Week 3
Monday
"How do you like this?"
Sakuragi has graffitied a very crudely depicted story on the outside walls of Mr. Dokou's classroom about the tales of the Big, Bad Wolf/Fox thingie.
Starring:
Sakuragi Hanamichi as the courageous and handsome Big, Red, Riding Hooded-Jacket.
Rukawa Kaede as the leading villain.
Supporting Roles were as follows:
Haruka as the granny (No Incest)
Kogure as a random chipmunk in the forest
And Akagi as the rampaging gorilla (This feature was also a cross over w/ King Kong)
Sakuragi was currently drawing the wolf/fox thingie (himself) gratuitously being decapitated since Big, Red, Riding Hooded-Jacket had now somehow fused with the woodchopper in the story and had become Super, Red Riding Hooded-Jacket.
Sakuragi was looking at him expectantly.
He was also looking at Sakuragi, then he took a big breath…
And punched him in the face.
Then he took another big breath and said he was sorry for "making Sakuragi resort to such acts" –but not for punching him in the face. That was intentional. Though he didn't vocally express that opinion.
Sakuragi was holding his bloody nose now, so when he said "What?" It sounded like "Rut?"
"I'm sorry," he repeated and he knew he couldn't have imagined that surprised/shocked/freaked out expression on his rival's face.
"You're…"
And then Sakuragi Hanamichi was blushing and sputtering and running away.
Quickly.
Tuesday-Thursday
Sakuragi was avoiding him.
Like the Black Plague.
Like Algebra.
Like that really annoying guy in the Kendo club.
Life was good.
Friday
"Wow" Sakuragi looks really focused, doesn't he?" Kogure said as he looked over his shoulders at Akagi, "Ne?"
"What the hell has him so pumped up?"
"So did things go as planned?"
Rukawa had the unfortunate timing of having to walk over here at this exact moment to sit down on the bench and tie his shoelaces.
"I guess." He said and Kogure laughed.
"It looked like it more than worked. He's redirecting all the energy he used to put into harassing you into basketball."
"The idiot actually has some talent." Akagi posed as he watched Sakuragi dribble, sprinting full on across the court.
"Yes and we all have Rukawa-kun to thank for that." Ayako responded from somewhere behind Akagi, since he naturally dwarfed her in his shadow. Everybody dwarfed her in their shadow.
Didn't mean her voice didn't dwarf them right back.
"Good job Kogure." She patted him on the back. "And good job Rukawa. Now 'our' little seedling is growing into something promising." She patted the air in simulation of patting Rukawa.
Rukawa didn't understand exactly how it had become "our" little seed or weed or whatever it was.
Is spent in confusion and basketball, so it ends up being confused basketball.
Sleeps off the detrimental effects of playing a whole game of confused basketball.
Now that he thinks about it, Sakuragi is the only person in the world who can play that way and not become sick.