Dear Umeboshi
By Edd
AHh yess….I think when I re-read my first chapter that I actually enjoyed when Tomiko was talking to the people instead of the actually story…..sigh….I really do stink at writing stories….
Edd: ::goes and sits in little corner:: Gomen gomen gomen me is sorry me is such a horrible writer and isn't good at writing stories…..
Momiji: ::pat pat:: You're not a bad writer…you're just….slightly….challenged…But this time…just don't change my hair purple and Tomiko's spikey and green…ok….
Edd: ::tears:: SEEEE I REALLY AM BAD!!!! WAHHH!!!! ::sobs::
Chapter Two
Lollypops and Koko-kun
Dear Umeboshi,
It's so loud in this van I can barely think. The teacher has gone completely crazy (he is playing some techno oldie Elvis-ly kind of song….and is singing the words to it…in English…).
Good thing only me and Haru (and partly Momiji) can understand English. I think it would be worst if the rest could understand (they'd go insane from the laughter…wait, I think they already are…yes they already are…).
Sigh….uh….um……HAHAHAH!!!!!YES I AM WRITING SIGH! HAHAHAHA!!!! ( I think I'm insane too…yes me has gone crazy…..hahaha in a creepy voice But atleast I'm not taking the pills yet….hehehe…no, not yet…). That was baka right…yea I
The girl quickly ducked as a soccer ball came flying at her head…. "What in the world?!?!"
a soccer ball just flew at my head….a…soc-cer….ball…..Who goes together with soccer ball…
The girl's background became all purplely once more and her eyes became all dark as she scooted (she floated) over the backest of back seats (it really was the trunk but it was just open space because they were riding in a van but they call it "the backest of back seats").
'I've figured it out…all those times….always a soccer ball….always…at me….'
" Aritomo…," her head was cocked to one side as she said this. Her voice like one of those scary little girl voices, "…here I think this belongs to you….," And placed the ball lightly into his shaking hands. O.O
The girl floated back to her little place in the backest of back seats, and pulled out her notebook from which it had been hiding place under her pillow…..her notebook under her pillow….under her pillow….
" AIEEE!!!!,"
The girl started throwing everything out from the backest of backseats. Flinging suitcases, duffle bags, sleeping bags, and other stuff like a box of twinkies and chibi-fied Hershey bars into the van….causing the still insane driver to practically run into a tree.
" WHERE IS IT?!?!" she screamed as she began to almost rip up the carpeted floorboards.
" WHERE IS MY NOTEBOOK!?!?!"
She started to get hysterical. Shouting things like "My notebook!" and "Things were in there!!" and "What am I going to doooo???!!!!!"
" Hey Tomi-chan," Momiji said, prodding her in the arm as she continued to cry over her notebook.
" MY NOTEBOOK!!!! MY NOTEBOOK!!!!"
" Hey Tomiko ," Haru also said, trying also to get the attention of the frantic girl.
" THERE WAS….THERE WAS….," she began hiccupping and choking as she thought more and more of her lost little notebook…so alone in the world now…..SO ALONE…
" WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!!!! WITHOUT THAT NOTEBOOK I -"
" HANARU-SAN!!!!"
Her head cocked to one side as she looked at the person who had just yelled her name, "WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP YOUR SHOUTING SO THAT WE MAY CONTINUE OF THIS TIRESOME NOT-WORTH-IT TRIP!!!!!"
….nani…..O.O
It was silent in the van as they rode on…their teacher…Great Teacher Miaoko-sensei….had just yelled. They had always known he could get a little stressed, they knew he took stress pills, but this was the first time he had every….
" He yelled at me," the girl sat in shock. This had been the first time he…no any teacher…had ever yelled at her, " H-he yelled at me. Great Teacher Miaoko-sensei. He yelled at…me ….,"
Her face started to twist and contorted as her anger and worriment turned to sadness…
'A teacher yelling….me…I….,'
She looked up at her teacher. Miaoko-sensei. His body hunched over the steering wheel and the veins on his head popping. The bottle that kept his stress pills was practically empty….
'Great Teacher…Miaoko…sensei….,'
" Miaoko-sensei," she whispered, her hands trembling, her face red from embarrassment, " Great Teacher Miaoko-sensei….I'm….I'm….,"
A solemn tear slid down her cheek and onto the beige shorts she was wearing.
" I'M SOOOO SORRY!!!!!!!," she wailed as the teacher swerved, "O GREAT TEACHER MIAOKO-SENSEI!!!!!"
The teacher swerved again…this time into a ditch….
((::Plink Plink::))
Hello….a little thought here….okay…Imagine what the rest of the kids are thinking at this moment…. When one of their one pupils is hysterical, again. When their teacher swerved, again….and why Aritomo is so freaked out….about a soccer ball…..again…
" I think she's crazy…yes crazy….,"
" doko doko nani nani…..uh….hello….G'day mate….now get out of my head…,"
" Hmm….I wonder if Tomi wants a lollipop….I have a cherry one and a grape one and a watermelon one and a….,"
"…This book is really boring…..I can't wait til volume two….just to see if it's that boring….,"
" WEEEE!!!! The fun….hehehe!!!! WEEE there goes my brain!!! Hahaha!!! Oh wait, I lost that along time ago….oh WEELLLL!!!!! HAHAHA!!!!!"
" ::blink blink:: I wonder if this ball is cursed….maybe she's like Hanajima-senpai and can curse things….,"
" No…I cannot curse people. I can only sense and send waves. My brother Megumi is the one who can do curses….,"
" ::blink blink:: Uh, Hanajima-senpai….,"
" Yes…,"
" ::blink blink::….O.O….. ::sweatdrop::…,"
Thankyou for your wonderful patience, this story may now continue….))
"THE VOICES THE VOICES!!!! I HEAR THE VOICES!!!!AHHHHH!!!!"
Uh oh…
"PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!! PUH-LEASE!!!!!!!!! GREAT TEACHER MIAOKO-SENSEI!!!!!!I'M SOOOOOO SORRY!!!!!!!!"
"Uh….," (remember the boy from the first chapt who asked Haru about why he was letting Tomi sleep on his arm…well this is him…we'll call him Kokori).
" Uh Momiji…," Kokori looked at the boy with blonde hair who was….just…smiling…
"Yes Koko-kun!!!," he said bright eyed and bushy tailed (…..hehe….).
"Uh…forget it…," He then looked at Hatsuharu-san…
"Eh Haru, what's wrong with your….," O.O
Haru just looked at the boy…still not caring…and continued to read his book….
" Uh…," Kokori looked confused…as he usually does….probably knowing far into the back of his mind that he would never get a straight answer…or his sanity back….
"Hey Miaoko-sensei aren't you gonna-"
" WHAT!!! KOKORI-SAN!?!?…..,"
"Uh…nevermind….,"
"Hey Ari-,"
" THE VOICES THE VOICES!!!! I HEAR THEM!!!!!"
"Err….,"
The boy's usually confused look suddenly changed…as he realized…that…
'No one cares what I say…they just ignore me….well besides Momiji….but….everyone else even Mioako-sensei….they all….,"
"Be quiet Hanaru. Just shut up. I'm tired of you squealing you little head off like an idiot.," The boys face darkened as he stared down…listening for a response anything…but no one noticed. No one at all paid attention….no one…
'Even when I try…they still don't care…,'
Kokori's anger started rising as he curled his hand into a fist…
'Too long have they not paid attention to me…too long….,'
" Way too long…because…even my best friend…doesn't listen....," he whispered, his curled up fists now shaking as he looked up and watched the people he lived his life with everyday.
Miaoko-sensei popping stress pills into his mouth…squeezing a stress ball…probably going to have an aneurysm or OD….
Aritomo shouting about the voices…..the voices the voices…
"Stupid..,"
Tomiko apologizing….even when the teacher had told her he had forgiven her…
Haru ignoring it all by reading some book, not caring….as always it seemed…
Momiji staring at lollipops, eventually popping two into his mouth and smiling.
"It's all so stupid…but that…isn't really…what is really getting on my nerves and making me mad…is that constant whining….I can't stand it…,"
Slap…..
It wasn't his fault….he tried to calm himself down…but that whining…that constant whining …..it was driving him mad…It getting him to the point where he just couldn't take it anymore and he just…..exploded…
" JUST SHUTUP HANARU WE GET THAT YOU ARE SORRY!! JUST, STOP THAT STUPID WHINING OF YOURS AND BE QUIET!!!"
The car was silent, even Aritomo had quieted from his shouting of the voices…
This…was…different…
"MAN!!," he said taking one of his teacher's stress pills and popping it into his mouth.
" I JUST COULDN"T TAKE IT! SHE JUST KEPT WHINING AND WHINING AND WHINING!!! IT WAS DRIVING ME NUTS!!!"
Edd: I am not responsible for any thing that may happen to one of my characters when one of my characters does something to them.
Tomiko: what…
Edd: When you beat up someone I don't get the hospital bill.
Tomiko: oh….O KAY!! ;3
Aritomo: SO YOU MEAN I DON'T HAVE ANY MEDICAL INSURANCE!!!
Edd: Yup. Your last medical bill was so high that I'd had to cancel it because if they were all like that then I'd be broke by the time this story ends.
Aritomo: ::trying to be mean:: You already are broke you baka.
Edd: ::grrr:: Go get him Tomiko.
Tomiko: Yes ma'am! ::salutes and then brings out bat::
Aritomo: HEY!! You know the only reason I keep getting hurt is because you write it!!
Edd: ::Sigh:: I know.
Aritomo: ::blink blink:: Bu….
Tomiko: OH!!! Ari-kun!!!!
Aritomo: ::blink blink:: YOU'RE THE MEANEST AUTHORESS EVER!!!
Edd: ……ahh….no I'm not…I love all my characters….
Aritomo: THEN WHY DO YOU KEEP GETTING ME HURT!!!!
Edd: hehe….because it's fun!!
The van was silent as the girl was still standing there….in the same position…her hand still on the cheek that he had slapped….
'Kokori-kun...just...Kokori-kun...just slapped...KOKORI-KUN JUST SLAPPED ME!!!!! KOKORI-KUN MUST DIE!!!!!!'
"O Kokori-kun….," she said in an ever soooo sweet voice.
" What," he said, not even looking at her….maybe if he did though….he might of lived.
" I'm going to kill you," she said yet again is an ever soooo sweet voice.
" Huh," he said dumbly (he is slow, like Tohru).
She said nothing, just grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him outside….and down the road….and into a forest…and with her bat….
" Uh….hey Haru, Momiji I think you should stop her. I think she really meant it this time….,"
" No. He'll be fine." They said at the same time, both looking out the window.
" But…,"
" Tomiko would never kill anyone," Momiji said, sucking on a lollipop.
" Because it would go on her permanent record," Haru agreed flipping a page in his book.
" A she can't afford that, because she has to get into a good college,"
"And if you have something like that on your record you usually don't get into one,"
Aritomo looked at them both…worried about his poor friend who was now suffering a Hanaru beat-em-up smackdown…
Kokori: Hey…I have medical insurance don't I?? ::is worried::
Edd: No.
Kokori: BUT HANARU IS GOING TO KILL ME!!
Edd: You shouldn't be talking while Tomiko is beating you up. ::flips page of book::
Tomiko: Yeah.
Kokori: But…
Edd: Bye bye.
Tomiko: C'mon Koko-kun!!! ::starts dragging him off::
Kokori: WAIT!!! PLEASE!!! NOOO!!!!
Edd: Back to the story!! ::smiles and winks::
"But…won't he…get hurt….I mean…she brought her-"
::BAM::
::WHOOSH::
::CRACK::
::FWUMP::
" I HOPE YOU'RE DEAD KOKORI CAUSE IF YOU'RE NOT I'LL SEND YOU FLYING HIGHER!!OK!!"
They looked at the boy in front of the car…his body battered and beaten…..
"I think he really is…,"
"Dead." Aritomo finished, getting up to go help his friend.
" Don't," Momiji and Haru said at the time and made him sit back down.
" BUT SHE IS GOING TO MURDER HIM!!!!!" Aritomo screamed his arms waving in frantic motions as he tried to get away from their grip.
" Like we said,"
" It would go on her permanent record,"
" And she wouldn't want that,"
" To happen,"
The two boys were looking bored; one sucking on a lollipop, the other still reading his book. They, for some odd reason, were used to this…..
Aritomo: They shouldn't be used to something like this.
Edd: You should be used to it too you know.
Aritomo: No one should be used to someone getting thrown 50 feet into the air. And why should I be used to it?!?
Edd: You're the one that gets most of her beatings.
Aritomo: Oh…you're right…but….THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT!!!
Edd: …..
Aritomo: She shouldn't go around beating up people just because she can't control her anger!!!!! It's not righ….
Tomiko: I heard that Ari-kun…..::pulls out bat:: Wanna be next??
Aritomo: ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!!
Edd: You're the one who was shouting about the voices.
Aritomo: Yea! Because you're the one who wrote it!!
Edd: ::hehe:: Yea, I know.
Aritomo: ::sigh:: I give up….
A plunk could be heard at the side of the van as Kokori,
The wounded and beaten boy…
Tried to climb up the side…. " Please…help…me…," he cried in a shaky raspy voice, " Please!!,"
" Kokori," the girl with auburn hair said in an o so sweet little voice as she grabbed the top of his head with a mighty hand, " Were you trying to run away from me? You know that just make me angry when you do that." …..her eyes are like those little diamond things….
" So…," she continued and looked up at the others, " We'll just be going now." And she began to drag him away.
" NOOO!!! PLEASE !!!! HELP ME!!!!" he cried clawing at the ground, trying to get away from her.
Edd: Maybe I made Tomiko tooo mean….. ::wonder wonder wonder::
Aritomo: Yeah you did.
Tomiko: ::boink::
Aritomo: HEY!!
Tomiko: I think I'm perfectly fine. I mean the only reason I'm this way is-
Edd: ::slap, hand on the mouth:: If you say one more word I'll make your hair green again….this time permanent…
Tomiko: WANH WANH BAH KU JU NO FO KEW KEW!!! LEW ME OU DOK NU NANACA BEW BEW!!!! HA!!!
Edd: ::blink blink:: uh…..chibi-chan what did she just say
Chibi: Ja Na go go je toku
Edd: Oh thats right ::sweatdrop:: you can't speak English.
Chibi: Ja Wu ik ku new bla bah wanh
Tomiko: Wanh blah wanh wanh
Chibi: Blah nu?
Tomiko: ::smirk smirk:: Kaw ju te rie ry fu blah Edd-Edd
Chibi: ::grin:: Ku yu wanh ja
Edd: Uh…::blink blink::
Aritomo: Ko pop ou ni co
Tomiko: Ja ya
Kokori: Cew Cew!! Edd-Edd go go du fe to ry
Edd: Wha….
Tomiko: Ja ja ya
Edd: ::wailing:: HOW CAN EVERYONE UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!
All: doki nan nan!!
Edd: ::blink blink:: whatever….
" Wha…uh…Miaoko-sensei aren't you going to stop her!!!!!" Aritmo started panicking.
" No. She won't hurt him too bad I don't think," he said and leaned back in his seat, " Besides I don't want to get in the middle of that…especially with that bat of hers…She'd be a good baseball player…maybe even able to go pro…..,"
The teacher continued to ramble on more baseball, entertaining some of the others who were just either used to Tomiko's beatings or just plain bored.
" Uh…," the boy stuttered (Aritomo is shocked!! Oh my oh me!! How they can not just care….), " YOU'RE ALL INSANE!!! ALL OF YOU!!!! HOW CAN YOU JUST NOT CARE THAT HANARU IS KLLING KOKORI!!!! HOW CAN YOU…"
" Did you say something Ari-kun?" the girl with auburn hair asked innocently, climbing back into the van.
His face darkened, " Where's Kokori?"
" Oh, he's behind me," she replied simply and took her seat behind him.
The boy next to her smiled as she sat down.
" Have fun?" Momiji asked, still smiling.
" What's done, had to be done…," she sighed, closing her eyes in an exhausted way.
The boy on the left (cause Moji-kun is on the right) grinned slightly… 'Only she would say that. Only Tomiko.'
" Want a lollipop Tomi-chan??" Momiji piped up holding out one.
" YUP!" she smiled, her exhaustion disappearing and took it.
" MMM!! Yummy Moji-kun grape!! You know I love grape!!"
" Yup!!" the boy smiled and stuck his own lollypop back into her mouth.
But mean while….
Imagine wittle o'le Aritomo with his mouth hung open….watching Tomiko and Momiji laughing with their grape and watermelon lollipops.
Momiji: I'm saving the cherry lollipop for Edd-Edd cause that's her favorite
Edd: ::pet pet:: Thanks Momiji-kun!!
Momiji: WELCOME!! Hey guess what??
Edd: What. ::suck suck suck on me lollypop!::
Momiji: This is the first time I've been in one of these besides that one at the end of the last chapter.
Edd: COOL!! :3 ::lollypop oh lollypop::
Momiji: Yeah!! Hey….That was the first time for Haru too!!
Edd: Yeah it was! ::lol-ly-pop::
Momiji: Hey Haru! ::drags Haru over:: Say hello to Haru.
Haru: ::bows:: Hello. My name is Hatsuharu Sohma.
Edd: I think he's the politest one on the whole show…besides Tohru-kun. ::yummm cherry::
Momiji: BUT I'M THE CUTEST!! MOMO TOO!!
Edd: Yup Yup you are Moji-kun!! Momo too!! ::lolly oh lolly::
Haru: We should get back.
Momiji: AWW!!! But I don wanna!!!
Haru: Goodbye and goodnight.
Momiji: Haru!!
Haru: Goodnight and Goodbye
Momiji: Haru ::hehe:: It's not night.
Haru: Peace be with you. ::bows::
Momiji: Byies!!!
Edd: Ciao!! ::suck suck suck on me lollypop!!::
(Aritomo mouth is still hanging open.)
" Wha wha wha…..," he stuttered. Not believing that they were just sitting there….eating lollypops. (The JollyRancher lollypops!! Yum Yum!! Those are good!!).
'They're just sitting there…..with….lollypops….,'
" Wha…how….ca..ou…,"
" You shouldn't stutter Ari-kun. It's bad for you,"
The boy looked at the girl with auburn hair…sitting their as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. As if she had just not beaten up some boy….
" Stu-….Stutter. HOW CAN YOU SAY NOT TO STUTTER!!!! YOU JUST-,"
" Hey Aritomo," the battered and beaten boy said, climbing back into the van….only one tiny scratch on his face…and two scratches on his arms….
'But he just had….he was just..how…,"
" But-but…you were… I mean you you you….," the boy known as Aritomo, stuttered, his mouth hanging agape…
" Hanaru-san is right. You really shouldn't stutter its bad for you," the other boy….who supposedly was just bleeding and dying and saying 'NOOO!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!' was now taking a lollypop for Momiji and sitting….next to Tomiko…..O.O
Edd: Kokori is also very polite too.
Kokori: ::bows:: Thankyou.
Edd: You're welcome Koko-kun!! ::smile smile::
Kokori: …..Koko-kun….??
Edd: YUP YUP!!! KOKO-KUN!!!!
Kokori: …..::silence::…..
Momiji: LOLLYPOP!!!!
Edd: ::blink blink:: Lollypop??
Momiji: ::smile smile:: Yea!! Remember I gave Kokori a lollypop!!! I saved him one too!!
Edd: Oh yea!! ::smile smile:: What flavor was it?? ::looks down at hand…..tear tear tear…::
Kokori: Lemon. ::I like sour stuff::
Momiji: Yup! And I have one for Aritomo too! A banana melon one!!
Edd: ::blink blink with tears:: My…My….
Aritomo: Banana melon??
Momiji: Yea! I made my own!! I also made an umeboshi one for Tohru!!
Edd: ::tear tear tear sob sob sob:: Loll….ly…
Tohru: ::walks in:: You did!! Thankyou Momiji!! ::huggles him and he doesn't change::
Momiji: Your Welcome Tohru!! ::huggles back:: ::Tohru walks out::
Edd: ::sob and tear and tear and sob:: pop….pop….
Haru: ::enter Haru:: He also made me a milk flavored one…. ::walks out. Still has his book::
Aritomo: ::is eating banana melon lollypop:: It's pretty good.
Kokori: Mines pretty good too. ::lemon lemon lime lime lemon I like sour stuff::
Edd: My my….lolly….pop…pop….
Tomiko: edd….what's wrong… (was the only one paying attention to Edd meh -.-!! On all of you!!!)
Momiji: Something wrong edd-edd-kun
Aritomo: Good I'm glad som- ::pwack::
Tomiko: BE NICE ARI!!! EDD'S UPSET!!
Kokori: What's wrong? ::pats edd's shoulder::
Edd: My…My….LOLLYPOP!!!!!!!! ::cries big anime tears::
Tomiko: Oh edd….::gives edd a hug:: It'll be alright.
Edd: But…But…my my….lolly…
Momiji: HERE YA Go!!! ::hands another lollypop:: It's Cherry, just like you like!!
Edd: ::tear tear:: Thankyou Moji-chan!!
Tomiko: OKAY!!! I'LL SAY BACK TO THE STORY SINCE EDD ISN"T ABLE!!! ::get's loud speaker:: ON TO THE STORY!!!!
" Uh uh!!! But but….you…," (he is STILL stuttering…..)
" ::sigh:: Aritomo is trying to ask why you are barely scratched, Kokori," said by Momiji (thank you Moji-kun!)
" Um…," (silence silence by Koko-kun)
Tomiko looked over at Kokori, a huge grin on her face, " It's our secret!! Right Koko-kun!!"
The boy with the lemon lollypop looked at the girl next to him….who had now put her arm around his neck….
Uh…
"I'm moving," Kokori sighed taking the conversation away from the topic as he moved.
Wha…
The girl looked at the boy….
He…he didn't…
"Kokori…," she whispered and smiled…for some strange reason….she…
Dear Umeboshi,
Yes. For some strange, weird reason….I smiled…why did I, smile?? I wonder this now….even when it's dark and I've found another hiding place for you (hahaha….hidden with the chibi-fied Hershey bars…..) I still wonder (and even though I have to use a fading flashlight) I still wonder…why?? Maybe, I guess, I smiled because…
He kept my secret….he didn't tell….he…
Like none of the others so far…he didn't tell…Kokori didn't tell of what really happened….back there…he didn't tell that I…
-Tomi
Ps….It's morning now and I'm just writing this little part because the flashlight went off last night and I didn't get to finish….but…anyway…I don't think….that I'll reveil my secret to you yet Umeboshi…not quite yet….
-Tomi
HEYLO!!!! Okay here's chapter number TWO!!! SORRY IT TOOK ME SOO LONG TO PUT IT UP!!!! GOMEN!!!Please review kk!!!!! Hoped you liked it!!!! Byies!!!! OH YEAH!!! Thanks to Nattie for reviewing...my lone reviewer...
THANKYOU!!!!!
Ciao with squetti
-Edd