J3STIE NOTES : Yeeaaa bitches. We are BACK for a second helping of that sweet sweet toradora.
I wouldn't get hopes for this fanfic too high though, cause if Stein ends up winning in a game of Persona 4 Arena tomorrow, he's gonna start calling the shots. Apparently he's "Got his Akihiko down Pat." Whatever the hell that means.
Sorry for the bit of delay though. Our google doc is shared with like 6 other people, so sometimes they try to fill up said writing with jargon.
Ah, but you aren't here for that! Stein left off on a cliff hanger, WHAT WILL RYUUJI AND TAIGA DO? OooOOoohh~…
Stein's Notes : Yea. What she said, there's a lot of people in our google doc so sometimes it may take us a while but yea sorry if I win tomorrow I guess I'd ask you to hope for me but let's face facts you probably want me to write sometimes. Here we go. Continue right off the last chapter.
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Despite the death glare from Taiga, Ryuuji was more concerned about the eyes of everyone else. Knowing Taiga, she would end up doing something clumsy and embarrass herself.
Thankfully, sound broke out from amongst the crowd.
"DORRRRUUUYAAAA!"
The school became witness to an individual leaping ludicrously high into the air, shouting incoherent words.
"Ah… I wouldn't expect any less." Ryuuji thought to himself.
After landing on several of her underclassmen, she proceeded to gain speed, stepping over each of them, ignoring their cries of pain. She then took another leap, headed right for…
"TAAAIIIGAAA!"
As Taiga examined closely who had just leapt and called her name, tears welled up in her eyes.
"MINORIIIIN!"
CRASH.
Clearly the most dynamic hug ever witnessed.
"TAIGA! TAIGA! TAIGA! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU CAME BACK!?" Kushieda cried out, tears flowing down her face at a breakneck pace.
"MINORIN! MINORIN! MINORIN! I'M SORRY! I WAS GOING TO SEE YOU STRAIGHT AWAY!" Taiga cried back, now with her own river swelling down her face.
As the two cried and Ryuuji stood up, he heard the conversations of his classmates' spring back from the commotion.
"Eh! Taiga!?"
"As in tiger!?"
"Like The PALMTOP Tiger of Happiness!?"
"G-GOOD lUCK!?"
"MUH HAREM!"
And in a flash, all the underclassmen had managed to pry Kushieda and Taiga from each other, each trying to get a touch of the sprout of a woman, in hopes of their dreams coming true.
Before Ryuuji could even react, he heard a shout.
"Oi! Ryuuji!"
As he turned, his friends, Kitamura and Ami, came over.
"Ah…. Yea. Hey guys."
"I can't help but noticed Taiga's returned. That ought'a get you out of your funk, eh?" Kitamura said with a resounding laugh.
With a small blush, Ryuuji turned his head.
"Pfft, as if you could tell I was in a funk.
Soon all of the graduating class were in a circle around the large mass of underclassmen struggling to touch Taiga, and began to group up to have conversations of their lives with Taiga.
"Remember our ski trip! Oh man, Taiga sure can cause a commotion!"
"… and then she just drop kicks Ryuuji right in the ass! No lie!"
"… and she was all 'Ryuuji is Mine!' Oh man it was intense, I thought they killed him!"
The memories being shared of the Palmtop Tiger of Happiness caused everyone in the graduating class to smile.
Or almost everyone.
"O-oi… R-Ryuu-Tan…"
Normally, Ryuuji was used to nervous calls to his name, due to his devilish looks. But this time it was Haruta, the well-established class clown, who usually had a smile on his stupid face.
"Ah, Haruta? What's wrong?" Ryuuji asked.
Seeing the class clown so distressed caused several of the other would-be-graduated to turn in concern.
"H-How can you guys forget!?" He cried out in a panic, his eyes nearly bulging out of his head.
At this point, even their teacher, Yuri, had stopped smiling and was looking concerned.
"Haruta, just tell us what's the matter…" Several students chimed.
"Y-yea, you're kinda killing the mood…"
"Guys! It's Aisaka Taiga! TAIGA! Hello?" Haruta yelled back, as if stunned at the gall of such questions.
Kitamura, Ami, Kushieda, Ryuuji….
All of the graduating class began to think together.
"Aisaka Taiga…. Taiga…. Tiger…
FEROCIOUS!"
Within a flash they realized the danger. Knowing Taiga, if the underclassmen kept on she was liable to explode!
"You guys! Jeez! We gotta get the underclassman away before this erupts!" Haruta exclaimed.
"For once he is right!" Kitamura yelled out, posing dynamically.
"Un!" Kushieda also yelled, posing dramatically behind him.
The senior class proceeded, with Kushieda, Kitamura, and Ryuuji leading the charge. Despite their scrawny appearances, the trio was throwing underclassmen per arm, swinging them out as if digging through trash.
All the other seniors helped too, Yuri-sensei pulled them away, and the principal was attempting to announce the danger over the microphone from the prior graduation ceremony.
Unfortunately, despite their efforts, the worst came to those unsuspecting underclassmen.
"GET YOU STUPID HANDS OFF ME!"
Like a volcano, suddenly uncountable numbers of underclassmen went flying through the top of the mound that had formed around what was once the small girl, Aisaka Taiga.
"ORRYYYAAA!"
Another spout of underclassmen, this time from the side of the mound, causing them to fly into the wall of the school.
After these two blows, the remaining underclassmen scattered around, giving taiga several yards of space.
As she stared angrily at them, Ryuuji had presumed that she would become flustered and want to go home.
He casually walked to her, underclassmen staring at him as if he were insane. "It's just like back then, just one year ago…" he thought, as he casually strode over to this pint sized weapon.
"Listen, you kind of caused a scene, if you're feeling a bit embarrassed-"
"Hmph. Stupid dog. As if I have any reason to be embarrassed."
This reaction surprised Ryuuji, as the Taiga he knew would be blushing a bit and storm off.
"Only a child could live with herself if she were to allow underclassmen to make her lose her cool." She said confidently, in earshot of everyone. "Oi! All of you!" she shouted at the group around her.
"Some of you know me, and some of you don't. Really, doesn't affect me either way." She said, shrugging. "However… for you to just dash up and touch me as if that were my whole reason to come here. To let you touch me!? Do you think I would come here for that!? To BLESS your graduation!? I have better things to do, idiots."
To the underclassmen, the speech held such power and confidence that all of them just basked in the tiger's glory.
To the seniors, they had seen this before when the first rumor of the Palmtop Tiger of Happiness had spread around the school, and Taiga's head had been inflated, so her sudden ego wasn't that enthralling. Yet still, the shock was present on their face for a completely different reason
Ryuuji, shocked at that answer, double took a glance at Kitamura and Kushieda, just to confirm that had just happened. They too just stood in shock at the speech.
Taiga had managed to give a small speech without messing up a single word. No fidgeting, no stuttering, nothing. A perfect collection of sentences in a public scenario.
Taiga turned to Ryuuji confidently, her look saying it all.
Even she's grown in some ways.
There was a pause, and a dreadful question was asked.
"… So why are you here?" asked an underclassmen.
"For Ryuuji of course." Taiga thought as an answer.
Yet as she thought more and more on the meaning of this, she realized the implications. She couldn't say that! They would give her offshoot glances! What would her fellow seniors say! She didn't even really care about the underclassmen, but the seniors were still around them!
That underclassman would never realize how lucky he was that he was within a crowd.
"U-uuuh… uuh….. T-That's…. That's because….. O-OI! WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO ASK ME ANYTHING!?"
As Taiga began to show signs of imminent ranting and raving, Kitamura started talking to Kushieda.
"Kushieda! This is bad!" He told her in a hushed whisper. "After that little speech about only children getting embarrassed, if she gets flustered out there she'll be ashamed of herself forever!"
"Ooh! Just what I was thinking too!" She stated. "We're gonna have to do something! And it's gotta be enough to draw the attention away from a scene as interesting as this!" She said with a smile.
"Well…" Kitamura replied. "I know someone who's very good at stealing the show… Kushieda. We're initiating 'Plan A'!"
"Understood!"
And at the agreement of the plan, the two slyly slinked over to their unaware blue haired friend.
…
"I-I'M WAITING FOR YOU! COME ON OUT! TRYING TO T-T-TALK BACK TO ME!?"
Taiga was getting nowhere, and all the seniors knew it. The underclassmen, thankfully, were so enticed by her sudden appearance and their lack of understanding of her character that they thought she might actually find the one 'talking back to her'.
"Honestly… if you just kept a cool head… I guess karma does rear its ugly head at the worst of times." Ryuuji thought to himself. He was about to go up there and try to repair the scene when-
"KYAA~!"
A sharp yell broke out, but it was a very specific yell. Ami yelling through the halls was such a common practice thing, that even the boys trying for her affection knew she was probably too busy with whatever to even notice if she were yelling.
"MY SHIRT!"
… But at the addition of those two words, every head turned. Taiga immediately turned to check if Ryuuji would, only to see his head already clocked to the angle. As they looked off, Kushieda could be seen running off with Ami's shirt. Just as she turned a corner, she guided a deadpan expression to Ryuuji and Taiga, and simply crossed her arms over her head and disappeared, Ami in hot pursuit, shirtless.
After a moment of hesitation, nearly everyone went running. Underclassmen, seniors, and even creepy teachers, too!
"AMI-SAN! WE'RE COMING TO HELP!"
"THIS IS MY CHANCE TO TALK TO HER!"
"I'M GONNA SEE BOOBS!"
The willing ran, while the unwilling were simply pushed along. Eventually three people remained in the courtyard.
"Ah, I'm not going to hear the end of that when she gets her shirt back…" Kitamura said, sighing happily.
"Y-you had something to do with that!?" Ryuuji asked, astonished.
"Hmph! You underestimate me, Takasu!" he said, leaning in closely. "… ALWAYS be weary of my plans!" he said with a smile. "Oh! Speaking of plans! Our plan to go to that mansion isn't changing. Ami had a feeling that Taiga would somehow find a way along during the summer, so she's already told the staff, so we should still be allowed in that mansion she was talking about."
"Wow! To think she was so prepared, tell her I said thanks…. Oh. And that I had nothing to do with this whole shirt… y-yea. You know." Ryuuji said, blushing slightly.
"Honestly, you ma- wait. Mansion? Summer? Me?" Taiga began to ask.
"Ah, that's right!" Kitamura started. "You weren't here for that. Well since I'm leaving for a trimester, I actually have a lot of time before I head to America!"
"You're headed to Ameri-"
"Please save your questions for later." Kitamura stated, plainly cutting Taiga off. "Anyway, with all the excess time, we were going to spend a week or so at one of Ami's 'work locations' so to speak. Pack both light and heavy clothes, because we're going to visit a mountain and a beach! See you there!"
With that, Kitamura started running down the road. It was already sunset. With all the commotion going on, time sure flew by.
"… Hey, dog." Taiga started. "Cutlets."
"… Honestly, fine fine. Let's just head home. You gotta pack though, we leave tomorrow morning."
"Why am I not even surprised…?"
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AND BAM. DONE.
Dude wtf it's been 30 minutes there is no way in the fires of hell you could have possibly written all this in 30 minutes.
It's OK I'm Asian.
That literally explains nothing. Also there's a lack of Taiga x Ryuuji shipping. What if I told you to re do it.
There was a lack of brains between your father and your mother, you don't see them trying again do you?
Waow go right where it stings. When you die I'm going to relieve myself on your grave.
That'd just make my grave cool as shit. "Hey guys! Check it. This is the dude who had that chick pee on him when he died."
No one will ever think that.
You clearly haven't lived life.
Whatever. Log into dayz its spooky alone.
I died
Wat. Hold on this isn't the place for this discussion we'll talk in chat people might try to find our shit.