Once again, I own none of the characters in this story.
Yay for Len being physically harmed!
I knocked on the door to what usually would be me and Rin's room. "Are you two awake? We've got school today."
A few seconds later the door swung open and Neru walked out carrying her uniform and a towel, wearing her pyjamas. They, I noticed, had fluffy pink bunnies on, not at all fitting with how Neru normally acted. Her hair was a mess.
"You get up too early." she told me sleepily.
"No, you go to sleep too late. Now hurry up."
"Screw you."
I grinned, "If you really want to, but I didn't realise we were at that stage of our relationship."
The grin disappeared when Neru's foot hit my crotch. Now I knew how Mikuo felt.
"Ahh! Bollocks!"
"Yep, that's where I kicked you." A smirk on her face, she strolled smugly away for a second then turned around.
"What room is the shower in again?"
I pointed weakly at the bathroom, "In there... I can show you how to turn it on if you like."
"I know how to turn a shower on, thanks."
"I wasn't talking about the shower," I told her, winking. She just shook her head in disgust and closed the door. After waiting a bit for the pain to subside, I went and made myself some breakfast, banana juice and a bowl of cereal. At the same time I put some bread in the toaster, knowing Rin would be too disorganised to make herself breakfast.
"Where's Neru?"
"Shower. I've put some toast on for you."
"Thanks," Rin answered, grabbing a carton of orange juice from the fridge and pouring herself a glass, "I'm gonna go use the shower in Mum and Dad's room."
I nodded to tell her I was listening, then but was more absorbed reading the newspaper. There was nothing interesting, but my history teacher had told our class to read the newspaper to try and find something "that people will be taught about in a hundred years!". I'd found nothing- the biggest headline was about some footballer cheating on his ex-wife's sister's (also an ex-wife) daughter (probably soon to be an ex-wife, once a step-daughter). Somehow, I didn't think schools would be teaching that in a hundred years. After skimming a few more stories and finishing my cereal, I dropped the newspaper and noticed the toast was done. Knowing Rin would forget (actually, Rin would probably forget to eat it at all) I put it on a plate, buttered it and went to watch some TV. Barely a minute later, Neru walked in with her hair damp but at least styled into her normal side ponytail, looking better than earlier. She was eating the toast I had left on the kitchen table.
"That's Rin's toast."
She shrugged, "It's good. She makes good toast."
"No she doesn't. She burns it. It tastes like charcoal. I made that toast for her."
"Oh. Well done you."
She took a few more bites of the toast before settling the plate on the arm of the sofa and whipping out her phone. Her fingers started flying across the keys and I doubted she would respond if I said something. She was still at it ten minutes later when Rin walked in.
"It's eight o'clock, we should probably go now."
"You're probably right."
"Okay. Neru, come on."
She stuffed the phone into her pocket and followed us out of the door.
"Do we have assembly today or not? I can't remember," Rin asked me as I locked up behind us.
"It's Monday, so yeah we do. We'd better not be late."
We were late, of course. Only a minute after the bell had gone, and our year group was lined up ready to head into the hall. I headed over to Mikuo's place in the line whilst Neru and Rin went to the back. We began to file into the hall.
"You're late."
"My heart bleeds for you, waiting all on your own for me. Did you remember your swimming stuff?"
"Of course. I'm not an idiot!"
One of the teachers glared at us and we shut up. As always, the assembly was boring. The one good point was the chairs. Half of the year group got comfy chairs with armrests and all, the other simple plastic ones. Me and Mikuo had got the comfy ones. Rin and Neru weren't so lucky. After half an hour of ignoring the teachers who were obviously trying to teach us a very valuable lesson which we were going to use oh so many times in later life and laughing at Rin and Neru, we were finally allowed to leave. Ten minutes later, I was stood with Mikuo, Rin, Neru and Haku Yowane, one of Rin and Neru's friends, at the poolside waiting for the teacher to let us get in.
"We will be playing matches of Water Polo today. Three people to a side. At the deep end, Rin Kagamine, Len Kagamine and Mikuo Hatsune, you will be one team. You may get into the pool now. You will be playing against Neru Akita, Haku Yowane and Honne Dell. You'll notice I've put you with your friends this lesson. Don't make me regret it. Second match, you will..."
I jumped into the pool next to Rin, who was shaking out her now wet hair. On the other side of the pool, Honne blew Yaku a kiss and grinned. He had the ball.
"How's that song go? 'When we're together, baby, we're unstoppable'? Something like that."
Mikuo, however, grabbed the ball from Honne's hands with surprisingly good timing, "Nope, you guys are definitely stoppable!"
Neru frowned at her teammates, "Nice job, you lost the ball. I'll show you how it's done."
Mikuo was swimming towards their goal when Neru tackled him. I'm not really sure if you're supposed to tackle people in Water Polo, or if attacking would be a more apt word than tackling, but she got the ball.
"Hah! Take it, bitch! Take it like a man!"
Rin narrowed her eyes at Neru, "Oh, it's on now!"
Neru dropped the ball in the water as both started laughing uncontrollably. Apparently, Haku got the joke as well, which meant we had an advantage- two of their team had been struck by a sudden bout of hilarity, only one of ours! I quickly snatched the ball from Neru, who cried in surprise and tried to grab my leg, and swam quickly towards the goal when another ball hit me in the face.
"Shit! That fucking hurt!"
Honne was laughing his ass off as Teto Kasane swam over from her game to get the ball. I guess my attempt at getting a goal was ruined now.
"Sorry Len! My stupid idiots of a team can't throw a ball straight!"
After about twenty more minutes of Water Polo the teacher stopped us again.
"Now I want you to all get out of the pool. I'll be pairing all of you up so that you can practice your throwing and catching- remember, you only hold the ball with one hand in Water Polo. Neru Akita, You will be working with the one Kagamine twin who ever seems to pay attention in these lessons. Might I remind you that you should not be wearing a bikini in these lessons. If you wear one again next lesson I will have to set you a detention. Have fun with Len. Haku Yowane, you can work with your lovely boyfriend. Maybe you can get used to the fact he has a six pack so you will stop fawning over him in my lessons..."
The teacher's moaning speech continued for what felt like hours until she let us back into the pool. By then, about two minutes were left in the lesson until it finished and what I had expected to be some wonderful quality time with Neru (if by quality time you mean a chain of events which would end with me being physically harmed) ended up as getting into the pool, throwing a ball twice and getting out again. The day after that was completely uneventful. I "helped" Rin with some questions in maths, by telling her the answer to every single question in the test, and narrowly avoided being attacked by Neru whilst buying lunch. Now I had the rest of the day to spend with just Rin and Neru. Things were going to go very well, I could tell. No way anything would go wrong and end with me being kicked in the balls. No way at all.