Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 5. Water Fight
By: Gator Ri
Finally finding a worm Houjun held it up to Kouran and smiled triumphantly. "Ew! That thing is gross!"
Houjun laughed, "Fine then I'll put it on for you," Taking the hook he baited it and put the line in the water. Handing the pole to Kouran he told her what to do if she felt a fish bite. She had an uncertain look on her face but she sat there with pole in hand.
Houjun lay in the grass looking up at the sky. Suddenly he sat up and smacked himself in the forhead with the palm of his hand, "Shit! I forgot about Hikou!"
Kouran looked at him surprised.
"You stay here I'll be right back. If I don't go get Hikou he'll get ticked." Houjun got to his feet and ran off to get his friend.
Kouran looked after him a bit disappointed that he was going to get his friend and that they wouldn't be alone. She sat staring into the water day dreaming.
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Houjun ran hard and fast. If it wasn't for the fact that he and Hikou went fishing everyday that the weather was decent he wouldn't have even bothered to go get him. For he would rather just spend time with his new aquaintance. Finally he reached the shabby little carpenter shop and of course there was Hikou waiting. Houjun smiled as he took deep breaths of air.
"Where have you been? You're never late."
Houjun just shrugged and puffed, "Well, I'm here now so lets go."
Hikou looked at his friend curiously wondering what he was hiding this time but he just shrugged and grabbed up his fishing pole and handed the bait bucket to Houjun.
Houjun peered inside the bucket, "We're going to have to dig up more worms soon."
Hikou laughed, "Well, if someone wouldn't have dumped the bucket on their head we wouldn't have to." he received a punch in the arm from Houjun for his remark. "Hey! that was cheap!"
Houjun shook his head, "No, what you said was cheap."
They continued walking in silence. Then Houjun remembered that Kouran was sitting down at the river, "Come on! We gotta hurry!"
"Why?" asked Hikou puzzled.
Houjun wouldn't look at his friend for fear of giving away what was inside, "Because Kouran is fishing and it's her first time."
"Then why is she down there alone?"
Houjun said slowly, "Because I happened to invite her...."
Hikou just nodded at this and picked up his pace a bit.
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Kouran got jerked out of her day dreams when something pulled on the line. She froze trying to remember what Houjun had told her. Then she gave a quick jerk upwards with the pole. The fish must have been hooked because something sure was pulling on the line. She tried keeping the tip up but it must be a big one! She was so into trying not to lose the fish that she didn't hear the guys come up.
Houjun looked ahead towared the river at Kouran fighting with the pole and was surprised that she had caught a fish so quickly. Leaving Hikou he ran to help her.
Coming up behind her he put his arms around her and held onto the pole to help pull the fish in.
Startled at someone suddenly touching her Kouran yelped and let go of the pole. The sudden release of the pressure that she had been fighting made her loose her balance. Trying not to fall she grabbed onto whoever it was that was behind her, but she only made things worse, for they too lost their balance.
Hikou reached the river just in time to for a front row seat to see Kouran and Houjun *SPLASH* into the river. He started laughing when they both stood up dripping wet.
Kouran looked over at who she had pulled in with her blushed fericely. "I-I'm sorry Houjun but you startled me."
Houjun blushed back, "That's okay I shouldn't have come up so suddenly," he then glared at Hikou, "Won't you just shut up!?"
Hikou jsut laughed harder. This gave Houjun an idea. reaching from the water Houjun grabbed Hikou's ankle and yanked it out from unerneath him thus dragging him into the water as well.
Surfacing Hikou was mad at his friend for this, they glared at eachother. Hikou then got a gleam in his eye. Lunging he dunked his friend.
Houjun swallowed water as he went under. Finally resurfacing he got his frined back by going under water and pulling his feet out from underneath him, thus started a war of splash and dunk.
Kouran tried to climb out of the river so as not to get in the middle of the war but was pulled back in by Houjun. And so whether she liked it or not she was a part of it as well, for no one was going to get her like that!