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Chapter 2: The Outburst
I've never thought that this grand opening will be this GRAND. Officials of Kanagawa are here. Even the reporters are here, especially that nosy reporter Aida Yayoi.
We were at the hotel were the grand opening will be held. The place looked great and the lights were dim making the place more elegant. The foods and drinks were overflowing, enough to feed a battalion, maybe even a hundred battalion.
I'm standing against a wall because I'm feeling a bit awkward around this people. They all look so rich. Must be the friends of the owner. I studied the people behind my bangs. The men are all wearing tuxedo or coats and ties while the ladies wore cocktail dress. They were talking to each other. Laughing, socializing, lying... I sighed, i really hate this social gatherings.
I'm wearing a white tuxedo and most of the ladies are looking at me with undisguised fascination but I just ignored them. I'm busy looking for the redhead and I should not be bothered.
"Wow! This is so cool, we could be on TV." Miyagi, looking elegant in a suit said, seeing a reporter, holding a camera, passed him by.
Misui-sempai looking handsome on a dark blue coat and tie bonked him on the head.
"Ite, watcha do that for?" he asked angrily holding his bruised head.
"You're acting like an idiot." Was all the former MVP"s reply. And I silently agree with him.
Thankfully before a scuffle began a fist connected in their head, officially ending their brawl.
"If you're not going to stop acting like a kid, I swear you'll gonna regret it." Akagi threatened. (He looked almost human in that suit). "And where is that baka! He's late!" sempai had come because according to him we need someone who will control us.
His friend Kogure-sempai tried to appease him. "maa, maa, Akagi. I'm sure Sakuragi-kun will be here in a minute." But after he said that he looked at the crowd worriedly i knew he was silently praying for Hanamichi to come.
Sure enough the said redhead arrives. Looking gorgeous on a white polo shirt, two top buttons undone. With dark blue coat and dark pants with black shoes. On his neck hang a plain silver chain. As he is walking toward us, hushed silence filled the hall. All eyes were on him, filled with admiration and lust, including mine.
He greeted us oh-so-nonchalantly. I don't think that he is aware that all eyes followed his every movement. But I can see that he looks uncomfortable for some reason, I just don't know why.
We then decided to find someplace to sit. Great decision coming from Kogure-sempai, my feet are starting to get numbed, and I'm sleepy. We found a place in a secluded corner of the hall. We ate, occasionally discussing something (not that I've contributed on the discussion I was too busy watching the silent boy not to mention sleepy) when we heard a sound of a fork tapping on a glass.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention please?" a short man with a bald head said trying to catch the attention of the crowd. The emcee is a burly man and with those eyes, he kinda reminds me of a frog I even half expected him to croak.
"In behalf of the owner, I want to welcome you all to the grand opening of Hitachi's Sports and Equipments here in Kanagawa, Japan." Seeing that he has everyone's attention, except mine, I'm too sleepy to pay any attention to his rumblings.
"We all know that Hitachi used to be one of the best sports shop on the past. However, certain events had happened which result to the selling of the company to a foreigner. But it's my pleasure to announce to you that the wife of the former owner of Hitachi have finally bought the company back." I heard a gasp from my left but it was drone out by the applause that followed the burly man's statement. Apparently the idiot crowd thought that it's a great thing. Well, I don't care I'm too sleepy to even think about how great it is besides who was the one who gasped?
"So ladies, gentlemen," I turned my eyes on him again, he was smiling "May I present to you the owner of Hitachi's Sports and Equipments, Ms Tsukito Minako. Let's give her a round of applause."
A deafening clap soon filled the room. Then a beautiful woman emerged and sat on the head table, she's in her late thirties I think, but she still has a slim figure and an angelic face. But what entices me the most about her is her red hair like my do'aho.
I looked around the room to see if she had the same effect on the others, but when my gaze fell on Hanamichi his eyes were wide, mouth hanging open, an expression of disbelief is clearly written on his face.
I like to ask him what's wrong but I don't know how so I turned to my teammates hoping that they'll ask the redhead what's wrong but they are clearly still mesmerized on the woman's beauty.
"Is she a gaijin?" I heard Mitsui-sempai asked to no one in particular.
"I think she's half, there's no natural redhead Japanese is there?" Miyagi answered them after some thought. "Except for Hanamichi." He said pointing to Hana.
They turned to Hanamichi and then they all noticed that something is wrong.
"Thank you all for such a warm welcome." She said looking at the crowd with an impassive face "and I'm very happy that all of you can come here." Though that's her statement her eyes told a different story. When I looked closely at it, I found out that she has blue eyes too. But her eyes are… so cold, so distant… almost… like mine…
"I want you all to know that I will not be the one who will manage this store. This shop will be managed by my son," disappointed groans came from the audience. Partly from the fact that she's not going to manage the store and partly from the knowledge that she already had a son.
She ignored the disappointed crowd and said in a cold voice. "This shop will be managed by my son I'm sure my ex-husband Hitachi, the former owner of this company, will like that his son is finally--"
"Quit joking around," an equally icy voice spoke from the crowd efficiently stopping her statement. The crowd gasped in surprise. But we're more surprised when we found out who spoke. It was Hana. And he was glaring at the woman.
I looked at the woman again and I noticed that her face looked paler than usual.
"What did you say young man?" the emcee asked. He's clearly irritated but he tries to cover it up with a smile.
"I said, she should stop talking about how his EX-HUSBAND" Hanamichi said putting a lot of emphasis on the word ex-husband, "will like what she's doing right now." The do'aho answered without looking away from the woman.
"How did you know?" the burly-man's voice is rising now and I can see Akagi-sempai's face, red with anger ready to punched the loudmouth's head.
"How?" Hana laughed a cold laugh that brought chills in my spine. Pointing to the beautiful woman, "why don't you asked her?" turning to the owner he asked "or would you rather answer, huh, MS. Tsukito?" His voice filled with venom.
The woman answered "I know that he'll surely like--"
"How the hell do you know?" he shouted, standing up, "the truth is you don't know anything! You left us, remember!" he cried banging his hands on the table.
"Listen to me…" the woman pleaded to Hanamichi, her eyes softening.
"Listen to you?" he repeated incredulously, "you didn't even listen to me when I tried to talk to you before and now you want me to listen to you? Don't make me laugh." The redhead scoffed.
"Son…" the woman tried again, this time she made an act of standing up and reaching to Hanamichi.
"Don't call me that! The one who used to call me that had died 6 years ago." His chest was heaving with suppressed anger. "So don't you dare call me that again!"
With that said he turned around and left the hall leaving us and the dazed crowd behind…
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This story may have no meaning, but creating this makes me go living. ;-p