Hey hey hey! This is my first fanfiction and I'm proud of it! I hope you all like my story, even though i'm not that talented at writing long stories. Hehe, well enough about me, let's get on with the story, shall we? Enjoy!
Disclaimer: ChiyoTenshi does not own Hana-kimi and never will.
It was summer break for all the school's in Japan, and one of those school's was none other than our very own, Osaka High School! Everybody was looking forward to it because there would be nothing but swimming, going to the beach, hanging out with friends, partying, and traveling, but for Ashiya Mizuki, Sano, and Nakatsu, they were on their way to another year of working at a hotel restaurant with their school doctor Umeda's sister. It was a completely odd situation on how they got their job, but since they didn't want to go home for obvious reasons, they figured it would be better to all stay in a place together for fun and for money. (For more information, see Hana-kimi, volume 3.)
Mizuki had managed to keep her big gender secret from everybody, or so she thinks. While they were at work their previous year, there was a boy that worked there along with Mizuki, Sano and Nakatsu who thought Mizuki was a girl. Ok...he didn't think she was a girl. She really is a girl, but dressing as a guy so she can spend time with Sano, and he just saw through her disguise. In the end, Io, Umeda's sister and Mizuki's boss, assured that Mizuki was indeed a boy, even though she did know the truth and the boy was fired.
However, this year was going to be much more fun because it was the three of them, and along with them were Sekime, Noe, Kayashima (the boy who can see aura's), and Nakao. They all managed to get used to eachother's company quite well from spending so much time with eachother on the school trip, so they decided to get a job for themselves, which was a smart idea for teenagers, considering that most would just sit at home and watch tv while eating chips and drinking soda.
The drive to the restaurant was quite noisy because Sekime and Noe were sticking their heads out the windows and flirting with the girls in the neighboring vehicles. Mizuki, who is our main character, sat between Nakatsu and Sano. Before Osaka High went on their school trip, Nakatsu had managed to confess his love to Mizuki in front of a huge crowd. Obviously, he didn't care.
Sano, on the other hand, wanted to keep quiet so he could stay close to Mizuki while she was in Japan. He knew her secret since a little after she arrived at Osaka High, and he didn't want to suspend her from the school because he wasn't that mean of a guy, and also because he didn't know what she was really doing in the school in the first place.
Kayashima was busy telling Nakatsu about his aura color changes. He was changing between clear red, blue, and pink. (go online and look up "aura colors and meanings" and click the first site) The whole while, he was trying to get Mizuki to help him from being tortured about his aura. Mizuki just laughed and played along with Kayashima. Sano just watched and snickered a bit, but never laughed loudly.
Io was driving the car, and talking to her was the old school idol, but since Mizuki arrived, Nakao was after Mizuki, which made him mad at first, but he then got to know Mizuki and understand eachother, so he forgave her. Io and Nakao shared their thoughts about keeping their faces clean and smooth, which was not a big conversation that a normal guy would deal with.
Anyways, back to summer break. The car was noisy, and so were the occupants of it. It took atleast two hours to reach the hotel, but then again, it didn't seem that long because everybody was either talking or having too much fun to pay attention to the time. Once reaching their destination, they piled out of the car, trying to stretch their sore and tense muscles.
"Ahh, I thought I would get a blood clot if I stayed in there any longer," Mizuki said as she massaged her muscles. She then stood at her full height and glanced at the sky while covering her eyes from the sun. "It looks like it's going to be a good day, eh?"
"Yup. I'd say it's the best day to go swimming," grinned Nakatsu.
"No! I can't go swimming. It would ruin my perfect skin!" Nakao cried in agony. "Even the sun would crack my skin. It's not tolerable."
Io stood there in front of the trunk of her car, looking through the luggage. "I agree. We're not going to the beach until Sunday because the restaurant is closed on Sunday and also because it's supposed to be warmer that day, and perfect weather for swimming."
"Grr..." Nakatsu growled in anger. All he wanted to do was have fun, spend some time with Mizuki, and see Mizuki in a swimsuit, but that would never happen, unless he found out her secret.
Sano started dragging the luggage bags from the trunk into the restaurant. He set everything by a table near the hallway that lead to the workers' bedrooms. The bad part about the restaurant was that there were only four rooms. One for Io and three for workers. Everybody helped with the luggage and cleaned out the trunk before it was closed again. Everybody then met for a meeting in the dining area and waited for Io to tell the new workers the rules of the restaurant. Once finding out that there weren't enough rooms for everybody, they decided to split up. In the first room was Sano, Mizuki, and Nakao, in the second was Nakatsu and Kayashima, and in the third was Sekime and Noe. They split up the way they did because they were so used to being partnered up with their dormmates from school, although Nakao's roommate wasn't there, he just shared Mizuki and Sano's room.
After the meeting, if that, they all headed towards their rooms, picking what bunk or bed they wanted, and laid out their bedding accessories. Mizuki had the top bunk of one bed, and under her was Sano. There was another bunk in their room, so Nakao slept on the top so he could talk to Mizuki. The other rooms only had one bunk bed each, so each person either got the bottom or the top.
When the situating and choosing was done, they all met back in the dining room so the new workers could tour the place while the returning workers, meaning Mizuki, Sano, and Nakatsu, looked around and had some free time. Io then took Nakao, Sekime, Noe, and Kayashima through the kitchen, dish area, around the restaurant, and the dining room. Each table had their own number, so she had to make sure that they knew which table was numbered which number.
"Wow. It seems like I've been gone from here forever. Not much has changed except the layout of the tables in the dining room and the flowering outside the restaurant," she smiled as she looked at the flowers.
Sano ruffled Mizuki's hair and smiled to her. "It's good to be back, isn't it?"
Mizuki could feel her cheek's temperature rising and she quickly nodded before shooing his hand from her head. "It is, but you can quit treating me like a kid."
"Hey, let's go for a walk. It'll give us something to do with the extra time that we have," Nakatsu suggested.
"Yeah! I could use the excercise. I feel like I haven't stood for days." She groaned a bit and they started towards a trail that lead to the beach and through a forest. It was a beautiful trail, and was great for couples. Nakatsu daydreamed about taking Mizuki on this trail, just the two of them, but Sano was with them, so his mood was quickly shot down.
Mizuki noticed this and looked up at him. "Hey, what's wrong, Nakatsu?"
Nakatsu then turned to her, and through his vision, he saw her/him surrounded by sparkles and lights that made her beatiful. He couldn't help but blush a crimson red and turn away. "N-no. It's nothing," he stuttered.
Sano, who was with them the whole time, saw Nakatsu's expression and thought the same thing when he and Mizuki found eachother in the mineral spring back during the school trip. It was quite embarassing, and he still couldn't get that accident out of his head.
After about an hour walk from the restaurant, to the beach, through the forest, and back to the restaurant, the were greeted by the rest of the crew. Mizuki then noticed that something was up, because everybody was smiling, especially Sekime and Noe. She crossed her arms and looked to Sekime questionably. "Hey, what's up? Why is everybody so happy, you guys especially?"
Noe and Sekime glanced at eachother happily, and then turned back to Mizuki. "You know your american friend, um, what's her name? Julia? Well, you'll never believe this!" Noe said all giddy.
Mizuki just stood there with her eyes just a bit wider than normal, wondering if something had happened to Julia. "What? What about Julia? Is she hurt? Did she go back to America?"
Sekime and Noe looked at eachother once again before joining hands and grinning extremely big grins. "Nothing happened to Julia, of course. She's going to be spending a weekend here with some of her school friends!" Noe and Sekime squealed.
Nakatsu was the first to have a different expression on his face. Just the mentioning of that american's name gave him convulsions. His face was ouch of the ordinary, meaning his mouth was wide open, his eyes were wide with fear, and his nose twitched as her name was said again.
"Yup! Julia's going to be here in three days (considering it was a Tuesday) and she's going to bring 5 of her school friends! Isn't that just awesome!" Noe and Sekime continued to dance around the parking lot all happy, while Nakatsu was standing there with his face telling his emotion.
Io was happy to have more customers, especially her younger sister, Rio, visiting for a change. Nakao was happy because he is going to meet Minami's younger sister. How he knew that Rio was his younger sister has all to do with Mizuki. Obviously she couldn't keep a secret for very long, and since Nakao had a huge crush on Minami, Mizuki couldn't help but not tell him about Minami's family. Sano didn't really mind the american girl, Julia, but due to some slight thinking, since Julia told the guys that her and Mizuki were dating, Sano thought that they were lesbians, because he knows that Mizuki is a girl. Altogether, everybody was happy except Nakatsu, of course.
Mizuki was joining Sekime and Noe in their big dance of joy. Nakatsu was left standing next to Sano, wondering if this was all true.
'I don't think this is going to go well,' Sano thought to himself.
Once calming down from the big surprise, everybody went inside to get something to eat. It was already 6:30, and they haven't even started making supper.
"I want Ishikari salmon over rice!" Nakatsu expclaimed.
"We want lamb from Hokkaido!" Noe and Sekime pleaded desperately.
"How about Miso cha-shu?" Kayashima asked.
"I want corn ramen," Sano said.
Io shook off all the ideas and winked. "I've got a big surprise. You'll all wish you wanted my food rather than anybody elses. Right, guys?" By "guys" she meant Mizuki, Sano and Nakatsu, who nodded in agreement to her.
She then exited the room, heading towards the kitchen, leaving everybody else in the dining room, discussing their plans for the weekend and the time being here. They planned on spending the next month or so there, atleast until school started again.
"Ok, Sano, Nakatsu and I'll take care of the silverware, napkins, and the dishes. Nakao and Kayashima will take orders from guests dining in the restaurant, and Sekime and Noe will take room service orders to the rooms. Meanwhile, Io will be cooking, and if she needs help from anybody, you better be sure to help her, otherwise our restaurant is going to get a bad reputation. Agreed?"
With that said, everybody nodded and agreed to Mizuki's speech of conditions. After a couple more minutes of waiting for Io to return with some food, their eyes were set upon the biggest feast anybody could possibly imagine to have in a restaurant as unpublicized as Io's. For, before them, lay a mountain of domburi with beef topping, cooked ramen with a choice of chicken, pork, oriental, and fish flavored seasonings, yakizakana (cooked fish), shabu-shabu (meat fondue), yakitori (grilled chicken on skewers), and gyoza.
Everybody in the room drooled over the food, excluding Sano who sat there perfectly still, just admiring the food from a normal posture and expression. Although he looked at the food differently, he thought the same as the others.
'Wow, that looks good...' everybody thought, including Sano this time.
Io smiled, happy that everybody was waiting to just dive into the food itself. The smell of the food is what aroused them the most. It was a smell that I cannot explain in this very story because I am not talented to describe smells or tastes.
Nakatsu drooled as he spoke to Io with his chopsticks in his hand, ready to chow down. "Io, can we eat yet?"
Io looked at everybody, who looked back at her with puppy dog eyes, except Sano who just sat there with no expression, just looking at Io. She couldn't resist such cute, or in Sano's case, sexy, looks. "Of course. I made this food especially for you. You're my helpers after all." With that said, everybody took their chopsticks, and started in, working from one end of the feast to the other.
"I can't believe this. I've never had a big meal or a choice this big before. It's like I'm a god," Mizuki announced while piling her plate with her choices.
While she said that, nobody was paying attention because they were lost in their own worlds. Even Sano was daydreaming about having more food, because just the look on his face made everybody wonder if he was ok. His cheeks were flushed a cherry red, and he was smiling a cute and enjoyable smile that any girl would love to see every morning. Mizuki tapped his shoulder slightly, trying to pry him from his hallucination, but failed miserably. "I guess we have to do the dishes without Sano," Nakao laughed along with everybody else at the table.
Dinner was great, and even Io enjoyed her own cooking. The dishes were done by the new workers, and the cleaning was performed by the others. Once everything was set, they were off to bed, since tomorrow was their first day of working.
Mizuki climbed into her bed while Sano sat on his and Nakao took a shower down the hall. "Hey, Sano?"
"Yeah?" Sano asked, curious of what she had to say.
"Do you want to watch a show on the 3.2 liquid crystal tv that I bought a couple months ago?"
"Let me guess...another horror movie?" Sano asked, and guessed he was right.
Mizuki laughed and hung upside down from her bunk, looking at Sano. "How'd you guess? Geez. Sometimes I think you and Kayashima are related somehow," she laughed and sweatdropped, hoping he wasn't like that.
"Well, maybe. Anyways, sure. I'll watch it with you. I'm not tired right now anyways."
"Okay. Do you mind if I watch it down there with you? There's not much room up here," she asked while getting her pillow from her bed and started climbing down the ladder to her bunk.
Sano sighed and nodded a bit. "Sure. Hurry up before you miss the show, otherwise you'll be confused the whole time."
"Okay, okay. I'm hurrying!" she exclaimed as she jumped beside him in the bed and set the movie on a shelf just in front of the bed. "Can you see it ok?"
Sano smiled and reffled her hair again like earlier. "No. You're big head is in the way," he joked.
"Hey! I don't have a big head!" Mizuki yelled, upset that he called her head big.
"Okay fine, but turn on the tv before we miss it."
Mizuki did what Sano said, and turned on the tv. The first 15 minutes they were watching the show, Nakao finished his shower, dried off, changed into his pajamas, and walked back to the room. When he walked into the room, all he saw was Sano and Mizuki in the same bed, looking at something together. Their gazes shot from the tv to Nakao, who stared at them in shock.
"Mi...Mizuki...why are you guys in the s-same bed?" Nakao stuttered.
Mizuki laughed and smiled an odd smile. "Oh, we were watching a scary movie, and I don't like watching them by myself, so Sano insisted that he wanted to watch it with me."
When she said that, Sano thought 'I insisted on watching it? Wait...I thought I wanted to watch it because I couldn't sleep.'
"Er...o-okay. If you say so." With that said, Nakao climbed into his bunk, covered himself with his blanket and fell asleep, or so they thought he did.
They both looked at eachother and shrugged a bit, then turned back to the tv.
A little more than halfway through the movie, Mizuki let out a soft yawn. It wasn't a boredom kind of yawn, but a tired yawn.
"Why don't you go to bed, Ashiya? You need the sleep for work tomorrow," Sano explained.
Mizuki nodded and stared at the screen and then stood from the bed, taking her pillow with her. "Do you want to watch the rest of it?"
Sano shook his head and turned off the tv. "I'm fine. I think I'm going to go to bed, too." Sano then shuffled around in his bed, trying to find a comfortable spot. He then fell asleep within seconds, while Mizuki put her pillow back on her bed and changed into her pajamas. When she returned, she saw a sleeping Sano. From her point of view, he looked so innocent and pure. Like it's never been touched or hurt before.
She admired him for a bit and then reached for her liquid crystal tv, but was stopped and changed course. Instead of grabbing the tv, she was grabbed by somebody from behind and pulled onto a cushion of softness. She couldn't see who it was for a second, but whoever the person was, they were holding her tight, not letting her go, and nuzzled her neck softly. Once the grip loosened, she turned around and came face to face with a familiar figure staring at her.
"Sano...?"
That's it for the first chapter! I finished it within...6 hours. Ain't that totally awesome? I didn't think that I could write a huge chapter like this in that short a time. I guess I'm talented for writing after all.
Well, I'm hoping to finish the next chapter soon. Maybe, if I'm not that busy tomorrow, I'll work on it then. I hope you all enjoyed it.
Oh, and another thing. I would like some reviews, if you don't mind. Please tell me what you think about my story and what you think I could change, if anything. Thanks for all the help, and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.