Target Nine: Summer Festival! (Ari POV)
"Seriously, what is wrong with the youngsters of this era?" I asked while shaking my head.
All the girls just looked at me and shrugged until Kyoko's phone started ringing. She picked it up, and I'm pretty sure it was her mom. After a short conversation, Kyoko turned to us and smiled.
"Kaa-san is here, so let's go! We have to shower first, and then get ready for the summer festival!" Kyoko said, all perky. Haru, and that creepy girl squealed in delight. I think the girl felt my gaze on her back, because she turned around and winked at me.
'The hell?' I thought. 'She was getting creepier by the second.'
We all piled into Kyoko's mom's car, and drove back to her house. We decided earlier, that it would be easier if we all got ready together at Kyoko's place. I was so excited to wear the yukata I just bought, even though I was a little nervous because I have never worn a yukata before. I was very happy with my choice, though.
I was so immersed in my thoughts that we arrived at Kyoko's house in no time.
"Mina!" Kyoko said, getting everybody's attention. "There are three showers in this house, one in my room, and one in the main bathroom. I doubt you guys would want to use Onii-san's bathroom, so we'll have to be quick!" She giggled.
"Actually," I piped up, "I don't mind using Ryohei's bathroom. The salt is sucking the moisture out of my hair and face, and I really need a shower. Plus, Haru already called the main bathroom."
"Are you sure, Ari-chan?" Kyoko asked me, concerned.
"It's fine, it's fine," I waved her off, "It doesn't matter to me anyway."
She nodded, and showed me to Ryohei's room. I wasn't surprised when I saw a bunch of boxing related stuff in his room. His room was relatively neat though, compared to Tsuna's room. I shuddered when the image of Tsuna's dirty messy room implanted itself in my brain.
'That boy,' I thought, shaking my head as I walked into the bathroom, 'He really needs to learn to take care of himself, Maman's not going to take care of him forever.'
When, I got in the shower, I scrubbed my hair and body until I felt impeccably clean. Since it was just the girls and Kyoko's mom at home, I wrapped a towel around myself, and wrapped another one on my head as a towel turban. I then stepped out of the bathroom, humming contently because I didn't smell like seaweed anymore.
Since the towel was falling of my head, I removed it, bent down, and proceeded to wrap my soaking wet hair in the towel again. When I flipped my hair up, I was not prepared to see what I saw.
(Guess whose POV this is? Trust me it's not that hard.)
I looked up from the boxing magazine I was reading, and saw something I was not expecting. Sure I saw the light in my bathroom was on, but I easily forgot about it, as I settled down on my bed to read my boxing. People were still talking about the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight.
Anyway, when I looked, I saw a towel-clad Ari, with another towel on her head. She looked at me with an equal look of surprise on her face. We kind of stared at each other for a little, with a mixed reaction of surprise, shock, and a little horror. This awkward atmosphere was killing me, plus it was so silent. I had to break this awkward silence somehow.
"…A-ano….You are dripping water all over my floor, Ari-chan."
"…" (*Awkward silence continues as Ari walks to the door, opens it, walks out, and then closes it.*)
As I was walking down the hallway to Kyoko's room, I couldn't stop thinking about what just happened. OMG, it was so awkward. Well whatever, I'll just brush it off or something. When I opened the door, all three girls were in lounge clothes and bouncing around. The girl with the weird hair looked at me.
"Hi, I'm Yuki, and what the hell took you so long?" She asked bluntly. I was taken aback at her question, and the scene with Ryohei popped into my mind again. I groaned and flopped down on Kyoko's soft bed.
"Well, I had a really awkward encounter with Ryohei just now," I said, my voice muffled by the bed, but everybody seemed to understand what I was saying.
"Ehhh?" Haru screamed, "You mean he saw you in a towel~desu?"
"Ano….yes?" I said, my face still buried in Kyoko's fluffy blanket. When I looked up, I expected everybody to look at me with disgust, but when I saw their faces I was confused. They were trying to stifle smiles, and giggles, but were horribly failing.
"W-why are you guys laughing?" I questioned, thoroughly confused.
"Because it's funny, you baka!" Yuki said, while playfully throwing a pillow at my face.
I growled, and grabbed another pillow, but there are limits to what you can do when you are only wearing a towel, so I missed and hit Haru instead.
"Pillow fight!" Haru squealed in excitement, as she grabbed the pillow I threw at her and playfully whacked Kyoko. I couldn't help but smile at everybody, as they forced me to participate in this cliché, and girly pillow fight. I smiled to myself, and glanced up, only to meet Yuki's bright purple eyes. She seemed to know exactly what I was thinking, because she flashed a bright smile at me, and then all I saw was white.
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THE END
Just kidding! I didn't die; I just had a pillow thrown in my face by Yuki.
"OMG, the summer festival is going to start soon~desu!" Haru squealed in anticipation.
"If you guys don't hurry up, we aren't going to the festival," I snorted, and Yuki gave my hair an especially hard tug.
"Whoops, my hand slipped. Plus you hair is just so thick, my god."
Apparently Yuki, and Haru, made the mistake of trying to deal with my hair. My hair was thick, and frizzy, and it had a mind of its own.
"Wait 'till you see what I can do with it." Yuki stated, confident in her hair skills.
"Haru, Kyoko, you guys work on your own makeup and hair, ok?" Yuki asked. "I'll deal with Ari's devil hair."
"Ok," The two girls nodded, and busied themselves with their own hair.
A few minutes later, Yuki managed to twist my super thick hair into a pretty neat bun, but it was still a little messy. She let my baby hairs fall out, and arranged them in a presentable fashioned. She then took a curling iron, and curled the hair around my face, even though the strands were slightly wavy. Yuki smirked in satisfaction.
"There," She said smugly, "Don't ever doubt my skills. Wait until I put makeup on you; no one will even recognize you." I blanched at that thought. I wanted people to recognize me. Yuki seemed to see my troubled face, and she laughed. (God, I think that girl had physic powers like Tsuna did.)
"It's ok," She reassured me, "People will recognize you; you will just look different."
Yuki then told me to put my yukata on, and I told her I didn't know how. She just clucked her tongue at me, "Just put it on your body," She said, "We will deal with the details."
I pulled my beautiful, teal blue yukata on, and admired it. I was so happy with y choice, and couldn't wait to show it to everybody, well everybody who hasn't seem my yukata. Yuki saw me walk out in it, and nodded in approval.
"That blue compliments your eyes," She said, weirdly nice. But then I realized why. Yuki, smiled at me wickedly, grabbed the silver obi, and wrapped me in it so tight, I felt like I couldn't breathe.
"H-help…" I managed to wheeze, as Yuki just looked at me and smiled.
"Don't move too much Ari-chan," She said sickly sweet, "If you move too much, you will mess up your hair." I gulped as I felt a deadly aura surround her.
I couldn't help but notice how pretty everybody looked. Kyoko was looking as sweet as ever, in her powder blue yukata with goldfish, and Haru looked equally as cute in her yellow yukata, with clovers all over. But my eyes immediately gravitate toward Yuki's yukata, which was a stunning deep burgundy color, with white orchids, and gold accents. She looked stunning, and mature with a totally different air than Kyoko and Haru.
"Well, let's get our butts to the summer festival!" I called out giddily.
The streets were decked out in lanterns, and streets vendors lined up on either side, trying to get people to visit their stalls. I couldn't look at one thing for more than a second; for fear that I would miss seeing something else. So I probably looked really weird, but whatever.
I spied the chocolate banana stall, and pointed to it.
"That's right!" Kyoko cried, "It wouldn't be the summer festival if we didn't get choco banana!"
"What are we waiting for then?" Yuki asked a knowing smile on her face. "Let's go!"
We all ran (correction: tried to run, because our wooden sandals and yukatas did not permit movement, so we actually shuffled. Read; Yuki, Kyoko, and Haru elegantly glided across the ground, while I awkwardly shuffled.)
When we reached the stall, we all said, "Four choco bananas please!" I was surprised to see Tsuna.
"Waaa, you guys are working a stall?" Kyoko asked, smiling at them. From my side view next to Kyoko I saw Gokudera and Yamamoto pop their heads out.
"Yo," Yamamoto greeted cheerfully.
"Stupid women," Gokudera muttered under his breath. "Distracting us from our sales."
I saw Tsuna visibly blush when he saw Kyoko. I looked at him and smirked, and that only caused him to blush even harder.
'That guy was really an open book when it came to his emotions,' I thought, still grinning at him.
"Awww…" I heard Kyoko say, with a hint of disappointment in her voice, "If you guys are working a stall, then you can't watch the fireworks with us."
"Oh, trust me they will," I heard Yuki say sweetly, but I caught the threat embedded in that statement. The three boys gulped and nodded.
"Well, we will be off having fun, while you guys sell bananas!" I yelled from over my shoulder, teasingly. I was already pulling Kyoko away. "Time to have some fun!"
We visited a ton of the booths, and ate lots of traditional Japanese festival foods, like choco banana, candy apples, and of course, takoyaki. As we were walking on the main road, suddenly a shady looking guy, with a hat low on his face, ran past us, bumping into me as he ran away. I heard a familiar voice calling after him, and turned around to see a frantic Tsuna running after the masked man. I would've run after the guy, if I wasn't wearing a yukata. (Those things were freakin hard to walk in.) I felt somebody grab my arm.
"Kyoko, Haru, Ari and I will be over there for a while ok? Don't worry we will be back to watch the fireworks with you guys." I heard Yuki say, as she started dragging me away. I turned to look at her confused, but when I saw the look on her face I already knew what was going to happen. Whoever took Tsuna's money; we were going to whoop their asses.
As we reached the top of the stairs, I saw the people I really did not want to see. The pervy lifeguards were standing there looking smug, as Tsuna was begging for the money back. I heard the leader rant on about how they were thieves, and that this didn't satisfy them enough. Then they saw us. Oh god.
"What do you know? It seems that we will be satisfied after all." The leader said with a very nasty expression on his face. Tsuna looked at us in shock, "Why are you guys here?" He asked, in concern, "It's very dangerous."
"Tsuna, trust me, we can take care of ourselves," Yuki said.
"That's right," I piped in, "Guys always writing us girls off as weak, I'm sick of it. Plus we will just be your backup, we can't move anyway."
"I thought I found a delicious little flock, and it turned out to be the big catch of thieves I've been after." Hearing this, Yuki, Tsuna, and I all whipped our head around to find somebody. Tsuna squeaked out of fear, and Yuki just looked unimpressed.
"Ahh…Yuki?" I asked getting her attention, "Who is that dude?"
"Oh, he's just the leader of the Disciplinary Committee. And a freaking blood-thirsty bastard." She added under her breath. The guys surrounding us were not deterred by this Hibari's appearance.
"Come, on they are just middle schoolers, what harm can they do?" One guy said cockily.
Yuki and I looked at each other and smirked. Oh we could do a lot of damage, if we wanted too, and Yuki seemed to know that.
There was a large explosion, and when the smoke cleared, we could see Yamamoto and Gokudera.
"You think you can start a fight without us?" Gokudera grumbled.
"Ahahaha, that's sounds fun," Yamamoto added.
Soon, they were with us in the middle of the circle. (How they got there, I still have no idea.)
I turned around, and grinned at Tsuna.
"You can keep your clothes on Tsuna, we got this. Plus, you wouldn't want Kyoko-chan to see you in your boxers would you?" I smirked as he turned red.
'Well they were going to find out sooner or later, so I took some of my kunai from my sleeve, and started throwing them at people. I looked over at Yuki, and she had a gun in her hand. Tsuna started getting all freaked out by it, but she flashed him a grin.
"It's fine Tsuna, this baby is my special gun which fires needles coated in a tranquilizer."
There was a man aiming for Hibari's back, but Hibari was preoccupied and didn't see him, so Yuki turned around and shot him. His face contorted and he fell to the ground twitching.
"The effects should wear off in about 30 minutes, and you should really watch your back, Kyoya." Yuki taunted mockingly.
Since Yuki and I couldn't move because of our yukatas, we basically just stood there and threw, or shot at people. The fight was over quickly, and that Hibari guy was going to take Tsuna's money anyway, but then decided not to. Soon Kyoko and Haru came running up with Fuuta, with Fuuta saying that this was the best spot to watch fireworks.
Once we all settled down on the grass, I looked around and saw everyone's smiling and content faces. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, a feeling I have never experienced before.
'Please,' I thought, not sure if I was praying to God, or some other deity, 'Let it always be like this. Let us always be this happy.'
A/N: That took me a long to write….mainly because of procrastination, but now you know what Ari and Yuki's weapons are! Ari had kunai that she throws, and Yuki has guns, (cliché, I know, but guns seemed to fit Yuki's personality the best.) This chapter was super long too, so I hoped you guys enjoyed! Btw, that scene where Ari thought she died, because the last thing she saw was white. That was a true story. My sister was drinking milk one time, and just had to spit it on my face, and for two seconds I seriously thought I died. Like…no joke. Anyway Read and Review!