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Chapter 36: Festival 1

The rays of light of a sunny morning hit gently Momo's small bedroom.

She groaned hearing her alarm clock beeping endlessly.

"Shtupid alarrrm…" she slurred reaching out to make the irritating beeping stop.

"Momo-chan!" her mother yelled from downstairs "Get up! Today's your school festival right?"

Momo heard her mother's voice getting louder and louder as she hopped up the stairs to her daughter's room, opening the door "I'm coming too after cleaning the house!"

The brunette immediately sat up "OH MY GOD TODAY I HAD TO GO EARLIER TO TRY THE COSTUMES!"

She started to ramble through her whole room scattering her pajamas around and putting on her school uniform, not bothering to check if the buttons were correctly put, she ran in the bathroom and brushed her teeth with one hand, with the other she brushed her long hair, and after brushing her hair she rushed to her room to get her socks and went back to the bathroom as she finished brushing her teeth.

Her mother just sighed, smiling at her clumsy daughter "Breakfast's ready, I'll wait for you downstairs okay?"

Momo just nodded, grabbing her cardigan, white muffler and bag.

"Mom, I'm going to school!" she yelled from the narrow corridor of their house, walking to the entrance to put her shoes on

"Honey, you have to eat breakfast!" Misaki ran out of the kitchen to the corridor "It's the most important meal for the-" she saw the door of their entrance slowly closing because of the cold wind outside. She sighed and closed the door.

"Geez, that kid should give more importance to her wealth."

"Momo!" Rangiku grinned excitedly as she opened her locker to get her costume "About time you came here huh."

Momo panted and opened her locker "Morning, I forgot to set my alarm a little bit earlier."

Rangiku just giggled, but came to a stop when she saw her friend's face pale up. "What's wrong?"

"T-the costume is…" Momo pulled out the white dress, completely ruined, along with the intact light blonde wig. The left shoulder part was ripped off, the whole dress had cuts and holes here and there, and the middle part of the skirt was torn away from it. While she pulled out the dress from the locker, pieces of fabric fell down on the ground with the everyday-hate-letters.

Rangiku knelt down and picked up all the things that fell out and stood back up, glancing at the students staring at them "Let's go somewhere else, Momo-chan."

Momo just nodded and closed her door "But the costume…"

"I'll do something about that." Rangiku's eyes widened "Look."

Momo turned around and immediately ran off with Rangiku before the reporters could see her.

As soon as the two got on the rooftop, Momo locked the door and leaned against it, listening if there was someone that followed them.

After making sure no one was at the door, she looked at Rangiku "What am I supposed to do about the costume now?" Momo panicked "Yesterday I stayed at school until it closed and…"

"Did you check your locker before leaving the school?"

Momo stood quietly and held her hands together, trying to stop the shaking.

Rangiku just sighed "Don't worry about the dress. I'll ask the Craft Club if they have some material to fix this." She held up the dress and titled her head "I have some ideas on how to fix this… luckily the skirt was left intact. Except for the middle part torn away from the dress." She held the torn part of the skirt "But this can still be used to cover the upper part of the dress… yeah… I need brown."

Momo shook her head "The dress will be one of my last concerns for now. I'm worried about the reporters. What are they doing here?"

"What if Yuki's going to…" Rangiku muttered and Momo smacked herself

"I'm gonna die out of stress here."

"Relax," Rangiku put a hand over Momo's shoulder "We have the costume trials in 5, I'll fix this as soon as we finish the trials while everyone else's gonna put final touch ups at the classroom's decoration."

Momo nodded "But the reporters…"

Rangiku sighed and noticed Momo holding the light blonde wig. A wicked smile spread over her face.

"How about an early cosplay?"

Rangiku walked down the halls with her friend to their classroom.

"Are you sure this is going to work?"

"It will." Rangiku said confidently "You're almost unrecognizable. I just wish we had blue contact lenses though."

The friend just sighed "Ok, 20 more steps to our classroom and no reporter has recognized me."

"Excuse me miss! We're looking for Momo Hinamori-san! Do you know where she might be?"

Rangiku looked back at the reporter and shrugged "I don't know. I haven't seen her since this morning."

Momo froze on her spot, and silently prayed to not be recognized with her long blonde wig.

The reporter snorted and looked at Rangiku's friend standing frozen next to her "Maybe your friend knows? Miss?" The reporter tapped Momo's shoulder

The originally-brunette girl stood still, holding tightly her cardigan's sleeve.

"Miss, do you know where miss Hinamori is?" Momo slowly turned to the reporter with eyes wide open.

"I, I don't know! I'm sorry!" she ran the remaining 20 steps from her classroom and shut the door when she got in.

Rangiku laughed nervously "Yeah, well… uh… sorry! She has her period today." Rangiku whispered to the reporter who blushed and nodded, dashing away from the big busted girl.

After the escape, Rangiku hopped to the classroom "Momo! Seriously, you suck at acting!"

Momo sulked in the corner receiving weird glances from her friends and classmates "I'm sorry!"

"Alright, settle down everyone!" the teacher barged in slamming her hand on the desk "Let's start with the costume trials! If you have a costume too small for you, or too big, then just exchange with someone else in the classroom or ask for help to the craft club."

"Yes!"

The girls went to the restroom to change, complaining or getting happy for having the right costume.

Boys just changed in the classroom, not caring if anyone saw them.

"Oh my God! What happened?" Rukia screeched holding Momo's costume.

"Bullies did it!" Rangiku whined with Rukia as the two started to plan out how to fix the costume.

Orihime furrowed her brows "Why'd they do that?"

"Because they hate me, that's why." Momo sighed holding the costume, waiting for her friends to change in their costumes "By the way, what costume did you get, Orihime?"

Orihime grinned "The fairy one!" she put on the silky pink skirt and started to unbutton her white shirt

"Check this out!" Rangiku twirled around with her cat costume "I hope my beloved one will like it!" she started to squeal as the other girls in the room looked at her as if she was crazy

"You're crazy!" Rukia laughed as she put on the black and white striped socks that reached her knees "You're gonna make him have a heart attack! You and your twins!"

"Twins?" Momo asked confused

Rangiku bursted out in laughter "These!" she patted her chest "My beloved twins. I take care of them everyday! And so does my Aizen when we meet."

Rukia and Momo turned pale green "We don't want the details of your sex life!"

Orihime smiled innocently "Eh? He has boobs too?"

Rangiku laughed "You'll understand once you'll have a boyfriend, Hime!"

Rukia covered Orihime's ears "RANGIKU!"

Orihime just shrugged and put on the sleeveless pink top that matched her skirt "How do I look?"

Her three friends held up their thumbs "Faboulous!"

"Touuuushiiiiirouuuuu!"

Toushirou mentally rolled his eyes and looked at his girlfriend "Karin, why aren't you in your classroom?"

Karin grinned at him "I just wanted to see what costume you got!" she looked up and down at him as he was wearing a flight-captain suit "You look cool!"

"Hn."

"Hinamori-san! I expect an explanation! I know that you're the one that provided the costumes, but you should take care of them too! What are you going to do now?" the teacher scolded Momo as she looked down the floor in shame

"I'm really sorry. I'll ask to someone from the craft club to help me fix the dress." She bowed in apology "Sorry."

"Aw, you don't have to be so mean to Momo-chan."

A scratchy male voice came in by the door.

"Kyouraku-sensei!" Everyone greeted the long haired man, who held up his hand and waved at the students.

"Hello everyone. Excited for the festival?"

"Yes!"

"Kyoraku!" the teacher huffed "I wasn't mean to Hinamori-san. Look at what she did to the costume!" she shoved the costume at Kyoraku as he raised his eyebrows.

"I'm sure it wasn't her fault, Nanao-chan. Even though you look so sexy when you're mad, you look prettier when you're happy." He held the costume "Haven't you heard that Momo-chan was bullied recently?"

"Kyoraku-sensei, I would rather have you calling me by my surname, and you shouldn't be so much in confidence with you students, specially if they're opposite sex. And you mustn't use the word sexy in front of the students." She said fixing her glasses up her nose.

"Oh, so that means I can say it when there are no students around?"

"What are you-"

"Why are you here anyway? I thought I'd find Kijima sensei here today."

"H-he was here earlier, he left after receiving a sudden call and I was called to sub him here today."

Kyoraku put a hand over Momo's shoulder "Either way, don't scold Momo-chan. I'm sure she'll find a solution for her problem. Right?" he grinned at the student who just nodded and apologized again for the trouble.

"Momo-chan!" Rangiku slammed open the door of her classroom "Come on! I found materials to fix your- Kyoraku-sensei!" she greeted the teacher who greeted her back "Either way, let's go!" she snatched Momo from between the two teachers chatting and ran to another classroom.

"What happened to her costume?" Karin asked innocently as Toushirou eyed her with a raised eyebrow "What?"

"Nothing. Don't you have to go back to your classroom?" he glanced at the girls chattering as they brought the food at the temporary mini-room they created in the classroom with some curtains in a corner. "You haven't even changed to your costume yet."

Karin shrugged "They'll survive without me!"

Meanwhile Rangiku and Momo closed the door of the craft club room.

"I talked to one of the members earlier, and they said that someone left a lot of white silky material by their door. With a small note "This will be needed by two girls at the festival"." Rangiku told Momo as she opened a cabinet and grabbed scissors and other things to modify the silky cloth "This must be around 5 meters long, and there were also other things, but this will be enough." Rangiku started cutting the long cloth and took some pins "Put the costume on the desk, I'll fix the dress like this… tell me if it's okay…" she drew a sketch on a sheet of paper.

The dress that Rangiku wanted to create was pretty much simple. The right sleeve would be ripped off too, and the sleeves will be changed into long lose sleeve ones with a long heart shaped holes on the upper part of the sleeves showing off Momo's upper arm from her shoulder to her elbow.

The skirt, since the middle part was ripped off and now it only reached 4 inches above her knees, would be modified big time by putting the cloth, provided by the crafting club or whoever donated it, over the remaining skirt to make it fall flawlessly down to her ankles.

"This is…" Momo gaped at the sketch "Ran-chan, you should be a fashion designer. You're a genius."

Rangiku just laughed as she started to rip off the right sleeve of the dress "I'd like to be a fashion designer, but you know my parents." Her tone getting bitter at the mention of her parents "I can't possibly become a fashion designer even if I'd like to."

She took a mannequin and put the dress over it.

Momo just sighed and put her hands over her hips "How can I help you?"

"Oh, don't worry, just sit and relax." She took a pin and put it on the white cloth sticking it to the thin strap over the shoulder part "This might take a little long but at least you'll look good."

Momo sat on a chair across the small classroom and spoke to her friend "Are you sure? I can help if you want."

"I said don't worry." Rangiku smiled at her friend in surrender "You should rest a little."

Momo frowned and gave up "I'm really sorry for troubling you. You're supposed to look all fresh and nice when your boyfriend comes here."

"Oh, about that. Well, I can quickly do touch ups before we open our cafè, so there won't be problems." Rangiku grinned as she held in a squeal "But I really look forward for it! Your opinion about my boyfriend is really important. So I'm really happy that you'll be finally able to meet him personally…"

Momo smiled at the sight of her friends' happy face "Tell me something more about him."

"Oh well! Where to start? He's hot, he's smart, he's hot, he's kind, he's hot, he's mature, he's hot and uh… he's hot! ... Hey, did I already say that he's hot? No? Well, he's hot!"

Momo laughed and shook her head "You'll never change, Ran-chan."

"Yeah yeah, you say it like that, but you'll understand when you'll have a boy-" Rangiku immediately slapped shut her mouth after realizing what she was saying "Momo, sorry! I didn't mean to-"

"Don't worry." Momo smiled "It's ok, really."

Rangiku frowned and continued modifying the dress "But I really want to know why… I mean, you looked so good together."

"We looked good. But we weren't good at all." She watched Rangiku putting a white sash below the chest part to cover the small holes and to hold together the skirt and the top

Rangiku furrowed her brows "Momo, seriously…" she put a royal blue silky thin cloth around the white sash she put and made a big bow on the back of the dress "That's what you think. What if he actually loves you too?"

"If he did, then we wouldn't have broken up, don't you think?" Momo sighed. 'Maybe I should just tell her already… that it was all fake…'

"But if he didn't like you then you two wouldn't have dated in the first place right?" Rangiku took a step back to look at the dress. The skirt reached the ground "I'm sure you don't have with long dresses right?"

"No, I'm fine with anything. But are you sure you should make it that elegant? It's just a school festival anyway."

Rangiku started to fold another long piece of cloth and cutting a part of it, not listening to a word that Momo just said "Ok, I just have to finish the sleeves and we're done…"

Momo sighed again 'I'm sighing too much lately.'

"So, is Toushirou dating someone else now? It seems like he and Karin are hanging around a lot recently." Rangiku snorted "I'm starting not to like her that much. You and Toushirou belong together."

The brunette rolled her eyes, taking off the blonde wig as her hair fell in cascades on her back "We don't. Because everything was just a fake-" Momo immediately put her hand over her mouth, after realizing what she just said.

"Fake?" Rangiku put her hands on her hips, raising her eyebrows "Momo Hinamori, is there something you might want to tell me?"

"Erm… yay?"

"I don't know if it's just my impression but…" Rukia furrowed her brows "I think Rangiku's sulking."

Momo just hummed agreeing with Rukia. She held up the tray with slices of cake and drinks on it, her head wondering in another world.

She felt extremely guilty, and no words could describe how mortified she felt.

"Here are your orders." Momo smiled prettily at the customers, as they blushed furiously seeing flowers blooming by Momo's background.

"Sorry for the wait, ladies." Chris smiled at his customers, fitting perfectly in his samurai costume, making the girls slowly melting because of his bright smile.

Of course, that was nothing compared to Toushirou's effect on the customers. He elegantly set the plates on the wooden table and coolly smiled at the customers "Your orders."

"Yo, Rukia. Check out the line out the classroom." Ichigo nudged the raven haired girl in her witch costume "We're gonna earn billions here."

Rukia raised her eyebrows and her eyes nearly popped out at the sight of the looooong line of customers waiting to get in the classroom "Holy Chappy."

"Yeah well. Try guessing who's the reason for the attraction of all those costumers." Yumichika huffed raising his eyebrow "Of course that would be me."

"Yeah right." Ikkaku snorted at his she-male friend "In your Lala-Land dude."

Yumichika just gasped in horror and stalked off to the small temporary room at the corner of their classroom to get the other orders.

"Whatever." Renji grumbled "I don't care who's attracting attention. With so many costumers we won't have enough food to serve. And I'm dead tired."

"Guys who's next?" Orihime said as she entered the classroom with a poster "My turn's over!"

"I'm next!" Momo quickly put the tray she was holding on the teacher's desk, eager to leave the room she shared with Toushirou and Chris, and helped Orihime with the poster "Where do I have to go?"

"Wherever you can… You have 1 hour." Orihime handed the poster to Momo "Nice costume!"

Momo blushed and muttered an embarrassed thanks to her friend. She scurried out of the classroom holding the poster with "2-B, COSPLAY CAFè! COME AND HAVE DELICIOUS CAKES AND DRINKS!" written on it.

She had to walk around the school to help her classroom get more customers.

'But do I really have to go around when we already have so many customers?' she thought sweat dropping at the sight of the long line in front of her classroom.

Then her eyes caught a reporter talking to some students in line and she immediately skipped away, walking at the first floor with the poster.

She smiled at some students from other schools "Please do come at Cosplay Cafè of class 2-B."

They would smile back in a daze at the angel like girl talking to them.

Momo's long white dress and blonde wig gave out the impression of an angel.

Working in a Cosplay Cafè.

'Awesome.' Momo sighed as she started to walk to another spot where many students were wandering around. She turned the corner of the so familiar school halls and bumped into someone.

"Ah! Sorry." Momo rubbed her face trying to sooth the pain from the impact with the other person and looked up, meeting a pair of dark eyes.

Those dark eyes belonged to a man who looked to be around 18 years old, with short brown wavy hair and a gentle smile.

Momo blushed and bowed, carefully to not her wig fall "I'm sorry. I was really distracted."

The man laughed softly "It's okay, I wasn't really careful myself."

Momo looked up, cheeks tinted in light pink and the man looked at her poster "Oh, you're in class 2-B too? I was going there too, but I sort of got lost. Can you please help me find my way there?"

The girl nodded "Uhm… sure, it's on the 2nd floor, there's a long line there though."

"Oh, it's okay, I'm a patient man. Well, thanks for the help miss…?"

"Momo! I'm Momo." She smiled shyly at the man who smiled back.

"I'm Sousuke. I hope I'll see you again soon, Momo-chan."

A/N: So yeah. Sorry again for the late update! Please Review :) oh, and I made a poll on my profile, please check it out and vote, since it concerns this and Berry Dormitory fic! For Momo's dress there's a link in my profile… it's not exactly that dress, but the stile of the sleeves are like that and just imagine the skirt to be longer… waaay longer…