Me: I'm scared and jumpy at the moment.
Ran: Why?
Me: Uh…you'll find out later. Could you just do the disclaimer, please?
Ran: Okay, since you asked nicely. Disclaimer: Camilla-chan does not own Shugo or any of its characters.
(Kukai's POV)
Break
"Next time you two are in on one of my sister's pranks, you could give me a little warning."
In the future, should I help one of my best friends…or his sister? Best friend…sister. I'm helping Nadeshiko. "Yeah, but then it wouldn't be fun."
"Fun! It took me basically the whole class period to explain to everyone that it was one of Nadeshiko's pranks and that I wasn't really in trouble."
"Fujisaki-kun loosen up."
"Sure."
It was break and the three of us were walking. It's quiet. A little too quiet. "Don't you two think its a little quiet around here?"
"Yeah, that's because the girls aren't with us," Tadase replied. "Didn't something happen before when the girls weren't with us?"
Now that I think about it, yeah. "It's all a blur, though. Do you two remember?"
My two friends shook their heads. I'm taking that as a "no."
"Where are the girls anyways?" I turned to Nagihiko. He usually has all the answers to questions like this.
"Well, Utau-san is "in the studio rehearsing a new song" for the whole day."
"In other words, she's ditching." Utau is easy to read.
"Correct. She's going shopping with Sakurai Yua."
"The person who sung in her concert?" Tadase questioned.
Nagihiko nodded. "And Nadeshiko has a head council meeting with the teachers and Rima-chan is-"
"Avoiding you for what happened yesterday." I grinned.
"No, she's with Nadeshiko. Nadeshiko wants Rima-chan to be her head council partner next year. But…how did you know about yesterday!"
Tadase and I started laughing. "Really? Something happened?" Utau did tell us something about it, but she didn't actually say what is was.
"Uh, never mind. It's unimportant."
"I don't know, Fujisaki-kun if that's the truth. You did know that yesterday was Valentine's Day right?"
He gave me a puzzled look. "Souma-kun, you never pay attention to what socks you're wearing, let alone the date."
"Yeah, I didn't know until this morning. Rima put chocolate in my and Hotori-kun's locker. You know because we're her friends. And since you two are friends…what did she get you?"
He blushed faintly. Now, I know what happened. Just like Utau, Nagihiko is easy to read.
I put my arm around him. "Don't worry, Fujisaki-kun. I have a feeling of what happened."
He slightly turned red so, Tadase and I started laughing again. "You two are great frie- Did you hear that?"
We stopped laughing. "Hear what?" Tadase inquired.
"I swear I heard something in that bush over there."
We were silent for a little bit. The noise came again. "You're right. Who's going to check?"
Tadase and Nagihiko faced each other and pointed at me. "You go, Souma-kun."
"Why me?"
"You're the oldest."
"Yeah. Okay, then." I quietly inched toward the bush. Let's hope, it's not a squirrel; those things freak me out.
While I was making my way toward the bush, Tadase proclaimed, "I think I remember what happened last time the girls weren't with us."
I was still heading walking in the direction of the bush. Nagihiko and I replied, "What?"
Three more feet to the bush.
And now…I was about to check what was in the bush, but Tadase talked again. "We got chased by…" he gulped, "fan-girls."
After Tadase spoke that, I heard screams from a distance. Shit! Not those fan-girls. No wonder it was all a blur, they surrounded and attacked us.
I retreated from the bush to join my two friends panicking.
In the same time, I got to my friends; the fan-girls were in our view. We all agreed to run for our lives or else we'd get mobbed.
I heard their shouts while they were trailing behind us. "Kukai-sama, captain of the soccer team; you kicked your way into our hearts! Nagihiko-sama, captain of the basketball team; you slam-dunked your way into our hearts! Tadase-sama, captain of the baseball team; you hit a home-run into our hearts!"
(AN:/ Just go along with Tadase being good at baseball.)
I guess this is what we get for being Seiyo's prized athletes. Then, again, we are Seiyo's athletes, so we can outrun them.
I turned to look behind me. The girls were closer than ever.
Maybe not.
(Rima's POV)
After school
We were all gathered outside of my house saying goodbye to Yua. I was behind everyone because...I'm short; my friends didn't notice me behind them.
"Too bad we didn't get to hang out, but visit soon." I heard Kukai say to her. I tried jumping up and down to see the scene. Kukai and Yua were shaking hands.
Next, was Nagihiko. I wish I wasn't short. I saw Yua whisper something into Nagihiko's ear. He slightly blushed, then shook it off. They hugged after that. Hmm, I wonder what she said to him.
After him, were Nadeshiko and Utau. They did a three-way hug and squealed stuff that I couldn't understand. It was probably a code for something about me.
Nadeshiko and Utau backed away from Yua. Yua chimed, "Bye everyone." She made her way into the limo.
What! What about me?
As if everyone could read my mind, they explained, "Aren't you forgetting someone? I don't know...short...blonde...chibi?"
Short, blonde, chibi!
The five of them stepped to the side to reveal me.
Yua made her way to me and immediately glomped me. "Aww, Riri-chi I'll miss you. You better call me everyday."
During all of this, I just stood still and muttered, "Yup."
She finally let go and began walking toward the car. As she was about to enter the limo, something twisted inside me and I chased after her.
"Yua! Don't leave me!" I hugged her from behind.
She stopped and returned the hug. She giggled. "Still the same Rima. Don't worry, you have awesome friends here and I'll visit every now and then. And don't forget, you can sing our song whenever and remember I forced you to sing in a concert with me."
I giggled also. "Thanks Yua-tan. Have a safe drive home."
She smiled and she went inside. Yua shut the door of the limo. She rolled the window down and shouted, "Bye. Nice meeting everyone and nice seeing you again, Rima."
The limo started to drive off. We all replied with, "See you soon Yua."
Once the car was out of sight, I frowned a little. I miss Yua already. Apparently Kukai noticed this and said, "Don't worry Rima. You still have Nagihiko."
"Yeah, you're right." Wait...what did I just say?
I turned around to face four of my friends making "aww" sounds. Nagihiko was standing there smirking.
He made his way behind me. What is he going to do this time?
Nagihiko was behind me. He wrapped his arms around my waist and started swaying me back and forth.
He bent down and whispered into my ear, "Yeah Rima-chan, you still have me."
After what happened yesterday, he's been acting more like a playboy. Lucky for me! I tried my hardest to fight back the blush that was creeping on my face, until I realized something.
Too bad for him, my arms were free, so I jabbed him and pushed him off. "Great! I don't have my best friend, but instead I have a cross-dresser." That wiped the smirk off his face. I love using that to my advantage.
Kukai and Tadase high-fived each other. "Burn Fujisaki-kun!"
Nadeshiko interrupted by saying, "Shouldn't we go watch the concert now?"
I forgot about that. Yua gave us a copy of the concert with commentary from Yua herself and Utau. I can't wait to see it.
"I'm in," Utau calmly stated. Maybe shopping wore her out. Utau's usually not this calm.
Utau, Nadeshiko, Kukai and Tadase went next door to Nadeshiko and Nagihiko's house leaving me and the cross-dresser alone.
There was a silence between the two of us, until he finally spoke. "Rima-chan, about yesterday…"
He's still going on about that. I turned to look at him and smiled. "Don't worry about it." Nagihiko seemed stunned I said that, but I don't care. I grabbed his wrist and pulled him toward his house. "Let's go watch the concert, kay?"
"Yeah."
We entered his house and he led me to where our four friends were sitting on the couch.
(Yaya's POV)
Yuiki Household
"Now Yaya, don't forget to give Tsubasa dinner and make sure he goes to bed on time." My parents were leaving to go out for dinner.
"Why does Yaya have to watch him?" I whined.
"You're his older sister." That's what they always say. He's five why can't he take care of himself. It's not like Yaya wanted a little brother. "And Yaya, could you please stop acting like a baby; you're already 14." She kissed me on the head before leaving. "See you tonight."
As the door closed, I turned to the five-year-old that ruined my life. It's no fair! Mom and dad always give their attention to him.
Tsubasa saw the glare I was giving him, but he only smiled. "Yaya, what's wrong?" How can he act so innocent?
I put my back to him and began walking toward my room. "Dinner's in the fridge, try not to bother Yaya."
I slammed the door shut and placed my back against the door. I slid down to the floor.
This reminds me, I have to make a phone call. I grabbed my cell phone off my bed. It began to ring after I dialed the number.
"Hello, this is Lulu."
"Lulu-chan, its Yaya. How are you feeling?"
"Achoo, I'm achoo okay. I just achoo have a sneezing achoo problem. Anyways, did you achoo get the goods?"
"Yes, Yaya did. Yaya hid in a bush during break and found out some interesting things."
"Like what?"
"Yaya doesn't know if this is true, but Yaya was spying on the three boys at break like you told Yaya to and they said that Tsukiyomi Utau at our school is really Hoshina Utau."
"Really? Achoo! What else?"
"Nadeshiko wants that new girl to be her partner for head council next year."
"Did you find out achoo anything about the new girl besides that?"
"Not that Yaya knows of, but something happened yesterday between her and Nagi-kun."
"What was it?"
"Yaya doesn't know. They didn't say anything, but they were mentioning Valentine's Day."
"Interesting. Achoo! What occurred next?"
"They were about to discover Yaya, but then they got chased by fan-girls."
"Hmmm, good job Yaya."
"Thank you. Are you going to be in school tomorrow or is Yaya going to be alone again?"
"I'll be there achoo tomorrow. You can count on achoo that."
"Yay! Yaya can't wait." I squeaked.
I was about to hang up the phone, but Lulu-chan spoke again. "But if I'm not there tomorrow, continue to get the dirt on that group."
"But Lulu-chan, isn't that a violation of their private lives."
"Do you want to be my friend or not? You could go back to sitting alone at lunch and not having anyone paying attention to you."
Something snapped inside of me. I knew it was wrong. My head thought some way, but my mouth was the one talking and it thought differently. "On second thought, count on Yaya!"
"Good. Goodnight Yaya!" Before hanging up the phone, Lulu-chan sneezed a great big one.
I closed my cell phone. Should I be really spying on them? If it means having at least one person who pays attention to me, then that should be worth it.
I sat in silence on my bed when I heard the smoke alarm go off.
This can't be good. What did Tsubasa do?
I sprinted to the kitchen and saw the microwave covered in black smoke. I quickly got the fire extinguisher and put it out.
"What did you do!" I yelled.
"Well, I was hungry and wanted to eat, but the dinner was on the top shelf and I couldn't reach it, so I just grabbed an egg and microwaved it."
"Ahh! You don't microwave eggs! Why didn't you call Yaya?"
He looked like he was about to cry. Perhaps, I shouted too loud.
"Fine, don't worry about it. Yaya will take the blame."
"Okay, I'm hungry can you get my dinner."
I went over the fridge and got the dinner with ease. He looked at me with awe.
"Why are you staring at Yaya like that?"
"I hope I can be as amazing as you when I'm older."
Aww, maybe I should be nicer to him.
After I heated up the dinner, instead of me going into my room, I joined him in the living room. His face lit up.
Five years isn't too late, is it? If not, I'll try and give Tsubasa a chance.
I was enjoying spending time with my brother so much that when I saw that Lulu-chan was calling again, I didn't answer it.
To be continued…
Me: Wow, my shortest chapter. That's an accomplishment.
Ran: Haha!
Me: What's that supposed to me?
Ran: I don't know.
Me: Okay then Ran.
Ran: So, why were you scared and jumpy?
Me: Check below.
Ran: Oh, okay. See you next time.
Sorry this was posted so late. I have a legit reason that I'll explain after this. First off, I need a little help. If anyone has any tips on how to break procrastination, could you tell me them. I need to learn how to stop procrastinating. XD
Second, I couldn't upload because…you see…I was reliving my childhood with my cousins who were visiting and we decided to watch a certain show and I got all freaked out. My parents told me I couldn't go on the computer unless I promised to stop watching that show, but secretly I still am going. Shhh, don't tell my parents.
Don't worry, though, since I made you wait this long for the chapter. Expect the next chapter in two to three days. Now, that's a promise. ;)
P.S. Thank you for all the reviews. Each review feels like a hug from a friend.
P.P.S. Happy birthday Bijou!
Truths:
#23: I sometimes save files as "aweirhnbmnkjs" when I'm too lazy to think of a file name.
#24: When I finally understand something that was confusing to me, I suddenly shout, "Success!" during class. (I get weird looks every time.)
