Disclaimer: I don't own anything... other than my kitty.
Authors Note(s): Dear tlpunk... I have no idea. LOL. It wouldn't be as much fun! Okay? Sorry if it seemed like forever since my last update, but please consider that I have to write for my other stories, and that I have sports and stuff to do. Anyway, here's the next chappie... I was running on low fuel when I wrote it, so I don't like it all that much... but let's see what you all think!
Chapter 6:
Game Over
"They're in a good mood," Naota grumbled under his breath, the top tuff of his pitch black hair falling lifelessly over his forehead like a wilting flower. Water rolled down the strands of his hair, and dripped off, swinging the clump of hair slightly. He watched as the liquid droplets fell in front of his eyes. He sighed and pulled back the shower curtain to find an old friend staring at him. His eyes widened and his pupils dilated into tiny dots.
"Guess who was watching you... the whole time," Ninamori declared, a sly smile on her lips. Naota blushed lightly, covering himself with his hands.
"Hand me a towel," he ordered, turning his head to the side. What's she doing here! How'd she find me?
"Why?" she asked, stepping closer to him. He unconsciously stepped back. "It's not like I haven't seen you before." He gulped as she continued to advance. He got really nervous when he felt the hard, wet and cold surface of the wall on his bare back. He was cornered, and she was only coming closer.
"Nina-" he started tentatively, but was cut off by her lips on his. She crushed her mouth on his roughly. He tried to escape, but her kiss was so enticing...
"Naota," she spoke up after she pulled away. "I know all about you and Haru-Slut."
"What did you?" he tired to question her, but he was cut off by her fast talking.
"I saw you! You and her..." she said in a low, obviously hurt voice.
"What! When!" he yelled, fear of losing everything, flooding over him like a tidal wave. His face showed his dismay with a tad bit of guilt.
"I came over to your house... Tasuku said that you had a friend over and I might want to avoid your room," she explained, a dark expression on her face.
"And?" he urged her to continue, knowing what she saw.
"It wasn't just the cat," she spoke sadly, and her voice broke up as she said the rest, "I-I wish I would have taken Tasuku's advice!"
"It wasn't just the cat..." he repeated several times, trying desperately to recall what happened after that. He shook his head, and blinked hard, remembering what came next... "You saw all that!"
"Yeah, the whole thing..." She sighed. "But it's okay."
"Huh?"
"I'm going to get you away from that horrible Haruko woman!" she shouted, grabbing his wrist and pulling with all her effort.
"No! Eri! Stop!" He resisted, trying to yank his arm out of her grasp.
"You think so, huh?" Haruko quired, appearing in the doorway.
"Argh! Speak of the devil!" Ninamori said harshly in a long hiss.
"Haruko!" Naota exclaimed, scrambling for something to cover himself with. He pulled a thesaurus out of thin air and used it to cover himself.
"You think I'm going to just let you take my Ta-kun away so easily?" Haruko demanded calmly, approaching the duo. "Especially against his free will..."
"You ruined everything!" Ninamori accused her, waving her fists in the air dangerously. "Just leave me and Naota alone!"
"So, Ta-Kun," Haruko directed to the man in the shower, covering his private parts with a thesaurus. "This is who you gave your virginity away to..."
"Yeah," Ninamori said. "And because of you, it wasn't easy." Naota's eyes expanded into large circles.
"N-No... don't say it!" he hopelessly pleaded.
"Why?" Haruko inquired, knowing that it was something he didn't want her to hear. "Because he was so embarrassed?" she asked.
"I'm not embarrassed!" he screamed.
"He was saving himself for you," Eri explained, "I had to convince him you weren't coming back... ever."
"Looks like you were wrong!" he shouted, being ignored by both women.
"Hmph! What ever," Haruko said, then added, "you had that jammed in his head pretty tightly."
"I had no reason to think you were going to return, so why should he feel committed to a girl who ran away!" Ninamori demanded.
"What was I running away from?" she questioned. "Hmm? Answer that Ms.Know-It-All." Haruko turned to leave.
Ninamori remained silent after that.
"Hey," Haruko called out to Naota, throwing her head back to glance at him. "Settle your shit here with her, then meet me in our room. There's something we need to talk about."
"Alright Canti," Kitsurabami started. "Let's go through that one more time."
Canti sighed and words appeared on his screen, "no more..."
"Just once?" she begged, sensing his annoyance. He shook his head left-to-right refusing. "We have a big show tonight! Everyone will be there!"
More words flashed across his T.V head, "only stupid store clerks are going to see it."
"You get to sing along side Wayne Newton! This could be your big break!" his manager persuaded. "You'll never have to run errands or get a part-time job again!"
Back in Haruko's hotel room, her and Tasuku decided to have a little chat.
"So... Haruko-San," Tasuku said, sounding oddly like his father. "Why are you with Naota anyway?"
"Why not?" she asked, paying more attention to her video game, Grand Thief Auto 3 for PS2. (A/N: I love that game! Hell yeah! Can't wait for the next GTA to come out!) She was sitting Indian Style on the rug in front of the Television. "Hah! Die you mother" She stopped mid-sentence when she felt Tasuku's hand on her thigh. She quickly paused her game, and laid down the controller. "I'm not going to be seduced the easily." She looked from the paused T.V. screen and thought of Canti offhandedly.
"Then what will it take?" he quired, his hand sliding steadily higher up her folded leg. She grabbed his hand and pushed his back to the floor, then mounted him. He smiled happily. "Alright!"
"Not quite..." she said, putting her forefinger on his lips. She lowered her head so she was almost nose-to-nose with him. "Nothing you have can take me, only Ta-Kun can compete with Atomsk."
"Atomsk?" he asked, his eyebrows knitting together. She smirked and licked his cheek, then got off him and walked away. He sighed when she dismounted him, and propped himself up with his elbows. "So much for my happy ending," he mumbled.
"Atomsk..." She sighed. "Is... or... was, the most powerful being in the universe." Haruko found it hard to cope with the fact that he was dead. What was she to say? Say that he is, like he was alive, and be in denial... or was she supposed to say was, like he was the past, and admit that her hunt was finally over? Neither way was easy.
"Psh... how can Naota compete with that?"
"Ta-Kun's different."
"Ta-Kun? You like to think of your boyfriend as a little boy?" he questioned.
"Just because it's a suffix that is usually used on playful little boys doesn't mean I like to think of him as a child," she defended.
"Then what does it mean?"
"Besides, he's not a little boy," she said, ignoring his question. "If ya know what I mean..."
"So that's why!" he demanded. "If that's the only reason you don't like me... then you should rethink your decision..."
"Really?" she asked as she took a seat on the rug again, and resumed playing the game.
"Yeah! Uhh... umm..." he stammered for an excuse. "I-It's cold in here! Yeah that's it!"
"Hmm... Ta-Kun was complaining about the same thing earlier..." she said in a bored tone. "YEAH! TAKE THAT! I HOPE YOU LIKE LEAD, 'CUZ IT'S GOING RIGHT IN YOUR ASS!" she screamed at the T.V. shooting down the pedestrians.
"And... uh... I have other great qualities!"
"Like?" she asked again in a dull voice, then yelled at the game again, "HAHHHAAAA! YOU THOUGHT YOUR MAFIA COULD BEAT ME!"
"I'm talented!" he bragged. "I played baseball professionally here in the U.S!"
"Yeah, uh-huh..." She sighed, then growled at the screen, slamming the buttons on the controller. "RAWR!"
"I'm better looking!" he continued to roll out boasts, "I'm smarter! And... uhh... I'm modest!"
"I-I ..." Haruko gaped at the screen in shock as her health reached zero. "Lost!" she yelled in rage, running across the room and grabbing her bass. "I just had a hooker! How did I die from a few grenades!" She smashed the controller, T.V. and the Playstation 2 system with her guitar.
"Hey!" Tasuku yelled in horror as his system was crushed. "I just bought that!"
"IT CHEATED!"
"Calm down..." he soothed, but his attempts to calm her were useless. She proceeded him completely breaking every single piece of the system. She looked up at him, her eyes red in rage. He gulped loudly, and nervously backed away.
"You made me lose..." she accused.
"H-Heyyouuh... Still haven't told me who Atomsk is..." he said cautiously.
"You're not even worthy of uttering his name!" she howled, then leaped up in the air, crashing her guitar down near him. He ran away, and zoomed out the door, only to run into Naota.
"Tasuku? Why are you ru" he started a question, but found his answer when Haruko used her guitar to break through the wall. "What did you do!" he directed at his elder brother, who was cowering behind his leg.
"I-I uh... said... umm... A-Atomsk..." he stuttered out.
"Atomsk!" Naota threw his head away from Tasuku and gazed over at Haruko. "You're still bent up over him!"
"And she lost in GTA3..."
"You let her play video games!" he demanded. "What the hell were you thinking!"
"The game cheated," Haruko breathed under her breath, then her head shot up and she walked up over to Naota. "Just like you!" she incriminated, pointing her bass in his face.
"It was just a big misunderstanding Haruko!" he backed down, and Tasuku jolted down the hallway and out of sight.
"Stop lieing..." she said, seeming to mellow out from her enraged state.
"I was going to break up with Ninamori anyway," he said, his eyes downcast and his voice soft as it floated into her ears. "I think they're going to kick us out of the hotel now," he whispered, then motioned at the whole in the wall, and the crowd of security guards surrounding them.
"Don't worry about it," Mamimi said to Ninamori as tears sprang up in her eyes. They were both seated on the edge of the bed, talking about what happened between Ninamori and Naota.
"Haruko took him from me!" she yelled, crying into Mamimi's shoulder.
"Yeah, she does stuff like that..."
Tasuku stopped when he reached his and Mamimi's room that he had booked after being pulled from Naota's head. He put his hands on his knees, and panted, his heart still racing from his encounter with Haruko. She was defiantly not you're average girl. The yelling and commotion coming from that direction had died down. He sighed, and opened the door.
"You won't believe what just happened to me Mamimi..." he said, as he entered. He stopped dead in his tracks when he found Ninamori was there too, her head resting on Mamimi's shoulder. I think my luck is changing, he thought as he sat on the bed next to his longtime girlfriend.
"What is it Tas?" she asked him, wrapping her arm around Ninamori to comfort her.
"Nothing important. What's wrong with her?"
"Naota dumped her..." she explained, and Ninamori bust out in tears. "I know the feeling, it'll all be okay."
"What?" he asked.
"I said that I knew the" Then she realized what she had said. "I-I mean, that I know what it's liked to be dumped."
"Right! Sooooo... What do you ladies want to do?" he asked, a perverted grin sliding it's way onto his face. They both stared at him in confusion. "Ya know? We could... hang out." He treaded across the room, and grabbed some wine out of the fridge. Two hot chicks don't show up hugging each other on your bed everyday... he mentally reminded himself, get 'em drunk... and then let the good times roll! YEAH!
Yeah... Like I said before, it was too short, and it sucked. Anyway, there's always hope for the next chappie!
A big, huge, massive, thank you to all my wonderful reviewers!
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