It was the day of the match. I woke up early wearing my bowling uniform. My black and orange shirt with black bowling gloves which looked really cool and I totally looked really hot. Ryu was up and dressed also. Only his belly was showing through his shirt.
"Oh Mikihisa! You bad boy," Keiko said cuddling me from behind.
"Yes, I am bad. No one can tame me. Only you can catch up with me," I said.
I turned round and cuddle Keiko.
"I know you are gonna win. Since you have practised so hard and you nearly burned that bowling book you borrowed from the library!"
Keiko and I were giggling away when Ryu came in. He looked so worried. No wonder. Sliva was having a hang-over! Stupid Hiroyuki! Getting him drunk like that!
"Mikihisa..."
"Aw... for once I ain't doing anything that I would usually do and you still inturpt me. Once I find you a girlfriend, Ryu. Will you promise to leave me alone?" I asked.
"Sliva won't be able to bowl," Ryu said.
"WHAT?"
"He is hanging over his hang-over. Hehe... Sliva lingo!"
"NO! This ain't happening!"
"You don't remember, Miki-kins? He was singing Milli Vanilli last night. The exact way, they were singing on MTV in July 1989! Then they walked off stage still singing the same song," Keiko cheered.
I fell on my knees to the ground and put my hands on my... er... mask and started crying. This was turning out to be bad.
"WAH! WHAT NEXT? HIROYUKI GETS KIDNAPPED!" I cried.
The phone rings. Keiko goes off to answer it. I was on my knees crying. Ryu sat on our bed which is a water bed. There is something you didn't know about us. We have a water bed!
"Wow! Your bed is a water bed. Comfortable too!" Ryu said as he sat on it.
"Oh hi Mrs Takei!" Keiko greeted.
It was Hiroyuki's wife on the phone. More bad news was coming. Oh, just Hiroyuki was kidnapped by a bunch of unknown people. Oh! I am guessing the jocks kidnapped him. They always did stuff like that back in High School.
"Ok, Mrs Takei. I will tell him. Ok, see you at the Alley! Bye!" Keiko hung up the phone.
"You know, maybe Sliva will be ok by 7:00pm," Ryu said reasurring me.
Keiko came in with a smile on her face. She clasped her hands together and looked at me and Ryu. She was the messenger of bad news.
"Hiroyuki was kidnapped last night," Keiko said.
I laid on the floor motionless. Ryu put my duvet over his head and Keiko was looking her usual way. Cheerful as ever.
"Oh my Mikihisa."
Keiko sat down beside my fallen weak body. She had her warm hands on my neck. She was smiling.
"You have been through a lot worse than this. Remember the time when you tried to get my parents' permission to marry me. You never gave up. You kept pestering them and I kept pestering them and bingo! We are married. Then there was the time, Yoh and Hao were born. Hao burned your face but you never let that rule your life. You wanna know why?" Keiko asked.
I took hold of Keiko's hand. Her fingers are so soft and gentle.
"B'coz you are a lot stronger than that. You never let anyone rule you. You always think a way through complicated situations despite them being really stupid but I would never have you any other way. B'coz you are my Miki-kins."
Ryu was crying. He was hiding in our duvet in our bed. Keiko said her most intelligent yet most romantic comment. It was the best thing I have heard her say for a long time.
I sat up and looked at Keiko who was smiling away. I realised why I married her. She was smart, funny and beautiful. The perfect woman I imagined. Everyone would give me strange looks for wearing the bird mask but Keiko never judged me. I knew I could beat the jocks if I believed in myself.
Hiroyuki was at Leo's house. Arms handcuffed with the pink fluffy ones. Leo was never a cop and his crazy ideas have landed him in prison. Like burning stuff and mooning the Princess of Sweden. Ran nude in front of the Queen of England and has done a hell lot of stuff reavealing more than just the butt.
"You will never get away with this! I have fans! They read Shonen Jump!" Hiroyuki threatened.
"Wait... You are the creator of Witch Queen! I love that manga!" Leo announced "My favourite character is Loh. The witch with the black cat called Amidalady and her best non witch friend Marika!"
Hiroyuki nodded.
"I really love that manga!"
Leo went blabbing on how much he loved Witch Queen.
(Author's Note: I thought it would be strange to mention Shaman King so I made an alter-ego for it!)
Hiroyuki got so sick of Leo talking that he managed to escape from the handcuffs. Punch Leo in the eye and made a run for it. But as soon as he got outta Leo's house. He was stuck.
"Aw... crap! I am lost!" he exclaimed. "Oh well! Better hitch-hike."
Hiroyuki walked along down the road. To keep himself amused he sang a song. A song much loved by Eminem fans but only he was singing the original.
"Step by step, heart to to heart, Left right left, We all fall down, Like Toy Soliders!" Hiroyuki sang.
Since he only knew the chorus to the song. That and he had nothing to feast upon. He fainted. No one cared to help him, he laid on that road for 2 hours.
Then a big red van drove up. It had the name Laughing Souls on the side. Hiroyuki opened his eyes and saw a girl with pink hair, hazel eyes, freckles and was wearing a Ghostbusters t-shirt. She was holding a bottle of Coco Cola in front of him as she kneeled before him.
"Dude! You need something to get you up in this heat. Drink this. It has been inmy cooler. Do you live in Izumo?" she asked.
Hiroyuki sat up and drank the soda, the girl offered him and he was full of engery.
"Yeah, I am from Izumo. Who are you?"
"My name is Washu. I am going to visit my friend, Ryu who is now in a bowling team called Bowler Hisa. It's his big match so I am here to cheer him on."
Hiroyuki stood up and cheered.
"An angel driving a redvan has resuced me. I am loved up there!" he cheered.
"I am not exactly an angel. I am more of a devil everyone says," Washu said looking at a cheerful Hiroyuki. "Do you know where Ryu lives?"
"Yeah, I have been there before," said Washu.
Hiroyuki goes in the driver's seat. Starts beeping the horn like the song Heaven is a Place on Earth.
"Ooh... nice horn. Erm... GET IN AND DRIVE WOMAN! I have a bowling match to get to." Hiroyuki puts his index finger up before she says anything else "I am in Ryu's bowling team. Before you ask!"
"Phew! That is good to know. If you were one of the jocks that beat Mikihisa up in High school. You would get kicked out this van," Washu said as she got in the van.
Hiroyuki didn't listen to the last song. He was looking at two of Washu's CDs, Jason Donovan and Martika. (The original singer of Toy Soldiers!)
"Play this CD! I used to know all the words to this song but now I only remember the chorus."
"Martika. Let me guess... Toy Soldiers!" Washu looked at the CD case.
"That is the only song I have ever heard her sing. NOW PUT IT ON!"
Washu put Martika in the CD Player and Hiroyuki was singing alone to the Japanese Version. Washu stayed silent and gave him funny looks.
It was 6:55pm. Only Keiko, Ryu and I were here at the bowling alley. Sliva was sleeping off his hang-over on the sofa at home. I was waiting nervously at the lane booked for us in advance. Keiko was holding my hand and smiling at me. She was wearing her lucky Formula 1 Racing outfit which she claims is a bowling suit for women...
Then 3 of the jocks came. No Leo. Leo was ashamed to come after getting a black eye from Hiroyuki. So he wasn't coming. So it was 3 on 3...
"Leo ain't coming. Ready to get your ass wiped!"
Keiko was going to have to be our 3rd member.
To Be Bowled... We mean To be continued... My bad!
Sliva Wakes up and talks:
Ooh... my head. It hurts like hell! Wait till I get that show off Hiroyuki. That reminds me. In Japan, you can only drink, smoke and drive when you are 20 years old. In the UK it is 18 years old. I am 27 so I have an excuse to be drunk you don't (the readers under the age of 20!) So don't drink and show off... Man! Where is everyone? Where are my ciggarettes? I need a smoke.
Washu says: I am not sure what music Hiroyuki likes. I randomly chose Martika b'coz when writing this I was listening to my Martika CD. I love that CD but it keeps skipping apart from Toy Soldiers Japanese Version. I will have to buy another one since it has all these scratches on it... Bye bye Horo Horo cosplay costume. (You have to agree he sounds like a cool guy to cosplay! His hair is the same colour as Brainy!) (Washu hugs her assisesent, Brainy Smurf!)