Finally!
Disclaimer: Refer to previous chapter.
~Next morning: Seki-sensei's class~
"So, where're Kounna and Rikogou?" Seki-sensei asked her class. She sighed. Every single day someone would just have to be absent. Akatsuki, Fujio and Leon turned to each other. Leon asked, "So?"
Fujio replied, "I'm not sure, but I think they're with Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun." Akatsuki realized, "Oh yeah, I remember now, Tooru-kun told me." Everyone turned to him and waited. The wizard prince continued, "They're trying to comfort Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun after...Nyoko-chan's...you know..." The wizards and apprentices nodded, understood.
Seki-sensei asked, "Who's what?" Leon replied, "Well you see, the person who's having a competition with Momo-chan had a little sister and she...umm...died...yesterday..." Fujio continued, "Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun are friends of her." Akatsuki finished off, "They really young and as you can guess, upset over her...death...and so Tooru-kun and Yuki-chan are trying to cheer them up...somehow." His teacher continued, "But why are only Kounna and Rikogou with them?"
The three wizards turned to each other and sighed again. They turned back to their teacher/sensei and Fujio spoke up, "We can't tell you that part." Leon continued, "We have to have Tooru-kun and Yuki-chan's permission first." Akatsuki finished (again), "We'll just say they're close, in a way."
Seki-sensei nodded. She'll have to ask them some other time. She shrugged it off for now and got on with her lesson.
~After school: At the MAHO-dou~
Yuki and Tooru showed up not too late after everyone else. Both looked really exhausted. Tooru was...panting. Akatsuki spoke up, "Ano, Tooru-kun, Yuki-chan?" "Hm?" Yuki asked. "What?" Tooru looked up, a bit surprised at the mention of his name.
Akatsuki looked down but replied, "It's about...Seki-sensei..." Both blinked but listened anyway, "I think she might ask you why you guys were the only ones with Hikaru-kun and Mia-chan." Tooru replied, "Does that mean we have to tell the entire class that we live in a- in Majo Heart's home?" Everyone else nodded. Yuki looked down, "Oh."
Everyone but Tooru looked down. The wizard asked, "What's up with you guys?" Everyone looked at him as he continued, "Did you already forget what Majo Heart used to tell us when we were young?" Yuki tried to recall, "Uh, clean your room?" Tooru gave her a look, "No, the other thing she always told us." Yuki tried again, "Um, shut up?" Tooru sighed, "Yes, but not that one." and Yuki tried again, "Uhhhh, you're grounded?" Tooru shook his head. Yuki thought for a while and then snapped her fingers, "I remember! She said, 'If anyone else asks where you live, tell them the truth, and tell it, like you're proud of it!'" Tooru nodded, "There you go."
Yuki started to laugh again. Tooru folded his arms, "Alright, what is it this time?" Yuki wiped a tear and replied, "I think you may have started to sound like Suki-chan." Tooru put his arms down and then everyone stared. Tooru realized what she was referring to and started to blush. He then yelled, "It's not funny!" That caused Yuki to laugh even more.
Tooru folded his arms and looked away. Yuki controlled herself and said, "If it makes you feel any better, half the reason I was laughing is because of what would happen if Suki-chan was here." Tooru didn't reply so Yuki poked him, "Come on, come on. You know you want to." Tooru replied, "No I don't!" The brunette gathered a grin onto her face as she replied, "How do we know that's true?" Instead the wizard replied, "Now who's starting to sound like Suki-chan?" Yuki replied, "I don't have a problem with that. But I think someone might." Tooru didn't reply.
Marina asked, "What are you talking about?" They both stared at Marina and Yuki put her hand over her mouth to control her laughter. Leon asked, "Wait, is this about-" "No! Don't say it, Leon-kun!" Tooru interrupted while tackling Leon to stop him from finishing his sentence.
He then got off of him and Leon replied, "So it is." Tooru didn't reply. Fujio and Akatsuki asked, "What do you mean?" Leon whispered the answer into his friends' ears. Fujio asked, "You're still worried about that?" Akatsuki agreed, "Yea, that was ages ago, and it happened once." Tooru replied, "That's what you know."
Leon joined in with Yuki and both laughed at their turquoise haired friend. Fujio looked away, trying his best not to laugh. Akatsuki also gained a grin on his face as he asked his turquoise haired wizard friend, "What ever do you mean, Tooru-kun? How many times did you do it?" Tooru lost his temper and yelled, "IT'S NOT FUNNY!" Leon and Yuki laughed harder where as Fujio and Akatsuki laughed too, not being able to hold it in anymore. Leon questioned Tooru's loud statement, "In what world?"
Onpu slowly backed away and then left the building. Momoko and Aiko noticed. They turned to each other and nodded.
When or in Tooru's case, finally, Akatsuki, Fujio, Leon and Yuki stopped laughing. All Tooru said was, "Never bring that up again." Leon mocked him, "Really? I think we should do it at least twice a day. Maybe the first time, in school." Tooru blushed madly and then chased Leon around the shop while shouting, "No! Never! Never! Never, I tell you, never!" Aiko asked, "What's his problem?" Tooru immediately stopped and pointed at Akatsuki, Fujio, Leon and Yuki one by one, in a random order while saying, "No one answer that!"
Fujio replied, "Come on Tooru-kun. After all, it's nothing to be ashamed of." Then the laughing began again. Tooru groaned in defeat, "I'm going to go check on Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun." Akatsuki asked, "You need anything? No verbal reply came although they had to dodge a rolled up newspaper.
~With Mizuno~
Mizuno went to the living room with her drink. She sat down, closed her eyes and took a sip. She called out, "Jeje." A fairy with the same figure as Lala and Hehe appeared. She had long open claret red hair. She wore a ring with a ruby on it. The fairy or Jeje asked, "Hai, Mizu-chan?" The witch smiled causing Jeje to understand what her mistress wanted, "Majo Heart's at work, Tooru-kun's gone to check on Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun. Yuki-chan is at the MAHO-dou with Akatsuki-kun and the others."
Mizuno looked up and smiled in gratitude. She gazed at her drink and broke the silence, "Tooru-kun and Yuki-chan have stopped coming here since Mia-chan and Hikaru-kun got adopted, ne?" Jeje seated herself onto the table and replied, "Kind of like Akatsuki-kun and the mission." Mizuno's smile disappeared, "Yea, something like that."
"You're still thinking about Yo-kun, aren't you?" Mizuno didn't nod but replied sadly, "I don't think I can live up to his expectations." Jeje shook her head, "That's not it, you know why, because he doesn't expect anything. He just wants you to do your best. Besides, that's not what you really worried about are you? Mizu-chan's still heartbroken over Yo-kun, ne? But don't worry, he did what he had to do, what he wanted to do." Mizuno smiled.
"Are you all alone, little girl?" Naoto's voice echoed. Mizuno got up and yelled, "I'm not a little girl!" "Really? That's not what you sound like, little girl." The witch clenched her fist and replied, "You realize I'm not the helpless little girl I used to be." Naoto appeared from the shadows and went up to the claret red haired girl, "My, are you still not over his death? After all, a whole decade (ten years) has passed. But who's counting? Certainly not me, maybe you, though." Mizuno gritted her teeth, "What do you want?"
The man smirked evilly and then stopped, "You should know." Mizuno raised an eyebrow in confusion. He pointed to her head, "Your most prized possession, where is it?" The witch replied, "What do you want with it?" The man replied, "You should know by now, it's power. I want it's power and YOU WILL give it to me or else I'll have to find a different source of power..." Mizuno stared. Hana-chan...I can't let Hana-chan suffer because of me...Think Mizuno think...Ah! Got it! Mizuno replied, "As much as I would love to help you destroy everything, I forgot where I put it."
Naoto glared and replied, "Don't get smart with me, little girl. As it's owner, you can sense it's presence so you know where it is." Mizuno smiled, "That's true but you see, without it, I'm powerless." The man still glared but couldn't do anything. He gave up and disappeared. When he did, Mizuno sighed as she sat back down.
Jeje opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by her mistress, "Don't you dare tell anyone about that." Her fairy shrugged.
~At the MAHO-dou~
Tooru returned with a serious look on his face. Everyone blinked as he turned to Leon, "I had to tell you before but might as well do it now." Leon blinked again and Tooru left. Everyone followed with Leon in the lead and Aiko and Kaoru right behind him.
~At the field~
Kotake asked, "What's this?" Aiko replied, "The field I told ya'll 'bout." Leon asked, "So what did you want to show me?" Tooru replied, "I came here after we left Fujio-kun's house." Onpu and Yuki shared a secret high-five. (A/N: Chpt 35, Pop's plan.) Leon asked, "And?" Akatsuki and Fujio noticed and gasped. Leon asked, "What?"
His three wizard friends pointed towards where the burnt rectangle would be. It wasn't there anymore; instead, there was green grass just like the rest of the field. Aiko noticed, "Yer right." Leon asked, "And it's surprising because?"
Fujio replied, "Leon-kun, the grass hadn't grown back for seven years, and now it did, as if by magic." Leon asked, "So?" Akatsuki asked, "You're not bothered about this one bit?" Leon thought and then shook his head. No one had an answer to that. Leon turned to the field, "After all, I did it." Akatsuki, Fujio and Tooru gasped.
Leon turned around, "Well, I'm going back home now. Bye!" He then walked off. Akatsuki, Fujio, Tooru, Aiko, Kaoru and everyone stared. The three wizards smiled. Fujio asked the apprentices, "Will you all help us?" "With what?" Masaru asked. Tooru covered his eyes with his arm and pretended to cry, "I'm so proud!" Akatsuki laughed, "No you're not." Tooru put his arm down along with his 'proud mother' act, "I know."
Fujio turned back to the apprentices, "As I was saying, we need to throw Leon-kun a congratulations party." Akatsuki objected, "No, first we need to check his second house." Fujio scratched his chin, "Oh yeah, I forgot." Tooru turned to the apprentices, "We'll tell you tomorrow if the party's on or not."
They nodded and left home where as the wizards left to their other destination before going home.
~With Leon~
Leon sighed and looked down as he headed to the former Itsuki residence. He then looked up and smiled. It took a while, but I finally got there. Arigatou...