NB: Well here's another chapter. *opens the door to her notes* Huh? *looks
up before being crushed by a mountain of presents.* Ow! Who left all these
present here and where on earth are they from?!
Kirara: *walks in* Happy Birthday aibou. Oh. I see you found your gifts.
NB: O.O Nani?! All of this is for me.
Kirara: Hai from all of your favorite animes and more.*picks up one* This one is from Yoh and Friends in the Shaman King sections. *picks up another* This one from the Saiyuki gang. *picks up one more* This one is from Ray.
NB: *grabs the gift* Give me that one! ^^ I'll open this one first.
**Rest of the muses walk in** All: Happy Birthday Hoshi!
NB: Oh hi guys. I guess I'll open present later. I still need to post the chapter. Um well first off we have three new muses joining us. The first one is Joy. She'll be the one paired up with Max. (Sorry Kelly.) You'll formally meet her in the next chapter. Bonnie is the next one. She'll be coming and going however (too busy with her boyfriend *snickers* um you didn't hear me say that ^_~). You'll find out about her in this chapter and the last one. Well you'll meet him later.
Kaira: HOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's Legolas?! I know you have him.
NB: Legolas? As in the elfin prince from LotR? No I idea.
Kaira: I know you have him hidden somewhere. Now where is he?!
NB: I have no idea. *mutter* I won't mention that he's in MY closet currently tied up at the moment.
Everyone else: *sweatdrop*
NB: Err. Anyway a special thanks to my friend Joy for helping me with this chapter. If it wasn't for her constant asking and endless ideas, this chapter wouldn't be here today. She helped write a few parts of it. Bonnie's dress description belongs to her actually.
Joy: That's cause you made me describe it.
NB: True.
Ray: Well it was to help you write stories better.
Joy: Yeah. But I don't like writing anyways.
Yusuke: If you want to check out her story. Joy's penname is Reikon33.
Hiei: Who would want to read a story like that.
Kurama: It has you in it.
Hiei: Never mind then. *Yusuke and Kurama both sweatdrop*
Bonnie: Why was I dragged into the story? Why not someone else?
Kai: You were drafted. It's been posted. You're stuck here. No matter what you say.
NB: Beside I'll throw in few more people. Just be happy you're a long-term person yet.
Bonnie: Long-term?
Ray: In other words you won't show up in every chapter unless the readers decide they want you to.
Hidemi: Trust me you don't want that to happen. At least you have a choice in the matter.
NB: Okay enough talk. Who wants to do the disclaimers?
Bonnie: Huh?
Ray/Kai/Kaira/Yusuke/Kurama/Hiei/Kirara/Hidemi: Not me.
NB: Then it's Joy then.
Joy: Wha?! I don't wanna.
NB: Too bad.
Joy: Fine. Nagareboshi doesn't own Beyblade, Yu Yu Hakusho, or LotR. Kaira, Hidemi, Bonnie, and myself are real people in real life, thus Nagareboshi also doesn't own us and any of our creation. She does own herself aka Hoshi, her yami, Kirara, and her bit beast, Nekangel. Enjoy the chapter.
Of a Deep Blue
Valentine's Day was over as soon as it came. Despite what happened to a few select few (cough*Hidemi*cough*Tyson*cough) everyone had a good time. Tyson had accused Hoshi of setting up the whole stick-Tyson-and-Hidemi-in-a-room idea as Kai blamed his sister and teammates for not telling him about Kaira's little quirk of going caffeine high. The rest of the Bladebreakers wonder if they should also tell him about her little quirk about sugar high but each time they tried, Kai cut them off. Oh well one day Kai will suffer from that because he didn't listen to his friends. Hidemi started to hang out with the Bladebreakers, claiming wanting to be friends (though we know the *real* reason she was with them cough*Tyson*cough) as she was introduce to the world of blading. She found it a little hard to believe such a worldwide sport existed and she never knew about it. At the current moment it's evening on March 3, girls' day.
~*~
Kaira fiddle with her hair again and again. Up. Down. Up Down. Up Down. She just couldn't decide how to do her hair. It went up into a ponytail and back down. Back up to a braid, then to pigtails, before back down again. She finally decided to put it up in a half up half down ponytail.
Tonight the boys were doing something a little out of tradition and taking the girls out to dinner for girl's day. Max and Kenny got off lucky. It was something Stardust, Kaira couldn't remember the name of the restaurant but that wasn't of important. Right now she was trying to get ready for tonight. The girls had spend the whole day shopping for clothes, while munching on some mochi.
Fiddling still with a strand of her hair, Kaira looked at herself in the mirror one last time. She wasn't sure of what she choose to wear was a good choice. Hoshi and Hidemi spend a good ¾ of the trip of the mall and a ½ on the way back home telling her it was fine. Her entire outfit was made of silk. A crimson red Chinese top made of soft silky material in a style similar to what Ray wears with braided red knots going down the side of her outfit; fitted her figure nicely. Gold embroidery of a phoenix on the front of the blouse, the long feathery tail drifting to the back of the blouse. The blouse itself reflected the proud colors that belonged to Dranzer herself. Black silk pants and an even darker red sash finished the Chinese style outfit. Kaira was about to leave when she noticed something was missing. Looking around her room, she found it. It was the locket Kai had given her for Christmas. Ever since that day she hasn't stop wearing it. She stopped for a moment to looked at the pictures inside. One of Kai and one of her. Kaira smiled at that. Grabbing her jacket she made her way out the house. Kai promised her that he would picked her up...
~*~
Across town another girl was facing the same problem. She wore a long, sleeveless, midnight blue dress with two white flowers on the front. Around her neck was her family heirloom, which her parents gave to her for her past birthday. It was her mother's mother's mother's necklace. In other words her great-grandmother's one. On a silver chain it was a heart shaped sapphire in a box of crystals surrounding it. Hidemi loved it but at the moment she has other things to worry about it.
Hidemi was mimicking what Kaira was doing just a few minutes ago. Trying to fix her hair. After many minutes of fiddling and twirling, Hidemi settled for her hair down. Hidemi looked in the mirror again then repeated the process once more. Up. Down. Up. Back to down. Finally Hidemi forced herself to put down the hairbrush. 'No more. I'm not changing my hairstyle again. I decided it's going to stay down for the night. No more fiddling.' Then an image of a certain dragon popped in her head. The hairbrush went back up again.
~*~
Hoshi sat on her bed, trying not to wrinkle her outfit before dinner. She had been the restaurant before and had been out on many fancy dinners before as well. Kai dragged her those more then once. A growl escaped from her lips at the mere memory of those dinners. There were countless gentlemen, so to which some were over twice her age, that hit on her and it pissed her off like no end. She hated all the formality. Today however, she won't complain. Ray and the rest of the boys were treating her and the other girls for girl's day. "You almost done," came her brother's voice through the door after he knocked.
"I have been for the past half hour," said Hoshi dryly. All those torturous dinner parties taught her to prepare herself early. "Ray's here," Kai answered. Hoshi shot up from her bed. Opening the door she found herself looked into the eyes of her brother. Observing what he was wearing she couldn't help but agree with the outfit. Simple, yes it was, yet still very elegant. Black silk shirt with a black jacket much like his school jacket and simple blue pants similar to one he normally wore just also made of silk. The one thing that stood out was the small silver fox stitched on the front pocket.
Hoshi wondered about the silver fox. 'Hey that wasn't there the last time Kai wore that jacket,' thought Hoshi. 'Hehe I wonder if anyone will noticed? Probably not. No one seen Kai in this outfit before. Stupid formal dinners.' A small smirk made it's way onto her face. "Nice touch, dear brother. I certainly don't recall that silver fox there before. Did you add it on?"
Kai sent a glare at his sister. "Never mind that Hoshi. Ray's waiting and I still have to pick up Kaira. You two go ahead and we'll meet you there."
Hoshi blinked at Kai's choice of words. It was we'll instead of Kaira and I and he just told her that he was picking up Kaira, where as before he didn't even mention it. Interesting.
~*~
Ray waited patiently for Hoshi to arrive. Jeeves had let him into the waiting room as Ray was informed that Kai was getting Hoshi. He knew that he was supposed to take Hoshi to the restaurant but Ray wondered how Kai was getting there. He had a suspicion that Kai was planning to pick up Kaira.
His cat-like hearing, drew Ray out of his thoughts as he hear the soft, familiar footsteps coming. He looked up to see Hoshi walked into the room. Ray had to blink twice to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Ray was wearing a rather simple, yet formal Chinese white long sleeved shirt with a white tiger on it and black pants with a blue slash around his waist. Hoshi compliment his outfit with a black skirt with silk black blouse. Elaborate silver thin designs, twisted and turn on the black Chinese style blouse just enough to give the blouse a unique design without over powering the black blouse. Her hair was tied back in braid with a following blue ribbon. *Hey, wait a minute,* thought Ray, *Wasn't that the same ribbon that I took from Hoshi when she was leaving for two months. It disappeared around Christmas time and I was wondering were it had disappeared to. It would seem Hoshi has found her ribbon.*
"Hi Ray," she said happily.
"Wow. You look stunning," said Ray. He liked the outfit she chose.
Hoshi just smiled before simply saying. "You know better then that. Flattery will get you nowhere."
A grin came into play as Ray pulled her closer. "And you know I never flatter you." He placed a kiss on her lips. Sadly the moment was broke by a 'ahem'. Hoshi and Ray broke apart to see Kai standing there; arms crossed with a stern look on his face.
"Um hi Kai. We'll um be going. You should to. Don't wanna keep Kaira waiting now," said Hoshi in a sheepish voice. She grabbed Ray and pulled him out the door, leaving her brother behind. Thus sparing her boyfriend a very long talk with her brother. As they got into the car, Jeeves was taking them, and Ian (the chauffer) was taking Kai to picked Kaira.
"Thanks Hoshi," said Ray giving her a kiss on the forehead.
~*~Sooner or Later~*~
Everyone sooner or later managed to arrive at the restaurant. Well actually at the current moment, the Bladebreakers and Kaira, were waiting for Tyson and Hidemi to show up. The two hadn't show up yet and they were sure that their seats were given away for being so late.
"SEE WE'RE LATE!"
"A GIRL HAS EVERY EXCUSE TO SHOW UP FASHIONABLY LATE!!!!"
"FASHIONABLY LATE?!!! HA!! HOSHI GETS DRESSED FASTER THE YOU AND SHE STILL MANAGES TO LOOK REALLY PRETTY!!"
Hoshi twitched slight. "That's nice to know and everything, but does he have to drag me into this," she asked no one in particular.
"SHE PROBABLY HAS PRACTICE WILL THESE KIND OF DINNERS!!! SHE PROBABLY KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS!!"
"HA!! SEE YOU JUST ADMITTED THAT YOU WERE WRONG AND THAT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"
Anger marks could be seen on Hoshi and Kai's face as Ray ran his hand through his bangs, letting out a sigh in the process. The others, (Max, Kenny, and Kaira) all sweatdropped, though Kaira too was getting a little ticked off. Around the corner appeared the holder of Dragoon and his soon to be girlfriend.
"MY FAULT?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOWED UP LATE WHEN PICKING ME UP!!! YOU WERE HALF AN HOUR LATE!!!"
"WHAT DOES IT MATTER?!?!?! YOU STILL TOOK THAT HALF AND HOUR PLUS ANOTHER 15 MINUTES TO GET READY ANYWAYS!!"
"YOU ARE SO RUDE!"
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE ME WAIT!!"
Kai was fed up with this. Of all the nights they could have argued it had to be this night, at one of the finest restaurants in town. "Hoshi can I borrow you mallet," he asked. Hoshi looked at her brother slightly confused before the idea dawned on her. Her mouth formed an O shape as she realized why. "Do you want me to take of it, Kai," she asked. Kai shook his head. "Just get Hidemi and head for the restaurant. I'll take of Tyson. He'll be a little late..."
Hoshi summoned her mallet and handed it to her brother, which Kai took and headed towards Tyson. Grabbing the Dragon he turned back around the corner from which he and Hidemi came from. Soon after sounds of crash and yelling could be hear. Hidemi who was slightly confused to what just happened was suddenly grabbed by the wrist and pulled by Hoshi who then grabbed Ray and started to drag the both of them. Kaira, Kenny, and Max soon followed behind.
~*~
They arrived at the restaurant front doors as soon as Kai and a slightly dizzy Tyson caught up with them. Ray reached for the door handle, planning to hold open the door for everyone else, when he became aware that there was another hand on the door handle. Ray looked up to see the owner of the hand, only to come face to face with the Enrique. Ray nearly jumped in surprised. *Why on earth is Enrique here,* thought Ray, slightly shocked from seeing one of the member of the Majestics here in Japan of all places. Right behind Enrique was a girl about his age. She had baby blue hair that reached her shoulders. Her eyes were the same baby blue color, a much soft tone of eye color then Enrique's sapphire ones. She wore a beautiful black fitted evening gown that reached the floor with its magnificent length. It had tiny silver beads sewed in forming intricate designs that flowed through out her dress.
"Enrique," said Kenny surprised. "Why are you here?"
Enrique let go of the door handle and grin. "Well if it isn't the Bladebreakers. Well to answer your question I'm here to celebrate a birthday."
"Oooo really? I love birthdays," said Max.
Kaira was about to ask whose birthday it was before Tyson blurted out, "Enrique who's your new girlfriend?"
The girl behind Enrique twitched a bit. Enrique only smiled and being the nice guy he was didn't he didn't hit Tyson. Of course that didn't stop Hidemi from doing so. "Ow!" Tyson glared at her and Hidemi glared back.
"Ahem," said Enrique. He motioned the girl to step forward. "This is my baby cousin, Bonnie. She came down to visit me. Today is her birthday and she chose here to eat. Now why are you here."
"Oooo really? A party," said Max excitedly. Kai gave Max a small whack on the head for asking so many question. Enrique sent him a look of thanks, which Kai replied with his usual, hn.
"We're treating the girls to dinner," said Ray, "For girl's day."
Then Enrique stopped, seeing Hidemi with the Bladebreakers. Leaning over to Ray he asked, "So whose the girl beside Kaira." Tyson heard that and unconsciously glared at Enrique for a brief moment. Hoshi intervene there. Grabbing Enrique she quickly said, "Hold on for a moment." Then she continued to drag Enrique by the ear, around the corner.
Bonnie, looked at the Bladebreakers, Kaira, and Hidemi who in returned shrugged. Why Hoshi was doing that was not clear to any of them.
"Hello I'm Bonnie," said Bonnie. True her cousin just introduced her but she preferred in to introduce herself. So these were the famous Bladebreakers her cousin told her about. She never expected to meet them on her birthday. Then again this was the country they lived in. Bonnie was confused why the girl with the golden color hair grabbed her cousin and dragged him around the corner.
"Hi Bonnie. I'm Max," said Max, introducing him.
"I'm Tyson. Nice to meet ya," said Tyson, grinning.
"I'm Ray."
"Kaira."
"Hidemi."
"Hello. I'm Kenny."
Silence. Six pair of eyes landed on one team captain, waiting for him to introduce him. 5 Kai ignored. The sixth... well least just say he couldn't keep silence. "Kai," he grunted.
"Nice to meet you, Max, Tyson, Kaira, Hidemi, Kenny, and Kai. Um who was that girl that dragged my cousin around the corner," asked Bonnie.
"That's Hoshi," said Ray, "She's my girlfriend and Kai's twin sister. I realize that they look nothing alike but um that's a very long story to explain."
"O-okay." Yup Bonnie was beyond confused now.
~*~
"Enrique, I'm only going to say this one. Don't even think about making any moves on Hidemi, the girl standing next to Kaira, and Kaira. They're taken, well almost. Do anything I'll inform Kai and Tyson. More so Kai if you so much look at Kaira the wrong way, and Tyson if you touch Hidemi. And if you do, do anything, then after they're finish with you, I'll promise a world of pain. Or in other words, LEO," threaten Hoshi.
Enrique let out a nervous laugh. "Okay Hoshi," he said. He suddenly remembered why he never made any moves on Hoshi. Ray and Kai were dangerous as is but Hoshi turned out to be twice as deadly as both of them combine upon getting mad. Enrique didn't want to meet Mr. Mallet again much less take a trip on LEO (AKA Low Earth Orbit).
~*~
Soon a happy Hoshi and a slightly terrified Enrique came back around the corner. It wasn't long before they joined back into the conversation. Then suddenly someone tapped on Kai's shoulder. He looked to see the manager of the restaurant. "Excuse me sir, but are you eating here tonight? If not if you could, please have you and your friends move away from the door. No one can get in." Kai looked. Okay so his teammates/friends were blocking the doorway. No big deal right? Sadly it was. "Let's go inside," he said.
He walked inside and didn't like what he saw next. The restaurant from some reason or another, it was packed tonight. Kai could spy one table with nine seats. There were seven of them, (Bladebreakers plus Kaira and Hidemi) but nine if you count Enrique and Bonnie. "I get the feeling that this is more then just a coincidence," mumbled Hidemi as she realized the seating arrangements.
"Sirs, madams, these are the only seats for the night. Will you be taking them," the manager asked.
Everyone looked at each other before Enrique, "Sure why not? We all know each other after all."
~*~
Dinner when more or less quite smoothly. Tyson had more then enough servings, making the girls quite thankful that they weren't paying for this dinner. Though the restaurant was quiet former, the dinner was more causal then usual. (due to the lack of the authoress creative mind) It ranged anywhere from; shrimp and vegetable tempura, udon, butterfish, miso soup, shabu shabu (beef, mushroom [many different varieties] tofu, noodles, green onions, donburi (rice with egg and combination of some kind of meat and/or vegetable), fried egg, nori, green tea ice cream, sushi, to soy beans. There was also tea and rice served. Can't have a Japanese meal with tea and rice.
From the point of meeting outside the doors of the restaurant, during dinner, the exception of succinct silences while eating, and after dinner, they were talking about many thing. The Bladebreakers got to know Bonnie better and vice versa. Enrique learned what has happened during the past month and how Hidemi came to meet them. Tyson had over 7 dishes in front of him during dinner. He suffered for it later, when paying for his part of bill.
Later, they said their good bye. Enrique and Bonnie left, presumably back to Rome. Kai took Kaira home as Tyson did for Hidemi. Ray and Hoshi decided to walk home under the stars as Kenny and Max walked home together as both of their houses where in the same directions. Kenny house came first so he said goodbye to Max as Max continued onward towards home. Just as Max turned the corner, he ran into someone. Well it was more of someone ran into him, literally.
Both of them were sent flying and knocked down to ground. Max shook the stars from his head and found himself looking into a pair of ash color eyes. A girl about his age wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, navy blue shirt, and black high heel sandals/slippers sat across from him. Her hair was black but her bangs and the tips of her hair was a midnight blue like Tyson's. In fact the girl reminded Max a bit of Tyson. He passed as a twist of fate and offered to help the girl up. "Sorry about that," he said.
"That's okay," she said. She took his offer of his hand and pulled herself up. Upon standing she winced as a shock of pain ran from her ankle. "Ow," she said.
"Let me have a look at that," said Max. He felt guilty because he ran into the girl in the first place and now her ankle was hurting. "It's not too bad. Just slightly swollen. You should go home and put some ice on it. Sorry about running into you."
"It's nothing," she said.
"Do you need help getting home? If you're not too far from here I can carry you there. I feel kinda bad about running into you," offered Max.
The girl giggled a bit. "No that's okay. But thanks for asking. I'll make there just fine. It's just down this street." She started down the street, limping slightly. Before she disappeared completely into the crowd of people, she turned back and waved bye to Max. Max could only wave back.
*Who was that girl,* he thought. Then he decided to push it out of his mind and head home.
~*~
NB: I'm sure you can guess who the girl above is.
Yusuke: Gee it's so hard.
Kurama: Yusuke be nice.
*Ray and Kai glaring daggers.*
Bonnie: Can I leave now?
Hidemi: Yeah the chapters over.
Bonnie: K. Bye.
Everyone: Bye.
Kai: Where's Kaira?
Kirara: Trying to find Legolas.
Kai: ...
Ray: I won't ask.
Joy: I won't either.
NB: You know Kaira told me I could stop writing Of a Deep Blue.
Everyone: O.O Wha?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NB: Calm down. I'll still continue it.
Ray: But why?
NB: I'll explain that in the next chapter if I remember. Maybe in More then meets the eye. Right now I wanna open some of my gifts.
Kai: Hold on.
Hidemi: Cake
Hiei: and sweet snow
Kurama: first.
Yusuke: Then
Joy: You can
Ray: Open your presents.
NB *pouts* fine.
Kirara: Well that wraps up another chapter. So while we celebrate my hikari's birthday. Please review. Also Bonnie doesn't have a pairing. Do you want her to be paired up with someone? Anyone beside (Ray, Kai, Tyson and Max) is open. Please tell us.
NB: See ya next time. And Review please! ^_~
Kirara: *walks in* Happy Birthday aibou. Oh. I see you found your gifts.
NB: O.O Nani?! All of this is for me.
Kirara: Hai from all of your favorite animes and more.*picks up one* This one is from Yoh and Friends in the Shaman King sections. *picks up another* This one from the Saiyuki gang. *picks up one more* This one is from Ray.
NB: *grabs the gift* Give me that one! ^^ I'll open this one first.
**Rest of the muses walk in** All: Happy Birthday Hoshi!
NB: Oh hi guys. I guess I'll open present later. I still need to post the chapter. Um well first off we have three new muses joining us. The first one is Joy. She'll be the one paired up with Max. (Sorry Kelly.) You'll formally meet her in the next chapter. Bonnie is the next one. She'll be coming and going however (too busy with her boyfriend *snickers* um you didn't hear me say that ^_~). You'll find out about her in this chapter and the last one. Well you'll meet him later.
Kaira: HOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's Legolas?! I know you have him.
NB: Legolas? As in the elfin prince from LotR? No I idea.
Kaira: I know you have him hidden somewhere. Now where is he?!
NB: I have no idea. *mutter* I won't mention that he's in MY closet currently tied up at the moment.
Everyone else: *sweatdrop*
NB: Err. Anyway a special thanks to my friend Joy for helping me with this chapter. If it wasn't for her constant asking and endless ideas, this chapter wouldn't be here today. She helped write a few parts of it. Bonnie's dress description belongs to her actually.
Joy: That's cause you made me describe it.
NB: True.
Ray: Well it was to help you write stories better.
Joy: Yeah. But I don't like writing anyways.
Yusuke: If you want to check out her story. Joy's penname is Reikon33.
Hiei: Who would want to read a story like that.
Kurama: It has you in it.
Hiei: Never mind then. *Yusuke and Kurama both sweatdrop*
Bonnie: Why was I dragged into the story? Why not someone else?
Kai: You were drafted. It's been posted. You're stuck here. No matter what you say.
NB: Beside I'll throw in few more people. Just be happy you're a long-term person yet.
Bonnie: Long-term?
Ray: In other words you won't show up in every chapter unless the readers decide they want you to.
Hidemi: Trust me you don't want that to happen. At least you have a choice in the matter.
NB: Okay enough talk. Who wants to do the disclaimers?
Bonnie: Huh?
Ray/Kai/Kaira/Yusuke/Kurama/Hiei/Kirara/Hidemi: Not me.
NB: Then it's Joy then.
Joy: Wha?! I don't wanna.
NB: Too bad.
Joy: Fine. Nagareboshi doesn't own Beyblade, Yu Yu Hakusho, or LotR. Kaira, Hidemi, Bonnie, and myself are real people in real life, thus Nagareboshi also doesn't own us and any of our creation. She does own herself aka Hoshi, her yami, Kirara, and her bit beast, Nekangel. Enjoy the chapter.
Of a Deep Blue
Valentine's Day was over as soon as it came. Despite what happened to a few select few (cough*Hidemi*cough*Tyson*cough) everyone had a good time. Tyson had accused Hoshi of setting up the whole stick-Tyson-and-Hidemi-in-a-room idea as Kai blamed his sister and teammates for not telling him about Kaira's little quirk of going caffeine high. The rest of the Bladebreakers wonder if they should also tell him about her little quirk about sugar high but each time they tried, Kai cut them off. Oh well one day Kai will suffer from that because he didn't listen to his friends. Hidemi started to hang out with the Bladebreakers, claiming wanting to be friends (though we know the *real* reason she was with them cough*Tyson*cough) as she was introduce to the world of blading. She found it a little hard to believe such a worldwide sport existed and she never knew about it. At the current moment it's evening on March 3, girls' day.
~*~
Kaira fiddle with her hair again and again. Up. Down. Up Down. Up Down. She just couldn't decide how to do her hair. It went up into a ponytail and back down. Back up to a braid, then to pigtails, before back down again. She finally decided to put it up in a half up half down ponytail.
Tonight the boys were doing something a little out of tradition and taking the girls out to dinner for girl's day. Max and Kenny got off lucky. It was something Stardust, Kaira couldn't remember the name of the restaurant but that wasn't of important. Right now she was trying to get ready for tonight. The girls had spend the whole day shopping for clothes, while munching on some mochi.
Fiddling still with a strand of her hair, Kaira looked at herself in the mirror one last time. She wasn't sure of what she choose to wear was a good choice. Hoshi and Hidemi spend a good ¾ of the trip of the mall and a ½ on the way back home telling her it was fine. Her entire outfit was made of silk. A crimson red Chinese top made of soft silky material in a style similar to what Ray wears with braided red knots going down the side of her outfit; fitted her figure nicely. Gold embroidery of a phoenix on the front of the blouse, the long feathery tail drifting to the back of the blouse. The blouse itself reflected the proud colors that belonged to Dranzer herself. Black silk pants and an even darker red sash finished the Chinese style outfit. Kaira was about to leave when she noticed something was missing. Looking around her room, she found it. It was the locket Kai had given her for Christmas. Ever since that day she hasn't stop wearing it. She stopped for a moment to looked at the pictures inside. One of Kai and one of her. Kaira smiled at that. Grabbing her jacket she made her way out the house. Kai promised her that he would picked her up...
~*~
Across town another girl was facing the same problem. She wore a long, sleeveless, midnight blue dress with two white flowers on the front. Around her neck was her family heirloom, which her parents gave to her for her past birthday. It was her mother's mother's mother's necklace. In other words her great-grandmother's one. On a silver chain it was a heart shaped sapphire in a box of crystals surrounding it. Hidemi loved it but at the moment she has other things to worry about it.
Hidemi was mimicking what Kaira was doing just a few minutes ago. Trying to fix her hair. After many minutes of fiddling and twirling, Hidemi settled for her hair down. Hidemi looked in the mirror again then repeated the process once more. Up. Down. Up. Back to down. Finally Hidemi forced herself to put down the hairbrush. 'No more. I'm not changing my hairstyle again. I decided it's going to stay down for the night. No more fiddling.' Then an image of a certain dragon popped in her head. The hairbrush went back up again.
~*~
Hoshi sat on her bed, trying not to wrinkle her outfit before dinner. She had been the restaurant before and had been out on many fancy dinners before as well. Kai dragged her those more then once. A growl escaped from her lips at the mere memory of those dinners. There were countless gentlemen, so to which some were over twice her age, that hit on her and it pissed her off like no end. She hated all the formality. Today however, she won't complain. Ray and the rest of the boys were treating her and the other girls for girl's day. "You almost done," came her brother's voice through the door after he knocked.
"I have been for the past half hour," said Hoshi dryly. All those torturous dinner parties taught her to prepare herself early. "Ray's here," Kai answered. Hoshi shot up from her bed. Opening the door she found herself looked into the eyes of her brother. Observing what he was wearing she couldn't help but agree with the outfit. Simple, yes it was, yet still very elegant. Black silk shirt with a black jacket much like his school jacket and simple blue pants similar to one he normally wore just also made of silk. The one thing that stood out was the small silver fox stitched on the front pocket.
Hoshi wondered about the silver fox. 'Hey that wasn't there the last time Kai wore that jacket,' thought Hoshi. 'Hehe I wonder if anyone will noticed? Probably not. No one seen Kai in this outfit before. Stupid formal dinners.' A small smirk made it's way onto her face. "Nice touch, dear brother. I certainly don't recall that silver fox there before. Did you add it on?"
Kai sent a glare at his sister. "Never mind that Hoshi. Ray's waiting and I still have to pick up Kaira. You two go ahead and we'll meet you there."
Hoshi blinked at Kai's choice of words. It was we'll instead of Kaira and I and he just told her that he was picking up Kaira, where as before he didn't even mention it. Interesting.
~*~
Ray waited patiently for Hoshi to arrive. Jeeves had let him into the waiting room as Ray was informed that Kai was getting Hoshi. He knew that he was supposed to take Hoshi to the restaurant but Ray wondered how Kai was getting there. He had a suspicion that Kai was planning to pick up Kaira.
His cat-like hearing, drew Ray out of his thoughts as he hear the soft, familiar footsteps coming. He looked up to see Hoshi walked into the room. Ray had to blink twice to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Ray was wearing a rather simple, yet formal Chinese white long sleeved shirt with a white tiger on it and black pants with a blue slash around his waist. Hoshi compliment his outfit with a black skirt with silk black blouse. Elaborate silver thin designs, twisted and turn on the black Chinese style blouse just enough to give the blouse a unique design without over powering the black blouse. Her hair was tied back in braid with a following blue ribbon. *Hey, wait a minute,* thought Ray, *Wasn't that the same ribbon that I took from Hoshi when she was leaving for two months. It disappeared around Christmas time and I was wondering were it had disappeared to. It would seem Hoshi has found her ribbon.*
"Hi Ray," she said happily.
"Wow. You look stunning," said Ray. He liked the outfit she chose.
Hoshi just smiled before simply saying. "You know better then that. Flattery will get you nowhere."
A grin came into play as Ray pulled her closer. "And you know I never flatter you." He placed a kiss on her lips. Sadly the moment was broke by a 'ahem'. Hoshi and Ray broke apart to see Kai standing there; arms crossed with a stern look on his face.
"Um hi Kai. We'll um be going. You should to. Don't wanna keep Kaira waiting now," said Hoshi in a sheepish voice. She grabbed Ray and pulled him out the door, leaving her brother behind. Thus sparing her boyfriend a very long talk with her brother. As they got into the car, Jeeves was taking them, and Ian (the chauffer) was taking Kai to picked Kaira.
"Thanks Hoshi," said Ray giving her a kiss on the forehead.
~*~Sooner or Later~*~
Everyone sooner or later managed to arrive at the restaurant. Well actually at the current moment, the Bladebreakers and Kaira, were waiting for Tyson and Hidemi to show up. The two hadn't show up yet and they were sure that their seats were given away for being so late.
"SEE WE'RE LATE!"
"A GIRL HAS EVERY EXCUSE TO SHOW UP FASHIONABLY LATE!!!!"
"FASHIONABLY LATE?!!! HA!! HOSHI GETS DRESSED FASTER THE YOU AND SHE STILL MANAGES TO LOOK REALLY PRETTY!!"
Hoshi twitched slight. "That's nice to know and everything, but does he have to drag me into this," she asked no one in particular.
"SHE PROBABLY HAS PRACTICE WILL THESE KIND OF DINNERS!!! SHE PROBABLY KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS!!"
"HA!! SEE YOU JUST ADMITTED THAT YOU WERE WRONG AND THAT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"
Anger marks could be seen on Hoshi and Kai's face as Ray ran his hand through his bangs, letting out a sigh in the process. The others, (Max, Kenny, and Kaira) all sweatdropped, though Kaira too was getting a little ticked off. Around the corner appeared the holder of Dragoon and his soon to be girlfriend.
"MY FAULT?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOWED UP LATE WHEN PICKING ME UP!!! YOU WERE HALF AN HOUR LATE!!!"
"WHAT DOES IT MATTER?!?!?! YOU STILL TOOK THAT HALF AND HOUR PLUS ANOTHER 15 MINUTES TO GET READY ANYWAYS!!"
"YOU ARE SO RUDE!"
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE ME WAIT!!"
Kai was fed up with this. Of all the nights they could have argued it had to be this night, at one of the finest restaurants in town. "Hoshi can I borrow you mallet," he asked. Hoshi looked at her brother slightly confused before the idea dawned on her. Her mouth formed an O shape as she realized why. "Do you want me to take of it, Kai," she asked. Kai shook his head. "Just get Hidemi and head for the restaurant. I'll take of Tyson. He'll be a little late..."
Hoshi summoned her mallet and handed it to her brother, which Kai took and headed towards Tyson. Grabbing the Dragon he turned back around the corner from which he and Hidemi came from. Soon after sounds of crash and yelling could be hear. Hidemi who was slightly confused to what just happened was suddenly grabbed by the wrist and pulled by Hoshi who then grabbed Ray and started to drag the both of them. Kaira, Kenny, and Max soon followed behind.
~*~
They arrived at the restaurant front doors as soon as Kai and a slightly dizzy Tyson caught up with them. Ray reached for the door handle, planning to hold open the door for everyone else, when he became aware that there was another hand on the door handle. Ray looked up to see the owner of the hand, only to come face to face with the Enrique. Ray nearly jumped in surprised. *Why on earth is Enrique here,* thought Ray, slightly shocked from seeing one of the member of the Majestics here in Japan of all places. Right behind Enrique was a girl about his age. She had baby blue hair that reached her shoulders. Her eyes were the same baby blue color, a much soft tone of eye color then Enrique's sapphire ones. She wore a beautiful black fitted evening gown that reached the floor with its magnificent length. It had tiny silver beads sewed in forming intricate designs that flowed through out her dress.
"Enrique," said Kenny surprised. "Why are you here?"
Enrique let go of the door handle and grin. "Well if it isn't the Bladebreakers. Well to answer your question I'm here to celebrate a birthday."
"Oooo really? I love birthdays," said Max.
Kaira was about to ask whose birthday it was before Tyson blurted out, "Enrique who's your new girlfriend?"
The girl behind Enrique twitched a bit. Enrique only smiled and being the nice guy he was didn't he didn't hit Tyson. Of course that didn't stop Hidemi from doing so. "Ow!" Tyson glared at her and Hidemi glared back.
"Ahem," said Enrique. He motioned the girl to step forward. "This is my baby cousin, Bonnie. She came down to visit me. Today is her birthday and she chose here to eat. Now why are you here."
"Oooo really? A party," said Max excitedly. Kai gave Max a small whack on the head for asking so many question. Enrique sent him a look of thanks, which Kai replied with his usual, hn.
"We're treating the girls to dinner," said Ray, "For girl's day."
Then Enrique stopped, seeing Hidemi with the Bladebreakers. Leaning over to Ray he asked, "So whose the girl beside Kaira." Tyson heard that and unconsciously glared at Enrique for a brief moment. Hoshi intervene there. Grabbing Enrique she quickly said, "Hold on for a moment." Then she continued to drag Enrique by the ear, around the corner.
Bonnie, looked at the Bladebreakers, Kaira, and Hidemi who in returned shrugged. Why Hoshi was doing that was not clear to any of them.
"Hello I'm Bonnie," said Bonnie. True her cousin just introduced her but she preferred in to introduce herself. So these were the famous Bladebreakers her cousin told her about. She never expected to meet them on her birthday. Then again this was the country they lived in. Bonnie was confused why the girl with the golden color hair grabbed her cousin and dragged him around the corner.
"Hi Bonnie. I'm Max," said Max, introducing him.
"I'm Tyson. Nice to meet ya," said Tyson, grinning.
"I'm Ray."
"Kaira."
"Hidemi."
"Hello. I'm Kenny."
Silence. Six pair of eyes landed on one team captain, waiting for him to introduce him. 5 Kai ignored. The sixth... well least just say he couldn't keep silence. "Kai," he grunted.
"Nice to meet you, Max, Tyson, Kaira, Hidemi, Kenny, and Kai. Um who was that girl that dragged my cousin around the corner," asked Bonnie.
"That's Hoshi," said Ray, "She's my girlfriend and Kai's twin sister. I realize that they look nothing alike but um that's a very long story to explain."
"O-okay." Yup Bonnie was beyond confused now.
~*~
"Enrique, I'm only going to say this one. Don't even think about making any moves on Hidemi, the girl standing next to Kaira, and Kaira. They're taken, well almost. Do anything I'll inform Kai and Tyson. More so Kai if you so much look at Kaira the wrong way, and Tyson if you touch Hidemi. And if you do, do anything, then after they're finish with you, I'll promise a world of pain. Or in other words, LEO," threaten Hoshi.
Enrique let out a nervous laugh. "Okay Hoshi," he said. He suddenly remembered why he never made any moves on Hoshi. Ray and Kai were dangerous as is but Hoshi turned out to be twice as deadly as both of them combine upon getting mad. Enrique didn't want to meet Mr. Mallet again much less take a trip on LEO (AKA Low Earth Orbit).
~*~
Soon a happy Hoshi and a slightly terrified Enrique came back around the corner. It wasn't long before they joined back into the conversation. Then suddenly someone tapped on Kai's shoulder. He looked to see the manager of the restaurant. "Excuse me sir, but are you eating here tonight? If not if you could, please have you and your friends move away from the door. No one can get in." Kai looked. Okay so his teammates/friends were blocking the doorway. No big deal right? Sadly it was. "Let's go inside," he said.
He walked inside and didn't like what he saw next. The restaurant from some reason or another, it was packed tonight. Kai could spy one table with nine seats. There were seven of them, (Bladebreakers plus Kaira and Hidemi) but nine if you count Enrique and Bonnie. "I get the feeling that this is more then just a coincidence," mumbled Hidemi as she realized the seating arrangements.
"Sirs, madams, these are the only seats for the night. Will you be taking them," the manager asked.
Everyone looked at each other before Enrique, "Sure why not? We all know each other after all."
~*~
Dinner when more or less quite smoothly. Tyson had more then enough servings, making the girls quite thankful that they weren't paying for this dinner. Though the restaurant was quiet former, the dinner was more causal then usual. (due to the lack of the authoress creative mind) It ranged anywhere from; shrimp and vegetable tempura, udon, butterfish, miso soup, shabu shabu (beef, mushroom [many different varieties] tofu, noodles, green onions, donburi (rice with egg and combination of some kind of meat and/or vegetable), fried egg, nori, green tea ice cream, sushi, to soy beans. There was also tea and rice served. Can't have a Japanese meal with tea and rice.
From the point of meeting outside the doors of the restaurant, during dinner, the exception of succinct silences while eating, and after dinner, they were talking about many thing. The Bladebreakers got to know Bonnie better and vice versa. Enrique learned what has happened during the past month and how Hidemi came to meet them. Tyson had over 7 dishes in front of him during dinner. He suffered for it later, when paying for his part of bill.
Later, they said their good bye. Enrique and Bonnie left, presumably back to Rome. Kai took Kaira home as Tyson did for Hidemi. Ray and Hoshi decided to walk home under the stars as Kenny and Max walked home together as both of their houses where in the same directions. Kenny house came first so he said goodbye to Max as Max continued onward towards home. Just as Max turned the corner, he ran into someone. Well it was more of someone ran into him, literally.
Both of them were sent flying and knocked down to ground. Max shook the stars from his head and found himself looking into a pair of ash color eyes. A girl about his age wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, navy blue shirt, and black high heel sandals/slippers sat across from him. Her hair was black but her bangs and the tips of her hair was a midnight blue like Tyson's. In fact the girl reminded Max a bit of Tyson. He passed as a twist of fate and offered to help the girl up. "Sorry about that," he said.
"That's okay," she said. She took his offer of his hand and pulled herself up. Upon standing she winced as a shock of pain ran from her ankle. "Ow," she said.
"Let me have a look at that," said Max. He felt guilty because he ran into the girl in the first place and now her ankle was hurting. "It's not too bad. Just slightly swollen. You should go home and put some ice on it. Sorry about running into you."
"It's nothing," she said.
"Do you need help getting home? If you're not too far from here I can carry you there. I feel kinda bad about running into you," offered Max.
The girl giggled a bit. "No that's okay. But thanks for asking. I'll make there just fine. It's just down this street." She started down the street, limping slightly. Before she disappeared completely into the crowd of people, she turned back and waved bye to Max. Max could only wave back.
*Who was that girl,* he thought. Then he decided to push it out of his mind and head home.
~*~
NB: I'm sure you can guess who the girl above is.
Yusuke: Gee it's so hard.
Kurama: Yusuke be nice.
*Ray and Kai glaring daggers.*
Bonnie: Can I leave now?
Hidemi: Yeah the chapters over.
Bonnie: K. Bye.
Everyone: Bye.
Kai: Where's Kaira?
Kirara: Trying to find Legolas.
Kai: ...
Ray: I won't ask.
Joy: I won't either.
NB: You know Kaira told me I could stop writing Of a Deep Blue.
Everyone: O.O Wha?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NB: Calm down. I'll still continue it.
Ray: But why?
NB: I'll explain that in the next chapter if I remember. Maybe in More then meets the eye. Right now I wanna open some of my gifts.
Kai: Hold on.
Hidemi: Cake
Hiei: and sweet snow
Kurama: first.
Yusuke: Then
Joy: You can
Ray: Open your presents.
NB *pouts* fine.
Kirara: Well that wraps up another chapter. So while we celebrate my hikari's birthday. Please review. Also Bonnie doesn't have a pairing. Do you want her to be paired up with someone? Anyone beside (Ray, Kai, Tyson and Max) is open. Please tell us.
NB: See ya next time. And Review please! ^_~