Chapter 4: Cruel Intentions
Fuji's PoV
"What are we gonna do now?" asked girl Ryoma who was at the moment petting piglet Kaidoh and neko Eiji.
"Hm… Let me think…" I sighed, pretending to formulate a solution.
An insanely cruel thought befell my mind as Panda Tezuka caught my eyes, I approached to his displeasure, "What do you think?" Of course I knew that he couldn't speak but it was too good of a chance to let go of.
His reaction was priceless, "Tezuka?"
The panda's eyes started to narrow down at me, he crouched down at me and gave out roars of different tones, I sweat dropped, "I s-see you cant speak, here try using these." I handed him a wooden board and a black marker, soon enough he started to scribble on them. "Amazing that a panda can actually do this, hehehe," I joked which made Tezuka the panda wince. "I'm joking" I raised my hands in surrender to satisfy him, he drew closer and closer to the board, he seemed to be having a hard time writing with those stubby paws, boy oh boy, if only I had my camera with me, but I did take mental pictures, Click! Smile panda Tezuka! Hehe.
The others were not far along from me and Tezuka, they were gathered by Oishi to think of some plan for the innocent guide that I framed earlier on, Duck Inui was gawking at our direction, it seemed to my crazy imagination that he and the captain were using telepathy to unravel my plan.
I peered at them just to satisfy my curiosity, I was having an idea that Inui was trying to get their attention, soon enough Tezuka's tapped my shoulder, "Hm? Oh you're done." He held out his writing board and let me read what he wrote, "What are you planning? I don't like how you react. Find a cure." I snickered, "Of course I will, don't worry about that." He pointed towards another message he wrote in very small characters, "Inui is suspicious of you, care to explain? I'm starting to think so too" My eyes opened at that note, "Well, maybe Inui's kinda confused right now, you know, his apparently got a 'bird brain' right now." I mused.
"Quack!" Inui seemed to have heard our conversation.
Tezuka was the least bit enthusiastic about my remark; I thought that by making jokes, he'd look at things lightly.
I turned to the direction of others and started my leave, Tezuka's paws grabbed a hold of my shirt, I gripped unto it and gave him a sinister smile, "Hehehe, now, now, Tezuka. That's not how you treat someone you've just asked a favor to." He slowly removed his grip and I continued walking, "Tezuka?" He grunted as if to say 'What?' "Mada haya iyo (It's still to early to win against me), don't you think?" I didn't bother to look back at his barmy expression; instead I walked towards the others, finally ready to commence my plan. "It's getting late, I think we should head back to the cabin." Yet another one of my intentional bad jokes.
"Riiighhttt!" Everyone gave me a glare.
Coach gritted her teeth, "You do know that half of us ain't exactly humans."
"And if I go there, they'd fry me!" Taka added, involuntarily moving his tentacles.
"Hmm… You've got a point there." I said trying to act concerned, "How about this, Momoko and Ryomako can return to the cabin, they can still pose as boys if they enter with their hoods on."
Momo and Ryoma jumped in disturbance, both their brows and voices rose at me as I mentioned their girl names, "Momoko?! Ryomako?!"
"Hehehe, sorry, my mouth slipped."
"Quack! Quack!" Inui pointed to himself and the rest of those who are not in human form.
"Nekomaru, no, I mean Eiji and Kaidoh can pose as their pets or they could just stuff the 2 in their bags, again, I'm kidding about the stuffing part."
Eiji jumped in relief into Ryoma's hands, "Nyaw!"
"Oink!"
"Hm?" Momo saw piglet Kaidoh, scratching his paw on Momo's shoes, "EH? You want ME to take care of you? Lay off!" He shook his leg to shrug of Kaidoh.
Kaidoh, frustrated, jumped and messed Akane Momo's hair "Oink! Oink!"
"As for the rest…" Every single one of them etched on their faces anticipation, "I'm afraid, your gonna have to stay away from sight for a while, there's an unlocked storage room near the cabin, people barely go there because of the nasty rumor that monsters live there."
"You think?" They gave me another glare, "Soon there will be!"
I sweat dropped, "I don't suppose you have a better plan about this," they didn't answer, yes! I got them, and now for my favorite part, "Tezuka?" The panda turned to me, "A mile away from here, there's a cave, so uh…"
The panda gave me a look of distrust and so did the duck, "QUAAAAAACK!" He flapped his wings.
"You want to stay with him too Inui?" I joked which made him jump. "Thought so."
"Fuji!" the 3 heads of coach stared me, "What're YOU gonna do?" she pointed 3 fingers at me.
I cleared my throat, of course I already know what to do, "I'll try and make up an excuse for you guys, then, I'll search for the guide and get him to spill the solution, I'll also survey the people residing near the springs, I'm sure there's an easy solution." I assured them.
"That could work." Oishi agreed to my relief, he held out his crane. "Please do your best." Yeti-Oishi bowed to thank me.
"No need to bow Oishi, I haven't done anything yet." And trust me, it'll take a while until I do.
Girl ryoma and Momo, packed their things and hid the others' as I instructed them, we were all set to separate ways. "Please don't forget everyone, let's meet here again tomorrow at noon."
Everyone nodded, duck and panda, as I refer to Inui and Tezuka now were still indifferent about the plan, I couldn't blame them, but before I left, I just had something that I was dieing to say to Inui, "Inui-kun."
"Quack?" he turned to me.
"I'll be borrowing your notebook in the investigation, I hope you don't mind." I grinned, he jumped and flapped his wings up and down as I mentioned my favor, I sensed that he indeed, gathered information about this but failed to read it, how sad.
"He doesn't look happy doesn't he?" girl Ryoma commented.
I pretended to frown, "I know, if only I were in his place, huh?" The quacking became louder.
Akane Momo darted his eyes on panda Tezuka "Hm?" It seems that he was scribbling another message; I noticed and reverted my gaze.
Tezuka flipped his board over to let Momo read his message, I was first to notice what he wrote and so I quickly stood in front of Momo, "Let's go shall we?"
"W-wait!" He started to read the message, "Don't…let…your…" I pushed them away, leaving the panda and duck make unclear warnings.
"Guard down?" Ryoma continued. "C'mon captain! Save the lectures!" he belted out his tongue and followed us.
I failed to notice cat Eiji, jump off girl Ryoma's shoulder.
"Nyaw?"
The panda pointed simultaneously at his message and the duck flapped his wings noisily.
"Nya nyaw?"
"Quack!"
"Grrr!!"
Cat Eiji failed to understand their message and just turned away.
"Kikumaru Senpai?' girl Ryoma bent over to cup the cat in his hands. "Let's go, we're falling behind" He ran to catch up with me.
"What should we do when we get back?" Akane Momo turned to his Kouhai.
"I dunno…"
"Let's just focus first in resting ok?" The 2 nodded.
If they were to ask me, I'd answer this. First, I plan to leave you 2 into thinking that I can handle finding the solution on my own, I'd wake up early and drain the spring of drowned man then collect other water from the different springs and load my water guns and sprays with it. Why? Coz its fun of course! Hehehehe! They dare doubt my genius! But what's more interesting is when the others arrive at 10, Mizuki, so sorry to ruin your plans, but you should've known that I was already a step ahead from you. Too bad, I'll have to reveal the hot water trick to these guys earlier on.
"Oink!"
"Oi Kaidoh! Stop moving my bag!"
"Senpai, I don't think Kaidoh senpai can breathe."
"Nya nyaw!" Cat eiji scratched his whiskers.
"Oh!" Momo unzipped his duffel bag and piglet Kaidoh hung his outside to get some air, "Sorry!"
I wonder… What will happen if the guide suddenly disappears? Hehehe. One way to find out.
AN: Sorry about the late update, kinda busy, please do continue to R and R cause once my school starts if people get disinterested then I'm afraid I might not update for a WHILE or worse not continue, so you know the catch, please and thank you, and by the way if you have any requests on the people or school you want to 'drop by' in Jusenkyo, just tell me Sorry about the suspense in what'll happen next :D
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