"Sooooo." Nakamura swung her legs in a bored fashion. She was sitting on Hanabusa's bed and Akatsuki on his own. Nakamura had already changed into jeans and a faded blue shirt; she wore a pair of mismatched socks. Akatsuki wore a collared purple shirt, and black pants; he wore matching white socks.
"Soooo." Echoed Akatsuki.
"Uh...well, hi."
"Hi."
"What do you think about Kali, she's crazy isn't she?"
"Hm." Akatsuki agreed.
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"Make sure Hanabusa doesn't get in trouble."
"Of course." Agreed Nakamura, "should we go down to the commons? We could ask Senri for Pocky."
"If you want to."
"Right…"Nakamura walked out of the room, trying to look nonchalant and casual. Key word, trying, and failing. It was obvious how fake she was acting, but Akatsuki brushed it off and followed her down the stairs to the common room. "Senri!" She cried out, running around the common room looking for said vampire.
"Maybe he fell asleep after the two of you ran around the building."
"But he was awake! He held Kali off of me!" Nakamura insisted.
"He could be out modeling with Rima."
"No! He can't be! He's my Pocky supply."
"Here." Akatsuki threw a box towards Nakamura, it rattled as it flew through the air, and it wasn't Pocky.
"Right." Nakamura sighed, flopping down on a couch. She threw the small box up into the air, and caught it. "Akatsuki, will you get me a glass?" She looked up at Akatsuki with pleading hazel eyes.
"Sure." Akatsuki left the room to look for a glass, strangely enough, nobody was in the common room.
"I wonder where everyone is."
"There isn't anything special, as far as I know."
Nakamura nodded in response, which was a bit difficult, because she had rested in a strange position, her head propped up against the backrest of the couch, while the rest of her body was slouched on the actual seat, her legs hanging off awkwardly.
"Here." Akatsuki handed Nakamura a glass, and she filled it up with water, dropping one of the tablets into the water, causing the water to turn blood red.
"Do you need these back?" Nakamura waved the closed box around, bringing the red liquid up to her mouth to drink.
"Yeah, but I can always steal from Hanabusa."
"The one thing he actually takes care of." She laughed.
"Mm-hmm," smiled Akatsuki, "and his Kaname relics collection."
"Right." Nakamura cringed, remembering when Kali had stormed into their room, holding aloft the large rock that Kaname had told her to hold on her head. "Yeah, that was painful."
"What'd she even do? I remember Kali coming in to hang out with us, and then when she realized that Hanabusa had your rock, she stormed out bringing the rock with her."
"Well, she woke me up, and then threw the rock at my head, which hurt, a lot, and then we got into an argument and she stormed down the halls."
"Yeah, I remember that, I checked up on you after that."
"Mm-hmm." The two vampires sat around, lost in thought, "soooo, whaddya wanna do?"
"I don't know, is there something you want to do?"
"I have to make a cosplay…" Nakamura trailed off, remembering how she had to fix Komachi's dress. "Well, more of fix it."
"You could do that…"
"Hey! How about you help me! I typically need another set of hands when I'm fixing her dress, and Kali is busy making her own cosplays. So, how about it?"
"Sure. I could help."
"Great!" Nakamura jumped up, grabbing Akatsuki's hand and putting the glass down on the table. She ran up the stairs, in her excited fangirl state.
"Woah! Since when did you have this much energy?" Akatsuki asked, stumbling on the stairs.
"It's fangirling and cosplaying! Best, thing, ever!"
"Right." Akatsuki brought a hand up to his forehead, rubbing it a bit. "Good thing the day class dorms aren't around here."
"Don't be such a spoil-sport." Pouted Nakamura, pulling the dress off of it's hanger. "Here, hold this." She threw the dress over to Akatsuki, and reaching up, grabbed the sewing machine.
"Since when was that there?!"
"This is my old sewing machine, we keep it here so we can do something productive over the weekends. Of course, I'd rather watch anime, but this dress is way overdue for fixing." Nakamura shrugged. "Oh no." She looked over the sewing machine and noticed a pair of wings somewhat deformed. "I was supposed to fix those too."
"I see what Kali means by lazy." Akatsuki muttered.
"You should check out her closet on the other side, her clothes are a mess, but her cosplays are put away carefully."
"I think I'll pass, that's prying somewhere where you don't belong."
"Of course. The good guy as always." Nakamura teased.
"I'd prefer to not get attacked by Kali. From what I've heard, she can be quite a handful when she's angry."
"Oh tell me about it. She'll get frustrated, or bitter, and that's bad, but when she really gets angry, it's like a version of Zero Kiryu, but worse."
"Oh, sounds bad."
"But, it doesn't happen a lot, she's normally really sweet, or hyperactive."
"Like you." Akatsuki muttered, "why do I find that cuter than when Kali is like that?"
"I'm sorry, did you say something?" Nakamura tilted her head to the side, looking at Akatsuki.
"Hmm? Oh, no."
"Oh, okay." Nakamura grinned, she had plugged in the sewing machine and had threaded the needle. "So, I need your help to hold this big, poofy thing."
"Who's is this?"
"Kali's, but she was making a huge stuffed banana for me, so she asked me to fix this for her. It's not relatively difficult, it's just fixing a rip in the fabric." Nakamura ranted, while focusing on fixing the rip. "But then again, there's the wings, which are mine. Kali has kept her wings carefully stored in her closet. Can you hold this? It keeps on sliding around."
Akatsuki nodded and helped to hold the dress in place while Nakamura started the sewing machine.
"And...done." Nakamura smiled, "arigato!" She unplugged the sewing machine and returned it to the shelf in her closet. "Do you wanna watch anime?"
"Don't you have wings to fix?"
"Well...yeah, I guess that's true...but I'd rather be watching anime!"
"Sure, we can watch anime." Akatsuki stretched his arms, letting out a yawn.
"Ummm...Sword Art Online!"
"If you want to watch it then watch it."
"Aw, don't be such a spoil sport...unless you want to watch Attack On Titan?"
"And that is…"
Nakamura gave him a deadpanned look, "okay, do you want to watch gory fighting, video game fighting, or space and fate and planets and power stuff. Or, we could watch Black Butler, which is basically about a young earl and his butler as they go around solving mysteries. Also known as Kuroshitsuji, we were talking about that the other day."
"I don't know."
"Choose." Nakamura said menacingly.
"Um...how about the gory fighting one."
"Awesome! I love that anime!" Nakamura jumped up and found her computer, looking for a website that had the episodes, "have you seen Attack On Titan?"
"No."
"Well then, we'll start with episode one." Nakamura clicked on episode one, and then waited for it to buffer.
About 10 minutes later…
"Armin! Stand up for yourself!" Nakamura shrieked, "you're getting saved by a girl!"
"Calm down Nakamura." Akatsuki tried calming down the upset vampire.
"Guys just run away!" Nakamura bawled, "The colossal titan is coming! It's going to eat your family!"
"What?" Akatsuki deadpanned, a sweatdrop forming, "did you just say it's going to eat you family?"
"Yes, it is! No it's here!" Nakamura grabbed her pillow, practically strangling it. "Run away people! Run away! No! Eren! Don't run back!"
"Nakamura, calm down." Akatsuki tried rubbing her back to calm her down.
"No! No! No! Don't do it! Don't go past here! You did it." Nakamura yelled at her computer screen.
"May I ask what's about to happen?"
"No, you'll see soon enough. Eren! You know you're not strong enough! Even with Mikasa! Don't try lifting the beam!"
"Wait, is that their mom?!"
"Yes! Don't you dare come over here you titan. Don't do it, don't do it. Don't do it."
"You mean their mom dies in the first episode?!"
"Run Hannes Run! Don't let them see her death! Eren, be quiet! Do you want to die before you join the scouts?!"
"It's going to eat their mom?!"
"No! It ate her! It ate her! You titan! Why?!"
"That's terrible." Akatsuki whispered.
"She died." Nakamura whimpered, unconsciously grabbing Akatsuki and hugging him like he was a lifeline.
"May I ask, how many times have you seen this?"
"I don't know, too many to count, but this still gets me everytime." Nakamura muttered, she then realized how she was holding Akatsuki in a death grip, she blushed and hastily let go, scooting away quickly.
"Mmhmm, I'm guessing other characters die too?"
"Yes, they do, but then there's also some funny parts. Like Sasha, and Hanji. 'Why'd you eat the potato?'"
"'Because it was there, and needed a home, so I gave it one.'" Kali jumped in, "sorry, I heard Sasha and had too. Well, see you guys later!" Kali smiled, running out the door.
"That, was weird." Nakamura said after a few moments of silence.
"Yup." Akatsuki agreed.
"Well then, what do you want to do now? How about the next episode?"
"How about no. I don't think I can handle another death."
"Okay. It seems like Kali's back, so how about we go attack her and your cousin?" Nakamura asked cheerfully.
"If you want."
"Great! How about I take the scythe and you take the...AOT blades."
"I'm not sure if this is such a good idea."
"Aww come on! It'll be fun!" Nakamura laughed, grabbing two AOT blades and then picking up Maka's scythe. "Here."
Akatsuki hesitantly took it, placing one in each of his hands.
"Let's go!" Nakamura eased open the door and stalked through the hallways in a light manner. "Dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun." Nakamura hummed the Mission impossible song. "Come on, I think I see our targets, they are in the common room. We must go!" She whispered, racing down the hall to the stairs. Akatsuki just sighed and followed Nakamura in a casual fashion. "You have to be more ninja like!"
"Like how?"
"Like you're on a mission."
Akatsuki rolled his eyes, but nevertheless, started darting to the wall.
"Alright, let's go." Nakamura proceeded to hum the Attack On Titan theme.
"You do realize that that'll give away our position, right?"
"Meh, they'll figure it out sooner or later."
"No need to give it away before they are attacked."
"You know what let's just jump down from the railing."
"Are you crazy?!"
"No, I'm not." Nakamura gave a wide grin, "I jumped out of our window, this isn't too bad."
"You're holding a scythe."
"Don't worry, it won't hurt anyone. Oh, and I don't think us humming will cause any disturbance in our plan. It looks like Kali is sharing some music with Hanabusa. Well, are you ready."
"Kaname'll kill us."
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him." Nakamura giggled a bit, "okay, we'll climb onto the railing and then jump down from there and attack the two of them. Sound good?"
"I guess…it seems like a plan to get us killed."
"Don't worry. If I fail, don't follow."
"What?!"
"No time for explanation. Go!" Nakamura jumped towards the railing, landing lightly on top of it, she then jumped from the railing, her blue shirt flapping wildly in the wind and her light brown hair billowing behind her. She landed behind the two targeted vampires and held the blade of the scythe in front of them. "I win!"
"Wha-?" Hanabusa asked clueless.
Akatsuki landed with a graceful thump next to Nakamura, and poked Hanabusa with his sword.
"That wasn't fair!" Pouted Kali, taking out her earbuds.
"Yeah, yeah, but you woke me up this evening with a PVC pipe, that wasn't fair." Grinned Nakamura, feeling quite accomplished.
"But you have Akatsuki on your team!" Akatsuki took that as his cue to poke Kali with the sword. "That was uncalled for!"
"If it makes you feel better, this was Nakamura's idea."
"I figured, you're not one to randomly attack people."
Akatsuki nodded and proceeded to poke Hanabusa. "Why?!" The blonde vampire wailed.
"For your Kaname relics collection."
"Ah the pain! You've insulted my relics collection!"
"Okay, Nakamura, you win." Sighed Kali.
"Yas! I won!"
Kali giggled at her friends antics, "Did you really have to use Maka's scythe?"
"I figured it'd be easier to handle."
"It is easier than Ruby's." Kali admitted.
"Exactly."
"So tell me, what'd you do when Hanabusa and I were out?"
"Uh, fixed cosplays, watched SnK-"
"SnK?" Akatsuki interrupted.
"Shingeki No Kyojin, same thing as Attack On Titan." Both girls answered.
"And planned to attack you two." Nakamura finished. "What did you guys do?"
"We just walked around, because I forgot, it's the middle of the night, and no stores are open."
"Of course you did." Nakamura laughed.
"Let me finish! So we were walking around, and then a vampire hunter yelled at us, Hanabusa was totally ready to freeze him on the spot." Kali nudged said vampire.
"Aww, come on! Are you seriously not going to let me live that down?!"
Kali laughed, "no, and then we came back here after that, incident."
"Sounds like you guys had fun." Nakamura smiled.
"Sounds like you guys had fun too." Echoed Kali. "Can you please move the scythe? I want ice cream!"
"Are you Kaito?" Nakamura asked suddenly, leaning over the back of the couch to look at the shorter vampire.
"No, but I want ice cre~am!" Kali whined.
"Kaito?" Both male vampires asked, confused.
"Vocaloid, but I want ice cream!"
"Okay, fine, fine, go get your ice cream." Nakamura relented, moving the scythe out of the way.
"Yay!" The shorter vampire jumped up and raced to who knows where.
"We should probably check on her, we don't need her on a sugar high." Nakamura sighed.
"Kali!" Called Hanabusa.
"What?"
"Where are you?"
"In the kitchen, getting ice cream. Where else?"
"She's got a good point. Why did you have to ask?" Akatsuki asked.
"Because I have my reasons!" Hanabusa retorted.
"Okay, you didn't have to yell."
"Do you guys want ice cream?" Kali's voice asked.
"What type?" Nakamura called back, walking to the kitchen, while still holding the scythe.
"Sea Salt Ice Cream! What else?"
"You're obsessed."
"Am not!"
"Are too."
"It's just my favorite ice cream flavor, and it's not like you can walk over to the ice cream store and request Sea Salt Ice Cream. You've gotta make it yourself."
"That doesn't mean you need to eat that ice cream every chance you get."
"Meanie!" Kali yelled back, sticking her tongue out childishly.
"I'm not being a meanie!"
"Yes you are!"
"You're being childish."
"Eh, who cares." Kali shrugged, before attacking the box of frozen sweets with a spoon.
"Do you need help?"
"No." Kali answered when a glob of the blue, frozen cream came flying out and the spoon suddenly clanking to the counter-top. "Okay, maybe I do."
"You always were inept at scooping ice cream." Nakamura snickered.
"At least I'm competent."
"With what?"
"Not, falling, down the stairs?"
"Okay. Here, take your sea salt ice cream." Nakamura handed Kali a cup of sea salt ice cream.
"Well that was fast."
"Like I said, you were always inept with scooping ice cream.."
"Yeah, yeah. No need to rub it in my face."
"But I like winning!"
"And I'm a sore loser."
"You are not wrong."
Kali gave Nakamura a glare and flounced back into the common area, a creaking sound was heard and Nakamura assumed that the smaller vampire had fallen onto a seat. Nakamura turned to the box and put the lid back on, before putting it in the freezer and taking out some chocolate ice cream and scooping a cup for herself. After scooping out a sufficient amount of ice cream, Nakamura returned the ice cream into it's spot in the freezer and walked over to the common area.
"So they're stuck in this gaming world, but then the Kirito, he joins a guild, but the guild falls into a trap, so then everybody dies except for Kirito, he manages to get out alive, and he meets up with the head of the guild, but the head of the guild commits suicide!" Kali yelled out dramatically, flailing her arms around and falling backwards.
"SAO?" Nakamura questioned, as she sits down on the sofa.
"Yep!" Kali responds cheerfully, sitting back upright.
"Do you want to cosplay as Kirito and Asuna?"
Kali thinks for a moment, "nah, it's overdone, besides, I'd rather do Hetalia, Naruto, Vocaloid, Black Butler."
"Good point."
"And Kingdom Hearts!"
"You're doing Kingdom Hearts on your own." Nakamura responded, looking down to her cup of ice cream.
"No!" Kali wailed, flailing once more, "do my OTP with me! Please!"
Nakamura looked at Kali, "yeah. I'll do your OTP with you."
"Yay!" The door creaked open and Kaname Kuran walked through the door, "hello senpai." Kali gave him a greeting before falling backwards and resting her chin on her chest.
Nakamura looked up, "o-oh. Kaname! Welcome back." Nakamura put her ice cream down, missing the exaggerated eye roll from Kali.
"How are you doing?" Hanabusa asked, Akatsuki just giving a nod.
"I am doing fine." Kaname responded, before heading up the stairs to his room.
"Is it just me, or does it seem like something is wrong." Nakamura asked.
"It's probably Yuuki." Kali muttered darkly, "I don't get what's so special about her." Hanabusa and Akatsuki exchanged a glance, Kali didn't miss it. "You guys know something, don't you."
"Maybe." Hanabusa teased.
"You're being mean." Pouted Kali.
Hanabusa changed his face to a more serious face, "we're not supposed to tell anyone, not until we have to."
"Kaname's orders?"
"Yeah."
"I really want to know where everyone went." Kali sat up and looked around, as if they had magically appeared during their conversation.
"I could ask Kaname." Hanabusa offered.
"It's not that big of a deal."
"I actually want to know too." Nakamura suddenly said, standing up.
"I'll go ask Kaname, there's something I need to tell him too." Akatsuki stood up and walked up the stairs to Kaname's bedroom.
"Well that was sudden." Kali remarked, breaking the silence that followed Akatsuki's abrupt departure.
"So, what are we supposed to do?" Nakamura asked, falling back onto the couch.
"I dunno." Shrugged Hanabusa. Kali stood up and brought her cup back to the kitchen, placing it in the dishwashing machine.
"Nakamura, I'm bored. Can you bring your laptop down so we can watch anime?" Kali yelled from the kitchen.
"Why not yours?"
"Because yours has a bigger screen."
"Is that seriously the reason?" Nakamura turned around in the couch to face Kali walking out of the kitchen.
"Yes." Kali smiled, giving Nakamura the peace sign. Nakamura groaned but got up and went upstairs to grab her laptop. When she returned, Kali was dramatically singing Sakura Kiss. "Kiss kiss fall in love!"
"Do you want to watch Ouran?"
"Nope." Kali answered, popping the 'p'.
"Does that mean I brought my laptop down here for no reason?"
"Hetalia!"
"I feel bad for Hanabusa, he's been dealing with you for longer than I have." Nakamura laughed.
"You big meanie!" Kali retorted childishly, crossing her arms and pouting. Nakamura just laughed, and even Hanabusa had to stifle a smile. "Not you too!" She wailed, as she noticed Hanabusa's failed attempts at being discreet.
"Don't worry, you know we still love you." Hanabusa responded.
"Yay! Hugs!" Kali smiled, giving the male vampire a second warning before tackling him in a hug.
"What, no hugs for me?" Nakamura asked, faking offense.
"You don't want me to glomp you, you're holding your laptop."
"So are we watching Hetalia?"
"If that's okay with you."
"Yeah, I don't mind re-watching a couple episodes."
"Unless there's something you want to watch."
"Tokyo Ghoul."
"Yes! Let's do it!" Kali bounced, having already stopped the hug.
"What's that?" Hanabusa asked, clueless.
Kali and Nakamura exchanged annoyed glances, even though he's been hanging out with the two girls for years, he hasn't quite gotten a good grasp. "It's basically a horror anime." Nakamura explained.
"It's quite known, though, not as known as Naruto and Bleach."
"Almost like the face of horror anime."
"Think you can handle it?"
"Yeah." Hanabusa answered, sweat dropping a bit.
"He's going to pull an Alfred." Kali said, an inside joke to the girls.
"Alfred." Echoed Hanabusa.
Both girls just gave him a look that said 'don't ask'.
"Well, you're going to pull an Alfred too." Nakamura pointed out to Kali.
"At least I don't pretend to be the hero."
"Sure you don't." Nakamura rolled her eyes, recalling their most recent fight, the one that involved Rido Kuran.
"I-", Kali stopped and looked down, realizing what she was talking about. "Yeah, you're right."
"That's what I thought."
"Well go on and bring it up!" Kali bounced.
"Calm yourself child." Nakamura playfully scolded.
"It's anime you know how I get."
"It's the same way you get around other anime-lovers, cosplays, anime merch..."Nakamura started, "shall I continue?"
"No, you're good."
During their playful banter, Nakamura had gotten Tokyo Ghoul up, and was fighting with the ads. "Fight me." Nakamura scowled at her computer screen.
Kali peered over her shoulder, "can you not click the 'X'?"
"No, I can't, you try it." Nakamura answered, pushing her laptop so Kali could access it.
"You should install ad-blocker. It would resolve a bunch of these-what is wrong with your mouse?" Kali raised her voice slightly out of frustration while glaring at the laptop.
"See!"
"Hanabusa! You try it!" Kali called over to said blonde. He stood up and walked over to the girls, grabbing the mouse and managing to click the 'X' button. "Show off." she muttered darkly.
"You told me to try it."
Kali responded by pouting playfully. "Okay, got it." Nakamura stated, making the video full screen.
"Sit." Kali demanded, looking at Hanabusa and pointing at the spot next to her.
"You don't have to be so demanding." Hanabusa remarked, sitting down.
"You were being a show off."
"You're so childish."
"Hey!" Kali shouted.
"It's true though." Nakamura added, "now be quiet so we can watch it."
Special thanks to Reamonshei for beta-ing this for me.
