What Are You Waiting For

Disclaimer: I don't own Crescent Moon.

Last time on What Are You Waiting For: I paused celebrating and gave him an incredulous look. "What are you going on about? OF COURSE it proves something! And coming from you, it proves everything!"

I was starting to get worried. If all the blood was rushing to his face, how the heck his heart still pumping?

But I'll worry about anatomy later.

This is too much of a major breakthrough to be distract -

Ooh! What's that shiny glint outside?

A/N: Whoa! Fast update, especially for me! I finally got book 6! YIPPEE! Two words that come to mind are…utterly adorable! Oh gosh, I was reading it after finishing my English quiz and when it got to the kissing scene, I literally yelled out, "FINALLY!" then I got all giggly and kept making squeaking noises. The kids that sit near me all gave me what I have dubbed the Rozalia look. The holy-crap-she's-out-of-her-freakin-mind-run-for-the-hills look. But whatever. Also, I added some stuff to chapter 5 so if you want, you can go back and read the new version. On with it!

Chapter 6: Hide and Go Seek

Sorry about that. I know I said no distractions but remember, ADD patient here. Kind of have problems with paying attention to important things. Or anything for that matter.

But back to the problem at hand: Convincing Mitsuru to go on another date with Mahiru.

Surprisingly enough, it was very easy. All I had to do was mention food, fresh air, and the fact that it would make Mahiru extremely happy if he went on the date to get him to agree.

It's a sad, sad day when a guy is whipped before he even gets together with the girl.

Oh well. Makes my job a hell lot easier.

Anyways, I planned a picnic date for them out at some park I saw the first time I got here.

Mahiru was over zealous about this and insisted that she make all the food herself.

"Whatever floats your boat," I'd told her.

And before I could even blink, the princess had leapt on top of me in a tight hug and I would've died from lack of oxygen if it weren't for the lovely fact that I'm already dead.

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The day of the date came. Meaning the day after I told them about it. I would've expected Mahiru to be half asleep considering that she was up most of the night making the picnic lunch, but she was just as fresh and perky as ever. Damn her.

As we walked (I was floating, but you probably could've guessed that by now) to the park (Mitsuru grumbling the whole way), Mahiru started talking about how she couldn't wait for swimming season to start once vacation was over. And for reasons unbeknownst to me (or anyone who's ever known me for that matter), I mentioned that I was on the dive team in high school.

So it turns out that her highness and I have something in common. Go figure.

We actually had a nice conversation, discussing different techniques and how they've changed over the years, and other boring crap like that.

Eventually we reached the park and found a nice spot underneath a tree and set up the blanket and food.

To this day, I still have no idea what the hell Mahiru made and I really don't wish to know. All I can tell you was that it was mostly sushi-type food and other some other weird Japanese cuisines that I can't pronounce nor remember. The only thing I can recall eating was rice; at least I pray to the dear and merciful Lord that it was rice.

I am sad to report though, that the date didn't go as well as I had planned.

And I'm the one at fault. Damn it.

You see, our conversation about swimming continued to progress until soon we were discussing poetic devices such as personifications and verbal irony (Don't ask, just don't).

And because Mahiru and I were having so much fun talking about the differences of similes and metaphors, Mitsuru was left all by his lonesome. Sort of. You know what I mean.

So when the princess stopped midway sentence and voiced, "Hey, where's Mitsuru?" I was sorely confused.

Then it hit me like standing in the tracks and the train's coming towards you at seventy-five miles an hour.

"AH CRAP!"

I had a bad feeling that something like this was going to happen eventually.

So Mahiru and I decided (mostly Mahiru) to run around the park yelling, "MITSURU!" at the top of our lungs until we found the tengu.

That strategy lasted about twenty minutes and I got a nasty sore throat because of it.

Plan B consisted of simply walking through the park with the occasional shout of "Mitsuru!" while looking in every nook and cranny.

At one point I got bored and stole a megaphone from some random guy and used it to call the tengu throughout the park.

I also took to the sky and returned when I couldn't find him within a five mile radius.

(Whoa, I just spoke math. Yet another sign of the Apocalypse)

After three hours of searching, Mahiru and I met up back at the tree, both of us looking exhausted and worried at the current predicament.

(I was faking the worried part though. Wouldn't want Mahiru to feel like the only depressed one. Hey, wait a minute! Since when did I start caring about how Mahiru felt? Screw it, I've got a missing tengu on my hands)

"I'll use Mr. Bat to contact Nozomu and see if he went back to the Moonshine," suggested the princess as she went off a little ways for some privacy.

I wanted to slap both of ourselves silly.

Why the hell didn't we think of that before!

I have a bad feeling that the vamp is going to say that Mitsuru's been there the whole freakin' time and that our hours of looking were a complete and total waste.

Mahiru came back with the same look of worry on her face and said, "He said he hasn't seen him all day. Oh man, Rozalia I'm so scared. What if something happened to Mitsuru?"

"Calm down, kid. And don't fret yourself; we'll find him. Or he'll find us. One of those." Yeah, that was pathetic. I can't comfort people in their times of need, so sue me! I'm not that evil purple dinosaur who should quit brainwashing children and just drop dead.

I was about to say something when a strange noise made me stop.

Mahiru seemed to notice it too because she remained silent.

It sounded like…

Snoring?

And it was coming from the tree! Since when the hell do trees snore! Sure, there was that tree in Charlie Brown that ate kites, but that's a totally different subject and concept!

When I finally looked up, I immediately regretted it and wanted to bang my head against the trunk a couple of times.

Because, low and behold, there lay Mitsuru in the branches sleeping like a freakin' baby.

I'm going to kill him with the megaphone. Have absolutely no idea how I'll do that, but you can bet your lifesavings that I'll think of something extremely creative, torturous, and painful.

But Mahiru seemed a lot more relieved then pissed off. Which is to be expected since it was her future boyfriend that had gone 'missing'. "Mitsuru! Oh thank goodness! We were so worried!"

"'We'? Who said anything about 'we'? I'm going to beat the little punk until he bleeds organs!"

(If that made any sense to you at all, levante tu mano. And there's the Spanish kicking in again. Goddamn it)

Mahiru and I got into a bit of a tiff after I said that and it almost turned into a screaming match (I'd hate to see what this would look like to a bystander), but it immediately deflated when Mitsuru leapt from the tree looking none to happy.

"What the hell are you two idiots yelling about?" he asked while rubbing sleep from his eyes. I want to know how the hell he managed to sleep through the majority of our argument. But I'll worry about that later.

"We were scoping the whole freakin' country for you! You had us worried sick! What the hell possessed you to take a nap in a tree anyway!" There's that 'w' word again. I've been using that a lot lately, whether out of my own free will or not. And that's scaring me.

"You were the one blabbing with Mahiru the whole time! I thought this was supposed to be our second date or some crap like that!" he yelled.

Silence. And then the thumping of a megaphone being dropped on the ground.

Two words: Holy shit.

Thank god I carry around that tape recorder, 'cause I'm sure going to need it later tonight.

I don't think Mitsuru even realized what he just said.

Obviously Mahiru did because she's now all smiles and slightly pink.

Two Apocalypses in one week. I think that's record-breaking.

But whether it is or isn't, I don't give a damn because Mitsuru is finally making progress!

The date may have been a complete failure, but at least I have more evidence against Mitsuru's 'hate' for Mahiru.

Surprise.

Today was a good day. Mostly.

A/N: Mitsuru is finally getting out of his shell. Next chapter will be up soon! Reviews are greatly appreciated!

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