Awkwardly sitting at the dinner table, Tasuku looked over at the flower vase in front of him.
"You've been taking good care of these flowers.." he said slyly.
"Uhuh….. Don't get the wrong idea," Yuna said as she brought their dinner to the table. Tasuku gave a smirk to the girl as he leaned his head onto the palm of his hand.
'Time sure passes by quickly when you're busy as heck,' Yuna thought.
"So, has anything new been happening at work?" Yuna decided to ask.
Tasuku smiled brightly at her and replied. "Actually, yes. I was about to bring it up. The police force just design a new ability called 'Future Force' and we haven't really got it an approval to use it just yet."
Yuna stared at Tasuku for a bit, deciding whether to ask him other questions or not. "What does the Future Force allow you to do..?" Yuna asked with curiosity filling every space of her words.
"It allows you to make the power of your cards real…. Hey, Yuna?"
"Hm?"
Tasuku stared at the girl, eyeing her long hair for a while. "How is it like to have long hair?"
Yuna looked at the boy, confused by this question. "Normal…? Why are you asking…? Did you decide to grow you hair out or something? Hahaha!" the girl joked and laughed at the boy's shocked expression.
"Oh, shut it. That's not it," Tasuku chuckled at her joke. "Anyways, what I meant was if it feels weird or heavy. Anything like that?"
Yuna thought of when her hair was shorter and how it felt like. "It does feel a bit heavier than short hair..? And sometimes, it gets in the way… Still, why did you ask?"
Tasuku nodded. "The Future Force's effect is making your hair grow longer, and I just got curious."
Silence filled the room once more as they continued eating.
"So….. Did you see the new idol today?" Tasuku decided to pop in the question.
'Dear god… Why did he have to mention THAT…'
"Oh? I heard there was a new idol around the city earlier today, but I didn't go see her," Yuna lied. "How about you?"
Tasuku stared at her, eyeing her face and hair, finally answering her question. "Yeah. I did. Also got to talk to her a bit," he answered, putting his dirty dishes into the sink.
'I think he's on to me…' Yuna thought. "You can leave that there. I'll clean it. Oh and go ahead and take a shower. Psy, can you show him the way? By the way, we are sleeping in a different room, not mine. Show him the room too, please," Yuna said, standing up from her seat.
After finishing up the dishes and getting ready for bed, Yuna decided to check the news on TV to see if there was anything new.
'And this afternoon, the newest 13 year old idol, Kotone, revealed to be an idol for around about a week and have already gathered tons and tons of fans with her very first concert. The Prodigy, Ryeunji Tasuku, dropped by after her stupendous performance, complimenting her and showed his support to the young singer. Everyone went wild when they shook hands with each other, Taking pict-'
Yuna turned off the TV, looking around to see if Tasuku was around and sighed when she didn't see any sign of him anywhere near her. Yawning and stretching out her tired body, Yuna touched her wounded arm and slowly closed her tired eyes, falling asleep on the couch. Tasuku came out to see if Yuna was still out only to find her asleep on the couch.
"Jeez.. What got her so tired this afternoon…?" Tasuku mumbled, smiling a soft smile. "Hey, Psy. What did you two do today to make her so worn out?" Tasuku asked the dragon as he picked up the girl carefully.
"…. We ran some errands for the neighbors and got home at around 3," Psy lied to the boy.
"I see… Anyways, we need to get her to bed."
The dragon followed the boy into the room as he tucked Yuna into bed. "Are you going to sleep also, kid?"
Tasuku looked over his shoulder to have the dragon in his line of sight. "Well, no… It's a bit too early for me.." Tasuku said, looking over at the clock that read 7:46 PM.
Tasuku took out his phone to check his schedule for the next day and turned it off to dry off his hair with the towel around his neck. He looked over at his roommate of the night and sat still, staring at the girl.
"Don't get any funny ideas, kid. Do anything to my buddy while her guard is down and you're dead."
The prodigy snapped out of his thoughts, realizing that he was blushing and glared at the dragon. "I don't have any funny ideas or thoughts of her, god…" He mumbled as he turned away.
"Kid, don't hide it. Everyone close to you two already knows that you like her. Are you ever going to bring it up to her?" the dragon told the boy.
"Like I said before, I-"
"Don't deny it," Psy cut in.
Looking over at the girl once more, he let out a long sigh. "She doesn't know, does she…?"
Psy walked over to his buddy and sat down next to her. "Don't worry, she's oblivious towards you."
"… I see.."
Tasuku lay back down onto his futon and rested his arm across his forehead. Feeling an arm over on his chest, Tasuku looked over to see Yuna sleeping peacefully with her hand on top of him and smiled, brushing her hair out of her face.
"Tasuku, you're blushing again," Psy said in a joking manner, returning to his card.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up… It's hard not to, alright?" Tasuku said pouting. 'I'll to confess to her soon… Maybe tomorrow..'
The next morning came with Yuna waking up first, not paying attention to her surroundings.
'My body feels really heavy right now…'
Yuna looked over to see Tasuku sleeping directly next to her with his arm wrapped around her.
'A-aa-ahhhhh…?!' Yuna looked at the boy with a shocked expression, fully awake.
'T-too close for comfort! Can't move!'
Yuna forced of eyes shut as she looked away, slowly opening her eyes and looking back at her friend.
'He looks quite….. AUGHHHH! I SHOULDN'T THINK ABOUT THIS!'
Yuna's cheek had the color red spread across them as she tried to push the thought away. Tasuku, finally waking up, looked at the girl drowsily, unaware of the position they were in and making eye contacts with the girl.
"…." The girl blinked at the boy as panic crept up her body.
"…"
Despite still being tired, Tasuku pulled Yuna closer to him and buried his face into her hair, groaning tiredly.
"What time is it….?" He asked, voice muffled in the girl's hair.
"I-I don't know..? I'm not the one facing the clock here..!" Yuna stuttered.
"… Oh right."
Tasuku lifted his head up to look over at the clock only to see that it was 8:57 AM. Finally realizing the position they're in, Tasuku snapped out of his sleepy state and let go of the girl.
"S-SORRY! I-I DIDN'T KNOW- I-IT WASN'T –I- UWAHHH….!" Tasuku started to panic and stuttered a lot more than usual.
"No, no! It's okay! I-it's –I- Uh- Well…"
As the two exchanged cutoff apologies, Yuna stood up quickly only to slip and fall on top of Tasuku.
"S-S-SORRY! A-ARE YOU OKAY?"
"Oohhh… Augh.. Y-yep, I'm fine." Tasuku said, supporting her body.
"I'll just.. go down stairs and make food.." Yuna said, looking away.
"A-are you working today..?"
Tasuku looked over at the girl after packing his clothes he wore that night.
"Err.. Y-yeah… Would you like to come with me?" Tasuku offered the girl.
Yuna nodded and went to grab her phone and core deck. "Sure, but I can only stay for a few minutes. I have somewhere to go right after."
Tasuku pulled on his vest and gloves, turning around to face the girl and answered with an 'okay then'.
"Hey, Stella."
"Ah! Good morning, you two! Are you staying for a while today, Yuna?"
Yuna smiled as she shook her head disappointingly. "I can only stay here for a few minutes right now. Like around.. 5 minutes?"
Stella smiled a disappointed smile. "I understand. Would you like to replace your bandage again today?"
"Ah! Yes please. Thank you for reminding me."
Tasuku walked Yuna over to Stella and grabbed the girl's hand.
"Ummm.. Are you free later? Like.. around 12?"
Yuna stared at her friend for a while, curious about why he asked. "Yes, I am."
He looked over at Stella who stared at the two, excitement written all over on her face. "Want to meet me in front of the park?" Tasuku asked, looking away slightly.
"Sure….."
After approving the time for the meet up with Tasuku and having her bandages replaced by Stella, Yuna thanked the blond girl and said her good bye, leaving to head to the studio.
"Hey, Yuna," Daisuke said yawning.
"How are you tired from doing nothing yesterday..?" the girl looked at her assistant composer weirdly when she asked.
"Actually, I stayed up really late at night to finish your next song. I started arranging this when everyone was working on your song debut." Rubbing his eyes sleepily, Daisuke walked over to the player and played the song to the girl. "I asked Akira to help me with it also so, it was finished pretty quickly."
Yuna shook her head as she gave the teen a smile. "I don't really trust Akira with lyrics…. But I'll check it out."
Akira walked out of the changing room, happy to see the young idol listening to the song as it played.
"Here's the lyrics! As usual, change anything you want to."
"Right. Thanks Akira."
After listening to the song for the 16th time, Yuna finally finished fixing up the lyrics and changing some notes and beats in the song.
"You didn't decide which instruments to use did you?"
Daisuke looked at the girl nervously. "I kind of need help on that…"
Yuna looked over at the composition once more, seeing that everything was written and played by pianos and a drum set. "Hmmmm let's change some of these into this… and then…."
"Alright! Let's listen to this one more time and I'll try singing along with it. Well, if I can stick with the vocal's beat.."
Daisuke nodded as he played the song once more and instead of hearing just pianos and a set of drums, there were more varieties of instruments this time.
"Ah… er.. ahem.." Yuna cleared her throat nervously.
"itsuka mita yume todokanai tsubuyaki dake yoru no hikari ni tsutsumarete samayoi yuku yagate mihiraku sono hitomi unmei nara semete sou, ima dake... kanawanai to utsumuku yoru kaze ni tada unadare namida tsuki kage te no hira ni afurete yuku nani ga hoshii no? kuchibiru wa yami ni furuete ita deatta ano toki ni mune tsuita ega- Waaaait...Am I singing the wrong line..? No, I'm not. Damn."
The girl started giggling a bit at her little screw up. "I'll just work on this and see how it turns out later, okay?"
"That's fine with me, haha," Daisuke laughed.
"I'll see you later have fun."
"Alright meet you at around 1."
Psy appeared out of his card, and pulled out Yuna's phone. "It's only around 10, so where are you going to go?" the dragon pointed out.
"Hmm hmm hmm hmm," Yuna hummed. Snapping out of her concentration, she grabbed the dragon and held him. "Yeaaah…. I'm not so sure.." Yuna answered, closing her eyes as she continued walking straight.
"Uhhhh, you might want to look now, but you're going- YUNA! YUNA! OPEN YOUR EYES! YOU'RE GOING TO CRASH!" Psy yelled as he freaked out.
Yuna opened her eyes, seeing that she was about to crash into Gao as he turned around to see what was going on.
"Hey! It's Yuna-senpai! What are you doing here?" Gao asked.
"Oh well I decided to take a walk with Psy here before meeting up with Tasuku-kun. Well, that's actually in 2 hours, so… I have nothing to do really.." Yuna answered the young boy awkwardy.
"Well, we were all going to head over to Gao's house right now. Would you like to come with us?" Kuguru asked happily.
"My Grandma is making Takoyaki today. It's like the best!" Gao exclaimed.
"YEAHH! I CALL DIBS ON MOST OF THEM!" drum exclaimed as he jumped around.
"NO DIBS!" Baku yelled at the dragon.
"Well, sure, I'll come! Thank you for the invitation. Oh? And who are these guys?" Yuna asked, smiling a polite smile to the unfamiliar faces.
"Oh, right. This is Kodo Noboru. He's just walking with us for a bit right now. That's Kurodake Tetsuya. The guy with, well, bananas on his head.. And over there next to Baku is Hyoryu Kiri. Guys, this is Suzuki Yuna-senpai. She's Tasuku-senpai's friend."
Yuna gave a slight nod to the group. "Nice to meet you all. Go ahead and call me Yuna, okay?"
Noboru stared at the girl with caution as he slowly crossed his arm. "Don't get any wrong ideas about my shirt, but this is a tiger. NOT a kitten."
Yuna looked over at the boy as she smiled, raising her eyebrows at the sudden warning. "I think I can see that perfectly fine, Noboru, so don't worry about it."
"…"
A tint of pink slightly spread across the blond boy's cheeks as he looked away.
Gao knocked at his door, hearing a little girl's voice on the other side of the door. "Who is it?"
"Gao, I also brought some friends over, Hana."
The door clicked open to reveal the young girl Yuna met a few days ago.
"Ah! Yuna-senpai!" Hana ran over and jumped at the oldest girl in the group, toppling her over.
"Whoa! Oof.. Hey, Hana. How've you been?" she asked, holding up the little girl.
"Good! Oh yeah. How's your arm now?" Hanako asked curiously.
"It's healing fine. It just looks very disturbing, hahaha! Other than that, everything is just fine," Yuna replied as she stood up and place Hana back on her feet.
"Oh? What happened to your arm now?"
Everyone turned to the doorway to see Gao's mother standing there with a bright smile on her face.
"Ah…. Well…. Long story short? I'll tell you once we get inside, but don't scold Hana or Gao for this, please. I think Hana learned her lesson," Yuna said worryingly with a small giggle.
"So that's what happened… Are you okay now?" Mr. Mikado asked.
"I'm fine. Don't worry about it."
Yuna looked over to see Kiri looking at a picture of a boy who looked to be Gao's older brother.
"Who's this?"
"Oh, that's my older brother," Gao said stoically.
"Where is he now?" Kiri decided to ask.
"He isn't here anymore."
The picture frame slipped out of the boy's hand, breaking the frame on the floor. "A-ah! Sorry about that!"
"No, it's alright. I'll clean that up. Just take a seat and eat now," Mrs. Mikado told Kiri. Kiri nodded guiltily as he went back to his seat.
"Huh..?" Yuna said out loud as a blanket fell from the ceiling.
Everyone grabbed the food off the table as the blanket fluttered down and a young boy in a ninja outfit fell from the ceiling. Yuna stared with disbelief, shocked at what just happened.
"Owww… Owowow..!" the boy whimpered.
"Hey, Akatsuki. Dropping in for some food?" Gao asked the boy.
"Don't mind if I do!" Akatsuki exclaimed.
"Yano, you are quite weird for hanging on the plungers for so long on the ceiling," Tetsuya said.
"You're one to say…" Baku stated.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Akatsuki looked over at Yuna, unfamiliar with the girl. "Hello! I'm Kisaragi Akatsuki! What's your name?" the young boy asked as he stuffed more food into his mouth.
"I'm Suzuki Yuna. Nice to meet you," Yuna said, still surprised with the incident.
"AKATSUKI!" a voice boomed from the front of the house. Everyone shot their head over to the door.
"Ohhh…. Z's going to kill me isn't he…" Akatsuki said with a worried tone.
"Hey, Zanya. Want to come in?" Gao asked as he opened the front door while Akatsuki walked over to the boy.
"Come on, Akatsuki. We have to get back and train!" he said, grabbing his little brother's ear.
"OWOWOWOWOW! OKAY!"
Looking at the group with wide eyes, the boy immediately let go of Akatsuki's ear and flinched.
"G-girls!"
"This is my brother, Kisaragi Zanya! Brother, that is Suzuki Yuna-senpai. I just met her!" Akatsuki decided to introduce the two.
"R-right… Nice to meet you… Okay, Akatsuki. Let's go." Zanya started turning away as his face turned slightly red.
"Why not come hang out with us?" Kuguru asked as she got closer to him.
"A-ah! A-a girl! W-welll, because I-I'm allergic to girls, I MEAN FOOD!"
Everyone looked at the boy weirdly, as Yuna shook her head.
"I wonder who's going to attend the ABC Cup Tournament this year.." Gao brought up.
Psy flew up to the girl's pocket to dig out her phone and checked for the time. "Yuna, it's 11:36. Should we go now?"
"Wow, it's already that late? We should get going now then. Is the park far from Gao's house?"
Psy flew up in the air to check. "Sort of. You may have to use your buddy skill to get there in time."
Yuna hesitated a bit looking over at the group that stared at her. "Well… It was fun staying here to hang out with you guys, but I have to go meet up with Tasuku-kun now.. If you need to contact me for anything, I'll just give you my phone number now," Yuna announced sheepishly.
"Aww, okay.. Come visit anytime! And thanks!" Gao said while Yuna pulled out her core deck.
"Gao? Tell your family I said thanks and bye, please?"
'Buddy skill on!' was heard as her core deck turned into her gadget. Gao grinned his usual big grin.
"Sure! Bye!"
Yuna nodded to the boy and jumped away from the group as Psychic Knife Dragon returned to his normal form to lead the way.
Making it to the park with 2 minutes to spare, the two went over to a tree for some shade. Yuna thought about the song that the twins finished over night and started to sing the lyrics in her head only to be disrupted by somebody's hands covering her eyes.
"… Tasuku, is that you?" she decided to ask with a smile on her face.
The boy leaned over and uncovered her eyes, wrapping his arms around her neck, letting out a chuckle. "Leaving out –kun now are you? Haha. And what if it wasn't me?" he asked sitting down and leaning over a bit more.
"Hmmmm.. Good question… Psy would probably cover me," Yuna said, looking over at Psy.
Talking to each other for a while as time passed by and people admiring Tasuku as they walked past the two, the so-called Boy Wonder finally decided to pop up the confession he's been preparing for so long.
'Hope nothing interrupts us…' Tasuku thought. "Hey, Yuna?"
"Hm?"
Tasuku stood up and moved to sit down in front of her. "I've been meaning to tell you something for a while now…"
Yuna tilted her head slightly answering with a questioned 'oh?' Tasuku looked around for a bit and started hesitating, forgetting what he put together to say to the girl.
"Well, you see… I….. Um…. How do I put this…"
Yuna sat patiently, catching every single word the flustered boy said.
"Hmm…. I… I li-"
Tasuku was cut off by his communicator. 'Tasuku, we need you back at base pronto,' Takihara called.
'Oh great.. just my luck.' He mumbled. "Sorry, Yuna. Just a second…"
Reaching up to his communicator, Tasuku replied to the order, standing up from his spot. "Okay, but what's the hurry?"
'Commander I needs you back for a mission.'
"Right…. Sorry, Yuna, but I have to go now.. I'll tell you next time, alright?"
Yuna stood up from her place and brushed off her white dress. "Sure.. I'll see you later then."
Tasuku nodded and flew off with Jack back to headquarter.
"Awww damn… I stalled too much time!" Tasuku complained, grabbing onto his head.
"You sure did, Tasuku," Jack replied with a snicker.
"Aw, shut up! You're not helping!"
Yuna headed back to the studio early for her second attempt to cover the new song. Psy decided to check her phone as they walked back.
'Can we have a buddyfight match tomorrow after school, pleaseeeeee?'
Yuna sighed at the boy's request and grabbed the phone from Psy. 'Gao… haa.. Sure, why not..? I'm going to panic if I see a bunch of people there though so, try not to gather such a crowd?'
Gao replied to her text immediately. 'Yeah! Sure! I'll try not to.'
"This boy…." Yuna mumbled, smiling at the text.
So close, man, so close.
I finished drawing and coloring her 9 year old form. –thumbs up-
Song that played in my playlist first today was Agony by KOTOKO. NOTE: I NEVER WATCHED THE ANIME AND I PLAN NOT TO BECAUSE IT'S YURI (GIRLXGIRL) LOOOL.
I'll finish the last design for her idol form soon, so yeah.
Is this story not funny or... I need to change the genre if it isn't HAHA.
~stormy003
