Based on The Mercer Sister's Your Most Prized Possession?
Chapter Four: Clothes and Spray painting
Akari groaned as the sunlight streamed through her window. The dreaded Saturday finally came.
"It's going to be a long day…", she muttered as she went to the restroom to wash up. After she did that, she went downstairs to get a snack when the doorbell rang.
Ding dong!
Akari opened the door and was bombarded by Myuki and about a dozen or two of shopping bags.
"Ohayo Akari!" Myuki cried while Akari stood motionless.
"Don't just stand there, help me get these bags in! We have a long day ahead of us…" Myuki continued. Akari groaned and hauled the bags to her room.
"I don't think all of these clothes are necessary Myuki…" Akari trailed off.
"Well there were so much to choose from, and you're lucky I didn't drag you off to shop for all these clothes." Myuki answered.
"Now let's try this one on!" she said, shoving a black t-shirt with beige pants and a white flannel blouse to Akari. Moments later, Akari emerged dressed.
"Hmm…it's nice and all, but it's too tomboyish…let's try this one!" Myuki mused, giving her deep lilac spaghetti-strapped top with a long black overcoat and a beige skirt, and pushing her into the bathroom.
"Mmhmm…I think its kind of revealing…especially for a first date, and the date being Touya-kun…Next one!" Myuki decided. After many outfits later, even Myuki was beginning to be weary, and handed Akari another outfit. Her eyes were beginning to droop but when Akari emerged, they popped wide open.
"That's perfect!" she cried, and Akari dropped to the floor in relief.
"But now, we have to think of accessories and your shoes…" Myuki said, all refreshed sounding. Akari groaned and pounded the floor thinking 'Why me'.
"Come on now Akari, you want to look your best so you could impress Touya-kun and make Shindo-kun jealous! Remember: No pain, no gain!" Myuki commanded.
"What gain?" Akari muttered as Myuki proceeded to "dress" her up.
By 5 pm, Myuki finally deemed Akari "presentable" after she chose out her outfit, accessories, shoes, then made her take them all off for a shower and to wash her hair. Then Myuki started trying out hair styles and finally settled on leaving it "as is" and went onto putting makeup and finally Akari was ready.
"Arigato Myuki for all this," Akari said gratefully.
"Don't dwell on these things too much, that's what friends are for." Myuki said breezily.
"Ano, what are you going to do with the rest of the clothes?" Akari asked.
"Hm…I didn't really think about that, but I'll probably return most of it, and keep some for myself!" Myuki said brightly.
"But you went through all that trouble just buying them!" Akari exclaimed. Myuki waved her hand.
"Meh, it's no big deal, I can handle it. Oh look at the time! I better be going! Good luck Akari!" Myuki said, walking out of the door.
"Good luck?" Akari said confusedly. She was about to turn back, when the doorbell rang.
Ding dong!
She hesitated before firmly opening the door.
"Ohayo Touya-kun…" Akari said nervously.
"Ohayo…Fujisaki-san…" Akira said, mesmerized by the way Akari looked.
Her hair as decided, was left casually hanging on her shoulders and Myuki decided against using make up, insisting that Akari looked better with a natural look. She was wearing a sleeveless black blouse with lavender edges on the collars and so on. Her skirt was black, and at the knee, it pleated out and it too, was tinged with lavender edges. Her shoes were boots that matched her outfit design. Finally, her jacket was a long light lavender overcoat with black edges this time. To Akira, she was stunning.
"Y-you look very pretty, Fujisaki-san." Akira stuttered while Akari blushed.
"A-arigato Touya-kun. You look nice too." Akari replied.
Akira was wearing a black dress shirt with black pants and a black suit tinged with silver edges. And of course, he wore black dress shoes and socks.
Then, Akari took the arm that Akira offered her and they both walked towards Akira's car, unknowing that next door there was a certain two tone haired person watching them with binoculars.
Meanwhile at Hikaru's house
Hikaru had invited Waya over again, in hopes of his presence there would keep his mind off Akari's date. Alas, it didn't help since he was currently watching helplessly as Akari made her way towards Akira's silver Mitsubishi Spyder in the arms of his rival.
"Man, Shindo! Would you stop spying on them and get on with the game?" Waya asked impatiently.
"But she's walking towards his car!" Hikaru protested. 'And a very nice car' he thought silently. Waya rolled his eyes exasperatedly.
"That's what people do on a date! What do you expect her to do, flag bus down?" Waya retorted.
"Besides, she'll be fine. It's not like you're going to follow them or something…" he continued. Hikaru's eyes lit up.
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" Hikaru cried.
"All I have to do is disguise myself so that she won't recognize me!" Hikaru exclaimed excitedly. Waya groaned while thinking 'Me and my big mouth'.
"But if she finds out, she'll behead you!" Waya pointed out.
"But she won't! All I have to do is change my hair or something!" Hikaru argued.
"You don't even know what restaurant they're going to!" Waya cried. Hikaru paused for a moment.
"As a matter of fact, I do. It just so happens that I tapped her phone line, and thus, I overheard her saying that she was going to this one café called Nuit Noire…" Hikaru trailed off.
"You tapped her phone line? Man talk about being obsessed." Waya cried.
"I'm only making sure she's ok…you don't know…there are psychotic rapists who make threat calls around…" Hikaru replied.
"Now that's just being paranoid. Fujisaki-san's going to be fine, and it's not like Touya-kun's a rapist." Waya pointed out.
"Whatever, I'm still going to follow them." Hikaru decided.
"But what about our game?" Waya protested.
"We'll continue it some other day. Now are you in or not?" Hikaru asked impatiently tapping his foot.
"Fine, but only because I'm curious, but if she finds out, I'm saying it's all your fault." Waya warned.
"Hai hai, now help me think of ways to hide my hair or something." Hikaru said.
"Well, you could either put a wig on, or use black hair dye." Waya replied.
"But I don't have any hair dye!" Hikaru said, panicking frantically.
"How about black spray paint? I have one of those with me right now." Waya asked.
"Ok…but why do you have black spray paint on you right now?" Hikaru said, staring at Waya weirdly.
"I needed to spray my black Go stones, the paint was wearing off…god, what cheap paint they use." Waya replied, getting out the spray paint.
"Er…do you want me to do it or what?" Waya asked mischievously. Hikaru backed away.
"No way man, you'll probably end up spraying it on my eyes. Give me spray paint." Hikaru retorted, yanking the spray paint out of Waya's hands, and moments later, Hikaru's hair was all black.
"There!" Hikaru said proudly, admiring his hair.
"Now just wear something casual and let's get going!" Waya said impatiently. Hikaru rushed to do as he said.
"But what about you Waya?" Hikaru asked.
"Simple," Waya replied as he put on his glasses that he rarely used because he had contacts, and he also tied up his wild hair down.
"Alright, now let's get this show on the road!" Hikaru said, bouncing down the stairs and out the door towards his black Toyota 2007 Camry.
"Heey! Wait for mee!" Waya cried as he clambered into Hikaru's car and off they sped.
Author's Note: The cafe, Nuit Noire, is French for Black Night. Don't forget to REVIEW...until next time...