Random Walk Author: Yoshizumi Wataru Translator: Amy [IispundreamsII@aol.com] Act2 Amy's note: Alright! Here's act 2. Nozomu really looks like Sasa to me...it's kind of bothering me a bit ^^; Ahhh! And I love the school uniforms for Morinaga! Translation note: sound effects are in <> [] represent actions and different scenes. Thoughts are in italics. --- page 1: Yuka: Now I have someone to love. Nozomu: What's this? A letter? Yuka: Recommendation letter. Nozomu: Recommendation letter? Yuka: Anyway, read it. Nozomu: "To Nozomu. I recommend you to have Yuka-chan, who's the daughter of my friend Akimitsu Kunitomo, as your girlfriend! I hope that Yuka-chan becomes my future daughter-in-law. I want Yuka-chan to become my daughter! I'm counting on you. From your father." .... Yuka: I met your father when I went to the golf range with my dad the other day. On the way home we had lunch together. Your father seemed like he liked me. ~Flashback~ [Shiki-sensei is drunk] Shiki: Yuka-chan please be my son's wife! Oh, I should write a recommendation letter. Yuka-chan, if you like my son please hand it to him. If you don't like him I give up on you! ~end flashback~ Yuka: Your dad looked like he was high with just a glass of beer. Nozomu: I can tell, the letter is sloppy. But it means you like me. Yuka: Yes, very much. You should be honest with me. Do you have a lot of girlfriends or none? Nozomu: At this moment, I have none. Yuka: Sooo...will you let me be your girlfriend? Nozomu: [places a finger on his chin] Hmm, let me think. Sometimes you act bad. Yuka: Oh, that's wrong! Touko forced me to do it, I had never done it before. I was trying to convince Touko to stop doing that. Nozomu: I see. [he smiles] Ok. In that case, your a candidate for my girl friend...how about semi-girl friend? Yuka: What, semi!? [small print: noooo] Nozomu: I'm very careful about that. So far I've had three girlfriends. And I broke up with them for the same reasons. Everytime, the girls come to me I say ok and start dating them. After awhile they accuse me of not being serious about them and they leave. Yuka: You have never been serious with anyone before? Nozomu: Yea, probably, but I was happy they said they liked me. However I liked them in my way. Because they said they wanted to go out with me I said Ok. There's no reason to complain that it's not enough. I don't think the girls were serious either because they came to dislike me so quickly. Yuka: Oh, really. If you have someone to go out with it makes you happy. I don't understand why the three girls decided to leave you. Nozomu: Because of my experience let's keep a trial period for awhile and when we find out if we're both serious we will become boyfriend and girlfriend. Yuka: Ok....I understand. (thinks) I'm serious enough. Stand-by ok. But there's nothing I can do. I'm trying my best to go a rank up from semi girlfriend to regular girl friend. [Yuka walks through the halls and notices Tsukasa and Touko flirting.] Yuka: What!? Touko: That's right. I've decided to go out with Tsukasa. Yuka: What is it! You were upset with him! Touko: Yes, you're right. Tsukasa did it because he was interested in me before. [giggles] He told me that "If I did not care about you I wouldn't have done anything. But I wanted you to stop because of me." Yuka: What about the guy from K University? Touko: I'll keep him anyway. But I'll probably lose interest with him because my attention is now on Tsukasa. Yuka: I envy you. I'm "Semi-girlfriend". Touko: Ohohoho Katsura: ..... Yuka: Katsura do you have a boyfriend? Katsura: [blushes] What? No, no, no way. Yuka: [think] Nozomu-kun's dad would be happy to see her reaction. Touko: Haven't you gone out with any boy at all? Katsura: ....yea Touko: But you have someone you like don't you? Katsura: I had someone I liked when I was in Junior High School. Yuka: Didn't you say anything to him? Katsura: No, I can't! I'm not brave enough. Yuka: In that case has someone told you that they liked you? Katsura: Yes but I turned him down. Because he was just a friend to me. Touko: You should have tried to go out with him. Katsura you're immature. Why don't you be more aggressive? Yuka: Touko, you're too aggressive. How many boyfriends have you had before Tsukasa-kun? Touko: But at the beginning of the relationship is always a more enjoyable time since you're getting to know one another better. After that period passes I lose interest. I want to feel the excitement of the beginning of love, so I move onto someone else. Yuka: But don't you think not only the beginning but also after you get to know each other can be happy too? Going out longer is better. Touko: Oh is that what happened when you went out with Tsutsui-kun. You went out with him for a year. I'm never going out with some one for that long. Yuka: You're not looking for a boyfriend, Touko, you're looking for a good time. Touko: yea, you're maybe right. Katsura: [think] They are using words I never knew before, I can't follow the topic. Yuka: So you have the same situation Nozomu-kun? Nozomu: Yes, my father is very nervous and isn't very kind right before the deadline. I don't even want to talk to him. Yuka: You're father doesn't look like that, he's more kind and gentle. Nozomu: There's a big difference when he's working and not working. Sometimes my father works somewhere. But still he says he prefers to work at home. Yuka: Yea, my father says the same thing. Youko-mama: Oh, Yuka-chan! Yuka: Youko-mama. What are you doing here? Youko-mama: I'm on the way back to work from a designer's office that is around this area. I'm sorry, I'm really in a hurry. I wish I could have a cup of tea with you and your friend. Yuka: It's ok. Youko-mama: Why don't we have dinner together tomorrow night? Is 8 p.m. ok? Yuka: Right, so I'll see you tomorrow. Nozomu: Who was that? Yuka: My mom. Nozomu: What? But... Yuka: Of course she's not my biological mother. She's my father's new wife. I think, Nozomu-kun, that your father knows her because she used to work for the magazine Mystery. Nozomu: You to look like you have a good relationship. Don't you feel opposed to her? Yuka: Not at all! Youko-mama is only 28 years old so to me she is like an older sister and I like it. If my real mother was still alive today my feelings might be different but she died when I was two years old in a car accident. Nozomu: But don't you want your father to keep loving only your real mother? Yuka: My father is strange. He has been telling me about his girlfriends since I was small. "To fall in love is a wonderful thing". "Be a good woman and don't be afraid to get hurt. You should fall in love a lot." That is what I've been learning from him. Therefore I always want to like someone and I like watching my father who is in love. Nozomu: Really? Yes, he's really strange. Yuka: hahaha, right. Nozomu: [smile] But I like that. Yuka: Thanks. Youko-mama: Oh he is! The boy I met yesterday is Yuka-chan's new boyfriend. He looks pretty cool. Yuka: We are not officially going out yet because I am only a "Semi girlfriend" Akimitsu: I can't believe that you like Shiki's son. Have you handed him the recommendation letter? Yuka: Of course. Akimitsu: Did he like it? Yuka: He was amazed. [laughs] Nozomu-kun told me that he's never been serious about a girlfriend before so I wonder how I can make him serious about me. Youko-mama: Well, I think the best way is to feed him. Bring him a homemade lunch box. Akimitsu: I don't think so. It's not so effective on the high school boy because they eat their mother's homemade food every day. Youko-mama: Oh, right. But still he can feel your feelings because you put lots of effort into it. Yuka: I understand. I'll think about that. Youko-mama, did you feed my father? Youko-mama: Um, it's sort of the other way around. Because Akimitsu-san is better at cooking than I am. Akimitsu: But you're getting better. Tonight's pasta and salad that you made is good. Youko-mama: Thank you. I'm trying to learn so please be patient. [They get all lovey] Akimitsu: Oh, Yuka, you're still here. Finish your dinner and go back to your room. Yuka: yes, yes. [A boy offers a ticket to Katsura who declines.] Katsura: Oh did you see? Touko: Oh yes we saw it. Yuka: We saw it. He told you that he liked you and you turned him down didn't you. Touko: He looks like he's a nice person. I'm not sorry for you. Why did you do that? I can't believe you. Katsura: No, it's not right. He just asked me to go to the movies with him. Yuka: Oh, is that right. Touko: Why can't you be nice and go with him? Oh no, you're too hard. Katsura: Because he's a third grader whom I don't know at all. So when we're together I don't know what to say. On top of that he likes me a lot and I feel pressured. Yuka: WHY!? To be loved by someone is a happy thing. You should be happy. Katsura: You're right...I appreciate his feelings but I have nothing to offer him. So I feel guilty since I can't do anything for him. Yuka: I understand how you feel, still, you're too hard. Touko: I really don't understand you. Any kind of boy can make me happy. I enjoy talking to boys who I don't know. It's ok, you and I are different. Well, I'm going to see Tsukasa. Bye bye! Katsura:.... I wish I was more open-minded like Negishi-san. Yuka: It's ok, you don't have to be like Touko. You don't have to force yourself, but if you fall in love next time you should be braver and tell him that you like him. I'll help you with whatever I can. Katsura: ...thank you. Yuka: Oh Hiro, wait. I have a question, do you think high school boys appreciate hand made lunch boxes? Hiro: Yea, especially if the lunch is made by someone we like. Yuka: How about if it's done by a semi-girlfriend? Hiro: What are you talking about? Why don't you ask him if he wants it or not. Yuka: You're right. Katsura: [think] It's nice, I want to become like Yuka, who can speak with the boys frankly. [In the school's library] Yuka: There are so many books written by your father, have you read everything? Nozomu: Not really. Yuka: Oh that's terrible! Nozomu: Have you read your father's books? Yuka: Oh, not really. Nozomu: You see, you too. Yuka: I like movies and comics, which have pictures not just text. I like them better. Nozomu: Oh, me too. Even though our father's are authors- Yuka: Oh! Nozomu: What? Yuka: My thumb nail just broke. I hate this, whenever I try to grow my nails it's always like this. So I'm going to see Sachie-mama and ask her to fix it. Nozomu:......Your mom? Didn't you say your mom's name was Youko? Yuka: Oh that is different. Sachie-mama is my second mother. She is the owner of a nail salon. Nozomu: [adorably shocked] Huh? Yuka: My father remarried when I was in the sixth grade to Sachie-mama. But one year later they got divorced. She was nice as a lover but not the type to marry. Therefore Youko-mama is my dad's second wife. Nozomu: Getting married three times.... Yuka: Oh, he's had many girlfriends. He's quite popular. My father should write romance novels instead of mysteries. I prefer to read romance novels. Nozomu: ..... Yuka: Oh, by the way, do you eat at the cafeteria all the time? Nozomu: Yea. Yuka: Is it ok to make a lunch for you? Nozomu: Can you? Yuka: Yup! Because sometimes I didn't have a mother so therefore I can take care of any type of housework. Nozomu: Ok, I can expect that. Yuka: Really!? YAY! In that case I'll try my best. Nozomu: Your family situation is kind of complicated but you've grown up straight. Yuka: You think so? Am I straight? (Small print: I don't understand myself). But sometimes I think I am twisted.... Nozomu: No you're honest and cute. Yuka: ........really? Nozomu: Yes, very cute. Yuka: In that case, are we going to get serious? Nozomu: ...yea, we are. [They lean closer and kiss.] -end of act2- Note: A lot of people don't seem to like this story, I disagree. The plot might not be that interesting (YET!) but it's certainly more realistic then say Marmalade Boy. Plus as I said the art is wonderful! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome, contact Amy at: IIspundreamsII@aol.com Find more Random Walk translations at: http://www.swb.de/~zahara/yo/random_walk.html Also for more Random Walk: Random Walkml ( RandomWalk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ) Thank-you! ^^ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------