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*1953*
He had been standing in the end of the corridor, next to her room, for about thirty minutes, when, finally, his eyes caught her figure.
She was walking slowly along the corridor, thinking of what her best friend had just said, when she felt that somebody was touching her shoulder. She turned back quickly, and saw her boyfriend behind her.
"Nice morning, Eddie?" asked him to her.
"Well, quite nice, Taro," answered her, as she gave him a quick kiss on his right cheek.
He replied her by kissing her left cheek.
She smiled as shyness appeared on her lovely face.
"You want to know why I'll always want to kiss your left cheek before your right one, don't you?" asked him, as he placed his hands around her waist and prepared himself to lift her.
"Y...yes," answered her, as she felt like she's a princess.
He smiled and lifted her. "That's because," he said, " I think your left cheek is closer to your heart than the right one."
She blushed more and more as he lifted her higher and higher, then pulled her down suddenly and kissed her lips quickly.
She screamed softly, surprised , as he put her feet back on the floor and released her.
"Ta...Taro!" screamed her. She looked around, and felt relieved when she realized that there was nobody but him and her.
"Don't worry about them," he said, as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her lips deeply.
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*1928*
Their rest two days passed quickly, and, finally, it was January eighth.
Maria, Kanna, Iris, Reni, Sakura, Oogami, and of course Sumire were ready to go on their 'picnic', when they heard someone's quick steps through the corridor. "What's up, Orihime?" asked Sumire worriedly.
"Kou...Kouran...Kouran...Kouran..."
"What happened with Kouran?" asked Maria, seemed to be so surprised.
"Kouran...Kouran is sick! Oh, everybody, I'm worrying if SARS (~whoops!~) had attacked her!" answered the frightened Orihime.
"Let me see," said Yoneda, who'd just entered the theatre's Main Hall with Kaede behind him.
Everybody, including Yoneda, Kaede, Oogami, Sakura, Sumire, Maria, Reni, Iris, and Orihime, headed straightly for Kouran's bedroom, rushed and panic, while thinking about Kouran's health.
They saw Kouran inside her bedroom, lying on her bed, breathing with loud scary sounds, and sometimes coughing badly.
Kaede walked closer to Kouran's bed and kneeled down beside the bed, as she touched Kouran's forehead with her right palm. "She's got a fever," said her to everybody.
"Then we must cancel our plan," Sumire decided. "However, Kouran's health is much more important than just a birthday picnic," she continued seriously.
"Do...don't worry about me...," muttered the suffering Kouran, "you can leave me...I've just got an ordinary flu. There's nothing to worry about."
"But...," interrupted Sumire, seemed not pleased with Kouran's words.
"You'll go," said Kouran, weakly but firmly.
Everybody remained silent for a while. "Well," Sumire said hopelessly, "that's your own will. Let's go."
"I'll stay to take care of Kouran," Orihime decided quickly.
This time, Kouran seemed asleep, so, she didn't say a protest or something similar with that. "Then Orihime stays with Kouran and the others go," said Yoneda, as he turned back and let the others, except Orihime and the sick Kouran, followed him and said goodbye to Kouran and Orihime.
Kaede was the last to leave the room. Before she closed the door, she smiled slightly to the smiling Orihime and the half-laughing Kouran, who was hiding herself under her blanket so nobody could heard her laughter.
Both of the girls, the Chinese and the half-Italian, shared a small handshake, shortly after they heard the sound of the minibus, going on the picnic, and the car, took Yoneda and Kaede to the meeting, leaving the Imperial Great Theatre.
Kouran took two small things looked like portable handsfrees (~whoops!~), wore one of them, and gave the other to Orihime. "This is our equipments," she said to Orihime, " I gave each of the rest of the Love Saviours one."
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"So this is the place, Sumire?" asked Maria, as she observed each angle of that area carefully.
"Yeah," answered Sumire. Pleasant thoughts started to fill her relieved mind. "We're so lucky that nobody knows that we're acting all the times," she continued, as the others, one by one, got out of the bus and looked around with amazed glances.
"So, all of you are here, ladies and gentleman," said a familiar voice.
Everybody turned around and saw Kayama, wearing an old dirty black pair of pants and sweater, with black sunglasses on his face. "Battle is ready," continued Kayama.
"All of us are ready for battle," Oogami replied slowly.
"So, let's start the battle!" said Kayama, full of spirit.
Sumire and Iris got back into the minibus quickly, while Kayama and Oogami messed a part of the deserted grassland up. The rest of Hanagumi spread a mixture of honey and tincture of iodine, the special trick they had learned from the Benitokage make up artists, on the messed up areas. According to what their 'teachers' had said before, it will successfully recognized as blood.
When Sumire and Iris went out together from the minibus, wearing something like rags ( or rather brand new costumes ), the grassland had turned into a slaughterground. "Here you two!" called Sakura quickly, as she prepared the make up kit for our supporting actresses for this time, Sumire and Iris.
Less than five minutes later, everything, including the actors and actresses, the properties, and the stage for the play were ready. Our directress, Maria Tachibana, who was taking the role as the supporting actress too, examined all the prepared things, and nodded with a great pleasure.
"Remember, this is a play. No mistakes will be allowed," said Maria to all the actresses and the actors. "Especially our main actress and main actor, Ms. Shinguji and Mr. Oogami," added her as she gazed at Sakura and Oogami.
Everybody nodded. "So," Maria explained, " the previous scene is 'the robbers' attack'. So, the next one will be 'after the attack'. Sumire and Iris will go to the nearest village, to ask for some help, and say that they've just being robbed."
Sumire and Iris nodded.
"Taichou , Sakura, Kanna, Reni, Kayama and I will go with the minibus," continued Maria, "all clear?"
Everybody, including Maria herself, nodded. "Then," said Maria, as her spirit began to raise, "let's begin the play!".
Our main actor and actress, our directress, our supporting actor, and two of the supporting actresses got into the minibus and left the grassland immediately.
As soon as the minibus vanished from their eyesights, Sumire and Iris gazed at each other, smiled, then ran to the nearest village, as they spread a little 'blood' on their way.
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"Excuse me, but is Yoneda-shihainin from Teigeki here?"
"Yes, I am," answered Yoneda.
"Bad news, Yoneda-shihainin. One of your girls, Iris Chateaubriand, and Kanzaki family's daughter, Kanzaki Sumire, were found at a mountain village, injured and seem to be robbed."
"W...WHAT?!!!"
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Sumire and Iris were sent immediately to the nearest clinic, where the doctors found some bruises on their legs and cuts on their hands. After a few examinations, the doctors said that both of them were all right, and they were allowed to leave the hospital.
Kaede picked both of them up, while Yoneda stayed in the theatre, waiting for some informations from the others. Kouran and Orihime, whom the shocked Sumire first contacted, told him about what was happening.
"And...and...and Sumire said, the rest of them were kidnapped by the robbers," said Orihime. Kouran, whose flu seemed to get better, nodded. "They also took the minibus and Sumire's and Iris' jewelry and other belongings, except their clothing and Jean-Paul," added Kouran.
Yoneda shook his head and took a deep breath. "What a mess...," he muttered.
To be continued...
Author's notes :
I'm rather doubt if this chapter is good enough...but, I hope you'll really enjoy and review this chapter, so I'll know that you still want me to continue this fanfiction...