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Author's note: There is a cameo appearance of Weiss Kreuz! Thanks lambs for the idea!
Geranium
Part 1.
A loud shriek interrupted the quiet neighborhood.
Minako was jumping up and down, like a teenage fan girl.
Well, she is a teenage girl. But never mind that, Minako was
bouncing up and down with joy. She was happy that her
'theory' was right.
"I knew it Hotohori!11111" shrieked Minako, Ami and Makoto
are trying to calm her down, "You didn't believe me! I knew it!
I knew it! I knew it!"
"Hold on Minako," Rei said, she was starting to get a headache
from Minako's screamings, "You didn't let me finish."
"Mina-P," Usagi said, grabbing a cookie from the plate,"You never
told me and Ami-chan about this theory of yours!"
"Well, since you asked so nicely Usa-chan," Minako changed in
her 'scientist outfit' super fast, "I told Rei-chan here that Hotohori,
The King of Juuban, is Rei's secret admirer! And that he's the one
who's been sending all the flowers!"
"Minako will you let me finish!" Rei said, she was getting very
irritated, Minako shrunk back to her seat, "I believe Tasuki may
also be the secret admirer."
Silence.
"Your joking, right?" Minako asked, breaking the silence, she
had a crooked smile, she was unsure whether she was joking
or not, "Rei-chan? Please don't tell me your actually serious?'
"Yes," Rei said, she crossed her arms, "I'm serious."
Another silence.
"When I told Tasuki that I knew Hotohori is my admirer," Rei
paused, remembering back what happened a few days ago,
"He started to act... funny."
"Maybe Tasuki knew that Hotohori is your admirer?" Ami said
looking down at her US History Textbook, "And he didn't want
you to know it was Hotohori."
"But he looked relieved when I told him that Hotohori
was my admirer!" Rei said, she crossed her arms, "If I didn't
know any better I'd think he is my admirer!"
"Your eyes may decieve you, Rei-chan," Usagi spoke, after eating
a cookie, "You shouldn't believe what you see."Usagi remembered
what her old fortune cookie told her, "You should get
your facts right Rei-chan."
"Well then we should get our facts!" Minako exclaimed, she felt
pumped up, "We'll go to EVERY SINGLE flower shop here
in TOKYO!"
"W-wait Minako," Ami tried to stop the pumped up Minako,
"I think what Usagi was trying to say--"
"Too late!" Minako said, grabbing Ami and Rei, "Let's go!"
Makoto and Usagi looked at each other and shrugged.
Looks like they had no choice, they followed Minako.
'It's gonna take forever to go through ALL the flower
shop.' Makoto and Usagi thought simultaneously. But
nothing was gonna stop Minako.
After 17 flower shops later...
Ken Hidaka sighed, "Let me get this straight," he said slowly,
he was talking to an indecisive customer, "You want the red
and white roses, forget-me-not's, and wisterias...NO red roses?
Okay...So then it's 6 white roses, 4 forget-me-not's, wisteria's for
accent and a blue ribbon...Yes, I got it... Thank you very much...
Yes, you too."
Ken Hidaka set down the phone. He quickly wrote down in his
note pad the order and grabbed the 6 white roses, "Hey Aya! Could
I get 4 forget-me-not's and wisteria for the accent all tied to a blue
ribbon...?"
Aya blinked in surprise. He pulled out a yard of brightly colored paper,
sliding a pair of scissors across the paper with ease. Aya grabbed
the small handful of forget-me-not's and two or three wisterias hanging
out on the back. He quickly grabbed the white roses away from Ken
and wrapped them all together. But he was missing one thing.
"You forgot the blue ribbon, Aya," Omi grinned, he pulled out a
blue ribbon near the bright colored paper.
"Ah yes," Aya said, taking away the ribbon, "Thank you, Omi."
Minako busted through door dragging Ami and Rei to the
Koneko no Sumu le. Makoto and Usagi worned out and tired
following Minako. Minako pointed to Ken, because he was at
the counter.
"You! Have you seen a long beautiful man with dark brown hair
here in your shop?" she asked, she was still pointing to Ken
"Or a man with flame colored hair with fangs?"
Ken blinked. He didn't know what to say, his gaze turned to Rei,
"Miss Rei Hino?" he asked.
Rei blinked in surprise, "Yes?"
"An admirer wanted to give you this flower," Ken said. Aya
grabbed a geranium and gave it too Rei, "Originally, YOUJI,"
he emphasized, Ken lookedaround to see if he was here,
Youji was nowhere around, "Was suppose to deliver
your flower."
"Well," Ami said, "At least we know where he gets the flowers,"
"I guess," Omi spoke, he finished talking to one of the customers
and he overheard the conversation, "But he always hides his
face and hair with a kitsune mask."
"Maa...Who owns a Kitsune mask?" Usagi asked to no one
in particular.
"I know Tasuki doesn't," Rei muttered, she's been over to his
home plently of times,"So that crosses him out."
"HA! I was right!" Minako shouted, scaring some of
the customers in the Koneko no Sumu le, she knew
that her theory was correct, "YOU wouldn't admit it!"
"It could be a burrowed mask," Ami said, she looked
over to the tulips, "Chichiri-san owns alot of masks and
Tasuki's friends with him."
"Isn't Chichiri-san your boyfriend, Ami-chan?" Usagi
asked, she went over to the red roses section.
Ami blushed, "Chichiri-san is just my tutor Usagi!'
her face looked like a tomato. Minako looked at Ami
suspisciously, thinking of something. Then, she turned
back to Rei.
"Rei-chan, what does a geranium mean?" Minako
asked, "Does it mean 'I want to spend my life with you'
or 'Meet me in a romantic place' or anything romantic-y
or something like that?"
Rei froze, she didn't say anything. She was too deep in
thought to answer Minako's question. Makoto who was
done looking at the Lillies section, went over to Rei.
"Minako," Makoto said, like Rei, she also knows the
meanings of flowers, Makoto looked very serious,
"A geranium means, 'stupidity or folly'."
To be continued...
Author's Note: I decided to seperate it into two chapters, because I'm lazy! AND need to catch up on some of my work. I'll update it really soon though. Please read and review!
