I was wondering should I start a new topic for my side stories or just put them where the orginal story is
But since they are one-shots, not chapters from the main story I decided to start a new topic
Anyway, I plan to post here stories about background characters from RR
And I have to say this...I've written side story about Gaki and Koharu....Although, I've never planned it, as Gaki will have her apperance in the main story, I did it...I'll post it next week
And now the story which takes places before the events mentioned in RR.
It's random...it's mushy...it's cute...it's random...it's Eri !
Did I mention that it's random?.... Oh and it's long...
Where is my bunny?
aka. People tend to forget things
I wonder if this gonna damage my eyes…Staring at her so closely...I don’t want to have wonky eyes like Reina...Well, she has only one wonky eye, but this doesn’t really matter...Sayu’s skin is so white like porcelain...Porcelain...Porcelain....I would eat some ice-cream...Vanilla ice-cream....Mhmmm....Vanilla ice-cream on Sayu...It would taste twice as good...Hehe...But she would be cold because of the ice-cream on her body...She would have goosebums for sure...Shame that ice-cream isn’t warm...But if it was warm it no longer would be called ice-cream, right? It would be a warm-cream...So there would be ice-cream and warm-cream...Is it possible to make a warm-cream?...I mean not like just warm cream but like warm-ice-cream...That shadow on the ceiling looks like a bunny...Nah...It’s rather an elephant or maybe...
“Aww~” Nevermind I’m going to sleep...
I snuggel into my “porcelain soft bunny” and close my eyes...Can porcelain be soft?...
I don’t find the answer for this question as I drift off to my dreamland....
“Carrots...”
* * *
I reach out my hands in search of the soft body with which I wake up so often recently. But as my hands only come across the air, I begin wandering closer to the edge of the bed hoping that soon I will...
“Itai!!!” My searching escapade has its painful end on the floor next to the bed.
“Oh I was looking for that.” I pick up a silver, shining hair pin from under the bed. But as I straighten up to show my finding to the person who should be lying on the bed I realize that the bed is...empty...I pick up the sheet and the pillows but there is no sign of any living form under them...
“Sayu?!...”I shout.
If not my hands then maybe my voice will find her. But unfortunately I don’t get any answer.
Is she in the bathroom?
I check but the bathroom is also empty. However, since I’m already in it I take the opportunity to brush my teeth...
As I finish I check the kitchen and the living room and the corridor.... where the obvious truth finally reaches me.
My Sayu has disappeared?! Wait...Why I feel so cold and numb all of a sudden?...It’s getting darker and darker...Wah!!!...Ok calm down!
I take three deep breaths...
Aliens have kidnapped her!!! No! Remember what Sayu told you? Aliens don’t exist...Yeah, I’m 19 I don’t believe in aliens...However, ghosts are a diffrent story...But ghosts don’t kidnap people, right?...Mou~~ Who will explain to me whether it is possible to make warm-ice-cream?Who will hug me and give me a good morning kiss? Who will demand assurance about her cutness?!
“Sayu where are you!!!”
Ok let’s think logically...
What I know is that Sayu isn’t here...In my apartment...
I closely look around my bedroom.
She took her clothes...Good she isn’t naked...She won’t catch a cold...At least one good information...She can’t be in the studio...We have a day off...But maybe Tsunku called for her...But why?...Maybe he is planning to make a new unit and place Sayu in it...So why didn’t she tell me about that? Oh my God!...Her cellphone!... She left it! I’m not even able to call her!...Ahhh!....Ok who can know something about Sayu’s disappearance?...Reina!...Right she probably has kidnapped her...She always is so angry at her...I mean not always but often...Something about 60% of their dialogues are occupied by Reina shouting at Sayu...Anyway I have to pay Reina a visit...
* * *
I desperately knock to Reina’s door hoping she will help me with finding Sayu.
“I’m coming, I’m coming! ” She opens the door, yawning and scratching the back of her head.
Awww~ She looks so darn cute...She couldn’t kidnap my Sayu after all...
“Eri? What are you doing here? It’s six o’clock.”
Six o’clock?!...Oh my God! I didn’t realize this before...Sayu never gets up so early!!! Something certainly must have happened to her!!!
“Mou~ Reina help me!” I throw myself at her. I feel like I’m going to cry any second...
“Help you? With what?” I let go of her and go to her bedroom to find a place where I can calm down a little.
But as soon as I find this place I realize that Reina’s bed is amazingly uncomfortable or...
Oh I sat on something...It’s....Ai-chan?
Reina takes the photobook from my hands.
“She must have left it here...”She mutters sheepishly and puts the PB into the drawer next to her bed.
I shrug. Ai-chan tends to forget things...
“So anyway what you were talking about that help?”
Right Sayu!
“Mou~Reina help me!” I again throw myself at her and we land on her bed.
I withdraw my previous words...Her bed actually is pretty comfortable...
“Ok I’ve understood that already. But I still don’t get with what you need that help and why it has to be now at six o’clock in the morning?”
Ahh! She never gets up so early!
“Sayu disappeard...She sleptover my place and in the morning there was no sign of her...”I explain, releasing her from the weight of my body.
“Are you sure she has disappeared?” I nod, emphasizing my sadness and misery with my facial expression.
“Yeah!No more narcistic bunny!Yatta! ” Reina starts to jump on her bed.
I knew it...You've kidnapped her!
I grab her leg causing her to fall back onto the bed.
“Give me back my bunny! ” I tug the collar of her pyjamas.
“Calm down Eririn. I was just joking. And since when do you call her YOUR bunny?”
Crap! I’ve said too much... We decided not to tell Reina about us until she finds someone for herself...We don’t want for her to feel like we’re leaving her behind or something...But now I don’t really care about her feelings...I just want my Sayu back!
“I’ll do anything just tell me where she is...” I ask, pleadingly clasping my hands.
“But Kame-chan I don’t know...”She shakes her head.
She doesn’t lie, I can tell when she is lying.
“Really?”
“Yeah...Did you call her?” I take out Sayu’s phone from my pocket.
“Oh I see...Ano...Maybe Gaki will know something as I remind myself she had to go to the studio this morning...”
Yeah Gaki our uniting the generations queen will know something fo sure! She knows everything!
“Thanks Reina. “ I kiss her cheek and quickly rush to the studio which luckily isn’t so far away from Reina’s apartment.
And seems like luck doesn’t abondon me as the first person who is heading into my direction is smiling Gaki-san.
Awww...Ai-chan is lucky to have such an optimistic and reliable sub-leader...I wonder if they end up like Miki and Yossy...In bed...Or maybe they’ve already done that...Nah Gaki would tell me if they did that...She is my friend after all...We are pretty close to each other...Not as close as with Sayu but...Oh my God!...And what if Sayu was jealous about Gaki-san and she decided to leave me? If that’s the truth then I....
“Mou~~ Gaki-san I no longer can be your friend...Forgive me!” I hug her hoping she will forgive me this sudden ending of our friendship.
“Kame-chan, what’s wrong? Why can’t I be your friend?”
Again she does this weird move with her eyebrows...
“ Eri what are you doing?”
No matter how hard I try I can’t do this in the same why as she...I wonder if this is some kind of genetically conditioned feature...
“Eri?”
Oh right I’m not here to imitate her facial expressions...
“Why can’t I be your friend?”
“Casue Sayu has disappeared...”
Again saddness fills my heart...
“What? Ok calm down and tell me everything from the very beginning.”
From the very beginning? Does she mean from the part when Sayu slams me against the wall and begins to kiss me? Mou~~! Sayu come back!
“Iyada! I can’t tell you from the very beginning.”
In fact Sayu told me not to say anyone at least for now...
The queen of reactions stares at me not knowing what to say.
“ But I can tell you from the beginning...” I give her a hint.
“Ok...If you say so...Tell me from the beginning then...”
Again this funny face...Hehe...But anyway what I suppose to..Oh right...
“So I had that dream about talking carrots...”
“Wait.” She cuts off before I move to more exciting part.
“Carrots told you that I couldn’t be your friend? “
“No of course not. “ I frown at her.
Gosh why would carrots want me to end my friendship with Gaki...And they say that I have a strange way of thinking...
“So can we skip that part about the dream?” I look at her sceptically.
“Do you want from the beginning or from the middle then?” I ask, her slightly angry at her indecisiveness.
She hesitates for a while but eventually says:
“ From the middle...” I shrug.
She could say so from the beginning we wouldn’t waste so much time on deciding from where to start...
“Sayu disappeared this morning after she sleptover my place and I think it’s maybe because she was jealous about our friendship...”
Mou~ It’s not elegant for a girl to gape like that Gaki-san...
“Eri haven’t you thought that maybe she is at her home?”
Sayu came back to her home?...That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard...She couldn’t come back to her home just like that without saying goodbye to me...Besides...
“She forgot her cellphone...” I take out the precious memento.
“Eri people tend to forget things you know...” She pats my head smilin.
Maybe she is right...After all it’s Gaki-san she rarely mistakens...
“And why would she be jealous about our friendship?”
Yeah right why would she...She knows she is the only one for me...
“Ok I will check at her apartment...”
“Come on cheer up...Sayu couldn’t have disappeared...Besides if you have her phone she will certainly find you to get it back, right?”
I stare at the pink-white cellar phone with bunny pendant....Right it’s her favourite phone... I know! I'll go to her and give it back to her. She will be happy and again everything will get back to normal.
“Thanks Gaki.” I give her a kiss on the cheek and begin my next journey this time, I hope, to my final destination...Sayu’s home...
* * *
No matter how hard I knock to her door...No matter how many times I ring her doorbell...There is no response...All signs seem to prove my previous theory...That Sayu has been kidnapped by aliens?...No, I already decided that I don’t believe
in aliens anymore! So where is she?
“Where are you Sayu?...” I sigh looking at the clear blue sky.
Even week hasn’t passed from our love confession...It has been five days since I told her that she meant for me more than Reina, Gaki or any other person in the world...And that I really enjoy fooling around with her and...being groped by her...I still remember her bright gleeful smile and those cute, pink, chubby cheeks when I told her all those things...It was the last thing I saw before closing my eyes and responding to her kiss...Mou~~! I miss you Sayu!!!
I stop beside the zoological shop where I notice a pair of white, little rabbits...Next to the bunnies is a cage with one, lonely turtle...Gosh how I would like to go into this shop and just take out this one rabbit and put it to the cage with this turtle...But it’s biologically wrong, right? To keep a rabbit with a turtle...
“But I never really liked biology!” I said to myself as I stepped into the shop...
* * *
Awww~You are as cute as she is...But you are more into carrots then into girls, right? Hehe...How should I name you?Sayu?Nah, it will remind me too much about her...Wait, why am I thinking like I am never going to see her again?...Gosh I bought a rabbit hoping it will cheer me up somehow or subsitute her...Although, it’s cute and fluffy I still want to get back my Sayu...
Ding Dong“Come in...” I respond still contemplating about my pitful life without Sayu...
“Aww~~ Cute!...Where did you get it?”
“From a zoological shop....Sayu?!”
Oh my God! It’s Sayu or am I having hallucinations? I heard that when you want something to see very much, eventually your mind will create an image of that which looks like a reality to you...So maybe I’m imagining her crouching next to my bed feeding my bunny and stroking it behind it’s ear...
“Want some?”
And now she even puts the carrot into my mouth...
“Nani? Eri you look as if you saw a ghost...”
“Ghosts don’t exist right Sayu?” I take out the carrot and observe her warily.
“Of course not Eri.” She pats my head.
Why everyone does this? But anyway...It’s she...It really is Michishige Sayumi...
“Sayu you came back! So you haven’t been kidnapped by aliens...And Reina didn’t capture you to torture you and you didn’t leave me cause you were jealous about Gaki!” I cuddle to her.
“Nani? Kame-chan I told you I was going to the dentist the next morning .”
Dentist? Wait, before I was slammed to that wall we had a lunch...Oh yeah she was talking something about her teeth...Gaki-san was right people tend to forget things...
“Nee, Eri where do you have a cage for this rabbit?”
“Cage?...”
People tend to forget things...
“You know rabbit needs a cage...”
I don’t know how I would be able to survive without her....I would stay in my shell for the rest of my life forgetting to stick out my head from time to time...
“You forgot to buy it, right?” I nod grinning, knowing she will forgive me my unreliability.
I wasn’t thinking about a cage at that time...I just wanted the rabbit...
“Ok come on, we will introduce our new friend to someone...” She stands up and takes the bunny into her hands.
“She will like it.”
Wait a minute....I know this smirk...Sayu is plotting something...
“Where are we going?” I ask not able to hide my anticipation.
“You will see...” She takes me by the hand and the three of us set off on a new adventure...
* * *
“Are you sure it’s a good idea?” I ask, but she ignores my question and knocks to the door.
“Don’t worry...”
If she thinks that her wink can convince me then...she is right...
“Oh Sayu so you haven’t disappeared after all...Great...But you could call me Eri there was no need in bringing her here with you...Anyway, I’m glad that aliens haven’t kidnapped you so you can go now...Bye, bye!” Reina tries to close the door, but Sayu’s hands prevent that to happen.
“Very funny Reina...But I didn’t come here to show you I’m alive, but to introduce you someone...”
Yosh now my turn...
“Tah-dah!” I reach out my hands, proudly presenting her our rabbit.
“Kawaii~ ”
Yep, Reina may act tough but she still likes cute stuff...She really has a soft heart...
She takes the bunny from me, meanwhile I and Sayu take the opportunity of her being absorbed by the animal an step inside...
“Cookies!” Sayu squeals noticing Reina’s table in the living room.
“What! No they are mine! Stay away!” She hands me the bunny and runs to the room.
“And Reina had cookies, nee usagi-chan?”
As I pass next to her kitchen I also catch a glimpse of something interesting...
“Ice-cream...” Driven by some kind of mutual instinct I go to the kitchen and take the box with ice-cream.
Shame that Reina is here...I would test my theory about ice-cream on Sayu’s body...
I get back with ice-cream to the living room and place the rabbit on Reina’s sofa. I would let it run on the floor but currently it's occupied by two people who run in circles...So I’m afraid they would crush our fluffy friend...
“Shame you didn’t buy vanilla flavored...” I point out to Reina as she passes me for the third time...
“My ice-cream! How did...Who let you...”
Oh my she is so red like she would have a fever...She needs to cool off a bit...
“Eri?”
“Yes?”
“Why did you put the ice-cream from your spoon on my cheek?...”
“You seemed to be overheated so I decided to cool you off...” I poke her nose with the spoon.
“Ok that’s it! Give me that!” She grabs the edge of the box.
“No way!” I tug the opposite edge.
You know there is this law of physics I don’t really know what it says, but when two people tug some object in opposite directions very strongly and eventually one of them just lets it go, the other one lands far, far away from the first one...
In Reina’s case it meant to hit the wall with her head and hit the shelf while wanting to get up from underneath it...But it couldn’t hurt that bad...I’m sure that the box of chocolate ice-cream on her head had soften the hits...
“I give up! Do whatever you want I don’t care!” She crawls up from under the shelf.
She looks really cute with that chocolate flowing down her face...
Slamming the door of her bathroom, she leaves me with laughing Sayu.
“Good job Eri.” She leans on my shoulder still giggling.
Huh?Good job?But I haven't done anything...
“Want to see a film.” She asks pointing at Reina’s DVD collection.
“Sure.” I smile and take place next to the rabbit on the sofa.
Reina always have funny films...
“Let see what we have here...” Sayu begins to ransack a shelf with Reina’s films.
“Maybe this one...” She chooses something not showing me.
Well, she knows I like the same films as she, so it’s ok with me.
“Ano...Love-Hello...”
“Give me that! ”
Reina?! How did she...A while ago she was in the bathroom...Now she is standing with her wet hair above Sayu holding the CD which Shige just took out from the DVD player.
Gosh, so what that she watches her own Love–Hello DVD...
Reina stares at us, but not pissed off rather scared or terrified about the fact that we discovered that CD...
I look at Sayu and we both shrug as Reina disappears behind her bedroom door.
“Yosh! Let’s watch.” Sayu joins me on the sofa.
After a few minutes I catch a glimpse of Reina who leaves the bedroom and now is rummaging in her kitchen.
She gets back with a bowl of popcorn and one carrot.
Without a word she exchanges with me the rabbit for the bowl and takes place next to me.
“Play from the begining, I haven’t seen this film.” She states and Sayu presses the proper button on the remont control.
“Nee, how did you call it?” Reina asks playing with rabbit'ss ears.
“We haven’t called it yet.” I respond joing her in stroking the bunny.
“So it will be Reina Jr.”
“What? Why Reina? Have you forgotten who wears bunny ears in Haromoni? It should be Sayumi Jr.” Sayu outrages and truns on the pause.
“What? It’s stupid. Ok, so let Eri decide.” Reina indicates at me holding the rabbit in the air just before my eyes.
I don’t know why though...I’m not blind I can see it...
“Let’s call it Carrot-san.”
They make this funny faces like Risa from the morning...
“Carrot? You want to call it like its food?” She swings the carrot like it would be a saber.
“He likes carrots so I thought he will like this name.” I explain to them moving aside Reina’s hand before I wil lose my eye.
“That’s even stupider...It has to be Reina Jr.”
“No way! Sayu Jr!”
Hey some people want to watch the damn film! Gosh if I don’t come up with something they will end up arguing for the whole evening...If not Carrot-san, if not Reina Jr. nor Sayu Jr. then maybe...
“I know!”
“Eri if you think about the cabbage better save it for yourself.”
“And if you had the cabbage you would for sure put it before my eyes, right? “
“Ee?”
“Nevermind...Let’s call it Rokkie Jr.”
They both fall silent and look at each other.
“It’s not so bad...What do you think Sayu?”
“Yeah it’s cute.”
“Yosh so Rokkie Jr...Can you now turn on the film?” I ask Sayu, she nods and grants my request.
“So, Rokkies have their offical mascot, huh?”
We both giggle at Reina statement. Only Rokkie Jr. stays uncredibly calm not aware of the whole situation...
We get back to watching the film and that’s how another day passes by in the 6th generation family...