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Chapter 4

That weekend had Tsukushi was running around the house throwing her minimal clothing into her bag.

"Susumu! Have you finished packing?" she asked barely hearing his reply as she was already in her room throwing clothes around once more.

"That's the last time I trust Doumyouji to getting me home in time!" she growled.

She'd spent the night in his apartment since he moved out of his mother's house and was living alone. He'd asked her to move in with him but she refused blushing and sputtering things about it being inappropriate.

Susumu came into her room "Hey sis. Doumyouji's here to pick us up."

She nodded and made a check list:

"Bathing suit check

Sun block check

How many shorts do I have…. 1,2,3,4,5…

Shirts… 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… okay…

Um…. Lotion… lotion, ah hah! Got it.

Ah… make up I'm never gonna use…

Jeans check

Three summer dresses check

Sandals check

Sneakers check

Underwear… 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12… I hope he has a washing machine…

Bras… 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9…

Hair ties…

Ah… I think I got it all."

She closed her bag and struggled for a few minutes to close it. She picked it up and cursed lightly 'Who knew clothes weighed so much.'

She turned and barely stopped the scream that erupted from her mouth. Doumyouji was leaning against her doorframe, arms crossed, smirk tugging at his lips.

"Doumyouji! Are you trying to kill me!?" she half yelled half gasped as she hit him across the chest.

He laughed and grabbed her hand "Need help?"

He took her bag and despite it's weight he carried it with such ease she half wondered if it was as heavy as she thought it was.

Susumu popped up behind her boyfriend "Come on! The other guys are getting impatient."

Tsukushi crammed herself in between her brother and Doumyouji in back seat with Rui. Soujirou was up front with Akira totally oblivious to the occupants of the backseats discomfort.

Rui accidentally shoved his elbow into Susumu as he tried to adjust his seating so to give the others more room and to make himself more comfortable. Susumu gasped and hit Rui in the ribs back thinking he did it on purpose. Rui, feeling unlike himself that day, shoved him back. Susumu shoved him and soon they were shoving each other mercilessly. Tsukushi, tired of getting an elbow in the back, shoved the Susumu hard causing him to crash into Rui. Doumyouji was pushed into the side of the car being Tsukushi's leverage, he grunted and tired of being jostled all over the place grabbed Makino by the waist and hauled her onto his lap giving Rui and Susumu room.

All but one of the occupants of the backseat sighed. Makino's face flamed at being seated on Doumyouji's lap like a child.

Susumu glanced around and spotted Doumyouji's Cruise Ship "Hey wow! I forgot how big it was!" He leaned over and laughed out loud "Hey look! He renamed it!"

They all looked over and started laughing. In big bold letters it read "Tsukushi."

Tsukushi blushed a deep red and elbowed him in the ribs "You named you're ship after me and you didn't tell me."

Soujirou suddenly burst out laughing "I guess we'll all be riding Tsukushi for the next month eh."

Five people looked at him oddly.

"Well unless you have- OH!" Rui said, his face going red. At his reaction a light bulb went off in Akira's head and he suddenly starting laughing with Soujirou.

Realization dawned on Doumyouji and he promptly banged Akira and Soujirou's heads together almost causing them to crash seeing as to how Soujirou was the driver.

Tsukushi boarded the ship and withheld a groan at the sight of Asai and her crew. She gave Doumyouji a pointed glance and he withered under her glare and laughed uneasily "Hey now. Come on! What do you say about a tripe?"

Tsukushi paused her glaring… tripe?

Soujirou shook his head "The word's truce idiot."

Doumyouji punched him in the head "Shut up!"

Tsukushi shook her head and walked off to her room ignoring Doumyouji's ranting.

The room was huge! At least the size of her apartment and that was just the bedroom. A living room complete with a couch and TV was in the next room and then a large bathroom with a ten person Jacuzzi. Tsukushi was just putting her clothes into the dresser when she heard the door open and close in the next room. She poked her head out of the bedroom and saw Doumyouji come in carrying his bags muttering something about stupid inept servants. She sweat dropped at the sight of his one carryon bag.

"Um, two things. One: where's all your luggage and two: what are you doing in my room?" she said holding up her hand showing two fingers.

Doumyouji put his bag on the bed "Why carry clothes when you can just buy it when you get there, saves room and time. As for the other thing, we're sharing rooms. There's only fifteen rooms and they're all occupied."

Tsukushi rolled her eyes, 'only?' she thought then said "Share a room with Rui or Susumu."

He rolled his eyes "Rui hogs the blankets and Susumu snores."

"Deal with it!"

"Why don't you?"

"Share a room with Rui?"

"NO! With Susumu!"

"Fine!"

"Huh?"

Before he knew it Tsukushi was out the door and in Susumu's room.

"Sharing a room with you. I get the bed."

"What?"

Why did he have to bring them? She asked herself for the tenth time that day. Asai and her crew were constantly vying for Doumyouji's attention, clinging to him, asking him to help them with little things and such. She frowned as Asai feigned a fall and had Doumyouji catch her, or at least it would have worked if Doumyouji were any other guy and had a little bit of chivalry in him. Rolling her eyes she sat back on the beach chair and let the sun warm her skin.

Rui sat on the other chair next to her and watched Susumu do a cannonball off the diving board and into the pool splashing Soujirou and Akira.

"Funny how Soujirou and Akira are years older then Susumu and yet their maturity level is almost exactly the same," he said watching the younger boy fit in with ease with his best friends.

Tsukushi watched too, a small smile tugging at the ends of her lips "Susumu has had a hard life, he had to mature so fast to survive. Living on his own so much because I was… am, always working. He cooks dinner for us most of the time now that he knows how."

Rui nodded "And Akira and Soujirou didn't have to grow up at all."

The red head turned his green eyes to her "That why you brought him this time?"

Tsukushi nodded "Yeah, he needs a break as much as I do. Plus I can finally bring him out in public without humiliating myself."

Rui chuckled remembering the hyperactive boy.

"How's rooming with Doumyouji? He need any pointers? Do you?" he asked laughing at the furious blush that arose in her cheeks.

Tsukushi huffed and crossed her arms hiding her red face.

Rui smiled "Seriously though. Akira and Soujirou will be glad to help if either of you need any help."

Tsukushi turned a deeper red and glared at him "I am perfectly capable of handling Doumyouji."

Rui burst out laughing and Tsukushi, who just realized what she insinuated, turned her back to the laughing boy and ignoring his half-assed apologies.

Tsukushi looked out at the endless sea. She leaned over the edge and stared transfixed at bubbling white foam that the boat conjured; from a deep navy blue to a limy green to a snowy white. The salty water sprayed every so often on her face and she smiled, it felt very open out here. Nothing pressing down on her for miles and miles around. She looked out and screamed in delight as she saw the sleek gray backs of dolphins leaping out of the waters.

She turned and spotted Doumyouji "Doumyouji! Come here!"

He sauntered over "What's up?"

She pointed down and at the dolphins "Look! Dolphins!"

Doumyouji looked down and shrugged "I've seen them countless times on my cruises."

Tsukushi frowned at him "Well I haven't!" She snarled and crossed her arms walking away and to her room.

She lay on her bed and stared up at the creamy white ceiling. Tsukushi sighed angrily and turned over onto her stomach. Everything was getting on her last nerve already. The sheets felt tight and oppressive under her, jerking themselves around her, clinging to her like angry hands, the white ceiling was too bright, the noises were too loud, and everything smelt like him! She growled at hit the pillow imagining his wormy headed face. First he flirts with every girl aboard, then he totally ignores her the whole day and the only time he does speak to her was to undermine her joyful discovery! What a jerk! She hit the pillow but that wasn't enough any more, she hurled it across the room momentarily satisfied at the loud thump it made.

"What the hell is his problem? He knows how mean those girls are to me and he still invites them and he even spends more time with them then me. He knows how evil they are and yet he doesn't care. He doesn't care that they're horrid to me, he doesn't care that they call me bad names and put me down. Isn't he supposed to protect me from that, not that I need it but it'd be nice to see him care. He allows it and doesn't do anything about it!" Talking comforted her. It filled the emptiness in her that seemed rather unfixable. Closing her eyes she sighed, all that ranting really makes you tired.

At the doorway, out of the line of her sight and red headed boy with piercing green eyes filled with love and despair watched her. Love for her and despair at the fact that he could do nothing to help her. Rui had seen her get mad at Doumyouji and had followed her to see if she needed comforting. It was all he could do. Comfort. He couldn't allow himself to love her, it'd never be returned. He couldn't be anything more then a friend. He cursed his stupidity, he loved Shizuka still, he always would but now his heart longed for Tsukushi. The field had been reversed without his realizing it, the roles switched and the irony revealed but he was still in the middle.

When Tsukushi had loved and longed for him, he too loved her back but he longed for what he could not have, Shizuka. But now, now that he finally had Shizuka pining for his love he now longed for Tsukushi but she was now the one he could not have, the irony of his situation, the cruel semblance of the turn of events, disturbed him. Why him? Had no control of his feelings? Guess not because if he did he'd be with Shizuka, the perfect woman in all aspects but he didn't love her like he used to. The years she had taken to finally realize that he was the one, he had fallen out of love with her but he too had taken too long to figure out Tsukushi was the one he was meant to love. The girl, no, woman he was destined for. The only question is, would she figure that out in time before he fell out of love with her?

Uh Oh!

What's going on? Where will it lead?

Rui's in love? Oh my!

Dum Dum Dum!

Heh heh.

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