A/N: Hello its me again! Just wanted to let you all know that this is chapter 9... but you already knew that... didn't you? I think my writing grammar is a lot off in this one.
Chapter 9
Game Face
Speaking of game faces, Takuya's was broken... or at least his nose.
"Oh the agony." he moaned as he laid in his bed, clutching his nose.
"Here, do you need more ice?" Tommy insisted with a bag of ice as he handed it to Takuya.
"Thanks Tommy. At least you care about me."
As they looked around the room, no one was there to help poor Takuya out.
"Ooo I just remembered. The guys said that they were going to have a poker night, and I was invited. Want to come?"
Takuya looked at Tommy with a solemn look and said, "No thanks. I'll stay right here."
"Alright. Suit yourself." and with that, Tommy left the room to go next door.
Pretty soon, Zoe's sister, Crystal, came in with a first aid kit. Takuya started to tense up since he wasn't sure what she was going to do to him.
"Don't worry Zackery, I'm only here to help your nose." she said, confusing his name up.
"Uhm thanks, but my name is Takuya." Takuya pointed out.
"Oh, sorry about that Jimbob."
Takuya sighed as he knew it was no use trying to correct her since she was going to get it wrong anyway.
"Now hold still.... you know you kids should be more careful." Crystal suggested as she placed a weird looking band aid on his nose.
"Ow! I was careful... ow... its just that Zoe got carried away, I guess. OOOOW!" Takuya managed to say through all the wincing and jerking.
"Well there. I'm done." Crystal got up ready to leave now that her duty was fulfilled.
"Hey wait!" Takuya called her attention as she turned around, " Could you call Zoe for me?"
She turned around with a "what-did-you-just-say?" look.
"What do I look like, your little errand girl?" she walked out the door and left him in his miserable state.
Seeing that he probably wasn't going to get his wish, he flopped back on his bed and fell asleep all alone. (and thats when all the people say "Aaaaaaaaaw!")
***
(BGM: Poker Face, by Lady Gaga)
"I win again!" Tommy cheered as he laid his hand of cards.
"Oh come on!" Robby said, displeased.
"This is like the fourth time!" Jack protested. Everyone was getting fed up with him winning.
"Are you sure your not cheating?" JP asked trying to sneak a peek at Tommy's slight of handiness.
"Of course not. I just got skills that all... and a little bit of lady luck." he tried to shuffle the cards, but Kouji swiftly took them from him.
"Your not going to be cheating this time..." he quickly shuffled the cards and dealt them out to everyone.
Everyone started fidgeting with their cards, as they all took a drank from their coke bottles and cans.
"I could use some beer." JP joked.
Tommy pulled out a fake smoke pipe that blew bubbles.
"Tommy? Where'd you get that, and why do you have it?" Kouichi asked puzzled as everyone else looked in amusement.
"I got it from the store. These things are mighty nifty. It might be the reason why I'm winning." Tommy said as he blew a few bubbles to add to the humor.
Everyone looked at their hand and each other, trying to read each other's facial expressions.
"I got nothing." Kouichi admitted.
"Zilch!" JP tossed his cards on the table.
Everyone else didn't have much either.
"Ah we dilly willy gee bonkers..." Jack mumbled to himself as everyone looked at him as if he spoke another language. It was very unlikely of him to talk in such a way since he always used slang.
He quickly looked up, embarrassed.
"Oh! I mean.... it's all good!" he tried to play it off but it didn't work.
"Put the cards on the table!" Robby demanded with clenched teeth. Jack did so.
"Now this time I'm going to win..... BAM!" Robby slammed his cards down on the table revealing a hand of consecutive numbers all in the same suits.
"Ha ha baby! That's a straight flush!" he pointed out, arrogantly. "Lets see what you got, Tommy"
Tommy looked at him and everyone else with sad eyes.
"Sorry man... but I got a royal flush." Tommy laid out his cards calmly on the table as everyone looked dumbfounded and amazed.
"Read 'em and weep." he teased as people started crying and throwing their cards everywhere. "I'll be taking all this" Tommy took all the money that they all bid.
"I officially quit!" Bobby stressed as he went to go lie down on his bed.
(Dear reader: if you feel confused about the whole poker thing, don't worry I do/did too since I'm not use to the game. Heck, I don't even think I explained it right, but oh well.)
After a while of discontent and resent, Yutaka came out of the restroom after his long shower.
"Well if it isn't mister sandy mermaid!" JP taunted.
"Shut up! DO you have ANY idea how long it took to get rid of all that sand. Now I have to wash out the sand in my boxers and the rest of all my clothes, no thanks to y'all!" Yutaka was infuriated.
"Your welcome!" Kouji replied.
"Hey where's the kid that got injured" Yutaka changed subjects.
"Oh you mean Takuya? He's in the other room next door." Tommy answered as everyone else was putting up the poker stuff. He was busy counting his money he won.
"And no one is their to help him?" Yutaka asked with a concerned look on his face.
Everyone wasn't sure what to say for they thought they had committed a felony.
"Well I don't care, really heh-heh-heh-heh!" He fell onto his bed and instructed the other to do the same.
Tomorrow was going to be a busy day.
***
"Tresemmé! Tresemmé! Oo la la!"Zoe sang in the restroom out loud.
The rest of the girls started to wake up with groggy looks on their faces.
"Who's that?" Rosie asked still trying to figure out where she was at.
"Apparently, that is Zoe tryin' to sing in the shower. She always does it when ever she is using that shampoo brand." as Crystal explained to Rosie what she was use to hearing all the time.
"Oh." Rosie said as she fell back asleep.
Meanwhile, the guys were starting to wake up from their slumber. Takuya was the first to wake up, only to find out his nose was still hurting.
"Ah man. I feel like a deranged walrus or something." Takuya mumbled to himself on the way to the bathroom.
In the other room, JP woke up suddenly due to the fact he had to use the restroom really badly.
"Oh man! I knew I shouldn't have drunken those twenty cokes." JP muttered as he stumbled over to the restroom, but it was already occupied by Yutaka.
"Hurry up man!" JP banged on the door.
"Why?" Yutaka asked back.
"I NEED TO PEE!" JP shouted, trying to hold it in.
"Too bad."
JP grunted and ran out the room to go next door to see if he would have better luck. As he knocked on each door, he realized that they were all locked except the girls room. He gulp as he realized what he was about to have to do.
"Man, I'm about to enter no mans land!" he muttered to himself as he took in a deep breath.
"here goes nothing.." he said as he barged in.
At the same time he was barging in, Zoe was coming out of the restroom, swinging her hair in wild circles.
"'Scuse me! I GOT TO PEE! I GOT TO PEE!" JP pushed right past everyone as he ran into the vacant restroom to relieve himself.
As the other guys were just now coming out of their rooms to see who was knocking, they saw JP flying out of the girls room as if he was just a sack of yesterdays newspapers.
"... And STAY OUT!" Crystal ordered as she slammed the door behind her.
JP, who was still laying on the ground, was trying to remember where he was as the guys crowded around him with astonished look on their faces.
'What happened to you!" they all asked.
".....Everything!" was all JP could say for the remainder of the morning.
***
It was later on in the day they decided to go to the recreation center. A day in the
game house was like a day in heaven for Tommy.
"I'm getting tired of all this baby sitting everyday." Yutaka complained.
"Boohoo deal with it." Crystal suggested rudely as both of them took a seat on one of the stools at the mini diner they had.
The whole group, especially Tommy, was very excited being in the recreation center.
"Cool, I'm going to the the race car over there!" Tommy yelled out as he ran over the race car station.
"Don't get lost!" Yutaka yelled out after him. "Siblings." He stressed.
Pretty soon everyone was going to different stations. JP walked over to a game where one has to hit a button in order to obtain a prize. Robby Jack and Bobby, decided to play "Hoop Shoot Out!"; a game where they would continually shoot the ball to gain the highest points. Kouichi raced along with Tommy in the racing games, even though he kept loosing and coming in second place.
Takuya, who was still in pain and distraught, decided to relieve all of his anger at a shooting game that required the shooter to... shoot... monsters.
Takuya was feeling angry, yet depressed, as he step up to the controls and looked at the game tokens. He looked past the machine only to find Zoe and Rosie were having a good time playing air hockey. He couldn't help but feel hopeless as the thought of losing her to some jerk named Kazu.
"One moment your on top of the world, the next your in a valley full of suffering and a throbbing nose..." Takuya complained, symbolically, as he raised up the gun towards the screen.
"Some brake this turned out to be. And here I thought I could have a good time over this vacation, but instead I'm here loosing my joy over for some airhead..." Takuya continued aiming the gun towards the screen and started shooting randomly at whatever popped up on the screen.
"He thinks he so cool just because he can surf and pull chicks off their feet as if he's some sorta chick magnet..." Takuya started shooting more violently as he started shooting things he wasn't suppose to, like the pedestrians and the dogs and cats.
"I Hate it!" Takuya yelled out loud as a cat in the game screamed since he shot it.
"...OH screw YOU too, kitty!.." Takuya mentioned, angrily to the screen.
"I mean who even talks with that surfer dude lingo. 'Totally dude! Narly. Check out the nerfed up waves on my buffed up board, dude. Niiiiiiiiice. So, I was like Whooa, and we were like Whoooooa! And you were like... whoa.' It sickens me." Takuya continued to mock his enemy despiseree, Kazu, as he started loosing the game, due to lack of precision.
"Gees, I can't even play a simple game without losing my train of thought because of him." Before he could call it a day, Kouji walked up to the gun controller next to him and started to shoot along with him.
"I can see your still upset. Who would of thought you, Takuya, would be so worked up over some guy who is just trying to be you friend." Kouji said as he successfully shot at the oncoming zombie targets on the screen.
"Would you call someone a friend if they were trying to steal your future girl.. friend?" Takuya questioned.
"You just don't get it do you. Have you ever thought of the fact that he may be just some guy that a lot of girls seem to like a lot? If I didn't know better, I'd think your were jealous." Kouji was now shooting an onslaught of monsters on the screen as he multi tasked in explaining his point to Takuya.
"Huh? What da you know? After all your the guy who practically hates having friends." Takuya retorted, feeling a little guilty.
"True, but at least I can tell when people are trying to be my friends, even though I usually ignore them. Hey, I can't help it if know one's up to my level."
"That's because your antisocial." Takuya snapped back.
"Not really. I like to think of it as keeping my guard up. As for you.... you should lower yours." And with that Kouji placed the gun back in the holster and left the station with the highest score in the game (that was until Tommy came later on and beat it, like usual).
"I-I-I don't believe it!" Takuya stammered to himself. "Is the world turning upside down, or did Kouji just make a lot of sense."
***
As if on cue, Kazu made his way as he walked into the station along with Kenta. Business was about to pick up.
Taking Kouji's advice, partially, Takuya walked over to him to pick a bone with him.
"Hey..." Takuya pointed his index finger towards Kazu as he looked over at him. "...You there!"
Kazu jammed his hands in his pockets as he waited for Takuya to walk over to him.
"You know I don't appreciate you eying my girl Zoe over there..." Takuya mentioned as he pointed over to Zoe who wasn't paying any attention.
"What? I wasn't 'eying' your 'girl'." Kazu defended himself.
"Yeah!" Kenta added in a stupid nerdy voice.
"Stay out of this, cheerleader!" Takuya insulted.
Kenta quickly shut his mouth and stood behind Kazu and pouted.
"Dude, I wasn't staring at no one, honestly." Kazu insisted.
"Oh so I'm a liar now?" Takuya asked all defensively as he raised his hand up to his chest. He was just an inch shorter than Kazu, but that wasn't going to stop him at all.
"Dude, is this really necessary?"
"You bet it is, BUDDY!" Takuya instantly placed his hands into a fist.
"Come on! You wanna go? I'll take you on right now! You and your lil friend!"
"Its Kenta!" Kenta reminded.
"What ever!"
He was making a scene as a few people crowded around him and Kazu. Even Zoe, who was worried at the moment.
"I'll just step back over here." Kenta took a few safe steps back away from the scene.
"Come on 'DUDE'. I'm gonna whoop your tail right now!" Takuya continually insisted, as his friends began to come around to see what was all the ruckus.
"Hey! Takuya! Sto-" Kouichi was stopped by Kouji as he put his hand on his shoulder to restrain him.
"Don't worry. No need to get all apprehensive. Just let him make a fool of himself. This is going to be good after all." Kouji admitted with a sadistic smirk on his face.
"Come on. What's the matter? 'Fraid I'll mess that face up of yours, pretty boy?" Takuya went on as he came up to Kazu and gave him a shove.
"Come on!"
"Dude, your practically, injured. I don't want to hurt you." Kazu insisted on being nice, but Takuya finally went to far as he pushed him just a little too hard into the table behind him.
(Warning: what is about to happen next may get a bit.. VIOLENT!)
Kazu, out of retaliation, swung Takuya right in the nose, accidentally, as Kenta behind him gave out a shriek. Takuya fell to the floor in the blink of an eye as he held his nose to make sure it was still on his face.
"Oh I see. You wanna play dirty..." Takuya got up and tried to swing at him but missed and wound up bumping into the table as he crashed to the ground.
The people around him started to laugh and jeer as he got up almost stunned.
"Takuya! Stop this!" Zoe ordered.
"Oh don't worry Zoe. I know what I'm doing... why is there two of you?" Takuya was loosing it... the fight and his mind.
"Come here you..." Takuya swung again and missed, but retained his stance as he wobbled trying to remain balanced.
"I won't let you mess up this pretty face." Takuya started swing multiple times at him, but Kazu continued to duck and weave each one. When Takuya was finally tired and out f breath, Kazu stuck him in the jaw causing spit to fly everywhere. Takuya, having no more energy, fell down in a humorous slow motion, while everyone watched in horror. (don't worry he's not dead... yet)
"Ooooooooooooooo!" Robby, Jack and Bobby sang.
People began to crowd around him to make sure he wasn't dead, as Kazu couldn't help but feel bad as he stormed away along with Kenta tagging along.
"Did you see that? You are the man! That guy had it coming to him!"
"Kenta!"
"Yeah?"
"Stop!?
"Okey dockey!"
Back at the Takuya being knocked out, JP was ordering people to get away from him, while Zoe and Rosie walked of in disappointment towards Takuya.
"Alright now people! If his face is red, stay away from his head. If his face is blue, there's nothing you can dooo!" JP rhymed as he knelt beside Takuya."Alright now Tacky, how many fingers am I holding?"
"Why is there three of you?" Takuya asked as he fainted.
Everyone cleared as the paramedics came to clean things up and took him away to the emergency room. (don't worry he's fine)
"What happened?" Tommy asked while he was dancing on the dance revolution game with the arrows.
"Takuya... just got beat up!" Kouji laughed out loud.
A/N: A long but saddening chapter this is. This was done as a request, so wallah. We'll just see if Takuya gets his revenge. It took me a while to write this since I had to use my old machine computer. It was like driving me crazy as if I was driving threw slow traffic. It is so freakin slow, but anyway... at least its done. Tune in to see if Takuya is still alive and what happens next on Digimon: SPRING BREAK... (that ended a month ago lol) Oooooooooo scary.
