Wahoo! New chapters and.... I bought a Fushigi Yuugi manga today! *happy dance* It's annoying because it's absolutely impossible to buy any Fushigi Yuugi stuff in Australia. Literally. At least, where I live it is, anyway. Impossible to get anything anime actually. Once every two months, you occasionally find a Fushigi Yuugi manga (like I did today) and if so, if you don't buy it, don't see it again! Before Borders opened here, my friend had to order her manga in. I mean, it was possible to get it before, because there was a comic store or two which stocked manga and anime, but it was all Sailor Moon, with a few Dragonball Z, Animerica Extras, Miracle Girls, Ranma, Tenchi and Pokemon added for good measure. There also was a bit of Gunsmith Cats and a few others but not much else. Now there is a lot of stuff from various anime series but the problem is that there is only a few from each and they all sell so quickly! And it is impossible to find the videos, full stop. Or DVDs. I want to order them! As for the cds, ditto. I live in an anime-free zone! Well, maybe not completely anime free, there was Bubblegum Crisis on TV a few months ago, which was terrific, I taped the whole series, and you can get Evangelion and Nadesico DVDs and videos. I love the Slayers movie! Oh, but I'm babbling, on with the story! If you've bothered reading this far into the author's notes, be happy, Arcanine and Shiro Yuki, you get to appear... kinda!
Koutaku
Life has been a lot more interesting now Suboshi is back. I can't actually get away with day-dreaming and composing songs in Economics class anymore for one thing, I actually have to pay attention because if Suboshi yells,
"Aniki!" too loudly to get my attention, the teacher hears and yells at him. What is slightly worrying though is that he's found an old yo-yo he had as a kid and now constantly fiddles with it, in place of the ryuuseisui, which is worrying. As a result, I constantly freak out when anyone annoys him, can you blame me?
I was relieved when the class migrated off to the computer rooms because I knew that if I was careful, I could go on the net without being caught. I quickly logged onto my instant messenger list to see who was online. Topdog-chan was online under one of her many usernames, RK9. She has a huge list of usernames, at least five I know of, and each one determines her mood online, or vice versa. They include Arcanine, SSJA and da-bitch (for when she's flaming someone) I logged on using my one and only username.
Fluteboy: Hey, wassup?
RK9: Weeeeee! M+Ms! And anime!
Fluteboy: g> As usual, high on sugar?
RK9: And the bishies!
Fluteboy: Uh oh.
Fluteboy: O_o
Fluteboy: What anime?
RK9: Fushigi Yuki!
Fluteboy: Never heard of it!
RK9: You poor thing! It means mysterious snow and it's great!!!! It's about this girl called Yuki and when she sneezes, it snows, when she hiccups, a bishie sidekick apears, when she yawns a monster appears, when coughs, a chocolate appears and when she farts...
Fluteboy: I don't want to know!
Fluteboy: --traumatised
Fluteboy: You have weird taste in anime!
RK9: But it's soooo cool! The seiyuu for Yuki is called Yuki too! Shiro Yuki! She's really famous, she was in "Itai!" and "Doko ni ikumasuka?"
Fluteboy: Uh... I worry?
RK9: And there's these cool twins! And one of them attacks people with a tonka truck!
Fluteboy: A TONKA TRUCK?!
RK9: He runs over their toes.
Fluteboy: Topdog-chan, how many m+ms have you eaten? You're being mad even for you!
RK9: Uh....
RK9: I'm counting....
RK9: Oh.
RK9: Oops. Flutey?
Fluteboy: :-/
Fluteboy: Yes?
RK9: You live in Japan, can you get me the DVDs?
Fluteboy: Don't make me attack you with my flute! Or I'll get Suboshi over here with the ryuuseisui!
RK9: ???
RK9: What's a ryuuseisui?
Fluteboy: GTG, teacher
Fluteboy: =-p
I logged off as the teacher walking past, rolling my eyes. Topdog is nice but a little mad. Okay, a lot mad. But we emailed each other our photos and she thinks I'm hot. Which is good. But I'd better not introduce her to my new doppleganger otherwise I'd have competition. In the mean time, Shunkaku-chan had logged into messenger and I found him there when I logged back on. We had a conversation, taking short breaks to work whenever the teacher walked past. He was a bit confused, couldn't understand why we kept laughing simultaneously at other sides of the room. Taka looked mystified, perhaps thinking it was some twin thing but Ayuru, who usually did the same with Shunkaku the rest of the time, logged on too and eventually Taka twigged to what we were doing and joined us. The lesson passed by quickly and recess was spent discussing the Kyrosou concert. Everyone was eager and because practically all the other seishi were going, we met as a big group and talked. With Shun-chan by my side, I relaxed.
"See, aniki? No one thinks you're a traitor," Shun-chan whispered, continuing a previous conversation. I nodded and he rested his head on my shoulder. We both sat like that for a while, me feeling peaceful, Shunkaku constantly whispering in my ear. I didn't want to go to next lesson until I realised it was drama, which is good. Practically everyone else had a free at the same time so, after much talking to the drama teacher, all of us doing the history/media studies video assignment were excused from the assignments the rest of the class were doing, and we'd be marked on this instead.
Chuin had already scripted a few scenes and we all started to rehearse them, and practise acting like we did before. Chuin was having trouble making his speech so formal sounding, it was bizarre for him. Shunkaku had it easiest out of all of us, he'd reverted completely to how he was before. I found it relatively easy as well but Ayuru was having trouble doing Nakago's menacing tones. There was also the huge worry about what to do with Miboshi, as Oguchi is tall and skinny and has a different voice. It wouldn't work at all. It turned out he had already thought of that and started making a Miboshi puppet in already. Miaka, Taka, Yui, Saihitei and Ryuuen practised the first few scenes and I watched and hummed the tune I was writing.
"What is that, aniki?" Shunkaku asked.
"It's the them music I'm writing for this video," I replied. I pulled out my flute and everyone clapped after I finished playing it.
"Sugoi!" Shunkaku said.
"It seems familiar..." added Oguchi. I shrugged. It just came to me. I turned around to see what the others were up to. Chuin was tutoring Ayuru on being menacing.
"You're not doing it right!" Chuin corrected Ayuru for the umpteenth time, "It's like this!" Chuin then imitated Nakago so successfully that everyone turned around to look.
"Wow! Who needs a cast, Chuin could do it all!" Miaka exclaimed. Chuin laughed, breaking out of the role.
"Thanks!" he said, then added, in Tomo-tones, "Bow down, pathetic mortals, to the great Artist!"
"I'm going to find some paper to write the theme-song down," I said and marched off with Shunkaku following me, on a quest for the elusive music paper. I wound up bumping into Neko-chan. She was in a foul mood.
"Hey, Kou-chan," she said, sounding pissed off.
"Hi! You don't look too happy!" I remarked.
"Been talking to Arcanine. She's overdosed on m+ms again and won't stop talking about Fushigi Yuki!" she wailed.
"She was the same to me in economics!" I grinned, "I didn't tell her how much of a fan I am, it might have encouraged her. The seiyuu for Yuki is great! I also didn't tell Topdog-chan that I'm a member of the Shiro Yuki fanclub." Shiro Yuki is an extremely famous seiyuu. I love her in Sailor Moo, the story of the cow that jumped over the moon to fight against evil, assisted by the ghosts of the otehr cows that didn't make it jumping over the other planets. I wonder if Topdog knows about Shiro Yuki being the sidekick's seiyuu in Dragon Balls, a heartwarming anime about a guy who castrates dragons for a living, but I guess she must because she is obsessed with eating m+ms to "grow up into a big and strong In-say-ne. Unfortunately, Neko didn't share my view of Shiro Yuki. She screamed.
"Not you too!" she shrieked. Shunkaku jumped up loyally.
"Does it bother you that aniki is a fanboy?" he asked, raising his yo-yo menacingly. Uh oh!
"No! It's the fact that everyone is so obsessed with my sister that bothers me!" Neko wailed.
"Sister?! Shiro-san is your sister?" I gasped.
"Yes!" she wailed, "It's not fa-a-a-a-ir! She did so badly at school that she dropped out then some baka director found she had a loud voice and now no one ca-a-a-a-res if she is anorexic looking, has canoe feet and no boobs!"
"Does she?" I asked in shock.
"Yes!" Neko screamed. I hid a smile, remembering Neko going on about her sister when Neko was in junior high with me and Yuki was in high school. As far as I remember, Yuki looked nothing like that, she looked pretty normal, but then again, she might have changed. At that point, Haruki, who had a free, having heard some of our conversation, walked up.
"Shiro Yuki-san is your sister? Sugoi! Can you get me an autograph?" he asked enthusiastically.
"You see?" wailed Neko, "Trust me, you don't want to know her! She is fat, has a nose like a ripe zuccini and boobs like watermelons!" Haruki shrugged, unfazed.
"I don't care what she looks like, I'm gay and it's not as if I'm interested, I love the anime Walkda 1/4 where she is female Walkda's seiyuu," he said.
"Oh," said Neko, surprised. She shrugged. "I don't konw whether I can get you autographs, my sister is a very busy person and doesn't need bothering from hentai fan-boys." She niffed. Shunkaku and I tried not to giggle. Badmouthing her sister one moment and trying to protect her the next?
"I told you, I'm not a hentai fan-boy, I'm gay!" complained Haruki.
"Go bother Walkda's male seiryuu!" Neko said, sulking, sounding defeated. Haruki walked off and Neko scowled. "My poor sister, having hentai fanboys drooling over her," she said, despairingly. Haruki yelled over his shoulder,
"For the last time, I'm gay!"
"That's what they all say, after they grope her!" Neko shouted back. The sound of a slap rang out across the room and Haruki yelped in pain. Neko turned to Shun-chan and I. "Who was that?" she asked, gesturing to a fleeing figure.
"Haruki's boyfriend," I said with a smirk. Neko pondered over that.
"Oh," she said.
Skipsida's Ravings:
Please, no offense to all the people portrayed! *bow bow, grovel grovel* I thought it would be funny to put Arcanine as a crazy person... like she already is... and as for Shiro Yuki... well! I hope you like your role, please ignore the insults from Neko, since they contradict themselves anyway, and besides, I made them up, not her. *turns to the other sulking sister* And yes, Shiro-chan may be famous, but she won't make much of an appearance in here, other than being obsessed over. And yes, to the others who requested an appearance, it's coming! I'm working on the Kyrosou concert scenes at the moment. After the next chapter is loaded, there won't be any for a while because I want to upload the concert chapters all at once and it'll be big!! Very big!!! And dramatic! And filled with music, romance, sap, humour and all that other good stuff! ^.~