" " = Talking

' ' = Thinking

The Trip Part 10

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Next morning…

"Wake up" a voice called from faraway.

'It's Ryoma's voice…I have never dreamed about Echizen before…should I obey the voice, wake up, or keep sleeping and hearing the voice.' Sakuno asked herself.

"Wake up" the voice called again.

'I think I will keep sleeping and listening to his sweet voice…' Sakuno decided.

"Sakuno, if you don't wake up you will miss breakfast…" Ryoma's voice warned her gently.

'Is Echizen really in my dream?' asked Sakuno to herself.

She slowly opened her eyes and saw Echizen right in front of her, she nearly screamed, but she contained herself and stood up immediately.

"Ohayo!" said Echizen with a sweet smile.

Sakuno still a little surprised, answered Echizen "Ohayo"

"Can we go?" Echizen asked Sakuno with a gentle voice.

Sakuno had always loved Echizen's voice, but she had never heard the tone that he was using right now. She was so amazed that she couldn't speak, so she just nodded staring straight at Ryoma's beautiful eyes. Sakuno hurried to the bathroom to change and when she came back Echizen was waiting for her with a smile across his beautiful face.

"Shall we go?" Echizen asked Sakuno still smiling.

Sakuno, once again, nodded again because of lack of words.

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Echizen and Sakuno headed to the hotel's restaurant, where the hotel was serving they arrived there, they saw a table where the Regulars were sitting.

"Ohayo!" the whole table greeted.

"Ohayo" Sakuno and Echizen greeted back.

Sakuno took a sit across from Echizen when Kaido-sempai came back with two plates with his breakfast on them. He was a little surprised by Sakuno's presence just after he went to get his breakfast. He sat down on his sit, which was next to Sakuno.

"Ohayo" Kaido-sempai finally greeted, he tried not to make eye contact with Sakuno.

"Ohayo" Sakuno replied nervous.

Echizen's temperature went uppp…

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Breakfast passed very slowly for almost everyone because…

Sakuno- Had to sit next to Kaido-sempai-who had hugged her the night before-for the whole period.

Echizen- Had to see Sakuno who was sitting next to Kaido-sempai, she blushed everytime he looked at her or tried to start a conversation and Eimi appeared out of nowhere, sat next to him and didn't stop talking for the whole time.

Kaido- Had to sit to Sakuno the whole time and she didn't seem to have forgotten about the hug.

At the beach…

Eimi had invited herself to go to the beach with the Regulars that afternoon. Sakuno tried to keep the maximum distance away from Eimi since last night. Coach Sumire had also planned some games for that afternoon "I'm going to divide you into two teams and these two teams will play 'treasure hunt' this afternoon. At the end of the day, the team who finds the 'trasure' can keep it…" Coach explained.

"Ok!!!" they agreed excitedly.

"What are the teams?" Asked Fuji-sempai even more excited.

"Inui, Tezuka, Fuji, Eiji and Momo are team A and Sakuno, Ryoma, Eimi, Kaido and Oishi are team B."

The Regulars, Sakuno and Eimi divided into their two teams and then Sumire gave them their first hint.

"Why don't we divide into pairs, so it will be easier to find the treasure…"Oishi suggested.

Oishi seeing Ryoma's, Sakuno's and Kaido's reaction thought 'Why do they look so uneasy about splitting into pairs?'

"Kaido and Sakuno will head to the forest, I'm going to the hotel and Ryoma and Eimi will stay at the beach." Oishi told them about his plan.

Even though some people weren't happy about Oishi's plan, they tried not to show it and obeyed him.

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Sakuno and Kaido: Forest. The forest is on the beach but not a lot of people go there, they most stay at the beach and go camping at night.

Ryoma and Eimi: Beach. On that day, the beach wasn't very crowded but not empty…

Oishi: Hotel. A meeting is happening with the Japanese emperor, so very crowded.

Sakuno and Kaido had headed to the forest as Oishi-sempai had told them to.

"What do you think the prize will be?" Kaido-sempai asked a little nervous, but of course Sakuno couldn't tell, he had finally broken the silent.

Sakuno a little surprised answered, "I don't know…"

Kaido-sempai looked at the cute girl sitting next to him, 'She's still shocked by last night…'he thought.

"Is something wrong?" he asked with a gentle voice.

"Nothing." Sakuno replied forcing a sweet smile, she was hoping that her face wouldn't reveal her feelings.

Kaido seeing Sakuno smiling, smiled back.

Beach…

"Yey! I'm so happy that I'm together with Ryoma-kun!" Eimi squealed.

'I don't know why I just remembered Tomoka, the noisy girl…' thought Echizen.

"Ryoma-kun!" Eimi yelled (again).

Hearing Eimi's high voice made Ryoma wake up and turn around. He saw that Eimi was sitting on the sand with a 3 years old sad face.

"Help! I'm tired!" Eimi complained making a cute face. (A face that she thought was cute because Ryoma thought the opposite about that face.)

"Eimi, it hasn't been even 10 minutes that we are walking, and you are already tired?" Ryoma asked in disbelief.

"Look" Eimi told Ryoma while pointing to the red mark on her ankle.

"What happened?" he asked worried.

"I fell…" said Eimi quietly, while looking down, so Ryoma couldn't see her face.

"Come on" Ryoma said while giving her his hand to help her to stand up.

Eimi seeing Ryoma's hand reaching her, smiled.

"Can you walk?"asked Ryoma still a little worried.

Eimi made a face which was a 'no'.

He putted her arm around his shoulders, so he could support her body.

In the forest….

Kaido-sempai, I'm going to take a look over there." Sakuno told Kaido while heading deeper into the forest.

"Wait! I will go with you"

"It's ok…I think that passage is too small for you, I will go and come back as soon as I can, ok?"

Sakuno told her sempai and giving him a sweet smile.

Kaido wasn't really sure about Sakuno's idea but didn't say anything. He didn't want to make her more sad than she already was 'I will let she be alone for a while…'he thought.

Sakuno started walking forward before Kaido-sempoi changed his mind and stop her.

Beach…

"I want to get some seashells" Ryoma told Eimi-who was still using him as support- while heading towards the ocean.

"Wait!...Why?" Eimi asked surprised by the sudden request from Ryoma.

"I wanna give them to someone" Ryoma replied not paying attention to Eimi and just heading towards the ocean.

"I'm hurt, remember?" Eimi asked impatiently.

"Eimi, it's just water" Ryoma said heading to the water even though Eimi was against the idea.

Ryoma carefully looked through the shells and when he found one that was different and prettier than the others, he would pick it up slowly because of Eimi. After a while, he decided that he had enough, so he reached down for the last one when he saw that the red mark on Eimi's ankle had disappeared. He slowly reached her ankle and touched the spot where the mark was to check what he was seeing.

"I can explain…" Eimi started saying desperately.

"What were you thinking?" Ryoma asked angry.

Forest…

It was dark and Sakuno couldn't see anything.

"Ouch" she whispered after falling to the ground and touching her ankle. She tried to stand but her ankle wasn't obeying her command. 'I think it's broken…'

Outside…

'She's sure taking her time…' thought Kaido-sempai worried sick.

He decided to follow her but stopped. "Ugh! I can't go through!" he complained angrily at himself. 'Just like she said…my height won't let me go in.' he thought becoming more worried.

'I'm going to get help…hold on Sakuno!'

I hope you liked this chapter! Thank you for reading, if you have any feedback, suggestions, etc please review! I will update the next chapter soon ^^