*The Heavy – How You Like Me Now?* Starts Playing
Another day of classes at Izu University had ended. However instead of going back to Grand Blue, Koji decided to go the skate park for a little while. Arriving at the park there were some other skaters there but Koji put his stuff in a far corner of the park before dropping in. Koji rolled around the park before trying his first trick. A quick little 360(/tre) flip on flat before rolling up to a small curb for a slappy backside crooked grind. Coming up to a small three step, Koji switched his stance, so his left foot was now at the front instead of his right. Koji popped his board doing a switch heelflip over the small steps. Having warmed up a bit. Koji went further into the park and worked on some lines.
A while (and one sweaty shirt) later Koji was skating back to Grand Blue. Music blaring into his ears and the ground vibrating through his skateboard into his feet, rolling down the street. Koji was hitting yet more small curbs and ledges. All was good with Koji… until. "WHOA!" Koji's board caught a small pebble on the street and it threw him off his board, but thankfully he was only just able to run it off. "Come on. Really?" Koji asked himself as he continued skating back to Grand Blue.
*The Heavy – How You Like Me Now?* Ends Playing
Koji had made it back. However, just before opening the door. He heard yelling. But not from anyone he knew.
"Stop calling me that!" The voice yelled out. Walking in Koji saw his idiot brother and "friend" arguing with a blue haired girl as the others watched on.
"All right, Iori! Don't forget our promise, okay?" Azusa said to Iori
"No. It's a scam." Iori tried to argue against Azusa.
"What's a scam?" Koji asked getting everyone's attention. 'Crap. Now I wish I didn't say anything. Knowing Iori will probably try and drag me into it.'
"Hey Koji." Tokita and Kotobuki said.
"When did you change shirts Koji. Weren't you wearing a white shirt today?" Tokita asked the skater Kitahara.
"No, it's the same shirt. Just drenched in sweat. Watch." Koji pulled out a bucket and took off his shirt. With everyone now watching him, Koji twisted and squashed his shirt filling the bucket with sweat. Just when the club thought he was done. Even more came out his shirt before seemingly the shirt had nothing more to give.
"That must've been one big workout." Kotobuki stated to himself before Koji corrected him, much like with Tokita.
"Nope. Just skateboarding." Koji threw the bucket outside emptying it before seeing the newcomer. "You a new member?"
"Y-Yes. I'm Aina Yoshiwara, freshman at OWU. I used to be a part of Tinkerbell." The girl now known as Aina introduced herself to Koji.
"Nice to meet you. I'm this idiot's little brother, Koji Kitahara… Wait a second." Koji looked at Aina remembering what she said. "You're that girl with the crazy makeup, aren't you?"
"There's nothing wrong with it!"
"Hey, hey, hey. No need to get upset about it. Anyway I'm going to go clean up." Koji grab his stuff and walked to the door, but not before Iori and Kohei grabbed him. "What the hell. Let me go!"
"Please Koji help us." Iori begged his brother.
"No."
"We really need you Koji." Kohei begged as well.
"No." Koji got the two idiots off him and showered before editing some videos and calling it a day after dinner. The next day was just more skating for Koji. Unlike Iori and Kohei who along with Aina set up a mixer between their group of friends. However, sabotage was played and the usual chaos and idiocy occurred.
Another day later after classes Koji was editing some videos as Iori and Kohei complained about the mixer from the other day. Arguing with Aina as well as Azusa as well.
"By the way, you said you want to join our club." Iori said to Aina.
"Do you know what club this is?" Kohei asked.
"It's the diving club, right? I wanted to try it out. It's such a grown up hobby. The ocean and colourful fish interest me. Going diving with friends on a tropical island. It's like a drama on TV." Aina daydreamed about her ideal scenario. However…
"Then you shouldn't join this club." Iori and Kohei sternly told Aina surprising her.
"This is a diving club right?" Iori and Kohei started laughing lightly saying it was just a joke. Koji meanwhile had a feeling of what was coming. Aina introduced herself to the club, but during that, all the guys stripped naked shocking Aina. "Isn't this club weird?" Iori and Kohei wearing only boxers holding beer. "You took your clothes off too!"
"Don't be so surprised."
"You already got a look at the Izu spring festival." Kohei reminded Aina somewhat.
"So you weren't just letting loose after the festival."
"What's wrong Aina?"
"Everything's wrong!" Aina stopped seeing Azusa in her bra. "It's nothing. But at least Kotegawa seems normal." Aina stated. Koji took offense to that feeling ignored. Aina retracted her previous statement as Chisa sat on a kneeling Iori. "There's no one normal here!"
"HEY! I'm over here." Koji shouted at Aina who was too busy crying until Nanaka popped out asking Chisa to get off Iori.
"Great! I'm glad there's someone normal here." Aina was happy to have thought this. However Iori and Koji knew that wasn't… entirely true. Koji kept working on his videos, until his uncle came in quickly with a big package that was supposedly for Koji.
"What the hell. I didn't order anything." Koji said cutting the tape on the box. Opening it up he found a small letter. "To Koji Kitahara. We're a small shop opening up soon in Izu and we saw a bunch of your videos. Including your full length video you made. We were hyped on your skating and filming, and you seem like a cool dude. So we wanted to do something for you. Come find us when we're open. In the meantime, enjoy your package. Seaside Izu Skate Shop." The letter read making Koji's eyes nearly pop out of his head. "WHAT!" Koji threw the packaging paper away to reveal a substantial amount of skate product. "HOLY SHIT!"
"What is it?" Tokita asked as the club gathered around.
"Look at all this." Koji pulled out six skate decks, each one a different brand. Two sets of Independent skate trucks. Three sets of Spitfire wheels. Three packets of bearings. Six sheets of grip tape. Three packets of skate hardware and three pairs of Adidas shoes. "Oh… my… god. This is insane." Koji said laying everything out. He fell down to knees and screamed to the heavens. "THANK YOU SKATE GODS!".
"All of this is for you?" Kotobuki asked Koji.
"it was addressed to me, so yeah. I'll guess that it is." Koji smiled like a lunatic. Iori and Kohei got pulled away by the two bigger men as Koji was putting his stuff away in his room. Coming back out he saw the girls talking about diving from the sounds of things. "What you talking about?"
The girls looked at him, but Aina was a bit spooked since he seemingly came out of nowhere and almost slapped him. Even if it was accidental. "Watch out, Aina."
"S-Sorry. We were just talking about things we need for diving."
"Well for starters, a towel and swimsuit." Nanaka stated.
"A swimsuit."
'Man she is really insecure about something like that' Koji thought to himself.
"There's nothing embarrassing about them." Azusa told Aina trying to help her relax.
"That's because you're all used to diving. For normal people…" Aina saw the raucous group of guys naked and drinking. "There's no one normal here." Aina covered her mouth in despair. Tears threatening to spill.
"I'm normal. And I haven't been on a dive yet." Koji butted in.
"You haven't been diving yet?"
"Nope." Koji went on to explain what happened the first time he went in the water. Aina finally seemed to accept he was normal.
Shortly afterwards Aina and Chisa left the shop to grab more drinks. Not wanting to get caught up in anything with Iori and Kohei, Koji took some of his new product and went outside to set it up. "Nothing like that new board smell." Koji started putting together the board together. Once he was done he rolled for a little bit to get a feel for it. Heading back inside he began recording the stupid shenanigans of everyone. Shortly afterwards, Aina and Chisa came back. Koji found it funny watching Aina argue and cry with the guys as he recorded them just for the laughs.
"Anyway. We got more new members, so it's time for the license class." Kotobuki stated put down his glass. Iori and Kohei kept giving stupid guesses for the license was for.
"Why do you think that."
"It's for diving, of course." Kotobuki told them.
"D-Diving!" Iori and Kohei gasped in shock before… crying. "No way."
"I have to ask you. You looked at the textbook, right?" Tokita asked the duo.
"Of course" Iori lied.
"No need to ask." Kohei also lied.
"How about a small quiz then. Do you know the hand signals?"
"They're important signals for communicating underwater." Kotobuki informed them.
"I'll do some right now. Watch and think about what I'm trying to say." Tokita asked of the guys. Koji watched on paying attention as well.
Tokita firstly put both hands up, pushing back and forth gently (Stop!). He then pointed towards himself (look this way) and lastly. Thumbs down going up and down was next (I'm going to dive). "Okay Iori, what are you supposed to do next?"
Iori thought about for a second, and then… "I'm going to shoot him with an underwater gun." Koji face palmed knowing how stupid that was. Kohei looked at him questioningly and Tokita and Kotobuki looked at him in embarrassment.
"We can't use hand signals with Iori. It's Kohei's turn next."
"You'll see how much better I am than Iori." Kohei confidently said.
"Shut your mouth, dumbass."
Tokita stuck his arm out and waved it up and down (a problem has occurred). He then put his hand horizontally across his throat and repeatedly swiped across back and forth (I'm out of air). He lastly gave a thumbs up and waved it up and down (I'm going to ascend). Kohei seemed confident. 'It's going to be something stupid.' Koji thought to himself as he was joined by the girls.
"How was it, Kohei?" Iori asked the otaku.
"I'm going to watch over you." Kohei stated making everyone looked at him like a dumbass.
'I knew it.'
"You didn't study at all did you?" Tokita accused the two who immediately hung their heads in shame.
"Sorry." Iori looked over Koji. "Wait, what about Koji? He hasn't done anything as well."
"I can accept that. However, I bet I can still do better than you two."
"Prove it!" Iori and Kohei challenged the skater.
"I'll answer both of yours correctly… Or at least get as close as possible. First one for Iori should've been this." Koji took a second to remember what Tokita did before answering. "Wait. Please look over here. I'm going to dive. Was that it Tokita?" Koji asked the bigger man.
"Very good Koji. You could have said stop as well, but we'll take wait." Tokita told Koji as Iori and Kohei looked on in shock.
"Next one was this… I think. Something's not okay. I'm out of air and I'm going to ascend." Koji answered Kohei's quiz.
"Nicely done Koji. But instead of "Something's not okay", you should have said, "A problem has occurred." However we can still take your answer." Kotobuki said to the skating Kitahara as the other two fell to the floor in horror.
"Thank you. Thank you." Koji mockingly bowed in front of the club, just to rub it in Iori and Kohei's faces.
Iori was looking through the book, studying up on hand signals and other things. He stopped when Nanaka came up to him. "Iori. Are you studying for the license class?"
"Yeah, but only the hand signals for now." Iori continued reading through. That was until Nanaka pushed herself onto Iori's back… Chest first. 'This… This sensation.' Iori tried listening to Nanaka's advice but couldn't focus due to this feeling. Iori feeling of happiness would soon come crashing down.
"Oh… By the way Iori. I overheard someone say this earlier, but did you know?"
"What are you talking about?"
"They say that you and Chisa are dating." Iori froze out of pure fear. He then gave the hand signal for "A problem has occurred" hoping someone would help him. It certainly wasn't going to be his brother.
"I'm getting out of here." Koji whispered to himself as he slithered away, not wanting to get caught up in Iori's nonsense again like at the festival. However later that night. Koji felt a cold presence that woke him up. 'Don't let it be Nanaka. Don't let it be Nanaka.' Koji thought to himself that night, trying to get back to sleep.
The next day the club met up at Grand blue and were split up into groups of three. Tokita, Kotobuki and Kohei. Nanaka, Azusa and Aina, and lastly. Iori, Koji and Chisa. "Okay. We'll be diving in these groups of three today. Let's change into our swimsuits first." Nanaka instructed everyone. Iori and Koji meanwhile looked at each other and could tell they were thinking the same thing. 'This is awkward.'
Aina seemed really nervous about changing into a swimsuit, and it only got worse as everyone was changing outside. "You're changing here?"
"Why do you care now?" Iori countered Aina.
"That's not the problem." Aina turned around to find Nanaka, Chisa and Azusa changing as well. "What are you doing?!" The girls looked at Aina freaking out.
"We're changing." Azusa said casually like this was nothing, which it probably was nothing.
"Even though you're in front of the others!" Aina looked back at the guys and all off them bar Koji were naked. 'I've had enough of these people.' Aina thought to herself as she rushed inside to change.
A while later, everyone put on wetsuits and began walking to the dive site. Chisa led the way whilst Iori and Nanaka were pushing the trolley with the air tanks on it, and everone else followed behind.
"Hey Nanaka, why am I in a group with Chisa. Koji I don't mind, but why Chisa?"
"I wanted you two to make up with each other."
"It'll have the opposite effect."
"It'll be fine. Chisa is really relaxed when she's in the ocean. Think of it like Koji when he's on his skateboard." Azusa said butting in.
"I don't mind you bringing me into this, but please be careful of how you do so." Koji jokingly said in a nervous manner said trying ease Iori's apprehension.
Shortly afterwards the club made it to the dive site and began setting up, well at least the certified divers did as the newcomers waited. They were given quick and brief instructions on a few things before they all put on their tanks. Iori and Koji were making that each other were good whilst Chisa waited on them.
"Okay Iori, Koji. Don't stray too far from me." Chisa instructed the brothers as she adjusted her mask.
"Yes." Both of them said but it seemed that Iori was a bit more nervous than Koji.
"You good Iori?" Koji asked as finished adjusting his own mask.
"N-No, I'm fine"
"We're just going to be swimming somewhere shallow today. If either of you are scared, don't push yourselves. Tell me if something's wrong." Chisa said as she began to wade out into the water.
"Okay, got it." Iori was finally ready and so both he and Koji followed suit.
Finally under the water Iori and Koji floated next to each other to make sure that they had their bearings. Koji grabbed the diving line seeing Chisa do it and gave the okay signal. Iori meanwhile just stared out into the ocean in front of him. Chisa swam up to him, making sure everything was okay. Iori said he was fine and grabbed the diving line along with Koji and they began to follow Chisa. Every so often Chisa would make sure that her cousins were okay before continuing on. It seemed the both of them caught onto this.
'Chisa's not mad. Instead she's…' Iori thought to himself as Chisa pointed at some kind of fish swimming by. She wanted to follow it, but remembered about who was with her. 'Oh right. She's just being serious. She doesn't want an accident to happen to either of us.' Iori realized and began to ease up, as Chisa was playing with some of sea cucumber or something.
'She's trying to show us how much fun it is being underwater.' Koji thought seemingly finishing off his brother thoughts as they looked at each other and fist bumped each other. Soon enough the dive had to end and everyone swam back to the entrance ramp. Climbing back out, the club helped each other with their gear before relaxing.
"That was really fun." Aina was happy with what she had experienced.
"Looks like you enjoyed it." Azusa said to her OWU freshman who nodded back.
Iori and Koji were talking about how it was for them as Chisa approached the two. "Did you two have fun?" Chisa asked unsure of how her cousins felt about diving.
"Yeah, of course." Iori responded giving the okay signal.
"It was really cool." Koji followed up, as they looked at Chisa wondering how she would respond. Thankfully there was a smile.
"I'm glad." Chisa was thankful, but she wasn't the only. Nanaka and Azusa saw them and smiled as well.
"Iori and Chisa made up."
"Yeah."
"How did you guys get on?" Koji asked them, giving his brother and cousin space. He would be thankful for it as well.
"I knew it when I saw you from behind. You have a spectacular ass." Iori blurted out like it was nothing. Koji took cover behind Nanaka and Azusa for what Iori had coming.
"DIE TWENTY THOUSAND TIMES!" Chisa screamed as she beat the crap out of her idiotic cousin, before throwing him back into the ocean.
A/N Author's Notes: Another chapter in the books. I hope you guys like it as I tried to implement some scenes for Koji that could coincide well with then canon story. Hope you liked the skate and package scenes as well. I did skip out on somethings, I'll admit. However I felt it might be a bit better without those little bits in my opinion. Let me know what you think. Anyway once again positive and constructive criticism only please and I'll see you next time with another chapter.
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