Reasons for Love
Yukari surveyed the scene in front of her as though she was off her face. Kenji shouted: "Damn! Why are you doing something like this? Sakako wrote that already! Damn!" He quickly vanished from sight.
Meanwhile, Tomo had recovered from her panic attack, and both she and Sakaki were sitting by the sided of the pool in their bikinis, Kagura was up to page 201 of her extremely popular manga (which somehow no-one else could care less about). They stared at each other while sipping their bottled piña coladas, which they had gotten Yukari to buy for them while she was down at the local.
"So… Tomo…"
Sakaki seemed distant. More distant than usual, in fact. Her eyes had glazed over, and although she was tanned, she looked more red than brown at the current moment.
"Sakaki… I just want to… thanks for saving me… I don't know how to thank you… But maybe… if we put our heads together… We can think of something."
Tomo, equally fazed, not her natural self, tried not to blush from looking at her now fairly intimate friend, however she failed miserably. Pink started to form a line under her eyes and over the bridge of her nose.
The two girls finished their drinks quickly and walked out of the pool area.
"I wonder where they're going?" Chiyo looked at Osaka, who didn't seem like the right person to ask.
Thinking she meant the clouds, Osaka gave a slow reply: "Probably to the other side of Japan…" Chiyo was stunned.
"What? What's over the other side of Japan?"
"A magical place, where they will unite into one…"
Chiyo didn't understand. "Are you suggesting something by that? What are the connotations?"
Osaka still didn't understand the question. "They will join into one body when they reach that place."
At that moment, Kagura finished reading, and the cloaked figures retrieved the weighty tome. On passing the two conversationalists, one of them mentioned the fact that clouds actually can dissipate into rain, thus never reaching that space. They both chuckled and left the area, almost following Sakaki and Tomo, who had joined hands.
Tomomanga Daioh
Sakaki and Tomo walked straight past the black cat sitting on the wall outside Tomo's house (which was quite big, Sakaki thought) and opened the doors. What Sakaki then saw was a single chamber, which seemed to expand into infinity.
"Welcome to my house! The stuff is all at the other end." Tomo made sure the room and Sakaki were acquainted, then proceeded to walk to the other end, where there seemed to be a number of objects. Sakaki walked towards them, and noticed that the entire contents of Tomo's house were held at the far end of this… room, she thought. There was a huge bed, a kitchen bench with an oven and a fridge, a cupboard (presumably full of food), a shower/bath complex and a TV with quite an impressive collection of anime. Two cloaked figures sat on the futon in front of the TV, watching something called Azumanga Daioh. Sakaki swore she could have heard her name, but she put it to blood loss hallucinations. The two figures chuckled, muttered something about "that bloody cat", and left the house.
"So… You live alone then…" Sakaki mused.
"Well, it's me, but because Yomi's parents are always fighting, she's usually here nights from about 12. That should give us about nine hours. What do you want me to do?"
Sakaki was probably the only one who didn't understand the connotation, and so she looked blankly and said, "I don't understand."
Tomo moved closer to Sakaki, and sensually moved her hands down the small of her back. "I want to make you happy, Sakaki. It's something I've always wanted to do, ever since I found you." She laid her head on Sakaki's shoulder, and whispered in her ear. "It's something that I share with a few others… It's just that… I'm not really into guys, you know? So… I want to…"
Sakaki placed her arm around the energetic girl's shoulders, looked her square in the eye and said sombrely, "Tomo."
After both of them were laid on the bed, Tomo looked at the taller girl and said just as soulfully, "Sakaki."
Yomi Drops In
Nine hours later, Sakaki and Tomo (having doffed their clothes) laid curled up on the futon in front of the TV, both asleep. The soft sounds of the Kare Kano soundtrack arose from the 6-stack CD player beside the TV. A window opened somewhere, and a girl wearing glasses entered quietly, calling: "Tomo, babe… I'm cold."
As she approached, she noticed a soft glow shining onto the futon, coming from the TV. She noticed her friend from school, Sakaki, lying there, completely open for all to see. She shed a tear, and ran out the front door. The two girls slept on.
Yotsuba…er… Yomi and Authors
After bursting through the door to the house where Sakako and Kenji lived, Yomi was quickly shot down by the plasma cannons mounted on the ceiling. She was returned safely to her own house, where she recovered fully, and all memories of this incident (and of her relationship with Tomo) could not be recovered.
(Sakako's note: Sorry this chapter took so long, I've been quite preoccupied with watching Captain Herlock and a few other things… By the way, the reason that Yomi was shot down is because she didn't get an appointment to see us. She's important to the epilogue, so I can't kill her off yet. By the way, keep your eye out for a GTO fanfiction, Great Driver Onizuka, a spinoff from the time when he took up a job as a truck driver. Enjoy )