Chapter 5
Forbidden Love by Yueh_moon
*Beep beep beep be-*
"Man, I hate that thing." I mumbled to know one at all. I slowly rolled over to face my door. I knew I had to get up.it was Monday. I yawned, and put my feet to the floor.
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As I turned to lock the door behind me, it hit.
"Oh crap." I said quickly looking at my watch. Today was February 14.
Before leaving for school, I cleared of a space off one of the kitchen counters.
"So Yama, today's the big day huh?" My dad said smiling as he stirred his coffee.
I rolled my eyes and grabbed my bag.
"My son, the ladies man." He sang before I closed the door.
Confused? Sorry, I'll explain. I am sure that you westerners are familiar with St. Valentines Day correct? Well, in Japan we follow the same customs of it.except the gift-exchanging thing is flip-flopped. The girls give the guys candy. All the boys count up all of their admirers, hoping to be 'top guy'. This is practiced once you reach the sixth grade and increases in competition every year. My new school is especially competitive, so I have heard. Although I have never wished to participate in this contest, I have been 'top guy' since sixth grade and my dad has never been prouder of me.
I wonder what would happen if he found out I was in love with a boy. I laughed at the picture of my father twitching on the floor out of my mind. I put my headphones on and started for Tai's.
I had barely walked a block before I felt like someone was watching me. I shrugged it off and continued on my way. Just then, someone grabbed me around my waist.
"What the-" I said, yanking my headphones off and spinning around.
"Hey Yama, where's the fire?" Tai said smiling, his arms still about my waist.
I blinked as the blood re-entered my brain. It was just Tai.
"Ya know your deaf with those on. I've been yelling at you to slow down for five minutes before I finally caught up. But it was worth it, you should have seen the look on your face."
"You startled me, okay?" I said, moving out of his grip and continued walking. He trotted after me.
"Hey, don't be upset Yama, I'm sorry."
I ignored him and kept walking. He carefully placed his hand on my shoulder, causing me to stop, and faced me.
"I'm sorry, I won't do it again." He whispered.
"It's okay." I whispered back. We continued on our way to school.
"Anyway, you looked upset before I even intervened, so what's up?"
"Did you by any chance look at the calendar?" I asked solemnly. Tai looked down at his watch (A/N this is Japan remember) and glanced at the date.
"Oh, I see." A pause. "You'll be all right Yama." He said, patting me on the back.
As we neared the school I could only reply with an 'I hope you're right.'
"Damn it!" I said though my teeth as I glanced at my schedule.
"What's wrong?" Tai asked.
"Tai-kun you know how we thought that we were getting double periods of Science?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, because of that assembly our double periods of Science have been swapped with.English."
Tai looked at me with disbelief, so I handed him the paper.
"Damn." He said as he threw the paper onto the floor. "Let's hope he's not dressing up as the 'God of love' again." He said. We shuttered as we thought about our eighth grade tour of the high school and Mr. Iwata in his 'God of love' outfit.
We stopped in front of the door and took in deep breaths before Tai opened it.
The room was worse than I had feared, much worse. Completely everything was doused in pink or red decorations, and I mean everything. Even the normally blue carpet had been replaced with a pink substitute. Dollies included. I could hear Gregorian chanting coming from Mr. Iwata stereo, and it didn't stop there. Our desks had been replaced with pink pillows and were arranged in a half circle around the television, and those traditional heart shaped candies where placed in the middle. After the initial shock settled in, Tai and I sat down with our peers and awaited our teacher.
A few minutes later Mr. Iwata opened the door to our classroom. He was not dressed as the 'God of Love', hell no. It was worse. He was clad in what appeared to be a diaper and was lacking those everyday things such as a shirt and shoes, and he had over powdered his cheeks, apparently to make them 'rosy'. Over his arm, he had a small quiver containing sticks with little hearts on the end, and on his back, he had taped two rather small wings to his back.
"Hide-Di-hoe class!" He sang as he skipped into the room. "Bet you can't guess what I am!" Complete and utter silence.
"I've up? I'm a cupid!" He announced, twirling around so we could see. "And since today is Valentines Day, I thought that we would watch a movie based on the book we read last week!" At this he clicked on the TV and DVD of 'Love is a mosquito bite'.
To add a little sense of atmosphere.
(~ A/N ~ Hey Yami, remind you of someone? A certain teacher we had in seventh grade, and you had in eighth...enough hints?)
Thank the gods that I have a genius for a friend. Without Koushirou, I think that Tai and I might actually have to read these practically non existing books instead of reading the bios off the internet.
During the movie, Mr. Iwata started to hand out his origami cranes, which he dubbed "Fortune Cranes". I had second thoughts about taking the blue one presented to me by my teacher, but not wanting to be rude, accepted.
"Now open your cranes and behold your futures!" Mr. Iwata squealed happily, skipping back to his desk. (A/C *sweat drop*)
Tai looked at me, shrugged and opened his crane. I carefully unwrapped my crane and read.
You will find true love.
What? I re-read the crane over. What? I re-read the crane over. True love? Me? I told myself that it was only a stupid fortune crane message, and tried to shrug it off as so, but I couldn't help looking over at Taichi and smiling. I folded the crane into a square and then carefully placed it into the pocket of my jacket. I glanced at Taichi who was reading his fortune and smiling. He to placed it in a safe location, and then turned his attention to the movie.
43 minutes later.
"Okay class that wraps our viewing segment on 'Love is A Mosquito Bite'. Here is your assignment for the movie-."
Mr. Iwata was cut off by the bell and everyone took this opportunity to race out the door, assignments in hand.
"So, what does the whacko have for us this time?" Tai asked, due to him already losing his own paper.
I sighed, and then read it to him as we walked to our Science class.
'Dear Students, Your assignment, if you choose to accept it (which you must or you fail) is to write a movie critic about the movie 'Love is A Mosquito Bite' You may have partners if you like
At this Tai let out all right and then I continued.
'But you both need to have two copies with you and your partner's names, you know the drill. It will be due on the 28th. Have a super dupper- oggie- boogie time dudes. Far out!'
Sincerely your fellow dude, Mr. Iwata
(A/C twitch-twitch)
I shivered as I stuffed the assignment into my pocket.
"Geez, if he keeps this up, he'll be in our class instead of teaching it." Taichi exclaimed with a groan.
I laughed, and opened the door to the science room just as the bell rang. Mr. Miyaki stepped into the room, gaining the attention of the class. He sat down at this lab table and began role call. Once that had been set aside, he turned from his computer to look at the class.
"Okay class, I have some bad news. I know we were supposed to do a segment on space this quarter, but it looks like the school board wants me to delay it once again." he said slowly.
"Damn!" I mumbled quietly to myself. I had been waiting for Mr. Miyaki to get the 'OK' to teach a space program all year, and they had taken back the 'okay' again? This sucks.
I wonder what he has to teach instead.
As if he read my mind.
"Instead, they are having me teach you an extended version on sex education."
A groan from the class forced Mr. Miyaki to draw attention to himself again.
"I know, I know. I tried you guys. I know how much some of you were looking towards the space unit."
At this he glanced in my direction, and then continued.
"But you must be patient. So without further to do, I will introduce you to Bill and Jane from Disney." He finished by putting on the tape, and leaving us to watch. I only got to the part when Bill started to have 'pleasant' feelings around Jane because that's when I feel asleep, and I awoke to Taichi so softly calling my name.
"Wha-" I said, opening my eyes only to stare into his beautiful dark brown ones.
"Science is over sleepy, lunch time." He said with a smile.
It took me a couple of seconds to realize that I had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
"Gomen." I said jumping up quickly, cheeks going red. He shrugged.
"It's okay Yama, my pleasure." He replied as he stood up beside me.
"Let's go get some grub." He yelled happily, and we started to the cafeteria.
Ten minutes later I was sitting at a table with Taichi and some of my other friends when all of a sudden all of the girls stood up at what seemed like the exact same time.
"Here we go again." I said with a sigh, putting my head to the table. Ten seconds to go.
9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.0.
It was mass chaos as the opposite sex trampled all the boys with candy and kisses, yes on the cheek.
Sora smiled happily as she planted a box onto my lab, giving me an extra long kiss before skipping off, Tai giving death glares in my direction.
Once again I became 'top guy' with 21 boxes, Tai was third with 16. After school, I convinced the 'candy holic' Taichi to combine our candy boxes and give them to the food shelter and then he walked me home.
"Hey Tai, this is for you." I said whipping out a box of homemade chocolates from my bag.
"Thanks Yama." He said taking the box and bringing out one of his own.
"And this is for you. Happy Valentine's Day Yamato."
I took his present, blushing.
"Happy Valentine's Day Taichi." I whispered as he walked off.
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That night, as I was putting my clothes into the hamper, I came across my crane again. I carefully folded it into its original shape and added a silver string. I fell asleep watching the wind turning it left and right and I thought of it's contains in my dream.
~ A/N ~
Until next time crazy peoples.Ja ne!
*Beep beep beep be-*
"Man, I hate that thing." I mumbled to know one at all. I slowly rolled over to face my door. I knew I had to get up.it was Monday. I yawned, and put my feet to the floor.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As I turned to lock the door behind me, it hit.
"Oh crap." I said quickly looking at my watch. Today was February 14.
Before leaving for school, I cleared of a space off one of the kitchen counters.
"So Yama, today's the big day huh?" My dad said smiling as he stirred his coffee.
I rolled my eyes and grabbed my bag.
"My son, the ladies man." He sang before I closed the door.
Confused? Sorry, I'll explain. I am sure that you westerners are familiar with St. Valentines Day correct? Well, in Japan we follow the same customs of it.except the gift-exchanging thing is flip-flopped. The girls give the guys candy. All the boys count up all of their admirers, hoping to be 'top guy'. This is practiced once you reach the sixth grade and increases in competition every year. My new school is especially competitive, so I have heard. Although I have never wished to participate in this contest, I have been 'top guy' since sixth grade and my dad has never been prouder of me.
I wonder what would happen if he found out I was in love with a boy. I laughed at the picture of my father twitching on the floor out of my mind. I put my headphones on and started for Tai's.
I had barely walked a block before I felt like someone was watching me. I shrugged it off and continued on my way. Just then, someone grabbed me around my waist.
"What the-" I said, yanking my headphones off and spinning around.
"Hey Yama, where's the fire?" Tai said smiling, his arms still about my waist.
I blinked as the blood re-entered my brain. It was just Tai.
"Ya know your deaf with those on. I've been yelling at you to slow down for five minutes before I finally caught up. But it was worth it, you should have seen the look on your face."
"You startled me, okay?" I said, moving out of his grip and continued walking. He trotted after me.
"Hey, don't be upset Yama, I'm sorry."
I ignored him and kept walking. He carefully placed his hand on my shoulder, causing me to stop, and faced me.
"I'm sorry, I won't do it again." He whispered.
"It's okay." I whispered back. We continued on our way to school.
"Anyway, you looked upset before I even intervened, so what's up?"
"Did you by any chance look at the calendar?" I asked solemnly. Tai looked down at his watch (A/N this is Japan remember) and glanced at the date.
"Oh, I see." A pause. "You'll be all right Yama." He said, patting me on the back.
As we neared the school I could only reply with an 'I hope you're right.'
"Damn it!" I said though my teeth as I glanced at my schedule.
"What's wrong?" Tai asked.
"Tai-kun you know how we thought that we were getting double periods of Science?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, because of that assembly our double periods of Science have been swapped with.English."
Tai looked at me with disbelief, so I handed him the paper.
"Damn." He said as he threw the paper onto the floor. "Let's hope he's not dressing up as the 'God of love' again." He said. We shuttered as we thought about our eighth grade tour of the high school and Mr. Iwata in his 'God of love' outfit.
We stopped in front of the door and took in deep breaths before Tai opened it.
The room was worse than I had feared, much worse. Completely everything was doused in pink or red decorations, and I mean everything. Even the normally blue carpet had been replaced with a pink substitute. Dollies included. I could hear Gregorian chanting coming from Mr. Iwata stereo, and it didn't stop there. Our desks had been replaced with pink pillows and were arranged in a half circle around the television, and those traditional heart shaped candies where placed in the middle. After the initial shock settled in, Tai and I sat down with our peers and awaited our teacher.
A few minutes later Mr. Iwata opened the door to our classroom. He was not dressed as the 'God of Love', hell no. It was worse. He was clad in what appeared to be a diaper and was lacking those everyday things such as a shirt and shoes, and he had over powdered his cheeks, apparently to make them 'rosy'. Over his arm, he had a small quiver containing sticks with little hearts on the end, and on his back, he had taped two rather small wings to his back.
"Hide-Di-hoe class!" He sang as he skipped into the room. "Bet you can't guess what I am!" Complete and utter silence.
"I've up? I'm a cupid!" He announced, twirling around so we could see. "And since today is Valentines Day, I thought that we would watch a movie based on the book we read last week!" At this he clicked on the TV and DVD of 'Love is a mosquito bite'.
To add a little sense of atmosphere.
(~ A/N ~ Hey Yami, remind you of someone? A certain teacher we had in seventh grade, and you had in eighth...enough hints?)
Thank the gods that I have a genius for a friend. Without Koushirou, I think that Tai and I might actually have to read these practically non existing books instead of reading the bios off the internet.
During the movie, Mr. Iwata started to hand out his origami cranes, which he dubbed "Fortune Cranes". I had second thoughts about taking the blue one presented to me by my teacher, but not wanting to be rude, accepted.
"Now open your cranes and behold your futures!" Mr. Iwata squealed happily, skipping back to his desk. (A/C *sweat drop*)
Tai looked at me, shrugged and opened his crane. I carefully unwrapped my crane and read.
You will find true love.
What? I re-read the crane over. What? I re-read the crane over. True love? Me? I told myself that it was only a stupid fortune crane message, and tried to shrug it off as so, but I couldn't help looking over at Taichi and smiling. I folded the crane into a square and then carefully placed it into the pocket of my jacket. I glanced at Taichi who was reading his fortune and smiling. He to placed it in a safe location, and then turned his attention to the movie.
43 minutes later.
"Okay class that wraps our viewing segment on 'Love is A Mosquito Bite'. Here is your assignment for the movie-."
Mr. Iwata was cut off by the bell and everyone took this opportunity to race out the door, assignments in hand.
"So, what does the whacko have for us this time?" Tai asked, due to him already losing his own paper.
I sighed, and then read it to him as we walked to our Science class.
'Dear Students, Your assignment, if you choose to accept it (which you must or you fail) is to write a movie critic about the movie 'Love is A Mosquito Bite' You may have partners if you like
At this Tai let out all right and then I continued.
'But you both need to have two copies with you and your partner's names, you know the drill. It will be due on the 28th. Have a super dupper- oggie- boogie time dudes. Far out!'
Sincerely your fellow dude, Mr. Iwata
(A/C twitch-twitch)
I shivered as I stuffed the assignment into my pocket.
"Geez, if he keeps this up, he'll be in our class instead of teaching it." Taichi exclaimed with a groan.
I laughed, and opened the door to the science room just as the bell rang. Mr. Miyaki stepped into the room, gaining the attention of the class. He sat down at this lab table and began role call. Once that had been set aside, he turned from his computer to look at the class.
"Okay class, I have some bad news. I know we were supposed to do a segment on space this quarter, but it looks like the school board wants me to delay it once again." he said slowly.
"Damn!" I mumbled quietly to myself. I had been waiting for Mr. Miyaki to get the 'OK' to teach a space program all year, and they had taken back the 'okay' again? This sucks.
I wonder what he has to teach instead.
As if he read my mind.
"Instead, they are having me teach you an extended version on sex education."
A groan from the class forced Mr. Miyaki to draw attention to himself again.
"I know, I know. I tried you guys. I know how much some of you were looking towards the space unit."
At this he glanced in my direction, and then continued.
"But you must be patient. So without further to do, I will introduce you to Bill and Jane from Disney." He finished by putting on the tape, and leaving us to watch. I only got to the part when Bill started to have 'pleasant' feelings around Jane because that's when I feel asleep, and I awoke to Taichi so softly calling my name.
"Wha-" I said, opening my eyes only to stare into his beautiful dark brown ones.
"Science is over sleepy, lunch time." He said with a smile.
It took me a couple of seconds to realize that I had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
"Gomen." I said jumping up quickly, cheeks going red. He shrugged.
"It's okay Yama, my pleasure." He replied as he stood up beside me.
"Let's go get some grub." He yelled happily, and we started to the cafeteria.
Ten minutes later I was sitting at a table with Taichi and some of my other friends when all of a sudden all of the girls stood up at what seemed like the exact same time.
"Here we go again." I said with a sigh, putting my head to the table. Ten seconds to go.
9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.0.
It was mass chaos as the opposite sex trampled all the boys with candy and kisses, yes on the cheek.
Sora smiled happily as she planted a box onto my lab, giving me an extra long kiss before skipping off, Tai giving death glares in my direction.
Once again I became 'top guy' with 21 boxes, Tai was third with 16. After school, I convinced the 'candy holic' Taichi to combine our candy boxes and give them to the food shelter and then he walked me home.
"Hey Tai, this is for you." I said whipping out a box of homemade chocolates from my bag.
"Thanks Yama." He said taking the box and bringing out one of his own.
"And this is for you. Happy Valentine's Day Yamato."
I took his present, blushing.
"Happy Valentine's Day Taichi." I whispered as he walked off.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That night, as I was putting my clothes into the hamper, I came across my crane again. I carefully folded it into its original shape and added a silver string. I fell asleep watching the wind turning it left and right and I thought of it's contains in my dream.
~ A/N ~
Until next time crazy peoples.Ja ne!