IMPORTANT A/N
I (again) like last time apologise for not updating earlier but you must be aware that because I am now a year 10 student (since September) that I’ll be taking foundation papers/higher tier next year for being in an express group (a class for brainy peeps and I ain’t bragging. I only got moved in after taking the entrance exam in yr 7) so I won’t be able to update much soon and probably at the most only be able to update once a month, so please do not pester me since it’ll put quite a bit of pressure on me. Plus I had my piano exam. But now… I AM FREE! Christmas break! So hopefully I’d be able to update more this month (as a late Christmas present).
I sincerely apologise for my long hiatus, gomennasai //bows
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Chapter 4
~2 days later, the night of the sakura matsuri/cherry blossom festival~
No one’s POV
It’s now around six pm as the host club parked the limo outside the Nekozawa residence, a considerably very large mansion to Haruhi’s eyes and otherwise, ordinary/average sized to the others. The gang walked up to the front door and onto the porch just as the door swung open to reveal the forever eerie Umehito Nekozawa, holding onto his ‘cursed’ puppet, Beelzenef. This caused quite a panic on Tamaki’s behalf and made him hide behind Haruhi and annoying her with his childish behaviour.
“Greetings, what do we owe the pleasure of seeing you here?” he asked in his creepy voice, his bangs covering his eyes as usual.
“W-we’re here to pick up Miyuki-chan for the Sakura matsuri tonight, Nekozawa-san” Shizuka stuttered quietly, slightly creeped out by her friend’s older brother. The twins, Natsumi and Tamaki gazed at her, awed by her ‘braveness’, making the poor girl feel even more uncomfortable than before and for everyone else except Umehito to sweat drop at the foursome’s admiring looks.
“Ne, Nii-sama, please don’t scare my friends any more than you already did” Miyuki broke the silence as she appeared in the doorway behind her brother, in the kimono the twins had picked out for her. Her entrance was almost as dramatic as Tamaki’s would have usually been with roses but instead, was surrounded by white lilies and purple freesias, whilst her pose was of her with a sleeve covering half of her face in a shy manner with her ever present Suka-chan in her free hand, dangling loosely towards the marble floor (a/n: basically like Hunny when he had a flowery kimono on but only covering her face with one arm). Her appearance made the two Haninozuka brothers, blush unknowingly, their breaths knocked out of them.
“Oka-san said you got to be back by 10pm… and if you don’t come back on time, imouto, I’ll hunt down your little friends and pay them a small visit with my precious Beelzenef…” he trailed off, chuckling eerily. By the end of his speech, Tamaki was physically shaking in fright and Natsumi wasn’t far off from him, biting her fingernails off.
“Hai hai, Nii-sama, I promise! Let’s go guys” Miyuki concluded as she clapped her hands together happily, a big smile playing on her lips, before she jumped off the porch and sped past everyone and grabbing hold of Hunny and Chika’s hands, dragging them with her like life-sized ragdolls.
The rest just shrugged and followed after them and into the limo, ready for a fun night out.
~Time*Skip~
When they arrived at the festival, it was incredibly crowded, people everywhere; talking and laughing and simply just enjoying themselves. The packed place was lit up by festive lanterns around the buzzing stalls as some members of the host club were giggling in excitement at the mere scene-and I think you can guess without me telling you who they were.
“Ne ne, Tamaki-senpai! Chika-san and Mitsukuni-kun and I are going to the goldfish scooping stand!” Miyuki runs off with the brothers in tow at such a fast speed that it took the others a few second to comprehend the fact that the three that were previously standing there had disappeared already. Natsumi blinked slowly before asking a question that made everyone that was left there sweat drop: “Where’d they go?”
Breaking the awkward silence that occurred, the Hitachiin twins dragged Shizuka and Haruhi in a race towards the food stand a few stalls away from where they had gathered at the very start of the night, leaving yet, another awkward silence in their wake. Slowly, the few left behind automatically split into groups and headed off to enjoy the festival themselves.
~Page Break~
-At the fish scooping stall-
The three short teens were at the same fish scooping stand for the last fifteen minutes but yet, the brunette had yet to catch a fish even though all of her attempts so far had failed. She looked to be on the brink of tears when the Haninozukas had had enough.
“I’ll get you one” they said in unison before exchanging a heated glare unseen by Miyuki she grew confused at the staring contest. They broke the gaze at once as the same thought crossed their minds: This means war.
The two boys immediately jumped into action in order to get a goldfish for the girl first. They both almost caught one at the exact same time as Miyuki looked at them in surprise.
Yasuchika had scooped a red goldfish with small white specks while Mitsukuni had caught a white one with a single red spot on its head. The brown-haired boy handed the bag to the shorter girl accompanied with a soft smile, especially reserved for her. Miyuki took it slowly before grinning her trade mark happy-go-lucky smile in thanks as another bag of goldfish found itself in her grasp. Hunny beamed at the blue-eyed girl’s surprise as she closely inspected the petite white goldfish.
“Arigato, Mit-chan, Chika-chan-ne, I can call you that, right?” she trailed off unsure but was cut off by the two boys nodding-and viscously in Hunny’s case.
The extremely hyped up and happy brunette skipped off towards a candyfloss booth as the two followed closely behind in case they lose her in the crowd. Miyuki asked for a banana flavoured candyfloss, Hunny a strawberry one and Chika a bubblegum flavoured one-since ‘Yuki had insisted on him trying one. While Miyuki had happily ate away at her candyfloss, Chika and Hunny couldn’t help but to stare at the girl they had slowly but surely developed a crush on in awe. As she pulled the sweet candy from her mouth, they couldn’t help but laugh-some of the candyfloss had stuck to her face.
Unable to control the urge, Yasuchika raised his hand to her face and took the bit of candyfloss off before eating it, causing the girl to flush a light pink. The blond boy was feeling jealousy pulse inside him like a sick feeling at the sight of his brother being affectionate to his Yuki-chan so openly and in front of him no less. Making the scores even, he moved forward and licked the yellow cotton candy off of his Miyuki’s face then licked his lips in a childish manner, making the blue-eyed girl blush even more.
Since that little candyfloss episode, the night passed in a blur, the activities being a blast. Let’s move onto the others shall we? Well Haruhi’s group is currently looking for the way back to the others since the twins had ran off so fast that they couldn’t find the others in the crowd, when a nearby stall caught Shizuka’s attention, pausing to look and making Kaoru stop as well since he was holding her hand.
“What is it, Shizuka-chan?” he asked the quiet girl before trailing his eyes to where the girl was staring at: A mochi and daifuku stand. He began to walk towards the booth, surprising the redhead. He offered her a gentle smile and said, “C’mon then, don’t you want a mochi?”
Shizuka shook her head with a small smile and walked with Kaoru to the stand and picked a strawberry and chocolate daifuku while Kaoru stuck with the chocolate daifuku (a/n: daifuku is basically mochi with a filling). They laughed at each other when they saw mochi stuck to their faces but was interrupted by the two that they had forgotten about.
“Hey, Kaoru! C’mon, we got to find the others!” Hikaru shouted with a calm Haruhi standing next to him. Shizuka and Kaoru linked their free hands together and walked back to the other two before the four went to look for the rest of their group.
Tamaki’s group was generally doing the same but with Natsumi and Tamaki gaping at everything like dead fishes saying, “I have never been to a commoner’s festival!” whereas Kyoya and Aki was just walking a few feet away from them, acting as if they didn’t know the two ditzy blondes. Until the duo called out their names that is.
“Mummy!”
“Aki-chan!”
The auburn haired girl and raven haired boy froze as the people nearby stared at the strange group before the two thoroughly embarrassed second years hurried off, not acknowledging their two classmates. Tamaki and Natsumi glanced at each other, green meeting violet, then ran after the darker haired duo, while screaming their names to Kyoya’s and Aki’s dismay as they sped up their pace in hopes of losing them.
Mori and Kimi were just walking through the crowd in a comfortable silence and looking out for the others, since with their tall height, it’d be quite easy for them to spot everyone. A passing child rammed right into Kimi in his haste and finding someone whilst crying his eyes out for unknown reasons. The black-haired girl halted and squatted down to the little boy’s height and asked, “What’s the matter?”
“I can’t find my onee-sama” he cried as he looked up at Kimi with tear-filled brown eyes. The grey-eyed girl picked up the boy that looked around four years old then looked at Takash.
“We’re going to help look for his sister, ne Takashi-san?” He responded with a nod and a slight twitch of the lips, as if trying to suppress a smile. Kimi turned back to the kid and asked for his name and what his sister looked like.
“Boku wa Hiro da and onee-sama looks like me but with longer hair. She had a blue kimono on.” He sniffled, looking through his brown bangs at the second year girl. She smiled at his shyness before the teenagers set off looking for Hiro’s older sibling.
Unknown to Mori and Kimi, a pair of middle-aged women were behind the trio and giggling at the sight.
“My, what a happy family they’ve got there!”
~Page Break~
-Back to Mitsukuni, Miyuki and Yasuchika-
It has been an hour since the mini ‘war’ between Chika and Hunny but Miyuki was still oblivious to their little fight being the dense person she is. They had won her two plushies so far, a cute white bunny from Hunny and a large teddy bear from Chika. Right now, they were looking at a souvenir stall that sold from small figurines to accessories.
“Ne, Yu-chan look! That hair clip would look so Kawaii on you!” Hunny grinned deviously before putting the small black clip with a red and pink flower attached into her short brown tresses (a/n: she had a hair cut ^o^). The smaller girl sent him a smile with a light blush as Chika fumed silently with jealousy. His eyes browsed the collection of accessories before settling on a simple bracelet with baby blue beads and a small silver music not charm hanging off it with a purple gem on it. He quietly clasped the bracelet together then looked up at Miyuki to see her blush from the affection he was receiving from the two boys.
“It suits you” he stated simply as he gave Mitsukuni a side-long glance, which he received a glare for. The two paid for the gifts before the girl’s hands took captive of the boy’s hands, one in each of hers, as she lead them off towards the large lake that was situated on the other side of the long line of stalls.
“Ne, Haru-chan, Hika-chan, Kao-chan, Shi-chan!” the small brunette exclaimed as she let go of the two boys’ hands to wave and jump madly at the approaching four. Once the group was standing together, they caught up on what they had done the last two hours before the most logical one of the group spotted familiar faces that were coming closer.
“Hey, is Kyoya-senpai and Aki-senpai being chased by Tamaki-senpai and Natsumi-senpai?” she proposed catching the attention of everyone. They were as Haruhi had said, being chased by the two blondes for reasons that are a complete mystery to them as they sweat dropped at the rather comical scene.
“Look, its Taka-chan and Ki-chan!” Hunny shouted pointing to the left of Tamaki’s little group where the dark haired duo was quickly approaching with child in Kimi’s arms, which brought confusion upon them.
“Taka-chan, Ki-chan, who is the boy?” Yuki asked, puzzled with an equally puzzled Mitsukuni close behind her.
“This is Hiro Suzuki. He bumped into us while we were looking at the stands. He got lost in the crowds and now we’re looking for his sis-”
“Hiro!” a voice yelled in desperation, interrupting Kimi’s explanation as the whole group turned to the new comer. A girl around sixteen with long brown hair done up in a complicated up do and large brown eyes wearing a blue kimono ran towards them, her eyes trained on the little boy in Kimi’s arms. Hiro’s own chocolate brown eyes widened as he shouted back, “Onee-sama” to everyone’s surprise.
Hiro’s sister gently took the said boy from Kimi and the siblings hugged tightly, creating a rather sweet family reunion.
“Arigato for looking after my otouto, watashi wa Haruka Suzuki desu” the girl now known as Haruka bowed twice before waving goodbye to the group along with Hiro and soon disappeared into the large crowd with the boy.
“Let’s rent a boat, Mit-chan, Chika-chan! The firework display looks very nice on the lake and it’s starting soon! C’mon!” Miyuki laughed and pulling the said Haninozukas with her towards the small harbour, as everyone else follows after.
Just as Miyuki had stated, fireworks exploded with bright colours just as the boats drifted out onto the lake. They had all separated into the groups they had walked around in; Haruhi, Shizuka and the twins to one boat, Tamaki, Natsumi, Kyoya and Aki to another, Mori and Kimi to a separate boat to them and finally, Chika, Miyuki and Mitsukuni to one.
Unexpectedly, Miyuki innocently kissed both of the boys on their cheeks as they blushed from the sudden action the brunette made.
“That was for giving me loads of gifts and spending time with me tonight. Arigato, Mit-chan, Chika-chan.”
With that said, the trio sat back in the small rented boat to enjoy the rest of the night.
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