A/N: A practice for writing in the first person, which I suck at doing so forgive me if it's bad. Since this is a fan fiction the Kido I portray is probably very OOC at some parts, but since she is the leader and my favorite character I decided to use her. The plot of this story also came from the idea from Angel Beats and The World Ends With You (Which I highly recommend to be watched and played), so if you're wondering why the story's so strange, that's why~ Enjoy~

It was August 31st, the last day of summer. And surprisingly a very, very annoyingly hot day. All of us were just laying on our butts either bored or trying to find something worthwhile to do. I personally was bored sitting on the couch wiping sweat from my forehead with one hand and running the thumb of the other across the touch screen of my phone, trying as best I could to occupy myself.

Kano lay stretched out on the other couch sleeping. The magazine, which had been his first vain attempt at non-boredom lay on his face. Mary sat on the floor, cross-legged, up against the couch I was sitting on, and next to Seto as they both read from some book; one of the many from Mary's collection. Kisaragi was braiding Mary's hair from where the other sat on the floor below her.

Hibiya and Shintaro were also on the floor. At least they both looked mildly entertained with Shintaro's phone as they both took turns playing some game on it. No doubt Ene was involved. And then there was Konoha. I couldn't tell if he was bored or just daydreaming since both looked quite similar. He was laying on his back on the floor wit his hands behind his head staring up at the ceiling. And pretty much all of us were sweating.

But besides that the atmosphere was silent. I mean really, who died? Okay bad choice of words, I thought as flashes of dark hair and red scarves passed through my mind. But still it was suffocating, and I'm not just talking about the heat. The silence was so thick that the rustling of pages, breathing, and the sound of Hibiya's thumb rapidly tapping against the phone screen mingled together like the roar of a crowd. Then Kano snored and I lost it.

"That's it!" I cried, and immediately stood up. I felt the blood rush to my head at my sudden movement, making me dizzy for a few milliseconds and also blotting out my vision. But when I could see again I just saw surprised and puzzled faces as everyone stared at me, all except for Kano who hadn't even stirred.

"What's wrong leader?" Kisaragi asked me.

"What's wrong? We need to get out of this place. We need to go have fun!" I exclaimed.

"Fun?" asked Seto.

"Yes. Don't tell me you don't know what fun is Seto." I looked at him.

"Well what kind of fun?"

I thought, since I actually didn't know what we should do.

"It's too bad the amusement park's closed on Sunday's," said Mary with a disappointed look on her face.

"Come on you guys. There's got to be something fun we can do that-"

"We could go to the beach." Konoha suggested.

Normally I hate it when I'm interrupted , but I was willing to let it go since he actually had a really good idea.

"Yes! That's a great idea," I said, "Everyone we're going to the beach."

"Now?" Shintaro asked.

I rolled my eyes, "Yes, now."

At that point everyone pretty much got up from the floor; some willingly and others more reluctant, except for Hibiya who didn't get up at all. Too immersed in his videogame. Oh yeah, and then there was Kano.

"Oi! Can someone wake the idiot up please."

Y'know I've noticed something about girls and their effect on boys: Boys are typically more visually stimulated. For example: When Kisaragi did as I asked her and went to wake up Kano after changing into a red and yellow striped bikini( the key word here is 'bikini') and some very short shorts with her zipper down. Whether she forgot about that I don't know. But as soon as she took the magazine off and shook his shoulder to wake him up, I swear I've never seen that boy get up so fast or his eyes bug that far out of his head. But hey, if it works, it works. Who am I to judge? Though I wish he wouldn't be so obvious about his pervertedness.

After that little episode it took us about two hours to get ready for the beach. So once the chairs, umbrellas, and other stuff we needed was collected we headed out.

Now if Shintaro was a smart, responsible 18 year old he would have a car, and we could comfortably and smoothly ride to the beach. But unfortunately for us the NEET did not. And I can' really bag on Konoha, even though he is the oldest, because he seems to be his in his own little world at times. I don't think we want someone like that driving us around. So we just walked in the heat all the way.

When we got there not everyone went swimming, and that includes me. No, I preferred to sit contentedly in a lounge chair with an umbrella shading me. I kicked off my shoes to bury my feet in the hot sand. Hibiya was sitting next to me on a towel under his own little umbrella. And he was still playing on Shintaro's phone.

I fought back the urge to take the phone and demand that he go out and have fun with the others who were all giggling and splashing each other at this point. I mean he was 12 years old, he should want to do these things. But if I did I would just be hypocritical because I should be out there too. I mean I had been the one to command that we have fun and come here, but really I just wanted to get out of the base and do something. But swimming just wasn't my thing. Plus I found bathing suits too… revealing. So I just watched everyone else do it. Besides I already knew that technology has over run the youth. Most 10 year olds would trade the 'Great outdoors' for the comfort of the good old Iphone.

Since Hibiya was there I decided to engage in friendly small talk.

"What are you playing?" I asked.

"Subarashiki kono sekai (translation: It's a wonderful world; a.k.a The world ends with you)," he replied without even looking up from the screen.

"Oh. Isn't that a DS game though?"

"It was. But a while ago they recreated it for the Iphone and Ipad. It's called the 'Solo Remix," he said.

"Yeah, and he's been playing it forever," a voice from my pocket made me jump. I pulled out my phone to Ene pouting against my screen, her sweater covered arms crossed.

"He's been playing nonstop for five hours now and is already almost done with the second week. And it's no fun messing with Master's phone if he's not using it."

"Well I don't know what to tell you." I said.

"This is no fun," she huffed, "I want to go swimming to."

"If you did then leader's phone would get ruined," said Hibiya.

"Can you please turn me around so I can see the ocean?" she asked me. I answered her by turning the phone around and placing it in the cup holder in the chair. She sighed contentedly.

After a time I began to get bored again. Hibiya had been hijacked by Kisaragi, Mary, and Kano who stripped him of most of his clothes (and his dignity) and threw him in the water. Poor kid. I hoped his mom would be willing to give him therapy for being violated in such a violent manner. I hope he'd saved his game.

Shintaro had regained his phone back and Ene. I could tell the latter was much to his dismay.

I plugged in my earphones and listened to music. Unfortunately that didn't seem to help my boredom since I felt like I'd listened to each and every song on my play list a hundred times already. I threw my earphones back in my lap, irritated. It was then that I spotted Konoha sitting by himself in the sand making unsuccessful attempts at a sandcastle. No offense to his sand sculpting skills, but it looked like a very sloppy and crumbly leaning tower of Pisa. I don't know if he was even trying, but I felt bad and went over.

"You need any help?" I asked and I felt like a concerned mother when I did. Konoha looked up from his pile of sand and just stared up at me blankly. I shifted uncomfortably with my hands in my pockets, waiting expectantly for an answer. Finally he jus shrugged.

"Sure," he finally said. I sat down opposite of him and rolled up my sleeves.

"So exactly what are you trying to make here?" I asked.

Konoha shrugged, "I don't know."

I pursed my lips together, "Do you want to make a sandcastle?"

"I guess," he replied.

"Okay. Well, I'll start on the towers and you can connect them with walls. Alright?" I felt like I was directing a two year old. Konoha just nodded and we started to get to work.

"There. Don't you feel good now that you accomplished something?" I asked.

Konoha was as monosyllabic in his answers as ever, "Yeah." I nodded in agreement.

"Aren't you two a little old to be building sandcastles?" Kano's annoying and sometimes somewhat patronizing voice asked.

I glared up at him, "No. and if you don't mind you're dripping all over our construction."

"Ah, but you never built sandcastles with me Tsubomi," he whined.

I stood up instantly, "Don't call me that!"

He grinned, knowing he was getting to me, "But that's your name, Tsubomi."

"Shut up!" I stooped down and grabbed a handful of sand and chucked it at him. Unfortunately my aim was off and I only managed to hit him in his chest, instead of my primary target: his face.

"Ow!" he cried. What a baby, it wasn't even that hard.

"Fine. I'll play your little game." he said, and I dodged the incoming sand ball. But, sadly, Konoha didn't.

"Oh sorry~" Kano called. I turned around and saw Konoha sitting with sand all over his face.

"Oh my God! I am so sorry." I kneeled down and began wiping the sand off him with my sleeve. He spit out some sand and mumbled, "It's okay."

I'd almost succeeded in brushing all the sand off his face when I felt an impact on the back of my neck and sand tumble down the back of my hoodie. I nearly exploded. That boy better pray he lived to see another day.

I turned around where Kano was collapsed on the ground laughing. "Oops! Sorry, my fingers slipped." he laughed. Watching him laugh and feeling the sand run down my back really pissed me off, so much so that my rage meter boiled over.

Kano better thank his lucky stars that I did not kill him. And I mean literally kill him.of course I would have felt bad about doing it if I had, but at the time I felt no regret and showed no mercy.

But the others came running, and Momo managed to grab my shoulders and pull my hands out of the water and off of Kano's head. He sat up immediately, dripping and panting violently. He was fine though.

Not long after that little incident we decided to go home, or rather I decided. I was still pissed at Kano and Kisaragi was trying in vain to calm me down. Mary fell asleep while Seto was giving her a piggy back ride. Hibiya left just before we got to the base, taking Shintaro's phone with him. Apparently his mom wanted him home that night for safety reasons, but I don't see what's so safe about letting a 12 year old walk home by himself in the evening. But she's his mom.

When we got home I immediately crashed. Being in the sun all day made me tired and I just wanted to go to bed. But that was the last, if you want to call it 'normal', part of my life before I woke up plastered to the sidewalk.

So whaddya think? Sorry I made the story so slow and boring at first, but everything needed to be established. Hopefully I'll be posting again in the next two weeks since I have two other stories I'm working on at the same time as this one. Poor planning on my part T-T

Peace~