Meiji: Wow more and more reviews! I feel like I'm being showered with presents *^_______^* I'm not going to talk that much today and let you get on with reading the story… ------
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~*~Change and Love~*~
Chapter Six: Phone Call: An Invitation
Misao arrived at her house in matters of seconds. She came through the door breathing heavily because of her running. She didn't want to be later than she thought so Okina wouldn't scold her as much. Misao held her backpack in her sweaty hands as she sneaked quietly up to her room so Okina wouldn't know. She took each step as lightly as possible so not one sound could be heard…
"So you're finally home. I see you took your time well."
Misao gave an eerie expression as she turned to face her older brother, Aoshi, as he stepped out of the darkness and his usual empty expression showing. Misao gave a sigh of relief that it wasn't Okina. Unlike Okina, Aoshi never scolds at her for things like being late or not doing homework or getting in trouble at school. Misao's relief face didn't last for long as she began to yell at her brother silently.
Misao whispered in a livid voice, "Aoshi, SHHH! No matter what, don't, tell, Ji—"
"Misao!!!" Okina's voice roared in his angry voice. Misao got frighten by his voice while Aoshi left without a care about the situation.
"I'm sorry Jiya, I had forgotten going home from school, I—" Misao suddenly got interrupted when Okina suddenly picked her up and hugged her tightly as possible. Okina's arms tightly squished Misao that she hardly could breathe. She tried to gasp out to tell her grandfather to let go but she could hardly breathe than trying to talk.
;_; "Where do you go?! I thought of you lost in the cold, dangerous streets, with street thugs trying to rob your money! Don't arrive late again!" ;_;
Misao stumped on Okina's foot and he let go of her while yelping for pain. "Geeze…! I'm alright, I was only at Soujirou's house, not kidnapped Jiya!"
Okina stopped crying out his pain and a sly grin formed onto his face. "Hahahahahahahahaha!"
"What the hell is so funny?!" Misao yelled, getting annoyed at Okina's endless laugh.
Then Okina ran around her waving his arms in the air. "MISAO'S GOT A BOYFRIEND! MISAO'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!"
This made Misao ever madder and embarrassed. "HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND! HE'S NOT EVEN MY FRIEND!"
Okina just kept chanting out, "Misao's got a boyfriend" and the most embarrassing thing is everyone in her house came out to see what was the ruckus.
"What is the ruckus here?" Tsuyo asked. She had a plate in her hand while drying it with a white hand cloth. Then Aoshi came in with an irritated face. It looked like he was trying to work and got intermittent by Okina. Then Okon, one of the family's other maids came in holding a spray bottle and a towel. It looked like she was cleaning the tables or windows. Misao's face got redder and redder. It seems that the world was trying to make her look bad or something. This must've been the fourth time she had blushed today.
"GUESS WHAT EVERYONE?! MISAO HAS A BOYFRIEND AND IT'S TENKEN NO SOUJIRO!" Okina screamed out at everyone and in return, Misao gave him a punch in the head. Everyone had heard Okina and started to ask Misao questions.
"Oh wow, you have a boyfriend Misao? That's the first. Congratulations!"
"Wow so Soujiro's the unlucky guy!"
"Tenken? You're going out with Tenken No Soujirou?"
"ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO! I'M NOT GOING OUT WITH ANYBODY!" With that Misao marched upstairs in her room where she could get more peace to herself.
Misao rushed into her room and threw her backpack on the side and collapse down into her bed. She was very tired from the day that she didn't even get changed. She immediately closed her eyes and fell asleep instantly. As she slept, she had a weird dream. In the dream she saw Soujiro and her in the same Sakura garden at Soujiro but the difference was it didn't have Soujiro's mansion in the distance. It looked like everywhere was covered with Sakura trees. Soujirou said something to her but no sound came out but he was still giving her his usual smile. Then she turned to face him and smiled at him too. Then suddenly a sound occurred and Misao woke up with a start.
It was the sound of someone knocking at the door. Misao awoke and found she sleeping for four hours though it seemed so short. It was now 9:00 as she looked at her hello kitty alarm clock. The person knocked again. It took Misao a couple seconds to wake herself and then she replied, "Come in…" Misao said in a hoarse voice.
Misao's door opened and it was Okon. "Miss Misao? You haven't eaten dinner yet. Do you want me to make something for you?"
Misao's eyes looked at her faintly. She was really too tired to eat. Something that was really rare. "No thanks, I just need to sleep."
Okon nodded with a smile and obeyed her and closed the door on her way out. After Misao saw's Okon's figure disappeared out the door, she slowly closed her eyes and went right back to sleep…
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"Alright, you worked hard enough. I think it's time for you to come in." Kamatari said Soujiro, who by the way was working hard at his swordsmanship to prefect it. At the sound of Kamatari's commend Soujiro stopped what he was doing and with a smile, he said, "You think Mr. Shishio would be impressed by this? I've never gotten this move right so when he comes home tomorrow, I hope he'll be proud."
"Don't kid yourself Soujiro, you're the best one out there. There's no way Mr. Shishio will be disappointed. Trust me 'cause I train ya boy. And I'm the best teacher you've ever had, besides Mr. Shishio that is." Kamatari gave a wink at Soujiro and he laughed.
"I hope you're right Miss Kamatari."
"Shh! And of course I'm right! Now go in before you catch a cold, winter's coming in a couple months, you know and this is just the beginning of fall."
Soujiro smiled at his mentor and walked inside holding his treasured wakizashi that Mr. Shishio had given him when he was only eight years old and that's also the same age he started to learn from Mr. Shishio swordsmanship. Those were the happiest days of his life but now, Mr. Shishio was always busy and was almost never home so Kamatari had to take over his position and taught Soujiro the rest of the techniques.
Soujiro entered his house, or should we say mansion, the gold grandfather clock that Yumi bought when she was vacationing in America clicked every second. Soujiro looked at the time and it was already ten 'o clock at night and he hadn't eaten dinner yet so he was very hungry and he was also very tired from the training Kamatari gave him. Everyday of his class, Soujiro would give his best and hardest at everything so after he was very fatigued.
Soujiro's stomach grumbled loud enough for him to know that he really needed to eat something and right away so he decided to go to the kitchen. Along the way he pasted Yumi's living room. Loud sounds from the television that Yumi was watching from were loud enough for Soujiro to her as he walked past her room through the huge hallway. Ever sine Mr. Shishio, Miss Yumi's husband, went off for business and away at most of the time, she would always be in her living room either reading her romance novels or watching her favorite soap operas. That was part of what made Soujiro a little bit sad about his life. Mr. Shishio and Yumi adopted him so they were like his parents only step and he love-spending time with Mr. Shishio even though he was tough with Soujiro's training, he always manage to act fatherly towards him even though he never had any experience with kids before. But when he went away for business Soujiro had to work with Kamatari. Even though Kamatari was a good teacher, Soujiro would always miss his only father figure that he knew. Yumi and him would always have good conversations together and Soujiro had enjoyed that but when Mr. Shishio was always away, that's when Yumi started to be the same too. Always being in her room that Soujiro never saw her that much either.
While entering the kitchen Soujiro saw Anji in there too, cooking something at the stove. Anji was the family's butler and he formerly worked for Shishio. He was a butler but he did much more then what most butlers do. He had other positions like the gardener. Everyday he either makes sure the Sakura trees or other plants are in good health or plant flowers. The other position is the cooking and the cleaning. He was very good at that. Everything was spotless everyday. As for the driving, Kamatari did that. There used to be more people that worked there but they all went and worked for Shishio's new company.
"Soujiro," Anji said with a smile as he saw the young, smiling boy enter the room, "So you have finished your training. Would you care for something to eat?"
Soujiro put his wakizashi down on the black counter near the stove and sat down on one of the stool. "Sure! I'm very hungry. What are you making Mr. Anji?" Soujiro reached to look into the large pot cooking on the stove.
"Miso soup and…." Anji took out a large plate and showed it to Soujiro, who was eager to see, "Sushi."
"Wow! This look delicious!" Soujiro's mouth was drooling already at the sight of food.
"Well here you go." Anji put down the large plate of sushi for Soujiro. Within matters of seconds Soujiro stuffed his face with sushi. "I'll get you a big bowl of Miso soup to go along with it." Anji said as he reached for a bowl in the cardboard above him.
As Soujiro was eating the phone rang. Anji stopped reaching for a bowl and picked it up. "Hello?" Soujiro looked and ate at the same time. "Just a minute," Anji said to the person on the phone and said to Soujiro, "This is for you. Someone name Himura Kenshin." Then he gave Soujiro the phone. Soujiro wipe his mouth with a napkin and answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hello? Soujiro? This is Kenshin—AND SANOSUKE!" Soujiro could hear Sanosuke shouting in the background.
"Oh hello Mr. Himura and Sanosuke. Are you in need of something?"
"Well, we don't actually need anything. We want to ask you something. Miss Kaoru, Miss Megumi, Sanosuke, and I are going to movies tomorrow and we want to know if you want to come. Sano insisted that you come—YEAH, I INSISTED! —I'm sure you'll have a great time so what do you say?"
"The movies? Well what time does it start because I have training at 3:00 pm tomorrow?"
"Oh don't worry. We meet each other at my house at 11:00 am and the movie is about an hour and a half and we'll go to the park after for only an hour so when you get back is almost…either 1:30 to 2:00 pm—YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT!"
"Ok then, sure. I'll love to come."
"Do you need my address—YEAH? DO YOU NEED THE ADDRESS? —Sano, stop shouting please."
"No thank you, I can look you up on the student directory."
"Ok then, we'll see you tomorrow."
"Ok bye." And then Soujiro hang up the phone. He looked down and saw that Anji had given his bowl of miso soup already.
"Is that you new friend, Soujiro?" Anji asked while stirring another pot of something cooking.
Soujiro looked up from his half empty plate. "Oh yes, Mr. Himura, he goes to my school. He invited me to the movies tomorrow."
"That's nice."
Soujiro quickly finished after that and got into his bedclothes, one of those Japanese wear that people long ago wore to sleep. Given that Yumi liked the olden clothes back then, she persevered that almost everyone wears Japanese clothing. That's why when Soujiro train, he always wear a hakama and a gi.
After Soujiro changed, he went to Kamatari and gave the directions to Kenshin's house. Kamatari agreed to take him there so everything was a-okay. The Soujiro went to the place where he had been longing, his bed.
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Meiji: Nope, no cliffhangers or romance today but you'll like the next chapter, I'll promise you that.
Thank you reviewers/readers!
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