Back at Fuji's and Yukimura's table.
"Now, I really feel the burden of my name and responsibilities," Fuji said as he watched Ryoma, his eyes loving and sad.
"Fuji…" Yukimura muttered.
Yukimura perfectly understood what Fuji meant. If an elite young man like him showed attraction towards a young girl who wasn't in the elite circle, it would bring up bad gossip. But the worst was that the young girl might be the aim of framing and underhanded attacks. And again, Fuji was the Seiyou Academy Student Council body president and was highly regarded. He was mostly worshiped by the girls, particularly the senior girls. They wouldn't accept that Fuji loves a girl from the common population who was accepted into Seiyou Academy only because of a scholarship. Just imagining what they might do to Ryoma scared Yukimura.
"Fuji, I know that I should not tell you this, but I will," Yukimura said. "You have noticed that Echizen-chan is a very attractive girl, I don't mean physically, but her personality draws in people around her. She possesses a strange ability to make people around her feel at ease. Look at them all, Fuji. Look at Kirihara, Marui, Niou, Ootori, Kikumaru and all of them. They are never as lively as when she is with them. Right now, she is a very dear friend in their eyes. But people change. And their feelings too. Today it is friendship, but tomorrow it can be something different. If one of them starts to feel this 'something different' towards her, he would also want her to feel the same thing for him. And since they are always around her, he would have the opportunity and the chance to bring her closer to him without raising any suspicion. But you, you who already feels that 'something different' for her, I can see that you try to stay as far as you can from her while your heart wishes for the opposite. What will happen when you finally decide to listen your heart? How long do you plan to make your heart's desires wait? What will happen when you finally decide to follow the voice of your heart and it's too late? Fuji, you and I are seniors. We're graduating this year. Now, you see her everyday yet you push her away. Next year, when you no longer have the opportunity to see her, you will long for the opportunities you have right now and regret your decision to stay away. But while you're far away from her, have you considered the possibility that she might fall in love with someone else?"
Fuji immediately froze, his fists clenched.
"Fuji, now you can see that you hate this idea," Yukimura continued. "But that will happen if you don't do anything now. Do you prefer to see her fall in love with someone else - may a total stranger to you - that is not you? If you do not wish for that, then use the chance you have right now while you can see her everyday and tell her your feelings. Me too I don't want Echizen-chan to be harmed, but I also don't want you to regret for the rest of your life not telling her your feelings when you still had the chance."
". . ." Fuji didn't reply.
Silence.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ryoma, Kirihara and all the pursued boys yelled as they ran pass Yukimura's and Fuji's table. Sanada was still on their tail.
"Huhuhuhu! This is so fun! Let's go faster! Faster! Faster!" Jirou, who was running between Ryoma and Kirihara, said in a sing-song voice with a happy grin on his face.
"Huh?" All the other runners looked at him in disbelief.
'This guy is seriously nuts!' they all thought, their right eyebrows twitching.
'Maso!' Ryoma and Kirihara thought.
Yukimura and Fuji watched the horde running past them. Yukimura sighed.
"I better stop Sanada now. This can continue until tomorrow if I don't do anything," Yukimura said as he stood up and walked away. He suddenly stopped. "And Fuji, reflect on what I told you."
". . ." Fuji didn't reply.
Yukimura left Fuji alone. He walked out and stood right in the middle of Ryoma's and Kirihara's escape way.
"Ah!" Kirihara and Ryoma shouted.
Yukimura smiled his sweet angelic smile.
"That's enough. Stop now!" Yukimura very nicely said.
Ryoma and Kirihara did everything to halt to a stop. They fear that Yukimura's angelic smile would turn into an angelic (scary) smile.
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech!
They succeeded, stopping just half a meter in front of Yukimura.
"Pfffiou!" Ryoma and Kirihara sighed out of relief. They hadn't bumped into Yukimura. However, the boys behind them didn't see Yukimura.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" They bumped into the two youngsters, sending them both flying.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Ryoma and Kirihara yelled as the rest of them stumbled and finished into a piled up human pyramid at Yukimura's feet.
"Outch!"
Sanada stopped when he saw Yukimura with his heavenly angelic smile. Sanada gulped. He understood that he should stop too (if he didn't want to see the angelic smile turned into an angelic (scary) smile).
Meanwhile, Kabaji had pulled out a cushion and put in on the floor, at the exact emplacement where Ryoma landed.
"Oupf!"
Unfortunately, Kabaji didn't pull a cushion for Kirihara.
Crack! Boom!
Kirihara crashed in the floor next to Ryoma, cracking the marble, his legs in the air.
"Owww!" Kirihara wailed.
"Arigatou, Kabaji-senpai," Ryoma said.
"Usu!"
"Meoooow!" Karupin, perched on Kabaji's head, said.
"What about me?" Kirihara muttered. No one answered him.
"Now, that's enough playing for tonight," Yukimura spoke. "You will now be very good boys - and girl - and behave yourselves. You have enjoyed yourselves enough and it's very late. We should go back home now. Do you understand me?"
"Hai…" the human pyramid, Sanada, Kirihara and Ryoma obediently muttered.
Rinko and Nanako chuckled.
'Wow!' Ryoga and Nanjirou thought. 'Impressive commanding power!'
At the entrance of the restaurant.
"Atobe-kun, thank you for inviting us. We had a very nice evening," Rinko said.
"It was my pleasure, Echizen-san," Atobe replied, bowing to her. He took her hand and kissed it.
Ryoma and Ryoga glared him.
'What a monkey!' they thought while Rinko and Nanako chuckled.
"Meow!"
"Okay boys, we will be going now!" Nanjirou said.
"Bye bye!" the boys chorused.
"Good evening, senpai-tachi," Ryoma said, bowing to them.
"See you at school, Ochibi-chan!"
The Echizen family left. Soon, some cars appeared in front of the boys.
"We will be going too," Yukimura said.
A last good-bye and Yukimura, Sanada, Atobe, Tezuka, Fuji, Yuuta, Yagyuu and Oshitari climbed in the cars and left.
"We will go, too," Yanagi said. Kawamura, Kaido and Inui left with him.
"Well, we are the only one left. We should go too!" Marui suggested.
"How about a little walk together before we part?" Niou proposed.
"Okay!" Kirihara said.
On the way across the park in front of the restaurant, something came into Gakuto's mind.
"Hey! I was wondering something!" Gakuto said.
"What is it?" Shishido asked.
"Atobe, Tezuka, Sanada each possessed ten percent of Torada's family business. And Yagyuu possessed five. Combined, they had thirty five. But Yanagi said that they held forty five percent. Then who possessed the last ten percent?"
". . ." no one could answer.
"That's right…" Momoshiro trailed, redoing the counting in his head.
"It's a very good question…" Hiyoshi said.
"So who possess the last ten percent?" Ootori wondered.
That night. In the Echizen household.
Alone in his room, Ryoga watched the paper in his hand, repeatedly ticking his eyebrow.
Twitch!
On the paper, there was a name on the top.
'Yuuji Ryuu.'
Twitch! Twitch!
On the bottom of the paper, there was a signature.
Yuuji Ryuu's signature.
Twitch! Twitch! Twitch!
POP!
That paper confirmed that Yuuji Ryuu now owned ten percent of the Yukimura's family business. He remembered he had signed something to Hiroshi's request, but he didn't pay attention of what he was signing. Looked like he fall in Hiroshi's trap.
'That damned fox Hiroshi! He didn't give up! He had me use that damned name! He knows very well that I don't want to be an Yuuji again!'
Pop! Pop! Pop! TWITCH! Ryoga repeatedly ticked his right eyebrow.
'And now this paper just brought Yuuji Ryuu back to life!'
He wished his eyes could shoot laser so that he could kill the paper by burning it to ashes. But knowing his cousin, he must had keep in his possession other copies of this paper. Even if he succeed to destroy this one, there were still the others to destroy. And again, Ryoga had to find out where did Yagyuu hide the other copies!
". . ."
Twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch!
So frustrating.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Ryoga roared, his voice echoing throughout the city.
On the other side of the town. In the mansion of the Yagyuu-family.
Yagyuu, sitting in front of his desk, typed on his computer. He took his cup of black coffee and sipped on it, watching his work on the flat screen. He smiled contently.
'Ryuu, you're not going to escape from me!'
His smile grew wider.
'It's useless even if you destroy the contract I send you. I have many copies put in secure places only known by me!'
He laughed silently.
'It was you who suggested to me that we attack the lion from behind by pulling his tail. It was very effective on Torada. But who said that I couldn't use that trick on you too?'
The first step of his plan worked. Ryoga had used the name Yuuji.
'Now, it won't be long before you return to your real place in the family! Don't think that I would carry your burden all my live, you lazy bum!'
He heard a loud roar echoing outside.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!"
Yagyuu smirked. He had a very good idea to whom belonged the roar. He laughed maniacally.
"Mwuahahahahahaha!"
A/N: Again, please, tell me sincerely where and what do you think is bland, boring and Mary Sue. And if you were me, how would you change it to make it be more interesting?
Thank you for your help!
