Title: One Man Down

Inspiration: Friendship goes a long way...

Dedication: ChicCuteness! This one goes to...YOU!

Spotlight: Sumire and Koko

Genre: Romance/Humor/Friendship

"A water gun fight?"

Sumire wrinkled her nose. She hated water. Being part cat and dog, but mostly cat, getting wet was number one on the list of things she hated.

"Sure. Why not? It's really hot out here, anyway." Couldn't they do something else?

Mikan clapped her hands and giggled. "Yeah! Who else do you think would want to join?"

Koko looked thoughtful. "I'll call Kitsumene and see if he wants to," he said, pulling out his cellphone and dialing Kitsumene's number.

"Great!" Mikan turned to Natsume. "Can you call Ruka and Mochu? See if they want to, too?"

"...Hn." Natsume pulled out his cellphone.

"And I'll call Hotaru, Anna and Nonoko!" Mikan announced, pulling out her cellphone as well.

Sumire didn't say anything as her friends were busy calling up other friends to join them in their game. Koko silently noted this. He knew Sumire wasn't a quiet one.

In fact, everyone knew that.

When all of their friends gathered, Koko said, "Now we'll pick teams."

"Who's gonna be team captain?"

"Oooh! Me! Me! I wanna be captain!"

In the end, Natsume was captain of the red team and Koko was captain of the blue team. Here's who was on who's team:

Red Team

Natsume

Mikan

Anna

Ruka

Mochu

Blue Team

Koko

Hotaru

Sumire

Nonoko

Kitsumene

"Yay! I'm on Natsume's team!" Mikan ran to Natsume's side. The moron seemed to have forgotten that the captain gets to pick their teammates...

Then the water guns were distributed, and the game began.

Sumire hid behind a tree, mainly because she wasn't about to get wet. The park was empty. Everyone was hiding, probably waiting for some poor fool to run out into the open to light 'em up. Sumire looked up. Kitsumene was flying in the air, over the entire park. Luckily he was on their team, otherwise they all would have been being pounded with water a long time ago.

Then she heard a rustling, and a "CHAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!" and the minute she turned around she was drinking a gallon of water.

Sumire fell to her knees coughing. She looked up. Mikan was standing over her with a big dumb smile on her face. "Got ya!" she laughed.

Sumire popped at least fifty veins. She picked up her water gun---and let's just say that Mikan took at least a ton of water to the face.

"Hmmph!" Sumire turned away from Mikan's corpse---yes, corpse---and flounced out into the open as Natsume ran by.

She was instantly dumbfounded. Natsume looked so good, dripping with water from previous encounters, running full speed. His wet shirt stuck to him, perfectly portraying his figure, his face was hard with concentration and his muscles were rippling---oh, god. Sumire could instantly feel the blood building up in her nostrils.

Oh, mamma mia, did he made looking beautiful a sin---

And as it was, as she was using Natsume for eye-candy, she had been frozen like a statue. And Koko, noticing, walked over and sprayed Sumire right in the back of the head.

Sumire turned around shrieking. "What was that for, moron?!" she yelled. "If you didn't notice, we're on the same team!" She took in Koko's stupid grin. "WELL?!"

"Staring at Natsume again, eh?" He shook his head. "If you're so worried about getting splashed with something you hate the most, you shouldn't eat your eye-candy out in the open."

Sumire took in her surroundings. "Well, so?!" she screeched, trying to hide the hot blush creeping up the back of her neck. She swore in her mind, this boy could get her so angry...

"Sorry." He grinned sheepishly. "I mean, you just looked so stupid I had to get your attention. What are best friends for, eh?"

"Yeah. What are they for?" Sumire muttered under her breath acerbically.

Suddenly it seemed like the entire population of the red team was jumping out and spraying them both, full power (that includes Mikan, whom we originally thought was being dead). Koko fell down, and Kitsumene up in the air screamed, "Man down! Man down! Man down!"

Why am I on a team full of CLOWNS? Sumire thought as she stood clenching her fists, dripping wet. Oh, she was going to kill every single person on the red team...

After successfully managing to scare everyone off, she screeched, "Where did the rest of the team go?"

Hotaru?

"I have better things to do than sit and throw water on people," she muttered as she sat in a tree, safely hidden from view. She opened her laptop. "Now, let's see. Sales have been going well; I should get some more of these photos.."

Nonoko?

"Hotaru-chan? Are you sure it's okay that we ran out on them like that?" Nonoko asked nervously, twiddling her thumbs.

"Do you want to go drown in a puddle?"

Those lying dipwads, Sumire thought as she turned back around to Kitsumene's shrieking, "Someone perform CPR!"

He was freaking faking it. Anyone would be able to see that. Sumire glared at Kitsumene. "If I do it, will you shut up?" she snapped.

Sumire bent down slowly. I should just go along with this, she thought. I won't even do it---

Koko pulled her down into a deep kiss.

Finally, it's done!!! Sorry if it's incredibly dull. I was trying to incorporate everyone in the story, and I failed miserably. Also there are still some hintings of Mikan and Natsume. Sad attempt at trying to shift the viewpoint and at making it SumireXKoko. Ha ha. I'll try harder next time, cuz this one wasn't as good as I wished it to be. But I made it LONGER! Yay me!

Review?

~Ariisha-chan