Tales From Inaba
Ch.1 is from an old fic. Everything else will be new. Phew!
Chapter 1: House Party
"Man I'm beat..." Yosuke sighed, sliding onto the wall at the school gates next to Kanji and Yu. The trio leaned back, standing there relaxed while watching the students of Yasogami High leaving the school for the day.
"Hm?" Yu questioned while turning his head to his friend.
"That pop quiz tore me up." Yosuke lowered his head in shame "If I'm lucky maybe I got a 30%? 40%? That's enough to pass, right?"
"...Not even close dude." Kanji shook his head while Yosuke groaned loudly.
"Hey Yu, still on for that study thing later?" Yosuke looked at Yu curiously.
"Mhm." Yu nodded.
"Thanks, I really need some help with this class..."
"Hey." Kanji stood up straight and looked at the two "Mind if I tag along?"
"What?" Yosuke tilted his head "Dude you're not even in the same class as us. We'll be studying two entirely different things."
"...I got nothing else to do tonight..." Kanji lowered his head sadly while Yosuke and Yu looked at each other.
"...I mean if Yu's cool with it, sure." Yosuke said as they looked at Yu. "Well I already know you'd be cool with it, what I mean to say is, would your UNCLE be cool with us all there?"
"D-Dojima? Why wouldn't he want me there?" Kanji asked feverishly.
"It doesn't matter." Yu spoke up. "My uncle's not gonna be home tonight so you guys can come over."
"Hm? What's up with him?" Yosuke asked.
"Adachi-san said they were going to a bar to celebrate something. They probably won't be back until late into the night." Yu elaborated. He raised an eyebrow when he could have sworn he saw a glimmer spark in Yosuke's eyes.
"So...it's just you and Nanako tonight huh..." Yosuke asked slowly.
"Yeah."
"And your uncle won't be back until wayyyy later tonight huh..." Yosuke smiled.
"Oh no."
"Dude!" Yosuke jumped up and turned to his friends "Let's throw a party!"
"...No." Yu stated.
"Why?" Kanji asked Yosuke.
"Cmooooon guys!" Yosuke pleaded "You don't need a reason to throw a party! Sometimes when the moment's right you just wanna get together with some friends and have fun! And besides," Yosuke looked at Yu directly "I'm not talking about a huge HUGE party, I just mean the gang and you know, maybe people like Kou and Daisuke."
"Think about it," Yosuke continued on as if he were pitching a presentation at a company meeting "It'll just be like 10 of your closest friends there hanging out in your home. We know how your uncle gets so it's not like we're gonna trash the place or anything. Just a couple of friends hanging out in one place for a few hours. We'll be in and out!"
"It does sound kinda fun..." Kanji murmured.
"Hm...but Nanako..." Yu was worried about his little cousin.
"She can hang out with us until she has to go to bed. No problem, it's not like we'll be drinking alcohol or anything." Yosuke explained.
"Y-Yeah! It's not like there'll be any d-drinks there, right? H-Haha!" Kanji laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head as he coughed.
"Come on Yu, what do you say?" Yosuke and Kanji looked at him anticipating his answer.
"...Alright, let's do it."
At Junes
"A party? Seriously?" Chie asked skeptically, the entire gang sitting in their usual spot at Junes.
"What would we even be celebrating?" Yukiko questioned.
"You don't need a reason to throw a party!" Yosuke yelled "It's just feels like a type of party night, you know?"
"No." Chie and Yukiko said together while Yosuke's cell phone beeped. He peeked at it and grinned.
"Kou and Daisuke said they can come. They also said Ai's coming too. Perfect!" Yosuke said while putting his phone away. "It's not a party if there aren't any hot chicks there."
"That's gross." Chie and Yukiko said together.
"I gotta work tonight..." Rise said sadly.
"Parties aren't really my thing." Naoto spoke.
"And I don't think Teddie's in this chapter at all." Kanji explained.
"Aw man, three down..." Yosuke looked at Yukiko and Chie "Yukiko, you gotta work at the Inn tonight?"
"No, the staff has it covered so I'm free for tonight." Yukiko explained.
"Awesome, that means you guys don't have anything to do tonight. Come on through!"
"Hey what about me?" Chie huffed "Maybe I got something important to do or stuff!"
"...That means you guys don't have anything to do tonight. Come on through!" Yosuke repeated while hopping up and stepping a few feet away from the table just in case Chie's fighting instincts kicked in.
"Are you fine with all this?" Yukiko asked Yu who nodded with a smile.
"If it's not that many people, we'll be fine. " Yu assured her. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Dojima Household, Later that night
Knock Knock Knock
"Hey Yu!" Yosuke shouted from the Kitchen. "Someone's at the door!" Yu poked his head in from the backyard door, he and Kanji were moving some things around in the backyard while Chie, Nanako, and Yukiko sat on the couch watching T.V.
"Can you get it?"
"Sure." Yosuke went to the front door.
"Alright, on 3." Kanji huffed in while bending over to pick up the last big tree log laying on the ground. "1...2...3!" Kanji and Yu lifted the log and scattered over to the fence as quickly as they could, before dropping it. They stood up and sighed in relief.
"Man, why is there even a tree log in the backyard?" Kanji asked.
"My uncle wanted to uh...plant a tree in the yard..."
"...But that doesn't-"
"He may or may not have been drunk that night."
"UHHHH, YU? C-CAN YOU COME HERE FOR A SECOND?" Yosuke's shaky voice yelled out from the front door. Yu quickly walked over to the front door, seeing Yosuke standing there holding the door halfway closed.
"What's the matter Yo-!." Yosuke opened the door as soon as Yu began to speak, revealing a crowd of High School kids standing around the sidewalk outside of the house. Yu looked at Yosuke in shock, the other doing the same.
"Hey, is this the party?" The kid in front of the crowd asked.
"Uh...yes, but-" Yu tried to explain before everyone took that as a "Come on in!" and entered inside the house. Yu and Yosuke squeezed into the kitchen still in shock. A number of kids put some of their food and drinks they brought to the party on the counter as they began to scatter about. They continued to watch the students entering into the house at a rapid rate and beginning to mingle with everyone for almost twenty minutes as their brains tried to comprehend what was happening.
"How?" Yosuke asked before he spotted Kou putting some soda down on the counter and the duo quickly grabbed his attention.
"Hey what's up guys!" Kou's grin faded away once he saw Yosuke and Yu frowning at him angrily.
"DUDE!" Yosuke yelled "YOU SAID YOU WOULD ONLY BE BRINGING TWO PEOPLE!"
"I-I did!" Kou waved his hands apologetically. "I-it's just, well...I only wanted to bring Daisuke, but then Ai heard us and said she wanted to come. And while I explaining it to her, some other kids heard us and said they wanted to come! And I was like "I dunno, the host doesn't really know you guys that well..." and they were like "Dude that's what parties are for, to meet new people and celebrate stuff!"
"That is not what parties are for." Yu and Yosuke quickly interjected.
"I'll fix this I swear! Lemme just uh...go find Ai and uh..." Kou quickly backed away into the sea of party goers, soon disappearing from their line of sight.
"That son of a..."
"Nanako!" Yu shouted, realizing his little cousin had been in the room earlier. He quickly rushed into the scene to find her. It's amazing how such a small house suddenly seemed so big when there were more people in it. He squeezed his way towards the couch, finding Yukiko sitting up straight, smiling to herself while three other party goers were right next to her.
"Yukiko!" Yu shouted to get her attention
"Hi Yu!" Yukiko shouted back cheerily. "I've never been to a party like this before. This is fun, heheh." Yukiko giggled, while still sitting and looking forward. Not doing anything. Just staring forward silently. Yu was about to ask her what she was doing before shaking his head.
"Yukiko, do you know where Nanako is?"
"Mhm!" Yukiko nodded.
"..." Yu waited before Yukiko decided to take a quick drink of water, swaying from side to side slightly. W-Was she...getting drunk from the atmosphere...?
"...Oh hi Yu!" Yukiko giggled as she waved to some random people.
"YUKIKO!?" Yu shouted impatiently.
"Nanako? She's with Chie..." Yukiko slurred while Yu sighed. He turned around focused on everyone in the party. Green...Green...Who has on Green...
Yu soon spotted someone with a green jacket and a bowl haircut standing in the middle of a few people in the backyard. He quickly rushed over to them, silently blessing his friend for her uncommon fashion style as he waddled in between everyone and tapped them on the shoulder.
"Chie I need to-" Yu stopped when the person groaned loudly. Yu suddenly noticed them in an arm wrestling match with another student, before "Chie" lost.
"DEFEAT!" A random person yelled out as the crowed cheered. The person in the green jacket looked at the ref "Hey no fair man, someone messed with me!" They turned to Yu, revealing themselves to be a brutish boy with a bowl haircut and some acne. "What's your problem dude!?"
"S-Sorry!" Yu waved his hands "I thought you were someone I kne-"
"Hey, Yu!" Chie called out from the crowd as one of the bystanders, eating some food. Yu stepped away from the angry boy and quickly went over to her, noticing her jacket gone and Chie in her normal shirt attire. "Don't worry about this," Chie said while pointing to the guy in the green jacket. "I might've lost now but once I get my stomach full I'm going at him again with full power!"
"Chie." Yu shook his head, not really interested in this wacky situation or quite understanding how the party escalated this quickly. "Where's Nanako?"
"Nanako?" Chie raised her eyebrow before turning behind her. "She was right behind me a few minutes ago..."
"Chie..."
"Oh that's right!" Chie remembered "She complained about it being to noisy so she went upstairs to her room- HEY NO CUTTING!" Chie rushed past Yu to stop someone from getting another turn in front of her. Yu sighed heavily, looking at the stairs from his position and the sea of kids he'd have to swim through just to reach it.
He took a deep breath and began to force his way through everybody, saying excuse me every now and then as to not offend anyone. Eventually reaching the stairs, he stepped past a few people hanging out on them, as he came to the second floor of the house.
Yu sighed in relief, Nobody was up here. Thankfully they respected other people's boundaries. Also he wouldn't have to clean up the bedrooms at least, he thought as he opened up Nanako's room door to find two people making out in there.
"NO!" Yu shouted angrily. The two lovebirds stopped kissing and looked at Yu embarrassed. "OUT! NOW!" They both quickly rushed out of the room as Yu looked around the room. No Nanako. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down, but thoughts of whatever disgusting things people might be doing in HIS room soon popped into his head as he quickly rushed to his bedroom door and opened it.
Yu peered inside and saw his T.V. on, with Nanako sitting on his couch watching it. Alone.
"N-Nanako?" Yu asked cautiously.
"Oh, hey big bro!" Nanako said cheerily.
"You...ok?" Yu asked while looking around the room to make sure nothing was wrong.
"Yeah! It was too noisy down there, so I came up here to watch T.V..." Nanako explained.
"Alright then...just shout if you need me."
"Ok...oh and Big Bro?"
"Yeah?"
"Does Daddy know about all these people in the house?"
"...Possibly."
"Is Daddy going to get mad if he finds out?"
"...Possibly."
"Oh..." Nanako said as if she was trying to understand what he meant by this.
Yu peeked his eyes around the room for one last time, just to make sure nobody else was in there, before exiting and closing the door. Nanako smiled as she stared at the door for a few seconds, almost expecting Yu to pop back in. When it was apparent that he wouldn't, she spoke out loud to herself.
"Ok Mister Kanji, he's gone!" Nanako said as Kanji soon came out of the closet with another man behind him. On the other side of the room, a female student popped up from underneath the futon and tossed it to the side.
"Nice job Nanako." Kanji said as the three students gathered around her at the table and sat down. "Alright! Let's keep this goin, eh?" Kanji shouted as the female reached into her pocket and took out her phone. Earlier at the party Kanji had gotten into a minor argument with two other students about his grades, which soon escalated into them finding Nanako and hosting their own "Are you smarter than a 2nd grader?" quiz-show.
"Alright, next question." The female student said as she began to read off some quiz questions she found off the internet.
"Mister Kanji, are you REALLY going to take me to Junes tomorrow?" Nanako asked as she leaned forward and pierced her gaze into his eyes "Or am I gonna have to tell Big Bro about this..."
"N-No! I promise! I'll take you tomorrow for sure!" Kanji almost panicked as he felt a chill rush through his spine. Nanako could be truly terrifying if she wanted to...
Yu stood at the top of the stairs, observing the sea of students partying in his house. He was at odds with himself. On one hand, he wanted everyone to leave. But on the other hand, they all seemed to be having so much fun. Nanako was safe. His friends were all enjoying themselves as well, well most of them anyway. They needed this the most, with the nonstop fighting with Shadows. Yu smiled softly as Yosuke's words from earlier popped into his mind,
"Sometimes when the moment's right you just wanna get together with some friends and have fun!"
Of course that pleasant memory became quickly redundant when he also remembered the rest of it,
"I'm not talking about a huge HUGE party, I just mean the gang and you know, maybe people like Kou and Daisuke."
Yu brushed it aside though. Everyone was having fun at this party except for him. Why not have some fun too? He deserved it, right? Yu took a deep breath before shouting out "LET'S PARTY!" to the crowd beneath him. Those who heard him turned to him and raised their eyebrows curiously. Some giggled at the odd display, while others cheered in agreement and raised their food and drinks up. Yu smirked to himself.
This was going to be a night to remember.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP
In the span of a split-second, everyone froze in place. Silence radiated throughout the house. People looked at each other in shock. Nobody had to say anything. It was pure instinct that told them what that noise was. One word popped up into everybody's mind.
Cops.
Almost as if a dam holding a river had broken, the sea of students soon flooded outside of the house in a hurry. Some tried to jump over the fence in the backyard into other people's lawns, but majority of students flocked out of the front door and into the dark streetlight infested neighborhood beyond. Yu was both in shock and impressed as he walked down the stairs. Within seconds, only a few people had remained inside the house.
"Sorry guys," Chie held up a snoring, swaying Yukiko with one arm, the other holding her green jacket over her shoulders along with some new shoes and a candy ring pop. "I gotta take her back to my place and let her uh...sober up?" Chie shook her head as the two girls left the house. Kanji soon came from the top of the stairs, his head hanging low in defeat as Nanako popped up from behind him.
"Bye Mister Kanji! See you tomorrow!" Nanako happily said before rushing back to her room.
"Why do fractions even exist..." Kanji mumbled sadly "You can't cut up a number into different numbers. This is stupid..." Kanji continued to grumble to himself as he walked out of the house. Yosuke walked up to Yu and stood next to him.
"So. How was the party?" Yu asked his friend as the last remnants of people left the house, leaving only the two of them in there, alone.
"It was fun." Yosuke said "This girl gave me her number, although I'm pretty sure it was her boyfriend's number so I'm not gonna call it..."
Yosuke looked around the house. Surprisingly enough, everything was mostly in place save for some food on the counter and the table moved out of place. Everyone sorta took everything they brought as they left. Everything was fine except for the broken vase and mud and dirt tracks all inside the house along with the multiple party cups littered throughout the house.
"Oops." Yu said softly.
"I'm sorry Yu..." Yosuke spoke up sadly "I didn't mean for the party to end up like that. I just wanted you, me, and the gang to have a fun night together, you know?"
"It's alright" Yu smiled at him "I think I had some fun tonight."
"Really?"
"No not really."
"Oh..." Yosuke and Yu turned their heads to the front door when they heard it opening once more.
"ADASHE, I'M A GROWN ASS MAN I KNOW WHERE MY DAMN B-BED IS!" A drunken Dojima wobbled through the hallway, ignoring Yu and Yosuke as he looked at the stairs he had to walk up-
"Nope." he said as he wobbled over to the comfy couch just inches away and collapsed on top of it, snoring within seconds. The two boys looked at the man and shook their heads while Adachi walked in.
"Eh, that's close enough I guess." Adachi shook his head before turning to Yu. "We got a couple of call ins of a noise complaint while we were at the bar." Adachi smirked and looked around at the clear evidence of a party as Yu and Yosuke looked at each other worried. "Welp," he said after a few seconds of silence "I don't see anything going on around here so I guess I don't have to follow up on it. Less paperwork for me anyway."
Yu and Yosuke sighed in relief as Adachi began to leave "Just uh, make sure you clean up before your Uncle wakes up kid. I'd rather deal with a Drunk Dojima than an Angry Dojima any day of the week, haha..." Adachi laughed to himself as he exited the house and got back into his cop car. Sirens welled up again but the sound quickly disappeared off into the distance.
Yosuke looked at Yu and smiled as he realized they were in the clear. "So, where's the broom?"
"Hallway closet. Cmon." Yu smiled as the two boys went off to begin cleaning the house.
End Chapter-
"Mhmphmhmpmh..." Dojima slurred as he sat up from the couch and looked out into the backyard. He stood up, swaying from side to side as he made his way out there, looking around before spotting a big tree log laying next to the fence near the back. He grabbed it and began rolling it over to the middle of the backyard.
"Screw Yu," Dojima slurred to himself "I'ma plant me this damn tree if it's the last thing I do..."
End Chapter 1