Lesson 5
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AN: thanks for the great reviews, I should double update more often..
Ryu-Chan: (is reading reviews) Nani? "Ryuko-Chan ish.." what is ish?
Ryu-Kun: I don't know, I think it's a weird irregular verb.
Ryu-Chan: and why do people insist on calling me "Ryuko"?!
Yuki: T.T that's your name.
Ryu-Chan: and why do people call you Yuki?
Yuki: that's my penname.
Ryu-Chan: oh, okay.
Avia: ano...I have two. Avia's just easier to spell out than Akiyama...for all you that are reading this on mm.org....just go with it.
Yuki: who said you could open your mouth?
Avia: I'm the author...
Yuki: and?
Avia: and if you don't shut up, I'll lock you in a room with a drunk chibi Shuichi.
Yuki: T.T I have deadlines to do...
Avia: back to the chapter please...BTW, since no one answered the irrelevant question, I'll just take the easy way out.
Kumagoro: (waves) please enjoy the chapter no da!! =^_^=
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"Noriko-Chan put together a CD of some of the songs she thought would make a good end theme," Ryuchi explained as they walked through Ryuchi's house. "Tohma thought it would be better if I put it together since I was more familiar with it, but Noriko-Chan took over. Here it is!" he exclaimed holding up a blank disc.
"How many songs are on it, Ryu-Chan?" Ryuko asked, sitting down.
"I don't know. Hah, I don't even know what songs are on it...we'll see." With that, he put the CD in the machine and sat next to Ryuko.
"Hm, that one has good instrumentals," Ryuko pondered as she listened.
"That was 'Sleepless Beauty', it was our first single."
"Wai, you're the lead singer, aren't you, Ryu-Chan?"
"Hai, hai."
"You've got a good voice! Come to think of it, Shindou-Chan's voice sounds a lot like yours."
"Oh, you think so?"
They sat there for a few minutes, listening to the CD, trying to find a good song. "Well, I like this song..." Ryuko said around "Shining Collection."
"Well, you'd have to talk to the author about that one," Ryuchi said with a sweat-drop.
"Who wrote it?"
"Yuki."
"Oh, never mind, then. He'd just send me for a wild goose chase."
After finding a song for the end theme, Ryuchi gave Ryuko a ride back to Yuki's apartment.
Ryuko shook her head and opened the door only to find a very tall, shadowy Yuki lurking behind it. "What's the matter, Eiri-Chan?"
"Do you realize how late it is?" he demanded.
"Eiri-Chan, if you haven't forgotten, I'm six years older than you..."
"That's not what I mean."
"Ryu-Chan!!" Shuichi's voice came from inside. "Did you get lost or something?! I was so worried!!"
"THAT is what I mean..."
"Eh?" Ryuko asked. "What's the matter, Shindou-Chan?"
Shuichi grinned and held up a copy of "Seven Days" on DVD. "Will you watch it with me??" he whined. "Yuki won't watch it with me..."
"Eh?" Ryuko asked, scratching her head. "You're into it, too, Shui- Chan?"
"Well..if I'm playing the opening theme I might as well see what it's about. I've already read the manga so far."
"In one day?!" Ryuko and Yuki asked at the same time.
"Well, after Yuki left and you were working on sketches, I had nothing to do...so I went to the bookstore and bought the manga. My neck hurts..."
"Baka," Yuki said, rolling his eyes.
"Anyway, Ryu-Kun let me borrow his DVD collection of the anime."
"Okay, I'll watch it with you, I want to see what kind of job they did dubbing it into Japanese."
"Eh? It wasn't originally in Japanese?"
"Well...I wrote it while I was in America."
"Oh..." Shuichi said thoughtfully as they went into the living room.
Ryuko suddenly got a very uncharacteristic, very evil smirk on her face.
"Nani?" Shuichi asked.
The blue-haired manga artist walked into the room Yuki had just walked into. 'What's going on?' Shuichi thought. He covered his ears as he heard Yuki scream, "NOT THE EARS!!"
The pink-haired singer nodded as all was explained and Ryuko walked in, dragging her cousin by the ear.
"Pop the DVD in, Shui-Chan!"
"Wai?" Shuichi asked as he walked over to the DVD player. "You called me 'Shui-Chan'."
"Eh, I figured since you're my cousin's boyfriend and you've become like a little brother, I might as well call you by your first name."
"Thanks Ryu-Chan!" he said, going chibi and making huge, watery eyes.
Ryuko lifted a worried eyebrow. "You're not going to cry again, are you?"
"Put the DVD in already!" Yuki growled, plopping down next to Ryuko
"Oh! Right!" Shuichi said, going back to normal and popped in the disc.
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After a few hours of "Seven Days", Yuki had finally given up on trying to understand his cousin's masterpiece American anime and fallen asleep.
Ryuko paused the episode they were on and turned to her friend, who was quite confused by now. "Why did you pause the show, Ryu-Chan?" he asked.
"I was thinking...Eiri-Chan and I haven't really gotten all that close as far as he's concerned...but when he was little, he was my best friend," she answered with a smile.
"Uh-huh...."
"And never got enjoy hand-me-downs since he was the eldest son..."
"Oh...what do you have in mind?"
Ryuko held up something. (AN: that the reader can't see until Yuki wakes up ~insert evil laugh~) "Don't you think he'll like it?"
"I don't know...he might wake up..."
"Ya, ya, he sleeps like a rock when he's bored, you know that."
"Isn't he so cute when he sleeps...?"
"I know, he looks like a little kid...we should make him look even cuter, no?"
Shuichi looked uneasily from his smiling friend to his sleeping lover. "Okay, okay!" he finally said, putting on an uncharacteristic smirk himself.
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"Yuki..." the writer heard in his sleep. "Yuki..." Great. Now the pink-haired baka was getting into his dreams?
"Eiri-Chan...wake up!" his cousin's voice rang. Okay, so maybe it wasn't a dream, but he was still tired, they'd have to wait.
"He's not waking up..." Shuichi lamented.
"I know what used to wake him up when we were little," Ryuko said with a wink. "Eiri-Chan, Tatsu-Chan wants to play Nittle Grasper!"
Yuki suddenly sprang up in a cold, frightened sweat.
"La Li Ho!!" Shuichi chimed, giving him a hug. "Ne, what's so scary about playing Nittle Grasper?"
"Tatsu-Chan would play his music really loud, so the whole temple could hear it. I played Noriko...."
"Tatsuha would play Ryuchi, and I was forced to join along and play Tohma."
"That's really weird..."
"What was weirder is Tatsuha would always make Tohma have crush on Noriko while Ryuchi chased after Tohma."
"Tatsu-Chan is very special..."
Yuki suddenly blinked and felt his head. There was something in his hair? He took one of the things out and turned on the light. "Ryuko..."
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AN: my version of suspense, but I bet you can already guess what it is...
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AN: thanks for the great reviews, I should double update more often..
Ryu-Chan: (is reading reviews) Nani? "Ryuko-Chan ish.." what is ish?
Ryu-Kun: I don't know, I think it's a weird irregular verb.
Ryu-Chan: and why do people insist on calling me "Ryuko"?!
Yuki: T.T that's your name.
Ryu-Chan: and why do people call you Yuki?
Yuki: that's my penname.
Ryu-Chan: oh, okay.
Avia: ano...I have two. Avia's just easier to spell out than Akiyama...for all you that are reading this on mm.org....just go with it.
Yuki: who said you could open your mouth?
Avia: I'm the author...
Yuki: and?
Avia: and if you don't shut up, I'll lock you in a room with a drunk chibi Shuichi.
Yuki: T.T I have deadlines to do...
Avia: back to the chapter please...BTW, since no one answered the irrelevant question, I'll just take the easy way out.
Kumagoro: (waves) please enjoy the chapter no da!! =^_^=
~~~~~
"Noriko-Chan put together a CD of some of the songs she thought would make a good end theme," Ryuchi explained as they walked through Ryuchi's house. "Tohma thought it would be better if I put it together since I was more familiar with it, but Noriko-Chan took over. Here it is!" he exclaimed holding up a blank disc.
"How many songs are on it, Ryu-Chan?" Ryuko asked, sitting down.
"I don't know. Hah, I don't even know what songs are on it...we'll see." With that, he put the CD in the machine and sat next to Ryuko.
"Hm, that one has good instrumentals," Ryuko pondered as she listened.
"That was 'Sleepless Beauty', it was our first single."
"Wai, you're the lead singer, aren't you, Ryu-Chan?"
"Hai, hai."
"You've got a good voice! Come to think of it, Shindou-Chan's voice sounds a lot like yours."
"Oh, you think so?"
They sat there for a few minutes, listening to the CD, trying to find a good song. "Well, I like this song..." Ryuko said around "Shining Collection."
"Well, you'd have to talk to the author about that one," Ryuchi said with a sweat-drop.
"Who wrote it?"
"Yuki."
"Oh, never mind, then. He'd just send me for a wild goose chase."
After finding a song for the end theme, Ryuchi gave Ryuko a ride back to Yuki's apartment.
Ryuko shook her head and opened the door only to find a very tall, shadowy Yuki lurking behind it. "What's the matter, Eiri-Chan?"
"Do you realize how late it is?" he demanded.
"Eiri-Chan, if you haven't forgotten, I'm six years older than you..."
"That's not what I mean."
"Ryu-Chan!!" Shuichi's voice came from inside. "Did you get lost or something?! I was so worried!!"
"THAT is what I mean..."
"Eh?" Ryuko asked. "What's the matter, Shindou-Chan?"
Shuichi grinned and held up a copy of "Seven Days" on DVD. "Will you watch it with me??" he whined. "Yuki won't watch it with me..."
"Eh?" Ryuko asked, scratching her head. "You're into it, too, Shui- Chan?"
"Well..if I'm playing the opening theme I might as well see what it's about. I've already read the manga so far."
"In one day?!" Ryuko and Yuki asked at the same time.
"Well, after Yuki left and you were working on sketches, I had nothing to do...so I went to the bookstore and bought the manga. My neck hurts..."
"Baka," Yuki said, rolling his eyes.
"Anyway, Ryu-Kun let me borrow his DVD collection of the anime."
"Okay, I'll watch it with you, I want to see what kind of job they did dubbing it into Japanese."
"Eh? It wasn't originally in Japanese?"
"Well...I wrote it while I was in America."
"Oh..." Shuichi said thoughtfully as they went into the living room.
Ryuko suddenly got a very uncharacteristic, very evil smirk on her face.
"Nani?" Shuichi asked.
The blue-haired manga artist walked into the room Yuki had just walked into. 'What's going on?' Shuichi thought. He covered his ears as he heard Yuki scream, "NOT THE EARS!!"
The pink-haired singer nodded as all was explained and Ryuko walked in, dragging her cousin by the ear.
"Pop the DVD in, Shui-Chan!"
"Wai?" Shuichi asked as he walked over to the DVD player. "You called me 'Shui-Chan'."
"Eh, I figured since you're my cousin's boyfriend and you've become like a little brother, I might as well call you by your first name."
"Thanks Ryu-Chan!" he said, going chibi and making huge, watery eyes.
Ryuko lifted a worried eyebrow. "You're not going to cry again, are you?"
"Put the DVD in already!" Yuki growled, plopping down next to Ryuko
"Oh! Right!" Shuichi said, going back to normal and popped in the disc.
~~~~~
After a few hours of "Seven Days", Yuki had finally given up on trying to understand his cousin's masterpiece American anime and fallen asleep.
Ryuko paused the episode they were on and turned to her friend, who was quite confused by now. "Why did you pause the show, Ryu-Chan?" he asked.
"I was thinking...Eiri-Chan and I haven't really gotten all that close as far as he's concerned...but when he was little, he was my best friend," she answered with a smile.
"Uh-huh...."
"And never got enjoy hand-me-downs since he was the eldest son..."
"Oh...what do you have in mind?"
Ryuko held up something. (AN: that the reader can't see until Yuki wakes up ~insert evil laugh~) "Don't you think he'll like it?"
"I don't know...he might wake up..."
"Ya, ya, he sleeps like a rock when he's bored, you know that."
"Isn't he so cute when he sleeps...?"
"I know, he looks like a little kid...we should make him look even cuter, no?"
Shuichi looked uneasily from his smiling friend to his sleeping lover. "Okay, okay!" he finally said, putting on an uncharacteristic smirk himself.
~~~~~
"Yuki..." the writer heard in his sleep. "Yuki..." Great. Now the pink-haired baka was getting into his dreams?
"Eiri-Chan...wake up!" his cousin's voice rang. Okay, so maybe it wasn't a dream, but he was still tired, they'd have to wait.
"He's not waking up..." Shuichi lamented.
"I know what used to wake him up when we were little," Ryuko said with a wink. "Eiri-Chan, Tatsu-Chan wants to play Nittle Grasper!"
Yuki suddenly sprang up in a cold, frightened sweat.
"La Li Ho!!" Shuichi chimed, giving him a hug. "Ne, what's so scary about playing Nittle Grasper?"
"Tatsu-Chan would play his music really loud, so the whole temple could hear it. I played Noriko...."
"Tatsuha would play Ryuchi, and I was forced to join along and play Tohma."
"That's really weird..."
"What was weirder is Tatsuha would always make Tohma have crush on Noriko while Ryuchi chased after Tohma."
"Tatsu-Chan is very special..."
Yuki suddenly blinked and felt his head. There was something in his hair? He took one of the things out and turned on the light. "Ryuko..."
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AN: my version of suspense, but I bet you can already guess what it is...
