The Lost B.B Files
I dedicate this fanfic to my girlfriend =D
Disclaimer: I don't claim ownership of anything.
The boy walked down dirt road, holding a full jar of strawberry jelly in his hand. He took some time to appreciate the tranquil feel and overall look of the peaceful village he had arrived in. His attire seemed to contrast with his environment. His dark messy hair blew in the calm wind. His long white sleeve shirt and baggy blue jeans seemed so disorganized compared to the seemingly ordinary village of Hinamizawa.
He decided to stop his sight seeing and continue down the dirt road. He took a handful of the jelly from his jar and ate it. Quite a bit of the jelly got splattered on his white t-shirt. "Okay...I'm lost…" The boy sat crouched down on the road like some sort of deranged frog, he continued eating the jelly.
"Hmm…Let me think…I already took the road south from the grocer, so that leaves the possibly routes of…"
"Ahh!! I slept in way too late!! Kei-chan and Rena-chan are probably at school by now." The girl ran down the dirt road, her long green hair blowing in the wind from the friction her speed was creating. She stopped in her tracks when she saw a strange form on the dirt road. She realized that it was a boy, possibly around Keiichi's age.
The boy took notice of the girl that had approached him. "Wonderful! I can ask her for directions." He got up and turned around to face the girl. "Excuse me…I'm new here and I seem to be lost could you tell me how to get to the school?"
The girl hadn't heard the boy. Her focus was on the red jelly stains of the boy's shirt. "What!? Is that blood? What on earth did this freak just do?" Readying herself, the girl pulled back her leg, and kicked the leg forward. Her kick landed right between the boy's legs.
His eyes bulged open from the pain of the kick. He dropped to the ground, in pain, surprisingly still holding onto his jar of jelly for dear life. "Don't come near me again you freak!" The girl yelled as she ran towards the school.
The girl soon arrived to her school and walked into her classroom. "Hey Mion!" Keiichi Maebara called over from his seat.
"Hey Kei-chan! What were you talking with Rena-chan about? Whispering more sweet nothings to each other? Please keep the strawberry sweet talk till after school."
This time, it was Rena that spoke up. "M-Mi-chan!? We wouldn't talk like that when there are kids around!" Realizing what she had just said, Rena got bright red. "What I meant was! That just because Keiichi-kun and I are dating…doesn't mean…that umm…"
Mion smacked her friend. "Eh, don't freak over it Rena-chan. It was just a joke." Mion said with her usual tomboyish attitude.
"So what kept ya Mion?" Keiichi asked abruptly.
"Well I overslept, and on the way there I met this freaking looking kid with blood on his shirt. Don't worry though; we won't be seeing him anytime soon. Gahaha!"
Mion took notice of Satoko placing some traps by the class entrance. "Who's the unlucky sucker that's gonna get it this time?" Mion asked her friends.
"Mi! I heard that we're getting a transfer student today. So Satoko's planning on giving him a little surprise…Nipah!" Rika Furude answered.
"Ohohoho! Once he steps on the panel I so cleverly hid…He'll face the true terror of Trap Satoko! Ohohoho!"
The classroom door opened and Satoko looked on in anticipation. I jelly jar rolled across the floor of the class room. It rolled over the hidden panel, activating all the traps prematurely. Satoko looked on in horror as every single one of her traps were wasted on a target that didn't exist. Satoko ran towards her traps, crying "No! My traps…"
The one who had opened the door finally entered, running after the jelly jar. "No! My jelly…" He grabbed the jar and looked at the scene. "I'm sorry is this the wrong class." He froze in his place when his gaze focused onto Mion. Mion likewise noticed him and froze once she had her gaze locked onto him.
Both, as if mirror opposites, pointed at each other and yelled in unison. "You!?!?"
"You're that weirdo from this morning! What are you doing here?"
The school's teacher, Chie-sensei, walked into the classroom. "He's here, because he's the new transfer student, Mion."
"Oh…well…Then how do you explain the blood stains on his shirt!?"
The boy angrily pointed at his jelly jar. "I was eating my strawberry jelly!"
Mion was starting to feel a bit stupid now. "…Oh." She clapped her hands together apologetically. "Sorry, my bad." She said with a friendly smile on her face.
"…You expect me to forgive you just like that?" The boy said crossing his arms in an X.
Mion nervously laughed. "Umm…Yeah." She bowed her head. "I really am sorry for the misunderstanding."
"Well…I guess I'll let it slide."
Chie-sensei started to write a name on the chalk board. "Umm…Is this really your name?"
The boy looked at the name on the chalk board. "Beyond Birthday"
"Yup that's it." Beyond Birthday bowed to the teacher and then to the class.
"Well…This is Beyond Birthday-kun…Do you have anything you wanna say to the class?"
"I like jelly."
"Anything else you want to say?"
"Nope."
"Okay then…Birthday-kun…You can have the empty seat next to Mion."
"Great!" Beyond Birthday said sarcastically.
Beyond Birthday took the seat and sat in a strange crouched position. He was obviously purposely avoiding the others.
Rena spoke, trying to break the awkward silence. "So where are you from Beyond-kun?"
"None of your business, and I'd prefer to be called B or B.B."
Mion spoke up getting quite irritated. "Hey! No need to be so rude! She was only trying to get to know you!!"
"Oh…Was she? I honestly couldn't tell…" B.B said with bored tone.
"Are you kidding?"
"No…sorry…This is the first time I've had any real interaction with people who weren't trying to compete with me."
"So…You say you've been playing with people who always competed with you? In that case I know just the place for ya."
B.B seemed a little interested by the prospect. Mion smiled eagerly. "I know this Club where we do JUST that. If you think you can handle it, you should join."
"How would I join this Club?"
"By vote, I myself am the Club's President."
"Oh great…" B.B said a bit disappointed.
Mion grabbed him by his shirt and brought him closer to her face. "What was that!?"
"Umm…nothing" B.B said, suddenly frightened.
"Very well then, stay after school and we'll vote."
Once the final bell rang, all the Club members gathered around Mion. "Okay! Today we're going to decide whether or not we should allow B to join the Club."
Everyone raised their hands to let B.B join the Club.
"Okay B…since I'm a merciful leader…I'll let you pick the game we play."
"Hey! Mion!! How come he gets to pick the game on his first day!? You never let me pick the game!!"
"Shut up Kei-chan." Mion thought to herself. "Nothing this guy could come with could possibly be hard."
A sudden idea came to B.B "Oh! I know…Let's have a jelly eating contest."
Mion and the others froze in place and the mention of more jelly. "You serious!?"
"Yup" B.B said contently.
Mion hit her face with her hand in frustration. "Crap! I did promise he could pick the game…Alright! We'll play your game…But don't expect an easy victory out of me."
Keiichi whispered to Rena. "It seems like Mion forgot to include us."
Rena laughed and whispered back to Keiichi. "Even though it may not look it, I think Mi-chan's really having fun with B.B."
"I think you're right there Rena." Keiichi replied, laughing a little as well.
B.B got to setting up the eating contest. The rules…Each Club member had five jars of jelly, the first to finish all or the one to eat most by the end of the time limit was the winner. Once everyone had their jelly, Mion and B.B steadied themselves.
"Hey wait a minute! We don't have any spoons." Mion realized.
"What?...You use spoons to eat your jelly?" B.B said, as if the very notion was blasphemous.
"You don't!?" Mion replied.
"You do!?" B.B answered back.
"God this weirdo's working my last nerves...Fine! We'll eat without spoons…So we ready?"
All the Club members took their seats, B.B still sitting in that strange crouched position.
Mion rang the buzzer, everyone started to eat the jelly. B.B quickly got through his first jar and began the second. Everyone else, aside from Mion, who was also starting her second jar, was still on their first jar. Mion clearly disliked the taste of pure jelly, but she was determined to match B.B's pace. Her efforts were admirable, but futile. B.B seemed to eat the jelly so easily, while everyone was still getting used to the taste and eating with their bare hands. B.B was named the victor after he finished his fifth jar, Mion was half way done with her fourth, while everyone had just started their third.
"Great job B.B" Keiichi congratulated. "Now for the punishment game."
"Punishment game?" B.B said curiously.
"Kei-chan!" Mion interrupted.
"Uh, uh, uh…It's the rules Mion."
"Since you won B.B, you can make someone do the punishment game. So all you have to do is give the order and the other Club member must do it. No questions asked."
"Hmm…Please give me a moment." B.B said as he sat down in a chair, yet again in his usual crouched position.
After a few moments of thinking, B.B finally got up and pointed at Mion.
Mion jumped back a little. "Come on…What am I worried about? I doubt anything this guy comes up with could be too bad."
"Mion Sonozaki…I want you to dress like a maid and serve me jelly for a whole month!"
Mion's face froze in shock. "Eeeeehhhh!? You want me to be your jelly maid!?"
"Precisely…And it was my understanding that there would be no questions asked."
Mion growled angrily.
"Oh and you must address me like a maid and call me master B.B"
Keiichi and the others were a bit shocked. "B.B's either got a fetish for maids…or for jelly…I can't tell anymore…Didn't know he had it in him…Can't remember if I ever saw Mion look so beat." Keiichi whispered to the others. They all laughed nervously.
The following Club meeting, everyone decided on a simple game of Old Maid. Mion was wearing one of Irie-sensei's various maid outfits. She held a tray with different flavors of jelly and held it out for B.B to choose his pick.
"W-Which flavor would you like Master B?" Mion said, nearly choking on the words.
While the game was uneventful for the most part, the true thinking was being done within Mion's mind. "He's gotta have some sorta weakness…Something I can exploit…His jelly! Possibly…but first I gotta win a game against him…Now what does B suck at…"
B.B took a jelly jar from the tray and ate. "Thank you Mion."
"Oh don't mention it Master…It's my pleasure." Mion said with a fake smile as she bowed. "You'll pay for this!" She thought angrily in her head.
The next few weeks passed by mostly without incident. Mion had been slowly biding her time. Finally her punishment was over. Now was the time to enact her plan. "Today we're gonna have another eating contest…This time…with curry!"
"Did someone say CURRY!!" Chie-sensei said running into the classroom, an eager look on her face.
"No! I didn't say curry…Crap…I didn't count on this"
"What's going on here?...An eating contest…Count me in!" Chie-sensei said as she sat herself down.
"Guess it can't be helped…Now that the "Curry Demon" is here."
Everyone took their places and readied themselves. The buzzer rang and B.B and Mion were left completely in the dust by Chie-sensei. It was over before it even began. Since Chie-sensei wasn't really a Club member, she wasn't technically the victor. And since Mion had eaten more than B.B, she was the true Club victor.
"Perfect!" Mion yelled as she pointed at B.B and smirked.
B.B steeled himself for the punishment he was about to receive.
"B…your punishment is…No jelly for a month!"
B.B fell backwards from his chair and dropped to the floor, his face frozen in horror. Mion knew she had hit a deep nerve.
"I must admit you surprised me with that punishment you gave me…But now its payback time! GAHAHA!!"
B.B got up from the floor, his body shaking. "Okay…Mion. You win."
"Uh?"
"I won't eat jelly for a whole month…Put once this punishments over…You better watch yourself!!"
Mion smiled. "I was hoping for an answer like that. Looks like this will be fun."
The next Club meeting, B.B looked terrible. He seemed to have a depressed aura about him. The lack of his favorite snack was obviously taking its toll.
"Wow B.B-kun" Rena said, amazed. "How you holding up? I know if I was asked to give up cute things for a month, I'd probably break down."
"Don't worry about me Rena. I'll hold up…for now anyway." B.B said, suddenly losing his confidence.
After the Club was over, everyone went their separate ways. Mion followed B.B determined to get some answers.
"Hey B! I realized you still didn't tell us where you're from."
"Sorry Mion…I'll tell you another time…But there are people who would use such information against me."
"What are you talking about!?"
"That's classified."
"Can you tell me if Beyond Birthday's your real name!?"
"That's classified."
"Can you tell me about your parents!?"
"That's classified."
"Can you tell me about YOU!?"
"That's classified."
Mion growled in frustration. "Fine! Keep it to yourself! See if I care!" Mion yelled as she ran off."
As B.B looked at Mion run away, he noticed something that horrified him. With his shinigami eyes, he saw that Mion's life span was rapidly decreasing. He looked to his right and saw that a large white van was speeding in Mion's direction. B.B ran toward Mion attempting to get her out of the way in time "Mion!!!" B.B yelled.
Mion looked to her side and saw that the van was increasing its speed and was about to hit her. Mion froze with fear, unable to move any part of her body.
B.B dove toward Mion and grabbed her, both missed the van by a fraction of a second. The two rolled on the ground and landed in the grass. The two opened their eyes and saw that they were mere inches away from each other. B.B realized he was still holding on to Mion and released her immediately. B.B helped Mion from the ground and helped to pat some of the grass off of her clothes.
B.B bowed apologetically. "Sorry Mion…I gotta go…Bye" B.B said as he ran off in the opposite direction. Mion took some time to realize what had just happened. She had nearly been killed, B.B had rescued her…and she suddenly realized…she was blushing.
