Alya: What did you do at night at Akaya's house? * inqusitive *
Akaya: Nothing!
Suzuna: * nods along *
Alya: Tsk tsk. I don't believe~ Everyone, enjoy chapter 11!
11. Summer Trip – Part One
Waking up in the morning, it took Suzuna a while to recognize the ceiling. There she was in Akaya's house, with Akaya sleeping in a futon on the floor, and she, sleeping on Akaya's bed. As she tried to get up, she noticed that her hand had actually been hanging off the bed, and at the tip of her fingers was interlocked with Akaya's as the seaweed head continued sleeping. It was only then, did the memories of the previous night flood back to her. She had been talking in the dark with Akaya, after his mother called for lights out, sharing about her childhood in the small village in England where it was her mother's hometown. Akaya too, had been sharing about his childhood, and his grandparents, it was where their fingers brushed, and somehow became interlocked.
" Akaya, time to wake up," she said.
" Nn... Five more minutes," he groaned.
Getting off the bed, Suzuna went to the washroom to wash up first.
Packing the remains of her things, she placed them with Akaya's which he had planned to bring along. Returning to the room, she found Akaya still rolled up in his blankets, looking like a human uncut maki sushi. Kneeling beside his pillow, she removed it from under his head, and he opened one eye and stared sleepily at her, before closing it again and going back to sleep.
Not giving up, Suzuna unrolled his blankets, but Akaya still clung onto his futon, and continued sleeping. At last, it was the last straw. Holding onto the futon, Suzuna was sure that Akaya would awaken once she pulled it away. However, the moment just before she tugged at it, Akaya sat up, and gave a wide yawn, stretching his limbs.
" Good morning Suzuna," he greeted, as if nothing had happened before. Kneeling on the floor, remaining quite stunned at Akaya's reaction, Suzuna stared as Akaya headed to the washroom to brush his teeth. She really thought he was going to be more angry.
Gobbling down their breakfast, the two slung their bags over their shoulders, before heading to the doors. As they put on their shoes, Akaya's mother came to send them off, reminding Akaya to send her messages, and to take care of himself.
" We're leaving now, thank you for your hospitality," Suzuna bowed thanking Akaya's mother.
" You're welcome, such a polite girl, have fun at the summer camp with the boys," Akaya's mother waved as the two left the house.
Heading to the train station, the two met up with the regulars of the tennis team, and boarded their train. Once the train started moving, all the train bento, biscuits, chips and sweets were circulated, though Marui hogged most of the sweets.
" Ne ne let's play Shiritori*," Niou suggested.
" The person who loses washes the toilet?" Marui suggested, blowing another gum bubble.
" Eh?!" Akaya asked.
" Jaa, Yukimura kara, onigiri [From Yukimura, onigiri], " Yukimura said, holding up the small onigiri he was munching on in his hands.
" Rikutsu [Theory]," Sanada said.
" Tsu... Tsubame [Swallow]," Jackal went on.
" Megane [Glasses]," Yanagi continued.
" Negi [Spring onion]!" Marui added quite excitedly.
" Gishiki [Ceremony]," Yagyuu's glasses sort of sparkled.
" Kimodameshi [Test of Courage]," Niou grinned.
" Shi... Shirase [News]," Akaya said.
" Senaka [Back]," Suzuna joined in.
Going on like this, it somehow ended with Akaya losing because Niou tricked him, saying, Serifu [Words/lines], and Akaya ended the game saying Futon [Bedding]. As Akaya ended the game and lost, he was asked to clean the toilets, and along with him, he dragged Niou who made him lose by tricking him.
"We'll leave the toilets to you two then~" Yukimura smiled.
After the foods were finished and their wrappers properly disposed of, everyone got a little sleepy. Sitting beside Akaya, Suzuna gave into the temptations, and nodded off against Akaya's shoulder. Across Suzuna, Yukimura who noticed the only girl falling asleep, got the rest of the regulars to quieten down so as not to disturb her.
"You got lucky," Marui whispered and teased Akaya about Suzuna sleeping on his shoulder. Saying nothing, Akaya was pretty much secretly happy.
Reaching the beach resort, it was late in the afternoon, and the boys quickly split up into the cleaning team, and food team, which obviously Suzuna was on the food team since she would be cooking for them. Sanada, Niou, Marui, Jackal and Akaya ended up in the cleaning team, with both Niou and Akaya covering the washrooms, while Yukimura, Yanagi, Yagyuu and Suzuna were on the food team.
"Buy my meat!" both Marui and Akaya screamed as the food team headed out of the resort.
"Jaa, Akaya we'll borrow Suzuna-chan for a while," Yukimura smiled, "Have fun cleaning," he waved.
"I leave Akaya with you," Yanagi told Sanada.
"Aa," Sanada replied.
Looked like both Akaya and Niou were in for some torture.
Going to the nearby supermarket, they took a trolley, and wheeled it about. As Suzuna walked beside the trolley, she looked at the groceries, and decided what to make for dinner. However, before she could even take anything from the display of vegetables, she was lifted off the ground.
"You have to rest your foot," Yanagi said, as Yagyuu gently placed Suzuna down in the trolley.
"What did you want to take Suzuna-chan?" Yukimura asked an extremely red Suzuna.
"T-that..." Suzuna pointed to the potato, and Yukimura only smiled before taking it.
Returning to the resort, the guys were still cleaning, but the kitchen was already cleaned out. As expected of Sanada. Starting quickly, Suzuna further spilt the three guys under her. Yanagi, to wash the vegetables, Yagyuu the meat, Yukimura cutting. While they were cooking half way, the rest were done with the cleaning, and also came along to help out on Sanada's orders.
" Niou-senpai, don't add anything weird into the curry," Suzuna said as she handed over the stirring to him.
"Suzuna! Where is the salad sauce?" Akaya asked and showed Suzuna a prettily arranged vegetable salad he arranged with Jackal.
"Over at the counter," she answered.
When dinner was finally made, they all settled down at the long table in their resort, and had their dinner.
"Meat's mine!" Akaya said and took a huge piece of the meat fillets Suzuna made.
"Ah! I wanted it too!" Marui said and snatched.
"No fighting at the table!" Sanada said, and immediately everyone stopped in their tracks, while Yukimura sat there, just smiling gently.
"We're going to have the greatest training time of your lives tomorrow, so you all better quickly eat up with no snatching, and head off to bed, saving your energy. You'll need it," Yukimura said lightly, like it was just a discussion about the weather the next day.
Hearing this, all the regulars quickly ate up with no one fighting for food, and washed everything up, before all literally running off to bed. Laying in her single room, Suzuna wondered what was going to happen the next day that made the regulars so flustered.
*Shiritori - a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word. No distinction is made between hiragana, katakana or kanji. A player who plays a word ending in the mora N (ん) loses the game, as no Japanese word begins with that character. Wikipedia - wiki/Shiritori
Alya: Ohhh! I wonder what sort of hell's training will they go through…
Akaya: * shudders *
Suzuna: * looks at Akaya questioningly * Akaya, did you catch a cold?
Akaya: N-no….
Alya: Well everyone, I hoped you enjoyed chapter 11! Reviews are as usual, a nod nod!
