Hey guys, I'm glad you liked the last two chapter :)
I'd like to thank khione123 for her review on the last chapter. It honestly made my day. You have no idea how much the review meant to me. And since I'm in a good thanks to you, I'm gonna give you guys a very nice chapter that'll give you a little hint of the answer to your question about Aoi at the end of chapter 10: Time of Calm.
Also, I'd like to point out a little something about Utau's pregnancy. I have no idea as to how far she is because I've completely lost track of how long this has been going on. So I'm going to jump her pregnancy to about 2-3 months just because I think the baby will be able to show signs about being paralyze by then. So yeah. Just to clear that up for anyone who was wondering.
Let's get started with the story! I don't own Shugo Chara cause if I did, well, let's just say the anime and manga wouldn't have ended ;)
The alarm clock on her bedside table rang violently but it only sent the aquarious haired color girl to hide further in her bed sheets. She only reached out from underneath to turn off the annoying ringing sound. Graduately, her sleep indused mind started to wake and she took her time to get ready for the day.
There was a quick knock on her door and then her brother's voice, "Aoi-nee, wake up. You'll fall asleep again."
"Ugh! Fine."
Throwing the sheets off, Aoi's warm body shivered at the cool air in the room, wanting desperatly to go back to bed. Instead, she went over to her window and opened it to let in the warm air from outside. There was a thin sheet of fog that floated over the ground due to the humidity caused by the harsh rain fall from yesterday. Before she stepped away from the window, she heard the sound of puddles splashing.
"Oi, nice pjs."
Aoi's cheeks heated up slightly at the smirk on her punk clothed friend, Yoshikazu. She stuck her tongue out at him and thanked her middle school friend, Junko, for jabbing him in his side with her elbow. Closing the curtains, Aoi went to her closet and picked out her school uniform. After a quick shower and dressing, Aoi left her room to leave. She stopped outside her sister's room and knocked. There was no answer so she peeked inside. Aoi smiled shyly at the scene of Akane sleeping peacefully in the arms of Haru. "I'm off," she whispered into the room and then closed it quietly.
As she walked downstairs, she heard voices in the living room. Junko was sitting on the couch with Daigo helping him with some undone homework. As for Yoshikazu, Aoi found him raiding her fridge. Junko was the first to notice Aoi. She smiled at her and greeted her with a warm, "Sleep well?"
"Yeah, thanks :)."
"Mornin'. Hey, do you have anything to eat on the way? I didn't get to eat breakfast," Yoshikazu asked poking his head out from the kitchen.
Aoi rolled her eyes at him but couldnt help but giggle. She motioned him over to the storage closet and let him have his pick at the boxes of granola bars, pop tarts, fruit snacks, and other boxed foods.
"Pop tart, please." She reached into the blue box and retrived a silver package and handed it to Yoshikazu who smirked as he pulled her close by the waist. "Thanks."
Although her cheeks were bright red, she pushed him away with a scoff and walked out of the storage closet, "Don't you think it's to early in the morning to be harassing people?"
"Ah, what you call harassing, I call having fun."
Looking back over her shoulder, she shook her head at the Guardian Joker as he took a bite out of the strawberry filled pop tart.
School seemed to be dragging on for hours to Aoi as she sat in her math class. Why did I have to get the class that has the bad math teacher? T^T Completely bored, she began to doodle on her notebook instead of taking notes that will never help her in the class. I'll just ask Junko for her notes afterschool. Good thing there's no Guardian work today.
Aoi looked down into her bag to see Chiye laying on her books faced up with a bored expression. When she noticed her barer watching her, she rolled around in frustration. Kicking and flailing her arms around within the bag. Deep down, Aoi felt like doing the same thing.
Chiye started to vibrate a little. She got up and floated down to the bottom of the bag and pulled out Aoi's phone that was vibrating with a text message. Aoi checked to make sure the teacher wasn't looking and then unlocked her phone and read the text.
To: Aoi
From: Kazu-kun
Yo, think you can meet me of the roof after this period? I don't feel like going to gym today.
He's always skipping class, Aoi thought to herself as she texted him back.
To: Kazu-kun
From: Aoi
Just go to gym, Kazu-kun. Don't you think we should show up sometimes? They'll
catch you.
She went back to drawing on her notebook when she recieved a reply.
To: Aoi
From: Kazu-kun
Oh, come on. They never catch me. Well, except for your sister's friend, Hinamori-senpei.
But that was a fluck. Come on, I really don't want to go. Besides, you know you wanna see me ;)
The blush crept up to her cheeks quickly and it only worsen when Chiye started laughing at her.
To: Kazu-kun
From: Aoi
Ha! Don't get so full of yourself. You'll grow a big head that way :P
And don't lie, it's obvious that it's YOU that wants to see ME.
Feeling proud of her couterback, Aoi smirked in triumph and it grew wider when she got a text but after reading it, it only wiped the smirk off her face and her face to turn beat red.
To: Aoi
From: Kazu-kun
Okay, you caught me. Is it that obvious?
Aoi let her burning forehead to touch the desk as Chiye laughed from her bag. "Ne, Aoi, he sent another one." With trembling fingers she reached back into the bag and read the new text.
To: Aoi
From: Kazu-kun
You're face is red isnt it? ;)
"Shut up!"
"Hanaki-chan, is there something wrong with my teaching?"
All eyes were on Aoi as she sunk in her seat, shaking her head, "Sorry, Sensei."
"You know, you might not get caught, but I could." Aoi stood at the door of the roof entrance with her arms crossed as she stared at Yoshikazu lying on the concret, with his arms behind his head and eyes closed. "Kazu-kun?" With no responce, she stepped forward and walked to his side. She kneeled down and nudged him a little. "Don't tell me you're asleep."
"And if I am?"
He opened his eyes to reveal warm honey colored eyes only to close them again. Aoi looked around and noticed how quiet it was. "Where's Ichiro, Jirou, and Saburo?"
"They wandered off to play with the others at the Garden."
"Oh."
She sat down next to Yoshikazu and enjoyed the peace and quiet. Her eyes were started to grow heavy until she felt something-or someone-playing with the end of her hair. With her blue-green strands wrapped around his index finger, Yoshikazu asked, "So how's you're sister been?"
"She's okay. She's been going to therapy with Dr. Fujimoto and coming home a littler better. Haru has been helping her a lot too." She contrentated on the strands of hair being twerled around his finger and closed her eyes smiling. "It must be nice to have someone hold you in their arms like how Haru holds my sister."
"You would know if you had a boyfriend. Which still baffles me," he started to sit up, "How does someone like you, kind, sweet, beautiful, smart-everything-not have a boyfriend? I've seen the fan clubs and I've seen Valentine's day, Christmas, Halloween, every other day and there are alot of guys who like you. So how come?"
It was quiet on the roof as Yoshikazu's words seeped in. Both teenagers' faces were red as they looked away from each other. "Is that what you really think about me?"
"D-don't get the wrong idea. I'm only saying what I've heard around the school."
"Hm...You're right about theres a lot of guys who like me but I've always turned them down. I like someone but it's hard to tell if he likes me back."
"How is it hard to tell?"
"Well," she leaned back on her hands and found some courage to look him in the face, "He teases me a lot. I can't tell if he's just playing with me or hiding his feelings."
"Well, if you find out he's playing with you, just tell me and I'll kill him for you."
Her smile turned sad as she turned her eyes down and whispered to herself, "What are you going to do? Punch a mirror?"
"What?"
"N-nothing! Uh...so how have you been? Has your sister written back?"
He didnt answer immediatly. His eyes ran over her face for something, she didn't know, but then he smiled sadly at her and shook his head. "No, but she might be busy with her study so I understand. I'll just have to be patient, right?"
"Right."
"Ne, Aoi?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did Tsukiyomi-san send me and the others tickets to Kasumi and Utau's upcoming concert?"
A wide smile appeared on her face as she eyed the ticket in his hand. "Kazu-kun, you can keep a secret right?"
"Course I can."
"Then let me tell you a little secret that you'll find interesting."
"You're math teacher really cant teach."
"You just realize this now?"
Junko and Aoi laughed together at the table as they did homework. As they were quietly working in their own notebooks, Junko suddenly asked, "So how exactly is this going to work?"
"What work?"
"You know what I mean."
"Oh! Don't worry about it. I got it all covered."
There was a quiet violin playing, Junko's ringtone. She reached into her bag and got up to answer her phone. Aoi continued working until Junko got back and started packing her things. "I gotta go. Dad wants me back home."
"Alright. I'll walk you home."
Just as they were opening the front door, a fist stopped very close to Aoi's face. The fist retreated and they noticed Yoshikazu's apologetic expression, "Sorry! I didn't know you were coming out."
Aoi shook off the shock and Junko laughed nervously, "At least you stopped in time before you punched Aoi in the face. That wouldn't have been pretty."
"Hell yeah. I would've kicked your ass!" Aoi threatened him.
Yoshikazu smirked and leaned closer to Aoi's face, "You wouldn't hurt me."
Mirroring his actions, Aoi replied with a smug, "Don't tempt me."
"Well! I need to get home and I can see that Ito-kun came here to talk to you Aoi so I'll just go."
"Wait, Junko!"
"Oi, I told you, you can just call me Yoshikazu or Kazu."
"I'll see you at school tomorrow, Aoi, Ito-kun!" Junko waved bye as she turned the corner.
Standing at the door, staring at nothing started to feel awkward to Aoi so she sighed and walked back inside, "So, something wrong?"
"What makes you think something's wrong?" Yoshikazu closed the door behind him and took a seat on the couch.
"You dont normally come to my house during the day. You'd text me if you were bored."
"Well, it's not that something's wrong."
"Oh, then what is it?" Aoi looked up from piling her homework together at Yoshikazu on the couch and was caught in her tracks. He was watching her from behind a couch cushion attentively. There was a slight pink color on his cheeks that didn't go unnoticed by her. She couldn't help but think he looked really cute. More than usual.
"Aoi, there's something that I've been meaning to tell you for a very long time." He pushed himself off the couch and walked over to Aoi. As he got closer, her heart started beating rapidly in her chest as if it were ready to burst. She backed up against the table unintentionaly allowing Yoshikazu to trap her there by placing his hands on the table on each side of her.
"K-Kazu-kun, what are you doing?"
The pink hue on his face turned darker as his eyes held hers, "When we were on the school roof today, and I said all those nice things about you...I told you that thats what I heard from other people."
"Y-yeah."
"I kind of lied about that. I didn't really hear that from people. They're what I think of you. And I meant what I said."
"Kazu-"
"Let me just say this, please?" Aoi felt like pudding. If she wasnt holding onto the table behind her she probably would've collapsed by now. By now, her heart was loud in her ears. I REALLY hope he cant hear it. Then she noticed that he was moving his face closer to hers, causing her breath to be stuck in her chest. His forehead pressed gently against hers and she couldnt tell if the heat was coming from her face or from his. She tried to look at something else, anything else. The floor, his shirt, the chair, anything but those alluring eyes that were right in front of her. But no matter what, her eyes found his anyways. "Aoi, I think I'm in love with you."
Before the words can take its full toll on Aoi, the door opened with Akane and Haru walking in with bags. As soon as the door opened, Yoshikazu was already on the other side of the room by the window trying to get rid of the blush on his face and calm his beating heart.
Akane and Haru stopped at the door and looked from the red face statue at the table to the orange-top teenager hanging out the window. It didnt take them long to realize what was going on. Quietly, they closed the door, put their bags down, and walk upstairs without a word. The silence settled in and so did Yoshikazu's words.
"Kazu-"
"U-Uh! I gotta get home! I'll see you tomorrow!"
Without looking up at Aoi, Yoshikazu ran out of the house without another word. Once he was gone, Aoi fell to her knees and stared at the open door. Then, she grabbed at her hair and screamed, "Damn you, Akane! Haru!"
"We're sorry!" the couple called down from upstairs.
So theres that. A random chapter but hey, they're needed every now and then, right? lol
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