Author: Kazumi Kairi or Kairi-chan
Kairi: Hello this is me Kazumi Kairi or Kairi-chan's speaking! Also I want to apologize for such a long wait for this chapter to update. Well you see there's a problem of the computer and I must wait until its fix. Anyway, here's the 12th chapter.
Type 012: Wonderful Night Festival"There's a nearby shrine in here?" Shinya asked.
Shinya, Tomoki and Kouji were on the dinning table eating their lunches. Kouichi has a flier on his hand and he was showing it to them who look too excited about the upcoming event that he had picked up. He just found it when he came from the next place where he could find the groceries. Izumi and Takuya also heard what the elder twin was saying. Then Izumi suddenly remembers.
"Oh that's right. Every year they held a night festival in the shrine to celebrate the Goddess' blessings." Izumi explained. "They say that the Goddess descended down the earth and brought good luck."
"That's sounds really exciting. How about going there guys?" said Takuya.
"As long as we finish our homework that should be okay." Kouji reminded them.
Takuya hanged his head down with animated tears on his eyes; he was dumbfounded of Kouji's reminder again. A heavy atmosphere suddenly appears around the messy brunette haired lad while he was muttering something rude. The others stared at him with a small sweat-drop above of their heads.
"But when does this festival starts, Kouichi-kun?" Izumi asks him.
"Supposedly tonight." The elder twin lad answered, "Maybe it's better if we do our homework first before going to this event."
"Even you too, Kouichi-niisan?" Tomoki whined.
"Demo Tomoki-kun, Kouichi-kun and Minamoto-kun are both right, at least we could finish two subjects should be fine." The blonde haired girl agreed.
Shinya and Tomoki were about to complain more but they were interrupted by Kouji's best impression of 'if-you-have-anymore-question-I'm-going-to-wring-your-necks-or-anything-worst' look. Then the two youngsters gave out no choice but to follow what the twins have suggested. Izumi smiled happily that everyone are agreeing in one thing then her face changed irritated as she looked at Takuya who was still depressing.
"If you stay like that and didn't do your homework, you're going to stay here while we'll go to the night festival." She informed him.
-Few hours later
The teens are doing their summer homework just what they're doing now. Shinya and Tomoki seem to be helping out at each other's difficulties on their homework even though they came from different schools. Takuya, Kouji, Kouichi and Izumi are doing fair enough on their homework, helping out at the same subject.
After for a while only Kouji and Izumi are on the table doing their home works together. And then they're done in their subject, they were both beaten up from writing and reading. The blonde haired beauty was glad that she finished it just in time. They were resting out then Izumi began to wonder about the boys' friendships.
"Say Minamoto-kun." She said.
"Call me 'Kouji', Orimoto-san. I'd like you to prefer calling it." Said the cold lad.
"…Okay then you'll have to call me 'Izumi' instead 'Orimoto'." She stated. "Anyway how'd you and Kouichi-kun meet Takuya-kun? It's been bugging me out for quite awhile."
Kouji stared at the blonde haired beauty with a very slight surprises look after hearing her questions. He had never thought that she would be interested to know of he and Kouichi's first meeting with Takuya from the past. Since he had no other choice but to answer her question sincerely, he took a deep breath and answered.
"It all started when we're only five years old, Kouichi and I got stuck in the woods of Hokkaido since it was Oniisan's fault that he dropped our one and only compass. Then we met Takuya who was fighting the Hokkaido Squirrels over some stupid nuts." He explained.
"Takuya-kun's fighting the harmless squirrels for food?" she repeated the word.
"Yeah and we thought it looked dumb for him to fight over that creatures. Anyway, Takuya noticed us and asked us why we're there. We've told him that we're lost. Then Takuya took us to his house that took us about FIVE minutes! And then we become friends, it was the best day ever." Kouji ended his story.
As the cold lone lad finished telling his tale, he saw Izumi's eyes were sparkling with stars on it and she was smiling too happily about their past. Kouji stared at her with a majority sweat-drop above his head.
"Sugoi da ne!" Izumi said. "Even you guys have been friends over the years; your strong friendship had never faded!"
"Umm… thanks." He said.
While the blonde beauty girl was enjoying the conservation with the cold lone wolf lad, outside of the room Kouichi was standing there behind the door. He was listening to the story about their first meeting with Takuya when they were small. The elder twin lad has a slight smile on his lips and gaze at the space.
"Things are getting on smoothly for now." He muttered.
-Later night
"YATTA! SUMMER NIGHT'S FESTIVAL!" Shinya, Tomoki and Takuya exclaimed excitedly.
They were in the shrine that could only take twenty minutes walked from there to take it. Just like what they've expected, the festival was filled with interesting stalls of games and food including some haunted house and fortune-telling house. The boys were wearing in their yukata that Izumi have founded them. Kouji was wearing in deep blue yukata without his blue bandana over his head but he still has his ponytail. Kouichi was wearing plain maroon ones. Takuya wears plain deep crimson with few red also he didn't wear his goggle over his head. Tomoki wears white yukata with a design of green teddy bears. Lastly Shinya wears light brown with a design of a hedgehog over it. The messy brunette haired lad was so obsessed looking at every stall. Kouji and Kouichi stared at the childish messy haired lad with irritated expressions.
"I'm getting embarrassed to be with that idiot." Kouji muttered.
"There you are boys!" Izumi's voice exclaimed.
Izumi appeared in running slowly; she was wearing in a cute white yukata with a decorated design of crescent moon and flowers. Instead of her untied blonde hairs she has her hair tied up in one braid while few bangs were left untied over her forehead and her ears. It really suited her beauty in that yukata.
"It seems you're getting pretty in that yukata, Izumi-neechan." Tomoki commented at Izumi's yukata.
"My thank you, Tomoki-kun." She answered, "You're cute in that yukata."
"Hey we're here to have fun not just standing and looking around!" Takuya called.
"WE ALL KNOW THAT LOUD MOUTH!" Kouji yelled back.
"Maa… maa… then which stall shall we go first?" asked Shinya nervously.
While Shinya and Tomoki are taking up their choices on the stalls with Kouichi, Izumi was going on a different path from them. She was looking at each of the stalls trying to find what interests on it yet she could not find it. Until she saw a cute plushie on the shelves from ring toss, the plushie was a cute white and black wolf that has cute black straps on its right paw.
"Kawaii! I'd better have that one." She whispers.
Izumi paid ten yen to the owner of he stall, she has six chances to toss the ring on the pole. She is full of confidence on getting the cute plushie and thought it would be a piece of cake to win the game. She threw one ring but she missed it. She threw it again but missed once more. Few veins starting to appear her head then she threw the remaining rings to the pole until she ran out of them.
"No fair… Why can't I get it?" she said, "Why can't I get the rings in the pole?"
The blonde haired beauty was half complaining about it, then she saw two rings were tossed in the poles perfectly that she had ever seen. She had never seen two rings were put in perfectly. Then another two rings were tossed in again once more. Izumi looked at her right side and gasped at the familiar person that was next to her. It was Kouji who was tossing it in the poles; he tossed the two remaining ones again until he ran out of it.
And we have the WINNER!" the owner announced, "Here's your prize."
"Um. Arigatou…" Kouji whispers.
"Sugoi! You were wonderful, Kouji-kun! I didn't know you were so good at ring toss game." Izumi commented him.
Kouji didn't say a word to the blonde beauty, only silence was his usual answer for him while staring at her surprisingly. Then he suddenly handed the wolf plushie to Izumi with his head away on meeting her eyes. Izumi was confused at the long blackish blue haired lad giving it to her. She looks at him curiously.
"You can have it, Izumi-san." He told her.
"Eh? Nade Kouji-kun? It's your prize…" she said.
"Why would a guy like me have this plushie?" Kouji said in an embarrassing tone, "And I just want you to have it a… as a gift of mine."
Izumi blinked her sapphire eyes two times no make it three times while staring at the wolf plushie then she looked at Kouji. From what she sees from him, he has a slight blush on his cheeks and his expression were kindda of less expressionless with a little embarrassed. This was the first time that she had seen him being embarrassed in front of her. Izumi giggled softly at this and took the wolf plushie gently.
"Thank you very much, Kouji-kun." She said to him.
The cold long blackish blue haired lad's face sudden to redden out more of his blush as he saw Izumi's sweetest smile. Of course he just only gave out a quick nod to the teen girl and walks toward to the next stall. Izumi follows him behind while she was holding it happily.
"By the way aren't you with Takuya-kun a moment ago?" Izumi asked him.
"The idiot suddenly ran off quickly." He answered fast. "Now I dunno where he might be."
"Probably wandering around…" muttered the blonde haired girl.
"ACHOO!" Takuya sneezed. "Strange I thought someone was talking about me."
Takuya was walking on his own somewhere in a nearby food stall. He was walking to the one lane to another as he was trying to find some interesting game yet none of it really caught his eyes nor looked really cool that may fit to his age. He glances around until his eyes landed on an interesting object that he had seen. But for him, he looked surprise and pale seeing that object.
"No… that can't be really be…" he whispered.
Away from the messy brunette haired lad, on the other hand Shinya and Tomoki are enjoying while they played so many games that they've went to. Though they played a lot, Kouichi, however was carrying the prizes alone that the two youngsters have one at each game they've chosen.
"Why are you depressed, Kouichi-niisan?" Tomoki asked him
"Yeah you weren't like that a while ago." Shinya corrected him.
"… Just how many of your prizes should I have to carry them all?" Kouichi muttered.
The two youngsters stared at each other confusedly with a slight shrug while the elder twin lad has animated tears that are coming out of his eyes. Shinya looked around on his surroundings and saw Izumi and Kouji's back ahead from them.
"Oi! Izumi-neesan! Kouji-niisan!" the younger Kanbara called them.
The older teenagers turned around and saw the younger Kanbara was waving at them. Izumi managed to wave back on Shinya with a smile even for Kouji yet he could manage to give out his right hand up. Then they neared their companions.
"Were you having fun?" she asked at the two youngsters.
Shinya and Tomoki gave out a loud 'Yes' with cheerful smiles while jumping up and down too excitedly that Izumi could've see it. Kouji was with his twin brother. He was staring at the elder twin lad with dotted eyes on his face, while Kouichi has animated tears coming out of his eyes as he still holds the prizes.
"Not a good day for you, na niisan?" said Kouji.
"Can't help if there's Shinya and Tomoki…" answered the elder twin lad.
"…Have you seen, Takuya?" he asked him.
"Nope but I've sworn that I saw him going on the other side." Kouichi answered again, "Although I get a nagging feeling on some sort of trouble…"
"Don't remind me on that." Kouji answered quickly.
The blonde haired beauty was busily trying to stop Shinya and Tomoki from getting too jumpy all the time. She looked around as she was trying to find the other person that was missing in their group but she didn't see him. Then she began to wonder on where the messy brunette haired lad could be. Shinya noticed at Izumi's worried on his older brother.
"Don't worry, Izumi-neesan. I'm sure Oniisama will be fine." He told her.
"Yeah it's just that it'll be unfair if he has all the fun to himself." Izumi answered.
"I don't think Takuya-niisan is that kind of person, but I think he's trying to find something interesting that we might like it." Said Tomoki.
"And your guesses are correct, Tomoki." The familiar voice spoken out.
They all turned their heads together and saw Takuya was standing behind Izumi with a wide smile that was on his face. Too wide for him to smile like that, yet for Shinya he felt something weird behind to his big brother's smile. Tomoki was about to ask something to the brunette lad but he was interrupted by Kouji, as he hit the lad's head.
"JUST WHERE THE HECK DID YOU JUST GO, IDIOT?" Kouji yelled at him irritated.
"ITAI! THAT HURT, KOUJI!" Takuya whined, "I was only searching around to find what you all might like it."
Izumi let out a small giggle while she was still holding the cute wolf plushie on her arms that Kouji won it and gave it to her. Takuya looked at the blonde beauty curiously at her cute laughter then he blushed as he saw her expression yet he managed not to show it in front of the others.
"Anyway I have to show it to you really interesting!" Takuya exclaimed.
"Hey don't drag us like that!" yelled Kouichi.
"Uwa!" Shinya muttered.
"What interesting place are you taking to us?" Izumi asked him curiously.
"You'll see it once you get in there." The messy brunette haired lad answered.
"I hope this would be better than the last time." Kouji whispers.
Takuya had already dragged them all top a certain place that he was trying to show them to it. The place that he had brought them was a beautiful lake that they had ever seen it in their life yet it was just only an ordinary lake in a nearby shrine. There are less people who are in that place.
"Sugoi!" Izumi exclaimed, "Kirei desu."
"You think?" said the brunette haired lad.
"Nada to? It's just a plain lake." Kouji commented.
"Why he bring us here?" Shinya commented.
"It's just an ordinary lake." Kouichi added.
Few veins starting to throb on Takuya's head one by one as Kouji, Shinya, and Kouichi are commenting how boring that he had brought to them. He was about to kick their butts so badly although Izumi was there to hold him down from rising up his anger to them.
"Anyway what's so interesting in here?" Tomoki asked Takuya curiously.
"This place is where the Goddess landed when she first visits. They said that whoever visits here would grant their wishes that you most desires in your heart." Takuya explained, "Many people have gone to this place and make their shot, but only few of them got their wishes granted."
"Wow, you sure know this a lot, Oniisama." Said Shinya.
"Now I'm really impressed! Where did you hear that?" Kouichi asked him
"Oh I know that story years ago. I got that from a story book." The brunette lad answered.
"You seemed really excited on this Izumi-san." Said Kouji while looking at the blonde haired girl.
Since Izumi was really thrilled on this she was already clasping her hands sand starts to make a wish. The boys also clasped their hands together and also do the wishing making. After a while, they're done the make wishing. The blonde haired girl was still excited as ever as she looks up in the sky as fireworks began to appear one to another.
"KIREI NA!" said Shinya.
"I'm glad we're all here" said Kouichi.
While they're enjoying watching at the magnificent fireworks that was continuing to appear one to another, Takuya was also watching at it then secretly took a glance at the excited blonde haired beauty.
"This is the best time I've ever had for summer vacation." He whispers.
After the event that they had, they went back to the beach house. Everyone is all exhausted from the games that they've played the food they tasted so delicious and some other funs right after watching the fireworks. Everyone had gone to bed, except for Izumi who still has the energy to wake up in this hour. She walks outside that leads to the beach.
She looks up in the sky and saw the beautiful moon was shining so brightly that fitted perfectly to the moon's beauty during the night. Izumi really adored it so much that she could not take her eyes off it. Then she felt a sudden hand was holding on her shoulder, she looks at it and saw Takuya who was smiling.
"Mou… Takuya-kun, you shouldn't popped out and try to startle me." She said.
Takuya didn't answer anything back to the blonde haired girl instead he stares at her eyes directly. Izumi was speechless knowing that the messy brunette haired lad wouldn't answer for her, and then he took out a bird stuff top that was carrying a red rose on its beak.
"Here… I got it for you since there's no other way I could repay back to you. So I got this one for you." He said nervously.
"… Thank you very much… I'll keep it in care." Said Izumi.
As Takuya was giving the stuff toy to Izumi, she got it gently. Just as she touches it once, she gasped as memories started to flood on her mind but this time she's seeing a young boy was giving the little girl a similar stuff toy bird. Why the memories do were so familiar? Why is she recalling the past that doesn't belong to her yet she doesn't remember it? She wondered.
"Are you okay, Izumi-chan?" Takuya asked her worriedly.
"Ah… hai! Daijoubu desu!" she answered quickly, "See I'm really fine no need to worry."
Takuya was about to asks her again but he just didn't say as Izumi had headed back to the beach house as she could hit the hay for the night. The brunette haired lad began to yawn softly and knew that he too must go and get some rest. Before he goes back in, he looked up in the sky and took a glance at the moon's beauty.
"I hope we can have this much fun next year." He whispered.
T.B.C
Kairi: Aaha… another summer special of this chapter hope you all liked this one too. AH! Before I forgot something, during summer they can wear in their Yukata in summer since it fits to the weather. Also it's a traditional part for Japan's summer.
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Also can anyone knows when the Frontier kids' birthdays? I think I'm going to write a special chapter to it. If you know please reply with your reviews on it. Thank you all.