Kaito smirked as he looked to his right and picked up a mask that was lying on a box next to him, holding it forward towards the others,"Rule No.1! Don't take off your mask! It can pose a danger to your safety if you do, however, if you must remove it, call for a timeout and get the referee to respond to make it official, the most common cause of needing to remove the mask is fog development, we have anti fog spray for you to spay into the mask in order to help you avoid the need to remove the mask during the game, thus allowing the match to continue mainly uninterrupted, but if you truly need the mask off, just call for a timeout.
Kaito then pulled out a rag from his right pocket and lightly tossed it in the air, "Rule No.2! When the match is over and you have been hit at all by a paintball, we recommend, well, more enforce that you wipe the mark away after the match has ended, in order to avoid confusion in future matches, it is recommended you wear clothing that is cheap or inexpensive to you, a color we prefer one wear is black as not only does it give you an edge as it is a proper form of camouflage, but also if there is any left over remnants of paintball splatter, it's easier to hide as well clean." Kaito finished in a sight looking back forward at everyone as he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a paintball, "Also, though it isn't an issue for you Budo, for anyone who's new to paintball, if your gun ever jams, you just need to give it a good little shake and it'll work again no problem, and while were on the guns explanation, make sure that when the match is paused, you have the guns' safety on in order to avoid any possible misfires or mishaps. "
He then held up his hand over the window to his right, "And now to wrap things up, we also serve food here as well if you're hungry at any point after the match, as well as in terms of clean up, we have locker rooms in the back of the building, boys on the left, and girls on the right, got it?"
Everyone nodded at Kaito as he smiled, making his hand into a thumbs up sign as he pointed at the door behind him, then back at himself, "Alright, the equipment room, if you didn't bring any of your own, is in the door behind me, I owe Budo one, so the rent's on me, food included!," Kaito, now finished, opened up to the door to everyone, letting them one by one, as Budo was the last to walk into the building, he quickly balled his hand into a fist and and held it behind him, to which Kaito bumped.
Budos' POV
I smiled as I walked past Kaito, giving him a quick fist bump behind my back, as I looked around the old shop, I really owed Kaito one for this, that's for sure. I heard the door close behind be and looked over at the blue haired idiot and whispered, So, what'll be the damage?" I moved closer to my ear as he answered back, "I need a term paper on "The Things they carried" and an Art project done by next Saturday." I chuckled as I nodded at Kaito while he began to walk away, "My friend, consider it done and done," I hated reading, but there's probably something on YouTube I can listen to later tonight. Kaito walked behind the counter, taking off his hat as he let his blue hair down looking behind him as opened up the back door and pulled out a paintball gun from the corner, "So, who wants the first gun of the day, brand new, just out of the box?"
10 minutes later
I waited outside in front of the woods behind the store, waiting for everyone to come out as I already had my own gun and mask. I was juggling my paint balls (NO. BAD. HOW DARE YOU THINK LIKE THAT YOUNG MAN/LADY/RUSSIAN ASSAULT ATTACK HELICOPTER, SHAME) in my hand as every began to slowly flood out of the door with Kaito in tow humming, I noticed Shima staring at him with a blush. Poor Shima, Kaito already has a girlfriend. Kaito looked over at me and asked, "Ready to start?" I nodded as he looked back at everyone and spoke up, "Okay!, there's going to be two teams, one red and one blue, leaders will be chosen through the highest number, 1 through 10, what number am I thinking of?"
Ayano: 6
Shima: 4
Budo: 9
Taro: 3
Sho: 2
Juku: 1
Mina: 5
Kaito grasped mine and Ayanos' arms and lifted them up, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!, well, winners, the two closest were 6 and 9!" Kaito let go of our arms and took a step back, giving us the center stage, "Choose your teammates!" I looked around as I pointed at Juku, he walked over to my side with his hoodie up and his hands in his pouch in the front.
I looked over to see who Ayano was going to choose, and had to hold back a laugh as she was looking down, pointing at Taro with a deep red blush on face, "Heh!, Shes' so cute..., she really is...," I was apparently silent for a bit, until I saw a hand appear in front of my head snapping, I quickly snapped out of it and looked around, seeing everyone looking at me expectantly, hearing Kaitos' voice behind me, I looked back, "You okay man?, you kinda froze up on us there." I quickly shook it off and scratched the back of my head uncomfortably as I laughed it off, "Sorry..., did I?" I said as I looked back forward, seeing that Sho, Mina, and Shima were still Available, "I'll go with Mina," I say as she walks up to me, giving me wink and a high five with a tooth grin on her face. Waiting for Ayano to choose, she pointed at Shima, who walked over and stood next to her. I then looked back, realizing an issue. we had an odd number of people this whole time and I didn't even check? Just as I was about to say something, Kaito jumped next to Sho and threw a mask on, "Aaaand for a limited time, you can get placeholder Kaito Shion!," he began with a cheesy pitch, "batteries not included, requires constant surveillance as may walk off and sleep somewhere." Everyone and I laughed at his cheesy joke, as we calmed down, I was conflicted on who to go with, finally, I heard Sho speak up, "Oh nooo, I'm being pulled towards the right, Noooo," he dragged on as he slowly walked over and stood by Taro, Ayano, and Shima. I looked back towards Kaito and he gave a thumbs up as I spoke, "Looks like I don't have a choice in this case it seems, Kaito."
Kaito then lifted his hand into a salute and marched over next to me chuckling, "Alright, which color you two?"
I spoke first followed by Ayano right next to me.
Budo: Blue
Ayano: Red
Kaito walked forward towards the woods as we followed, "Okay Red heads to the end point to the left and Blue to the right, when you hit the point, it'll tell you where your teams flag is, my girlfriend set the flags positions yesterday, so I don't even know where they are, so no need to worry about me giving away where the flags are." He finished as he began to run off in the right opening into the woods, us following behind him as we looked over at Ayano and her team as they disappeared too, Sho, Shima, and Taro tailing her. She's to fast for her own good, was she on the track team at one point?
I heard Kaito yell as we came to our position, a single hint there as to where our flag was at, "And now let's see where Luka set up our flag...," Kaito said, popping the head off the plastic bottle and handed it to me, I held it in my hand as I pulled the rolled up paper out, unraveling it and looking at the direction. " Stream up ahead, Triangle of trees, ahead green...?"
I stared at the paper in confusion of what the last part was, when I looked over at Kaito, he looked just as confused as I was as he spoke up, his voice sounding a bit scratchy behind the mask, like a computer program, "Let's see what Luka is up to today..., she doesn't really do riddles much." We nodded as Juku spoke up, "Maybe she talking about the surrounding area, moss or something, maybe a paintball splatter, could be anything," he finished, as he turned and began running with Mina, with Kaito and I following behind them.
Ayanos' POV
I began running ahead immediately in order to get some distance between me and Senpai, I need to think, what to say, what to do..., how to even speak sounds more like it though...
I could hear Shos' voice from behind me, "Aishi-Chan!, wait up, we can't run as fast as you!"
I turn back and continue running at my speed until I feel something hit my foot and I went tumbling down a small hill of dirt, grass, and branches, "Kuso..." I dropped my arms to the floor on my sides as I lift myself up, one foot at a time and I'm back on my feet brushing all the tiny branches and dirt off of me. As I'm in the middle cleaning myself off, I heard Senpais' voice from behind me, "Aishi-Chan! Are you okay?" I lock up there with my back still turned, my face as red as the freaking paintballs I had in my gun. I could hear branches snap and dirt grind(with lack of better word) behind me only a few moments later, I feel a hand fall on my shoulder, I look over in shock, and see it's senpai, "Aishi-Chan, what's the matter?, Is something wrong?," He asks me, I couldn't reply back, only a light broken squeaking came from my lips, "I-I-I..."
I tried to speak, but couldn't, I felt like fainting right then and there, but as I was going to, I could hear Shimas' voice from way off to my left, "Aishi-Chan! Yamada-Senpai!, We found the bottle!" Mine and Senpais' eyes darted over, looking in the direction it was coming from behind us, to reveal Sho and Shima running over to us.
Shima held a small scroll up to me and I took it from here, opening it up, it read, " Three hills over to the right, across the stream, in the tree?,"
I looked upwards hearing Shimas voice again, "There were back there, this way!," she said, as her and Sho turned and ran back where they came out of.
I was about to run after them, but then I felt someone wrap their hand around my arm, remembering Senpai was behind me, I lock up again where I stood as he spoke.
"Aishi-Chan, I just wanted to say again, I'm..., I'm sorry for hurting you back there, it was stupid of me for yelling at you and I'm sorry!," Senpai apologized to me again, once I gathered my will, I turned back looking at him, his eyes, his hair, his lips...perfection...," I-It's o-okay, really, you didn't know what you were do-," Senpai cuts me off, lowering his head into his hand as he sighed to himself "But I did know, Budo told me about how shy you are, and I didn't take that into memory at all...,"
I starred at Senpai, completely confused now, "Budo told you that?"
Senpai looked up at me with a sad smile and scratched the back of his head, "Heh, Yeah, And he really chewed me out over it too..."
We could hear Sho and Shima from with the woods, "Hey! You guys coming!?"
Senpai grabbed my hand as we ran off together towards the woods.
I looked down at mine and Senpais' hands, interlocked together, I don't know why, but I felt so calm right then, why wad that?
It was sure going to be one hell of a day, that's for sure...
Updated at last, Oh god, the pain of finals is half over and the chapter is finally pumped out. So same as usual, Like, commentate, and share.
Update: Dammit saving Conflicts, DAMN YOU!
