Kazuto's POV
I opened the door to the club room to see Sena sitting there.
"Finally here? You're late you know."
"Hello to you too." I set my bookbag down on the table and sat down in front of her. She seemed surprised. Probably never had a boy talk to you like that.
I waved it off, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding, Kashiwazaki-san."
She glared at me. "Call me by my first name."
"What why?"
"You call Yozora by her first name, only natural that you do that to me, too. I don't want to be at a lower level."
I looked over at her and was about to ask what she meant when Yozora came in through the door. She sat down on the couch, "the Neighbors Club activities begin now."
"Uh… Sena…"
Yozora, for some reason, very unhappily took a glance at me. What was that for…
I shook it off, maybe nothing.
"Hey So—"
"It's Yozora!
Sena looked between us. "Why did he—"
"Yeah sorry, Yozora. I keep mixing you and my old childhood friend up." I covered. I silently begged Yozora to go along with it.
And somehow she knew. "Well stop. I don't like it."
"Y-Yeah."
I could tell Sena still had questions but she didn't ask them.
"But either way, Yozora, what do you mean by club activities? Making friends really isn't—"
Yozora stood up. "You make friends by playing games!"
She went towards the table and pulled out something from her bookbag. "A playstation portable." It was the regular one but the color silver.
"Oh, you mean a PSP? My sister has one"
"I went to the family restaurant alone yesterday—"
"Who goes to a family restaurant alone?"
She blushed. "Shut up!" She paused for a second and then continued. "There were these four high schoolers playing this game together." Yozora placed the PSP down on the table so that everyone can see the game.
Sena bent over to look at it.
"Oh, you mean Monster Hunter."
"You played it?" Sena asked me.
"It's an action game set in a fantasy world where you hunt monsters. "
"You can play this game in co-op mode with others where you can hunt monsters together." Yozora continued. "You're supposed to rely on each other, and that deepens your friendship. You can also trade items so there are a lot of opportunities to talk to each other."
I smiled wide. "In other words if we play this game we can get lots of items and make friends that way!"
Sena reached for the PSP, only for it to be snatched away by Yozora.
"Don't touch it with your greasy fingers!"
"My fingers aren't greasy!"
I sighed, "are you guys even listening to me?"
Yozora took out an alcohol wipe from somewhere and started wiping it. "So, everyone is supposed to bring their PSP and Monster Hunter next Monday."
"Okay."
"Hmpf."
And so the following monday we all sat together again in the clubroom with our PSP and Monster Hunter games.
"Did you learn how to play?" Yozora asked.
"Yeah," I answered.
"Yes. I was pretty busy, but I found time to play." Sena said. "That said, in the end, games like this are really for kids."
Why do I feel like that's a lie?
"What are your game ranks?" Yozora asked.
"I'm at rank three," I said boastfully. I had to admit, I was pretty proud of myself.
Yozora smiled. "I'm rank three too." She held up her hand for a high five and I gladly accepted it. I haven't done that in a while with her, and I know I'm supposed to forgot all about our childhood, but deep in my heart I couldn't.
"Well, I'm rank 6." Sena said and smiled confidently.
"Rank 6?" Yozora and I asked at the same time.
"Isn't that the highest rank?" I asked. I couldn't believe it. Rank 6…
"It looks like I'm a genius gamer too, just how perfect can I be?"
I narrowed my eyes. "Didn't you say you only played a bit? How much time did you pour into that thing?"
She looked back at her PSP, not showing us her face. "I-I didn't really spend that much time on it," her voice was shaky.
Yozora reached over and grabbed her console. "Let's see your play time, Meat."
Sena stood up, pushing back the chair. "Hey! Don't look at that!"
But Yozora was already searching through her game.
It seemed she found it because she narrowed her eyes as if she couldn't believe it. "What? 53 hours?"
My eyes opened in shock. That's more than the whole weekend.
"And you've got really cute armor, too." Yozora muttered. She put it back on the table and slid it over to her. "You pretentious lump of half-baked meat!"
Sena made a dash for the PSP and caught it in the nick of time before it fell on the floor. "Why'd you do that?!"
Yozora pulled her face towards hers. "You've got bags under your eyes."
Sena pulled away surprised and wiped out her foundation and started putting it on. "N-No I don't!"
"Which means that since you went home on friday you've been playing this non-stop." Yozora declared.
Sena pointed an accusing finger at her. "I might just be Monster Hunter, but even lions will put their all into it!"
"Loins?'
"Lions!"
"Oh," Yozora made a sound and looked away as if she couldn't care less.
Sena sat down. "Geez. Now let's get started, I'll be the host. I picked up some warm up quests for you, so get ready."
I looked up at Sena. For all the fighting it seems like we're actually taking club activities seriously. I smiled.
And so, we started playing. Now I would tell you what happened throughout the whole game until we all died but it would be the same thing. Fighting. All it was was fighting between the two, and it went to such lengths that they ended up sabotaging the quest by killing each other. And they both used the same excuses. 'My hand slipped' or 'I hit the wrong button'. A rank 6 and a rank 3 would have never made those mistakes. And so the game ended, with all of us killing each other.
Well, not me. While those two just kept killing each other I was looking for rare gems, and once I found some, those two weren't allowed to play anymore from dying too much so the boss came and killed me.
That's how the game ended.
"I guess games won't work," Yozora said.
"Yeah," Sena agreed. "That was a waste of time."
Yozora twirled the bottom of her hair with her finger. "And actually, I really hate the fact that all recent portable games have multiplayer modes. Why do I have to play games with other people?"
"That was the whole point of today's club activity!" I pointed out. Geez, do you listen to what you're saying?
"That's exactly how I feel," Sena completely ignored me. "Why do I have to bother with other people's feelings in the games I play?"
"Exactly."
I sighed. "When do you two even bother with people's feelings anyway?"
They both gave me the evil eye. "What'd you say!"
I felt the sweat drop down the side of my face. "N-Nothing!"
And so I thought the 'games' activity wouldn't work… Boy, was I wrong.
...
I opened the door to the clubroom for Yozora to see that there was a tv in there with a playstation three.
"What's that?" I asked.
"I guess a delinquent wouldn't know." Sena was flipping through the game book. "These are modern amenities called 'television' and 'PlayStates'. They run on 'electricity'."
I felt my eye twitch. "What am I a Neanderthal? I'm asking what they're doing in our club room."
"To play games of course. I feel like that Monster Hunter thing wasn't working for us."
How did you even bring that thing all the way to school...
Yozora went towards the tea maker, which I had never saw before, and helped herself with some.
"Don't drink from my tea maker!" Sena yelled.
Yozora took another sip. "Stop talking, you're making me tea taste bad."
Sena sighed and pulled out the cover of the game she was going to play.
"Kirameki School Life?" The cover was of two girls, one with pink hair and one with silver wearing glasses, behind what seemed like a park.
"I guess it could be for a good conversation," Yozora said.
I looked up at Sena. "But isn't that suppose to be for a guy? Isn't there games for girls to play with hot guys?"
Sena glared at me and I found myself instantly regretting to talk. "Huh? Why would I want to be friends with a guy?"
I'm in this club afterall…
Sena put the game into the ps3 and the screen opened up to the start menu.
Sena started putting her name in. "Ka… Ka… Kashiwazaki…"
"Hey, Meat? Why are you using your name?" Yozora leaned on Sena's back.
"What?"
"I'm the leader of this club, so I should get my name."
"Who said you're the leader, dumb witch?"
I interjected. "Hey, the main character is a guy, so why not use—"
"Hell no."
They both said it together without any thought.
"You get along perfectly on points like that, huh…" These two girls are unbelievable. "But, Sena bought the game, so isn't it fair to let her enter her name?"
Yozora got off her back. "I guess so."
"See, Kazuto understands. Let's see, Kashiwazaki Se—"
Yozora took the controller out of her hands and typed something even looking at the tv, making it random letters. "I don't like it."
She pressed enter and gave it back to Sena.
"What are you doing, dumbass?" Sena glared.
The tv changed to a scenery of a school where this person appeared in front of the screen.
"My name is Kashiwazaki Semoponume." A voice came out of the tv.
Sena looked at it shocked. "Who's Semoponume?"
Yozora sat down on a chair. "It seems like a good name. Why don't you change it to your real name? 'Sena' makes me vomit when I say it."
Sena glared at her and was about to throw a comeback but then a voice from the tv came again. It seemed as if he were our age. "Hey, Semoponume!"
It was a guy with short orange hair, wearing decent clothes. He was a person who would get a few girls, I suppose…
"This is Suzuki Masaru, my best friend from middle school!" It said in a green box on the bottom of the screen.
I glared at it. "You already have a best friend, yet you want more! That's not fair!"
"Kazuto, that's scary." Sena complained. "And gross."
Sena's POV
"Hanging around cute girls is the only way to enjoy highschool!" Suzuki said.
We went to a whole new scene which was an empty classroom with just a girl in it. She was cute, I suppose. With her pink hair all the way down to her lower back and her skinny figure.
"I'm Fujibayashi Akari," she said. "I was kinda nervous about how high school will be, but it looks like everyone around me is really nice. I hope we can get along Kashiwazaki-san!"
In the green box there came options.
"Oh, it seems we have options on how we want to respond." I heard Kazuto's voice behind me.
I read over the options.
1. Same here! Nice to meet you Akari-san!
2. Yeah. Nice to meet you, Fujibayashi-san.
3. Don't act friendly with me, women! Get lost!
I didn't need to think about it.
"3."
It seemed Yozora and I had the same idea.
"Why 3?!" Kazuto asked. "That's obviously the wrong choice!"
"There's no way I can trust some women who can talk to some random guys she doesn't know on the first day of school," I explained. Kazuto you're so stupid.
"Yeah, this girl has probably said the same thing to all the guys in her class." Yozora agreed. It was obvious to her too. Kazuto, if Yozora can get it then you must be really dumb.
"Wait, wait, wait. She looks like a nice girl..." he defended.
"This is what people say as slutty bitches," Yozora explained. "There's at least one in every class. They seem pure and innocent at first but beneath that they get all the guys they want."
"There aren't any girls like that!"
"There is."
Kazuto sighed but didn't say anything else.
I clicked on the third option and the girl said: "Sorry for bothering you… Maybe we can talk later!" And then ran away.
Definitely the right choice.
...
Kazuto's POV
"As you choose activities and raise your statistics, you meet girls and unlock events. " I said.
"You can't meet girls unless you have skills?" Yozora questioned herself. "This game is pretty tough, almost like the real world."
"Either way, I don't want him to be an idiot." Sena stated and raised his intelligence level. His intelligence level was all the way at the bottom and went to the top.
The tv opened up to a library.
"And your intelligence rises as much as you study? Just how stupid is this guy?" Yozora asked as she glared at him.
"Well it's just a game…" I said.
"Oh? Someone's here." Sena's voice broke me out of my thoughts as I looked back at the tv.
There was a girl with silver hair and glasses standing in front of us. She was cute.
"Oh, I'm sorry…" She started.
Sena clicked the 'ok' button and in the green box came another selection.
1. "No it's my fault." Hand her the book.
2. "I touched the book first!" Take the book without hesitation.
I looked between the two girls. They're probably going to pick 2…
"So which is it now?" I asked.
"1."
They said it without hesitation.
"What?! Why?!"
"If you have time to read a book, spend it studying, Semoponume," Yozora said.
"I'm shooting for 200 intelligence before the test," Sena continued. "No slacking, you pile of trash."
Go figure…
Sena clicked the choice.
"Thank you very much." The girl said. "Would you mind telling me your name?"
"Sure. Kashiwazaki Semoponume, class D."
"That's a nice name!"
"Something in her brain is just sad." Yozora said.
Yozora's POV
Kazuto came and sat next to me. He was close that I could basically feel the heat he was radiating. But… It wasn't hot heat, it was nice.
He smiled at me and I couldn't help the blush leading its way to my cheeks and the smile forming on my face.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" He asked. His voice was caring and soft. I missed it.
"No, not at all."
Sena looked back at Kazuto and I, and gave me a look I couldn't recognise. Jealousy? No, it couldn't be.
Sena's POV
I looked back at Yozora and Kazuto to see them sitting together.
For some reason my stomach started feeling weird. Like I was jealous.
No. I can't be jealous. Jealous of Kazuto? No, it can't be true.
Then why was I having all these weird feelings in my stomach?
Come on, Sena. You're better than that!
I looked back at the tv as the option of asking her on a date came up.
"I'm thinking we should be friends with her before we ask her on a date, is that okay?" I asked Yozora.
"It's better than being friends with that slutty Fujibayashi."
Kazuto's POV
I saw a wide smile spread across Sena's face as pictures of the girl (Yukiko) was flashing across the tv smiling, (it was just several days of us Semoponume and Yukiko hanging out).
Finally it stopped when I saw Yukiko staring off into the sunset.
"Yukiko…" Semoponume started.
She looked back in question and smiled, "yes?"
Sena sighed in happiness. "Oh man, she's just too cute!" She was on the floor squirming around. "Having a girl loving you like that it wonderful."
"She's a pretty nice girl," Yozora said. But she couldn't hide that blush and fond smile away from me.
I poked Yozora's cheek.
She looked over at me, "yeah?"
I put my lips close to her ear. "You seem pretty happy yourself."
I moved back to in front of her face to see the wide blush and her playing with her thumbs. "Y-Yeah."
I put my head to the side in wonder. Wow she didn't even deny it.
Yozora looked forward to the tv with her face completely red. She wasn't that embarrassed of admitting it, is she? All I did was put my lips near her ear and talk to her. She shivered then because she was cold, right? But it is summer….
I sighed. I don't understand girls at all.
I looked back at the tv to see that the scene changed. It was a locker room now. It wasn't in our POV since now we can see how Semoponume looks like.
"Yukiko, let's go home now." He said.
"No…"
I saw the shock register on Semoponume's face. "Wh—"
"I'm sorry!" And Yukiko ran off.
"What? What happened?" Sena asked.
I read over the rule book. "Oh so that's why she's running from you."
Sena looked over at me. "What do you mean?"
"Everytime you see Fujibayashi you're mean to her. And since you're mean to one girl rumors spread."
"In other words, that girl is bad mouthing Semoponume all around school?!" Sena yelled.
I winced. "Y-Yeah. That's what it seems like." I read it over. "But it says if you hurry and apologize you can fix things."
"What? Why would I want to apologize to that slut? I don't remember getting along with that pig-head in the beginning!"
"I agree," Yozora came in. I smiled, she finally came back to normal. "There would be no way I am lowering my head to a stupid women who decided to talk to me, and ended up hurting herself even though I haven't done anything wrong."
Sena smiled. "It looks like we agree. We're not apologizing. I'm sure Yukiko will understand the misunderstanding."
And so the option came up.
1. Give up on Yukiko.
2. Believe in Yukiko.
And they picked the second one.
And so the scene changed to this bridge place where Yukiko and Semoponume are standing in front of one another, separated by a bench, with the sea and sunset behind them.
"Yukiko… I—"
"I'm sorry! Goodbye!"
And then she ran off.
Semoponume started to call after her but she never stopped. He fell to the floor with tears falling from his eyes as Sena did the same thing.
I stared at it. It was sad, but not that sad.
"Yukiko… How could you do that… I believed in you!"
I stared at Sena who was crying on the floor.
Seriously? Just how much are you into this game?
I heard the door open and saw Yozora's back to me as she opened the door.
"Hey, where are you going?"
She didn't look back. "To fine Fujibayashi Akari. And kill her."
She shut the door.
I looked over at the crying Sena. "Hey, are you okay?"
"YUKIKO!"
I jumped back frightened. Damn…
I sighed.
The Next Day
"Kazuto, Kazuto."
I looked around. Who said that?
"Over here." I looked around to see a hand indicating that I should come over there coming out behind one of the pillars.
I walked over there, only for a game packet to be shoved in my face.
Sena was in front of me bending a little so that I could get a clear view of the fresh meat on her breasts.
I blushed deeply and focused my attention on the game packet she gave me.
It was the same thing we played yesterday.
She smiled at me cheekily, and it was a beautiful smile. "I'm going to lend it to you so play it as soon as you go home." She turned her back to me. "Especially Fujibayashi Akari's event in third year! I cried so much."
I looked at her with my 'are you kidding me look'. "You know, yesterday you called Fujibayashi Akari a slutty bitch and a pig—"
She glared at me. "Don't badmouth Akari."
Huh?
"Listen, Akari has lost her parents when she was very young and has been working alone ever since. But despite that, she doesn't hate the world and instead wants to spread smiles all over it!"
I chuckled, "I see."
She turned around and pointed a finger at me. "And you have to finish the Yukiko route, too! And Aina and Miho and Natsumi and Mizuki and Karen! They're all good girls!"
"Did you finish all of them when you got home yesterday?"
"Of course! You have to see all of their endings, too. Got it?" She advanced towards me and I saw the dark bags under her eyes. Oh god…
"Well, I'll do it when I feel like it."
"No! It doesn't matter if you feel like it or not! You're playing it! This isn't just a game, it's life itself!"
The bells rang.
"Oh no! We're going to be late!" Sena yelled, grabbed her bags, and ran inside the school. She came back, "you have to play it."
And then left.
I just registered what happened. "Oh shoot," I ran inside and to my class.
Neighbors Club Activity Log: Sena has made friends with 7 girls.
2D ones.
