EPISODE 2
"Isa-chan!" I heard someone knocking on my door a bit late in the night while Orion and I were chatting there.
"It seems those guys have got friends with you easily." He told me while I stood up to go and open them.
"They are nice." I answered. "And they would also be nice to you if you allowed them."
"Sure, imouto." He told me joking while I opened the door.
"Hello there." I said to Ethan (Gojyo) that was standing at the door with Goku. "Wanna get in?"
"Okasan!" Goku said jumping towards me and pushing me softly. "C'mon, c'mon."
"Ejem." Orion said to make them note he was also there.
"Good night to you too, Orion-sempai." Ethan told him then. "We were thinking on going to a disco near here with some friends too, so we came to ask you if you wanted to come with us."
"To a disco?" I asked.
"C'mon, Isa." Orion said. "You've not had fun since we got here. It's a good idea to get to that disco."
"Sure, the thing is… what do I wear, mates?" I said. "I've got certainly some clothes, but disco ones…"
"I'm sure we can find something!" Gojyo said getting in the room and walking towards my wardrobe.
"Sure, I can… arrange something." I said opening it and beginning to look for something to end up choosing a sparkling top with a jean miniskirt and a pair of cowboy boot. As accessories I chose my leather chocker and a wide bracelet.
"Man, that is certainly matching a disco." Gojyo said when I walked out of the bathroom looking as a night-living girl.
"Shall I take a jacket too?" I asked.
"No, certainly not." He said shaking his head. "If you were cold we could lent you something, but I must advise you that in this time of the day and the season you will not have any trouble wearing that."
"Hey!" Ivvan (Sanzo) said knocking hard on my door. "Are you moving or what?! There's a taxi already waiting for us downstairs!"
"Hello, missus…" Dr. Futawa (Hakkai) said softly and cheerfully from the other side of the door. "May we come in?"
"Aye, we've got three men here." I said.
"At this rate she will end up turning into a man too." Orion said.
"Or maybe you turn into women, mate." I said joining his joking tone. "Can you men give me five more minutes to make up a bit, please?"
"Sure, but if you manage to change the slightest in five minutes I will pay for the first round." Ivvan (Sanzo) said.
"I'll make your words, mate." I told him to get to the bathroom.
It was just a week since Orion and I arrived Tokyo and that building where we were kept and they had their trainings into acting and then the lessons with Orion and I to learn English and I helped them understanding the lines. And in all that week all we had done was playing some card games on the latest days due to the little 'clock problems' Orion and I had due to the time difference and the jet-lag from the travel.
Anyway, we had a lot good things in common.
And then the Japanese lessons they gave Orion and me while we taught them English on a natural way.
"Allow me to remember you guys that this weekend we have the first step of the special 'marathon' with English spoken films we will be having during weekends and some other free times." I told then while I made up a bit.
"What kind of movies?" Ivvan said.
"Cartoons!!" Goku said. "Oh, no, no. Action ones!!"
"There will be an action one, then a terror one so you can check the difference between oriental horror and occidental one... Oh, and sorry for you guys but there will also be a classical one and some of the most cultural ones about England, Scotland and USA so there will be also a love one or more than one."
"Ouch!!" They said as kidding.
"I told you it's better to obey me." Orion said joking while I began blowing my make up brushes to remove the rest of the make up dust. "She will end up making us watch love stories such as 'Pygmalion' and things like those."
"It's not 'Pygmalion'… it's 'My fair lady'." I told him doing a mocking voice.
"Whatever." He answered me on the same voice tone.
"Ten seconds." Ivvan told me.
"Ready." I said smiling and getting out of the toilet.
"Dude, I think someone is paying for the first row for all of us…" Goku said surprised.
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"Wow!" I said laughing while I saw how Orion was surrounded by some 'night-living' girls appearing models. "My brother is getting a lot of attention!!"
"What?!" Futawa asked putting his hand in front of his ear.
"My brother is getting a lot of attention." I shouted at him so as to overhear it over the music deafening us.
"Ah, well, he is good-looking!" Futawa said smiling mild.
Then Ethan nearly crashed into the bar while asking for another cup, then he asked something we couldn't hear due to the music.
"What?!" I asked him as I couldn't hear him.
"Don't you dance?!" He repeated at my ear.
"I can't dance too well!" I answered him.
Then he did a head gesture and held my hand.
"I'm not leaving the teacher alone at the bar!" He said to me when he pulled from me to an empty space on the dance floor.
It was amazing to see him dance so well as if he had spent his life doing it; and not just that, he managed to make me dance a bit, made me look as if I could also dance when I was really a sucker at that point.
I got a lot of fun, especially when Goku came and changed with Ethan so I was made to move again.
It was funny, but the guys were really different, even in dancing. On the one hand, Futawa was calm; he danced following a guide of steps and his way of dancing was good and worth of a prince; on the other hand, Goku was the kind of guy that dances making you laugh in fun and makes you want to join him even when you can't dance, he made up his steps, improvised them and he danced as he wanted, from just jumping to moving as if he was cooking.
Who was a different matter was Ethan, he certainly knew how to dance, but he chose to move combining them as he pleased, always making the steps match the dance nearly perfectly and making you feel like you were dancing well even if you were a complete disaster on it.
Three ways of dancing showing three different personalities even on their dancing steps; who was not dancing was Ivvan, he was sitting at the bar part, looking for all dance and having his own kind of fun while he had some drinks and watched around. He was the kind of guy you expect see having a match at the billiard on a corner or something like that.
I was making such differences out when I was put in the middle of a fight with another girl because there was a little crash and her glass slipped and splashed her slightly.
It was nearly immediately when Orion came next to me to support me.
"Anything wrong?" He asked me at my back holding my shoulder softly.
The girl shouted something, but as it was Japanese, we didn't understood and I suppose I was wearing a weird face; all I understood was 'idiot', 'drink' and other insults.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to crash into you." I said the best I could, in English.
"I think the problem here is the lack of communication." Ethan said then after having dealt himself the best he could. "Shall we go outside?"
"Great." Orion said crunching his knuckles.
"No fights yet, please." Ethan said shaking his head. "It's a problem of communication."
"Anything wrong?" Ivvan asked.
"No, we are going out to speak a bit." Ethan told them.
As soon as we arrived outside where the music was really dimmed by the walls, I felt a bit bad about not being able to communicate with people around us. Specially when Futawa came out too with Goku and they stood on my other side opposite Orion and speak with the girls from time to time.
"Sensei, Isa." Futawa called me all of sudden making me get out of my personal thoughts. "I think everything is right and clear now."
"There was just a lack of communication." Ethan said smiling then as if it was obvious.
"Hum. Sorry." I said bowing my head gently. "Gomen, gomen nashai." I said trying to speak a bit of Japanese.
The girl said something fast and appearing to be like joking and Ethan smiled too.
"She said she was angry because it was her favourite shirt, but that she can't hate too much an occidental girl that apologizes so much that looks a bit pathetic."
In other conditions I would have reacted a bit different, but then I was a bit ashamed on not having been able of dealing with it myself and having depend on the guys to help me.
"She is not such." Orion said in English. "If they were not girls I would dealt about this other way."
"They were not trying to offend anyone." Futawa said a bit worried about how tense the air still was. "It was just on a funny way, joking, friendly."
"Orion, it's fine." I said softly.
He then did a little pressure at my shoulder to comfort me a bit while we all went back inside the place.
It didn't took us too longer to get going our way back to where we were 'living' and so, we walked back all the way there.
"C'mon." Ethan said when he realised on the fact that I was looking a bit down since I listened to a chat I didn't understood. "You just crashed into someone and so there was a little mode accident, nothing wrong."
"I don't care about it." I said shaking my head.
"Then why are you so down?" Goku asked putting his finger at his mouth looking like a little kid at me expecting an answer.
"Just because I didn't understood a word about what you chatted with that girl." I said softly. "I felt… defenceless, idiot somehow."
"You are not Japanese." Ivvan told me. "Obviously you didn't know what they were speaking."
"Has she done anything to deserve that coldness and rudeness?" Orion defended me. "All she did was stepping where she shouldn't, and it was not her fault, she is the worst dancer I've ever met."
"Thanks Orion, you are making me feel tons better." I said with irony.
"Well, it's true." He said. "Your dancing sucks, but it was not your fault or at least it was not so important."
"Dude, stop speaking or I'll end up biting you behind your ears again." I added joking and punching his arm softly as punishing him a bit.
"Biting were?" Ethan asked confused for everyone.
"Biting me behind my ears." Orion said. "Is what you do to wild dogs to tame them. It was just a joke."
"Ah, you senseis have a weird humour sense." Goku said.
"Speaking about the previous topic… if you are feeling better, we could teach you a bit more Japanese on the free time." Futawa told me smiling softly. "That way you will understand what people speak, isn't it?"
"It could be a way, yes." Futawa said. "But learning Japanese is not as easy as you make it look, Ethan."
"I can teach you!" Goku offered holding my hands softly and chipping.
"I'm the one that first offered her to." Ethan said to begin a fight with the guy making me hold my giggle.
"Do you mind if we are all your Japanese teachers?" Futawa asked me looking to the fight. "Maybe we are not teachers, but maybe if we all do it we can teach you a lot of vocabulary because we are so different one from the others."
"Oh, I… I don't want to bother." I said.
Then I felt a big hand at my head top pushing me softly down.
"Do not worry to bother, those two seem to also be in need of some Japanese teaching." Ivvan said.
"Ok." I said. "If you don't mind then it will be fine." I said smiling to then clap my hands while we walked along the street. "Kids! I've got an idea. From tomorrow on we will have a tighter timetable including both English and Japanse lessons."
"Nooo!!" They complaint.
"What about our free time?" Ethan asked.
"We can teach each others then." I sentenced. "On nice places other than our rooms or the living-room we use as classroom."
"Yeah, as when we used to study on the park when there was a sunny day." Orion said.
"Or when we were to the lake park cycling, brought sandwiches and then studied there." I said. "We take classroom outdoors with us."
"My, my!" Futawa said smiling in fun. "What a marvellous and new method!"
"It's similar to Summerhill's School's one." I said. "So, who wanna have a go?"
"Count me." Orion said. "It was funny back then."
"I've got interest on that too." Futawa said joining us with an smile.
"Sounds good for me too." Ethan said putting his hand over Orion and mine.
"Yeah!!" Goku said joining too. "I'm going to teach our sensei!!"
Then Ivvan also put his hand over us without a word and looking away.
"Ok, then it's done now." I said smiling. "Tomorrow on we will having lessons during all the day. And we will have a lot of fun too."
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I spent all the night together with Orion trying to make a new schedule respecting the official booked times and seeing how we could make the rest match for having lessons from both English and Japanese. Finally about wake-up time, we managed to had a timetable ended and we went to show it to our boss.
"You are asking me to change schedules." The man said.
"With my respects, sir." My friend Ayato said. "I think it could be not such a bad idea."
"Ayato, shut up." The man said. "The actors can't perform as they should, so no practising time can be take, furthermore, we were thinking about booking more for them to try and improve. What do you have to say about that?"
"I don't know." I said. "I just thought it would be nice to do it that way. I mean… I've done some researches, one of them I made it based on the influence of fun and atmosphere on the student results to their efforts. I think that maybe if they were better motivated they could improve more. And…"
"Look sir, I've checked they have problems even with Japanese." Orion said a bit more rough than me. "That kiddo, Goku, he can't write properly as for the age he has; and Ethan, well, he is certainly good on certain vocabulary, but when it comes to formal speaking he keeps on messing with it…"
"I've got to agree about that." The director said scratching his chin. "But we can't take any more time…"
I was beginning to feel a bit weakening in my strengths; we were chatting with him while the actors trained at the other side of the door; and he said they were not as good as they should… I was a bit down, I could not fight against that.
"There must be a way." Ayato said backing me. "I mean… maybe they could held those lessons diary after all, if there's a little and reasonable agreement from both sides."
"Ok, I've thought an idea." The director said while the door opened to let the guys out sweating a bit and seeing us there. "Have those lessons you ask for, we will help if we can; but with three little conditions."
It seemed too good for being real.
"What conditions?" I asked.
"First one, they must not interfere with the timetable as they have now." The man said. "As you two have shown me, it's possible, so no problem about that."
"What are the rest?" Orion said.
"Calm up, calm up." The man said. "The second one is easy too. You will be allowed to do this planning as long as you are the ones taking care of all that, you will be giving them for free and you will have to find your own means."
"Well…" I said covering Orion's mouth before he was able to complain again.
"And the third one is going to be the easiest." The man said looking around. "As you don't seem to realise on how hard they have already to work, then you will do as they do. I mean, you will have the same lessons than them."
"But boss!!" They said.
"Sir, she is a lady!" Ethan said. "Do you think it's fair to make her go through all this?!"
"Ok, you win." I said then. "I accept those conditions, but I want to settle an extra one."
"An extra?" They said.
"I want to book a room with TV and two computers, I don't care if they are old ones, modern ones or laptops, at least once a week and possibly on weekends." I said. "It's part of my teaching program."
The man took a couple of seconds appearing to balance all what was said.
"Do we have a deal, sir?" I asked him holding out my hand.
"Sure." He said. "But if they lower their progresses at the film lessons then it's finished, no more silly lessons." He added holding my hand to shake hands.
"Sure, Boss." I said smiling commercially. "You will not be deceived, I promise."