Dreams(Part 4)
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After cheering Kyoutarou Suga up, childhood friend Saki Miyanaga starts up with the first step in the mahjong training: online matches. Since that was how Nodoka Haramura first started getting good at it, maybe it'll do the same for Kyou... or so she thought. It turns out he wasn't able to win a single match even when against people from far away. Getting closer to Nodoka seems to be a difficult task, but then Hisa Takei, the president of the mahjong club decides to come up with a plan that'll get her [Nodoka] and Saki to do better at mahjong for the finals (and also to get Kyou to not suck at the sport)...
"Training!?" Kyou and Saki asked wide-eyed.
"Yep, that's right." Hisa replied proudly.
"But... why?" Kyou sweat dropped in confusion.
"Well we heard you're trying to improve your skills in mahjong so we are going to try to get you better at mahjong. Once you get better at the games you can play against Nodoka, and if she'll fight against another strong opponent like Saki here, she can improve on her skills and wits!"
"But we can't let her know about this yet otherwise she won't do it." Mako added. "Which is why we're going to stall for a little bit."
"Oh really, I was actually quite parched and wanted to get a drink."
"Then do it yourself."
"Wait, how did you even know about this? I never told anyone about this." Saki asked.
"I was eavesdropping of course." Yuuki giggled sheepishly.
"You..." Kyou muttered through his teeth.
"Anyways, we want to help you guys improve your skills for the nationals, which is why were doing this. So everybody wins."
"B-But that still seems impossible, how we are supposed to do well on Mahjong while Nodoka-chan is out?" Saki questioned the others before calming down and thinking on it a bit. "Well... now that I think of it, she should probably be back in a few minutes, right? It shouldn't take long for her to get all the canned juices for all of us." The girl said.
"Yeah, that's a valid point." Yuuki agreed. She scratched her chin and pondered. "Hmm... hey Mako, before you leave, can you bring out that machine you made earlier?"
"Sure thing." The green haired adjusted her glasses to make a scary shine and walked over to a bunch of boxes from the side. She reaches over and picks up a small device with a taco on the antenna, a big square filled with colored buttons and radars, and also has a handwritten signature on it. She checks to see if it's still working by tapping on it a few times until the antenna starts to glow brightly and the radars start flashing.
"Perfecto." She smirked, turning around to face her friends. They were a bit puzzled upon seeing what was in her hand and what it was even when presented to them.
"Um, Yuuki, what is that?" Saki asked while pointing at the thing.
"Why that happens to be the Turbo Taco Treaty 2000!" She replied.
"Totally Turbo Tiny Treaty 3000!" Mako corrected her. "I know it isn't much but I tried to come up with something cool, ok? And what's up this taco on my—?" She realized she was going a bit out of character for a moment and cleared her throat. "Ladies and gent, I present to you... this thing I mentioned before."
"So... what does it do?"
"Well this baby is supposed to enhance your skills by around 20%! We were going to test this out and compare speed, swiftness, and how many hands one could make with and without this. Now, does anyone have questions?"
"Yeah, um... isn't that cheating?" Kyou raised his hand and spoke.
"No, not if we use it on you or for the nationals. We're going to test this on Yuuki to see if she can do well on the rounds other East... and then we'll try you."
"Oh, so I guess I have to go up against Kyou with my super new powers? Seems legit, but I could beat him without it though." Yuuki boasted.
"Well, if I can get this thing to work then yeah..." The green haired girl randomly pushed some of its buttons and kept a close eye on the radars.
"Hey let me take over and help ya out here!" She takes the device, stares at it for a bit, and starts to smack it.
"Hey give it back, that thing's very sensitive!" Mako walks over and tries to snatch it back, resulting in the two fighting over the thing until smoke and sparks start flying from it.
The others look back in a bit of worry and concern.
"Uh... you guys, is it supposed to do that?" Saki pointed out.
"Uh oh... heads up!" Hisa called out.
The device shoots a beam from the top of its antenna and hits the ceiling, causing it to bounce off the fans and hit the walls all around the place. The gang tries to dodge it by hiding under and around the tables. Kyou turns to see one coming for Saki and pushes her out of the way before it could hit her. The beam then falls onto the floor and makes a puff of smoke all around the room. The two get up and start coughing, right while looking for the others. 'Crap, weren't they over there hiding?' He thought.
"Hisa-san, Yuuki-chan, Mako-san, are you guys alright?" Saki called out to them.
"We'll be alright, just hurry up and get out of here, or better yet, open the door and windows to clear out all this smoke!" Hisa replied.
Kyou and Saki hesitated at first, but then nodded and hurried to the door to clear up the smoke. They run over to the end of the halls to open up the windows so that the fog wouldn't be able to cover up the whole school. When they rush back they accidentally bump into Nodoka. "What the... what's going on?" She asked, heavily confused. "I leave to bring drinks over and then a minute later something big happens!?" She glared at Kyou for an explanation.
"Uh... I can explain..." Kyou sweat dropped.
Before he could explain it to her though, the smoke in the room then makes a pink explosion, which causes the three to fall back. "Oh no!" Saki and Nodoka cried. They pick themselves up off the ground and slowly moves over to where the others were.
When the smoke cleared, they couldn't see where they were, until Hisa called out to her. "Hey, we're down here!" The two looked down and it saw them being... alright, but they were apparently the same size as the mahjong tiles now.
"Whoa, how the heck did you get so big?" Yuuki asked from below.
"You mean how did you get so small." Nodoka corrected her.
"Hmm, apparently that machine we used seemed to backfire spectacularly." Mako crossed her arms. "Was not expecting that. Though it might not have been a problem had Yuuki not interfere..."
"Wait what? What were you guys doing with a machine like that anyway!?"
"And it wasn't even my fault; your machine just wasn't able to do its job!" Yuuki scolded her.
"Now girls calm down." Hisa reassured them, "We can still find a way to help them with the enhancing, all we need to do is get up on table and show them how. Hey Saki, can you do that for us?"
"Uh...I'm still shocked at what has happened here... but ok?" While Saki picks them up and places them on the mahjong table one by one, Kyou regains control and gets up to walk over to where the others were.
The girls examine the big green table and sigh. "Ok then, now that we're on here, let's go and make you a hand to practice on." Hisa said while pointing at Kyou.
"But uh, it's already been made. And besides, you're too small to set things up..." Saki mentioned.
"Alright then, since we're all shrunken down, maybe this would be a good opportunity to do a practice match against Nodoka." Yuuki suggested.
"I don't know, I feel like I've been cheated. And I know they will probably do so too."
"Oh no, not at all. It can make us both even better than before at mahjong, and I really want to play with you." Kyou pleaded.
"Ok fine... if you can beat Saki, then I'll play... if that's ok with you Saki."
"Sure is."
Kyou acted surprised. "What? But she's like super good and-"
"Kyou can you just sit down and get your hand?" Mako face palmed.
The blonde sighed and accepted the challenge. He takes a sit and takes a look at his hand; it had a couple of red circles, green circles, and some kanji symbols on them. 'Hmm, this isn't a half bad hand...' He thought.
"Yeah, sure is." Nodoka walks behind him and examines the hand herself. The other girls moved around the tiles and looked over at the hand while Saki happily went into position.
"Hey, maybe I can just pull a tsumo right away." Kyou guessed.
"Well you could but that isn't part of the rules, and besides, you could always try to make better hands by making some really good pairs."
"That's true, but I guess one could always play it safe."
"Why don't you try and draw a tile for you to replace?" Hisa asked.
Kyou reached over and picked up a face down tile to use for his hand. He placed it on top of his horizontal hand. He carefully looked over which one to get rid of, spots the black tile in the corner, and took it out to draw out to the main center.
"Kan." Saki looked over at her hand and said. She took out three tiles and slid them across the board until it reached its corner.
"Wait what? Where did that come from!?"
"You know you shouldn't underestimate her," Yuuki whispered, "You need to keep her on your toes, try getting rid of a tile that could be useful on your deck, surprise her and catch her off guard."
"Weird, but ok, if you so." He watched Saki pick up a tile and place it in her deck, exchanging it with another tile in the process and placing on the center of the table. He then studied his hand and took out a piece to place onto the table.
"Riichi." She throws a blue stick out on the table.
Kyou's eyes go wide eyed. 'Again, really? I know she's a good player but how can she do that!?' He looks at his hand nervously and started sweating rapidly.
"Don't worry, if you just calm down and think things through." Mako whispered to him.
'Right, I gotta think about this... maybe I could surprise her if I just throw one in without thinking...' He takes another tile and placed it onto the table.
"Kan." Saki said.
"Oh boy, here we go again..." Hisa sighed.
"Not if I can do something about this!" Yuuki exclaimed. She runs over and jumps on one of the tiles the Saki was going to use to slide over the board and latches onto it in the nick of time. She rides on it like a surfboard until she gets to the edge and grabs on for dear life as she and the tile fall off the table.
"Oh no, it fell off!" The red eyed girl gets up from her seat and reaches over to pick up the tile.
"Uh, you ok?" Kyou asked. "Do you need some help?"
"Nah, I'm good." She replies as she chases Yuuki, who is now carrying the tile away from the table.
"Hang on, get back here! I should have known you'd do something like this!" Nodoka also went into chase.
"Now is your chance!" Mako turned to him and shouts.
"Wait, you mean you want me to cheat to win!?" Kyou pointed at himself in shock.
"No, just play or call a match and take one of her tiles to win!"
"So, you basically mean cheat."
She runs over to kick another tile off the table and waits for Saki to place it back on the table. "Just call pon and get the tile already!"
"Okay okay fine!" He got up from his seat and went over to reach for the specific tile, but just as he was about to, Nodoka turned her head and walks over to grab his arm and smack him across the face.
"Kyou I'm extremely disappointed in you." She scolded him.
"B-but she told me to-"
"You know you could have just called a tsumo or riichi when she put her second tile down, right?"
"No... aw dang it! I'm so stupid!"
Hisa uses this opportunity to run over there and snatched it up from under his nose.
"Hisa what are you doing? That could be the winning tile he needs!"
"Nope, sorry but I'm not letting you win simply by cheating. If you want it, come and get it." The red head smirked as she runs across the board while being chased around by an angry Mako.
They jump on and off the tiles all around, kick some to block and trip the other, and even make mahjong towers to climb onto and protect themselves. The whole school club was becoming a giant mess.
Hisa and Mako meanwhile have a sword fight with the tiles. "Give up, you can't win." Mako said.
"Says who?"
"Says me!" She lounged forward but accidentally gets caught up in her trap and throws the tile at Kyou's forehead, causing him to fall off his chair.
The girls stop with whatever they were doing and check up on the boy. "Kyou-chan? Kyou can you hear us? Are you alright? You aren't hurt that badly, are you? Kyou? Kyou!?"
"Kyou, wake up, your detention is over!" Kyou gets hit in the head with another newspaper from the teacher. He sighed and calmed down. "You can leave now if you want."
"Huh, oh, I guess I was dreaming all this time... guess all that stuff never happened." He rubbed his head in pain.
"What?"
"Uh, nothing. I better get going!" He takes his stuff, gets up from his seat, and hurries out of the classroom.
Not long after he opened the door, he tries to remember where the mahjong club was and if didn't miss it. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Saki call for him and was waiting for him to come back out. "Hey Kyou, you sure took a while in there." Saki said. "Here, I got you some drinks if you want some." She hands him a can but he rejects it and grabs her arm to run with her to the club. "Hey where are we going?"
"To the club of course, where else? We need to continue our training senpai!"
"Um... but we aren't going to late though."
AN: Big Lipped Alligator Moment or... not? Probably either one but you decide. Also, this might be brought up again later on :P
Longest chapter yet, next one will be coming soon...