Yo! Long time no see… This would be the next installment for the Perfect Plan…
Some of the characters might be OOC so please bear with me…
Now, on with the story…
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The Perfect Plan
Chapter 3: Preparations
As soon as Yukino and Fuji left the office, they set off to look for some tennis gear. They were allowed to skip the afternoon practice since it was necessary for them to be able to keep the fact that Yukino wasn't Ryoma from the rest of the team (meaning, Inui, Kaidoh, Momo, Kawamura and the rest of the tennis club).
Due to the tension in the room, the Golden pair left ass well to return to the courts. Tezuka, after some time, left as well. This left Coach Ryuzaki to ponder about the recent events. Kami, what would happen to us now? I just hope that she's as good as they say.
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With Yukino and Fuji:
The two went to the tennis shop that the Seigaku team frequented. Inside, the shop owner blinked his eyes while trying to see if he was seeing right. He knew the Seigaku regulars especially the youngest of them all. He wondered whether it was just his imagination that he's seeing him in a skirt. He decided to satisfy his curiosity and asked,
'Anou, aren't you the youngest member of Seigaku tennis team?' The girl stiffened and her hands began to tremble in irritation…
'No, I'm not…' she answered. Fuji placed a hand on her shoulder and spoke to the keeper…
'Actually, she's his cousin.'
'Gomen, ojou-chan… It's just that you look almost identical…' the older man said apologetically to the slightly miffed girl. 'Can I help you with something?' the shopkeeper continued.
'Hmmm… we would like to purchase some gears…' Fuji replied.
The shopkeeper then, motioned the two to look at their new products…
Yukino inspected the items and chose all the high-quality ones. Both Fuji and the shopkeeper eyed the girl with interest. It seemed that she knew what type of items fitted her as well as her racquet.
These were the things that she bought:
Three sets of grip tape,
Some durable racquet strings,
A spare racquet,
A pair of gloves,
And a pair of blue wristbands
She was about to bring those items to the counter when the shopkeeper spoke, 'Are you sure that you want those?'
'Is there something wrong?' Yukino replied in her cool tone.
'Oh, there's nothing wrong with them. They were quite good in terms of quality but their expensive. It wouldn't do for a beginner to spend so much on gears.' He replied.
Yukino huffed and spoke haughtily, 'A beginner I am not. I'm a pro and besides if you're afraid that I couldn't afford it then don't worry, I am more than capable of buying ten times the amount of these items. Now, if you would please give me the bill so that I could pay.'
The keeper was taken aback. He didn't mean it as an insult but the way she spoke, it's as if he wounded her or something. Nevertheless, he took the items and gave her the bill. He was surprised to see that the girl actually had enough money to pay ten times the cost of the items. Just who the hell is she?
Fuji, on the other hand, looked on in amusement as is companion became irritated. Maybe it's because she always gets mistaken for Ryoma. He silently thought. When she finished paying, the two left a dumbfounded keeper who held ten times the amount of their actual bill. It was due to the girl's insistence that he accepted with the promise that the next time "Ryoma" came, all his purchase would be free.
Next on their agenda was to look for some suitable outfit.
They began to scan the area to find a store but every time they look inside Yukino would say that the clothes were either too cheap for her tastes or made of such poor material that it's unacceptable. It was already four in the afternoon, and still, they hadn't found anything. As a last resort, the girl took her phone out and dialed some numbers.
Ring! Ring!
'Hello, this is Sora Naegino of Kaleido Stage, how can I help you?' a female voice spoke from the other line.
'Yo, Sora! It's me, Yukino… Can you give the phone to Leon, please?'
'Ah Yukino-san, I understand, if you could wait a moment.' Sora replied. Yukino, then, heard her call for Leon.
After a few minutes, Yukino heard a male voice replace Sora's cheerful one.
'It's Leon, what is it now?'
'Hey, Leon, do you know where I could find some high-quality clothes… I'm supposed to look for something that would pass me off as my cousin.' Yukino replied.
'-sigh- you called me just for that?'
'Yup!'
'Where are you right now?'
'I'm currently in Japan visiting my relatives here.'
'Japan, huh. There's one good shop that I visited once. The owner's quite eccentric but he's good with clothes. It's in Tokyo. Just look for "Ayame's Costume and Clothes".'
'Thanks… I'll be off now…'
'Wait!'
'What is it?'
'Yukino, please next time call me if it's something important.'
'Now, why would I do that?'
'…'
'Hehe, bye Leon.'
Tut! Tut! Tut!
Yukino shut her phone and said, 'We're going to Tokyo. But before that, let's go to my place first.' Before he could register what happened, Fuji was dragged to a five-star hotel near the area. Yukino told the manager to bring her bags to her room and with that; they went to the station to get to Tokyo.
Yukino, then, began to look for the shop by asking directions.
Soon, they reached a small shop where they found a silver-haired guy wearing a wedding gown. A girl wearing a maid's outfit was standing on the sideline as her employer paraded himself to the two.
'Good afternoon, my dear customers… I, Ayame Sohma, would surely find the perfect outfit for you both.' He told them. Before they could reply, they heard two voices coming from the door behind them…
'Ha! Ha! Ha! Yuki, you look exactly like you gay brother.' An orange-haired boy teased
'Shut up, you stupid cat…' A teenage boy having an irate look replied curtly, 'Ayame, I'm going to kill you for dying my hair.' He grumbled as he marched blindly towards the shop, not noticing that the door hit the girl who, by way of chance slammed down to Ayame.
Poof!
The orange-haired boy quickly dragged his companion to replace his brother as he tossed a snake outside the window.
'What happened?' Fuji asked curiously when he saw that the owner seemed to have become younger.
'Eto, my costume and wig fell off.' Yuki replied nervously while the other girl helped Yukino up, as well as picked the scattered gown.
Fuji was still suspicious but decided to let it go since it wasn't his business.
Yuki was only too glad that the customer decided to continue on with their purpose.
'We are wondering if you have a suitable tennis outfit for her, something that look like mine.' Fuji asked. (A/N: he's wearing his jersey since he was supposed to join practice)
Yuki asked Ayame's employee about it and told the pair to wait for a moment. (Sorry, I don't know the girl's name)
Yuki turned to the other boy and said, 'Hey Kyo, help us too, you baka.'
Yuki, Kyo and the girl went inside the stock room and searched for the requested items. Inside, the real Ayame waited for his brother to come so that they could switch places again.
After a while, Ayame and his assistant came out and brought an identical jersey for the pair to inspect.
'It's identical to the team's jersey. But how, I believe that only one store has the design.' Fuji asked.
'I'm a fan of your team so I decided to copy the design and create one for every size.' Ayame answered knowingly.
Fuji nodded and noticed that he was wearing the gown costume again. Yukino inspected the uniform and asked, 'Can I try it on?'
'Of course,' Ayame motioned his assistant to lead the way. When they returned, Yukino said, 'We'll take it.'
'Good, but may I ask, why look here for that jersey when you have your own tailor?' Ayame asked out of curiosity.
'I'm not actually part of the team so the school can't order a jersey my size.'
With that, Yukino paid for her clothes and the two left the shop.
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Gears, check
Clothes, check
Next, shoes
'Since, we're already here, let's go to the mall for some shoes.'
At the mall
Two people entered the mall with the intent to watch some movies.
'Could you wait for me here, I'm going to buy the tickets.' A blue-haired gentleman asked his blonde companion who nodded in agreement.
At the same time, Fuji and Yukino entered the mall to look for some shoes. I don't really want to try on some shoes. Hmmm, maybe I could drag someone to do it for me. Yukino thought while scanning the perimeter for some possible victim. She spotted a blonde girl who seemed to have the same built as she. She immediately dragged her and said, 'I'll pay you a hundred bucks if you could fit some of those shoes over there.' She said to the girl while pointing to a nearby shoe-store.
Fuji followed them confusedly.
The girl blinked and considered the pros and cons of agreeing. If I agree, Athrun would be mad but a hundred bucks is so hard to earn. Oh well, I'll make it up to him later. With that she replied, 'Deal.' And they began fitting the shoes.
Meanwhile,
As soon as Yukino dragged the girl, Athrun returned to find his girlfriend gone, 'Where's Cagalli?' He decided that she left and was about to leave as well when he saw a pink-haired girl, 'Hey, Lacus.'
'Athrun, how nice to see you?' she replied.
'Umm, would you please join me watch the movie. It seems that Cagalli ditched me but it'd be a waste to throw these tickets.'
'Okay.'
At 6:30 p.m.
Yukino was finally satisfied with the fitting and decided to call it off. Cagalli was only too happy to comply. She was exhausted. Yukino bought the three pairs that she approved of and went back to pay the helpful girl. She doubled her fee since it took them an hour to finish.
As the trio went out of the shop, they collided with another pair.
Cagalli was first to recover and gasped, 'Athrun!' She turned to his companion and questioned, 'Lacus, why are you here?'
Upon hearing his name, Yukino turned to see a familiar face, 'Zala, how nice to see you here.'
The man in question stiffened and turned to the girl who addressed him coolly, 'B-boss!'
The others had question marks over them as they said, 'Boss?'
'Umm, Cagalli meet my boss. Boss, meet my girlfriend, Cagalli.'
The blonde was skeptical, 'How can she be you boss? She's way younger than you…You're like 20 and I'm 18.'
This time, it was Yukino who was skeptical, 'You're eighteen? But you're so short.'
The blonde glared at her insinuation but before she could retort, Athrun spoke, 'It's true, she's currently the world's youngest CEO. Her company has branches almost everywhere. I was working for her at the main branch before I got transferred here.'
She was still unconvinced but decided to ignore it in order to ask the problem at hand. She turned towards the pink-haired woman and asked her with narrowed eyes, 'Lacus, why are you with my boyfriend?'
'Anou, he thought that you ditched him so he asked me to accompany him in order not to waste the tickets.' She replied, feeling awkward about the situation.
Yukino decided to join in, finding amusement in the situation while Fuji kept silent, 'You know, Zala, the first rule in dating is to call your girlfriend if she went somewhere before deciding that she ditched you. Who knows, maybe she just went to the bathroom.'
Athrun blushed in embarrassment and replied, 'I didn't think of that?' Upon hearing this, Cagalli glared at him.
Deciding that this was getting out of hand, Fuji said suavely, 'We apologize. It seems that this problem is our fault. Yukino-san, dragged her without permission and I allowed it. We are sincerely sorry.'
Yukino looked at her companion and sighed in defeat, 'Sorry, it was actually my fault. So, as compensation, if ever you're looking for a job, just tell Zala and he'll call me. Well, ja ne.'
With that, the two left the dumbfounded trio and went to a nearby restaurant between the library and the mall that they just left.
Upon their entrance, they were bombarded by a series of confetti and were greeted by a set of twins. The one on the right had her brown hair tied with a ribbon while the other had her hair cut short. They spoke in unison, 'Welcome to True Light café. You are the twenty-fifth customer for the night and we're glad to say that you're meal would be on the house. I'm Risa,' said the one on the right, 'and I'm Riku,' said the other, 'We are happy to serve you. Come in.'
With that they led the two to a nearby table. Riku said, 'What would be your order?'
The two looked at the menu and ordered some pasta and soup and hot chocolate.
After a while, two boys came two serve them. The first one was a redhead with an innocent smile while the second had blue-hair and a serious expression. Both had nametags, the redhead was called Daisuke and the other was Satoshi. Fuji and Yukino thanked them before they left. After paying for the bill, they left the place and decided to call for a cab since it's already 7:15 p.m.
They were walking down the lane when Fuji bumped collided with someone.
Thump!
'Sorry.' Fuji and a pink-haired boy said at the same time.
Yukino looked at the boy and asked, 'Shigeru-kun, is that you?'
'Yukino-san?' replied Shigeru.
'You know each other?' Fuji asked.
'He's one of my former classmates.' She answered, 'By the way, why are you here, I thought that you're still in America?'
'I work at Pantasia Southern Tokyo Branch. Come I'll show you the place.' The boy said dragging the two by the hand.
They reached the bakery within minutes and Shigeru introduced the two.
'Tsukino-san, I want you to meet a friend of mine. She's Yukino and her friend…'
'Fuji, Syuusuke Fuji.' The brunette supplied.
Upon hearing the name Yukino, A blonde guy came out screaming, 'Yukino's here! What's that witch doing here?'
By this time, the girl in question was preparing to strike the blonde idiot when a brunette with a headband came and said, 'She's not Tsukino's sister, Kyosuke.'
'Huh?' the blond said. He looked at the newcomers and to his shock, he saw two brunettes instead of a woman with ebony hair.
'Y-y-you're not her?' he stuttered, 'I'm so sorry!'
'Damn right you are…' Yukino gritted her teeth and began to exude a threatening aura while Fuji opened his eyes.
Thankfully, before anything could happen, Tsukino and Shigeru interfered.
'I want you to meet my friend, not to harass her, Kyosuke.' Shigeru said disapprovingly.
'It's a pleasure meeting you, Yukino-san, Fuji-san. I'm Tsukino.'
'Likewise, Syuu-chan, what time is it?' Yukino said.
'It's almost 8:30. Why?' was Fuji's answer.
'Nothing.' With that, she took her phone out and dialed another number.
Ring! Ring!
'Shiro-nii, could you please send someone to fetch us here in Pantasia Southern Tokyo Branch? It's late and I don't think that we'd be able to catch the train, now.' She said and the shut the phone.
'Who did you call?' Fuji asked.
'That's my branch manager here in Tokyo as well as my caretaker.'
'So we'll have to wait for the ride here.' Fuji continued.
'That is if it's alright for them.' The girl said pointing at the others.
'Oh, it's alright, we're actually planning an all-nighter in preparation to n upcoming baking competition.' Tsukino supplied while the boy with the headband disappeared and reappeared with a tray of newly-baked bread.
'Hi I'm Kazuma, do you want to taste my Japan #16?' (can't remember any of the ones he actually made) he said while handing them some.
The two took one for each of them and thanked the beaming boy.
Within ten minutes, a black limousine came. A silver-haired young man of 20 stepped out of the car and entered the shop. 'Yukino-sama, the car's ready.' He said solemnly.
'Arigatou, Kage-nii. This is Syuu-chan. Syuu-chan, I want you to meet Kage-nii, he's another one of my caretakers.' Yukino introduced the two.
After that, the two said their goodbyes and headed back home. Fuji went home first while Yukino returned to the hotel afterwards.
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Finished at last…
I hope that you'd like this one.
Sorry for Fuji fans if he's somehow turned into a shadow in the story…
Also, I do not own anything except for Yukino, Shiro and Kage.
The charcters from Kaleido Star, Fruits Basket, Gundam Seed, DNAngel, and Yakitate Japan!, and of course Prince of Tennis. They are owned by their respective authors.
Now, that's over…
I'll see you guys, later.
Ja ne.