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August 15th: Scavenger Hunt

"ZZZZ..."

"...kelly-san..."

"ZZZZ..."

"...Kelly-saaan..."

"*Yawn*..." I waked up by a whispering voice. I raised my upper body and rub my eyes and open slowly and see the figure in front of me. "*Yawn*... good morning, Shun." I said.

"*Yawn*... morning, Shun-kun." Kouya waked up, who was sleeping besides me. The two of us were sharing the same tent.

"Hey! Wake up! It's morning! Breakfast's ready!" Kimiko yelled and using a frying pan and a wooden spoon making noises and pop her head in the tent. The sounds were so loud that my ears are sensible in the morning that I covered over with my hands.

"Okay! Okay! I'm already awake!" I shouted.

"AAAAAHHH!" Shun-kun screamed the sounds startled him and jumped everywhere around the tent. All four of us got caught inside and the tent break lose and rolled around the camp.

"Shun! Stop!" Kouya cried.

"AAAHHH! I can't see!" Shun cried.

Shun stopped running inside the tent and the four of us got out of the half broken tent.

"What a way to wake up in the morning." I muttered. My voice was so croaked like every normal morning.

"Kimi-chan, what did you do?" Toshi-san asked his little sister with a serious father-like tone.

"Trying to wake people up..." She replied with a nervous smile.

"Kimi-chan, that really scared me!" Shun cried.

"Sorry, Shun-san, sorry, Kouya-san, sorry, Kelly-san." She apologized before her brother could have ordered her. She's ready well educated.

"Breakfast's ready." Hiroyuki shouted.

Breakfast was served, I can hear the morning sounds of birds. Kouya later fixed the tent and put our belongings inside.

"Sorry for my sister, she do this just for fun." Toshi-san apologized to me.

"Is okay, I'm used to it. My sister also do her ways of waking me up in the morning."

"Oh, you just saying that so I don't feel bad." Toshi said.

"No, she really did so many ways to wake me up, like using an air-horn, hitting me with a pillow, throwing me cold water, dragging me through the floor and among others." I said more. "Only because I'm a heavy sleeper."

"I don't wanna know more." Toshi lastly said.

"Kelly-kun, may I check your forehead?" Saki-chan said.

"Oh, okay." I replied and sit on the log.

"Let's see how's the process." She removes my gauzed pad that's been covering my right forehead.

"How is it?" I asked Saki. She smiles.

"Is healed, take a look." She hands over a small mirror in front of me and see my blue-eyes and above it, was my sharp looking scar.

"I think my parents are going to freak out."

"Is not like you're having a tattoo on your face. So anyways, now that your forehead is healed, no more bandages." She said and continued. "Alright, your wrist, how's it going? You're still taking the medication?"

"Yes, and I tried to exercise my wrist, but... the pain is still visible."

"Let me see." Saki uses her hands, as she touched my right wrist. "I'm going to remove the wrist wrap."

"...okay..." She removes the wrist wrap and examines.

"Looks fine, but when I touch it, does it hurt?"

"...yes..." She's touching on some sensible points. She made every movement that a wrist usually and normally do. It was really uncomfortable. Saki saw my face reacting to small pains and she stops.

"Alright, no more torturing." She smiles and rewraps my wrist.

"Don't you mean, 'no more torturing for one day'?" I said.

"Oh..."

"So, what are we going to do for today?"

"Um, Kounosuke and Kimi-chan are planning a scavenger hunt."

"A scavenger hunt? In the middle of the forest?" Is that even possible to do?

"I know, is ridiculous but Kimi-chan really wanted to play this game." She said.

"How exactly what are we going to collect?"

"Kounosuke, is making up the list so... I don't like what he's up to, even if the items are even possible." Shin said who heard my question.

"Are you guys ready for the scavenger hunt?" Kimi said.

"Kinda..." I said.

"Great!" She cheerfully said.

"So, what are the instructions?" Hiro asked.

"Since we're 17 of us. I'm dividing it into 8 teams." She said.

"Eight teams?" I asked.

"Yeah, eight teams, two on each." She said and she hold a piece of paper and started to assign each one of us.

"Shun-san, you go with Tatsuki-san." She assigned.

"Woof! Okay!" Shun cheerfully replied.

"Alright!" Tatsuki cried.

"Hiroyuki-san with Torahiko-san." She said and the two high five together.

"Soutarou-san with Kyouji-san."

"Yes!" Sou cried.

"Kounosuke-san with Masashi."

"You're okay as my team mate huh, Masashi?" Kouno said.

"As long your camera is off from my face." Masa-kun said.

"My words are the same." Said Shin.

"Oh, by the way, Shin-san, you're my teammate." She said to Shin.

"I wasn't expecting that." Shin lightly surprised.

"Juuichi-san with Kenji." Kimi continued.

"Let's get over with." Juuichi said.

"Come on bro, we can do this!" Kenji tried to motivate his grumpy twin brother.

"Kouya with Kelly, and Toshi with Saki." She said.

"Wait, what about Yukiharu?" Kouno noticed.

"Oops... well, how about with you and Masashi then." She fixed the problem. Kounosuke then handed over each teams a piece of paper with a list of what we have to find, wasn't a lot. We have to find four items and return to the base camp. According to Kouno and Kimi.

The hunting started and me and Kouya are searching around the forest to find four items; an orchid, a weird shape rock, and an old bamboo stick, and some cherry berries (in Japan is called, sakuranbo).

"I don't know if this is possible to find in the forest, I mean, is this even a contest or some kind of recipe?" I said.

"All of us have the same list, which seem unlikely." Kouya said.

"Haah, now then, well... the first one is kinda easy, because it doesn't say what kind of orchid we should find. So, it could be any kind of orchid."

"Yeah, you're right."

"And looking for a piece of bamboo, I'm still doubt. And looking for some berries, I don't know where they found one. But the weirdest one, is to find a weird looking rock." WTF...

"Even if we find one or two and the others haven't found anything, we might win."

"Are you really into this?" Kouya is really behaving differently.

"I just want to beat Torahiko for what he did the other day!" Kouya raised his right fist and a face that I could describe 'I don't like where this is going'. I better calm him.

"Whoa, easy husky-boy! What did Torahiko did to you?"

"Don't you remember? You were there."

"Ah, the upside-down sandwich fight. And the other reason?"

"Ah... let's not go there." He said.

"Tora challenged you, didn't he?" I raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"Maybe..." He sighed.

"So you want to beat your 'rival' while the rest of the group are uncertain of finding 'four items' around the forest, while you think there's a possibility of winning. What makes you to say that?"

"Well, I can smell the orchids, the berries, and the bamboo." When he said that, I placed my left palm on my face.

"Oh, yeah that's right, canids have a good sense of smell." I muttered and released my palm. "But also Toshi, Saki, Masashi, and Kimiko and even Kyouji have a sense of smell they also got their chances."

"Well, let's get going."

"Sniff your way!"

I'm following Kouya while he's sniffing around to find any of the 3 possible items that have a scent. I wasn't sure where we're going, Kouya was heading deeper in the woods.

"I know you have a good sense of smell, but are you sure where you're going?" I said.

"If you're unsure about it, we're here already." Kouya said.

"Huh?" Kouya stands aside and in front of me a bunch of orchids are placed everywhere on the trees and grass. "Well, there's no doubts about it."

After picking one orchid, we continued our next quest. We were surrounded by bamboo trees everywhere. I don't know how Kouya can smell this? But anyways we found an old piece of bamboo lying on the grass, it was four feet long. I been using it as cane! Kouya is now scenting the cherries or sakuranbo, he led the way and I follow him. While walking behind him I see his tail wagging... I wonder what he so happy about? The smell of cherries? This was so... uh, cute? I couldn't resist and let out a chuckle. Kouya turned around to face me, he heard my chuckles.

"What's so funny?" He asked.

"Y-You're really are in a good mood today, your tail was wagging." I keep chuckling.

"W-Was it?" Kouya covers his tail and blushes.

"You really want to win this game so bad, aren't you?"

"Y-Yeah, yeah, sort of, if we're l-lucky." Kouya said uncomfortably.

"Are you okay?" I said, I can see his cheeks reddened, is he embarrassed about his tail? Maybe I shouldn't have asked.

"I-I'm okay... look cherries!" Kouya pointed the way and we see a tree holding cherries.

"Great! Three down, and one to go!" I cheerfully said.

We grabbed quite enough to carry since I can't resist the sweet flavor of the cherries.

"Is really strange that the others haven't been there, I mean, there's no sign of them, no foot prints, no signs that they have touched the tree." I said.

"I think we went further than they went." Kouya said.

"Maybe because you have a good nose." I smiled.

"Maybe." He laughs.

"Alright, let's find some weird rock and finish this contest." I said, and continue walking. We arrived at the river, there was a lot of rocks with different colors; brown, black, gray, white, etc. The river is kind of nice, though.

"So, what kind of rock we should consider the most with the weirdest shape?" I said.

"That's the hardest one in our list, is not going to be easy." Kouya said.

"If we find a gemstone, will that be an exception?"

"Let's get going." Kouya laughs.

The two of us search around for any weird shape rock. Minutes went by... man, this is difficult, I don't know if the others have already found one before we arrived here. I rather skip this one and I don't care if we win or not! This is just ridiculous! I sighed and stand up with the bamboo cane and walk to where Kouya is searching.

"Hey, Kouya, I think we should-AAGGHH!" I trip on an unseen rock while I was looking straight forward. The cane didn't do anything to hold me, it just snapped.

"OH, FUUUUCK! MY ARM!" When I fell, I landed on top of my right arm giving additional pain. I hugged it with my left arm and I'm rocking my torso back and forth. It's so painful! Kouya runs to me.

"Kelly, are you okay?!" He cried.

"I hurt myself!" I screamed.

"Kelly, calm down, just breathe."

I feel the aftershocks around my wrist. I couldn't bear the pain is making me to drop tears from my eyes. All that feeling from the accident and the negativity crosses my mind, making me burst more tears. I was breathing heavily.

"K-Kouya... there's a small first aid kit in my backpack and there's an ice pack..." I weakly said and Kouya quickly unzipped the backpack behind me. He searched with his hands, making noises from behind.

"Found it!" He opened the small box and picked a blue-gel-filled bag, he read the instructions quickly and squeezed. Kouya removes the wrist wrap and place the bag on my wrist to ease the pain. Is so cold, but relieving. He massages my wrist with his two strong hands gently.

"Feeling better?" He said.

"...yeah, I guess... thank you..." I softly said.

"You're gonna be okay, Kelly." Kouya relaxes and smiles.

I couldn't stop blushing, because he's still holding my right hand. It's warmer than the ice pack. My heart is rising faster.

"Uh... Kouya... I can take it from here." I said.

"Oh, s-sorry." He said. "Let's go back, this has gone too far for me."

"Good idea." Kouya helped me to stand up and we head back to our camp site.

"Hey, Kelly, I think you might need this." Kouya reached out his pocket and gives me a napkin to clean my face, I thanked him for that.

The two of us arrived at our camp site, I better tell Saki-chan about my incident, but when we got there she's not there, and nobody's here. They're still looking? It's been three hours!

"We got here really early." I said.

"Yeah, we better wait for them." Kouya said.

"I hope nobody got hurt." I began to worry after my little incident.

"You worry too much."

"I can't help it." After saying that, Kounosuke, Yukiharu and Masa-kun arrived.

"Yes! We made it! Huh?" Kounosuke said and saw us. "What! You beat us?"

"Well, we stopped playing after I got myself hurt, we only collected 3 out of 4. So, how about you guys?" I asked.

"We only found a half-moon shape rock in the river. We couldn't find the other items because Masashi here can't smell anything and we got lost." Kouno said.

"Is not my fault that I have anosmia!" Masashi said. Anosmia is the lack of sense of smell.

"Don't blame him for that, Kou-chan." Yukiharu said.

"Well, we got lucky, Masashi, if I helped Kimi-chan on that list, I would have added a picture of you and Kimi-chan together. So you can find all the items much quicker." He said.

"What did you said?!" Masa-kun look sharply at the tanuki.

"Uhh, is nothing, I'm just joking." He nervously said.

"You took a picture of me and Kimiko kissing?!" Masashi is angry.

"Masa, calm down!" Yukiharu cried.

"You bastard! I'm gonna kill ya!" Oh-oh...

"AAAAHHHH!" Kouno screamed and run. Masa-kun chases after him.

"Masashi, get a hold of yourself!" I cried.

"Outta my way, human!" Masashi pushes me out of his way and I lose balance again but this time I hit something soft but strong and fell upon it.

"OOHH!"

"Whoa!" some voice said.

I open my eyes and see who am I resting on. Both our noses are touching together. Obviously, my face has turned red and my eyes widen. I was speechless, and he can't say anything also.

"...Kelly...?" Kouya said something.

"...Kouya...?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah... I'm fine." I said and stand up and help him too. Good thing nobody saw us.

Masashi is still chasing after Kounosuke and they're destroying the camp site.

"Where's that picture!?" Masashi yelled.

"I don't have it right now!" Kouno cried.

"What's going on in here?!" Saki and Toshi arrived.

"Where is it?! Where is it?!" Masashi grabbed him by the shirt and yelled him.

"Somebody help me!"

"Masashi, that's enough!" Toshi grabbed Masashi with his two hands and lift him.

"Hey! Let me go Toshi!" he protested.

"Not with that attitude young man!" Saki said.

"What happened here? Everything is a mess." Toshi said.

"Masa-kun got pissed by Kounosuke, because of a photo." Kouya explained.

"Shut up, Kouya!" He yelled.

"Is clearly that you can't control your temper, you're so grounded mister!" Saki-chan said all mother-like tone.

"You can send him to a anger management program, that helped my problems." I said with a grin.

"I don't have an anger problem!" Masashi yelled at me.

"What happened here?" Kyouji-san and Soutarou-kun arrived with surprised looks.

"Where's my soccer ball?!" Soutarou panics.

"My video games!" Shun-kun cried.

The rest came back with the same question and one of us had to explain this over and over again. Kouya and I said nothing after our awkward incident. I told Saki about my incident, she said that I will be fine and using the ice pack was a good choice. We cleaned up the mess whilst Masashi is sitting next to a tree as a punishment by Saki. I went to talk to him and he gave me a glare look.

"What do you want, Kelly?" He said.

"You don't have to be angry, but what was all this about?"

"I was just playing with Kimi, at the park, Truth or Dare, I picked dare and she challenged me to kiss her. I kissed her and I didn't know Kouno took the picture. He just said it in front of me right now, and I freaked out."

"I thought you like her."

"No, we're just friends, and besides, is kinda weird if I date Nee-chan's boyfriend's sister."

"Hey, Masa-kun, what were you so pissed about?" Kenji came over.

"Some romantic picture of two huskies." I grinned.

"Aw, come on, Kelly-san..." He sighed.

"Ah! this one?!" Kenji reached out his pocket with a photo. "I saw Kouno taking it and then he left and he dropped it without knowing. I picked it up to return it but he already left."

"You have the photo? Give me it!" Masa-kun quickly took the picture from Kenji and ripped it in pieces.

"Why do you do that? Aw... I really wanted to keep it for my diary." Kimi-chan said and Kounosuke came over and saw the ripped photo.

"What are you talking about?" I said.

"Kimi-chan was the one who dared me to do it." Kounosuke said.

"What!" Masashi cried.

"She made me do it and pay me 1000 yen, so she can have a picture for her photo album book." Kouno explained. Well, that explains everything. "Unfortunately, I lost it and the deal was off."

"You're one devious husky-girl, Kimiko." Masashi said.

Is the afternoon and the sun is setting, is time leave. We packed up and cleaned what we left of it.

"Did you enjoyed camping, Kelly?" Hiroyuki asked.

"Yeah, I really appreciate what you guys are offering for me. Without it, I'd have been tortured of boredom, thank you." I said to Torahiko and Hiroyuki.

"No problem." The two said.

"Come on guys! Let's go!" Tatsu-nii said.

All 17 of us heading back to the village. I can't wait to share these memories to my family.