Title: Flower Garden (A Hana Yori Dango AU)
Author: Yih
Author Note: Thank you so much for your support! Yes, the group dynamic has to change since Tsukushi is there. Also, there are small personality changes since Tsukushi has an affect on F4! Tsukushi, herself is different b/c she's not poor = ). Let me know what relationship you'd like to see that I'm hinting or even those that I'm not. Keep reviewing though please! I wrote this fast because of the support! Thanks and enjoy!
2: Neverending Day (November 18, 2002 to November 19, 2002)
"WHERE IS SHE?" roared Tsukasa to F2. They shrugged, but they both thought one thing simultaneously: Tsukushi was definitely still with Rui. Their nonchalant respond was only making Tsukasa more ticked off. He'd been okay with the fact that Tsukushi hadn't been in class, but he was getting really angry since lunch was here and there was no sign of her at all!
"I thought I told her to hurry up," he growled. "I knew it. She and Rui talk way, way too much when they get alone and they just lose all track of time! It's so annoying! Rui never has anything to say, so why do they always have to talk so long to each other? That's so frustrating!"
Soujirou mimicked Tsukasa by silent yelling at Akira, who in turned shouted back at Soujirou as Tsukushi would have done. They ended up breaking out in hysterical laughter, finally drawing Tsukasa's angry attentions. "What are you two doing?"
Akira was the first one to get his laughter in control and he remarked, "Why mimicking your upcoming conversation with Tsukushi of course."
"It'll be a very intriguing affair, I gather," Soujirou commented. "I imagine you'll scream at her and she'll shout at you and then you'll end up conceding as you always do to her."
Tsukasa directed his glare at Soujirou. "I do not always concede to her!"
Both Akira and Soujirou shared a 'yeah sure' look, then they ended up snickering, which only drew a more menacingly glare at them from Tsukasa. Not that it did anything except make them laugh harder since Tsukasa wasn't able to intimidate anyone in the F4 or Tsukushi or Shizuka. And since Tsukasa didn't have anything else to direct his attentions to since Tsukushi wasn't there, he kept looking at F2 furiously.
~
Glancing down at Tsukushi briefly, soaking in the simple beauty of her radiant smile. Yes, he knew that Tsukushi wasn't anybody's standard of beauty, but he found her to be a very beautiful person by her inner self. And he also happened to think that when she smiled, she just glowed with that inner beauty. He smiled to himself and looked up again and away from her. He didn't want her to catch him looking at her, at least not in the way he'd been looking at her.
"What did you dream about last night?" he asked.
She tilted her head to the side and tried to recall her dream. "I'm not exactly sure what I dreamt about," she responded, "I can't really remember as well as you can. I really ought to take your advise and jot down my dream as soon as I wake up, since that's when it's the clearest."
"Try to remember," he urged.
"Well," she began, "I remember walking, I'm not really sure where. Then things get blurry and then I think I was sitting down on the grass in a park and I was talking to someone. Whatever we were talking about wasn't memorable. The last thing I remember was holding someone's hand."
"My dream was the same one I've been having since we left Germany," he told her. "I keep remembering that I'm standing on a hill waiting for someone, but I don't know who that person is. The more I dream it, the closer I get to finding out who that person is, but I still haven't quite gotten there. But whoever that person is has moved from the other hill to the valley between the hill I stand on and one the person was standing on."
"That's an interesting dream. I hope it's revealed to you soon," she murmured. "I wish I dreamt as vividly as you did. I envy you that, that you can dream and remember your dreams. But then again I get to hear about your dreams, so I guess that's the next best thing to actually being able to dream them myself."
He smiled at her. "If you want, I'll tell them to you whenever I remember my dreams."
She smiled back at him. "I'd like that a lot." She glanced down at her watch. "I think it's time we better go. We've been up here for a long time, and I'm getting pretty hungry. I bet you are too since there are two things about you that I definitely know: you like to eat and to sleep."
He nodded. "Let's go." He offered her his hand to help lift her up and she took it gratefully. Together, they walked in the direction of the cafeteria. It wasn't long before they neared the cafeteria and once in view, Tsukasa who had finally gotten Akira and Soujirou to agree to help him look for Tsukushi, immediately spotted her walking back with Rui.
"TSUKUSHI!" he shouted. "Where have you been?"
"With Rui," she responded simply. "Where did you think I was?"
"Didn't you remember me telling you to hurry back?" he asked her with irritation. "And there you go run off with Rui and don't even think about taking care of yourself! Come on," he commanded, grabbed her by the arm and dragging her into the cafeteria. Tsukushi had this exasperated look on her face, but there was nothing she could do about it since she had forgotten about what Tsukasa had said and she wasn't strong enough to pull herself from out of his reach.
"Sit down," he ordered and then marched off to go get Tsukushi some food. By the time he brought back the food, he found that both places next to Tsukushi were taken and so was the seat in front of her. He glared at Akira, but he wasn't going to move from his spot to her right; Rui definitely wasn't moving where he sat to the left; Soujirou was happily sitting in front of Tsukushi, teasing her as normal. Tsukasa growled and still no one moved. He had no choice but to set the food in front of Tsukushi and sit next to Soujirou.
"Eat!" he commanded her, shoving the food closer to her.
She rolled her eyes. "Okay, you bossy man, I'll eat." She took a bit and then nudged Rui to eat as well.
When Rui was about to grab something off her plate, Tsukasa knocked his hand aside. "What do you think you're doing?" he asked him.
"What do you think you're doing?" Tsukushi retorted. "You always get me too much food, this is plenty for both of us. Stop being so overbearing!"
"But he was taking your food!"
She rolled her eyes again. "Because I was letting him!" she exclaimed. "Stop acting like such a child, Tsukasa. I'm sick of that! You need to grow up sometime. And," she remarked when she heard the bell ringing, "we need to get to class. I'll see you guys later."
F4 watched as she ran off towards her class. Both Akira and Soujirou took the opportunity to poke fun at Tsukasa, while Rui simply stood up and went to his class, since he knew that Tsukushi wouldn't be going back to the stairs today at least. He could always hope for tomorrow.
~
"Both Rui and Tsukasa have changed when we got to know Tsukushi way back when," remarked Akira to Soujirou as they were walking to their last class. It wasn't as if they needed to go to class, but they didn't have anything to do this afternoon so they figured they might as well go.
Soujirou nodded. "It's not like we haven't changed since getting to know her either. She's just so Tsukushi. It's hard not to know her and not to change. She's kind of infectious."
"But Rui has really become more active over the years though. He use to always like to go off by himself, but when he met Tsukushi in the playground that day, he actually doesn't mind her company when he wants to think," Akira murmured.
"And Tsukasa has definitely learned to not be so quick to action, well he's still got a mad as hell temper, but at least he's not striking out at people like he use to. He still did that here until Tsukushi entered the school. He hasn't stuck a tag on anyone for the longest time," Soujirou reflected. "He's so childish and he doesn't listen to anyone at all, he listens to Tsukushi at least half the time." He shook his head. "But the other half of the time, he should be listening to her."
Akira nodded. "Yeah, but you can't help that. That's Tsukasa. At least now, he considers what Tsukushi says. They still argue like they did when they were children. It doesn't help that Tsukasa is still wrong nearly all the time, though." He snickered. "It's hilarious though."
Soujirou grinned. "Very much so. So where we going tonight?"
~
A soft happy ring interrupted the lecture that the history teacher was delivering. The teacher turned around about to glare and chew off the head of whomever the phone belonged to, but the frown quickly left his face when he saw that it was Makino Tsukushi's cell. "Would you like to go outside and answer the call?" he inquired instead.
Tsukushi nodded. "Yes," she answered. She quickly rose up from her seat and headed to the hallway where she pushed the receive button. "Shizuka!" she cried out excitedly. "How are you? Why are you calling me in school?"
"I'm doing really well. You're still in school?" Shizuka queried. "I thought it was four over there."
"It's still two. You're off by two hours," remarked Tsukushi. "So what's up? Why the call?"
"I thought you might like to know that I'll be back home tonight," Shizuka informed her.
"Really? You're really coming back from France? Of course, I'd want to know! I can't believe you're finally coming back! It's been far too long since I've seen you. You could contact me more than you do, you know, Shizuka," Tsukushi responded. "You think you'd at least call your god- sister more than once a week!"
Shizuka chuckled. "I try my best, it's just things are more hectic here than I even imagined. Trying to juggle my modeling career and my schoolwork is driving me crazy. I'm not quite as composed and organized that you think I am, little god-sister."
"So when are you getting back and what's your flight number?" Tsukushi asked happily. "I'll need to know this stuff so I can pick you up tonight."
~
"Why are you wearing that silly grin on your face?" Akira asked, after just getting pounced by Tsukushi who he found was even in a more energetic mood than she was normally in. She was usually cheerful and good natured, only around Tsukasa was she ever a shrew, but she was even more so now than earlier.
Tsukushi just continued to grin after he asked, and she held up three fingers. "I'll give you three guesses, and if you fail to guess right, then I will just have to tell you!"
"If you're going to tell me even if I get it wrong, then why should I guess?" Akira replied sardonically.
Tsukushi pouted. "What's the fun in it if you don't at least try?"
Soujirou laughed. "Come on, Akira, make three guesses. It won't hurt you."
Akira grumbled, but finally relented. "You're happy that you skipped classes and talked with Rui?"
"That's not it."
"You're happy that Tsukasa listens to you?" She shook her head. "I don't know," Akira said lamely. "You're going to have to tell me."
If possible, her grin got even larger as she exclaimed, "Shizuka's coming back!" Akira's eyes widened and he started running toward his car, which caused Tsukushi to laugh and call out after him, "Hey! You don't know when she's coming in or her flight number!"
Akira made a dead stop and turned around and grabbed Tsukushi's hand, pulling her toward his car. At this point, Soujirou was laughing out of controllably at the sight, while Rui and Tsukasa had just arrived at the scene and didn't have a clue what was going on. Rui wasn't that alarmed to see Akira dragging Tsukushi because he'd gotten a message on his cell that Shizuka was coming back, and he guessed accurately that was the reason Akira was tugging Tsukushi.
But of course, Tsukasa didn't have the slightest idea so he shouted, "What are you doing Akira?!"
Akira didn't stop propelling Tsukushi forward or even answer Tsukasa, he just opened the door and allowed Tsukushi to climb in and then rushed to the other side of the car and hopped in. He was about to gun the engine when Tsukushi stopped him by saying, "She's not coming back until tonight. We've still got hours before we've got to meet her."
He relaxed and leaned back against his seat. "When is she coming in?" he questioned.
"Almost midnight," Tsukushi answered.
He sighed heavily and turned on the engine. "I think I'm going to kill some time before I go meet her at the airport, do you want to come along with me?"
Tsukushi nodded. "Sure," she answered. "But wait, I think the rest of them want to come along as well." She gestured to F3, who were walking up to Akira's car.
Soujirou had already explained that Shizuka was coming back to Tsukasa, so when Akira rolled down the window, Tsukasa asked in a more civilized voice, "When is she coming in?"
"Tonight," Akira answered, "do you guys want to kill some time with me and Tsukushi?" F3 nodded and Akira started backing his car out. "I'm going to the usual place, meet up with me and Tsukushi there!" With that remark, Akira sped up in his car with Tsukushi.
Tsukasa grumbled, the day wasn't going well at all. He'd not even had time to get into a proper half hour shouting match with Tsukushi yet. It was almost like a daily ritual. It wasn't that he enjoyed those verbal spars, but he was exceedingly use to them by now. Well, he didn't enjoy them most of the times that he was wrong, but he did miss not being able to interact with Tsukushi at all. First, Rui had taken her off and then it was Akira. He narrowed his eyes as he watched Soujirou and Rui walking over to their respective cars. Soujirou better not be the third one.
Author: Yih
Author Note: Thank you so much for your support! Yes, the group dynamic has to change since Tsukushi is there. Also, there are small personality changes since Tsukushi has an affect on F4! Tsukushi, herself is different b/c she's not poor = ). Let me know what relationship you'd like to see that I'm hinting or even those that I'm not. Keep reviewing though please! I wrote this fast because of the support! Thanks and enjoy!
2: Neverending Day (November 18, 2002 to November 19, 2002)
"WHERE IS SHE?" roared Tsukasa to F2. They shrugged, but they both thought one thing simultaneously: Tsukushi was definitely still with Rui. Their nonchalant respond was only making Tsukasa more ticked off. He'd been okay with the fact that Tsukushi hadn't been in class, but he was getting really angry since lunch was here and there was no sign of her at all!
"I thought I told her to hurry up," he growled. "I knew it. She and Rui talk way, way too much when they get alone and they just lose all track of time! It's so annoying! Rui never has anything to say, so why do they always have to talk so long to each other? That's so frustrating!"
Soujirou mimicked Tsukasa by silent yelling at Akira, who in turned shouted back at Soujirou as Tsukushi would have done. They ended up breaking out in hysterical laughter, finally drawing Tsukasa's angry attentions. "What are you two doing?"
Akira was the first one to get his laughter in control and he remarked, "Why mimicking your upcoming conversation with Tsukushi of course."
"It'll be a very intriguing affair, I gather," Soujirou commented. "I imagine you'll scream at her and she'll shout at you and then you'll end up conceding as you always do to her."
Tsukasa directed his glare at Soujirou. "I do not always concede to her!"
Both Akira and Soujirou shared a 'yeah sure' look, then they ended up snickering, which only drew a more menacingly glare at them from Tsukasa. Not that it did anything except make them laugh harder since Tsukasa wasn't able to intimidate anyone in the F4 or Tsukushi or Shizuka. And since Tsukasa didn't have anything else to direct his attentions to since Tsukushi wasn't there, he kept looking at F2 furiously.
~
Glancing down at Tsukushi briefly, soaking in the simple beauty of her radiant smile. Yes, he knew that Tsukushi wasn't anybody's standard of beauty, but he found her to be a very beautiful person by her inner self. And he also happened to think that when she smiled, she just glowed with that inner beauty. He smiled to himself and looked up again and away from her. He didn't want her to catch him looking at her, at least not in the way he'd been looking at her.
"What did you dream about last night?" he asked.
She tilted her head to the side and tried to recall her dream. "I'm not exactly sure what I dreamt about," she responded, "I can't really remember as well as you can. I really ought to take your advise and jot down my dream as soon as I wake up, since that's when it's the clearest."
"Try to remember," he urged.
"Well," she began, "I remember walking, I'm not really sure where. Then things get blurry and then I think I was sitting down on the grass in a park and I was talking to someone. Whatever we were talking about wasn't memorable. The last thing I remember was holding someone's hand."
"My dream was the same one I've been having since we left Germany," he told her. "I keep remembering that I'm standing on a hill waiting for someone, but I don't know who that person is. The more I dream it, the closer I get to finding out who that person is, but I still haven't quite gotten there. But whoever that person is has moved from the other hill to the valley between the hill I stand on and one the person was standing on."
"That's an interesting dream. I hope it's revealed to you soon," she murmured. "I wish I dreamt as vividly as you did. I envy you that, that you can dream and remember your dreams. But then again I get to hear about your dreams, so I guess that's the next best thing to actually being able to dream them myself."
He smiled at her. "If you want, I'll tell them to you whenever I remember my dreams."
She smiled back at him. "I'd like that a lot." She glanced down at her watch. "I think it's time we better go. We've been up here for a long time, and I'm getting pretty hungry. I bet you are too since there are two things about you that I definitely know: you like to eat and to sleep."
He nodded. "Let's go." He offered her his hand to help lift her up and she took it gratefully. Together, they walked in the direction of the cafeteria. It wasn't long before they neared the cafeteria and once in view, Tsukasa who had finally gotten Akira and Soujirou to agree to help him look for Tsukushi, immediately spotted her walking back with Rui.
"TSUKUSHI!" he shouted. "Where have you been?"
"With Rui," she responded simply. "Where did you think I was?"
"Didn't you remember me telling you to hurry back?" he asked her with irritation. "And there you go run off with Rui and don't even think about taking care of yourself! Come on," he commanded, grabbed her by the arm and dragging her into the cafeteria. Tsukushi had this exasperated look on her face, but there was nothing she could do about it since she had forgotten about what Tsukasa had said and she wasn't strong enough to pull herself from out of his reach.
"Sit down," he ordered and then marched off to go get Tsukushi some food. By the time he brought back the food, he found that both places next to Tsukushi were taken and so was the seat in front of her. He glared at Akira, but he wasn't going to move from his spot to her right; Rui definitely wasn't moving where he sat to the left; Soujirou was happily sitting in front of Tsukushi, teasing her as normal. Tsukasa growled and still no one moved. He had no choice but to set the food in front of Tsukushi and sit next to Soujirou.
"Eat!" he commanded her, shoving the food closer to her.
She rolled her eyes. "Okay, you bossy man, I'll eat." She took a bit and then nudged Rui to eat as well.
When Rui was about to grab something off her plate, Tsukasa knocked his hand aside. "What do you think you're doing?" he asked him.
"What do you think you're doing?" Tsukushi retorted. "You always get me too much food, this is plenty for both of us. Stop being so overbearing!"
"But he was taking your food!"
She rolled her eyes again. "Because I was letting him!" she exclaimed. "Stop acting like such a child, Tsukasa. I'm sick of that! You need to grow up sometime. And," she remarked when she heard the bell ringing, "we need to get to class. I'll see you guys later."
F4 watched as she ran off towards her class. Both Akira and Soujirou took the opportunity to poke fun at Tsukasa, while Rui simply stood up and went to his class, since he knew that Tsukushi wouldn't be going back to the stairs today at least. He could always hope for tomorrow.
~
"Both Rui and Tsukasa have changed when we got to know Tsukushi way back when," remarked Akira to Soujirou as they were walking to their last class. It wasn't as if they needed to go to class, but they didn't have anything to do this afternoon so they figured they might as well go.
Soujirou nodded. "It's not like we haven't changed since getting to know her either. She's just so Tsukushi. It's hard not to know her and not to change. She's kind of infectious."
"But Rui has really become more active over the years though. He use to always like to go off by himself, but when he met Tsukushi in the playground that day, he actually doesn't mind her company when he wants to think," Akira murmured.
"And Tsukasa has definitely learned to not be so quick to action, well he's still got a mad as hell temper, but at least he's not striking out at people like he use to. He still did that here until Tsukushi entered the school. He hasn't stuck a tag on anyone for the longest time," Soujirou reflected. "He's so childish and he doesn't listen to anyone at all, he listens to Tsukushi at least half the time." He shook his head. "But the other half of the time, he should be listening to her."
Akira nodded. "Yeah, but you can't help that. That's Tsukasa. At least now, he considers what Tsukushi says. They still argue like they did when they were children. It doesn't help that Tsukasa is still wrong nearly all the time, though." He snickered. "It's hilarious though."
Soujirou grinned. "Very much so. So where we going tonight?"
~
A soft happy ring interrupted the lecture that the history teacher was delivering. The teacher turned around about to glare and chew off the head of whomever the phone belonged to, but the frown quickly left his face when he saw that it was Makino Tsukushi's cell. "Would you like to go outside and answer the call?" he inquired instead.
Tsukushi nodded. "Yes," she answered. She quickly rose up from her seat and headed to the hallway where she pushed the receive button. "Shizuka!" she cried out excitedly. "How are you? Why are you calling me in school?"
"I'm doing really well. You're still in school?" Shizuka queried. "I thought it was four over there."
"It's still two. You're off by two hours," remarked Tsukushi. "So what's up? Why the call?"
"I thought you might like to know that I'll be back home tonight," Shizuka informed her.
"Really? You're really coming back from France? Of course, I'd want to know! I can't believe you're finally coming back! It's been far too long since I've seen you. You could contact me more than you do, you know, Shizuka," Tsukushi responded. "You think you'd at least call your god- sister more than once a week!"
Shizuka chuckled. "I try my best, it's just things are more hectic here than I even imagined. Trying to juggle my modeling career and my schoolwork is driving me crazy. I'm not quite as composed and organized that you think I am, little god-sister."
"So when are you getting back and what's your flight number?" Tsukushi asked happily. "I'll need to know this stuff so I can pick you up tonight."
~
"Why are you wearing that silly grin on your face?" Akira asked, after just getting pounced by Tsukushi who he found was even in a more energetic mood than she was normally in. She was usually cheerful and good natured, only around Tsukasa was she ever a shrew, but she was even more so now than earlier.
Tsukushi just continued to grin after he asked, and she held up three fingers. "I'll give you three guesses, and if you fail to guess right, then I will just have to tell you!"
"If you're going to tell me even if I get it wrong, then why should I guess?" Akira replied sardonically.
Tsukushi pouted. "What's the fun in it if you don't at least try?"
Soujirou laughed. "Come on, Akira, make three guesses. It won't hurt you."
Akira grumbled, but finally relented. "You're happy that you skipped classes and talked with Rui?"
"That's not it."
"You're happy that Tsukasa listens to you?" She shook her head. "I don't know," Akira said lamely. "You're going to have to tell me."
If possible, her grin got even larger as she exclaimed, "Shizuka's coming back!" Akira's eyes widened and he started running toward his car, which caused Tsukushi to laugh and call out after him, "Hey! You don't know when she's coming in or her flight number!"
Akira made a dead stop and turned around and grabbed Tsukushi's hand, pulling her toward his car. At this point, Soujirou was laughing out of controllably at the sight, while Rui and Tsukasa had just arrived at the scene and didn't have a clue what was going on. Rui wasn't that alarmed to see Akira dragging Tsukushi because he'd gotten a message on his cell that Shizuka was coming back, and he guessed accurately that was the reason Akira was tugging Tsukushi.
But of course, Tsukasa didn't have the slightest idea so he shouted, "What are you doing Akira?!"
Akira didn't stop propelling Tsukushi forward or even answer Tsukasa, he just opened the door and allowed Tsukushi to climb in and then rushed to the other side of the car and hopped in. He was about to gun the engine when Tsukushi stopped him by saying, "She's not coming back until tonight. We've still got hours before we've got to meet her."
He relaxed and leaned back against his seat. "When is she coming in?" he questioned.
"Almost midnight," Tsukushi answered.
He sighed heavily and turned on the engine. "I think I'm going to kill some time before I go meet her at the airport, do you want to come along with me?"
Tsukushi nodded. "Sure," she answered. "But wait, I think the rest of them want to come along as well." She gestured to F3, who were walking up to Akira's car.
Soujirou had already explained that Shizuka was coming back to Tsukasa, so when Akira rolled down the window, Tsukasa asked in a more civilized voice, "When is she coming in?"
"Tonight," Akira answered, "do you guys want to kill some time with me and Tsukushi?" F3 nodded and Akira started backing his car out. "I'm going to the usual place, meet up with me and Tsukushi there!" With that remark, Akira sped up in his car with Tsukushi.
Tsukasa grumbled, the day wasn't going well at all. He'd not even had time to get into a proper half hour shouting match with Tsukushi yet. It was almost like a daily ritual. It wasn't that he enjoyed those verbal spars, but he was exceedingly use to them by now. Well, he didn't enjoy them most of the times that he was wrong, but he did miss not being able to interact with Tsukushi at all. First, Rui had taken her off and then it was Akira. He narrowed his eyes as he watched Soujirou and Rui walking over to their respective cars. Soujirou better not be the third one.