Sweet Heart
Part Seven
Ukyo sat with Ryoga up in the tree. The snow was cold but Ryoga's long clothes kept him warm.He looked over at Ukyo. She seemed to be thinking about something. She jumped off the tree and told Ryoga to come on. He blushed.
"I can't." He said.
"Why not?" She asked.
"Sence I got shorter, I can't jump out of a tree anymore." He said and she sighed. She jumped up there and carried him down. She put him back on the ground and they walked back to the tent together. On the way back, the time gave Ryoga some time to think about it. He couldnt think of anything positive. Only negitive.
He felt Ukyo's hand guide him.He just allowed her to guide him back to the camp site.When they got there.
"Hey um..Ukyo?" He said suddenly.
"Hmm? What?"
"I've been wanting to ask you for a while now. Why did you want to cook okonomiyaki?" He asked and she grinned.
"Well. My mom wanted me to carrie on her tradition. My dad wanted the same thing. Mom always used to say that: 'When my daughter knows okonomiyaki better than her own life her life will be happy.'" She said.
"But didnt you want to cook okonomiyaki? I mean. It wasnt only your parents dream was it?" He asked. She grew a little silent.
"Well actually. I didnt want to spend my life cooking okonomiyaki. I wanted to do alot of things back then Ryoga. Like. I wanted to go to collage and be like, a teacher or something. But I never got to because my parents pressured me to cook." She said. Ryoga looked at her. His brown eyes fixed on her blue eyes.
They both walked inside the tent and Ukyo tried to find some clothes that would fit him. She found only clothes that would fit him at 16. But one pair was a little small.
"I could fix these to fit you but you wont want them anymore after you grow back." She said.
"Go ahead." He said sitting on his sleeping bag.
"okay." She said and started working on his clothes. At noon she finished, She made him a lunch of instant Ramen.
"Thanks Ukyo." He said and began eating it.
"No problem." She said eating hers. She gave him the clothes and stepped outside as he changed. He came out in a smaller version of his real clothes. Ukyo was no were to be seen. He looked for her franticly. W-Where is she...? He asked himself looking around. And what came flying at his face? A snow ball. He looked around and saw Ukyo grinning. Her tounge sticking out at him, He grinned and threw one at her. It missed. She threw one at him and it missed. He threw one at her and it hit her.
This went on for hours.After that they went into the tent and had dinner. Ukyo heard a knock on the tent and when she opend the door some patrole people were standing outside the tent.
"Excuse me ma'am. But his is a no-camping area. We ask you to please move your tent." They said. Ryoga looked out of the tent.
"Who is it?" He asked.
"um..Ma'am is this your son?" He asked and Ukyo nodded hugging Ryoga.
"Yes. This is my son. Ryoga. Say hello to the man Kyosho."
"Hi." He said.
"Please sir. My son and I have no were else to go. Its too dark to look for another place and he has a cold." She said and nudged Ryoga with her knee. He faked a coff.
"Well then Ma'am. We'll find you two somewhere else to sleep so that we can still keep our job and he doesnt get any sicker. There is a town near by and you two can rest there." He said.
"Thank you sir." She said going back into the tent and packing up. When they finished the patrole people showed them the way to the town. Ukyo held Ryoga like her own child.
"Son?" He whisperd.
"Hey buddie. Want me to leave you here?" She asked and he shook his head.He just lied his head on her shoulder as they were lead into a cozy looking town.The people showed them into a vacant house. Ukyo thanked them and after they left Ryoga pouted on the floor.
"Your son?" He asked and she laughed.
"Oh c'mon Ryoga. Did you want me to say 'oh no he's not my son, but he's someone I know that got turned into a child'?" She said.
"Well..No." He said pouting.
"Well then stop whining and go to sleep." She said.
"Im not tired and Im not whining." He said angerly. He stomped threw the house. Ukyo followed him. She picked him up and he thrashed around like a child having a tantrum, She put him on his bed and nearly tied him up in the sheets.
"Go on Ryoga. Go to sleep okay? Whining about this wont change anything." She said and he just sat up in his bed and pouted.
"Im NOT tired!" He protested.
"Fine, I didnt want to have to do this but," She said, she began a soft, soothing humming sound, She began to sing a sweet song.
"Its amazing how you, can speak right to my heart,Without sayin a word, you can light up the dark,Try as I may, I could never explain, what I hear when you dont say a thing,The smile on your face, lets me know that you need me, Theres a truth in your eyes sayin that you'll never leave me,The touch of your hand says you'll catch me, when ever I fall You say it best, When you say nothin at all." She sang.As Ryoga pouted but he was still lisoning. He found himself growing sleepy. Ukyo nudged him back onto the bed, brushing his bangs untill he shut his eyes and fell asleep. She walked out his room and walking into the living room.
We could probably live here. I mean. It wont be so bad. She thought as she walked into her room and lied on her sleeping bag and fell asleep.
The next morning rose and Ukyo woke early that morning. She started cooking breakfast and when it was time to wake Ryoga up she walked into his room and woke him.
"huh..? what..?" He said sturring from his sleep.
"Morning sugar." She said She walked him into the living room and gave him breakfast.
"Morning." He said sleeply. Eating his okonomiyaki.
"Wadda you say if we live here? I mean. I dont want to go back to Nerima, we might was well live here." She said.
"Okay." He sauud eating. She grinned.
"I also have another suprise for you!" She said grinning.
"What?" He asked.
When he finished his breakfast Ukyo put some pens, pencils and notebooks in a small brown backpack. He was suspicius about what she was going to do. She put the backpack around his shoulders and took his hand. She lead him down the snowy streets into a school. He gave her an angry look.
"Im not going to school!" He said.
"Dont talk to me in that tone!" She shouted taking him in. She took him into the principal's office and inrolled him.She took him to his class. He made her show him were to sit and then she left.
"2x24" The class recited. Except Ryoga. "2x36"
"Mr. Kuonji." the teacher said. said,
Kuonji?? Ryoga thought "Yes Sir?"
"Why arnt you doing your mulitplcation?" The teacher asked.
"well..Um.." Ryoga mumbled. Quite Embarrased.
"Well Mr. Kuonji?"
"Um.." He mumbled.
"Start paying attition Kuonji." The teacher snapped and began teaching again. Ryoga started Reciting the Multiuplcation tables with the class.
When school ended Ryoga grabbed his backpack and followed everyone else out. There was Ukyo waiting for him. He walked up to her and didnt say much on the walk to her new store.
"Whats the matter sugar?" She asked.
"I got in trouble." he said not letting her hand go.
"Why?" She asked.
"Because I didnt say the stupid multiplcation tables." He said and Ukyo still had a warm grip on his hand.
"Well sugar. You gotta learn Math." She said as they walked into the new UCCHANS'.