned around to find Hitsugaya right behind him.
"Eeek! Hitsugaya-Taichou, please don't scare me like that right after I came out of that nightmare!"
"Ugh, they are nothing more than imitations," said Hitsugaya. "Anyways, these humans decided to have the festival at an amusement park to make it more interesting. But, incase you didn't notice, it said: Yukijima Yuchien (Snow Land Amusement Park) when we came in through the gates." Wow, these people are blind.
"So, now we can go to it right?" Matsumoto was ready from the looks of it; she had tied her hair in a ponytail. "Let's go already!"
"Ugh, and I already feel sick," said Kira.
Before Roller Coaster Station:
"Hello, welcome to the "Deadly Shinigami!" It is the second most thrilling ride in this amusement park," a robot came forward to greet them. Suiran stepped forward.
"Oh my god! What is this? Is it some kind of kaizou konpaku?" It seemed that it was Suiran's first time seeing a robot. "Wow, how does it move on its own! This is amazing!" She was looking at it from all angles. "Hm. That switch looks like the button to opening the computer system. This is sooooo cool!" The people lining up behind them started complaining.
"Hey girl! We are waiting here," a guy said. But Suiran was too absorbed in the robot to hear. The guy couldn't take it anymore. "You! Move out of the way!" He ran to her, his fist ready. Then something stopped him.
"Huh?" Hitsugaya had stopped him with just one finger. "Hey kid! If you don't want to get hurt, get out of the way!" He tried moving, but he couldn't go forward. What's with this kid? "Yo, shorty! A little toothless brat like you should-" He had crossed the line. Hitsugaya flicked him and he flew all the way to the closest tree, about 15 meters away.
"Learn to be patient, fool," he was definitely mad. Then Suiran popped up.
"Ok, sorry about that!" Everyone there sighed. It was a really long line inside and they had to wait for about 30 minutes to finally get to the front of the line. A guy in a cloak with a skull mask and scythe asked them where they wanted to sit.
Everyone except for Kira said, "Front!" Even as she said that, Matsumoto looked a little confused. She took Suiran to the side and asked her, soft enough for the others not to hear, "Um, out of curiosity, why didn't you choose a ride that was for couples?"
"Oh! Well, that's so that those two won't suspect us too much," she continued. "This was plan 5. Don't you remember?"
"Actually, no," said Matsumoto.
"OI! Ryuzaki-Taichou, Rangiku-san! We are going on now!" Renji was waiting for them. They hopped on the ride and strapped themselves with multiple seat belts. Kira was turning blue as the ride started.
"If I get sick after this, you are so going to pay for the medicine Matsumoto-san," he said.
"Hey! Why not Suiran?"
"Because, she's a higher rank than us," he replied. Suiran was smiling.
"Oh, I don't mind Izuru," she said. Kira shrugged. At least he was in the middle. This was the order they were in from right to left: Hitsugaya, Hinamori, Suiran, Kira, Matsumoto, and then Renji. Hinamori turned to her right.
"Hitsugaya-kun, I'm really sorry for what happened in the haunted house," she sighed.
"It's, um, no big deal," he said. Suiran was eaves dropping into their conversation. Hm, it's going well so far. They had reached about 300 meters above ground and suddenly the ride stopped.
"Huh?" Before anyone could say something else, the ride started immediately, going straight down vertically.
"YEAHHHHH!" Suiran was like the only person not holding on to the seat for dear life. Hinamori was holding Hitsugaya's hand. Kira felt like he was about throw up. Renji knew that this was pure torture. Matsumoto realized too late that it was a very bad idea to follow Suiran in a situation like this. They went through about 5 more of these, 8 loops, and a bunch of high speed zigzags. By the end of it everyone was worn out, other than Suiran who was still jumping up and down exclaiming about how advanced human technology was. Kira was literally on the ground.
"I'm not feeling so good," he really didn't look well.
"We'll take you to the bathroom," said Renji. He and Hitsugaya half carried Kira to the closest man's bathroom there was. Suiran was just waving her hand.
"If this is what the second most thrilling is, I wonder what the most thrilling is like!" she was all hyped up by the ride.
"Suiran-chan, you have way too much energy," said Hinamori. Matsumoto nodded in agreement. "Hehe."
"What time is it Suiran?" Matsumoto was clutching her stomach.
"It's about 10 PM. We can either go our separate ways again for about half and hour or so, arcade, the most thrilling roller coaster (two grunts at this), get food, well I don't think Kira wants to do that, there's also some kind of contest with teams of 6, and the last option is just sitting here until the fireworks start. I mean it's only 2 hours till next year."
"I want to do the contest thing!" said Matsumoto. "What's the prize?" Suiran started looking at the information packet again.
"Well, first place get's a whole set of clothes for six people, 5000000 yen each, all the food you can eat, a trip to Hawaii or something, some expensive make-up kit, and-" Matsumoto cut her off.
"Ok, if there's make up and clothes I'm definitely in!" Hinamori nodded. Then the three guys came back.
"How do you feel Kira-kun?" Hinamori ran up to them
"Oh, much better," he replied. "So what are we going to do next?" Suiran smiled mischievously.
"Contest!" she said excited. "It's close to where the haunted house was! Let's go there now!"
Ok, I told you this chapter is long! I think it was something like 3750 when I did word count. Anyways, I'm sorry I didn't upload for like a really long time. Well, this chapter was going to be longer, but I wanted to leave the contest to the next chapter. Meanwhile I'll try to think of something wacky and wild for the contest. Again, I'm sorry that it is not exactly on time with our world. Please READ AND REVIEW!!!! By the way, thank you to all of you that have reviewed so far!