To Live Life Fully

Chapter 9: Plans to Amend

Disclaimer: Angel Beats!'s characters, setting, and plot do not belong to me. Even Mazui's subs, to which I have his subs extracted to form this FF.

Otonashi sat on the home plate of the now empty baseball field, staring up at the sky. It had been about ten minutes since he had called Naoi to meet him at the baseball field. Kanade and Hinata were bound to be there at any moment. He checked his phone for the time: 4:34 pm. School had been out for roughly an hour-and-fifteen minutes.

A taxi drove by, two figures entering the complex. In due time, a car dropped off a boy at the east entrance of the park. Naoi was the first to arrive, where Kanade and Hinata came by half-a-minute later, running to the designated spot.

"So we begin Operation Leader's Rescue," Otonashi announced, rising to his feet and brushing off the dust. "On Wednesday, we arrive there by 4:45 pm, where we will wait for the robbers to come by. Kanade, did you get to enter the Student Roster to check on Yuri's address?"

Kanade nodded. "You can go in there?" Hinata cried out.

"I am the Student Council President," she said. "I actually have it on my school account. I didn't need to enter the attendance office. I found Naoi in there too."

"Why're you skipping school, Naoi?" Hinata asked sharply.

"Scum, I have better tasks to apprehend than your lowly classroom lives," Naoi answered. "My father is bedridden. Just now, it was a friend of my father's that brought me here."

Hinata frowned as he returned to listening Otonashi. "I have already thought out the plan." With a stick, he drew out the layout of Yuri's house, to which he tried to draw from how Yuri described it. "I'll be the first to breach, and I'll do so by entering through the back door or a window. When Yuri regains her memories; to which I don't know when, Kanade will jump in to disarm the robber. I'll disable the next robber, to which Naoi enters through the front door to cast hypnosis on the robbers." Otonashi turned to Naoi. "You must remember to tell them to turn themselves into the police."

"What if they shoot?" Naoi asked.

"I told you before; Kanade will protect you if they happen to aim at you. I'm allowing her to be able to maim the targets if they happen to foil with the plan, but I'm trying to rescue Yuri with the least amount of casualties."

"Otherwise, you could have just let me kill them," Kanade said.

"May as well be tried for homicide. That wouldn't be right, given your status as Student Council President. You have Yuri's address, don't you?" Kanade nodded her head. She pulled out a slip of paper and gave it to Otonashi. It read /8204 Aruita Complex Court, Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan 38204/. Yuri's name was inscribed at the corner of the paper. "Now all we need is a GPS..."

"Uhh," Naoi said, "I live in Aruita, except I live in Aruita Complex /Drive/. I think /Court/ is on the other side of the park that I live near. I saw Yuri walk there from the bus, with her three siblings."

Otonashi nodded his head. "Hinata, do you have anything to add?"

"Well, I live on Drive..."

"Then why didn't you tell us, scum?" Naoi cried out.

"'cuz I have a baseball game that day. End of the season game." It was pure silence on the baseball field, except for the wind blowing through the trees, the zooming of cars, or the occasional chirping of a bird. "But I'll try to be there!" Hinata assured.

"Like you'll show up.." Naoi said, crossing his arms and closing his eyes. "You're not good for anything..."

"Why do you have to be so pessimistic?" Hinata said.

Naoi opened his eyes, them glowing blood red. "Hinata Hideki, you are a baseball bat. You will try to score a home run when a baseball is thrown at you. Your legs are the handle, so you will hit the baseball with your head..." Naoi closed his eyes as his command ended. Hinata went stiff, flat-faced. Naoi picked up a stray baseball near the home plate and prepared to toss it at Hinata.

"Stop," Otonashi said. "You don't need to give him a concussion."

Naoi frowned as he dropped the ball, then leaned against the ball fence. "Yes, Otonashi." From next to Otonashi, Kanade smiled. Otonashi went to Hinata and slapped the back of his head.

Out of his trance, Hinata stumbled forward. "Ow! What was that for?"

"That was for being a baseball bat," Otonashi replied.

Hinata frowned and casted a glare at Naoi. "You would..." he said quietly. "But I'll be at Yuri's house by then. The game starts at three o'clock. Even if we win and throw a celebration, I'll be able to make it in time."

Otonashi sighed. "The only words I can say are 'don't be late'. Meeting dismissed." Naoi rose from his position and walked away. He flagged down his father's friend's car, then rode away.

"I might as well go to Yui's house then," Hinata said. "There were tests today, and no homework on top of that." Hinata walked across the field, out of sight in a few minutes.

"Do you have anywhere to go?" Otonashi asked Kanade. She shook her head. "I have the same class as Hinata. There were tests, no homework. I had a feeling that I was supposed to answer the Physics test with what I wanted to be in the future, or answer my English tests with answers written in kanji lettering."

"Looks like demoralization from Afterlife came to you, right? You didn't happen to answer a three-point-oh volt question with a twenty omega resistor thingy, did you?"

"I answered forty-eight amps."

Otonashi relaxed. "That's what I got too." Afterlife really likes to mess with our heads..."

Kanade nodded. "I want to play to piano again."

"I guess I could also get a snack ready. You want to stay again?"

"My uncle said he's coming back in a few weeks, in May. So I guess I'll stay at your house for until he comes home. I went home to bring a few extra set of clothes, and other things I don't need to mention."

"Well... at least you don't have to go back and forth for things you need... Let's go then." They walked side-by-side across the field, up to the point to when Otonashi opened the door.

"What?" he said, "I forgot to lock the door?"

A/N: Sorry for the small chapter... I couldnt think of any else to type at this point other than to break at this point. Thanks for reading, thanks for enjoying! Read and Review!

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