Toradora Two
The Celestial 4 of College
Chapter 3/ The proposal of Ryuuji, at the Dragons Dungeon.
Ryuuji´s Pov:
"Hey, you know what?!" I asked Taiga, as she sat in my lap.
"No, what?" She asked, looking up to me with a curious expression.
She was so cute and I had longed to see her, for an entire year, maybe it was too rushed and probably not at all well thoughtful, still I had to say it.
So I braced myself, for whatever might come after this.
"Marry me!" I said loud and clearly.
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"W-w-w-w-what?!" Taiga stammered confused and surprised.
It was clear that she didn´t counted with this at all and that she perhaps didn´t expected to hear these words so soon or at all, after the whole time which has passed between our last days together, a year ago.
"R-R-R-Ryuuji, you..., you still..., want me that way?" She asked confused and blushing.
"Taiga, stand up!" I demanded and helped her up.
"Stay here for a sec and close your eyes do not open them, I will be right back!" I said, before I went in my room, to take something out of the cupboard.
Something which rightly belonged to her, something for which I spent a lot of money to purchase it, something I worked hard for, harder than the third-hand car, which I call my own.
"Ryuuji, what are you doing?!" Taiga asked from the living-room.
"Stay and hold your eyes closed, until I say you can open them, trust me, I won´t hurt you or do anything inappropriate to you!" I stated.
"Assuming something like this, never crossed my mind, you little mongrel, I know you won't ever hurt me!" Taiga stated lovely, still with a slightly angry tone.
I finally found what I searched for and went back in the living room.
I went to my knees, right before her and held out the little Box in my hand.
"Okay you can open your eyes, love!" I stated and she blushed and did as told, as soon as she saw me kneeling before her, the floodgates opened.
"Ryu...?" She asked with a gasp, hands clasped before her mouth, blushing and crying in happiness.
"Taiga Aisaka, since ancient times only dragons can stand on equal ground with the Tigers, and only dragons are those who protect their treasure the most.
As a Dragon, I vow to you, to always watch over you, no matter what, I swear to only look at you, no matter how many girls are trying to spin my head around.
I swear that I will always got your back and that I will forever stand by your side, in good as well as in bad times.
On my side you shall never suffering, never starving and never shall you be unhappy.
Taiga Aisaka, I ask you as well as I am kneeling here, do you want to give me the honor of declaring you mine forever, do you want to stand on my side, for the rest of your life?
Taiga Aisaka, are you willing to be my Tiger, as I want to be your Dragon, do you want to marry me!?" I asked the question I had studied for the whole last year, always hoping to see her again someday, no matter how often I doubted, if she might still love me after all this time, I never stopped to study this speech.
For this is what I wanted to tell her, to make her understand that she always can count on me.
"Yes, yes... Ryuuji, I do!" Taiga squealed with teary eyes.
"Then take this ring as the symbol of my love!" I said, as I opened the box to show her a small diamond Ring.
She nodded and held her right hand out, on which I slipped the ring.
"It´s gorgeous!" she stated in admiration.
"It is unfortunately only a middle-priced ring, sorry about that, but even with all the part-time jobs I had token, taking an example on Kushieda-san, it only lasted for such a ring, a very old car and the paid first year of College.
Guess there is going to be a lot of working needed, to keep our future life going, as soon as we got a place to be of course, I started searching, but I still haven´t found something yet.
Sorry about that!" I stated honestly and also a bit embarrassed.
"Pfff, oh c´mon Ryuuji, I don´t care about what price this ring had, or which car you drive, what´s important for me is, that I can spent the rest of my life with you, that you are still loving me so much.
That is the most important I can think off and I don´t care if you are rich or not, I love you the way you are.
Quirky and adorable like a puppy, manly and strong like a dragon and kind as well as loveable, as the boy I fell in love with!" Taiga stated and embraced me.
"You know, even with all that you put me through in the beginning, since the moment we first met, as you and I bumped together in that hallway and you punched me in the face, I never felt better in my whole life.
Honestly, I never regretted that day, even more as I learned to love you and still, there are so many memories which I love to remember!" I told her, as I walked over to the cupboard and took out a small picture album.
"I had a real hard time to get all these pictures, and I was really lucky, that there was a guy who managed to record your and Ami´s Song at the Christmas party.
He cut it and made me a copy for free, he even managed to convert the song to a cd for me, this way I can always listen to it!" I explained to her, as I showed her the pictures.
She sat back in my lap and looked at them smiling more and more, maybe even crying in happiness while I held her tight.
There has been a picture being token, during our lesson of Cookie-baking, by no one else but Minori.
There was a picture during our Wrestling show, while we prepared, as we were on stage, even a picture of her during the beauty pageant, during the preparations and during the show; made by Kihara-san.
Sumire-san even send me a picture, after she heard about what happened by Yusaku, of me and Minori placing the tiara on Taiga´s head.
Noto-kun had made some pictures during the preparations for the Christmas party.
Yac-chan gave me a picture, she had token before we went to the Christmas-party, as we both stood next to each other.
Haruta-kun even managed to snap some picture during Taiga and Ami´s performance.
And from the Guy in the Santa-Bear-outfit, I got the video and the CD.
Miss Yuri gave me some pictures, which she had made during the School trip to the snow-mountains.
Nanako-san made some, as she saw us jobbing on valentines-day.
And so on, over the entire year various people had made pictures of me and Taiga in various situations, wherever we knew it or not, kind of like taking evidences for an ongoing romance, still I was grateful for all of them.
"Wait, who the hell made these?!" Taiga asked, both laughing and a bit angry, as she looked at the last few pages, on which the photos from her battle with Sumire were.
"Ah well, some of Sumire-san´s classmates made them, they one day simply came and offered them to me.
Having not enough photos of you I simply took them, after all they also show you're fierce and powerfull side!" I said blushing in embarrassment.
"Why would you have some pictures of my violent outbursts?" She asked confused.
"Well, I guess, when a person is in love with someone, he or she is supposed to love every side of that person.
I love you tiger, no matter which way you treat me!" I explained.
"That kind of sounds, like I am mistreating you, you mongrel!" She said with a deadpanned expression.
"A-anyways, I am all sweaty, if you haven´t anything against, i´m going to get a bath, you can watch TV or take a nap, whatever you like, make yourself a home!" I said and she nodded.
Taiga´s Pov:
I looked around in this small living room, nothing had changed ever since I last was here.
I really was curious what really happened during the entire last year, even more with the others, like Ami, Minorin and Kitamura-kun.
"I just hope my old apartment isn´t being reused, it would be bad if my things would have been thrown away by strangers.
Dammit, I shouldn´t have left so quickly but better plan it through.
There were some really expensive things under my belongings, like the limited edition makeups or the expensive dresses!" I thought, as I looked out of the window over to my old apartment.
I lived there for Two years, I was so used to be all alone in these empty giant rooms, but even more I was used to sit here in this small living room, by people who are meaning the world to me.
"Co-co-co-con...co-con-conga-conga...-congratu... Congratulation!" I heard the voice of Inko saying as she looked at me with these twisted eyes.
It was funny to look at her, even though she still was as fugly as ever.
Still, at Mom´s house, without hearing Inko´s voice, it just was too quiet.
"Thanks, Inko-chan!" I said smiling.
"Uaaah, i´m so tired, I better lay the Futons out!" I mumbled, as I went in the closet to take them out.
"Huarrghh, huaaaahh!" I shouted tripping, as I tried to take them out from the upper place, before I fell on my butt.
"Geez, I hate being so small!" I mumbled in anger.
"Huh, what´s that?" I asked, as my eyes caught a glimpse at a carton, who stood within the closet in a corner.
"Ah I think that's Ryuuji´s poems and music collection he had wrote and gathered together, as he still had a crush on Minorin!" I stated lightly, before I once again felt strange, it has been so over the last years as well.
Ever since I knew officially that Minorin had a crush on Ryuuji herself, I felt miserable, beyond all the happiness I felt while being with Ryuuji.
After all, Minori Kushieda, my best friend, gave her own crush up for me to find happiness, because she felt that I needed Ryuuji more than her.
In the first place, I was really thankful to her, but on second thought, I was downright miserable, how could I feel so happy, when she was suffering from the inside.
She might think I wouldn´t find out, but I know her long enough to see when such things are bothering her.
She is just a way too kind person, but this kindness often goes in her way of finding her own happiness.
"I really wish she can find someone who is worth to stand on her side, someone like Ryuuji!" I stated and I was about to go out, as I suddenly caught a glimpse of Bordeaux-red in the box.
My curiosity awoken, I took a closer peek.
"What the hell?" I asked, at what I saw.
In the box laid a girl´s Uniform from the Ohashi-High-school.
"Who´s... oh wait, isn´t that... mine?" I mumbled, as I recognized the uniform as mine, also due to them size.
Ryuuji must have hoped, for me to return during that year.
"You silly, cute, little Dragon!" I muttered under my breath, while blushing happily.
"Hmm, what... no way!" I thought, as I recognized that right after the Uniform, was my swimsuit, the one with the Pads.
"Why is he having all this stuff?" I asked me, as I took out my maid outfit, which I was wearing during our time together, as we worked on valentines-day in that chocolate-shop.
"Huuh, what is this..., can´t remember to have ever worn this one?" I said, as I found an unknown dress in the box, right at the bottom, a little I remembered me on the Beauty Pageant´s dress, I once wore, during the cultural festival of the school.
I took it out, different as the rest it was packed in an airtight plastic-bag.
I unzipped the bag and took it out, it seemed to be some kind of Lolita-styled dress.
"What the..., did he have gotten some kind of pervy habit since the last year, seriously he´s such a..., wait a sec..., oh god...No way!" I stated, as it finally dawned to me.
I was wrong..., this wasn´t a Lolita dress..., this..., this was...
"Ryuuji!" I cried, as I looked at the dress in all its glory, holding it out in the light.
I had been dreaming about this, to see myself in something like this, when I and Ryuuji would finally marry.
My very own Wedding-dress.
It was beautiful beyond believe, it was pale pink and frilly, a big red ribbon was attached just above the chest, it do looked like the Pageant dress, perhaps it even was.
The veil had some red roses made of silk, looking like real ones, they even smelled like real roses, to be honest the whole dress smelled like roses, in a very faint odor.
Next to the dress and the veil I also had matching gloves which ended in some frills, also I had pale pink high-heels, which would make me at least 10 cm taller.
I looked at the inside of the dress, to see which brand it is, and where he might have found this.
"No way... he... he actually made this himself?" I stated in awe as I couldn´t find any brand name nor even a note how to wash it.
"Ryuuji..., you went this far, you..., you really must love me!" I mumbled, as I cried in my hands.
This was the most beautiful welcome-back-present he ever could have made.
"So you found it!" I heard a voice behind me.
I looked to see him standing in the doorframe, seeing his smile and his blushing, made me only crying even more.
There was no person who might be any happier than me right now, never ever.
"I know it is supposed to create bad luck, but I was and still am dying to see you in it... in your very own Wedding dress.
So..., would you like..., you know... wear it once for me?" Ryuuji asked blushing.
"But of course!" I almost shouted and instantly ran into the bathroom to dress up.
Ryuuji´s Pov:
Hahaha, so she found it, I hope it still fits, I made it after the measurements of her last medical-test back in school, getting the measurements from Kushieda-san.
I came up with the dress in a fit of imagination, after I kept day-dreaming about my wedding with Taiga.
Someday I just started to work on it, without really realizing that I actually was making a wedding-dress, I just wanted to fix her Pageant dress, I thought she might would like to use it someday, but then as I saw it, it kind of got me and I started to evolve the dress.
I wanted to wash it after I was done creating it, alongside with the veil, but then, after the damage was already done, I remembered that the ribbon was still on, the result was that it became a pale shade of pink, not that it was bad thought.
Still the Ribbon lost some of its redness, oh well beats me.
As long as she is happy, I was happy too.
"Ryuuji!" I heard it coming from the other door frame, I looked up and my breath stopped.
Unbelievable, so cute, so magnificent, if the guys back in class thought that the heaven would have lost an Angle as Ami came in our class, they wouldn´t ever dare to say this again when they see Taiga right now.
"Wow, you are so beautiful, you look gorgeous!" I said, my mouth wide agape.
"You think?" She asked, fidgeting and shifting her glance to the ground, grinning like mad.
"But of course, I really am the luckiest man in the world!" I said.
"Hahaha, coming from the last year´s Mr. Luckyman, but I know how you feel, I am the luckiest woman in the whole wide world right now.
Also, I would like to tell you my outmost gratitude to you Ryuuji, this dress is so amazing.
Hey, you haven´t decided what you are going to choose for main class not, how about you going for Fashion-designer, the college has classes for that.
I bet you will be the best student, believe me, if you can make something so amazing, then you definitely have the talent, you can´t let that go to waste.
I bet you could make your own Brand, like Ryuuji´s dresses or Dragon-dress or something like this!" Taiga stated with gleaming eyes.
"Sure alright, might be cool after all, also I have no idea what else to make, however, if I will be doing this, then it will be called TORA & DORA, how about that?" I asked.
"Tiger and Dora?" She asked me confused.
"Nope, Dora as from Doragon, like Tiger & Dragon, since I intent to make you my model!" I said.
"Wait..., hold on a second..., why would I be a model?" She asked.
"Well my cute little angel, making dresses and clothes for the 1.65 m girls is way too mainstream.
So I thought, since wearing kids-size is sounding so mean for girls of your height, I would like to make a brand, which sells dresses and clothes for the young women, who are not so tall and perhaps have complexes about their heights.
So I need a model who can say: `hey I might be small and yes I might be flat-chested, but that won´t bother me, for I am fierce and I am a proud woman with a strong heart.
I don´t need to be shy and I don´t need to hide myself, so here I am, take me as I am or leave me alone´.
And who would be any better as a model than you, who actually is a proud and fierce woman.
I want you to give them the courage to stand up for themselves and be able to live a life like you, loved and accepted!" I stated.
"So, what do you think?" I asked, after a while as I heard nothing.
"You are a genius, Ryuuji!" She said her mouth agape.
"Well nice to hear, so are you going to help me doing that?" I asked.
"I will, I won´t ever allow anymore that girls, as tall as Kawashima, are looking down on us small and flat-chested girls!" Taiga shouted, with a raised fist.
"We will got this Ryuuji, we will become the best Fashion-team Oraniashin has ever seen before!" She stated and I bumped her fist.
"Sure thing on that, but now you better get changed again or else the Dress will get dirty before the big day, by the way, when shall we do it anyways?" I asked.
"I know that it will take a lot of time and money to get an acceptable wedding done, however I don´t want to depend too much on my mother to pay for anything.
But we also should not grab in Yasuko´s pockets, I think we should work hard to pay for most of the expanses by ourselves, after all it´s supposed to be our happiest day ever.
And having debts by the parents isn´t really a nice reminder, don´t you think so, however we also should not forget that school is coming up and that we probably have to work part-time to afford all the school fees, as well as paying the loan and the assurance of the car and what else more.
As I said it will take a lot of money and time to get our life done and as much as I want to be officially yours as soon as possible, we will need a lot of time to get our life in the right path.
So I guess we better first finish the first year of school before we can do that, what you think?" Taiga asked me.
"Guess you are right, I tell you, our future life will not be so easy as it might sound, still i´m certain that we will manage to do this, so yes I guess we better live at least a year together, before we can actually think about a wedding.
Still, it will be hard waiting, same as you I want you to officially become mine as soon as possible!" I stated.
"So it´s set right after the first year we gonna get married, well at least we are engaged already!" She said with a smile.
"Badonk!" We heard the sound of a falling bag.
"OH; MY; GOD!" We heard the loud voice of no one else but Yasuko Takasu, Ryuuji´s young-stayed mother.
"Ryyuuuujjjjiiiii, there is an angel in our living-room, tell me do you see it, or am I already seeing things!?" She asked, mouth wide agape and eyes as huge as tennis balls.
"Nope you right on this Mom, Heaven´s really missing an angel!" I said smirking, as I caressed Taiga´s cheek.
"Oh shut up you dragon and kiss me already!" Taiga stated and pulled me down to her.
Our lips locked and in the same instant, the time seemed to stand still.
Finally it was also fully clear to me.
Taiga Aisaka was back in my life and we finally engaged.
Several days later:
We were riding with the car towards Oraniashin-center, a big town within an even bigger town, so it seemed, at least to me.
The drive from Ohashi to Oraniashin lasted at least 3 hours and a half with the car, and there were a lot of traffic, so it might has slowed us down, beats me.
I´m kind of glad that we have agreed together with Yasuko, to get us an apartment somewhere near the school.
The same came back early that night, after her boss had to be drove into the hospital, after a food poisoning and the establishment had to be closed due to fear of contamination.
Logically she was terrified of the idea, of being left alone in the small house.
So she kind of agreed to come with us, searching for a new job, her boss offered her a job in his second establishment, Tsuki-wan (Moon bay), which just happens to be in the Center of Oraniashin.
It was pure coincidence that we found this apartment, it seemed that some of the lodgers have been moved out lately and only one new Lodger has been responded to the announcements, since the last week.
"It´s really a huge town!" Yasuko stated.
"It sure is, at least far bigger than Ohashi, that's for sure, still it´s a lot of traffic in here, if this goes also so in the morning, I fear that we might always have to wake up early, to make it to school in time!" I stated as I looked around with a nervous and kind of afraid glance.
"What are you worried about Ryuuji?" Taiga asked me concerned, looking from the front-seat over to me.
"It's a whole new school and a whole new town, and that means, that I once again have to show everyone, that I am not some shady delinquent!" I stated, playing with my hair.
"In a way that´s true..., still, you got us all to testify this, I mean after all Kawashima, Minorin and me, we know that you are no delinquent.
I swear, no fear, everything is going to be alright!" Taiga stated, as she patted my hand.
"Well I got you guys on my side, guess I am at least not alone, even when I don´t make any new friends in the class!" I said with a smile to her.
"But that´s not good Ryuuji, you shouldn´t isolate yourself from the others, even if they find you scary.
Just try to speak with them, the same way you did with your class, last year and the year before, this way they soon will understand, that you are just a normal guy who happens to look like his father!" Yasuko stated and I groaned.
"Thanks a lot mom, now I really want to turn around, the last thing I have to tell them, is that I look just like my scumbag of a father!" I mumbled enraged.
Ever since I knew the truth about Dad, that he never wanted me in the first place and left my mother as she was pregnant with me and also ever since I met Taiga´s dad, my meaning of fathers in general has gone bad.
I really hope I never will become like them.
"So where exactly is this Apartment anyways!" Taiga asked.
"It´s near the Bar and near the school, only around the block, walking for 20 minutes and you have arrived at the bar, the school is in the other direction, according to the travel guide a good half hour away, if you going by foot!" I replied.
"I see, well that´s convenient!" Yasuko stated.
"It sure is, the Kombini is also not far away, just down the street and around the corner.
So to say, we have practically anything we need, or where we have to go, right in front of our house!" I stated.
"Well seems like good times are coming!" Taiga stated as she stretched, like a tiger after a nap.
"Yes, that might be, still, there are some rules we have to make!" I stated.
"Rules?" Both asked me confused.
"Indeed, Yasuko, I want you to always take enough money for a taxi with you when you go to work, it might be only twenty minutes but it is better to drive than to being dragged into a dark alley and being robbed or even worse, being murdered.
Oraniashin has a high criminal statistic, since it is a big town and there are always some scumbags who would try to get you someday, we are not in Ohashi anymore, so we got to be way more careful, this is unknown territory!" I explained.
"Aren´t you exaggerating things now!" Taiga asked me with a deadpanned expression.
"Am not, i´m serious about this, as I told you already, this isn´t Ohashi, this here is a far bigger town, with far more people and so also far more criminals.
Even in Ohashi you have heard, on some days, in the news or read in the newspaper, that people has been robbed or even murdered.
It might not have happened often but I really made myself lots of worries whenever Yasuko was going outside for work.
You remember that serial murderer, who has been roaming around Ohashi´s streets, 10 years ago!
During that time I always assumed the worst, that someday Yasuko wouldn´t return, but that instead the police would be standing before the front door, telling me mom would have been murderer, that she suddenly isn´t there anymore!" I stated and Taiga was silent, same as Yasuko, looking down on the ground.
"Anyways I´m going to wake up early so I can get you after work, I would feel bad when someone would take advantage of your lightheaded and tired state after work.
Taiga to you it are the same rules, don´t go out alone, not on the day and especially not after nightfall, if you do, make sure to always take me or Yasuko with you, when you have to go somewhere in town, understood!?" I asked.
"Yes, we have understand!" they said.
"Look guys, i´m not doing this to cut your freedom short, but I do this because I care about your guy´s wellbeing!" I said.
"We know!" They only replied.
"Anyways we are soon there!" I stated.
"Hmm, looks nice!" Yasuko stated, as we passed the school.
"And secure as well, at least from outside!" I stated nodding over to the huge fence and the only entrance with two Guards-posts.
"It is, according to mom do we have the newest security systems, it´s one of the most expensive but also most secure colleges here in Japan.
The Campus is divided in three Buildings and a giant park around it.
The Three buildings are holding Classes out of three categories, Technic & Industry, Business & Finance and Entertainment & Art, under these three main categories there are various professions able to be chosen, one can chose up to 4 classes in one year.
In each Class you can make your Bachelor and after graduation you even might have the chance to go to a famous university!" Taiga explained.
"So we might have classes in the same building?" I asked.
"Indeed, Fashion-design is after all some kind of art, still if you take this, it is also essential for you to take some Business courses as well, if you intent to someday start an own Label or even an own establishment, so that you learn about marketing and so on.
Me, as for becoming a Model, I too have to take business classes, after all I have to learn to manage my carrier by my own someday, as long as I have no agency which takes me in.
Also did Mom meant, that when I work for a label with you together, that it would be far easier when there are two smart heads on the work!" Taiga explained.
"I see, so you might be in a Class with Kawashima, if I see this right?" I asked.
"I guess so, and probably with a lot of other 1.65 m girls, this going to be hell, but I will walk through it, if it means that I can someday give this courage over to other girls in my situation!" Taiga stated with determination.
"And I will do anything to make this a success!" I replied fist-bumping her.
"You two are really the perfect team, i´m so glad you have chosen Ryuuji over Kitamura-kun, Taiga!" Mom stated, as she embraced Taiga from behind.
"How do you know about me and Kitamura, Yac-chan?" Taiga asked confused and embarrassed.
"My dear, I might have been often asleep, but even I hear you guys talking from time to time!" Yasuko stated with a sly grin.
"But as I said, in the end you have chosen Ryuuji and believe me, there is no man alive that would match better to you!" Mom stated, as she fell back in her seat.
"Yeah, we sure had a stony path to walk before we arrived here, but in the end it all was worth it!" I stated.
"It sure was!" Taiga nodded.
"Anyways, looks like we have arrived!" I said, as I parked my car behind a caravan.
"Here it is, looks nice not!" I stated at the sight of the high building.
"That thing is huge!" Yasuko stated in awe.
To me it was nothing new, after seeing Taigas apartment.
This one here had 10 levels, starting from Level J down here, to level A up on the top, it has four elevators and a huge Stair, it is more like a Hotel than a simple Apartment.
It was sure expensive but since Taiga´s mother wanted to thank us, for taking care of Taiga for an entire year, she offered to pay for the entire first year of rent.
"It sure is and the surrounding are nice too!" Taiga stated, as she looked around.
"We might be here in the center, but Oraniashin is a Town near the beach, it even has a huge harbor as much as I read in the travel-guide, so in the breaks we might can go to the beach, watch the ships or taking a swim, simply going to have some fun and to just chill!" I explained.
"Sounds nice!" Yasuko stated.
"It is, still the Beach is by foot around an hour away and the easiest way is with the Shinkansen!" I explained.
"Nice thing!" Taiga stated excited.
"Ssssssmmmm!" Suddenly the door in front of us opened.
A Boy with long red hair appeared out of the building, he passed us greeting us by boing lightly, before walking towards the car with the caravan.
He looked around before he came back to us bowed again and started speaking.
"Hmmm, oh uhm excuse me, you don´t perhaps know where I can find a place to park my caravan, the landlord said it cannot stay there, can you help me please?" He asked.
"We would, really, but unfortunately have we too only arrived here and we don´t know anything here, we were barely able to find the right streets, even with the Navigator, we are sorry!" I stated.
"I see..., wait so that means that you are the new lodgers here, aren´t you?" He asked, as he pointed towards the building behind him.
"Indeed, nice to meet you, this is my mother Yasuko Takasu, this my fiancée Taiga Aisaka and I am Ryuuji Takasu!" I said out of politesse bowing.
"Nice to meet you too, i´m Feng Huang, I live in the apartment 2-A, with my sister Chi Huang and...
Wait..., hold on a second..., she´s your fiancée?" Feng-kun stated dumbfounded.
"Yeah, why!" I asked him, although I knew what now came.
So I thought at least.
"I´m sorry for jumping to conclusions..., but I thought that..., well..., yeah..., uhmm..., she..., might be..., your child, you know!" Feng-kun stated and our mouth fell agape.
It was not for the fact that he thought of Taiga as a child, which unfortunately happened way too often with foreigners, but that he thought she would be my child, was what really made me going nuts inside.
"Oh my God..., she and my child..., I beg your pardon..., I mean look at her, she and I, we don´t even look in the slightest similar..., how did you even got on that idea!" I asked confused and near choking on air, not knowing if I should laugh or cry.
"I´m sorry, it was my fault..., anyways, I still hope we get good along..., anyways I got to find a place to park my Caravan, see you perhaps later!" Feng-kun stated embarrassed and fled in the direction of his Caravan.
"Well this was awkward!" Taiga stated.
"It sure was!" I stated, as I looked how Feng drove away.
"Feeeng, dammit, where is he..., oh hey, uhmm do you happened to have seen a Boy with long red hair, driving away just now?" The voice of a woman asked.
We turned around to be greeted by a tall grown young woman with bluish hair and Chinese facial features, the same as Feng had.
"If you mean a boy called Feng Huang, you just missed him!" I stated.
"I see, that idiot, he doesn't even know where to drive and he also forgot the key to the apartment, geeez!" The girl pouted and shook her head in disbelieve.
"Anyways the way I see it, you must be the new lodgers aren´t you, by the way my name is Chi Huang, i´m Feng´s sister..., I hope he hasn´t misbehaved!" Chi-san stated a bit concerned.
"No he´s nice, a bit hasty and jumping to conclusions quickly, but he seemed to be friendly!" I stated honestly.
"Yes, that's how he is, energetic and dependable, strong and somehow always there when you need him, your average partner in crime so to say!
Sigh, I will just phone him I guess, anyways welcome in Oraniashin, I hope we get good along with each other!" Chi-san stated smiling at us all, we bowed same as her.
She went back in the house with a run.
"Seem like she is the calmer one of the siblings, thought she also seems to have it not easy with her brother!" Yasuko stated smiling.
"Yes seems so indeed!" Taiga stated dumbfounded.
"Taiga!" We heard it behind us, only to turn around and see no one else but Kushieda-san running up to us, she seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
"Minorin, where do you come from?" Taiga asked as she jumped right in the arms of her best friend.
"I´m here with Ami-chan, she and I decided to make a commune, saving the money for a second apartment!" Kushieda-san stated.
"Minori-san, what's all the fuss about, and..., Woaaah hold on a sec, don´t tell me you guys live here too?" Kawashima-san stated dumbfounded.
"Is this the surprise you promised me, Minori-san?" She asked the red-head with narrowed eyes.
"Well I promised you, you would be surprised!" Kushieda-san only smiled brightly.
"I want to make sure that Takasu-kun is treating Taiga like a rare porcelain doll, carefully and with love!" She stated with narrowed eyes at me.
"And since we go to the same school, you thought that we might as well live in the same apartment building, not?" Kawashima-san stated, face-palming.
"Hehehe, how do you know?" Kushieda-san laughed.
"Ooh I just guessed!" Kawashima-san stated annoyed.
"Seems like the harem has assembled again, you are one lucky man, Takasu-kun!" Kawashima-san stated, as she passed me, whispering in my ear, before she entered the building alongside of us.
I blushed deep red, shaking my head in disbelieve.
"Now I have to live for four years next to the dumb Chihuahua, how am I ever going to survive this?" Taiga- whined theatrically.
"Oh c´mon, as if you would be the only one to suffer!" Kawashima-san stated, marking the second part of the drama-queens.
"Would you two please stop it, what will the neighbors think?" I stated, as I looked up to the building´s top, it was bright and golden inside, your average luxurious-apartment building.
"Anyways we should get in already, it gets dark and I have to cook dinner soon and we also have to go to the supermarket, perhaps, I just hope that for today it all is enough, I rather go tomorrow in the day.
Also the cartons will not unpack themselves!" I stated.
"Sir yes sir!" Kushieda-san stated.
And so we entered, we went to the receptionist to get the keys.
"Anyways which apartment do you got?" I asked Kushieda-san, as we were at the reception.
"Apartment 3-A and you?" She asked me.
"1-A, seems like we are all up on the highest floor!" I replied, as I looked at my Key.
"Seems so, well what a coincidence!" She smiled.
"C´mon that´s no coincidence, I mean you said you were here because you wanted to make sure that I would take good care about Taiga.
However, I know that´s not the case, since you already know I would, so tell me, why are you and Kawashima really here?" I asked her.
"Guess I can´t hide it from you, can I..., anyways, you are right..., I know you would take good care of her, even if I won´t be here, I guess it´s rather my own selfishness.
Taiga is my best friend, and somehow..., I just can´t stand the thought of having to leave her again, or she leaving me.
I guess that is the true reason why I came into the same apartment building like her, so I can see her every day, making sure she is okay and making sure she does not vanishes out of the blue again.
Making sure that I can protect her too, not that I don´t trust you with her wellbeing, mind you, but I guess two pairs of attentive eyes are better than one!" Kushieda-san stated.
"Guess you are right on this, well I cannot say i´m not happy to have you here!" I stated and she smiled.
During the last year, she and Yusaku were my main support and my lights in the darkness, who always told me that there was hope.
Hope that my Angel will return to me.
"Well thank you, i´m glad too, well then I hope we get good along, neighbor!" She said as we arrived, with the elevator, on the highest level of the building.
"Yeah, in a spirit of cooperation, let´s get along well together, that mostly goes for you two!" I stated, pointing at Kawashima and Taiga.
"I will, I swear!" Both said in unison and in defeat.
"Good to hear, well the let´s get going, see you guys tomorrow!" I stated and they nodded waving on us.
"What a coincidence that she too lives near to us!" Taiga stated happily, as she twirled in front of us.
"I rather would say, that you are simply loved much Taiga!" I mumbled.
"Wheeeezze, wheeezze!" Suddenly we heard a wheezing behind us.
"At last..., I have arrived!" We looked to see Feng-kun crawling up the stairs.
"Are you alright, Huang-kun!" I stated.
"Geez just... call me..., Feng, and apparently...,wheeze..., running up the stairs to my Apartment has been a really dumb idea..., wheeezeeee..., on level D my force ran out and I more or less dragged my body up here.
Oh well, what doesn't kills you makes you stronger they say.
Honestly, I feel extremely weak right now!" The Poor young man stated, as he sat down on the ground to catch his breath.
"Well seems like we really do are neighbors after all, well I hope you like it here..., I tell you I do, the food down in the restaurant is the best and the view from the Penthouse is the best either!" Feng-kun stated, as he stood back up, having gained a bit of his force back.
"Anyways, Aisaka-san was it, right..., I wanted to apologize for earlier..., I should not have compared you to a kid, I was ignorant about how you would feel about it..., therefore i´m sorry and I hope you can forgive me!" Feng-kun stated.
"Forgiven and forgotten, don´t make a fuss about it, I get to hear this too often, to be mad about it anymore!" Taiga stated.
"Anyways, what are you doing here if I may ask, don´t get me wrong, but you are not looking like the average high society people..., who normally go in and out of this building, not that I am one to talk?!" Feng-kun asked interested.
"We are going to attend the College in this town!" I stated.
"Really, what a coincidence, me too..., hey if you want to know anything about the College, ask my sister..., she is since two years there, studying modeling and acting, one of these classes which only are requiring 2 years of lessons!" Feng-kun stated and smiled brightly.
"It´s good to already know someone there, beside of my sister!" he stated with a nice-guy pose.
"It sure will be, and we gladly are taking you on that offer with your sister, thanks a lot!" I stated.
"Oh it´s nothing, after all I have to help some fellow freshmen out not, we got to stand together, anyways I got to go, see ya!" He said, before he walked away in the opposite direction.
"He sure is energetic, just like his sister said!" I mumbled.
"Anyways let´s get going okay!" I stated and so we walked over to our new apartment.
To say that we were in awe before the grandeur of it all, was an understatement, this apartment was huge; even more than Taiga´s apartment during the first two years of Higschool.
Our house would fit at least seven times in it.
"Woooaah this is awesome!" Yasuko stated.
"It sure is!" I stated.
"Anyways it's time to cook, what do you want?" I asked them.
"Super sweet Curry-rice!" they both shouted in unison.
"Hehe, what else?
Well then, let´s get this meal started!" I said.
And so our first night in this big ass apartment started, with preparing a good meal.
A/N:
And another one is down, hope you like it!
Sincerely, yours truly, The Storyteller and his Books.