To clarify, this is their last night at the Ousaki Mansion. They leave tomorrow (Friday) evening.
Let the story begin!!!
Kaho sighed as she stepped out of the bathroom door, her robe wrapped tightly around her, and her hair dripping to the ground.
She gazed at the ceiling and thought, 'I wonder what Len is thinking about right now. I wonder what he's gonna do before he leaves. I wonder if he's gonna miss me...'
Suddenly, a pair of hands wrapped around Kaho's waist.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHH?????" she exclaimed, twisting to see who her assailant was.
With widened eyes, she saw Len, hugging her.
Len pressed his nose into Kaho's hair, taking in a deep breath of Kaho's scent.
'Vanilla this time..... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... This girl is driving me insane,' thought Len happily, until suddenly his mood darkened, 'What am I going to do when I leave for Vienna? I don't want to leave her here, demo, I have to in order to pursue my career as a violinist.......'
Len hugged Kaho tighter to him, trying to regain his sense of happiness again.
Len had just taken a shower as well, and was wearing his pajama pants...
And ONLY his pajama pants..
(Yes he was wearing boxers too, but you get the point.)
Len looked at Kaho with a hurt expression in his eyes when she suddenly drew away from him.
Kaho looked away from Len, blushing deeply.
Len took ahold of Kaho's shoulders and said, "Doo shimashita ka? What's wrong?"
Kaho blushed more, let her eyes flick between the floor and Len's eyes, and said, "Len, your shirt."
Len looked at Kaho as if she were insane and said, "Yeah? What about my shirt?"
Kaho blushed even harder and said, "You're not wearing one Len."
Len looked down to see his bare torso.
He blushed, swiftly released Kaho's shoulders from his grasp, and turned around.
Suddenly, Kaho began giggling.
"Nani?" Len mumbled, embarrased.
Kaho hugged Len swiftly, kissed Len on the cheek, and pushed him out of her room, promptly closing the door in his face.
(Just to clarify, Kaho has a bathroom in the room that she's staying in.)
Len stared at his girlfriend's bedroom door, and wondered, 'NANI???????'
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In her room, Kaho had plopped down on the bed, now in her pale yellow and pink pajamas.....
She grabbed a pillow, sat up, and squeezed it happily, thinking about Len.
She scrunched up her nose, squeezed her eyes shut, and grinned.
'He's so SWEET,' thought Kaho.
Hitomi walked out of the bathroom, (she had walked in the room and into the bathroom moments after Len had been pushed out of the room) and cocked her head to the side, looking at the odd look on her sister's face.
"Kaho-neesan???? Are you alright," asked Hitomi, a concerned look on her face.
Kaho stood up in shock, hiding the pillow behind her back.
"Nande, Hitomi-chan," blushed Kaho.
Hitomi grinned.
"OK," she said, grabbing Kaho's wrist opening the door, and dragging Kaho to the living room.
"Let's go. Everyone's waiting."
"Eeeeehhhhhhhhhhh?????" exclaimed Kaho as the was pulled out the door, through the hallway, and down the stairs.
Downstairs, all the girls were huddled in their pajamas by the fireplace, having their hair either up in ponytails, buns, towels, or just down (if they had really short hair, like Fuyuumi).
The guys were all lounging in or beside the couches, muttering to one another, and occasionally glancing over at the girls.
Well, all the guys except for one. Len was leaning against the wall by himself, waiting for Kaho.
As soon as Hitomi and Kaho got down the stairs, Hitomi saw Len and grinned.
She released Kaho's wrist, and pushed her in Len's direction.
Kaho stumbled, and began falling.
Just barely in time, Len rushes to catch her, and succeeds.
The position the couple is in though, is slightly awkward.
Len caught Kaho so that his right hand is behind her head, and his left on her waist, and he's bent down so that his face in centimeters away from Kaho's.
'He's so CUTE when he has that concerned expression on his face,' thought Kaho, blushing beet red.
'Her face is red! Is she okay? Did i catch her wrong?," Len did a mental check and found nothing wrong.
Luckily for the cute couple, Hitomi was as quick-witted as ever at that moment, so she quickly ran back upstairs while Kaho was in Len's arms, grabbed Kaho's violin and bow, ran back down the stairs, and began playing the violin rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Kaho craned her head up to see what was happening, just as Len looked down, causing their lips to crash together accidentally.
Both were shocked at this development, but after a few moments, they got used to the idea, and Len helped Kaho up, their lips still attached.
Once in a more comfortable position, Kaho tilted her head to deepen the kiss, as did Len, giving everyone the perfect view of them sucking face.
'My heart is beating like crazy,' thought Kaho, not noticing that the whole orchestra was watching her hand her boyfriend make out, a red tinge creeping onto her cheeks.
'How can she do this to me,' thought Len, a pale pink touching his cheeks as well, 'She drives me INSANE!'
Finally, Len and Kaho broke apart for air, both breathing heavily.
After a moment of stunned silence, almost everyone began cheering.
Beside the fireplace, Shimizu and Shouko were holding hands.
For once, he was actually and his eyes were gleaming with happiness as he gazed at Shouko.
Shimizu leaned in and kissed Shouko on the cheek, causing her to blush, and look at him.
She smiled a little, and Shimizu gazed at her more, until their eyes finally broke contact to congratulate their upperclassmen.
Aoi and Azuma's fists were clenched tightly.
Azuma had a scowl on his face, while Aoi managed to muster a half-smile.
Ryou and Kazuki were both cheering, which was the only thing they know how to do in order to keep themselves from crying.
At that point, one thought was unanimous within Kazuki's, Ryou's, Aoi's and Azuma's minds.
'Why didn't she choose me?'
But one person was cheering for a different reason.
Amou was clutching her cameras to her chest, and jumping up and down, thinking, 'Arigatoo Kami-sama for giving me enough time to be able to take that with BOTH my original camera and my Polaroid!!!!!!! THIS IS PRICELESS!!!!! Front page article here we come!!!!!!'
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Around thirteen minutes later, everyone was seated on the ground, the couches and coffee tables moved out of the way, and everyone comfortable on the thick carpet in a boy-girl-boy-girl seating arrangement.
Kaho, who was seated between Len and Shimizu stood up and said, "We'll now begin the game of truth or dare. You MST answer these questions truthfully, otherwise, you'll be forced to tell us TWO questions of our asking. If those answers are untruthful, we'll keep doubling the questions. OH, and one last thing. You MUST ask 'truth or dare' from someone from the other gender. Understand?"
Everyone nodded.
"I'll start off asking a question," said Kaho.
She walked to the center of the circle, and spun the empty glass coke bottle.
It landed on Aoi.
"Kaji-kun!" exclaimed Kaho, "Truth or dare?".
Aoi grinned, "Truth. Shoot away Kaho-chan."
Kaho sat back down between Len and Shimizu, cupped her fist beneath her chin, and was stuck in that position for several seconds until Amou stepped up and asked, "Kaho-chan, can I ask this question? Onegai-shimas?"
Kaho smiled and nodded.
Amou turned to Kaji and asked, her pen and notebook at the ready, "Kaji Aoi, do you still have feelings for Hino Kahoko?"
Aoi's eyes widened, taken by surprise at this straightforward question.
Suddenly his expression relaxed and he cleared his voice and said, "Hai, Amou-san. I DO have feelings for Kaho-chan."
Everyone began murmuring, and Len stiffened as Kaho blushed beet red.
Amou turned to Aoi and asked, "Will you expand on this subject?"
He turned to Amou, gave her a look that would be enough to make the oceans dry up, and said, "No. I am not willing to expand upon this matter. I believe it is now my turn to spin the bottle."
Aoi got up, walked to the center of the circle, sat down, and spun the bottle.
The bottle spun.
And spun.
And spun some more.
Until it finally landed on Hitomi.
"Eeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh?!?!?!?!?!" she exclaimed.
Kazuki laughed.
"You and Kaho-chan share the same characteristics Hitomi-chan... I wouldn't be surprised if the two of you were sisters," he grinned.
Kaho and Hitomi looked sharply at each other and back at him.
Hitomi laughed weakly and said, "What are you talking about??? Let's get back to the game, ne Hihara-sempai?"
Throughout the proceedings, Azuma looked between Hitomi and Kaho, and Kazuki with a raised brow.
'Something's going on here,' he thought, 'And I'm gonna find out what.'
Kazuki, not knowing what was going on, nodded happily and said, "Hai Hitomi-chan!"
Aoi smiled at Hitomi.
"Truth or dare Hitomi-chan?" he asked.
"Uhhhhhh," said Hitomi trying to stall for time...
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I think I'll go with, with, with, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," she stammered.
"JUST PICK ONE ALREADY" exclaimed Amou.
Hitomi sighed.
"Truth," she said.
Aoi placed his hand on his chin and said, "What to ask now? Basically you have to tell us anything we ask, and we know barely anything about you..."
Hitomi flushed.
Suddenly Aoi grinned.
"Hitomi-chan?"
"Hai Kaji-sempai?" responded Hitomi carefully.
"Why did you send for all of Seisou's orchestra to come here? What will you gain from us being here?? What's the real reason that we're here?" asked Aoi.
Hitomi smiled in relief.
"That's easy Kaji-sempai. You're all here because it's finally time for me to choose the instrument that I'm going to be playing permanently. I decided that the best way to choose an instrument would be to see the actual people that play the instruments rather than staring at a bunch of dusty old instruments in glass display cases in some museum. So i asked Onii-san to pull some strings and let the Seisou orchestra come visit us," she grinned.
Suddenly Amou spoke up.
"But why the Seisou orchestra Hitomi-chan?"
Hitomi grinned even wider and said, "Because Onii-san said that you guys were an exceptional orchestra, and he wanted to see some of his friends that were in the orchestra again."
Kaho smiled at this and said, "Isn't it time to get on with the game? We're wasting precious moonlight here, c'mon!"
Hitomi smiled gratefully at Kaho.
Hitomi walked to the center of the circle, and spun the bottle.
It landed on.........................
Azuma.
Hitomi had a strained smile on her face as she said, "It looks like it's your turn now Yunoki-sempai."
One of his trademark princely smiles was on his face as Azuma said, "Of course Hitomi-chan. I'll take truth please?"
Hitomi smiled graciously back at him and asked, "Why do you keep on trying to break Kaho-san and Tsukimori-sempai up?"
Azuma's smile was wiped off his face.
A scowl engulfed his princely features as he said, "Please ask a different question."
Amou grinned and thought, 'We have the evil bastard cornered now. He's going down!'
She spoke up and said sweetly, "But it's simply a GAME Yunok-sempai. Surely you don't mind answering."
Azuma glared at Amou.
"Answer the question please," prodded Hitomi.
Yunoki stood up, glared at everyone in the room, and said, "Because that annoying smile of hers somehow manages to make me feel better whenever i see it. Because HE doesn't deserve her. Because i can offer her so much more."
And he murmured this so only KAho could hear, "And because I love her."
Kaho's eyes widened as Azuma turned around and walked up the stairway.
Only she could see that a single tear streaked down his face and fell to the ground.
"Well, that was interesting. But I suggest that we conclude this game for the time being and do something a bit more interesting," suggested Amou to split the silence.
Kaho smiled gratefully at Amou and said, "I think Hitomi should pick the next activity."
Hitomi nodded at Kaho and said, "Hai Kaho-san."
She walked over to a large DVD case, and began searching for something.
A few moments later, Hitomi suddenly exclaimed, "SUGOI!!!!! WE STILL HAVE IT!!!!!"
"Nani?" asked Amou, immediately curious.
Hitomi held up the video for everyone to see.
"Pride and Prejudice," read Kaho, "Is that based on the book by Jane Austen????"
"Sugoi Kaho-san!!!!! Hai! It's my favoritest movie in the entire world!!!"
Hitomi looked around the room and began giggling.
"And since all of you guys are pulling an all nighter, and have nothing better to do, you all have to watch it with me!!!!!"
The guys started groaning almost immediately.
'Great, just great,' thought Ryo, 'A sappy, romantic movie.'
'This sucks,' thought Len, 'But then again, if I get to sit next to Kaho, and we get to cuddle during the romantic parts of the movie, which will probably be the whole thing, then it will all be worth it!!!!!!'
'Uh oh,' thought Hitomi, seeing the hormone-full glint in Len's eyes, 'Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. Oh well, to late to change it now.'
She skipped happily over to the blu-ray player, inserted the disc, and skipped happily back to her seat at Kaho's right.
As soon as everyone was seated, Len was at Kaho's left, and at the end of the couch, Hitomi at Kaho's right, Shimizu next to Hitomi, Fuyuumi next to Shimizu, then Kazuki, then Ryo, then Amou, then Aoi, then Kazuo (Len's cousin), and everyone else was seated on the floor...
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Around 2 hours later:
Kaho yawned, stood up, and stretched, Hitomi following.
"I'll get the movie out of the DVD player," said Hitomi.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaai," said Kaho, still stretching.
Hitomi smiled at her older sister, and walked over to the Blu-Ray player, and took out the DVD.
Everybody began standing up slowly, and several of the boys, (namely Ryo, Kazuki, Len, Kazuo, Keiichi and Azuma [he had snuck back into the living room in the middle of the credits]) were sniffling and wiping away tears from their eyes.
"Minna-san, are you still awake?" questioned Kaho.
"Hai," said everyone sleepily.
Hitomi returned to Kaho's side.
"Everybody sounds so tired!!! Come on, let's go into the kitchen. We'll make onigiri, tea, and coffee for those who want it," suggested Hitomi.
At the mention of the word 'kitchen', Kazuki's face lit up.
"HAI HITOMI-CHAN!!!!! LET'S GO!" he exclaimed joyfully.
Kaho smiled at her sempai's foolishness, and followed Hitomi into the kitchen.
(That's all for now folks! Stay tuned for the next chapter. :) And I'll try to update soon, so please don't freak out. Ja ne! ~Franfran)