Chapter 6 – The Meeting

Author's Note:

There's a good amount of drama in this chapter, and I can't wait for the Tsubame or Momoyo S route.

10:30 AM Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Inside Yamato's Room

"Why were we called here?" asks Wanko.

"I don't know, but where is Momo-senpai?" asks Chris.

The door slides open and Momoyo says "I'm right here, and we all need to talk."

"About what?" asks the other four girls of the Kazama Family.

"It's about Yamato and him leaving Japan." Momoyo replies.

"He's not going to go through with it, right?" asks Miyako.

"He will if we don't work something out; he's made that clear to me." Momoyo replies.

"But can we actually do it?" asks Wanko. "It will be nearly impossible for us to forget that we love Yamato."

"I will never forget that I love Yamato; I will love him until the end of time." Miyako remarks.

"I don't want to forget that I love Yamato either!" Mayucchi exclaims.

Momoyo sighs and says "Well, this is going nowhere."

"Listen to me!" Momoyo yells. "We can't all love Yamato romantically; we tried and look what happened! He's leaving in six days, we have to figure something else out by then!"

"Then let's ask Yamato who he likes, that will be the answer." Chris says.

"We've already tried that!" Momoyo exclaims. "He turned us all down!"

Everyone goes silent.

Momoyo sighs and sits down, asking "Just what are we going to do?" to nobody in particular.

"There's only one solution here that will work." Mayucchi says. "We must all give up on trying to force Yamato, and wait for him to pick one of us."

"Mayucchi's right." Momoyo says. "We must all stop forcing Yamato to pick one of us, and look like we have resolved this harem, and wait for Yamato to eventually fall for one of us; we can't force him to fall in love with one of us."

"Then it's settled, we'll wait for him." The Kazama Harem says.

"I'll wait for him here, like a stone.*" says Momoyo.

"Okay, I'm tired of waiting." I say and get up from the kitchen. "I'm going to kick them out of my room; I need to think about what happened an hour ago."

I walk over to my room and open the door, to find them acting like they did before the harem, which is surprising.

"Okay, can you guys get out of my room now? I ask. "I got some stuff to think about."

"Yeah, okay." They say and start walking out of the door.

Nee-san stops and says "Hey bro, can you teach me Texas Hold 'Em sometime?"
"Why, so you can find another way to gamble all of your money away and come to me when you're in debt? No thank you." I say.

"I can't help it; I like gambling." Nee-san replies.

I flick her in the forehead and say "and that's why you don't have any money."

"Yeah, I guess you're right about that." Nee-san replies and walks out of the room.

I shut the door behind them and think about Margit's confession.

"Margit joins this mess now, eh?" I ask myself. "What kind of F&#$ed up situation did I just get myself in to?"

I get up after about ten minutes of lying around and thinking.

"Looks like I just have to tell them." I say to myself.

I open my door and walk out to the kitchen to where the five girls are eating lunch, acting like they did before the harem started.
"I guess they worked something out, but this might ruin everything they just worked on."

"Hey guys, I have some bad news."

Wanko looks at me and asks "What's wrong, Yamato?"

"The harem grew to six people, Margit confessed to me about an hour and a half ago." I say.

Everyone looks at me silently, finally Chris asks "W-Wait, Maru-san?"

"Yeah, and you can come out now Margit; I can detect your presence outside the door." I say.

Margit shamefully walks in, knowing her presence was detected by someone who doesn't even practice martial arts.

"How did you detect me when you don't even practice martial arts?" she asks.

"I don't really know, but my presence detection has gotten better in the past month, I can detect anybody that's within about 75 meters from me." I say.

"So that's how you can always tell where I am…"Miyako remarks.

"No, that's because you're extremely predictable." I reply.

Suddenly, I feel a presence outside the door that nobody notices.

"There's my Yamato Hamburger!" exclaims the presence.

"What great timing for Tatsuko to show up…" I say.

Tatsuko bursts the door open and tries to grab me, but I flip over her.

"Not again!" I yell. "What is with you!?"

"I do this because I love you!" she exclaims.

I turn to the six Kazama Harem members and say "Bad news, looks like someone else just joined the Kazama Harem; we're at a population of seven now."

I sprint out of the Shimazu Dorm and climb onto the rooftop.

"Damnit, why is this day getting so complicated!?"

I run across the rooftop to the other side, where I jump off and perform an impact roll and keep running, shouting "You can use my room for a meeting again!"

I run off from the Shimazu Dorm with all the speed I have and decide to run around Kawakami to improve my endurance and running speed.

Four Hours Later…

I walk back to the Shimazu Dorm, completely worn out from all of the running that I was doing, and open the door to find Momoyo and Wanko in the kitchen watching TV, acting like actual sisters.

"Oh, hey Nee-san and Wanko, Is my room still being used?" I ask.

"Oh, hey Yamato, where you been? And no, it's free." She replies.

"I was out running to build up some endurance, and thanks." I say.

"Ooooh, you were training? Why didn't you invite me?" Wanko asks.

"You needed to talk with Margit and Tatsuko, not train with me." I reply.

"But they left soon after you ran off." Wanko says.

"Oh well, I'm pretty much used to Tatsuko, but Margit will be the problem here." I say, and walk off to my room, completely exhausted.

When I walk into the hall, I detect a presence that seems like Margit, and I open my door and find Margit there.

"I thought so, I detected you." I say to Margit.

"What the hell Nee-san!? I thought you said my room was clear!" I exclaim.

"It should be, why?" she asks.

"Margit's in there." I reply. "How did you not detect her presence when I did before I even entered the hall!?

"I only do this because I love you." Margit says and tries to jump on me.

"Let's stay as, well, whatever the hell we were before you confessed to me." I say and dodge her advance.

I push her out of my room and slam the door shut, making sure to bolt it down.

"Man, Margit would be the last person that I'd have to barricade my door from." I joke to myself.

I fall into my futon and go to sleep for a few hours.

Meanwhile…

Margit tries to open the door, but finds that it is expertly barricaded from the other side.

"So you barricade the door just to keep me out?" she asks herself.

"It's best to leave him alone if he does something that crazy, it means he really needs to do something or be alone." says Nee-san, who appeared from the kitchen. "He's jumped off the Tama River before just to get away from me."

"So he really is a crazy fool." remarked Margit. "He jumped off the Tama River to evade me eight days ago."

"You mean the Trainwreck in August?" asks Nee-san. "He had all of us plus you and Cookie chase him, just to bring him back to school for skipping. He then had his arm broken by me when I lost myself and almost attacked Wanko."

"Ouch, that seems like one hell of a day." She remarks, after hearing that hectic day.

"Yeah, and yesterday he gave us a week to end this harem that you just joined, or at the very least reduce the hostilities to one another." Nee-san says.

"He can't be serious about leaving Japan!" exclaims Margit.

"I know he's serious, and he WILL leave Japan if we don't fix this." Nee-san replies. "The only true solution is to let Yamato fall in love with one of us naturally; it is his decision after all."

"I guess you're right about that, but I just don't want to accept it." Margit says. "I don't want to imagine Yamato with anyone else, so I'll take him by force if I have to."

Nee-san pushes Margit against a wall, with a few tears in her eyes, and says: "How do you think we feel!? We all don't want to imagine Yamato with anyone else but ourselves, but it can't happen! It's best to let him pick one of us naturally, not by force! If you truly love him then you will choose what will be the best for him, not for yourself!"

Margit looks at the floor in silence while Nee-san lets out her tears.

"Y-You can't b-be selfish a-at a time l-like this." Nee-san says. "We are all potentially throwing away our happiness for the good of the one we love, why can't you see this fact!?"

"I-I can, it's just that…" she starts to say, but then yells. "I can't accept it! I can't accept Yamato being taken away by someone else!"

"Listen to me!" Nee-san yells. "If we don't do this, there's absolutely no chance of Yamato staying here in Japan!"

"Then I'll move to Europe with him." Margit says, cockily.

"Oh? Have you forgotten you are here to protect someone very special to your Lt. Gen?" Nee-san replies.

Margit then thinks about Chris, and how the thought of Chris won't be with someone that she loves is hurting her, and starts weeping.

"Wh-What have I done?" she asks herself. "I'm hurting Chris by doing this selfish talk; I'm supposed to be protecting her, but I'm just hurting her now!"

Margit lightly embraces Nee-san and says "Okay, I'll let Yamato decide for himself who he wants to choose to spend his life with."

"Good," says Nee-san. "Now let's go into the kitchen and let Yamato sleep; he apparently went out running for four hours to improve his endurance, so he has to be exhausted.

"Yeah, you're right." replies Margit. "Let's go to the kitchen."

Margit and Nee-san both head off to the kitchen.

Five Hours Later…

I wake up to a noise next to me, and immediately combat roll to the left and jump up to my feet, only to see that nothing was there.

"Huh, what was that?" I ask myself.

I decide to ignore it and exit my room to the kitchen of the Shimazu Dorm, where I only find Capt. and Gen-san there.

"Where's everyone else?" I ask.

"Margit went back to her post, and the girls went out to get something to eat." Capt. replies.

"Well, I'm going to go take a walk around Kawakami then." I say and walk to the door.

I walk around Kawakami aimlessly for about forty-five minutes before I hear someone call my name.

"Hey Yamato, come over here!" exclaims the voice.

I detect Nee-san's presence and find her soon.

"Oh, hey Nee-san." I reply back.

"What're you doing here?" Nee-san asks.

"Just wandering around aimlessly, thinking about a few things." I reply. "Where's everyone else? Capt. told me that you five were going out to eat."

"They went home about ten minutes ago, and I was just about to go home too when I saw you here." Nee-san replies.

"Okay, well, good night then." I say and start walking away, but not towards the Shimazu Dorm.

"Where are you going? That's not the way to the Shimazu Dorm." She says.

"Yeah, I know," I reply. "I'm going to think at the Tama River banks for a bit, then go back to the dorm."

"You've been going there a lot recently to think, what exactly do you think about?" Nee-san asks.

"Oh, a variety of things, like how to get your ass out of debt again, learning to get better at shuffling, predicting where Capt. will wander off to next, and stuff like that." I reply.

"Okay, see you tomorrow then." Nee-san says.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow Nee-san." I say and walk off to the Tama River.

I arrive at the Tama River banks in about ten minutes and think about how this situation I'm in is actually going so far.

"It looks like they are returning to normal, and at this rate, I'll definitely stay here in Japan, because it's relaxing to not have to dodge sexual advances within three seconds of me waking up." I remark to myself. "I honestly can't predict will Capt. will go anymore, he decides on where to go so randomly that you only win by sheer luck, so I'll just play it safe and not decide."

I think about various things for twenty minutes and head back to the Shimazu Dorm, which takes another ten minutes.

I walk into the Shimazu Dorm, where I see Chris and Mayucchi watching one of Yamatomaru's Diaries.

"Good, you finally found someone else to watch those historical dramas with." I remark and head off to my room.

"Hey! What do you have against Yamatomaru?" asks Chris.

"I don't have anything against him," I reply. "It's just that it gets boring after the first few times you watch it."

I go to my room and empty my pockets, getting ready for a bath.

I exit my room and go take a bath; relaxing for the first time today.

"Looks like some definite progress has been made." I say, and relax in the bath.

After about 20 minutes, I get out and head back to my room, ready to go to sleep.

"Alright, time to go to sleep; it's been a pretty hellish day today." I remark while I lay my futon out.

I close my eyes and descend into sleep.

End of Chapter 6

*It's a reference to Audioslave's Like a Stone single; it was playing while I was writing that part, so I just had to include a reference: watch?v=7QU1nvuxaMA