Okay well now here goes. You may hate it, you may love it. You may want to kill someone. HERE'SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CHAPTER FIVE!
Disclaimer: I don't own Hana Yori Dango. ~T~ (I'm dancing see?)
Warnings: You'll hate someone but you won't know who it is for awhile...Language.
Boys Before............The High Seas???
Chapter Five
Well were heading out on a nice wind right now. Not that I know too much about sailing anyways. I'm still confused about my dream however. Who was that little boy? Part of me wants it to be Rui but something in me says it could be Doumyouji. I think it is Rui, he'd like to catch frogs. He's nice to me most of the time although, sometimes I think he might be a bit strange. Doumyouji tries to annoy me all the time! He just comes up with new ways to do it everyday. Where does he get off manhandling me like that sometimes? I'm glad I don't usually see him much during the day or I might just throw myself off the ship. Surely, swimming towards land that we haven't seen any sign of for weeks would get me further. Oh well. Well I must go, Doumyouji has just burst in here. He so irritating sometimes! I will write in here later.
Tsukushi closed her captain's log before turning towards Doumyouji who was frantically pulling off his clothes. He jumped under the covers of the bed quickly. Tsukushi gave him an odd look. "What have you been doing?" Tsukushi inquired.
"If anyone asks, I've been sleeping for at least half an hour." Doumyouji spoke in a slightly commanding tone. Tsukushi marched over to the bed and stood over him, hands on hips.
"I will not, you tell me what's going on right now!" Tsukushi commanded. She heard voices coming towards their door.
"I don't think it was Doumyouji." Akira's voice could be heard saying.
"Yeah well if it was him, he'll be 'sleeping'." Soujirou remarked loudly. Doumyouji's face froze. Tsukushi blinked in surprise. Then suddenly two arms went around her, causing her to fall over on the bed. Suddenly she was flipped so that Doumyouji was on top of her. Her face went bright red.
"Doumyouji-" Tsukushi was cut off by the door crashing open. Akira, Soujirou, and Sako were standing there all with rather interesting expressions of surprise. She knew what it looked like. She was going to kill Doumyouji.
"Can't a man get some privacy on this ship?" Doumyouji asked them in an exasperated voice.
"Sorry man." Akira waved his hands in the air defensively. Soujirou cleared his throat loudly and Akira handed him some money looking rather ticked. Tsukushi noticed that something about the expression on Sako's face wasn't right. He looked patronizing.
"We'll leave now." Soujirou excused them and shut the door behind the others. Doumyouji sighed in relief before Tsukushi shoved with both hands, sending Doumyouji crashing to the floor.
"What was that for?" Doumyouji demanded as he got up. He sat down on the bed next to her.
"I told you not to manhandle me!" Tsukushi protested, folding her arms, and looking out the window.
"If it bothers you that much, I'll got tell everyone we weren't doing anything at all." Doumyouji offered. Tsukushi turned to him in surprise. Sometimes Doumyouji is nice. I should add that to my captain's log.
"No, don't worry about it." Tsukushi reached around him and grabbed her captain's log. "Now tell me what happened!"
"What are you writing in there?" Doumyouji leaned over to try to read the page she had just written on. She flipped the page over, her face blushing a little. Tsukushi reasoned that it was really none of Doumyouji's business.
"Nothing." Tsukushi said quickly. "Are you going to tell or not?"
"Well, remember how the pipes that we pump water to the bath through, go through Akira and Soujirou's rooms?" Tsukushi nodded in understanding. "Well, Rui thought it would be funny if we loosened them up a bit. So we did and Rui called for a bath. They begun to pump water and Rui and I ran away as fast as we could." Doumyouji explained.
"So now, you've made more work for Sako and Soujirou and Akira have wet bedrooms?" Tsukushi asked him sternly, feeling like a mother scolding a child.
"Are you going to tell them?" Doumyouji asked her sheepishly.
"No." Tsukushi sighed slightly trying to figure out what she was going to write on the back of the page.
"I knew I could trust you." Doumyouji told her. Tsukushi froze a little. Doumyouji trusted her? Did she trust him? She supposed she did. Tsukushi smiled and began to write confidently on the page.
Doumyouji trusts me and that makes me feel special. I hope he always will.
"Let's go to bed." Tsukushi suggested, putting her captain's log in a drawer. "I'm kind of tired."
"Okay!" Doumyouji agreed getting under the covers with her and turned out the lamp. They settled under the blankets together, trying to get in the most comfortable position. "Good night Tsukushi."
"Good night Doumyouji." Tsukushi answered back, feeling for some unknown reason, warm and happy.
* * *
Tsukushi had just got out of breakfast which surprisingly, Rui was missing from. It was pretty ugly though as Soujirou and Akira were both positive that they had done something last night. Now she could hear very raucous singing coming from there and knew who the singers were. Or at least she had a pretty good idea about who it was.
Tsukushi went out onto the deck where the sea breeze was blowing and the ship was traveling at a steady speed. She looked out towards the end of the ship to see someone slumped over the railing, barely staying onto the ship. It was Rui.
"Rui!" Tsukushi shouted, running to the unconscious boy. He was heavy but she got him on one side of the ship. Then she accidentally dropped him, his head making a cracking noise at it hit the deck. Tsukushi winced. She picked up his head and cradled it into her lap.
"Sh-Shizuka..." Rui opened his eyes while murmuring.
"Are you okay?" Tsukushi felt her heart start to pound in her chest.
"Oh it's you..." Rui smiled weakly. "You kind of look like Shizuka. When she was younger. And if she was shorter. And if her hair was ever that short, her eyes were a different color, and..." Tsukushi cut him off.
"So I don't look like her?" Tsukushi felt as though there was some sort of grip in her chest that hurt.
"What are you two doing?" A cool distant and impersonal voice asked them. Tsukushi looked up to see Doumyouji looked at them with one eyebrow slightly arched.
"Something's wrong with Rui." Tsukushi explained, feeling slightly guilty even though she felt like she shouldn't feel guilty.
"Looks fine to me." Doumyouji commented, that cold look still crossing his face.
"I passed out. I haven't eaten in two days." Rui told him. "Tsukushi stopped me from falling right over the edge of the railing." Doumyouji's face wavered slightly.
"He could have died!" Tsukushi got up and Rui laid out as if he had naturally being doing just that the whole time. "One big wave could have come and then we would all be wondering where Rui was!"
"Tsukasa," Doumyouji looked surprised when Rui called him that. "You know I would never..." Doumyouji cut him off.
"I know Rui. I'm sorry for being suspicious." Doumyouji sounded a bit defeated. Suspicious, about what?
"Um, Doumyouji?" Tsukushi said questioningly. Doumyouji turned towards her. "Are you okay?" He smiled at her.
"Of course. I'm just tired." Doumyouji told her which sounded like a lie but she didn't say anything about it. It was strange though. She hoped everything was okay. The ship was like a wonderful dream. They got up and had fun. She hoped everything would never change.
* * *
Tsukushi smiled as she walked to her and Doumyouji's room. The rest of the day had gone quite well. They got about four meals shoved into Rui before telling him to remember to eat or next time he could just fall over the railing. Then her, Kazuya, and Sako had scrubbed the ship together. Sako was actually really nice to Tsukushi for once. He told her all about his hometown and his childhood. Tsukushi shared some details too and felt that it was nice to really get to know people. Tsukushi opened the door to her and Doumyouji's room.
Doumyouji was sitting there with an incredibly dangerous look in his eyes. He had a book lying open in his lap. Tsukushi thought that the book looked incredibly familiar for some reason.
"Yo." Doumyouji greeted her coolly. Tsukushi started to pull out her nightgown. Then she turned smiling slightly towards him. Maybe Doumyouji was just in a bad mood.
"Could you turn around?" Tsukushi asked expecting Doumyouji to turn around and not look.
"Would it bother you if I didn't?" Doumyouji's tone surprised Tsukushi. She set her nightgown down.
"Doumyouji, what's wrong?" Tsukushi inquired feeling rather alarmed. There seemed to be some big red flags going that there was something wrong going on there.
"Am I too annoying?" Doumyouji got up, still holding that book. Tsukushi gasped in recognition.
"That's mine! That's not fair, I don't read yours!" Tsukushi reached for it and Doumyouji dropped it on the ground in front of him, stepping on the book with his foot, crushing it slightly, grinding his heel in. "Doumyouji-" He cut her off.
"I'm just an annoyance aren't I?" Doumyouji grabbed her shoulders and shoved her up against the wall. Tsukushi struggled slightly. "I bet you can't stand me at all!"
"That's not true!" Tsukushi protested, his hands were squeezing her arms too hard and tears began to come down her face.
"It's not? Why did you write it than?" Doumyouji roared. "Did you think I was some kind of idiot?"
"I don't know what your talking about!" Tsukushi insisted. She might have said he was annoying but she never said those other things.
"I'm here now! Tell me to my face how much you hate me! Tell my right now that you can't stand me even coming near you!" Doumyouji insisted. "Did you think you could string me along as long as you wanted to?"
"B-but I thought-" Tsukushi was cut off as Doumyouji squeezed a little harder on her arms, causing her to burst into a fresh wave of tears.
"Well you thought wrong!" Doumyouji shouted at her, he was so angry. He looked angry enough to beat her.
"You said...you trusted me..." Tsukushi quietly sobbed. Doumyouji's face tightened even more.
"Well I don't!" Doumyouji let go of her and she fell down on the floor. "If you like Rui so much, go sleep in his room." Doumyouji said coldly. "Now, get out."
"D-Doumyouji..." Tsukushi began to plead from her place on the floor.
"GET OUT!" Doumyouji yelled at her. Tsukushi's eyes widened and she jumped to her feet, running out the door. She was blinded by her own tears, the world was blurring over in a warped way. Tsukushi ran out onto deck, stumbling, falling onto the hard wood. She cried out but stayed curled up on the deck. She didn't want to move, it was cold and at that moment she hoped she froze to death.
"Tsukushi, is that you?" Rui's voice came out of the darkness. She whimpered in reply. She felt his arms go around her as he pulled her up to her feet. "What happened?"
"Doumyouji...he....he hates me..." Tsukushi felt the lump in her throat start to form. She couldn't get anything else out by sobbing. Rui let her cry on his shoulder for a little while. When she was finally down to nothing but small hiccupping dry sobs he pulled her away.
"He doesn't hate you. Believe me on that." Rui told her comfortingly. "He didn't give you a chance to explain did he?" Tsukushi shook her head miserably. "That sounds like Doumyouji. He'll probably be easier to talk to in a day or two."
"Where do I sleep?" Tsukushi asked him. Doumyouji's harsh words still burned her.
"If you like Rui so much, you can sleep in his room!"
"There's a spare room below deck. Just ask Kazuya." Rui told her, starting to walk away from her. "But you know, the lookout post isn't too bad a sleeping spot. Of course, you don't want to make Doumyouji even more angry." Rui commented before going inside. Tsukushi stared after him. She had hoped that Rui could have kept his mind on matters a little more. Not that she deserved it. She didn't deserve anything.
Tsukushi walked downstairs and knocked on Kazuya's door. Kazuya opened up and looked at her with wide eyes. "Um, Kazuya, where is the spare room?"
"Why?" Kazuya asked.
"I don't want to talk about it." Tsukushi said bitterly. Kazuya looked a little hurt.
"It's down the hall right there." Kazuya pointed to a door. "Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?" Tsukushi shook her head and headed towards the small room. She opened the door and collapsed on the small bed. It wasn't nearly as soft and it didn't smell right either.
Tsukushi did not bother to get under the covers at all. She just curled herself into a ball and cried herself to sleep.
* * *
Doumyouji punched at the wall. On the third punch, his hand went straight through the wall. He didn't care though. He just didn't care. He punched another hole in the wall. Blood ran down his knuckles. The red reminded him of what was coming if he kept up at this. Doumyouji shook his head, he didn't not want to think about that.
He picked up the captain's log. Doumyouji wanted to tear it into all the tiny pieces that his heart had been torn into. He grasped the page that had all those terrible comments on it. It had been opened to that page on his pillow. He ripped it out, determined to destroy it. Then he saw that something was written on the back of it.
He flipped it over and his eyes went wide as he saw what had been written in Tsukushi's pretty handwriting.
Doumyouji trusts me and that makes me feel special. I hope he always does.
"What...what have I done?" Doumyouji asked to himself in a hoarse whisper. He sat down on the bed, his heart feeling even worse than it had. Only one thing could comfort him now and she never would. Not after what he had said. Not after what he had done.
"She'll never forgive me." Doumyouji said outloud before feeling his blood begin to boil slightly. He dropped his head into his hands and let wave after wave of misery hit him. Nothing mattered now that he had destroyed everything.
* * *
OMIGOD! IT'S SO SAD!!!
Will Doumyouji and Tsukushi make up? Or will we have to wait the equivalent of about thirty episodes of the series for them to do so? Will everyone stop being sad? Will Rui stop being so helpful? Will you be able to figure out if that last question was sarcastic or not? Will we find out how the captain's log got on Doumyouji's pillow? Will Tsukushi ever stop complaining about the manhandling? Does she realize that the author would gladly be manhandled by Doumyouji? Will Akira and Soujirou have a bet about this fight? Will Kazuya ever know what's going on? Will Doumyouji end up punching so many holes that the cabin collapses on top of him? Will Rui eat so he doesn't pass out? Not to mention Makiko! Stay tuned!
(A Special Something Mainly For Teresa To Get A Laugh)
Soujirou: Well, looks like I'm the favorite.
Akira: Whatever! The author totally likes me more! (Fight ensues.)
Doumyouji: Should we tell them that I'm the author's favorite?
Rui: (Shrugs)
Shigeru: When do I come back in?
Doumyouji: Hopefully never.
Shigeru: Well, I'll just kill someone off and take their place. (Throws a knife at Akira, successfully stabbing him through the chest.) Woohoo!
Tsubaki: What about me?
Shigeru: Just kill off Yuki.
Tsubaki: Can do! (Kills off Yuki.) Looks like I get her place in the fic…Not that she's very important.
Rui: By my life, this is against our pleasure.
Soujirou: …Kay…
(Don't worry if you don't get it. There's a ton of jokes in here.)