First Date
By coolpriss
Disclaimer: They ain't mine.
A/N: Thoughts are in Italics.
Chapter 3: Before the Movie
Ayako looked at her wristwatch. Ten-oh-five. This is going to be a very long day… She turned to the boy beside her. "It's still early. Where do you want to go next?"
"How about a movie?" Miyagi suggested. A silly grin crept on his face as a dream bubble suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
*chibi dream sequence* It is dark inside. Ayako is sitting beside him. The film is at its scariest scene. Suddenly, Ayako screams and buries her head in his chest. Daijobou, Aya-chan… he whispers in her ear. Ayako looks up and stares in his eyes. He leans down for his kiss…
"Iie," Ayako stated firmly, inching slowly away from Miyagi who was puckering up his lips for his imaginary kiss. "Definitely not."
Miyagi, who was still lost in his chibi dream, opened his eyes halfway only to see Akagi's gorilla-face slowly turn into Rukawa's fox-face, instead of his Aya-chan leaning up to kiss him. The dream bubble popped instantly as his scream filled the entire busy street.
"IIIIYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He rubbed his lips forcefully with the sleeve of his short-sleeved, dark blue polo shirt (It was his first date with his beloved Aya-chan, and he was dressed to impress! There was no way he'd be wearing his usual plain white T-shirt to this date! Er, actually, he's wearing the white T-shirt inside the blue polo… ^^;), trying desperately to scrape off any residue of that horrible dream kiss. He looked around for Ayako but she was nowhere to be seen. Instead, almost everyone on the street was staring at him as of he had gone crazy.
"Eh…he…he…" he laughed nervously, his eyes looking frantically for Ayako. She didn't ditch me, did she? Baka! I'm such an idiot! Aya-chan…please don't leave me…Aya-chan…
"Aya-chan!" he cried as he spotted the manageress a few feet away. Obviously, she had tried to run away but something else caught her attention. Her back was on him and she looked like she was watching someone from the other side of the street. "Aya-chan!" Miyagi called out as he ran immediately to her side.
"Ssh! Urusai, Ryota!" she frowned at him, gesturing for him to be silent. She looked back at the opposite street, then she pulled Miyagi under the cover of a large Sakura tree.
"Anou, Aya-chan…" Miyagi started but Ayako quieted him with another mysterious "Ssh!"
They both peered from behind the tree as the people on the other street finally crossed. Then Miyagi recognized one of them. Mitsui?! Why is Aya-chan spying on Mitsui on our date? Could it be… Tears started forming in the corners of his eyes. Aya-chan…
Mitsui ran a few feet then stopped and looked around. He went back and tried to look into several shops, as if trying to find someone. He stopped several feet from where Ayako and Miyagi were hiding and took out a walkie-talkie. His eyes were still searching all over the place as he talked on the device.
"I can't hear him…" Ayako muttered as she crept slowly around tree, trying to stay hidden and catch whatever Mitsui was saying at the same time. Her ears grew thrice its size as she frenetically strained to hear Mitsui's voice.
"…I don't know," Mitsui was saying. "They just disappeared. Listen, Akagi, I have other things to do…"
The bluish-black-haired boy did not have the opportunity to finish his sentence as the person on the other line shouted: "YOU CAN'T LOOSE THEM, MITSUI! YOU HAVE TO FIND THEM! WHERE ARE YOU?! I'M GOING RIGHT THERE! FIND THEM, MITSUI! FIND THEM!!!"
"Te me, Akagi! You don't have the right to boss me around!" Mitsui scratched his head furiously as he lowered the volume of the walkie-talkie. "Alright! Alright! I'll find them! They probably headed for the movie house or something. I'll contact you once I find them." He turned off the receiver and shook it severely, as if it was Akagi. "You owe me big time for this, Akagi. Big time!" Mitusi fumed as he returned the communication device in his bag. He was frowning impatiently while stomping his way to the theater.
Ayako was just as furious. She finally stepped away from the tree, shaking her fists at the departing figure of Mitsui.
"Unberibaburya!" she exclaimed, mimicking the famous Hikoichi line unconsciously. "First, they threaten me, saying I would lose my job as a manageress and spread embarrassing pictures of me all over the school if I didn't go out with Ryota! They probably got those from him no less! And now! Now they're spying on me?! The nerve! After all I did for them! I give them my all-out support, even spending the whole evening writing that calligraphy note to inspire them to do their best--I couldn't move my right arm after that!--and this! This is how they repay me! By threatening me of my job and then spying on me?!" Smoke could be seen coming from her nose, ears and even her rubber shoes as she paced on the sidewalk.
But her rants fell on deaf ears as Miyagi was wallowing in his own woes.
"All these time…Aya-chan has been secretly in love with Mitsui…how could I be so blind? Nande, Aya-chan, nande? What do you see in that scar-faced ex-gangster?! What does he have that I don't?! True, he's taller, but it's only a matter of inches! I could catch up with his height easily…with a pair of platform shoes… Well, sure, he's got bigger muscles, but that's because he had been doing nothing but beating people up for two years! At least I've got all my teeth intact! Ha!"
"They want to have fun at my expense? Fine! I'll give them fun! They're probably laughing their heads off with all my embarrassments! Well, we'll see who'll get the final laugh! I'll show them! Iku, Ryota. We'll show them all!" Ayako turned sharply to face Miyagi who was by now laughing hysterically with waterfall tears streaming down his cheeks. "Ah-re??"
"That's right! It was because of me! He wouldn't have scored that much if I didn't pass him the ball! He owes everything to me! And this is how he repays me?! By stealing the only love of my life?! I'll show him! He will never get my Aya-chan! Never! Over my dead body! Nyahahaha!"
One slam of Ayako's paper fan finally snapped Miyagi back to reality. "What the hell are you talking about, Ryota no baka yo?! Nobody's going to steal me from you. I'm never yours the first place! Come on, let's watch that movie of yours." Ayako took Miyagi firmly by the hand and looked around. "I know a short cut to the cinemas. We'll get there before the spy does. Nyahahahaha!" the girl grinned, her brown eyes twinkling slyly.
"You heard that, Mitsui?! She said it herself! Nobody's gonna steal her away from me! Nyahahahaha!"
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A/N: Thanks for reading and don't forget to leave a review! Onegai! Arigatou! *_*