Cocky Is Not A Brown, You Know?
Pairing: Ryoma x Shishido (Cocky Pair ?) Requested by: ChocoholicAddict22
Ryoma was always hopeless in anything to do with art. Sure, she could work a brush, pencil, eraser, paint, et cetera, but… She didn't get-slash-understand the difference between 'forest green', and 'hunter's green', or 'Prussian blue' with 'royal navy'.
So, her art teacher saw her as a hopeless case, never to be able to revive- no… It was actually: "never to be able to bloom, into the 'artistic angel that she could be'."
But it wasn't like she cared. After all, what did art have to do with her tennis? Or Karupin, for that matter.
"Echizen!"
She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard someone yell her name out into her ear. She fought back the reaction to wince and scowled at said yeller.
"What, Shishido?" She snarled.
Shishido smirked down at her from underneath the shadow of his cap. "Well, Echizen, since you asked ever-so-nicely, I'm going to bestow unto you my answer…"
"Then get to the point, billboard," She replied, busying herself with the pencil and paper that Hachiko-sensei gave them, to draw whatever came into mind.
He rolled his eyes, flicking her nose. "Well, shortie," – Ryoma fought to not hiss at him with anger, at both the flick and the not-self-appointed nickname – "I wanted to ask whether or not you knew the answer to this… Do you know the difference between 'Khaki' and 'Cocky'?"
… Ryoma still could not believe the idiocy of the boy (no, she would not call him a man until he was sixty years old) standing behind her. I mean seriously, who asks such a stupid question…?
"Khaki is a brown colour. Cocky is a personality trait." Ryoma said monotonously, sketching a badly drawn outline of Karupin, her much-loved and very-cute Himalayan kitty.
"Wrong!" Shishido crowed out triumphantly. He plopped himself down on the seat beside her and pulled a piece of paper from the centre of the table. He snatched the pencil from Ryoma's hands and began to sketch a hasty picture of an angry Ryo-chan glaring at the rest of the Seishuu Gakuen regulars.
"… Then enlighten me, O Mighty Know-It-All," She droned, taking the pencil back and throwing him a random one from the pile beside Horio, who was boasting about his 'seven-years-experience-in-drawing' to a bored audience of zero.
"Well," Shishido started, grinning at her with a Cheshire cat's grin, "cocky is a brown, that's normally found on those safari clothing, and khaki is a personality trait, when a person's arrogant. Even Akaya-kun said so!"
"… Akaya-senpai's English is utter bull, and you know it," Ryoma said bluntly. She dabbed a bit at the Karupin-drawing with an eraser, her eyebrows furrowed slightly. "Besides… Have you even checked the dictionary?"
"Er… No."
"Exactly. Idiot."
Shishido frowned slightly, before deciding that Ryo-chan should have a horrid look like a gargoyle on her face, and rubbed her original face out, before sketching a new face onto the white spot on the paper. "Echizen."
"What now?" She sighed, crumpling the cartridge paper into a ball and throwing it into the bin that was conveniently beside her.
"… So 'cocky' isn't a brown?" He asked.
"No."
"And 'khaki' isn't a personality trait."
"No."
"Oh. Did I mix them up…?" He wondered, finishing Oishi's hair.
"Yes. Cocky is not a brown, you know?" Ryoma said rhetorically, looking at him with a smirk.
