Thanks to kirise, Nozomi Anshin, SolarCat, mariklover12 and KagomeGirl121 for the nice reviews and keeping my confidence up! WEE!! And now for chapter three! It's shorter than the first two, though, because I want to this up before midnight, so I don't get blamed for waiting a year to update.
I promise that chapter four will be at least ten pages!
Shindou Hikaru awoke on the couch that morning with a cheerful bubbly feeling inside him.
Touya Akira awoke on his futon that morning with a feeling of extreme paranoia.
But, no matter the feelings they had in their guts, it wouldn't stop either of them from going to the special super meeting at the Go institute. No one knew what the meeting was about, but the pamphlet said that it was special and super, so all the pros decided to go.
Both boys got up and had breakfast. Hikaru had eggs and toast, which he ate with a spoon, and Akira didn't actually have anything because he doesn't eat. They put on their hats and mitts, because it was apparently snowing outside, and headed out the door!!!
Hikaru walked and Akira got a ride from everyone's favourite suit-wearing, go playin' pedophiliac guy… Ogata! Hikaru arrived first, however, because Ogata needed to stop at the tropical fish store and buy 17 new Siamese fighting fish to cram in his new, 3-cm fish tank.
All of the pros gathered in the little meeting room thingy; Akira nervously scanning the room for Hikaru; and a giant ape stuck in a jar of jam, who was really Kuwabara, began to speak.
"I'm sure you all may have noticed that there are many new young people getting into the pro leagues…" he began, "… and so we have decided that we are going to hold a special tournament between China, Korea, and Japan for all pros 18 and under!!!"
The crowd was confused, as one man said, "Uh… Kuwabara-sensei? Didn't we already do that? The Hokuto Cup?"
Kuwabara began to laugh that laugh that sounds like a chicken being strangled, and said, "Oh, no! Because this time… we're going to host the tournament in CHINA!!!"
Another man called out, "Yes, but… that sounds just like the Hokuto Cup… except in China."
"Yes, but we're calling it the Potato Cup instead!"
"Ohh…" The whole crowd mumbled, as Kuwabara began to speak again. "Now, we're going to select those who will be coming with us by a small elimination match. So all pros 18 and under, please go into the playing room."
And so, all the young 'uns went into to the playing room, and waited for further instructions. After a few minutes, Kurata came in (I bet you didn't even know he was here, did you? DID YOU!?) and began to DANCE!!!
But then he stopped dancing because he noticed everyone was scared.
"Ahem…" he began, "It seems that there is going to be a slight problem with this. You see… all of the go stones here have been mysteriously stolen…"
By SHINDOU'S MOM!!! Because she's going to make a pie with them. But no one else knows that!
"… and so," he continued, "It seems we'll need to determine who will be participating by me spinning around with my eyes closed and randomly pointing at someone. Okay?"
Everyone had a look of utter confusion and/or fear on their faces. But Kurata didn't notice, because he was too busy spinning around with his eyes closed.
And then he fell out the window. Luckily, however, he was safe because he landed in the giant fish tank strapped onto the back of Ogata's car.
"Well," Ochi began, "I think that we should select only the finest three players to participate. Touya and I are painfully obvious choices for first and second boards, of course… Touya, who do you think should be third board?"
Without even hesitating, Touya stated, "Shindou."
Shindou himself, of course, was spaced out daydreaming about Touya wearing a little nurse's outfit.
The ugly pile of ostrich feces (Ochi) began to sneer, "Why would you want Shindou as third board? He's too stupid to even play go fish."
Offended by the little rat for insulting his Shindou, Touya was about to go totally ape and strangle him. But he didn't have the chance, however, because Ogata came running in and yelled, "DID SOMEONE SAY GO FISH!?"
He then pulled out a black fish from his pocket… I guess… and slammed it on a board. "C'mon, Akira. Let's see how you fare against the Go-Fish champ…" he smirked.
The fish screamed… and died, as Touya stared down at the board in horror and said, "Ogata-san… I… uh, don't have any white fish…" in attempt to escape the challenge.
Laughing, Ogata adjusted his glasses and said, "Not a problem," as he took out his wallet and dumped a whole pile of black and white fish out.
"Here," he began again, "I'll even give you a handicap." With that, he began to slam down a bunch of black fish all over the board. All of which, of course, screamed and died, in a most horrendous manner.
Everyone in the room, in fear of Ogata… being himself… ran out of the room All, that is, but Shindou, who was still spaced out; Touya, who was partially frozen with disgust and partially staring at Shindou; and Waya, who had fallen asleep.
The 9-dan smirked again, "Well then, I suppose we've found our three representatives…" And he suavely walked out of the room… I guess.
A little while later, after everyone was a little calmer from the shock, the meeting room thing was filled up once again.
"Well," Kuwabara began, "It seems that even though we had a slight problem, our resourceful Ogata-kun managed to find a way to find the best players."
The blonde in his snazzy white suit THAT HE WEARS EVERY SINGLE DAY EXCEPT FOR ONCE walked up the super microphone at the front of the room. "Yes," he began, "You're three representatives for the prestigious Potato Cup this year will be, Touya Akira, Shindou Hikaru, and Waya Yoshitaka."
The crowd began to cheer, which awoke the three from their states of sleep and/or paralysis and/or hallucination.
"Congratulations on qualifying, Akira!" Ashiwara smiled brightly as he shook Touya's hand.
"Um… thank you, Ashiwara-san…" he garbled as he escaped from the hoards of people who would inevitably start congratulating him, ask for autographs, try to get an interview, or offer him skunk flavoured cola.
And that was when he came face to face with the one person whom he liked so much, he was afraid of.
NO! Not a giant radish from Kentucky! Shindou!
He didn't know what to say. If he began to speak, he would stutter and seem terribly obvious. If he said nothing, there would be and awkward silence. He decided that he would make things seem normal, and ask Shindou to go have lunch with him.
"Uh… Sh-Shindou? Do you… you want to g-go and…. Have… lunch? You know… like a congratulations kinda thing… and… um… so… cause I r-really want to go have lunch…"
Blast! That sounded suspicious… he thought. No, it wasn't that bad.
… on opposite day.
Yes, opposite day is an important holiday in the Touya house, according to his father. He forces Akira to wear a dress and disguise glasses, and other ridiculous things.
Anyway…
Hikaru began to blush like a schoolgirl. "Sure, Touya…" he said, "Where do you want to go?" But it really didn't matter where he wanted to go, because they would eventually end up in a ramen shop.
Oh god… what was I thinking? Akira questioned his mental health as the two began to walk out of the building together. But little did they know… how insane things would REALLY get when they left for China…
