"Night Night Into the Night"
Yoyo skates into the garage exhausted after the day's events. As the sounds of Hideki Naganuma boom out of the large speakers, he can see Beat sleeping on the couch under the platform, his headphones off but his goggles still attached to his pretty little face. Yoyo has the sudden urge to skate over and pull them off. Trying to make as little noise as possible, he starts skating only to trip and flop down onto the tiled floor. Blood gushes out of his delicate nose. "Aaa shit!"
Beat stirs in his sleep but does not awake. Combo, who just skated in from Chuo Street, busts a gut upon seeing Yoyo trip. He skates over to the smaller boy.
"Yo, man! What the hell was that?" he laughs. Yoyo glares at the large feller,
"Hey it was a simple mistake!" he wipes the blood from his nose with his hand, and then digs in his pocket for a tissue. There isn't one in there.
"Aha ha ha ha! Yo, man you gotta be more careful," Combo says in a husky man voice. Beat makes a mad face turning to face the back of the couch complaining,
"Will you two shut up?" Yoyo glares at Beat in fake anger, and says to Combo,
"I'll keep that in mind," Yoyo skates off and sits by the doghouse. He sighs, thinking he really screwed that up, but better Combo catching him busting his nose than Combo catching him pulling the glasses off Beat's handsome face.
Potts whines, as dogs always know when something's up, it seems. Yoyo pets Potts and the dog licks the boy's face. Yo smiles at his friendly companion, continuing to play with the dog. Yoyo rubs Potts's head. The exhaustion he felt earlier floods back to him as he lies on his back resting while Potts joins him.
Beat tosses and turns on the couch unable to get comfortable.
"Fuck..." he mumbles sitting up. He puts on his skates readying himself for the long journey to obtain food. Yoyo sees where Beat is heading, so he makes a simple request hoping Beat comply,
"Get me a soda!"
"Get your own, kid!" Beat yells back. Yoyo feels disappointed. He thinks Beat would be nicer to him after all they have been through but still nothing. Beat skates back to the couch but does not sit down, instead he skates to Yo eating a cupcake and letting go of a soda, which hit Yo's chest.
"Thanks," Yoyo says. He holds the can and opens it causing the contents to spray over his hoodie.
"Aww crap. You did that on purpose!" Yoyo frowns looking at beat.
"Now why would I go do something like that? It's your own damn fault," Beat rejoins.
Combo is messing with the radio when Beat asks him,
"Hey, Combo, let's go mess up Dogenzaga Hill."
"Right on!" cheers Corn!
"I said Combo!" says Beat.
"Aw," whines Corn. Combo jumps down from the platform,
"Sounds good," he replies.
Yo feels sad and sort of left out. "At least he got me the soda..." he thinks. He lifts himself up off of the ground and takes off his hood. Beat, still talking to Combo at the time, couldn't help but notice Yo. His slender figure, usually covered by his oversized hood, seems to shine in the bright sunlight, and looks delicious to Beat. He is glad that his goggles covers his lusty stare while allowing him to still appear as if he is paying attention to Combo, he isn't saying anything important anyways. Something about Chuo Street. Beat doesn't care.
Yo takes his sunglasses off as well, since they are now in the way. He holds his hood and glasses in one hand while the other reaches for his soda. He takes a sip and looks over at Beat. He decides to wash his hood, skating off to the GGs' only bathroom in the whole entire Garage. Getting in there sometimes, with 12 GGs, can be a pretty difficult task. Yoyo thought they needed at least one more. He washes his hood diligently and hangs it out on their clothesline outside. When he skates by the doghouse Beat and Combo are nowhere to be found. With a sigh he skates off to his room.
That day Beat and Combo along with Corn, tagged up all of Dogenzaga Hill, Yoyo got some sleep, Gum, Rhyth, Boogie, Cube, and Jazz had a girls day out shopping, and Clutch, Soda and Garam skated around the city eating boogers. When night comes around, they all got together to party at 99th Street.
Gum and Cube go around to all the darling little shops buying make-up as well as terrorizing the good citizens. Corn grinds up and down the empty blue lit part with Garam and Soda, they really like the doll things and messing with the druggies that hang around there. Combo and Boogie are chilling, listening to his boom box and eating chicken barbeque. Jazz, Clutch, and Rhyth grinds up, down, in, and around the dragon tower while seeing who could do the most tricks. Yoyo played in the water, as always. And Beat watches as a cat spies on his pray.
"Yoyo," starts Beat, getting little Yoyo's attention, "You gonna do this the whole night or what?" Yoyo looked up and wonders why Beat is still there.
"… No, guess not…" he says thinking of what else they could do there. Beat smirks,
"Alright then, we should have a race," declares the goggled one.
"We start here," then he turns around and using his graceful hands, gestured to the racecourse,
"Go through that area, then across the bridge, and through there, and around the disserted area, back here, and up to the very top of the dragon." Yoyo becomes entranced by his movements, and hardly hears anything Beat says.
"The loser buys dinner," says Beat, "Alright?" Yoyo stares for a bit, finally answering,
"OK!"
"Get your wallet out kid, cuz you know you can't handle mah mad skillz," Beat boasts, smirking confidently.
"No way!" Yoyo suddenly busts out, taking Beat by surprise. "You're the one who's gonna loose!.
"Ha ha ha... good one, kid." Beat returns.
"Well let's just see about that," retorts Yo. He skates up to Beat and gets ready to race.
"Alright," Beat gets ready too, "Ready... Set... GO!"
Beat dashes off in the lead, but then Yoyo gets further by using boost-dash. Beat thinks he won't lose to anyone, especially that kid, as he grinds on the bridge while using boost-dash putting him back in the lead, where he intends to stay. Grinding as much as he can, he finally reaches the empty area, but Yo is catching up. He gets on one of the neon blue wires and grinds all around, losing sight of Yoyo. He could see Corn and Soda finishing a tag as Garam, below, yells directions. Just then below him he sees a little blue blur, it can't be, but it is! Yo is winning again!" That little..." Beat thinks to himself, but stops himself as Yoyo gets farther away. He jumps off the wire and uses boost again, but as he caught up to Yo, Yo uses his boost-dash too and gets farther away. "FUCK!" Beat curses. He goes through the tunnel and he grinds on the bridge. He could just make out Yo in his blue hood. "Dammit!" Beat can't lose to him, not Yoyo. He goes as fast as he can while using boost and grinding on the railings before the dragon, but Yoyo cuts him off jumping on the dragon at the last moment. Yoyo looks back and makes an ugly face sticking his tongue out at Beat. "You little brat!" yells Beat as tries to go faster changing grind positions, he gets so close to Yo he could almost touch him, but when it comes down to it, Yo is the first one off the dragon and on to the roof.
Yoyo turns around as Beat gets off as well. Smiling inwardly he says,
"Told you I'd win."
Beat looks angry and turns to look the other way. Instead of being happy, Yoyo starts to feel awkward. After a long silence Beat finally admits defeat, he turns around to face Yo,
"Alright kid, you won, so wad ya wanna eat?" Yoyo can't help but develop a giant smile on his face.
"Chicken barbeque!" he chirps. Beat smirks, knowing Yo would say that, that's his favorite.
"Let's go!" yells Yo skating past Beat and taking his hand to jump back on the dragon. Yoyo, who is leading, doesn't look back for fear his blush would show. He could always hide it in his hoodie when they get off, but he doesn't dare look Beat in the face now.
At the bottom Yoyo lets go, even though he doesn't really want to.
"So which stand do ya wanna go to?" asks Beat.
"Uhmm... that one over there isn't that crowded," answers Yoyo pointing. He bends down to splash the water.
"Ok then, c'mon let's go," says Beat, he skates up and out of the water leaving a trail for Yoyo to follow. They reach the stand, which was just at the opening of the shopping district, and there is only one person in front of them. As the person makes his leave, a scent of fish balls trails behind him. Yoyo orders the chicken barbeque and Beat gets the beef, paying just as promised.
"Thanks," said Yoyo. Beat makes a noise, which Yo takes as "You're welcome," and skates off.
Yoyo follows Beat as he makes his way through the crowd towards the entrance of the Rokkaku Expo Stadium. It is deserted considering it being nighttime. Still, the giant lights are on attracting moths. Beat seats himself on a bench in a shadowy part of the stadium, Yoyo sits behind him propping his feet up on the bench in front of him. He eats happily next to Beat whose nose is running due to the spiciness of the beef.
"Hey, I've never been here at night before," Yoyo says throwing the barbeque stick into the darkness and leaning back.
Beat, still hunched over with the stick in his mouth, chewing, mumbles,
"Yeah? I been here a few times at night."
Yoyo stares upward into one of the stadium's moth attracting lights.
Beat finally looks back at Yoyo, still with the stick in his mouth.
"... So... when ya learned to be so fast, eh?" Beat asks.
"I've been practicing," Yo lies smiling and resisting the urge to say that he had once beaten Beat before. Yoyo finds himself laughing out loud at the thought. Beat looks at Yo saying nothing. They sit in silence again. Yo puts his arms inside his hood, the air is getting a bit chilly. Beat on the other hand is unaffected by the temperature. He gets up and skates towards a vending machine, kicking it to get himself a free drink. He returns and opens the can, drinking it he as sits down. Yoyo pulls his legs closer to him, just then the can of soda appears in front of his face. Yoyo looks at Beat confused, Beat shook the contents of the can,
"Want some? Last chance."
Yoyo hesitates for a second, then he pulls his right hand out of his hood and takes the can. Looking at Beat, who is no longer looking at him and is stretching, he can't help but blush when taking in the soda, sharing with Beat an indirect kiss. He thinks to himself, what is he, like ten? The last time Yoyo was excited about a stupid indirect kiss was in grade school. Grade six?
After the soda was all gone, he crushes the can and throws it in the same fashion as the barbeque stick. Beat looks at Yoyo,
"I didn't say you could have all of it," Yoyo's face drops. Beat laughs,
"Just kiddin." He steps over the bench in front of them and says, "C'mon let's go." he skates off, letting Yoyo follow.
They re-enter 99th Street and see Rhyth.
"Hi there," she greets. Clutch and Boogie land beside her.
"Hey, I'm pretty spent," complains Clutch, "let's head back, it's getting pretty late anyways."
"Really? What time is it?" asks Rhyth. Clutch looks down at his watch,
"Uh, it's 2:07."
"Yeah, I guess it's pretty late," says Rhyth. She and Clutch grind on the dragon tail, Yoyo and Boogie follow. Beat decides to stay.
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Disclaimer, yo: The game Jet Grind Radio and Jet Set Radio Future and all characters involved belong to Sega, Xbox, SmileBit, and any other owners of stuff.
Note: Part one and part two were originally one story, but I thought it was too long so I split them up. Hope you like this.