Part 3: The Late Afternoon Project of Koushirou and Miyako!
Koushirou and Miyako were sitting in the school's computer lab working on a project that made the now eighth grade 14-year-old Miyako a bit frustrated. She was prettier now, not that she never was, and had one admirer in general, whom of which was somewhat shy to tell her how he felt. There was also another person that had a thing for Miyako that nobody knew about. She rarely sees him, but he admires her from afar and has known her for quite a while. There is also one other boy that has a thing for Miyako, but he was just less conspicuous and obvious about it. He's liked her for quite a while too and only one person knows of his crush on her and that particular person promised to keep it a secret.
No one else was around near the computer lab and the only people left were students participating in after school activities or the janitors, but in the area they were in, nobody was around. It was pretty much isolated, but every once in a while, someone would pass by. The reason for the isolation was because it was the teachers' computer lab. Since she was in the computer club and had a special position in the club, she had special permission to use it.
"Why in the world did I promise something like this," the exasperated girl sighed while lying her head face-down on the keyboard. "I have only one day left!"
"Don't worry," Koushirou assured her, "I'm here to help you."
"You don't have to if you don't want to you know."
"I don't mind helping," Koushirou smiled. "Besides, you looked very stressed when I was walking by. I'll just take the city bus home instead of walking."
"I just had to say I'd program my own RPG and present it to them by tomorrow," Miyako complained. "I'm nowhere near finished! Too many stupid glitches! What I really want to know is why there are so many! There always seems to be a different problem everyday!"
Miyako was now in her second year of Junior High School. She was still an ace with computers and Koushirou was still her best computer buddy. She was in the computer club at Odaiba Junior High and was the vice president of it.
"Who knows," Koushirou stated plainly. "That's why I'm helping you. I also think that this RPG game that you are programming is pretty creative. I don't know all of the details yet, but I'm sure it's good."
"No way, this thing is lousy."
Koushirou was now a semi-tall 15 year old in his third and final year of Junior High, grade 9. He was also still a computer whiz and his hair had grown out a bit compared to how it was two years earlier. He was also the president of his school's computer club. He had been since he had first attended there. He was well respected by both faculty and students, especially the female students lately. Koushirou was just oblivious to the fact that a lot of the girls of his class were attracted to him now since he was a bit more handsome. He just thought they were all being nice. Miyako sighed at his naive ness. She could see that the girls liked him, but he didn't seem to notice.
Every year, Koushirou was voted to be the president of their computer club. Miyako was quite shy in that sense and didn't want to run for any position; mainly because she knew that she would be running against Koushirou, but he talked her into it her second year and she ended up becoming vice president. She still felt she was new to Junior High and wasn't sure if she was going to be accepted or not by her peers, but everyone liked her and figured that she would be the right person for the job. Those two practically ran the club, even before she became the vice president of it.
Koushirou didn't know it, but Miyako and the other computer club members were planning on throwing him a surprise party since it was going to be his last year at Odaiba Junior High as their well-respected computer club president. She wasn't in charge of making the preparations, though, another girl was. One that Miyako truly didn't care for and vice versa for this particular girl towards her.
"I think it was very creative of you to use our Digimon as characters," Koushirou complimented.
"I really miss Hawkmon so I decided to use a Digimon theme to help remember him," Miyako explained. "I'm glad that you had all of that old Digimon information left on your laptop and those old digital photos that Hikari-chan had of some Digimon. I didn't think I could use those to create the characters."
Miyako was still a bit self conscious about presenting her RPG, but she gave herself a bit of a pep talk.
'I hope nobody thinks the idea of Digimon is stupid. It's weird, just like before, nobody remembers about what happened two years ago except for us Chosen Children from all around the world.' She shook her head. 'No, I can't think like that! Who cares! This is to remember Hawkmon by! He would want me to go through with this.'
"Well, the programs are more advanced now, that's the main reason why," Koushirou explained. "Besides, it doesn't have to be all that advanced. Just a typical computer game will do."
"No, it has to be the best," Miyako said with determination. "I have to prove to everyone that I do know about computer programs and software as well as I do hardware and I must prove myself, especially to that Mi Aina."
"Aina-san, huh," Koushirou said as if he were wondering who Miyako was referring to. "Oh, the real pretty black-haired girl from China that you beat by one vote to become vice president."
"Yeah, she's been getting on my case ever since I won it," Miyako frowned. "She keeps saying that I'll make a terrible vice president, even though I was the president for the computer club in Elementary after you left, so I had the experience."
"I wouldn't worry about her. You know a lot more than she does and I would know. I've worked with the her before, mainly because she was the vice president last year."
"You talk as if you don't know her or as if you just met her," Miyako noted. "She's been in all of your classes since you started going to this school."
"I guess she's okay, but we don't talk much unless it's during class or during one of our meetings," he pointed out. "She is nice though and very friendly."
"Nice and friendly my foot," Miyako scoffed under her breath.
"She really respects me and sometimes calls me 'Izumi-sama.' That's surprising coming from someone that's the same age as you," he laughed. "I guess I could talk with her more often than what I do. I would love to brush up on my Chinese, especially after my incident in Hong Kong two years ago when I was there with Hikari-san. My Chinese speaking skills were terrible and my English was even worse! Maybe I'll ask her to tutor me. I bet she isn't around, though, since school let out a couple of hours ago. It is pretty late now, so I guess I'll just call her. I'm sure I could find her number in my school address book."
The boy then laughed a bit.
"I wonder why I never thought of asking her this earlier. Like you said, she has been a part of my class since I started this school."
"Just one command and I'll have this thing finished, but I just can't figure out why it isn't working the way it is supposed to," Miyako sighed in annoyance over the entire situation while staring at the computer screen. "It's the sound quality. In the beginning, it's supposed to be playing the song, Target~Akai Shougeki~ by the idol Wada Kouji-sama, but you can't hear it or any other music for that matter!"
"Hmm, I think I see where your mistake is," Koushirou said while looking over the information that Miyako had input. "You typed in the wrong command and used a backslash where you shouldn't have, get rid of it."
Koushirou then noticed a bunch of other wrong commands.
"As a matter of fact, Miyako-kun, about 45% of these commands are wrong." Koushirou then sighed as he realized how long it would take to fix them all. "We're going to be here for a while."
Miyako did as Koushirou instructed, and a couple of other things - that I wouldn't know about since I don't know anything about programing a computer game or programming in general except for my VCR and I can barely do that right (-_-); - which took about another hour or so and ran the game for the fourth time since Koushirou noticed the errors. She crossed her fingers and held her breath, awaiting to see if her Digimon Computer Game would work.
"It works! It works!" Miyako exclaimed happily. "It took us forever, but it works!"
She then jumped up and hugged Koushirou when she saw that her game was working.
"You're welcome," Koushirou said with a nervous laugh.
Miyako blushed slightly and let go of him.
"Sorry about that," she apologized. "I'm just so glad this game is working now."
"That's okay," Koushirou said, trying to get rid of that nervous feeling of his. "I know what it's like to spend your time trying to figure something out, like trying to crack a computer code, and then you finally figure it out. It's a great feeling knowing that you figured out something on your own."
"After all of this work, we should go down to my family's convenient store and get ourselves something to eat," Miyako offered. "I'm famished. Who knows, maybe we could go down to the gym. I'm sure they won't mind an extra person. I just hope they're still there."
"Good idea," Koushirou agreed. "I'm getting pretty hungry myself, but I wouldn't want to impose. They invited you, not me."
"I guess I should have mentioned that I was with you, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you came along."
"That's okay," Koushirou assured her. "I'll just get me a bite to eat on my way home."
"No way," Miyako told him. "I'm calling Ken-kun to see if he's still there. It's such a long walk from here to the gym."
Koushirou couldn't stop her, so she took out her cell and dialed Ken's number.
'It's so late, I would hate to disappoint him,' she then added on quickly, 'Oh, and the others too.'
She waited, and waited, but she never got an answer.
"I guess he isn't around," she said while hanging up the phone. "I wonder where he is and why I didn't get his answering service?" The girl smiled a bit. 'He really loves Wormmon and still uses him for the answering service by it saying, 'Hello, Ichijouji Ken isn't in right now so leave a message for him.' It was cute how he taped his voice like that.'
"Maybe Ichijouji-kun left for the day and forgot to turn it on."
"Hmm, wait, let's check out the---"
"Wait, don't even bother," Koushirou interrupted.
"How come?"
"Look at how late it is," Koushirou said, pointing to the computer clock. "They are probably gone by now. We had permission to stay back in the lab, but I doubt they had permission to stay back and use the gym."
"You're probably right."
"Don't worry, I'm sure they'll have another get together soon," he said trying to cheer her up. "Better yet, why don't you get one together yourself and all of you go out."
"That's a great idea!" Miyako smiled. 'I just hope Ken-kun is around and isn't too busy, same as Daisuke.'
"See, everything will go fine."
"Could you come along too," Miyako asked. "It'll be fun!"
"I dunno," he said with a shrug. "If I'm not busy with anything else, maybe I will."
"Please? I was thinking about going on a picnic in the park."
"Okay, you've convinced me!"
That's because food is involved," Miyako laughed.
"Whatever gave you that impression," Koushirou innocently joked.
Miyako laughed.
"You know, maybe only you guys should go and invite Iori-kun along," he suggested. "I'm sure he'd enjoy hanging out with you guys again since you rarely see him because of the age and grade difference."
"That's true and to make it worse Takeru-kun and myself both live in the same apartment building as he does and we still don't see him much." She shook her head over how bad it was that they rarely saw him. "We are always busy. Come to think of it, I rarely see Takeru-kun either."
"Hmm, that is a problem, but I'm sure it'll all work out in the end."
"I hope so."
"Hey, do you mind if I play your game," Koushirou asked, getting off of the subject.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course," he said with assurance. "As president of OJH's Computer Club, I must see if this passes my test, which I'm sure it will seeing as who programmed it."
Miyako blushed from the compliment and smiled at her older redheaded companion.
"Sure, go ahead, but do you really think it'll pass your test?"
"I'm sure that it will pass it," Koushirou said as matter of factly. "You are very smart with computers and you have been doing very well with programming lately."
"Thanks," Miyako said, "but I didn't even know there was a test."
"Well, actually, there isn't," Koushirou laughed nervously. "I just wanted to play before everyone else."
Miyako sweat dropped as Koushirou sat down to play the game and started to explain it to him.
"Since my time was limited, there are only four main characters," Miyako explained. "I based them on me, you, Mimi-oneesama, and Iori-kun. I chose at random and their names will be, Miya, Koji, Mi, and Cody."
"Mimi-san, huh?" Koushirou looked over at the clock. "It should be morning time there now. I also wonder how her performance will go over."
"Oh yeah, she was supposed to sing songs to her class or something like that, right?"
"Yeah. It took me a long while, but I finally got the songs she requested karaokes of just right."
"Why didn't you wait for me to help you anyway?"
"I knew how busy you were with other things, so I just did it all my own."
"But you filtered three songs!! And we always work on stuff like that together."
"I know, but I really didn't mind."
"You still could've asked me to help," Miyako muttered under her breath, slightly jealous over Koushirou's eagerness to work by himself.
"You know, I remember how we tried that idea of hers when we had to say good bye to our Digimon; trying to find a way back to the Digital World. Too bad it didn't work. I wonder how she is doing in general, now that you mention it. It's been a little over a year since her last visit to Japan."
"Fine I'm sure, but it would be nice if she could visit us again."
"Strange how in America she's a whole grade up on me and is in her second year of High School while I'm still in Junior High and we are the exact same age."
"Go fig the American system," Miyako shrugged, going back to explaining her game. "Now, you start off with my character and the song that should play is Crash de Bingo by the idol, Natsuki Rio-sama, or either the song, Dancin' on the Sky. It'll vary, I forgot which I programmed it for."
"No problem."
"You're going to explore around and end up in the Digital World," Miyako continued. "The music that starts to play when that happens should be Butter-Fly, another song by Kouji-sama. After that, you should run into a Tyranomon who tries to attack you. You're going to run away from him, though, since you don't know what it is. All of that should be automatic, and then a Digimon, from out of nowhere, attacks the Tyranomon. It's a boy with a Tentomon and the Tentomon is what attacked the Tyranomon. The boy and the Tentomon get Miya to safety."
"I'm guessing that's my character, right?"
"Bingo," Miyako said with a nod.
"Prodigious!"
"Let's see, along with this boy and his Tentomon, is a Digimon called Hawkmon. The song that should play when your character first meets the boy should be Digital Scratch. The character finds out that she is in a place called the Digital World and that the Digimon called Hawkmon is her own personal Digimon. Your character also explains how there is an evil force taking over the Digital World changing the once good Digimon into bad ones and that he was chosen to find three other children who were brought to the Digital World to help stop it. He also explains that Miya was one of them and that there are now two others he must go off in search of and how he was meant to meet Miya when she arrived."
"Very detailed," Koushirou noted.
"So from there, the two are looking for these other two people to help fight against this evil force together. It should go fast though and watch where you explore or you'll run into a bad Digimon and you'll have to fight them to get them good once again. You use Tentomon and Hawkmon to battle until you find the other two, and then you will have four Digimon allies on your team. During battle sequences, the song Brave Heart should play by the idol Miyazaki Ayumi. I also decided to use the Black Gear idea."
"This sounds very interesting," Koushirou exclaimed. "Well, let's start this game up. It will be like all of us older kids' adventure in the Digital World and I bet you used Devimon as the last bad Digimon for us to fight against since you decided to use the Black Gear idea that me and all of the older Chosens encountered."
"Bingo," Miyako said while doing her victory pose. "During his battle, the song Dark Wing, by Shiozawa Kaneto, should play and the song I programmed to end it with is Keep On by the famous AiM, even though back then she was still going by the name Maeda Ai. Oh, and all of the Digimon can only go up to their adult (champion) levels and to do that, you have to figure it out. You have to figure out the key of making your Digimon evolve."
"Cool, I better hurry and get started!"
******
A pretty, incredibly popular, 15-year-old, nicely figured girl was
wandering around school. She wanted to work, or should we say, sabotage
a certain "computer project." Her name was Aina.
"I wonder where that old Miyako is," Aina wondered out aloud. "I wonder if she's left yet?"
The pretty girl laughed at the thought.
"I bet she's still having trouble with her little computer game and is putting in overtime today! I just thought I'd help her along, like I've been doing all week, without her being there of course. It's so easy to do! She shouldn't save it on the hard drive of the computer she uses during our meets! She's just asking for trouble. She should put it on floppies instead or at least a laptop."
She then started to think for a moment over the situation.
"Hmm, maybe I won't have to do a thing. I mean, what are Digimon? Honestly! No one will take something like that seriously. I'm sure our president will think she's a nut case!" The girl then smiled evilly. "Well, after she makes a fool of herself tomorrow they'll realize how incompetent she is and how I deserve to be vice president and give me the position back! Then that way I'll get closer to," the girl started, hearts forming in her eyes along with a dreamy sigh, "Izumi-sama. Just like it was before that brat started going to this school!"
"Aina-chan," a person called to her.
"Wait up," another person called out.
The girl shook her head and came back to reality. She turned to see who had called her.
"Oh, Jen-chan, Joya-chan," Aina smiled. "Hi there."
"I'm surprised you're still here," Joya said, pointing out the time. "Was there a computer club meeting today or something?"
"No, I was just, um, going to my locker," Aina told the two. She then realized what Joya had said. "What do you mean there was a Computer Club Meeting today?"
"We just saw Koushirou-san in the computer lab with Miyako-san over an hour ago when we were on our way to Volleyball practice," she explained. "I just figured they were early or something, but I just went back that way and they're both still there. They're both in the teachers' computer lab."
"I guess they're staying behind since they're the president and vice president," Joya pointed out. "You know, Aina-chan, I don't remember you ever staying back like that when you were the vice president."
The girl ignored Joya's last statement.
"Oh yeah, it must've slipped my mind that we were having a meet today," Aina said while laughing nervously. 'Miyako is still here?! How can I mess up her program if she's still working on it! She doesn't normally stay this late.'
"It seems that it might be over," Jen said. "Nobody else was there."
"Maybe I'll go and check up on them," Aina responded, twitching a bit in anger.
"Aina-chan," Jen said with concern, "you look mad."
"Incredibly," Joya nodded. "You are our best friend, what's the matter?"
"I am not mad!" the girl assured them. "What makes you think that I'm mad or upset just because that four eyed brainiac is alone with Izumi-kun!!"
"You sound jealous," Jen pointed out.
"I am not jealous!" Aina shouted at the top of her lungs.
Aina blushed nervously as her echo filled the hall.
"Well, he has known her for a long time," Jen reminded Aina. "That's probably why he hangs around with her a lot. They don't have the same classes since she's in her second year and he's in his third, like you, which is another reason why they probably hang out a lot. Besides, I like Miyako-san. She's a really cool person to hang around with."
"Yeah, I like her too," Joya smiled.
Joya looked down at her wrist watch and noticed the time that was on it.
"Hey, we better get going," the girl told Jen. "We have to hurry up. My sister is picking us up, remember."
"Okay," Jen nodded. "Hey, Aina-chan, want to come with us? Maybe we could catch a movie."
"Nah, I have to do a couple of things first," the girl told them, declining the invite. "I'll take the bus home. I also have to finish planning that surprise party for our Computer Club Prez!"
"Okay," Joya said. "If you really are busy, that's okay."
'I could finish out that party planning or maybe Izumi-sama will help me to get home and then I'll invite him in and then I'll offer him a drink and a snack and then he'll accept it and then he'll give me a k--'
"Earth to Aina," Joya said while waving a hand in front of Aina's face. "Are you there?"
"Oh, I was, ugh, just thinking about something."
"Oh, by the way, we overheard him saying that he was going to ask you something," Jen said with a smile. "We didn't catch everything unfortunately."
"Oh, okay," Aina said plainly.
The girl then realized what Jen had said and got into her face, shouting out in a happy tone.
"HONTOU NI!!! (Really!!!)"
The girl then calmed down, trying to act mature and sophisticated. She felt rather foolish jumping around and screaming out like a crazed fan girl.
"Hmm, I wonder what it could be," Aina said, clearing her throat. 'Maybe after all of this time he's going to ask me out! I've been waiting for this day to happen! Tons of boys have asked me out but the one boy I truly want to ask me out hasn't. I just hope he is!'
"We better get going," Joya warned. "My sister hates waiting."
"Don't I know it," Jen laughed.
"We'll catch you later, Aina-chan," both girls said as they started off.
The two girls waved to Aina as they hurried out of the school to catch their ride. They then started to talk as they headed down the hall and out towards their ride.
"She's never admitted it but I think she has a thing for Koushirou-san," Jen said to Joya.
"I think she does too," Joya agreed. "She gets totally jealous if any other girl hangs around him."
"Isn't it weird," Jen started, "Aina-chan isn't the only one that has a thing for Koushirou-san. Naomi, Krystal, Rachel, Jerri, Laura, Sakura, and Kasumi all have a thing for him and seem to admire him whenever he walks by."
"We could probably make up a bigger list than that seeing as how they're just some of the girls that have a thing for him and I know that because they're all a part of our class!"
"White Day is going to be hectic for him next year," Jen whistled. "He may actually get something for Valentine's next February, which would require him to give out presents on White Day. Koushirou-san is the polite type and he would probably try his best to give Marshmallow candies to all of the girls who gave him chocolates on Valentine's."
"I bet he'll end up getting home-made chocolates next Valentine's," Joya said.
"It's still strange how he never seems to notice the girls hanging around him or how they would go out of their way just to do nice things for him. I could go on and on with that."
"How could someone so observant never notice something like that?" Joya wondered. "Strange that he doesn't notice all of those girls." Joya then smiled playfully. "But you have to admit, he is kind of cute."
"Yeah, you're right, he is, compared to when he was younger," Jen smiled back. She then thought for a moment. "Do you think that he just may have a thing for Miyako-san?"
"Who knows," Joya shrugged. "Out of all the girls I've seen him associate with, he has paid the most attention to Miyako-san out of all of them. Oh, and our best Soccer Player in the history of Odaiba Junior High's younger sister. Um...Yagami Taichi. Koushirou-san pays attention to his younger sister, Yagami Hikari. She's a first year."
"That's only because he is good friends with her brother, so that's probably why," Jen pointed out. "Besides, he doesn't talk with her much. He's always with Miyako-san, but in a way, I don't think that he has a thing for her. I just think the two are really good friends."
"But what about her," Joya asked while opening the front doors of the big school.
"It doesn't seem like it," Jen said. The girl then shrugged. "I really don't know. Their relationship, if you're an observer that didn't know them too well, you would probably say, 'Yeah, those two are definitely an item,' but then again, from the viewpoint of those who know them, you could say, 'Wow, they're really good friends.'"
"I wonder if anyone has ever gone up and asked if they were, you know, hooked up," Joya wondered.
"I doubt it," Jen said. "Besides, don't you think all of these girls would stop dropping hints that they're interested in more than a friendship with him if he was together with Miyako-san?"
"Some girls are just persistent like that, but what if the two were a couple! They could be secretly dating!"
"You and your wild romance ideas," Jen laughed. "You would want to see something like that happen!"
"So I'm a hopeless romantic that likes adventure," the girl smiled.
"I always thought I was the adventurer," Jen laughed.
"You know, you're right!"
"I wonder why the gym doors were locked today for practice, but was open after practice," Jen asked suddenly.
"Good question. It was weird and the light coming from under the door was even stranger. That's what Marissa said she saw when she walked by the gym earlier."
"Weird, I wonder what happened and if anyone else was in the gym," Jen said.
"Kuuni, my cousin, said that he saw that Motomiya guy from the soccer club and Ichijouji-kun heading towards there earlier when he was on his way to band practice. The after school activities that are held in the gym hadn't even started yet because of testing for the first years, so it was probably still empty. I'm surprised they didn't just send us home since we couldn't use the gym."
"I guess we'll know what happened by tomorrow," Jen said.
A horn honked. It's was Joya's older sister Ariana. The two were so busy discussing, they hadn't even noticed that she had pulled up.
"C'mon sis, hurry up," the older girl urged, "I have a date tonight!"
"Okay, okay, we're coming," Joya responded in slight annoyance. "Hold your horses, will ya!"
The two hopped in the car and Ariana pulled off...
******
"How dare she tries to get my man," Aina growled angrily while
gritting her teeth. "I'll crash her whole program and then
we'll see who'll be going around saying 'Bingo' or 'Perfecto' tomorrow!"
The girl then got into her dream state and started to think of Koushirou once again.
"Before that, though, I'll see what my dear sweet Izumi-sama wants to ask me," the girl said with a giggle, "as if I didn't already know."
She turned in her tracks and skipped happily towards their teachers'
computer lab, which computer club members were allowed to use, no questions
asked.
******
Koushirou started up the game and the song Target~Akai Shougeki~
played. It also had an options menu, which played the song Seven
in the background, another song by Wada Kouji. You could play in
either English or Japanese, so Koushirou chose English. As the game
started, a character that resembled Miyako a lot, was shown sitting in
her room. The girl's name was apparently "Miya." Koushirou
used the character to look around the room. After a while, he left
the room and walked downstairs. A man called to his character and
walked over.
Man: Miya, where are you going?
Miya: I'm going to the park, father. It is just so boring around here. I have to write a story for class but I don't have any ideas and it is due by tomorrow.
Man: The park is a good place to go to get ideas. Just be home by dinner.
Miya: Ja ne. (Later)
"Now I have to find the park," Koushirou muttered out aloud.
He led the character out of the door and outside. He walked down
the street and ran into different characters, most of them resembled their
other Digidestined friends and a couple of people they went to school with.
Like this one character Koushirou ran into resembled the girl that Miyako
disliked, Aina. She was teasing Miya about not having her project
finished. Koushirou then found the park after talking to a character
that resembled Ken a lot. The computer took over and Miya said that
she was going to sit down.
*******
Aina made it to the computer lab. She stood outside the computer
lab door, listening.
*******
"So far, so good," Koushirou complimented. "No mistakes.
You even used Kanji in here. Quite impressive for a beginner.
You're already ready for your High School entrance exam and you still have
another year to go here! Knowing your Kanji characters is normally
on there. Normally people stick with plain old Hiragana or Katakana
and you did a very good job with the English. It actually makes sense.
I'm sure the Japanese is perfect so I won't even play it in Japanese."
"Arigatou (thank you)," the girl said with a slight blush, "but I didn't
use English for everything. Some words I just don't know any English
for. I'm still learning it. I want to be completely prepared
when I'm ready to take High School Entrance exams since English is normally
on it too."
******
"'Arigatou, but I didn't use English for everything,'" Aina mocked
in annoyance. "What a brat! Sucking up to him like that!
I've been after him for two years now! I don't know what it
is about him that I like, but I just do. I hate it when other girls
are around him, even though he doesn't seem to have an interest in them,
but he's so, so different around that Miyako. Miyako is my
true
rival! She's the only girl I know of that can get his full
undivided attention, which means I have to get rid of the competition,
and what better way to do that than by making her look dumb!"
Aina sighed, realizing how hard a task that would be.
"That's going to be difficult since the girl is no where near
dumb."
******
"That's all right, you're using it for the majority of it anyway,"
Koushirou said, giving the girl a smile. "The only thing you aren't
using English for are the names of people and specific places. Besides,
I understand it and my English isn't too great."
"I thought that speaking it was difficult for you."
"Well, yeah, it is," he told her, looking back at the computer screen,
reading over some of the text. "Reading and writing it is okay, I
guess, but like I said, I actually understand this." He turned to
face her again. "Hey, after we finish up here, want to go and get
a bite to eat? Anyplace that you want for a job well done with this
RPG of yours, my treat."
******
Aina was shocked to hear such a thing coming from "Izumi-sama."
"WHAT!! HE ASKED HER OUT!! THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED
TO BE!!! SHE'S JUST A STUPID SECOND YEAR STUDENT!!! IZUMI-SAMA,
WHAT ABOUT ME!!"
******
"Sure, why not. I could use a bite to eat and the rest."
"Well, I saw how down you looked, so why not, right?"
The boy decided to go back to the game and to also keep himself from staring at Miyako for too long. It was starting to make him feel a bit awkward.
"Miya then notices that the wind is blowing unusually fast and gets up from off of the park bench she is sitting on. She looks towards the sky and sees a bright light and it shines down on her," Koushirou continued to read out aloud.
"Hey, wait, what's going on!" Miyako exclaimed. "Where's that wind coming from!"
Koushirou stood up, his chair falling over in the process. The entire room was shaking and the computer was now shining out a bright light and a wind from out of no place was filling the room.
"That's not supposed to be doing that," Miyako shouted since the winds were so high.
"Look, the other computers are doing it too," Koushirou noted.
Sure enough, the other computers somehow came on, and were acting just like the one they were working on.
Aina saw the light and noticed the wind and ran into the computer lab.
"Aina-san, what are you doing here," Koushirou asked, noticing the long-haired girl.
"Izumi-sama, what is going on," the girl asked, trying her best to keep her long black hair from out of her face.
Before he could answer, Miyako felt herself being sucked in towards the computer. She shouted for help as she tried her best to grab hold of anything nearby, whirch proved to be unsuccessful. Koushirou, hearing her cries, hurried himself over to her and grabbed her hand to try and pull her away from the weird tunnel that was forming in front of her.
"Hold on, Miyako-kun!"
"Tasukete! (Help!)" Miyako shouted.
Aina looked at Miyako in disgust. She was mad at the fact that Miyako had gone through so much just to get Izzy's attention.
'She's not getting off that easy! I bet she set all this up somehow! The girl is smart!' Aina sneered jealously. "Save yourself, Izumi-kun! I'm sure Miyako will be fine."
He gave her a sour look and kept trying to help Miyako, determined to pull his friend away from the strange looking vortex.
"Izumi-sama," Aina's voice was now enchantingly sweet, which all of the boys of the school drooled over, "c'mon, why don't you---"
"Either help or leave," Koushirou interrupted, obvious anger in his voice. "Miyako-kun is my friend and I refuse to leave her behind!"
Aina was surprised by his tone. Koushirou normally remained calm and no one had really ever seen him get mad at anyone or lose his temper. She then sighed and helped Koushirou. She grabbed onto his waist, blushing a bit from nervousness, and tried to pull him back while he was trying to pull Miyako, but neither succeeded. Instead, it pulled both Miyako and Koushirou in, along with Aina...