"Waaahh!! My head hurts! I don't get it at all!"
Hikaru continued wailing while his grandfather tried unsuccessfully to calm him. The other customers were staring at the young boy who was so rudely interrupting their game. Small whispers of 'brat' and 'how embarrassing' began to circle around the Go salon.
"Excuse me, sir..."
Jii-chan looked up greatfully at the lady coming towards him.
"I'm very sorry miss but, could you please take care of him for a while? I won't be but a moment."
He nudged the sniffing Hikaru in her direction.
"There you go. Follow the Onee-san, she'll take care of you while Jii-chan plays a few games."
Shocked, the lady backed away from the toddler who was running up to her in tears.
"Ano... Chotto..."
The little boy looked up at her with his round, brown eyes complete with trembling chin.
"You've got to be kidding me..."
He started crying again, even louder than before. His head hurt and he was bored silly. There were no toys around here at all!
".... Come on, we'll get you cleaned up."
She steered the little boy towards the counter and proceded to clean his face and hands with a tissue.
"Saa... What's your name?"
*sob* "Shindo Hikaru." *sob*
"Ara, Shindo-kun is it? What were you up to, Shindo-kun?"
"Those black and white round things... I don't understand..." *sniff*
"Ah, he was trying to teach you Go?"
"Go?"
"..."
Now that he'd stopped wailing, she could see he was kind of cute. His dark brown hair fell into his light brown eyes, set in an adorably chubby face.
"Oi! Here's your lunch!"
"Ichikawa-san! Oh, arigatou gozaimasu."
"I'm just going to make a call and then I'll have to go again."
"Huh? Where?"
"I'm supposed to pick Akira-kun up from his Go class."
"Oooh! I have a great idea. Take him with you."
"Eh?"
Ichikawa suddenly noticed a head of hair around her knees and looked down at the little boy clutching a box of tissues.
"Oh, hello there. Who are you?"
Hikaru stared at the new Onee-san. She looked pretty. "Shindo Hikaru."
"Hehe, aren't you cute?" She ruffled his hair and kept talking. "Why do you want me to take him along?"
"He's distracting the customers. I'm not particularly good with children either. Well, apart from Akira-kun."
"But Shindo-kun looks sweet." She smiled down at Hikaru who had taken an interest in the tissues he was holding. "We have to ask for permission though."
"Oh, his ojii-san's just over there."
Ichikawa approached the table where Jii-chan was having a game with another man.
"Ano, chotto sumimasen. Is it ok if I take Shindo-kun out? I'm just going to pick up a friend's son and it won't take long."
Jii-chan's opponent snorted as he placed a stone. "Just fine with me. And you can take as long as you want."
"Kitajima-san!"
*cough* "It's just fine. Hikaru?"
"Huh?" Hikaru was lost. What was everyone talking about? And he was sure that man had just said something nasty.
"Do you want to come with me and meet someone else your age?" said the nice Onee-san.
Hikaru nodded enthusiastically. Wow, he could make a new friend! Maybe they could play together! Finally, something to do.
He waited patiently for the nice Onee-san to finish talking on the phone, envisioning what this 'someone' would look like. Would he like to to eat? Oh, of course he would, everyone likes to eat.
The other Onee-san wrestled the shredded tissue and tissue box from his hands before handing him over to Ichikawa.
"I'll be back in a bit!"
Notes and message:
Whoops, this might turn out to be a three part thing. Oh well *shrug* This story just seems to write itself ^^
*groan* I'm starting to regret I ever put Jii-chan in there. I somehow trip myself up over whether to use Jii-chan or grandfather. Must remember not to do that in my next fic.
The chapters aren't very long so far (good? bad?) and I didn't do too much describing. Ergh, Hikago's hard to make descriptive anyways, it's about Go and there's only so much... Warui, warui, going off on a tangent ^^;