Hey. School started. I'm not with any of my friends, but it turned out I only had one drama queen in my class. Yippee! I'm befriending the new student currently. She's really pretty! Tall, pale skin, has a good fashion taste (at least better than me), thin (in a good way), and though she wears glasses, they make her look more mature. That's what I think of her. I hope I'll get to know her better.
Alright, sorry for this author's note kind of serving as a blog...anyways, as I said, I might get in a weird updating schedule in the future cause of school...yeah. So...wish me luck! Hope you enjoy!
(Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara! in any way)
Chapter 3: Christmas Ball Planning
"Who knew your brother had this other side." I whispered to Nadeshiko as the girls were unpacking in the same room. Nadeshiko sighed exasperatedly.
"I'm truly unsure if I should be happy that I have such a protective brother or be sad that he's not letting me take risks. Sometimes, I feel kind of…bored with everything being the same. I want a challenge. To take a risk." Nadeshiko trailed off in her own thoughts, carrying her futon away, seeming to neglect and forget my existence, at which I sweat-dropped.
"Oi! Girls! Are you done yet?" Kukai's voice came from outside the closed door. All the girls sighed annoyingly.
"NO!" we exclaimed for probably the 5th time in the last 10 minutes. A series of groans were heard from outside as we ignored them and continued our unpacking.
"Seriously, boys are so inconsiderate!" Amu exclaimed. All the other girls seemed to agree.
"I know! I mean, I went shopping once for, oh, only about 5 hours and Kukai was complaining I was buying too much and he had too much to carry! Sheesh! And he was supposed to be the man!" Utau joined in the riot. Yaya decided to participate as well.
"Well…Kairi-koi sometimes annoys Yaya so much with his seriousness! Yaya wants Kairi to loosen up. LOOOOSSSEEENENNNNN UPPPPPPPP!!!!" Yaya stressed the last two words, at which we sweat-dropped, once again.
"I know! I mean, Ryuu-kun's nice and sweet and all that, but sometimes, boys just don't understand what's going on inside our hearts and unintentionally trample on our feelings." Nadeshiko added. I decided it was my time to join in as well.
"I know. They're so picky. We just need a little more time, a little more favors, that's it! Sheesh!" I exclaimed. All the girls seemed to nod in understanding.
That voice came again.
"Oi! Girls!" Kukai yelled. "Are y—"
"NO!" we exclaimed for the 6th time.
"FINALLY!" Kukai groaned when we finally got downstairs. In the living room sat five extremely impatient boys.
"Well, why didn't you have Fujisaki-san entertain you with his stories as Nadeshiko? And explain why girls take so long?" I retorted back, unintentionally bringing Nagihiko into the conversation. It seemed like I had a bad habit of insulting Nagihiko every chance I had.
At which Nagihiko flinched again. Though the boys got interested in the topic.
"Hey Nagi, you can answer our girl problems! So, why do girls like to shop around so much and require boys to do the slave work?" Kukai asked.
"And why do they tend to claim they hate me when I know they love me?" Ikuto asked slyly, causing Amu to blush.
Yaya gave her best glare at Kairi (which turned out awfully weird, since it was babyish yet serious in a way) and Kairi didn't say anything. Tadase didn't say anything, being the polite guy he was.
Nagihiko wasn't sure how to respond.
"Um…um…oh!" he exclaimed. "I'm sure your girlfriends would know the answer," at which Kukai and Ikuto turned around to find a severely ticked off Utau and Amu. They gulped and turned to run away, in which their respective girlfriends dragged them by the collar into the next room. Screams and shouts of mercy ensued, soon along with a 'BAKA-COSPLAY-NEKO-HENTAI' from our one and only strawberry.
"See Kairi-koi? Don't learn from those boys. That way, Yaya won't have to beat you." Yaya said cheerfully. Kairi gulped.
"Y—yes, Yaya-s—Yaya." Yaya insisted Kairi call her Yaya, but he felt it was inappropriate and was currently attempting to change from Yaya-san to Yaya.
Eventually, a glaring Utau and Kukai, who had probably got into another competition, a blushing Amu, and a smirking Ikuto entered from the other room. Everyone looked at them weirdly. Utau and Kukai had fire burning in their eyes while Ikuto was smirking his trademark smirk while Amu was…to state it simply, pulling a strawberry.
"Um…alright. So now, we'll get the meeting started, alright?" Tadase said, trying to get everyone's attention. Eventually, he did, after splitting up Utau and Kukai who wouldn't stop glaring at each other, and got everyone back to the main topic.
"Alright. Would everyone first get with their partners? And Utau-nee-san, Ikuto-nii-san, you may sit out on this. Thank you for coming though." Tadase said formally. Ikuto nodded, travelling to the kitchen, probably to find some catnip (though I doubted Nagihiko would have any) and Utau glared at Kukai once more before going to the bathroom. The rest of us scooted around the floor/sofas, getting with our partners. Nagihiko walked over to sit down on the couch next to me, smiling to greet me, while I turned away. I wasn't in the mood to talk to him.
"Alright. Now, everyone will report about how your committee is going. Souma-kun and I will go first." Tadase said. Nagihiko and I had told him, Kukai, and Utau about the 'Mistletoe Corner' idea, which Utau was immensely pleased with, Kukai seemed to like, and Tadase seemed interested in, and it immediately got into their 'yes list.' Tadase explained about their entertainment ideas, in which Utau would sing (as predicted by Nagihiko), there would be a booth to request songs, and certain games at certain intervals.
"Souma-kun and I have made a list of games to play during the middle of the dance, and games that will be available in the 'Entertainment Corner.'" Tadase said, listing down the names that he had. There was nothing particular with the games: Four Corners, Twister, etc. and including a Gift Exchange at the end. Each participant was required to bring a gift and at the end, everyone would receive a gift. Along with that, there was going to be a Secret Santa booth, in which we were going to help give around secret gifts (or cards) to everyone, mainly for girls and boys. After Tadase and Kukai's explanation (in which all Kukai really did was add a sentence here and there), it continued to the Food Committee.
"Alright!" Amu exclaimed enthusiastically, with the help from a certain blonde chef and a clover barrette. Though it soon disappeared. After a scolding for Suu again, Amu rambled off the list of foods that she and Nadeshiko would make or purchase.
"Nadeshiko and I agreed on making most of the foods fast foods. Due to the hours being from 9:00-2:00, most will be done with dinner, so most of our foods will be desserts and pastries of the kind. Though some main dishes will be served, in case they get hungry towards the end of the dance. We don't want people to be leaving because they're hungry. Desserts include the usual: cookies, brownies, pie, cinnamon rolls, cheesecake, strawberry shortcake, blueberry muffins, etc." Dang, she was getting me hungry.
"As for purchased foods, we'll be buying the usual drinks: soda, juice, sports drinks, and water. Also, we'll be buying chips and some cookies, along with some main dishes."
"As Amu-chan said, our rough plan will be that. All foods will be made the day of the Christmas Ball. We have already gotten special permission from our teachers to take the day off and spend it in the Home Ec classroom."
"Hey! That's unfair! I wanna skip class too!" I whined. Nadeshiko smiled while chuckling nervously.
"Um…you could come help if you want. With Onii-chan. And I'll help you and Onii-chan." Nadeshiko offered. I cheered.
"YES! I can skip Sato-sensei's math test!" I cheered. Everyone else was about to ask but Nagihiko silenced them with his glare. So Nagihiko and us lucked off. Hee!
And then, the Dance Committee explained about their plan.
"YAYA WANTS TO SAY!" Yaya exclaimed enthusiastically. Kairi didn't seem to mind, so Yaya explained to us about their plan.
"As Kukai has already explained, Kairi-koi and Yaya are inviting UTAU-CHAN to play for us! She will be able to play any song, it doesn't have to be Christmas-centric, but please make at least some of them Christmas-y! Students can request songs at our song booth, which Utau-chan will randomly pick a song everyone thirty minutes. Utau-chan won't be singing the whole time, cause that would be too tiring! Instead, she's only singing in the beginning for three songs, and then at the end for five songs, while every 30 minutes from one song requested. In the middle, we'll have songs on the intercom!" Yaya exclaimed happily, glad to have figured it all out, though I bet Kairi had thought out all that. Everyone thought of that too, probably, judging from their facial expressions.
"Alright. Decoration Committee, please." Tadase said. I looked up to Nagihiko, who was looking at me, at which I turned away cause I didn't want to talk. Nagihiko probably got the hint, because he took the initiative and explained about everything we'd got down so far.
"We're planning on having a big Christmas tree placed in the center of the gym, with the gifts for the gift exchange being placed under the tree. That area will be off limits to students. Utau will be able to sing on a stage that will be formed with the bleachers. The dance floor, as Yaya mentioned, will be directly in front of the stage. Towards the left will be the entertainment corner, and on the right will be the table for the foods and drinks. As for our decoration theme, we've decided on mistletoes." At this, a smirk grew on Nagihiko's face. He probably remembered our genius plan. Our secret, evil, mastermind, brilliant, genius plan.
"Mistletoes?" Nadeshiko asked questioningly at her brother, trying to read him through. But Nagihiko just smirked at everyone.
"You'll know in due time. This'll be a secret between me and Rima-chan." He said, placing a finger on his lips and winking at everyone. Was it just me or did it sound a bit like…
"Did you two kiss under a mistletoe recently or something? That's what it sounds like." Amu said. The smirk on Nagihiko became a slight frown with a blush, while I glared at her. Thank goodness everyone shut up.
Baaya came into the room at precisely 7:30 and told us to go have dinner. We scurried over to the dining room and had a very traditional Japanese dinner (very Japanese, even for a Japanese. Am I speaking weird? Perhaps.), filling up our stomachs very much.
"Hey, who knew girly boy and dancing girl got so good food?" Ikuto commented, eating his yakizakana. If you couldn't tell, Ikuto had nicknames for everyone. Amu was, as usual, strawberry, I was shrimp (this ticked me off), Nagihiko was girly boy, Nadeshiko was dancing girl, Tadase was kiddy king, Kukai was soccer jock, Kairi was bookworm, Yaya was hyper baby, and Utau was…Utau. Perhaps cause she was his sister. Back to Ikuto complimenting the food while using Nagihiko's nickname.
Nagihiko seemed unsure as to taking what Ikuto had said as a compliment or not.
"Yeah, Nagihiko. And Nadeshiko! You two get so good food!" Amu followed up, complimenting. The Charas on the side were having their bite-sized meal (bite-sized to us). Suu floated over to the twins who were sitting next to each other.
"I'd like to meet the chef~desu! Is it your mother? Or father?" Suu asked, fully interested. Nagihiko and Nadeshiko seemed slightly uncomfortable, looking at each other hesitantly. I don't know how, but something convinced me to make me break the awkwardness (wherever that came from) for them.
"Do we have anymore work to do today?" I asked, totally unrelated to the topic. Though Tadase turned towards me and answered, which got everyone's attention.
"No, Mashiro-san. We're done with all the jobs today, at least. We can fully enjoy ourselves after dinner." I nodded. Nagihiko and Nadeshiko eyed me weirdly, probably wondering why I saved them, though I responded by focusing on my rice. They shrugged it off quickly though.
After dinner, we went back to the living room. For awhile, we just lazed around. We were all full from the great meal and lied around lazily for awhile. But soon afterwards, we each one by one grew tired from the boredom.
"Whoa, it's already 9:30." Utau commented. Everyone stayed silent, since they didn't know what to say. As Tadase had said, we had no more work to do, so we could enjoy ourselves. I looked at them, unsure of what to do, yet anticipant. After all, it was just recently that I was allowed to walked home by myself, go to sleepovers, etc. So whatever they did previously at sleepovers I had no clue, which in a way made me feel left out. So I was really excited. This was my 3rd sleepover with everyone. At the first one, I fell asleep because I wasn't used to staying up yet, and at the 2nd one, I got used to the time but eventually I fell asleep at the movie we'd watched. This time, I'd actually see what we'd do at a sleepover!
"Let's play a game." Utau suggested. Kukai shook his head.
"No. We should play DDR!" Kukai said. "And we can have a showdown!"
"YOU'RE ON!"
"Maybe we should sing karaoke?"
"YES! LET'S SING. KUKAI, WANNA COMPETE IN THAT?"
"How about something smaller?"
"A movie?"
And somehow…I felt kinda left out.
But that was what made it exciting! Cause I didn't know what was coming!
Hee. I feel this chapter...serves as a filler purpose...--sigh-- Little Rimahiko fluff, sorry, readers. I'm thinking that I need to add more other pairings fluff, of Amuto, Kutau, Kaiya, and...great, NadeshikoXRyuu pairing...Ryuushiko? Nadeshryuu? They sound...weird...anyways, you readers can help brainstorm. Nadryuu? By the way, I don't know if I'm pronouncing this right, but I pronounce 'Ryuu' as "Ree-you." Quickly. Get it? Help with the pairing name! Though it doesn't really matter...since he's an OC anyways. Sorry. Personally, I'm not a TadaseXNadeshiko fan...so...I made someone up.
Hope you liked it! I'll try to fix an updating schedule, but with these first few days of class, you'll never know.
~~*Hope-chan*~~
