Gifts, and an Idea
It takes Yue, Nodoka, and myself to carry all my presents inside the room and plop them down on the floor. "Man! I'm not used to celebrating my birthdays, but I made out like a bandit this year!" Yue and Nodoka smiled at me as Yue said, "Told you that you'd be popular, didn't I?" I smirk at Yue with a bit of a smart-alecky look. "That you did. So you girls gonna help me open these or do I have to do it myself?" At that moment, Haruna came in with a video camera and shut the door behind her. "You're opening them yourself, of course! And I'm gonna record the whole thing! Battery's fully charged, so we got a good 5 hours!" I couldn't help but chuckle at Haruna's energy. I thought artists were supposed to be the silent types.
I shake my head at the thought and open my first present, which came from Yuna. "Nice, a Mahora Academy basketball uniform, and my own basketball." Yue then comments, "How original of her. I guess she's asking for a one on one." I chuckle and move on to the next one. "Okay, from Kazumi and Sayo…a camera with 5 rolls of special film that allows me to see Sayo through the lens. I may as well ask, did all the girls give me gifts based on their personalities?" Yue takes a sip from her juice box then says, "Yup. Pretty much." I nod my head.
"Alright. By the way, what flavor is that?" She looks at her juice box to read the label. "Banana and chocolate. Want one?" Banana and chocolate? No flipping way! "Did you forget already, Yue? I'm allergic to banana." She widens her eyes before looking apologetic. "Oops! I'm sorry, Atsui." I just wave it off. She just offered it, not shove it down my throat. "Ah, no big, Yue. On to the next gift." The next gift is from Misora: a book on basic and intermediate yoga positions and breathing techniques. After revealing this, Nodoka finally speaks up by saying, "That's going to come in handy. I've tried yoga a few times, and it really is relaxing afterwards." I nod for a moment; yoga will probably come in handy. The next gift was actually pretty shocking to all 3 of us.
"Chachamaru got me something too? Now this I've gotta see!" Now, I'm not exactly sure, but I could've sworn I heard Haruna zooming in with her camera at that point. "Now this is perfect for me: a book on how to build my own personal desktop and laptop computers, and she even gave me some software to install into them! I gotta thank her later!" Haruna then pipes up again. "I wonder if Evangeline even knows about this. Wouldn't it be hilarious if she got you a gift too?" Nodoka then cuts in again. "Actually, she did. She gave it to me to give to Atsui whenever he opened Chachamaru's gift." We all gasp at that one. Then Haruna says, "Seriously? Then give the damn thing to him already!" Nodoka then hands me Evangeline's gift and I hastily, yet carefully, opened it. I actually laughed at this one.
"She gave me two books: 'Cooking the Perfect Ramen for Dummies' and 'Brewing the Perfect Tea for Dummies'. I don't know about the tea thing, seeing as I don't like tea, but I will most definitely make use of the 'Ramen for Dummies' book." Yue then says, "Don't tell Evangeline that. She loves being served tea in the Japanese Tea Ceremony club. She probably thinks you'll wanna make her some or something. But why she gave you one on ramen, I have no idea." Haruna says, "It may have been Professor Takahata. You know how he is about his ramen." Once again, Nodoka pipes in. "Actually, they serve ramen in the Tea Club as well, and she loves it almost as much as her tea." Yue then says, "Well that explains that."
For the next half hour, I continue opening the gifts that Class 2-A graciously gave me. Including a cookbook from Satsuki, a 'Drawing Manga for Beginners' book from Haruna, a samurai katana from Setsuna (one of my favorite gifts, seeing as I love swords, katana swords in particular), and even better than the sword, I received a pair of Beretta M92 pistols with two boxes of special bullets for exorcising supernatural beings from our dimension from Mana, which I've wanted for quite some time now. Now why, you may ask, would I want a handgun? Or better yet, why would Mana want to give me a pair of handguns? Well, I don't know about her, but I've heard that there are occasional dangers that lurk the academy, so it's always best to be prepared. Besides, it's certainly a great silencer and peacekeeper.
Anyway, back to a few of the gifts. One was a book on Ninjitsu techniques and exercises from Kaede, both Satomi and Chisame gave me software and firewall programs for my computer (when I build it), and what I got from Yue and Nodoka was the best: the choice out of any 10 books to keep for myself from the school library, including Library Island. So all in all, pretty awesome gifts, a great party, and I am now exhausted. But do I get to clean my stuff up and head to sleep? Well, I thought I would, until Haruna says, "Hey guys, what say we pull a prank on the Class Rep?"
