Bah, I need to write more creatively... You'll see that next chapter
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Chapter 16: Like Ocean Waves
Reina couldn’t get her meeting with Rika out of her mind. Even though the conversation had taken place a few days ago, the head’s words somehow haunted Reina. Especially the way Rika spoke to Maki—talking in a way where demanding undermined her voice. The most unforgettable part of the meeting was when Rika said something similar to ‘when you failed to protect someone’ which lead to Maki looking very terrified; that was a side Reina never saw of her.
“Who didn’t Maki protect…?” Reina leaned forward in the bench, grasping her opposite sides—much like that time Maki did at that night where she gave her the necklace. “She said she won’t tell me yet… So I have yet to wait…Damn, I hope she tells me soon, the curiosity is burning…”
A snake slithered from the grass and situated itself near the bench. Reina looked at the snake, recognizing it as the same snake that has always been with Maki. “Erm…Hello?” Reina said awkwardly to the snake. The garden snake glanced at Reina before coiling next to her feet.
This snake…Maki told me about it once. His name is Ryoki I think...He’s taken quite a liking to Maki, probably because of the curse... I don’t think he’s fond of me, because I seem to be taking Maki from him all the time…Reina could not help but giggle to herself. The snake, Ryoki, turned his head in curiosity, before returning to his lazy bask in the sun.
I wonder what she’s doing Korea now, probably eating Yakiniku with Simmin or something…“No~!” Reina heard a voice behind her. “these bags are so cheap! Now all the new clothes are dirty!”
Is that who I think it is?Reina turned herself over to look at a person on a pathway, who apparently had too much clothes in two bags, and thus, the bottom of the bags ripped, spilling out the clothes onto the cement path. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ryoki immediately slither towards the aforementioned person. And through another corner of her eye, saw a slightly bigger snake slither near the woman.
“No~! Not now! What if I’m seen? Ohgodohgodohgod…” the person frantically piled the clothes in her arms and tried to run, but various articles of clothing flew about. So she had to go back and pick them up, resulting in more falling clothes. “You snakes don’t make it much easier! Stop following me!” the girl complained under her breath.
“Gaki-san?” Reina came over, kneeling next to her.
“Tanakacchi? Good timing! Help me carry my newly bought stuff?” Risa didn’t bother looking up, but was too busy panicking over her fallen stuff.
Eyeing the snakes near Risa, Reina asked, “Gaki-san…Are you also under the Orochi curse?”
Risa looked up at Reina and looked like her eyes were about to fall out of their sockets any minute. “OH NO!” she stood up, clenching her head, “Someone knows I’m cursed just by looking! I knew I shouldn’t have cut through this park!” she moved her upper body in different directions, emphasizing her words, “I should have cut through the second park! No wait! That park has even more snakes! What if I tried cutting through the fourth building? No wait, that’ll be too embarrassing, Kyaaa~!”
“No… It’s just…”
“Just what, eh?” Risa paused her head grabbing and looked at Reina, frozen in an awkward position, “You know a good place to cut through to reach the seventh building? Or just the sixth?”
“Right now, I’m confused as hell…” Reina smacked the palm of her hand to her forehead and left it there, “Please, details, I have no idea what the sixth or seventh building is, Senpai…”
“The seventh building is the one where we usually sleep at. You know, the good building.”
“In that case, why not come out with it and say the home apartment?” Reina let go of her face and went shifty-eyed.
“It’s the motherland…” Risa waved her hand.
“I don’t understand you anymore,” Reina raised a brow.
“Who cares, let’s just get my stuff to my room before it gets too dirty!” Risa exaggerated her face in a text-smile D: manner.
They both carried half of the clothes pile, and proceeded walking to the apartment, of course, chattering as they were doing so.
“Now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense,” Reina smirked.
“Lies! How so? Was I seriously that obvious?”
“There you go again, reaction queen,” Reina laughed again.
“Seriously~! Tell!”
“Well, first off, you don’t want to be kissed. At all. Not even by Takahashi Ai. Second of all, during that Zekkyou commercial we filmed of us being in the frozen house, Before actually filming it, you requested 30 minutes for you to check it out, which means you didn’t want to transform during filming.”
Risa stared at Reina dumbfounded, before trying to bash her head against against a nearby pole. “SoIwasobvioussoIwasobvoiussoIwasobvoius…”
“I’m leaving you,” Reina raised a brow, already quite the amount of meters from Risa.
“Tanakacchi! Wait up!” Risa caught up to Reina, and they both continued walking.
“In case you’re wondering which one I am, I’m the 8th head…So yeah, as it turns out, Ai knows about the curse from me too. It was a little after the shooting for All for one and One for all, she kept insisting why I wouldn’t let her kiss me, so uh…” Risa fought for the correct word, “
attacked me I guess you could say.”
“And what did she think of you being cursed?”
“She didn’t believe it at first, because she kept smacking herself with electric appliances, thinking it was a dream. It was until I transformed back and stopped her from dropping the TV on her head that she finally believed,” Risa laughed. “Good times.”
Eventually, they made it to the apartment in peace (“The motherla—” and then she was silenced by Reina), and proceeded to Risa’s room in order to dump all her new clothes on the bed. After a hug and farewell, Reina left and proceeded back to her room. Along the way, she saw Yossie exit Sayumi’s room.
“What brings you in there?” Reina called out.
“Hmm?” Yossie turned around, and walked towards Reina, “Ooooh, Sayu here drank all of my milk tea without my permission. So I was simply telling her not to do it again,” she smiled and chuckled.
“Sayu again? She needs to break that habit,” Reina joined in with the chuckle.
“Anywho, I thought I should tell you ahead of time, I’ve already told everyone else, asides from you and Gaki-san, but we have a recording to do for the new song tomorrow. I’m going to wake you all up.”
“Wah? You don’t have to wake me up, I can wake up to the alarm!” Reina waved her hand dismissively.
“Nope, I can do it before your alarm,” Yossie smiled again.
“But that’ll trouble you, wouldn’t it?”
“Not at all!” Yossie waved her hand in an objective manner, “Absolutely no trouble at all! So sleep well!” and then she left.
“Jeez. Leader is stubborn…” Reina sighed before going into her room.
“Then again…Today, Maki is supposed to come back, but very late…” Reina flopped on her dark purple bed. A FLAMES ringtone rung in the air, signifying a call, to which Reina lazily reached for her cellphone in her back pocket and looked at the ID.
“Speak of the devil…” Reina chuckled before answering it, “Had your fun?”
“Of course, I had yakiniku with Simmin,” Maki said on the other line. “I’m probably going to arrive back in Japan at 23:00. But reach the apartment by midnight, depending on traffic.”
“Ah… Seriously?” Reina whined, “That means I can’t exactly see you until afternoon… Have to wake up early in the morning to do a recording.”
“Oh, you planned to see me when I come home?” Maki mused.
“To steal your souvenirs of course,” Reina remarked in a sarcastic tone. In truth, she was compensating for the blush she made, realizing what Maki had said.
“Ah, be forewarned, I have bodyguards,” Maki replied in a giggle. “So the recording is your new song, right?”
“Yeah, Leader has to wake everyone up very early, since she blatantly refused to lose to the alarm clocks of everyone. I told her that it would trouble her, but she simply smiled and said it wasn’t a problem.”
“Ah, did Yossie really say that?”
“Yeah… Then again, it’s Yossie. She smiles a lot, so I’m not sure whether something troubles her or not…”
“That’s usually the case with her…” Maki said in a rather serious tone. “Very few people, Ayaka and Mai to name a few, know what she’s thinking. Though, I applaud her for having such a great mask…”
“Mask eh? Elaborate further.”
“Yossie… She’s like ocean waves. No matter how much of it you try to handle, they always end up pulling away from you. Then it teases you by brushing by your feet, but when you try again to handle it, the waves pull back into an ocean of mystery… So in short, Yossie is a person that can’t be caught… So you might want to watch out for her…”
“I see… I’ll keep this in mind the next time I’m around her.”
“Ah… Sorry, I have to return to work. It sucks that I have work on the last day I’m here…” Maki gave an exasperated sigh. “See you tomorrow then!”
“Have fun!” Reina said, before hanging up. “Wrong, about that, you will see me tonight…” Reina smirked, “Hope I don’t end up falling asleep waiting for you…”
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“Ah… Home sweet home…” Maki sighed as she waltzed through the door. Her body guards carried her luggage and other miscellaneous things into her room as she traversed around the lobby. As she wandered, she saw something stir on the couch. Curiosity got the best of her as she dared venturing closer, and saw that a person was sleeping on the couch.
Haha, so she really did try to wait for me. Maki smiled. She took Reina’s shoulder and shook it a bit, but to no avail, she did not wake up. “Reina?” Maki stretched Reina’s cheek. She still was not awake. “Whoa, Miki and Nii-nii mean it, she really is a heavy sleeper…” Maki scratched her head, at a loss of what to do.
“Goto-san, your things are in your room now, we are now going to leave you be,” a random body guard bowed his head. Maki bowed her head back, and the guard left.
“What am I supposed to do with you?” Maki chuckled. Then an idea struck her, she dug her hands underneath her upper back and knees and carried her, bridal style. She walked to Reina’s door and carefully tried to open it. “You locked the door…”
Dot. Dot. Dot.
“Oh jeez…” Maki searched in Reina’s pockets, and to no success, the key was not in either of them…
“You know, I can probably turn you in for theft, watching you do that.” Yossie, who was kneeling next to Maki, said suddenly. Maki jumped in the air, surprised at the sudden appearance.
“Jeez?! Why are YOU up and about in midnight?”
“Trying to write and memorize a speech for a university I’m going to in a few weeks. I came out, wanting a little tea, but here, I find you searching our little Reina?” Yossie smirked.
“Bah. I’m going to have her sleep in my room. So wake her up in my room,” Maki carried Reina yet again. They both walked to Maki’s room in the next floor.
“Don’t do perverted things to her, Gocchin!” Yossie hugged herself and shivered a bit, “she’s still a minor~”
Maki snapped her head to face Yossie, “Don’t even joke about that.”
“Nonetheless, I’m waking her at 5:00 AM. So be prepared, in case you don’t want to be awakened that easily.”
“You. What are you and Ojou-sama planning?” Maki stared at Yossie. “Are you using Reina for your gains?”
“What brought this up all of a sudden?” Yossie blinked.
“Answer me.”
“No, we’re not going to do anything to Reina at all,” Yossie waved her hand, “I mean, when Ai found out years ago, nothing happened to her either…”
“I see, then it’s only my suspicion, sorry about that. But if you really are planning something…” Maki glared daggers at Yossie, “I will catch you…”
“Scary…” Yossie closed her eyes in a smile and backed away. ( ^_^; ) “So uh, yeah, good night.”
“Good night,” and she opened the door to her room, and carried Reina in.
“Scary, huh?” Yossie smiled yet again. She turned her back to the door. As she walked down the stairs to her room, the leader felt like Maki was correct in a way…
“So what if I am using her… Will you come punishing me?” Yossie chuckled as she opened the door to her messy room.
“Good luck with that, Maki…” Yossie gave her trademark scheming smile to the floor above her, which was conveniently Maki’s.
“Catch me if you can.”Remember, I still want my ten reviews
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