I'm sorry that this chapter is somewhat shorter than the last two were, but at least it's still over a thousand words long, which I suppose I should be proud about enough to put it on display in 'The Love Angel and the Dark-Hearted Devil'. yes, I know that the title does not really fit in with the theming of this fanfiction, but I was doing the best I could when I had come up with the title of the fanfiction. not to worry about the future chapters, though. I promise that there will be longer chapters going forward, depending on the episodes of the 'Wedding Peach' anime series. this chapter is a full one-thousand-two-hundred-eighty-nine words worth of pure storyline. now on to the disclaimer...
disclamation: I do not own the 'Wedding Peach' anime or manga series. I do not even any copies of the manga books or any DVD's of the anime at home. I do not know who the series belongs to, but it certainly ain't me. again, I am but a humble writer of fanfictions like this one and of other types of stories.
So, it was just another day on the soccer field with the team getting in their annual practice run for the team's next big up and coming game with the captain scoring yet another perfect goal. I was getting the ball from where it sat on the field when I saw someone running towards where the captain was going to wash his face after our practice run. Upon my closer inspection of the person running towards where the captain was washing his face, I saw that it was none other than that cherry-blossom-pink-haired girl, Momoko Hanasaki. I grew annoyed with her chasing after Captain Yanagiba once again and placed my hand over my forehead due to how annoying I found it.
Yours Truly: Hey! It's her again!
I was not one-hundred percent sure just what she wanted from the captain, but I had a pretty good idea. I was able to make my way over to Momoko and the captain just closely enough to hear the whole thing which had happened between the two of them.
Momoko Hanasaki: 'Scuse me, Captain Yanagiba.
The captain turned his head towards the poor, unsuspecting girl who had no idea of the answer he would give Momoko depending upon just whatever it was she wanted from him.
Captain Kazuya Yanagiba: Yeah? Oh, Momoko. What's goin' on?
Then, Momoko suddenly had the nerve to draw herself closer to the captain just before asking him whatever it was she wanted to ask of him.
Momoko Hanasaki: Well, you see, I'm friends with this designer and she's looking for a few models for an upcoming fashion show.
A fashion show? That was what Momoko wanted to discuss with the captain?
Captain Kazuya Yanagiba: Oh, really?
Momoko Hanasaki: And I was wondering if you'd like to give it a try?
Surely, Momoko knew that Captain Yanagiba was not as confident as he always looked on the soccer field… unless she really did not know that about him, after all.
Only a mere millisecond following Momoko even asking for that kind of a favor from the captain, Yanagiba grew nervous about it.
Captain Kazuya Yanagiba: Me? Be a model?
Momoko just nodded her head happily as she actually seemed to think that he would say 'yes' to her request. That was when I finally made my presence known to the both of them.
Yours Truly: Hey, Momo-pi!
Momoko then turned around and looked in my direction and the captain looked towards me.
Momoko Hanasaki: Yousuke Fuuma!
Well, Momoko noticed me, all right. I had to get it through that thick skull of hers that the captain was only confident on the field.
Yours Truly: You shouldn't hassle Captain Yanagiba right after practice, Momo-pi.
Momoko once again got completely angry with me for calling her 'Momo-pi' and turned around just to yell at me. As soon as she had, however, I saw the captain turn the other way from her and begin heading off back into the school. She did not even notice the captain begin leaving, though.
Momoko Hanasaki: For your information, I'm not hassling him, at all!
That was when Momoko turned herself back around towards the captain's direction and reassumed the same sickeningly sweet disposition she had when she had first gone up to him.
Momoko Hanasaki (continued): Isn't that right, Captain Yanagiba?
Upon finally opening her eyes after she turned towards his direction, Momoko actually had the nerve to be openly shocked about the captain having gone and left her with me. She had even screamed out to him.
Momoko Hanasaki (continued): Captain Yanagiba!
Then, I slid myself from being behind Momoko to being right next to her. Judging from the look in her eyes as she saw the captain's retreating figure, she looked like she was about to cry as though she was truly surprised about it.
Yours Truly: Beneath that confident exterior, he's actually really shy.
It was time to run some teasing in Momoko's face and give her a taste of her own medicine.
Yours Truly (continued): So, why don't I be your runway model, instead?
That's right. I pointed my finger at my own face and offered up myself to be Momoko's model in the captain's stead. She turned her face towards me with a look of disgust on her face for one reason or another.
Momoko Hanasaki: You, a fashion model?
Then, Momoko shook her head violently at me and my suggestion, along with her whole torso and let out an exceedingly loud and defiant 'NO!'. Then, she went right up to my face and yelled straight at me about it.
Momoko Hanasaki (continued): Nobody asked you to model, OK?!
That was when her friend, Hinagiku's, voice spoke up to Momoko about her request for the captain from behind her.
Hinagiku Tamano: What? So, if Captain Yanagiba can't do it, nobody can?
Then, Momoko answered me before she had even realized who had asked her that question.
Momoko Hanasaki: That's exactly what I'm saying, here.
Momoko suddenly realized that the question was asked from behind her and by her own friend from the newspaper club, Hinagiku. Yuri was with her and seemed to have a solemn expression on her face for some reason. Hinagiku did not seem to notice it and only seemed to care about scolding Momoko. The cherry-blossom-pink-haired girl then turned around to face the wrath of her friends' scolding.
Hinagiku Tamano: You were planning on getting Yanagiba to model so that he could be the groom to your bride, right?
Ah, man! Ah, man! A bridal fashion exhibition? It was a bridal fashion show? That was what Momoko had wanted the captain to do for her so badly? I really wished that I could take back my offer to model in the captain's stead, but it was just too late for that.
Wait a minute. Why was I feeling like an idiot at the time? It was all Momoko's fault for ever even trying to get the captain to be the groom to her bride for that kind of fashion show.
Momoko just turned her head slightly away from Yuri and Hinagiku, chuckling nervously.
Momoko Hanasaki: I-I don't know what you're talking about.
Hinagiku Tamano: Stop playing dumb, you hussy. We know just what you're up to.
Hinagiku then turned her face in their other friend, Yuri's, direction.
Hinagiku Tamano (continued): Right, Yuri?
It was then that Hinagiku finally noticed the look on hers and Momoko's joint friend, Yuri's, face.
Yuri Tanima: I'm so sorry I have to tell you this, you guys, but my mother's designs for the fashion show have been completely destroyed.
Then, Yuri started to cry for real. Hinagiku just gave her friend a look of disbelief followed by actual words of disbelief.
Hinagiku Tamano: No. Really?
Momoko rushed to her friend, Yuri's, side in effort to help her through her tears.
Momoko Hanasaki: Yuri!
Yuri then grabbed onto her own face and began weeping and sobbing freely.
Yuri Tanima: It was just so awful, you two. Truly awful. Not only were my mother's designs for the fashion show completely destroyed, but she also hit me and flat out refused to believe me when I told her in good honesty that I had absolutely nothing to do with the wedding gowns for the fashion show being totally destroyed.
A few moments afterwards, Momoko and Hinagiku followed their friend, Yuri, to her house to give Mrs. Tanima a piece of their minds, as the both of them termed it.
