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August 4th: Stress Free River

Morning already? And is a hot one! Really hot! I couldn't use the bed blankets. I even opened the windows to let the breeze in. The fan wasn't operating well, but luckily I'm quite a heavy sleeper. I take off my clothes and take a cool shower. I pull the lever to cold and...

"AAAAHHHHHH! HOT! HOT! HOT!" I swear, I put it in cold but is still hot boiled, what the hell!? I almost burned my left hand!

The door began to knock like crazy, I hear someone shouting. I think I know who it is, I grab a towel and wrapped it around my waist, walked to the door and open it and see one desperate Toshi in front of me.

"I'm too late, am I?" He said.

"Yup, I almost burned my left hand." I said as I show him my red left hand, good thing it wasn't a one degree burn.

"I'm sorry, Kelly, it seem that the water system got overheated, you have to wait until it cools down." Toshi sincerely apologizes.

"Oh great... now I'm gonna smell like a garlic." I moaned.

"Don't be stuck, you can have a swim at the river. Is really relaxing." Toshi just gave me an alternative way to clean myself.

"Hmm... that's not a bad idea." I said.

"I'm sure that the others are going to do the same." Toshi said. He closed the door for me. Well, is time to cool off!

I have three swimming trunks, one blue, one gray, and one green, in the drawer. Today I pick the gray one, I pick a towel, a white T-shirt, sandals, and off to go. From the Ooshima Inn to the river, it was a nice walk through the sunflower fields. The first thing I see is the river, the trees and one small gazebo made out of wood with two benches. I put the sandals my T-shirt and towel, on the bench and take a look at the water, it was clear and refreshing. I also brought my headset-waterproof-headphones so I can relax with music in my surroundings and ignore everything from my worries. This is something what I really needed, I'm all alone, something that I rarely experience myself, especially in a foreign country. I slowly step in the water and it was nice, is like a spa treatment, but more natural. I laid down on a rock, partially submerged. The rock looked like a deck chair... Mother Nature can be really creative.

As I lay there and listen through my headphones, nothing can be more relaxing than this. I look up the sky, there was no cloud, today is sunny... again. This gives me a good mood to sing, as I listen the music lyrics, an embarrassing habit of mine that I always forget, but I was all alone that nobody will hear me. Every song to the next soundtrack to the other. I closed my eyes and sing softly along with passion, it gave me the good old times back home.

Without knowing my surroundings, because of my headphones on my ears, and only feeling the river's flow of stream on my body while my head is the only thing standing above water. Something poked my nose several times, that made me to force to open my eyes and stared at three different looking huskies. I take off my headphones in surprise and my face turns into red, I've been caught in the act or something.

I see the three in a microsecond, in their... swimming clothes? Toshi is only wearing a brown boxers, Saki-chan is wearing a one-piece swimsuit, from top to bottom, covering all of her, and I think she's not the type of girl who likes to model around. But what was the most disturbing was Kouya..., what the hell is he wearing right now!? Is that his underwear?! He's wearing a bikini brief, a black one!? I think I'm gonna puke right now. But instead I swallow it, I don't wanna spoil my appetite. I only looked at him in a microsecond and snapped my eyes at the three of them, face to face.

"You seem to be enjoying yourself." Saki-chan smiled. "You sing pretty good, aren't you?"

"That's some vocal you got there." Kouya said and smiles.

"Uh... thanks, but I only do this for fun." I honestly said the three. I slowly recovered from blushing. This is so awkward.

"So, you sometimes sing in the shower?" Saki-chan said while giggling.

"Hey, everybody sings in the showers, so what's the big deal?" I said.

"So true." Toshi-san said.

"CANNONBALL!" A huge splash burst out of nowhere. Rising out of the water was Tatsuki. He's wearing that weird Japanese underwear. "Hey, guys! How's it going?!" Tatsuki greets.

"We're fine." The four of us replied, and looks like he's not alone, Soutarou, Shun, and Kyouji also arrived.

"Hi everyone, how's the water?" Soutarou said.

"It feels good, come on in!" Tatsuki replied.

The three steps in, in their underwear, no swimming trunks with no problems, like that? I'm not used to it. The others began to do whatever they do in the river. Saki and Toshi began to converse with Kyouji while Tatsuki is playing with Soutarou and Shun, splashing at each other, and Kouya is sitting next to me, I turned off the headphones while we started to talk.

"So, how far are you enjoying here, Kelly?" Kouya asked, pretending nothing happened yesterday.

"So far, so good, I had been on crazy situations before." I said.

"Like what?"

"This is not the first time that I have a near-death experience."

"Huh, really?"

"When I was ten, I was on a trip to Alaska, I was ice skating with my sister while my father was watching us. I was standing on thin ice and it cracked. I fell and got myself wet with all that cold water that was hurting me. My dad grabbed me from the water and take me to the place where we were staying, he puts me on a hot tub and I stayed there for hours until I was fully warmed. But I was aware of hypothermia, that cold water could have killed me, and the doctors told me that if my father had delayed, I could have died in moments. But putting me on that hot tub was a clever idea."

"Wow, that was intense, and now this one, you seem to be unstoppable."

"Unstoppable?" First time someone who says that to me.

"Yeah, Shun-kun told me that you don't care what happened to you and continued on riding on buses." He said.

"Oh, yeah. Yesterday." I said.

"So, Kelly... do you have friends back home?"

"Yeah, I have friends some of them from childhood, or new whom come to town."

"Do you have a girlfriend?" He grins at me.

"No, I'm currently single, and I prefer guys." I said with no problems. Is not personal anymore. Everyone in my family and a couple of friends knows that I'm homosexual.

"Really? So, by 'currently single' you used to have a boyfriend?" Kouya asked.

"Yeah..." I sighed, "I just found out that my boyfriend was cheating on me with another guy."

"What did you do after that?"

"I 'revengefully' break up with him." I said.

"Revengefully! What did you do to him?"

"Don't get me wrong, he deserved it. After finding out, I vomited in a bucket, because it was a very sick feeling, I take the vomit and throw it on his head in front of everybody in a house party, and also I met his 'other lover', who was also a victim, he and I worked together with the revenge." That's right.

"Whoa, you do seem to have an evil-side, don't you, Kelly? That guy must be a douche."

"Yeah, he had it coming. No one messes with Kendrick Elijah Lincoln Lloyd Yestin 'Kelly' Sullivan!" I said.

"That's your name!? Is very long!" Kouya laughs... hey!

"Yeah, I know."

"So after that, did he really hurt you?" He asked.

I sighed and said, "Yeah, after that, I calmed myself and promise myself not to do something like that again, unless someone messes with me again. Later... I was heartbroken and I was trying to recover from the event. That's why I came to Japan to forget everything and move on... I just want to be with someone to be happy with... I mean, look at Hiroyuki and Torahiko, they are really happy together." Then I look at the two huskies. "Hey, is Saki-chan and Toshi-san couples?" Kouya looks at the two.

"Saki-chan and Toshi-san? Yes, they are, that's another example." Kouya replied. Looking at the pair they do seem to be happy together. I wonder how these two met? There's a million ways to fall in love, right?

"Hey, what's this?" Shun-kun picked up something in the water and I can't imagine what I see what he is holding! "AAAHHH! Is someone's fundoshi!" Shun threw it to Soutarou.

"EEWWW, GROOSSS! Don't throw it at me, Shun!" Soutarou threw it away and is being taken by the river's current.

"Hey, that's mine! Kelly-kun, go grab it!" Tatsuki shouted.

"You grab it, I'm not gonna touch it!" I backed up.

Tatsu-nii swims for his underwear and Toshi-san and Saki-chan covered their eyes with their hands.

"Sou, why did you throw it?" Kyouji-san asked the lion-boy.

"I freaked out!" he said.

"My answers are the same here." Toshi-san and I simultaneously said.

"I got it!" Tatsuki grabbed it proudly and put it back on.

"Next time, Tatsu-nii, make sure is well tight." Saki-chan said.

After that naked situation. I went back to the inn, and call my cousins about their missing belongings, I pressed the buttons, the same old home phone, and hold and wait.

"Sullivan's residence, who's speaking." Auntie Samantha answered the phone.

"Hi, Samantha."

"Oh, hi Kelly, how's everything, I heard you made new friends there." She said.

"Yeah, umm, listen I got a letter from Ashton about their belongings that are on my suitcase and one of them is a sword. Do you know anything about it?" I asked.

"Oh, really?" That sounded bad. "Well, I'm going to have word with Ashton about this. So, is it in your luggage?" She said.

"I haven't checked my suitcase, I'm going to do it now."

"Okay, call me again when you find this 'sword' and other stuffs, bye." She hanged up. Ashton is in so much trouble. It seemed like Ashton had been keeping secrets behind from everybody, including me.

I unzipped my large suitcase, it was almost empty and there was unfamiliar items that I remember the other day. I read the list and dig in the suitcase. Ashley's make-up box, Sylvia's 'I love Tokyo' T-shirt, Ashley's graphic novel, Ashley's music player, Ashton's DVD anime movie, Sylvia's stuff animal, Ashton's satellite phone, and Ashley's laptop, but... I don't see a samurai sword in my suitcase... is this some kind of joke?! I've checked every compartment of my suitcase and I don't see anything sharp and long.

"This is really getting on my nerves, Ashton." I speak out loud. It wasn't until... "Huh? I didn't noticed this zipper." I unzipped it and there it was. "Whoa...." It was well cased, color black, I opened it and see an incredible sword. I can see myself in the blade and the grip part has a phenomenon design with dragon details.

"Why Ashton bought this sword for?" I thought to myself. This is really a mystery.