平川 孟

I'm sure it had made the rounds by now but I thought I should make an official post. I heard rumors of a memorial service in the works but I don't know what day. But, Park Won-Shik was one of the casualties during the battle. I happened to have witnessed it. He will be missed and unforgotten. He should not have died. This was a waste. A complete waste. Why did this all happen? Why

They say you don't know what kind of man you are until you stare death in the face. Pakku-kun was a man of great character. I only wished that I opened myself sooner to really understand that great character that he had all along. Let that be an important lesson to really open your hearts to those around you while you still have the chance. I was really mean to him until recently. What an idiot I was. That is definitely the lesson I learned.

Pakku-kun was a reminder that sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses, get down in the dirt, get paint in your hair and on your favorite silk button down shirt that I had to throw away, and to sometimes just ask questions because of inherent curiosity no matter what dirty looks of annoyance you may recieve. Sometimes, life is only as complicated as you make it. Yoshi made his simple yet exciting. I envy him for being able to live such an existance without worry.

Pakku Yoshi was a true and proud Tsukiyomi. He had a love of the arts and all that was different and special. He saw the world with such uniqueness that would cause Tsukiyomi himself to writhe with envy.

REST IN PEACE, Yoshi. LOVE, Hime-senpai. I wish I wasn't-

[Private to Hyo-Rin]

I think I may need your help if you aren't too busy...?

[Private to Students]

Who would be interested in a Dance Party tomorrow in the auditorium? I will bring the music if someone else wants to bring food and drink. We can bring karaoke in and everything.

Please, I hope everyone is not causing any problems. No one has anything to hide, right? Especially not me. As usual, my door is always open if anyone needs to talk or anything.

[Private]

I can't believe he just left. Everything that's going on is complete bullshit but I cannot leave here. I am a RA and I have to watch over everyone. I'll make use of my talents and try to boost morale or something. What a way to end my school career.

Well, I finally got a lead part in the last play of the year in my last year. It is kind of sad when you think about it. I hope I can bring to life the part I wrote. I'm very excited for the read through to see how it all plays together!

Seriously, I thought this week was going to start off horrible because getting paint out of my hair was really hard and those guests aren't very pleasent either. But I'm glad I didn't get Shinta like I thought I would. That would be too much of playing myself.

Cast List will be posted probably Monday. Thanks to everyone who auditioned. I know things seem rough right now but we cannot lose our spirit, ne? I bet there are a lot of people out there that would like to see us types get kicked to the ground and stay there, broken with morale down. Don't let them. So it is important that we keep our spirits up and things like theatre and... sports help with that. Or events like capture the flag!

Even though, I do wonder why the Ministry people are still here. Do they suspect that I- I do not think there are subversive elements at the school that could be of any danger. Oh whatever.

I have a duel to prepare for in DADA. I'm pretty good at charms and such, but my dueling is shaky enough when it is one on one. I hope the teams work out.

And my hair is feeling very flat today. I probably should see if I can combine my two hair potions to volumize it a little more.

Regardless of what you heard, I will not be asking people to give me a private dance for the audition tomorrow. Nor have I ever asked people for a private dance. I mean, if you really want to dance sexy for me, I won't complain ~_^ and Akasora-san and Min-san are welcome to audition again. ^_^

Also, in case anyone was worried, Shirou-kun left the school. He contacted me over break and let me know that he dropped out. He is completely safe so do not worry. He has not been kidnapped.

[Private to RAs]

I think it may be prudent to do a head count of our houses. Also, can anyone recall or still in contact with muggle-born senpai?

[Private to Tsukiyomi Muggleborns]

Ne, ne, minna-san, please do not accept any offers by Koizumi-san.

I have copies of the finished script in the theatre. Well, not complete copies because I want who the killer is to be a surprise. Just a reminder, auditions are Monday at 7 in the theatre! Wear something comfortable to move in!!

Prince was naughty today. He somehow got into my closet and brought all my shoes into a big pile in the middle of the floor. I somehow slept through this ordeal. I secretly believe he is trying to get me angry or really wants to go in the crate.

Just a couple weeks ago, I was cuddling in the kotetsu, watching TV, with Prince cuddled next to me. I wasn't wearing my constricting clothes and not a care in the world. Kawakami is still in the top ten, but that didn't matter so much.

Wonderful. It seems so surreal what's on the news here. If anyone wishes to vent, my door is always open.

I finished the script for the play and slept about 4 hours total in the last few days. I'm pleased with it. I hope people will have fun! Auditions will be on Monday. I really look forward to it.

Okay, Drama Club, listen up!

This semester, we will be collaborating with the Cooking Club to do a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery. It's a little play I put together myself. It's kind of a break the fourth wall, audience participation sort of thing and is 1 part caberet act and 1 part play and 1 part improvisation. So there is a part of singing and dancing and it will be required to have improv.

Anyways, the roles:

Suzuki Keiko, the Star: A star in her own right, started off in the entertainment industry at the age of 4. Taking a break from movies, decided to do a caberet act with her boyfriend and future husband. She's been called "Japan's Sweetheart". When the lights go off, she is murdered.

Matsumoto Shinta, the Idol: Like Keiko, got his start in entertainment early on. Was involved in a scandal a few years back and has had a hard time bouncing back since then. His relationship with Keiko has turned a few heads which is why they decided to do a double act together.

Koto Minoru, the Director: Known for his eccentric behavior, Koto-sensei is a seasoned director who decided to direct a caberet act. He is very hard on his actors and hides a dark past.

Kamikane Nina, the Stage Manager: Known to be obsessed with money and herself, Nina is a very difficult person to get along with. No one is quite sure why people keep her around. Has kind of a "yankee persona".

Ooyama Toshi, the Magician: A large ham with a major drinking problem, his act is more considered comedy than a legit magic act. Has severe mood swings

Yoshitani Hotaru, the Magician's Assistant: A large ditz. She tries to keep the act together when Toshi has a mood swing.

Takataki Mizuki, the Stand-In: Ambitious upstart, she is obsessed with fame and will do anything to achieve her goals.

Spotlight Guy, a Techie: No one knows Spotlight Guy's real name and nor does anyone care. When he tries to speak up, everyone cuts him off.

Sakamoto Kenji, the Detective: A world famous detective known for his prowless in solving mysteries and for his easily distractiveness. All he wanted was a night off from solving mysteries to enjoy a show with his new wife. Little did he know, his evening is more or less ruined. Or, as he optimistically puts it, a new opportunity. He's cheerful and always looks on the bright side of things and is known for giving criminals a second chance.

Sakamoto Misaki, the Cop: Once a top cop, Misaki fell in love with Kenji's antics eventually and the two married just recently. She and Kenji are a perfect match because she is willing to slap him around to get him focused at the task at hand.

Auditions will be coming in the next week or so! Keep your eyes open for flyers!

It's been really quiet since I've been back. It took me a while to figure out why that is. Has anyone seen Nao-chan?

So much has been going on it seems. I don't know anything about this new Minister. Could someone enlighten me? The newspaper says he's conservative...

The loyalty oath is a go, huh. I knew I should have stayed home.

Oh what a surprisingly relaxing break. But I'm ready for the next three months. Time to go out with a bang.

Happy New Year, Everyone!

I had a curious dream! I was on stage and I had a standing ovation. It was the best performance of my life. There were lots of flowers thrown at me and I don't remember which ones they were. I've never been good at remembering dreams. If Hatsuyume is real, I hope this means my dream will come true.

Kaasan and Tomi-chan return tomorrow. So hopefully I can spend some time with them. It's been a relaxing vacation. Even though Koizumi called me twice. Tousan keeps on beating me at Wii Bowling. How embarrassing.

After a wonderful time in Busan, my first time in Korea, I came home to my entire family being home for once. Not only was Tousan giving me the silent treatment but he was giving it to everyone else. Apparantly he is all upset because work forced him to take the week off before Sengoku because last week he had an episode of exhaustion which almost lead to a hospitalization. My parents fought and Kaasan took his cell phone and dropped it in a cup of water. He tried to call work I guess because he thought he forgot something. Kaasan was worried about his health. She has gotten gutsy as she's gotten older. It's all kind of ridiculous.

Probably not the best time for reconciliation is what I thought. Kaasan asked me what I was doing the next day. I said I had a date. She heavily hinted that I should spend time with Tousan. I said I already had plans and the vacation was still young. She seemed momentarily irritated with me but then dropped it.

This morning, I woke up to find my nice clothes were gone and all I have left are a few pairs of track pants, a pair of sweat pants, a couple pairs of jeans, sweaters my grandmother in Tokyo made me, my yukata that doesn't fit, and a boring uninteresting suit that I hardly ever wear. I knew I shouldn't have unpacked last night. Oh I still have the clothes I wore for the party but it is not good form to wear the same outfit in the same week. And what is even worse is my contact lenses are gone too.

Tousan was still up so I asked him if he knew what happened and he pointed to the kitchen counter. Kaasan and Hitomi decided they needed a break from Chiba and went to Tokyo to visit my maternal grandparents. They were worried that Tousan could not make the trip so didn't tell him and didn't tell me because I was probably tired from my trip and someone needed to watch him. I get the underlying message here. I noticed that Hitomi's room is locked and I think she has my things. She knows me too well. I'm not going anywhere with that selection of clothing. I had my wand out contemplating breaking in but I decide against it. My conscience got to me.

So stage 1. Tousan is watching some marketing show. Probably his fix for work. I take the remote to change the channel. He tells me he's watching that. I said I just wanted to check what was playing on this channel. It is a drama with Kawakami. I get irritated. Tousan takes the remote from me and changes it back to the channel from before. This goes on for about 20 minutes until the drama was over and his show as over. We were finally able to agree on watching a movie. In silence. Prince tried to break the tension by rubbing his back on the ground in a cute way and when that didn't work, he carried a pair of slippers in front of the TV. Tousan was not amused but I was. I took Prince out for a walk and made sure that I had my face covered with a scarf. I looked ridiculous.

At lunch, we both had cup ramen. He naps, I play some Wii and play with Prince for a little bit. Then dinner comes. He got up and began to pull ingrediants out of the fridge and cabinets. I kinda noticed then just how old he actually is or at least how much working so hard aged him. So I try and help. We argue. The meal turned into a huge disaster.

You'd think it would turned into a finger pointing charade. No. Tousan began to laugh. Then I began to laugh. It was absolutely ridiculous how bad our meal was without the women of the house helping out. We both ended up sitting on the ground laughing for a good 20 minutes making comments on how the chicken looked like charcoal. Then we ordered pizza.

We had a good talk over pizza and soft drinks. It was a light conversation and still a little awkward but it was what was needed.

The tension is at least broken but it is not completely gone. But I can see why Kaasan and Hitomi did what they did. They are very wise women who look after the men in their family. Unless someone wants to see me dress down, I'm probably not going to go anywhere really until Hitomi comes back and gives me back my clothes and contacts. Until then, I have to take care of Tousan.

[Private to Yuan]

Sorry about Christmas. Maybe we can have a make up?

Well, that's that then. What wonderful timing. One semester left and just in time for the holidays. Hopefully the weirdness of home won't become the cherry on top. Thank god for Hyo-Rin's party. I am looking forward to it.

[Private to Nao-chan]

Looks like we're in business. I still can't decide on what kanji to use.

[Private to Yuan]

What are you doing for Christmas?

It seems that Prince left some sort of message in my journal. I have been spending all week in the theatre preparing for the play which went well until Yamasaki's head went flying off and I haven't given him much attention as he's normally used to. He gave me puppy eyes when I put him in his crate for that mess he made along with sending out messages which I'm sure was puppy speak of, "My master is not paying attention to me! SO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ME."

Good job to everyone who was in the play! Our hard work paid off in the end! I was also impressed with how our newcomers acted very much like professionals and I hope they found working on this play together an enriching experience! I certainly had a lot of fun with it.

Now to think of what to do next and my final semester here. I think I may hold a vote and have it between another Musical, a straight play, or a variety of one acts. Nao-chan, I do hope you return as our stage manager. You did wonderfully. I also hope the newcomers come back as well! Except for Yamasaki

Okay, I feel my energy drinks wearing off. I'm going to sleep now. Thanks for everyone who came.

There is also dabs of spilled ink that look like a puppy nose and unidentified liquids staining the page which are too gloppy to be pee (think Hajime's hair products you sick bastards)

[Private to Muggleborns, Half-bloods with muggle parents and of Japanese citizentry and quadruple hexed]

Ne, have any of you been contacted by a Koizumi-san recently?

The kanji I use to spell Hajime is made up of child and what can also mean blood/lineage. Somehow, that makes it sound incredibly morbid to me. When I was taught how to right my name, kaasan told me it was child on top of lineage, the first, Hajime. Which is how I always remembered it. Well, it is better than just using the kanji for "one" which just looks so plain, especially when it is next to my last name. Why my parents chose that kanji, I'm never too sure. I was the first, I guess. But there are so many others that aren't as morbid: 元, 源, 頭. I'm sure my parents had their reasons especially when both their children have parts of the body in their names.

[Private/Quadruple-Hexed to Nao-chan]

Yankii-hime, I am thinking about starting an underground business. I think I will need your help, oh enlightened one. Don't worry, I'll make it worth your while.

[Private to Yuan]

Why do I need a mirror when you can just tell me I have leaves in my hair? ^_^

I love Culture Day. I think everyone did a wonderful job this year! I fully enjoyed the costuming in Amaterasu 7's production. It was amazing to see how much Yamasaki and Hyo-Rin-chan have grown as actors since I saw their audition a few months ago. It's because But bravo. It was a classic performance.

Of course, I loved the outfits in the Inari 6th years padgent. Miu-chan has real talent. I hope she continues on in her craft!

I was very much amused by Susanoo 6. Once again, the costuming was grand and Tachibana-kun and Ootomo-kun had me in stitches a few times.

I am amazed that we won. Especially since But our team truly was the best.

Good job, minna-san! Thank you for making this a memorable event for us 7th years. And I'm sure Matsudaira-sama and Botsu Yuuhi would be proud

I think I gained a few kilos.

( Private )

[Private to Nao-chan]

Ne, ne, I was reading Kaoru-chan's journal and I saw you yet AGAIN make a reference to another group of guys being gay. Is Nao-chan secretly a 腐女子*?


*Rotten girl, or a girl who is fond of yaoi comics.

Now, I wonder what the definition of disloyal will be here. Will it be telling muggles magical secrets? Or will it be giving my sister a hug?

Please, I hope it dies in the council.

Ahhh, I slept in today. I haven't done that in a while. It was PRINCE who woke me up with licks to my face. Which I promptly had to wipe off. Then after a thoughtful gift, I went and took him for a walk. It was so crisp this morning. It was very nice. I played fetch with my dog before I got some brunch.

The party was a great success. There were so many people who came and everyone looked great and looked like they were having fun. Thank you for everyone who came and really made this party a memorable one for Taka and me. We've had this joint birthday party since our second year of course it wasn't a big deal then. Every year it got more and more elaborate. I expect if we continued this tradition, it would be the most epic party when we're 80. Of course, I don't expect I will look 80. I will be looking into youth potions at that time I think. But I'm not so much worried about that now.

What I would like to do today is to dance and maybe sit outside later with a book underneathe the multicolored leaves. I should probably do homework though before that but I feel productive today.

My package from home arrived today. Since my owl disappeared, it has been difficult to get things from home. It's from my relatives. Grandparents sent me money. Tomi-chan sent me some hair stuff. Kaasan and Tousan gave me a new winter jacket complete with gloves and a hat. Always the necessities, I suppose. It's rather plain but it is down and is very soft. It smelled like home But last year's jacket doesn't fit me very well since I did grow an inch in the last year.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day.