A/N: I'm bored, I'm slap happy, I changed a light bulb and I can't concentrate on a book for very long. The solution I have come up with, time everything with cds it works. So onward with number 14, this is also how old I am for the next month. And remember this is going on to the Lilo and Stitch soundtrack, parts in this or a later chapter will be done to some music from the Foot Loose soundtrack.

Disclaimer: see Ch. 9

Word Key:

Text

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Dream

Tape Recorder

Chapter Fourteen: Festival Time! Part 1: Flying Problems and Getting There

Silence, followed by more silence, and after that…more silence. That was how it went on the start of the long walk. Finally Mitsuru got some sense in his head before that evil little voice could start nagging him.

"Umm…We could umm…fly there," seeing the look on the girl's face he quickly added, "If you want to…that is." Once again he saw a look of surprise on her face and stopped practically yelling, "Alright, what's the big friggin deal that you have to act like a space cadet?"

Silently Mahiru reached her arm up and patted the top of his aqua colored hair to feel the hair gel in it. "Wow you really did use styling gel…I'm impressed."

"…So? Big deal styling gel, Mitsuru has some in his hair oh no end of the universe." He replied flatly waving his hands a bit. What stopped him dead in his tracks was three words from her, "You're cute looking."

He didn't know what to say; he had never really received compliments, or given them out really, so he had no response. 'Tell her thank you and how she also looks good. You should use cute or sexy, but you're not to that level.' "Will you just fucking die?" 'Not likely now tell her.'

After a few seconds he realized that her hand was still in his hair, carefully he removed it and stuttered out, "Th-thank ya-you." Turning away he asked again, "Do you want to fly?"

"On one condition."

"Geeze there always has to be some strings attached with you doesn't there?"

Ignoring that comment she stated, "Only on the condition that you won't drop me."

Mitsuru gave a slight nod that Mahiru didn't notice when he wrapped his arms around her waist, giving her a bit of a shock that made her body automatically start going backwards but he only held tighter so that she couldn't move. "I won't drop you." He told her in his low voice that he usually used for threatening. In this case, he used it to try to clam the princess down.

He threw in, "Well…at least not on purpose." as they lifted up off the ground. They flew up until all the cars and people looked like small black dots on a backdrop of concrete that looked white. Flying up that fast in such a short amount of time freaked Mahiru out and she had a basic grip death on the tengu that held her up there.

"I…said…I wouldn't drop you…so why are you…killing me…by cutting off my air supply?" He asked; the pauses so that he could get enough oxygen to breathe, she was really choking him. Her eyes were clamped shut. "You said would drop me, at least not on purpose so how do I know that if you drop me you won't say it was an accident huh?"

This woman, Mitsuru concluded, was out of her mind and in no condition to fly. In fact he wasn't sure if he was able to fly either, were things supposed to look kind of purplish like they did? "Fine!" He yelled over the roar of the wind as he lower them back down, several blocks away from where they had originally been when they started flying.

Only when her feet were firmly planted on the asphalt did Mahiru venture to open her eyes. "Will you…let go now…you're choking me…" he choked out, his face turning a nice shade of red from lack of oxygen.

She released him and gasped as he was coughing, "Ohmigosh Mitsuru, I'm so sorry!"

The tengu crouched down on the ground as he waited for the dizzy spell to pass over him. (You know the feeling you get when stand up real fast from sitting down.) He took a few more deep breaths then stood up. Mahiru still looked a bit concerned even though he had said that everything was fine. "Ya know you worry about me dropping you; I should be worried about you hitting or quite possibly killing me." He stated as they walked the last couple of blocks.

"Well I can't help it!" the girl defended, "You've caused me to have the greatest fear of flying! Not to mention the fact that when we first met you tried to kill me on more than one occasion. Hell, you even have dropped me before so how do I know you wouldn't do it again!"

"That was your own fault." Mitsuru snapped at her. "My fault; how was it my fault?"

"You said you wanted down, I complied so I wouldn't have to deal with your screeching your damn head off about and before I could land completely you, being the dense idiot you are, wriggled out and fell. You then fell three feet onto the black top and lightly sprained an ankle and since they all blamed me for it I had to be like your friggin butler which I hated if you must know." He explained in the process of five minutes.

"Okay then two times. You're forgetting the time that you dropped me…from five hundred feet above the tallest building!"

"I have no clue- oh wait yeah, yeah I remember that. I caught you after you fell a couple hundred feet; you were as fine as could be. The look on your face though was priceless, that kept me laughing for a good while." As he thought back on the look of sheer terror on her face he started cracking up again.

"Humph. Yeah very funny Pinocchio Boy." Mahiru turned and continued walking leaving Mitsuru there with his fit of hysterics. Looking up he saw her leaving and thought, "What the hell? Pinocchio Boy, that's weird even for her."

"Uh…oh crap…Hey, wait up." His feet pounded on the concrete as he tried to catch up to her, he had just remembered; where they were you had to pass through a bad part of town to get to the festival. A girl like Mahiru walking through that place by herself just screamed easy target. 'Oh what's this? The great and grumpy Mitsuru actually caring, somebody check and see if he has a fever.' "One of these days you will shut up and you will fucking die." 'Until then I'll be napping.'

She had ignored him and turned the corner out of his sight. "Damn idiot." The tengu muttered as he put on an extra burst of speed and rounded the corner. Too late, a gang of punks who thought they were 'all that' had surrounded her and trying to get her to come with them.

"A pretty girl like you shouldn't be wanderin' around here by herself. She could get hurt, so how about you come with me and my buddies and we'll escortcha around." One of them said. "Umm…no thanks," The girl told him, "I can manage just fine."

"Well that's what they all say babe either way they end up-" "HEY!" Mitsuru yelled to get their attention then walked forward sporting his pissed off, don't-mess-with-me-or-I'll-beat-the-shit-out-of-you, look. "She said she was alright so back off."

"What are you her boyfriend or something? Get lost kid." With that said, they though he would just leave and paid no more attention to him. Bad idea, very bad idea.

The one who had dismissed him before went back to talking to one of his other buddies. That's when a very heavy object hit him full on like a freight train in the chest and down he went. The little brat from before (Mitsuru) had tackled him and the fires from the very depths of hell were burning in his eyes.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU CALL ME DIPSHIT!" The bad mistake the group had made was calling him her boyfriend. In his mind, hell would freeze over before that happened. "You all have officially pissed me off. Now, I must beat you all to possibly within three inches of your lives and if you think I won't just try me."

In a matter of a few minutes the gang boys were sprawled out on their backs unconscious. "I told them I'd beat them to with in three inches of their lives and did they listen noooo." Mitsuru brushed his hands off much like one would dirt. He turned around and faced Mahiru, "And you…" She winced and waited for the yell that never came as he sighed. "Try to pay attention to where you are other than 'I'm on a street in the city'. Cause what woulda happen if somebody wasn't around to help you next time? You'd be god only knows where got it?"

Mahiru shook her head yes. 'Is he…actually worried? He is.' A look of what seemed to be a mixture of shock and happiness came across her face. The tengu saw the look on her face and did what we call 'flipped out'. "H-hey, what's that look for? Stop it, stop it right now…I'm serious, it's creepy and down right disturbing."

There was a small groan from one of the punks and Mitsuru added, "C'mon, I don't think we want to be here when these 'knocked out beauties' wake up."

"Oh…right." Gracefully she hopped over one then another and stood next Mitsuru who once she reached him turned and started walking. "Just hurry up." He mumbled. Mahiru was actually having a hard time keep up he usually walked like I'm-pissed-at-you-so-just-to-annoy-you-I'm-gonna-walk-really-slow.

"Uhh, hey Mitsuru is there a problem? It's better to talk things out then keep it bottled up inside because if you do then that can lead to unnecessary outburst and violence." Then she added very softly, "Oh, guess it's just a tad bit late for that…he does that naturally."

"Problem, there's no problem other than I have to friggin deal with you." 'Aww you were worried for her well being that is just too adorable. I'm going to have to write that down in my diary, who knew you where capable of such things.' "Are you even male? Honestly what guy in his right mind keeps a diary! And actually I have you as my problem die and go to hell stupid voice." After that the voice stayed silent much to the young tengu's liking.

Some short time later they had reached a street with an alley off to the side. "There." He mumbled to himself and walked into it. "Uhh…Mitsuru are you sure that is the right way?"

"Yes, it's a short cut. I don't know if anybody is hiding around here or not so you'd better stay close." He warned and immediately felt a tightening on the upper part of his left arm as Mahiru clung to him. "Ok…Now time for the short cut."

Without warning the boy grabbed her around the waist and pushed off the ground hard and within mere moments they were again as high as some of the tallest buildings. "KYHAHHHH! MITSURU THIS ISN'T A SHORT CUT!" She screeched against the wind, eyes shut firmly and grasping to him for dear life.

"YES IT IS!" He yelled, "IT'LL GET US THERE A WHOLE LOT FASTER MINUS ANY AND ALL GANGS…WELL THAT IS UNLESS THEY HAVE AND KNOW HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES WHICH IS HIGHLY DOUBTFUL!"

If Mitsuru had said anything else Mahiru paid no attention what so ever to it and buried her head into his chest just incase she should open her eyes, that way the girl wouldn't be able to see how high they were. About ten minutes later her feet were once again against something solid presumably blacktop.

"OK, now it's time to let Mitsuru go." He said unclasping her hands that had become numb from clutching on to the material of the back of his shirt for so long. "We are here now and as you can see I didn't drop you."

"Yeah, yeah you say it like you just did the world more harm then good when it didn't really make a difference." Grabbing his arm the girl led him to the entrance practically yanking his arm right out of the socket. Once inside seeing it all Mahiru knew, she was going to have one hell of a time. Yet one thing still bothered her…how was she going to tell Mitsuru that she had listened to that tape? Oh well she'd figure it out later, right now all she wanted to do was have some fun; maybe she'd tell him after dinner.


TBC

A/N: Mwuhahaha Finally, I have updated! And that whole thing with the punks, I will say it myself, GEEZE THAT WAS RANDOM! Yet interesting. Anywho, I've got nothing else to say except for: PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! THEY'LL KISS SOON ENOUGH! JUST WAIT! Okay I'm done.

NOTE TO READERS: This is a note that I was asked to tell all of you by JesusGirl883. To those who read Deathly Confessions and other fics by JesusGirl, her computer is sick and she won't be able to update. She is very sorry about this.

Thank you to my readers:

Poisonmoon- Glad you're pumped. Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up.
Itburns- Yes they will. By heat do you mean Lemon? If so then no, that's gonna get its own story. Nope I didn't the festival is just there.
JesusGirl883- That's what I did most of the time when I was down in Lexington, and yeah I probably would've too…at least she did sit on him, think of what would've happened if she did and he rolled over and pinned her under him.
Writergirl118- I hope you find this chapter funny also.
Ketosuri- Mitsuru psychoticness is cute and also fun to write.
Chrysanthemum3- Quite possibly, one can never know
Kyoko-chan- Actually, my summer vacation has been going on for about I dunno how many weeks, since about May 27 maybe. There were 3 days of exams (Each day there's 2 exams except for the last day there's only 1) but I was exempt from all but one of them but that was my art and that was already done. And I finished my Star Wars book only to have it be late, oh well 2 day grace period.
Shol Os Thaedys- Lilo and Stitch so totally rock thank you Campbell County Public Libraries of Northern Kentucky for the CD. And now I don't have to listen to just the original soundtrack on repeat because I got another one called 'Lilo and Stitch's Island Favorites' It's so cool it has the song on it that they use for the coke with lime commercial.
SilverMoons BlackWings- (Watches you bounce up and down) I'm glad that you like it. I'm real sorry that I didn't update sooner. I like your pen name, it's pretty.
Ilovekaihiwatari- It's ok you're forgiven. Chapter 4 (or 5) soon yes? And I tried to get her to watch Fushigi Yugi the other day but she said no.
Zoey- I'm flattered, thank you very much, and where he finds out she listened to the tape will probably be coming up very soon
Rin-wolf- I'm sorry I drove you to insanity, I'll try to get the next chapter up quick I promise.
Kelsey R Hill- Why you ask? Because I'm evil, really I am in a way I sat on there phone and kept saying Keiko and Akira over and over to my friend who doesn't really like that couple. I'll try getting the next chapter up quicker for you guys.
Naishu- Wow because of my fic…interesting. And I find humor comes easier then drama and serious types of stuff plus I just like to make people laugh.
Chocomintswirl- That's ok, I'm just glad that you're back now. Yes poor Mitsuru, he has to suffer from 'innocent Mahiru' and my evil mind.
SekkaiMidoriiroNeko- Well they are seen very seldom so we really don't know what they do when Mitsuru or Mahiru aren't around that's probably when things quite down. Also I don't think Nozomu would act like that all the time he's also a teenager and needs to unwind. And plus…I got something special planned for the pans and spatula.
Elen- That dream is my randomness showing through and yes it does add to the entertainment the whole thing with the tag was cute.
MitsukiShiroi- Really Thanks very much, I like your story so far too (Sorry can't remember the name right now considering it's about 1:15 am)
DeepRedSky- Wow, I think the waffle helped but I like toaster strudels with the apple filling much better
Alana-StarSugarCat- Alana: Why thank you. Evo: Wow that really describes a lot.