A/N: Things and stuff.
1) About Ooishi name. Why do I keep writting the name of Seigaku fuku-buchou as as "Ooishi" and not "Oishi"?
Ooishi's name in Japanese is written with two kanjis, "ookii" and "ishi", "big" and "rock", standing for stability (after all, he is the "mother" of Seigaku.) When the two kanjis are put together, they become "Ooishi", the ending "-kii" of the first kanji droppes. "Oishi" is like a mispelling of "oishii", which means "delicious". That's why I prefere to keep "Ooishi", wich is closer to how his name is written in Japanese.
2) Now, something else. I want to put down a precision. This is a fan fiction, something I write for fun. I am not a professional writer and I'm certainly not a script writer either. I'm perfectly aware that a true script it not written in the way I did with the Cinderella play in the last chapter. To all the other script writers, I'm very sorry if I had offend you with the chapter of Cinderella play. I truly apologize to you (bow). However, I won't re-write it to make it be a real script for a real play. It's not like someone will take that (awful) Cinderella play of mine and actually perform in front of a public! Beside, everybody knows what's the real story of Cinderella, so no need to write it down again in this fanfic. So again, to all the script writers, my deepest and most sincere apologizes for offending you (bow).
And now, back to our stuff. Here for you the chapter 24. Thank you to Lonely Raind and to Shattered Illusiions for beta-reading. Also, with Shattered Illusiions's help, I re-posted some of the previous chapters, beta-ed.
And here chapter 24.
Enjoy!
"Yawwwwwwwnnnnnnnwn…!" Ryoma, still in her white silk pajamas, yawned as she walked down the stair, Karupin nestled in her arms.
"Ohayou, Ryoma-chan," Nanako greeted her.
"Ohayou, Ryoma," Rinko greeted her.
"Ohayou. Yawwwwwwwwwww!" Ryoma answered and yawned again.
"Yo! Chibisuke! For once I don't have to wake up you!" Ryoga greeted, grinning. He and Nanjirou snickered. Ryoma grunted.
Why had she bother herself to wake up so soon? Today was the first day of the summer vacations. She didn't need to wake up. She could have sleep until noon if she wanted too - or until sunset. But no, Karupin decided that he wanted his mistress to carry him down for his breakfast. He hadn't stopped mewling until Ryoma finally (and reluctantly) decided to comply with his request.
'Spoiled cat!' Ryoma grumbled mentally. But well, she was the one who spoiled him.
"Prrrrrrrrrrrrr…" Karupin purred happily.
"Ryoma-chan, do you have any plans for your summer vacations?" Nanako asked as she set out the breakfast.
"No," Ryoma answered.
"Didn't your senpais invite you to spend the summer with them somewhere?" Ryoga asked.
"They did, but that doesn't mean that I have to accept. Seeing them high on sugar everyday is tiring. I don't want to worn myself out during summer vacations," she said as she picked her chopsticks. Rinko chuckled.
Ding dong!
The door bell rang.
"Ryoma, can you answer please?" Rinko asked.
"Hai."
Ryoma set down her chopsticks, stood up and went to the door. She opened it.
"ECHIZEN! IT'S SUMMER VACATIONS! COME WITH US!" Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori screeched as soon as the door opened.
Ryoma raised her right eyebrow, ticking.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM!
She slammed the door in their face.
'I must still be asleep and I'm having a nightmare. I should go back to bed!' Ryoma thought.
She really didn't need to see them today. And certainly she didn't want to see them during her summer vacations too. Summer vacations meant a break. A BREAK! She needed a break from them.
"Come on Karupin. Let's go back to bed," Ryoma said as she picked Karupin up.
"Meoooooooooow!"
Outside the Echizen's household door.
Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori stared at the door, eyes slitted, looking like idiots.
"See, I told you so," Yuuta told them.
Yagyuu held out his hand to Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori.
"You lost the bet," Yagyuu stated blandly.
The four boys took out their wallets and each of them handed to Yagyuu a bill of a hundred dollar.
"There is Plan B," Ootori said.
"Yagyuu, we buy your Plan B," Marui said.
"A hundred for each item," Yagyuu said.
"Deal," Niou said.
Yagyuu gave them a bag with a letter B written in red on it. Inside the bag was a roll of tape, a blanket and a rope. Yagyuu earned seven hundred bills just in a few seconds. He smirked happily as he slid the money into his wallet. The amount of money wasn't important to him, but he just enjoyed winning a bet and making a profit out of it.
Ding dong!
This time, it was Ryoga who opened the door.
"Yes? Yikes!" Ryoga jumped when he saw Kirihara, Marui and Niou holding a tape, a blanket and a rope.
'What are they planning to do with those things?' Ryoga wondered, sweat dropping.
Ryoga soon got his answer. Kirihara, Marui and Niou charged in the direction of Ryoma, who was going to climb the stair, her back facing them.
'Aaaah!' Ryoga hastily stepped away before he got run over.
Kirihara, Marui and Niou attacked.
CRASH!!!
BOOM!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
RIP! RIP! RIP! RIP! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!
OMNF! OMNF! OMNF!!
GUG! GUG!
TUCK!
Kirihara gagged Ryoma with the tape. As soon as he was done, Marui covered her in the blanket and Niou secured the struggling girl in the blanket with the rope.
"MMMMMMMNNNNN! MMMMNNNNNNHH! MMMMMMMMMNNRRH!"
"One, two, three. UP!" Kirihara, Marui and Niou lifted her over their heads and scurried away outside.
"Chi… bi… suke…?" Ryoga sweat dropped, looking at them.
"What is it, Ryoga?" Rinko came, asking.
She saw Ootori, Yuuta and Yagyuu. Behind them, she saw Kirihara, Marui and Niou carrying a rather large white struggling object tied with a length of rope to the Benz waiting outside.
"Oh! It's you boys! Good morning," Rinko greeted.
"Good morning, Echizen-san," Ootori, Yuuta and Yagyuu said, bowing politely.
"What brings you here this morning?" Rinko asked, smiling.
"We came to fetch Echizen," Yagyuu said. "We will be leaving soon."
"Oh? I thought Ryoma didn't want to come with you," Rinko said.
"She changed her mind," Ootori said.
'Yeah. Well, she wasn't given a choice,' Ryoga and Yuuta thought.
"Ah! But she didn't pack anything," Rinko said.
"Please do not worry, Echizen-san. We will provide her everything she needs," Ootori said.
"Echizen-san, can you give me her passport, please?" Yagyuu requested. "We will need it."
"Of course! Wait here a moment, please," Rinko said. She left the room for a minute, and then re-appeared. She gave Yagyuu Ryoma's passport. "Here."
"Thank you." Yagyuu took out a piece of paper from his pocket and gave it to Rinko. "This is the address and the phone number of the place where we will be staying. You can call over whenever you want."
"Ah. Thank you," Rinko said as she took the paper.
"Yagyuu, Ootori, Yuuta, hurry up!" Kirihara yelled from the Benz.
"Coming!" Ootori yelled back.
"We will be going now, Echizen-san," Yuuta said.
"Thank you very much for receiving us," Yagyuu said. Ootori, Yagyuu and Yuuta bowed a last time to Rinko and Ryoga. Then, they left.
After that the Benz had disappear from their sight, Ryoga turned to Rinko.
"Kaa-san, they just kidnapped Chibisuke from right in front of us," Ryoga stated.
Rinko chuckled. She had seen everything from the kitchen.
"It will be good for her to spend summer somewhere instead of in her bed," Rinko laughed.
"What kind of mother are you, kaa-san?! Letting a bunch of boys kidnap your own daughter?!" Ryoga demanded.
"A mother who knows what is best for her only precious daughter. Huhuhuhuhuhu!" Rinko chuckled.
Ryoga sweat dropped again.
"Ahhh…"
"Mmmhhh! Mmmhhhh! Mmmhhh! Mmmhhh! Mmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhh!"
Ryoma struggled to get free. Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori set her down and proceeded to remove the rope, the blanket and the tape. When they finished, they saw a very, very mad Ryoma. A furious Ryoma. She looked at them with enraged, demonic eyes.
"Yo! Echizen!" Kirihara greeted her, as if everything was absolutely normal.
"Grrrrrrrrrrr…" She growled, showing her fangs.
"Mawwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrr…"
The boys heard a growl coming from a white fur ball in Ryoma's lap. The ball turned on itself to reveal a brown face with blue eyes. It also showed his fangs. It was Karupin.
"Eh? You took her cat too?" Ootori asked, looking at the angry cat.
Like his mistress, Karupin didn't like being trapped in a blanket and tied down by ropes.
"We didn't realize it," Niou answered sheepishly.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" the mistress and cat growled louder.
The next second, they were on their kidnappers, claws and fangs out.
BOOOOOOM!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" the boys yelled, screaming for help.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
BAM! BAM! SCRATCH!
BOOM! SCRATCH! BOOM! THUD! THWACK!
SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATCH!!!
After many minutes, the four formerly healthy young men, who were formerly full of life, lay on the ground, with scratches and cuts oozing blood all over their bodies.
"Ara ara ara ahhhhhh…" they whimpered.
"Ahou!" Ryoma said. "Come on, Karupin! Let's go back home!" She walked in the direction of the door.
"Meow!" the cat answered as he followed his mistress, his nose and tail high in the air, like a dignified pure breed cat, with a condescending attitude towards the half dead bodies behind him.
Outside, in the hall way, Ryoma searched for the exit.
"Now where is it?" she mumbled under her breath.
She looked from the right to the left. Then, she saw the EXIT sign above a door. She followed it. She opened the door and stepped out. A gush of fresh wind blew and she retreated slightly, covering her eyes. When the wind stopped, she opened her eyes and looked around.
". . ."
Blue.
Blue.
It was blue. Everything was blue.
Above, an azure blue. Below, a deep blue marine.
Only sky and water.
No land anywhere.
". . ."
She cannot go back home.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" she screamed. Her scream echoed thorough out the ocean.
And that was how Ryoma's summer vacations started - on a cruise ship, in the middle of nowhere, with only luggage her creased white silk pajamas she had worn to sleep the night before and her sapphire-eyed Himalayan cat, Karupin.