Disclaimer: Sigh. I don't owe HYD and its character. I am just trying to vent my frustration by writing so don't sue me!
I've tried. Really I did. But I still turn out to those writers who leave their readers hanging. Well if I still have any.
Thanks BlackArmoria, TPM girl, cottonmouth and TPM girl for your reviews.
I never really planned the story. Sort of trying to take each chapter as it goes. So pardon moi if there it is sort of messy.
To: Sheen: I think…hahahaha. Cos I am not sure about japan education system …Tsukushi is in junior high at her entrance exams period and the the F4s are in high school.
To BlackArmoria: Till now am I able to answer your question. You asked if they are stopping over or enrolling into the school. Well my mind told me last week that to have Tsukasa wrecking havoc at another school will be too easy for him. So I decided to leave that school in peace.
And I always forgot to tell you all the readers about this. Although I am obviously A Rui fan, this is not a story focused solely on Rui. I might seem to be leaning that way hahaha. ( er…I can't help it) Anyway I am a bigger fan of Makino Tsukushi.
And I just love them all. BTW, the hyd characters are based on the manga. So you might find Rui a bit more comical. He is actually the funniest guy for me in the manga.
Chapter 4
Starry starry night!
It was another cold night in Tokyo. Despite the cold, the sky above looked cheerful, for its many stars twinkle merrily to those below, and the pair of clear emerald eyes that was staring at them.
The stars would be disappointed if they had tried to get the emerald like eyes that shone like stars themselves to twinkle happily back at them. For the eyes seemed to be brooding and the light reflected from them seemed to be dull and lifeless.
In Hanazawa residence, Rui sat in total darkness, staring out to the starry night through the window by his bedside. He leaned against the wall and seemed to be deep in thought.
I often wondered why that peculiar girl holds such control over my emotions. When she kicked Tsukasa, I actually laughed out loud. Even the raging Tsukasa froze when he realized that.
I don't know what hit me. First, I was shocked that it was her, and then she shocked me again by kicking my best friend.
When I saw her running, the scene reminded me of the Disney cartoon I used to watch religiously after my violin lessons, an image of the chipmunks scurrying away from the hopping mad and quaking Donald Duck, after they slammed a metal door into Donald Duck 's face while being cornered, came to mind. Within seconds,
I was laughing like mad.
The F3 looked at me incredibly. After a few minutes, I gradually stop. I shrugged my shoulders, smiling a little, and then it does not feel so funny anymore.
"Holy cow, this got to be the first," cried out Akira. I felt a bit awkward so I started heading back to my place. The rest just followed me silently. After half an hour, Tsukasa seemed to have recovered and started to hover about the incident.
He swore to take his revenge and demand us to go to his place to discuss his plan. But before we reached his place I sneaked back home without them noticing.
I needed to be alone because I am very bothered about my outburst.
Was it entirely because that image reminded me of that scene in the cartoon? If so, how come I did not laughed out loud, even though I had tried when I watched the cartoon at the age of nine? I had found it funny then, but I just could not feel the laughter overtake me like this time.
Why?
He lay down on his bed and started pondered on. After a few minutes he fell fast asleep.
He opened his eyes when he felt something on his head. He lifted his hand to remove the object from the top of his head and saw that it was a leaf. He noticed there was some writing on the leaf. "Please make mummy and daddy happy again" Rui read silently to himself. Then he heard someone crying above him. A little girl that was sitting on the tree he was lying against. She was sobbing pitifully away. Rui suddenly felt very sorry for that little girl and took out his violin. He started playing the tune, "this old man". The little girl stopped crying and looked down at him. Then she smiled sweetly at him and clapped away at the tune. Suddenly she jumped down from the tree branch, which luckily was quite low and started to dance and sing around Rui. At the end of it, the little girl laughed heartily and sat down heavily on the ground. Rui kept his violin and followed her. The little girl walked towards Rui and squatted down.
She looked at Rui intensely for a few seconds;
Rui could not help but smile at her sudden action. Then she blushed and shyly blinked away. "Are you an Angel?" she asked after a while.
Before Rui could respond, she turned to him suddenly and said seriously "You must be one!" then burst into a very sweet smile.
She squeezed Rui's hands tightly, closed her eyes and whispered "I know because when you smile at me, I don't feel sad anymore". Rui smiled the happiest smile he had ever felt in his life at her. She gasped and froze for a few seconds. Out of a sudden, she broke into a mischievous grin. She pulled Rui up and started singing "This Old Man" and did a little dance putting one arm around Rui's arm, twirling around Rui with one foot hopping after another and one hand on her hips. The gentle evening sun shone through the trees and onto her. The light radiates from her snowy white skin. Her yellow dress swayed along with her movements.
Her cheek's rosy red from the heat and her ponytails danced happily behind her. Her lips seemed o be smiling and singing at the same time. In all his nine years of life, he had never seen happiness portrayed this clearly before him. It's the perfect picture of happiness. He wanted to enter this picture so he joined in her little dance.
Now they are both twirling around each other. Instead of singing, they are both laughing. For the first time, Rui felt ordinary. Not the autism kid everyone is whispering about, not the future owner of his family's multi billion business,
not the crybaby everyone is afraid to upset, no, at that moment he is just a nine year old kid feeling happy. Just when he was about to collapse onto the ground laughing, he heard a loud bang.
Rui found himself in total darkness and then his room came into light with three other people walking into it.
"There you are! How come you just went home without telling us? I had the plan ready!" announced Domyoji Tsukasa, whom had kicked open Rui's door and came striding in with the other two.
Rui sighed inwardly; trust Tsukasa to bring him out of a dream. He would love them to leave the room so that he could continue his sleep but Tsukasa would just use violence to wake him up again. So he nodded slightly to show he is listening, although his eyes were shut. Tsukasa wanted to go over and shake Rui but stop in the midst when he saw Rui nodded again as though as asking him to go on. He sighed loudly and sat down on the edge of Rui's bed. Tsukasa went on with his announcement.
"Coincidentally, the poor, ugly, stupid and ignorant girl is studying in that run down place, they call school. Jiro said that ugly uniform is from that school. So tomorrow, we will go down to that school and find that wretch.
Akira will seduce her and lead her to one of the deserted area we found that is a few km out of the city. Then we will drive her off. Leaving her stranded! Hahahaha! Am I a genius, or am I a genius!" Tsukasa stood up and grinned smugly to his looking exasperated friends.
Rui still has his eyes shut. He wore a very faint smile on his face that no one is able to detect. "We will see about that," Rui thought.
While Tsukasa is grinning cheek to cheek at his evil plan, the dynamic duos are having an argument.
"You go and seduce her. I only agreed to go to that graduation party because you said I could check out the teachers there!"
"No can do buddy! I promised Yumi to go to the party with her. I need tomorrow to make the kill!"
"You selfish #%6#$%! I don't want to seduce a half woman. And she is not even pretty! Anyway it's you who suggested going over today and you who told Tsukasa that the girl is from that school. So you go be bad guy."
"I can't seduce her in front of Yumi. If I don't tell Tsukasa that the girl was from Yumi's school.
Tsukasa will not go after what happen. And you know I promised her that the F4s will be there"
"Shut up!" Tsukasa glowed. Akira, you go seduce the girl. Jiro must likely screw it up when he sees all the other chicks. Since you can't be affected, you go! By the way Jiro, you owe me an explanation. What is this promise you made to that one week date of your that you forgot to tell us, huh? Rui! Did you hear me? You will be with me at the woods waiting for Akira to bring that wretch. Rui! Rui!"
Rui opened his eyes and said coldly "I am not interested in other people business."
"You are coming with me!" Tsukasa said firmly. "As for the rest of you….."
Rui shut his eyes and went back to sleep, ignoring the threats, pleas and squabbles of his three childhood buddies.
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me Say nighty-night and kiss me Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me While I'm alone and blue as can be Dream a little dream of me
--Louis Armstrong, from Dream a Little, Dream of Me
I've tried. Really I did. But I still turn out to those writers who leave their readers hanging. Well if I still have any.
Thanks BlackArmoria, TPM girl, cottonmouth and TPM girl for your reviews.
I never really planned the story. Sort of trying to take each chapter as it goes. So pardon moi if there it is sort of messy.
To: Sheen: I think…hahahaha. Cos I am not sure about japan education system …Tsukushi is in junior high at her entrance exams period and the the F4s are in high school.
To BlackArmoria: Till now am I able to answer your question. You asked if they are stopping over or enrolling into the school. Well my mind told me last week that to have Tsukasa wrecking havoc at another school will be too easy for him. So I decided to leave that school in peace.
And I always forgot to tell you all the readers about this. Although I am obviously A Rui fan, this is not a story focused solely on Rui. I might seem to be leaning that way hahaha. ( er…I can't help it) Anyway I am a bigger fan of Makino Tsukushi.
And I just love them all. BTW, the hyd characters are based on the manga. So you might find Rui a bit more comical. He is actually the funniest guy for me in the manga.
Chapter 4
Starry starry night!
It was another cold night in Tokyo. Despite the cold, the sky above looked cheerful, for its many stars twinkle merrily to those below, and the pair of clear emerald eyes that was staring at them.
The stars would be disappointed if they had tried to get the emerald like eyes that shone like stars themselves to twinkle happily back at them. For the eyes seemed to be brooding and the light reflected from them seemed to be dull and lifeless.
In Hanazawa residence, Rui sat in total darkness, staring out to the starry night through the window by his bedside. He leaned against the wall and seemed to be deep in thought.
I often wondered why that peculiar girl holds such control over my emotions. When she kicked Tsukasa, I actually laughed out loud. Even the raging Tsukasa froze when he realized that.
I don't know what hit me. First, I was shocked that it was her, and then she shocked me again by kicking my best friend.
When I saw her running, the scene reminded me of the Disney cartoon I used to watch religiously after my violin lessons, an image of the chipmunks scurrying away from the hopping mad and quaking Donald Duck, after they slammed a metal door into Donald Duck 's face while being cornered, came to mind. Within seconds,
I was laughing like mad.
The F3 looked at me incredibly. After a few minutes, I gradually stop. I shrugged my shoulders, smiling a little, and then it does not feel so funny anymore.
"Holy cow, this got to be the first," cried out Akira. I felt a bit awkward so I started heading back to my place. The rest just followed me silently. After half an hour, Tsukasa seemed to have recovered and started to hover about the incident.
He swore to take his revenge and demand us to go to his place to discuss his plan. But before we reached his place I sneaked back home without them noticing.
I needed to be alone because I am very bothered about my outburst.
Was it entirely because that image reminded me of that scene in the cartoon? If so, how come I did not laughed out loud, even though I had tried when I watched the cartoon at the age of nine? I had found it funny then, but I just could not feel the laughter overtake me like this time.
Why?
He lay down on his bed and started pondered on. After a few minutes he fell fast asleep.
He opened his eyes when he felt something on his head. He lifted his hand to remove the object from the top of his head and saw that it was a leaf. He noticed there was some writing on the leaf. "Please make mummy and daddy happy again" Rui read silently to himself. Then he heard someone crying above him. A little girl that was sitting on the tree he was lying against. She was sobbing pitifully away. Rui suddenly felt very sorry for that little girl and took out his violin. He started playing the tune, "this old man". The little girl stopped crying and looked down at him. Then she smiled sweetly at him and clapped away at the tune. Suddenly she jumped down from the tree branch, which luckily was quite low and started to dance and sing around Rui. At the end of it, the little girl laughed heartily and sat down heavily on the ground. Rui kept his violin and followed her. The little girl walked towards Rui and squatted down.
She looked at Rui intensely for a few seconds;
Rui could not help but smile at her sudden action. Then she blushed and shyly blinked away. "Are you an Angel?" she asked after a while.
Before Rui could respond, she turned to him suddenly and said seriously "You must be one!" then burst into a very sweet smile.
She squeezed Rui's hands tightly, closed her eyes and whispered "I know because when you smile at me, I don't feel sad anymore". Rui smiled the happiest smile he had ever felt in his life at her. She gasped and froze for a few seconds. Out of a sudden, she broke into a mischievous grin. She pulled Rui up and started singing "This Old Man" and did a little dance putting one arm around Rui's arm, twirling around Rui with one foot hopping after another and one hand on her hips. The gentle evening sun shone through the trees and onto her. The light radiates from her snowy white skin. Her yellow dress swayed along with her movements.
Her cheek's rosy red from the heat and her ponytails danced happily behind her. Her lips seemed o be smiling and singing at the same time. In all his nine years of life, he had never seen happiness portrayed this clearly before him. It's the perfect picture of happiness. He wanted to enter this picture so he joined in her little dance.
Now they are both twirling around each other. Instead of singing, they are both laughing. For the first time, Rui felt ordinary. Not the autism kid everyone is whispering about, not the future owner of his family's multi billion business,
not the crybaby everyone is afraid to upset, no, at that moment he is just a nine year old kid feeling happy. Just when he was about to collapse onto the ground laughing, he heard a loud bang.
Rui found himself in total darkness and then his room came into light with three other people walking into it.
"There you are! How come you just went home without telling us? I had the plan ready!" announced Domyoji Tsukasa, whom had kicked open Rui's door and came striding in with the other two.
Rui sighed inwardly; trust Tsukasa to bring him out of a dream. He would love them to leave the room so that he could continue his sleep but Tsukasa would just use violence to wake him up again. So he nodded slightly to show he is listening, although his eyes were shut. Tsukasa wanted to go over and shake Rui but stop in the midst when he saw Rui nodded again as though as asking him to go on. He sighed loudly and sat down on the edge of Rui's bed. Tsukasa went on with his announcement.
"Coincidentally, the poor, ugly, stupid and ignorant girl is studying in that run down place, they call school. Jiro said that ugly uniform is from that school. So tomorrow, we will go down to that school and find that wretch.
Akira will seduce her and lead her to one of the deserted area we found that is a few km out of the city. Then we will drive her off. Leaving her stranded! Hahahaha! Am I a genius, or am I a genius!" Tsukasa stood up and grinned smugly to his looking exasperated friends.
Rui still has his eyes shut. He wore a very faint smile on his face that no one is able to detect. "We will see about that," Rui thought.
While Tsukasa is grinning cheek to cheek at his evil plan, the dynamic duos are having an argument.
"You go and seduce her. I only agreed to go to that graduation party because you said I could check out the teachers there!"
"No can do buddy! I promised Yumi to go to the party with her. I need tomorrow to make the kill!"
"You selfish #%6#$%! I don't want to seduce a half woman. And she is not even pretty! Anyway it's you who suggested going over today and you who told Tsukasa that the girl is from that school. So you go be bad guy."
"I can't seduce her in front of Yumi. If I don't tell Tsukasa that the girl was from Yumi's school.
Tsukasa will not go after what happen. And you know I promised her that the F4s will be there"
"Shut up!" Tsukasa glowed. Akira, you go seduce the girl. Jiro must likely screw it up when he sees all the other chicks. Since you can't be affected, you go! By the way Jiro, you owe me an explanation. What is this promise you made to that one week date of your that you forgot to tell us, huh? Rui! Did you hear me? You will be with me at the woods waiting for Akira to bring that wretch. Rui! Rui!"
Rui opened his eyes and said coldly "I am not interested in other people business."
"You are coming with me!" Tsukasa said firmly. "As for the rest of you….."
Rui shut his eyes and went back to sleep, ignoring the threats, pleas and squabbles of his three childhood buddies.
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me Say nighty-night and kiss me Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me While I'm alone and blue as can be Dream a little dream of me
--Louis Armstrong, from Dream a Little, Dream of Me