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Chapter 19 : The gathering of the witnesses

Few days later, at the Association

" What the hell does it mean?" Waya cursed, " Isumi-san, Have any idea?" he asked the older pro.

" I don't get it either, Waya," Isumi shook his head, " Why don't you ask him?"

" I do! But every times I ask him, he keeps saying the same thing giving the same answer!" the young funky boy said in frustration.

" Yeah, Too bad that it's the answer that we don't understand," Saeki marked.

" Ano…" the fourth voice came from behind them.

" Touya!" Waya jumped.

" Ano…Three of you are Shindou's closet friends, aren't you?" the future Meijin asked awkwardly since he knew that Waya didn't like him…at all, " Well, I want to ask you about…"

" Yahoo! Everybody!" Ashiwara greeted happily and noisily, " WOW! It's rare to find four of you together! Are you guys planning on robbing a bank or something?" Laughing loudly, Ashiwara was merry and hyper as always, " Ne, ne, Akira-kun, Yesterday I dropped by Ogata-san condominium, you're not gonna believe this….


Flashback started

The day before, around noon

/Dingdong Dingdong / Ashiwara pressed the door bell.

" Yes," Panting, the room owner in a casual blue shirt hastily opened the door, " Oh, it's you, come in," then he hurriedly ran back into the kitchen, " Sorry, I'm in the middle of something," he uttered leaving his guest alone at the door.

The guest with black-wavy-hair didn't mind that, he closed the door and took off his shoes at the main-entrance. ' What is that sound?' he doubted. As he entered the living room, his eyes widened by the picture in front of him.

Ogata's extremely neat living room now was in a mess. There were small boxes all over the floor, something was on the white carpet. Ashiwara took a closer look at it, " Jigsaw puzzle?" He looked around and took one of those small paper boxes, many green jigsaw pieces were in it. He observed the rest of them, it seemed to him that each box had it own color. Red, Black, Blue, Yellow; it was clear that they were used to separate the jigsaw in color. It was then that his mind went back to the mysterious sound that he had heard when he first came in.

/ I'm not sure what I see

Cupid don't fuck wit me!

Are you telling me this is a sign?... /

' What the hell Ogata-san is listening?' Raising his eyebrows, he wondered. Ashiwara scanned the room looking for its owner. 'Where is he?' He went to the kitchen and got the second shock.

Ogata, the Jyudan and the Gosei, was throwing a spaghetti string at his white wall which had Kuwabara Honinbo's picture on it! That string flied right to the Honinbo's face and stuck on it.

" Good!" the silver-haired man said satisfactorily before he poured the water out.

Ashiwara looked at his upperclassman in awe. He had never known that the man could cook before, " I don't know that you can cook, Ogata-san," Seeing the Gosei tossing the pasta over in the pan, he spoke out..

" I've just started learning," Removing it from the heat, Ogata said, " Don't..think about it boy, leave her a..lone," he song softly as he sprinkled black pepper, "Voila! It's done!"

" Looks yummy, what is it?" the pro in a green t-shirt asked nosily.

" Spaghetti Alla Carbonara," Bringing the plate to the dinning table, the room owner answered dryly.

Tailing his upperclassman to the table, the over-cheery pro tried to repeat the menu, " Spaghetti Alla …What?"

" Alla Carbonara, Spaghetti Alla Carbonara," the unsociable man repeated boringly as he tasted his first home-cooking dish, " Umm, okay,"

" Oh!" Ashiwara looked at another man curiously, " Where did you learn how to cook?" he asked.

" Hikaru taught me," Ogata replied idly.

" Hikaru? You mean Shindou-kun? Shindou Hikaru?"

" Yeah, Akira's rival," he confirmed.

" Ah," Ashiwara knew that his grumpy friend didn't like when people tried to meddle in his affairs so he decided not to ask any further question. Then… " What is this?" he blurted out without thinking when he saw the book on the table, "20 Easy dishes : Even monkeys can cook?" he read the title.

" It's a cook book," the crabby pro said in reply, " It's a gift from Hikaru," Knowing that the snoopy young pro was going to ask him where he got the book, he uttered.

" Ah, I see," the cheerful man nodded slowly. It was no surprise to him, it wasn't Ogata at all to buy a book with such a funny title.

/ Mami, mamasita, have you ever-flown on G5s

From London to a beat hah?.../

" I didn't know that you like this kind of music," he noted, " What're you listening anyway?"

" Signs,"

" Signs?"

" Yeah, you know Snoop Dogg's song," Sipping his water, Ogata clarified.

" Snoop Dogg?"

" You don't know him?"

"…No, I'm afraid not,"

" Everybody knows Snoop Dogg," he borrowed Hikaru's line.

" …Where did you get the CD?" Ashiwara knew that he was butting in but he couldn't help it.

" Hikaru burns it for me," the 10 Dans was getting annoyed, " Why are you here anyway? Don't tell me that you only come here to investigate me," he was definitely annoyed.

" Ah! Yes! I almost forget!" Opening his folder, the guest handed Ogata some kifu, " This is Nogi-Sensei's kifu that you ask for,"

" Oh, Thanks," Ogata thanked him as he took the kifu of the Tengen.

"…Okay, I gotta leave now," the young man spoke up, he knew that his friend wanted some privacy when he studied.

At least, Ogata was courtesy enough to send Ashiwara at the door, after all, the said pro came across the city to bring him the kifu.

" By the way, since when you like jigsaw puzzle?" the 5 Dans asked the last question before he left. He couldn't help it, he wanted to know badly.

" I've just bought it yesterday. I always wanted to try it but I didn't want to mess up my room…but Hikaru says it's okay since it's my place. I'm free to mess it up as much as I want," the reserved pro narrated.

" Ah-hah, right," the guest nodded, " Good luck with it then, Ogata-san, See you later," then he left.

Flashback ended


" Can you believe that?" Ashiwara asked excitingly, " Can you imagine Ogata-san was cooking and singing in the same time? And it's all because Shindou-kun!" he declared, " I wonder what he did with Ogata-san,"

" Who did what?" asked Ogata from his back.


A/N : Ogata Seiji VS Touya Akira! Who will survive!

siobhn01: Yeah, it's a BIG mistake.

kari: "I LOVED akira's internal monolouge" Thank you. "its the exact words i would expect form the real akira" Yeah, Akira does care about Hikaru but he just doesn't want to say it out loud. When he intends to, he just...beats around the bush.

kathy : "they hit really close to home" That's right. God, you really KNOW me.