Minty: --bows-- thankyou everyone for reviewing my story ; Sorry for the LATE update, I was getting lazy, and I don't get enough inspiration!
To BlackKyra: I definetly have to end this story.. ;; because I don't know what to add after the story ends and they live happily ever after. Don't worry, though...I have another plot forming in my head. I think it will be written soon enough! :)
Hikaru: --sits in front of his computer muttering-- Dear minty, that was a great story and all, but please do not continue....
Minty: --bangs Hikaru on the head with a frying pan--
Hikaru: What was that for?
Minty: oh....nothing.....--looks innocent--
Hikaru: you know, with all the head bangings in this story, I think I'll get a serious brain damage.
Minty: you won't...just get on stage --pushes Hikaru on stage--
Disclaimer: Yep! The goddamn disclaimer again...I repeat, I DO NOT own hikago...
Warning: Shounen-ai, and this time, I mean it...if you don't like it, then go away! slight slang...that's about it...
Sleeping Aki
Scene 5: The castle
Hikaru, Waya, Isumi, Akari, and Yashiro stood in front of Akira's "castle", which was all covered in trees, bushes and fern...
"Do we have to get through that?" Akari raised an eyebrow, she wouldn't be very happy if a thorn tore her dress.
"Of course we do! Shindou has to find his prince, don't you?" Waya continued to tease Hikaru unmercifully, which caused Hikaru to turn beet red.
"Hey, he's my rival! It's my duty to protect him!" Hikaru slashed a bush out of the way with his MIGHTY sword. Waya gave him a look that clearly passed the message: "yeah, right......"
"Yashiro! You coming?"
"No...I'll be guarding the carriage while you're gone!" under his breath, he added: "I don't want to be stuck with you idiots on your crazy quest anyway...might get myself killed for no reason..."
"Shindou, in this story you're the prince of the kingdom of arcade, right?" asked Isumi.
"You don't have to read my whole title, you know? And yes I am the prince."
"So how did you and Touya know each other and become rivals?"
Everyone turned and eyed Hikaru suspiciously.
"......wait...I'll think of an excuse..." Hikaru continued to walk with his hand on his chin, deep in thought. Suddenly, a loud crack could be heard, out of nowhere, Sai flew down in front of the group, with the purple butterfly wings still attached to his back.
"Who the hell is this?" asked Akari.
"I GOT IT! We went to kindergarten together!" shouted Hikaru.
Every one looked from the twenty-something year old Sai to the 16 year old Hikaru and sweat-dropped.
Waya walked up to Sai and asked, "Er...did you...fail badly in your tests?"
"NO!! I mean Akira!!" Hikaru slapped Waya on the head.
"What? Akira went to school with him?"
"NO!!" Hikaru slapped himself on the forehead, "I meant I went to school with Akira when we were young!"
"oohh...." Everyone nodded in realization. A few minutes passed in silence, suddenly, a lone voice asked, "You did?"
"NO!! that's just the excuse in this damn fanfiction!! We met in the Go salon!"
"oh..." every one nodded again as another few minutes of silence passed. Then... "Who's this?" asked the same lone voice.
"Who's this 'lone voice' anyway?" Isumi looked around the group. Everyone shrugged and shook their heads.
(man, you people don't even recognize my voice!)
"How'd you get into the story anyway?" whined Hikaru, then he muttered, "and for a moment there, I thought she was gone for good..."
(I HEARD THAT!)
"So what?"
(::laughs evilly:: you want to join Akira to a deep sleep and never wake up?)
every one chorused "I'll be good!"
(Then get on with the story)
"Why'd you have to be the lone voice anyway? It's not like you don't know the story or anything..."
(because none of you people agree to say those lines! Shut up and continue or I'll fire Akira and hire Ochi instead!)
Hikaru widened his eyes and ran straight towards the castle door. How he knew where it was is a mystery...
Sai stood there for a few minutes, "am I being ignored?" he asked himself. His eyes twitched as the group in front of him entered the castle...without him. "Yes, I am..."
After 10 seconds and a puff of smoke later, Sai appeared before the group again.
"Hi there!"
"sai? Is that really you?" Hikaru kicked Sai in the shin.
"OW! Why'd you do that?"
"Just to see if you're still a ghost. How did you...revive?"
"Well, after I "died", I was really good at Go, so I was put down here and ended up becoming one of the Go faeries."
"Wait a minute..." Waya scratched his chin, "Shusaaku's dead, so that's acceptable, but how did Ogata, Kurata, and Kuwabara become Go faeries?"
"Nah, who cares..." Sai shrugged, "Everyone seemed to want them to be dead, so they might as well be."
"Has anyone notice something?" asked Akari.
"what is it?"
Akari sweat-dropped and looked around herself, "are we... lost?"
No one managed to answer because a millisecond after that, pink and green smoke filled the room. A loud cackling could be heard. Kuwabara stepped out of the cupboard as more smoke flew into the room, making it suffocating. Sai used his lovely fan and blew all the smoke out of the room.
"Let's play a game of Go...you win, you get to rescue the prince!" Kuwabara smiled a toothless smile which made everyone cringe.
"...Sai?" Hikaru looked to Sai. Sai nodded and smiled evilly...I mean cunningly...no wait...."charmingly" behind his fan.
(I changed that already! Sai!! Stop glaring at me like that! It gives me the creeps)
"I'm not staring at you, I'm just happy to play Go"
(But if you're the Go faerie, you must have play millions of games, right?)
"I can't get enough"
(it's like you're addicted or something)
Sai sits in a corner, injecting something into his bloodstream, which has black and white circles in it... "ah.....huh? what did you say?"
Everyone backs off a bit. "Sai, are you...REALLY addicted to Go?" asked hikaru.
"I'm not...this is the thing that keeps me from disappearing, I have to take it monthly."
Everyone was freaked out... "Er....right...."
Kuwabara stamped his foot and and yelled "what about my game of Go?!!'
After a while, Hikaru sat in front Kuwabara with Sai sitting behind him, with the Goban in the middle, of course.
Sai pointed to the upper-right corner, and Hikaru moved. Kuwabara sat and bit his lips. After a long time, and I mean LONG, Kuwabara sat up and demanded a rematch.
"It's been too long since I played Go...let's play Barbie instead! It's much more entertaining. Who beats me in dressing up the doll get to rescue the prince!"
Hikaru stepped back from Kuwabara and pushed Akari towards the old man. "You're good at it! I saw you playing with them when we were small, go get him Akari!!"
Everyone nodded reassuringly and Akari had no choice but pick up a doll and walk towards Kuwabara.
After a few hours of brushing the hair, straightening the dress of the doll, Kuwabara snapped a strand of hair from the Barbie's head and totured himself to death. The whole gang threw a 5 minutes party and continued walking towards the tower.
Hikaru opened the door and gasped. There he was, Akira...he was still wearing the blue dress with black laces, on the Goban bed. His head was resting on a Go stone pillow. Hikaru walked nearer and knelt down beside the bed. He could feel the heat coming up to his face as he stared at Akira's peaceful, sleeping expression.
"Sai, can you...change him back to his normal clothes, I don't think I can stand him wearing this!" Hikaru bursted out laughing and was thumping the bed hard with his fist. Sai waved his fan and Akira was back in his normal, casual clothes. Akira sighed happily in his sleep, everyone knew he was more comfortable in these clothes than the dress.
"So...what do I have to do know?" Hikaru looked bewildered. He looked around at everyone. The rest just shrugged the shoulders, Waya and Isumi were snickering, and Akari was red in the face.
"what?" Hikaru's obliviousness was just a tad too annoying at times.
"Shindou, you haven't read Sleeping beauty?" Waya smiled a very evil smile.
"I did......but I don't remember, fairytales are for girls anyway."
"HEY!!" Akari glared at him, but after a few minutes, she looked away and started blushing again.
"Why is everyone acting so strangely??" Hikaru questioned everyone. No answers came, until Isumi couldn't stand the uncomfortable silence any longer.
"Shindou, you have to wake Touya up."
"I know that! How?" Hikaru stared at Akira again.
"Are you that dumb Shindou?" Waya scratched his head as though explaining these things to Shindou was the hardest thing in the world......it probably was. He took a deep breath to stop himself from laughing and whispered in Hikaru's ears, "you have to kiss him."
Hikaru turned as red as a tomato. He stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do, or was that deciding what to do.
"how's he going to wake up from just one kiss? This is science we're talking about, they gave him a dose of anaesthetic. A kiss can't break that!" Hikaru protested to get himself out of the situation.
"this is a FAIRYTALE, Shindou...everything works."
"Oh well, here goes..." Hikaru walked to the bed and knelt down, he took one deep breath and leaned closer to Akira's face......
(WAIT! Are you just going to do that?!)
"I'm not supposed to?"
(You are! But not just like that!)
"then how am I suppose to do this?"
(take this. --hands Hikaru a small white pill-- it's the pill to wake him up-)
"Alrighty! I'll just put this in his mouth and all's over!"
(Not so fast, mate...this is a shounen-ai fic...you don't want to disappoint all the AkiHika fans, do you?)
"Er....what would you do if I did? Disappoint them, I mean"
(I would...put you both into fairytale land forever, never to find an exit)
"right...I'll do it..."
Hikaru put the pill in his mouth and held it with his teeth. He walked slowly to the bed again and knelt down to Akira. He slowly bent down and closed his eyes. After all, it's rude to stare. Hikaru blushed as he felt his lips brush against Akira's. The pill slipped between Hikaru's lips and went into Akira's mouth.
"Aww......so sweet..." Waya smiled and recorded it all on tape.
"waya, where'd you get that cam-corder?" Asked Isumi.
"Heh...I stole it from that purple haired girl that hitch-hike us earlier." Waya grinned and everyone backed away.
For a few minutes, nothing seemed to happen. Then, Akira went into a coughing fit. Hikaru picked up a glass of water and poured it in Akira's mouth......which only made it worse. Akari shoved Hikaru out of the way and pushed Akira up so he was in a sitting position. She patted him hard on his back until the coughing stopped.
"uh...where am i?" Akira looked around at the smiling faces and Hikaru's blushing one. "Shindou? What are you doing here?"
"Rescuing you, obviously..."
"Wait...If this is sleeping beauty..." Akira shuddered and looked at Hikaru straight in the eye, "You didn't, tell me you didn't......"
Hikaru looked away. Waya walked towards Akira, put a hand on his shoulder and nodded sympathetically, "He did..."
Akira's eyes opened as wide as his mouth. When Hikaru sat down next to him on the bed, Akira glared at him accusingly.
"Touya, calm down...it's not that bad, is it?"
"You'd say so..." Akira continued to glare at Hikaru. If looks could kill, Hikaru would have been walking in and out of hell 100 times.
"Say it, Touya, you enjoyed it..." Waya crossed his arms and looked at the stubborn Akira.
"Actually...I didn't feel a thing," commented Akira. It was Hikaru's turn to glare. "I was asleep, remember?"
"Tou—Akira, I've been thinking about this for quite a while," Hikaru looked away and avoided Akira's questioning looks. "'Kira, will you marry me?"
Everyone clapped and Akira looked thoughtful for a few minutes.
Finally, he opened his mouth and said with a very serious expression... "If you beat me in a game of Go, then yes, I'll think about it."
Hikaru raised his eyebrow and opened his mouth in disbelief. It was then, that Akira burst out laughing, causing the confused Hikaru to be even more confused.
"You should've seen your face! Waya, did you get that on tape?"
"Yep!" Waya grinned and gave Akira a hi-five. "I wouldn't miss that one!"
"so...is that a no?" Hikaru looked at his fingers as though they were the most interesting things in the world.
Akira smiled and looked at Hikaru, trying in vain not to laugh. "No, you idiot—I meant yes!"
Hikaru's head snapped up and caused Akira to flinch. Everyone clapped again.
(that night, all of them will be rubbing lotion on their bruised hands because of all the clapping)
"Shut up!" cried Waya. "you still didn't notice that everything you say comes true in here?"
(I was aware of that. That's why all of you have bruised hands for not co-operating with me on this story.)
A feast was made to celebrate the marriage. People who don't like AkiHika were all killed (sorry....just joking...) Everyone came. People who don't like shounen-ai stayed at home and ate their own dinner in peace.
(Since they won't be having any children, Touya and Shindou decided to give their Kingdom to me after they died)
"HEY! We didn't say we agree! And you're our age, you'd be dead by the time we die."
(Then who're you giving the kingdom to?)
Hikaru points at a random kid that just happens to be walking by... "HIM!"
(WHAT?! You're giving the kingdom to a stranger, a complete stranger and not to your nice, nice authoress?)
"Oh well. Too bad, better luck next time!" Hikaru and Akira jumped on their horses and ran away to live their lives happily ever after......or maybe not.
--Behind the scenes--
Minty: thank you so much for sticking until the end. Thank you all the reviewers and readers out there who actually took time and read this crap. This chapter sucked, I know...not much humour...it's my first, no, second fanfiction, so please forgive me...I'll try to do better next time.
Hikaru: We actually went through all that! Where's our wages?
Minty: Here it is --handing each person 200 yen-- thank you for your co-operation!
Hikaru: WHAT?! We went through all that and you're giving us 200 YEN?!! I'm not going to work for you ever AGAIN!!
Minty: too bad.... I'm going to write another AkiHika fanfic...
Hikaru: NOO!!!! --the screaming goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...............until you click that back button on your browser--