Birthday Surprises [Part 1]
A Channel (the anime) is owned by Studio Gokumi. I only own this story, which is used for entertainment purposes...
AN: Warning, this first part of the story is incredibly slow-paced. The rest of this story isn't so/as bad...
Nagi
It was almost three o clock, meaning that it was almost time to finally get out of school. Nagi looked out at her watch impatiently, desperately wanting to leave the place before they had figured it out. She just had this feeling that if they did know about it; they would not leave her alone on it for the rest of the day. So far nobody seems to notice, but Nagi was still feeling a little suspicious since her friends having been paying much attention to her all day.
"Hey Nagi," Kitō, her homeroom teacher spoke up to her.
The red-head got out of her own environment and looked at the teacher with a confused look on her face. "Uh... uh... hai?"
"You really should be paying attention. You may not know it or even give a darn about it, but this stuff is REALLY important and can, no, will help you and your education status in the future!" She started, [on yet another one of those speeches].
During the speech, suddenly, her[Nagi's] phone starts to ring and vibrate. She quickly picks it up to see that it was from one of her friends Run. "Hiya Nagi-chan, sorry for not talking to you all that much today, I had gotten really busy with some other things, that I didn't have any time to talk to you" The message said, "To make for it, I made you something during lunch, it's inside of your desk. Hurry up and get it while it's sleeping :3"
"Sleeping? Does she think the desk is alive or something?" Nagi muttered to herself. Just out of curiosity, she slowly opens her desk and sees a black box inside. She takes the box out and slowly opens it with caution. Inside, she sees something that she wasn't expecting to see in the box: a note.
But before she could get a chance to read it, Kitō comes over and takes the phone away from her. "How many times do I have to tell you NOT to bring a phone during class?"
"Um... once?"
"Anyways, you'll have this back by the end of-" She soon got interrupted by the class bell. In which case, everybody else gets up, packs up their things, and heads out of the room. 'Phew, thank god I don't have to hear that again, now to get out of here!' Nagi quickly takes her things and hurries out of the class. "Thanks for taking care of the phone, really appreciate it!"
The red-headed girl goes outside the classroom and takes the note and starts to read it carefully. "If you want to see your special prize you must go to your shoe locker. And also hurry please. Don't ask just do it, trust us."
"Huh?" Nagi stared at it with a puzzled look on her face. Could this be Run's writing or something? Well, then again it doesn't seem like she'd put down something like that. Maybe Run was taking note while Tooru was... talking? Nevertheless, Nagi just shrugged and decided to follow the note. Shouldn't be so hard, right? Then again, she was going to go there anyway.
She went downstairs toward the shoe locker and grabbed her shoes while she was there. But not before noticing another one of those notes.
The glasses girl picks up the note and reads it; it says "Come outside of the school, we have something for you. Hehehe."
"Okay... now what was the point in that? I swear, that girl sometimes..."
When she made it outside, she immediately saw another note that was near a bush. "Go to the store and get some pancakes. Oh, and some other snacks as well. Then return home and knock loudly."
"Okaaaay? This is sort of confusing. Hmm, I wonder why they're doing this. To test me? Nah, they should know by now that I'm smart. But what could it be then?"
"Ugh, I'm not sure if I wanna play this any longer..." Nagi complained as she was carrying some bags that were filled with snacks all the way back home. She checked her phone and saw that they were no messages on there so far. She mumbled something incoherent and continued to walk on through, all the while struggling with the bags that she's carrying.
When she finally made it to her house she was exhausted as heck and just wanted to go inside, lay the other crap on the floor, and rest. Nagi put the stuff down for a brief moment, and knocked on the door. 'Wait a sec, how come I have to knock even though it's my house? Oh. I guess the door is locked so I'll have to knock anyways. Damn it onii-san.' While Nagi was waiting for someone to open it in response, Muffles were being heard from the other side of the door-or screaming, or blabbering- and some crashing noises were heard.
After a couple more muffling and blabbing, the door finally opens up and reveals to be Run dressed up as a scientist. "Ah, welcome Nagi-chan." She greeted with a pleasant smile. "And I see you have brought the ingredients, excellent work." She steps aside to let her friend in. "Come this way, you're just in time."
"Ok. I know I might regret asking, but 'Just in time' for what exactly?"
"Our ritual." The blonde replied, "We are planning to make a sacrifice for this special occasion."
"...Yep. Had to ask."
As soon as the two made their way toward the kitchen, Nagi couldn't help but notice Tooru mixing something in a bowl while the lights were down. "Um, what is this?" She turned to Run and skeptically asked.
"Our ritual. We are almost done with it."
"Run-chan..." Tooru took a glance at Run while speaking in a quiet voice. "Were they delivered safely?"
"They sure were!" She replied, while lifting bag that had the pancake mixes in them. "Now we can finish."
Tooru nodded. "Just make sure you pour it in gently, ok?"
"Mmm hmm." She whacks the table with the pancake mix, causes the lid to pop out (And hit Yuko in the process) and gets most of the mix to spill all over the floor.
"Hey, what did you do that for!?" Nagi snaps, "I had paid good money for that mix!"
"I'm using the same method as opening eggs."
"That's not how you open a mix. And why are you even in my house making such a big mess anyway? And for that matter, who let you in?"
"Yuko." Tooru bluntly states while stirring some more.
'Of course, this all makes sense now!' "Yuko, where are you!?" Nagi yells out as she storms out of the kitchen in order to go and search for him while Run and Tooru, were still finishing up that 'ritual'.
"Whoa, would you look at that?" Run said in awe, "It's a girl!"
"Um, Run, I thought we were scientists, not doctors."
"Well Tooru-chan, scientists can make babies and rituals just like doctors can. Right?"
'No. I don't think doctors can do that type of stuff...'
Nagi looks around the house to see where she could have went. When she heard some muffling, she walked toward the closet door. "Yuko-chan, are you in there?" Nagi calls out to her from the other side of the closet door. She opens it and finds Yuko tied up in some rope and has tape in her mouth. She takes the tape off which makes Yuko scream in agony.
"Are you the one who set this up?"
"Your not even going to question why I'm tied here?"
"Eh, I can guess that it was Tooru's doing. So, were you?"
"Hai, why do you ask?" She heard her reply.
"Why did you invite my friends into my house without my say-so?"
"Well—"
"They don't know about that do they?"
"Um, yeah. Why did you even bother asking if you already knew the answer?"
"Just wanted to make sure I wasn't hallucinating or anything."
"Hey Nagi-chan," Run called out to her in a happy tone, "we're finished. Come see what we did."
"Kay." Nagi replied.
"Wait, at least get me out of here!"
"Later."
"EH?"
"Hmph. You should have known that I don't like parties." Nagi murmurs as she walks away from Yuko.
When she arrives at the kitchen again, Run and Toru were holding up some pancakes that they had made. At least, they looked like pancakes anyway.
"Happy Birthday Nagi-chan!" They said happily.
'I knew it.' "Thanks you guys, I'm really flattered." Nagi murmured.
"Aw come on, don't be like that. Here, have some pancakes and then we'll open the presents afterward, ok?"
"But don't you at least use candles so you can make birthday wishes?"
"Oh yeah, I'll go and get some..."
Tooru stopped Run from getting some mid-track. "No, that would be a bad idea. Just wish without them..."
"Oh yeah. Shouldn't we at least get Yuko?"
"On it. Yuko, wake up." Tooru says as she walks over and unties Yuko. They eventually walk back to join Nagi and Run.
"..."
"Alright then, let's eat." 'I wish I would finally be able to lose some weight...'
While eating, Nagi asks the girls how they manage to come up with all of this.
Run clasped her hands. "Oh that's easy. First off, Yuko thought up the idea..."
*flashback*
"Hey Run-chan, did you know it's Nagi's birthday today?" Yuko walks over and asks Run.
"Really? I didn't know that."
"That must be why she's avoiding us..." Tooru replied.
"Oh now don't be silly, she must be shy and thinks that no one knows about it. Why don't we throw a party for her?"
"Hey, I got an idea, let's throw a surprise party."
"Um, I don't think she'll like that. How about we let her know that we'll be throwing her a party."
"But it'll ruin the surprise..." Run frowned.
"Run, she's onto us, I'll knock her out and hide her in the closet until further notices..." Tooru glared as she picked up her baseball bat.
"EH?"
*End Flashback*
After the girls eat their meals, they move on to the presents. There were three presents on the dining room table, each one had a different colored bows and wrappings on them as well as have different sizes.
"Don't open mine first, I want it to be a surprise, if you know what I mean." Run advised.
"Ok then, I guess I'll just start it off with Yuko's then..." Nagi sighed and reached over to grab Yuko's present.
"I hope you like the present I got you." Yuko said, "It's a pretty big and expensive one, but I'm sure it'd be something you'd use a lot."
She lightly shakes on it to see what it could possibly be. "Is this supposed to be a weapon of some sorts?"
"Eh? What made you think that? Is it because it's a big present?"
"So it's not that, huh?" Nagi just shrugs and opens it, only to find something that she wasn't expecting: a winter coat. 'Holy crap this is freaking huge! Where on Earth did she manage to find something like this?'
"Surprised, aren't you? I got it so you wouldn't be able to freeze in the cold anymore."
"How did you manage to get something like this?"
"Well, it wasn't easy ya know, had to get part-time jobs, looked at a lot stores, tried asking my—"
"Wait, since when'd you have part-time jobs?"
"That's the one you're most concerned about?"
"Go on Nagi, try it on and let's see what you look like with it on." Said Run cheerfully.
"Sure thing, that is what they're used for right?"
"Right."
Nagi takes the big coat and goes the dressing room to put it on. When she comes back (sluggishly mind you) the others were a bit shocked at how much it didn't look like it had fit her at all.
"Um, Yuko? Did you check the size on this monstrosity?"
"Y-yeah... why?" Yuko asked, while sweatdropping.
"And you know what my size is... right?"
"Yes...?"
"Then why the hell is this thing covering me and making me have trouble moving? Did you buy this because you thought I was BIGGER sized than this?"
"No! No not at all!"
"Take her back to the closet Tooru." She ordered Tooru, who did not hesitate and gave chase toward poor Yuko.
While playing what looks like Cops and Robbers, Run hands the birthday girl the next present. "Here ya go, this one's mine."
"Oh, from you? Gee, I wonder what it could be?" 'Please don't let it be another one of those... things.' Nagi worriedly opens the gift and see a box with a picture.
As she lifts it up, she notices that it's a cover which looks like a fitness program. "Whoa, this is awesome, thanks Run—"
"Oh no, I accidentally gave you Tooru's gift instead of mine!"
"—chan..." 'Should have known...'
"Hmm?" Tooru stopped dead on her tracks for a moment and turned to the others. After studying what was in Nagi's hands, she replied: "Oh, yeah, that's mine."
Yuko had stopped running as well. "Hey here's an idea, let's all try it out together and see what it's like!"
"I'm still mad at you..." Nagi and Tooru start glarng Yuko.
"EH? Why me?"
"You started all of this. Anyway, yeah let's pop this sucker in and see if it's any good..."
Nagi takes the coat and hangs it on a rack, slips the DVD in, and joins the other girls, circling around the TV.
As the TV turns on, a person walks over and introduces herself. "Hi, I'm Katie Kate and I'm going to help you exercise and stay fit and healthy!"
"Who is this person?" Nagi whispers to the girls.
"Maybe she's a foreigner..." Run predicted.
Katie starts doing some aerobics and advises that they do the same. "Oh right, exercising."
They all spend some time stretching, jumping, and moving their bodies, eventually becoming tired after 37 minutes in. Yuko takes the remote and pauses the vid.
"Phew, that was some workout, huh? Why don't we take a break and eat some of the other party snacks?"
"Huh, there's more party snacks?" Nagi glanced at Yuko in confusion.
"Yeah, it's in the kitchen. At least it should be."
"And while were at it, we can open my present as well." Run added.
The girls walk over to the kitchen (and take the present with them) and sit down for some munching. There were salads, granolas, and orange juices laying there on the table, just waiting to be snacked on.
'Wow, this must be for my diet. Sweet!' As so, they all dig in.
While eating, Nagi slowly opened up her gift; she couldn't believe what she saw. She was so confused that she took out her glasses and wiped with her shirt to see if was actually her gift. "You gotta be kidding me..." She lifted it up to show the others. "Yogurt? You got me yogurt for my birthday!?"
"Yep, I figured you might have wanted a nicer and simpler way to lose weight, so I got you that for your birthday. Go on, try some, I think you'll like it."
Nagi sighed. She decided to open the yogurt (with a spoon) and have a little taste of it. When she tried though, she was actually horrified with it.
"Um, Run-chan, I don't think she liked it." Tooru whispered.
"Nah, I think she's just shocked with awe..."
She checked the other side of the yogurt and saw that it was past a day. "It's expired yogurt!" She covers her mouth and rushes toward the bathroom and closes the door.
"Wow, now she's hiding it from us..." Run tilted her head.
It took her a somewhat long time for her to stay in there however, and during they heard her screaming for some reason.
"Nagi are you alright in there?" Yuko called out.
"Do we need to call someone to get you out?" Tooru suggested.
Just then, Nagi runs out of the door and starts crying. "I lost a pound, it's a miracle you guys!"
There was some silence between the three for a while, until Run broke by exclaiming: "Hooray, my yogurt worked like a charm [after all]!"
"Come on, let's go and exercise some more so that I can lose even more weight!"
"Hai..."
A while later, Tooru looked at the window and saw the sun going down. "Hmm, it's getting late." She said in a quiet voice.
"Oh really? Well, I guess we better get going then." Yuko responded.
"Yeah, you should." Nagi murmured.
"Something wrong? Look, I'm really sorry about..."
"No worries, it was actually pretty fun... for a party." She looked at the girls with a cheeky smile.
"Thanks for at least trying."
"Oh... your welcome."
And with that, the four wave goodbye to each other and leave.
The next day was Saturday, and Run, Tooru, and Yuko were going to check up on Nagi and see if she wants to hang out somewhere today. Their phones suddenly vibrate, and when the girls pick up their phones, they saw a message from a depressed Nagi.
"I gained a pound, it's a conspiracy :C"
And with that, the three girls sent in different replies to her via text:
"Oh bummer- Yuko"
"We're sorry about that- Tooru"
"Don't worry, you can always eat that yogurt that I gave you yesterday in order to lose those pounds again! You'll be healthy before you even know it ;)"
AN: Ok, for those wondering, yes this is sort of like Episode 10 where the girls celebrate Tooru's birthday. But I wanted to give a little spin/version of my own. Hope you enjoyed it.
I don't know why, but I always thought that Nagi was the type of anti-party gal, so that's why I made her like that in the story.