Kitty: Hey hey!! How's everyone doing? Well, I hope if life isn't treating
you good, this chapter will make it all better. And yes, I did correct some
of the mistakes that I always have in the last chapter, so feel free to go
back and re-read a now "perfect" chapter. Please remember to start your
count down. The date was on the fourth day so now it is the fifth day, and
nine days left to go, which means nine more short, SHORT chapters left.
Please review and I hope you enjoy it!!
Chapter 6
"Fujtaka! Where are you going?"
"I discovered something about the painting," Fujitaka said running into the science lab. "You asked me if I could find out why we couldn't get rid of all the stains on most of painting. Well I found out."
He began to run through all the old experiments in the cabinet.
"What exactly are you looking for?" his assistant asked, shrugging his shoulders.
"Do you remember that one experiment you were trying out on acid?" Fujitaka turned around.
"Yea."
"Well where is it?" Fujitaka asked looking around again.
"It's located in the storage section, why?"
Fujitaka ran over to a mini refrigerator and pried it out. A breath of ice escaped and clouded his glass as he peered inside. There were tubes of different colors from the combination of the assorted elements and compounds fused together.
Then he spotted the one he needed, a clear foggy tube with the label of: replacement acid on it.
"Found it."
Then he raced back up stairs to the lab table where the painting was being observed.
"What, I don't understand, that's just a type of acid, why do you need it?" his assistant asked, following behind him.
"Remember when you accidentally spilled some on my lab coat?" Fujitaka asked as he began to take a pipette and took some of the mixture out of the testing tube and mixed it in with a beaker just about full of water.
"Yea, and?"
"Well you spilled it on my pocket and that very same morning was Father's Day, when my daughter painted me a painting of my wife and she happened to slip it into my pocket to surprise me." Fujitaka explained.
"But the acid burned through your pocket."
"Exactly, but it didn't ruin the painting that was in it. So…I propose.." Fujitaka continued as he dabbed some of the mixture onto a piece of large cotton and walked over to the painting. "That if we tried this instead."
"But that mixture only burns through cloth, I even tested it myself."
"My point precisely," Fujitaka said as he gently wiped the stain on the middle portion of the painting with the large piece of cotton when some of the stain began to break down. Fujitaka took the water squinter and cleared away the part that had broken down away from the painting, to reveal part of a white dress.
"Amazing…."
Fujitaka just smiled. "Now we need to make sure that your mixture isn't too strong or else it might just wear away the painting since it has been submerged for centuries. So clean it very carefully. Oh and another thing, write this down," he ordered. "Yoshiaki didn't make the ring, his mother gave it to him."
The assistant immediately began to note down in their research.
"Now I need to go call Dr. Sekiya, he'll want to know about this." He began to walk out of the room.
"Wait Doctor!"
"Hmm-what is it?" Fujitaka asked turning around.
"How did you know all those dirt compounds were made of fabric?"
Fujitaka smiled. "I didn't, but I had a little birdie tell me. By the way, you might want to run the dirt sample over again, you know, the same one you used to date the painting and this time, add the fabric component also so we know how much acid we need to use.
"Yes Sir! And my wife thanks you for taking care of my daughter when she was sick and I was in Hong Kong. She left you these flowers from our garden."
His assistant held up a basket full of beautiful spring flowers. Daffodils, tulips, tiger lilies, petunias, peonies, different colored roses, and morning glories, violets, chrysanthemums, and white, and pink Sakura blossoms filled the basket.
"Wow! Thanks, your wife is a very talented gardener." Fujitaka kindly accepted the basket. "Oh! And send Dan over my house with the dirt components because I won't be back until tomorrow. Today is when I get off early."
"You got it!"
~*~*
"Sakura, please be careful with that ribbon."
"I will, don't worry Tomoyo," Sakura replied as she turned around and looked down on the ladder. Then she took another pin from her pocket and continued to pin down the large ribbon.
All the kids from school were at the Tsukimine Shrine setting up for the Paper Lantern festival. It was a celebration that was held once a year, on Valentine's Day. Thousands of lanterns, made by schools that represent the school in some way; same thing for different businesses or shops, even families make them. And all of them are strung across the trees and rooftops. Of course there is the singing contest, the rides, little carnival booths and there is a large bowl, filled with different flowers floating on top of the water and if you give a flower to someone, they get to make a wish and be your valentine!
"Sakura, do you know when your father is getting here?" Tomoyo asked as she checked off the ribbons on her checklist.
"I don't know, but I'm sure he'll be here soon," Sakura replied. "Whoa!" the old ladder that she was standing and began to shake and wobble.
"Sakura! Be careful!"
"AHHHHH!!!"
"(Gasp) Sakura!!!" Tomoyo shouted as she dropped her clipboard out of shock.
"Gotcha!"
Syaoran had skillful jumped up onto the rickety ladder to balance it out and he had his arms around Sakura to keep her from falling.
Sakura had shut her eyes tight and was still shaking but then noticed no pain had been inflicted as she opened her eyes and turned around to find Syaoran standing there.
"Whew…" Tomoyo bent down and picked up her clipboard again. Good thing Syaoran's always there when you need him.
"It's okay, Sakura, I won't let you fall," Syaoran said as he smiled and winked at her.
Sakura blushed as she back around and began to work back on hanging up the ribbon with Syaoran standing right behind her and helping.
~*~*
Kahimi was sitting in a gazebo shaped like a temple and was carefully molding the clay on a spinning table. Everyone was busy working all around her but she didn't mind all the noise and commotion. She had volunteered to make the special bowl for the festival. But to be a little more creative, Kahimi had started to make a water fountain instead. It was going to be three layers, a statue at the top, pouring out the water, then the second layer would be like a small pond that made the water fall down towards the third layer like a small waterfall.
She had finished the third layer first because in her opinion, it was the easiest. Of course it was in the shape of a bowl, about the size of a dinning table. (oh yea, real easy) She had already decorated it with vines that curved like the pillars of the Roman times and she was letting it bake in the art class oven.
But while Kahimi worked, she liked to sing songs, not to mention everyone told her she had a pretty voice.
1 He showed me all new things
The shimmer of moonbeams
I was blind but now he's helped me see
I was lost but now I'm found
His happiness surrounds
2 And now I find that my dreams can come true…
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps behind her.
"So it was it you," a voice said from behind her.
"Huh?" Kahimi stopped singing and turned around to see, who else but Fujitaka standing behind her!
"Oh ohaiyou Fujitaka-san! What do you mean it was me?" Kahimi asked.
Fujitaka took a seat right next to Kahimi. "When I was going home one day, I heard someone singing and so I followed the voice. It lead me to here (he looks around the shrine then faces Kahimi again) and I saw someone singing but I didn't get a chance to see her face."
"Oh! I'm sorry about that, hehe," Kahimi sweatdrops from embarrassment. "You see I like to go here at night time because all the flowers look beautiful in the moon light and that song was something I heard from a dream." Then Kahimi turned to Fujitaka. "I thought I saw someone watching me but when I turned around, all I saw was a car so I thought I was tired and went home afterwards."
"Well, I should be sorry for frightening you. It just you have a really beautiful voice." Fujitaka complimented.
Kahimi blushed. "Thank you, but I wasn't frightened."
"What are you doing right now?" Fujitaka asked looking at the clay and the spinning table in her hand.
"Oh! I'm finishing the special bowl for festival. You know the one with the flowers, but I decided it would be a much better fountain-hehhe, what are you doing?" Kahimi laughed as she watch Fujitaka put the second layer bowl on top of his head while looking at it.
"Hey, don't forget I work at the history museum so I just wanted to make sure this is gonna last for the next fifteen centuries or so."
"Well the only problem is that we can't find any flowers. It's still winter and not a lot of flowers have bloomed yet," Kahimi replied sadly.
"No problem." And with that Fujitaka pulled from behind him the basket of flowers his assistant had given to him earlier.
Kahimi's eyes widen in delight like a little girl as she saw the basket.
"Where did you find all these flowers!?!?"
Fujitaka just shrugged. "I guess I got good connections," he replied as he handed her the basket. "Besides, you did a good job making the fountain, that I though I should chip in." Fujitaka set back down her second layer and just smiled at Kahimi, who was already blushing.
"Well I did take pottery classes over New York so it's not a big deal." Kahimi said smiling back as she accepted the basket and began to look at all the flowers.
She really is pretty, thought Fujitaka has he noticed how the sun caught her long violet hair which was pulled back into a long braid and how it made her silver eyes twinkle. The color was very familiar though, but Fujitaka couldn't quite but his finger on where he had seen it before. I wonder if she is married.
"Kahimi?"
"Yes?"
"Sakura tells me that you're a widow, am I right?"
Kahimi paused at the sentence for while, as if to think before she could reply.
"Actually, I'm not. It's just I have dreams a lot of someone's memory. Someone who had lost their husband. And well, Rika was worried that I might like Terada-sensi, so it wasn't exactly the truth, but it wasn't a lie completely either." Kahimi gave Fujitaka a small smile. "I'm sorry, you must think I'm crazy or something."
"No, not at all. I think-"
"Mr. Kinomoto!!"
The two adults looked up to see Tomoyo running towards them with Mr. Terada behind.
"Ohaiyou Tomoyo. How are you today?" Fujitaka greeted brightly.
"I'm fine. But I wanted to ask you for your measurements." Tomoyo replied pulling out her tape measure.
"Measurements? For what?"
"Didn't my mother tell you? She's have a party thrown for a charity and I picked the theme." Tomoyo answered.
"Well what's the theme?" Fujitaka asked.
"You'll find out," Tomoyo replied with a mischievous smile.
"Well alright Tomoyo, but when is it?" Fujitaka continued to ask as he stood up.
"It's right after this weekend. It'll be at night time so you don't have to worry about missing work."
"No problem I'm free all weekend."
"Well in that case could you do me a big favor Mr. Kinomoto?" Mr. Terada interrupted.
"I'd be happy to as soon as I find out what it is," Fujitaka replied.
"As you know, the kids are going snowboarding this weekend but our last chaperone had to cancel so we need one more person to fill in for her. Could you please do that?"
"Not a problem."
Kitty: See? I told you it was gonna be short.
Nakura: Come on Kitty! You said that you would put me in.
Kitty: How about I'll save you and Touya a dance okay?
Nakura: YES!!!!!! Okie-dokie, now I'm happy.
Touya: (whispers) Kitty, you got some plan to get me out of this right? I mean come on…..
Kitty: WHAT!! What did you say Touya? You wanna dance with Nakura throughout the entire party. Well if that's what you want.
Touya: NO! That's not I said.
Nakura: (jumps on Touya) Oh my gosh!! We're gonna have such a fun time!!
Touya: (sweatdrops) (glares) I hate you.
Kitty: And I love you too Touya!!!
P.S. I tried to write this really quick so excuse all the mistakes that I know I always have, okay?
Chapter 6
"Fujtaka! Where are you going?"
"I discovered something about the painting," Fujitaka said running into the science lab. "You asked me if I could find out why we couldn't get rid of all the stains on most of painting. Well I found out."
He began to run through all the old experiments in the cabinet.
"What exactly are you looking for?" his assistant asked, shrugging his shoulders.
"Do you remember that one experiment you were trying out on acid?" Fujitaka turned around.
"Yea."
"Well where is it?" Fujitaka asked looking around again.
"It's located in the storage section, why?"
Fujitaka ran over to a mini refrigerator and pried it out. A breath of ice escaped and clouded his glass as he peered inside. There were tubes of different colors from the combination of the assorted elements and compounds fused together.
Then he spotted the one he needed, a clear foggy tube with the label of: replacement acid on it.
"Found it."
Then he raced back up stairs to the lab table where the painting was being observed.
"What, I don't understand, that's just a type of acid, why do you need it?" his assistant asked, following behind him.
"Remember when you accidentally spilled some on my lab coat?" Fujitaka asked as he began to take a pipette and took some of the mixture out of the testing tube and mixed it in with a beaker just about full of water.
"Yea, and?"
"Well you spilled it on my pocket and that very same morning was Father's Day, when my daughter painted me a painting of my wife and she happened to slip it into my pocket to surprise me." Fujitaka explained.
"But the acid burned through your pocket."
"Exactly, but it didn't ruin the painting that was in it. So…I propose.." Fujitaka continued as he dabbed some of the mixture onto a piece of large cotton and walked over to the painting. "That if we tried this instead."
"But that mixture only burns through cloth, I even tested it myself."
"My point precisely," Fujitaka said as he gently wiped the stain on the middle portion of the painting with the large piece of cotton when some of the stain began to break down. Fujitaka took the water squinter and cleared away the part that had broken down away from the painting, to reveal part of a white dress.
"Amazing…."
Fujitaka just smiled. "Now we need to make sure that your mixture isn't too strong or else it might just wear away the painting since it has been submerged for centuries. So clean it very carefully. Oh and another thing, write this down," he ordered. "Yoshiaki didn't make the ring, his mother gave it to him."
The assistant immediately began to note down in their research.
"Now I need to go call Dr. Sekiya, he'll want to know about this." He began to walk out of the room.
"Wait Doctor!"
"Hmm-what is it?" Fujitaka asked turning around.
"How did you know all those dirt compounds were made of fabric?"
Fujitaka smiled. "I didn't, but I had a little birdie tell me. By the way, you might want to run the dirt sample over again, you know, the same one you used to date the painting and this time, add the fabric component also so we know how much acid we need to use.
"Yes Sir! And my wife thanks you for taking care of my daughter when she was sick and I was in Hong Kong. She left you these flowers from our garden."
His assistant held up a basket full of beautiful spring flowers. Daffodils, tulips, tiger lilies, petunias, peonies, different colored roses, and morning glories, violets, chrysanthemums, and white, and pink Sakura blossoms filled the basket.
"Wow! Thanks, your wife is a very talented gardener." Fujitaka kindly accepted the basket. "Oh! And send Dan over my house with the dirt components because I won't be back until tomorrow. Today is when I get off early."
"You got it!"
~*~*
"Sakura, please be careful with that ribbon."
"I will, don't worry Tomoyo," Sakura replied as she turned around and looked down on the ladder. Then she took another pin from her pocket and continued to pin down the large ribbon.
All the kids from school were at the Tsukimine Shrine setting up for the Paper Lantern festival. It was a celebration that was held once a year, on Valentine's Day. Thousands of lanterns, made by schools that represent the school in some way; same thing for different businesses or shops, even families make them. And all of them are strung across the trees and rooftops. Of course there is the singing contest, the rides, little carnival booths and there is a large bowl, filled with different flowers floating on top of the water and if you give a flower to someone, they get to make a wish and be your valentine!
"Sakura, do you know when your father is getting here?" Tomoyo asked as she checked off the ribbons on her checklist.
"I don't know, but I'm sure he'll be here soon," Sakura replied. "Whoa!" the old ladder that she was standing and began to shake and wobble.
"Sakura! Be careful!"
"AHHHHH!!!"
"(Gasp) Sakura!!!" Tomoyo shouted as she dropped her clipboard out of shock.
"Gotcha!"
Syaoran had skillful jumped up onto the rickety ladder to balance it out and he had his arms around Sakura to keep her from falling.
Sakura had shut her eyes tight and was still shaking but then noticed no pain had been inflicted as she opened her eyes and turned around to find Syaoran standing there.
"Whew…" Tomoyo bent down and picked up her clipboard again. Good thing Syaoran's always there when you need him.
"It's okay, Sakura, I won't let you fall," Syaoran said as he smiled and winked at her.
Sakura blushed as she back around and began to work back on hanging up the ribbon with Syaoran standing right behind her and helping.
~*~*
Kahimi was sitting in a gazebo shaped like a temple and was carefully molding the clay on a spinning table. Everyone was busy working all around her but she didn't mind all the noise and commotion. She had volunteered to make the special bowl for the festival. But to be a little more creative, Kahimi had started to make a water fountain instead. It was going to be three layers, a statue at the top, pouring out the water, then the second layer would be like a small pond that made the water fall down towards the third layer like a small waterfall.
She had finished the third layer first because in her opinion, it was the easiest. Of course it was in the shape of a bowl, about the size of a dinning table. (oh yea, real easy) She had already decorated it with vines that curved like the pillars of the Roman times and she was letting it bake in the art class oven.
But while Kahimi worked, she liked to sing songs, not to mention everyone told her she had a pretty voice.
1 He showed me all new things
The shimmer of moonbeams
I was blind but now he's helped me see
I was lost but now I'm found
His happiness surrounds
2 And now I find that my dreams can come true…
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps behind her.
"So it was it you," a voice said from behind her.
"Huh?" Kahimi stopped singing and turned around to see, who else but Fujitaka standing behind her!
"Oh ohaiyou Fujitaka-san! What do you mean it was me?" Kahimi asked.
Fujitaka took a seat right next to Kahimi. "When I was going home one day, I heard someone singing and so I followed the voice. It lead me to here (he looks around the shrine then faces Kahimi again) and I saw someone singing but I didn't get a chance to see her face."
"Oh! I'm sorry about that, hehe," Kahimi sweatdrops from embarrassment. "You see I like to go here at night time because all the flowers look beautiful in the moon light and that song was something I heard from a dream." Then Kahimi turned to Fujitaka. "I thought I saw someone watching me but when I turned around, all I saw was a car so I thought I was tired and went home afterwards."
"Well, I should be sorry for frightening you. It just you have a really beautiful voice." Fujitaka complimented.
Kahimi blushed. "Thank you, but I wasn't frightened."
"What are you doing right now?" Fujitaka asked looking at the clay and the spinning table in her hand.
"Oh! I'm finishing the special bowl for festival. You know the one with the flowers, but I decided it would be a much better fountain-hehhe, what are you doing?" Kahimi laughed as she watch Fujitaka put the second layer bowl on top of his head while looking at it.
"Hey, don't forget I work at the history museum so I just wanted to make sure this is gonna last for the next fifteen centuries or so."
"Well the only problem is that we can't find any flowers. It's still winter and not a lot of flowers have bloomed yet," Kahimi replied sadly.
"No problem." And with that Fujitaka pulled from behind him the basket of flowers his assistant had given to him earlier.
Kahimi's eyes widen in delight like a little girl as she saw the basket.
"Where did you find all these flowers!?!?"
Fujitaka just shrugged. "I guess I got good connections," he replied as he handed her the basket. "Besides, you did a good job making the fountain, that I though I should chip in." Fujitaka set back down her second layer and just smiled at Kahimi, who was already blushing.
"Well I did take pottery classes over New York so it's not a big deal." Kahimi said smiling back as she accepted the basket and began to look at all the flowers.
She really is pretty, thought Fujitaka has he noticed how the sun caught her long violet hair which was pulled back into a long braid and how it made her silver eyes twinkle. The color was very familiar though, but Fujitaka couldn't quite but his finger on where he had seen it before. I wonder if she is married.
"Kahimi?"
"Yes?"
"Sakura tells me that you're a widow, am I right?"
Kahimi paused at the sentence for while, as if to think before she could reply.
"Actually, I'm not. It's just I have dreams a lot of someone's memory. Someone who had lost their husband. And well, Rika was worried that I might like Terada-sensi, so it wasn't exactly the truth, but it wasn't a lie completely either." Kahimi gave Fujitaka a small smile. "I'm sorry, you must think I'm crazy or something."
"No, not at all. I think-"
"Mr. Kinomoto!!"
The two adults looked up to see Tomoyo running towards them with Mr. Terada behind.
"Ohaiyou Tomoyo. How are you today?" Fujitaka greeted brightly.
"I'm fine. But I wanted to ask you for your measurements." Tomoyo replied pulling out her tape measure.
"Measurements? For what?"
"Didn't my mother tell you? She's have a party thrown for a charity and I picked the theme." Tomoyo answered.
"Well what's the theme?" Fujitaka asked.
"You'll find out," Tomoyo replied with a mischievous smile.
"Well alright Tomoyo, but when is it?" Fujitaka continued to ask as he stood up.
"It's right after this weekend. It'll be at night time so you don't have to worry about missing work."
"No problem I'm free all weekend."
"Well in that case could you do me a big favor Mr. Kinomoto?" Mr. Terada interrupted.
"I'd be happy to as soon as I find out what it is," Fujitaka replied.
"As you know, the kids are going snowboarding this weekend but our last chaperone had to cancel so we need one more person to fill in for her. Could you please do that?"
"Not a problem."
Kitty: See? I told you it was gonna be short.
Nakura: Come on Kitty! You said that you would put me in.
Kitty: How about I'll save you and Touya a dance okay?
Nakura: YES!!!!!! Okie-dokie, now I'm happy.
Touya: (whispers) Kitty, you got some plan to get me out of this right? I mean come on…..
Kitty: WHAT!! What did you say Touya? You wanna dance with Nakura throughout the entire party. Well if that's what you want.
Touya: NO! That's not I said.
Nakura: (jumps on Touya) Oh my gosh!! We're gonna have such a fun time!!
Touya: (sweatdrops) (glares) I hate you.
Kitty: And I love you too Touya!!!
P.S. I tried to write this really quick so excuse all the mistakes that I know I always have, okay?
