And now I have returned with chapter three. This one was actually edited from its original version and fixed up to be better-like. Clearly, the end of the world is coming.
CHAPTER THREE! Hooraaaaaay...
It was dark in the room, incredibly so, but that was to be expected, as all of the lights were turned off. Rooms DO tend to be dark when the lights aren't on. But anyways, Kish and Taruto were hiding behind a spiffy futuristic couch in the dark room, waiting for a certain unsuspecting someone to come in.
Finally, the door slid open with a slight whoosh. "Kish? Taruto? You're skipping out on your math lessons again! I've warned you about that!" Pai snapped, stepping into the room and flicking the light switch.
As soon as the lights turned on, tons of balloons burst into the air and confetti rained from the ceiling. Kish and Taruto jumped up. "SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" they shouted gleefully, waving banners and bouncing up and down like utter sugar-crazed maniacs. Pai merely stood staring at them, his expression blank. Then, he slapped a hand to his forehead.
"This again? You did the same thing yesterday, aren't you bored of it yet? ……You better clean all this up!"
(LATER)
"Taruto…?" Kish asked. Silence responded. "…Taruto?" More silence, this time with extra silence on the side. "TARUTO!"
"WHAT?!" Taruto shrieked, smashing his fists on the table.
Kish blinked at the rather violent reply, then sighed and rested his chin in his palm. "…I'm BORED."
"Good for you," the younger alien snapped in annoyance.
(LATER)
Kish stared at the computer screen, unblinkingly. Images flashed around on the screen, but otherwise nothing much of interest seemed to be going on. Taruto walked in, then looked over Kish's shoulder. "What are you doing?"
Kish didn't answer for a moment, then he mumbled, "I'm watching my Sim watch TV." Taruto blinked, then merely stared at Kish in confusion.
"You're... Wow, you really are bored."
The other alien just nodded, then, after a long silence, he asked dully, "Want to watch me watch my Sim watch TV?"
"I guess so. It's not like I have anything better to do."
Elsewhere, Pai was searching the ship, grumbling in irritation at the fact that his younger coworkers were – yet again – hiding from him. Why did they hate their math lessons so much?!
(LATER)
"Is this right?" Kish asked.
"Right more," Taruto replied, waving his hand in that direction.
"So this is right."
Taruto rolled his eyes. "No, no, more to the right!"
"I'm right. Okay, got it."
"NO! MOVE TO THE RIGHT!" Taruto waved his hand again, and Kish scooted over a bit. "No, no, no! The other right, the OTHER right! MY right!" Kish groaned and scooted the other way. "Yeah, yeah. That's right."
"More to the right?" Kish tilted his head a bit, confused. "Make up your mind!"
Taruto slapped his forehead with his palm. "No, no, it's fine right there, leave it!" Kish set the object he'd been carrying down. Taruto put a hand to his chin and tilted his head, thinking. "Actually…I think it was better a little more to the left…" Kish growled in irritation and pulled it left a little bit. "Yeah. That's good."
Kish stepped back to stand beside Taruto, staring at the object. "SO…Pai won't mind if we play here in his lab, will he?"
"It's the only place in the ship big enough for a basketball court! Of COURSE he won't mind! Now let's go get the other hoop."
(LATER)
"KISH! TARUTO! What the hell is this…this THING doing in here?!"
(LATER)
Pai slowly dragged the portable basketball hoop down the hall, grumbling about immature aliens and stupid human games. Kish and Taruto came around the corner then, saw him, and immediately ran up to him. "Man, Pai, why in the hell did you move it?! It took us ten freakin' MINUTES to get it set up and we still haven't got the other one up yet!" Kish complained.
"Deal with it!" Pai snapped irritably, tugging at the hoop, which was pretty much refusing to move. Kish and Taruto exchanged glances before they both scoffed and walked off to find something else to do.
(LATER)
"Hey, Kish?" Taruto drawled as he doodled a strange-looking creature on a piece of paper he'd stolen from Pai's office.
"…Hmm? Yeah, what do you want?"
"What's sex?"
The question took a moment to register in Kish's brain. "………! Whaaaaaaaaaaa-?" The freaked out look on the green-haired alien's face was priceless. Really. Needless to say, Taruto's only answer was embarrassed sputtering and random noises, so he was forever left to wonder…
(LATER)
"Pai…?"
"What do you want, Taruto?"
"What's sex?"
"………...Go ask Kish."
Like I said, forever left to wonder.
(LATER)
"Hey, Pai?" Taruto asked, standing outside of a steel door. Pai responded with a mumble, so Taruto pushed open the metal door and stepped inside the older alien's office. "Hey, I'm gonna go out for a while. Just gonna bug Ichigo for a while."
Pai waved a hand lazily, not quite listening. "Yeah, yeah. Maybe one of your plots to get her to go out with you will work this time." Taruto merely stared at him, a disturbed look on his face.
"Pai…that's Kish you're thinking about…not me…"
(LATER)
Taruto sighed. "One hundred seven," Kish mumbled under his breath. "You're REALLY bored, aren't you?"
"If you couldn't tell…"
"Why didn't you go and bother Ichigo like you told Pai you were going to?" Taruto sighed again. "One hundred eight."
Taruto gave Kish an annoyed look. "Well…Pai's gotten too used to having you tell him that you're going to bother Ichigo, so he thought I was you and so he also thought that I…er…you were going to go ask her out again or something." Kish blinked, then burst out laughing. "It's not funny, Kish!"
"Ha! Of course it is! Anyway, it has been a while, so I guess I'd better go bother her in your place!" Kish decided, standing up and leaping into the air. A second later, he vanished, and Taruto was left to sigh his one hundred and ninth sigh and wait for Kish to come back.
(ELSEWHERE)
Ichigo, eyes closed and seated on a folding chair on her balcony, waved a fan slowly. "It's…so…HOT…" she whined, reclining back in the chair and adjusting the yellow sunhat she was wearing.
"Well, considering how hot it is, you shouldn't be wearing all those clothes, then!" Ichigo jumped at the voice, sitting up and looking around in shock, then realized that Kish was floating by her balcony, his arms resting on the railing as he watched her. "Hey, my little kitten," he greeted, grinning at her.
Ichigo groaned and flopped back into her chair, not caring that her short white dress was probably revealing just a little more than it should. Let Kish see, it didn't matter. She'd just beat the hell out of him for it later. "I don't have the energy to deal with you right now…Go away…" Kish chuckled and drifted up a bit so he could stand on the rail, then hopped off to land in front of Ichigo.
"Aww, but why? It's been a while since I've seen you!"
"You saw me yesterday, don't give me that crap," Ichigo muttered, pulling the sunhat over her face just in case Kish decided to kiss her, as he usually did.
Kish let out a little sound that was halfway between a snort and a snicker. "Nice dress," he commented, leaning down to pull the hem up a bit with a sly grin on his face. "Pink lace with bows. Cute." Ichigo merely slapped at his hand lazily and grumbled at him to go away; there was no point in trying to muster up anger in this exhausting heat, and he'd been joking, anyway. "Hn…so that's where it is…"
"Where WHAT is?" Ichigo asked wearily, pulling her hat off her face so as to better pin him with an odd look.
He pointed to her thigh, smirking. "Your Mew marking. Ha! Now that I've found it, Taruto owes me ten bucks!" Kish cackled, jumping into the air. "See ya!"
Ichigo sat up, staring at him in disbelief. "What? But you didn't even try to-!" Before she could even finish, he'd already teleported, and she sat there just gaping for a while until finally she simply laid back down, shrugged, and pulled the hat back down over her face. "...Yeah, okay. Whatever."
((BACK ON THE SHIP))
Taruto was having quite the lovely nap, right at the same table they typically used for all their silly card games.
At least he was having a lovely nap, right at that table of card-game madness, until Kish decided to use his head as an armrest. "OW! Get off me!" the kid complained sleepily, flailing at him in anger.
"Guess whaaaat?" Kish responded in a sing-song voice.
"I don't care! Go away!"
"Nope, not happening; I found Ichigo's Mew marking!"
Taruto groaned in exasperation, forehead thudding against the table. "I don't caaaaare..." he whined, arms coming up to hide his face. Kish rolled his eyes.
"We had a deal! You owe me ten bucks!"
"I don't even have ten bucks!"
"...WHAT."
Taruto sat up, looking very concerned all of a sudden. "Uh, well-" He swallowed nervously, eyes darting around, before he explained frantically, "It's not my fault, I swear! It was all that insane Purin girl, she said she had this miracle water, and I thought it was a Mew Aqua so I asked her if she'd sell it to me, and she said she would, but after I'd given her my money she told me it was just regular water and that it was the little pills she was selling that were magical, and not the water she was pouring on them. There was this one pill that turned into a giant sponge if you poured water on it, it was crazy! ...Um...Kish?"
Unsurprisingly, Kish had lost interest halfway through his explanation, and had already left.
((LATER))
"Hey, Pai?"
"What, Taruto?"
"Um, I'm Kish, not Taruto," Kish corrected him, and Pai glanced up from his paperwork.
After a long moment of silence, the older alien concluded, "Oh, yes. You are Kish. ...Though, if I may say so, there's really not much difference." Wisely, Kish decided to ignore this.
"Can I have ten bucks?"
"............Go ask Taruto."
END OF CHAPTER I GUESS THIS IS THREE
YEAH, IT'S THREE
AND NOW IT'S OVER
I need to stop abusing the caps lock.