Outing for the girls that will become Heroines

Work became a whole mess of young girls,young women and even some grandmothers that only came to show me the magazine articles showing the picture of Kenshin and I dancing.
Very few actually bought a book or magazine just hovered over me with questions about him,about his home and questions that I am to shy to even think about an answer to!

"I can not escape this!Why are they interested in me,we haven't even 'Gone out'!"

I mutter as I walk in to the house after six hours of crazy and crazier questions all day and trying to program my new cell phone,I asked the managers daughter who takes short shifts with me if she found my phone and all she knew was that on the security cameras was seen only two people.

Oiha and Arata,just like with my slipper incident.
I hate feeling so suspicious but I can't focus on that now,I have to finish setting my phone up.I hear voices in the appartment,sounds like Kaoru-San finally has come to visit.

Should I?

"Coming in or are you going to just stare at the phone until I go home?"

I think I blush so hard my face becomes a candy apple in color,Uncle Goji opens the door and I catch sight of him as he just changed into a light gray suit with a pastel blue tye that really makes him look fifteen years younger and handsome.
I give wiggling eyebrows and I whistle with Kaoru falling in tune with me as I walk in,he struts around enjoying the light hearted attention while I nod to her then reach my objective area of the kitchen to find my veggie rolls I made last night, if there are any left.

"Wait,I am taking you out.We have some plans and Go is going to some meeting so we need female time.Come on before his army of fans follows him and we can't escape,Bye my Go!"

Again.
My day is a rush of more female fast moving,at least this is amusing.
But I do wonder why Uncle Goji is so dressed up for?
Asking for Kaoru's hand perhaps?

Even Cookie eyes me sadly as I am pulled by the arm with one of her hands while the other hand tosses my veggie roll to Cookie who happily munches on quickly forgetting my absence in mere seconds.

My adorable traitor.

I follow her out and into her simple late nineties car,she plays some soft pop music from the eighties.
Stuff that sounds like my dad and mom before they broke up for good.

"Is this bothering you?It was a good time for me but Go did tell me they played this a lot,I forgot this was in my cd player to be honest."
"I am okay,it is just...Like a past that wants to be remembered and forgotten all at once somehow.Does that make sense?"

Wow,I never talked so quickly on that before.

Kaoru nods,the motion soft like she knows just the right way to convey the right emotion at the right time.She lets the music play and I am reminded that I will have to call them both tonight which means I have to speak to the new spouses tonight,meaning also the new kids too.

Kaoru takes my hand and we drive on,listening and watching the city go by in a slight blur.

"Yes,I do understand."

It seems like no time at all went by as we drove,she got us to the largest mall here in Kyoto and I am at a loss.

"I have never been here,nor ever thought I could even afford to look at this place....wow!Why are we here?Oooh they have the newest..."

My words became a blur of what's,why's and ended with resignation on a fact I became so suddenly surprised by and I shouldn't have been.

This is a shopping spree,A shopping spree for me.
Why though?

"Why are we here having a shopping spree for me?You do not really know me very well and I don't have much money?No offense forgive my manners but I am truly confused."

Kaoru looks at me,smiling a small smirk that made her famous in her "2 player"music video and I see she still hasn't lost that magnetic appeal she had back then,as apparent by how Uncle Goji can barely breathe around her.

"I know what you are feeling,especially now.You are now in a spotlight you never really wanted,your words are all you really want seen but that will not be your life now.You do not have any women or girls in your orbit you trust and I had that same problem too.You also have a boy in your life you really want there and nothing to show off with for that inevitable first date that I know that bold boy has in mind.So.You are getting some new slay clothes and I will make that long wave of hair you have become a river with shine in it instead of pulled up and away because you fear that lovely face you have buried there."

The words hit home for me.
Kind of hard too.
I walk around,she lets me scan the figure shops and the newest book stores without another word but I feel her behind me waiting on my next words which I want to choose correctly.

A few minutes ago by and I turn abruptly in her path and somehow my words are so fast and nervous I become breathless after uttering them.

"Do you believe I can do this?Have my writers world,have the wonderful guy and survive a spotlight I do not want for him,for a future to help people who can't afford the dreams they have?Can I be beautiful instead of the meal vile creature I am painted to be by everyone at my school,on the internet?Can I?"

"If that Uncle of yours could finally figure out that I wrote 'When did heaven get so close to me.'after over 20 years then you can be anything and surviving anything you want to.I have read your words and I hate to say this but I heard what happened to you ,but I will only hear the story from you,Not even Go will I hear that story from.Only you.Be the flower and the warrior,the scholar and the heroine you want to be.Pick a few outfits that speak to the you ONLY YOU ARE and lets show the world you are it's next true heroine and show my world I am only just beginning to live again!Ready?'

"I guess life is 2 player after all eh?Let's go."

She smiles like she is plotting to conquer the world by helping me win a heart and by making mean hearts kind again.

Can i though?
Can I really do this?

Kaoru takes my hand and leads to the finest shop in Kyoto,she practically beams as she runs pulling me along with her.

"You can do anything,Yukihana Mori,The heroine of the twenties twenties!!"

Kaoru Orange,Kaoru Oiji really is contagious because I prayed to GOD to give me the feeling I needed to be able to make it to the first date,to more world eyes being on me to make it through my past and here GOD gave me a vibrant woman to help me maybe achieve the me I could be.

"To being the HEROINE!"
"To being the HEROINE!"

We both yell out while the shoppers around us startle in surprise,we laugh like children and enter ORSHOKO FINE CLOTH together.