Emichii: HI EVERYBODY!
waves madly like usual
Misaki: Hi! I'm here too!
Emichii: And it's time for… drumroll please…
Tamayo starts hitting on the ground so hard that it starts vibrating
Emichii: Okay, okay, that's enough!
Misaki: Anyway, it's time for Chapter 4!
Everyone: Yaayyy!
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Chapter 4: Random encounter
The next day, Tamayo and Kotaro were talking to each other again but it lacked… spirit. Misaki was clueless about whatever had gone on between them. She wanted to ask but she was so polite she didn't want to mess everything up.
"Ah! Misakichi!" Tamayo cried. "How are you?"
Misaki smiled. "I'm fine."
It was the weekend and they were just hanging out. "What do you wanna do?" Tamayo yawned.
Misaki thought hard. "I don't know…"
Suddenly Tamayo remembered something. "Oh yeah! We didn't get to finish this conversation last time!"
"What conversation?" Misaki looked puzzled.
Tamayo leant closer to Misaki and whispered. "So are you and Ohjiro going out or something?"
"Wh-what?"
Misaki's face burned bright red as she stepped away from Tamayo and looked at the ground shyly. Her hair fell over her eyes so that Tamayo couldn't see her expression.
"He told me that he was falling in love with me…"
Misaki thought that Tamayo was gonna explode with excitement but instead she nodded and prodded Misaki on. "Yeah, go on…"
"But," she said softly, "He's so much older than me and he's really popular as well. I just don't really know what's going on."
Tamayo looked thoughtful. She didn't say anything.
"Tamayo?" Misaki asked.
Tamayo snapped to attention. "Oh yeah, I'm here."
She grabbed Misaki's hand, "Come on, let's go get something to eat. I'm hungry!"
They turned and started to walk towards the Duklyon café.
"Oof!" Misaki had bumped into someone.
"?" Tamayo turned to see what was happening.
Misaki was embarassed. "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" she repeated over and over.
The boy smiled. "That's okay."
Misaki's eyes widened as she saw the boy's companion. "Kaede?"
Kaede clapped her hands together. "Misaki! Tamayo! How nice to see you here!"
"Yeah, we were just gonna get something to eat," said Misaki slowly.
"Is that so?" Kaede said, "We're going to see Ohjiro. We scheduled a battle. Misaki, he's really training hard so that he can beat you when you guys battle again."
Ohhh… I guess that means Ohjiro must really want to beat me. But what about me? I haven't been doing any training or practice for ages. And I'm… distracted by him.
The boy was Kaede's brother, Minoru Kokubunji. He said, "You're welcome to come with us, you know."
Misaki looked at Tamayo. Tamayo was grinning from ear to ear.
"Okay, then," she said, her voice shaking slightly. "Let's go."
"Misaki?" Ohjiro looked surprised and Misaki couldn't tell whether he was happy to see her or not.
"I asked them to come watch our battle," Kaede said.
"Oh sure," Ohjiro said.
Misaki, Minoru and Tamayo took a seat and watched Ohjiro and Kaede battle. It was a friendly battle but a battle nevertheless. Kaede knew that Ohjiro was stronger than her but she wanted to get stronger and stronger. Ohjiro's Wizard was fighting hard.
However throughout the battle, Misaki didn't know why, she wasn't watching just the game but Ohjiro. She secretly wanted Ohjiro to win but she cheered for both of them.
Then she saw it happen. Kaede's Angel went flying out of the ring from one of Wizard's kicks.
Kaede was surprised but she knelt down and picked it up. "It's okay, you did well,"
She straightened and said to Ohjiro, "That was a wonderful battle."
"Yes it was," Ohjiro smiled, his eyes twinkling.
Misaki's heart leapt. I wish he would smile that way at me.
Ohjiro took Kaede's hand in both of his. "That was a great battle, thanks for coming."
Ohjiro… is he… flirting with Kaede? She felt her heart throb. Why does it hurt so much to see him with someone else?
"Misaki," Ohjiro turned to Misaki. "I look forward to our battle later. But I want you to know, as much as I like you, I'm not going easy." His eyes hardened. "I'm gonna win, and I'm gonna train as hard as possible."
"Yes," Misaki said but her voice felt frozen.
"Misaki?" Tamayo tapped her on the shoulder. She looked annoyed, but also very troubled. "Kotaro's here to see you. He saw you from outside the building and he… wants to talk to you,"
"Oh, okay." Misaki said to Ohjiro sincerely, "I have to go now, um, I'll see you later."
She hurried outside to Kotaro. Ohjiro watched her go. She… I don't know why… I'm still attracted to her…
Tamayo hung around, because she knew what Kotaro was up to. There were two reasons for letting Kotaro and Misaki be alone. It was because it would be rude to interrupt them, but the second reason, was most important. It was because she knew she would break. She didn't want to see them together. She couldn't. It was so weird, when she saw them together, alone, for no reason at all she'd start to cry.
Tamayo didn't want to cry. She wanted to be strong. And if Kotaro really didn't love her back, then, she'd get over it but right now, she needed to avoid seeing the two of them like that.
"Kotaro?" Misaki went over to him. "What is it?"
Kotaro said, "Well… I wanted to know… if you'd like to go out with me again?"
Emichii: That's all for this week. And it was good.
Minoru: Yes it was good.
Emichii: Yeah, I'm here with Minoru. Tamayo and Misaki went off somewhere.
Minoru: Hi everybody.
Emichii: I can't believe you're only about the same age as me and you're making your own persocoms.
Minoru: What can I say? I'm a genius.
Emichii: Stupid science mechanic otaku.
Minoru: Anime freak otaku.
glaring at each other
Emichii: Anyway, about Thinking About You…
Minoru: It's slightly crosses over with Chobits.
Emichii: Yeah, it's got him and Ms. Hibiya in it.
Minoru: I suppose Hideki and Chi won't be appearing.
Emichii: Maybe, I don't know.
Minoru: I guess you better stop typing and finally get a start on your maths homework.
Emichii: (fists clenched) ARGH I HATE MATHS!
Well that's all. Thanks for reading! Don't forget to review!