Hana Yori Dango Vol., P.54-104 P.54 Tsukushi: It slowly approaches, Tsukushi: the day of the deciding battle. P.55 Tsubaki: What is this?! I come home after a long absence, and this idiocy is what I find waiting for me?? Tsubaki: Where's Tama-san?! (Tama appears behind her) Tama: Welcome home, Tsubaki-sama. P.56 Tama: Must you make such a racket the moment you arrive? Tsubaki: But what the hell is going on around here?! (she gestures at all the men in black suits standing near the entrance) Tsubaki: What's with all these depressing looking guys hanging out in the foyer?? Tsubaki: Are we expecting a guerilla attack?! Tama: ............ They're here to prevent the young master from slipping out in the middle of the night. Tsubaki: Why?! It's not unusual for him to go out at night! Tama: Recently he's been leaving late at night and not coming back until early morning. Tsubaki: Are you in charge here, Misawa?! P.57 Misawa: Welcome home, Tsubaki-sama. (she pops him one in the chin) Misawa: [agh] Tsubaki: Don't give me that! (he backs away from her) Misawa: We received instructions from the president to keep a thorough watch here. [owch] Tsubaki: A watch?! What for?? Tsubaki: Don't tell me this is about Tsukushi-chan again?! Tama: Young mistress, where are you going? Tsubaki: I'm going to see Tsukasa! (she storms down the hallway) Tsubaki: This is ridiculous, Tsubaki: trying to tear those two apart in this way. Tsubaki: It was the same in my case, Tsubaki: the incessant surveillance. P.58 Tsubaki: And besides, Tsukusa is Tsukasa! It was his fault for not paying attention that that lookalike took Tsukushi-chan away! (she opens one door roughly) Tsubaki: And mother is way too persistant! Why can't she just leave them alone?! (then throws open another) Tsubaki: Geez, everyone in this house is the same! (she kicks open another door) Tsukushi: Tama-san! Just where the hell is Tsukasa sleeping these days anyway?!! Tama: No one in this house ever listens to me. They always act so recklessly. Tama: (to Tsubaki) He's staying on the other side of the house, in the east wing. P.59 (Tsubaki throws open the door to Tsukasa's room) Tsubaki: Tsukasa! Tsubaki: Your big sister is feeling sorry for herself! Why didn't you tell me you were being hounded by all these SPs?! (she yanks the blanket off the lump on the bed) Tsukushi: Hey, wake up you! (Tsubaki and Tama stare at a couple of pillows lying where Doumyouji's body should have been) Tama: ........ It would appear that he's gone out the window. P.60 (out on the street, Tsukushi pulls out her ringing cell phone and puts it to her ear) Tsukushi: Hello? Tsukushi: Oh, mama? Uhuh, I'm on my way back from the bathhouse now. Tsukushi: What about Susumu? Tsukushi: He fell asleep there? Ok, just let him stay over there tonight. Tsukushi: Got it. You'll make his bento tomorrow morning then? Tsukushi: Uhuh, I'm doing fine. It's alright, I have another key to the window. Tsukushi: Ok, talk to you later. (she hangs up the phone, and turns a corner) voice: Yes. voice: She hasn't returned yet. P.61 (Tsukushi sees the back of an SP, watching her apartment building and talking on an intercom) SP: We've surrounded the area. SP: Yes. (Tsukushi listens in shock) SP: We also have several men positioned around Mimasaka, Nishikado, and Hanazawa's houses. SP: Yes, I understand. (she quickly turns back around the corner, and leans against the fence with her heart pounding) {b-bump b-bump b-bump b-bump} Tsukushi: ............ P.62 Tsukushi: What am I going to do?? Tsukushi: Doumyouji's coming........! (speak of the devil, Doumyouji is sitting in the back of his car, being driven over) P.63 Doumyouji: Turn left here. driver: The streets in this neighborhood are quite narrow, aren't they? (suddenly Tsukushi runs out in front of the car) (the driver puts on the brakes as fast as he can, and the car screeches to a halt right in front of her) P.64 Doumyouji: ... Oww. (Doumyouji holds his forehead, which just slammed into the seat in front of him) driver: [phew] (A hand slams against the window next to Doumyouji. He looks up and sees Tsukushi staring at him frantically.) Doumyouji: There are SPs stationed in front of your apartment?! Doumyouji: Those guys are so stubborn. P.65 Doumyouji: I'm gonna go over there and teach them a lesson! (Tsukushi does a "cork screw kick" into his head) Doumyouji: Just what are we supposed to do then? Should we go over to Rui's or Akira's? (she grabs his arm) Tsukushi: No good, no good! Their houses are surrounded too! Doumyouji: ...... Hey you-- Doumyouji: Your skin feels really cold. Doumyouji: How long have you been waiting out here? Tsukushi: .......... About an hour and a half, I guess. Doumyouji: Are you an idiot?! P.66 Doumyouji: Anyway, let's go. Tsukushi: Go where?! Doumyouji: To a hotel. Tsukushi: Ehh?? No way! Doumyouji: What are you thinking about?? Tsukushi: B-but, you promise you won't do anything? Doumyouji: Do anything........ Doumyouji: Of course I'm going to do something. [moron] Tsukushi: [yeee] Doumyouji: I'm kidding, moron. Doumyouji: But now that I think about it, I'd have to use a credit card to get a hotel room. They'd be able to track us really easily then. Doumyouji: Anyway, let's just go somewhere at least. P.67 (a short time later, Tsukushi stares bug-eyed out of the open car door at a familiar mansion) Tsukushi: (to Doumyouji) I... I'd like to take a look at your brain. Doumyouji: Go inside the gate, then approach the corner room of the east wing from the back side. Tsukushi: What are we doing at Doumyouji central? Doumyouji: This is the safest place, since most of the SPs are busy elsewhere. Doumyouji: I'll go to the entrance and draw their attention there. Seeya later. P.68 Tsukushi: This is so audacious! (Tsukushi thinks back to the time when she worked inside the Doumyouji house) ~maids: No one wants to go near the young master's room. ~maids: We're all really grateful to you for doing the cleaning there, Makino-sama. Tsukushi: When I think about it, this is the safest place. Tsukushi: B...but still-- (Tsukushi slithers between the hedges on her stomach miserably, wearing a silly looking camaflouge headband and toting her toiletries on her head) Tsukushi: Why do I have to return to the Doumyouji mansion like this?? P.69 (in the foyer meanwhile) Misawa: Tsukasa-sama. Misawa: Welcome home. May I ask where you've been? Doumyouji: A convenience store. Misawa: A con...convenience store?? Misawa: You went to a convenience store? Doumyouji: Misawa, Doumyouji: do you find it interesting following me around all the time? Misawa: Well, Misawa: it is my job. Doumyouji: I see. (he cracks his knuckles) Doumyouji: Then let's make this part of your job too. (Misawa's eyes turn to dots) P.70 {CRASH} Misawa: [kyaaa] [young master, please stop!] (Tsukushi is still making her way along the grass) Tsukushi: Kyaa, he's using violence! (Tsukushi's looking really miserable) Tsukushi: Aaah, just after I took a bath too! Tsukushi: I think this is the corner room of the east wing. (she climbs up the balcony weakly) Tsukushi: I'm... Tsukushi: so tired. Tsukushi: [this house is too big] (Doumyouji comes out onto the balcony, and takes one look at Tsukushi's dirty face) P.71 Doumyouji: Bwaha--! (she throws her toiletries at him) Tsukushi: Don't laugh! (he helps her up) Tsukushi: It's because they are security cameras all over the place! Doumyouji: [hehe] I'll get you a change of clothes. (Tsukushi takes a look around the room, while Doumyouji sifts through his closet) Doumyouji: A pair of shorts would probably do the trick. Tsukushi: It feels like a long time since I breathed this air. (he hands her the clothes) Doumyouji: Change in the bathroom. Tsukushi: Ah, thanks. P.72 (Tsukushi washes her face in the bathroom sink) Tsukushi: Even though it wasn't so very long ago that I was last here, Tsukushi: the me now is completely different from the me back then. (she looks at herself in the mirror) Tsukushi: I was more honest and straighforward at that time. (I think that's what she's saying, but it could be the reverse) P.73 Tsukushi: Um... (Doumyouji looks up) Tsukushi: ... Don't you think these clothes are a little large for me? (she stands before him in one of his shirts and a pair of his shorts, which are both about 10 sizes too big for her) (He stares at her expressionless for a moment, then snorts in laughter. She throws a pillow at him.) Tsukushi: Don't laugh! Tsukushi: [ah!] Is it ok for us to be talking this loudly?! Doumyouji: I more or less threw a tantrum on the porch, so everyone will be afraid to come near me for a while. Doumyouji: Still, (he smiles at her) Doumyouji: I like that outfit on you. P.74 Doumyouji: (grinning) It's extremely cute. (Tsukushi tries to change the subject) Tsukushi: S-so, you've been sleeping in this room lately? Doumyouji: Yeah, it's easier to slip out of here in the middle of the night without being seen. Tsukushi: I knew it, I was out of my mind last night. (she pictures herself rolling around on Doumyouji's futon, asleep and singing) ~Tsukushi: [neen korori, kororin] Tsukushi: Being wrapped in these clothes that smell so much like him, Tsukushi: I'm gradually coming back to my senses. Doumyouji: So-- P.75 Doumyouji: do you want to sleep together? (Tsukushi freaks out, and goes into psycho-hyper mode) Tsukushi: Eh? That's ok, I'm not sleepy at all!!! Tsukushi: [yahooo!] (she starts swinging her limbs around like a monkey) Tsukushi: In fact, I feel like dancing all night long! Tsukushi: [these baggy clothes are pretty hiphop, dontcha think??] Doumyouji: [why are you dancing?] Doumyouji: Makino. (she freezes) P.76 Doumyouji: Have you grown sick of dating me? Doumyouji: We have to sneak around all the time, Doumyouji: we can't walk around outside like most people do. P.77 Doumyouji: Do you feel like quitting? Tsukushi: ...... I suppose there's some truth to what you're saying. Tsukushi: I've had to avoid people's eyes in the middle of the night, and do things like crawling through the dirt right after taking a bath. Tsukushi: Sometimes I wonder why I have to go through so much hardship. P.78 Tsukushi: But I've grown to need you too. Tsukushi: So I'm not sick of it at all. Tsukushi: {giggle} I must be out of my mind. (he takes her wrists and pull her towards him) P.79 (they kiss) Tsukushi: Because I love you, Tsukushi: so much that it's painful. P.80 (Yuuki bursts out onto a rooftop in the early morning. Tokyo Tower can be seen in the distance.) P.81 (She leans over, out of breath, then looks up and around. Then she grips the safety railing around the rooftop in frustration) Yuuki: Just what is it... Yuuki: that I'm supposed to be able to see from here? P.82 ~Soujirou: I wonder what it was she wanted to show me? ~Soujirou: Even now I still don't know. (Yuuki lays her map on the ground, and spreads it out) Yuuki: This is the last of the buildings that you can climb up to the roof at dawn and see Tokyo Tokyo. Yuuki: What am I supposed to be seeing? P.83 Yuuki: I don't understand... Tsukushi: When I recall that time, Tsukushi: the words Yuuki said to me Tsukushi: echo in my ears, Tsukushi: distantly within the nervousness. P.84 Tsukushi: If you love him it should be natural. (Doumyouji's hands reach up Tsukushi's back) Tsukushi: Hya. Tsukushi: That tickles. (he takes hold of the clasp on her bra) (Tsukushi's eyes widen as she realizes where this is going) P.85 Tsukushi: Waa! (her hands clasp onto his shirt tightly) Tsukushi: My... my head is feeling funny. (he lays her down on the bed and kisses her neck) P.86 (then begins to open her shirt) Tsukushi: Ah, no, I'll do it myself. (she kisses him) Tsukushi: If we continue like this (Doumyouji starts to pull his shirt over his head, while Tsukushi watches him fearfully) Tsukushi: i...it'll be okay. Tsukushi: I won't regre... P.87 (he throws his shirt off and eyes her unwaveringly) (Tsukushi looks up in alarm as he leans down again) P.88 (Doumyouji kisses her behind the ear) Tsukushi: ... Ah! Tsukushi: Oh no, what should I do? Tsukushi: I'm so afraid...! Tsukushi: Do-Doumyouji. Tsukushi: No more, I've reached my limit. Doumyouji: ...... Limit? Doumyouji: It's too late to be saying that now. (his hand reaches beneath her bra) Tsukushi: N...no! P.89 Tsukushi: Stop. Tsukushi: Please stop. Tsukushi: Does everyone really do this?! Tsukushi: Seriously??! Tsukushi: Now even greater than the feeling of love, Tsukushi: is the feeling of fear. (Doumyouji looks down at her face) P.90 (Tsukushi is crying with one hand against her mouth) Doumyouji: ... Hey, what are you crying for? (and out of nowhere, Tsubaki throws open the door and bursts into the room) Tsubaki: Tsukasa, so you've finally come home! (she sees her shirtless brother leaning over a girl on the bed) P.91 (and walks right back out the door and shuts it) Tsubaki: Pardon me. (Tsubaki stands outside of the door computing mentally) Tsubaki: ......... (after a moment she registers the girl's tearful face looking up at her from the bed) Tsubaki: Tsu-- Tsubaki: Tsukushi-cha...? P.92 (Tsubaki storms back into the room on a warpath. In front of her is written her train of logic, "half-naked girl --> tears --> rape?!".) Tsubaki: Tsukasa... Tsukasa: What the hell are you doing in here again?! (she slaps him across the face) Tsubaki: When did you become the type of guy to force yourself on a girl?!! (she slaps him around some more) Tsukushi: Er, Tsukushi: that's not... P.93 (Tsukushi holds her shirt closed and protests weakly through the clamor) Tsukushi: That's not what happened... (Doumyouji leans back in a chair irritably) Doumyouji: Ouch......! Doumyouji: That hurt. P.94 Tsubaki: Is it true? Is it really true? Tsubaki: It's not a lie? You're really dating Tsukasa?! Tsukushi: (embarrassed) Yes. Tsukushi: [I can't believe she saw us like that...] (Tsubaki jumps up into the air) Tsubaki: [KYAAAA!] Doumyouji: What are you squealing for, you bimbo?? (Tsubaki wipes the tears from her eyes with sparkles all around her) Tsubaki: I'm so happy that tears are coming out. (meanwhile another Tsubaki does a flying kick into Doumyouji's head) Tsukushi: I'm sorry. Tsukushi: I wanted to tell you earlier, but-- P.95 Tsubaki: (hugging Tsukushi) No, it's ok. Tsubaki: You made a good choice. Tsubaki: Thank you, Tsukushi-chan. Tsukushi: Tsubaki-san... (tears well up in Tsukushi's eyes... ack, no more crying please) Tsubaki: ........ [oh?] Tsubaki: I guess I came in at a really inopportune time earlier? (Doumyouji looks grumpy, and Tsukushi's face turns red) P.96 Tsukushi: ........ No, I don't think so. Tsubaki: Those were frightened tears, weren't they? Doumyouji: (surprised) Frightened? (Tsukushi is even more embarrassed at Tsubaki's correct assertion) Tsubaki: Tsukasa, I can understand why you might want to hurry, but try to be a little more patient. (Doumyouji looks away grumpily) Tsubaki: Don't sulk! Tsukushi: I'm sorry. Tsukushi: I may have led him on a little. P.97 Tsukushi: But then I just got so scared... Tsukushi: I really was frightened. Tsukushi: The Doumyouji who's always such a brat, Tsukushi: suddenly turned into a man. Doumyouji: I'm not especially in a rush or anything. Tsukushi: Uhuh. [but even if you say that--] Doumyouji: I guess it can't be helped. P.98 Doumyouji: I can't think of anyone else but you, Doumyouji: so I'll just have to wait. Tsubaki: (slapping him over the head) Well said! Doumyouji: Ouch! Tsubaki: Nicely put, little bro!! Tsubaki: (to Tsukushi) Let's drink up tonight!! I've brought home really good 20 year old wine. Tsubaki: Tomorrow morning I'll help you to escape. P.99 (Tsubaki tramps out of the room) Doumyouji: You really are glad my older sister interrupted us, aren't you? Tsukushi: Of course I am. (she walks over to his chair and kisses him) Tsukushi: Spoiled brat, Tsukushi: little boy, Tsukushi: grown man. P.100 Tsukushi: He really does show me a lot of different faces. Tsukushi: It may take me 5 years. Doumyouji: ?! Doumyouji: [are you kidding me?? 5 years?!] Tsukushi: I'll learn to love all his faces. Tsukushi: Because I'm trying. P.101 Tsukushi: I'm trying. (Yuuki sits on the roof of the building looking at a piece of paper) (she glances at her watch) Yuuki: It's time... (Yuuki stands up and looks at the paper again as it flaps in the wind) P.102 Yuuki: I guess it's no good........ (the wind snatches the paper from her hands) Yuuki: Ah! (She runs and barely catches it before it flies away. Yuuki looks out at the buildings in front of her absently while she rubs the sleepiness from eyes. Then, her eyes widen in surprise.) P.103 (the piece of paper falls from her hands and flies away) Yuuki: No way. (Yuuki holds her hands in front of her mouth as tears well up in her eyes) Yuuki: I've found it. Yuuki: Nishikado-san. P.104 (filler page) (Tsukushi in what looks like a bathing suit)