Hey all, so after getting stuck for a minute on how I wanted to proceeded I figured out where I want to go but in order to do that I have to rearrange a few characters. I don't feel too bad because I haven't delved in too deeply. So just to let ya'll know the characters are gonna be a bit different, I'm keeping them all in, just changing the names a bit :D and always R&R!
Bakotsu=Suikotsu
Suikotsu=Rinkotsu
Zuki sat under a tree, at Tokyo University listening to Michael Buble on her iPod. She looked up at the dreary sky and sighed, she had been sitting there for almost half an hour. Zuki glanced down at her phone to check the time, her brother's class should be getting out any minute. The doors to the building she sat in front of burst open as students started to pour out. Zuki stood craning her neck to find her brother. Yasu was shoving things in his bag then looked up and saw his sister, he smiled for a moment then scowled.
"What are you doing here? You don't get out of school for another hour?" he demanded ignoring the stares he got.
"Kagome needed to see Kikyou, she didn't want to ask InuYasha, so I took her," she replied calmly pulling one headphone off her ear. Yasu gaped at her for a minute then shook his head. A couple guys cat called over to the two, Yasu glanced their way then looked at Zuki. She was still in her school uniform but had changed out of the knee highs and loafers into some comfortable flats.
"You could have at least changed," he grumbled taking her arm and leading her to his car.
"Hey Tanaka, that's a hot piece of ass you have there!" Some guy shouted after them. Before Yasu could stop her Zuki had turned to yell at the jerk.
"Hey, Baka, keep your mouth shut or I'll shut it for you!"
"Oh, so princess wants to play?" he said. Zuki glared at him as he walked closer to them.
"Tanaka, I never took you for the type be able to snag a babe like this," he laughed trying to grab at Zuki. Zuki let out a strangled yell as she round house kicked him as hard as she could. The guy went crashing to the ground clutching the side of his head.
"Huh, looks like all that judo dad made me do came in handy," she said smirking slightly.
"You stupid bitch," the guy gasped from the ground.
"Don't you call my sister a bitch Arai!" Yasu yelled, instead of using violence on the guy he just dragged Zuki away grumbling about assault charges. Yasu didn't give Zuki that chance to talk as he peeled out of the school parking lot.
"Yasu, um, my bike?" Zuki asked timidly. He didn't hear her and just kept muttering. Zuki sighed and rested her head on the window to look out at the cloudy day.
'I guess I'll just pick it up later," she thought to herself. The university wasn't far from their apartment building so they got there before Yasu had clamed down.
"Zuki go to the apartment and stay there 'till I get back, I'm going to the dojo to cool off," she said dropping her off. Zuki pulled her backpack on as she waved goodbye to him. As she started the long treck up to her room she called Sui to see if he would give her a ride to get her bike. When he didn't answer she left a message telling him she needed a ride as she let herself into the apartment. Zuki dropped her bag and pulled her shoes off sighing.
"Well, might as well make good use of my alone time," she said happily to herself. Zuki ran to her room pulling off her uniform as best as she could while running. She pulled open her closet to find the box she had hidden away. Inside were the boots and hat her uncle had sent her for her birthday, she kept them hidden from her friends.
Sui turned his car off as he looked up at Zuki's apartment complex. He had tried to call her back but she didn't answer so he decided to go get her. As he got closer to her door he heard odd music coming from it. Assuming Yasu was just being weird Sui let himself in without knocking, what he saw and heard almost made him choke on air. Zuki was dressed in a plaid button down shirt with the sleeves ripped off, she had tied it around her waist, she had on a pair of cut off jean shorts. Sui wasn't surpised at the clothing it was the accessories, the music, and her dancing that caught him off guard. On her head was an honest to god cowboy hat, and on her feet were deep brown leather cowboy boots. Sui didn't recognize the song that was blaring from the stereo, but he knew enough to know that it was an American country song, and Zuki was line dancing. The music was so loud Zuki didn't hear Sui open the door, she didn't know he was there until she heard his keys hit the floor.
Zuki spun on the spot at the sound of dropping keys, assuming her brother had come home,
"Hey, Yasu join-Sui!" Sui was jolted out of his daze by Zuki's shout. Zuki ran to turn the music off but the damadge had been done.
"How long were you standing there," Zuki demanded her face heating up. Sui looked her up and down and smirked.
"Long enough to know that you are a great line dancer," he said walking the rest of the way in a shutting the door. Zuki moaned then slumped to the floor. Sui started to laugh, hard, but soon stopped when Zuki didn't move from her spot on the floor.
"Zu, what's wrong?" he asked walking closer to her.
"What's wrong?! You just saw me line dancing to "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" and you can't figure out what's wrong! Baka!" Zuki shouted from the floor.
"Look, Zuki it's okay, I don't care," he said crouching down in front of her.
"Sure, you don't, you already know how weird I am, but what will everyone else thing," she said flopping her arms in a defeated way.
"They won't care, but, I have to ask, where did you get all this, and how did you learn to dance like that?" he asked touching the brim of her hat. Zuki pulled the hat of and looked at it sadly.
"My uncle, he owns a dude ranch in Texas, I used to spend my summers with him, every Friday he would host a hoe down and that's where I leanred to line dance. As for the clothes, he the hat and boots to me for my birthday, and I already had the shorts and shirt," she said dejectedly.
"Uh okay, what's a 'dude ranch' and 'hoe down'?" He asked taking the hat from her.
"A dude ranch, is basically a farm where they teach you how to head cattle and ride horses and things like that, a hoe down is a sort of party, where all the guests and workers on the ranch get together and dance and eat and have fun," she said moving her feet out from under her to sit cross legged. Sui nodded twirling the hat around I his hands.
"I didn't know you had an uncle," he said softly.
"Yeah, I don't mention him much because no one ever gets to meet him. Both he and my dad are originally from Oklahoma, my uncle is an honest to go cowboy, he barely graduated from high school and didn't go to college, he got a job working for a cattle farmer. This guy started to like my uncle and sort of adopted him as a surrogate son, he didn't have any family, so when he died he left everything to my uncle. My dad went to college, did a study abroad in Japan met my mom and then moved here," she said giving out her uncle's story.
"That's really cool," Sui said handing back the hat, 'What was that song you were listening too called again?" he asked a mischievous grin on his face.
"Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy?" Zuki said questioning his smile.
"Teach me to line dance," Sui said standing up quickly. Zuki gawked at him not understanding what he said.
"Wha-what? You want me…to teach you…to line dance?" She said slowly while standing up. Sui grinned at her and nodded.
"Why?" Sui tilted his head to one side at her question.
"Does it matter? I won't tell anyone about your secret love of country music if you teach me to line dace," he said with a grin. Zuki looked at him like he was an alien before looking down and shaking her head.
"If it will keep the others from finding out, so be it," she said turning to turn the music back on.
Zuki and Sui sat on the futon laughing about their recent escapade in line dancing. Both were out of breath and were glistening slightly from sweat. Zuki hear the front door open then slam shut as her brother stormed in.
"Hey Yas, judo not help?" She asked looking over towards her brother. He pulled off his shoes while shaking he head then went into the kitchen.
"Give me a sec Sui," she said pushing herself off the futon. Zuki slowly walked into the kitchen to find her brother leaning over the sink gripping the sides so his knuckles were white,
"Yas? What's wrong?" Zuki asked softly. Her brother didn't answer but his grip on the sink tightened. Zuki crossed the distance between them and put her hand on his shoulder. He didn't pull away or flinch, so she knew he wasn't mad at her.
"Yasu, come on tell me what's wrong,' she pleaded softly. Yasu relaxed his grip and sighed.
"I'm just being a stupid overprotective brother. I guess I'm just not ready to admit that your grown up now," he said glancing over at his baby sister.
"Yas, I'm not totally grown up, and you will always be my big brother," she said with a small smile. Yasu smiled back at her before pulling her into a tight hug.
"Just promise me you won't date jerks like that guy today?" He begged softly. Zuki laughed into her brothers chest as she hugged back.
"Yas, you have nothing to worry about."
"Er, I hate to interrupt, but Zuki your phone is ringing," Sui said from the doorway. Zuki leaned back to smile at her friend then pulled away from her brother.
"Thanks Sui," Zuki said taking her phone and answering it.
"Moshi Moshi, hey Ayame…of course not come on over." Zuki flipped her phone closed and skipped over to the front day. Sui followed her and let out a small yelp when Ayame burst through the door wearing…he wasn't sure what she was wearing. Sui glanced over at Zuki wondering if she was just as taken aback at Ayame's odd choice of clothing.
"Hey Zuki, thank you for letting me come over, after spending the afternoon with them I need some normality," Ayame said pulling the odd fur wrap from around her shoulders.
"No problem Yame," Zuki said taking the wrap and hanging it on the coat rack.
"Ayame, what the hell are you wearing?" Sui blurted out before he could stop himself. Ayame looked over at him then down at her clothes a dawning expression crossing her face.
"Sorry, I guess it's sort of my uniform? I had to go meet with the wolf demon council after school and I can't really wear normal clothes, so I wear this," she said pulling at the fur skirt. Sui still was confused but before he got to ask Zuki was dragging Ayame to her room interrogating her about the meeting.
"So? What did they say to Kouga?" Zuki asked flopping down at her desk. Ayame slumped onto the bed with a forlorn sigh and shook her head.
"They said the same thing they say every month, he and I have to get married this June, and he said what he always says. 'I love Kagome and I refuse to marry this scrawny wolf.'" Ayame said her voice cracking a bit when she said 'love'.
"Oh sweetie, just give him time he'll come 'round," Zuki said trying to comfort his friend.
"Wait, you and Kouga are getting married?" Sui asked sitting on the floor to lean against the wall. Ayame looked up at him and shrugged.
"We are both from different wolf demon tribes, my grandfather is the tribe leader of mine and Kouga is the tribe leader of his. Our tribes have been warring for some time, so six years ago they decided that Kouga and I would be married to end the fighting." Sui gawked at her, this girl was filled with surprises every second.
"Hey, Ayame. I think I have an idea that will get Kouga to realize what he's missing," Zuki said mischievously. Ayame glanced up at her a small glimmer of hope in her eyes. Zuki opened her mouth to respond but at that moment Sui's phone started to ring loudly. Zuki snapped her mouth closed to glare at him.
"Hello?"
"Sui! Where are you? Your cousin got in an hour ago get home!" Rinkotsu yelled so loudly the girls could hear.
"Ug, fine I'm coming!" He shouted back then hung up on his brother. "Sorry, I gotta head home, see you later Zuki, Ayame."
"Bye!" The girls sang in unison. Zuki waited until she heard the front door close before she jumped up to sit next to her friend.
"Okay, so the simplest thing would be to make him jealous, if we can make him jealous then he'll have to admit he has feelings for you!" Zuki squealed excitedly.
"Zuki…I don't know, what if he doesn't get jealous, I mean he's never gotten upset seeing me with other guys before," Ayame sighed. Zuki wasn't swayed by her friend pessimistic view on the situation.
"Oh, he'll get jealous this time, trust me." Ayame looked up at her then sighed in defeat.
"Alright, tell me."
AN: hehe, what does Zuki have planned? :D R&R
PS, I cannot think of a band name lol, so what'll it be, not it's not Sakura Heart, I don't know where that title came from, I'm not good at naming things obviously, so give me some names and I'll pick the best! Thankee!