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The Palmtop Tiger and the Supercalifragilistic Dragon

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

Chapter 10

In this alternate universe, our man, Ryuji as we know is not an idiot but actually a smartass. So when he sensed this funny thing he felt, he followed Darth Vader-sama's advice and searched his feelings. Analyzing it using his animeological reasoning, he was able to find out what it was.

He attempted to remove the developing malignant love tumor of Taiga from his head but failed to. He tried to imagine Minorin's face but it faded away being replaced with Taiga's cute face.

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The next morning came; the mother and son ate their breakfast looking pretty depressed.

It seemed like it wasn't just Taiga that left the scene, but also the light that made a pleasant, happy atmosphere over their meals together.

"Let's go honey, there's nothing much to see here.", said the bird to his wife.

"Yeah, I think the two broke up already", she replied. The two blue birds flew away.

Back at the table, the two faced towards Taiga's window as they eat.

"Ryuu-chan, isn't our breakfast a bit lacking today?...even though Yaa-chan likes canned mackerel…"

"I wonder if Taiga-chan is still sleeping"

"Who knows", Ryuji answered with disinterest.

"Did you two had a fight?...ughh! this is boring", Yasuko complained like a child.

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It was the first time he walked to school without Taiga since their school term started.

Walking through the hallway, he saw Kitamura coming down the stairs.

Seeing the quadclops gave him a flashback of the conversation he had with her at Johnny's last night.―

~"Tomorrow, I'm gonna confess my feelings to Kitamura and end all these misunderstandings.", Taiga said.~

"Ohayo, Kitamura…", he greeted.

"Ohayo, Takasu! How are you doing?"

As they walked towards their classroom (see pic by clicking on the link in my profile page), they saw Taiga coming out of the room not having any eyelids.

The tiger approached Kitamura ignoring Ryuji and said, "May I speak with you Kitamura-kun."

This made the dragon punch himself in the stomach taking all the attention around him, including Taiga and Kitamura.

"What's wrong with you?", Taiga asked with a puzzled face.

"ahh…it..it's just that my body cells secreted epinephrines thus pulling away blood from my stomach and sending them to the muscles giving me a strange uncomfortable feeling. Therefore by applying sudden pressure to it, it might go back, bu…but my hypothesis is proven wrong since my punch didn't seem work at all.", Ryuji got nervous and showed his geeky side, speaking bull… like a machine gun.

"Wat?" the weirded out two said.

"Anyway, I have to say something to you, Kitamura-kun.", Taiga turned to Kitamura ignoring Ryuji again.

The two went their way leaving Ryuji in jealousy.

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He came inside the classroom and saw a huge mess. The desks and chairs and school stuff was all over, worse than what happened before (in chapter 3).

"What happened here?!", although Ryuji knew this could only be done by Taiga.

His classmates thought the second wave has already arrived, him, and went rushing out the room.

"He could be worse! Run for your lives!!!", one classmate shouting out as he led the stampede.

Minorin walked to Ryuji, she appeared shaking in fear as she approached him.

"I'm sorry Takasu-kun, for misunderstanding. I really thought you two…"

Ryuji left the room not letting her finish what she's saying, Minorin's voice seemed to irritate him.

If you love a person, seeing her happy is enough, right! That's it!...I broke the spell.

He decided not to go look for them and just headed the comfort room to take a pee.

The aspiring janitor couldn't help but notice the glass window of the cr, looking pretty dusty.

Son of a flea! This window hasn't been cleaned for days!

Unexpectedly, when he looked down the window he saw these people and recognized them as Taiga and Kitamura.

Why the hell is she doing it in front of the boy's bathroom?

"Ki ki…Kitamura-kun!..."

She's doing it again, Ryuji thought getting a huge sweat drop.

"Wait a minute! I'm hinting what you're trying to say. So let's make one thing clear, aren't you going out with Takasu?"

"No, Takasu-kun's… Takasu-kun is… FRIED RICE!..."

The suspense almost choked Ryuji to death, but it was made worse when he heard her description of him, making him turn upside down.

"…he cooks delicious fried rice…I really really like his cooking…", she continued.

Ryuji facepalmed though he was smiling.

"But the one I like is Kitamura-kun!", she finally said it.

"I see, I'm sure we'll be good friends too.", was his answer.

"fr…friends?"

"Yeah, well, first period is about to start, I'll go first, you better hurry up too." He said and ran off.

She won't be happy that way. I guess we'll have to renew our contract.

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Taiga stood there, the upper half of her face darkened so that her eyelids weren't visible anymore, wondering where she went wrong.

Suddenly, someone pat her on the head, it was Ryuji, who else?

"It's okay, it can't be helped anyway…"

"Coz I suck at everything, right?", Taiga stealing his line.

"No, it's just that my fried rice is that delicious"

Taiga chuckled, he smiled and it's getting cheesy all over.

"Stop it! They'll misunderstand again!", Taiga removing his hands.

"I can't understand it either. But I can't just leave you alone!" His words stunned the girl.

"Taiga! You see those contrails?...", Ryuji looking up the sky, seeing those two fighter planes flying over them.

And there comes the crustless four cheese pizza, "…Legends have it, the dragon stays by the tiger's side,"

"I am a dragon… As a dragon I will stay by Taiga's side, since you're a palmtop tiger.", Ryuji remarked.

Taiga almost broke into tears but said, "Let's skip class today." instead.

"Why are you looking at me like that?", was her response to his sparkling bishounen smile.

"Let's go!", walking ahead of her.

Hmm, he called me Taiga, tehee~. She thought blushing a bit.

Hehe. till next time! . XD