Chapter Ten
The day before the festival had approached super fast. A quick little summary of what we missed during the week: Hamasaki asked Lina to be his date to the festival and she had a major blush attack, Hanon didn't even give Nagisa a chance to ask her and he's now sulking on how he'll never become a man, Luchia is having a nervous break down because Kaito still hasn't asked her, Toshi still trying to choose a date, and me well I still haven't given the guy and answer. That and so far no visits from our unwanted guest the sister of fury whatever. So we now join everyone as the bell rings and classes are dismissed
"Hikari just say yes to Kenchii for goodness sake." Hanon begs.
"NO!!" I say getting really pissed because this is literally the hundredth time I've said this or in this case screamed.
"But Hikari he's soooo cute" Toshi says.
"No!" I say crossing my arms.
"Please!" they both say.
"NO!" I say throwing my arms above my head and walking away.
"Is she always like this?" Hanon asks.
"Well she always has been stubborn" Toshi says.
"You know I hear Mr. Psycho guy is looking for a date." I hear Hanon say
"KENCHII!!" I scream
Hanon: If only it were that easy.
Toshi: Yes.
Both: Sigh
"Hey Kenchii!" I hear someone yell.
"Oh great if it isn't one of Kenchii's fan girls." I comment seeing the blonde run up to him.
"Hey wanna be the date to the festival." She asks.
"I sorry I have plans." He says about to walk away.
"Oh come on-"she says grabbing his arm.
"HEY!" a voice yells.
I turn to look and see a HUGE guy, and not in the fat way.
"Oh hey Koichi." Kenchii says.
"What do you think you're doing with my girl?!" He asks storming up.
"Nothing!" He says backing up a little. Sure Kenchii's pretty strong this guy is huge.
"Oh Koichi this guy here was asking me to the festival and I said no and if you haven't shown up I don't know what would've happened." She says crying and running to this guys side.
"WHAT?! THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!" Kenchii says.
"Don't you DARE yell at her!" He says raising his fist about to punch.
Kenchii closes his eyes and awaits an impact, but it never comes.
"Hey just what do you think you're doin?!" I yell at this guy standing in front of Kenchii with his fist in my hand.
"He was yelling at my girl no one yells at my girl!" he shouts back.
"You have any proof?" I ask back.
"My gir's words. What more proof do you need?" he says.
"I just saw the whole thing 'HE' turned 'HER' down!" I say.
"WHAT?!" He says astounded.
"It's true. Anyway would he ask another girl when he's going with me?" I say.
"That's not true why would I ever cheat on you?" says miss look at me I'm so perfect.
"Oh give it a rest it's two against one." I say.
"That's it Mai we're through!" the guy says and walks away.
"What?!" she says watching him walk away.
"Wait! Honey I'm sorry!" She says chasing after him.
"So I take it that's a yes." Kenchii says coming out of a state of shock.
"I don't go back on my words." I say walking away.
"Thanks for helping me." He says.
I feel my face heat up but luckily my backs facing him "You're welcome." I say "After all, beating you up is my job." I say turning around and flashing him a smile
I see him blush out the corner of my eye as I continue walking away.
'WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME?!' I scream in my head as I walk away.
"HIKARI!" I hear two voices say as I'm tackled to the ground.
"Ow." I say.
"I can't believe you did that!" Toshi says with tears in her eyes.
"I'm so proud!" Hanon says with the same face.
"WAHHHHHH!!" They both cry hugging each other.
I sweatdrop. "Calm down you guys."
"OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THE TIME!" Hanon says looking at the clock.
"We need to go back and get ready!" Toshi says.
Each of them grabs one of my arms and drags me home in super anime speed.
"Hikari time to go." Hanon says knocking on the door.
"WHAT WAS I THINKING?!" I yell.
"Come on Hikari lets go." Toshi says. Her yukata is Black with gold stars and a gray stash she has some of her hair pulled back while the rest just hangs down.
"Why did I say yes." I say dragging myself out of my room.
"Lets go." They say.
Later at the festival. . .
"Oh where are they?!" Hanon says. As we all probably know by now Hanon's not very patient.
"Hey where are the rest of the girls?" I ask. Luchia, Hanon, Lina, Toshi and I were the only ones there.
"The others had to return home for business." Lina says.
"They weren't happy I'll tell you that." Luchia says.
By the way this is what each of them are wearing:
Lina is wearing a light green yukata with darker geen leaves going in a spiral around, yellow green stash and her hair is up in a high ponytail, Luchia is wearing a light pink one with red flowers (the ones on the gift Kaito gave her), red stash and her hair is in pigtails, and Hanon is wearing a dark blue one with Light blue bubbles around it, turquoise stash and a little bit of her hair is pulled to the side and held up with a pearl barrette.
"Hanon!" A voice says.
We all turn around and see the boys walking up to us. Nagisa's the only one in the group wearing a yukata the others are in street clothe.
"Nagisa you're late!" She says.
"Sorry." He says looking down.
"Oh who cares! Let's go get me a teddy bear!" She says dragging him along.
"Yo Luchia let's go get something to eat." Kaito says.
"Okay." She says.
"Lina I saw an ad for a comedy act." Masahiro says.
"Oh. That's cool." She says trying to act cool but Hamasaki could see the excitement in her eyes.
"Hey u-um d-do you um wanna go and um. . ." a boy says trying to ask Toshi out. It's so cute.
"Why don't we go to a game stand and you can win me a something cute." She say.
"Ok!" You really should've seen how happy he was.
They walk away leaving me alone . . . with Kenchii
"So. . ." I say attempting to start a conversation. 'Since when has talking to him
been this hard?!' I yell to myself.
"You look great." He says.
"Thanks." I say with a slight blush on my face.
"Wanna go on the ferris wheel?" He asks.
"Sure why not." I say.
He gently grabs my wrist making me blush. And we push our way to through the crowd. Once we get to the ferris wheel we wait and then get on.
"Wow look at the view it's beautiful." I say. Looking at how the moon glistens over the water.
"Yeah. . . beautiful." Kenchii says.
"Hmm?" I say looking at Kenchii.
I see him all the sudden look down and I thought I saw a slight blush on his face.
'Why is Kenchii acting so strange- Oh my gosh!' I think as I see two figures in the water.
We get off and I run.
"Where are you going?!" He shouts.
"I'll be right back!" I say as I push my way through the crowd.
I run to the beach and all five of us collide and fall.
"Ow." We all say.
"Did you see them too?" I ask.
They all nod.
"Well what are we waiting for let's go kick some bad guy butt!" Toshi says as we all leap into the water.
"Well if it isn't-" Mimi begins.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, well if it isn't the mermaid princesses, we want your pearls blah, blah. blah." I say.
"Err you'll pay this is the last time." Mimi says an anime vein appearing on her head.
"Yeah right. RED PEARL VOICE!!"
"PINK PEARL VOICE!!"
"AQUA PEARL VOICE!!"
"GREEN PEARL VOICE!!"
"BLACK PEARL VOICE!!"
We all transform. By the way Toshi's outfit is similar to Karen's only the base is black and the rest is Gray, in place of gloves she also wears arm warmers that stop at her wrist and knee high black boots.
We get ready to sing but were rudely interrupted.
"Oh no we want to try out our new song!" Sheshe says.
"It's showtime!" They shout.
machi de fuuzen au tabi ni
sukamatte itta kiwaku
ikusaki zake ni arawareru hen na yatsu
itsumo abunai koto bakari shiteru kara
doushtemo kini nacchau
love trap
miku kouki torenai hodo
ai sarete bato wasarete
ashimoto sukuware sou ni nagasarete
toraerarete shimatta
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!" We all scream as we fall to the floor in pain.
amai wana ni wa matte shimatta watashi
kanari yabai shoudai ni natteru
amai wana kyawa rakai dake ja nai
asai wakai nante iwasenai
"C-can't move." I say is a hush voice. I look over and see the others are feeling this same pain. I feel a rush of worry. 'Can they actually be winning this?' I ask myself.
'This is bad.' I think as I feel my eyes closing and a darkness closing in 'NO!' I shout in my head as I jolt myself awake. Even though I'm awake I can barely move. So all I can do is lay motionless and take on the pain
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
They finish their song and I'm the only one still conscious.
"Oh was our song to strong for the poor mermaids" Mimi says.
"Hmm so many pearl to choose from which should we take first sister Mimi?"
"Lets take the pearl of the annoying black one from last time sister Sheshe."
They start walking over to Toshi who is now unconscious.
"No!" I think as I force myself to get up, even though it brings great pain and run over and stand in front of my friend.
"Well, well look at this sister Sheshe. If she can still move her pearl is defiantly worth taking."
"I believe you're right." They say as they reach out to snatch my locket. A light reflects from it and they snatch they're hands back.
"W-what is this power?!" Mimi says.
"Impossible there shouldn't still be this much power!" Sheshe says.
"The reason behind this is this girl's will to protect her friends." A calm voice says.
"Who there?!" They ask.
A light appears and Aqua Regina comes down.
"Aqua Regina!" I exclaim.
"Princess Hikari. The will you have to protect you're friends is remarkable. So I give you your pure form and a new song. Protect these girls with you life." And with that she disappears and a ball of light flows towards me and embraces me.
'This feeling, it's so warm.' I think. Suddenly the light disappears.
My outfit is beautiful. A strapless flowing dress (kinda of like Sara's outfit) that parts in the middle and you can see light red mini skirt under it. I have light red ballet shoes with ribbons that hold them on and stop at my knees. And my hair is pulled into two small ponytails one on each side of my head that's held up in a connection of red pearls and on my forehead is a red gem (like Luchias head decoration in her pure form) held by gold strings.
"Wow." I say
Suddenly music starts to play. Even though I have never heard this song, somewhere in the back of my mind the words come to me.
Donna toki datte
Tada hitori de
Unmei wasurete
Ikite kita no ni
Totsuzen no hikari no naka me ga sameru
Mayonaka ni
They flinch and cover there ears.
Shizuka ni deguchi ni tatte
Kurayami ni hikari o ute
Imadoki yakusoku nante fuan ni saseru dake kana
Negai o kuchi ni shitai dake sa
Kazoku ni mo shoukai suru yo
Kitto umaku iku yo
Donna toki date
"AHHHH!!" They scream and fall to the ground much like we did.
Zutto futari de
Donna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashta no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
Donna ni yokuttatte
Shinji kirenai ne
Sonna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashta no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
"Love Shower Pitch! How about an encore?" I say.
"Ergg." They say wincing in pain and weakly getting up.
"Don't think this is the last time you'll see us you pesky twerp." Mimi says.
"We'll be back." Sheshe says.
And then they disappear through a portal of darkness.
"Toshi, Hanon, Luchia, Lina WAKE UP!" I scream.
Nothing they all continued to lie there unconsciously.
I start to sing softly.
Nanairo no kaze ni fukarete
tooi misaki wo mezashteta
Yoake mae kikoeta melody
Then four more voices weakly join in.
Sore wa totemo natsukashii uta
Higashi no sora e to habataku toritachi
Saa, takarajima ni nukeru chikamichi
Now their voices are fully recoverd and we sing strong and loudly.
Nanatsu no umi no rakuen
Arashi no yoru no ato ni wa ai wo tsutaerutame inochi ga mata umareru
Nanatsu no kuni no MERODIA
Daremo ga itsuka wa koko wo tabidatsu hi ga kitemo
Watashi wa wasurenai
"Oh my gosh Hikari you look beautiful!" Toshi says.
Tears start to fall from my eyes and I hug her "I-I was s-so scared." I say through tears. Then Luchia, Hanon and Lina join then hug and we stand there feeling the warmth of our love and friendship.
"OH MY GOSH HIKARI!!" Hanon screams.
"What?!" I ask in alarm.
"Look at how dark it is! You need to get going!" She says.
"What why- Oh my gosh!" I say and suddenly remember. It was the night I was supposed to meet 'him' again
"You mean its tonight? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR GO!!" Toshi says shooing me away.
"We'll think of an excuse for the boys just go now!" Hanon shouts after me.
I swim away and they swim in the opposite direction.
One they're back on land.
"There you girls are we we're getting worried." Hamasaki says as the rest of the boys approach us.
"Sorry we took so long. . . Hey where's Kenchii?" Hanon ask.
"Uh? Yeah where is he?" They boys ask each other.
"You don't think." Hanon says to the girls.
Back to me.
I find the spot easily. How could I forget it?
No one's there so I figured I had time.
"Or maybe he isn't coming." I think to myself "SNAP OUT OF IT! Of course he'll come . . . at least I hope he does."
I start singing to calm myself down.
Doushte konna ni suki nan darou
kimi no koe kanshii hodo hibiiteru yo
ima made nani ga sasae datta ka
tooku hanarete wakatta yo-
I stop my song immediately and turn around because I heard a splash.
I see a figure in the shadows. 'Is it him?' I wonder as I get up a little to escape if it isn't.
Suddenly the figure in the shadow is revealed.
"OH MY GOSH IT'S KENCHII!!" I scream in my head. I get ready to leap off the rock.
"Hey wait! Don't you remember me?" He says.
I stop and take a real close look at him. 'Why didn't I see it before?' I ask myself.
"Oh it's you." I say I feel myself calm down and reseat myself.
"You've grown even more beautiful than I remember." He says.
I feel my face heat up "t-thanks." I say and look down suddenly finding the water very fascinating.
"So has it really been seven years?" He asks.
"Yeah it has." I say
"You know it's not very nice to abandon your date. . . Hikari." He says.
"Huh?!" I say as I feel my eyes grow wide and I look away. "Huh? W-who's this Hikari you speak of?"
"Hikari I know it's you." He says giving me a look that says 'I'm not that dumb'.
"How'd you know?" I ask giving in.
"There's just something in you eyes, something I'd know anywhere." He tells me.
"So you're her. The one I met when I was little." He asks.
"Y-yeah." I say.
My ring glistens in the moonlight.
"That ring you still have it." He says
"Y-yeah I've treasured it for seven years." I say turning bright red.
"So. . ." He says.
"So what?" I ask.
"What should we do about us?" He asks.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"You know very well what I mean. Do you want to start dating?" He asks a little nervous.
"Well. . ." I say just to torture the guy. "You've been quite a bit of a pervert but I haven't been searching for you for the last seven years for nothing. So yes!" I say.
"One more question then." He says.
"And what's that?" I ask.
"Can I kiss you?" he asks.
"U-uh huh." I say with a blush.
And there we share long passionate kiss. Even better than the first one seven years ago.
End of Chapter Ten