Author's Notes – Hello everyone! I had chapter 3 up and ready to go when I lost the disk that it was on. OH NO!!! Well, that means that I have to try to remember what I wrote. Gah, and it was such a good chapter too! Let's hope this is pretty much the same!
Rated – PG-13 for swearing
The Repercussions of Paper! Night Games Can be Foxy! Blue Seed 1.399 – Kusenagi's Match and What the TAC do When They're not at Work
"Kusenagi?" Momiji's muffled voice asked.
"Mph!" Was all Kusenagi was able to reply with, having been frozen in place courtesy of one of Sakura's little faith-spells. "DAMNIT!!!" Kusenagi thought to himself as he tried to move, "I swear, paper is going to be the death of me! ARGH!!! To hell with paper! Whoever invented it should be shot…!" Kusenagi's thoughts rolled on as he tried to wriggle what little of his body was no affected by Sakura's spell, that little part of his body being his right ring finger and his left big toe. "Maybe if I could fall over, that stupid paper will fall off and I'll be able to move again." He thought as he started wiggling his finger and toe vigorously.
"Kusenagi, are you still there?" Momiji's muffled voice yelled. Kusenagi, hearing Momiji's pleas for an answer, wiggled his toe harder, enough so that he was able to throw himself off-balance. However, it wasn't in the direction that Kusenagi had hoped for, as he started tumbling face-first down the five-foot hole that he had made in Momiji's homework stack. Suddenly, the paper on his back flitted off, much to his relief.
"I'm free…oh CRAP!!" Kusenagi yelled as he tried unsuccessfully to prevent himself from hitting the bottom of the hole face-first. As if that wasn't enough for poor, injured Kusenagi, the bottom of the hole gave way, as he went face first into the hardwood floor of Momiji's bedroom.
"KUSENAGI!!! You WERE up there!" Momiji yelled in delight, completely oblivious to the fact that a comatose Kusenagi was laying on the floor in extreme pain. Thus not having noticed anything, Momiji raced over to her beloved plant boy and gave him one of her patented Momiji hugs, snapping him out of his near-death state.
Yaegashi and Koume sat at the table, a large pile of steaming macaroni and cheese sitting in front of them. The sight and smell of food had calmed Koume down a lot, as her hour-long tirade had subsided and her eyes became as large as dinner plates at the sight of her scrumptious meal.
"ALRIGHT, LET'S EAT!!!" Koume yelled in her usual fashion as she began to pile her plate on with cheesy noodles. After serving himself, Yaegashi let out a small chuckle as he compared his small portion to her gigantic one.
"Whua arf shou laushin' ash?" Koume said with her mouth full,
"Hm?" Yaegashi asked as he tried to comprehend what Koume had just asked. Koume swallowed her mouthful with a large gulp, and hollered,
"I said, what're you laughin' at?!"
"Oh nothing, I was just comparing our food portions. I thought it was kind of funny how you have a mountain compared to my mole-hill!" Yaegashi said as he chuckled a little bit more, putting his hand behind is head. Koume looked at him like he was crazy and went back to stuffing her face.
After they were done eating and clearing the table, Yaegashi sat down on Koume's leather couch and turned on the news. Koume came in a few minutes later, having finished washing the dishes (well, throwing them into the dishwasher more like) and looked at the TV.
"Argh, stupid news, it's always so damn depressing. I BET KUNIKIDA RUNS THE MEDIA HERE TOO!!!" Koume yelled - her anger refreshed from dinner - as she brandished her fist at the television screen. Yaegashi started to laugh.
"Sweetie, is there any conspiracy, bad event, or small annoyance that isn't owned or caused by Mr. Kunikida?"
"No! Argh, DAMN that Kunikida! I bet he's responsible for that power outage as well!" Koume vented, brandishing her fist once again at the television. "Tomorrow he'll probably ask me to deliver crap to the power company! I AM A WEAPONS SPECIALIST, NOT SOMEONE'S DAMN SECRETARY!!!" Yaegashi shook his head and sighed as moved over and patted the area next to him on the couch. Koume sat down where Yaegashi had signaled and cuddled up next to him as he put his arm around her.
"Mr. Kunikida respects you as a weapons specialist, it's just that at the moment, there's really no need for one, as we have nothing to shoot at. Keep up this and the next thing you know it'll be Mr. Kunikida's fault that the sun is too bright." Yaegashi said has he kissed Koume's forehead.
"It sucks to be me, that's for sure. Where the hell did all of the action go? Argh, I'm starting to think it would've been better if Susano-o HAD won!" Koume replied angrily. Yaegashi sighed and held Koume tighter. She wasn't settling down like he had hoped, but then again, she was Koume. "At least she's not turning me into a human pretzel anymore." Yaegashi thought to himself. There's a plus.
Ryoko, Sugishita, and Kunikida were all having a blast. They had but long ago graduated from tea and went straight to the sake. Sugishita was having the time of his life, as he could retain alcohol a whole lot better than Ryoko or Kunikida could. He simply chucked as he watched Ryoko and Kunikida make fools of themselves in front of him (and just about everyone else for that matter).
"…And thensh I shed to 'im, well wu did yu eshpect? Uf coursh it sh-sh-shtinks!" Kunikida slurred, his face flushed from all of the alcohol he had consumed earlier. For the past five minutes, Kunikida had been telling a story that he had never shared with anyone before, involving a party that he went to a few years back at a friend's house. From what Sugishita could decipher from Kunikida's drunken mumbles, he found out that Kunikida had eaten some bad sushi and had some rather severe bowel movements in his friend's bathroom, which resulted in a bad situation gone worse when he realized that there was no toilet paper, anywhere. Sugishita made a mental note to himself to write the story down later so that he'd have some serious blackmail material later on. Not that he was going to forget anytime soon, as the story was hilarious, plus tacking on that Kunikida had never told anybody before and probably wouldn't remember having ever told it in the morning.
"Zshats right Daitet-Daitet-Daitetsuuuuu!" Ryoko managed to squeak out as she grabbed for another bottle of sake. While Sugishita was feeling a bit tipsy, he couldn't help by laugh at the state that his friends were in.
"I think you've had enough Ryoko." Sugishita said, not wanting his former crush to make a bigger ass out of herself than he already had.
"Whu d'chu know?" Ryoko slurred in between drunken giggles, "You're da womanizwer!"
"T'ya Sugi, we've wonly begun to parshty!" Kunikida added as he thrust his fist in the air in a statement of victory (Sugishita didn't know why) and poured another drink.
"Listen, I'll let you guys finish up. Do you have a designated driver?"
"A wha? Bah! Shish isht Tokyo! The shreets here are cr-cr-crap. We walk!" Kunikida said, standing up.
"Chu tell him Daitet-Daitet-Daitetsuuuu!" Ryoko said as she stood up alongside Kunikida.
"Whatever. Catch you guys later!" Sugishita said as he tried to back towards the door, wanting to defer as much attention from himself as possible, considering that the entire building was staring at him and his party. Upon reaching the door, all the while smiling and nodding, Sugishita took off running. He grinned evilly at the thought of the ultimate blackmail material that he now had as he turned off his hidden cop camera. "Boy, who would've thought that going undercover and then forgetting to take off your hidden camera would've had such great rewards!" Sugishita thought as he headed for the police station, knowing full well that the entire drunken incident had been recorded (because as every cop in post-Aragami Tokyo knew, you never stop recording).
"Wuddya shay we go hit the hey, eh?" Kunikida said, winking at Ryoko as he tried unsuccessfully to stand still. He then started laughing hysterically. "I'm a powet and I didn't evwen know wet!"
"Shhhhhhhhure…" Ryoko said as she grabbed Kunikida's hand and stumbled out the door.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Kusenagi yelled into Momiji's arms as she crushed him in her Momiji-hug. He felt something in his back snap, and suddenly the world became a blur of bright colors before he passed out.
"Kusenagi?" Momiji asked softly as she held a now out-cold Kusenagi, completely oblivious to his current state. "I missed you so much. When you said we could start over from there last year, I never thought we'd become this strong. Oh how I love you!" Momiji stated as she squeezed the now-nearly-dead Kusenagi tighter.
"Don't you love me, Kusenagi?" Kusenagi, obviously, did not respond, causing Momiji to get mad and shove him away so that she could look at him. "I said, don't you love me…huh?" Momiji said as she became aware of Kusanagi's state of duress. However, instead of responding like most girlfriends would, Momiji got real mad.
"ARGH!!! I CONFESS MY HEART TO YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?! BAKA!!!" Momiji yelled, smacking Kusenagi into the floor. The massive jolt of Kusenagi's body smashing back into the hardwood floor was enough to startle his heart into beating again, and he coughed.
"Oh don't you EVEN try to apologize to ME!" Momiji said, her back turned to him. Kusenagi, through his blinding headache, searing back pain, and strange sparkling lights that kept appearing in front of his eyes, stared at Momiji as though she had lost her way in the night. Momiji, having turned her back to him and now staring at the pile of Oceanography homework, was giving him the cold shoulder. Giving up on all hope of ever figuring out what was going on, Kusenagi let out a loud, painful grunt as he laid back down on the floor and contemplated why he had neglected to bring any aspirin with him.
The End of Chapter 3!
I'm sorry it took so long to get this part out. I originally had chapter 3 done on Monday, but I lost the disk it was on, so I had to start from scratch. I hope you all enjoyed it anyways. I know writing in Kunikida and Ryoko drunk was really OOC, but while I was writing this, I kept wondering what it would be like in Blue Seed to really see them drunk. LOL, you do actually see it at the end of Blue Seed 2, and they sort of act like they do here. Scary, ne? Please review, I'll try to get chapter 4 out soon. ^^