The Camping Trip of DOOM!!
By Umeko
Chapter Four: " A Go Parlor… we are home… CHARTER BUS!!"

Isumi stood, arms crossed and eye twitching. He stared down at the two sleeping figures in front of him: Akira, curled up against his goban (which, Isumi noted, had been missing the day before), and Hikaru, sprawled out across the bed, clutching his fan tightly. Surrounding them were various food crumbs, wrappers, and eating utensils. (Eww…) He should have known better than to leave them unattended.

YEAH! SUCK IT UP, ISUMI!!! (YEAH!!! Um, but remember, I have nothing against Isumi. Though Mab seems to think I do. o.O)

"Well…" Waya sighed, "are you going to kick them awake again?"

Isumi shook his head. "No, that was terribly out of character for me yesterday. (-nods-) You do it. No wait," Isumi held out a hand as Waya got ready. "That'll just toss the trash everywhere and make a big mess."

"What do you propose we do, then?"

The older pro thought for a bit, then seemed to make up his mind. (It took me like five hours to figure out how he'd wake them up.) Opening his mouth, he said, "Hey, is that Sai?"

"WHERE?!" Immediately, Hikaru and Akira popped out of bed and looked around, then frowned when they only saw Isumi and Waya.

"Oh… that was not funny, Isumi-san," Hikaru pouted.

"Neither is that big mess there," Isumi retorted. "Do you want to go to breakfast, or was your little party last night enough?" (Minds out of the gutter, this is a PG fic!!)

"What?!" Hikaru looked around the bed. "Crap, Touya! You were supposed to clean up the evidence!!" (PG.)

Akira ran his hands through his messy hair. "No, that was supposed to be you."

"I fell asleep!"

"Well, so did I!!"

"Please don't fight so early in the morning…" Waya groaned, rubbing his temples. "Just clean up and get dressed so that we can get going, savvy?" (Um… savvy… yes.)

Hikaru and Akira nodded solemnly and proceeded to pick up their mess. Suddenly, Akira stopped. "Hey, my goban is here!" (HOORAY!!!)

Hikaru rolled his eyes. "Great observation, Touya. You must have had it with you the entire time."

"But I didn't."

"How did it get here, then?"

"How am I supposed to know?!"

"Because it's your goban!"

"But it was stolen yesterday!"

"Maybe you're going blind."

Akira gasped as he dropped the trash into a wastebin. "Do you think so?"

"I don't- wait. That would mean that…"

"If I go blind…"

"…You won't be able to play Go!" (Well, he could play BLIND Go… Hahaha… that's not funny.)

They stood and stared at each other for a few moments, not moving. Finally, Waya came back in, glaring. "What are you two doing?! Get moving!"

"Oh, right!!" So they got dressed at lightspeed and went downstairs for their continental breakfast! HOORAH!! (YAY!!!)

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"It's a good thing this breakfast is free," Isumi groaned as he chose a bagel. Hikaru and Akira giggled nervously, knowing all too well that the statement was directed towards them. (Because of their "party.")

"So, uh…" Akira peered at the plate of doughnuts. "Where will we be going after this?"

"The sports store down the street," Waya answered.

Hikaru also inspected the doughnuts, then grinned at his rival. Akira shook his head furiously (Oh, yes. They communicate telepathically.), then turned back to Waya, forcing a smile. "Ah… what for?"

"To buy a pair of oars. We're going upstream today, anyway." (They should have had oars BEFORE, but…)

"Ah. I should probably buy a backpack or something, since my go-" He stopped abruptly as Hikaru pressed a jelly doughnut into his hand. "Shindo!" he hissed. (Do you know what Hikaru's planning? XD)

"Do it, Touya!" Hikaru whispered back.

Grinning nervously at Waya and Isumi, Akira turned around to face Hikaru. "I'm not doing this, Shindo! We've already gotten in trouble today!"

"Come on, Touya!" He grabbed a cream doughnut. "Look, I'll do it too, okay?"

Isumi blinked, trying to hear what they were conversing about. (Because they were being so inconspicuous about it.) "Uh… you two…?"

"Give it up, Shindo!" Akira suddenly shouted, aiming the doughnut at his rival and squeezing. Red jelly oozed out of the pastry and over his hands. (I considered actually having it squirt out into Hikaru's face.) "Ew!"

Hikaru's face fell. "Aww, it didn't work… well, it was aimed at my face, but-"

"Of course it didn't work, Shindo! This is real life, not a cartoon!" (Oh, the irony.)

Isumi slapped his forehead. "Are you two trying to be annoying on purpose?"

"No!" Akira quickly exclaimed, at the same time that Hikaru shouted, "Yes!" (Hahaha!! This is so… um… yeah…)

Several businessmen , CEOs, and foreign ambassadors shook their heads in disgust, wondering how a group of rude, noisy teenage kids were able to afford staying in such a high-class five-star hotel. Then they turned back to enjoying their English muffins with marmalade and Honey Dijon mustard. (Eww… I was trying to think of dignified breakfast food, but that just sounds disgusting.)

"Oh, Jesus Christ (Oooh, using the Lord's name in vain… bad…)!" Waya stomped over and snatched Hikaru's fan. "Give me that!" (Random? Maybe.)

Hikaru was frozen in a state of shock, staring at his empty hands. Finally he yelled, "Hey! Waya!!"

"I'm taking this, Shindo."

"WHY?!"

"You can get it back after breakfast!" he scolded. "But only if you and Touya stop goofing off!"

Hikaru glared at Akira, fuming. "You better not mess this up, Touya!"

"Me? You're the one who started it!"

"Just eat, you two," Isumi sighed, realizing that he had accidentally cooked his bagel too long, and it was not burned to charcoal. (Um… yeah. In case you wanted to know.)

Scoffing, Hikaru turned on his heel to get himself some breakfast. He tossed the cream doughnut back on the tray, but Akira quickly picked it back up, because the businessmen, CEOs, and foreign ambassadors were glaring at the contaminated nut of dough. (Nut of dough… doughnut… yeah…)

(This is the paragraph where I list what everyone eats, as if you really want to know!!) So they had a grand ol' time eating their continental breakfast. Isumi discovered the magical toasting machine that has a conveyor belt and always toasts to perfection. (Do you have any idea what I'm referring to here?) So he dumped the toaster and the toaster was sad because it was in love with Isumi. (This is so messed up. I don't know where it came from.) So Isumi had a bagel, fresh fruit, and coffee. But it wasn't black coffee because he doesn't drink black coffee like Arima's cousin. (Arima's cousin… also known as Kishimoto. See, in Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou [or Kare Kano for short…], Arima at one point goes to a family reunion or something. He has some relative [who I randomly decided was his cousin, though they never say] who looks a lot like Kishimoto. So from then on Kishimoto has been known as Arima's Cousin.) (Uhh, Kishimoto, by the way, was the first board for Kaio. In case you forgot or something.) Waya had cereal and toast. Hikaru had a few doughnuts, and Akira ate the single doughnut that Hikaru forced in his mouth because he doesn't like to eat. (I exaggerated here. It's not that he doesn't like to eat, it's that he doesn't like to eat in the middle of games. But we can just ignore that for now.)

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"Can we stop somewhere where I can buy a backpack first?" Akira asked once the four had checked out and were walking down the sidewalk. Shifting the goban to his other arm, he added, "I can't carry this the whole way like this."

Waya grunted. "Touya, we're going to a sports store. I'm sure they sell backpacks there."

"Hey, it's a Go parlor!" Hikaru suddenly shouted, stopping in his tracks. The other three stopped as well and gazed lovingly up at the sign that read "Igo." (It's so… beautiful…)

Finally, Isumi shook himself out of the trance. "We can't go in, guys. We need a good part of the day to row upstream."

"Aww…" Reluctantly, they turned away from the Go parlor and continued to the sports store that was right next door. (Very conveniently.)

Once they were inside, Akira looked around the store curiously. "I've never been to a sports store before." (I was thinking EMS as I was writing this. EMS being Eastern Mountain Sports, not Emergency Medical Services. My brother loves EMS; he's happy that I'm going to Bryn Mawr because apparently there's a huge EMS in Bryn Mawr. Um, yes, moving on…)

"Well, yeah." Hikaru rolled his eyes. "I can't really imagine you going into a sports store under normal circumstances, Touya."

"Here, Shindo, take this. I'm going to look at the backpacks." He pushed the goban into Hikaru's arms.

"He-hey!"

"Waya and I are going to go look for a decent pair of oars," Isumi announced. "You two behave." (Oh, yeah, like that's going to happen.)

Waya cocked an eyebrow (He does that quite a bit…) at Hikaru and Akira before following Isumi to the back.

Groaning, Hikaru set the goban on the floor. "Jeez…"

"Shindo!" Akira whipped around to face his rival. "Be careful with that! Don't just drop it on the floor like that!" (Overreacting much?)

"I didn't drop it, I carefully placed it on the floor."

"Oh, right, I'm sure."

"Why would I drop your goban?!"

"Because you burned it!" (Remember that?)

"I wha-" Hikaru paused. "What the hell, I told you that no one burned your goban!!"

"Right… and how can you prove that?"

Hikaru scowled and pointed to the goban very… pointedly. (Of course.) "Does it look burned?!"

"No…"

"Then it's not!!"

"Okay, jeez!!" Akira turned back to looking at the backpacks. "Just leave me alone now, okay?"

"Leave you alone? You're the one who started it!" (He really was… oh, well.)

"Whatever."

In a huff, Hikaru stomped over to a random part of the store to look at something that was not Touya Akira. He just happened (Not like I PLANNED it or anything…) to come a rack of jerseys, all emblazoned with the number 5, so he was happy. (Um, really. I seriously didn't plan on this.) (Really!!)

Ten minutes later, the four exited the store, Isumi and Waya each carrying an oar and Akira with some crazy huge camping backpack with all sorts of hooks, straps, and carabiners (Those things that rock climbers use… and that my brother loves…) that he definitely did not need. And, despite urgings against it, Hikaru had bought a little packet of chocolate energy sauce or something. (EMS sells these packets of liquid energy stuff that's really disgusting and Hikaru obviously does not need extra energy. Um… that sentence got off-track really quickly.) The other three were careful to keep themselves a good distance away from him as he was consuming it, playing with his fan (which Waya had returned while no one was looking). (Actually… I had forgotten about it and didn't feel like going back and fixing it.)

Finally, they reached the clearing where they had landed, and Hikaru ran around in circles, giggling madly. (See what I said? He doesn't need extra energy.) The others ignored him, however, because…

"My canoe is gone!" Isumi exclaimed, beginning to panic. "I left it right there, and now it's gone!!" (HORRORS!!)

Akira sighed. "Well, this is a public place. It was kind of stupid to leave your canoe sitting out here." (Yeah, anyone could come along and steal a CANOE…)

"Shut up, Touya!" Waya growled. "What were we supposed to do with it?!"

Akira shrugged, not caring too much, and entertained himself by sitting down and watching his rival's sugarhigh antics.

"So… what are we going to do, Isumi-san?"

Isumi looked down at the oars sullenly. "I have no idea. I'm not going to buy a new canoe, and I'm not sure how productive it would be to report the theft to the police…"(Because, frankly, I don't think that the police would care about a stolen canoe that was left out unprotected anyway.)

They stood there for a second.

"We could return the oars and then take the subway back," Waya suggested.

"Our campsite is in the middle of the woods. The subway won't take us there."

"Bullet train?"

"That's not much better."

"Uh… taxi?"

"I'm not paying the fare for a three-hour ride, Waya."

There was another long pause. "…Maybe we could rent a charter bus?" (I wanted them the ride a charter bus for some reason. It probably costs more than a taxi, but…) (Now, SCHOOL buses? They cost like five dollars, mwahahaha.)

Isumi turned to look at his friend. "Is that even possible?"

"I don't see why not. And it can't cost much more than there oars, which cost-"

"Please don't remind me," Isumi sighed. (I really don't know how much oars cost. When my family is in EMS buying my brother a bunch of stuff that he really doesn't need, I just look at the animal postcards and stuff.) (And I don't understand why my parents buy my brother BRAND NEW scuba gear and lacrosse gear and fencing gear and PDAs that he REALLY doesn't need and refuse to buy me a freaking goban, even when I say that I'll help pay for one!! Okay, I'm done.) "All right, we can try that. But how are we going to find a charter bus to rent?"

Shrugging, Waya said, "We can ask around. And in the meantime, we can have some fun in the city. (PG.) It's not every day you get to go to Nagano."

"Fun? Like what…?" (PG!!)

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"Welcome!" The young woman behind the front counter beamed at the boys. "Is this your first time here?" (Guess where they are.)

"Here, yes," Isumi replied, digging out his wallet.

By this time, Hikaru had calmed down from his sugar rush (didn't take long…) and was… eerily calm. "Ahh…" he sighed, closing his eyes. "I've missed going to Go parlors…" (They've only been away from civilization for like three days!)

Akira nodded in agreement, drowning himself in the rhythmic sounds of stones being placed on goban…s. (Plural. I didn't know if I should put an 's' or not, mwahahaigoahejtnlfkjhfghg.) (Hey, that says 'igo'! XD) "Why did we go camping, anyway?"

"You asked that in the very first sentence (of the entire fic), Touya," Waya grunted. "Now get over here and pay the entrance fee."

So everyone paid their entrance fees. They paid X00 yen. (How specific.) Hoorah.

As soon as they walked into the playing room, however, everything went quiet. They briefly wondered what was going on before their questions were answered for them.

"Wow! It's Touya Akira 3-dan!"

"Shindo Hikaru Sho-dan, too!"

"And that's Waya Yoshitaka and Isumi Shinichiro…!!!"

"But Touya-sensei and Shindo-sensei…!!" (No one cares about Waya and Isumi!!)

"What's the big deal commotion over a sho-dan?" asked some random man who was mildly uneducated regarding the Go pro world and was probably also related to Kitajima (The guy from the Touya Go Salon who doesn't like Hikaru, you know?) in some way. "I understand about Touya, but-"

Then everyone began chewing him out because Hikaru's just THAT cool. After that was done, they went back to their mad rave.

"It is an honor to have you here, Touya-sensei, Shindo-sensei!"

"Would you mind a game of Shidougo?"

"I want to play Touya-sensei!"

"I'll play Shindo-sensei!"

"Wait, I wanted to play them!"

Waya and Isumi, meanwhile, were wondering what had possessed them to bring two prodigies to a Go parlor when they would be obviously and blatantly ignored. (Obviously. They didn't really think about this, did they?)

Well, they weren't blatantly ignored, because soon all four of them were playing Shidougo, though the majority of the customers were crowded around Hikaru and Akira's boards.

And that's how our favorite Go boys spent their afternoon. They were even given a free lunch! Isn't being a Go pro just GRAND?! (I just covered like nine hours in a single line! YAY!!)

By four o' clock (Okay, more like six hours…?), Hikaru and Akira had somehow gravitated towards the same board, and began to play a game with each other.

Now, just like in the first chapter, the details of the game will be omitted completely. (Because I still suck.) (I WANT A GOBAN!!)

But for the first time in this fic, Hikaru and Akira…

…WILL DISCUSS THEIR GAME!!! (SHOCK!!!) (Also known as: I make up a bunch of crud in an attempt to sound smart!)

"This was a good hand right here," Akira said, pointing to the board. "This hand would have been better, though…"

"Yeah, but that would have left this shape up here open to attack," Hikaru countered.

"But you would have only gained five moku here! You would have gained ten over here!"

"Oh yeah, what about THIS here?!" Hikaru jabbed his finger onto the board in a completely random spot. (Don't ask WHY, he just DID.)

"…What are you doing? That's completely irrelevant!"

"YOU'RE completely irrelevant, Touya!"

"What in the world does THAT mean?!"

Waya and Isumi shook their heads as the customers began to get really freaked out. (After all, how are they to know that Hikaru and Akira do this EVERY SINGLE TIME?!)

Hikaru and Akira, meanwhile, continued to go over the game while screaming their heads off. (Okay, THAT'S a bit of an exaggeration.)

"This, right here! This move was unbelievably moronic, Touya!!"

"Do you even know what you're saying?! If I hadn't gone there, you would have attacked over here!!"

Hikaru paused and peered at the board. "Oh, hey, you're right!" (I don't know why I did THIS. I really don't think it would ever happen. Hikaru would just storm out.)

"Argh!" Akira slapped his forehead in frustration. "That's what I've been trying to TELL you!!"

Frowning in concentration, Hikaru continued. "And then after that if would go like this… and then keima here… then here… and tsuke… (Those were the only Go terms I could think of at 7 in the morning, when I wrote this part of the chapter.) Hey! That works!!"

"Of course it does!!" Akira leaned back in his chair and sighed. "You're so obnoxious."

Hikaru just made a face at Akira and turned away.

"Well, I think we should get going," Isumi said, checking his watch. "It's getting kind of late, and we want to get back to the campsite before it's too dark. Now we just have to find a charter bus or something…"

"Oh! I drive a charter bus!" shouted some man because you can always happen to find the transportation you need at a Go parlor. (Another exaggeration, haha. Only Kawai-san and Shuhei have been transportation people found at Go parlors.) "I'll take you boys wherever you want for free!!" (HOW CONVENIENT!!)

"YAY!!!" the four boys cheered.

So they all piled into the charter bus and began their fun ride back to the campsite! (Wow, that's, like, the worst transition I've ever done. They didn't even leave the Go parlor before getting into the bus! The bus was just RIGHT there!!!)

--- (This is really random, but the entire time I was typing this out [it took like six hours], I listened to one single song over and over. That's "Shine We Are!" by BoA; it's really good. MOVING ON!!)

Now, in case it wasn't too clear, Hikaru, Akira, Waya, and Isumi are now riding on a charter bus that is empty except for them and the driver, who shall henceforth be known as… um… Oke. (Yes. His name is Bucket.)

"Woo, charter bus!" Waya cheered, lunging into the seats.

Akira raised an eyebrow. "What's the big deal about charter buses?" (They're only AWESOME.)

Hikaru, who had been sitting behind Akira, vaulted over the seat backs into the seat next to him. "Are you kidding, Touya? Look!" He pointed to a screen on the ceiling near the front of the bus. "There's a TV!!"

"And… is that all?"

"There's also reading lights and reclining seat backs and a bathroom!"

"So…" Akira pieced his rivals babble together. "It's like an airplane, except on ground?"

"Dunno. I've never been on an airplane."

"Ah," Isumi looked up from some book that he was reading. "Yes, it is like an airplane, Touya. Except there's no food." (I assume that Isumi went on an airplane to get to Chi- HEY! HE DIDN'T USE HIS SUPER POWERS IN THIS CHAPTER!!!)

"Hey, that reminds me!" Waya shouted, standing on a seat in the back of the bus. "We haven't had dinner yet!!"

"Yeah!" Hikaru added. "We're hungry, Isumi-san!!"

Isumi rubbed his temples, sighing. "Fine, just quiet down. Touya, open your ginourmous ("Ginourmous" actually wasn't indicated as misspelled… o.O) backpack."

Akira gave Isumi a curious look before opening his backpack, revealing a bunch of junk food.

"I snuck that all in there while you were playing Go."

Gaping, Akira stared at the food. Then he glared up at the older pro. "ISUMI-SAN!! You stole my goban AGAIN!!" (ISUMI-SAN! YOU KLEPTO!!)

"Wha- I never stole your goban! And it's still in there, look under all the food!"

The 3-dan dug through the food and came upon his goban at the bottom of the bag.

"…Oh."

Isumi sighed and resumed in reading his book. "All right, now you can all eat whatever you want."

"YES!!" Hikaru and Waya immediately pounced on top of the bag as Akira attempted (in vain) to bat them away. (I like this image for some reason.)

Waya ripped open a bag of chips with his teeth while sitting in the carpeted aisle. "All right! You rock, Isumi-san!"

"Umm… that may be, but could you please act in a civilized manner?"

"Now let's watch a movie!!" Hikaru announced, standing up and running to the front of the bus with a box of cookies in his mouth. "Hey, Oke-san, d'you have any movies?"

"Yes, I do, Shindo-kun!" Oke answered handing him a video. (MWAHAHA!) "Here you go!!"

"Golly (o.O;;;), thanks, Oke-san!" (Translation of "Arigatou Oke-san" by Babelfish: "Thank you the bucket.") Hikaru inserted the tape in the VCR and bounced back to the seat next to Akira. "Yay, movie time!!"

"What movie is it, Shindo?" asked Akira.

Hikaru grinned at him. "OLD YELLER!!" (YAY!! XD For some reason, I really wanted them to watch Old Yeller. Even though I haven't seen it in like ten years… OH! EMAIL!!)

"Oh… what is it about?" (Geez… it's email from myself, how lame…)

"Geez, are you stupid, Touya?" Waya spoke up. "It's about a dog, duh!"

Akira blinked. "That's it? It's just about a dog?"

"Yup." (LIAR!!)

"That sounds boring."

"He's kidding, Touya," Isumi added dismissively. "There's more to it than that."

"Like what?"

"Uhh… I forget." (I forget too, haha… yeah…)

Akira turned to his rival. "Shindo?"

"Shut up, Touya!" Hikaru whispered, swatting at him. (I like the swatting and batting… XD) "Just watch the damn movie!!"

"Fine!!" Crossing his arms, Akira sat back in his seat.

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Three hours later… (For some reason I overestimated how long Old Yeller is. It's actually 84 minutes long. Oh, well. We can pretend that, uh, it was on slow motion. Yup.)

"Nooo, Yeller!!" Akira sobbed. "Shindo, why did Yeller have to die??" (That's about all that I remember about the movie.)

Awkwardly, Hikaru patted Akira's head. "It's okay, Touya. They got a new puppy at the end, remember?" (I mean… they did, didn't they? I think I remember that… or I may just be delusional.)

"But… but…"

"Shush, Touya!" Waya whispered fiercely, waving his arms. "Isumi-san's sleeping, don't wake him up!!" (Random much?)

"But… but Yeller-"

"I don't care about that stupid dog!!" (GASP!!)

Akira gasped, eyes wide, before burying his face in Hikaru's shoulder. (YEEK!! XD) Sighing, Hikaru stared at the window, ignoring him. (I was contemplating on whether I should turn Akira into Wimpy Akira in this chapter. This is the only time he does.)

Suddenly, Oke announced, "We're here!" (Sure WAS sudden!!)

The four boys looked out the windows, and sure enough, they saw their campsite! So they all piled out, thanked Oke, and watched as he drove away. Then, they were so very exhausted from riding the charter bus (Riding a bus IS so very tiring.) that they immediately went into their tents and went to sleep.

--- (Did you think that was the end? WELL GUESS WHAT?! IT WASN'T!! HAHAHA!!)

Late that night, Hikaru, Akira, Waya, and Isumi were all fast asleep. And, well, they were asleep for a while, until there was suddenly a giant crash!! (KABOOM!!!)

The crash was so big that the four were immediately woken up and went outside to see what had happened. And that was when they found what looked suspiciously like the shattered remains of Isumi's canoe. (Hmmm…)

"Um… oops?" came a voice. Then a blond man wearing a white suit and a cigarette in his mouth (Guess who?) jumped down from the tree and landed deftly by the rubble. The man looked suspiciously like…

"Ogata-sensei?!!" (Akira yelled "Ogata-san?!!" though.)

Ogata glanced over his glasses at the boys, then turned to the pile of rubbish. "Sorry about that. I was going to return it, but I didn't think it would break if I dropped it from the tree." (I… really messed Ogata up. Of COURSE it's going to break if you drop it from the tree! It'll make a big noise, too! JEEZ!!)

Isumi gaped at his broken canoe, then at the 10-dan. "You stole my canoe?"

"Er, yes. I stole Shindo's ramen and Akira-kun's goban, also." (How very truthful of him.)

Waya cocked an eyebrow. "Um… why?"

Ogata shrugged. "I felt like it. I was going to steal something from you kids each day, returning what I had stolen the day before." (Only a little bit psychotic…)

"What was the point of that?!" Hikaru exclaimed, quickly losing respect for the man.

"There was no point. I didn't do anything with the items, just sat and stared at each of them for a day." (And… a little more psychotic…)

Akira sighed. "Does Otousan know you're doing this?"

Ogata shook his head. "No. He's busy… er… doing something else." (Hmm… how very suspicious…)

"So…" Hikaru tapped his fan against his cheek. "So… now that we know your intentions, you're going to stop stealing our stuff, right?" (YEAH!!!)

Staring at the boy, Ogata stepped closer. And closer. Finally, when he was right in front of Hikaru, he reached out his hand, raised it close to Hikaru's face, and… (PG!!!)

"YOINK!!"

…stole Hikaru's fan, then ran away at lightspeed. (…Yes. Ogata is so very out of character.)

Akira, Waya, and Isumi looked at Hikaru, suddenly immensely worried. Hikaru, however, did not move. His eyes were glazed over, face blank, mouth agape. (He's in shock. Again.)

"Uh…" Akira waved his hand in front of his rival's face. "Shindo…??"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Hikaru suddenly shouted, (You don't care, but this is the point where I ran out of pages in my notebook. It was the second notebook that this chapter was written in- the one before it had the chapter up to the Go parlor argument in it. Along with all of chapter three.) falling to the ground. "MY FAN! MY FAN IS GONE!! MYFANMYFANMYFANMYSAIFANFANFANMYFANMYFANIT'SGONE!!!" (I don't know if they realized that he said "Sai.")

"Shindo!" Waya and Akira pulled him back into a standing position.

"Calm down, Shindo!"

"Ogata-san is going to return it tomorrow, don't worry!" (That was Akira. It's pretty obvious, but I wanted to point that out.)

Hikaru's hysterics did not subside. "MYFANMYFANSAIFANFANMYFANFANFANGONE!!!" (Heheh… he said "Sai" again.)

Waya was, at this point, completely freaked out and backed away from his friend. (After all, Akira IS the one who understands Hikaru best.) "Uhh… Isumi-san and I… We're going back to bed now." (How kind.)

Exasperated, Akira nodded. "Fine. I'll handle Shindo, just go." (Akira WANTS them to go away, MWAHAHAHA!!!)

"Thanks…" Isumi and Waya (I almost spelled "Waya" with a Q here. I don't know WHY.) quickly went back into their tent and pulled their sleeping bags over their heads. (Like little cocoons!!)

Akira looked around nervously, then, realizing that it was like two in the morning and no one was watching, he rubbed Hikaru's back, trying to calm him down. (I told you he wanted them to go away!!) "Shh, Shindo, it'll be okay…"

"FAN!! My fan, my fan is gone!!"

"Shhh…" Akira pulled him closer. (SQUEE!!! v) "Shh… everything will be all right… don't worry…"

"Fan… my fan… my…" Slowly, Hikaru quieted down, though he was still shaking. "To… Touya…"

Akira sighed in relief. (Yay, Hikaru is coming to his senses… sort of…) "Yes?"

"My… Ogata-sensei took my fan…"

"Yes, I know…" Akira gently pulled his rival back into their tent. "Come back in here, you'll catch cold out there…" (Aww… -squeal-)

Rubbing his eyes, Hikaru followed him inside the tent.

Once they were settled back on their sleeping bags, Akira said, "Well, good night, Shindo." Much to his surprise, however, he suddenly felt Hikaru grasping at the sleeve of his pajamas. (Poor Hikaru's lonely… PG!!) "Shindo, what-?"

"Touya… my… my fan…" (This would be funny if Hikaru wasn't so depressed.)

Akira sighed and pulled Hikaru closer to him. (PG, I SAY!!!) "Don't worry, Shindo… I'm here…" (THE END! MWAHAHA I'M EVIL!!!)