Episode 8 :
しんがき の あくむ
("Nightmare of the New Semester")
The setting is Doumyouji's
yacht. Tsukushi is in Rui's arms as he twirls her around the dance floor in a
graceful waltz. Rui and Tsukushi stare into each other's eyes, and Tsukushi
looks very happy. Suddenly Rui morphs into Doumyouji! Tsukushi is startles.
Smiling, Doumyouji leans towards Tsukushi, his lips puckered for a kiss. As his
lips come closer, Tsukushi screams. Suddenly, Tsukushi is awake. Her alarm clock
is going off. It was a nightmare!
Doumyouji is in his room in his mansion, humming happily. He
looks like he is in a very good mood as he combs his hair. The servants come in
to serve breakfast, and are also startled by his apparent good mood.
Tsukushi walks to school, and meets up with Kazuya who has
arrived in his family's car. The car is white, with funny looking flowers
painted on it, and lights on top of it. Tsukushi thanks Kazuya for the good
vacation in Atami. Tsukushi remembers her conversation with Rui on the deck of
the boat when she asked him not to hate her. Kazuya looks very excited and happy
about starting the new semester. One of the many passing students who had been
walking by and staring at Tsukushi and Kazuya kicks a can at him that hits him
in the head. Kazuya cries and is now worried about the semester.
At her locker, Tsukushi discovers it to be full of garbage
that flows out of it. Kazuya cries and looks unhappy, like he doesn't want to
face the semester alone. Tsukushi says that she won't be defeated, and Kazuya
says he will do his best. Tsukushi observes that it is the beginning of may warm
days. Walking down the halls, Tsukushi hears Rui playing his violin. She stops
to listen to it . Then she continues down the hall and is just about to go up
some stairs when a caterpillar is dangled from a string in front of her face!
Startled, Tsukushi jumps back, and sees Doumyouji standing on the stairs above
her, holding a fishing rod with the caterpillar dangling from it. Doumyouji is
smiling at her and making faces. Tsukushi accuses him of putting the garbage in
her locker earlier. Tsukushi then remembers their kiss on the yacht, and gets
angrier and turns red. She can't believe that her first kiss was with this
idiot. Calling him names, she runs away. Doumyouji happily watches her run away,
and asks Akira and Soujirou (Nishikado) if they saw the look on her face.
Doumyouji is very happy. Akira and Nishikado look at Doumyouji as if he has
totally lost it.
Meanwhile, Asai, Ayuhara, and Yamano are also in the hallway,
peering around the corner. They had seen the interaction of Doumyouji and
Tsukushi and are definitely not happy about it. They are jealous of the
attention the F4 pay to that low class girl. Asai says that Tsukushi really
irritates her. Then she pulls out a pink video camera, and says she has
something she thinks Doumyouji should see.
Tsukushi goes to the stairway, and is disappointed when she
sees that Rui isn't there. Then Tsukushi is surprised when Rui comes up behind
her. Rui sits down on the stairs and tells her to sit down too. Tsukushi just
sort of sits there staring at the ground. She moves a little, and the orange
decision-maker toy falls from her pocket. Rui asks what it is, and Tsukushi
decides to make him try it She asks it if Rui really minds her meeting him on
the staircase like this. Rui says he doesn't mind, and the toy confirms his
statement. Tsukushi is very happy. Rui just thinks she is weird.
Doumyouji is walking in the hallways, looking for Rui. He
comes across two lowerclassmen, and asks them. The younger students are scared
silly as they tell him that they saw Rui on the stairs with a girl. The boys are
trembling and are expecting Doumyouji to beat them up. But Doumyouji is in such
a good mood that he just continues on his way, looking for Rui.
Doumyouji gets to the staircase and is startled/angry to
discover Tsukushi there alone with Rui. Doumyouji stands in the doorway and just
watches them, looking extremely angry.
Doumyouji backs away from the doorway and makes his way down
the stairs. His shoes echo in the empty hallway. Doumyouji looks stunned, his
eyes are staring, and his jaw is hanging open a bit. Doumyouji runs into
Nishikado and Akira. He is definitely not happy, and talks about Rui and
Tsukushi being together. Then Asai, Yamano, and Ayuhara appear and say that Rui
and Tsukushi are in love with each other, and that they meet on the stairway
every day. Doumyouji is not thrilled to hear this. Then They say that they have
video of Tsukushi and Rui from Atami. They give him the video camera, and he
watches the scene on the deck of the boat between Tsukushi and Rui in Atami in
which Tsukushi calls herself and Rui 'freinds who meet on the staircase' and
asks him not to hate her. Doumyouji gets even madder watching this. He throws
the camera to the ground, breaking it. Ayuhara is upset at the destruction of
her camera. Asai slides up to Doumyouji and says that Tsukushi loves Rui, and
that first Rui had Shizuka, and now he was going to have Tsukushi too. Asai
keeps making these snottle little comments as Doumyouji gets more and more
angry. Finally he whirls around and backhands Asai across the face, sending her
sprawling. Akira and Soujirou remark about Doumyouji hitting a girl.
Meanwhile, Tsukushi and Rui are on the staircase. Rui is
holding the orange toy. He takes Tsukushi's hand and presses her fingers on it
and asks it something. The toy indicates a positive anwser, and Tsukushi
blushes. (I wonder what he asked!)
Doumyouji is so angry that he oozes a deadly calm. Akira and Soujirou try to
ease his anger, but Doumyouji ignores them. Akira and Soujirou are worried by
the look they see in Doumyouji's eyes, like he could kill someone. Doumyouji
leaves them and walks down the hall.
Toys used in the episode: Tsukushi uses the orange
decision-maker toy on Rui to see if he minds her meeting him on the stairway.
Rui then uses the toy on Tsukushi to ask her something.
