"YAY! SCHOOL!"
Momiji yelled enthusiastically. It was the close to the last day of senior year for Kyo, Yuki, Tohru, and Kagura; and junior year for Momiji and Hatsuharu.
"SHUT UP! My god, kid, do you have to be so loud all the time?!" Kyo said, annoyed.
"Just because you’re not good in school, Kyo, doesn’t mean you can take your anger out on others" Yuki said calmly.
"WHY YOU-!" Kyo was about to scream at Yuki *like he always did* when someone came walking up to them.
She had short, almost messy looking, dark brown hair. Her light brown eyes sparkled trough her thin glasses. She was some where around 5’ 5" and wasn’t necessarily pale, but she sure wasn’t tan…
"Kyo-chan, could you stop fighting with Yuki for ONE MINUTE? Please?"
"Oh, hi, Keitou-san!" Tohru bowed to her. "Would you like me to carry your books for you?"
"No, it’s fine, Tohru-chan. Really! You need to start thinking of yourself more!"
"KYOOOOOOOOOOO-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" Kagura dashed down the hall, screaming.
"OH SHIT!" Kyo ran and Kagura ran after him.
"She’s never going to leave him alone, is she?"
Everyone jumped a little at Hatsuharu’s sudden appearance.
"Don’t DO that!" Keitou said angrily.
"KEITOU!" A group of three girls came running toward her.
The first one, Kichi, was the same age as Keitou. She was a bit taller though, somewhere around 5’ 8" and looked completely different. She had beautiful, long, straight, platinum blonde hair that went with her sparkling blue eyes perfectly. In other words, she was your typical rich girl. Her father owned an oil company, and with gas prices these days, it was no surprise that she nearly had money coming out her ass. She wasn’t exactly the brightest crayon in the box, either, but she passed all of her classes, which was good enough for her.
The next girl, Shina, was also the same age as Keitou, with the same intelligence level as Kichi. She was a little taller than Keitou, 5" 6"… 5’ 7" maybe. Her hair was light brown and medium length with small medium brown streaks in it, and her eyes were almost emerald green but a little lighter. It seemed like she had everything. Good grades, a loving family, and a whole bunch of friends…it seemed too good to be true…
The last girl, Kaiya, was the youngest one of the group, but only by a year. Even though she was the youngest, she wasn’t even close to the shortest. Though she was 5" 11", her thick black hair reached just below her knees and even the shortest of people could see her dark purple eyes shine. She came from a good family; two loving parents, a brother and two older sisters that were twins. Because of this family, she had always been labeled ‘little miss perfect’, despite her size…and how she really felt about her life…
"HI, KEITOU!" Shina hugged her. Keitou had been friends with Shina ever since she could remember.
"Hello, Keitou-chan!" Kaiya said softly and bowed to her.
"It’s nice to see you, Keitou! I’ve missed you, being away so long!" Kichi was almost always on long vacations with her father, but, somehow, she still made time for her friends and school.
"Hi guys!" Keitou was about to say more, but the bell rang and she had to rush to class, if she was late again, she’d get detention.
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Keitou sat back in her desk, barely listening to her teacher’s lecture. Her History class was her first class, her most boring, and, somehow, her best. The fact that she had no friends in this class probably had a lot to do with the A she got in History. There was no point in listening; she had everything down all ready. This was just a review for the people who didn’t listen during class.
She drifted off into daydreams about Kyo, who she seemed to be having feelings for lately. There was just something about his angry attitude she found adorable and hoped he beat Yuki. She liked Yuki…usually. He occasionally got on her nerves, but, he was ok. She defiantly felt bad for him, because of the fan-girl situation.
But, back to Kyo. She adored him. She loved everything about him, from his fiery red hair to his stubborn attitude. She just hoped he felt the same.
~ ~ ~
"You just have to ASK HER" Hatsuharu and Yuki were taking advantage of the extra time they had left of their first hour class and were giving Kyo… sort of a pep talk if you will. Senior prom was coming up, and Kyo wanted to ask Keitou really bad. They had always been friends though, and he wasn’t sure if she liked him that way.
"That’s it? Just ASKHER?!" Kyo yelled back at him. "What kind of advice is that?!"
"That’s really all there is to it, Kyo. You just have to ask her. That’s how I got Kichi to come with me to prom. I just…asked." Yuki trailed off.
"Yes, but she had to say yes, didn’t she?" Kyo sighed. "I’m just nervous, all right?! But I-I’ll try and ask her during training today…"
The bell rang and they all made their way to their second class.
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Keitou’s classes went by uneventfully until her last class, Science.
"KEITOU! I HAVE AWESOME NEWS!" Shina was her science partner. They talked a lot before class, but Shina never seemed this excited.
"What?"
"HARU JUST ASKED ME TO PROM!" She squealed.
Keitou was happy for her, yet, she was jealous, too. Shina had always liked Hatsuharu, she seemed to be the only one to calm down the Black Hatsuharu. But, that meant Keitou was the only one of her friends that didn’t have a date. Momiji asked Kaiya weeks ago *they were combining junior and senior prom this year, so they would all be together* and Kichi was going with Yuki. She wished that Kyo would ask her to the prom…
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"Hey! Keitou!" Kyo ran towards her at martial arts training after school. "Could I ask you something?"
"Yeah, what?" She blinked innocently.
This was his only chance. It was now or never-
"KYO!" Yuki ran towards him. "Hey, wanna’ spar? I feel like kicking someone’s ass…" he smirked a little
"Stupid rat, I’m busy right now!" He yelled.
"It was just a question, stupid cat…"
Kyo punched him but Yuki blocked and flipped him over. "Actually, maybe you should spar with Keitou. I think she’s a little more you level…"
"WHY YOU-!"
"Actually, I would kind of like to spar with you, Kyo-chan!"
He scoffed. "I don’t think you’re much of a match for me, Keitou-chan…"
Before he knew it, Kyo was on the ground with a black eye.
"Okay, maybe you’d be SOMEWHAT of a match for me…"
"I could kick your ass!"
"You wanna bet?"
"Yeah! The person who loses has to do what ever hey winner tells them to!"
"Kyo! I didn’t think you’d do such things to an innocent girl!" Shina seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"HEY! SHUT UP! I’D NEVER-!" He began
"Oh, give it a rest. Besides, it doesn’t matter. Keitou will kick your ass…"
The fight lasted only a few minutes. Kyo tried to punch Keitou in the face, so Keitou ducked, only to trip over her own feet.
"See, I won all ready…"
"It wasn’t a fair fight!"
"A win’s a win! So you have to do whatever I tell you to…"
"Oh god…"
"Y-you…" He turned around, blushing. "You have to go to prom with me…"
This took a minute to sink in for Keitou, then she smiled and sarcastically said "Fine! If I HAVE to!"
They both laughed and Kyo helped Keitou up from the ground.
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"That's awesome, Keitou!" Kichi exclaimed, filing her nails, after Keitou had finished telling her and Kaiya about how Kyo had asked her to prom. They were all sleeping over at Kichi's house.
"I never expected you two to be a pair, though! You two seemed like you were just friends..." Shina went deep into thought. "Oh well!" She said a moment later.
"I'm lucky he asked me now, though. Prom's only a week away..."
"Which reminds me..." Shina jumped in. "Kichi, could we see those catalogs? I want to pick out my dress!" Since Kichi's family was so rich, they were paying for the girls' prom dresses, accessories, shoes, dinner, limos, all that jazz.
"Yeah, sure!" Kichi skipped off to one of her two massive closets and came back a few minutes later with a huge stack of catalogs. Kichi threw each of them a catalog, knocking each of them over as they caught it.
"Damn, these things are heavy..." Keitou said as she lifted the heavy catalog up onto one of the four king sized beds Kichi had in her room.
"So, just pick one of the dresses, a pair of shoes, and some accesories and I'll have one of the servants get the stuff out of my closet!" Kichi smiled.
"...You have all of this stuff in your closet?" Shina stared up at her blankly.
"Yeah? So?"
"...Nevermind...We can look through the hair style guides too, right?"
"Of course!"
"I envy you so much..." Keitou laughed and they all looked through the catalogs while talking about school, summer plans, and college plans.
"OOO! I LOVE THIS ONE!" Shina squealed a moment later. Everyone gathered around her to get a look at the dress. It was a dark purple dress with small gold dots scatered on it. It reached a litte above the knees and had spagetti straps.
"Nice! What shoes ya' gonna where with it?" Keitou asked.
Shina flipped to another page that showed extremely high heeled purple shoes with straps that laced around her ankles.
"Niiiiiiiice!"
"And I'm gonna leave the hair and make up to the specialists!" Shina was refering to Kichi's servents. They had offered to do the girls' hair and make up the night of the prom.
A few minutes later, Kichi picked out a dress. It was dark red and reached a little below the knees. It was strapless.
"OOO!" Keitou loved the dress. But she loved the shoes that came with it more. They were your classic red pumps, but Keitou really liked them.
A few minutes later, Kaiya finally piped up. "I-I think I'll take this one...if that's ok.."
"Oh...my...god..." Kichi, Keitou, and Shina said in unison. The dress that the shy little Kaiya had picked was your classic 'little black dress'. It reached the middle of her upper leg and it was strapless. She turned to another page to show them the shoes. They were plain black with a medium height, thin heel.
"Who are you and what have you done with the real Kaiya?" Keitou asked after a few minutes of silence.
"OH! I'm sorry..."
"NO! NO! IT'S FINE! I just wouldn't expect that you'd wear a dress like that..."
"What do you mean...?"
"What she means is..." Shina jumped in. "You're a shy person...and that's sure as hell isn't a shy dress..."
"Should I pick a different one?"
"NO! That's one's fine! You'll look nice in it" They all smiled at her and Kaiya smiled back.
"Now all that's left is Keitou! You'd better hurry up!" They all laughed and helped Keitou look though the catalogs.
"OOO! How about that one?" Keitou had flipped to a page with a beatuful light blue dress that had sparkles on it. Yes, sparkles. It reached her ankles and had a little lace on the bottom. The fabric was made of silk, it seemed like a true princess dress.
"THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!" Kichi screeched and the girls had to wait a moment to regain their hearing. "Well, since we're all set with our dresses, does anyone really want to look through the hair style guides?"
Eveyone shook their heads. "I think that we should let those servent peoples of yours can just pick what hair style would look nice. I personally think they have good taste"
"Shina, you don't need to kiss their asses, they're not even here!" All of them except Shina sweatdropped. Shina was a class A ass kisser.
"Yeah, well, we should get some fuckin' sleep! It's four in the morning, and I have a history final tommorow, and if I fail, my mom's gonna kick my ass. So, good night, my darlings!" Shina fell over on her bed and fell right to sleep.
Kichi and Kaiya went to sleep about an hour, but Keitou just couldn't fall asleep. She was so fuckin' nervous about prom, even though it was still a week away. What if Kyo wouldn't like her dress? What if the make up and hair style Kichi's servents chose look stupid? What if she threw up at prom? Well, if she didn't stop thinking about this, she'd throw up now. She eventually fell into an uneasy sleep, but only to be awoken a few minutes later by Kichi's maid.
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The next week was Hell for Keitou, but it went by rather quickly. The night finnally came. Saturday. Prom night.
"KICHI-SAN, YOUR DATE IS HERE!" Kichi's butler called.
"ALL RIGHT, TELL HIM I'LL BE RIGHT DOWN!" Kichi's voice was bsrley heard through the closed room up the stairs.
The butler left Yuki to stand in the hallway. He looked amazing in his tuxedo and surprisingly manly...
"OKAY, OKAY, I'M READY!" Kichi stood at the top of the stairs and she looked stunning. Her blonde hair was flowing naturally behind her and her dark red dress hugging her curves perfectly. Unfortunatly, the red pumps had a large enough heel to send her toppling down the stairs.
She reached the bottom step and stood up, looking flawless. "I'M OKAY!" She smiled, showing off perfect white teeth.
Yuki laughed to himself. "So, where are the rest of the group?"
"The girls are upstairs getting their hair and make up done and the rest of the guys haven't shown up yet." Foir once, Kichi actually knew what she was talking about
"Sounds fine. Our reservations aren’t for another hour, right?"
The door bell rang and Kichi opened the door.
Momiji burst in enthusiastically and Kichi and Yuki were relieved to see he was wearing a tuxedo, not a dress. "HELLO, EVERYONE!"
"Hi, Momiji-kun," Kichi smiled at him. "Kaiya will be down in a minute…"
A few minutes later, Kaiya appeared at the top of the stairs. "OH! H-hi Momiji-kun!" Kayia’s dress fit her perfectly. Her long hair was tied with a hair band at the bottom. I’m really not sure how, but it helped to keep it in place. (If you watch Naruto, it’s just like Neji’s hair but longer.)
"YOU LOOK VERY PRETTY, KAIYA-CHAN!" Momiji smiled brightly and hugged her when she joined the group at the bottom of the stairs.
"T-thanks! You look very handsome in that tuxedo, Momiji-kun…"
"Thank you!" He bowed to her.
The door bell rang a third time and Kichi opened the door again. Hatsuharu stood in the doorway looking very classy (Did I just use a word like classy? Wow, what’s wrong with me…?) in his tuxedo.
"Hello, Hatsuharu-san, Shina’s almost done. She just needs to get her hair done…"
As if on que, Shina appeared at the top of the stairs. "HELLO, PARTY PEOPLE!" She smiled. Her hair was up in a pony tail that had sparkles on it that matched the gold dots on her dress.
"HARU-SAN!" Shina ran down the stairs and hugged Hatsuharu.
Hatsuharu looked at the rest of the group. "You gave her sugar, didn’t you?"
"I’m sorry, she found the jar of sugar…we couldn’t stop her…" Kichi and Kaiya shook their heads sadly.
"Joy…" Shina let go of Hasuharu and there was the fourth ring of the doorbell.
Kichi opened to door one last time. For the night that is, it’s not like she was never gonna open a door again…
Kyo stood there, looking impatient. "Where’s Keitou?!"
"Hold on, hold on! She’s just putting on her make up…"
Everyone talked for a few minutes before Keitou was done.
She looked beautiful. Her hair was left as is and it was hard to tell she had make up on at all, but the diamond jewelry she wore sparkled brightly and matched her dress nicely.
"Wow…" Kyo looked up at her, amazed.
Keitou laughed a little. "Thanks, Kyo. You look nice, too"
Kyo blushed a little and Keitou laughed again. She came down the stairs and asked "Hey, how much longer do we have before our reservation time at the restaurant?"
"Uhm…" Kichi looked at the clock. "About half an hour. So, we can just hang out here ‘til then and then the limos will pick us up around front!"
During that half an hour they talked; laughed; and, since Kyo and Yuki were in the same room, broke up a fight or two.
After what felt like a few minutes, the limos pulled up in the front driveway. Each couple stepped into their own limo, even though everyone was going to the same restaurant.
The limos were amazing. They were filled with pop, snacks, and fruits half of the world’s populations hadn’t even heard of.
After the limo ride, everyone stepped into a fancy French restaurant that none of them except Kichi would ever set foot in again.
They all sat at the same table and talked some more before they ordered. Most of them ordered steak or lobster. They wanted to enjoy expensive food while they could, because, like I said before, they wouldn’t be able to have food like this again.
The dinner was absolutely fabulous. (Now I’m using words like fabulous?! Watch, I’m gonna start saying ‘luscious’-____-) No wonder it was so expensive! At the end, Kichi paid with her mom’s credit card and they all went back to their limos.
Keitou wished she hadn’t eaten so much, she was so nervous. So far, the night had been perfect; talking with friends, riding in a limo, and a wonderful dinner. But, though she didn’t know it, the night was going to have a drastic turn.
They arrived at the school all too soon for Keitou. Making their way to the gym where the prom was being held, they spotted Tohru and her friends walking into the gym.
"HELLO, EVERYONE!" Tohru greeted them. Her dress was hot pink and extremley long. The top was made with silk and the bottom was made with...like...the fabric tutus are made of. Apperently, Tohru had come with Uo-chan and Hana-chan to the prom. (As friends, people. Friends -____-) Their dresses were even the same, except Uo-chan's was dark blue and Hana-chan's was black.
"Hi, Tohru-chan, Uo-chan, Hana-chan!" Everyone waved and made their way into the gym.
For the next hour or so, they all talked, danced, and drank that disgusting juice schools try to pass off as punch. After this, Keitou excused herself to the bathroom.
This was only supposed to take a few minutes, but it ended up taking more like an hour. First, she used the toilet, which is what she came there to do. Then, she had to fix her make-up, which took her a few minutes to find and only a little less then ten minutes to fix. Next, her heel broke and she had to make a paste out of papertowels, toilet paper, make-up, and water. This took around five minutes to make, five minutes to apply, and ten minutes to dry.
After her extremely long trip to the bathroom, Keitou went to find her friends. She searched the entire gym until she found Hana-chan, Uo-chan, and Tohru-chan.
"Hey, where's everyone else?" Keitou asked innocently.
The three of them looked at eachother. "Go check the parking lot" Uo-chan said after a moment.
Keitou ran to the parking lot as fast as she could, which wasn't very fast due to the half-way broken heel.
She spotted Kaiya, Kyo, and Momiji over by one of the limos that was parked in one of the parking spaces. They were standng there, laughing. All of them were a little red in the face and Momiji was hiccuping like mad. All three of them were holding what looked like pop cans, too, but there sure as hell wasn't pop in those cans...
"Hey! Keitou!" Kyo smiled and waved. He turned around and grabbed another beer out of the cooler that was resting on the hood of the limo. "Ya want one?"
Keitou shoved the can away. "What the hell do you think you're doing?! And where are Kichi, Shina, Yuki, and Hatsuharu?!"
"Calm down!" Kaiya laughed. "Yuki took Kichi home! Poor girl, can't hold down her beer..."
"And Hatsuharu and Shina?!"
Kaiya smirked. "Ah, yes, those two...could be at a hotel by now, for all I know..."
Keitou went wide-eyed.
"Are you sure you don't want any, Keitou?!" Momiji smiled widely. "IT'S GREAT STUFF, REALLY!" He began to laugh hysterically until he fell to the ground, unconsious.
Keitou and Kyo lauhged.
Keitou was speachless. How could one of her best friends and the man she liked so much be like this...?
Kaiya finnally snapped. "I know what you're thinking! 'How could we?'! Me, 'shy little Kaiya' and 'good little Shina'! Well excuse the hell out of us, but our lives suck! My mom's on crack and my dad deals drugs! Shina's mom is an alcoholic and her dad has secretly been dead for years! Shina and I are both abused by our families, and no one even looks at us twice! All we are in their eyes are 'good little girls'! Well, we showed you, didn't we?! DIDN'T WE?! Now, take a god damn beer or get you're ass outta my sight!"
Keitou ran off, crying. What else was she supposed to do...?
"Don't you think that was a little harsh...?" Kyo asked after Keitou was out of sight.
"Honestly, I don't really give a fuck right now. I need another beer..."
Kyo decided to go and find Keitou. The beer was wearing off and he was realizing what an ass he was being.
He found her sitting on a stone bench outside of the school, sobbing with her face in her hands.
She lifted her head to see who had just sat down beside her. "Oh, what do you want?" She snapped
"I just came to appolozgize..."
"APPOLOGIZE?!"
"I'm sorry, I really am..." He began. "I shouldn't have taken the beer. I realize that now. I'm an idiot..."
"Yes, yes you are."
"HEY!"
Keitou laughed and kissed him. They kissed for a few minutes before being inturrupted by a loud 'OW!'
They looked at eachother then under the bench. Hatsuharu and Shina were lying under the bench. Both of them were completley dressed, but both of them had very messy hair. Shina was sleeping peacfully on top of Hatsuharu.
"You stepped on my hand..." Hatsuharu said blankfully and quietly, careful not to wake Shina up.
Thankfully, everyone made it home safely. Kichi was grounded for a month and Shina and Kaiya managed to get out of trouble only because their parents were never home and never found out. That's kind of sad, if you think about it...Anyway, all of them graduated and went to good colleges. Kyo and Keitou got married a few years later at Shina's uncle's house. It was an outside wedding and it was beautiful...
They had two kids, a boy and a girl. The kids were surprisingly well behaved as well.
Kyo and Keitou managed to stay in touch with their friends their entire lives, which ended for both of them on the same day, only one hour apart.
