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Hikari: Hehe…I just love Tezuka's costume!
Kyandi: I think it would be funny to see!
Hikari: It would!
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Chapter 55 Fan Boys!
"Have any of you seen Hika-chan today?" Eiji asked. The whole team was gathered for lunch as usual but Hikari was absent. "She's been helping her class finish up with preparations for the Cultural Festival. It is today after lunch." Fuji replied.
"I talked to her before I came out here." Momo remarked as he worked his way through the pile of food before him. "She said she was going to miss lunch with us because it takes forever to get into her costume." Momo added his mouth full.
"Momo don't talk with your mouth full." Oishi told him as Momo swallowed. "I wonder what kind of costume she has to wear that its hard for her to get into." Eiji remarked.
"I bet it's a dress of some sort. That would explained why she's not too happy." Momo said. "It would explain it." Fuji agreed. "Lets go check it out on our break, Fuji!" Eiji cheered. Fuji nodded in agreement. Tezuka looked at his teammates.
He was going to be the first on break, so he would be the first to find out what her class was doing and what her costume was. Though he himself wasn't too happy with his costume either.
Who had ever decided his part was going to be on the receiving end of his wrath when he found out. Until then he was still curious to see what his female teammate's classmates had forced her to wear.
"We best get going Eiji. We still have to get changed." Fuji said getting to his feet. "Right! Bye Oishi!" Eiji cheered as he followed his classmate. "Don't you still have to get dressed and ready as well, Kaido?" Oishi asked the junior.
Kaido nodded. "You're wearing a costume too, Mamushi?" Momo asked looking at Kaido. "They have him dressing up like a medieval archer." Inui told him. Kaido let out one of his hiss like sighs before getting to his feet.
"I have to go and help my class finish setting up." Oishi said getting to his feet. "Me too!" Momo said swallowing the last of his big pile of food before jumping to his feet. "We should go too." Inui told Taka and Tezuka.
Tezuka nodded. He wanted to check in and then go see what Hikari's class was doing. He was probably more curious then he should have been but at the moment he didn't really care too much. He reported to his class checking in that everyone else was ready and set to go.
He stayed for a short while to make sure everything started smoothly before he excused himself an hour into the start of the festival. When he neared Hikari's classroom there were several people crowded around, some leaving, others waiting to go in.
Almost all of them were males, most of those, fans of Hikari. Tezuka always found that when confronted with Hikari's fan club he always wondered if his own fans were that crazy and weird whenever he was around.
Whatever the case the males waiting outside kept muttering to each other things along the lines of, "I heard it's cute!" and "Can you imagine it!? On our Hikari-chan!?". They were doing the male equivalent of a girl spazzing, shoving each other and acting like girls at the moment.
It made Tezuka feel sorry to be a male as well. Especially when one male came out of the room OMGing over and over like the three letters were his mantra. Tezuka didn't even know that boys even said OMG, let alone that many times in the span of just a minute.
The boy probably said it more times in just a minute then a girl say in an entire week. Now that was just sad.
Tezuka was starting to wonder if he even wanted to know what Hikari's classmates had dressed her in. But he was still to curious to turn around now so he got in line himself. It didn't take too long before he was shown inside.
Inside the classroom had been transformed into a stylish French themed café complete with iron backed chairs with flower designs in them and a host dressed in a black, silver, and white butler like suit. "Oh! Hello Tezuka-sempai!" the boy greeted with a smile.
"You're just in time. You'll be Hikari-chan's next customer!" he said cheerfully showing Tezuka to a small table. Tezuka took a seat not really taking the time to glance around before he did so.
"She's been very popular today. So glad we made her one of the servers." the boy added giving Tezuka a menu before taking off to see to other customers. Tezuka watched the boy for a moment confused before turning to look at the menu who consisted of different drinks, sweets, and small dishes.
"Tezuka-buchou!?" Tezuka looked up from his menu a greeting on his lips but the greeting died when he saw her. Momo had been one hundred percent correct when he said he bet it was a dress. And a dress it was.
Standing before him was Hikari. She was dressed in a form fitting black and white maid's dress that came about four inches short of hitting her knees. It had no sleeves or straps being held up by a simple sweetheart bodice with silver laces. The skirt of it was puffy with silver petticoats and silver lace on the end.
She was also wearing fingerless white gloves with cuffs attached, a white collar choker with black bow, a small white maid's hat, black stockings, and silver cork heels.
To top it off who ever had done her hair had manage to pull her hair, rat tail and all into two pig tails high on her head, as well as perfectly line her eyes with silver eyeliner. She looked uncomfortable standing in front of him but Tezuka could only think one thing; She's so…cute.
Tezuka mentally shook himself. Why in the world had he thought that!? It was true she was cute, but Hikari was always cute. Again Tezuka mentally scolded himself. Why was he thinking this? It was just a maid costume.
As he stared at her, Hikari's cheeks turned an adorable shade of pink and she down cast her eyes as she gripped her note pad in both hands. "Tezuka-buchou you're staring." she told him. Tezuka blinked, snapping out of his daze before shifting his eyes back to his menu.
"A maid?" he asked. Out of the corner of his eyes he watched as her blush darkened. "This is why I didn't say anything. It looks stupid looking! Especially on me!" she said suddenly sounding self conscious. Tezuka looked back up at her to see an almost dejected look on her face as she stared at the floor.
"No, I think you look cute in it." he told her before he realized what he was saying. Tezuka blinked in surprise at the reaction that got him.
Hikari sucked in her bottom lip to bite it, her cheeks lighting up in a rosy pink trail that lead from one cheek over the bridge of her nose to the other. Her eyes narrowed slightly to let her long white lashes crush her cheeks.
Tezuka was shocked with the reaction. It was almost as if she was…embarrassed. He had never really seen Hikari get embarrassed. At least not around him he hadn't. He had defiantly never seen her get that way because of him.
Hikari reached up to idly tug on one of her loose strands of hair. In the background many of the males gasped and started chattering over how cute Hikari looked. Tezuka couldn't help but think Hikari's fan boys were annoying.
"Tezuka-buchou, please don't say things like that. Its only making me feel even more embarrassed then I already feel." she told him. Tezuka nodded, but he wasn't going to apologize. He had meant what he had said even if he hadn't meant to say it.
Tezuka turned his eyes back to his menu. "I'll just have a tea." he told her. Hikari nodded. Tezuka looked up as she walked off, glaring at several boys when he caught their eyes after they had just been staring at Hikari's butt.
Once they met his gaze they instantly found the table cloth a lot more interesting then the hind quarters of Tezuka's female teammate. Soon Hikari returned with his tea in hand. "Sugar?" she asked holding out a cup of sugar. Tezuka shook his head. "No thank you." he replied.
"But shouldn't you already know that?" he asked. Hikari smiled. "I'm a data collector Tezuka-buchou, not a stalker. I don't know everything you do at home." she told him before moving on to her other customers. That was good to know.
That meant there were things about him she didn't know, just like there were still things about her he didn't know. As he drank his tea, Tezuka watched her. Many of the boys were snapping pictures of her as she worked.
Several even asked her take pictures with them and their friends. Even girls were asking her for pictures. Each time Hikari would give them a brilliant, charming smile, let them take the picture, and then would continue on with her work.
It was nice to watch her work. Though she stopped to chat with her customers it was to make them feel more comfortable. She worked hard, doing her work quickly and correctly. She kept a close eye on her customers and would wonder over to them every now and then to ask them if there was anything else they needed or wanted.
When Tezuka was done with his tea she was there almost instantly. "Do you want anything else, Tezuka-buchou?" she asked with a smile. Tezuka shook his head. "No that's fine. I have to be getting back to my class anyway." he told her.
Hikari nodded, collecting his teacup. "Thank you for coming by then!" she said cheerfully before adding, "I'll see you later, Tezuka-buchou!". Tezuka took one last look at Hikari moving about through the tables before he left.
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Tezuka really disliked his classmates at the current moment. And really it wasn't just the female half either. The male half had sealed his doom as well. The costumes they had him in was ridiculous and made him look and feel stupid.
Wow…Now he knew how Hikari felt at the current moment in her own costume. But the girls seemed to be eating it up. Every girl that saw him squealed and cheered before snapping a picture and then spazzing over the fact that they had actually just taken a picture of Tezuka Kunimitsu.
Really how did Hikari do it. She even freely posed for the pictures. He suppose she had done it just to get it over with but that wasn't Hikari. Didn't do something just because it was the easy way out so once again he was left with the question of how and why.
Tezuka had only been dealing with it for a short hour and he was already tired of the flashes that kept going of in his face. He really wanted to pause and pinch the bridge of his nose. He could already feel a headache coming and he wasn't even half way through his first shift.
Inwardly Tezuka heaved a sigh. He really wanted to just leave. But for the sake of the tea shop he kept calm and reframed from telling those who kept snapping pictures to leave themselves. If Hikari or Fuji were to see him now…Tezuka shuddered to think of what those two might say or do.
It was honestly like the two of them lived and breathed just to make him squirm. And they did a good job of it too. As he turned to his next table and customer another flash went off in his face nearly blinding him this time.
"Now that is one that deserves a frame. You take good pictures, Tezuka-buchou." Tezuka froze. He knew that voice better then he knew his own. When he completely turned to face his new customer he found Hikari sitting at the table her infamous camera in her hand and still wearing her own costume.
In fact she had most of the other waiters and customers staring at her. Tezuka was partly surprised to find that Hikari even had third year male fans, though it was only a mild shock. Of course she did. And at the moment, even the others in his class, who should have been working, were stopping long enough to grab their cell phones and snap a picture of Hikari.
Not that she noticed. She never really did. Tezuka sometimes found himself wondering if she honestly was too dense to notice or if she did notice but just ignored it. It was probably the latter but with Hikari, what you thought usually, ninety percent of the time…was wrong.
She gave him a smile as he looked at her, her face lighting up when she saw the look of "Holy crap" on his face. Though she was the only one that noticed the look at all. "The Mad Hatter look suits you Tezuka-buchou. I don't think I've seen that many colors on you…ever." she added.
It was obvious that she was holding back her laughter, rather because it was for the sake of his sanity or the sake of her own self survival, he didn't know. But at least she was trying to hold it back, even if she was failing rather horribly at doing so.
Tezuka frowned his eyes shifting away from her. She was amused beyond all get out. How did he know she would find this whole thing amusing? It was Higarashi Hikari he was talking about. Of course she would find this whole thing amusing.
She always did. It was like she lived for the most embarrassing moments of his life, because she always seemed to be there, camera in hand, waiting for his next embarrassing moment so that she could take a picture of it.
Of course she spent the whole time laughing at him as well. Tezuka idly thought about whether he made her laugh more in one little embarrassing moment then she had in her entire life. It sure felt like it.
Hikari wanted to laugh at the almost pout like look on Tezuka's face. He honestly looked like he was torn between pouting and frowning. Either way the look earned him another flash in the face as she snapped another picture.
"That look on your face is priceless!" she told him as she held back another laugh though she was horribly failing at doing so and the frown on Tezuka's face said clearly that he didn't like being laughed at like that. But she couldn't help it. He was already cute enough without adding the funny looking looks on his face.
She really did think he was handsome in the outfit though. Even if he didn't think so himself. Not that he would. For all Tezuka was stoic and confident, he wasn't overly cocky like Ryoma was.
He was dress in a black and white striped vest complete with coat tails and strange orange colored buttons with a bright blue under shirt, a green and black striped scarf around his shoulders that fell even with his knees, a dark green jacket with silver and gold buttons, black slacks with different colored and spotted patches, and a top hat with cards stuck into a red ribbon tied around it.
Poking out from under the hat, someone had styled his naturally messy hair into an even more messy fluff that poked out at all angles and had him look like he had just rolled out of bed after a long night of rolling in his sleep, to put on the costume.
To top the look off he was wearing green and blue striped gloves, a big neon orange rose tucked into the breast pocket of his jacket and a green and orange checkered bow tie. Add his glasses to the look and he perfectly fit the part of the Mad Hatter.
Even if the Mad Hatter hadn't worn glasses in any version of Alice in Wonderland that she had ever read in her life. It was still a nice fit though she wouldn't have minded getting a chance to see him without his glasses on.
Hikari thought it was cute. Totally befitting of the Mad Hatter though she was pretty sure that the Mad Hatter smiled a whole lot more then Tezuka ever did and she made it a point to tell him so in an overly cheerful voice that said fully well that she was enjoying herself even if he wasn't.
Tezuka adjusted his glasses as he cleared his throat. The girl hadn't even attempted to hide her obvious mirth at his current situation. As if she didn't make a fool of him on a daily bases already, but now she was laughing at him for something, he hoped, she had no part in.
He hoped. But then again with one Higarashi Hikari always somewhere in the background…who could know. And she was always there. Even if the said victim didn't exactly know where, she was always there waiting.
She had seemed all too cheerful to find out what the theme of his class's tea shop was. Perhaps she already knew. The thought itself was enough to make Tezuka's stomach sink and to make a shiver course down his spine. Not that he let it show.
"Higarashi why are you here? Aren't you suppose to be working at the moment as well?" he asked her instead of replying to the smiling comment she had just made. He would not give her the satisfaction of replying to that.
"Its my break. I thought that since you took the time out of your break to come visit my class, I would return the favor. I love the set up by the way. Really does the whole Alice and Wonderland theme justice." she told him honestly with a smile bright on her face as she gestured to the strange, life size flowers and plants all around them and the tea pots and tea cups hanging from the ceiling.
Tezuka looked up at the teapots and teacups over his head as he heaved an inward sigh. This time it had been an innocent enough reason, thank Kami-sama. "That and Fuji-sempai said I should come and take a picture of you." Or not.
END
Kyandi: Haha!
Hikari: I honestly think the Mad Hatter look is cute on him!
Kyandi: True though he would have looked good as the March Hare, or even the Dormouse.
Hikari: You just like the idea of Tezuka dressed up in animal ears!
Kyandi: You bet your butt!
Hikari: …You could have at least pretended like you didn't know what I was talking about.
Kyandi: Huh? Come again? I was too busy looking at pictures of Tezuka dressed as animals.
Hikari: You are not my creator. Everyone please enjoy and review! Kyandi-sama say good bye.
Kyandi: ….
Hikari: KYANDI-SAMA!
Kyandi: Huh? What?
Hikari: Say goodbye.
Kyandi: Ah! Oh um, Good by…Tezuka dressed as a bunny…
Hikari: Argh! Goodbye everyone!
