Four
Hikaru woke up with someone poking him in the ribs. Hikaru tossed and turned but the poking didn't stop. He opened his eyes to see an annoyed Akira Touya standing over him, fully dressed. Hikaru looked out the window…the sun hadn't even risen yet.
"Argh, Touya the sun hasn't even risen yet," groaned out Hikaru.
"Get dressed, you're going to attend breakfast with me and a morning Go game before I play one of Korea's top Go Pro's this morning, I need all the practice I can get," ordered Akira.
Hikaru sat up looking at the clock on the bedside table. 5:30 AM... How in the hell did Touya manage to wake up this early in the morning!
"Fine, just lemme get dressed and awake," muttered Hikaru.
Akira nodded and walked out of the room and Hikaru quickly got dressed and brushed his teeth and then headed downstairs to join Akira for breakfast.
There was clatters coming from the kitchen and the flat screen TV was on in the living room the weather broadcast was on. Today it was going to be rainy. Wonderful, that meant no shopping for manga in Tokyo today unless you had a car and had the money to afford parking.
Akira came out of the kitchen with glass plates and chopsticks in his hands.
"Let me help you with that," said Hikaru, grabbing the plates from Akira's arms and setting the table for him.
Akira had went back into the kitchen bringing out one dish of food out at a time.
Hikaru was awestruck.
"You didn't have to make so much Touya, I would've dealt with cereal," he said.
"Don't worry about it, too much sugar would be bad for you anyway. It's good to have a full breakfast," replied Akira as both of them sat down.
"Itadakimasu," both said. Hikaru had never seen such a huge breakfast. There was omelet on the table, coffee, orange juice, rice, bacon, rolls and muffins, and green tea ice cream .
Both ate to their hearts content and Hikaru brought up the weather.
"They said it was going to rain, are you sure you'll be able to even get around out there?" asked Hikaru.
"Shindo don't worry so much, I'm taking the subway down to the city and Ogata is dropping me off here if it rains," replied Akira.
"I'll stay here and wash dishes and clean up the house while you're gone," offered Hikaru.
Akira didn't argue, if Hikaru was going to live in his house without paying rent, then he should at least take part in doing chores.
"Can you have lunch ready by the time I get home?" asked Akira as they took the dishes into the kitchen. Hikaru had seen the kitchen many times before.
The walls were a soft yellow and there was a counter with bar stools and the cabinets were painted white. It was a very comforting place. Next to the kitchen was a huge window that had the view of the backyard with its Japanese garden. The next room over was the room that would've most likely been used for a kendo sword arts dojo, but instead it was the den used to play Go and also led out to the backyard with it's many gardens.
"Yeah sure, what do you want to have?" replied Hikaru.
"Anything but ramen," replied Akira.
Hikaru laughed, "Alright then, I'll let my meal be a surprise then."
They both went into the den and Akira opened the sliding doors revealing the outside, the sky was dark purple-ish blue color and the sun was barely coming up. The den was clear of everything except many Go Boards…there was many different designs of Go Boards and such.
"Let's play Shindo, no handicap, odds or evens?" asked Akira sitting down. Hikaru also sat down.
"Odds," replied Hikaru.
Akira placed the stones out on the board.
"You win, you get to be black," he said.
Hikaru smiled.
"I'm feeling lucky," he said.
"Your luck is going to run out if you don't have your mind focused on our game," said Akira sternly.
"Fine sheesh, you're so serious Touya. Onegaishimasu," said Hikaru.
"Onegaishimasu," Akira repeated back.
The game was quiet, the only noises were the wind that rustled with the trees and the water pouring out of the garden fountain…along with maybe some birds and crickets.
"You should've moved there Touya, now I can cut you off completely," said Hikaru placing to a spot on the board.
"Don't tell me that Shindo, I have a plan, as for you: you're game is so immature today I can already see the first twelve moves you have planned ahead of time," shot back Akira.
"Your plans are always from the same book," argued Hikaru.
"Well at least I have a strategy," snapped Akira.
"And who said I didn't!" exclaimed Hikaru.
"Stop trying to act like you have one because everyone knows you play as you go," said Akira.
"God dammit Touya! I can't stand you!" shouted out Hikaru.
"I can't stand you either!" Akira exclaimed.
"Saa, I win," he added.
Hikaru looked at the board closely.
"What the hell?" he screamed out.
"I cut you off here and you can't move anywhere else Shindo...see? I surrounded your stones there and there, if you moved toward that star point I could cut you off there as well so you might as well resign," explained Akira pointing to each place at the board.
"Fine, it's not like you haven't won against me before," said Hikaru.
Akira looked down at the wooden floor his eyes in deep thought…he looked hurt.
"I never understood that," he whispered.
"Understood what?" asked Hikaru.
"Never mind Shindo, I need to be leaving. Ja!" replied Akira quickly heading out of the den.
"Be careful Touya! Be home soon!" exclaimed Hikaru.
Akira heard what Hikaru said through the living room and blushed. Hikaru was acting like some sort of housewife for god's sake!
"Shindo!" called out Akira.
Hikaru came out of the den and into the living room.
"Nani Touya?" he asked.
"You have my cell phone number right?" he asked.
"Ano...yeah I have it stored on my cell," replied Hikaru.
Akira nodded as if to understand.
"Okay, if you need me call me. Ja!" he said.
Hikaru nodded as well and Akira left the house leaving Hikaru alone in the house in utter silence.
(A/N: YAY! The fourth chapter, I placed a little side note for the whole green tea ice cream thing. I guess you could say I'm sort of like Akira, I also wake up at 5:30 AM for school and such. So I thought, yes Akira is a perfectionist it'd only be right for him to wake up at ungodly hours of the morning. I had to add green tea ice cream to the breakfast because it's wonderful to have Mochi Green Tea Ice Cream in the morning while watching either watching the news or morning anime. It's actually very enjoyable to wake up early and eat it…you all should try it sometime! Until next chapter!)