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The Kindergarten Affair
Part 2: To be the Bad Guy
By Areku
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"No, no, no, you're doing it all wrong." Yurika was a very frustrating person to play with. She obviously knew nothing about Genkiganger, so she much preferred playing 'happy family'. That meant that instead of fighting, Genkiganger3 and Genkiganger5 would play dress up, or some other such nonsense. "Genkiganger is suppose to fight the bad guy and save the city."
Yurika's lower lip wandered out, "But I don't like fighting."
"Well Genkiganger doesn't like playing 'cloths'. He'd like saving the city more."
Yurika's lip stuck out farther in one of those looks that usually provoke the comment 'If you stick your lip out any farther a fly will land on it.' Akito had heard this, and was quite curious to see it happen. So he waited, and waited, but before it did happen Yurika started talking again, so he lost his chance. "Can we play dress up tomorrow?"
He was exasperated with their current game, and was willing to say anything if it would just END! "Fine. If we can play the right way for the rest of today."
She brightened considerably at that, "OKAY!!"
They reset the city, by fixing up more mounds of dirt. In order to play correctly Akito would have to show her around the city. "Okay now, this," he pointed to the biggest mound of dirt, "is the town hall where the mayor lives. And this, is the school where Ken, Akira, and Jo go to school."
"Who's is Ken and Jo?"
"They're the good guys."
"Oh, yay, I wanna be them."
Akito looked doubtful. To let a girl be the heroes of the story, especially this girl was an act of grace. Five-year-olds don't usually specialize in grace. He had already shown grace in letting her play with one of his Genkigangers, but this was just... "You wanna be them?"
"Yeah." She was too happy to understand the full extent of her demand.
"Ookaayyyy. Then um, I'm the bad guy..."
"What does the bad guy do?"
Akito paused. How do you explain bad guys, in simple enough words so that even a girl could understand? He considered the show. There was the time that the bad guys tried to destroy Tokyo, and there was the other time when the bad guys tried to destroy Tokyo..... "They do bad stuff."
But that way even she seemed to understand. "Oh, okay."
He quickly went back to explaining her role as the good guys, "...and your the robot hero Genkiganger."
"YAAAYYY! I like being the good guys, because they do good things right?" The Genius child made a brilliant deduction. "Bad guys are soo icky."
"Can I go on now?"
"Sure."
"You have to protect all the innocent people from me."
"You're the bad guy?!?!"
Akito hit his head with his hand. Now where had she been, for the last few minutes!!!!! "Yes."
She nodded.
"Now you gotta say 'Let's Genki ga in!' Then you gotta fly around and look for the bad guy. And when you find him you gotta fight him, and beat him."
"You're the bad guy right?"
Akito hit the ground, feet up in the air. "YES, I'm the bad guy."
"Um, okay, okay, lets Genki something in!" She didn't sound quite enthusiastic enough, but oh well.
"Good enough. Now you gotta push the little button on his arm and..." He faded out, because he had noticed that Yurika was staring at him, intently. If he had been paying attention he would have realized she had been staring at him throughout the entire scene.
The enthusiasm she hadn't shown for the game now surfaced, "You like me, don't you Akito?" Now how had she come to that conclusion! Talk about queen of random!
"Uh."
Uh is a very comprehensive statement. It has infinite meanings, that can all be deducted from the place and time of the statement, and the position and expression of the speaker. Forming the proper conclusion from this statement is a necessary science. Yurika didn't have the patience to form such a conclusion, so she interpreted it as she wished.
She then sat next to him, clutching his arm with little stars in her eyes, "You do! You really do! I knew it all along." She then closed her eyes, rested her head against his shoulder.
This was a very uncomfortable situation for Akito, one to which he was unsure exactly how to react. Luckily, he didn't have to react, because the lady next door had come out and was calling, "Yurika. Time to come home."
Her eyes snapped open, and she jumped up. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay Akito?"
He very tentatively responded, "Okay?"
With that answer she ran off. What had he gotten himself into.
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AN. I don't know how you would play dress up with Genkiganger. But they did it, so I assume it's possible.
Lets say Akito has the two Genkigangers (3 and 5) which he interchangeably plays are the good guys and the bad.
Disclaimer, the rights to Nadesico are held by Kia Asamiya, Xebec, and ADV. All of which I greatly respect, and have no intention of ripping off. So please don't sue me.
