Title: Amen

Chapter: 7 b

Author: Megane-chan & Akai-chan

E-mail: megane_chan5@yahoo.com, chaos_serenity_14@hotmail.com

Pairings: HanaKiyo/KiyoHana (if this works out…) and take a wild guess.

Genre: humor, romance

Disclaimer: We do not own them! No Money! No Sue!

Rating: General

Archive: Fanfiction.net. And if you want, just tell me.

"…" Dialogues

/…/  Thoughts

*…* Actions/sounds

Chapter 7: Trips on Thursday!

"A few more minutes and we'll be there." Akagi announced in the bus.

Some faces lighten with relief, as the thought of being able to move from their position was enough to make any student sing hallelujah. Akagi never took his eyes away from the students and even if he did no one dared to buck an inch in their seat. Akagi should really apply in the army, just one look at him and he's in.

The bus stopped in front of a very grand looking and as one kid might say, sci-fi structure. It looks like some magnified igloo only this one is made up of glass. Whenever the entrance's sliding door closes it seems to blend perfectly with its side that it's hard to see thin metal lines separating the two.

Akagi tapped Uozumi awake and they both lined the students outside the bus. Fukuda and Hikoichi had to entered the museum first letting know the supervisor that the students from Monasterio de Santa Maria had arrived.

The students had to "oooh…" and "aaah…" at the sight of the building. Sadly, no matter how magnificent its architectural design, a museum is still one boring museum.

With one last check to the children and their belongings, the occupants of bus no. 1 are now entering Nerima Historical Museum.

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"Are we there yet?"

"No."

A short pause.

"A we there yet?"

"No."

A minute or two of silence.

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

A moment.

"Are we –"

"No! No! And no!" Maki pulled his hair in frustration. "For goodness sake, Fujima! We are not there yet! The students are asleep and by gods I'm so happy with that but no! You had to destroy my moment of peace by bugging me!"

"That's why I'm bugging you! Everyone's asleep! Even Kosh and Ikegami are asleep."

A few minutes after the students fell asleep and Koshino and Ikegami decided to join their students in la la land leaving one happy Maki and a very bored Fujima. And that's not a good thing; Maki is having a first hand experience on that right now.

"Really, how long does it take to go to the museum?" Fujima asked again while ignoring the seething look on Maki's face.

"I don't know." Maki answered grumpily.

"Humph! You know you can answer me a bit more politely. No wonder Sakuragi calls you old man. You're such a grouch."  Fujima sighed and gazed outside the window.

"Shut up! You're worse than those kids!"

"Shh! You'll wake up the kids!" Fujima hushed Maki.

Maki took deep breaths to calm himself down as he took comfort in the bus's comfortable seat. And just when his eyelids are getting heavy…

"So, are we there yet?"

Maki eye's immediately popped opened, his face darkened and turned to a very grim one. He looked at the back of Fujima's head; Maki stood up raised his bag and positioning it just on top of Fujima. And just when he's ready to dump his bag on the head of the Shoyo captain, Ikegami, fortunately woke up in time, grabbed hold of the Kainan ace and slumped him back on his seat.

"Maki! What the heck are you doing?" Ikegami said taking the heavy bag very far away from the steaming Maki.

"That Fujima!"

"Ne, Maki, you didn't answer me…" Fujima sighed still gazing outside the window. "Are we there yet?"

"We're here!" The driver suddenly announced, stopping Maki from hurling himself to strangle Fujima.

"Eh?" Ikegami looked out the window at the same time Koshino and the students slowly woke up.

Here exactly is not the museum that they're expecting but…

"WATER CASTLE!!!" came the chorus shouts of joy from the students.

What are they doing exactly in some newly constructed indoor resort is something Maki would really want to know.

"How in the world did we wind up here?"

"Who cares?! Water Castle here we come!!!" Fujima shouted while hauling both his bag and Koshino then rushed towards the gates. "Oh and handle the kids, Maki. Thanks!"

"What?! Oi hold on just a minute! Ikegami help me…?" Maki looked behind him but Ikegami was nowhere in sight because…

 Ikegami was way ahead of Fujima and Koshino.

--

Bus no. 3 is one happy bus. If happy means seeing your teacher singing karaoke style then this the place to be.

"Fr. Jean, please sing another one! Please please please?" One little girl begged Sendoh and hands him another list of songs to choose from.

All four players are seated in the front and currently Sendoh's hogging up the Karaoke mike and controls. He's really not a bad singer but not good either, it's just that Jin, Mitsui and especially Rukawa heard enough boy band songs to last them a lifetime.

"Sendoh, if you pick another N'Sync song, I'm gonna mow your hair. Literary." Guess who said that? No, it's not Mitsui and Rukawa doesn't talk so that leaves…

'"C'mon, Jinjin! The kids love N'Sync!"

Jin glared at Sendoh rivaling the coldest glare Rukawa can master. Judging by his looks, Jin seems like someone who appreciates pop songs but on the contrary Jin's music archive are full hard and soft rock.

"Oh alright, I'll just pick one from Backstreet Boys instead."

Jin, Rukawa and Mitsui's eyes did a little twitching motion and before Jin can grab the microphone away from the eternally smiling loon a kid hollered from the back.

"Why not, let Fr. Nicolas sing next!"

"Yeah, I still haven't heard his voice!"

"Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas! Sing to us, Fr Nicolas!"

If it's possible for Sendoh's grin to become wider then it did. He eyed the pale boy that was slumping deeper in his window seat beside Mitsui.

"Yes, why don't you sing, Nicolas." Sendoh teased the younger boy. "You are after all a music teacher right?" He thrust forward the microphone and song list to Rukawa.

Rukawa ignored Sendoh and the stuffs being shoved at him by closing his eyes and praying for sleep to take him now. Of course he did lay his head on Mitsui's shoulder just for effect. Sendoh's smile faltered a little but was quickly fixed.

"C'mon now, if you don't sing I'll sing another song! Let's see, Britney Spear's I'm a Slave?" Sendoh said while receiving a scared look from Mitsui.

Jin had enough. He battled for the microphone that Sendoh has the death grip on. But we all know how determined Jin so, naturally, he won. He took a single glance at the list and punched in the number of a song he'd chosen.

"Ah, Red hot chili peppers! Now that's more like it!" Jin waited for the song "Under the Bridge" to load and then they heard the cheers of the whole students echoing inside the bus.

No sooner than the second verse, Mitsui joined him earning hundreds of hearts popping out of the female population of their trip.

Rukawa moved towards the seat near the aisle leaving the middle and window seat available, after all their bus has a three-seater well, seat. Sendoh sat at the window seat not wanting to be near the rookie and seeing his former seat was taken up by some Mitsui and Jin fangirls, he as no other choice.

When the song ended Jin was pulled away by his little fangirls and Mitsui just had to sit between Sendoh and Rukawa.

"Not bad, Sempai." Sendoh said emphasizing the word 'sempai' as he placed a hand on Mitsui's shoulder.

"You're not so bad yourself. That is if you're not singing boy band songs." Mitsui kidded and smiled towards Sendoh, which left Rukawa to silently seethed as he stares at Sendoh.

Sendoh's smile had yet to become wider in seeing Rukawa's reaction. He slouched lazily on his seat, closed his eyes and slowly let his head fall on Mitsui's shoulder as sleep claimed him.

Mitsui has no intention of moving the spiked up but surprisingly soft haired head on his shoulder. "Rukawa, don't you think we're a bit far off from Nerima? Actually, this place does not look in any way like Nerima prefecture."

Controlling his urge to throw the Ryonan ace outside the window, Rukawa faced Mitsui and said, "No, I don't know. I've never been to Nerima."

"Oh, I see. Nerima's like Kanagawa I think. Somewhat like a homey place, you know."

"Aah."

"Why don't you sleep, I don't think we're nearing our destination anytime soon."

Rukawa gladly obliged. He intentionally pulled Mitsui closer to him and placed his head on his free shoulder and slept like a baby. Sendoh let out a small-annoyed sound of being disturbed but Rukawa couldn't care less.

After an hour or so, everyone was asleep including Jin who has three students clinging on him, one on each side and one on his lap. The driver pulled over at the parking lot and stood up from his sleep to shake Mitsui awake.

Mitsui's dream of a dark haired boy leaning down to hug and kiss him was interrupted. He didn't even get to see the face of his well… dream boy. All he saw was his intense but gentle blue eyes and black hair, cropped, spiked or just let down, he couldn't tell. Well, that was a pretty damn general description. Heck, he is surrounded by them! Even Jin is a suspect as his dream boy. /Humph, dream boy what a laugh, my sister will probably die from laughter when she hears that./

Mitsui slowly snaked his hands at the back of both Sendoh and Rukawa as he slowly rubbed their backs to wake them up. No sooner he felt a hand made its way to his back Rukawa woke up but he didn't open his eyes, he just let the soothing almost like a massage work at his back.

"Wake up you two." Mitsui whispered to the two younger men occupying both of his shoulder. "I think we're here?"

Uncertainty and confusion crept up to Jin's face as he studies the place in front of the bus.

"Sendoh, did you accidentally messed up with the maps?"

"No, don't think so…" came the reply as Sendoh took notice his surroundings. "Wait, what are we doing here at–?"

"THRILL KINGDOM?!" interrupted Mitsui as both him and Rukawa eyed the newly constructed and most talked about theme park in Japan.

"So, here we are kiddos." The driver cheerfully said.

Rukawa felt that time stood still for a minute there. One moment he's inside the bus thinking what is going on then the next moment, his students are dragging him towards the ticket booth. All the while, the driver was happily saying his goodbye and the promise to pick them up the next day.

Once in front of the entrance, Mitsui glanced around his surrounding. He saw dozens of hard to resist doe eyes begging him to let them enter their heaven, the theme park, three pairs of eyes in utter confusion and a trail of smoke coming from the fading bus from a far distance.

--

"Yo laddies, We're here." Announced the bus driver from the front.

Hanagata and Kogure went out the bus first to usher the younger ones out not really taking into consideration their current location. It was Miyagi who first took notice that a museum should not be this big of a structure. Surely, he never heard of a modest, dainty museum that is seventy stories high, a spacious mall in its lower levels, a grand hotel within its higher premises, an indoor resort on its west wing and the ever famous theme park on its east side. And the most intriguing part of this place was the humongous banner in front with "Fantasy Convention" clearly, boldly written on it. He only knew of one place that fits all of that description – EMPIRE PALACE.    

"Wow! You're taking us to the convention of all conventions?" Asked one eager young boy with eyes glazed over with pure bliss.

The other students pulled and pushed their mentors towards the entrance of the mall.

"This is like the biggest TOYS and GAMES Convention ever!"

"Toys and games convention?!" Kogure stuttered in disbelief as he let himself be hauled inside the very place they shouldn't be in.

--

Lunch already passed and the last bus was still on the road, the bus driver having the most difficult task of saving his ears from being deaf and watching the roads as the depth woods swallowed them.

"Hey, Mister." Kiyota approached the near-to-tears driver. "Are you sure we're on the right place? Last time I checked Nerima isn't supposed to be in the middle of the jungle."

"Believe me, kid. We're no where near Nerima."

"What?!" Kiyota shouted, barely being able to dodge the unidentified food or something being thrown in mid-air.

"Boy, in case you didn't know. We're heading towards the most well-known and expensive honeymoon getaway in this side of Japan."

"Honeymoon getaway?!?!?!"

That terrified scream was left unnoticed by the hollering students but a certain red head definitely did not miss it.

He, who was supposedly at the back of the bus fixing some argument between two rough young boys, was already in front even before you can finish saying 'do ahou.'

"What the!? Old man! Get us back to Nerima now!" Sakuragi almost pulled the driver up from his seat.

" 'Fraid I can't boys. We're too far from Nerima, so far we'll reach Nerima by noon tomorrow."

Kiyota paled as he saw them nearing an old fashioned temple like place.

"I suggest you spend the night here and I'll pick you guys up tomorrow just like the plan." The moment he parked the bus, the driver quickly carried the whole racketing bundle of noise out his bus and was already on his way, far far away from them. How did he managed to carry all of them you ask? Well, being a fictional character one is able to do miraculous things such as that.

Going back to Kiyota, it was mentioned that he paled by the sight of the place. But what do you think his reaction was when he read the name of the place - "Secret Cove – the place where one unites with the other."

Had it not for Sakuragi, Kiyota would probably have a broken skull by now. Really, as funny as it would seem for Sakuragi to see his rival faint, he absolutely found no humor in it. Because he himself wanted to be the one to faint especially when the receptionist of this place welcomed them with a…

"Hello! Welcome to Secret Cove! The greatest getaway for honeymooners and my my my… you two are the cutest couple I've ever seen. And you brought your kids with you, such a blessed couple…" that plus a dreamy look that rivaled Rukawa's brigade.

--

"Drats! Where the hell are they?" Uozumi almost burned the keypads off from his cellular phone by punching in numbers as fast as the speed of light. "I can't reach Ikegami, Sendoh and Koshino's phones! And it's after lunch already!"

"Akagi-san, did you try contacting Kogure, Maki or Fujima?" Hikoichi sheepishly asked.

"Of course I would! That is if I can find that blasted phone of mine." Akagi angrily dumped his whole luggage on their table in the museum's cafeteria, searching furiously for his lost or hiding phone.

Uozumi almost crashed his phone while slamming it down hard on the table, giving up on contacting their late or lost teammates. "Hikoichi, Fukuda, do you have the other's numbers?"

Fukuda just shook his head with the expression that clearly meant 'No, I don't know and why do I have the need know?' while Hikoichi hung his head low in shame.

"I'm sorry, captain. Remember that my 'notebook' was confiscated and that holds all the essential numbers of every player in the whole of Kanagawa, heck it even has everyone's vital stats, favorite positions on and off court, deepest fantasies– oops!" /I shouldn't have said that!/ Hikoichi immediately placed his hand firmly on his mouth preventing himself to state anymore dirty info of the others for his sake.

His three seniors' eyes twitched at the sudden unintended confession.

/He is my subordinate and teammate. I shouldn't be the one hurting him for snooping too much. I should be used to it already. I don't want to bring news to Coach Taoka that I killed Hikoichi, no, that would be bad on my reputation./ Uozumi took a very, very deep breath to calm himself.  " *A-hem* Well, did you tried making a back-up copy?"

"Yes, sir. All the numbers are stored in my phone but…" Hikoicho looked a bit teary eyed at the moment then continued, "My sister took it as a punishment."

"Guess we have no choice then huh?" Though still annoyed to have his phone suddenly disappear, Akagi decided to do what's best in this kind of situation. "We go as planned. We'll stay here and hopefully the heads won't find out anything that we lost the other four buses. We don't want anymore trouble as it is."

"Yes, we don't." Uozumi agreed and stood up. "Now, we must first assist the students and later we'll try again and call Sendoh, Koshino and Ikegami. I'm sorry Akagi, I only have my teammate's numbers with me and not the rest."

"Understandable." Akagi nod his head. "And I think the students' schedule for this afternoon is to see old fossils, we better assemble them now."

Really, such a boring bunch I tell you. Poor kids.

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"Oh! Isn't it great?" An unusually hyperactive Fujima raced around the whole resort with the other students.

"In case you haven't noticed, Fujima, we really shouldn't be here." Maki protested but came out as a whine while chasing after his three other colleagues and the 'little demons.'

"I don't care! I'm just thankful that I won't be spending two whole miserable days at some museum."

The three of them stopped in the middle of the gigantic resort beside the doughnut shaped, 5 feet deep pool complete with regular sized water slide at the opposite side.

"Hold this for me, will ya, Maki?" Ikegami handed Maki his mobile phone. "I don't want it to get drenched. I have to stop that kid from jumping in that 10 feet deep pool."

As Ikegami went away, Koshino also handed Maki his phone fearing it might fall in the pool where he tries to get one kid to not slide of the 30 feet high water slide.

"This gets wet, I'll kill you." Koshino gave Maki his Sendoh- don't-get-me-mad-glare then was off.

"Hey, what was that glare for?" Maki protested while trying to hide the phones in his cargo pants.

"That was a forced of a habit I guess, being around Sendoh too much did that to a guy." Fujima reasoned while looking at Koshino climbing up the slide and almost falling down on it when catching the kid that suddenly decides that slides are for jumping and not for sliding.

"And how did you know that little information?"

"It's called talking, Maki. You know when you open your mouth and a sound comes out then the other's mouth also open to let a sound out in response?"

"Tse, smart mouth."

"Whatever you say…" Fujima contented himself in watching Koshino fall into the pool. Wait? Falling to the pool? "Hey, Maki, hold my phone, I'll just help Kosh."

"Hey, wait I'm not a baggage counter!" His shout was meaningless because Fujima was off like lighting. Currently he has four (including his) brand new top of the line cellular phone (insert model here) in his hands and trying to figure out how it will fit on his pants' pockets.

Out of the blue, a kid runs around him and almost made him drop all the overly priced communication gadgets in the pool. Fortunately, Maki managed to place them all in his pocket before the kid dangerously bumped onto him. Unfortunately, he didn't saw the kids' assailant who's not far behind in a hot pursuit of the previous child in a game of tag.

A loud splash later and the Kainan captain was sputtering water out of his mouth.

"MAKI!!!" Fujima hollered. The sight of Maki in the pool with his newly purchased, months of saving for the top of the line model phone plunging along with him was enough for Fujima to dived down to the grab then drown Maki to death.

"Don't you know how much and how long I saved for the phone?!" Maki will be a floating corpse by now if not for Ikegami pulling back Fujima in his rampage.

No sooner when Maki resurfaced from the pool up to the dry land and tries to get away from one literary steaming Fujima, he once again got strangled by one hot in a death pursuit Koshino.

It did not irked him at all that he's trying to kill the most prided player in Kanagawa. It didn't bother him in the least that he's about to murder someone who's supposedly his senior. He didn't absolutely care. All Koshino cared about is that this man drowned and killed his precious, long awaited mobile unit and he's about to do justice for his precious.

"I do not break my promises." Koshino stated with venom in his voice. "When I said I'll kill you, I mean it. And rest assured that it will be a slow, painful, bloody death."

Thankfully, Ikegami has the sense of mind to control Fujima then come to the aid of Maki. When he successfully pried of Koshino's death grip on his bruised, aching neck, Ikegami looked at Maki with the deadliest glare that will make Rukawa cower in fear.

"Don't thank me, thank the heavens I did not get to you first. I'll deal with you later." Ikegami growled and hauled away a fuming Fujima and a struggling Koshino to a far away place where he can plan Maki's hell on earth.

Congratulations Maki! He just witnessed the dark side of Ikegami, Fujima and Koshino all in one day!

Anyway, so that's why Uozumi can't contact Koshino and Ikegami. But what the heck! The kids are having a blast at Water Castle.

--

"Do you think we should contact Akagi-san or Uozumi-san?" Sendoh asked his three other companions while being eagerly pulled by their students to every stomach-flipping ride.

Thankfully, the child clinging on his soon-to-be-detached-from-his-shoulder arm lets go and went to ride some merry-go round ride. "Yes, I think we should and maybe I can call up Maki-san and wait… oh my!" Jin gasped as he looks for his hand phone. "I forgot! I left it at my room because I didn't have the time to recharge its battery."

"Rukawa." Sendoh called the pale boy who's busily rubbing his swollen hand caused by some of his little fangirl's grip.

Rukawa looked up. "What?"

"Did you bring your phone? Can you call up anyone from the other buses?" Jin asked while eyeing Mitsui who's still being hauled away by his adoring little fans.

"No, I didn't bring it. Why should I?" Rukawa shrugged and gently pried off two clinging child on both Mitsui's legs who's dangerously loosing his balance.

"Mitsui-san!" Sendoh hurriedly went to Mitsui's side while Rukawa prevented the girls from attaching themselves to Mitsui again. And Jin walked after them watching in deep interest.

"Whew! Thanks, Sendoh." Mitsui said while straightening himself as he still holds on to him much to Rukawa's dismay and Sendoh's delight.

"Anyway, Sempai. Can you contact Akagi-san or the others?"  Sendoh asked while helping Mitsui straighten his shirt.

After being able to stand on his own, he searched his pockets and bag and came out with nothing. "Damn! I think I left it on your bed, Rukawa."

"On his… bed?" Sendoh almost stuttered.

"Well, I did a last minute check on my stuff and placed it some of it on his bed." Mitsui sighed. "And of all the things to be left behind, it has to be the phone."

"By the way, Sendoh."

"Yes, Jinjin?" Sendoh tore his gazed from Mitsui to Jin.

"Why don't you call them? It's you're idea and I'm sure you have your phone. You're playing with it while we're still on the bus."

"Ehehe, now why didn't I think of that?" Sendoh quickly took out his phone and dialed Uozumi's number. Just when he's about the punch the call button, an alarming sound came from his phone. Seconds later, his phone was dead. "Ack! No batteries!"

"Forgot to fully charge it?" Jin eyed Sendoh.

"Sigh… yes." Sendoh lowered his head

"No extra batteries?"

Sendoh nodded.

Mitsui pats Sendoh's shoulder and ruffled the boy's spiked up but soft hair then said, "That's okay, Sendoh. Look at it this way, we won't be spending two whole dreadful days at some boring museum." Mitsui smiled at Sendoh who returned it ten times more.

Rukawa tugged Mitsui's arm and drags him towards some ice cream stand and just anywhere far from Sendoh as far as he is concern. /So what if Sempai has some concern over that smiling baka? It's just natural. I mean he's kind – well, after he got rid of his gangster attitude, he is – he's also polite, understanding, gorgeous, hot, alluring, sexy errm… Anyway, I'm just taking him for a walk, not taking him far from Sendoh nope, not at all, not far from his hentai clutches. Just mine err… not my hentai clutches just clutches… oh whatever!/

As Rukawa pulls Mitsui wherever he goes, Sendoh watched with eyes stating anger and jealousy. And as Sendoh watched those two, Jin eyed Sendoh. Gee, I wonder why?

Anyway, so that's the reason why Uozumi can't contact Sendoh. It doesn't matter though; the students here are having so much fun like Maki's little demon bunch.

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"Oh no! Don't tell me you didn't bring it?"

"No, because I thought you'll be bringing yours!"

"I didn't because I thought you'll be the one who'll bring it!"

"I did not because I thought you did!"

"But, Min-kun! I thought you did! So it's not my fault!"

"Toru, are you saying it's my fault then?"

"No, of course not, Kiminobu!"

"But it looks like it, Hanagata Toru!"

Miyagi and Ayako watched in dismay as Kogure and Hanagata fought over whom to blame because of the left and forgotten phone.

It took some time before Kogure thought of calling Akagi to report their situation. After telling both Hanagata and Kogure that Ayako left her phone because of the rush and Miyagi forgetting to take it off its charger (which is still charging in their room way back in the school) there began the blaming dispute between the two vice captains. While exchanging worried glances with Ayako, Miyagi decided to ask, interrupting his seniors' argument.

"Anou, Kogure-san, maybe we could find a phone booth or something."

Both bespectacled boys closed their eyes and took a very deep breath.

"I'm sorry, Toru."

"I'm sorry, Min-kun."

Both lads spoke at the same time. Kogure blushed and Hanagata absentmindedly scratched the back of his head.

"Anyway, let's just make the best out of this incident." Suggested Ayako. "Just look at those cute little gadgets over there."

"Little gadgets you say?" Hanagata curiously asked.

"Yes, you know the top of the line in gaming accessories, newest software for this and that and etc, etc..." Said Ayako as she herself doesn't know anything much about boys' unbelievable over priced thingiemagingie.

As soon as Kogure and Hanagata laid eyes on the booth that presents the latest version of computer gadgets, they were off in a speed of light.

"What do you think of this 2003 Ver of …"

"Oh that one has bugs, I still think 2002 Ver was the best…"

"Really? Now this X05 in this is the fastest."

"Nah, I disagree. XX05 is the fastest in…"

"Oh boy, I think we'll be here longer than we expected, Aya-chan." Miyagi smiled weakly at Ayako who gaped at her two seniors shoving little kids out of their way to get to each booth.

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"Gggrrr! What are we going to do now?" Kiyota walked back and forth – making marks burnt marks on the wooden floor - while tearing his hair out of frustration.

"I *thud* don't *thud* know!!!! *thud* " Sakuragi cried out loud while banging his head on every dentless – so far, all the walls already have his head butt mark – wall he can find.

Earlier, when the receptionist ushered them to the waiting room she already took charge of the kids, had their luggage kept in one big accommodating room and led the students out to enjoy the springs. And now, only Sakuragi and Kiyota are left inside a 'special couples room' especially recommended by the same yaoi fanatic receptionist.

"Oh my! Don't tell me? We'll stay here together on the same and only futon for the night?!" Sakuragi stopped his head banging for a while and stared at Kiyota with a very scared look.

Kiyota stopped in his mid step and said sarcastically to Sakuragi. "What do you know? Ten points for the genius!" Then suddenly a light bulb turned on the side of Kiyota's head. "Hey, wait a minute! I'm so stupid! I should've contacted Maki-san or Jin-san!"

"Yeah, you're right. You are stupid." Mocked Sakuragi.

"Well, I don't see you doing anything productive here."

"What?! Humph! I shall call the others as well! Even the Kitsune!"

Then both boys dumped all their belonging in the room and looked for their mobile phones. In less than a minute both boys are able to locate their phones through the mountain of mess they made and then quickly dialed their respective teammates' number.

"Aaaaacccckkk!!! NO SIGNAL!!!" Sakuragi and Kiyota both screamed so loud, they made the birds fly out of their nest and hide in the farthest forest, away from the animalistic cry. 

The same receptionist rushed towards their room in hope of seeing some juicy action as the cause of that cry. Instead he found two boys slumped at the farthest part of the room with dark clouds over their head.

"Anou… is something wrong, sirs?" she timidly asked.

Kiyota was the first one to acknowledge her then asked, "No… signal?"

"Ah yes, sir. The mountain resort was intentionally built that way.  Cutting off any means of technological stuffs. But we do have a phone here. Unfortunately, the phone line was cut down because of some unforeseen accident. The line won't be up until next week." She shifted at her place while watching the brooding face of both Sakuragi and Kiyota. "If there's anything I can do…"

"No… there isn't… we'll be okay… I think." Sakuragi spoke for the first time since the receptionist went in.

"Look at the bright side, sirs, you have your children with you and most importantly, you have each other!" She squealed in yaoifull delight then rushed out of their room, leaving Sakuragi and Kiyota alone again.

"I am not sleeping beside you!" Sakuragi and Kiyota said at the same time. "I'll go ask for another room!"

Then the receptionist suddenly appeared blocking their doorway. "I'm sorry, sirs. You can't this is the only available room. And no, we don't have separate futons."

Sakuragi whole body slumped down while Kiyota stared at the smiling girl with the same thought running through their minds.

/Only one futon to be shared? What if this monkey rapes me at night?!/

Really now, isn't that cute?

--

Night time came and Akagi and company are comfortable but bored to death while they're tucked in their hotel room and are now prepared to sleep the night or boredom away. While Maki's demon bunch are still hyperactive, Ikegami, Fujima and Koshino are still plotting his death and Maki himself is the only one worried where they will be sleeping for the night.

"Guys, you see…" Maki stopped talking when three dangerously seething faces looked at him. "Anou… I was just wondering."

"Wondering how you'll pay back my phone?"

"How you'll find this collector model of my phone?"

"Or how will I kill you?" Three guesses on who said that.

Maki was one hundred percent terrified by the sight of one angry Koshino. "No, I mean *gulp* where we'll be staying for the night."

"Oh…" Fujima lost the dark look on his face for a while as he was surveying the area for a possible inn or hotel. Then he caught the sight of the mall and hotel all in one building at the side of the resort. "Carry my, I mean our bags, Maki. We'll be staying at the Empire Palace Hotel."

Not turning back nor helping Maki, Fujima and the others went together and gathered the kids while Maki served as their bus boy.

"Ne, Fr. Laurent. Where will we be sleeping?" Asked the little boy who's being held by Fujima.

"You see that tall building there?" He asked while the boy nodded. "There! In Empire Palace."

"Cool! That's also where they are holding the best toys and games convention ever!" The boy squealed and tugged Fujima to walk faster towards the building.

Hhmm… I wonder whom they will meet?

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Jin and Mitsui are rounding up the kids while Rukawa and Sendoh tries to hold the other kids from wondering away from their rounded up group.

"Maa ma… we'll return here tomorrow, kids. We just have to find a place to stay in for the night." Sendoh patiently said.

Every student sighed and waited for Jin and Mitsui to return with the others.

"Okay! Now everyone's here, pick up your stuffs and we'll head over that tall building there." Announced Mitsui as he pointed at the building at the other end of the park.

"Oh! The Empire Palace!" shouted one kid.

"Yep! There." Confirmed Jin while leading the pack.

"How'd you know about that place? Does it have a hotel or something?" Sendoh asked Mitsui wondering why he missed that when he was reading the brochures.

"While searching for those little tykes, I found one trying to enter the toys and games convention there inside the mall. And I also found out that it has a hotel."  Mitsui looked back at Sendoh. "Hey, where's Ru – I mean Nicolas?"

The group stopped and one kid pointed at a sleeping form of a person in the park bench far away from them. "He's sleeping there, Fr. Louis. I think Fr. Nicolas is always tired." The little kid pouted still pointing at Rukawa.

Mitsui stared at Sendoh. "Why didn't you wake him up?"

"And get killed? I don't think so."

Mitsui shook his head and went back to Rukawa.

"Sendoh, Sendoh…" softly muttered Jin while looking and showing a small grin at Sendoh.

"What?"

"Sigh… We need to talk later." Said Jin while shaking his head and started again heading towards the hotel.

Gee… I wonder what they will talk about?

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"C'mon, Hanagata-san, please!" Miyagi pleaded while pulling the Shoyo center away from the booth. "Let go of that whatever you're holding and find a place for us to stay in!"

"Wait, Miyagi." Said Hanagata who didn't even moved an inch in his place despite Miyagi's desperate pulls. "I still have to calculate its speed and if it's compatible for my system at home."

"No! You've done that a million times already! And please hand that to that kid, it's his in the first place. You don't have to snatch it away from him." A distressed Miyagi said while pointing looking at the kid ready to cry as he tries to snatch his gadget from Hanagata.

"Kogure-sempai, please wait for me!" Ayako was tired of running after Kogure booth after booth. "And please, let's book in the hotel here, the other kids are tired already!"

"No. So little time, so many booths to visit and explore." Kogure said while pushing kids out of his way.

"Aya-chan, are you alright?" Miyagi saw Ayako stopped in front of them and saw that Ayako looked worse than being involved in one strenuous basketball game.

"Kogure-sempai… he's unbelievable!"

"I know. Hanagata-san was too." Miyagi looked back only to find a missing tall person and one crying kid. "Oh no! I lost him!"

"Ack! Kogure-sempai too!"

"Anou… Sis. Helena, Fr. Dominic. We're tired." Suddenly all their students popped out before them looking sleepy.

Miyagi and Ayako blinked at the instant sight of their students then suddenly an idea formed inside their heads.

Moments later loud shouts can be heard coming from the convention's exit and towards the hotel lobby.

"NO!!!" Both Hanagata and Kogure struggles to be free from the determined, strong little hands attached to them while they're being dragged towards the hotel lobby.

"He he he…" Miyagi and Ayako snickered then laughed Sakuragi style. "And all we had do was to promise the kids to buy each of them new sets of Bey Blade! Nyahahaha!!!"

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Sakuragi stared at the futon then at Kiyota.

Kiyota stared at the futon then at Sakuragi.

Neither one wants to sleep on the bare unheated, cold wooden floor so both are hoping that the futon will divide itself into two.

Then the two sighed at the same.

"Nothing's gonna come out of this staring." Kiyota sat down and buried his head on his knees.

"Okay, we'll sleep on the same futon. But touch me, then you die." Warned Sakuragi.

"Why you?! Okay, but if I feel you moving up to me you also die." Kiyota glared.

"Deal." /Sigh… what's so bad about sleeping with this monkey. I mean the gundan and I sleep together all the time when we camp out./ Sakuragi thought while looking for his pajamas. Then he blushed as he was reminded of the incident this morning when Kiyota was tenderly touching his body. /That touch was nice, it feels warm and funny inside… wait! Stop these thoughts about the cute monkey! No, not cute monkey! Sexy monkey! No, just monkey!!!/

Kiyota rummaged through his belongings looking for his pajamas while thinking thoughts that he shouldn't be thinking off. /… Well, he has a nice body I tell you that. I mean I touched his body this morning and wow! Those are muscles baby! Aah! Shit! No, I shouldn't be thinking about that! I should stop this… I should touch - I mean stop! Yes, touch! No! Stop! Arrgh! I can's stop touching - I mean thinking! Ggrr! Touch! I mean stop it brain!!!/

Yeah, right. And he can't touch I mean stop the blushing either.

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End chapter 7 b Nyahahaha!!!