A Glance Away by disilluzional88
Rated PG
Disclaimer: No... I don't own Imadoki.
A/N: i have two other fics up. one is a crossover between imadoki x alice 19th and the other one is for fruits basket. so please have a look at them and review!
"Chapter 6- "Chickens"
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"No way!!!" Koki exclaimed after hearing what Ryusaki told Tanpopo. "He's gotta be kidding me!"
Tanpopo smiled and said, "Nope."
He was becoming frustrated and all Tanpopo did was smile an idiotic smile. "What are you so happy about?! This is serious!"
Tanpopo appeared only semi-guilty. "Well, it's just that... I haven't had two guys fighting over me in a loooonnnnngggg time. Hehe..."
Koki was speechless but only for a little while. "You've had two guys fighting over you before?" He realized that he didn't know much about her past and now seemed like the right time to to just that.
She nodded her head and smiled. She just grinned like a moron.
"Aren't you going to tell me?" He asked flatly.
"Oh! Well, you see, back in Hokkaido, I had MANY boyfriends and--" Tanpopo looked at Koki who was just... um... staring and glaring. "What?!"
"Did I mishear you or something because I swear that I heard that you had lots of um... guy friends..."
"Yeah you did mishear me." she said and Koki seemed to relax and started to take a huge gulp of hot chocolate. But that was until she said, "Silly Koki. Not just guy friends... BOYFRIENDS!" Koki's chocolate milk came out the way it came causing Tanpopo to sit there with a bewildered expression on her face as she was sprayed with his drink.
She licked the outside of her lips, smiled again, and said, "MmMm... can I have some more? This is good stuff."
"ARGH!" He threw his hands up in the air in frustration.
"Does that mean I can't have any more? I'm sorta thir--"
"TANPOPO!" Koki interrupted and she looked up at him, questioning him. 'She just doesn't get it, does she?' he thought. "I just want you to go on with your past now. You know... ahem... about your uhh... past boyfriends."
"But I wanted some chocolate milk," she whined. Then she started to chant, "Chocolate milk! Chocolate milk! Chocolate milk!"
"ALRIGHT!" Koki said. He was deeply annoyed but he also knew this was what he loved about her. "Shiesh." he muttered and went up to make her some. When her highness finally got what she wanted, she sat there with a look of satisfaction.
"Ok, so where was I? Oh, right. So when I was in Hokkaido and in my 6th year, there were these two guys, Chiharu and Drew. Chiharu had been after me from the start and Drew had just transferred to our school from America. He was cute too!" Tanpopo said cheerfully. Koki eyed her silently, though in his head he was screaming. his head off.
"Soon Drew started hanging out with me and flirting and all of a sudden, here comes Chiharu getting all mad and stuff. Drew yelled out some things in English that he didn't understand and so he yelled out some things in Japanese, which Drew DID understand and that's how it all started. Then they started pulling on me and stuff and I just stood there, being tugged back and forth, smiling because I was enjoying their arguments over me. Hehe. In the end, I ended up choosing both of them. I don't think they liked that situation because they just gave me glares and walked away. Hmm... I think they became best friends afterwards... yup. They did. But it was all good because along came Toji, then GInta, then another foreigner named David, and so on and so forth. There. I'm all done now." Tanpopo finished with a big grin.
"BWAHAHAHAHA!!!" Koki couldn't help but laugh. It was all he could do. The picture in his mind made the whole thing hilarious. He clutched his stomach and Tanpopo just stared, her eyebrows raised.
"I'm sorry... ha.... it's just... hahaHA... it's just so funny!" Koki wouldn't stop cracking up so she whacked him with his very own scoop.
"OWW!!! Whaddya do that for?!" Koki exclaimed with a scowl as he rubbed the back of his head.
"You wouldn't quit laughing!" She argued.
"But that's my scoop! What if you dent it or something?!"
"Psh, you've hit plenty of guys with that thing. And all for me!" She seemed gleefully happy to note that what he did, he did for her.
Koki softened up and brushed a strand of hair behind Tanpopo's ear causing her to blush. Then he leaned forward and whispered into her ear, "Yes. Only for you."
"Koki..." Within a second, his lips were on hers, softly at first, then more urgently. Her arms circled around his neck as they kissed.
After what seemed to be the longest time, they finally broke away, flushed from head to toe, and gazed into each other's eyes.
"Uhh... Tanpopo...?"
"Yes?"
"I-I... um, I lo--" Koki began to say but a loud screeching noise interrupted him. Both Tanpopo and Koki went to the window and saw Ryusaki's car circling faster and faster on the street. Tanpopo looked horrified.
"Why does he have to be like this?! I change my mind, Koki. I don't like it when you two fight over me. I'm gonna tell him to back off because I KNOW who I want!" She started towards the door but Koki lightly grabbed her arm and told her to wait. When Tanpopo turned around, he saw tears in her eyes.
"I don't want anyone to get hurt and I don't like hurting people's feelings but this is going too far!" She yelled.
Koki took her into his arms again and stroked her hair. "Come on Tanpopo. Just ignore him for tonight." He looked into her eyes and said, "I'll take his challenge. If it's for you, I'll do it. I just want this over with." Sighing, she finally gave in and returned his embrace.
A few minutes later, they could hear Ryusaki's car speed away and they both let out sighs of relief.
Tanpopo looked up at him and asked, "Hey you were going to tell me something before. What was it?"
He turned red and shifted his feet. "I was gonna tell you... er... that... I... nevermind. Uh, it was nothing important," he said nervously.
Tanpopo smiled and said, "Chicken."
"I'm not--"
"Chicken! MoOoOo!"
Koki shook his head from side to side, did a retake, and said, "What?!"
"You're such a chicken. MoOoOo!" She said while flapping her arms.
He laughed. "Stupid! Chickens go 'cluck'."
"Not in my vocabulary. So are you gonna tell me what you were gonna say earlier? You better tell me." She said teasingly. Suddenly she became a whole new different person. She looked at him seductively and began to trail her fingers over his chest. Koki gulped, his eyes wide, as she looked deeper into his eyes.
"Err... Tanpopo..? Uh..." he started to say.
"You've been doing that a lot lately. Stuttering," she said, using the same seductive voice. Turning her head slightly she asked, "Nervous?"
He pulled on the collar of his shirt. "Uhh... m-maybe a l-little." His eyes darted to different parts of her apartment. "I-is it me or is it h-hot in here?"
She eyed him and replied, "Definitely you." Putting her arms around his neck, she softly kissed him. Suddenly, Koki, who was still a bit shocked in the way she was acting, responded and soon they were at it again.
It was as if he were in a trance and nothing could make him break away. All of a sudden, while they were, ahem, letting out their feelings, Koki absentmindedly whispered, "I love you, Tanpopo." Just as he was about to kiss her again, the trance was broken, when Tanpopo squealed, "OH I LOVE YOU TOO KOKI!" She was back to her normal self and Koki snapped out of lovey-dovey mode.
"Wait.. wha..?" He asked confused. He had been too drunk with love to function properly.
Tanpopo beamed. "You said you loved me!!! I knew I could get you to say it!" She jumped around happily then hugged Koki again. "Oh and if you couldn't hear me before, I said that I love you too!"
"Really?" He asked with a big grin on his face.
"Really really." This gave him access to another kiss. But just as they were getting their mood on, the doorbell rang.
'I am going to strangle whoever's at the door.' he thought irritatedly. He opened the door to find a grinning Aoi and Tsuki, whose arched eyebrows and blank look made him realize that they've heard every single thing that had been going on. He turned a deep shade of red.
"Heh heh, you guys wanna come in?" Koki asked nervously, straightening out his shirt.
Aoi said loudly, "Hmm, I'm not sure if I want to bother a couple who's getting their groove on. Maybe we should just leave..."
"HELL NO! We are staying!!!" Tsuki said as she rushed passed Koki and into the apartment. Before Koki went inside, Aoi pulled him to the side and said, "I'm glad things turned out well for you two. Really well."
Once they were all in the room, Tsuki yelled out, "What the hell are your clothes and stuff doing here?!"
Koki glanced at Tanpopo for help but she just looked down and the other way, pretending she couldn't hear anything.
He glared at the back of her head and said, "Well, I, um, I'm living here for a while."
"WHAT?!" Tsuki nearly screamed her brains out.
Aoi, on the other hand, raised his hand up for a high five while saying, "WAY to go Koki!!!" That resulted him in a serious head wound, made nonetheless by his angry girlfriend.
"Will you just shut up?!" she spat. Aoi scrunched up his face and stuck out his tongue.
"Don't make me go over ther--"
"Alright, alright already. Shiesh." he said then mumbled some things under his breath.
Tsuki chose to ignore those and continued on, "Yamazaki, what are you thinking?! You can't live with a guy yet. And ALONE."
"Well, you see Tsuki... uhh... we--"
Tsuki widened her eyes and exclaimed, "You guys didn't elope did you?!" She started pacing around mumbling things like "it's all my fault" and "stupid idiots" and more insults.
"You got it all wrong Tsuki."
Aoi couldn't help but point at her and say, "Haha! You're wrong!" Doom was written all over Tsuki's face as she seemed to tower over him.
"Ahhhhh!!! Spare me!!!! Go after them two. Please don't hurt me!"
Tanpopo muttered, "Aww, poor Flippy..."
Tsuki's penetrating glare went their way and Koki gulped an "uh-oh, we're doomed."
She took a minute to regain her composure. "Well, as I was saying, it isn't appropriate for you to be living in this kind of situation."
"It's because of Ryusaki!" Tanpopo blurted out.
"Oh really? And how does he fit into this?"
The ditz stated, "He's threatening Koki and Koki's here to protect me from him."
Tsuki seemed to loosen up and Aoi perked up his ears.
"He's threatening Koki?" Aoi asked with a familiar gleam in his eyes. "You want me to help? I feel like doing something evil."
'Uh oh.' Koki thought to himself remembering the last time he had "helped" them out.
"Sure!" Tanpopo said cheerfully.
Koki and Tsuki looked at her and shook their heads.
Aoi jumped up and yelled a "Yaahhhhooooo!!!! I'm gonna get myself some fun!"
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After school the next day, Koki, Tsuki, Tanpopo, and Aoi met Ryusaki in the parking lot. He arched his eyebrows as the group approached.
"Well, I didn't know Koki was chicken to face me by himself." He said as he leaned against his car.
Tanpopo smiled and said, "Moooo!"
Koki held back a giggle while Aoi burst out laughing.
"Haha, good one Yamazaki." He managed to say.
The creepy stalker smiled at Tanpopo. "I knew you couldn't wait to see me again."
Behind Tanpopo, Tsuki was yelling, "Let me at 'im! I'm gonna rip you apart!"
He just gave a low laugh. He was mocking her.
Tanpopo looked at him and declared, "I'm here to support Koki."
Ryusaki looked hurt but only for a little while. His lips curled up again. "This challenge isn't really a big one. It's just to see if you have the guts. Of course, I'll do it too but wouldn't be too surprised if you backed out now. I mean, I'll just get my sweetie all to myself."
Koki gazed at him stonily. "There is no way in hell I would leave Tanpopo to a guy like you."
"Ok then. Here's the--"
"I want a challenge too!!! I'm not just gonna stand here and watch you guys have all the fun." Aoi pouted.
Ryusaki pulled out a tiny blade and said, "Don't get in our business."
Aoi didn't even flinch. "Oh yeah?" He pulled out a small carving knife.
The enemy pulled out a knife slightly bigger than Aoi's but Aoi already had a bigger one. He grinned at him with a look that said admit-it-I'm-better-than-you.
Ryusaki got frustrated and surrendered. "Dammit. Fine! So, here's the deal. Koki, you've got to dress up as a girl and go around town today, selling cookies."
Koki wasn't sure if he heard him right. "Excuse me?"
"You heard me. You got to sell some cookies. Whoever sells the most cookies wins the girl."
"How would I know you wouldn't cheat?" Koki asked, trying to fool him.
"I'll be in the same area with you."
Aoi clapped his hands together and said giggling, "Aww, we'll all be so pretty!'
Tanpopo laughed along with him and agreed. "Yup. All so beautiful girls."
Tsuki gave an annoyed look and glared at Aoi.
Ryusaki glanced at Tanpopo and said, "You're gonna be all mine. And this challenge is only the first part."
"She is never going to be yours. I'll make sure of that." Koki said raising his voice.
"Well, we need to do this today and fast because the dance is tomorrow and I know Tanpopo would have to spend the whole day getting herself all gussied up. Am I right Tanpopo?"
She opened her mouth. "I'm going with Koki! And only Koki!!!"
"Not if he loses this one today. Of course, he'd have to win the other one too."
She and Tsuki both glared at him. It took all of Tsuki's strength to stay calm.
Ryusaki opened the trunk of his car and took out two uniforms. It consisted of a short sleeved top and a skirt. Koki became nervous.
"Umm, isn't that skirt a little too short?"
"Nope," Ryusaki replied as he smiled. "So here's one for you, and one for you Aoi." He also handed them wigs.
"Ohmigod. You guys are really gonna do this?" Tsuki asked. She looked as if she were going to burst out laughing.
"It's all in the fun." Aoi said happily.
"Yeah, for you..." Koki muttered under his breath. He looked at Tanpopo who was looking at him. He could tell she felt guilty but genuinely entertained. She shrugged her shoulders.
Ryusaki faced Koki and handed him a basket of cookies. "Well. What are we waiting for?"
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A/N: I apologize for making you guys wait. Especially Sakura1011 who was very persistent. LoL... but here ya go and please REVIEW. And I still have no clue about the costume for Koki. What should he dress up as? I really need some suggestions.