Chapter 9; The Fun Festival

As the chapter is entitled 'the fun festival' I thought 'maybe we should have some fun?' So I have a question for you readers, and here it is:

What do you think of my OCs? Are they annoying and unnecessary? Are they amusing? I want to know, because I want to know.

Neko: Stingy, aren't we? The guardian and the p instead of o thing were not made because I'm Swedish. They were made because I didn't read through the chapter properly. Anyone, even an American, could've done that mistake. Therefore, if I have someone edit the chapters, wouldn't it be fine with anyone beside me who knows English and likes furuba? I'm glad you like my story, though.

Krissy119: Who knows? I do, but I'm not telling! (Laughs evilly) But seriously, you'll find out in the next chapter!

Kyo lover: Why would that be gross? Because Yuki looks like a girl? Actually, I thought he was a girl the first time I saw him. Don't tell him that, though…

Another obsessed kyo fan: I don't know why you're not surprised. Maybe you're just not that easily surprised?

On with the story…

The fun festival was the best place to go and have fun. That is, if you were looking for a dump with greasy, incredibly expensive yet bad tasting pizza slices, bad and dangerous rides and a way to get intoxicated by all the fumes from all the festival workers who let their cars engines running, just because they didn't have to pay for the gasoline.

Yes, it was a suicide festival.

Of course, the elderly just loved the dance, which was from 6 pm to 7 pm. anyone younger than 60 was not allowed in.

By the ferries wheel, Kyo was sitting on a bench, wondering how the hell he ended up there. He didn't want to go, but his mother had made him go… with the look. Why? Let's go back and take a look!

Insert bad flashback sequence

"But I don't want to go!" Kyo said angrily. He wasn't going to give up! There was no way he was going!

Keiko looked at him and gave him the look. Yes, the look. That horrible look parents give their children that says: "I am your mother, your life-giver, your provider. Do you really want me to be sad?" Yes, that look.

"Kyo-chan, you wouldn't want to hurt your dear old mother, now would you?" Someone asked. Kyo wasn't sure who exactly who it was, but it was someone… a man. Hughes Owen?

"No" Kyo answered absent-mindedly without looking at the Owen person.

"Then I think you should come to the festival with us."

Insert bad flashback sequence again

So here he was, together with his mum, his little sister, his little sisters best friend Hughes Akira and her dad Hughes Owen. Not only that, but his entire family had left him to wait for them on a bench! He was so pissed off.

"Bored?" Kyoko's voice asked from behind him. A light flickered and she appeared.

"Yeah." He replied without looking at her. Instead he buried his face in his hands. "And I'm pissed too."

"You need to pee?"

Kyo looked at her and frowned. "No! Shut up!" He snarled. Pissing him off even more was not a very good thing to do.

Just then, he heard something he'd longed to hear for so long. A happy laugh coming from no other than the woman of his dreams; Honda Tohru. Kyo wanted to run up to her and kiss her on the spot, and he was about to when he realized he was 16 and not the same Kyo he was 16 years ago.

While cursing his body, he decided he would just be content watching her have fun. Yes, he was going to spy on her.

So he ended up in a bush, using his cat-like grace to spy on his loved one without getting caught. When he realized she was laughing with Shigure, Ayame and Yuki, he got a little sulky though.

"Kyo-chan, it's not nice to spy on people!" Kyoko said to him matter-of-factly. Kyo ignored her. She said it again. Kyo continued to ignore her.

"Fine!" She shouted when she got fed up with it. "Be that way! See if I care!" And she disappeared.

In the mean time Tohru, Yuki, Ayame and Shigure were totally unaware of Kyo's lurking presence. Well, Shigure was somewhat aware of it, but because he thought it would be amusing to see how his spying would turn out, he didn't say anything.

"Hey, hey, let's go on that ride!" Shigure said with one of his infamous grins-things that made him look stupid.

Tohru looked at where he was pointing; a big, fast looking rollercoaster. It didn't look very safe. At all. "Ehh… I don't know…"

"You don't want to go on it, Honda-san?" Yuki asked, concerned.

"Um, well…" Tohru looked at Shigure, who really wanted to go. Tohru could tell by his ecstatic jumping. "No! I'll go! I must conquer my fears!" She said proudly with a determined expression.

"Brother," Ayame, who hadn't really been moving at all for awhile, swooned with anime sparkles and flowers surrounding him for some reason. "You must sit beside me!"

"I'd rather not…" Yuki trailed off and looked at Tohru. He'd much rather go with her.

"Now, now, little brother! You must not disobey your older sibling!" Ayame almost yelled while he forcefully dragged Yuki along towards the rollercoaster called The KaNoNNNnN! Yes.

Shigure shrugged. "I guess it's you and me, Tohru-kun!" then he dragged her along like Ayame did with Yuki while muttering something about flowers and happiness.

It was hard to believe Ayame and Shigure were old men…

Meanwhile, Mother and Daughter were having a great time. At least, mother was. Daughter was only walking around with Akira, not being old enough to go on any rides.

But back to mother, shall we? Mother was enjoying spending time with one of her best friends, Hughes Owen. Oh, how she treasured that rainy day about a year ago when they met on the soccer pitch. Thank god she had a daughter with athletic abilities.

Mother was actually enjoying herself so much she forgot that she had two kids, one of them gone and the other one bored out of her mind. But let's forget about kids! Keiko had her own life, right? Not many mothers have their own lives!

"What do you want to do next?" Owens voice said from somewhere above her.

"Let's go to that rainbow over there!" Keiko said dreamily. There was no rainbow. Keiko was flying above pink clouds in her own little world where only she and Owen existed. Was this love, she wondered?

"What… rainbow?" Owen asked confused and looked around for a rainbow.

"Oh!" Keiko snapped out of her daze. "Err… did I say rainbow? I meant," She looked around furiously for something to ride. "The tunnel of love!" She said fast before she even realized it.

Oh, shit, she thought when she realized it.

Owen laughed in that cool kind of way only cool people laugh in. You know, the cool guys in shojou mangas the heroine always falls in love with? Yeah, the annoying ones.

"Okay." He said calmly before he grasped her hand and made her heart go 'doki doki'. "Let's go!"

Meanwhile, back in the bushes, our favourite orange cat was starting to turn yellow of inpatient-ness. But not really. He was inpatient, though.

Tapping his finger against his arm, he sighed deeply. "Where are they?" He asked nobody in particular.

Nobody in particular laughed as a reply. "Kyo-chan! I told you only bad things come from spying!"

"No, you didn't! You told me it's not nice to spy on other people." Kyo replied, staring out at the crowd of people walking past him.

"You know, Kyo-chan," Kyoko said slowly.

"Hm?" Kyo replied. He didn't really care.

"You're going to be pretty mad at me for this…" Kyoko continued.

"What?"

"Tohru just went with Yuki that way a couple of minutes ago." Kyoko finished, pointing to her left.

"WHAT?" Kyo hollered. It's been a while since he hollered last, don't you think? "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER?"

Kyoko shrugged. "You seemed so obsessed with watching the crowd." She stated.

"SHUT UP!"

Using his cat senses, e quickly got up and ran towards the direction Kyoko was pointing. Okay, so maybe it wasn't his cat senses, maybe it was his human senses, but that's not the point! The point is, he got up and ran after Yuki and Tohru.

Meanwhile, in the tunnel of love it was dark. Very dark. And as a woman, Keiko knew how to take that to her advantage.

"Owen-kun I'm scared." She stated, without actually sounding scared. At all. No, Sohma Keiko was not a good actress.

Owen, however, wrapped his arm around her to comfort her. "There, there." He said and patted her on her head. "It's only a tunnel of love."

I know, Keiko thought with a cat-like expression. In fact, I'm not afraid at all! I just want to stun you with my lady-like charm.

And all the readers, including the author, gasped in surprise. Lady-like charm? Since when did Keiko have lady-like charm? Oh well.

Why is this tunnel of love so dark? Keiko continued her inner monologue. I can't even see Owen, and I want to see him. Damn. Damn, damn, damn!

"What are you cursing about?" Owen asked.

Oh, shit, Keiko thought. I said it out loud?

"Ehh, um, well" She stammered, but her stammering was silenced by a pair of lips.

Meanwhile, Yuki was leading Tohru to a special place with this explanation: "I want to tell you something."

He was going to do it! He was actually going to do it! If he was Shigure or Ayame, he would've jumped of joy. But he didn't, because he was Yuki, the prince! Calm and collected as he was, he carefully led her away from the lights of the crap-festival by the wrist.

And in a bush not so far away, Kyo had spotted them and was now using his cat senses to the max, because if Yuki discovered him with his awesomeness, Kyo would be toast. And Kyo didn't like toast.

"Look at him," He muttered bitterly. "Holding her hand, leading her away from the eyes of others…" Kyo had to fight the urge not to shout "BACK AWAY FROM MY WOMAN, KUSO-NEZUMI!"

And it was a good thing he fought it so skill fully, because if he would've screamed that, he would be toast. And like the author stated before; Kyo didn't like toast.

Finally, they stopped in the middle of a meadow Kyo didn't even know existed. It was a beautiful meadow. Like a Zelda meadow with green little fairy-things floating around. But not really. It was just an ordinary meadow.

Kyo made himself comfortable under a bush where he could see, but not be seen. Or so he thought. It was a good thing none of the adults were looking in his direction.

"Honda-san." Yuki started, smiling and looking like a girl. "I have something I need to tell you."

"OH! Is it about dinner tomorrow?" Tohru said loudly, somehow knowing what this was leading to. "I was thinking maybe I could cook some chicken and-"

"Honda-san, listen to me." Yuki cut her off. "Please?"

Tohru looked at him, not wanting to know what he was going to say before she nodded.

Yuki took a deep breath before he continued. "Honda-san."

Silence.

"Yes?"

"Err… eehh…" Damn it, Yuki, stop screwing around! Tell her! Tell her! "I l-…"

Only two words to go, Yuki. For some reason, the voice talking to him was feminine.

Oh no! Yuki thought in despair. Why do I have a feminine inner voice? Am I some kind of weirdo? I know I kind of look feminine and all, but to have a feminine inner voice? Maybe I was born a woman, but Hatori somehow made me a man because Akito wanted him to!

This is not the time to be worrying about that, you idiot! Tell her now! The feminine voice yelled.

"Oh, yes." Yuki said aloud.

"Oh, yes?" Tohru reached up to his forehead. "Are you sick, Sohma-kun? You're acting kind of strange."

"Ah… n-no," He paused and looked at her worried face. "Honda-san." He leaned closer and kissed her.

This surprised Tohru so much she couldn't do anything else than just stand there. It surprised Kyo so much he could only lie there. Oh my, they froze!

Tohru was the fist one to un-freeze. She pushed him away an arm length and without looking at him she was about to say: "I'm sorry, Sohma-kun" and run off.

But she was interrupted by an orange colour running away.

Kyo? She thought. A sudden guilt filled her for some reason and she felt she had to explain what happened. Why was that?

"I'm sorry, Sohma-kun!" She yelled and dashed off after the carrot top. Left alone was the poor, dumped nezumi.

Damn it, he thought.

Oh, the proud-ness! I've finished another chapter! Okay, so it took kind of long and maybe it wasn't the best thing I've ever written. But hey, I UPDATED! I've had a major writers block and the first part was physically painful for me to write.

Anyways, here's the part I forgot in the last chapter.

Explanation of Tohru's passing-out sequence:

First of all, Tohru passed out somewhere between Hanajima stating Megumi is engaged and Hanajima hugging Tohru.

When she passed out, Hanajima was an American talk show host. The reason for this is that the author pictured her that way. The author does not know why.

Then Mibu Kyoshiro appeared, mostly because the author loves Kyoshiro and wanted him to. At first, Kyoshiro was supposed to be some kind of nurse, but then the author thought "Wouldn't it be fun to do a couple of crossovers?" So she did. End of story.

But not really. Because then Kyoshiro transforms into Kyo, his evil, lean mean killing machine side. And to make it even MORE confusing, Kyo has his original body, hence the red hair and red eyes. At first, he was supposed to still be in Kyoshiro's body, but then the author thought: "Kyo and Kyo kind of look like each other when it comes to colours. Why not have Kyo have his own body?" So he got his own body, and he was very happy about it.

Kyoshiro said that Tohru and Shiina Yuya (also from Samurai Deeper Kyo) had the same voice. That was because they have the same voice actor in the Japanese animes.

Tohru runs through the forest and finds a mirror. It asks her if she wants to know if the is the prettiest lady in the world. This is another crossover: The mirror from Snow white. He appeared because the author wanted Tohru to see she was sixteen again. You'll find out why in the next chapter. Sort of.

Before Omine no Kyo is about to "slash Tohru up in tiny little pieces" he laughed evilly. Lol. Do you remember? That was because the author has a strange sense of humour and thought it was funny.

The whole sequence was about having Tohru miss Kyo. That could've been made very simple, but the author thought "Why not make this fun for me to write? I can mess with Tohru's mind!" So she did.

If you don't know, or haven't checked Samurai Deeper Kyo, I highly recommend that you do. It's a kick ass anime!

End of explanation.