Omigosh, HUGE cliffhanger and I'm so sorry -_- I'm trying to finish up a couple of stories and I guess this is one of them. MAJOR JUN BASHING~! ^___^ I know you guys want that—and I'm don't hate Jun that much but I don't like her that much either ^_^ So here it is (READ 'TIME OF OUR LIVES' BY ME!) Yes, I actually AM going to say that until people do start reading it u.u
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I felt free. A bit crowded and intimidated by all the other students running around me but I feel pretty free on the inside. The moment that horn blew I kicked off determined to show that Jun Motimiya, Karen, Matt, my uncle, parents, everyone that I can do this stuff and I'm not just some Pink Princess!
At first it wasn't that hard, I kept myself from stumbling through the running across tires—erm, thing. I had a pretty hard time since my jewelry kept making these annoying sounds and just bothered me while I was running and stuff. I looked back and saw Karen behind me, she tossed me a huge smile indicating that I was doing pretty good and I was glad that I almost forgot about Jun. She was running up fast to catch up with me which made it so much harder, ugh. Okay, not it just got harder—crawling on the ground under icky, muddy barbed wires and running through this…see-saw thing. Where do they come up with this stuff?
"No one messes with a Tachikawa," I whispered to myself as I came up against this eh, contraption kind of thing. It had a buncha wires, prickly stuff, loops, and all that junk—I froze, I didn't know what to do! It was so confusing so I just stood there as everyone began nudging me aside, including Jun.
"What's the matter, girlie?" she teased. "Aw, this too hard for our little 'PowerPuff Girl'? Why don't you just go run off to your little paper dolls and leave Yamato to me?" she smirked. I narrowed my eyes to meet her snickering ones, stood frozen while she posed so Loon-like, and we were both lost in our world—Jun's hell. I guess we were so caught up with our anger with each other that we didn't notice everyone passing us, including Matt.
He, as always, looked so cute! I didn't even mind the dirt clinging onto his shirt and pants from crawling under the loops and such. He slowed down but didn't stop, stealing a glance at me.
"What are you two doing?" he asked. "C'mon, girls, let's march!" he smiled and went on.
I smiled and was about to crouch down to the ground when Jun grabbed my arm. I quickly glared at her, a surge of lightning passing between us not to mention a challenge. A smirk came across both our lips and just like that we were off, crouching and crawling under the barbed wires and on the mud—Blech—and then kicking up to stumble upon the ropes, swinging over the muddy brown waters and smacking our feet down and quickly running towards the high climb up the rope. I was amazed how fast I was going, I've never felt so…fast and liberated! And real furious. We ran fast, so fast that we began passing everyone without really noticing and only glancing beside each other once and a while to see who's ahead, neck to neck were we that we didn't notice—we passed Matt!
"What the—" he said as we ran pass him like light.
When we did reach that high climb I kinda well, froze again. Like I said before I wasn't exactly acing gym and I hated rope-climbing, it was a totally poor excuse of making teenagers like myself feel embarrassed of being around such a hard task. I was ahead of Jun so when I looked back I saw her speeding up and then passed me and began climbing the rope, I knew what she was thinking, Pathetic little PowerPuff Princess can't handle a single rope! How dare she think that! I'll show her.
I spit on my hands like those guys do on TV and started on the rope. I didn't care how I hated it anymore for I was so mad at her and I just wanted all this, this whole nightmare to be over with! I scrambled onto the top to find Jun started down, she gave me one last smile before slowly repelling down the other side and just below was the finish line and she was ahead of everyone else, including me and I just totally lost it—I didn't know what I was thinking and ran across the high floor and well, leaped off the wood. Yes! I know that was a stupid thing to do and everyone suddenly stopped and watched me gliding through the air from an almost 30-foot high climb. I didn't realize what I had just done until I felt my feet slam against the hard ground, my eyes were so wide I could put a golf ball in it and my mouth was slightly open I was kinda drooling. Heh.
I looked up to find Jun as white as a ghost and her mouth wide open, hanging onto the rope. I couldn't blame her I was so surprised that I was snapped back to reality when someone tapped my shoulder. It was house leader—Matt's friend, Taichi Yagami. He looked pretty surprised too but smiled at me as a group of people also finished the course.
"Wow, that was, amazing," he said. "Never seen someone just jump off that thing and then miraculously land on their feet without a scratch!"
"Mimi!" Karen shouted and ran to hug me. "Omigosh, I thought
you said you weren't good at this! You so kicked Jun's ass back there!
"Y-yeah," I mumbled, blushing a bit. "Just an adrenaline rush, I guess." The whistle blew and all the students began filing into lines and marching off the field and onto their free weekends. I couldn't help but smile as they all passed me and gave me a thumbs up, it's like some initiation or something and they're all finally accepting that Cadet Mimi Tachikawa does have a dark side after all. But that's just me!
"Well, that was sure something, Miss Mimi," Matt said as he came up behind Taichi. "Are you sure you haven't done this before?"
I blushed and grinned, "Nope! I guess Military School isn't as hard as I thought it'd be after all, heh."
I guess Matt liked it when I smile because he smiled too, "Sugoi. You're a pretty awesome girl, Cadet Mimi—"
"CHEAT!" Jun yelled as she came running towards me all hot-headed and put her face close to mine and yelled. "You cheated, Tachikawa! That was uncalled for and you should be banned from this academy!"
"Jun!" Matt sternly said. Oh, how much different he looks when he's mad like that…"What you are doing right now is uncalled for. Accusing a fellow colleague and saying they should be banned."
Jun stiffened and glared at me, "Fine, Yamato…Can we please just get outta here?" she latched onto his arm.
"Uh," I was—we all were, except Taichi were surprised to see him gently push her arm off. "Actually, Taichi and I have to go back to our house assignment and I suggest you three should do the same. I'll be seeing you around, Karen, Jun—Mimi." He gave me a warm smile, saluted, and jogged off with Taichi. Know what was weird? I felt myself blushing when Taichi waved at me…
I sat gloomily on my so-called jail bed while everyone fussed about something I surely don't want to be involved in. Something called a, 'Moonlit Isle'…whatever. I sighed and covered my head with my pillow as Karen came over and took it off.
"Hey, smurfette," she joked, "why the gloomy face? Haven't you been listening, the Moonlit Isle's coming up!!" she squealed.
I made a weird face and stared up, "Karen, no offense but I'm just not in the mood for some moon dance or whatever that is…"
"Mimi?" a girl named Miyako came over. "Hey, something wrong? You of all people should be excited about this." she grinned.
I grunted, "Hai, I'm happy, okay? Just, leave me alone right now I'm not in the mood…I'm taking a walk, march, whichever term I'm to use I'm out!" I guess I went a bit too harsh at them but, I am pretty upset. I threw my pillow down and got up, I only had this white, thin turtleneck and white skirt on and it was pretty cold outside, but I didn't care. I just wanted to leave. As I was walking towards the door I heard Jun say behind me.
"Nah, don't worry about her she's probably just going through puberty," she smirked.
Arrgh, that baita! I've had it with her, I turned around and walked up to her. I'm so ready to slap that ugly smile on her face, "Jun, let me just say this—" I stopped. No, if I slapped her I would be doing just what she wanted me to, so I could get in trouble and maybe kicked out if I went farther. So, I just turned away and stomped outside while they stared at me.
"Mimi, wait!" Karen called. I'm sorry, Karen…
It was probably a good ten minutes that I was pacing back and forth beside that Sakura tree in the middle of the Academy. I was still furious with the lunatic that I was wearing a hole in my shoes—no, ugh, great I was so occupied I forgot to grab my shoes! Arrgh, could my life get any worse?!
"Good evening."
I know that voice, noooo! It can't be. I slowly turned around all stiff and felt myself fainting when I saw Matt standing in front of me. How embarrassing! This is definitely going on my most embarrassing moments…
"Ee, Matt! Hi," I said and grinned widely. My face turned into the color of the leaves when I noticed that he was wearing nothing but an Academy jacket and jeans, he looked so—normal. I mean, all the people I've ever seen here always dress all, army-like and stuff.
I rub my arm, "So, what are you doing out here?"
He smiled, "Whenever I'm bored, upset or anything I always take a walk around to calm down. The guys were all talking about something I didn't wanna be part of so I left, and you?"
"Heh, pretty much the same thing, Karen and everyone were all talking about the umm, Moon…Moon—"
"Moonlit Isle."
I grinned and nodded, "Yeah! That's it."
Matt let out a small sigh with a hint of laughter and began walking pass me, "C'mon, walk with me?"
How many times do I have to blush around this guy? "Sure." I was glad he wanted to walk since it was freezing under that tree! I need warmth of movement so it was good that he walks pretty fast so I can kinda jog beside him to get the cold off me. It was nice, being beside him, the silence that passed between us and his company made me feel all nice inside. Heh.
"Hey," I started, "what is this Moonlit Isle thing they're all so crazy about?"
Matt smiled but didn't look at me, he just kept his eyes forward, "You of all should love it," I'm really beginning to hate how they think they know what I would or would not like…"In normal schools, you have your proms and homecomings, those are the biggest events am I right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, here they do something different—See that mountain up there?" I followed his finger and it pointed to this not so high but not so low mountain slash hill. It was like a plateau with a forest on the side and their was a small clearing at the edge of the cliff, about a good 15-yard circle.
"I'm not getting the picture here," I said and we continued walking.
He still didn't look at me, "Not to far from the clearing, a bit inside the woods is another smaller clearing surrounded by boulders. That's where we have the Moonlit Isle—it's a dance, in case you don't know. It's the biggest event of the year beside graduation. What we do is, they decorate that place like it was something from a fairy tale; candles, lanterns, fog, soft music of violins, and magic…it seems like nothing while they set it up but the night you get there the moon is high up but not too high that you get a good view of it from the dance floor. They have this fog coming out from the sides that make it so mysterious and magical, and it's so dark that they have these 'floating' lanterns that look like lowered stars or something. Then, out of nowhere there's music—" he stopped when he caught me staring at him. Who wouldn't?
I smiled the most sincerest as I could, letting out a small laugh, "Sorry, I just can't help it. You make it sound so, magnificent…now I know why everyone's so mad about it, who wouldn't? It's so romantic."
I was glad that he smiled, "Yeah, yeah it is. Though, as nice as you think it is it doesn't seem like it's making you feel better."
How'd he know?! "Hu-how did you know I was upset?"
"It's cold, it's dark, who in their happy minds would be caught walking out here?" he replied.
I'm caught, as usual. It wasn't my fault that my smile went haywire and I stared at my dragging feet, "There's a dance at my old school tonight. My friends are all there having fun, and I'm, not."
"Oh," he muttered. "Sorry bout that."
"No, don't be you have nothing to do with it," I replied. "Ever since I came here all I could blame was everyone but me, it was my own fault that I'm not at that dance right now anyway."
Matt looked beside me, "Why did you come here anyway? From what I hear you have a pretty good life, why'd your parents send you here then?"
Ugh, again, caught. I bit my lower lip and stopped to once again admire how the light shone on my bare feet, figuring out how to say it. And I guess Matt saw how uncomfortable I was and laid a hand on my shoulder and smiled, somehow indicating to me that he knows to stay off the subject, for now.
"Hey, what are you two doing out?"
Matt and I both turned around to find Taichi standing a few feet away from us, I'm kinda surprised I didn't recognize his voice. That stern face of his kind of made me feel all well, scared is the word here…I was pretty sad that Matt drew his hand back and smiled at his friend.
"Hey, Tai," he said. "Uh, I guess we better head back it's getting pretty late," I glanced down my watch, it was pretty late but I didn't want to leave yet—better yet, him to leave! Why did Taichi have to interrupt?
"Y-yeah," I, of course, dumbly replied. "I think I'll just stay out here for a little longer," Please stay with me, Matt!!
"Well, okay," Matt replied and walked to Taichi. Hn. "It was nice talking to you, Mimi…Well, bye." And he walked away, rather fast, I might add…
I smiled at Taichi when he turned and looked at me, I thought he was leaving but he stayed like that and stared at me for a while, "Taichi? Daijibou?" I asked.
"…Mimi," he muttered. I was pretty surprised to see his stern look soften a bit, he almost looked upset or something—I wonder why that made me feel sad too. He mumbled something I couldn't hear and smiled weakly at me, "Uh, never mind. Have a good night, Mimi, I'll see you." and he jogged away to a curious Matt.
I stared at their disappearing figures for a while. Gosh, men here are so odd—an uncle/commandant who shows no emotions what-so-ever, a hunk who's totally nice and super cute not to mention a two-faced dream, and now Taichi, also a cutie but a total mystery like Yamato. Everyone here could really use some livening up—guess my work has just begun!
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I might have a MIMATO/MICHI love triangle~! So, don't flame me for that x.o You have to admit that Mimi and Tai do look a bit kawaii together n.n And, this chapter might have been a bit too short and nothing much happened, you will find out what got Mimi into this whole thing in the next chapter or something. And don't forget to REVIEW AND CHECK OUT MY NEW STORIES!!! Chao!