Translated by Kudou Omi

Note: GOMENNASAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! *in the okami from Fruits Basket way* I’m very late!!! Sorry! ^^;;; And don’t expect it to be perfect, I had many difficulties translating this chapter. I’m not very good in Japanese, but I’m having fun translating, and it makes me work this language too. I have been ill twice, I’ve been busy, I’ve been lazy… Honto ni gomen! *bows* *blushes* *hides behind her chair* Sore ja, see you in part 2!

P97

Yoshitsune : "Ho! It has been a long time since I last received a mail!" I wonder what kind of job it is this time!

Mail: Yorozuya Toukaidou Honpo. Headman: Shima Yoshitsune. Work request: 1 case.

From: Toriumi Misato.

Yoshitsune: "He? Tori… Can it be…"

Mail: Long time no see!! You’re Yoshitsune, right? Do you remember me!?

Yoshitsune: "It’s really from Misato!! It’s been ages! Let’s see… ‘I’ll tell you what is my request when we’ll meet.’"

Mail: Don’t worry about lodging fees and the traveling expenses.

Yoshitsune: "Alright! Let’s go!" where ever it is!

P98

Yoshitsune: *reaching a huge mansion* "It’s here."

Kaori: "Your childhood friend is the daughter of an hotel owner, isn’t she?"

Yoshitsune: " I didn’t know since we completely lost contact."

Kaori: "By the way, what kind of woman is she?"

Yoshitsune: "That’s right, you don’t know her… Well, if I compare her to an animal… she would be a gorilla…"

Misato: *violently pushing Yoshitsune away* "Who is a gorilla!!"

Yoshitsune: "That loud voice is…"

P99

Yoshitsune: "Misato!!"

Misato: "Hey, Yoshitsune! Don’t introduce me like that!"

Kaori: "She’s not a gorilla." And she’s cute.

Yoshitsune: "She’s crazy."

Misato: "What did you say!?" *nerve popping*

Yoshitsune: "Here’s Suruga Kaori!" ^^;

Misato: "But… You look like the famous model, Kyou!"

Kaori: "That’s because I’m Kyou."

Misato: "You’re kidding! Why would you know Yoshitsune?!"

Yoshitsune: "He’s my partner!! At first he was a client."

Kaori: "When I first met him, I thought he was younger than me."

Misato: "It’s always been this way!" When he was in middle school he looked like a primary school student!!

Kaori: "We could have paid a place for a child in the train." Cute!

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan…"

P100

Misato: "It’s like the old time!"

Yoshitsune: "You haven’t changed!"

Misato: "It’s been 2 years since the middle school graduation, I had just moved here… Ha! Just after that, I heard that your house had burnt?"

Yoshitsune: "Ha… Yeah…"

Misato: "Then I lost your address. I found your web page by chance, it surprised me a lot!"

Yoshitsune: "Yeah, I’m sorry."

Misato: "I did nothing, sorry…"

Yoshitsune: "Moron."

Misato: "Wha…"

Yoshitsune: "I didn’t come to see you sad."

Misato: "Yoshitsune…"

P101

Kaori: /It’s always like this./

Misato: "You haven’t changed! You won’t show your weaknesses."

Kaori: "Heee…"

Yoshitsune: "Let’s talk about your request!"

Misato: "Keep your voice low. Two weeks ago, the hotel was damaged."

Yoshitsune: "The hotel was da…" *Misato tries to hit him* "Whoa!"

Misato: "I told you not to be loud!"

Yoshitsune: "So… sorry."

Misato: "So I thought I would hire guards. Actually my house was also attacked yesterday."

P102

Yoshitsune: "I see. And how did the criminal operate?"

Misato: "Your father really has an influence on you as a policeman!"

Yoshitsune: "Yeah…"

Misato: "But the hotel is alright."

Yoshitsune: "Hn? Why?"

Misato: "The hotel is composed of 20 buildings. Only 12 of them have been damaged. But it seems the criminal never strikes twice at the same place. That’s why we have to keep an eye on the untouched places."

Yoshitsune: "Yeah."

Misato: "I want you to help us that nothing happens to the visitors’ rooms."

Yoshitsune: "Then what was damaged?"

Misato: "The hotel’s money was stolen."

P103

Misato: "And the staff room was devastated!! Let’s first go to the hotel!"

Yoshitsune: "Ha!! Watch where…"

Misato: *bumping into someone* "Kyaa!"

Yoshitsune: too late.

Misato: "So… sorry!"

Man: "ouch…"

Misato: *recognizing the guy* "Can’t be…"

Kaori: "Are you alright?"

Man: "Yeah…" I’m surprised too.

Yoshitsune: "Ryuuzaki-sempai!?"

P104

Ryuuzaki: "Shima? Why are you here!?"

Yoshitsune: "Same for Sempai! Ha, Misato called me, I was stunned."

Misato: "He…"

Kaori: "You know him?"

Yoshitsune: "Yeah, he’s my middle school sempai…."

Ryuuzaki: "Hey! Shima…"

Yoshitsune: "Misato’s boyfriend."

P105

Yoshitsune: *cold atmosphere* "Hu? What’s wrong?"

Kaori: *patting him on the head* "Shima-san…"

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan?!"

Ryuuzaki: "You got it? Right after she moved…"

Yoshitsune: /It seems that my memories stop just after the middle school graduation./

*flashback*

Misato: "Please, Yoshitsune!"

P106

Misato: "Let me be in the same group as Ryuuzaki-sempai!"

Yoshitsune: "Okay okay!"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima-!" You’re in such a place!

Yoshitsune: "Ha! Sempai!" We were talking

Ryuuzaki: "We’re about to start the club…"

Yoshitsune: "Tell me, is there a girl you like?"

Ryuuzaki: "What’s with you? There’s no one!"

Yoshitsune: "Seriously!? Then can I confess something?"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima… You don’t…"

Yoshitsune: "Uh?"

P107

Yoshitsune: "It’s not me! It’s Misato!!" *gets whacked by Misato*

Misato: "Moron!!" *notices Ryuuzaki and blushes* "Ha…"

Ryuuzaki: "Good morning, Misato-chan." *grin*

Misato: "Good morning."

*end of flashback*

Yoshitsune: "Since that time I’ve been their mediator." *in their room*

Kaori: "What a great mediator…But it’s strange."

Yoshitsune: "What?"

P108

Kaori: "Weren’t you in love with Misato?"

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan, how did you know?!"

Kaori: "I knew it! Maybe because we work together."

Yoshitsune: "But Misato really counted on me. Moreover, I thought that it would be alright if it was Ryuuzaki-sempai. But don’t misunderstand! I don’t like her anymore!"

Kaori "Well then, do you mean that he would have been the same if me and the one I loved had separated?"

Yoshitsune: "I don’t know. It’s not as if I had been hiding something and was discovered."

P109

Kaori: "You don’t understand."

Yoshitsune: "Is my face that open?"

Kaori: " Misato said that you didn’t show your weaknesses. It’s because you were facing the person you like? I realized it because you don’t act the same with me."

Yoshitsune: "It’s a little different…" /two years ago, both my parents died in an arson. I couldn’t help them, it’s my eternal regret. Kaori is…/

P110

Yoshitsune: /Kaori helped me to wake up from this nightmare. Even though I’m still scared of fire, Kaori’s presence eases me./ "You’re my partner. That’s why I can show you my weaknesses. And I can see yours as well!"

Kaori: "That’s mean."

Misato: *at the door* "Listen!!"

p111

Misato: "Let’s go to the festival!! It was organized by the village!"

Kaori: "Heee!"

Yoshitsune: "A festival… Misato, you’re going to invite Sempai too, aren’t you?"

Misato: "Hu?"

Yoshitsune: "He’s lodging in the hotel next to yours."

Misato: "I won’t!! I thought you had understood.."

Yoshitsune: "I did but… How long has it been since you last met him?"

p112

Misato: "I met him when I moved."

Yoshitsune: "What have you talked about?"

Misato: "Painful stuff. But he rejected me."

Yoshitsune: "Ryuuzaki-sempai did? Why!?"

Misato: "He said he was tired. Tired of being with me."

p113

Misato: "It’s because I was too quiet."

Yoshitsune: "Misato…Do you still lo…"

Misato: "WAa!!"

Yoshitsune: "Wha…"

Misato: *smile* "Let’s stop talking about it. Now, to the festival!!"

Yoshitsune: /It’s no use…/

P114

Yoshitsune: *before a sign* "Uh? What’s that?"

Misato: "Ha! It’s the events that take place during the festival."

Yoshitsune: "HA!"

Misato: "You’re still noisy…"

Yoshitsune: "The winner gets 10,000 yen!"

Kaori: "Shima-san, you don’t… Shall we do it?"

Yoshitsune: "We do it?"

p115

Misato: *as Yoshitsune and Kaori laugh evilly* /What’s with them?"

*scene switches at the festival. A crowd is massed before stages.*

Guy on stage: *in the mike* "Cheer up!! The eighth Yukata beauty contest starts!!"

Kaori: *in the public* /…… What a cheer./

Guy: "Let’s introduce the participants!"

p116

Yoshitsune: *dressed in a woman’s yukata, with wig and all* /It’s hard to move…"

Public: "She’s cuuute!! I like the number 1!!"

Kaori: /He deceived them./

Yoshitsune: "Why did you want to participate?"

Misato: "I decided that I won’t lose to a rascal."

Guy: "Number 1, can you introduce yourself?"

Yoshitsune: "My name is Shima, I come from Tokyo."

p117

Guy: "Do you happen to be number 2’s friend? Your yukata are somewhat similar."

Yoshitsune: "Yes! I borrowed it to her!"

Guy: "What kind of man do you like?"

Yoshitsune: "Uh?" Don’t ask that. "Well, maybe men like Kyou, the model."

Kaori: /Me?/ ^^;

Guy: "Yeah, he’s cool! And what about number 2?"

Misato: "I have no favorite type in particular."

Yoshitsune: /At sempai’s expense. But I had never imagined that Sempai had such a bad opinion about Misato./

Someone: *to Kaori* "Hey!" *sudden light and noise*

P118

Kaori: *his hand raised to protect his face* "!?"

Ryuuzaki: *holding a camera* "Hi!"

Kaori: "Ryuuzaki-san! You surprised me!"

Ryuuzaki: "What does a celebrity like you do alone?"

Kaori: "Well, Shima-san and Misato-san are over there…"

Ryuuzaki: "What? Shima!?" Seriously? And as a woman? "He seems to have success! Misato seems to have fun, as usual."

p119

Kaori: "As usual?"

Ryuuzaki: "It was the same when we met. She always enjoyed talking with Shima. The reason why she liked me was that I was Shima’s friend."

Kaori: "Were you aware of it?"

Ryuuzaki: "For me and for Misato, it was the most important."

Guy: "Now let’s start with the customary race!! The rules are simple!! The participants have to fetch a wind bell that is at the cottage!"

p120

Ryuuzaki: "See ya!"

Kaori: /Ryuuzaki-san… I didn’t think you’d watch Misato-san, but…/

Guy: "The first person must hurry!"

Yoshitsune: "Is it really a Yukata contest?"

Guy: "So now… START!! Wow! Number 1 is fast!!"

p121

Misato: /He takes it seriously./

Yoshitsune: *at the cottage* "It’s finally here…" There’s no one else. /He said there was a wing bell inside the cottage…/ "wa… It’s dark! There’s no electricity?"

p122

Yoshitsune: *attacked from behind by someone, probably a man* /Wha…/ *elbow kick in the ribs* "Bastard…"

p123

Yoshitsune: *tries to attack him, but his geta is stuck between the boards of the floor* / I can’t move!/ *the guy flees* "Ha! Hey!"

Misato: "Yoshitsune!!"

p124

Yoshitsune: "Misato…"

Misato: "You’re quite fast!"

Yoshitsune: "Are you all safe?"

Misato: *the other participants behind* "Uh? What’s wrong?"

Yoshitsune: "I was attacked by a man. It seems like he was aiming at an alone girl."

Misato: "What?!"

Yoshitsune: "It’s alright if you’re safe. Let’s come back."

Kaori: "Shima-san. Congrats for winning. Shima-san?" What’s wrong?

Misato: "He was attacked by a man!"

Kaori: "He was attacked? Why…"

p125

Yoshitsune: "I have no clue yet. And I don’t really know where to search."

*at the hotel*

Misato’s father: "Welcome back! You’ve been fast!"

Misato: "Sorry, father. Has anything wrong happened?"

Father: "Nothing! Since all the clients went out, it’s very calm!" We had some tea!

Misato: "Really? Yoshitsune won the contest!"

Father: "Hey! That’s great!" Let’s celebrate it!"

Yoshitsune: "I’ll change clothes!"

Misato: *leaving* "hahaha! If you take off your clothes you must have something under them!"

Kaori: "But you’re so attractive dressed like this."

Yoshistune: "Kaori-chan…"

Misato: "Kyaa!"

P126

Yoshitsune: "Misato!? What’s wrong!?"

Misato: "He did it."

Yoshitsune: "What?"

Misato: *in a devastated room* "He broke into the hotel!"

Chapter 8 part 1 - owari