Title: Flower Garden (A Hana Yori Dango AU)
Author: Yih
19: Kidnapping Fiasco (March 31, 2003 to May 16, 2003)
Things were almost normal. Almost. Shizuka was gone and Akira had gone after her. Two of their group was missing but besides that Rui and Tsukushi were living in Tsukasa's mansion--- nothing else was out of the norm. They all want to school together; they all hanged out at clubs in the night like old times. It was to Tsukushi's immense relief that she realized that Tsukasa had stopped pursuing her.
Actually as she observed Tsukasa's and Shigeru's animal and argumentative conversation, she thought the two of them suited each other perfectly. They were too cute together, too adorable. "Have any of heard from Akira yet?" Soujirou inquired. "It's been days."
"Yes, it has been," Tsukushi agree, worry appearing the lines of her forehead. "I wonder when he is going to contact us... maybe we should call them."
Rui grabbed her hand before her fingers touched the cell phone. "You don't want to disturb them," he stated vaguely and blandly.
Everyone turned their eyes toward Rui to stare at him hard. It was Tsukasa that voiced their train of thoughts the best. "You knew and you didn't say anything?!"
Rui shrugged, waiting for Tsukasa to sit down before he'd explain himself. Shigeru sense what Rui was waiting for so she grabbed Tsukasa by the arm and pulled him down to his seat.
"Shizuka messaged me last night," Rui began, " to tell me that everything was fine and that they've been very busy together, which is why they haven't been able to contact us about their relationship." He smiled sweetly. "They are back together."
~
Yes, they were back together--- officially together in a big way. Akira wrapped his arms around Shizuka's sleeping form to draw her closer to him. He couldn't believe how wonderfully happy he was with her. It was unbelievable how complete he felt when he was with her. He felt it truly was true what people said about people being half a soul and finding completion when they met their soul mate.
Snuggling closer to her, he kissed her forehead gently, making sure that he didn't disturb her from her sleep. She had a huge examination tomorrow to test into the premiere law school program in France. He truly hoped that she got into the program; he knew how hard she'd studied ever since she'd arrived in France.
She opened her eyes and kissed him back on the lips. "I'm sorry," he apologized, gazing deeply into her eyes. "I didn't meant to wake you up."
"It's okay," she murmured. "I don't mind being woken up by you. So how long have you been watching me sleep?"
Akira blushed sheepishly because he'd been gazing at her beautiful and beloved form for the longest time. "I don't know," he admitted honestly. "A while."
She smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck to draw him down onto her chest. "Sleep," she commanded as she closed her eyes. "You need to rest too," she reminded him. "You need to finish up your courses for the year as well."
He nodded and cuddled up closer to her, letting his eyes finally rest. But he found it hard to fully relax against her luscious form. She was truly tempting to him. But what Shizuka said was true, that he needed rest too. With that thought he forced himself to count chickens to zone his mind out.
~
"We have a plan," Shigeru declared, " to get your parents to accept your relationship with Rui." The two girls were having a private moment together, refreshing themselves at the extravagant restaurant's restroom. "Tsukasa thought that his nanny's suggestion of Rui getting your pregnant was absurd, but it would work. Instead, we think a kidnapping would work even better and be very reasonable."
Tsukushi's eyes were popped open in the distressing sign of her surprise. "Kidnapped? Plan? What? Why?" she sputtered these out in her shock although she knew vaguely where this was all coming. Trust Tsukasa and Shigeru to agree on this kind of plan, they were too similar in some respects. Dangerous to be working together.
"Why to get you and Rui together again!" Shigeru exclaimed with her infectious eager in a manner that screamed, 'what else could it be?' "I think it will work quite well because it'll ally your families together in their attempt to rescue you both. Besides the guys we have hired are professional kidnappers that do it for hire. And we're paying them to keep you in a secluded area outside of Tokyo. Think of how romantic it'll be for you and Rui! Alone together!"
"Won't the kidnappers be there?" Tsukushi queried.
Shigeru nodded affirmatively. "But they will be occupying a separate cabin. We had the idea and guess who arranged it before she left? The wonderful Tsubaki!"
"Do you really think this is going to work?"
"Yes," Shigeru answered with absolute certainty, "I'm sure. I mean both families will be anxious and worried about you and Rui. They will have to come together! Join forces!"
Even with Shigeru's enthusiasm, Tsukushi still wasn't so sure that this marvelous plan that they had was going to work out as well as they thought it would. But at least as Rui pointed out to her, they really didn't have any better ideas and it did give them time to be alone together. That was certainly going to be nice. With the three of them for it, how could she say no?
~
Rui and Tsukushi were promptly kidnapped at 8:00 am on a Monday morning so that they didn't have to wait another moment or waste one with the tedium of school. While Tsukushi regretted missing school, none of the other four were agreeing with her at that point. It some times frustrated her, but she had gotten use to it. After all, she'd already agreed to it.
It was better if they didn't show up anyway. The school would notify their parents that they were missing when the couple didn't show up. Well, all were betting that it took a while. It gave Rui and Tsukushi the perfect opportunity to get romantic--- that is if they took advantage of it. None of them had any doubts on Rui's persuasion skills with Tsukushi, they were worried about Tsukushi's natural tendency to be a prude.
"You are getting way too hopeful," Soujirou muttered as he leaned his back against the wall, waiting for the monotonous day to begin. He'd been forced to come early by Tsukasa because the big idiot had insisted for no real reason. What was so special about a fake kidnapping? It wasn't like it couldn't be seen on reality TV. "The chances that Tsukushi does anything with Rui is slim. She's a true prude at heart."
"Well," Tsukasa remarked, "it is Rui we're talking about."
Soujirou nodded. He had to agree with that. "He can certainly convince her of things that aren't normally possible, but Tsukushi is still Tsukushi."
"That's true," Tsukasa admitted.
"You two are guys, right?" Tsukasa and Soujirou aimed systematic glares at Shigeru. "Well normal guys talk about how far a couple will get, not how they're definitely not going to do anything. That's definitely not typical guy talk."
"She's kissed Rui."
"But that's just kissing!"
Shigeru rolled her eyes; she guessed she was wrong about them after all. They were definitely the normal, horny teenage boys she suspected them of being. What a big surprise. Indeed, this was what she'd been fully expecting. But the fact that they had seemed abnormal got her hopes up momentarily. She shouldn't have even thought they were any different. Typical, far too typical.
"It's too bad Tsukushi's not going to have sex with Rui."
~
The car ride reminded them of the memories of the one they had been coerced into by Tsubaki. But this time they were together and happy. In the backseat of the car, Rui snuggled against Tsukushi's shoulder and with enough time, eventually fell asleep. But before he fell into his slumber land, they talked with their fingers and hands for the longest time. It felt like old times again.
"Do you think this will work?" Tsukushi asked, scribbling her question into the palm of his hand carefully. "I mean, you know your father better than I do, better than anyone."
"How do you think your mother will handle it?" he inquired back before he answered her question. "And I really don't know if this will work, but it's the only idea that we have to work on. It's not like we have a better plan. We should at least attempt this."
"That's true," she agreed. She entwined their hands together with their free hands. "What do you want to do there for the time that we are there?" They both personally knew that they'd be there for a while before either of their sets of parents figured out that they were gone. Their parents were far too concern with business matters to notice that they were gone.
He shrugged, his eyes gazing up at hers with absolute tenderness. "Anything you want, Tsukushi, as long as you are happy--- I'm happy."
She smiled beautifully. "You are wonderful."
He shook his head and squeezed her hand. "You are the one that is wonderful." When her eyes were looking into his, he said strongly and firmly, "I love you, Tsukushi."
If possible the smile became eve more glorious and gorgeous on her glowing face. "I know. I love you, too," she murmured into his ear. "You know what?"
"What?" he asked huskily.
"Even if it doesn't work out, our parents will have to accept that we're going to be together because," she explained to him the epiphany she had realized in her prophetic vision, "I cannot live without you by my side."
He smiled back reassuringly. "I cannot live without you either."
~
"Good day," greeted Ms. Hanazawa amicably to Mr. Makino. "How do you do? I trust that your business is going well and that you are in good health?"
"I am very good," he responded with a cheerful, easy going smile. "Very good, good business and good health." His eyes twinkled with its customary friendliness. "How are you, Ms. Hanazawa?"
"Very well, thank you," she answered, his infectious joy causing her to smile as well. "Shall we get down to the business at hand?"
He nodded. "I asked you to come here today because I had an idea that might work..." That caught her attention and she learned closer to him so that they could discuss matters with more privacy than the bustling restaurant allowed them to. "What do you think of my idea?"
She leaned back into her chair, lifting her hand to rest her head against it as she studiously considered the idea that he had proposed. "I think it may work," she replied reservedly, but her eagerness was betrayed with the light in her eyes. The gleam told him that she thought it was a decidedly excellent course of action.
"Very good," he remarked. "I'll start then..."
~
"Well?" Mr. Hanazawa almost growled with his menacing voice. "What did you find out? Who was she with?" he asked sharply and harshly, using the same tone he used to intimidate his business rivals. It was quite effectively, he saw the man on the other side of his desk try not to cower against the wall behind him. "What were they talking about? Why were they meeting?"
The investigator he'd hired to spy on his wife gulped because he knew the Head of Hanazawa was extremely daunting to disappoint. He'd worked with him before, but never with such a personal matter like this. He was afraid if he gave Mr. Hanazawa an answer he didn't like... what would happen. Without even answering him, he handed over the report for Mr. Hanazawa to flip through for a while before he launched into his full verbal report, "As you see..."
"Your wife went to eat lunch with a man around your age. We have no real clue what they were discussing because the restaurant was far too noisy, but we don't think that they knew each other very well. Their body language was very formal."
The anger on Mr. Hanazawa's face was unmistakable and it caused the investigator to take a cautionary step back. "Of course my wife would not behave anything but formal in public! She is the perfect lady! Why did you leave," he continued to growl out, "if you have no information?"
"Because they didn't leave together..." the investigator stuttered, stumbling quite unprofessionally over his words.
Mr. Hanazawa waved his hands impatiently in dismissal, which the investigator seized immediately. Once the incompetent man had left, the Head of Hanazawa sighed and leaned back against his chair. His wife had lied to him and had gone to see another man. He clenched his fist tightly. She had some explaining to do when she got home, tremendous explaining to do.
~
Despite the long car ride toward their kidnapping retreat, when they arrived at the house they were going to stay at, they ran up the stairs and promptly attacked the bed. "I'm pick up your habits," she commented cheerfully as she rested her head on the pillows while he rested his head on her stomach. "I want to sleep all the time now."
He nuzzled her with his nose and smiled briefly at her declaration. "There's a good hot spring we can relax in later when you feel like it. I know how stressed out you feel, but even if our parents don't accept our relationship, it'll be okay because I'm not giving you up."
She smiled when he said this and leaned down to kiss his nose. When she did that, he cupped her by the face and drew her back down for a dizzyingly deep kiss. With extreme tenderness he probed her mouth with his tongue, groaning when he tasted her sweetness. When her tongue timidly touched his own, he wrapped his arms tightly around her.
The whirlwind kiss continued until they both ran out of breath. When they drew away from each other, they were both breathing heavily and their eyes were dilated. "Rui?" she murmured, her voice ragged with barely concealed desire. "How about we go to the hot springs now?"
"Are you sure?" he questioned.
She grinned cheekily. "You'll enjoy it, won't you?"
He nodded. He would enjoy it very much. "Yes."
~
Author's Note: I hope and pray there is only one more chapter. I don't know though. But I hope to wrap it up in one more chapter. This chapter is short (size of the first chapter), but hopefully the last chapter will be longer. I just hope I can churn out one more chapter.
Author: Yih
19: Kidnapping Fiasco (March 31, 2003 to May 16, 2003)
Things were almost normal. Almost. Shizuka was gone and Akira had gone after her. Two of their group was missing but besides that Rui and Tsukushi were living in Tsukasa's mansion--- nothing else was out of the norm. They all want to school together; they all hanged out at clubs in the night like old times. It was to Tsukushi's immense relief that she realized that Tsukasa had stopped pursuing her.
Actually as she observed Tsukasa's and Shigeru's animal and argumentative conversation, she thought the two of them suited each other perfectly. They were too cute together, too adorable. "Have any of heard from Akira yet?" Soujirou inquired. "It's been days."
"Yes, it has been," Tsukushi agree, worry appearing the lines of her forehead. "I wonder when he is going to contact us... maybe we should call them."
Rui grabbed her hand before her fingers touched the cell phone. "You don't want to disturb them," he stated vaguely and blandly.
Everyone turned their eyes toward Rui to stare at him hard. It was Tsukasa that voiced their train of thoughts the best. "You knew and you didn't say anything?!"
Rui shrugged, waiting for Tsukasa to sit down before he'd explain himself. Shigeru sense what Rui was waiting for so she grabbed Tsukasa by the arm and pulled him down to his seat.
"Shizuka messaged me last night," Rui began, " to tell me that everything was fine and that they've been very busy together, which is why they haven't been able to contact us about their relationship." He smiled sweetly. "They are back together."
~
Yes, they were back together--- officially together in a big way. Akira wrapped his arms around Shizuka's sleeping form to draw her closer to him. He couldn't believe how wonderfully happy he was with her. It was unbelievable how complete he felt when he was with her. He felt it truly was true what people said about people being half a soul and finding completion when they met their soul mate.
Snuggling closer to her, he kissed her forehead gently, making sure that he didn't disturb her from her sleep. She had a huge examination tomorrow to test into the premiere law school program in France. He truly hoped that she got into the program; he knew how hard she'd studied ever since she'd arrived in France.
She opened her eyes and kissed him back on the lips. "I'm sorry," he apologized, gazing deeply into her eyes. "I didn't meant to wake you up."
"It's okay," she murmured. "I don't mind being woken up by you. So how long have you been watching me sleep?"
Akira blushed sheepishly because he'd been gazing at her beautiful and beloved form for the longest time. "I don't know," he admitted honestly. "A while."
She smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck to draw him down onto her chest. "Sleep," she commanded as she closed her eyes. "You need to rest too," she reminded him. "You need to finish up your courses for the year as well."
He nodded and cuddled up closer to her, letting his eyes finally rest. But he found it hard to fully relax against her luscious form. She was truly tempting to him. But what Shizuka said was true, that he needed rest too. With that thought he forced himself to count chickens to zone his mind out.
~
"We have a plan," Shigeru declared, " to get your parents to accept your relationship with Rui." The two girls were having a private moment together, refreshing themselves at the extravagant restaurant's restroom. "Tsukasa thought that his nanny's suggestion of Rui getting your pregnant was absurd, but it would work. Instead, we think a kidnapping would work even better and be very reasonable."
Tsukushi's eyes were popped open in the distressing sign of her surprise. "Kidnapped? Plan? What? Why?" she sputtered these out in her shock although she knew vaguely where this was all coming. Trust Tsukasa and Shigeru to agree on this kind of plan, they were too similar in some respects. Dangerous to be working together.
"Why to get you and Rui together again!" Shigeru exclaimed with her infectious eager in a manner that screamed, 'what else could it be?' "I think it will work quite well because it'll ally your families together in their attempt to rescue you both. Besides the guys we have hired are professional kidnappers that do it for hire. And we're paying them to keep you in a secluded area outside of Tokyo. Think of how romantic it'll be for you and Rui! Alone together!"
"Won't the kidnappers be there?" Tsukushi queried.
Shigeru nodded affirmatively. "But they will be occupying a separate cabin. We had the idea and guess who arranged it before she left? The wonderful Tsubaki!"
"Do you really think this is going to work?"
"Yes," Shigeru answered with absolute certainty, "I'm sure. I mean both families will be anxious and worried about you and Rui. They will have to come together! Join forces!"
Even with Shigeru's enthusiasm, Tsukushi still wasn't so sure that this marvelous plan that they had was going to work out as well as they thought it would. But at least as Rui pointed out to her, they really didn't have any better ideas and it did give them time to be alone together. That was certainly going to be nice. With the three of them for it, how could she say no?
~
Rui and Tsukushi were promptly kidnapped at 8:00 am on a Monday morning so that they didn't have to wait another moment or waste one with the tedium of school. While Tsukushi regretted missing school, none of the other four were agreeing with her at that point. It some times frustrated her, but she had gotten use to it. After all, she'd already agreed to it.
It was better if they didn't show up anyway. The school would notify their parents that they were missing when the couple didn't show up. Well, all were betting that it took a while. It gave Rui and Tsukushi the perfect opportunity to get romantic--- that is if they took advantage of it. None of them had any doubts on Rui's persuasion skills with Tsukushi, they were worried about Tsukushi's natural tendency to be a prude.
"You are getting way too hopeful," Soujirou muttered as he leaned his back against the wall, waiting for the monotonous day to begin. He'd been forced to come early by Tsukasa because the big idiot had insisted for no real reason. What was so special about a fake kidnapping? It wasn't like it couldn't be seen on reality TV. "The chances that Tsukushi does anything with Rui is slim. She's a true prude at heart."
"Well," Tsukasa remarked, "it is Rui we're talking about."
Soujirou nodded. He had to agree with that. "He can certainly convince her of things that aren't normally possible, but Tsukushi is still Tsukushi."
"That's true," Tsukasa admitted.
"You two are guys, right?" Tsukasa and Soujirou aimed systematic glares at Shigeru. "Well normal guys talk about how far a couple will get, not how they're definitely not going to do anything. That's definitely not typical guy talk."
"She's kissed Rui."
"But that's just kissing!"
Shigeru rolled her eyes; she guessed she was wrong about them after all. They were definitely the normal, horny teenage boys she suspected them of being. What a big surprise. Indeed, this was what she'd been fully expecting. But the fact that they had seemed abnormal got her hopes up momentarily. She shouldn't have even thought they were any different. Typical, far too typical.
"It's too bad Tsukushi's not going to have sex with Rui."
~
The car ride reminded them of the memories of the one they had been coerced into by Tsubaki. But this time they were together and happy. In the backseat of the car, Rui snuggled against Tsukushi's shoulder and with enough time, eventually fell asleep. But before he fell into his slumber land, they talked with their fingers and hands for the longest time. It felt like old times again.
"Do you think this will work?" Tsukushi asked, scribbling her question into the palm of his hand carefully. "I mean, you know your father better than I do, better than anyone."
"How do you think your mother will handle it?" he inquired back before he answered her question. "And I really don't know if this will work, but it's the only idea that we have to work on. It's not like we have a better plan. We should at least attempt this."
"That's true," she agreed. She entwined their hands together with their free hands. "What do you want to do there for the time that we are there?" They both personally knew that they'd be there for a while before either of their sets of parents figured out that they were gone. Their parents were far too concern with business matters to notice that they were gone.
He shrugged, his eyes gazing up at hers with absolute tenderness. "Anything you want, Tsukushi, as long as you are happy--- I'm happy."
She smiled beautifully. "You are wonderful."
He shook his head and squeezed her hand. "You are the one that is wonderful." When her eyes were looking into his, he said strongly and firmly, "I love you, Tsukushi."
If possible the smile became eve more glorious and gorgeous on her glowing face. "I know. I love you, too," she murmured into his ear. "You know what?"
"What?" he asked huskily.
"Even if it doesn't work out, our parents will have to accept that we're going to be together because," she explained to him the epiphany she had realized in her prophetic vision, "I cannot live without you by my side."
He smiled back reassuringly. "I cannot live without you either."
~
"Good day," greeted Ms. Hanazawa amicably to Mr. Makino. "How do you do? I trust that your business is going well and that you are in good health?"
"I am very good," he responded with a cheerful, easy going smile. "Very good, good business and good health." His eyes twinkled with its customary friendliness. "How are you, Ms. Hanazawa?"
"Very well, thank you," she answered, his infectious joy causing her to smile as well. "Shall we get down to the business at hand?"
He nodded. "I asked you to come here today because I had an idea that might work..." That caught her attention and she learned closer to him so that they could discuss matters with more privacy than the bustling restaurant allowed them to. "What do you think of my idea?"
She leaned back into her chair, lifting her hand to rest her head against it as she studiously considered the idea that he had proposed. "I think it may work," she replied reservedly, but her eagerness was betrayed with the light in her eyes. The gleam told him that she thought it was a decidedly excellent course of action.
"Very good," he remarked. "I'll start then..."
~
"Well?" Mr. Hanazawa almost growled with his menacing voice. "What did you find out? Who was she with?" he asked sharply and harshly, using the same tone he used to intimidate his business rivals. It was quite effectively, he saw the man on the other side of his desk try not to cower against the wall behind him. "What were they talking about? Why were they meeting?"
The investigator he'd hired to spy on his wife gulped because he knew the Head of Hanazawa was extremely daunting to disappoint. He'd worked with him before, but never with such a personal matter like this. He was afraid if he gave Mr. Hanazawa an answer he didn't like... what would happen. Without even answering him, he handed over the report for Mr. Hanazawa to flip through for a while before he launched into his full verbal report, "As you see..."
"Your wife went to eat lunch with a man around your age. We have no real clue what they were discussing because the restaurant was far too noisy, but we don't think that they knew each other very well. Their body language was very formal."
The anger on Mr. Hanazawa's face was unmistakable and it caused the investigator to take a cautionary step back. "Of course my wife would not behave anything but formal in public! She is the perfect lady! Why did you leave," he continued to growl out, "if you have no information?"
"Because they didn't leave together..." the investigator stuttered, stumbling quite unprofessionally over his words.
Mr. Hanazawa waved his hands impatiently in dismissal, which the investigator seized immediately. Once the incompetent man had left, the Head of Hanazawa sighed and leaned back against his chair. His wife had lied to him and had gone to see another man. He clenched his fist tightly. She had some explaining to do when she got home, tremendous explaining to do.
~
Despite the long car ride toward their kidnapping retreat, when they arrived at the house they were going to stay at, they ran up the stairs and promptly attacked the bed. "I'm pick up your habits," she commented cheerfully as she rested her head on the pillows while he rested his head on her stomach. "I want to sleep all the time now."
He nuzzled her with his nose and smiled briefly at her declaration. "There's a good hot spring we can relax in later when you feel like it. I know how stressed out you feel, but even if our parents don't accept our relationship, it'll be okay because I'm not giving you up."
She smiled when he said this and leaned down to kiss his nose. When she did that, he cupped her by the face and drew her back down for a dizzyingly deep kiss. With extreme tenderness he probed her mouth with his tongue, groaning when he tasted her sweetness. When her tongue timidly touched his own, he wrapped his arms tightly around her.
The whirlwind kiss continued until they both ran out of breath. When they drew away from each other, they were both breathing heavily and their eyes were dilated. "Rui?" she murmured, her voice ragged with barely concealed desire. "How about we go to the hot springs now?"
"Are you sure?" he questioned.
She grinned cheekily. "You'll enjoy it, won't you?"
He nodded. He would enjoy it very much. "Yes."
~
Author's Note: I hope and pray there is only one more chapter. I don't know though. But I hope to wrap it up in one more chapter. This chapter is short (size of the first chapter), but hopefully the last chapter will be longer. I just hope I can churn out one more chapter.