Happy Birthday 'ITY' Crew!
A Momentous Occasion Worth Celebrating
The author quickly sat down at her computer chair, lazily going through her catalog of story chapters. Moving about as if she had all the time in the world, she overlooked the fact that she had to update every story she was currently posting the next night, and moved on to some new ideas that had only recently popped into her head.
Humming an unfamiliar and completely self-created tune to herself, she continued to abdicate her duty to update by bringing up the internet and browsing her usual sites before finally going to her profile on a certain fanfiction website.
Bored already with the Internet, she looked over the stories she had written, noting what days she had first posted them and smiling in remembrance. Frowning, she blinked several times as she noticed that she had yet to finish a story she had started almost a year ago. Deciding that such a thing deserved some kind of party for the over-worked and under-paid cast, she rallied them up within the confines - or lack there of - of her imagination.
Hikari and Himitsu were both dull and glared at each other the entire time. They had never gotten along well anyway, and being coughforcedcough to come to the commemorating party set up by their Big Boss (the authoress) was near torture.
However, everyone else was quite happy, though Seisuke was overly jealous of Genki's ability to make Hikari give a rare, genuine smile. At least – to Seisuke and a few others they were rare, but to Genki and his group of friends, a smile from Hikari was quite common on a daily basis. Not to mention that Sakino refused to stop flirting with Himitsu.
At one such point the authoress had to force him to the other side of the party room to chastise him, which was quite humorous to watch. Hikari's eyes were alight with amusement as the older man bowed and flustered in front of the young authoress who just tapped her foot and made wide, angered gestures as she spoke. Her words went unheard, but still everyone could tell that Sakino was being told that his actions were not suitable for the standards for which the authoress had set up the fic and if he did not remain on script that he would have her wrath to deal with.
Tiger chuckled, shaking his head as the man passed. "Humans do some weird things." He mused to himself.
The authoress sighed and shook her head as well before taking out a professional looking clipboard and putting on some nifty glasses that she didn't need – or actually even own; she proceeded to do a head count. When assured that everyone was present, she smiled and hurriedly rid herself of the clipboard and glasses, which crashed in a corner nearby and shattered.
Not taking any notice to the well being of the glasses or clipboard, she climbed on top of one of the numerous rounded tables, almost tipping it in the process. Once she had gained her balance, and was sure that she wouldn't fall, the authoress waved for everyone to be silent.
Naturally, everyone had watched when she had almost fallen, waiting to burst with laughter when she did, so she had already captured their attention.
"Alright, since everyone's here, I'd like to start." She announced brightly.
Everyone stood still and listened, they had to, she was the authoress, she was the one that wrote several of them into existence. When she saw that she had their undivided attention, she nodded to herself and cleared her throat.
"Ahem." Pondering over her coming words for a brief moment, she tried to sound as authoritative as possible but it all came to nothing in the end.
"Happy Birthday to the crew of ITY!!!" She had cupped her hands over her mouth, and was now yelling quite gleefully through them at the gatherers.
There was a loud bang from overhead, and the ceiling started to rain confetti and bright multi-colored balloons. The roof seemed to have exploded and everyone watched it with wide-eyed fascination, excluding Himitsu, who always wore a blank face it seemed.
Mocchi waved one of his flipper-like hands in the air, trying to catch the little pieces of confetti that fell on them. Holly giggled, enthralled by the little sparkling particles.
The authoress came down from the table, the thin structure almost tipping once again when she shifted her weight to one side alone. Her long ponytail bobbed as she walked through the crowd, finding that she was at least a head shorter than some of the characters that she herself had created. She frowned, noting that she would have to fix that later on if she could.
Directing everyone's attention again, she walked through a pair of double doors and disappeared. For a moment, everyone thought that she might be upset, with her frowning and all, but they were soon shown that there was not such an emotion running through her at the moment.
Bursting through the doors came a large table with wheels that slid gracefully along the floor. Atop the table sat a mighty cake with figurines of Genki and Holly on the top layer. On the next layer down, stood figurines of the Monsters, and on the third layer stood the Agents and their leaders.
It was a white cake, and in blue layers on the very last layer was written in large blue curly letters: "Happy Birthday" in icing.
Those that had never seen a cake like this before stared in awe; Holly's eyes grew large for a moment as she took it in. She had no idea what the confection was, but just at the sight of it, Genki seemed even peppier than before. So she supposed it was a good thing.
On either side were spoons, forks, blunt knives, party hats, and little paper plates with sparkles on them, which read the same thing as the cake. Holly's eyebrows raised slightly. All this for just the birthday of a fanfiction? Wasn't the authoress overdoing it just a little bit?
At this point, the authoress herself popped out of nowhere, with overly teary, wet anime eyes that sparkled and glossed sadly as she sniffled plaintively. "It's my first fanfiction that's taken over a year to write. I have to do something to make up for that, don't I?" She sniffled again, this time faking tears. "Am I not allowed even a small break from the stresses of life?"
Holly was taken aback, smiling nervously and trying to back away from the persistent authoress. "Well, I, uhm. . ."
The authoress broke away after a moment, obviously content with her show, and turned on her heel to the cake. Smiling brightly, she held up a kitchen knife and pointed to the three layers cheerily. "Alright then, who gets first piece?"
There was a scramble toward the confection, with joyous cheers and smiles. Everyone was smiling, even the usually stoic Himitsu, who stood in a dark corner, unseen by all but Sakino.
As the night waned on, the group of friends and associates grinned and laughed, exchanging tales and celebrating until the early hours of the next morning.
Happy Birthday 'ITY!'
Happy Birthday ITY! I know, I'm probably over-doing it, but I've never had a fanfiction that's lasted a year, and I thought I should do something special to make up for that.
I plan on having a new chapter up soon, so no worries. Though I will be out of town from December 30 – January 2, so there will be no updates during that time.
Thank you for your continued support, minna-san! I plan on wrapping up the story soon, so I hope you've enjoyed thus far.
Happy Holidays! Ja'ne.
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