Kikumaru Saga – Part One
"Eiji, what are you looking for?" Oishi asked for the tenth time, as Kikumaru bounced along the pathway, looking in every toy store.
"Atta-nya!" he cried out and rushed through a door. Oishi Syuuichirou sighed as he followed his friend. Inside the store, rows and shelves filled with bears lined up every wall and spacing, providing just enough space for customers to walk through.
"Eiji," he called.
"Hoi Hoi! Back here." Somehow he had managed to get to the back of the shop in a split second. Oishi stepped through, as he saw Kikumaru emerge a small bear, that was half hidden behind another with triumph.
"Hee Hee!" he grinned. "Neh Oishi, it's perfect!" he held out it for his friend to see. Oishi looked at it. It was a cute bear with big brown innocent eyes, but he had no clue why it was perfect.
"Perfect?" he questioned.
"It's Sa-chun!"
"Sa-chun?" still clueless.
"Sakuno-chan dummy!"
"Why Sa-chun, and not Sa-chan?"
"Mou! Oishi no baaakaa. I like the sound of Sa-chun!" he bopped Oishi on the head with his clenched fists.
His friend laughed. 'Well he does like to make his words sound different. He must have been looking pretty hard, because this little bear was hidden away behind the others. But then again he does have super vision.'
"Why are you getting one of her anyway?"
"It's time I added another member to my collection at home anyway, and Sa-chun is perfect! She can sit next to Mitsu-chan and join everyone else too." He explained.
Oishi raised and eyebrow. 'He's certainly thought out his bear collection alright.'
Kikumaru ran off to pay for it, and several minutes later stepped out the store happily.
"Let's hurry Oishi. Fuji is waiting for us."
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"Omatase Fujiiii!" the cat
voice rang out.
Fuji Syuusuke set down his cup of coffee and looked up as his friend ran up to him.
"Gomen Fuji. Eiji had to buy something." Oishi said following up after Kikumaru and sat down on a vacant seat at the table, situated outside the café.
"It was important!" Kikumaru insisted.
"What did you buy Eiji?" Fuji asked. He rummaged around in his bag and pulled out the bear.
"Kawaii ne..namae wa?"
"Sa-chun!" he announced.
"After Sakuno-chan is it?" Fuji asked knowingly. Kikumaru nodded eagerly. Oishi looked at the two talking, and felt like he had just intruded on a conversation between a pre-school student and his teacher.
"She's going to sit next to Mitsu-chan. You know where he sits at home don't you Fuji?" Fuji knew from the many times he had gone over there.
'He even had a little rug decorated like a tennis court for the bears to sit on.' Fuji smiled.
"Speaking of the devil…" Fuji opened his eyes and looked across the road.
"Devil? Where? Where's the devil?" Kikumaru asked in alarm, turning left and right.
"It's Tezuka, Eiji." They turned and observed Tezuka and Sakuno-chan. They had ducked into a flower shop.
"Let's go in!" Kikumaru spotted them after turning around in his seat and almost pounced out it, if it wasn't for Oishi holding him back.
"Let's wait and see Eiji," Fuji said. So he sat down obediently and waited, keeping his eyes just above the back of the chair, as if in hiding.