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Nighttime Job Chapter 7Eiji had run off from Ryoma and his friends in a huff. How do you even use a bicycle like that anyways! Eiji tried to picture it, but nothing was came to mind.
Eek! Why do I want a mental picture!
Suddenly a familiar voice called out to him.
"Eiji! What's wrong?"
"Oishi! I'm sorry! I found out a terrible secret, and I couldn't keep it in!"
Realizing they were right by the pet store, he said, "Here, I'll show you!"
He grabbed Oishi's wrist and dragged him into the pet store.
"Okay, I was back here…" Eiji pointed towards the aviary, "and you know that kid Jirou from Hyotei? Well I heard him and Echizen… doing…things"
"Doing things? What do you mean, doing things? Like, making out!"
"No, worse!"
Oishi gasped. "And you were the only one that knew about it?"
Eiji nodded, slightly paler than usual. "I brought it up with them today, but they denied it."
Oishi looked at the poor kid's face and realized he was traumatized. "Maybe you should try and get your mind off it, eh?" Eiji nodded, so he decided to suggest something. "Let's go look at the fishes."
Eiji attempted to smile. "Yeah, I guess so. I've been meaning to show you the fishes here for a long time."
Meanwhile, Tezuka's red convertible pulled up to Fuji's house. My I like riding in this car, thought Fuji to himself as he opened up the door and hopped in.
"Oi, Tezuka." Fuji smiled at Tezuka who merely nodded in return.
"Momo-chan-senpai! You mean Echizen is really gay!" Demanded Horio.
Waving his hands frantically, Momo interjected, "We don't know for sure yet!"
Realizing he was incapable of calming their excitement, Momo winked and said, "Well, you didn't hear it from me."
Momo placed his order and went on his way, leaving the Ichinen to their own devices. It took everything in him to save those 11 cheeseburgers for the… ahh… movie he would be watching.
Atobe, Mizuki, Echizen, and Jirou approached the pet shop.
"Why did Momo leave us alone?" Joked Atobe, "So we could have a double date?"
Jirou and Mizuki snickered, but Echizen stopped in his tracks upon spotting Tezuka and Fuji waiting for them outside the pet store. Tezuka was not impressed with Atobe's joke, and he showed it, and Fuji practically hissed at the sight of Mizuki.
"Buchou? Fuji-senpai? What are you doing here?" Ryoma did not like the look on his captain's face. In fact, it felt like his insides were melting into ooze.
"As your buchou, I should know what kind of things you are getting into. The pillar of Seigaku shouldn't be caught in meaningless scandals. Did you get careless?"
Ryoma frowned. "No, I didn't actually do anything. Kikumaru-senpai just-"
"I what, Chibi!" His sentence was interrupted by the fact that Kikumaru himself happened to nearly walk into him on his way out the pet store.
"Kikumaru-senpai… Oishi-senpai… what are you doing here?"
Luckily for Eiji, Oishi took initiative to answer the question.
"We're browsing the pet store. What are you doing here?" He asked, suspicious that the buchou, Fuji, Echizen, and several others from various schools were there.
"Betsuni." Echizen looked away attempting to hide how bad he was lying.
"Betsuni, my butt!" Laughed Atobe, "We're gonna watch those tapes and see what you were really up to last night while you 'worked'"
Ryoma gaped, but Tezuka, suddenly confused, demanded, "Fuji, what exactly is this about?"
"Well, Inui told me that-"
He was interrupted by a rustling noise as Inui walked out of a nearby bush.
"What a festive gathering. It seems that I am here to obtain data."
Meanwhile, Jirou and Mizuki, as employees, had walked into the store to locate the surveillance tapes.
"So, Jirou… you know you can tell me. Were you and Echizen really doing anything last night?"
Off-handedly, Jirou mumbled, "I wish..." After a shocked look from Mizuki snapped him back into reality, he jumped up and squeaked, "I MEAN, NO!"
"Its okay Jirou." Mizuki assured him, "I'm sure everyone is tempted at some point."
"Yeah," Agreed Jirou, "Like you and your shady Atobe calling?"
"What! Don't be ridiculous, I just had to go to his house… and then he spent the night at mine." Mizuki said matter of factly.
"Okay, what are you accusing me of? Look at the types of things you're doing!"
"Atleast I do them on my own time!" Retaliated the pink-shirted boy. Suddenly realizing he had lost himself in the argument,Mizuki blushed and added, "Err… what things? There weren't any things!"
They looked at each other in a complete stand still, each knowing that they were not in a good position.
"Umm… let's not mention this to anyone, okay?"
Mizuki nodded. "I'm not telling if you aren't."
Outside, Inui scribbled furiously in his notebook.
"Tezuka-buchou!" Pleaded Ryoma, "You have to believe me. Nothing happened. Kikumaru just made this all up!"
"What! Say that again Chibi! I heard it with my own two ears!"
Atobe suddenly decided that he wasn't getting nearly enough attention and yelled out, "Where's my chicken salad!"
Momo had just walked up when he heard the cry for a chicken salad.
"Hold your horses, I'm coming!" Shouted Momo who delivered the goods to Atobe. Once he had a pile of food small enough to see over, he exclaimed, "What's with all the people here! I didn't buy enough cheeseburgers for all of you!" He looked at his precious commodity of 11 cheeseburgers.
As he handed Echizen a milkshake, he said, "Oh, by the way, the Ichinen trio think you're gay now. Sorry."
"Momo-senpai! How could you!" pouted Ryoma.
Mizuki and Jirou appeared at the doorway and said, "Umm, the tapes are ready now."
"It appears that these tapes are supposedly either going to free Echizen from all doubt or really getting him in trouble." Inui explained, partly to Tezuka, and partly to the wall.
Everyone made their way to the back of the pet store where the video tapes were cued. Jirou hit the play button, as Mizuki explained, "We identified that Kikumaru walked into the store twice in the past two days. Last night at 8:04PM, and Today, half an hour ago. Since Kikumaru says he saw something while he was here, we need only look at the tapes during the time he was in the store," He looked over at Eiji, who nodded in agreement.
Inui felt the need to scribble in down every little detail in his notebook regarding the tape. '8:07pm. Kikumaru looks at angelfish'. Everything seemed normal about the tape until Eiji walked over to the aviary, where he immediately froze in place. Oh no. the aviary! Jirou suddenly remembered. Someone who actually took my inuendos seriously was in the store! Eiji was visibly sweating on the screen, though little sound could be heard. The few words they could make out were 'birds' and 'see', both perfectly normal words.
"Stop! Put it on pause!" Shouted Eiji, "See, look! There is the pile of clothes I saw!"
Looking closer at the tape, Mizuki sighed, "Actually, I can only make out the work apron in that picture." Explaining further he said, "We require our employees to take off their work aprons while they go in the aviary. Its filthy in there."
They pressed play. Momo started laughing really hard at the part where Eiji ran out the door yelling. It looked like there was nothing wrong and he just freaked out at random.
Oishi turned around and said, "Be quiet, Momo! You're being really insensitive!"
Momo nodded, and they skipped to the part that had happened today.
What appeared on the tape next was a shock to the pillar of Seigaku. It showed Eiji holding hands with Oishi and walking into the pet store. Further into the tape, they looked at fishes and smiled sweetly at each other. Since the sound was low quality, the only intelligible words were, 'doing things.' Jirou sighed in relief. Nothing suspicious had been on the tape.
Echizen jumped out of his seat. "Kikumaru-senpai! I can't believe you are accusing me of things when you are the one doing them!"
"O-chibi!" Yelled Eiji, "Take that back! I heard you with my own two ears! And I wasn't doing anything wrong!"
"What you just did on that tape was more than I've ever done!"
"Liar!"
Tezuka was pretty pissed at the wasted hour of his life. "Fuji," He said, "I didn't need a video tape to tell me that Kikumaru and Oishi like to hold hands." He made his way towards the door. "I could just watch a doubles match."
Oishi was shocked at the blatant statement coming from his buchou, "Tezuka!"
Fuji frowned, "I agree. Inui, you really mislead us about what was supposed to be on those tapes."
"Isn't anybody happy that I'm not gay!" Echizen demanded.