12th bullet – WHUT WAS THAT FOR?!

sry but chapter 12 is totally not acceptable so i have decided to change it. ehh. i doubt it matters cos no body reads anyway lol.


12th bullet – WHUT WAS THAT FOR?!

Of course reiko gets hurled out along with natsume and shouts “WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!”
Natsume bursts out laughing for some reason and reiko looks at him as if he had gone mad.
“SHOVE IT” shouts the man, ending natsume’s laughter streak although in truth it was still there its just that he was trying to hide it… They were shoved into a lift of a super short building and surprisingly, they were not blindfolded as they reached a much lower level.
“nice view.” Natsume comments as he glances out of the glass lift.
“you’ve got to be kidding me.” Reiko winces as she looks out.
“you’re afraid of metal chains?” natsume enquires.
“LIKE REAL!” reiko shout whispers back.
“SHUT UP” yells the guy with the machine gun.
“why don’t you just take him out baka natsume?” reiko whispers.
“aren’t you interested in whats gonna happen next?” was his reply.
Reiko rolls her eyes as the doors open and gets pushed out of the half opened lift door. Wishing she was in the proper attire, she stands up from her fall. Natsume didn’t fall down and didn’t lend her a helping hand either. Pissed off, she let herself get pushed along into a room with no door but one window which they are thrown through.
“ouuuuuch….” Natsume and reiko both wincing at their buises.
“I will never understand how your mind works natsume.”
“I don’t need you too.”
“WELCOME” boomed a male voice from the corner of the room.
“nobody’s there o.o”
“LOOK ON THE FLOOR YOU DOPE!” reiko half shouts, pointing at a speaker.
“very clever girlie. Wont you tell me your name?” booms the voice again.
“why should i?” reiko rebels.
“yea why should she?” natsume stupidly repeats.
“STAY OUT OF THIS NATSUME” the voice of a woman shouts and bursts the ears of them both.
“ouuuuuuch….” Natsume and reiko say once again.
“sorry for the interruption!” the male voice returns, “we have got some… business with you natsume kun.”
“don’t answer him natsume” reiko quickly interrupts before natsume could even open his mouth. “You’ve got business with him but you kidnapped me as well! WHY?”
“I know who you are young missy. And if you know your place you had better keep quiet while you still can.” Booms the voice.
Reiko does not know what to say so natsume decides to ignore her advice.
“What business do you want with me?”
“More of HAVE than WANT as this ‘business’ is something that cannot be avoided…”
“GET TO THE POINT” natsume gets a bit irritated because this guy made reiko lost for words which is something he hasn’t really done yet.
“oh my. Finally getting a little bit on the impatient side aye? Don’t worry. You will have ample time in this place.”
“WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?” natsume starts booming himself.
“OH! Ive forgotten to introduce myself!” he chuckles before continuing, “my name is, [XD]”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” the woman’s voice returns in a scream so loud the speaker emitted smoke.
“some voice she has that lady” natsume comments while rubbing his ears.
“I agree. Anyway, that guy must be mad. XD is the opposite of DX. Someone opposing us then? How come I don’t know about it?” reiko questions.
“You must be just that powerful to know everything about DX aren’t you?”
“You could say so.”
“YOU DON’T KNOW ME?!” XD returns.
“no I don’t.” reiko replies nonchalantly.
“OH NONONONONONONO. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!” cries out the voice.
“why?” natsume asks.
“I SENT OUT SO MANY CLUES. SO MANY LETTERS. SO MANY JOBS! AND YOUR FATHER KNEW NOT OF ME?!”
“my dad?” natsume stares blankly at the speaker and then turns to reiko who desperately thinks of someway to keep natsume ignorant of her identity.
“AND THANKS TO YOU WE GOT TWICE THE AMOUNT OF JOBS WE NORMALLY GOT! YOU IDIOT!”
“so you do know me!”
“No I don’t. all I know is that there is this weird guy sending letters to us that don’t really make much sense and have many heart shapes on pink paper.”
“that’s me!”
“who on earth would believe those stuff? We thought it was crap!” reiko curses herself for letting out more information than she ever wanted to.
“DX uses red paper with crosses everywhere so all I did was use the opposite!” exclaimed the man.
“crosses? You mean ONE cross? Not to mention the opposite a cross would be a circle or a tick!” reiko retorts
“HEY QUIT IT! DID THIS GUY KIDNAP YOU OR DID HE KIDNAP ME?!” natsume suddenly shouts in the midst of it all.
“I kidnapped you IN ORDER TO KIDNAP HER!” the man boomed back.
“THAT’S WHY I TOLD YOU TO STAY OUT OF IT STUPID NATSUME!” shouted the woman’s voice.
“wait a minute… I know who you are! Suzuki sensei!!” natsume suddenly realizes.
“SUZUKI SENSEI?!” reiko repeats.
“STAY OUT OF THIS! We wanted DX to recognize our organization so we did many things but YOU NEVER DID REALISE ANYTHING. So I decided to KIDNAP DX’S ONLY DAUGHTER!! ARENT I CLEVER!”
“you…. You’re DX’s daughter?” natsume suddenly pops in a question again.
Reiko tries to think of something to keep her identity in but she fails. Natsume suddenly turns away from her and stares at the floor. Reiko starts to freak out and tears because she has failed her father. She wants to scream but decided against it and SCREAMED. She broke the microphone that sent their voices to the guy that calls himself XD and Suzuki sensei as well as almost burst natsume’s ear drums.
“now that is what I call POWER!” natsume whispers as he rubs his ears for the he forgot how many times.
“YEA I AM. GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?!” reiko shouts back to him.
“no! no problem at all!” natsume replied obviously quite shocked. Then after finally snapping his view away from reiko, as he turned to look away, he thought he saw a tear fall from her face but decided it was not possible. On impulse or instinct of wanting to protect a girl, he went to hug her but the reply he got from this sweet action was, “get your sweaty self off me.”
“sure thing missy” natsume replied sarcastically as he reluctantly removed his arms from reiko.





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i cant believe i was so cute when i was young =.= cant get myself outt amy own head. what a useless person i am!!

11th bullet – Cliché but FESTIVAL!

im running out of gas writting these stuff man!


Chapter 11 – Cliché but FESTIVAL!

Reiko ceremoniously knocks on the sliding door before sliding it open to a sleeping natsume. She stealthily walked over to natsume and wanted to pull the kicked blanket back over natsume but natsume woke up instead. Just as reiko tugged the blanket, natsume sat up and so resulting in a blanket ghost natsume. Reiko bursts out in laughter at the state of natsume’s hair when natsume pulled the blanket off his head. Being the first time hearing reiko laughing, natsume stared and glared at the sight of reiko roaring with laughter rolling on the floor. Finally realising she had done something weird, reiko immediately returns to her empty expressionless face and coughs before saying, “Please forget I just did that.”
Natsume felt naughty so he replied a naughty reply xD “only if you blush and ask me again.”
Reiko throws the blanket over natsume, “don’t push your luck!”
But when he took the blanket off with an idiotic face and messed up hair, reiko couldn’t help but laugh like crazy again. This made natsume want to learn how to get reiko to laugh. Unconsciously, he noted in his mind that messy hair and weird faces make reiko laugh.
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During dinner, natsume was bombarded with worried glances as well as questions about whether he was feeling alright. Glancing towards reiko for help, reiko conveniently ignored him and continued cooking at the barbeque pit. Sena on the other hand was for once being clever by pushing the crowd away using the excuse of “don’t ask a sick person so many questions!”
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Soon enough, the club members got back to their positions and started sitting down or handing out and distributing food and dinks. Natsume got drinks from many worried girls and he got served plates upon plates of food from worried guys. His table was piled with food meant for him so in the end, that table had no reason to move from their seats as all the food and drinks they wanted could be found x=. Anyway, after the barbeque, everyone went to the baths before sleeping. Of course, this BEFORE SLEEPING time was the time reiko and natsume were thinking about what each other told the other and what each other did. Reiko was regretting laughing. Natsume was regretting crying. But all in all they were happy they did what they did so they fell into a happy sleep.
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For once, training went wonderfully. Saya was STILL STUCK in the training room cause she was not concentrating on archery but on natsume instead. Natsume was hitting bullseyes every shot and so was reiko. Finally after the morning practice was over, they had lunch made by the innkeeper. Then after resting they went for stamina training and all sorts of different activities as usual. Only this time, instead of stopping activities at 6pm, reiko stopped it at 4! The club members were kinda shocked as reiko wasn’t the nice type that gave freetime in the middle of practice. They were right, reiko wasn’t giving them freetime. Reiko was persuading people that didn’t need to be persuaded into going to the summer festival nearby! They were even more excited when reiko announced that she had already rented yukata’s for the club members to wear! When she ever got their measurements one would never know but in truth, all she did was hack into the school’s soft copy of students’ medical information which contains their measurements too…naughty naughty…
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The club members obviously went to wash their perspiration off themselves before getting into their yukata’s which came in a full set with matching clogs and even pouches and hairpins. After the girls took a humongous time tying their strings, ropes, ribbons and clothes, and the guys simply threw on their yukata’s, the cliques and couples gathered again. With cliques throwing teases at couples and couples fighting for their freedom, reiko checked with all of them and made sure they all had their necklaces on. Natsume was stuck with the same group as saya obviously dragged him along again :P
“LETS GO!!!!” shrieks saya happily
“get your arms off natsume and we’ll go.” Was sakura’s straight reply with a frown at saya and a smile at reiko.
Reiko wondered why sakura said that and smiled at her so she deduced that sakura thought she was in love with natsume and there fore, she said, “oh don’t worry about what sakura said saya. Just keep holding on to natsume if you want.”
Natsume felt a pang inside but he didn’t really know why so he just forced a smile at saya and said, “yea. Do as you want saya!”
Really happy at receiving a smile from natsume, saya clings onto him for a very long time as they walk to the temple just a little more up the hill.
Sakura and reiko have their gossip discussions with sakura bit suspicious of reiko’s action while saya rants on and off as if trying to start a conversation and failing (which is true but she refused to admit =.=) natsume stayed polite at all times which made the other girls surrounding him very happy. HAHA. Not that he was popular but rather, he was easy to talk to and since he was a transfer student, he was famous lol.

[As you can see, the situation wasn’t dire but neither is it favorable. Reiko and natsume have a pang in their hearts X_X lets fix this shan’t we? ^^]

“Oh my goodness that bunny is SO CUTE!!” saya squeals as she passes by a shooting game. As usual, shooting club members should have no problem getting the bunny by themselves but saya being saya had her problems and couldn’t shoot anything including the bunny…with tears welling in her eyes, the other girls tried to get the bunny for her but they all fail. Sakura get real close but in the end she shot the toy beside the bunny X.X When reiko finally couldn’t stand it and wanted to get the bunny for saya, natsume simply picked the gun from sakura’s hands as if she wasn’t gripping the gun but rather holding out the gun to him and shot the bunny down. Reiko stood behind not wanting to watch the following but forced herself to. Saya obviously wasted quite a lot of money on so many tries so natsume treats her to food and drinks and games and everything. Rich reiko didn’t say a word and neither did natsume complain at all. Finally though, something interesting did happen. It started drizzling. Usually, summer festivals were held on none rainy days not because of the whether forecast, but because people relied on the fact that it didn’t rain much during summer. All in the name of global warming though, rain heavily during a festival it did. On the day the club members were all there to boot. Of course everyone took shelter in stalls or under trees (though it was scientifically wrong to do so) as well as in the temple itself. So basically my point is that everyone was squashed in spaces and crevices that were dry. The stalls all had to cover up so the rain wouldn’t damage their merchandises and stuff. Well, reiko and sakura were separated in the mess of people pushing around to shelter but suddenly reiko felt a tug on her hand and she was pulled all the way behind the temple where the head monk was and finally pulled into a small room.
“I asked the head priest to lend me the room.” Reiko heard a panting voice say.
“You could have been gentler.” Was her reply
“if I was you wouldn’t be half dry and here at the moment.” He turns to the head priest and says, “THANKS HEAD PRIEST!”
“it is a pleasure to help you natsume dono.” Replied the head priest before walking out of the room.
“why does the head priest call you by such a title?”
“No idea. He called me over and said he had an empty room so I searched for whoever I could find which was you and dragged you over…”
“And you trust that head priest?”
“Who wouldn’t?”
“Why did he call out to you of all people that are here at the temple?”
“How should I know?”
“Won’t you think whether you should trust him or not?”
“I wouldn’t bother really.”
“Then you really should!”
Natsume rolls his eyes
“What if the head priest suddenly enters with a gun pointing at you?” continues reiko, and that is exactly what happened.
“natsume dono, I have been ordered to abduct you.”
“now that’s interesting. Get it done and over with.”
“WHAT?!” screams reiko who gets pulled along with natsume by another priest who clasps his palm over reiko’s mouth, turning her screams into muffled noises.
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Blindfolded and bounded by the arms and legs, they were thrown into the back of a truck. Thankfully, they still could speak haha.
“So you expected this?” calmly for once, reiko questions natsume.
“Yeahh.”
“Why did you pull me along then?”
“For company…”
“And you got rid of saya cause she would be a bother?”
“Yes and no. I didn’t want to pull her In to the world of deceit so fast would I?” natsume gives reiko one of those sweaty smiles. Frantically holding back her blush, she replies, “Yet you already have…”
“That’s true. I blame my dad. Made me too much of a gentleman.”
“We’re so gonna miss the fireworks.”
“Both of us are wearing those transmitter necklaces so kumo knows where we are right?”
“Supposedly.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“I didn’t teach kumo how that thing works…”
“Huh?”
“Kumo isn’t very good with machines…”
“Well I wasn’t really expecting much from that anyway.”
“WHAT?!”
“What I meant is that I thought you were the only one with the ability to detect where we club members are.”
“oh. True. So do you know whats happening?”
“nahh. I just tagged along because I was interested in who was interested in me” said natsume with another sweaty smile.
Once again stopping herself from blushing, “So… what are you gonna do?”
“Just follow these thugs and find out who is after me I guess. Since they took you along probably means they recognize you or they don’t want witnesses…”
“I hope it’s neither!”
And then the truck comes to an abrupt stop jerking the couple muddled together near the door of the truck.
“You’re heavy…”
“You don’t have to tell me that!” reiko finally cannot stop her blushing and her whole face turns red. Luckily, natsume couldn’t see her face ^^.
“GET OUT!” shouts a man holding a machine gun in one hand and yanking natsume out of the truck with the other.
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not so cliche anymore huh? how on earth did they end up kidnapped? now im gonna have to think of a reason why someone would WANT NATSUME ALIVE!

10th bullet - comfort my tears.

10th bullet – comfort my tears.

When natsume woke up, he was in the room where all the boys were, quite unsure of what had happened. He didn’t even know he had a fever last night so he faithfully dressed and went to the archery fields thinking the club members would already be there. He forgot breakfast and blushed when kumo accompanied him back. Reiko saw him walk in and decided her original idea of putting him back in bed when she saw him fully dressed. Some of the girls were happily gasping and basking in natsume’s aura of a traditional, strong hunter in those clothes. Saya was obviously blushing to reiko’s irritation. Natsume sat beside reiko instead of saya so reiko wasn’t that unhappy though. Saya on the other hand was quite upset… dx so what happened after breakfast was obvious. Natsume released the arrow and it his the hill beside the target. Sighing, he turned to reiko. Reiko didn’t know why he would turn to her, but she replied, “its not ur first time. Concentrate.”
All natsume did was sigh again and try. He got closer… but still far away from the bulls eye… The other club members were either getting training in a room nearby or those with experience (basically seniors who rmb how to handle bows and shoot arrows). This also meant saya was cursing herself for not remembering how to weild a bow.
Natsume was thinking of how reiko knew it wasn’t his first time doing archery but then he realised it was because she knew about DX. Reiko was regretting telling natsume that sentence but she continued to shoot arrows straight at the bulls eye with some arrows going haywire when she thought of natsume. The other club members were too busy themselves to realise anything though ><
Reiko finally got upset with herself with random missings so she went to natsume and solved his wielding problems. Finally shooting the bulls eye, natsume thanks reiko with a smile that makes reiko want to blush but tries hard to refrain from doing so.
“thanks. Really.”
“whats with ‘really’?”
“just… thanks.” Accompanied by one of those sweaty smiles again.
“no problem.” Reiko normally replies with difficulty.
“will you answer my questions later?”
“if you shoot ten bulls eyes in a row right now yes.”
“ill try” replied natsume with a shrug. Sadly, he only managed one.
“too bad. Try again.”
“if I win you in table tennis?”
“okay. At night then.”
In truth, reiko was ready for whatever question natsume would come to her with. After all, she knew she had plenty of things she could tell him without telling him about project T2C and about her father. She was confident about lying her way through their conversation if she had to as well. All she wanted was for natsume to learn to look at the problem directly in front of him instead of the future problems he would face and not solve the problem in front of him. which means, he needs to be able to concentrate on what he was doing or reiko wouldn’t tell him anything. Kekeke.
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As expected, natsume lost the heated battle. What was unexpected, was that he was losing his cool. Hot and fiery, natsume banged the table tennis racket on the table and left the room leaving club members speechless. Reiko showed her speechlessness with a frown and walking slowly out after natsume. Believe me the whole ambience of the club trip was horrible. By the fifth day, the club members were tired of archery and natsume kept failing to meet with reiko’s expectations. Reiko was tired of natsume’s horrid attitude and natsume was upset about himself not being able to do things he normally can do without thinking. Then reiko said something that sparked an idea in his head.
“think you idiot.”
“thinking. Thanks”
Reiko was a little surprised at natsume’s reply but at night, natsume won reiko in table tennis not just once but 5 times In a row, and he also managed to hit bulls eyes exactly ten times before he failed. So reiko told him to come to kumo’s room after washing up at the hotspring or the bath. Excited to gain the information he wanted, natsume washed up real fast and waited impatiently in kumo’s room for reiko to finish bathing. In natsume’s head, about a day passed before reiko entered the room in a yukata clean and fresh which she was hoping to catch natsume’s attention with but he didn’t catch it and went straight to the point.
“So are you part of DX?”
“that’s quite obvious already”
“how do you know my sister?”
“you mean your neighbour. I have the files on you that you gave to DX”
“Why?”
“Simply because I am above you in status. Sadly, I cannot tell you about it until you rise to a level as high as mine.”
“so would you tell me all you can tell me?”
“I would.”
“can you start right now?”
“if u get impatient, no.”
Natsume inhales and exhales slowly before saying, “please start.”
“I am one of the few that know DX in real person. I have free access to him so you can imagine what part I have in the organization. I have little jobs but more administration to do. The shooting club is also to train students and hire them if they have the talent. About the files and information of others in DX, I have access to most of them. Anything you would like to ask?”
“Then you know where my sister is?”
“Yes.”
“would you… tell me?”
“im sorry but that information is top secret and therefore cannot be told.”
Natsume wants to shout at reiko but he clenches his fists and punches the ground before continuing, “How much… do you know about me?”
“your age, birthday, parents, where you used to live, what happened then, how your family died, about everything that happened at that time.”
“okay… then tell me, what do you think of it.”
“Tragic, but normal for many DX members.”
“thank you. What about you?”
“me?... my mother is no longer standing on ground, my dad stands on high levelled ground most of his life, my brother still had a bullet stuck in his head.”
“riddles and truth mixed together?”
“no. purely truths.”
“ok.”
“Are you willing to tell me whats eating you then?”
“I’ve told you once.”
“You have?”
Natsume took one hugeeee longgg breath and said the following in a gradual crescendo in volume…
“yea. I didn’t welcome that revenge. I went against my dads words and I took revenge and I cant take my actions back so I’m upset with myself. I blame myself for not remembering the names of those that killed my father even though my father told me not to and I hate the fact that I was the one who joked around about the mission and even played in an arcade instead of thinking about what I was doing. The whole idea about life and death is killing me!” then he pants and tears roll down his cheeks and he adds in a half muffled shout, “ AND I HATE IT WHEN I CANT STOP THOSE DAMNED FLOODGATES!”
reiko finally understands her father’s words as well as what her father had wanted her to do. She genuinely smiles at both natsume and her father as she once again takes natsume’s head into her palms and rested him on her shoulders. Then she coaxed him again saying, “boys shouldn’t cry you know?” a throaty and coarse “I know” was replied as reiko’s yukata got wet with tears. When natsume once again cries himself to sleep like a baby, reiko rests his head on her lap for a while before putting him on kumo’s futon and going out to shop. Kumo and her brought back bags upon bags of groceries which she placed near a barbecue pit before gathering all the club members with the click of a button. Meaning their necklaces started ringing and all the members were made to move to the larger ringing (coming from where reiko was).
“I SEE ALL OF YOU ARE HERE” reiko shouts.
“NATSUME ISNT!” a random guy shouts back.
“HE GOT SICK IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAINING SO HE IS RESTING AT THE MOMENT.”
After a bit of worried glances around the place as well as murmuring, reiko breaks the noise.
“WE’RE GONNA HAVE A BARBEQUE TODAY FOR DINNER”
The whole club whoops and screams in happiness.
“SPLIT YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF 5 AND ILL ASSIGN YOU TO DIFFERENT JOBS!”
After organizing everybody and making sure all went right, she left kumo with the order to help anyone in need or save anyone who chopped or burnt a part of him or herself to go to natsume. Kumo overly happily smiles and accepts his order as he knew that reiko would go to natsume.


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not sure if it was short. but ohwells. short and sweet is nice ^^