It's… Show time!
Karaoke, singing, dancing, comedy, magic tricks, everything and anything from the funniest to the most bizarre was done by whoever wanted to perform.
Atobe sang a song on karaoke with Ohtori and Jackal. Ooishi and Oshitari performed with Kawamura a Japanese classical drama. Kikumaru and Gakuto, acrobatics shows. Fuji and Inui did some magic tricks. Jirou was carried on the stage by Kabaji. He performed something too… (A/N: I guess…) Actually, it was a kind of sleeping performance show. Kikumaru had presented Jirou show as "How to sleep anywhere, everywhere and in any positions with art" He then proceed to put Jirou into various positions, positions that required great acrobatic skills. The back in a ark, head between the legs, extreme yoga positions, legs in banana slip. Jirou didn't awake at anything. The lest one could said, it was impressive, that ability to sleep like that!
It was then Niou's turn. He imitated everyone single habits, from Tezuka's seriousness to Jirou sleeping.
"Now, let me show you how Echizen and Kirihara bickered like kids over foods!" He copied Kikumaru's ability by becoming two people, one in the shape of Ryoma, the other, Kirihara.
"Give me back the ootoro!" Niou-Kirihara said.
"Yadda! It's mine!" replied Niou-Ryoma.
"No! Mine! Give it!"
"Yadda!"
"Give it! Give it! Give it!" And the two Niou-Kirihara and Niou-Ryoma fighted.
In the audience.
"Arrrrrrrgh! I don't bicker like kids! He/she does" Ryoma and Kirihara shouted simultaneously, pointing their fonger at the other face.
"Huh?" They exclamed at the same time, looked at each other. They did it again.
"Argh! Don't repeat after me!" The perroted again! They grabbed their head.
"Don't copy me!" Again! Pointing their finger in the other's face.
"You did it again!"
"I told you to stop it already!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Urgh! They stomped on the floor madly, lightning flicked in their eyes.
"Ooooooooooooh!" The audience clapped hands at their perfect synchronization.
"Hmm, maybe those two can be a good double pair, don't you think, Renji?" Inui asked.
"Ah. I agree with you. They already know how to do synchro," Renji answered. Fuji and Yukimura chuckled.
Exactely like twins, Ryoma and Kirihara pointed their finger into Niou's face.
"Arrrrrrrrrgh! This is all your fault!" Ryoma and Kirihara accused Niou.
'These two were likely twins in their past life!' That was what people in the room thought. But they won't say it loud because of what happened next.
Like a pair of perfect mirror's actions, Ryoma and Kirihara each grabbed a cushion nearby and threw it into Niou's face.
"Ahhh!" Niou got knocked by two cushions in the face. Alas, by doing so, Ryoma and Kirihara caused a ruckus.
Marui, who you saw Ryoma's action coming, grabbed his own cushion and jumped away, leaving Ryoma to take Jirou's one instead. Jirou, who was snoring on the table, suddenly found himself on his back. He knocked Gakuto, who was passing behind him with a plate in his hands. Gakuto fell over Momoshiro, sending his plate flying in the air. Momoshiro got a second knock on his head, this time by Hyoshi. Poor Hyoshi, who felt down because Kirihara sent him flying when Kirihara stole his cushion. Hyoshi kicked Jackal, sending the Brazilian's leg in Kawamura's hand. Kawamura switched into burning mode, spinning Jackal over his head like he does with a racket. Gakuto's plate flew straight to Yagyuu's face, but the Gentleman dodged it. Instead, Kaido got it bull's eye. Kaido snapped. He stood up to search for the culprit. However, the first person he laid his eyes on was Shishido. Kaido picked a quarrel with Shishido. And a cushion battle was the next thing that happened in the room.
Bink! Bank! Bank! Bank! Bonk!
". . ."
Hmm, how should I put it?
". . ."
Well, let say that chaos occurred in the dining hall. It was as simple as that!
". . ."
Ooishi and Ohtori tried to stop them while Kikumaru joined in the fight because it looked so fun to him. Yagyuu changed place to sit with next to Renji and Inui among the audience of the charade. The audience was consisted of Yukimura, Sanada, Tezuka and Fuji. Atobe was standing in front of the fighting people.
"Would you stop this nonsense rubbish thing right now!" he bawled.
Bank! Bank! Bank! Bank!
But no one pay him attention.
Pop! A new vein.
"How can you be so disgraceful in ore-sama's magnificence presence?!"
Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!
No answer again.
". . ."
"Arrrrrrrrrgh!" Atobe jumped in the fight too.
Badan! Badan! Badan! Badan!
Oshitari sweat dropped. Surprisingly, Kabaji didn't join Atobe this time.
Tezuka was planning to assign Ryoma laps for the disaster she caused, but she beated him. She was already running around the room. She even managed to drag Kirihara to do it with her, as they chased after Niou. Sitting next to Fuji, Marui wondered if he didn't feed Ryoma and Kirihara with too much sugar as he looked them, hyperly hyper, hunting the Rikkaidai's Trickster.
Up until now, Sanada didn't say nor do anything. He kept his cool. But eventually, he snapped too.
POP!
A giant red vein appeared on his head.
Tap tap tap tap tap! Niou ran pass him. Sanada stood up. Yukimura wondered what he planned to do.
Tap tap tap tap tap! Ryoma and Kirihara came next. Sanada caught them by the neck of their yukata.
"Urgh!"
Sanada threw the starters of the whole mess out of the room and shut the door. Ryoma and Kirihara were left alone in the hallway.
"Ah." Ryoma and Kirihara blinked, wondering what happened.
"Kirihara, did we do something wrong to anger your fukubuchou (1)?" Ryoma asked, but Kirihara didn't have time to answer. An awful bunch of noises was heard from the dinning hall.
Bang! Bang! Chunk! Chunk! Chunk! Boom!
Ryoma and Kirihara sweat dropped. They guessed Sanada jumped in the messy chaos too. The door slided open again. This time, it was Jirou, Mukahi, Momoshiro and the rest who were thrown out of the room. They got kicked out by a leg (Ryoma and Kirihara assumed belonging to Sanada) and they ended up in a pyramid of pilling up people. Next Marui, Yagyuu, Renji, Inui and Kabaji tranquilly walked out, Ooishi and Ohtori behind them. The two last people sighed in desperation.
''Marui-senpai, what happened?" Kirihara asked.
"Sanada snapped and Yukimura is trying to calm him down," Marui answered.
"Tezuka was on his way to snap too and Fuji adviced us to leave the room," Inui developed.
"He said to leave the rest to Yukimura and him," Oshitari continued.
"This is all your fault, both of you!" Yagyuu reprimanded Ryoma and Kirihara. They beared a revolt expression, but they don't reply back. Somehow, they understood what Yagyuu meant.
"Now, what are we going to do?" Ohtori asked.
"How about playing ping pong?" Inui suggested, a glint on his glasses.
"That's some great idea! Let's go!" Kikumaru exclaimed.
"But for what purpose? It's boring just playing like that!" Momoshiro said.
"How about the last strawberry short cake of the night as the prize for the winner?" Marui said, revealing the said prize. Fire burned into Ryoma's and Kirihara's eyes.
"Echizen/Kirihara! It's a challenge!" And they sprinted to the game room.
'Those two didn't learn anything!' the others thought.
"Sadaharu, you did id in purpose, didn't you? Collecting data again," Renji said.
"Maa, it will be profitable for you too. So why not?" Inui answered and walked to the game room. Renji sighed but followed.
When Yukimura, Sanada, Tezuka and Fuji walked in the game room, they saw everyone watching Ryoma-Kirihara match. But no one will call their playing a "match", because it was so childish!
"Aa ah! They are at it again!" Gakuto said, sighing, his arms behind his head.
"What happened?" Yukimura asked.
"Inui proposed a ping pong competition and Marui placed the last cake of the night as the final prize. Echizen and Kirihara are duelling for the cake," Oshitari explained.
"Marui!" Sadana scoled.
"Maa maa, Sanada. They seemed to be getting quite well together, almost like best friends. Besides, they are fun to watch at!" Marui responded sheepishly. Yukimura and Fuji chuckled.
"So, what's the score?" Fuji asked.
"None! They are playing like kids, not like serious real players!" Niou said.
"Ever since they started, they wouldn't let a ball land on their side of the table!" Yagyuu continued.
"And they hasn't giving up quarrelling either," Oshitari added.
"It's incredible how these two can be stubborn!" Inui said.
"What a hopeless pair! I don't want to think what kind of game they will play if they were put in double," Shishido commented.
"Hmm… A hopeless game, I guess," Ohtori agreed.
"Ryoma, Akaya! That's enough!" Yukimura reprimanded angrily.
The two mischievous kids immediately stopped. Yukimura called them by their first name, which meant trouble was coming. Yukimura-buchou was angry. Kirihara knews not to disobey an angry buchou. Ryoma had the impression that she was facing her mother. She knows never to disobey an angry mother. Ryoma and Kirihara looked at Yukimura with fear in their eyes. Seeing that, Yukimura switched to his soft side.
"You two had caused enough troubles for tonight. And Marui already gave each of you a cake. Now stop torturing the poor innocent ping pong ball and let the others play too. Come here and sit down. You can watch them play with us."
Ryoma and Kirihara sulked, but the obeyed nonetheless.
"Hai…" They put down their ping pong racket and went to Yukimura's bench. They sat between Yukimura and Fuji, but not without shooting daggers glare to each other, then ignored each other. Fuji chuckled at Ryoma's pout.
They decided to a ping pong competition between them. They wrote each person's name on a piece of paper and put it in a box. Ooishi let them pick their opponent threw the sorting paper. They played single and the double games too. But as the matches went on, it was strangely quiet on the bench of the spectators.
"Oooh! Ochibi-chan and Kirihara are sleeping!" Kikumaru remarked, peering at the two sleeping heads. Indeed, the two youngest people of the group were leaned against each other, snoring softly.
"Guess they worn themselves out with all their bickering!" Niou remarked.
"Heeee! They're cute when they're asleep," Marui commented.
"I prefer them asleep than when they are awake! At least, they are quiet!" Yagyuu said.
"Shouldn't we tell them to go to sleep in their room?" Ootori asked.
"It's alright. I will carry Echizen in his room," Fuji said as he gently lifted Ryoma in his arms, letting her head rested in the crook of his neck.
"Then see you later, Fujiko!" Kikumaru waved as Fuji left.
Fuji carried Ryoma up in their room, marvelling at how light she weighted. Looking at her sleeping face, he smiled softly, his eyes opened with a gently expression. Compare to her everyday behaviour, cocky and I'm-so-brave attitude, she looked so innocent and frail.
'She might strangle me if she knows what I'm thinking about her right now!' Fuji chuckled silently.
He entered their room and carried her to her futon. He was going to lay her down when Ryoma moved in her sleep.
"Karupin…" Ryoma muttered and swung her arm around her cat. Her arm closed around Karupin's warm body and she snuggled against the cat, smiling. But it wasn't Karupin Ryoma was hugging. Right now, Karupin was sleeping on her pillow at her house. It was Fuji.
'Ryoma…' Fuji was red, flushed red. When Ryoma moved, Fuji almost lost his stability and dropped her. He made sure that she don't land abruptly on the floor, but had him cushioning her. But thing ended up in a compromising position. She was laid between his legs, her arms around him. Fuji tried to detach her but she snuggled more into him.
"Don't go…" Ryoma muttered again.
"Ryoma…"
Without knowing what he was doing, Fuji's arms moved to embrace Ryoma closer to him.
(1) fukubuchou: vice-capitain.