_______________________
The Kindergarten Affair
By Areku
Part 6: Fighting for
Our green earth
_______________________
"What's that thing you brought today?" It was a big bilious boy, one of the bullies of the schoolyard. He was pawing at Akito's Genkiganger 3.
Akito knew his reputation, and was nervous about answering in any one way. "It's Genkiganger," he said softly.
"Genki what?" The taunting, mocking tone struck a cord in Akito.
"I said it's Genkiganger!"
"That's the show with the robots right?" The small king of the playground was smiling.
Akito nodded.
The bigger boy continued, "I watched that show once, it was really stupid. And all the robots were stupid. And the people were ugly." He snickered at the thought, and watched with glowing eyes as the little boy fumed.
That jerk had insulted Akito's pride; he would not get away with that. "Genkiganger is NOT stupid! It's the bestest anime ever! And you're just stupid, cause you don't like it!" He was shouting in the bigger boy's face, his fists clenched.
"Is that so?" taunting, still taunting.
"Yeah!" They were attracting quite an audience now.
"Prove it!" he spat.
"Okay!" Akito's underdeveloped 'scary' expression surfaced. He swung his little fist at his aggressor. His aggressor stepped aside and Akito spun out, from the force of his swing. The bigger boy started laughing. He tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and let it all out. Akito, still fuming, got up and delivered one straight into the other boy's belly.
If Akito cared to look, Yurika could be seen pushing her way to the front of the crowd. When she attained that most valued position, the sight appalled her. Akito, taking on that big bully! Why? Was he defending their relationship? Was that other boy being mean and nasty?
The other boy fell back a couple steps. "That hurt you rat! It wasn't suppose to hurt." He punched Akito's poor little nose, with a much bigger fist, and a much harder swing. Akito fell down, into a sitting position, raising a cloud of Martian dust.
Yurika was outraged. That stupid big bully! How could he do that to Akito?! She stomped forward, fists clenched, till she stood directly in front of the other boy (who was laughing again).
"Hey you! Yeah, I mean you! Stop smiling like that!"
Now this was amusing. A blue hared girl defending a wimpy boy, this would be fun! He stopped laughing and looked down at her, trying to intimidate her with his height.
She stood, undaunted; "You shouldn't be mean to people like that. It's bad." Just like the 'bad guys' on Genkiganger.
"Well, what are you gonna do about it."
That was a good question. What was she going to do about it? She had the perfect answer, "I'll tell my daddy."
The other boy started snickering.
"He's bigger than you are, and taller than you are, and he even has a mustache." This, after all, was a great accomplishment for any daddy.
Her adversary snickered louder.
Akito watched it all from his sitting position, behind Yurika. He was wiping his bloody nose with his dusty hand. This task accomplished nothing but smearing more blood and dust all over his face.
Yurika continued, "And he's the admiral of a bunch of spaceships!" This was one of his lesser accomplishments, but since other people were always impressed with it, she thought it was worth a try. "That means that he can make all his spaceships come over and burn your house down. And then they can take you hostage and put you in jail, or even worse."
The bully was dumbfounded; "Can he really do that?"
"Yes!"
"But I wasn't fighting with you, I was fighting with him." He pointed to Akito.
"It doesn't matter, because you do bad things. So you're a 'bad guy' like on Genkiganger.
He backed off, a little; "I'll settle this with you later." He was talking to Akito, "When you don't have your little girlfriend around."
Maybe Yurika was good for something after all. Maybe... she wasn't so bad.
The crowd broke up. Yurika turned to Akito, tear filled eyes, and did one of her falling/jumping/hugging things, which resulted in them both laying in the Martian dirt.
"Oh Akito, I was so scared. I thought that stupid boy was going to kill you!" She sobbed, gone was the courage she showed a minute ago.
"It's okay," he tried patting her back, "I'm fine."
She hugged him tighter, cutting off the circulation. "But your nose is still bleeding."
The bell rang, and they all went back inside.
End
AN AH! sniff I love this chapter. Sniff, sniff It's so... hugs herself Anyway, thoughts, anyone?
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.
