An Interesting Turn of Events
Kurama tediously pulled on his school uniform and sighed at himself in the mirror as he ran the brush though his silken strands of blood-red hair. He looked away when he felt Yoko look at him through his eyes.
Yoko seemed to be angered by the fact that Shuichi would settle for a girl he didn't even like. He pushed at Shuichi to just take what he liked just like in the old days.
"Shuichi dear, are you ready for school? I can give you a ride today if you like." His mother called up to him from the bottom of the stairs.
"No thank you, mother but I appreciate the offer." Kurama smiled slightly and walked out of the bathroom and headed out the door grabbing his bag on the way out.
Kurama calmly walked to school without waiting for Botan and slowly walked up to Kaitou. "So the fair is coming up. Are you going to ask Botan?" he asked and pushed his glasses back up to sit right on his face.
"Actually, I am going to ask Maya to go with me." Kurama said almost proudly.
Kaitou took a step back and gaped at him with wide eyes. "M-Maya? You are going to ask Maya? I don't understand this."
"You don't have to." Kurama smiled and walked into the school and toward his first class.
Later that day Botan walked up to her locker and saw Kurama standing next to Maya and frowned. 'I can't do this.' She thought but the voice of Mariah stuck out in the back of her mind. 'I have to try.'
"Oh, hello Shuichi." Maya turned around and smiled up at him and Botan found herself becoming very jealous but she held it in as she put her books away slowly so she could hear what was being said. "Did you need help with something?"
"Actually I was trying to get up the nerve to ask you something." Kurama smiled back at her. "Will you accompany me to the festival this weekend, I know it is short notice and you probably have a date already-"he didn't have to finish for she jumped on him and hugged him tightly.
"I would love to!" she squealed like a field mouse being picked off by a hawk. "Oh Shuichi I have been hoping you would ask me. I am so happy. Now let's talk about our costumes; I was thinking we should match. There are these…" the voice faded as Botan backed away from them. Tears formed in her eyes and she turned to run only to bump into Kaitou
"Oh, sorry." Botan gave a bow
"It's okay. What's wrong?" Kaitou asked her. "I know testing week can be stressful, well for some people" He smiled proudly, "but that's no reason to cry."
"It's not about testing. It's about the festival."
"Oh, what about it?" he asked
"I have no one to go with, the only person I know is Kurama and he has a date with Maya," she paused and looked up at him, "Wait, I know you!" she smiled and her tears evaporated instantly. "Will you go with me, Kaitou?"
He stood back and thought for a moment, 'Kurama loves her, I just know it, but heDIDaskMaya so I don't think he will mind if I went with Botan.' He smiled at her and nodded, "Botan, I would love to go with you. Though I think you can do better than me. I mean I have never been asked that's got to tell you something."
"Oh Nonsense, You will make a fine date. So how do these festival things work, I have only seen them from… You know." She pointed up
"Well we can wear costumes if you like and we go to different booths and play games or eat. They are to celebrate the end of testing. I am sure you will enjoy it."
"It sounds like fun. I can't wait." she smiled, "so about those costumes, what could we dress up like?"
"A lot of couples are dressing like couples in fairy tails."
"I want to be Cinderella, of all the fairy tails I've heard, I like that one the most." she smiled and winked, "you get to be... Prince Charming." he blushed at this and nodded. "I will come over to your house after school and we can work on them, Okay." she smiled and ran off to her last class.
After school Kurama walked home and paused when he saw Botan waiting for him on his front step. "Botan." He smiled and stopped in front of her. "Good, I have something to tell you..."
"I know, the whole school is talking about it. I am happy for you." she smiled
"H-how in the world did the whole school find out about that?" Kurama whitened in fear.
"Oh come on, did you think Maya wouldn't tell everyone?"
"OH. Thank god." Kurama smiled anew. "I thought you were talking about killing the rapist... which, by the way, I didn't do."
"Really!" she smiled and hugged him tightly, I am so Proud of you." she let go suddenly and he frowned. "Oh, I came here to ask you for directions."
"Directions?"
"Yeah, since you and Kaitou are such good friends, I thought you could tell me how to get to his house. You see we are going to pick out our costumes today." she smiled brightly
"W-what costumes?"
"The ones for the festival, silly." she said
"Oh, h-he lives two blocks that way in the blue house. It's the only one that looks like that, you'll see it. So you and Kaitou are going to the festival?"
"Yeah, I asked him today." She nodded, "thank you." she smiled and walked off. "I'll see you."
"See you." Kurama stood there waving at her dumbfounded, 'She's in love with Kaitou? That's who she was talking about?' his heart sunk.