A/N: -sleeping- Shiru: I hope they do. If they're Inu fans.
On the way home from school with Reika
Melissa stared closely at a poster on a street light.
"What is it?" Reika asked, coming over to see.
"A festival!" Melissa cried, getting excited.
"For Greenery Day too!" Reika said, now getting excited. Her favorite holiday was Greenery Day.
"It's happening in two weeks!"
"You'll have to get a kimono by then."
"Why?"
"Because I've always worn a kimono to all festivals and I don't want to be the only one wearing one."
"Okay, I'll look for one." The Melissa ran off to scan the stores for kimonos.
"Wait!" Reika called after her. "You can't buy them in stores! Technically you can, but it needs to be homemade!" And Melissa heard the end, and walked home in silence.
At home
Ai was lying in his usual spot in the floor of the living room, eating rice cakes this time, and watching reruns of Inuyasha.
"Ai!" The familiar female voice rang out from the doorway.
He sighed and set down his rice cake. Kagome quickly took the opportunity to steal it.
"Ai! I need a homemade kimono by Greenery Day!" Melissa said, walking into the room. "Could you help me make one?"
"I have no idea how to make one." He lied. "But I know somebody who could. I'll get her to make one for you. Just give me the measurements."
"Okay! Let me right them down real quick, so I don't forget." She then wrote her measurements on a piece of paper, and handed it to him. "Thanks Ai!" She then headed up to her room to listen to her new Utada Hikaru CD.
"Kagome, we're going shopping." Ai said.
Later
Ai had locked himself in his room, not wanting to come out for even meals.
"Is he okay?" Melissa asked Kuno outside of Ai's door.
"He's probably working really hard on something." Kuno replied, giving off a smile.
Melissa stared at the door with a worried expression then went down to her own room.
April 29 Greenery Day
"Good thing today's Sunday! No school!" Melissa said, waking up and walked to her enormous closet. In the middle of it sat some cloth with Inuyasha's picture on it. There was also a note. She picked up the note first. "Here's your kimono. Hope you like it. From Ai." She read aloud. "And I do!"
At sundown
"Are you ready?" Reika asked outside of Melissa's door.
"Yep!" She said, stepping out in her Inuyasha kimono with matching bag (containing Inuyasha).
"Let's go." Reika said, heading for the stairs.
"Let's."
At the festival
"Why you look lovely miss!" A male's voice said to many young girls at the festival. "If you were a snack I'd eat you." His lines were corny but they usually flattered girls. He'd wink at a few of them, and kiss a few of their hands.
Melissa and Reika were the only two who got followed by him, without their knowing it until they started to try and catch goldfish.
"This is fun! I've already caught two!" Reika said, laughing.
"Lucky, I've only caught one, and the other two I want keep swimming away." Melissa said, giving the clerk another 100 yen.
"Let me help you, miss." The fourteen-year-old stalker said, paying then caught both of the fish Melissa wanted. "Here you go, a present from me to you." He said, handing her the plastic bag that contained the two fish. As she took the bag their hands touched, and he bent down and kissed her on the cheek.
"Uhh…umm…Thanks? Yeah, thanks." Melissa told him, blushing.
Right after she
finished a storm of flower petals came through, covering everything.
Both Melissa and the boy pretended to be lost in the sea of pink
.
By the pond a few yards away from the shrine Melissa brought out Inuyasha.
"It's gotta be a demon!" She said.
"Sure smells like it." Inuyasha said. He had transformed. "But if this is the work of the Blossom Demon then she should be peaceful."
"Maybe she got mad because she has to be turned into a demon stone."
"Did somebody say, 'demon stone'?" The boy from before walked up. And beside him was a transformed Miroku.
"You're Miroku's partner? No wonder you kissed my cheek." Melissa rolled her eyes.
"I couldn't help myself." The boy replied, sweat dropping. "By the way, the name's Daichi."
"I'm Melissa. And we'll go get the demon!" She then ran off with Inuyasha.
"Clean up." Daichi said to Miroku who understood.
"Wind tunnel!" All of the petals were sucked up. Yet they kept flowing.
With Inu
"There she is!" Melissa said, pointing to a beautiful demon. She had the figure of a woman and long, glossy pink hair, bright pink eyes, and her kimono seemed to be made out of petals from all kinds of flowers.
"I've been waiting for you two." Blossom said, turning towards them.
"Yeah," Inuyasha started.
"Why?" Melissa asked.
"I needed to warn you, but I must warn you in a riddle." She smiled. "One evil seems pure while the other isn't seen to the eyes of the heroes. But both evils are equally powerful."
"Just like Blossom to warn us in a riddle." Inuyasha sighed.
"Here." Blossom picked up a small cherry blossom and tucked it behind Melissa's ear. "Now I shall join the good side." She touched her cheek then pulled back and was surrounded by blossoms. When they fell only a pink stone (the first colored stone they had seen) sat in her place. Melissa bent down and picked it up. In the stone was a single cherry blossom, identical to the one tucked behind Melissa's ear.
"We better head back, Reika might start worrying."
As they walked away they didn't notice a tall figure in the shadows. As the last of the wind blew fur on the figure's right arm swayed, and his left kimono sleeve seemed to contain no arm. He slowly started to walk away after they had left.
Melissa's E-mail
Derrick is a nice name. Very suitable for a boy. Oh yeah, I got to go to a festival! Ai asked somebody he knows to make me a kimono! It had Inuyasha all over it. I'll it to you when I get home. There was also a matching bag! Reika and I had a great time. We met this guy named Daichi who got me two goldfish that I wanted. If they survive the trip home I'll show all three of them to you. Here's what I named them: Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Reika (after my friend). I gotta go know, buh-bye!
Melissa
