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Kyandi: Yep, so we're going to keep going!
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Kyandi & Hikari: Oh yes you will!
Hikari: Anyway lets continue on without delay.
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Kyandi's Sibling: My sister does not own Prince of Tennis, New Prince of Tennis, or Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Chapter 56 Alvin in the Chipmunks Squeal
By the end of the day, every one of Hikari's teammates had stopped by to see her. Their expressions when they saw her had ranged from jaw dropping surprise with Momo, to blushing and staring at the floor with Kaido, to a cheer of "You're so cute!" and a hug with Eiji, to even another "You're cute" and a snap of a camera from Fuji.
Even Taka, Oishi, and Inui had either blushed, told her she was cute, or just plain out stared at her. Eiji, who had come with Oishi, who happened to be on break at the same time, made Oishi and Hikari take a picture with him.
Hikari hadn't minded really. She took plenty of pictures of them so it was perfectly fine with her for them to take pictures of her. Though she had to question Fuji's intentions when he took a picture of her.
By the time the first day of the festival was over Hikari was ready to go home and pass out in bed. "Finally over for today!" Hikari said cheerfully as she left the school with her teammates. "Nya! I though you were cute, Hika-chan! And you seemed to have a lot of fans." Eiji told her.
Hikari ran a hand through her hair, glad to finally have it back in her normal rat tail fashion. "Really? I didn't notice." she replied honestly. She had been more concerned with her customers. To busy trying to keep up with all of the people coming in to have noticed that half of them came in because of her.
Tezuka looked at her as she talked with Eiji and Oishi, Momo butting in every now and then. She honestly hadn't noticed that she had been the center of attention? Tezuka adjusted his glasses. Of course she wouldn't.
Hikari was practically blind to things like that. She never noticed just how much attention she could draw when she turned on that charm of hers. She attracted others like moth to a flame. Tezuka was drawn out of his thoughts when Fuji tapped his shoulder.
Tezuka looked down at the tensai who simply held out an envelope for him to take. Tezuka took it from him eyeing the shorter boys closely. Fuji just smile. "Open it when your alone." he told him before he took off ahead. "I'm heading off now. Hika-chan, you want to walk with me since your still staying at your grandfather's?" Fuji asked.
Tezuka looked up as Hikari smiled at her sempai. "Sure." Hikari turned to the others and gave them a wave. "I'll see you all tomorrow, sempai-tachi!" she told them before following after Fuji, Momo, who lived in the same direction, trailing after them.
Tezuka said his good nights to the others before he headed off towards his own house. When he arrived at his home he headed right up to his room after greeting his mother, as usual. Once he sat down at his desk he looked at the envelope.
He wondered if he really should open it. Anything from Fuji couldn't be at all good. Then again Fuji did have his good days when he wasn't completely sadistic.
Tezuka considered it for a long moment before he reached out and picked it up. He paused for a moment longer before he opened it. Inside was a picture. Tezuka, curiously pulled it out. On the back Fuji had written something. Tezuka held it closer to read.
Dear Tezuka,
This wasn't easy to take without being notice, so take good care of it.
Fuji
Tezuka blinked in confusion, but that cleared the moment he turned the picture over. For a moment Tezuka stared at the picture before it finally sank in what it was a picture of. It was a brilliant, well taken picture of Hikari.
Fuji must have taken it while she was working in her class's café for she was wearing her costume and was carrying her tray under one arm. It was clear in the picture that she had, had her back to him only seconds before hand and it looked like she had turned half way around to talk to someone.
She was clearly oblivious to the fact that Fuji had taken the picture of her. It was a good picture of her too. She had a bright smile on her face and, in mid turn like that, her hair twirled around her like a mini white tornado.
Tezuka studied the picture closely. It was probably the only picture of her he was ever going to get unless he took it himself. Something he didn't want to try to do. He could just picture the teasing Hikari would put him through if she ever caught him trying to take a picture of her.
She already did her best job to make him squirm on a daily bases. There was no need to add to the things she could use against him. She did well enough on her own. Tezuka pulled open a drawer of his desk sticking the picture inside under a couple of spare notebooks when he heard a knock on his door. He had just slid the drawer shut when his mother opened the door.
"Kunimitsu, its time for dinner." she told him with a smile. Tezuka gave her a nod and waited until she had shut the door once more before he glanced at the drawer in which he had hid the photo. Fuji was up to something if he had given him that picture.
The question was….what? It certainly couldn't be out of the goodness of his heart. Or could it? Tezuka decided he'd deal with it if the time came. For now he was going to enjoy his dinner with his family.
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Hikari ignored the stares as she walked through the booths. You'd think after spending the day before staring at her in the costume everyone would stop staring but no. Not that she cared. She was out to visit all of her sempais' booths before she had to return for her next shift.
The first one was Momo's Haunted House. When she arrived she found some of her friends from the older classes there with their boyfriends. "Oh! Hello Nakumi-sempai, Kyounami-sempai, Ryunaka-sempai." she greeted the three third year girls.
"Hikari-chan!" the three cheered as they turned to her. "Oh my gosh! Hikari-chan you're so cute!" Nakumi, a blond hair, brown eyed, hyper third year said as she hugged Hikari.
"That costume on you is just adorable!" Kyounami, a dark haired, blue eyed sweet girl said in agreement. Ryunaka, a shy red-brown haired, brown eyed girl, nodded her agreement.
"So I've been told." Hikari replied. "Are you here to check out the Haunted House too, Higarashi-chan?" Ryunaka's boyfriend, Senji, asked. Hikari nodded. "One of my teammates is working it and I promised to stop by once on my breaks." she told him.
"Go through with us!" Nakumi suggested. "Now, now, Karim, lets not crowd her." Nakumi's boyfriend, Tuzuki said laying a hand on his girlfriend's shoulder. "No its alright." Hikari replied. "I don't mind." she added with a smile.
"Then lets go." Kyounami's boyfriend, Imaku, said. Hikari followed the six third years into the Haunted House. Hikari looked around as she walked between Nakumi and Ryunaka. The maze of the Haunted House was dark, with just the dimmest of lighting.
Every time they turned a corner there was something jumping out of them or a faint scream in the background. Hikari, true to her calm collective self, didn't so much as blink while her sempai kept freaking out, all three girls latching onto her while the boys nearly jumped out of their skin.
Half way through the maze, Hikari, pushed from behind by her sempai, got shoved around a corner and fell down the slope built into the floor. And thus she was separated from her sempai and found herself in a long, narrow hall with flickering lights.
Hikari walked down the hall peeking into the open, dark door ways of the rooms on either side. She didn't see anyone or hear anything. When she reached the end of the hall she reached out to grab the door knob of the only closed door when something jumped out of the door to her right grabbing her wrist.
Hikari reacted before she though, grabbing the wrist, turning and aiming a well aimed kick between the things legs. The thing crumpled to the ground with a grunt, she knew all too well. Hikari's hands went to cover her mouth.
"Oh no! Momoshiro-sempai?" she asked. The pile of rage shifted and Momo pulled the mask off. "That hurt, Hika-chan!" he told her with another groan, his voice a higher pitch then normal as he rolled onto his side.
He squeaked in pain, his voice so high pitched it was like Alvin and the Chipmunks on hyper drive. "I'm so sorry, Momoshiro-sempai!" she told him as she rushed to his side to see if he was alright. "I am so, so sorry!" she added. "You took me by surprise." she added. "That was the point!" Momo told her still in a squeak as he rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry!" Hikari replied.
Hikari ended up getting a teacher just in case she really had hurt Momo, which she hadn't thankfully. But then again…a kick to the nuts was a kick to the nuts. Momo wasn't going to be forgiving her anytime soon, no matter how much she apologized.
When she made it to Oishi's class's booth she felt so bad. Eiji and Fuji, who were on break both laughed when they heard what their female teammate had done to Momo while Oishi pat her on the shoulder.
"I'm sure he'll forgive you. It was reflex. You didn't mean to kick him…there." Oishi told her. Hikari nodded. "I hope so. I didn't mean to hurt him, especially not like that!" Hikari replied. "Alvin and the Chipmunks?" Fuji asked amused.
Hikari had shown the whole team the American movie before and the reference was amusing. Hikari nodded. " I didn't know you could kick that hard, Hika-chan." he added only succeeding in making the girl feel even worse then she already did.
"I'm sure its just fine." Oishi told Hikari giving Fuji a scolding look. "Don't worry about it, Hika-chan!" Eiji told her giving her a hug. "Thanks Kikumaru-sempai." she told him giving him a smile. Fuji raised his camera snapping a picture of the two.
It was cute with Hikari in her maid's outfit and Eiji in his bakery chef outfit. Hikari sighed. "Well I best get going if I want to visit Inui-sempai's and Kaido-sempai's booths before my break is over." she said. She was about to say good bye to her teammates when someone called her name.
"Hika-chan!" Hikari turned as Taka ran towards her. "Kawamura-sempai?" she asked. Taka came to a stop in front of Hikari. "Hika-chan we need your help." he told her. Hikari blinked. "Help with what?" she asked.
"Something happened and half of our cast for our play had to drop out at the last minute. We need your help to get everything back in order and to find more crew members." Taka told her. "Why me?" Hikari asked.
"You've run a play before right?" Taka asked. Hikari nodded. "Please, Hika-chan!?" he asked. Hikari bit on her lip before agreeing. "Alright." she agreed. "Thanks Hika-chan!" Taka told her taking her hand and running off dragging her along with him.
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"Alright all in order now." Hikari told Taka and his classmates. "Thank you Hika-chan!" Taka told her again for like the hundredth time. Hikari smiled. "It was no problem. Now about cast members. How many parts do you need to fill?" Hikari asked.
"We need four ladies, three lords, the prince, and the princess." one of the others told her. "Nine parts?" Hikari asked. All of the third years nodded. Hikari sucked in her bottom lip and bit on it as she thought.
She needed five girls and four boys. Who could she find to quickly replace those parts and who could do it quickly within the two hours they had left before the play started.
Hikari crossed her arms as she thought the problem over and over in her head. Then an idea crossed her mind. A clever, evil, wonderful idea that had a smile crossing her face as she turned to face the older students.
"I have a pretty good idea where we could find those parts. If you're all willing to do some running really quick." she told them with a bright smile curving her lips. Taka looked at his classmates. He got the feeling that doom was about to set in on them really quick.
END
Kyandi: Hehe!
Hikari: This part of the story really has her laughing a lot.
Kyandi: Yes ma'am it does!
Hikari: Well then lets move on. You still have other things to do.
Kyandi: Right! Everyone enjoy and review and we'll be back shortly!
Hikari: Bye!
