Pastel Kibun

In The Wind of Sweet Color

Chizumi is a university student now. She was in the bus on her way to meet Fujiomi. The bus stopped and she hit the man in front of her.
    "Sorry", Chizumi bowed but the bus moved forward and she fell to the back.
    "What are you doing?", the man helped Chizumi,"Stand up and put your feet on the ground", he shouted to Chizumi.
Then he swept his hand on Chizumi’s skirt. Chizumi shouted.
    "Why shouting? I just cleaned the dust on your skirt", said the man.
    "So..sorry",said Chizumi.
    "Because of that, I don’t like women, troublemaker. Remember, I’m not interested in woman",said the man.

    "Poor girl, Komuro always likes that", said a man watching Chizumi from far.
    A woman near him turned her head to him,"Sorry?".
    "He is my friend in Senior High School and it looks like that you know that poor girl",said the man to the woman.
    "She is my friend in the college. I am Mayumi. I also know you, you are Mochizuki, the playboy", said the woman.
    "It’s an honor to be known by a pretty girl like you. Do you like if I take you for a walk? No…first, I have to get that girl",said Mochizuki.
    "What? Chizumi? That careless girl?", Mayumi was surprised.
    "I have a reason to do that",said Mochizuki.

Chizumi was in the bookstore. She was giving the money to the cashier then she went away.
    But Fujiomi stopped her,"Where are the books?".
Chizumi’s face became red and back to the cashier to take the books. Then they went out.
    "Do you like the college?",asked Fujiomi.
    "Yes, in fact, I want to be in the same university like you, but this is not bad at all and it’s near your college",said Chizumi and continued,"I once lost in the college, but there’s a man showed me the way. His name is Mochizuki".

An old woman asked Fujiomi to bring down her grandson from the tree, meanwhile Chizumi saw Mayumi was chasing the bus and her bag fell down. Chizumi took the bag and tried to tell her but the bus has departed. Chizumi didn’t realize that there were some boys were watching her. Fujiomi was giving the boy to the old woman when he heard Chizumi cried,
    "Thieves, thieves!! Fujiomi!!".
Five boys tried to pulled the bag from Chizumi. The bag hit the wall and left a scratch. The boys took the bag and ran away.
    Fujiomi ran and stopped them,"Give it back".

The boys didn’t give the bag, they attacked Fujiomi. In a minute, they all were knocked down. The next day, Chizumi gave the bag to Mayumi, Mayumi was surprised looking the scratch on her new bag.
    "If you didn’t take it, it wouldn’t be pulled and scratched like this. This bag is new and expensive". Then she left Chizumi.
Chizumi felt guilty and wanted to work part time to pay the bag.

At another place, the boys who tried to take the bag were disturbing a student.
    "Hey, what is it?", asked another student who approached them.
    "Ko..Komuro?", the boys were surprised and let the student go. Mochizuki was waiting near them and heard the conversation.
The student who called as Komuro was not Komuro he knew.
    "Do you make trouble again?", asked the student who called Komuro.
    "No, how can we do such thing like that! Please try to trust your men", said the boys.
    "Yeah, boss have to trust his men! That can’t be trusted is the leader’s attitude itself", said another student behind Komuro.
    "Do you want to make trouble, Fukunishi?", asked Komuro.
    "You’re just standing on other’s name, aren’t you? It is your elder brother", Fukunishi answered.
    "I was chosen by them as the leader of east school not because my brother but because my capability", Komuro and Fukunishi quarreled.
The boys left them and discussed how to make revenge to a man who knocked them down. But then they realized that the man was the famous Fujiomi, they became afraid and canceled their plan.

Mochizuki who was standing near them was called by his friend.
    " How is Chizumi? If you don’t hurry, the time will up", said the friend.
It appeared that Mochizuki lost in gambling, his car will be taken as an exchange but he bet to his friends that he would get Chizumi in a short time. His friends agreed to return his car if he could get Chizumi so Mochizuki approached Chizumi.

Chizumi was working at a café near her college. Her friends and Gohoji came to the café to see her.
    ("This is my first work. They are worried about me, I have to work hard"), Chizumi didn’t realize that Mayumi was watching her from outside.
Gohoji and Chizumi’s friends were having conversation.
    "Where do you work now?"
    "Cargo service"
    "So you and Fujiomi were friends since high school, right?"
    "No, We hated each other. He is calm and never changed. Not like me, I’m talkative. He is hard to understand. I don’t know what he is thinking and I hate that. If we have known him, we knew he was not a bad guy, but he never changed. There’s a man who also said the same as me, his name is Komuro".

Chizumi was at the college, she saw a man dropped a pen and she chased the man who appeared to be Komuro. Chizumi was afraid, she gave the pen to Komuro and wanted to walk away but Komuro held her arm. Chizumi shouted because of surprised, Komuro released her arm and looked at Chizumi. Chizumi was panic.
    "Fo…forgive me. I’m afraid you will do the bad thing"
    "I…" , Komuro tried to say something.
    "No, not because of afraid but it’s reflex"
    "I…."
    "No…not because you do the bad thing, I’m afraid you’ll be angry"
    "DON"T BE SO AFRAID LIKE THAT, I WON’T BE ANGRY!!!!", Komuro shouted at Chizumi then he spoke slowly,"      I ……talked too much at that time". Then he left Chizumi.

    ("He remind me about Fujiomi. At that time, I’m also afraid to him. He is like Fujiomi. I must apologize to him") Chizumi followed Komuro but she’s still hesitated and kept walking behind Komuro.
    Komuro shouted,"HOW LONG WILL YOU FOLLOW ME?".
Chizumi was surprised and fell to the pond beside her. Komuro tried to help her but he also fell down to the pond.
At an office, Komuro and Chizumi were trying to make their clothes dry.
    "It’s lucky to have a washing machine here. I have to work in a café, I hope the clothes will be dry. Sorry, I give you trouble, I’m so careless…."
    "Fussy!"
    "Sorry.."
    "You keep talking, can’t you be quiet?"
Chizumi became quiet at once Komuro felt a little guilty.
    "Who are you?"
    "Sorry?"
    "What’s your name?"
    "Chizumi Shinohara"
    "I’m Seichiro Komuro"

Chizumi’s friends came to the café again. This time, they took Mochizuki with them.
    "By the way, I haven’t seen him for a long time"
    "Yeahh, that careless’ boyfriend, I bet he hasn’t changed at all"
    "Chizumi’s boyfriend?", Mochizuki asked them.
    " Yes, he….."
    " Ah, there he is", Chizumi’s friends pointed at Fujiomi who was entering the café and talking to Chizumi. Mochizuki looked at him and he felt that he couldn’t win from Fujiomi. He left the café at once but he forgot to take his bag, so Chizumi chased him.

    "Mochizuki, this is yours", Chizumi gave the bag to him. Mochizuki looked at her hatefully and grabbed the bag.
    "Don’t pretend to be kind. I just approached you because if you were mine, I would get my car back. If not, I wouldn’t want to be your friend. I never thought you has had a boyfriend, an ugly girl like you!", Chizumi felt a stone hit her head.
    "I don’t need you anymore. Go away! If I have known this since the beginning, I wouldn’t be nice to you!". Suddenly, Mochizuki’s cloth was grabbed by Fujiomi.
    " Take back your words", said Fujiomi.
    "Let me go, this is the reality, what’s wrong with that?"
    "Apologize to her!"
    "You’re also senseless, what’s good is she? I’m going home"
But Fujiomi stopped Mochizuki and slapped him. Mochizuki was pushed to the wall and fell down.
    "Fujiomi!", Chizumi was surprised.
    "Let’s go", Fujiomi took Chizumi back and left Mochizuki.

Mochizuki was angry but he knew that he couldn’t defeat Fujiomi alone, then he remembered about the boys who also want to make revenge to Fujiomi. He looked for the boys and made a plan.
    "I heard your conversation yesterday, you want to beat Fujiomi, don’t you?".
    "But he is too strong, although there were five of us, we still lost"
Mochizuki asked the boys to use their boss to defeat Fujiomi.
    "And also use his brother", said Mochizuki.
    "His brother?", asked the boys.
    "Yes, Seichiro Komuro".

At the college, Chizumi wanted to go to the café but it’s raining.
    "It’s raining, I have to run to the café".
    "How about going with me? Your café is around here, isn’t it?", said Komuro and opened his umbrella.
    "Komuro", Chizumi looked at him for a couple of times.
    ("Wow, I never thought he will be so kind! ")
    "DO YOU WANT TO GO OR NOT?", Komuro shouted at her.
    "So….sorry. Yes, I want".

    "Komuro is……frightening" Chizumi was in the changing room at her café.
She remembered Mayumi and Mochizuki’s words.
    "If you didn’t take the bag, it wouldn’t be scratched".
    "An ugly girl like you".
    ("Why…since I got in the university, I always get bad things").
    "…….", Chizumi spinned her head
    ("Don’t be like this, the most important thing now is to keep working as good as I can").
Then Chizumi went out from the room and started to work.

Komuro was in that café but he forgot to take his umbrella inside. Chizumi went out to take the umbrella but someone has taken it.
    "Please give the umbrella back. That’s belong to our guest", said Chizumi to the man.
But the man didn’t listen to her, he kept looking at the umbrella.
    "It’s okay, he is my brother, Chizumi", said Komuro who followed her out.
    "Yoshiaki",said Komuro.
    "Oh it’s you, bro. So it is really your umbrella", said Yoshiaki.
    "Sorry, I don’t know", said Chizumi.
    "It’s okay, is she your friend, bro?"
    "Huh? Yes, it’s something like that"
    "Is she Senior High School?"
    "No, I…."
    "Ah, Junior High School, isn’t it?"
    "No, no, I am….."
    "Elementary School?", Chizumi’s head was hit by a spaceship.
    Komuro smiled,"Don’t talk like that, she is my junior in university"
    "WHAT??? So she is older than me ??", Yoshiaki was surprised.
Komuro took him inside.
    ("This is the first time I saw Komuro smiled"), Chizumi smiled .

Komuro and his brother sat in the café. Chizumi brought the drinks and then left them.
    "By the way Brother, just now, my men came and told that they were beaten by a conceited man. Did I have to help them? That man is Fujiomi from the north school".
Meanwhile, Mochizuki and the boys were planning to use Fukunishi, their vice leader to make sure that their boss will not be suspicious.

    "Actually, I promised to meet Fujiomi at the station but I have arrived here", said Chizumi in front of Fujiomi’s house.
Sho, Fujiomi’s brother saw Chizumi from the second floor.
    He knocked Fujiomi’s room,"Hey, Kou! What are you doing?", Sho opened the door.
    "This shirt is too big, I want to change it"said Fujiomi.
Sho closed the door then he called Chizumi to go upstairs and asked her to be quiet. In front of Fujiomi’s room, Sho pulled Chizumi and shouted,
    "KOU! Chizumi comes to pick you up!".
He pushed Chizumi inside the room. Fujiomi was taking off his shirt when Chizumi was pushed in.
    "KYAA!",Chizumi shouted.
    "Got it", Sho smiled.
    "BROTHER!", Fujiomi shouted at Sho, his face was red.

    "Sorry, I made a noise",said Chizumi.
They have left Fujiomi’s house.
    "Me too",said Fujiomi then he smiled,"…at last, my brother has gotten his part".
At his home, Sho was smiling with a Band-Aid on his head.
    "In my college, there was a man who is like you. It’s not the face, which is similar but…..everytime I see him, I was remembered when I met you at the first time in Senior High School",said Chizumi to Fujiomi.

Then they met Yoshiaki. He was thinking about Fujiomi and didn’t watch his steps, he fell down and hit Chizumi.   
    "Sorry, I’m careless", said Yoshiaki, then Yoshiaki looked at Chizumi and Fujiomi, and smiled.
    "Is that your friend?", asked Fujiomi when Yoshiaki has gone.
    "He is brother of the man that I told you just now. His name is Komuro", said Chizumi.
    "……Komuro?".
    "Wow, she has a boyfriend like that? That man is quite good", said Yoshiaki to himself.
Suddenly, Fukunishi stopped him.
    "Hey, your men came to me and asked me to do something with Fujiomi, to replace you"
    "Wait a minute! I just wanted to check the truth about their words"
    "That’s because you didn’t believe them, but I trusted them. Just tell me that you are afraid of Fujiomi"
    "WHAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
    "If not, you have finished him since the beginning"
    "??????"
    "Don’t you know? The man that you met just before is Fujiomi"
Yoshiaki was very surprised but Fukunishi didn’t care and continued to tease him.
    "Coward! You didn’t suit to be the boss"
    Yoshiaki became angry,"You’ll see later".

At the college’s restaurant, Chizumi was taking her food on a tray and looking for a place to sit down. But someone touched her hand and made the glass fell down. The water inside it spilled on the head of a man who was sitting near Chizumi. That man was Komuro.
    "Sorry, I always give you trouble", said Chizumi to Komuro who was washing his head.
    "This is the towel", Chizumi gave the towel to Komuro.
    Komuro took the towel, "Water always makes me unlucky".
(" Komuro………he isn’t angry")
    "Take the food. You want to eat, don’t you?", said Komuro.

Komuro sat and watched Chizumi ate the food. He was thinking about the conversation he had with his brother yesterday.
    "Tomorrow, we will confront Fujiomi. You don’t need to come"
    "Are you sure that they tell the truth?"
    "Yes, Fukunishi has teased me, just wait and see, he will know it later"
    "Is that so?"
    "By the way, do you know? Chizumi is Fujiomi’s girlfriend!"

    Then he spoke to Chizumi, "Chizumi, my brother said that he met you yesterday. You were with a man at that time"
    "Yes, he is my boyfriend, his name is Fujiomi. I am thinking that Komuro and Fujiomi were similar"
    "Similar? With me?"
    "You made me afraid at the first time, but then you suddenly apologize. I thought that you never smiled but it appears that you are kind. It’s different from the first look", said Chizumi smiling.

Fujiomi went out from his college and met the boys, they asked Fujiomi to follow them. Meanwhile, Chizumi was called by Mayumi.
    "You are working to pay my bag, don’t you?"
    "Yes……"
    "LISTEN! I don’t want to accept that!"
    "I…."
    "I don’t have any reason to accept it, why do you do that thing?"
At that time, Komuro passed them and listened to them.
    "It’s my fault to drop the bag. You were protecting my bag from those bad boys, so it’s not your fault if the bag was scratched. You’re so stupid to keep my words at that time. I…I apologize. I heard that you are a careless person and can’t do anything. But, I can fell your effort".
Then Mayumi walked away.
    Chizumi looked at her back and smiled,"Thank you"

Back to Fujiomi. Yoshiaki, Fukunishi and the boys were standing in front of him.
    "Did they say what they have done?", asked Fujiomi to Yoshiaki and Fukunishi.
    "Don’t believe him! He wants to trap us, we didn’t do anything", said the boys.
    "Yeah, I also agree", said Mochizuki.
    "Who are you?", asked Fukunishi.
    "A witness! He is truly a bad guy. I saw it by myself".
Yoshiaki is still hesitated but Fukunishi teased him again, he became angry and both of them attacked Fujiomi. Meanwhile, Mayumi came to Chizumi and told that Komuro called her and asked about the bag’s event.

    "Wait..!"Fujiomi tried to explain but they kept attacking.
    "I hit them because they took other person’s bag!", Fujiomi jumped and kicked Fukunishi.
Yoshiaki swung his punch.
    "I just wanted to take it back", Fujiomi grabbed Yoshiaki’s hand and threw him to the ground.
Even both of them can’t defeat Fujiomi so the boys and Mochizuki wanted to help them.
    "STOP IT!", suddenly Komuro came and stopped the fighting.

    He looked at Fujiomi then turned to Yoshiaki, "Yoshiaki, it looks like that you were deceived by the boys. It’s true that he hit them because they took other person’s bag. I met the witness".
Yoshiaki and Fukunishi were surprised, they became angry. The boys were afraid and ran away.
    "Hey, forgive me".
    "I’ll come again later", said Yoshiaki and Fukunishi to Fujiomi then they chased the boys.
    "Hey boss! I’m sorry. You are better than me in estimating people", said Fukunishi to Yoshiaki when they were chasing the boys.

Fujiomi and Komuro were left together. Fujiomi looked at him.
    "Komuro from the east school, isn’t it? Thanks"
    "It’s true that I hated you years ago. And so is now, there is one more thing that made me didn’t like you. Do you know something? When I knew that she was your girlfriend, I was very surprised. We’ve never fought before but now I want hit your face", Komuro grabbed Fujiomi’s shirt,"How about that?".
    "Uhm……", Fujiomi didn’t say anything.
Komuro released Fujiomi’s shirt and swung his hand. They started fighting.

After Mayumi told her that Komuro’s brother were deceived by the boys and wanted to confront Fujiomi, Chizumi ran to their place. She passed the boys who managed to escape from their boss. The boys didn’t see her, they were afraid of punishment, then they saw Mochizuki who also ran.
    "This is all because of him", said the boys angrily and approached Mochizuki.

Although they were fighting, Komuro and Fujiomi were both smiled when they stopped for a while. When they wanted to continue it again, Chizumi came,"FUJIOMI!".
    She was on the bridge above them,"What are you both doing?". Suddenly the bridge’s pillar broke down and Chizumi fell down.
    "Watch out!", shouted Fujiomi.
There were sharp-edged boards under Chizumi. Fujiomi dashed and pushed the boards, Komuro managed to catch Chizumi but her bag fell down on Komuro. Komuro fell down, Chizumi was thrown and then caught by Fujiomi.

    Komuro looked at Chizumi who was still lying on the ground then he smiled, "She always follows you".
    After resting for a while,"Fujiomi, Komuro, thank you. …I understand why Komuro chased the boys, but why did you both fight each other?", said Chizumi.
    "It’s……nice to meet you", said Komuro and looked at Fujiomi.
    ("That’s just an introduction?").
    "I want to go home now, bye", Komuro left them.
    Chizumi talked to Fujiomi when Komuro has already gone,"I don’t know the reason why you fought each other. Being a man was very lucky. If I were a man, I wanted to be as strong as Komuro and challenged Fujiomi!"

    Fujiomi looked at her then clapped his hand and smiled, "Come on! I’ll accept your challenge!". Chizumi stunned for a while then she smiled and ran to Fujiomi.

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