The next day, they walked to the clubhouse, invested in their conversations.
"I think that was a little unrealistic," Renkotsu commented, "There is no way a robot would work like that."
"Gesh," Ginkotsu replied, "It's no wonder that robot lost."
"Indeed, I could build a robot better than that." Renkotsu said, quite confident, "Not that it'd be hard. Why add such obvious weak points?"
"I think it's so they could defeat it, Renkotsu no Aniki." Jakotsu threw in.
They had all recently seen a new movie, which happened to feature robots. Robots were, for some reason, something Renkotsu was very interested in - he liked all of that kind of stuff, weapons, robots, machinery, cars.. He had an interest in making plans, or so it sometimes seemed, as he always made these elaborate plans that often involving things like deception.
Ginkotsu had a similar interest, which was probably why they got along better, debating what seemed to everyone else boring details.
"They could still defeat it without making it so easy." Renkotsu argued, "It's just a flawed design."
Jakotsu sighed, and attempted to ignore them for the rest of the walk. He was quite glad when they finally arrived, which was unusual because he wasn't fond of studying. However, there was just something about the clubhouse that made it different, making them want to stay at it all day.
The clubhouse was a treehouse that seemed like it'd be considered pretty big. They had these big comfortable blue chairs in it, and there was a nice, small window they had a nice view out of. It was also where they kept the snake, 'Baby', they found at Mukotsu's.
They climbed up there, setting down their bags that contained their books, water and several bags of potato chips. Jakotsu quickly went over to visit the snake, checking on it.
"Aw," Jakotsu said, as though the snake was one of the cutest things he had ever seen.
Renkotsu pulled one of his books out of his bag, setting it down carefully next to another one, "I believe there is a test coming up, Jakotsu."
Jakotsu sighed dramatically, sitting on the floor and taking one of his books out, "Yeah."
As Renkotsu had noticed after a few years of knowing him, Jakotsu was oddly fascinated with snakes. He seemed to find them adorable, which was odd as most people didn't tend to describe them that way. Nonetheless, snakes were a huge distraction and it was best to remind him why they were there in the first place.
Aside from the upcoming test, entrance exams were also unnervingly close, and that was his real concern.
He hoped that if he made them study as much as possible, they'd be prepared. It wouldn't be great if they didn't get into high school, though that was a bit of an understatement. High school seemed pretty important..
As they were his friends, he did care about them, and despite the fact only he and Ginkotsu were taking this seriously, he was confident they could all make into high school.
Studying together was, notably, only slightly better than studying alone. It was still school work, attempting to absorb all the information and have it forever, or at least, until the test was finished and then they were free to forget just about all of it and drown it out with things that actually interested them. That was what school seemed to be, and they weren't in a rush to get to high school, either, although getting into high school would be great.
School was still difficult, even in a room with multiple people all attempting to learn. Even with Renkotsu helping them, they all still struggled to remember everything they needed for a test. Renkotsu had been helping them with school for a few years, he had started around the time they had met him. Even with his efforts to help them, that usually only let them pass.
The last test they had was pretty bad, too, they weren't sure if they were prepared for another one quite yet. It seemed that was just what school was.
Then they'd have a few years of high school, and perhaps go to college, although most of them didn't intend to.
Jakotsu sighed, once again, staring at his math book as though it was his greatest enemy. There was something just endlessly frustrating about math, and it was undoubtedly his least favourite subject. In fact, it seemed like just maybe it was invented just to spite him specifically, like whoever invented math just decided they wanted him specifically to suffer. With how difficult it was, he wouldn't even doubt it.
He stared at the book, reading the words very carefully and processing them. It made it seem easier than it actually was, like it was trying to convince him this was supposed to be actually fun.
The pressure of an upcoming test, too, made it seem like maybe, the entire school system was really made to spite him.
Jakotsu lied down, dramatically, staring at the ceiling, which was about ten times more interesting than math. Studying sucked, and he couldn't wait until they were no longer studying. There was a lot of things he'd rather do than math.
He turned his head so he could slightly see the snake, which was a better, more calming sight, though that wasn't what most people considered snakes.
Jakotsu looked forward to getting into high school so they could stop worrying about getting into high school. That was the only part he felt concerned with. He just wanted to do something fun with his friends, like go on the Ferris wheel or something.
And honestly, he felt more concerned with basically anything else, especially something such as cute boys, and flirting with cute boys, and trying to get a boyfriend..
Jakotsu had a lot of concerns, but school was rarely ever one of them. That was something he liked, he preferred just not being concerned with school in the slightest. But, unfortunately, school wanted desperately to spite him.
He thought about how much, in the current moment, it felt like it was working...
Jakotsu didn't realize all five of them had ended up falling asleep until they all woke up several hours later.
It was quite dark out by the time they had woken up, so they figured they shouldn't bother trying to get home. It wasn't uncommon for them to spend a night in the clubhouse, they even had several blankets and pillows there for whenever they did.
It was usually fun when they stayed overnight, as it was just a really cool place, as they all tended to describe it.
Renkotsu even had added a small bookshelf to the clubhouse, which stored a variety of books - fantasy novels, educational books about technology and cars and such, romantic books, poetry books, action books and a few Jakotsu had added with LGBT representation.
When Jakotsu had woken up, Renkotsu had been reading a book. He was sitting on one of the chairs, near Ginkotsu who was quietly writing something - Ginkotsu tended to write a variety of things, especially poetry. Often, his poems involved unusual themes and comparisons like machinery and fire, as examples. On a few occasions, he also wrote a story about a man becoming a robot or something. Jakotsu didn't really understand it.
Bankotsu was also awake, unlike Kyokotsu, and appeared to be extremely bored.
"Hey, Bankotsu." Jakotsu said, sitting near him. They two soon talked quietly until they came up with an idea of something to do.
The details weren't complicated, but they'd have to be quite careful if they wanted to surprise him.
Bankotsu grabbed a pillow and quickly attacked Renkotsu with it, who looked at him and put a bookmark in before he himself grabbed a pillow, "So, competitive pillow fight, I see."
Jakotsu went after Ginkotsu, who was prepared and used a pillow as a shield to block his attack, "Ge-heh-heh-sh!" He laughed.
"Hmm." Jakotsu grinned, before carefully throwing his pillow at Renkotsu, hitting him. He carefully jumped and grabbed the pillow back before Renkotsu could commit thievery by stealing it from him.
Renkotsu battled with Bankotsu, hitting his pillow with all of his strength, "Perhaps you should get more practice before challenging me." He remarked, noticeably confident as though he was a professional pillow-fighter.
"That's quite a bit of confidence, considering you're not gonna win!" Bankotsu dodged his attack and quickly hit him with the pillow at an incredible speed.
While Bankotsu and Renkotsu continued their fight, Jakotsu and Ginkotsu's battle was getting more and more intense.
"Take that!" Jakotsu said, balancing on one of the chairs as he used an amazing amount of force against Ginkotsu's pillow.
"Gesh." Ginkotsu replied, attempting to push his pillow forward but they were evenly matched. He refused to lose this battle.. However, Jakotsu didn't intend to lose either. He quickly moved to the side and took his pillow with him, jumping off of the back of the chair and landing on the ground, making his way around to get a better angle.
Ginkotsu turned, blocking him once again, but he wasn't going to give up that easily. They both knew it.
As Ginkotsu made his move to attack, swinging the pillow with as much force as he could, Jakotsu dodged, laughing as he jumped out of the way of every single one of his attacks, "Gesh!"
With remarkable speed, Jakotsu ended up beside Renkotsu. Upon noticing Jakotsu, Renkotsu moved away to let the real match take place.
Bankotsu swung his pillow immediately, though Jakotsu was just as fast to block it and avoid getting hit. They made eye contact briefly, before Jakotsu pulled his pillow away and hit at a different angle, almost knocking the pillow out of Bankotsu's hands, but he was quick to recover.
The two dodged and blocked attacks, almost breaking several things in the tree house and doing a variety of things that looked like they should've broken their necks. Jakotsu threw his pillow at Bankotsu with intense speed, and retrieved it almost immediately after with his acrobatics. He attempting to get Bankotsu from a different angle, but evidently that turned out to be too predictable as he didn't get the chance.
Bankotsu turned around, countering with his pillow.
Jakotsu swung his pillow at Bankotsu's several times, as the two battled ruthlessly. Bankotsu jumped and dodged an attack, swinging his pillow at Jakotsu's while attempting to avoid losing it.
As he was repeatedly hit the pillow with an overwhelming amount of force in an attempt to knock the pillow out of Jakotsu's hands, Bankotsu seemed close to getting the upper hand, although Jakotsu was trickier than that.
"I always knew it would come to this." Jakotsu remarked, as their pillows made contact.
Somehow the tension of the fight increased, only growing as the seconds passed.
"What?" Bankotsu had almost dropped his pillow at that comment, making it surprisingly quite a bit more effective than most of the fight had been, "Jakotsu, what did you say? Huh?"
It seemed that was Bankotsu's downfall, as Jakotsu was quick to use the moment of confusion against him, taking the opportunity to pin Bankotsu down and hit him with a pillow, winning the pillow fight.
Processing what just happened, Bankotsu looked up at Jakotsu who seemed happy with his victory.
"That's not fair, you played dirty!"
Jakotsu crossed his arms, smiling in a very particular way, "You never said we couldn't." He argued.
"I didn't think I had to." Bankotsu said.
"Well, that's on you. Checkmate." Jakotsu replied.
Bankotsu, for whatever reason, still didn't seem to agree, "You can't just say 'Checkmate' whenever you do something shitty."
"Aw, a lover's quarrel."
Renkotsu had been watching the fight from a safe distance with Ginkotsu, and they both seemed quite amused for whatever reason.
"Gesh, you two aren't going to put eight years of marriage at risk, are you?" Ginkotsu asked.
Bankotsu sat up, looking at Ginkotsu. He raised his eyebrows, "Are you suggesting we got married when we were like, eight?"
"What? You didn't?"
As they were all laughing, it seemed like there was nothing that could be better than moments like this.
A/N: I'm surprised at how this turned out, and I also hope the fight scene was entertaining I don't tend to write fight scenes often so I would like opinions on it.
