If I owned CCS, I'd buy myself a fucking bungalow SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO WALK SO MANY STAIRS.
I go under the name of WistfulEyes on quizilla. Don't accuse me of stealing from myself. As weird as that sounds...
Another filler chapter! Enjoy!
Takuran Please.
"It's the day of earth," Wong-san sung in a singsong way. "Guess what we're doing O-nay-jiang?"
You smiled not replying knowing full well that today was the date of your little get-together. To be honest, you had been looking forward to it all week, and now since the day was finally here, and although you were very tired for some unknown reason, your spirits were at an all-time high. Plus the fact that there had been no gaping holes in your memory as of late and for that you were grateful for. With a small smile still plastered meekly on your face, Wong-san and you marched into class ready to take on the half-day (not). In class the two of you hardly listened to what the teacher had to say, let alone try to understand exactly what Takaneshi-sensei was saying during homeroom, and what Hiro-sensei was trying to teach during her math lesson.
"La da da dee da da la da…" your mind sang, personally you did not want to know what was going on through Wong-san's head right now. After hanging out with her one on one over the past few days, you knew that Wong-san was as random as they get, while still being somewhat rational. Unluckily for you, I want to see what she's thinking right now, so let's take a peek, shall we?
(Wong Xiao Mei-san's Thoughts.)
YAY! WE'RE FINALLY GOING TO THE RESTAURANT TODAY!!! YATTA!!! I wonder what will happen there. There's so many good food, not so many good food Wong you idiot, or is it? Ah screw it I'm too tired to know gram…huh? What's Hiro-sensei trying to teach? I should pay attention; I suck so muchly at math. Yes, muchly's a word now. I hated my old math teacher, Mr. Mantis; he was such a bad teacher. Plus he looked like an aging old walrus without the tusks. What was the name of the Walrus that was in Alice in Wonderland again? I know it started with a mister. What was it? Mister…I can't remember what it is. I hate it when I forget things, especially during a presentation, especially the stupid English presentations they make us do. Damn it! Why does English have to be such a difficult language? Moth, mother, not "moth-err." Police, not "pole lice." Car, care, not "car-ee" or else it would sound like a certain English name version for a certain anime character in a certain children's series. Digimon was an awesome series; I liked the first three seasons. The first season had a good story, so did the third one. Admittedly the second season had a load of B.S for a story, but it was fun watching the kids grow up. Such an old show though. The Americans made Digibowl for Digimon, Americans…eh. Why do they have to make everything American? Does America have a culture? Well…I suppose it does have to have some culture or else their way of life wouldn't filter out all the way out here. Oh the bell rang…I think first period's over, I hope the teacher didn't notice me not paying attention. Well, I guess it wouldn't matter much anyway…Hiro-sensei's already out of the classroom…ah yes, pay attention Wong Xiao Mei! Pay attention!
(Kinomoto Touya-san's P.O.V)
Shaking his head Touya-san tried to rid his head of the thoughts that he had managed to somehow overhear, ever since that night with the silver "northern lights" he had been able to hear the thoughts of others. To be honest, he was not able to hear everybody's thoughts, he could hear snippets and snatches of inner conversations of certain people in his class, but it was just that some people's thoughts were louder than others. Pushing his thoughts aside he tried to focus on the curriculum, but was rather rudely interrupted by the thoughts of others.
"I wonder when this class is going to end."
"Kinomoto-san is so hot! I hope Himitsu stays away from him…"
"Yonde iru, mune nodo…"
"What does that mean?"
"Damn it! Stay out of my head!" Touya-san thought vehemently before being able to block out most of the softer inner conversations that was happening, before turning his attention towards the world history class that was going on. He was able to comprehend a vast majority of it before a rather loud thought had filtered through.
"I wonder what happened that day…"
Touya-san paid no attention to it at first, but then his mind perked up when his best friend's name was mentioned.
"Yukito-san said that he couldn't remember what happened during that day, and neither can I. Don't think about that Himitsu Hanayaru, what happened, happened, and there's not much that you can do about it. What happened that day with Kinomoto-san? He said that he told me to call him 'Touya' but…I don't think I should. Especially if I don't remember what happened to trigger this sort of reaction. Oh well, maybe I'll warm up to him. I hope I do, he seems like such a nice guy…
"I'm supposed to meet Mei-Mei-san after school today, she'll probably be able to get me during class clean up, and I'm a slow person when it comes to packing stuff…"
The intensity of the thought died down and Touya-san tried to focus on the class discussion but found that he was unable to, his eyes and thoughts kept drifting over to where Himitsu was sitting. Inwardly he was worried, Touya-san had secretly hoped that after a few days, Himitsu would remember what had happened without him explaining (otherwise he would look like an idiot rambling on about cat-angles and magic), and he wondered why on earth anyone would go through the trouble of making Himitsu forget what had happened that day. In the end he decided that he would tag along with Yukito-san on Himitsu and Wong-san's get together to check and see how they were doing.
"I don't care whether or not Hanayaru-chan can remember that day at the Tsukimine Shrine, she is my friend and I care about her."
(Hanayaru's P.O.V)
"Yatta! School is finally over, now we can go to that restaurant! Seafood tempura here I come!" Wong-san exclaimed excitedly while skipping ahead of you to go to her locker for her shoes and books to bring home. Humming merrily to herself you could distinctly hear the following, "Seafood, seafood, tempura, I love, I love, their tempura…"
"Oi Wong-san!" a deep voice sounded, both Wong and you perked up and turned around to see whom it belonged to, to your surprise (and slight dismay when you saw Hirotomi almost right behind him) it was Touya-san and Yukito-san.
"You know any good restaurants? I'm starved," Yukito-san asked conversationally.
"I sure do!" Wong-san exclaimed happily. "You guys can tag along if you like."
You passed her a glance silently asking her if she was out of her mind when Hirotomi was right behind the two of them seething with mutiny, she simply raised an eyebrow at you questioning what you were so worried about. Smiling happily at the company she turned around, bounded forward, and in her own Wong Xiao Mei style she led the way for the rest of you.
"Here we are!"
Looking up from the floor you realized that the restaurant that Wong-san had in mind was not much to see. Not meaning that there were cockroaches everywhere, the doors were barely screwed onto the doorframe, and there was so much dust caked onto everything that one would need hydrochloric acid in order to get everything off. Meaning that the restaurant itself was very plain and not very decorative compared to some of the other ones that the four had passed by on the way here. Straining to read the English sign you realized that it read "Nine Tales" with a picture of a white fox beside it. Your eye twitched involuntarily (you hated bad puns).
"Yeah, I've told them all the time to change the name of the sign, but they won't. Says that it's clever or whatnot. I've told them they might get more customers… but they still won't change it," she stated while brusquely walking into the restaurant. The bell rung several times before lying still "OI! MANABE! WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GONNA CHANGE THE SIGN?"
"URUSAI BOZU!" a male voice sounded from the back. "I oughta…"
Completely ignoring the banter Wong-san was having with the what seemed to be the owner, you took a look around the place, it was a simple white with some parts of the place yellowed by the vegetable oil they used, there was a bar-like where people ordered, there were circular tables that were scattered around the room with red tablecloth, and the floor was of a deep burgundy colour. Currently, there were five tables being used by customers (all of whom were staring at the argument Wong-san was having with whom you assumed to be Manabe). Their menu was posted up behind the counter like at those fast-food restaurants and there were cheap mini-menus of paper in a plastic bin on the counter.
"Your pun is so stupid! You would get more customers if your restaurant name was a bit cleverer than that, plus there's the subject of your dignity…"
"URUSAI! I CAN'T HELP IT IF I'M NOT CREATIVE! AND IF MY SIGN IS SO STUPID WHY DON'T YOU SUGGEST A NAME IF YOU'RE SO GOOD?"
"Ano…"
"HA! IN YOUR FACE BAKA YARO!"
Coughing loudly to get their attention, you smiled once you had it and asked, "Can I get some oden?"
Looking over towards the owner, your currently green eyes locked with his red ones, and the two of you had a small staring contest before he said, "Why, hello…" in what he assumed to be a seductive voice.
"Behave yourself girly-boy," Wong-san interjected.
"URUSAI! JUST BECAUSE MY GIVEN NAME IS NOT THE BEST, DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO RUB IT IN!"
"Can we take our orders now?" Touya-san asked gruffly.
"Hai, hai, mochiru, mochiru," he said off-handedly, "what would you like?"
"Some oden please," you repeated.
"Inari sushi please," Touya-san stated.
"I'd like some beef tempura, two slices of squid pizza, some eggs with umaki tamago in them, some nabe, California and plum rolls…"
Your eyes widened at the quantity of food Yukito-san was ordering and they grew to the size of saucer plates at the end, when it totalled to an amount you didn't think someone could spend on just one meal.
"Sugoi! Business!" Manabe-san cheered before he merrily waltzed into the kitchen and started shouting out the orders to the staff in there, before picking up a spatula himself. While waiting for him the four of you sat down at the table and awkwardly tried to make a conversation at first. However, when words started spilling out of Wong-san's mouth the rest of the conversation flowed along and proceeded nicely along with Wong-san's lack of tact.
"ORDER'S HERE!" Manabe-san's voice sounded across the room, while he precariously balanced stacks of dishes across his arms (most of the dishes belonging to Yukito-san). Carefully placing everyone's dishes in front of them, everyone was about to dig in before Wong-san shouted, "Oi, Manabe! Where's the takuran that's supposed to go with this thing?"
"You know I would give it to you if you used just one teensy weensy magical little word," Manabe stated flatly while rolling his eyes.
"Takuran please."
"That'll do."
And with that comment he whisked away into the kitchen while everyone except for Touya-san stared at the rate that Yukito-san was eating at, after a few minutes of quiet awe your stomach gave a huge grumble and you blushed when Touya-san gave you an amused glance. Without a second thought or more staring at Yukito-san, you dug into your oden, first, the kabobs.
"I never would have thought that you would like tempura Wong-san," Touya-san blurted out of nowhere. "I thought you would have liked more spicy things."
Wong-san made a disgusted face before saying, "I hate spicy things. I like sweets way better."
"So if I were to give you sugar…"
"I'd love it very much and I would make you my sugar daddy forever. Though I'm surprised that you have not asked O-nay-jiang that question yet…"
"What are you implying Wong?" he asked curtly.
"That you like her silly."
Whipping your head up from your oden, you saw red on Touya-san's face while he glared at Wong-san in anger and stated evenly, "I don't think of Hanayaru-chan like that. She helped my sister and I out of a tight spot one time and she is my friend. Simple and easy as that."
Brushing it off, Wong-san started on the soup of her seafood tempura and acted as though she had said nothing and shouted, "OI! GIRLY-BOY! HURRY UP WITH THE TAKURAN!"
A visible sigh was heard from the kitchens while you mentally questioned the sanity and attention span of your friend. Tsukishiro-kun was still eating at his insanely fast rate, while Touya-san was currently glaring at Wong-san while she smiled serenely back with a dazed and hazy look in her eye. Smiling at such odd friends and company, you finished your oden while waiting for Tsuki-kun, Touya-san, and Wong-san to finish theirs. The bell rung and at the moment you ignored it because Touya-san decided to just then explode at Wong-san for her impulsive accusation, before a voice shouted, "YOU!" fully getting your attention.
(Wong Xiao Mei-san's P.O.V)
"YOU DARE ACCUSE ME OF LIKING HANA-CHAN?" Touya-san shouted.
"I believe I just did Touya-kun," Wong-san replied smoothly. "Plus, why do you have a nickname for her all of a sudden Touya?"
"I-I…"
"Just admit it, you like her in that manner."
"NO I DO NOT!"
"Of course you don't. And that is why you're blushing…"
"I AM YELLING AT YOU IN ANGER!"
"You're blushing."
"ANGER!"
"Bluuuuuuuuuuusssssssssshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing…"
"ANGER DAMMIT!"
"YOU!" a voice shouted getting both of their attentions. Whipping her head around, Wong-san saw that it was a very pretty girl with pink hair clips in her chin-length hair, though her face was currently contorted in fury. Wong-san saw that she attended their school due to the uniform.
"Konnichiwa!" Wong-san greeted enthusiastically to the currently enraged girl. "Do you want to join us too?"
"SHUT IT!" she yelled back. "I'M AFTER HER!"
Wong-san saw her O-nay-jiang blanch visibly before stating, "Mei-Mei-san, this is Hirotomi Aimi. Hirotomi Aimi, this is Wong Xiao Mei."
"I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" Hirotomi hollered before lunging towards Hanayaru-chan, in a blink of an eye, Wong-san stood up and pushed Hirotomi back.
"This is a restaurant Hirotomi-san," she said evenly, trying to get Hirotomi to listen to reason. "Please do not mess it up."
"OUT OF THE WAY!"
"Um…you're going to kill O-nay-jiang, I don't really-"
Before she even finished her sentence, Hirotomi lunged at her while Wong-san simply stepped out of the way tripped her. Spinning around fully, she saw Hirotomi lunge at her again; she was about an inch away from her…
So Wong-san did was instinctual, she punched Hirotomi san in the face while stepping aside to let her fall to the ground. Getting up again, Hirotomi was rather woozy on her feet though she did not look as though she was about to give up.
"Bitch please," Wong-san teased while gesturing towards her to bring it on.
Enraged, she swiped at Wong-san with her nails, earning a few scratches on her neck, Wong-san sidestepped the attack while giving Hirotomi a karate chop to the base of her skull, Wong-san somehow managed to catch her before Hirotomi hit the ground in a dead faint.
There was dead silence in the restaurant before Hanayaru-chan somehow had the courage to speak up and say, "I thought you didn't know Kung-Fu Mei-Mei-san."
"I don't," Wong-san replied while staring at the unconscious body in her arms. "But I know karate and Tai kwon do."
"Umm…hi Hirotomi-san," Wong-san squirmed in front of her classmate's mother. "Yeah…here's your daughter, she's unconscious, though she should wake up in a few. Yeah…I'm sorry, but uh…yeah…SUMIMASEN!" she shouted while bowing apologetically, and hightailing out of there.
"Looks like I made two enemies…" Wong-san thought. "I'm so FUCKING screwed…"
"Wong-san?" a shy voice sounded from behind her. Turning around, Wong-san saw that it was Hanayaru-chan. "Arigatou Mei-Mei."
"Well, I guess it was worth it."
"You have any idea how much she's going to hate me when she wakes up?" Wong-san asked rhetorically.
"No clue," Hanayaru-chan replied with a smile. "Though I believe that she might be just a bit mad at you."
"A bit?"
Smiling at each other, they silently agreed not to think about it for a while, before they discussed exactly how Wong-san got all four of them banned from Manabe-san's restaurant. Agreeing on some points, and disagreeing on others, Wong-san sent Himitsu home before waving goodbye and sprinting to catch the bus to get to her house. Once home she reflected on the day and smiled.
"Life sure got a heck lot more interesting ever since O-nay-jiang came. I hope she stays," was her last thought before she went and focused on dull boring chores and homework. Very late into the night, Wong-san fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
Yonde iru mune nodo lyrics of the ending theme for Spirited Away. Those of you who do not know at least one movie from Miyazaki (that isn't Howl's Moving Castle) are not anime fans. Shame on you.
Yatta the closest English word is "YAY!"
Tempura a sort of sauce that can be sweet OR spicy or maybe even both.
Urusai shut up.
Baka yaro you freaking idiot.
Takuran A sort of pickled lemon. It's really good.
Sumimasen I am sorry. Or sorry.