Hana Yori Dango Vol.26, P.110-135 P.110 (Tsukushi sits in her room, hugging a pillow) Tsukushi: I know that nothing will be solved if I run away. Tsukushi: I'll just have to accept these things that don't seem like me. mother: Tsukushi! You have a phone call! P.111 (Tsukushi sits in a cafe waiting for someone) Tsukushi: ... Ah. P.112 (Amon sits down) Amon: Sorry, have you been waiting long? Tsukushi: Uh-uh, I just came myself. Amon: (to the waiter) I'll have the blend. Tsukushi: So what did you want to talk to me about? Tsukushi: I know that you've given me a lot of advice recently, but--- Amon: Let me guess. It's bad for us to meet like this? Was that what you were going to say? P.113 Amon: Worried that Tsukasa might get the wrong idea? Tsukushi: ......! Amon: How's it going between you two? Tsukushi: Owch! (Tsukushi puts down her drink, and looks at her hand) Amon: Did you burn yourself? Let me see. Tsukushi: It's fine. Amon: Nevermind, let me take a look at it. P.114 (Amon touches Tsukushi's hand to his lips) Tsukushi: Amon...! Amon: Shh! Amon: Near the windows, sitting by herself, Amon: there's a woman reading a newspaper. Amon: If you look far to your left, you can see her. P.115 Amon: Just take a quick glance. (Tsukushi looks briefly at the woman Amon referred to) Tsukushi: ........ Who is she? Amon: One of the Doumyouji family's SPs. P.116 Amon: Last night I got a call, asking me when I was going to see you next. Amon: I told them today, and they've been following me since morning. Tsukushi: They're going this far...? Tsukushi: I can't believe it. Amon: So? What happened with that guy afterwards? Tsukushi: He... Tsukushi: wants me to go to New York with him. P.117 Amon: New York, eh...? Amon: Must be rough living in this sort of atmosphere. Amon: All because you fell in love with a person from that troublesome world. Amon: Are you scared...? Amon: Still, this is the path you've chosen. Amon: You have no choice but to follow it. P.118 Tsukushi: Thrills & suspense!! Isn't that nice?! Tsukushi: Romance thrives on this sort of adventure, I suppose. Tsukushi: But I'd rather be without it, personally............ (as Tsukushi sits at the top of the emergency stairway brooding, Rui appears behind her) Rui: You have "reiki" floating around you. Tsukushi: Ha-Hanazawa Rui. Rui: It's been a while since I've seen you here. P.119 Tsukushi: Yeah, I needed to clear my head. Rui: (smiling) I see. Tsukushi: It still comforts me somehow, just to be near Hanazawa Rui... Rui: Oh yeah. Rui: Did something with happen between you and Tsukasa? (Tsukushi's heart jumps out of her chest) Tsukushi: I-I don't know! Why do you ask? Rui: He's been weird lately. He grins a lot. P.120 Tsukushi: That idiot is going to blow our cover! Tsukushi: B-but isn't he a-always a little strange?? Rui: Are you going out with that Tsukasa lookalike now? Tsukushi: Um, Tsukushi: er... ehhhh, I don't know if you'd call it dating exactly. Rui: Well, I guess it can't be helped. Rui: Dating Tsukasa is like "Don Quixote". Tsukushi: "Dawn Kihotay"...? Rui: I'm referring to fighting an enemy you can't see. (Tsukushi pictures herself shadowboxing with a pair of evil-looking eyes looming behind her) P.121 Tsukushi: That description... is pretty accurate. Tsukushi: I experienced it yesterday. Rui: Hey, if you're looking for a change of pace, Rui: why don't you come to Akira's house today? Soujirou told me to invite you. Tsukushi: Mimasaka-san's house? Rui: They told me that they're not inviting Tsukasa, so don't worry. Rui: You should visit it at least once. Rui: Akira's house is a very interesting place. Rui: It'll help you understand him a little better. Tsukushi: Hanazawa Rui... P.122 (Tsukushi and Rui walk through a garden of roses) Tsukushi: I really want to tell you everything that's happened. Tsukushi: You're the one who's always been there for me during difficult times... Tsukushi: Wh... what an amazing garden. I feel like I'm in a picture book. Tsukushi: Wow, there's even rose arches! Rui: This is his mother's hobby. Tsukushi: What does Mimasaka-san's family do? Rui: They own a large trading company. Tsukushi: Huh... Everybody's so rich. (they enter the main house) P.123 Rui: Good afternoon. servant: Ah, welcome Hanazawa-sama. I'll go summon the young master. Tsukushi: This house is so nice... pardon me. (a small hand pulls at the coat of Tsukushi's uniform) P.124 (Two identical little girls stare up at her. Eerie, they look like porcelain dolls... =/) little girl: Who are you? Rui: Those are Akira's little sisters. (Akira himself comes down the stairs) Akira: Ah, you're here. sisters: Big brother! (the little girls run over and latch onto him) Akira: Hey, cut it out! You two were hugging me just a short while ago! sisters: But we want to hug you more! sisters: Come to Spain with us! sister1: Emu doesn't want to be parted from big brother! sister2: Memu doesn't want to either! Rui: (to Tsukushi) It's like this every morning when he goes to school. Tsukushi: ...... P.125 (the weeping little girls, Emu and Memu, hang onto their brother desperately) Akira: Are you done laughing yet, Makino? (Tsukushi tries to restrain herself) Tsukushi: ... Sorry. Soujirou: ........ There's something even more surprising to come. voice: Emu! Memu! (a girl, who looks like an older version of the young twins, enters the room giggling) girl: Ah, I figured they'd be with you Akira-kun. Tsukushi: (to Akira) Is she you sister too? [sh-she's so cute] girl: [Emu, Memu, come here] Akira: That's my mother. P.126 Tsukushi: Your mother?! Mrs. Mimasaka: Oh, I don't think we've met. How do you do? Tsukushi: (bowing) H...hello! It's nice to meet you! Mrs. Mimasaka: [heehee] This is the first time that Akira-kun has invited a girl over! Mrs. Mimasaka: (to Akira) So, are you sure you don't want to come on the trip with us? Akira: I'm not going. Have fun, and say hello to father for me. [shoo shoo] Emu: Noo, I want brother to go! Mrs. Mimasaka: Alright. We have to go now, to be in time for the flight. Mrs. Mimasaka: Take care of the house for me. Mrs. Mimasaka: Have fun everyone. Memu: [nooo, brother!] (they leave the room) Tsukushi: Wh...what a lovely mother you have. Akira: Don't force yourself Makino. P.127 (he glares at her) Akira: She's 38 now. She had me when she was 20. Tsukushi: [scary] Tsukushi: You mean she's not your step-mother? She's your actual mother?! Akira: Yeah, strange but true. [sigh] Soujirou: Do you understand now why Akira prefers older women? (I think this preference has to do with desiring a greater maturity level, rather than some sort of Freudian mother complex) Tsukushi: Yeesh... Tsukushi: I guess I understand... But I'd still prefer her to my own mother. Tsukushi: So you have twin sisters... Tsukushi: What about you, Nishikado-san? Do you have any siblings? Soujirou: Me? I have an older and a younger brother. Tsukushi: Hm... Three brothers, huh. Soujirou: My older brother left the house to become a doctor a while ago. Tsukushi: ........ It's strange. All this time I really knew nothing about these two. P.128 Soujirou: ... Anyway, enough of that conversation. Soujirou: There's a reason we invited you here today. Akira: That's right!! We want to introduce you to a new breed of roses! Tsukushi: Roses? Soujirou: Do you like flowers? Tsukushi: ... Flowers? Soujirou: All girls like flowers, right?? Tsukushi: Um.. Akira: And this is a very unusual breed of black rose!! Tsukushi: Black rose? (Soujirou and Akira grabs Tsukushi's arms) Soujirou: Let's go right now. It's in the greenhouse extension of the guest house. Soujirou: [Rui, you wait here]. P.129 (the two guys drag Tsukushi across the lawn) Tsukushi: Hey! I'm perfectly capable of walking on my own! Tsukushi: This... is the guest house? Tsukushi: It looks like a normal home. Akira: My mother wanted a cottage style building, so she had this built. (Tsukushi enters the greenhouse extension) Tsukushi: Wow.. amazing. Tsukushi: Is a black rose that rare? Tsukushi: I don't know much about flowers. (she hears the door shut loudly and lock behind her) P.130 Tsukushi: ... Hey. (she pulls at the door handle) Tsukushi: What are you doing?! Tsukushi: Let me out of here! Akira: The black rose is in there. You'll see it soon enough. Tsukushi: Quit screwing around, and open this door! Souhirou: We'll come back to open it tomorrow morning. Have fun! Tsukushi: T...tomorrow morning?! Tsukushi: What on earth?! P.131 Tsukushi: What the hell are you two thinking?!? Soujirou: (to Akira) So, do you feel like going out somewhere? Akira: Sounds good. Where do you wanna go? (Tsukushi leans against the greenhouse door panting) Tsukushi: It couldn't be...... (she turns around, and sees Doumyouji gagged and tied to a chair near one of the greenhouse walls) P.132 Tsukushi: [uwaah!] Tsukushi: I should've known...! (she runs over and unties him) Tsukushi: Wh-what are you doing here? Doumyouji: How should I know?? Those two kidnapped me and brought me here. Tsukushi: Wh...what can they be thinking?? Tsukushi: I'm going to go look for an exit. (Doumyouji rubs his neck) Doumyouji: ... Owch. Doumyouji: That door is the only way out of here. Tsukushi: ........ But, it's locked. Doumyouji: Then it won't open. P.133 Tsukushi: ... It won't open? Do you intend to be stuck in here all night? Doumyouji: Can't be helped. Doumyouji: I don't really mind though. (he rubs his wrists) Duomyouji: ... What the hell? If those two had just told me what they were planning from the start, they wouldn't have had to tie me up. P.134 (Tsukushi holds up the ropes) Tsukushi: Er... I think I'll tie you up again. Doumyouji: Are you stupid?! Tsukushi: ........ But, this way-- Tsukushi: My heart isn't ready-- Doumyouji: Whatever... If I waited for you to be "ready", you'd just run away. Tsukushi: He read me like a book... Tsukushi: ........ P.135 (Doumyouji kisses Tsukushi's forehead) Tsukushi: ........ Wait. Tsukushi: ... Dou... Doumyouji: ... You don't seem to understand. Doumyouji: That expression on your face provokes me. (he kisses her)