Okay, as promised, here is chapter 5. Hopefully I can have chapter 6 up by either late tonight or early tomorrow. It's going to be one of those two XD.
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Since it was the day before the festival, even the market was crowded. Girls were at shops and stands, trying on a last minute kimono or getting suggestions on hair or what not. Kasumi and Lei Fang had no problem navigating through the crowds though.
"I had no idea that there were this many people living in this village."
"Most of them are probably tourists." Lei fang said.
"So...Where do we start?"
"Well, let's just start looking around for a bit."
And so the two began to simply walk down the market area, looking at different patterns,colors and textures. Every once in awhile they would go in and look more in depth. But they stuck mostly to a browsing mode.
"So how did you end here with Hayabusa anyway?" Lei Fang asked as she leaned over to obseerve some colors.
"Well...I just came here after a battle and he helped treat my arm." Kasumi said. She showed Lei fang the long line of black stitches that ran from her elbow to her shoulder.
"Ouch that looks painful."
"Not really..."
Her mind went back to that first night when Ryu had wrapped it up at the shop. His touch was warm, and gentle. But simply remembering the feeling brought a rush of cherry red to Kasumi's cheeks.
"Hm? Is something wrong? Your cheeks are all red. "
"N-no it's nothing. We should stop browsing and make up our minds on this."
"Okay. Well I think maybe you should wear pink. not all pink though. Maybe pink red and white. Like that one outfit you have."
"Okay. But where are we going to find one like that?"
"Trust me We'll find one."
Once They rounded a few shelves. Lei Fang took one down.
"Hey Kasumi. Do you like this one?"
It had all the colors the wanted. It was white with a Pink Iris Print. The obi was a dark red.
"I like it. It's exactly what your were looking for."
"And it's exactly what we ned to impress Ryu."
Kasumi suddenly went inot a small mental panic.
"Wait a minute! I never said I wanted to impress him! That's the wrong idea completely."
"But that's all the fun in going with a boy!"
"Are you going with Jan Lee?"
"Yep and I'm gonna blow him away!" Lei fang said flipping her hair for a persuasive effect. Kasumi couldn't help but laugh. "I wish I could be that carefree all the time" She thought to herself.
So in the end, Kasumi did buy the one that they had looked at. While looking at it down in the paper bag, she came to the conclusion that what Lei Fang said was true. She did want to imrpess Ryu with the way she looked.
"I feel concided." She whispered under her breath.
"Great now all we need is to find out how to do your hair." Lei Fang said, interuppting Kasumi's train of thought.
"I was thinkingh maybe just a braid or a ponytail..."
"He's seen you with that though! Let's think of something different!" Lei Fang said. She took some of Kasumi's hair in her hands lightly.
"What do you have in mind?"
"I dunno. Maybe osmething along the lines of half down half up, I mean you do have enough hair to pull that off."
Kasumi just sighed in impatience "This is going to be a long afternoon"
So they sat in the park while Lei Fang tried finding something to do with Kasumi's hair. While she did that, Kasumi couldn't help but let her mind wander."I wonder what I'm still doing here. I shouldn't be staying with Ryu for this long. Pretty soon Ayane, or even Hayate will be showing up...and that will only cause him trouble"
"I got it!" Lei fang shouted catchign the attention of many other of the park goers.
"Do you have to be so loud?" Kasumi asked under a whisper.
"This is going to look great! I think he'll love it!"
Kasumi sighed as Lei fang tested out her idea.
"We're back!" She hollered into the hall.
Ryu and Jan lee were waiting in the dining area.
"Why don't you guys go get dressed and we'll leave." Ryu said. Lei Fang was already Urging Kasumi into the guest room.
"You don't need to tell us twice!" She said chipperly.
Now that the moment had actually come Kasumi was nervous for some reason, so much so that her hands couldn't even tie the obi right.
"Here let me get that for you."Lei Fang said. Kasumi simply sighed.
"This is going to be so much fun! I can't wait to see the look on Ryu's face when he sees you."
Once she got done tying the obi, Lei Fang set to fixinmg up the kunoichi's hair. She left half of it down as she said, but the other half was split into two and put into two buns tied with red string.
"There! All done! My don't you look charming." Lei Fang laughed. Kasumi knew her cheeks were flaring.
"you look cute too." Kasumi replied. The kimono that Lei Fang was wearinf was purple with a white koi fish print. The Obi was a sunflower yellow the matched the color of the ribbons used to keep her traditional braids in place.
"You think so? Well, let's see what our friends have to say. "
When the door slid open, time itself seemed to stop. Holding her breath, Kasumi had hoped that what he saw impressed him. From the look on his face he didn't seem to notice any change.
"You look nice." He sai with a smile.
Somewhere Lei Fang and Jan less were having a playful argument, Kasumi couldn't tell what it was about though. Not over the sounds of her hearbeat.
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okay here's the deal, since I didn't keep my promise to have this up yesterday, I solemly swear to have two more chapter up by midnght MST. I swear on the grave that will never be Ryu Hayabusa XD
with lvoes as always
LoMXD