Chapter 5: Soccer Balls, Truths and Straightjackets
"Hey!" Cye shouted in annoyance as Ryo kicked the soccer ball into his goal. He glared at Ryo and Ryo grinned. "Ok, I'm gonna get you for that," Cye said, grinning back. They were deep in a soccer game, looser does dishes for a week. So far, Ryo was ahead. Cye frowned and thought grimly to himself, 'Note to self: NEVER ask Ryo to do the dishes for 'just one day.' I'll get stuck doing them for a bloody week!'
"Hey Ryo! Cye! Come here for a moment will ya?" Sage was standing at the door looking casual. Both Ryo and Cye suddenly got very nervous. Here lately, every time Sage was around, there was trouble. BIIIIIIIGGGG trouble. The boys abandoned their soccer game in favor of terror. They walked inside nervously. When they made it into the living room, Mia was puzzling over her lamp which had been sitting on the mantelpiece as if nothing had happened to it. It was almost as if some sort of magic had come through the room and put it back together. She just shook her head and left the room, probably to relent Yuli's punishment. Sage looked at the other two, nervous. "I'm worried about Kento." THIS was not what they had expected. They glanced at each other in stunned silence. Sage, seeing that they were too shocked to say anything continued. "He's been acting nervous and keeps asking me to knock off the pranks and teach him to meditate. MEDITATE! I think he's in serious need of a psychiatrist." (AN: Tell us something we don't know!)
The three boys exchanged grim expressions and Cye was the next person to speak. "Well, I agree, but I think that your pranks may have something to do with it. The guy's under a lot of stress. We should let it be today and talk with him about it tomorrow." The other two nodded.
Sage sighed. "I guess that I should stop the pranks from this moment forward huh?" The other two nodded vigorously. They then went back outside to resume their soccer game.
~*~
Cye casually walked back outside with Ryo. "Well, that went well," Cye said, smiling.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Ryo said cheerfully. "Let's get back to that game now." Cye sighed and nodded and went over to kick the ball into the center of the makeshift field. He kicked the ball..
and yelped in pain, falling to the ground right next to the unmoved soccer ball. "Cye! What happened!? What's wrong with my soccer ball?! Is your foot ok?" Ryo said this as he dashed over to help Cye in getting himself, and the soccer ball, inside.
~*~
The two had made it into the house and both of them were crying. Cye was crying because his toe was broken. Fortunately, with the power of his armor it wouldn't take that long to heal. Ryo, on the other hand, was crying for a much less... reasonable problem.
"My soccer ball! It's too heavy! Who cast this spell?! My poor beloved soccer ball!" Cye rolled his eyes. Ryo helped Cye down to a sitting position on the couch and stood in front of him crying his eyes out about, a soccer ball, of all things.
Suddenly Ryo felt something bounce off his head from the direction of the upstairs banisters. He looked over to where the object would have landed and froze. A smile slowly spread across his face. It was.. his soccer ball!!!!!!! In an instant, he had dropped the ball in his hands and dashed over to pick up the soccer ball. He continued crying, but these tears were tears of joy. But what he failed to notice was that in his joy rush, he had dropped the other soccer ball on Cye's other foot. Poor Cye was whimpering in pain.
Cye reached down and picked up the offensive soccer ball. He noticed it had three holes in it and the color was obviously painted on by an amateur. "Sage! I thought you said that you would stop pulling pranks! I think that switching the soccer ball Ryo's father gave him before he died with a bowling ball would certainly count as a prank!" He shouted this, and then looked up to notice that Sage was standing at the top of the upstairs banister.
"Yes, I did say that from 'this moment on.'" But unfortunately, the prank was already done." He sighed casually and frowned. "I'm sorry Cye. I didn't mean for you to actually hurt yourself with the bowling ball. But now that this is over, then I think that it's time for everyone to meet my relative." They all nodded and Cye wore a faint smile. Ryo and Sage went to gather everyone else up.
~*~
Everyone was excitedly sitting in their seats, trying to sit still, but ending up looking like a bunch of five year olds going to the circus. Even White Blaze was excited. He wanted to thank whoever brought that rat for him to eat! (AN: And now the moment you've all been waiting for!) Sage then walked into the room with a calm smirk on his face. "Lady and gentlemen! Boy and tiger! The person you've all been waiting to meet... Seiji!!!" His voice sounded like he was announcing for the circus and as he pointed to a door across the room he received a stunned silence. In walked Sage. Everyone in the room looked back at Sage who was still standing at the opposite end of the room looking smug. They all looked at the other end of the room where Sage was standing with the same expression. They continued looking back and forth and even the tiger was confused.
Everyone was looking back and forth except for Kento. He casually pulled out his cell phone and dialed memory eight wearing a stupid, and amazingly calm grin. "Hello! Yes, I have someone you need to pick up. Yes. . Right, I understand. Uh huh. All right, just ask for Kento. Yeah, that's the one. Right. Thanks, bye!" He turned off his cell phone and casually placed it in his pocket. "Hey, guys! I'm expecting someone so if anyone comes looking for me, then take them to me."
The back and forth staring contest continued and finally Rowen broke the silence. "Ok, what's going on exactly?"
The second Sage, or rather, Seiji, smiled at him and told him, "It's simple really, we're twins! Isn't that right Say?"
The first Sage, the one they all knew, smiled back at his brother. "That's right Ji! *sigh* Too bad that this had to end so soon. I was enjoying that."
"I KNOW! You remember the first conversation I had with these guys though? I thought I was going to die! And when Kento went into the kitchen with that bag of potato chips I thought that we would be discovered for sure! But it's a good thing you finished with that flour before he went in there! And the ideas that conversation gave me for our next prank were great!" Ji was obviously enjoying himself at confusing everyone.
"Yeah, and that phone call was so much fun to do! You should have heard Kento! It was hilarious!" Sage replied. Obviously getting in on the action.
Cye decided to interrupt this family moment in hopes of regaining some of his sanity. "So, Sage put the salt in the flour?" The two nodded. "And, Seiji was the one we were talking to then?" They nodded again.
"Wow! I thought he looked edgy, but I had no idea," Ryo said.
Cye resumed his rant, his increasing anger becoming increasingly obvious. "Now, if both of you were in on this, I just want to know one thing," Cye's cold anger was beginning to frighten the two, they knew he would soon blow his top, and they were right. "Which one of you _had the idea TO PAINT A BOWLING BALL LIKE A SOCCER BALL AND HAVE RYO DROP IT ON MY FOOT!!!????!?!?!!"
Everyone in the room flinched. The doorbell rang. Everyone glared at the two blonds who were now panicking. "We're both right here! Neither of us could have rang the doorbell! Why are you all glaring at us because of the doorbell?!" Sage had decided to stand up for the two of them, and everyone nodded and began to make their way to the door.
When Ryo opened the door, there were three strong looking men wearing white coats. Everyone blinked. "We got a call, is there a Kento living here?" Everyone nodded and pointed to Kento, who just smiled.
"My ride's here? Cool. Well, it was great knowing you guys, Ryo, Cye, Rowen, Mia, Yuli, White Blaze, Sage, figment-of-my-crazy-mind-named-Seiji! Great knowing you all!" As Kento was making his speech he walked around the room either shaking people's hands or rubbing creatures heads.
When he got to the last three in his farewells, the three men were in far enough to see who he was saying goodbye too. They all froze dead in their tracks. They all three looked like they saw a ghost. Never taking their eyes off the tiger and the two identical people they got out their straightjackets and started helping each other put them on. "Hey, those are for me!" Kento seemed insulted and started chasing them around the room trying to get a straightjacket from them.
~*~
After several hours and a lot of explaining, they had finally convinced the four men that nobody here was crazy. The three men from the funny farm went back empty handed with a story that would probably get THEM committed. At this point nobody cared. I mean, would YOU care if it were 1 in the morning? Everyone went to bed a little less confused, but still extremely exhausted.
~*~
The next morning, it was hoped that everything would return to normal. So far, it was. Cye was cooking, Mia was cleaning, Yuli was sitting and yawning, Sage and Seiji were both meditating in the living room, making it a bit unnerving to walk through, Ryo was practicing his soccer, Rowen was still sleeping, and Kento probably was too, and who knew what that tiger was doing.
Sage got up, saying that he was going to take a shower. He met Kento at the bottom of the stairs who was whistling to himself. He was obviously pleased with something, but nobody knew what. Time passed and breakfast was served and a scream was heard from the shower. An ear piercing, gut wrenching scream filled with fury. Sage dashed down the stairs in his bath robe only to be met with stares. His hair was pink. Not just any pink either, a bright, cotton candy pink. "WHO DID THIS?!?!?!?!" Kento broke down laughing, followed closely by everyone else. Except for Seiji who had fainted after mumbling painfully about his poor brother. Sage's visible eye narrowed with cold fury as he walked over to Kento. "You." He said nothing else as he grabbed Kento's collar.
Kento just grinned. "Well, I was bored, and I thought that since you nearly gave me a change of address, that I should give you something in return. I thought a change of hair color would be nice. Also, since the change of address would have been a bit wild, then the hair color should match. What do you think? Too dull? Should I have gotten something in a nice deep violet?" Kento's death wish was just getting bigger. Sage screamed his fury and began to chase after Kento. Kento laughed, pleased at his revenge. Seiji was still unconscious, and everyone else was staying out of the way.
Rowen seemed to be in deep thought though. 'Hmmm.. This reminds me of myself and my cousin.'
The End
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Ok, that was fun to write! For those of you who guessed it, get yourself an ice cream, my compliments! And for those of you asking about the little question mark at the end, then I suppose that you should just try to figure that out for yourselves for now! *evil laughter* This has been fun, and it will be fun! Anyone for some more constructive criticism? I actually smile at the stuff! I smiled really big at my first review on this story, believe it or not!
"Hey!" Cye shouted in annoyance as Ryo kicked the soccer ball into his goal. He glared at Ryo and Ryo grinned. "Ok, I'm gonna get you for that," Cye said, grinning back. They were deep in a soccer game, looser does dishes for a week. So far, Ryo was ahead. Cye frowned and thought grimly to himself, 'Note to self: NEVER ask Ryo to do the dishes for 'just one day.' I'll get stuck doing them for a bloody week!'
"Hey Ryo! Cye! Come here for a moment will ya?" Sage was standing at the door looking casual. Both Ryo and Cye suddenly got very nervous. Here lately, every time Sage was around, there was trouble. BIIIIIIIGGGG trouble. The boys abandoned their soccer game in favor of terror. They walked inside nervously. When they made it into the living room, Mia was puzzling over her lamp which had been sitting on the mantelpiece as if nothing had happened to it. It was almost as if some sort of magic had come through the room and put it back together. She just shook her head and left the room, probably to relent Yuli's punishment. Sage looked at the other two, nervous. "I'm worried about Kento." THIS was not what they had expected. They glanced at each other in stunned silence. Sage, seeing that they were too shocked to say anything continued. "He's been acting nervous and keeps asking me to knock off the pranks and teach him to meditate. MEDITATE! I think he's in serious need of a psychiatrist." (AN: Tell us something we don't know!)
The three boys exchanged grim expressions and Cye was the next person to speak. "Well, I agree, but I think that your pranks may have something to do with it. The guy's under a lot of stress. We should let it be today and talk with him about it tomorrow." The other two nodded.
Sage sighed. "I guess that I should stop the pranks from this moment forward huh?" The other two nodded vigorously. They then went back outside to resume their soccer game.
~*~
Cye casually walked back outside with Ryo. "Well, that went well," Cye said, smiling.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Ryo said cheerfully. "Let's get back to that game now." Cye sighed and nodded and went over to kick the ball into the center of the makeshift field. He kicked the ball..
and yelped in pain, falling to the ground right next to the unmoved soccer ball. "Cye! What happened!? What's wrong with my soccer ball?! Is your foot ok?" Ryo said this as he dashed over to help Cye in getting himself, and the soccer ball, inside.
~*~
The two had made it into the house and both of them were crying. Cye was crying because his toe was broken. Fortunately, with the power of his armor it wouldn't take that long to heal. Ryo, on the other hand, was crying for a much less... reasonable problem.
"My soccer ball! It's too heavy! Who cast this spell?! My poor beloved soccer ball!" Cye rolled his eyes. Ryo helped Cye down to a sitting position on the couch and stood in front of him crying his eyes out about, a soccer ball, of all things.
Suddenly Ryo felt something bounce off his head from the direction of the upstairs banisters. He looked over to where the object would have landed and froze. A smile slowly spread across his face. It was.. his soccer ball!!!!!!! In an instant, he had dropped the ball in his hands and dashed over to pick up the soccer ball. He continued crying, but these tears were tears of joy. But what he failed to notice was that in his joy rush, he had dropped the other soccer ball on Cye's other foot. Poor Cye was whimpering in pain.
Cye reached down and picked up the offensive soccer ball. He noticed it had three holes in it and the color was obviously painted on by an amateur. "Sage! I thought you said that you would stop pulling pranks! I think that switching the soccer ball Ryo's father gave him before he died with a bowling ball would certainly count as a prank!" He shouted this, and then looked up to notice that Sage was standing at the top of the upstairs banister.
"Yes, I did say that from 'this moment on.'" But unfortunately, the prank was already done." He sighed casually and frowned. "I'm sorry Cye. I didn't mean for you to actually hurt yourself with the bowling ball. But now that this is over, then I think that it's time for everyone to meet my relative." They all nodded and Cye wore a faint smile. Ryo and Sage went to gather everyone else up.
~*~
Everyone was excitedly sitting in their seats, trying to sit still, but ending up looking like a bunch of five year olds going to the circus. Even White Blaze was excited. He wanted to thank whoever brought that rat for him to eat! (AN: And now the moment you've all been waiting for!) Sage then walked into the room with a calm smirk on his face. "Lady and gentlemen! Boy and tiger! The person you've all been waiting to meet... Seiji!!!" His voice sounded like he was announcing for the circus and as he pointed to a door across the room he received a stunned silence. In walked Sage. Everyone in the room looked back at Sage who was still standing at the opposite end of the room looking smug. They all looked at the other end of the room where Sage was standing with the same expression. They continued looking back and forth and even the tiger was confused.
Everyone was looking back and forth except for Kento. He casually pulled out his cell phone and dialed memory eight wearing a stupid, and amazingly calm grin. "Hello! Yes, I have someone you need to pick up. Yes. . Right, I understand. Uh huh. All right, just ask for Kento. Yeah, that's the one. Right. Thanks, bye!" He turned off his cell phone and casually placed it in his pocket. "Hey, guys! I'm expecting someone so if anyone comes looking for me, then take them to me."
The back and forth staring contest continued and finally Rowen broke the silence. "Ok, what's going on exactly?"
The second Sage, or rather, Seiji, smiled at him and told him, "It's simple really, we're twins! Isn't that right Say?"
The first Sage, the one they all knew, smiled back at his brother. "That's right Ji! *sigh* Too bad that this had to end so soon. I was enjoying that."
"I KNOW! You remember the first conversation I had with these guys though? I thought I was going to die! And when Kento went into the kitchen with that bag of potato chips I thought that we would be discovered for sure! But it's a good thing you finished with that flour before he went in there! And the ideas that conversation gave me for our next prank were great!" Ji was obviously enjoying himself at confusing everyone.
"Yeah, and that phone call was so much fun to do! You should have heard Kento! It was hilarious!" Sage replied. Obviously getting in on the action.
Cye decided to interrupt this family moment in hopes of regaining some of his sanity. "So, Sage put the salt in the flour?" The two nodded. "And, Seiji was the one we were talking to then?" They nodded again.
"Wow! I thought he looked edgy, but I had no idea," Ryo said.
Cye resumed his rant, his increasing anger becoming increasingly obvious. "Now, if both of you were in on this, I just want to know one thing," Cye's cold anger was beginning to frighten the two, they knew he would soon blow his top, and they were right. "Which one of you _had the idea TO PAINT A BOWLING BALL LIKE A SOCCER BALL AND HAVE RYO DROP IT ON MY FOOT!!!????!?!?!!"
Everyone in the room flinched. The doorbell rang. Everyone glared at the two blonds who were now panicking. "We're both right here! Neither of us could have rang the doorbell! Why are you all glaring at us because of the doorbell?!" Sage had decided to stand up for the two of them, and everyone nodded and began to make their way to the door.
When Ryo opened the door, there were three strong looking men wearing white coats. Everyone blinked. "We got a call, is there a Kento living here?" Everyone nodded and pointed to Kento, who just smiled.
"My ride's here? Cool. Well, it was great knowing you guys, Ryo, Cye, Rowen, Mia, Yuli, White Blaze, Sage, figment-of-my-crazy-mind-named-Seiji! Great knowing you all!" As Kento was making his speech he walked around the room either shaking people's hands or rubbing creatures heads.
When he got to the last three in his farewells, the three men were in far enough to see who he was saying goodbye too. They all froze dead in their tracks. They all three looked like they saw a ghost. Never taking their eyes off the tiger and the two identical people they got out their straightjackets and started helping each other put them on. "Hey, those are for me!" Kento seemed insulted and started chasing them around the room trying to get a straightjacket from them.
~*~
After several hours and a lot of explaining, they had finally convinced the four men that nobody here was crazy. The three men from the funny farm went back empty handed with a story that would probably get THEM committed. At this point nobody cared. I mean, would YOU care if it were 1 in the morning? Everyone went to bed a little less confused, but still extremely exhausted.
~*~
The next morning, it was hoped that everything would return to normal. So far, it was. Cye was cooking, Mia was cleaning, Yuli was sitting and yawning, Sage and Seiji were both meditating in the living room, making it a bit unnerving to walk through, Ryo was practicing his soccer, Rowen was still sleeping, and Kento probably was too, and who knew what that tiger was doing.
Sage got up, saying that he was going to take a shower. He met Kento at the bottom of the stairs who was whistling to himself. He was obviously pleased with something, but nobody knew what. Time passed and breakfast was served and a scream was heard from the shower. An ear piercing, gut wrenching scream filled with fury. Sage dashed down the stairs in his bath robe only to be met with stares. His hair was pink. Not just any pink either, a bright, cotton candy pink. "WHO DID THIS?!?!?!?!" Kento broke down laughing, followed closely by everyone else. Except for Seiji who had fainted after mumbling painfully about his poor brother. Sage's visible eye narrowed with cold fury as he walked over to Kento. "You." He said nothing else as he grabbed Kento's collar.
Kento just grinned. "Well, I was bored, and I thought that since you nearly gave me a change of address, that I should give you something in return. I thought a change of hair color would be nice. Also, since the change of address would have been a bit wild, then the hair color should match. What do you think? Too dull? Should I have gotten something in a nice deep violet?" Kento's death wish was just getting bigger. Sage screamed his fury and began to chase after Kento. Kento laughed, pleased at his revenge. Seiji was still unconscious, and everyone else was staying out of the way.
Rowen seemed to be in deep thought though. 'Hmmm.. This reminds me of myself and my cousin.'
The End
...?
Ok, that was fun to write! For those of you who guessed it, get yourself an ice cream, my compliments! And for those of you asking about the little question mark at the end, then I suppose that you should just try to figure that out for yourselves for now! *evil laughter* This has been fun, and it will be fun! Anyone for some more constructive criticism? I actually smile at the stuff! I smiled really big at my first review on this story, believe it or not!
