WHO DOES HIDEKI WANT?
Chapter 3
THE JOURNEY TO THE TRAIN STATION
When Chi finally stopped crying, she looked around with red, puffy eyes.
"Where is Plum? Chi wants Plum!" said Chi, sounding depressed and defeated.
"Here I am!" said Plum, rushing over and putting a reassuring hand on Chi's shoulders.
"Chi doesn't want Hideki to marry Yumi! Yumi doesn't like Chi! And Chi hates Yumi!!" said Chi furiously.
"I think you should go right now Mr. Kokubunji." said Plum. "Chi needs to be alone right now."
"Fine, but I'm coming back in one hour. Then we'll get on the train to Yomako (also the name of the city where the hot springs is located.)" said Minoru.
"Fine." said Plum.
Minoru left the house in a hurry, and Plum said to Chi,
"Come on. You need to rest a little before going to Yomako."
"Chi does not want to rest. Chi wants to die."
"Don't say that. Just rest now and we'll talk things over on the train."
"Okay." said Chi, caving in.
"Good. I'll wake you in an hour."
To Chi, the hour passed very quickly. To Plum, however, the hour couldn't have moved slower. At first she logged onto the website of Yomako Hot Springs, but she didn't see anywhere: Hideki Motosuwa, Motosuwa, Yumi Omura, Omura, or anything that might've been Hideki or Yumi. Finding this strange, Plum e-mailed this to Minoru, asking him to try and find anything that might be Hideki or Yumi.
Next, Plum called her old master (Shimbo) to tell him what was going on.
"Hello?" asked Shimbo when he picked up the phone.
"HI FORMER MASTER!!!" screeched Plum into the phone.
"Hey Plum, what's up?" said Shimbo excitedly.
"Well, you know about what's happening with Hideki and Yumi..."
"What's happening between them?" interrupted Shimbo.
"You mean that they never called you to tell you that they're getting married?" asked Plum.
"Not that I know of." said Shimbo looking downcast.
"That's strange. But don't worry!! I'm sure that they were gonna tell you soon."
"I guess you're right. Well anyway, what did you want to tell me?"
Not wanting to hurt her former master's feelings anymore than she already had, Plum said, "I wanted to tell you that I missed you and that if you ever want some cookies, go to the bakery!!!!"
Shimbo looked really confused.
"Um......... okay. Thanks Plum....."
"Any time!!!"
After that, Plum hung up, more even more confused than before. Why wouldn't Hideki call Shimbo to tell him the news? Shimbo was his best friend. Plum decided not to worry about it too much, and she trusted that Hideki would get to Shimbo and tell him the news. Meanwhile, Plum really needed to get things pack for her and Chi, though right after she started to pack things, she realized that they were persocoms, and therefore didn't really need anything to take with them.
The hour passed, and Minoru came knocking on the door just like he said he would.
"Come in!" said Plum, while still running around the room, trying to get things in order so they could leave without worrying about anything.
"Hey there Plum, ready to leave?" asked Minoru as he stepped through the threshold into the Motosuwa residence. "Plum, what are you doing?"
"WellsincemasterhasinvitedustogoandseehisweddingPlumneedstogoandgeteverythinginordersothatnothingisstollenorlostwhileeveryoneisaway!" said Plum very fast, because since she was multitasking so much at the moment, she was beginning to over-heat, and her systems were starting to malfunction. Upon seeing that her systems were starting to crash due to over-heat, Minoru dashed across the room and picked up the little laptop. Plum didn't realize that he had picked her up, and she was still kicking her legs around in midair as if she was still able to run to places.
"PLUM!" yelled Minoru, getting the persocoms attention, "You need to shut yourself down. Maybe we won't leave so soon. You need to cool off for a little before you are able to re-start okay?"
"OKEY DOKEY!" yelled Plum, who still wasn't fully in control of her systems.
As Plum shut herself off, Minoru looked around the room. When he saw what was happening with it, he couldn't help but start to laugh. Due to Plums malfunctioning, instead of fixing things up, she had just picked random items up off the ground, and had belted them right into the wall. Hideki's phone was totally busted, lying on the ground in a big heap of mechanical parts. One of the legs off Hideki's chairs had been ripped off, sharpened, and had been thrown into the wall like a javelin, where it still was, sticking out like an over-sized splinter. Also, Hideki's porn magazines were lying scattered all around the floor, and his DVDs had been chucked everywhere, and some of them had cracked apart. In the corner, Chi was still on standby mode, and she was snoring gently. Minoru stopped laughing, shook his head, and got to work really straightening up the place.
Minoru worked hard for about 45 minutes, stopping every now and then to check Plum's ever dropping temperature. After he finished working on the room, the phone had been thrown out, and Minoru planned on getting Hideki a better one for a wedding gift so that Hideki wouldn't really notice that his old phone was gone. Concerning the javelin sticking out of his wall, he pretty much just put all of Hideki's coats on them. Minoru had also picked up all of Hideki's porno mags, and had put them under Hideki's bed (after skimming through a few of them). Minoru also took the broken DVDs, and had thrown them out. The non-broken ones he had put into a stack and had shoved them into his closet. Pretty much, the room looked about normal, maybe a little cleaner than usual, but Hideki wouldn't really know the difference.
Before waking up Chi and Plum, Minoru pillaged Hideki's fridge, and he ended up eating the last of the Nato, and drinking all of Hideki's remaining sodas. After that, Minoru went to Plum, and started to poke around, trying to find her power button. He finally found it by pressing her belly button. With a slight "click", the belly button went in and out again. Then Minoru could hear sounds of a modem starting up. Finally, Plum opened her eyes.
"Feeling better now Plum?" asked Minoru, while plugging Plum into the T.V. so he could get a read on her temperature.
"Yes, much better thank you!" said Plum with a smile.
"Good, now all I need to do is wake up Chi, and we'll be on our way!" said Minoru, unplugging Plum and walking over to where Chi still slumbered. "Chi! Time to wake up now! We need to leave so that we don't miss our train to Yomako."
"Wait a second Mr. Kokubunji!" said Plum jumping up.
"What is it Plum?" asked Minoru, a little worried.
"I looked at the tickets you purchased earlier, and according to my memory of it, our train left 40 minutes ago!"
"Well Plum, while you were shut down, I went and switched trains to one that will be leaving in about 20 minutes. So we need to hurry if we're going to catch the train!"
With that, Minoru, Chi, and Plum went out the door (Plum locked it after she came out), and they went as fast as they could to the train station.
"Hello there!" said a cute looking persocom that stood behind a ticket booth, "How may I help you today?"
"Hey!" said Minoru, "We need to get to track 7. Can you tell us which direction that is?"
"Yes. You want to walk down this hall, then take a right, fourteen lefts, and then another right. You should be there in about 10 minutes. Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No thank you." said Minoru as he, Chi, and Plum started to walk away.
"Have a nice day!" said the persocom.
The persocom was right, they got there in about 10 minutes, giving them only 5 minutes before the train was to leave.
"Are you guys ready to go? Do you have everything you need?" asked Minoru.
"Yessir!!" said Plum, who was very excited about her first train ride.
"What about you Chi?"
"What? Oh, Chi has everything," said Chi, who then said in an undertone so that Minoru wouldn't hear, "everything but Hideki."
TBC
So ends chapter 3. Sorry it took so long, I just stopped writing for a little bit, and then I went to camp over the summer. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter, and I'll try to get the next one out ASAP. And thanks to everyone who reviewed, it's nice to know that the story is liked.