Saturday 3:45 PM
"School, is over!" Akihisa Yoshi declared when he slumped down at the table he and his friends occupied. Just yesterday was the last day of school, and Yoshi was more than happy about that, because for the next several weeks he wouldn't be suffering through the hellish punishment that comes with being a probationary student, along with being the dumbest student in all the class, if not the whole school, and things looked like they were going to be smooth sailing from this day on. Or so it looked like it.
"Yeah, and you've got summer school," A tall, red head by the name of Yuuji, depressingly clarified for the Chestnut haired boy in front of him, who had then fallen over.
"Dammit Yuuji why do you have to kill my mood like that?!"
"Oh don't feel so bad. Don't forget I'm stuck there too." A girl with a ponytail tied up with a ribbon said as she walked up to the group, looking almost as bad as Akihisa did.
"Oh, that's right Minami." Aki couldn't help but feel just a little bit better at the news, seeing as how he really did like her, maybe in that way? Of course he was too stupid to realize that.
"Well it's not exactly my fault." Minami wasn't being a pushy teenager when she said it. Originally a German immigrant, she had trouble fitting in at first, and Akihisa was one of the first people she had a chance to make friends with, so yes they have a history together. But that still didn't help her with the fact that she couldn't read Japanese Kanji worth a damn. "Damn Kanji."
"Hey, don't feel so bad if that's the case." Yuuji told her, sipping from the mug of coffee he held in his hand
"Yeah, Yuuji's right. I mean, you'd be the A Plus student in our whole class if it wasn't for Himeji taking that spot with you crushing my spine and putting me into a German Suplex-OH GOD!"
"I KEEP TELLING YOU I COULD BE AT LEAST A B IN A CERTAIN ANGLE!"
"And their shtick comes again." Yuuji felt a bit of smugness as he saw the two of them partake in the usual routine of Yoshi unwillingly insulting Shimada -or Shimada taking his badly worded phrases the wrong way which also is a common occurrence,- and then her breaking him in half.
"And a perfect money shot," added a ninja pervert with short blue hair, shifty eyes and carrying a camera with him all the time so he could take chances at "money shots" like the one where he tries taking a picture up Minami's dress while her back was arched.
"And what the hell is McPervert doing over there?!" shouted the still-in-pain Akihisa.
"You invited us," Kouta said as he took a seat.
"That's not what I meant!"
"Hey, is something going on." The one voice that could pull Akihisa from his pain filled experience just then walked in with her puff of pink hair with a bunny beret, and she walked over to the gathered friends.
"Oh, Himeji, you made it." Said Akihisa in a still shaky voice.
"Sorry I was so late." She said when she sat the table.
"Hey it's alright." Shimada told her once she let Akihisa go, and sat down at the table beside her.
"Yeah, but it looks like Hideyoshi isn't here yet." Aki said scanning the room for the boy.
"Hey, speaking of here." Yuuji spoke up for the first time since Shimada almost broke Yoshii's neck. "You didn't exactly tell us why we had to meet up at this café in the first place."
"Hey yeah, now that I think about it, I wasn't told why we came either." Shimada added. In fact all of this started to seem a tad bit suspicious for Yoshii to set a meeting in this manner.
"Aki is there something going on?" Himeji asked.
"Actually, there is." Yoshi said with a wide grin on his face.
"Is it another one of your lame ass ideas?"
"No, nothing like that Yuuji!"
"So then it's even more stupid than that."
"Would you just give me a chance to explain?" Yuuji shrugged, but Aki went ahead taking It as his cue to speak anyway. "So, you guys all know about the party that the school is having, right?"
"Pass."
"Pass."
"No thanks."
"I'm not really that sure about it."
Yuuji, Kota, Minami and Himeji all said respectively.
"Oh c'mon guys!"
"Akihisa, I hope you remember the last time you arranged for us to do something like this last summer." Yuuji glared slightly at Akihisa, but he just countered it with his own defiant sneer.
"Oh c'mon Yuuji, it wasn't all that bad!"
"Hitting on other girls." Minami growled.
"Getting the police called on us." Yuji added.
"Getting the guys dragged into a Miss Yukata competition." Kouta said bitterly.
"Actually that last part wasn't so bad." Himeji said with a smile that could melt Akihisa's heart if he wasn't being pelted with so much incriminating evidence.
"Okay fine! So the plans we made went a little sour!" Aki said trying for his defense, but Yuuji quickly retorted with:
"It was because of you we ended up being publicly humiliated!"
"Well it's not like you tried to stop either Yuuji, you were begging for a competition back then!"
"I don't think we need reminders of that time." Suddenly a dark aura began to come from Himeji, and Minami's direction, which had managed to get Akihisa and Yuji's shouting match to quiet down. "Plus it looks like you're leaving out Hideyoshi, what's up with that you jerk?"
"Hey, I did invite him okay!" Akihisa defended. "In fact, I'm wondering why he didn't show up."
"Don't worry, I'm here," a boy with long, straight brown colored hair, with possibly the prettiest face any boy had any right to have said as he walked inside looking half defeated.
"Hey Hideyoshi." Akihisa was the first to greet him. "I was wondering why you were taking so long. Did something hold you up?"
"More like someone did." Hideyoshi felt they color drain from his face as a girl, who looked exactly the same as him walked up beside him.
"Yuko?!"
"Yes Shimada, it's me." Said the older twin sister.
"And she's not alone!" A rather enthusiastic, upbeat and kind of cute voice peeped up before the owner showed up, with short, boyish green hair.
"Hello Aiko." Kota made eye contact with Aiko, and Aiko returned the gesture, like two gangster rivals who happened to meet up, only Aiko was grinning. It was obvious the two of them had a mutual rivalry going, but it was odd seeing this one because Aiko was like his enabler, often teasing not just Kota, but all the other boys that he hung out with by offering them skirt peeps and the like, but Kota always did what he could to resist, if only because he was aware of the game she put up for him. But once in a while, Kota and Aiko looked like they got a bit touchy and feely with each other. It was an odd rivalry to say the least.
"So you guys are planning on going to a school sponsored party?" She asked as she kept her eye contact with Kota, her expression giving more a grin than a ponderous look.
"Yuji, you weren't planning on going without me were you?" suddenly a dark, creeping chill began creeping through Yuji as a raven haired girl had entered the picture.
"Oh, Shouko!"
"Yuji, if you were going to a party," the girl said in a flat, soft tone while holding up a Taser with possibly more electric shock power on it that was legal, "I expected you'd bring your fiancé."
"Shouko how many times do I have to-!"
"Of course you can come, it'd be stupid if he didn't." Akihisa's retort was followed by a powerful grip on the back of his neck.
"Dude… the fuck do you think you're doing?"
"How else was I going to convince you and the others to come?!" Aki struggled against Yuji's grip to no avail.
"Yuji, I would love to go as your plus one." Shouko said with a blush, and a happier sounding tone added to her flat voice.
"Shouko, hold on!"
"I think that would be an excellent idea." Yuko declared, followed by a stunned expression, indeed by everyone, but more so from her younger twin Hideyoshi.
"What? You actually agree?"
"Of course," Yuko said when she sat down, and began smiling as though she were proud of getting the chance to stun her brother's friends. "Even an upstanding student such as me needs to unwind now and then don't you think? Also it is a school funded party, so I can ensure that there can be no needless shenanigans." Everyone that was sitting at the table just gave her a droll stare, though Hideyoshi was more like despair.
"Wait a minute!" said Minami as she stood up from her seat, and looked over everyone. "Why are we discussing this as though we already agreed on going?"
"She's right!" Yuuji immediately took this chance so he wouldn't need to march off with Shouko holding his arm the entire night. "Akihisa was the one with the idea for it, and we didn't settle on going at all."
"Yuji." The red-head was hit with with enough voltage running through his body to render him unconscious, at least it was one way to remove opposition.
"Well we can count that a majority vote is deciding on going," Yuko rebutted after Shouko had done hers.
"Okay, who decided that you guys were part of our group suddenly?!"
"I think it'd actually be kind of fun Minami," A certain pinkette finally spoke up since the other girls had gotten to the table.
"Oh no, not you too Himeji! You said earlier you weren't sure!"
"Why the change in opinion?" Aiko was the one to ask.
"Well more people are coming, and I really didn't give much of a clear answer earlier
"Hey, I have no problems with these girls joining up with us." Akihisa was met with the glare of Minami when those words rolled off his mouth.
"You're only saying that because this was your idea."
Redundancy was the way the conversation had gone, with the class A girls all arguing on going, while class F refused, and it was only until Hideyoshi has spoken up pointing out that there was no way around Yuko once she had her mind set to something, and she wasn't going to budge for it.
"Okay, fine." Minami finally deciding to give in, and sat herself down.
"So glad you could finally come to a compro-," Akihisa though was cut off when he was thrown a dagger stares from Minami.
"Don't think that going was my first idea to begin with Aki," She growled, bringing up an image of a very vicious dog that caused Aki to nearly wet himself
Once the idiot had been able to gather his wits, they all eventually broke off with their little groups, and pairs.
Meanwhile, at Fumizuki:
"I can assume the preparations are in order Miss Takahashi?" Miss Todo asked of the bespectacled woman with pink hair, who nodded in response.
"Yes the preparations are done Todo. Might I ask though?" Todo turned to look at the head of one of her department's, wondering what the younger woman's question was. "Why have this party done in the first place?"
"Oh you'll find out when we get there," Was what the gray haired old woman said as she turned back to look out the window, "Just a little project I've been asked to run by the higher ups, is all."