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Chapter 3: Settling In


It was, Sanada thought, probably the most shocking thing he has ever heard for the last fifteen years or so of his life (the last was when his uncle told him that the only way to become a master in kendo was to eat goya everyday for the rest of his life...and goya was his least favorite food).

He has never heard a string of curses said in one breath (this girl may just give Masaharu, Bunta and Akaya a run for their money at that area), and it totally boggled his mind on how a girl can do just that. He desperately hoped that the behavior is just something that happens because of poor sleep. (He has a sneaking suspicion that that isn't the case here.)

"Well?" the girl snarled, arms crossed in her (coughamplecough) chest and glaring heatedly at them, "who the hell are these fucktards and what are they doing here?!"

"Asuna-chan," Misaki said softly, "please stop swearing so early in the morning."

Glare. "I don't give a fuck about the time, Misaki. I'll swear when I wanted to. Now shut up and tell me what the hell is going on here."

"They were evicted from their apartment. Mr. Aikano sent them here, and now we're going to share the apartment with them. Any more questions Asuna?" Kaede explained in a blank tone, eyebrow raised in a challenging stare.

The girl-Asuna- frowned as her eyes swept across the males. "Can't they find another one?"

Kaede rolled her eyes. "If they can they wouldn't be here now, would they?"

"Don't get smart with me Furokawa. That was supposed to be a rhetorical question."

Kaede huffed. "It isn't a rhetorical one if there is a valid answer for it."

Sanada and the rest (except for the sleeping Jirou) watched as the two females glared at each other.

Misaki laughed nervously as she gave the others an apologetic smile. "Maybe it's best to settle this now? I'm sure everybody is hungry and tired."

The males nodded their heads at her. Sanada more eagerly than he intended.

"Now, let's talk about the rooming arrangements shall we?"


As stated earlier (please go back to the first chapter), the apartment has ten rooms and five bathrooms. Two rooms share a bathroom. Up until this glorious Sunday morning, the girls each has their own rooms as the need to share is completely not needed.

But now, even that will be changed. Why you ask? Well, let us apply a simple math shall we?

There were six girls.

And then add eight guys into the equation.

Now you have fourteen tenants.

Ten rooms and fourteen tenants.

Conclusion: Trouble.


At first, the girls proposed that they keep their own room (since they were the original tenants, and the eight males can share the remaining four unused rooms by pairing up), but obviously, the males did not agree.

"We did pay our own share for this apartment. That would be unfair, na Furokawa-chan." Kaede couldn't help but feel a slight shiver as the former Rikkai Dai captain smiled at her.

"We were here first." Risa argued.

"And we aren't questioning that, Shiraishi-san." Yuushi answered.

Glare. "Don't call me that!"

Smile. "As you wish, Shiraishi-chan."

Risa let out an enraged shriek.

The second choice is that six of them will have their own rooms and the other eight will have to pair up and share a room.

Asuna agreed readily, confident that she will be one of the six to own a room.

Risa and Hikari both told her to shut up and declared they will be the ones who will have their own room, glaring at each other at the end of their own rant.

Tezuka sighed.

Sanada's eyebrow twitched at the constant shouting and cursing.

Yuushi and Yagyuu raised an eyebrow.

Yukimura and Fuji smiled amiably.

Jirou snored.

And so, the ever practical and logical Tezuka Kunimitsu came up with the idea of drawing lots. Simple and fair. Everybody agreed (Jirou was still asleep so Yuushi deemed it his responsibility to vote for him, and oh, they did forgot that were still two other tenants absent. But of course, majority rules so..yeah).

So they took a piece of paper, wrote numbers 1 to 6 in two small pieces of paper, 7 to 10 in only one piece each.

Of course, Sanada suggested that 1 to 3 will be drawn by the males, and 4 to 6 by the girls so that there will be no problem about two people of the opposite sex will be sharing the same room.

A single room will be designated as a guest room (in case one of their friends ended up being in need).

Asuna applauded his quick thinking (silently). At least one of them isn't a pervert. Less people to dismember. Dark chuckle.


"So...any complaints with the arrangements?" Kaede asked the people around her.

In an instant, Hikari and Asuna raised their shackles and started complaining about them being the assigned 'roommates'.

Fuji watched in amusement as Hikari (who recovered from her semi-coma state after hearing about the rooming arrangements) and Asuna (who was spouting swear words at the speed of 50 miles an hour) argue about the said rooming arrangements.

"I will not sleep in the same room as this monster!" Hikari hissed as she pointed a finger at the glaring girl.

"Shut the fuck up you monster! As if I would like to be infected by your idiocy!" Asuna answered in the same manner.

Risa remained silent as her eyes were glued at something on the center table, muttering something distinctly about '1001 ways to kill Shiraishi Kuranosuke'. Fuji chuckled at the girl. Risa Shiraishi is becoming more and more an interesting girl.

"Please excuse them." Kaede told the guys with an uncaring wave of her hand. "It is quite hard dealing with two immature girls."

The two females didn't seem to hear her.

"So," Yagyuu said slowly, "that's it?"

"That's it, I guess. Do you have any complaints?"

Yagyuu sighed as he exchanged a look with Yuushi, his supposedly roommate. "Well, not really. Oshitari was actually my roommate at our previous apartment."

Yuushi smiled amiably at the two girls (he deemed not to interrupt the three busy girls). "I wonder though, Furokawa-chan..."

Kaede's eyebrow shot to her hairline at the honorific.

"I thought there were six of you. Where's the other one?" he continued despite the reaction.

The two shouting girls immediately stopped, and turned their death glares at the Hyotei Tensai, who blinked once at them.

Risa stopped mumbling and turned questioning eyes at Kaede. "Yeah, where is Chisa-chan?"

"Oh..." Misaki gasped softly, her blue eyes softening. "That's right. Hasn't she arrived yet?"

Kaede sighed (yet again). "No, not yet."

"I'll kill that bitch when she gets home." Asuna murmured. "She hasn't gone home since the other day, has she?"

Kaede shook her head, pinching the bridge of her nose.

Risa scoffed as she tossed her hair. "Let her be will you? She doesn't need anybody bitching about whatever it is that she is doing!"

"Shut up Shiraishi."

"Make me Sugimoto."

Glare.

"Dammit! Don't ignore me you two!"

And the three went back to glaring at each other.

Kaede turned to the silent males (read: Sanada and Tezuka). "Is the arrangement acceptable?"

"Hn."

"Ah."

The girl blinked. "Right. I'll pretend I understand that and say 'okay'."

Yukimura and Fuji both chukled, earning themselves a death glare each from their former team mates.

"Saa...I hope Shiraishi-san wouldn't mind so much about sharing the room with me." Fuji said while eyeing Hikari (who immediately stiffened at the name) and Risa (who shot him a glare before turning back to the two other girls).

"Ah..." Yukimura smiled as well, "I don't really mind sharing the room with Akutagawa-kun. I'm sure I'll enjoy the silence."

They all turned to the still sleeping male.

"Well, I think that's it. Why don't we all go upstairs so we can fix our new rooms?"

The suggestion was met with six approvals, three indignant shouts and a snore.


Room 1: (Previously unused) Current tenants: Yukimura and Akutagawa (who was still sleeping. How the hell does he do that?!)

Setting his hand carry bag and tennis bag (he still plays tennis, even if it's just for fun and to keep himself in tip-top shape) on the floor, he let his blue eyes look around him.

The room is wide, and bare.

It was clean though, which for him, would be the most important thing to note if he is going to stay in this place for the rest of his university life. Sighing, he decided to wake the sleeping room mate so they can decide on which side each of them is going to take.

"Akutagawa-kun, please wake-up." He nudged his side softly with his foot.

Snore.

"Akutagawa-kun..."

Snore. Snore.

Now, Yukimura Seichi is a patient person.

So patient that his former team mates confuses him for a saint (not).

But the recent events have tweaked on his nerves far more than he would allow. And so it would be understandable for him to be a little bit impatient ne? (nod. nod.)

And so, apologizing to the sleeping male in his mind, Yukimura Seichi walked up to his racket bag and extracted his weapons: racket and tennis balls. Surely this would wake the narcoleptic up. He chuckled to himself.

(Let us close the door to this room to save ourselves from witnessing a rather disturbing scene.)


Room 2: (Previously unused) Current tenants: Yagyuu Hiroshi and Oshitari Yuushi

The two megane males eyed the space before them. Like the other room, this one is bare and clean. Two huge windows on the far side, walls painted a faded mauve. Yuushi walked to where the light's switches are and pushed it on. Light flooded the room. The two nodded mutely to each other.

"I'll take this side." Yagyuu declared as he motioned to the left with his head.

"Hm. Then this side is mine." Yuushi agreed with a nod, walking and setting his bag at the right side.

"Same rules as before?" the Gentleman asked.

"Same as before." the Hyotei Tensai agreed.


Room 3: (Previously unused) Current tenants: Fuji Shusuke and Shiraishi Kuranosuke

Since his room mate is currently unavailable, Fuji decided to just leave his bag on the floor of the room and make his way out of the door. They are currently on the second floor of the apartment, where all ten rooms can be found. Five rooms in each side, the hallway is currently void of life. Like the interior of the room, the walls here are painted a faded mauve, a number of framed photographs hanging, a fire extinguisher at the corner of the stairs and a telephone beside a potted plant.

He can hear voices of their female housemates from the far end of the hallway, no doubt coming from Sugimoto-san's and Kobayashi-san's shared rooms. Judging from their reactions earlier, he found no surprise at the situation.

Chuckling, he decided to go back downstairs.

He bypassed the living room since he has already seen it. He first went to the laundry room, glad at discovering that it has far more than enough space for all of them. One of the things he liked about Aikano-san's apartments is that they all have complete facilities. They are on the more expensive side, but the rent is worth it.

He went to the kitchen next, with the thought of maybe fixing a light breakfast as he is feeling rather hungry. Surely Furokawa-san and Hoshino-san wouldn't mind so much. He discovered earlier that the girls mostly eat at home, as they are following a rotating schedule on who is going to prepare the meals on certain days. They share grocery expenses, and shop for their needs once a week. He wonders if it's possible to do the same now that they are here. Well, they can talk it over later. For now, his stomach is grumbling and is asking to be fed.

With that in mind, he stepped into the kitchen, and was rewarded by the sound of the refrigerator door being closed.

The light from the open window illuminated midnight black locks, straight and shiny, heavy like silk. She was in the act of tipping a milk carton to her slightly opened lips, her neck in a graceful semi-arch, her right palm lay flat on the counter top, her body slightly leaning on it. She is wearing a dark-blue shirt under navy hooded jacket and acid-washed blue fitted denim jeans. On her feet is a pair beige short boots.

His breath hitched as he blinked his eyes open.

Confused coffee-black eyes blinked back at him.

He blinked once more. Taking a step forward, he watched as the girl opened her lips wider.

And screamed bloody murder.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Fuji briefly wondered if her scream can potentially break the glass windows.

'creak.'

On second thought, maybe he shouldn't wonder too much about that.


hah! I had a little bit of a trouble with this one...well!

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