Okay, well, I said I would update today, so here goes!
Monday, after school…
"So, Alice, do you have any plans right now?" asked Runo Misaki as she walked down the school hallway with her best friend. "My parents said you, me, and Julie could take a break from the restaurant today."
"Hmm, not really," answered Alice Gehabich. "I think I'm free this afternoon. Want to come over?"
"Yeah, sure, that would be-HEY, IS THAT DAN?" Runo shouted, pointing in front of her.
Alice followed her finger to the bulletin board, a board which held all the signup sheets for after school activities. Sure enough, Dan was standing in front of it, muttering to himself.
"I don't get it," said Alice. "What's wrong with Dan?"
"Oh, nothing, except for the fact that he NEVER SIGNS UP FOR ANY AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES!" Runo screamed, causing people in the hallway to stare.
"Well, why not?" asked Alice. "And please don't shout the answer this time. You're attracting a lot of attention to yourself."
"With Dan, it's always Bakugan every day, every minute he can," explained Runo. "I mean the first thing he does when the bell rings is rush to the park, challenging other kids to brawl with him!"
Before Alice could ask another question, Runo ran up to Dan and was about to tap him on the shoulder when she heard him mumbling.
"Okay…uh soccer? Yeah, right, I'll trip over my own feet…okay rule out baseball…football? Uh, no thanks…I'll break my neck getting trampled over by the other guys! Let's see…"
"Uh, Dan?"
"AH! WHO ARE YOU-Oh, Hi, Runo, what's up?" asked Dan.
"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at the park or something brawling with other kids?"
"As much as I'd like to do that, I can't," replied Dan.
"Why?" asked Alice, who had managed to catch up to Runo.
"My parents think I'm playing too much Bakugan-"
"And I quite agree," mumbled Runo, but luckily for her, Dan didn't hear and continued talking as if nothing happened.
"-So they want me to sign up for a sport after school," finished Dan. "But…all of these sports…I just know I won't survive any of them!"
"Looks like the Basketball list is empty," Alice pointed out.
Dan looked at the signup sheet for Basketball. What Alice said was true. Unlike all the other sheets which were filled with names, the Basketball one was blank.
"Huh, why is that?" asked Dan.
"Because our school stinks at Basketball," replied Runo. "We've only won like one or two games, but that was just luck. Oh, but get this, in the last two years, we actually made it to the championships. But we got our butts kicked by the other school, whose basketball skills are wicked. Their team is called The Gundalians, and they're pro at basketball."
"And you know this because…" said Dan.
"Oh, Joe, you know, the guy Chan-Lee likes, was on the team last year. He told Chan all about it, and she told me," explained Runo.
"Well, that settles it!" exclaimed Dan.
"What do you mean?" asked Alice.
"This year's the year that The Gundalians get beat!" exclaimed Dan as he picked up the pen.
But before he could even write anything on the sheet, Runo slapped his hand. "Ow, what was that for?" asked Dan.
"Are you out of your mind!" yelled Runo. "You have no idea how basketball practice is!"
"Don't you just shoot baskets or something?" asked Dan.
"No, you idiot! You have to run hundreds of laps like almost every day and do exercises like 50 pull ups or 100 push-ups!" exclaimed Runo.
"Hey, I'm a Battle Brawler!" said Dan. "I can handle anything!"
Runo's eye twitched. "Suit yourself, just don't come crying to me when you break your neck or something." Runo started to walk away, but Dan grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
"Oh no you don't," smirked Dan. "You're signing up with me."
"WHAT THE! HELL NO!" shouted Runo.
"C'mon, please, Runo?" Dan begged, making puppy eyes.
Runo gave an angry sigh. She could never hate Dan. He always had a way of persuading her to do something. "Fine. But don't except me to go to every practice! I still have to work at the restaurant, you know."
She waited until Dan finished putting his name on the list, and then wrote her name. Then she turned to Alice and said, "Your turn."
"Me?" asked Alice. "Who said I was joining?"
Dan smirked. "Will you join if I get Shun to join?"
"Yeah, okay, wait what!" exclaimed Alice, suddenly realized she had fallen into a trap.
"Hey, Mr. Hotshot!" exclaimed Dan, waving to his best friend, Shun Kazami.
Shun, who was at the moment trying to get rid of his fan girls (a sight which made Alice sick to look at) glanced at Dan and mouthed "Help me."
Dan sighed and ran over to him. "Hey pretty ladies, Shun will go out with all of you, one day, but not today, okay? Right now, I'm going to have a little friendly chat with him to decide who he's gonna date first."
"Okay!" squealed the fan girls who immediately drew back.
"Dan," growled Shun, as Dan led him over to Runo and Alice. "That is NOT what I meant when I asked you to help me!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, but we have something important to discuss right now," said Dan, pointing at the basketball signup sheet which only showed two names, Dan and Runo.
"You're kidding," said Shun who raised his eyebrows. "Runo, I can sort of understand…but you Dan? You, signing up for a sport? That's just…there's no words to describe that."
"Well, my parents forced me so what could I do?" asked Dan. "Anyway, you're signing up with me!"
"Dan, I've got ninja practice with my grandfather," said Shun, but Dan wouldn't hear of it.
"C'mon skip a day or two, ask to practice earlier before basketball practice or something!" exclaimed Dan. "Besides, you owe me from saving you from those girls."
"Plus," Runo whispered in Shun's ear, "Alice said that she'd join if you joined."
Shun blushed a little and looked at Alice who blushed in return.
"Whatever," mumbled Shun as he added his name on the list.
"There ya go, Alice, now you have to sign up!" exclaimed Runo.
Alice lowered her head in defeat, but put her name on the sheet after Shun had finished signing his name.
"Whoo hoo!" exclaimed Dan. "This is gonna be fun! Four people, that's enough to form a team, right?"
"IDIOT!" screamed Runo, whacking him on the head. "There's supposed to be five players on each team when you're playing on the court! Plus, even if you did have five players, you need more people to join so you can substitute players!"
"Oh, yeah, I knew that," mumbled Dan as he rubbed his head.
Shun sighed. What the hell is he thinking, signing up for a sport he doesn't even know the rules of? This is going to be an easy season for The Gundalians, but definitely not for us.
Please review! Don't worry, the other Brawlers shall enter the story soon!
