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Akai: --' uh...methinks they're introducing another fanfic...well...here we are again so here goes
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Mariah: woof...
Akai: oOokay! Fic start!
Better than a Ninja
Chapter One: Just a Pen Trick
Nokoru was steadily getting more annoyed as the minutes of the meeting ticked by. These men were treating him like a little child! He didn't want to be treated like a little child! Summer blue eyes swept through the room, taking in every apprehensive face looking at him. He knew that behind those expressions, they were really finding the idea of compromising with a 12 tear old absurd. Nokoru didn't really mind, he really wasn't going to reach a compromise anyway. Moreover...he didn't want to do business with these men at all...
Suoh and Akira were standing by the door, watching the businessmen as they waited for their kaichou to answer. But what held the attention of the two boys wasn't their kaichou but the pen in his hand. Both of them watched in fascination as the black writing material spun between the blonde's slender index finger and middle finger. The pen twirled in perfect circles, never falling, just occasionally being unconsciously adjusted by the pinky, the ring finger and the thumb. Then, as the pen still spun, the index finger went under the pen and launched it into the air. It did a triple flip and landed back between Nokoru's index finger and middle finger where it lost no time in spinning it again.
There wasn't a single pause, a single slip. The performance was superb. Suoh thought it was the neatest pen trick he had ever seen. The ninja glanced at Akira. The younger boy's eyes were fixed on the pen as it spun as before, his mouth slightly open in awe.
Suoh looked back at Nokoru. The blonde was looking extremely bored and unaware of what his hand was doing to his pen. The businessmen were overlooking the spectacle, having moved on discussing the buisness among themselves. Nokoru's pen spun slowly on the tip of his index finger balancing on its center of gravity. As the pen lost momentum, the finger bent slightly and the thumb reached out to spin the pen again. The thing didn't even fall, it just spun faster than before. Tiger gold eyes widened at this. the blonde couldn't even spin a basketball yet he could spin a pen. Suoh knew that this feat was virtually impossible...but there it is. Then the index finger was joined with the middle finger and thumb without damaging the progress of the pen. Soon the thing was spinning around so fast it was like a blur supported by three fingers. It stopped so suddenly when Nokoru wrote something down on his notepad the Suoh jumped in surprise and Akira gasped softly. Gold caught silver and the quickly hid their grins at the reactions the pen was inducing.
"Mr. Imonoyama, it's about time we heard your say about the deal. " Suoh and Akira stopped giggling and turned their attention to Nokoru.
The men grew silent as the blonde slowly got up from the chair; his index finger launched the pen again into the air and over his head as he took a breath.
"You won't be expecting anything from me. I believe you can handle this by yourselves. I don't see why you would want the opinion of a 12 year old child from a screwed up family." He raised an eyebrow as the pen landed in his hand and pocketed it. He nodded to Suoh and Akira; the three of the leaving the room.
"Suoh...tell my aunt I simply can't do buisness with people who are just after my family's money..." Nokoru asked as they got in the car back to the CLAMP campus.
The ninja nodded and sent a message to the director.
Once back in the student council office, Akira beamed at the president.
"That was amazing kaichou!"
"Not really...those bastards just want the money."
"No!" the treasurer whined as he served his sempai's tea. "I meant the pen!"
Nokoru blinked at him. "What pen?"
Suoh turned to look at him. "I must say you were really good. Considering the fact you weren't even looking at what you were doing..."
"What pen?" the blonde looked from Akira to Suoh, noting the identical smirks on their faces.
Akira looked pleadingly at Nokoru. "That thingy you do with a pen! It's really cool!"
He blushed and fished out the pen from his pocket. "Oh...that...it's easy really. I do it out of habit I suppose..."
"Now I know what to get you for your birthday..." Suoh mumbled.
"Oh hardy har har..." Nokoru said and returned to paperwork.
After a while, Suoh had finished filing and was clearing his desk. Akira was resting on the couch, eating a leftover cookie. Nokoru had one last document to sign. Somewhere in the middle he got lost and ended up staring at the same sentence he was at ten minutes ago.
Suoh joined Akira and poured himself some tea. Both of them turned to their kaichou, waiting for hijm to finish paperwork so that he could go home. The pan Nokoru held was balancing on the side of his index finger. The thumb was on it so it lay quite still. Then the thumb pushed the pen so it spun around the finger without submitting to gravity. It spun again and again with regular pauses as the thumb repositioned it. The Nokoru flipped the pen as if flipping a coin. It did a double flip and the nib landed on the tip of the blonde's index finger.
Akira gasped loudly. Nokoru dropped the pen. Suoh was filling this teacup to overflowing.
"What?" asked Nokoru.
"Woah..." Akira simply replied.
Nokoru 'oh'ed and retrieved his pen then signed the paper. He fixed his stuff and went over to his two friends.
"It ain't that remarkable..." he said as they left the council room. "It's just a silly pen trick."
"Just a silly pen trick?" Suoh asked incredulously while Akira laughed.
"Stop it you two..."
And they bantered all the way home.
Just a pen? I don't think so...
TBC
Akai: there...not much but hey...it's a new topic we're working on.
Amry: review please!
Mariah: woof!
Bryan: I wuv you!