Note: ~ ~ flashback
// // thoughts
Touya Akira was sitting behind a goban, apparently in the midst of a game of
shidougo, with a pained expression on his face. Across from him sat a girl with glossy
shoulder length hair and rich almond-shaped eyes. The only word to describe her was
beautiful. Standing huddled around them were about five other girls, who chattered
incessantly each trying to capture the green haired boy's attention. Suddenly there was a
loud thump as someone slammed the door open and entered the room. Thinking the
disruption was yet another jealous boy from class, the girl looked up from the goban,
agitation marring her nearly perfect features. But her face immediately softened when she
saw standing in the doorway the slender, well muscled form of a boy who was most
certainly not a student of the prestigious Haiosaki institute (the school had a very strict
anti-dying policy, and the bleached blonde bangs that hung down across the boy's face
were anything but natural).
"Touya!" breathed the newcomer as he entered the room. "Finally! I've been
looking for you all over this stupid building! Geeze! Who designed this place?" Shindo
continued to ramble as he braced himself against the door frame, apparently oblivious to
the hoard of girls grouped around his rival. Touya mentally rolled his eyes. He had told
Shindo that if he wasn't outside by 2:30 that he could probably be found in room 537 on
the fifth floor. It wasn't that hard to find, and Touya had even gone so far as to offer his
friend directions, which Shindo had vehemently declined.
~~Geeze! I don't need directions to get to a room! How big an idiot do you think I am,
Touya?~~
//Apparently I underestimated just how dumb you can be when you're away from a
goban.// he thought to himself dryly as he remembered the conversation. It was hard,
after all, to remember the depths of Shindo's stupidity when one was confronted by his
immense brilliance over a go board on a regular basis. Touya sighed; he was going to
have to be more careful about that in the future.
"Oi, Shindo!" came a loud shout from the hallway. "What the hell is taking you
so long?!?!" Two more boys were now standing behind the tired Hikaru, both with an
annoyed expression on their faces.
"Ahhhhh!!!" He yelled as he turned around to see his friends behind him. "How
did you guys get here so fast?!?!"
"What the do you mean 'so fast', baka?" Waya practically screamed his face red
with anger. "We've been waiting for the past twenty minutes for you to go get the egg-
head!" Waya wasn't so mad about having to wait for Shindo as he was about having to
spend his Friday night with Touya Akira. The red head had never fully recovered from
the blow to his ego the other pro had inflicted years ago; the fact that it was unintentional
on Touya's part merely made it worse.
"We took the stairs up to the fifth floor and then followed the signs to room 537.
What did you do?" Yashiro, the boy beside Waya, asked knowingly.
"Uhhh. I did the same thing. I just had to go to the bathroom and I made a
wrong turn. It wasn't a big deal though..." the blond lied. Touya was about to go off
on him for refusing the directions but thought better of it as he noticed Akane, the girl
across from him, looking between Akira and his friend curiously.
"Dude, you shouldn't lie. You're not good at it," Yashiro said bluntly. He had
officially come to Tokyo this weekend to attend the go convention the next day, but his
main reason was to visit his friends, which to Akira's surprise, he counted Touya among.
"So, Touya, what's taking you so lo--" he began but as he looked up from his
friend in the doorway to his other friend who was currently surrounded by a hoard of
teenage schoolgirls, Yashiro took in the situation. "Oh," He finished lamely. Evidently
Touya was something of a ladies' man. No wonder he actually wanted to go to high
school.
"Who are they, Touya-kun?" Akane asked innocently.
"Oh, excuse me. Allow me to introduce my friends Shindo-kun, Waya- kun, and
Yashiro-kun. They are go pros as well." Akira answered politely as he continued to
introduce Akane and each one of her friends in turn.
"So, Touya, are you coming or not?" Shindo asked in the brash manner that only
he could get away with. He was horribly impolite but he was so oblivious to his own
rudeness and it was so unintentional that he wasn't actually offensive. usually.
"Um... of course. I'm sorry ladies, but I'll have to finish this some other
time," Touya said without any hint of emotion. The truth was that the boy was so relieved
he did not trust himself to say more. These girls were harder to get rid of than the plague,
especially Akane. She, being the undisputedly most desirable girl in class, had refused to
accept Touya's blatant rejections (or as blatant as Touya was willing to get) of her
advances. Consequently not only had Akira become the most hated guy among the male
student population, but Akane had also been shadowing him at school for quite some
time now and he was always unduly relieved to get away from her.
"Oh? Where are you guys going?" she asked brightly.
"To get some Ramen!" Hikaru replied almost at once, his eyes glimmering with
excitement. The boy had an unnaturally strong fetish for ramen.
"No not ramen again! I'm not doing it! We're going to get sushi!" Waya retorted.
"No way! Ramen!" Shindo shouted back. The two ended up resolving the issue
with a game of rock-paper-scissors......... which they had to repeat due to a dispute over
whether Shindo's hand was 'paper' or 'scissors (during this time Touya valiantly resisted
the urge to slap their heads against the wall and Yashiro stared at his two friends, left
completely speechless by yet another stunning display of their idiocy).
"Alright! Ramen!" Hikaru shouted triumphantly as a mumbling Waya dejectedly
shoved his hands into his pockets.
"Oh! I love Ramen!" Akane said once the issue had been resolved.
"Yeah! Ramen's great!" he replied happily.
"Can we come too?"
"Absolutely!" Yashiro practically shouted. He was stuck going to an all boy's
high school and he wasn't about to miss a chance to hang out with some girls. Especially
if they were pretty. Touya sighed. He had been counting on Hikaru to grow impatient and
come up to the room to retrieve him. The loud and obliviously rude pro was almost
certain to repel the aggressive advances of Akane and her friends. But Akira had
forgotten to take into account that Hikaru was a complete and utterly hopeless ronin. And
while Shindo might be oblivious to Akane's advancements, Waya and Yashiro definitely
weren't.
//But at least she doesn't seem to be hanging all over me anymore// he thought to
himself as he and the rest of their group sat down at the table. But for some reason this
thought caused a hard knot to form in his stomach. Yashiro and Waya were at the other
end of the table talking and laughing with the other three girls Sumire, Sey, and Urami.
Akane had now decided to attach herself to Shindo and she sat next to him in the booth,
pushing herself far closer than necessary; making needless movements that caused her to
brush up against him. Touya tried his best to ignore them and focus on his conversation
with Maho, the girl to his left, who apparently found the many different shades lipsticks
to be profoundly symbolic of the plight of the modern man.
"Oh, wow! You're hair is so soft! I think guys who bleach their hair always look
so cool!" he heard Akane saying as she reached up to stroke Hikaru's hair.
"Um, yeah wel... I jusf like' the way it lookef. I hafen' changef my hair style
in 'ears though," he replied between mouthfuls. The meal continued like this for quite
some time as Akane continued to flirt more and more boldly with Hikaru and Touya grew
more and more agitated. He wasn't even fully conscious of his own discomfort but
periodically he found himself staring intently at the two. But he would soon realize this
and embarrassedly turn his attention back to Maho and her chattering.
It wasn't that Touya thought Shindo didn't flirt with girls, it was just that he had
never actually witnessed it before. For some reason the thought of Hikaru being suave
and cool had never even entered Touya's mind (not that he was being suave or cool now
either, it was just that Akane seemed to think he was).
It was as the meal ended that Akira nearly lost his composure.
"Oh! I'm sooooo sorry! Here, let me help you wipe it up," Akane said as her
elbow 'slipped' spilling orange soda all over Shindo's lap and she proceeded to get a
napkin from the table. Not being able to stand the sight any longer an angry, red-faced
Touya stood up so quickly that he knocked the chair over, placed his money on the table,
and without another word exited the building, leaving his now gaping friends behind.
Akira slammed his fist against the red brick of the King Mart, a block away from
the restaurant. Why the hell was he so upset? It's not like he cared what Akane and
Shindo did anyway. But still..... but still he couldn't deny that his heart had nearly
exploded in his chest when he saw her touching his rival... there. Just the thought of
it made Touya's cheeks flush. Damn it! What was going on with him?!?!
"Oi! Touya! Where are you?!?!" Shindo's voice filled the crowded street. He
couldn't handle this right now. He didn't want to talk to anyone; especially not Hikaru.
Quickly Akira hailed a taxi and went home.
***Please please PLEASE tell me what you think. If you think it sucks and that I should be bludgeoned to death with a blunt object for writing this, please tell me why. This is my first fanfic, hikago or otherwise, and I'd really like some feedback. Thanks! ****
// // thoughts
Touya Akira was sitting behind a goban, apparently in the midst of a game of
shidougo, with a pained expression on his face. Across from him sat a girl with glossy
shoulder length hair and rich almond-shaped eyes. The only word to describe her was
beautiful. Standing huddled around them were about five other girls, who chattered
incessantly each trying to capture the green haired boy's attention. Suddenly there was a
loud thump as someone slammed the door open and entered the room. Thinking the
disruption was yet another jealous boy from class, the girl looked up from the goban,
agitation marring her nearly perfect features. But her face immediately softened when she
saw standing in the doorway the slender, well muscled form of a boy who was most
certainly not a student of the prestigious Haiosaki institute (the school had a very strict
anti-dying policy, and the bleached blonde bangs that hung down across the boy's face
were anything but natural).
"Touya!" breathed the newcomer as he entered the room. "Finally! I've been
looking for you all over this stupid building! Geeze! Who designed this place?" Shindo
continued to ramble as he braced himself against the door frame, apparently oblivious to
the hoard of girls grouped around his rival. Touya mentally rolled his eyes. He had told
Shindo that if he wasn't outside by 2:30 that he could probably be found in room 537 on
the fifth floor. It wasn't that hard to find, and Touya had even gone so far as to offer his
friend directions, which Shindo had vehemently declined.
~~Geeze! I don't need directions to get to a room! How big an idiot do you think I am,
Touya?~~
//Apparently I underestimated just how dumb you can be when you're away from a
goban.// he thought to himself dryly as he remembered the conversation. It was hard,
after all, to remember the depths of Shindo's stupidity when one was confronted by his
immense brilliance over a go board on a regular basis. Touya sighed; he was going to
have to be more careful about that in the future.
"Oi, Shindo!" came a loud shout from the hallway. "What the hell is taking you
so long?!?!" Two more boys were now standing behind the tired Hikaru, both with an
annoyed expression on their faces.
"Ahhhhh!!!" He yelled as he turned around to see his friends behind him. "How
did you guys get here so fast?!?!"
"What the do you mean 'so fast', baka?" Waya practically screamed his face red
with anger. "We've been waiting for the past twenty minutes for you to go get the egg-
head!" Waya wasn't so mad about having to wait for Shindo as he was about having to
spend his Friday night with Touya Akira. The red head had never fully recovered from
the blow to his ego the other pro had inflicted years ago; the fact that it was unintentional
on Touya's part merely made it worse.
"We took the stairs up to the fifth floor and then followed the signs to room 537.
What did you do?" Yashiro, the boy beside Waya, asked knowingly.
"Uhhh. I did the same thing. I just had to go to the bathroom and I made a
wrong turn. It wasn't a big deal though..." the blond lied. Touya was about to go off
on him for refusing the directions but thought better of it as he noticed Akane, the girl
across from him, looking between Akira and his friend curiously.
"Dude, you shouldn't lie. You're not good at it," Yashiro said bluntly. He had
officially come to Tokyo this weekend to attend the go convention the next day, but his
main reason was to visit his friends, which to Akira's surprise, he counted Touya among.
"So, Touya, what's taking you so lo--" he began but as he looked up from his
friend in the doorway to his other friend who was currently surrounded by a hoard of
teenage schoolgirls, Yashiro took in the situation. "Oh," He finished lamely. Evidently
Touya was something of a ladies' man. No wonder he actually wanted to go to high
school.
"Who are they, Touya-kun?" Akane asked innocently.
"Oh, excuse me. Allow me to introduce my friends Shindo-kun, Waya- kun, and
Yashiro-kun. They are go pros as well." Akira answered politely as he continued to
introduce Akane and each one of her friends in turn.
"So, Touya, are you coming or not?" Shindo asked in the brash manner that only
he could get away with. He was horribly impolite but he was so oblivious to his own
rudeness and it was so unintentional that he wasn't actually offensive. usually.
"Um... of course. I'm sorry ladies, but I'll have to finish this some other
time," Touya said without any hint of emotion. The truth was that the boy was so relieved
he did not trust himself to say more. These girls were harder to get rid of than the plague,
especially Akane. She, being the undisputedly most desirable girl in class, had refused to
accept Touya's blatant rejections (or as blatant as Touya was willing to get) of her
advances. Consequently not only had Akira become the most hated guy among the male
student population, but Akane had also been shadowing him at school for quite some
time now and he was always unduly relieved to get away from her.
"Oh? Where are you guys going?" she asked brightly.
"To get some Ramen!" Hikaru replied almost at once, his eyes glimmering with
excitement. The boy had an unnaturally strong fetish for ramen.
"No not ramen again! I'm not doing it! We're going to get sushi!" Waya retorted.
"No way! Ramen!" Shindo shouted back. The two ended up resolving the issue
with a game of rock-paper-scissors......... which they had to repeat due to a dispute over
whether Shindo's hand was 'paper' or 'scissors (during this time Touya valiantly resisted
the urge to slap their heads against the wall and Yashiro stared at his two friends, left
completely speechless by yet another stunning display of their idiocy).
"Alright! Ramen!" Hikaru shouted triumphantly as a mumbling Waya dejectedly
shoved his hands into his pockets.
"Oh! I love Ramen!" Akane said once the issue had been resolved.
"Yeah! Ramen's great!" he replied happily.
"Can we come too?"
"Absolutely!" Yashiro practically shouted. He was stuck going to an all boy's
high school and he wasn't about to miss a chance to hang out with some girls. Especially
if they were pretty. Touya sighed. He had been counting on Hikaru to grow impatient and
come up to the room to retrieve him. The loud and obliviously rude pro was almost
certain to repel the aggressive advances of Akane and her friends. But Akira had
forgotten to take into account that Hikaru was a complete and utterly hopeless ronin. And
while Shindo might be oblivious to Akane's advancements, Waya and Yashiro definitely
weren't.
//But at least she doesn't seem to be hanging all over me anymore// he thought to
himself as he and the rest of their group sat down at the table. But for some reason this
thought caused a hard knot to form in his stomach. Yashiro and Waya were at the other
end of the table talking and laughing with the other three girls Sumire, Sey, and Urami.
Akane had now decided to attach herself to Shindo and she sat next to him in the booth,
pushing herself far closer than necessary; making needless movements that caused her to
brush up against him. Touya tried his best to ignore them and focus on his conversation
with Maho, the girl to his left, who apparently found the many different shades lipsticks
to be profoundly symbolic of the plight of the modern man.
"Oh, wow! You're hair is so soft! I think guys who bleach their hair always look
so cool!" he heard Akane saying as she reached up to stroke Hikaru's hair.
"Um, yeah wel... I jusf like' the way it lookef. I hafen' changef my hair style
in 'ears though," he replied between mouthfuls. The meal continued like this for quite
some time as Akane continued to flirt more and more boldly with Hikaru and Touya grew
more and more agitated. He wasn't even fully conscious of his own discomfort but
periodically he found himself staring intently at the two. But he would soon realize this
and embarrassedly turn his attention back to Maho and her chattering.
It wasn't that Touya thought Shindo didn't flirt with girls, it was just that he had
never actually witnessed it before. For some reason the thought of Hikaru being suave
and cool had never even entered Touya's mind (not that he was being suave or cool now
either, it was just that Akane seemed to think he was).
It was as the meal ended that Akira nearly lost his composure.
"Oh! I'm sooooo sorry! Here, let me help you wipe it up," Akane said as her
elbow 'slipped' spilling orange soda all over Shindo's lap and she proceeded to get a
napkin from the table. Not being able to stand the sight any longer an angry, red-faced
Touya stood up so quickly that he knocked the chair over, placed his money on the table,
and without another word exited the building, leaving his now gaping friends behind.
Akira slammed his fist against the red brick of the King Mart, a block away from
the restaurant. Why the hell was he so upset? It's not like he cared what Akane and
Shindo did anyway. But still..... but still he couldn't deny that his heart had nearly
exploded in his chest when he saw her touching his rival... there. Just the thought of
it made Touya's cheeks flush. Damn it! What was going on with him?!?!
"Oi! Touya! Where are you?!?!" Shindo's voice filled the crowded street. He
couldn't handle this right now. He didn't want to talk to anyone; especially not Hikaru.
Quickly Akira hailed a taxi and went home.
***Please please PLEASE tell me what you think. If you think it sucks and that I should be bludgeoned to death with a blunt object for writing this, please tell me why. This is my first fanfic, hikago or otherwise, and I'd really like some feedback. Thanks! ****