This chapter was extremely difficult for me to write. Maybe it was the embarrassment of making the watermelon mistake last chapter, or maybe I was trying too hard, I don't know, but I was getting to the point where I was thinking that I should just give it up. After all, my writing's really not that good no matter how much I like doing it…same thing with my drawings…but I found that when I 'gave up' and moved on with my life and just let it go I was suddenly hit with a second wind and was able to put out this chapter. Hopefully you guys will like it…even if it is kinda…uh…*shrugs*
tru_harmony: I think i really did lose my creativity for a little while

but...its baaaaaack
Amarghetta : lol yeah, the only real thing I know about Aya is the trial, and I loved all her clever little speeches, so I wanted to add one my self
zay05ohayou : *
worries about zay being dead on the floor, but knows exactly what to do...* 
"Hey. hey, zay...you really dead?"
tito:
It's super hilarious especially the under the tree part. Yeah, Rika learn your science
lol yeah, how could she not know that. and the shorts part...heh what can I say...? My minds kinda
strawb3rrykream : ...watermelon...

Her and Kon Kon could be cute but it's still a little strange
lol, I know...its really hard making these two work...
Grisours:
Wow, a whole watermelon... Wasn't expecting that
me neither!
lollipopgirl: Gah! another of my readers died!

oh, and I'm glad you see some charm in the yokon pairing

and about my job...I got suspended/maybe fired for having my cell phone, but this made me kinda happy cause now I'm gonna go to college yay! a new adventure full of learning and possibly some boredom...

woot
kRisZ: watermelon will be my downfall as a writer... but I'm really glad you enjoyed reading it anyways
long night, rain, thunder, cold, half naked is fun

oh yeah
ayase909: aw, thanks for reading even though it isn't a pairing your a fan of...acually...I wasn't a fan of this pairing when i started writing this...weird huh?
heyyouhiya: also dead

so...many...bodies...this looks bad for me doesn't it?
JFC: JFC:

A watermelon!!
Wings: What?

they're nutritious and delicious! Really!
Rhysky: thanks for the positive response

sorry I'm such a jerk and its taken so long for me to update...
Chapter 9"It looks like it'll never stop raining…" Rika murmured over her half eaten piece of watermelon. She was sitting shoulder to shoulder with her rival at the doorway to their little shelter on the mountain.
Miki shrugged. "You know that's not true."
Truthfully the two had been getting along rather well. Trapped like this they had the chance to talk, really talk. Everything and anything seemed to pop up in their conversations from hair products, most embarrassing moment on stage, to nice moments they had shared with Yossy, and Miki loved to boke Rika at every chance she could get. All it would take for Miki to get started was hear Rika say 'you want to hear a funny story.' Miki knew that Rika's story would leave her laughing, but not for the reason the other would hope for.
Yet now the heaviness of the rain seemed to wash away the talkative atmosphere and replace it with a sort of reserved quietness that left the two in a comfortable, easygoing mood from giving into the situation and not fighting it. They were stuck here and it was going to be like that for a very long time…
Rika sighed and took another bite of her slice. She blinked over at Miki when she heard the other start giggling. "What?"
Miki pointed towards the tanned girl's mouth. "Seed. You're kinda sloppy, huh?"
Rika's face scrunched in confusion and she reached up to wipe at her cheeks, but she didn't feel anything. "Where?"
"By your mouth…" Miki slowly grew impatient watching Rika's fingers touch every spot on her face but the one place where the little seed was sticking. "There! No no to the left…almost…Oh for crying out loud! Let me get it!" Miki brought her hand up and reached it towards Rka's face the thumb bracing the middle finger in pre strike mode.
Rika cringed when she realized Miki was going to flick it off. "Wait!"
"Hold still!"
"But…" Rika let out a small cry and closed her eyes when she saw Miki was not backing down and felt a small sting as Miki fingers flicked a little to close to her sensitive bottom lip. "Ow! You could have just pulled it off gently like a normal person!" Rika cried out at her attacker.
"Oh, don't be a baby," Miki chided. "You know I barely touched you."
"So? It still hurt." Rika insisted, holding the inflicted area with her palm.
"Liar," Miki muttered, but felt a little guilty anyways. "Here let me see…" she reached to pull Rika's hand away, but Rika pulled back and shook her head stubbornly.
"No."
Miki blinked at her in surprise before growing angry. "I will jump on you and pull it away by force if I have to." Miki threatened tightlipped.
Rika pouted and raised her chin defiantly. "You can try."
Miki's eyes became stormy and dangerous at the irritating girl glaring at her. "You have to the count of three…"
"You can't be serious…"
"One."
"I'm not letting you near me…"
"Two."
"Miki, don't…"
"Thr…"
Rika hopped quickly to her feet and tried to scamper away, but Miki was quick on the draw and shot up from the floor throwing herself in Rika's direction. Miki growled when she ended up lunged face first into the wall after Rika had dived under her arms and escaped. Miki could hear the other giggling happily at the thrill of avoiding the close capture. Miki turned around to see Rika bouncing on her toes grinning like a fool, her hand still clamped over the side of her bottom lip. Miki gave her a death glare. "You think I'm playing with you?"
Rika was thrilled that she had managed to out maneuver someone she had always considered a superb athlete, and couldn't help but goad the other girl. "Not bad for someone you called a 'hack futsal player', right? Hm? Hmm?" Rika winked, if you could call the strange face twitching she was doing a wink, and blew kisses to her adversary. So cocky was she that she almost didn't see Miki charge her a second time and this time she had no way to go. She tried to run but got snagged.
"Ah ha!" Miki exclaimed after grabbing a handful of Rika's sweatshirt, but Rika was far from giving up and tried to tug away pushing and slapping away Miki's other reaching hand with the free hand she wasn't using to hold her face. "Give it up!" Miki panted.
"No!" Rika raised a bare foot and pushed it against Miki's abdomen and pushed the other girl away easily. She turned to run to the other side of their shelter.
Miki cursed when Rika's ice cold toes touched the warmth of her skin and caused her to lose her grip, but Rika made a mistake by turning her back to the pissed off Fujimoto. Miki dived again and this time her aim was true, she managed to wrap her arms around Rika's waist and pull the other tightly against herself for leverage. Then with a grunt she bent back and managed to lift the other girl off the floor. "You're so heavy!"
Rika began to wiggle trying to escape the others grasp. "Put me down!" She demanded.
"Do you give up?"
"No."
"Give up or I'll start making clucking noises…"
"Ah! No! Please, Anything but that!"
"Bu-bu-buKA-aahahahaha!" Miki began laughing uncontrollably as Rika had somehow managed to turn just enough in her captors arms to began tickling the other girl. The action quickly sucked away Miki's strength and she collapsed with Rika still in her arms and the two of them fell to the floor laughing and panting heavily.
Rika turned around to look at the mirthful girl next to her. From her laying position she held out her hand to Miki. "Truce?"
Miki wiped at her tearing eyes and still smiling she grasped Rika's hand. "Truce." Then before Rika could react Miki rolled her body on top of tanned girl, straddling her and grabbing both of her wrists, holding them to the floor above her head. "But I still want to see your lip."
"Aw! No fair! That's cheating! You can't say 'truce' and then do a finishing move." Rika pouted up at Miki disapprovingly.
"I can do whatever the hell I want." Miki replied haughtily. "Now let me see…" Miki lowered her body close to Rika's as she moved her face towards the panting girl underneath her. "It is a little red I guess…"
Rika found it was hard to catch her breath as Miki's close proximity engulfed her senses and heat rose steadily though her body lighting her nerves on fire and every part of her that was touching any part of Miki seemed to be ten times more sensitive then normal. And it was making her angry that Miki appeared completely unaffected. "Okay, you can get off of me now." Rika shoved Miki away and turned over to face the opposite direction, doing so, she didn't see the look of hurt that flashed across the other's face.
"What's your problem?" Miki grunted from her spot on the floor next to Rika. When the other didn't respond, she began glaring up at the ceiling. "Hmpf…okay, you win. I'm sorry I flicked you. I didn't mean to hurt you when I removed the watermelon seed and from now on I'll try to do things more like a 'normal person' or whatever. So will you please stop being mad at me? Did it really bother you that much?" Miki turned her head and looked at Rika's hair silently begging the other girl to look at her. Rika's veto bothered her more then she would admit. "Please stop giving me this silent treatment." She added quietly.
"I'm not mad at you." Rika said suddenly.
"Then what? You just don't like me? You want me to go away? If so then I'll…Ah!" Miki started when Rika suddenly rolled over her and moved her face a whisper from the other girl's.
"The problem is…" Rika breathed, licking her hungry lips that even the sweet taste of the watermelon couldn't satisfy. "No matter how much I want it to not be true I can't stop myself from wanting to have you." Then not giving Miki a chance to respond she pressed her mouth to the soft lips of her long time rival.
When Rika felt Miki freeze up, she wondered if she had just made a huge mistake. Is Miki disgusted with her? Embarrassed she pulled away slowly, her lips tingling as they gently unstuck themselves from Miki's. She looked into those stunned emotionless eyes and felt the need to explain herself. "Miki…I…"
Apparently Miki wasn't in the mood to hear any explanations, thrusting her hands into Rika's dark locks, she grasped the tanned girl's head and pulled her into a deep, devouring kiss. Their mouths sliding against each other, kissing and tasting in a hot, heated release of built up, long denied passion that was raging like an inferno. Miki shifted her head to angle her lips over the corner of Rika's bottom lip that she had flicked, running her tongue over the inflected area and sucking gently erecting a small moan from the other.
Rika whimpered from the sensation of Miki's lips and teeth exploring and nipping along her jaw, tremors of heat flowed through her body causing a sharp ache to pierce her low through her tummy. She tilted her head back trying to escape the intense sensations that she could barely withstand, but Miki didn't let her retreat, using her arms as leverage she followed Rika as the other backed into a sitting position, mouth sucking at her neck. "We're crazy…we shouldn't be doing this…we should stop…" Rika muttered, straddled on Miki's lap. Despite the denial, Rika proceeded to wrap her arms and legs around the other girl pulling her close.
"Shut up, Ishikawa," Miki murmured in amusement, her lips moving across Rika's collar as she spoke. "You can't say you want to stop and then unlatch my bra."
Rika giggled and pulled off the white strip of damp cloth that had been tormenting her ever since Miki removed her shirt. "I can do whatever the hell I want." Rika said in a teasing voice, parroting the words that Miki had said to her earlier.
****
"What do you think Rika and Miki are doing right now?" Shibata asked her companion, her eyes never leaving her cards.
Aya chuckled. "Maybe they're getting it on…" She began to make kissy noises.
Shibata rolled to the side giggling, shifting her cards to one hand she grabbed a nearby pillow from the head of the bed the two were laying on and playfully hit the soloist with it. "Stop it. No way that's gonna happen, Rika wouldn't do something like that, admit it, you're just as much a perv as your best friend…"
Aya laughed a little and crawled toward the other girl and grabbed the pillow. "What? Think about it…they're probably drenched and snuggling to stay warm in some hidey hole up there. Rika might be a dainty innocent flower or whatever, but Miki's a healthy girl," Aya wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. "A very healthy girl, with healthy girl needs…"
Shibata smirked knowingly down at her cards. "F.Y.I, Rika ain't all that innocent herself…"
"Ooo~ do tell Shiba-chan…" Aya grinned crawling even closer to the other girl.
Shibata laughed and raised herself up slightly, propping her cheek on her palm, the playing cards forgotten and lying between the two girls. Ayumi smirked seductively, "Honestly, Ayaya, do I look like the kind girl to kiss and tell?"
"Aw, don't be like that, Shiba-chan, you can tell me…" Aya crinkled her nose and nodded her head excitedly. "…after all I know better then anyone that best friends like to…experiment…with each other…"
"Is that so? Well then, you tell me yours and I'll tell you mine…"
"Hm, what do you want to know?" Aya scooted even closer, until her body was almost touching the girl lying beside her.
"Something dirty of course…" Shibata whispered.
Aya quirked her eyebrows and smiling wickedly she began to tell about the time her and Miki went to the hot springs together…"So there we were, sitting in the steaming water, our towels had long since been removed and she started coming towards me with this look in her eyes and then…"
A sudden knock at the door caused both of the girls to start and they looked at each other in surprise.
"Who is it?" Shibata called out. Considering the fact the two of them were invading Rika's room, it would probably be best to have the best friend answer the knocking.
A muffled voice called from behind the door. "You're friendly neighborhood gigolo man. Did someone in this room call down for some lubrication?"
"Ew! Yossy!" The two girls squealed laughing.
Aya hopped from the bed and opened the door. She grinned at the sight of the ever handsome girl standing there, wearing a black 'death to mushrooms' t-shirt and a pair of faded blue skinny jeans. Behind her stood her blushing girlfriend who was looking at her lover with chiding 'must-everything-be-about-sex' eyes. "What are you guys doing here?" Aya asked grinning.
"We could ask you the same thing." Yossy stated matter of factly.
"This is the base." Shibata stated from her spot on the bed. "Miki said to meet back here after the spying…"
Aya quickly side stepped and blocked Shibata from view. "Uh, by spying she means…"
Yossy laughed. "Its okay, Konno already told me what you guys had been up to today. I'm cool with it so don't stress, alright?" As an after thought she added. "Now if you guys had been spying on Konno…then we probably would have had a problem…" Yossy shrugged. "So can we come in or what?"
Aya backed out of the way quickly. "Of course, come in."
As they entered, Konno noticed the playing cards lying scattered across the bed. "You guys were playing cards?" She asked curiously.
Aya and Shibata looked at each other quietly. "Um…mostly…" said Shibata sheepishly.
Yossy wiggled her eyebrows knowingly. "Only 'mostly', ehh..?"
"You never answered my question. What are you guys doing here?" Aya demanded, in an attempt to change the subject away from what she and Shibata had been doing.
It worked Yossy seemed to forget almost instantly that the two girl in the room seemed suspicious and instead began to shift awkwardly from one foot to the other. "Weeell, it seems that my girl here is suffering from a rather overactive sense of responsibility, and wanted to go up there and bring them back." Yossy hooked an arm around the quiet girl's shoulder and pulled her close, snuggling against her. "Awww…isn't it sweet~"
Deeply embarrassed by Yossy's playful teasing Konno tried to pull away, but Yossy had a death grip on her. "I figured I could grab some of their stuff and bring it to them, I already got some things of Miki's…" she held up a half empty duffle bag that she had been holding. "I came to get some of Rika's things and then I was going to grab some rain coats and head up. I can't help but feel worried, if anything happens up there it's my fault. "
"You worry too much, Konkon," Shibata spoke up patting a space on the bed next to her inviting the timid girl to sit with her, but Konno walked towards the dresser instead. "The only thing that's happening up there is that the two of them are sleeping."
"Yeah or talking," added Yossy, then under her breath muttered. "Or screaming and pulling out each others hair…"
"Nah," Aya rebuffed confidently. "They're shagging…"
There was a brief silence as Aya's words floated through the room.
Yossy finally nodded. "Yup, they probably are."
Konno shook her head, unconvinced. "It doesn’t matter, I can't just stay here and do nothing I'm going up there and…"
"Whoa whoa, wait a minute, Konno…" Aya butted in. "You can't go up there, the mountain is a big place and they could be anywhere."
"Yea, It's like finding a needle in a hay barn…" Shibata added.
Yossy frowned. "Don't you mean 'a needle in a hay stack'?"
"No."
"I'm not searching the whole mountain," Konno broke in. "I just want to check the old native settlement, those aren't to far up the mountain from the west trail and it's good chance they took shelter there, and if they didn't then I'll just come back down, but I won't be able to sleep unless I at least try." As she finished speaking she threw the last item of clothes for Rika and zipped the bag closed. "All done… now I just need to go downstairs and grab a raincoat for myself and a couple more for Rika and Miki, well, bye guys." With a wave at Aya and Shibata and a quick kiss on Yossy's cheek she strode out the door.
Yossy blinked in surprise before realizing that Konno had just left the room alone. Throwing open the door she hollered, "Hey!! I'm going too ya know!!" Which earned her several angry shushes from opening hallway room doors by slightly agitated performers that had previously been sleeping before the shouting.
Aya and Shibata grinned at each other, after being left alone again, and fell to the bed giggling.
"Now, where was I…?" Aya murmured thoughtfully.
"The good part..." Shibata supplied.