Azami's POV:
I wish for... I wish for... A WISH!
...
Nah who am I kidding? I can't think a single tiny wish to wish for if I win this stupid tournament.
Maybe wish to be able to fall asleep sometime soon?
I seriously don't get it, ever since we started training for the shaman fight I were always the one who NEVER stopped talking about it. What to do after the fight, how I would totally crush Akira's dreams about winning and how I told Tsuki to not hold her breath about getting those memories back.
... God I sound like such a jerk! I never noticed!
This is important to her and while I don't even know what I want I tell her to get ready to lose? And come to think of it, I never actually asked Akira what he would ask for if he won.
I even made fun of the others wishes... Of course I'm sure that they know that I was joking! I mean, they aren't exactly the most serious bunch in the world. But to be fair, even though I'm sure that they all have good reasons to why they want to wish for those things, when they simply tell you about it without an explanation they really shouldn't expect anything else.
Though you can't really argue with Ryu's dream.. about finding that 'best place', that's atleast something I can relate to in some way I think. And Faust wanting to be with that skeleton chick... well he probably doesn't want to be with her skeleton but you know what I mean. He kind of already is with her though thanks to Anna.
Ugh, what am I thinking? This is so damn sappy!
Get yourself together Azami! You have things to do, no need to break down or something like that... again. God that was embarrasing
Enough, enough! Go to sleep! SLEEP.
Akiras POV:
I'm hungry.
And Horohoro just can't keep his legs to himself, can he? Or keep his hands of MY blanket...
Sigh
Those dreams have completely vanished... about Mimi. I guess it's kind of good but in another way its worrying, but I can't understand why, not matter how hard I try!
Is it one of those Azami things that is annoying when they're there but it's pretty sad when they're not? Whatever...
I wonder what the hell it is Yoh's dreaming about, he looks so pleased whenever we sleep like he just accomplished something... oh well I guess it IS Yoh I'm talking about. He could probably break his leg and still be cheerful.
"Bo!" I jumped a little to the sudden appearance of Makoto who grinned. "Still got it!" he whispered.
"... you seriously used to scare people like that?"
"Nah, used to scare other ghosts with it though. Suckers never saw it coming!" he snickered.
I have no idea if he would be able to scare a fly to be honest, the only things he is able to do that is KIND OF ghost like is pop ups.
"What?"
"Did you come just to do this?"
"All your twisting is bothering me! And those annoying sighs of yours... euw. Just fall asleep already you moron!"
To think that he actually were somewhat standable a few hours ago, my parents will never believe me. "I were about to until you decided to pop out of nowhere! And keep it down, stupid! You are being troublesome!"
"Ah, I see you have stopped being a depressed girly kid! Thank god, it was such a pain to look at."
I didn't answer.
"Akira?" Still nothing, maybe if I just shut up he will get bored and go away. "Aki? Little Aki?"
Still nothing from me.
I heard him sigh as he scratched the back of his head, "Ya know... if-something-is-bothering-you-too-bad-you-should-tell-me."
Even though he spoke it as fast as he probably could, I was able to catch it. And it was even more shocking to hear than seeing Azami cry, but not completely hard to understand.
He continued, "But don't get me wrong! I mean, we are partners, I pretty much have to care!" I am not gonna lie, the sound of him being this frustrated, trying to find the right words without losing his 'cool' image as he calls it, was hilarious.
Makoto gave an even louder sigh, "Come on, you're not sleeping. Ey, Akira, Aki, Akira -" he continued over and over. Seriously, he isn't even bothering to whisper anymore.
"A-K-I!"
... I don't even know man, this is awkward. Well atleast he is returning to his normal self... which I actually prefer over that 'caring' side... weird.
"AKIRA!" GOD DAMN!
"WHAT?"
Okay, I did not mean to make it that loud.
Tsukiko's POV:
Turn to left, a minute passes. Turn to right, two minutes passes. Turn to face the ceiling, another minute passes by.
GAH I can't sleep!
I have no idea what time it is, I can't bother to look it up either. I hear the soft breathing of Azami and Tamao who is sleeping to my sides.
Where is Anna you ask?
We have three rooms to sleep in here, she got the third one, the guys the room next to the ours.
No one except Horohoro could care enough to argue about it... okay with 'care' I mean dare. If there is one thing I learned about her is that she is really scary when angry, it's like her eyes burns your soul or something.
Worse than my mom during a sale...
I have to admit, even though I want to fall asleep really bad, the silence feel pretty nice. It feels like there have been so much drama lately, with the X-Laws, Hao and the others.
... Hao.. is it really... possible to defeat that guy? I mean, ever since Spirit of Fire punched Horohoro I knew that he was strong because of his carefree attitude, but this strong?
I want to win, therefore I really want to believe that it's just a rumor or something.. damn.
... No. This is not the time to get cold feet, I'm already here aren't I? And giving up a match is not an option.
It will go as it goes, either we lose or win, as Yoh would say, it will work out! So just stop thinking about it!
I really wish I could be chill like that! Not worrying about anything...
But to be fair, nowadays I wish for A LOT of things.
To win this tournament, Hao to leave me alone, my parents to get of my back, to make it up with Azami, Akira and the others so everything goes back to before IT got out, I want to be taller, to remember stuff, etc, etc... It just seems... OH and I saw a cute keychain in the tourist area here!
But where was that shop again... I have to look it up later...
Oh my god... I feel sleepy... SLEEPY!
Leave it to me to get tired of thinking of shopping! No wonder Azami thinks it's boring to shop with me... oh well!
Yawn! Awesome!
Goodnigh-
"AKIRA!"
Holy son of a...!
"WHAT?"
I jumped high in the air from hearing the voice of Makoto in the next room, probably being a meanie to Akira again, fantastic. And here I thought I was gonna get some sleep...
"Shut the hell up!"
This time I jumped even higher with Azami screaming on top of her lungs practically in my ear together with Nozomi.
"A- Azami-san..." Tamao whispered, pointing at the wall next to her where Anna, who miraculously enough seems to still be sleeping.
I am not gonna lie, I always saw her as a person who woke up if a feather landed on the floor. Shows how little I know.
Oh well, I'm sure both Akira and Azami are as tired as me so they should probably go right back to sl-
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?" Horohoro's screamed from the room next to ours.
"HOROHORO!" oh so Ryu woke up too huh, I guess Horohoro is screaming in his ear or something since he is a heavy sleeper, most of the time atleast. "YOU BASTARD! You ruined my perfect dream!"
Do they WANT to wake everyone?
"Calm down and let's just go back to sleep before bad things happen..." could be faintly heard, even a tired Yoh is pretty wise I guess.
"YOH-DONO!"
"Amidamaru, shh!"
"What the hell are you doing?" oh, Ren joined in!
Soon every voice in the house could be heard from the other room, yeah Azami decided not to yell through the wall but to scream in their ears instead.
What really surprised me in this though...
is that Chocolove even in this late hour could make a bad pun that I'm pretty sure he received a punch in the face for it later.
I heard Tamao gasp and turned to where she was looking where we saw a zombie walking girl, walking past our open door. Slowly with easy steps.
The two of us got quiet.
A few seconds passed and the pain in the voices of everyone in the next room could be heard echoing through the building.
There was a silence...
Until finally steps could be heard once again, but the other room was dead quiet. Azami who at the start of the 'fight' had run to the other room returned.
She looked like she had seen a ghost!
... You know what I mean.
"A-Azami..?" I stuttered.
"Are you...?" Tamao continued.
Azami looked at us with big shocked eyes, she slowly walked over to us, looking like a zombie too.
I begin to wonder if Anna bit her or something.
My heart began to beat faster and faster.
She stopped infront of us...
"I- I... ugh.."
In five seconds she had fallen down on her 'bed'.
The hell?
"A-Anna-sama!" I turned my head up to the door where she was standing, staring daggers.
Once again, a piercing silence.
Finally she said, "Keep it down." then she disappeared back into her room.
... Oh I'm so gonna get nightmares.
Tamao and I looked at eachother, then just slowly and as quiet as we could, lay down and did our best to fall asleep.
Wondering if the guys are actually alive or not.
Oh well...
*Blink* *Blink*
Damn, the sunlight from the window hit me right in the eyes... it buuurns. And after the drama yesterday I'm still tired as hell.
The room is completely empty, I wonder if the others left for a match or something? But why didn't they wake me up if that's the case.
"Good morning, Tsukiko."
"Morning, Sakuya." I yawned, "Where is everyone?"
Sakuya put her finger under her chin, probably trying to remember who went were if they aren't all in the same place, or she just wants me to wait for the answer, who knows.
"I think they all went to watch the next match..."
"Why didn't they wake me up?"
I sat up and began to change from my pyjamas to my torn up jeans, a red top and started to put on my converse.
"Both Yoh and Ryu tried to, but you looked pretty dead so they decided to let you sleep in after Faust informed us that you were breathing."
"I see..."
I actually appreciate that, if they hade asked Azami to do it she would probably have thrown a rock at me or something... she is not the gentle kind when it comes to stuff like that.
"Are you going to join them?"
"Well, yeah. There's nothing else to do is there?"
"I guess." she sighed.
I'm guessing she starts to get tired to watch fights everyday. "Sakuya?"
She 'looked' at me as an answer.
"Did you hear what happened tonight?"
She gave a nervous chuckle, "Anna is scary, isn't she?"
"Terrifying." I laughed, "Well... at least she only is that way when either tired or really pissed..." I put on a black unzipped hoodie and then we were on our way.
"Well for you and Tamao it is so atleast, the others seems to have bad experience with her while she doesn't seem to mind giving them a piece of her mind..."
"I guess I'm lucky then hehe!" I smiled, she smiled back.
But the second we had reached the arena people had started to leave.
Is it already over? Just my luck...
"Mimes" "those mimes.." "funny..." "MIMESHAMANS!"
So am I right to assume that one of the teams were mimes? That's pretty strange but... right now I really couldn't care less...
I sighed and decided to stay where I was to keep and eye out for the others, if I find atleast one of them the time I took pulling on clothes won't be a complete waste.
Wow, seriously, where there always this many people here? I should really start paying attention to my surroundings.
I will never find anyone here...
I started to walk forward a few steps because I don't really like just standing in one place when other people are walking past me, feels weird in a way.
A few people bumped into me, half of them got angry because they thought I was in the way, how depressing.
Summoning Sakuya for help is so tempting... but she hates it when I does that cause it feels 'dregrading to be sent on such a paltry mission' as she described it.
Yeah, she is actually able to sense some kind of power thing in others, something about furyoku and spirits. That's what she uses in fights too I think. I don't know, I never really asked her too much about it.
I looked around a little more before deciding to move on.
Of course Amidamaru does it without question! So does Bason! Ugh, never mind.
Seconds later...
God I'm so lost right now! They couldn't have passed me could they? I would have noticed wouldn't I? Maybe I should ju... oh crap! No, no!
Without thinking I ran to the side and started walking the opposite way from the three familiar girls, one of them lending her shoulder to another to help her walk.
Glad to see that that Ameko girl is 'alright' but meeting them all would be too awkward... aside from them possibly attacking me as payback or something. I already apologized too so yeah!
Yeah this is one of the bad things I really don't want to confront...
As I looked back they had disappeared completely in the crowd, thank god, I actually think it would be worse it THEY had noticed ME first...
I don't need more drama in my life right now, seriously, I'm just waiting for my parents to call or something annoying like that.
This is probably the first time I thought of mom and dad as annoying.
Once again, I sighed as I finally decided to stop walking.
I should go back... someone has probably returned.
I turned around and spotted yet another face that I knew 'slightly' better...
Without noticing my body had completely froze, the people who bumped into me where the ones who had to move out of the way.
"Lyserg..." I felt myself mumble.
We weren't exactly BEST friends, but we were friends and that's enough for me to care about who he hangs with. Especially when the guy totally betrayed me and the others just for something as pitiful as revenge.
No matter what, you never do that, yet he did.
Doesn't it bother him even at all?
His head turned from the two X-Laws that were with him and the second he spotted me his face got a somewhat surprised yet nervous expression. I can't really say he looked any happier before he saw me either from what I could see.
I really don't know what to do. He was a friend so normally I would wave. But the problem in that sentence really bother me, was.
After a few seconds of just staring, I decided to be the one breaking off the eye contact and just walk away.
It really was at this moment I realized just how dead our friendship must be since neither of us barely recognize eachother. Maybe that's just how Lyserg has always been, but usually when I would meet a person, even if I hadn't met him or her in 5 years or something I would always be excited to see that person and also be the first one to take the first step forward.
I actually think this is the first time I chose to stay back. He obviously doesn't care about any of us anymore... at least not so much that he would ever show it.
And to be fair, that just sucks.
"Oh, Tsuki-san!"
After having been staring at the ground all the way back to our current home I finally lifted it to spot Manta (so I didn't lift it too high...) and behind him Yoh was standing with a small bag in his hand.
"There you are!" he smiled.
"Where have you been all morning?" Manta asked.
"Sleeping most of the time actually..." I laughed nervously, "Then I went to see the match but it was already over so I waited for you guys but got lost in the crowd and here I am!"
They both blinked a few times but then started to laugh, at me I presume.
We then started to walk back together, Yoh and Manta had been sent out to the village by Anna to find her something to eat apparently but didn't tell them what. So Yoh seems really nervous about getting her approval of the cake he bought.
I can't really blame him.
I have no idea what happened when she woke up in the middle of the night because of Azami and the guys, I don't want to know, but I am completely certain that it wasn't pleasant.
Akira's POV:
"Akira, Akira, Akira! Akira wake up!"
"I am awake god dammit!"
"Then stop ignoring me!"
I sighed and closed my eyes once again, annoying Azami even more. Before I knew it she punched me over the head and walked over to Horohoro and Ryu.
Seriously, for being such a small woman she sure knows how to cause pain, Anna too. Yesterday was... horrifying to put it lightly.
I put my hand over the same spot that Azami always decides to hit when angry at me. I actually think it's started to get immune to the punches...
Don't you just love how we have four girls here and one of them are one of the most bossy girls I've ever met while another one are violent half the time? At least Tamao and Tsuki's friendly enough even though I've never met a person more timid than Tamao.
"Hey, what's up with you?" Ren asked from the other side of the room, looking to the right.
I looked over at Chocolove who was sitting in a corner, looking troubled.
"Hm? Nothing really... I just try to figure something out about that quiet Trio team form the last match..."
"Huh? Figure what out?" Ryu asked.
There was a small pause until Chocolove answered, "Let's say... that a mime gets into trouble with a cop..."
Trouble with a cop? Where the heck does that come from?
None answered and just waited for him to continue.
"Do they tell him he has the right to remain... silent?"
...
Another silence fell in the air.
Then like it was planned out, Azami, Horohoro, Ryu and Ren had all smacked Chocolove on the head yelling "NOT FUNNY!" on top of their lungs.
Well... it wasn't unexpected. Mostly because that was probably one of the lamest jokes ever made.
Anna sent a small glare towards the others who was too busy with yelling at Chocolove to notice it. Apparently she decided they weren't worth her time because she turned her attention to Tamao who had sat down next to her.
I leaned my head back to the wall so I sat in the same position I had before I was rudely interrupted by you know who.
I managed to block out the sound of the others loud yelling, something I have learned from hanging out with Azami for years, much to her dislike. It's hilarious to see her reaction though. Well.. as noticed before, she is still fully capable to make herself heard, to MY dislike.
Okay that might have come of as harsh.
I just need breaks from her once in a while, especially when she wants my attention just to have it so yeah...
As I just sit here on the floor, just chilling, I can't help but think about different things that has happened lately.
Seriously, this is pretty messed up when you really think things through.
Hao, who is the twin of Yoh, has a crush or something on Tsuki who, for all I know, might feel the same, I doubt it but who the hell knows what's going on in her head nowadays.
It's so strange, just a few months back I could pretty much read her thoughts without a problem... she has changed, or maybe I have? I don't know!
I will have to keep an eye out for that guy I guess.. god I sound like a overprotective brother/friends... Even though it's somewhat true it's still troublesome. Mostly cause I have a feeling she will end up angry over it in the future.
Then we have Azami, who is just getting plain out confusing, more than usually. Her I've never been able to completely read as easily as Tsuki, however it was still pretty easy to guess her opinions and thoughts, never mind the fact that she usually just says it loudly.
That time we, Horohoro and I, found her pretty much broken on the ground, crying her eyes out. That's some strange stuff that I won't forget easily. Usually she is the one who MAKES people cry! You know, people she doesn't care for...
I really should talk to her about it I know, but how the hell do you start a conversation like that, this late too...
'Hey, Azami! remember that day about three weeks ago when you were on the ground crying? Yeah, fun times, could you tell me the reason?'
... That's probably not the way to go.
How does this make sense seriously? I have yet to talk to both of my closest friends! It shouldn't be this hard! I almost talked out about it with Tsuki once, didn't I? Or... did it ever happen?
I remember telling her I needed to speak to her...
God, why can't I remember? A lot of things is actually pretty fuzzy at the moments...
Like why didn't we come here together..? Not that I'm complaining, if we hadn't we probably would never have met Yoh or the others but... I seriously have a hard time remembering why...
Did we... lose each other? Perhaps?
I feel myself press a hand to my forhead, trying to think, closing my eyes.
...
Azami and I were bickering as always...
We pulled Tsuki in as always...
I won the argument... that was a rare one.
Then we split ways, Tsuki going somewhere, I went somewhere and so did Azami... but why?
Seriously, what the hell was the fight about?
It probably isn't important but still... the fact that I just can't...
"Akira?"
I throw my eyes open to stare into Azami's yellow eyes.
I felt myself jump back with a small yelp, hitting my head against the hard rock wall.
Ouch.
But something strange's going on.
I closed my eyes because of the pain, but when I open them again, Azami is simply staring, not laughing! She always laughs at my pain...
"Are you okay?"
I blink, "I just hit my head against the gigantic rock we call a wall, it isn't exactly painless?"
She sighes, "I meant before that, you seemed like you had a massive headache or something."
That's it?
She came over to me, spoke so calmly, cause of what she assumed was a headache?
"Yeah, but I think the wall made it better."
She bites her lip. I don't say anything, just wait for her cause she obviously has something to say...
For a few seconds there's nothing but silence.
"I..." I look at her, waiting for her to continue, she takes a breath and then...
"We're back!"
We throw our heads to the side as Manta's voice ran through the room and he, together with Tsuki and Yoh walked into the room.
Horrible timing.
As I look back to Azami she has already walked over to the missing friends, welcoming them back.
From the corner of my eye I spot Nozomi looking at me, probably just as confused as me.
AND CUT! Yeah thats the newest chapter at the moment hehe! I know, I've been gone forever! I have just had a hard time concentration on fanfictions for some different reasons, and when I finally started this chapter a few weeks or month back I think my computer said "Screw you" and died on me! so I had to give it to someone to revive it.
But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little chapter and I really hope I'll be able to upload another one faster this time, with faster I mean in the speed of light faster of course!
Thanks for reading!
Until next chapter! :)