Valentine's Special
Author's Notes
Warning: This fanfic has shonen-ai, also known as boys' love. And it's slightly lime-ish, meaning it contains a some hint of sexual content. If you don't like it, don't read. You have been warned.
Disclaimer: None of the anime characters belong to me, I'll be rich if they do. However, my own inserted characters are mine mine mine! Steal and die die die! And may you be stuck in whatever hell purgatory negative karma that you believe in and never get unstuck! Muahahahahah...! And about the battle arena design, I took it from my very favorite game: RedMoon Online. I described it out into words so the design does not belong to me at all.
Seluna says: This fic is a collaboration between me and Yumeshi, and we were thinking of throwing a lot a lot of bishies together for Valentine's Day. We are terribly late on updating, meeting neither the original intended date or the valentine's day. But oh well.
Chapter 2 – Break the Ice
"Boom!" The once noisy pub suddenly became deathly quiet. Suddenly, yelps of pain could be heard from behind the stage. "Sel-chan watch where you step!" a girlish voice, which was rather familiar to five certain gundam pilots, rang out.
"My dear lovely handsome good-looking bishounens, welcome to AG Pub!" A clear female voice boomed throughout the pub. It seemed as though the whole room was surrounded by micro-phone speakers and echoes could still be clearly heard even after the speech had ended for five seconds.
"Restrain yourself, Sel-chan. You're going to scare them away." That girlish voice whispered very audibly to the person who spoke and screeched even more audibly at someone right after the echoes died down. "Xendal! Don't pull my hair!"
"Yeah, stop it Xendal." The person who did the welcoming speech muttered with a hint of annoyance before snapping her fingers, illuminating the darkened room with soft pale pink light.
And to add to the anime character guests' horror, the walls and ceilings of the once perfect normal pub are now decorated with patterns of heart shapes and real mistletoes.
Gasps of horror and surprise could be heard everywhere. Murmurings rose as the crowd suddenly closed up together, slowly and cautiously. It seemed that they were all determined to avoid the mistletoes at all cost.
Most of the crowd that is, as two redheads suddenly appeared out of the mass of bishies. One of the two was enthusiastically dragging the struggling other to a particularly big mistletoe in the middle of the room.
Another round of gasps came about as the one with hair let down in masses plastered his lips onto his partner's with such force that it was a surprise they did not fall to the ground immediately. Said redhead proceeded to ravish his lover on spot.
Silence once again dominated the now pink room. It dragged on for at least 3 minutes until they finally parted gasping for air.
Cheers erupted from the crowd, cheering and congratulating the brave couple. However, the cheering got very abruptly interrupted by a single syllabus that carried the raging emotions and volume of a tidal wave.
"SCHU!"
"Yes darling?"
"Why did you have to do that!" The fuming redhead started furiously, following the other unconsciously as he tried to move away.
He was about to continue his raging when he found his mouth once again invaded and thoroughly conquered. He struggled for a while but finally gave in and kissed back. Fingers moved up and down his back as he proceeded to wrap his long arms around the other.
After they had finally released each other, a lovely male voice with slight amusement coughed and interrupted the heated moment.
"That was a great show, but I'm afraid we have to get the show on the road. I apologize for my interruption and please relax while our two hosts brief you on the programs for today." Quen smiled charmingly at the couple who seemed entangled with each other and walked back to the bartenders' area.
There, four other faces looked more than merely amused and one face is flaming red and swallowing hard, leading to a round of teasing that irritated the owner of the apple red face.
"Alright already!" Said owner of the apple red face exclaimed loudly as she raised the microphone that suddenly appeared on her hand to the chibi beside her.
"I'm Yumeshi, one of your hosts for today, just call me Yume-chan. I am going to introduce our co-workers to you all." The chibi beamed.
""This is Seluna, my sister and your other host." She said as she gestured to the red-faced girl clad in blue cheongsam with her hair tied into a high ponytail.
"This pair of lovers here are Kiana and Long Lei." She turned to the couple only to find them in the middle of a very passionate kiss.
Turning to a tomato like her co-host, she quickly turned to the next pair, "This two are Xendal and Quen. The four of them will be your bartenders."
She passed the microphone to Seluna and turned to sit back down, just in time to see Kiana's tongue flick across Long Lei's lips and earned herself another shade of crimson red on her face and an all too close nose bleed.
"Okay people, listen up. We are going to play Icebreaker, followed by Scavenger Hunt. Since there are so many of you here, we decided to divide you guys into three groups, led by Yume-chan, Xendal and me. Yume-chan will take Group one, Xendal group two and I will take the last group." Seluna announced, her blush fading.
As soon as her speech ended, a holographic image appeared with the lists of the of the names of the members in the three groups. A few seconds later, the once quiet pub erupted into a loud cacophony of angry protests when the guests found out that they were all separated from their lovers.
Looking very cheerful and out of character for a person who had been blushing tomato minutes ago, Yume-chan snapped her fingers and silenced the whole crowd. She then stuck out an open palm towards Seluna who not so happily slapped a five dollar note onto it.
"Sel-chan and I had a bet on whether there will be a wet market when you people discovered our deliberate group placing." She happily explained. It was obvious who the winner was.
The loser of said bet was not a good loser at all and snapped at the crowd," I want you all to get into your groups now in one minute and if anyone is not in their own group by the end of it, I'll have the person to strip down till their underwear. Now move!"
The crowd immediately took off, scrambling to their group area which was not hard to find as they were labeled by huge neon signs.
Seluna was not even up to half of the minute when she saw three straight lines standing behind the neon signs. "Drats, I was hoping to catch someone late..." she muttered before going off to her own group.
Thus, the first item of the program began. The grouping were as follows:
Group One: Chichiri(Leader), Tsukiyono Omi(Assistant Leader), Fujimiya Aya, Kurama, Chang Wufei, Quatre Winner, Cho Hakkai and Nakago.
Group Two: Heero Yuu(Leader), Sanzo(Assistant Leader), Sha Gojyo, Naoe Nagi, Hidaka Ken, Tasuki, Nuriko and Trowa Barton.
Group Three: Duo Maxwell(Leader), Hotohori(Assistant Leader), Tamahome, Son Goku, Kudoh Youji, Schuldich, Hiei and Treize Kushrenada.
"Don't worry we had Quen who is the most unbiased person in our group to do the choosing of leaders." Yume-chan added and passed the microphone to Seluna who read out the rules of the game with unhealthy enthusiasm.
"You will be given five minutes to mix around with your group to know all the known names, alias and codenames," she paused to glance at the people from Weiss Kreuz, "boyfriend, anime origin, likes and dislikes of your group members. After that, everyone will be questioned randomly about another person in their group and when there are wrong or no answers, penalty will be given."
She then grinned maniacally and whistled. Immediately, a man appeared onto the stage holding a huge mug of bubbling purple concoction. The crowd all stared at the mug in mixed fascination and horror. "Your penalties shall be issued by Inui Sadahara from Prince of Tennis. The amount of his penal tea that you will drink will be according to the amount of wrong answers you give." her face broke into a perfectly imitated full-blown smile of the tensai in Prince of Tennis, "Now let the game begin!"
A grinning Seluna blew a shrill whistle to signal the start of the game and as expected, chaos ensued as the bishonens crowded together to start their ten minutes socializing.
The three in-charges moved to their respective group and listened to the hurried conversations with very amused smiles on their faces.
Yumeshi was enlarging her ear to the size of a trumpet, literally since it is in Anything Goes dimension, to hear what was going on in her group. Certain things she heard made her almost burst out into an authentic roar of laughter. Things like, " What saiyuki?", " You have cat names?", "Hey! Your name's a girl's one!", "Quatre-san, please repeat your name, it is just so long...", "Please repeat your lover's name Fujimiya-san, I can't seem to be able to pronounce it." her personal favourite was " Women are weak, men with women's names are even weaker." That comment had almost caused a certain Gundam Wing pilot to get beheaded.
She returned back to her seat on the stage to chat with Xendal and Seluna who had already settled back there.
"Yo!" She greeted casually as she sat down. Her eyebrows shot up when she actually saw unconcealed mirth on Xendal's face.
"What's up?" she asked in surprise as he almost gave out a giggle, a giggle! From the infamous scowler of their group! She almost fainted at that, but managed to control herself.
"He said wouldn't tell me until you returned.." Seluna grumbled as she glared at Xendal.
"You should have heard what some of them asked..." Xendal began and proceeded to laugh out while he sent several comments from certain few members of his group to Yumeshi and Seluna's mind.
To say that those comments were hilarious was an understatement. To prove it, Seluna who had been grumbling earlier on had burst into a river of laughter and sunk to the ground, pounding her fist against the ground. Everyone turned their heads to look incredulously at the laughing trio who took no notice and continued to laugh even louder.
They finally stopped laughing five minutes later. It wasn't long before a typical school bell kind of ring sounded in the hall.
"Alright, times up!" Yumeshi announced as she stood up from her seat which she had climbed back to sit on after laughing.
Seluna climbed up her chair, clutching to her aching stomach, her face twitching from her effort to stop laughing. It didn't help that the smirking guy beside her is still repeating the funniest comments in her head.
As she struggled very hard to keep from howling with laughter again, Yumeshi had already made their grudging guests separate reluctantly and sit on the chairs that were just created in the group areas. The older writer was about to get up when Inui, who was watching by the side all the while, came over and whispered a few things into her ear.
Seluna smiled, very very happily and too innocently. It's the sort of smile that reminded Inui, the spectacles wearing data collector of Seigaku, of their team's prodigy again. Apparently, the author has been drooling over the good-looking sadistic tensai for too long, as she had already beamed a few smile of the same fashion.
Ignoring Inui's whispering of 'data. Ii data', Seluna cleared her throat, loudly and cheerfully announced, "We are going to add two new rules. If the number of wrong answers exceeds seven there will be an extra punishment for the whole group. Every member of that group will have to drink a cup of..." Inui helpfully produced a jug filled with liquid, the dread vinegar drink that knocked even the most resistant Fuji Syusuke unconscious. "... this. The same goes for the next rule, except, you only have to do so if you reach wrong answer number ten. Also your group in charge is going to have a cup of it with you. After all, its one for all and all for one!"
The hosts and bartenders were immediately gifted with the view of a spread of green-looking faces. The chibi author was openly chuckling as she turned and gave her elder sister thumbs-up. She then turned to sea of green and grinned out the instructions to start the next part of the Icebreaker. "Okay, now we are going to start the question asking. The person the red light shines on will be asked a question about the person the blue light shines on. Clear?"
"This is so troublesome. Just like that stupid onna to think of something like that." Someone from the guest grumbled softly, but nevertheless, it was heard by the chibi on the chair.
"One more word, Justice Boy. ONE... MORE... WORD." Yumeshi narrowed her eyes and glared daggers, literally, towards the speaker who avoided the sharp objects rather hastily. The girl leered menacingly at the guests, "Was my instructions clear?"
All the bishounens could do nothing but nod very quickly in reply. Yumeshi then pulled a large grin and looked happily at the Quen. "Which group to start first?"
The calm bartender took a slow sip from his drink and delivered the one word of doom with a gentle gentle, over-gentle smile. "Third."
In between a certain chibi and a smirking handsome guy, Seluna rubbed her hands in glee and eyed her group with an expression that sent chills and insects running up and down the bishounens' spines. "Don't worry, the lights are perfectly random, so is the question choosing machine."
She pointed at the large white screen that appeared on an empty area with a loud 'poof'. On the screen, words saying 'Icebreaker, Group 3' can be seen clearly.
"Now," Seluna grinned in a sugar-high manner at the screen. "Fire away!"
Two sounds of "Ping!" could be heard as the red and blue lights lit upon command. The first pair of victims of the questions, Kudou Yohji and Hiei, responded with a sigh and a "hmph!" respectively. The question then appeared on the screen. Only one could be seen, "Full name". Yohji thought for a moment before hesitantly answering " Hiei of the Koorimes". The Wrong Answer Bell™ beeped before handing Yohji his drink of the day.
Eyebrows raised everywhere and Yume-chan hastily explained, "We forgot to tell you that the answering system is rather strict. The sensors had already picked up what each and everyone of you had said during the five minutes and our hardworking bartenders have already pieced in all the information. So if anyone doesn't give the exact answer, which for Hiei's case is 'Jaganshi Hiei of the Koorimes', you will get a wrong."
Immediately after Yume-chan had finished, a gagging sound could be heard and a green Yohji could be seen, lying on his chair which had lowered its back to become a bed. An empty cup which had the word punishment written on it could be seen lying on the floor.
Gasps of shock and horror could be heard from every direction. Pale faces got whiter than paper, surprise became horror as everyone witness the prowess of Inui's formidable concoction.
The hall was silent for a minute until the inwardly giggling hosts decided to resume the game. It carried on for half an hour until the last candidate in the group was questioned.
Seluna could be seen gripping on a rosary with her face as white as a sheet. Her co-host on the other hand, was cackling outright. This was the climax of the game. Seluna's fate would be decided by this unfortunate bishounen. If he got the answer right, he would, of course, save her. But if he got it wrong, there would be the devil's price to pay...
Schuldich gulped, an action that is very un-Schuldich like. But one cannot blame him, for he is under a lot of pressure which came mostly from the pale as ghost in-charge that is mumbling some sort of a prayer with his name, with a -sama honorific attached, constantly repeated.
He glanced at the man who was handing out the punishment and he fought to not gulp again. He had not expect the hosts to be as cruel as to prevent his telepathy from working. The sudden 'shut-down' was quite an impact to his poor fragile mind and he just couldn't adjust quick enough to remember anything that was said during the socializing time.
He sighed, another action that could never be found on him and looked very slowly towards the person in question and the white screen of doom, which is showing, in capital letters, big bold font and a evil looking smiley face, these words:
'ANIME ORIGIN'
Schuldich's face muscles twitched involuntarily as he glanced towards the blue haired boy with a 'oni' sign on his forehead. He suppressed an urge to look towards the punishment again lest he turned green like before. The telepath... err... without his telepathy, took a deep breath and exhaled just as deeply. Then, he answered.
"Yu Yu Hakusho."
The German carrot top didn't need the Wrong Answer Bell™ to know that he got the answer wrong as eight very loud and resigned groans sounded from his group members and their in-charge who is on the verge of fainting from shock. Schuldich, broke the record and did something else one won't ever see him do. He fell to his knees with a chalk white face.
To add to the group's misery, one very happy chibi burst out into very cheerful giggles and very loudly announced their very bad scores and punishments. Those who were not green, or white, or blue, had chosen one of the colors to represent their feelings. The colors got worst when one very villainy looking Inui Sadahara walked over and placed two cups of the stinking vinegar drink into each of the group members hands, one cup in front of the trembling Seluna and three cups in front of the Schwarz telepath.
After a prolonged period of silence which is followed by chanting of 'why are we waiting', nine screams, howls, screech, whatever formed the ultimate cacophony of the tortured.
The game proceeded on, after the all-too-happy chibi forcefully woke the unconscious group three members who still looked vaguely green in the face. The same could be said for the unfortunate co-host who is in charge of them. Seluna looked begrudgingly at her group and glared at her giggling sister before she asked Quen for the next group to be tortu- eh... to play the game.
"Second." The younger of the brother bartenders delivered another word of doom as he sipped his tea elegantly. His brother, said in-charge of the group with impending doom, sent his nonchalant brother a vicious glare with his double-colored eyes before he reluctantly continued the game.
What got the ball to continue rolling was the loud "Ping!" that lit above two unfortunate contestants in the second group. Hidaka Ken and Heero Yuy got hit with the question of 'boyfriend'.
The question flashed onto the screen and Ken cheered, "Hey I remember this one!" he bounced in his seat and after a minute of thumping on the poor chair, he finally gave the answer enthusiastically.
"Door Maxell!"
There was utter silence as the whole crowd waited for the results. A few seconds later, the ring came. It was the Wrong Answer Bell™. Grumbles rose from the crowd that the machinery was malfunctioning and a chibi immediately hastened to silence them.
"I'm sorry we forgot to inform you that the machine is also very strict when it comes to pronunciation. For Ken's case, he pronounced the name 'Duo Maxwell' wrong so its still a wrong even if he got the correct answer! If you want to, please refer computer pad at the armrest of each of your seats to read all the rules and regulations of the game." she explained and literally slumped back down on the comfortable couch which her co-host had pulled out from nowhere.
The poor brunette who was under the red light had no choice but to resign to his unfortunate fate and gulped down the liquid. His tortured scream could be heard echoed all over the hall and winces from his teammates could be seen clearly by everyone including the bartenders and hosts who only grinned wider.
The game continued on just as it had with the first group until it reached the 11th contestant who happened to be a grumpy blond monk. The person in question was unfortunately unknown to him in all aspects. He had afterall not been paying too much attention to his group members during the 5 minutes of interaction.
The question flashed evilly in front of him and as he had no answer to provide, his only words were, "Give me that drink."
His fellow group members all groaned when they heard that for they had been keeping count on the number of wrongs they had gotten and his wrong just contributed to their current total of seven wrongs. That only meant that they were all in for another cup of the vile concoction.
The blond's reaction was, to put simply, intriguing. He was the first person in the crowd who had already drunk the liquid to keep silent all the way through the torture of the its journey towards his poor stomach. The feat that can only be accomplished by Fuji Syusuke. Though he did follow the tennis genius' example and fell unconscious seconds later with a green face.
The hosts' only reaction to that was to raise their glasses of wine, which came out of nowhere together with the couch, as a mock salute and fall back again to their couch cheering.
Thus the game continued and ended with a result tying with that of Seluna's group's. Xendal was of course subjected to the bubbling liquid to which he broke the record by not fainting or making any noise and only changing into a vivid shade of green and collapsing weakly back to his chair.
It was then finally Yume-chan's group's turn and the chibi immediately held up a huge flag which had the words "Go team, Go!" painted on it. She waved the flag enthusiastically at her group cheering at the top of her voice, without the microphone of course, and left it floating in midair like a banner when the game officially continued again.
The infamous red and blue lights then made their appearances above the heads of a blue haired monk and a bishounen who had flaming red hair cascading down his back respectively.
The question flashed on the huge white screen with huge capital lettered words, "Anime Origin."
The monk immediately answered without hesitation, "Yu Yu Hakusho." He was immediately answered with the Correct Answer Bell™.
A cheer immediately erupted from his group as they congratulated Chichiri, their lucky candidate. A minute later, they were all seated back at the seats when the game continued on. It took them less than half an hour to reach their last and final candidate, Omi Tsukiyono, the residential chibi in Weiss Kreuz and Nakago, the person in question.
They both looked up as the word "Boyfriend." Imprinted itself on the screen. Omi gave a relieved sigh as he realized the simplicity of the question.
"Tamahome." He said as he gave Nakago a thumbs up. The Right Answer Bell™ rang on cue and they sat back on their seats.
A typical school bell rang and Seluna stepped up again, her cheeks were slightly flushed perhaps from drinking the wine. She scrutinized the tiny card in her hand and finally read out the scores," First group, four wrongs and eleven rights." she paused and turned to give the chibi behind her a venomous glare to which the chibi retorted, her words slightly slurred, "It'sh not moi fault that the people in moi group have great memory and a good team spirit y'know!"
Seluna did not reply but only turned back and read out the results of the other teams, "Group two and three are tied with ten wrongs and five rights." She reported grumpily and went back to her couch to pull out another bottle of wine which she unceremoniously dumped down her throat while her co-host stepped forward to attend to the crowd.
"We shall now allow you to have a ten minutes break for those who drank the juice to recover and for you to interact with each other. However, you are not allowed to leave your group area and should you be caught breaking that rule, we shall have some real good fun torturing you publicly." she cheerfully announced and went back to her previous resting spot, allowing a noise barrier to cover the area she and her fellow bartenders and co-host were in.
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