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I walked into the gym. I must say, this the a great looking dance. Streamers were everywhere, music was playing, people were laughing, and the food looked good. I helped myself to some orange soda. "Rima!" Amu called. She was wearing a dress with a small red checkered design. The dress had black straps, a thin black belt, and it was frayed on the bottom.
"You look great," I commented.
"You too Rima!"
"Rima-tan looks kinda like Cinderella!" Yaya grinned. She skipped over to us (how unlady-like, but Yaya is Yaya) in a sparkly pink dress that any girly princess would've envied.
Kusukusu giggled. "All Rima needs is glass slippers!" I was slightly offended by Yaya and Kusukusu's comments. What a childish comparison! My dress was a simple, strapped, light blue dress. That's all. Nothing was done to my hair. I wore it down like I always did, complete with my black headband. I don't have gloves or uncomfortable glass slippers. (Good thing too, because these black heels were bad enough already!) How do I look like Cinderella?!
"The dress color isn't enough to compare me to Cinderella," I tried to argue. "So childish."
"Wah! Rima-tan's so mean..." Yaya pouted. Kusukusu, as usual, giggled. "Hey look Amu-chi! It's Kukai and Tadase!"
"Tadase-kun!" Amu called out. Tadase walked towards us wearing a white tux with Kukai Souma behind him. "Kukai! You're here too?"
"Don't forget me!" Daichi called. "Long time no see!"
"I'm here as an escort," Kukai loosened his tie on his (oddly buttonless) old uniform. "I can't believe I would ever be wearing this again. Hey, where's Nagi? I heard that he's got a new chara!" Knowing Nagihiko, he probably can't choose something to wear again. Whatever it was though, probably would make everyone drop to their knees.
"I'm here," Nagihiko smiled. He walked over to us. Oh my gosh, I was right. He looked amazing. His tux was completely black, but he had a navy blue satin shirt under and a white tie. He looked at Tadase. "Looks like I'm in second place when it comes to standing out," he chuckled. "but that's alright. White is a better color for you."
Tadase rubbed his head, embarrassed by the compliment. "But the white tie is very eye-catching for you Fujisaki-san,"
"Yo!" Rhythm grinned.
"This is your chara, Jack?" Kukai asked. Nagi nodded.
"Yo! I'm Daichi, this is Kukai. Kukai was a former Jack of the Guardians last year! So this is Nagi's chara. I've been so psyched to meet you!"
"Name's Rhythm. Nice to meet you Daichi!" They exchanged some weird handshake. "Nagi, I'm gonna go meet up with the other charas kay?"
"Alright." Rhythm gave a loud 'yay!' before going off with Daichi close behind him. "I can tell they're are definitely gonna get along. Right Souma-kun?"
Kusukusu turned to me. "Rima, I'm going to go play with the other Shugo Charas too." I nodded in approval and she flew off.
"Totally! Hey, who's the girl standing next to you?" Kukai asked. He pointed to Chunge who was listening to music on her mp3. She was wore a long sleeved white v-neck, a black waistcoat with three white diamond-colored buttons, black slacks, and matching flats. Chunge had an annoyed expression on her face and crossed arms.
"My distant relative," Nagihiko stressed.
"Wow! Nagi, your family all look like clones!" Yaya awed at the similarity. Deja vu?
Chunge rolled her eyes. "Why couldn't I be blessed with black hair instead?" she murmured. Then she turned to Nagihiko. "Honestly, I take about half an hour to throw this together and you take two. Thank God Nomi didn't find out that I was escorting you or else she would've come too," she grumbled. The next thing we all heard has a low growl. Chunge looked down at her stomach and sweatdropped. "If you need me, I'm at the chocolate fountain." She walked away. Just as I thought: she wasn't there to escort Nagihiko at all. Eh. Beats staying home with Nomi. (Though it was a bit selfish of her.)
"Man!" Kukai laughed. "two hours for this? Some things never change," he elbowed Nagihiko in the arm. Nadeshiko must've been indecisive about dressing up too. I must say, he plays a girl's part very well. (Or maybe that was just his personality. *shudder* ) "Let's eat! We can't dance on an empty stomach!" Kukai suggested. Amu and I sighed. Boys and their appetites. Yaya was more than happy to, of course.
"Uwa! Thank goodness Yaya chose the food! Yaya will take some candy first!"
"You're going to get a tummy ache after this," I said. She ignored my warning.
We went over to the food tables and bumped into someone unexpected.
"Tsukiyomi Ikuto!" (here's that promise I made, Amuto lovers ;p)
"Oh you made it!" Nagihiko grinned.
"WHAT!?" everyone cried. " You INVITED HIM?!"
"Yup. When I asked Utau to come she said she'd only go if her brother could tag along and play his violin." Nagihiko pointed to Utau singing on stage. (remember the phone call in the chap when Nomi tripped Rima? ) Tadase sucked in his cheeks when he heard this. Amu, on the other hand, was blushing and trying to make herself less noticeable.
"I see you there Amu," Ikuto purred. I cringed. The way her name rolled off his tongue told me there's was a little love triangle happening with my best friend. He looked at Tadase. "Oi there, don't start making trouble at your own promotion dance. Honestly, since when did elementary kids have dances like this? It's more like a prom or something if you ask me," he sighed. "The only thing I'm here to do is play my violin and..." Ikuto smirked. "make sure I have at least one dance with Amu." He winked at her.
"I hate to say this Tadase," Nagihiko sweatdropped. "but he's right Don't make a scene here." Nagihiko linked an arm with Amu and Tadase. "Come on guys, let's go," he said as he dragged them away. We followed him without a word. Note to self: ask Amu about this later.
After eating a bit we went over to the dessert table. "You're still here?" Nagihiko sighed at Chunge. She dipped a strawberry in the chocolate fountain.
"Chill," she said. "I wasn't eating this whole time." She wiped her hands on a napkin. "and you didn't introduce me to your friends yet!" Didn't she go away before he even could? "I'll introduce myself first. I'm Chunge, Nagihiko's distant relative," she joked back. "but I don't bite. And your names are?"
"These are my friends from the Guardians club." Nagihiko took the liberty of introducing us. "This is Tadase, the King, you know Rima already-"
"Wait!" Yaya gasped. "You know Rima? Suspicious..."
"She has Sado classes with me," Crud. I never told anyone that I had Sado classes. I didn't want anyone to know- yet. It would be humiliating! I made a small neck-cutting motion and glared at Chunge. She got the message. "and who are you? you're dress is so cute by the way!" She went off the subject.
"I'm Yaya the Ace!" Yaya sure has a short attention span. The others quickly introduced themselves. Chunge just nodded and smiled until Amu introduced herself.
"I'm Hinamori Amu, the joker."
"Weren't you the one that Nagi dragged away from that violinist?" she laughed. Amu blushed.
"He's just someone I know. It's no big deal," Amu tried to put on her cool n' spicy act again.
"I can see you turning red," Chunge snickered. "Oh well. I wouldn't get near him if I was you. Even though he looks good he kinda looks some a playboy or a pedophile or whatever." Oh my goodness. She actually used that word in a sentence!?
Amu didn't know what it meant. "A pedo- wha?" I sweatdropped. Way to keep that cool n' spicy act!
Nagihiko knew what it meant. "Chunge!" he hissed. "don't say that about people you don't know! That's rude!"
Chunge apologized, having realized what she said. "Oops, sorry. Your mom isn't here and I just felt like I had to exercise my freedom of speech."
"No, I want to know!" Amu persisted.
"Amu, you don't have to-"
Too late. Chunge whispered the definition into her ear. I bet Amu's gonna regret this. "Oh." Amu uttered. She was unsure how to respond and her face was completely red.
Curiosity just killed the cat.
Kukai laughed. Ugh. Normally, it wouldn't be funny to me because I was almost kidnapped by one. I hate to say that this time Amu's reaction it's something to almost giggle about.
"Yaya says let's dance!"
"To this kinda music?" Kukai wrinkled his nose. (lol. Why not? xD )
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Kiss kiss fall in love!
Maybe you're my love!
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"You're kidding me," Chunge muttered. No one was really even dancing. She look at Nagi with some weirdly cute expression on her face. You know, the 'I'm up to something' look. "Can I have some money?"
"Why? Everything is free here."
"Don't be selfish. Give your very-loving second cousin like, 150 yen? You obviously have some money just in case right?"
"Selfish?" Nagihiko muttered as he dug in his pockets. "you're to talk." He fished out three silver-colored holed coins.
Chunge tried prying them out of his hands. "If you're gonna give the coins then let go." He dropped them in her palms. "Thank you! Family is family no?" She pulled out her earphones and walked into the crowd. We lost sight of her. Soon, another song came up. I'm guessing she just bribed the DJ.
Let's drop!
Yeah, come on
I'll take you home
If you don't leave me at the front door
(Leave me at the front door)...
We could see her grinning from the DJ stand. "All right!" Kukai punched his fist in the air. "Let's go!" The Guardians all stepped into the dance floor, except for me.
Now if she does it like this
Will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this
Will you touch her like that?
Now if she moves like this
Will you move it like that?
Come on,
Shake shake, shake shake it
Shake it!...
I was thinking about actually dancing until I heard Amu yell, "Ikuto!"
You lips tremble but your eyes are in a straight stare
We're on the bed but your clothes are laying right there...
"Rima-chan, you're not going to dance?" Nagihiko asked.
"I don't like dancing and I'm not going to start dancing if I see a 'pedophile' right there harassing my best friend," I plainly replied like it's the most obvious thing in the world. (Some friend I am huh?) He gave me a small smile.
"It's not called a dance for nothing," he said. "and I'll make sure Ikuto won't lay a finger on you while he's here," Pssht. Who needed that? We already have the world's "would-be king" to take care of that job. I watched Tadase's normal reaction.
"You black cat!"
"Easy kiddy-king. Remember what your purple headed friend said?" Haha! You see? Purplehead is a great nickname for Nagi. "And I told Amu that I'd have at least one dance with her. Aren't kings supposed to be a bit more generous? It's only one dance," Ikuto pretended to pout.
"Ikuto you idiot! This is a dance for SIXTH GRADERS," Amu tried to stop it by using that act again.
Murmurings arose. "Cool n' Spicy Hinamori-san is being fought for by Hotori-kun and that older, hot teenage guy?" Eeesh. Hopefully this wouldn't get too ugly. Nagihiko sweatdropped as we were watching.
"Come on Rima, will you dance at all here?"
I raised a brow. " Nobody ever said you had to dance, and I can take care of myself thank-you-very-much. Besides, I don't see you dancing with the rest."
"I know. I could if I wanted to," he defended himself. "but then again I prefer other types dancing,"
"Other types?"
He lowered his voice. "like ones without king and cat fights," He smiled and picked his voice up again. " And you know, like Tango or Waltz, dances like that. But I don't mind street dancing either." He shrugged. "And if you didn't notice, tuxes and formal dresses aren't too suitable for this kind of music." Great, so he was suggesting that even people at weddings only dance to more 'formal' music. Chunge walked over to us.
"Um... sorry about ruining he silence here,"
"We were NOT having a moment," I snapped.
" Cool down. I never said you were." She raised a brow. "But why," She looked over to Nagi. "aren't you dancing?"
"I don't like to dance to this type of music much," he replied. "why aren't you?"
"I might have eaten too much chocolate..." Lame excuse. She made a face. "Are you embarrassed that you actually know how to dance?"
"Not at all!" Nagihiko said. "I'm waiting for another song. This one is kinda dirty if you haven't noticed." Oh yeah, the lyrics. Funny, it's so hard to find a decent, clean song nowadays. (Tell me about it!)
"Fine." She put her hand on her chin for a few moments. "Hey, do you still remember ballroom dancing? Like the Cha-cha?"
"The cha-cha?" I blurted. Oops. Too loud.
"You know how to dance it?" Chunge laughed. Actually, before my parents practically hated each other they used to take cha-cha classes. I hate to admit, but I had secretly picked up some of it when I was younger.
"No,"
"Are you lying?" Nagihiko smirked. It was more like an "I know you're lying!" statement. "Wow," he said. "I always thought of you as more of a..." He scratched his neck.
"Ballet dancer?" Chunge filled in.
"Exactly!" Truthfully, I almost had to take that too.
"Tutus and pointed toes aren't my cup of tea," I said. To my surprise, they both started snickering a bit. "What's so funny?" I demanded.
"You were using an expression with the word 'tea' in it," Nagihiko answered. Oh crud! I'm using tea expressions now! That one was really lame too! I felt like beating myself up for saying something like that. Jokes are funny (if this was even worthy enough to be called a 'joke') , but being in the center of the joke isn't fun. Curse you excessive tea-drinking Fujisakis!
Chunge grinned. "Well, this is gonna be fun. Now you can show off your dancing skills. Aunt Fujisaki actually told me to watch you on that. Your mom can be a bit demanding. Do you have more change?" She mumbled that last part.
"No."
"Fine. Maybe I'll bribe him with chocolate instead. I still have that bag of M&Ms I got from the food table!"
"Would that even work?" I asked. She shrugged.
"It'd work on me." How cheap. Before I could protest she disappeared again. Bribing with candy chocolate...
How ridiculou-
"Ahem," the DJ tapped his microphone. Everyone looked over to him. "We'll be shaking things up a bit. Can everybody find a partner to dance with? Don't be shy now," he said. What the heck?!?! IT WORKED?! Amazing what people would do for a little bit of candy. Then I heard him accidentally mutter "it's not like anyone here can dance anyways," To my surprise, a bunch of kids shyly started pairing up. I would've expected more kids to be blushing and all turning into tomatoes or something. Running away and screaming "EWWW! COOTIES!" was something I expected too.
"What a terrible insult!" Nagihiko exaggerated like it was the most shocking thing he's ever heard. Sheesh, it's not like everyone came from a (with all due respect,) crazy dancing family like his. He held out his hand to me. "Shall we prove him wrong?" He winked. Oh my gosh, that was so ( hot ) ... ergh!!! Now he's trying to persuade me again!? Have I ever acted this way before when he winks? I restrained my face from going pink.
"I am NOT dancing with you!" I crossed my arms. "Besides, it'd be weird because of the height difference." Sadly, that was the best excuse I could come up with.
He sweatdropped. "How cold. It's not a huge difference, and you're actually the perfect height with those black heels on." He sighed. "Oh well, it's not like you'll be losing anything. I guess you could dance with those other boys coming towards us," He slightly turned away with his hand still stretched out towards me. What the? I spun around. There was a mob of fanboys were slowly inching their way over to me. Holy crud! Just when I thought they cooled off too! Dancing. With. A. Fanboy. Without a second thought, I grabbed Nagi's hand.
"Let's get this over with," I scowled. He giggled a bit. "You giggle like a girl too," I said through gritted teeth. Hopefully, he heard that. "The cha-cha right?" He nodded.
"Just go with the beat. I don't remember much of the cha-cha myself so you won't have to worry about me going all 'crazy dancer' on you." Finally, some modesty. Crazy dancer? Shoot, did he read my mind?! (He was getting too good at this, but no way I'm ever gonna tell him!) The music started playing. "Hmm... this song?" Nagi wondered out loud. Ergh, at least we were both familiar with it.
(Sway- PCD version. I recommend listening to it while reading this. ;p )
Do-do-do-do-do
We walked over to the dance floor and stood slightly apart, holding one hand. "What the hell? Why are we in the dead center?!" I harshly whispered to him.
"So we could prove to that DJ that some people could actually dance?"
"You mean you?" I grumbled. He laughed and we started to cha-cha.
When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more
Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me
Oh wow. This was going a lot better than I expected. You would've thought that I'd step on his foot by now. (Hey, the cha-cha is somewhat tricky at first.) I could feel my face lightening up. I can't believe I remembered so much just by watching! As we danced, everyone kinda started to fade away.
Other dancers may be on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have that magic technique
When we sway I go weak
I grow so weak!
Ikuto even started playing his violin loudly. Wow, I would've rather imagined him trying to say perverted things to Amu again right now.
I can hear the sounds of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
Sway me, make me
Thrill me, hold me
Bend me, ease me
You have a way with me
On the last line of the verse stupid Nagihiko did some weird dance move-thing that threw me backwards. OH HOLY-
Then he caught me and my foot slid across the floor. I was literally like 45 degrees parallel to the ground! Oh crud! It was like what those pro dancers did. (I don't know dancing terms ;s ) I never thought how scary dancing would be! Especially with Mr. Show-off Nagihiko! While he held me like that for three seconds I could hear people gasping. Some even started clearing off the dance floor! This was so embarrassing! An instrumental part came up so I had a chance to talk with him.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" I yelled at him low enough so no one would hear. He laughed out loud. More people kept staring.
"Have some fun Rima-chan!" he replied. If we weren't still dancing and if he wasn't holding my hands I would've loved to give him a punch in the face. "Remember what we said about trying your hardest?"
"But-"
"Can you just promise me?" he pulled me to a close dancing position. Oh my God, our faces were inches away from each other! My face felt hot, but my hands were cooled from holding his. How was that even possible?! "Just promise me that you'll do your best? Only for this dance, it's the only thing I'll ever ask you for!"
Great. I was stuck in another situation where I couldn't say no to him. "Whatever," I said as I spun around under his arm. Nagihiko Fujisaki apparently enjoys laughing at my helplessness.
Sway with me
Sway (sway) (Sway)
Other dancers may be on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have that magic technique
When we sway I go weak
I go weak
I can hear the sounds of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
"Ready for the big finish?"
"What?"
"Just follow," You purpleheaded idiot, that's what I've been doing for the past four minutes.
Sway me
Sway me
Sway me now
He did that same dance move that made me fly back. Only this time, my foot swung up a bit. Crap! I silently prayed that no pervert (either fanboy or Ikuto *gag*) would look under my dress while I was being held like this. The music stopped and people were cheering. Nagihiko pulled me back up till both my feet were back on Earth-sweet-Earth. "You're good!" he complimented. "a lot better than I had thought."
"Flattery gets you nowhere," I said flatly. (xD) Amu came up to us.
"Sugoi!" she gasped. "You guys were awesome! Everyone was impressed at your dancing. That's our Nagi! But Rima, you never told me you dance!"
"I don't."
"Well whatever, you guys wanna take a break and eat a bit more?" Eating sounded good right now. I nodded. While we walked to the food tables I heard whisperings.
"She and Nagihiko-sempai look so cute together!" was one of the things I heard. "I'm envious!" another girl said. "But doesn't she hate him?" her friend asked. Crud, this did not look good. I even heard fanboys complain.
They wailed privately, "Wha!? How could Lady Rima do this to us?!"
I was biting into a strawberry until Yaya and Amu pulled me into a corner, far from everyone's earshot. "Hey Rima-tan!" Yaya gave me that look that she gave Amu when she was having a moment with Tadase. "What was that dance all about?"
"Do you like Nagi?" Amu smirked. Crud. They're interrogating me!
"That dance was nothing," I calmly explained. Underneath the calmness I was freaking out. Crushing on Nagi would be pretty embarrassing to admit and I've never been asked questions like these before. "it was either dancing with him or with fanboys."
"Or you could've just said no to dancing," Amu kept pressing on.
"It's not called a dance for nothing," I mentally smacked myself. Did I just quote Nagihiko?!
"But Rima-tan looked so happy dancing! Yaya never thought she'd see Rima try at dancing stuff like this!" Yaya puckered. "You two were so cute! It reminded Yaya of a dance Yaya once went to with newlyweds!"
This was getting too uncomfortable. Newly weds?! I could feel myself about to sweat. I straightened up. "Look!" I said firmly. They took a step back. Finally, some air. I realized I used my voice too strongly when I saw the expression on their faces. I quickly lowered it down to my usual passive tone. I hardened my glare a bit at Yaya. She whimpered and hid behind Amu. "I told you my reasons and that's that," I declared. Shoot, I'm using my cold personality towards my bestfriends! Thinking quickly, I faked a few coughs. Good thing Amu and Yaya didn't take acting. "I need to go outside for some air." Lie. I just needed some thinking to do.
"Oh okay," Amu said uneasily. I walked past them to make my way outside. At the food table, Kusukusu caught me and followed.
"Rima, where are you going? I'll go with!" she grinned.
"Out for some air," I accidentally brushed past Nagihiko. Could this get any worse?
"Rima-chan, is everything alright?" He looked worried. I gave him a curt nod. I knew he didn't buy it, but he didn't say anything. I quickly made my way out of the gym. I took a deep breath. The cool air filled my lungs. I kept walking till I reached the gazebo.
"Rima, is everything alright?" Kusukusu repeated Nagihiko's question.
I sat down on the bench. The night air chilled me. I shivered a bit. "I just need to sort this all out," I sighed.
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Whee! this chapter was actually done is June but w/e. xD Okay I had lotsa fun writing this. This was one of the chaps y'all have been waiting for! :D and I just love all those songs. (especially Sway!) You should listen to it if you haven't. If you don't you might not get all of the dialog or what-not while Nagi and Rima were dancing. xD ( Plus it's fun to imagine them dancing to that. :D )
You guys are great! I honestly thought at the beginning that I'd never make it this far. I thought this would have like 10 or 15 chapters at most. Who knew it would go over 20? :D I now have over 50,000 words and over 260 reviews too! Thanks for sticking with me for so long Rimahiko lovers. :) And yes, I stuck to my promises about hinting some Amuto in there and posting this up in the next week. (Refrain from Tadase bashing in my reviews please. ^^ I think Tadase needs less of that if not more love! D; This is a Rimahiko fic, not a couple/charcter bashing fic ;p ) Constructive Criticism is appreciated as well as praise. xoxo
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