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"Happy
birthday, Makino." A male with a perm said as he held a birthday
cake with twenty three candles stuck on it. He walked over to a
female with short hair. She smiled as he placed the cake down and
joined her at the table surrounded by her friends.
"Thank you, everyone for celebrating my birthday with me
and thank you Tsukasa for throwing me this party." The
female
smiled at her five friends. They sang happy birthday to her
and she blew out the candles on the cake.
"Here,
this is from me." A girl with long hair sitting on the left side
of Makino said as she handed her a package wrapped in pink with a
blue ribbon tied into a bow. She opened it to find a music jewelery
box that played a soft melody.
"Arigatou!"
Makino said as she hugged her best friend of nearly eighteen
years.
"You're welcome, happy birthday!"
Yuki smiled at her.
"Makino, here's my
gift." Soujiroh, who was sitting next to Yuki, handed her a
small black rectangular chest that she opened. It was a fine China
tea set.
On the tea pot and cups were the words "strength"
engraved on.
"Thank you Soujiroh-san."
She smiled at Soujiroh who just responded with a smile and nod.
"Here you go," Akira handed her a set of keys.
"Eh?" Makino was confused.
"Go
look outside the window." Akira pointed. She obeyed and looked
out the window of the MGM restaurant Tsukasa had reserved for the
night She saw a red Porsche outside with a huge pink ribbon plastered
on the roof. On the hood of the car was a poster that read: "Happy
Birthday, Makino Tsukushi."
"Akira-san,
that is such a generous gift." Makino said in awe.
"No problem." Akira winked at her.
"I'll be taking that." Tsukasa grabbed the keys from
her hand.
"It was my gift." Makino
said.
"You can't drive!" Tsukasa
shouted.
"Eh, why not?" Yuki asked
and F3 looked at Tsukasa and Makino.
"I
guess we should tell them." Makino said and Tsukasa had a silly
grin on his face.
"Makino is going to have
a baby."
"No way!" Akira
shouted.
"Un believable." Soujiroh
said.
"Congratulations!" Yuki held
Makino's hand.
"Akira's right, that kid's
going to have Tsukasa's genes." Rui joked as he punched Tsukasa
on the shoulder softly sinceTsukasa was near him. "Well, i guess
it's time for my gift."
Rui stood up from
the table and headed over to the glossy white grand piano that was
centered in the middle of the restaurant. He opened the cover and sat
down at the piano. Melodious music flowed from the piano as Rui's
fingers tapped the piano keys. Makino tried to decifer which piano
piece Rui was playing but the melody did not sound familiar to her at
all. Once Rui was finished, he went back to the table and sat down on
the right side of the table.
"What do you
think?" He asked.
"It's beautiful,
but I didn't recognize the melody." Makino said awkwardly.
"I didn't expect you to, after all it is a piece I
composed." Rui stated.
"Really?!"
Tsukasa shouted in shock.
"Yeah, I haven't
named it yet though, but it's for you Makino." He handed her the
music sheet in a binder with no title on it.
"Thank
you, Hanazawa Rui." She smiled and placed the binder carefully
in her bag.
"Okay, let's get this party
started!" Akira shouted. The rest cheered except for Yuki who
looked at them with a slight sadness only Soujiroh had noticed.
Soujiroh said nothing but went with the flow as Akira popped open the
bottle of champagne. He poured it into five glasses and was about to
pour it into a sixth one when Tsukasa stopped him.
"Makino can't drink." He said and handed her a glass
of orange juice.
"Wow, you're on the road
to becoming a good father aren't you?" Soujiroh was suprised at
his carefulness. He turned to look over at Yuki who was quietly
sipping her drink and eating a piece of the cake Makino had cut and
served.
After the party was over, the Domyoji
couple headed back to their suite, Rui was going back to his own
suite and Akira was going to do his thing.
"Coming,
Soujiroh?" Akira asked his best friend who was walking very
slowly. "You can go first. I'm going to go
outside and get some fresh air." Soujiroh shouted to him in
which Akira replied with a nod. The mafia boss headed out the
restaurant leaving only Yuki and Soujiroh there.
"So...what's wrong?" Soujiroh asked after a brief
moment of silence.
"Nothing." Yuki
said quietly and downed her champagne.
"You
say it's nothing, but you face begs to differ." Soujiroh took a
seat next to her and poured some champagne for himself.
"I don't know what's wrong...I...guess I'm jealous."
"Jealous?"
"I mean, when I
look at Makino, she has such a bright future ahead of her and she's
got everything laid out for her already. She's expecting a child with
the person she loves compared to me who just is a nuisance to the
person I like."
"You're not a
nuisance." Soujiroh tried to comfort her.
Yuki
just laughed. "You know how I always go overboard." She
finished her drink and poured another.
"Well
you're not the only one. Look at me, I'm always just running from
you." He held his glass out as Yuki poured him another.
"I don't blame you from running from me, I mean, I would
even run away from myself." She gave a drunk laugh and drank the
glass of champagne.
"Why do you...chase
after me anyways?" Soujiroh had been wondering this from the
start.
"Well, right now, you're the only
constant in my life, everything is just slipping through my finger
tips and I figured I could at least catch one thing. I was hoping
that would be you." She smiled and drank the glass. Her head
rolled around as she tried to stay conscious.
"You
know," Soujiroh looked at her. "you're not half as bad as
you think you are." He drank his drink and poured another.
"Really now?" She looked up at Soujiroh's eyes.
"You're such a flirt."
"I never
realized it until now, but you have nice eyes." He stared at her
and she stared back at him. The gap between their faces got smaller
and smaller.
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