Warau Kisetsu
by: yumeneko
Chapter 3: Aki No Uta Wa Machi Ni Hibiki
(An autumnal song echoes in a town )
Taiko wo kiku!
Fue wo kiku!
Odori wo miru!
Aki no kaze wo kanjiru...
I hear a drum !
I hear a pipe !
I see a dance !
I feel an autumnal wind. . .
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Maple leaves decorated the yard of the Hoshizora mansion. Days have past since Hakkai's birthday. Hakkai smiled at the gifts he recieved on that day. He liked the gifts from Gojyo, Sanzo and his sister, Hibiemi.
He recieved from Gojyo a novel, a hard cover one. It was the one he was staring at when they visited a bookstore to pick up the latest of 'Ero na Yume' manga magazine, "All the most erotic manga in all of Japan!", He could remember his best friend saying with glee.
From Sanzo was a small music box in green velvet. It played a soft lullaby which Hakkai could remember from a long time ago. He heard it in the night when he was young. It played from Sanzo's home. What was the name of his caretaker? Was it Konya? Iie... It was Komyo Sanzo. It was a strange thing... Komyo-san shared the same first name as Sanzo. I wonder... Did Sanzo ever had a real name? It was strange that the two shared the same first name... I have heard Komyo-san call Sanzo this name... Kouryuu? Was that it? I've only heard it once but it lingers in my mind... Kouryuu... Kouryuu... What if I called him that? What if I did...
On that day, the Ryodans of both Ranika and Ranika's onii-chan, Lucifer, were both at the Aki Matsuri of Nijiyama Academy.
"Hora! Hora!" Hibiemi and Ayame caught sight of a good picnic place, "Hora, Dancho! Here's a good place!"
"Good work, Hibi, Ayame." Ranika smiled.
"I really don't think you should use a Ryodan name so similar to mine out here..." Her brother sighed, "I really hate confusing people, Ranika..."
"You're such a spoil-sport, onii-chan. If you'd like, I'll call yours the KUSO RYODAN." Ranika replied.
"RANIKA!!" The older one cried out in frustration.
Meanwhile, Ryoko was with the same groups Yuki.
"Ah... Which sake... which sake..."
Ryoko picked up a cheap yet nice-looking bottle of sake.
"This will do!"
And so the Aki Matsuri went on... but...
"Where am I? What am I supposed to do?" Shizuka wondered.
~End of Chapter 3~