I just found out that I was accepted into the school I wanted in on, so I am overly happy right now.
'And thus, through my happiness, a new chapter came forth' ~
Or something like that.

That night, Ryuuji had a dream. He dreamt that the hotel they were going to had burned down, so they had to go on a skiing trip instead, up in some mountain lounge. Of course, that was only a dream. At the moment, Ryuuji found himself in Taiga's apartment. He was there together with his own group for the school trip, and Taiga's group. That counted Ryuuji, Taiga, Minori, Ami, Kitamura, Noto and Haruta.

They had gotten an assignment where they were supposed to make a brochure about the resort they were going to in Okinawa. They had gotten pretty far with the assignment already, they only missed a couple of details. At one point, Noto had looked at Ryuuji with a surprised expression.

"Hey, Ryuuji," he had started, "if you're Taiga's neighbor, does that mean you live in this huge apartment complex too?"

Ryuuji sighed and pulled his fringe in front of his eyes, looking a little grim.
"No, I live in the house next doors," He retorted, "anyways, I'll go make some tea." Ryuuji stood up and skipped his feet into the kitchen, Minori following after.

"I'll help you, Takasu-kun!" Minori exclaimed with an enthusiastic smile. Ryuuji nodded gratefully at her before he started boiling the water.
"Where are the cups in this place?" Minori asked, before thinking, "Oh, you probably wouldn't know eith-" She was interrupted by Ryuuji's grin.

"They're in the top left cupboard." He said with a monotone voice, and Minori looked a little surprised. Ryuuji sighed.
"I've cooked in this kitchen a couple of times."

"Oh, I see," Minori smiled deviously at him, making him look a little scared. "Someone spends a lot of time with Taiga ~" She smirked, doing a spin before retrieving the cups from the cupboard. Ryuuji turned back to the kettle to hide the tiny blush that appeared on his face.

"A-anyways, let's take this tea out in the living room," he stuttered, putting it all on a tray.

There was only 2 days left until the trip at this point. Different people had different opinions on it. Ryuuji couldn't really deny the fact that he was kind of looking forward to it, but he also felt that it could turn out to be extremely tiresome. Even so, he'd just have to live with it.

…

"I've frozen down 1 week worth of food, so help yourself, Yasuko!" Ryuuji said loudly from the hallway. All he earned from his hung over mother was a groan and a "Thank you, Ryuu-chan."

Ryuuji sighed and picked up his bag, tossing it over his shoulder. He wasn't the person to bring lots of stuff to a trip, only the necessary clothing and some towels and a swimming short. And of course, he'd brought the lunch for that day, for him and Taiga.

He put on his shoes and silently left the house, walking into the street below. There stood Taiga with a huge bag by her side, to no surprise. Ryuuji sighed and walked up to her.

"Something tells me I'm carrying that," Ryuuji said with an almost depressed tone, and Taiga smirked at him. She stood up on her toes and left a quick kiss on Ryuuji's lips, and he sighed.
"Yup. I'm definitely carrying that." He said reluctantly and picked up Taiga's bag. The worst part is, it wasn't even heavy. She had just stuffed it with unnecessary, light clothing. Taiga smiled and ran to Ryuuji's free arm, clinging into it. Ryuuji was still trying to get used to the fact that he had a pretty affectionate girlfriend. He was kind of surprised that she was able to be like that without getting embarrassed after the 'events' that happened a week before, after a certain rainy incident.
Ryuuji was a boy, but he still owned a high sense of morality, so he wasn't honestly prepared for something like that.

"I think I'm actually kind of looking forward to this trip," Taiga said happily, "as long you're there to protect me from the stupid Chihuahua."

"It's not like I can be with you 24/7, you know," Ryuuji sighed, "We have to sleep in our own rooms after all."

"Hmpf!" Taiga scoffed, before pulling at Ryuuji to make him quicken his pace. They were supposed to take the train to Okinawa, and the class had been told to meet up at the train station. They still had 45 minutes before they had to be there, but Ryuuji was usually the kind of person who wanted to be there in good time, and so was Taiga in this situation. After about 15 minutes, they had arrived at the station. There were already a few people from their class there, and it was seemingly the girls that carried around the most luggage.

'Big surprise,' Ryuuji thought. It wasn't long before the rest of the class had arrived, and not long after that again that they were sitting on the train. They basically sat close to the people they were going to share rooms with, as that was only natural.

"Ryuu-tan!" Haruta exclaimed, "We have a little surprise for when we get to the hotel!" He said with a smirk, and Ryuuji looked a little nervous.

"It's going to be awesome." Noto whispered, smirking at Haruta. Ryuuji didn't even want to picture what they had in mind. Those two had a tendency of doing some stupid crap at times. Now, most of Ryuuji's classmates had pretty much gotten the hint that Taiga and Ryuuji were together, but what Taiga was about to do didn't really lower those suspicions.

"W-what are you doing?" Ryuuji stuttered as Taiga came over to him from her seat with a frown on her face, sitting down on his lap with her arms crossed. Haruta and Noto could only glare at them, slightly surprised.

"The stupid Chihuahua is being mean." Taiga muttered, closing her eyes in annoyance. Ryuuji sighed and furrowed his brows a little.

'This is going to be a long trip.'

…

3 hours later, they'd finally arrived at the station in Okinawa. From there, it was only a 10 minute bus ride to their hotel. The trip had went fairly good, except from the scratch marks on Ami's face, from a pissed off little tiger. When the bus arrived outside of the hotel, most students were very enthusiastic about getting to their rooms. After each group had gotten assigned room numbers and keys, they went to their rooms one by one, which also meant for Ryuuji to carry Taiga's bag to her room. After dropping it off there, he went to his own room to drop of his bag.

The trip there had been tiring, so most of the time after that was spent just relaxing in their rooms. They were going to be there for 5 days, so they had plenty of time to get stuff done the next couple of days.

"Hey, guys," Kitamura said, his eyes focused on some speakers in the corner of the room. "Does anyone have a cable that can do a speaker-to-phone transaction?" He asked, and Noto came up to him with a thin cable. Kitamura smiled and pulled out his MP3 player. "As long as we don't play it too loud, it should be fine." He smirked, putting the cable in. Ryuuji's taste in music was quite different from popular opinion, so he wasn't too sure about this.

'As long as it's not any kind of bad pop with auto-tuned singers' Ryuuji thought with a frown, hoping that Kitamura was the kind of person with a little sense in his head. You could say that he was fairly surprised to hear that the first song on Kitamura's playlist was some sort of trash metalcore band.

"You listen to this kind of music?" Ryuuji asked in surprise, and Kitamura gave him a thumbs up. Looked like Ryuuji had new things to learn every day. Though he had to admit that the music wasn't half bad.

"I'm hungry," Haruta muttered, and it wasn't long before they found themselves in the dinner lounge. They settled for some sandwiches, only to quench their hunger.

"Tomorrow, we're eating at a McDonalds or something!" Haruta exclaimed with a voice that made it clearly obvious that he was dissatisfied with his dinner. At the same time, they heard a violent roar coming from the lobby. They all hurried out there, curious about what was going on.

"You have got to be kidding.." Ryuuji muttered under his breath, his face completely beaten. Right there, in the middle of the lobby, was Ami. She was running after Taiga with what seemed like a hairbrush in her hand, and Taiga was laughing her wits out while running from the furious Ami.

"What did she do now?" Noto sighed, scratching his head.

"Yup. Definitely going to be a tiresome trip. Guys, pray for me." Ryuuji sighed. Haruta looked at Ryuuji, and saw that he was getting ready to step in.

"Good," Haruta smirked, "This is starting to look like Battle Royale already."
Ryuuji looked at him for a while before shaking his head and turning his focus back to the commotion in front of him. After gathering a little courage, he started walking towards the furious Ami.

"Hey, Kawashima, let's all just calm-"

"CRACK!" The other boys winced as they saw Ryuuji's plump body crashing into the floor.

"That looks painful!" Noto exclaimed, while Kitamura only laughed.

"You can do it, Takasu!" Kitamura shouted, and Ryuuji lifted an arm up in the air.

"Y-yeah.. Sure."

I don't even know what I wrote in the end there. I'm tired, and my creativity is kind of weird, but it was comic relief, I guess.
Of course, more exciting things will happen on this trip. :3