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The Palmtop Tiger and the Supercalifragilistic Dragon

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious


Chapter 7

As the president and only member of the unrecognized cleaning club, Ryuji again made Taiga wait in their homeroom while he cleaned the entire school gym.

This has been their routine after classes ever since the day Taiga followed him to home.

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Soon, Ryuji came back to the homeroom to get his bag and take the starving harmless tiger along, at least harmless to him.

"Yo, let's go"

"Finally! So what's for dinner?"

"Curry…let's head the grocery fir…"

Due to exhaustion, he stopped what he was saying and almost fell from losing balance if Taiga didn't push him back on his feet.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm okay, I just never had that much fun cleaning that big gym for a long time.

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Upon leaving the school gates, a group of punks from another high school greeted the two.

"Hey Takasu Ryuji, long time no see, looks like you got yourself a cute little girlfriend."

"Who you calling girlfriend!?", Taiga shouted with a blushed face and brought out her bokken.

Ryuji didn't seem to care at the moment.

"Wow, you two are perfectly matched together, you're one violent couple."

"Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!...", Taiga charged at them as if she were Shana.

But before she could hit one of the punks, Ryuji stopped her by holding her arm.

"This ain't your job, Taiga. ..Just stand back and watch"

"Don't act too cool, Takasu!", all fifteen of them rounded up Ryuji like he's a rugby ball.

Eventually, he managed to bring 10 of them down and reached his limit, still worn out of cleaning the gym all by himself, he fell on top of the pile of unconscious delinquents.

The gang leader lifted his feet intending to kick Ryuji, but he heard his subordinates that were left standing scream like girls and fell to the ground unconscious too.

He realized it was done by the small girl, Ryuji was with. "So it was you, the legendary Palmtop Tiger of this town, and you teamed up with Takasu." He said in a frightened look on his face.

"That's right! We rule this town, don't eva ever mess with us again!", Taiga roared and flash stepped right in front of the terrified gang leader and hit him with her bokken on the neck putting him into sleep.

Taiga had no choice but to carry the beaten up dragon out of the scene to avoid any more trouble.

I guess, I won't be able to taste Ryuji's curry. I should have bitten that guy to death.

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Ryuji finally woke up finding himself in a room in Oohashi Town Hospital.

"You're awake, I made you breakfast." Taiga proudly said in her school uniform.

"How long have I been here?... how did I get here? And why is there a smudge on your uniform?"

"I just brought you here yesterday, after you pathetically fainted in the middle of your fight…"

Taiga looked down at her shoes and added, "…and I'm sorry, I messed up the kitch…"

"You did what to my kitchen!!?"

Just before a catastrophic thunderstorm could form in the atmosphere over the room, Yasuko came in, in tears.

"Mom, I could ex…", his crying mom hugged him not being able to finish his sentence.

"Don't worry, I explained everything to her.", Taiga said with a smile.

"Ryuji, I'm so proud of you!", Yasuko exclaimed in tears making Ryuji fade his colors into a white chalk sculpture.

Ryuji just couldn't scold his mother right now, with all the mixed feelings inside the room.

Afterwards, Ryuji opened the box containing the breakfast Taiga made. "Why is the container cover melting?"

"You want me to get hospitalized? You just beat Bianchi's poison cooking!", just by the awful smell coming from the food he could tell how dangerous it is to human life.

"Don't sweat it, you're already in the hospital."

"You think that's funny?…", after saying that, Ryuji couldn't help but smirked.

The three cracked into laughter for a moment.

"Aisaka, you should go to school now or you'll be late, don't worry about me."

"I guess, I'll be going now, see you."

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Meanwhile, at school, a number of witnesses lined up to something like telling to the fourth wall about Ryuji and Taiga's activities together that they undeniably saw.

Witness one, with an alias Harutoji, stepped forward and said, "I definitely saw them in the supermarket, they argued over fish and beef on which to buy."

Witness two, with an alias Kiramaya, stepped forward and said, "Yesterday morning, I saw the two stepped out of that high class condominium building I always pass by when I walk to school."

Witness three, with an alias Nosakou, stepped forward and said, "I was just asking Takasu to help me to scare off some savage delinquents in my area then he told me 'wait a minute'. He called Aisaka and said 'Hey Taiga, I can't go home with you today, I'll get there around 8pm.' I just thought, 'wtf?' But I was glad he helped me that night."

Witness four was to step forward but halted by the sudden entrance of Taiga into the classroom.

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A classmate, took the courage to ask Taiga, "Aisaka, where is Takasu-kun?"

"He took a day off, he got tired last night…"

"~ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!???...", class 2-C rocked the entire school building with their scandalous reaction without even letting Taiga finish what she was saying.

"What exactly are you thinking?", Taiga asked with her veins popping and gave a sharp tigerish look at them.

"Ryuji got tired of cleaning the entire gym, right,Aisaka?", Kitamura putting his hand on her shoulder making her mellow.

"Ki…Kitamura-kun! Yes! That's right."

"I'm really glad that you get along with Takasu, please take care of him (Japanesely speaking)."

"I hope you two be good friends.", the four eyed freak added.

"Yes.", Taiga replied promptly in a nervous tone.

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Lunch break came, Minorin brought out her bento.

"Taiga, you didn't bring any lunch today?"

"Nope, I guess, I'll just buy some melon pan."


That's it for chapter 7.

You must have noticed that I've based this fan fiction from the manga, anime and light novel. But if you haven't, who cares? :P