I know, I know, this is really weird because I usually don't put notes at
the beginning of my chapters but this is a special occasion I guess. I just
had to let you know that this chapter was not done alone, my friend Usagi
Kou helped out and added some parts. I just didn't want to take all of the
credit ^_^ !
Part XV
"Aren't you at all curious as to what this chick looks like?" Minako asked Makoto as they walked down the halls of the mall.
"No, I really don't care. Besides, I don't see why I had to change to come with you." Makoto commented while looking down at herself.
Minako had made Makoto use the Luna disguise pen to change her into a guy. Seiya definitely would have known that they were just following him if he saw Minako and Makoto, but if Makoto was in disguise then he would just think she was out on a date.
"You make a better guy than I do!" Minako winked at her. There was no way she was going to turn herself into a guy, gross!
Makoto just threw her hands up in the air, she knew there was no use talking to Minako about it and wondered how she got sucked into this whole scheme anyway. Taiki had told Ami who told Rei who told Minako that Seiya was taking his girlfriend to the mall today. Minako had found it quite amusing and decided to follow him to catch a glimpse of her. Seiya never brought his girlfriend around and the only people who had ever seen what she looked like were Taiki, Yaten and Usagi. They hadn't spotted any signs of them yet but Minako was far from giving up.
A small man in a trench coat was following the two unbeknownst to them. He was wearing a Dick Tracy style trench coat and an old 30's hat with big Blues Brother's sunglasses. He was really a sight and caught the attention of just about everyone that passed him by except Minako and Makoto of course. Those two were entirely way too caught up in their 'mission'. The man would occasionally pull out a mini-recorder and talk into it.
"Star date December 4th. Operation: Minako Aino's date. Time: evening 7:00. Setting: the mall. Minako's date, in one word, dork. This guy has no fashion sense at all, who cut his hair? Harry the blind barber? Hideous! The guy walks like a fairy, you'd think he was a girl in disguise or something! Wait a minute, I guess I can't really criticize him on that one." The little man begins to laugh to himself. He's bobbing and weaving behind people, trees, signs and garbage cans. "Is that a unibrow I see? God, pluck that thing! Some one should definitely tell this guy that tight pants are not in! Talk about wedgy!" Makoto shot a glance back over her shoulder for no reason in particular. "Few! The tall dumb ass almost spotted me. God only some one totally desperate would date this guy! But then again, he may be smarter than I am, he may not live with two other guys, and it obviously looks like he isn't afraid to approach the beautiful goddess Minako." The little man begins to whimper to himself and the microphone. "Just face it Yaten, you're too late, she's gotten over you! You had your chance and you blew it! Why did you have to be so mean to her all of the time? Maybe you would have felt better if you knew Seiya was going to live with a broken heart with you but no, now you have to do it all alone!"
The small man, who turned out to be Yaten, stopped suddenly as he realized that there was no point in following her anymore. Just as he came to his abrupt halt a woman crashed into the back of him dressed much in the same manner as he was. There was a tangled pile of hats, sunglasses and large trench coats on the ground as the two tried their best to get up. Yaten looked at his assailant and realized who it was. "Kakyuu!! What are you doing?" He stopped helping her up when he noticed.
Kakyuu laughed a bit and saw no reason to put her disguise back on. "I wanted to see what you were sneaking around for." She held up his mini- recorder. "How much does this tape mean to you?" She asked as she waved it in front of him.
"Give that back." Yaten got a terrified look on his face as he clumsily grabbed and reached for the small device. "Kakyuu I'm warning you!"
"You're warning me what?" Kakyuu laughed at him again and pretended to think about the situation. "I'll give your tape back, but here's the deal. You will be my slave for the rest of the week and at the end of the week I'll give your tape back."
Yaten was frustrated but knew that he had no other choice. Perhaps he would try to steal it back when she slept but until then he said that he would go along with her deal. "You two are pathetic!" Taiki came up behind them.
"I don't know what's on that tape but it must be pretty good if Yaten agreed to be your slave." Ami joined in the teasing while still laughing at them.
"You have to promise me you won't let anyone else hear that tape either, especially you-know-who!" Yaten held his hand out to make the deal with Kakyuu.
"Agreed." She said and they shook hands sealing their deal. She turned her attention to Taiki and Ami. "What are you two doing here?"
"We thought that it was amusing that Minako and Makoto were following Seiya on his date, the fact that Yaten was following Minako because he thought that Makoto was a guy, and the fact that you were following Yaten to see what the shrimp was up to!" Ami and Taiki knew the entire time about everyone's plans and just decided to tag alone to see how it all worked out.
"Well I guess they'll get to see Seiya's girlfriend tomorrow at the show. I guess he said she's coming." Taiki said picking up his bags. "I think he's even going to dedicate a song to her."
"That should be a hoot!" Yaten exclaims (who says hoot anyway?) with a disgusted look on his face. He was still contemplating the fact that it was Makoto in disguise.
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Class was extra boring this day as Yaten sat and yawned at the teacher's lecture. They were listening to their teacher go on and on about how these reports that they were doing before Christmas break were soooo important and to pay close attention to everyone's presentation because they would be on a quiz.
The first person up was the guy that sat next to Minako in class. Yaten envied him but it always came out as him being rude to him or making snide remarks. The kid's presentation was on the police using psychics to help solve crimes. "The psychic woman was so involved in the investigation and following the track of the young 'ghost' boy that she ran out into the road and got hit by a car before she could tell the investigators who the killer was."
"Betcha she didn't see that one coming!" Yaten mumbled to himself. The teacher shot him a dirty look as the class all laughed at him, including Minako who turned around and shot him a smile. Yaten smiled inwardly to himself for the fact that he could actually make her smile.
Class was soon over and the class began to filter out into the hallway. Yaten followed Minako who was walking with Usagi to her locker. "Hey guys, wait up!" He called after them.
Usagi and Minako turned around to see Yaten running up to them. "I never thought the day would come when I saw you take any pace besides a casual walk!" Usagi commented as he got closer.
"Well I was going to ask you if you wanted tickets for the show tomorrow, but now I don't know if I'm gonna." He turned his back to them with his arms folded and his nose up in the air.
"Oh please!" Minako begged. "Apologize to him right now!" She turned and threatened Usagi.
Usagi cowered under Minako's iron fist and gave in. "I'm sorry that you're lazy Yaten." She smiled while she said it.
"Well coming from you I guess that's good enough." He snorted when he looked at Usagi. He didn't have to be nice to her all of the time now that Seiya wasn't standing up for her anymore, and he knew she knew it too. "So, how many do you want? Five?"
"No you can make it four." Usagi chimed in. "I don't really feel like going, I think I'm going to stay home." She commented before turning around. "I hope you have fun though and good luck!" She said as she walked off down the hall.
"That's weird." Minako commented standing with the also stunned Yaten. "It's not like Usagi to want to sit home instead of going out."
"Maybe she'll be waiting for a call from Mamoru." Yaten suggested as he handed Minako the tickets. Just as he finished his sentence he received a huge smack on the back.
"What's up squirt?!" Seiya came up behind him.
"That freaken hurt!" Yaten tried his best to rub the sore spot on his back.
"What are those?" Seiya pointed to the tickets in Minako's hands.
Minako gave him a confused look. "Uh, you should know. They're tickets for your concert tomorrow night."
"Great, are you all coming?" Seiya smiled at her.
"Um no. Usagi isn't, she said she was going to stay home." Minako replied as she thought about her friend's weird response again.
"You know, I'm really proud of you the way you don't flirt with her in class any more. Don't you think you're taking it a little too far though? I mean you don't talk to her at all, and you haven't talked or hung out with her in a while." Yaten said to the taller guy. It was true, Seiya and Usagi hadn't spoken a word to each other besides polite conversation like 'good morning' since she got back from America.
Minako had noticed the point to but wasn't about to say anything to Usagi about it. Usagi didn't act like anything was wrong and she figured that they had just grown apart. "Well she doesn't talk to me either so it's not like it's my fault!" Seiya said in a huff, you would almost think that he was upset about it.
"I wouldn't talk to you either if you blew me off the way you do to her now." Minako stuck up for Usagi since she wasn't there.
Without another word Seiya just stormed off and headed towards his next class.
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"Are you sure you're not going to come with us? I'm sure Yaten will give you a ticket if you show up. Look he even gave us backstage passes to come and see them after the show." Minako held the pass out in front of her to show it off to Usagi.
They were all sitting at the shrine waiting for Makoto to come and pick them up. "I'm going to stay here with Yuuichiro and hang out." Usagi smiled and looked over at Yuuichiro.
"What the hell are you two going to do?" Rei hissed.
"I told Usagi that I would make her dinner and rent a couple of movies." Yuuichiro blushed as he told Rei about his plans.
"WHAT!!" She shouted out right in his face.
"What are you so mad about? I make you dinner every night." He commented with his hand behind his head.
"Never mind!" Rei turned and went outside to wait for Makoto.
"She does really like you you know. She wouldn't get so mad if she didn't. Trust me, I'm used to it by now." Usagi smiled at Yuuichiro reassuringly.
BEEP BEEP!! Makoto pulled up and everyone said their goodbyes to Usagi and Yuuichiro and left.
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"What do you mean she's not coming?" By this point Kakyuu was visibly pissed.
"She had a family emergency and can't come. What do you want me to do about it?" Seiya was putting the rose on his jacket.
"Am I ever going to get to meet this girl?" She had her hands on her hips looking at him impatiently.
Seiya chuckled as he saw that Kakyuu had calmed down a bit. "Yes, you will meet her one day."
Taiki and Yaten came into the room together. "So are you all ready?" Yaten asked Seiya who was reclining in the dressing room chair by now.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know, I thought you would try to look extra good tonight because your girlfriend is going to be here. All of the girls are so excited to finally meet her." Yaten explained himself a little more.
"Well I guess they're just going to have to wait a little longer because she's not going to be able to make it tonight." Seiya sipped his water.
"WHAT!" Yaten yelled. "Minako is going to kill me, I promised them they could come back stage and meet her."
"Calm down, I'm sure they would have wanted to come back stage anyway." Kakyuu told him.
During the concert you could tell that Seiya was singing half assed and the others knew that it was because he was depressed about his girlfriend not being able to make it there. The rest of the night was pretty much uneventful until in the middle of the concert Yaten asked everyone for their attention. "Everyone please, I have an announcement to make." You could tell that neither Taiki nor Seiya had any idea what was going on. "I just wanted to tell everyone that Kakyuu Kou is the most beautiful and talented woman in the entire world!" He said loud and clear through the microphone.
Kakyuu stood back stage cheering and jumping up and down. Taiki and Seiya looked back at her and laughed as they knew that this must have been part of Yaten's slave for a week duty. She had made him do all sorts of things today. She was taking full advantage of this opportunity.
After the concert the girls went back stage only to find Yaten and Taiki sitting in the dressing room with Kakyuu and their manager. "Where did Seiya go?" Rei asked looking around.
"He said he was going to go and check on his girlfriend." Taiki said toweling off his forehead. (That was not intended to be funny.) "Do you guys want to get out of here?"
"Yeah!" They all said. They had to fight their way into the dressing room tooth and nail through the crowds of screaming fans.
"We can all go back to the shrine and hang out with Usagi and Yuuichiro." Rei offered up.
"You just want to go back there and see what their up to." Minako poked her in the side.
Rei's face turned red. "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about how you were nervous leaving Usagi and Yuuichiro alone together. Why don't you just admit that you like him." The teasing continued.
"What? Are you crazy, do you really think that I like that guy?" Rei threw her arms up in the air.
Everyone answered in unison. "Yes."
"Well I wasn't nervous about leaving Usagi alone with him, she has Mamoru remember?"
Part XV
"Aren't you at all curious as to what this chick looks like?" Minako asked Makoto as they walked down the halls of the mall.
"No, I really don't care. Besides, I don't see why I had to change to come with you." Makoto commented while looking down at herself.
Minako had made Makoto use the Luna disguise pen to change her into a guy. Seiya definitely would have known that they were just following him if he saw Minako and Makoto, but if Makoto was in disguise then he would just think she was out on a date.
"You make a better guy than I do!" Minako winked at her. There was no way she was going to turn herself into a guy, gross!
Makoto just threw her hands up in the air, she knew there was no use talking to Minako about it and wondered how she got sucked into this whole scheme anyway. Taiki had told Ami who told Rei who told Minako that Seiya was taking his girlfriend to the mall today. Minako had found it quite amusing and decided to follow him to catch a glimpse of her. Seiya never brought his girlfriend around and the only people who had ever seen what she looked like were Taiki, Yaten and Usagi. They hadn't spotted any signs of them yet but Minako was far from giving up.
A small man in a trench coat was following the two unbeknownst to them. He was wearing a Dick Tracy style trench coat and an old 30's hat with big Blues Brother's sunglasses. He was really a sight and caught the attention of just about everyone that passed him by except Minako and Makoto of course. Those two were entirely way too caught up in their 'mission'. The man would occasionally pull out a mini-recorder and talk into it.
"Star date December 4th. Operation: Minako Aino's date. Time: evening 7:00. Setting: the mall. Minako's date, in one word, dork. This guy has no fashion sense at all, who cut his hair? Harry the blind barber? Hideous! The guy walks like a fairy, you'd think he was a girl in disguise or something! Wait a minute, I guess I can't really criticize him on that one." The little man begins to laugh to himself. He's bobbing and weaving behind people, trees, signs and garbage cans. "Is that a unibrow I see? God, pluck that thing! Some one should definitely tell this guy that tight pants are not in! Talk about wedgy!" Makoto shot a glance back over her shoulder for no reason in particular. "Few! The tall dumb ass almost spotted me. God only some one totally desperate would date this guy! But then again, he may be smarter than I am, he may not live with two other guys, and it obviously looks like he isn't afraid to approach the beautiful goddess Minako." The little man begins to whimper to himself and the microphone. "Just face it Yaten, you're too late, she's gotten over you! You had your chance and you blew it! Why did you have to be so mean to her all of the time? Maybe you would have felt better if you knew Seiya was going to live with a broken heart with you but no, now you have to do it all alone!"
The small man, who turned out to be Yaten, stopped suddenly as he realized that there was no point in following her anymore. Just as he came to his abrupt halt a woman crashed into the back of him dressed much in the same manner as he was. There was a tangled pile of hats, sunglasses and large trench coats on the ground as the two tried their best to get up. Yaten looked at his assailant and realized who it was. "Kakyuu!! What are you doing?" He stopped helping her up when he noticed.
Kakyuu laughed a bit and saw no reason to put her disguise back on. "I wanted to see what you were sneaking around for." She held up his mini- recorder. "How much does this tape mean to you?" She asked as she waved it in front of him.
"Give that back." Yaten got a terrified look on his face as he clumsily grabbed and reached for the small device. "Kakyuu I'm warning you!"
"You're warning me what?" Kakyuu laughed at him again and pretended to think about the situation. "I'll give your tape back, but here's the deal. You will be my slave for the rest of the week and at the end of the week I'll give your tape back."
Yaten was frustrated but knew that he had no other choice. Perhaps he would try to steal it back when she slept but until then he said that he would go along with her deal. "You two are pathetic!" Taiki came up behind them.
"I don't know what's on that tape but it must be pretty good if Yaten agreed to be your slave." Ami joined in the teasing while still laughing at them.
"You have to promise me you won't let anyone else hear that tape either, especially you-know-who!" Yaten held his hand out to make the deal with Kakyuu.
"Agreed." She said and they shook hands sealing their deal. She turned her attention to Taiki and Ami. "What are you two doing here?"
"We thought that it was amusing that Minako and Makoto were following Seiya on his date, the fact that Yaten was following Minako because he thought that Makoto was a guy, and the fact that you were following Yaten to see what the shrimp was up to!" Ami and Taiki knew the entire time about everyone's plans and just decided to tag alone to see how it all worked out.
"Well I guess they'll get to see Seiya's girlfriend tomorrow at the show. I guess he said she's coming." Taiki said picking up his bags. "I think he's even going to dedicate a song to her."
"That should be a hoot!" Yaten exclaims (who says hoot anyway?) with a disgusted look on his face. He was still contemplating the fact that it was Makoto in disguise.
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Class was extra boring this day as Yaten sat and yawned at the teacher's lecture. They were listening to their teacher go on and on about how these reports that they were doing before Christmas break were soooo important and to pay close attention to everyone's presentation because they would be on a quiz.
The first person up was the guy that sat next to Minako in class. Yaten envied him but it always came out as him being rude to him or making snide remarks. The kid's presentation was on the police using psychics to help solve crimes. "The psychic woman was so involved in the investigation and following the track of the young 'ghost' boy that she ran out into the road and got hit by a car before she could tell the investigators who the killer was."
"Betcha she didn't see that one coming!" Yaten mumbled to himself. The teacher shot him a dirty look as the class all laughed at him, including Minako who turned around and shot him a smile. Yaten smiled inwardly to himself for the fact that he could actually make her smile.
Class was soon over and the class began to filter out into the hallway. Yaten followed Minako who was walking with Usagi to her locker. "Hey guys, wait up!" He called after them.
Usagi and Minako turned around to see Yaten running up to them. "I never thought the day would come when I saw you take any pace besides a casual walk!" Usagi commented as he got closer.
"Well I was going to ask you if you wanted tickets for the show tomorrow, but now I don't know if I'm gonna." He turned his back to them with his arms folded and his nose up in the air.
"Oh please!" Minako begged. "Apologize to him right now!" She turned and threatened Usagi.
Usagi cowered under Minako's iron fist and gave in. "I'm sorry that you're lazy Yaten." She smiled while she said it.
"Well coming from you I guess that's good enough." He snorted when he looked at Usagi. He didn't have to be nice to her all of the time now that Seiya wasn't standing up for her anymore, and he knew she knew it too. "So, how many do you want? Five?"
"No you can make it four." Usagi chimed in. "I don't really feel like going, I think I'm going to stay home." She commented before turning around. "I hope you have fun though and good luck!" She said as she walked off down the hall.
"That's weird." Minako commented standing with the also stunned Yaten. "It's not like Usagi to want to sit home instead of going out."
"Maybe she'll be waiting for a call from Mamoru." Yaten suggested as he handed Minako the tickets. Just as he finished his sentence he received a huge smack on the back.
"What's up squirt?!" Seiya came up behind him.
"That freaken hurt!" Yaten tried his best to rub the sore spot on his back.
"What are those?" Seiya pointed to the tickets in Minako's hands.
Minako gave him a confused look. "Uh, you should know. They're tickets for your concert tomorrow night."
"Great, are you all coming?" Seiya smiled at her.
"Um no. Usagi isn't, she said she was going to stay home." Minako replied as she thought about her friend's weird response again.
"You know, I'm really proud of you the way you don't flirt with her in class any more. Don't you think you're taking it a little too far though? I mean you don't talk to her at all, and you haven't talked or hung out with her in a while." Yaten said to the taller guy. It was true, Seiya and Usagi hadn't spoken a word to each other besides polite conversation like 'good morning' since she got back from America.
Minako had noticed the point to but wasn't about to say anything to Usagi about it. Usagi didn't act like anything was wrong and she figured that they had just grown apart. "Well she doesn't talk to me either so it's not like it's my fault!" Seiya said in a huff, you would almost think that he was upset about it.
"I wouldn't talk to you either if you blew me off the way you do to her now." Minako stuck up for Usagi since she wasn't there.
Without another word Seiya just stormed off and headed towards his next class.
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"Are you sure you're not going to come with us? I'm sure Yaten will give you a ticket if you show up. Look he even gave us backstage passes to come and see them after the show." Minako held the pass out in front of her to show it off to Usagi.
They were all sitting at the shrine waiting for Makoto to come and pick them up. "I'm going to stay here with Yuuichiro and hang out." Usagi smiled and looked over at Yuuichiro.
"What the hell are you two going to do?" Rei hissed.
"I told Usagi that I would make her dinner and rent a couple of movies." Yuuichiro blushed as he told Rei about his plans.
"WHAT!!" She shouted out right in his face.
"What are you so mad about? I make you dinner every night." He commented with his hand behind his head.
"Never mind!" Rei turned and went outside to wait for Makoto.
"She does really like you you know. She wouldn't get so mad if she didn't. Trust me, I'm used to it by now." Usagi smiled at Yuuichiro reassuringly.
BEEP BEEP!! Makoto pulled up and everyone said their goodbyes to Usagi and Yuuichiro and left.
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"What do you mean she's not coming?" By this point Kakyuu was visibly pissed.
"She had a family emergency and can't come. What do you want me to do about it?" Seiya was putting the rose on his jacket.
"Am I ever going to get to meet this girl?" She had her hands on her hips looking at him impatiently.
Seiya chuckled as he saw that Kakyuu had calmed down a bit. "Yes, you will meet her one day."
Taiki and Yaten came into the room together. "So are you all ready?" Yaten asked Seiya who was reclining in the dressing room chair by now.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know, I thought you would try to look extra good tonight because your girlfriend is going to be here. All of the girls are so excited to finally meet her." Yaten explained himself a little more.
"Well I guess they're just going to have to wait a little longer because she's not going to be able to make it tonight." Seiya sipped his water.
"WHAT!" Yaten yelled. "Minako is going to kill me, I promised them they could come back stage and meet her."
"Calm down, I'm sure they would have wanted to come back stage anyway." Kakyuu told him.
During the concert you could tell that Seiya was singing half assed and the others knew that it was because he was depressed about his girlfriend not being able to make it there. The rest of the night was pretty much uneventful until in the middle of the concert Yaten asked everyone for their attention. "Everyone please, I have an announcement to make." You could tell that neither Taiki nor Seiya had any idea what was going on. "I just wanted to tell everyone that Kakyuu Kou is the most beautiful and talented woman in the entire world!" He said loud and clear through the microphone.
Kakyuu stood back stage cheering and jumping up and down. Taiki and Seiya looked back at her and laughed as they knew that this must have been part of Yaten's slave for a week duty. She had made him do all sorts of things today. She was taking full advantage of this opportunity.
After the concert the girls went back stage only to find Yaten and Taiki sitting in the dressing room with Kakyuu and their manager. "Where did Seiya go?" Rei asked looking around.
"He said he was going to go and check on his girlfriend." Taiki said toweling off his forehead. (That was not intended to be funny.) "Do you guys want to get out of here?"
"Yeah!" They all said. They had to fight their way into the dressing room tooth and nail through the crowds of screaming fans.
"We can all go back to the shrine and hang out with Usagi and Yuuichiro." Rei offered up.
"You just want to go back there and see what their up to." Minako poked her in the side.
Rei's face turned red. "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about how you were nervous leaving Usagi and Yuuichiro alone together. Why don't you just admit that you like him." The teasing continued.
"What? Are you crazy, do you really think that I like that guy?" Rei threw her arms up in the air.
Everyone answered in unison. "Yes."
"Well I wasn't nervous about leaving Usagi alone with him, she has Mamoru remember?"
