When They Cry ~ Dual Remembrance Chapter
Part 3- WTF!?
Ryuzaki began to walk towards the school's exit when he felt a tug on his shirt. He looked down and saw Rika.
"What is it?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Before you go, I also want to know why you suddenly showed up here," Rika answered.
"What do you mean?" Ryuzaki replied.
"In the past hundreds of worlds, you've only made and appearance this time and the last time. Certain random events can change the outcome of one's fate, but what led your fate here?" Rika asked.
"I suppose it was because I was kicked from my house," Ryuzaki attempted to answer.
"But that event is more irrelevant. Due to Light disappearing, you were kicked out of your house and forced to come here. In the past worlds before your arrival, where would Light be?" Rika asked.
"If I could remember anything from those times, then I'd be able to answer most likely. Maybe Light happened to run into the mastermind behind the plot to kill you and he saw it as a way to get to me," Ryuzaki answered hypothetically.
"Are you saying that the random event is Light meeting with the person, then? If so, why did it only start happening in the last world?" Rika asked.
"I'm sorry, Rika, but I cannot answer that question," Ryuzaki said.
"Fine. I'll see you tomorrow. Farewell," Rika said as she turned around and ran back to class.
Ryuzaki exited the school and found Rena waiting next to the gates.
"Took you long enough, Ryuzaki-kun! You shouldn't keep a lady waiting!" Rena said in a serious tone.
"But isn't it also rude to ignore a maiden's cry for help?" Ryuzaki rhetorically asked.
"What?" Rena asked because she didn't understand that Ryuzaki was referring to Rika.
"Nothing," Ryuzaki replied.
"Ryuzaki-kun, you're really weird," Rena said as she started walking towards the village.
Ryuzaki looked up at the sky and noticed that the sun's rays were turning the sky into a crimson color. Suddenly he remembered Teppei showing up at his house the day he went home with Rena and he immediately began sprinting towards town.
"Ryuzaki-kun? Why are you going so fast? You don't know where the house is, do you?" Rena asked.
"I really don't have the time to answer any of those questions. Just hurry up and follow me! If Teppei is attacking our father, I will need to be there to stop the fight, hopefully not killing Teppei this time," Ryuzaki said as he continued dashing ahead.
"I'm pretty sure that answering those questions would've been easier to do then to say what you just said. I'm much more confused now," Rena whined as she strained to catch up to Ryuzaki.
The two managed to get back to the village fairly swiftly, but even then they didn't slow down.
"The house is that way," Rena pointed towards a road that veered off towards the right.
Ryuzaki dashed in that direction, arriving at his house in enough time to see a pissed Teppei coming out of it.
"Wow. Talking with Rika took much more time than I thought," Ryuzaki mumbled to himself.
Ryuzaki walked up to Teppei and stared straight into his eyes.
"Are you looking for a fight, punk?" Teppei asked in an intimidating voice.
"It would not be courteous to fight with a person, but with an animal, I don't think it would matter too much," Ryuzaki provoked.
"You piece of shi…" Teppei began to say, but got kicked in the right side of his face by Ryuzaki's jump kick.
"Hey! What are you doing to him?" The all too familiar voice of Rita said.
"Rita-sama?" Rena said.
"Damn! The brat's home now," Rita said.
"Where is Father?" Rena asked.
"We just gave him a thorough talking to, so he should be in his room still," Rita mischievously sneered.
At about that time, Ryuzaki came flying from nowhere and did a roundhouse kick to Rita's diaphragm.
"No! My ho… I mean, Rita!" Teppei yelled as he struggled to his feet.
"Wha..? Is that what you think of me? Well screw you too, buddy!" Rita screamed as she stormed out of the Ryugu's lawn.
"No! Come back!" Teppei pled as he followed her.
"What… just happened here?" Ryuzaki asked.
"I think all of the…" Rena began to answer before she was cut off by Ryuzaki.
"That was rhetorical," Ryuzaki said as he entered the house with Rena following close behind.
"Let's go talk with Father first," Rena said.
"Good choice… which way is to his room again?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Again? I thought this was the first time you've been here," Rena reminded Ryuzaki.
"Whatever. It doesn't really matter what I asked. What does matter is where our father is," Ryuzaki pointed out.
"I'm right here. But what's with the "our father" part of your sentence?" The two siblings' father asked as he came into view.
"Hello, sir. My name is Ryuzaki Ryugu. I am your son that you haven't seen since I was born. I'm pleased to see you once again for the first time," Ryuzaki said as he bowed.
"So it's true. I got an anonymous phone call from someone that said that you would be arriving here sometime soon," their father said. "I've already prepared a room for you."
"Um… what did Rita and Teppei do to you?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Those two? Well, at first they tried to get a whole bunch money from me, but I said they could suck my balls before I would do that. I kind of forgot that Rita already… um… never mind. I got punched, then Teppei left saying that he wanted it by tomorrow morning," their father said.
"Are you going to give them the money? Are you?" Rena asked.
"Of course! I don't want any of us to die!" their father replied.
"But how will we live without money and with you jobless?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Don't worry. I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico," their father said.
"I know you didn't just reference that commercial did you?" Ryuzaki asked as he palmed his forehead.
"What the heck are you two blabbering about? About?" Rena asked.
"Nothing. Just forget we said anything," Ryuzaki answered.
"This is so confusing. I'm going to bed," Rena said as she turned to go to her room.
"Me too," Ryuzaki agreed while following Rena.
"Aw… don't leave your father to fend for himself!" their father pled.
"How about you go get a job? And don't worry about Teppei anymore. Just leave really early tomorrow and let me deal with him," Ryuzaki replied without turning around.
The next day, there was a hard knocking on the door. Rena and Ryuzaki had already washed up and gotten dressed, so Ryuzaki answered the door. Once he opened the door, he could see the putrid face of Teppei.
"That is not what I wanted to see the first thing in the morning," Ryuzaki mumbled.
"YOU! I'm gonna make you pay for making my girlfriend leave me!" Teppei yelled as he picked up Ryuzaki by the shirt.
"Alright, first off, I'm pretty sure that our father was already going to pay you, but not anymore. Secondly, you're the one that called her a ho. And thirdly, I completely owned you yesterday. What chance do you have today?" Ryuzaki pointed out as Rena came bounding down the stairs.
"Ryuzaki-kun? What does "owned" mean?" Rena asked.
"Good question. I don't know its meaning, but I'm pretty sure people will pointlessly say it in the future, so I wanted to try it out. Anyways, Teppei! You're going to experience Hell today," Ryuzaki replied and kneed Teppei in the gut.
Teppei dropped Ryuzaki and cringed with pain. Ryuzaki ran to Teppei and kicked him out the door. As Teppei started to stand up, Ryuzaki dropkicked him back to the ground. Ryuzaki jumped back because Teppei recovered himself extremely fast. The two ran at each other and punched each other both in the face.
"TOMITAKE FLASH!" the voice of a familiar photographer said.
There was a flash from his camera taking the picture right when Teppei and Ryuzaki each made contact to each other's face.
"What the…? Where'd you come from? I thought you weren't supposed to be here for another few days," Ryuzaki asked.
"I got here today because I felt like walking around earlier to get some pictures before everyone began getting ready for the festival," Tomitake answered with a smile.
"By the way, I'm Ryuzaki," Ryuzaki greeted Tomitake while his fist was still in Teppei's face, as was Teppei's fist in Ryuzaki's face.
"I'm Tomitake. I'm sorry for using the Tomitake Flash technique, but I needed you two as still as possible to make the image not blurry," Tomitake said.
"Is it a paralysis technique? Ugh… what the heck am I saying? How can taking someone's picture paralyze them?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Umm… good question. It seems to only work in this town, though," Tomitake answered.
"Are you okay, Ryuzaki-kun?" Rena asked as she ran out of the house.
"Rena-chan! Nice to see you again!" Tomitake said.
"Nice to see you, too," Rena replied.
"So do you two normally get into fights?" Tomitake asked Ryuzaki and Teppei.
"It's pretty common for us two to fight," Ryuzaki answered.
"What are you talking about? We've only known each other for maybe twelve hours at the most!" Teppei yelled.
"Shut up. You talk too much," Ryuzaki said as he closed his eyes.
"Don't you dare tell me to shut up! Wait a second, are you sleeping!? Don't go to sleep while I'm yelling at you!" Teppei continued to scream.
Ryuzaki began to snore. His eyes were partially opened, but, sure enough, he was asleep.
"I think I'll be going now," Tomitake said as he turned to leave.
"Tomitake-san, wait! Can you please lock up Teppei? He tried to rob us and beat up Ryuzaki and my father last night," Rena asked.
"Okay. I'll go call the police," Tomitake said as he ran into the Ryugus' house.
About twenty minutes later, Oishi arrived at the scene.
"Okay. Tomitake filled me in with the details. You are under arrest, Teppei!" Oishi said as he got out his handcuffs.
At about that time, the paralysis lifted from both Ryuzaki and Teppei, and Teppei charged Oishi, hitting him straight in the chest.
"Weak. Let me show you a real punch! Hyagh!" Oishi yelled as he punched Teppei, who flew twenty feet into the air.
"How can someone be so strong?" Teppei said as he clutched his stomach.
"Don't you know who I am? I'm the juggernaut, bi…!" Oishi started to say.
"Oh, please, just shut up already! How many pop culture references can there possibly be in one part of a chapter?" Ryuzaki screamed out.
"Pop culture references? Chapters? What do you think this is? A fanfic?" Rena asked.
Ryuzaki sighed and began walking down the road.
"Wait up, Ryuzaki-kun! Where are you going?" Rena asked.
"To school. Hopefully that place will be normal," Ryuzaki answered.
"Shouldn't we wait for Keiichi and Mion? That's what I normally do," Rena asked.
"There up by that bridge over there. We spent too much time with Teppei," Ryuzaki pointed out.
Keiichi and Mion walked over to Ryuzaki and Rena.
"What took you guys so long?" Mion asked.
"Breaking the copyright law, that's what happened," Ryuzaki answered.
"What?" Keiichi asked.
"Don't ask," Ryuzaki replied.
"Let's go to school, then," Mion said.
A/N: This was supposed to be a funnychapter, so I hope I achieved the funniness level I desired to reach.
