SKET Dance
by Shinohara Kenta
The President's Harem
A Fiction Story by Takagi
Edited by Light27
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story
A/N: Starting from today (10/JAN/2013), Light27 will become this fic's beta-reader. Let's give him Cheers!
Chapter 1: That Time
"Mama~ I'm home!"
"Welcome home, Papa!"
A messy black haired man wearing formal clothes closed the wooden door behind him after he entered his house. He had just returned from yet another day from work. He walked towards the sofa, where his wife was sitting.
This man's name is Fujisaki Yuusuke. He is better known as Bossun by his friends and colleague. It was and still his nickname since high-school. He's the founder of 'Fujisaki Foundation'. His effort and labour successfully decreased poverty issues on several countries around the world 2 years ago. Not only that, he also runs a famous hospital in the city. It was his nature to help other people.
His wife, a beautiful woman with lustrous black hair that she put into a ponytail, had a shining pair of sapphire eyes trailed on her husband until he hugs her tightly. She welcomed her husband's hug by giving him warm kisses all over his face.
Fujisaki Hime, Bossun's wife's. Her friends called her Himeko back in the days. Bossun and Himeko were best friends since their freshmen year at high school and who knew that relationship made it this far. Maybe it was fate?
". . ."
"Mmm… That's enough, Hime… you're going to make my face all sticky…"
"Ehehehe! Sorry. I've been waiting for sooooo long for you get home…"
"Yuu-su-ke" She whispered into her husband's ear. "I felt so lonely today, you knoooow?" Himeko wiped up her traces of moisture on Bossun's face with her handkerchief while holding her husband's hands.
"Lonely, huh?" Bossun gazed at his wife's round stomach then stuck his ears on it and stroked it very gently.
"You hear that my children? Your mother is soooo lonely when Daddy isn't around. So get out of there quickly, okay?"
Upon hearing her husband's words, Himeko smiled softly and then stroked her husband's back.
"Ah, that reminds me. Yuusuke, please pass me my computer tablet behind you."
"Hmm? Okay… Is there something you want to tell me?" Bossun grabbed the tablet from the table and gave it to Himeko as he sat beside her.
"Yes. Wait a minute. I'll open my e-mail account now."
Himeko opened her e-mail's inbox, there was a message entitled…
'Wedding Party Invitation'.
She then showed it to Bossun "Look at this, Yuusuke. I haven't read this yet because I wanted to read it with you."
"Let's see…"
"Hmm? A wedding party invitation?" Bossun took the tablet from his wife's dainty hand. "The design is so lame… What's this big kanji doing on the background?!" Bossun nit-picked on the details of the invitation.
"Is this a Chinese restaurant's menu or something?" Hime added.
"Eh? This is from Tsubaki?" Bossun read the sender's name. "That makes sense why the design looked so lame!" Bossun came to a conclusion.
"And look at the color! Pink and Black! What are they? A gothic couple?"
After tsukkomi-ing the invitation together, the couple continued reading through the e-mail. Both of them tried their best not to give any tsukkomis until they read the message thoroughly. Luckily, the letter was pretty normal unlike the design, so they could read it until the end of the invitation message.
Bossun and Himeko couldn't help but to smile in unison after fully reading the mail.
"So it's her after all, huh?"
"Yeah. I knew it all along though. Can't believe it will take 10 years for them to get married," Bossun stated.
"Well, it took you 5 years after we were dating to finally engage me. I guess you brothers are really late bloomers!" Himeko teased.
"S… Shut up, Hime…"
"Not to mention, it took you 3 years to confess. Kuh! Kuhahaha!" the wife couldn't hold her naughty laugh anymore.
"Uuuu! You're so mean, Hime! Even your laugh hurt in my ears!" Bossun looked at his wife with teary eyes.
"Awww man… You just shed a tear, Yuusuke! That ain't cool you know!" The wife pointed at the husband's teary eyes "… I'm glad you didn't change too much though…" Himeko put her tablet back on the table then hugged Bossun.
Bossun inhaled his mucus back to his nose and hugged Himeko tightly, making her startled a bit "Really? You are not bluffing aren't you?"
"No, of course not, Yuusuke… Because your face looked incredibly 'interesting' when you cried! Hahaha"
"St… Stop teasing me already!"
"Ahaha! Sorry. I just couldn't help it!" The couple hugged each other again.
"You dummy… Dummy Hime!" Bossun still cried.
"My bad, my bad!"
Himeko could only let out a sigh watching her husband, the leader of the house and an owner of a success hospital, crying all over her with widened eyes just because she teased him a little.
"Anyway, I wonder how your twin brother is feeling right now… Shouldn't you call him and send your congratulation, Yuusuke?"
"Hmm, you are right. I think I should… But ah. Maybe later. I'm too tired. And it's just Tsubaki," Bossun threw his head on Himeko's lap then look up to her face.
"Don't be like that. You should do it now. He's your brother and your only blood-related family. At least send him an e-mail first." Himeko tapped Bossun's forehead.
"Man, he's really a troublesome kid," Bossun took out his cell phone from his pocket.
"…."
Bossun intended to follow his wife's advice to compose his twin brother a congratulatory message, but he accidentally hit 'gallery' application instead of 'messages'. He stumbled upon an interesting photo which he couldn't resist but to show it to Himeko.
"Hey. Check this out" he showed his wife a photo of them together. In the middle, holding hands and glancing at each other, with Switch, Tsubaki, Daisy, Saaya, and Captain were all smiling at the background.
"Aaaa. This was taken after you confessed to me, wasn't it? I won't forget how funny your face was when you blurted out… ufufufu," Himeko chuckled then pinched her husband's cheek "You looked really cool back then…" she stared at Bossun's eyes.
"I'm always known to be that cool. Ushahaha," Bossun said. "But that is not the thing I wanted to tell you. Haven't you realized it yet, Hime?"
"Is that so? Let me see. I'm actually quite good at noticing something off!" Himeko skimmed the photo thoroughly, her eyes were scrutinising the photo heavily that it could have pierced through a paper.
Nothing came to her mind.
"… I… I surrender!"
"You said that you were actually quite good at noticing something off! You haven't really changed too, Hime!" He frowned.
"Re… Really?" Himeko blushed.
"That's not something to be proud of, I think…"
This time, it's Bossun who let out a sigh.
"I guess I will tell you then. Just by looking at this picture, you'll know that Tsubaki and she were already interested in each other. Try paying more attention to them," Bossun giggled.
"Whoa. You sure are sharp, Yuusuke! I'd just realized it now after all this time!" Himeko was shocked after seeing the photo with her husband guidance.
FLASHBACK 10 YEARS AGO.
Kaimei High School.
The Sket Dan club room.
. . .
"Whoa! You sure are sharp, Bossun! I'd just realized it now after all this time!" a 17-years old Himeko shouted out loud, making the person she was talking to covered his ears.
"Oi oi, you don't need to scream like that, Himeko. Your voice is piercing my ears!"
"Whoops, my bad!"
"""My ears too"""
"YOU ARE WEARING A HEADPHONE!" Himeko reacted to Switch's comment.
Bossun and Himeko were reading a manga together on the clubroom's mat right while Switch was re-watching an anime on his laptop. There had been no requests for 3 days now, so they felt rather bored. At the moment, Bossun and Himeko were discussing about the manga in the magazine called Perfect Crime Party by Ashirogi Mutou (re: Bakuman). Bossun had just explained Himeko about the hint of the case in that story which made Himeko jumped out just now.
Suddenly, the club room's door was opened; a short black haired figure with a sturdy body came in. It was the hot-headed president of Kaimei's student council. His name is Tsubaki Sasuke, Bossun's long-lost twin brother.
Looking upon what the SKET Dan's members were doing, Sasuke was infuriated.
"What in the world are you guys doing? You all are in your senior year yet you still hang around this small cramped room watching anime and reading manga…. WAIT. WHAT'S WITH THAT ANIME? WHY DO THOSE GIRLS SUDDENLY 'LOST' THEIR CLOTHES?" Sasuke blushed when he accidentally peeked at Switch's laptop.
"""This is the sequel of Motto To-Love Ru, To-Love Ru Darkness. The characters remained the same with a few additional characters, but now it's more focused on Lala's sister, Momo, and the assassin that targets Rito-kun, the hero of this anime, Yami the Golden Darkness. Seems like the author understood Yami's potential, therefore, the story changed its focus on her and he also added more fighting scenes along with the new villain, Kurosaki Mea,""" Switch explained through his voice synthesis software.
"I… I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM, FOOL! Oh God, that's gross!" Sasuke snapped.
"Just let him be, Tsubaki. Why are you here anyways?" Bossun stood up and pointed at his brother.
"Hmph! Not that I care about you guys, but take a look at this," Sasuke gave Bossun a piece of paper.
"I offered it to other students as well, but most of them wished to study by themselves" Sasuke added.
Switch and Himeko stood up as well, approaching their leader. "Hmm… I see."
Bossun and Himeko looked a little down. However, SKET Dan's secretary encourages them. He started pressing the keyboard on his laptop and clicked the icon to speak what he just typed.
"""We are already in 2nd semester. We should put more effort on studying than just hanging around while doing nothing like this"""
"You do have a point, Switch… And my grades aren't getting any better too…" Himeko expressed a weak smile.
"You really have to stop reading those shoujo mangas, Himeko. This is for your future" Bossun commented.
"Wh… What? My shoujo mangas don't have anything to do with my grades!" She fought back.
"WOULD YOU GUYS STOP FIGHTING?! I'M WAITING YOUR CONFIRMATIONS HERE FOR GOD'S SAKE!" Sasuke yelled again.
The SKET Dan members are looking at each other then smiled in unison. They were indeed in the very same frequency and wavelength. Bossun turned around to face his twin.
"Yes. Switch, Himeko, and I will join this cram school!" Bossun said energetically, as usual.
"Okay. Fill these forms now," Sasuke gave some forms to SKET Dan.
Bossun, Himeko, and Switch did what the council president said. Switch took a pen from his pencil case on the table and gave it to Himeko after he finished using it.
"I'll take these forms now and submit it to the principal. Later." Sasuke closed the door behind him and left the SKET Dan's clubroom.
It's suddenly silence in the SKET Dan's clubroom after Sasuke left.
Bossun went back to his mat while Himeko made some tea and Switch was back to his anime. The dozing off Bossun finally decided to break the ice after Himeko sat on the sofa in front of him after pouring down the tea she brewed into cups. Bossun gazed upon the vice-president of SKET Dan and then to his secretary. He later called them.
"Hey… guys?"
"What, Bossun?"
Switch turned his chair towards Bossun without answering him, which mean that he actually heard Bossun in spite wearing a headphone.
"… Now that we have to concentrate on studying, does it mean… This is our last time to hang out together in our clubroom?" Bossun frowned.
There was a moment of silence…
"Bo-Bossun…"
"""I guess you are right"""
"Swi-Switch…"
Switch stood up and made his way towards Bossun and Himeko. The vice-president jumped and hugged the teary-eyed Bossun who was sitting on the mat. Luckily, Himeko didn't hit the tea on the table. She then invites Switch to join the duo.
"Come here, Switch! Don't just stare us like that! (sob)"
Switch closed his laptop and headed to his best friends and joined the hug. The three of them hugged each other.
"Thank you… Thank you for everything! Switch, Bossun! (sob)"
"That's my words! (sob)" Bossun commented.
"I'm sorry for being a useless leader! (sob)" Bossun added. "I'm sorry for all the troubles I've caused!"
Sobbing sound didn't stop.
"But I'm glad that I met you two! (sob)"
"BOSSUUUN!"
"Pururu!" SKET Dan's bird-friend suddenly flew in.
"HOUSUKEEEE!"
The SKET Dan trio plus Housuke continued crying until they got tired. Switch, who only nodded all the time when Bossun and Himeko told their sadness, has opened his laptop again and started typing on his software. He then pressed the speak button to produce the sound of the words he typed.
"""Bossun, Himeko… and Housuke"""
"Switch?"
He kept silent for a sec then typed again,
"""Thanks for everything (T_T)"""
"AAAA! Why did you say something sad again just after I ran out of tears you jackass?!" Bossun cried.
And just like that, the school time was over and the students of Kaimei High went home. However, the SKET Dan members cleaned their clubroom thoroughly before bidding farewell after doing a 'minute of silence' in front of the clubroom's door.
Time goes on and the time was incremented to the next day.
At 3-C class, The SKET Dan and Captain were enjoying their lunch when suddenly Tsubaki came over with his usual expressionless face.
"SKET Dan. Don't forget that you are going to have cram school final period today," he reminded the campus support club then left to student council office.
"Oh? You guys are joining too? What about the SKET Dan then?" Captain Chiaki who has just finished her lunch in a blink of an eye asked.
"Yes, but don't worry about our service! Even though we will be concentrating on our studies, we are still accepting requests!" Bossun remarked but then looked despondent again, "But because the cram school takes place after school, we will also have to say good bye to our lovely clubroom…"
Not only Bossun, Himeko and Switch are also looked down.
"Eeh? This is not like you guys! Cheer up!" Captain dumbfounded.
"Thank you, Captain… It's just… Too sad…" Bossun confessed.
"Bossun…"
"Himeko, Switch…" Captain Chiaki's eyes are trembling, trying to hold their tears.
"Ca… Captain? Why you are the one who crying now?" Himeko is shocked.
"""… Here, Captain. Chocolate""" Switch offered the food fighter captain his stash and in a blink of an eye, that chocolate bar vanished along with Captain's tears. Switch could only grateful that she didn't swallow his right hand as well.
'That looked like the master feeding his pet' Himeko threw a tsukkomi in her own mind.
"Wait. Captain, you said 'too' just now, didn't you? Does it mean that you're in the cram school too?" Bossun asked.
"Yeah… Recently, my grades have been dropping…" She confessed.
Suddenly, the bell rang and not too long after other students back to their seats, the teacher for the next period made his way to their class. Time flew by and soon enough, the school time was over and Tsubaki told the SKET Dan and Captain not to leave their seats. Now, there were only 6 students in the class: Bossun, Himeko, Switch, Chiaki, Tsubaki, and Asahina.
"Whaaa? This is it? Only 6 students? Just how lazy are the others?" Bossun wondered.
"The cram school program sorts and divides the students into small study groups and each group has their own class. One study group will consist of five to ten students. But there were some stupid students who didn't apply for this program. They better drown in a gutter and die, come back to life again, then die again," Asahina explained.
"Ah, is that so? Man, how many classes will this use school then? Does our school even have that many rooms?" Himeko asked.
"""There are around 360 senior students. If ten students use one class, then there will be around 36 or more classes for this cram school program to use""" Switch said through his software.
"Unluckily, of all those many classes, we have to stick with you here again. Tch," Tsubaki frowned. His words only made Bossun irritated.
"What? Weren't you the one who sorted out the group?"
"As if! Like I would have chosen to be in the same class as you if I was the one who grouped the students!" Tsubaki stated dryly.
"The student council only gave the list of students who desperately applied-for-the-program-so-that they-could-make-it-through-the-national-exam to the headmaster and then he will give the list to the mentor. They will be the one who decide the group they take care of," the student council secretary said with a deadpan face.
"That explanation is kinda annoying," Bossun commented.
"Right. But fortunately, we will be using this classroom. So we won't have to move after the school is over. Now, we will just have to wait for our mentor," Tsubaki sat on his seat.
"Hmm… So who is our mentor?"
"I don't know either"
Just after Tsubaki finished his words, the class' door was opened, letting a well-known figure in.
"Good evening…"
It was a girl with twin-tail hair and a pair of big meat on her chests who has just collapsed to the floor after she scanned the whole class. Out of all people in the class, her eyesight fixated on a certain man.
"B-Bossun? You're here too?" She blushed. She was really happy that she will spend the rest of her after school event everyday with the man she loved the most, the man with a horned-red hat.
"Yes. Himeko and Switch are here too. Also Captain, Tsubaki, and Daisy-san," he explained.
"I… It's not like I wanted to be in the same class with you guys! I was just chosen by the mentor!" Saaya hid her blush.
"Hello Saaya!" Captain waved from her seat.
"Captain!" Saaya got up again and approached her ex-classmate.
"Hmm, so it will be seven now, huh? By the way, where is our mentor exactly?" Bossun wondered.
"Yo! Good evening!"
"This voice…" Tsubaki who was studying to kill time until the mentor comes realized that the voice he heard over the ruckus made was very familiar to him.
"President Agata!" He got up.
"Hey, hey. You are the president now, Tsubaki," Agata said.
"Hee… He is our mentor, huh? Well, I don't have any objections... WAIT. Why are you here again? Your story has ended right after you graduated for good!" Bossun snapped.
"Ka ka ka! The headmaster wasn't willing to pay private mentors to teach the students, so they asked the alumni instead! And since I have so much free time, here I am! Ka ka ka!" Agata laughed.
"And of course, I chose you bunch as the student I have to teach so I could watch for Fujisaki!" the Tokyo University (TokyoU) student said inside his head. It seemed like Agata still had some concerns about her little sister.
"It's great to see you back, Preside… Ex-President! We, the student council really missed you!" Tsubaki said with bright face to the man he really admire.
"Kakaka. That's sweet. Anyways, let's get started with this studying," Agata made his way to the podium in front of the class. He gazed throughout the class, remembering the great atmosphere of a high school class that he won't feel anymore; The smell of school table, the smell of chalk that spreading near the podium, the warm wind that blows through the windows, the sound of students chattering outside on schoolyard, and more.
'It's almost been a year, huh…' He thought.
He then has his eyes on the members of this study group who also had their eyes on him, enthusiastically (especially Tsubaki). He let out a sigh then bang the table on the podium hardly, making his entire pupil in the class startled upon the sudden act.
"OK. Let's start studying! Ka Ka Ka!"