The party raged on throughout the night. The snacks were plentiful, and everyone was still wide awake. After chatting for a while they grew bored, so Dekao proposed a game.
"Let's play Truth or Dare!" Dekao said with an evil grin. Everyone looked at him nervously, wondering what he had planned. Still, they felt it would be pretty good fun, so they agreed. Everyone gathered into a circle at the center of the suite.
"Well, let's get this show on the road! I'll start!" Dekao paused to think of someone to pick on. Didn't take him long. "Netto, truth or dare?" His evil grin returned.
"Dare! You can't scare me Dekao!" Netto said gallantly. This didn't even phase Dekao.
"We'll see about that!" He tried to think of the most evilly embarrassing thing he could. Unfortunately, thinking was never Dekao's forte. "Take off your shirt, and dance around the room!" He grabbed a stereo that he found in the suite, then put on some funky hip hop. The others laughed and cheered Netto on.
"Bring it man! That's easy!"
Unknown to the others, Netto had a lot of free time during the peaceful days, so he spent his time learning and doing various things. These included working out at a regular basis (Rockman's idea since Netto was getting tubby from) as well as learning how to dance from Raoul and his backstreet buddies at Netopia (his own idea in an attempt to impress Meiru).
The music came on, and Netto just marched into the center of the circle like it was nothing, even taking his shirt off to the music, exposing his toned body. The others sat in surprise at how good Netto could dance, especially Meiru, who found it pretty damn attractive. Netto was doing pretty well, and then Gutsman had an idea.
"I think Rockman should join in, de gutsu!" he yelled above the music. Gutsman decided that if his operator couldn't embarrass Netto, he might as well try to embarrass Rockman. Dekao caught his drift.
"This calls for a double dare then!" Dekao motioned for Rockman to join him. The others seemed to want it too, so he smiled and got up.
Unbeknownst to them, Rockman had been watching intently during Netto's private dance lessons. He would practice them in his PET while he was bored. He decided no better time than now to prove it. He took off his shirt like Netto, and they did some wicked cool routines.
"Wow! Go guys!" Meiru and Roll screamed, cheering them on. Netto and Rockman already had their own little connection with one another, as well as the same dance routines, so performing choreographed dances for their friends was easy as pie.
The song ended, and Navis and operators alike gave them a cheer. Even Dekao and Gutsman had to admit they were good.
"You were great, Rock!" Roll scruffled up Rockman's hair, who just chuckled.
"You too Netto! Since when could you dance so well?" Netto just laughed and wiped his brow.
"Okay, now it's our turn!" Netto said. Since both Rockman and himself had been dared, they could either ask one person twice, or ask two separate people.
"Okay, Glyde. Truth or dare?" Rockman asked. Glyde thought intently.
"Well, I wouldn't want to dance, so truth."
Rockman grinned broadly. "Is it true that you've seen Yaito take a shower and then had a program malfunction?" Everyone cracked up. Glyde went red.
"T-That's hardly a respectable question!" Glyde seeked condolence from Yaito, who just shrugged.
"Hey, I don't mind. Besides, you're my Navi anyway!" Glyde sighed, then nodded.
Everyone fell down laughing, including Yaito. Glyde's face grew redder, and he found the carpet's texture quite fascinating. After everyone calmed down, Netto picked Enzan.
"Truth or dare?" He said evilly. Enzan didn't even hesitate to answer.
"Dare. Truth is for the weak!" He raised his fist and put on a scary banzai face, showing so much emotion it scared everyone. Maybe he was sick from all the junk food.
"You're mine!" Netto laughed maniacally. "Now then, Enzan! I want you to pretend you're a girl, and you're trying to woo Protoman!" Enzan flinched in surprise.
"What the hell kind of dare is that?" Enzan made to punch Netto, but he just shook his finger in his face.
"Now, now! You yourself said truth is for the weak, so be strong and do it!" Everyone sniggered, trying to conceal their laughter. It was like a death wish to piss off Enzan, and watching Netto do it was cool, even if he would be hunted by him for the rest of his life.
"Grr... Fine!" Enzan's face was entirely red already, looking like he'd blow up. He got up and walked over to Protoman, who was looking freaked out.
"H-Hey... You." He stood there looking at him. Everyone had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard.
"You... You gotta try harder than that!" Netto had grabbed his stomach in pain from the laughing. Enzan shuddered.
"I think... you're.... Good." Enzan stuttered, feeling like a total jackass. Protoman understood entirely what Enzan was feeling, but was glad he didn't have to do the wooing. "Howboutyounmegetgethersmtimethatsoundgoodokayseeya!" He finished the pickup line in around two seconds then took his seat again. Everyone was still on the floor laughing their asses off.
"That has to be the stupidest and funniest thing I've ever seen!" Yaito managed, crying like crazy.
"Shut up already! It's my turn!" Everyone fought to stop, but it took them awhile. After a slowly lowering laughter with many explicit comments from Enzan, he took his turn.
"Dammit, Netto! Truth or dare!" Enzan said menacingly.
"Ha! You gotta ask someone who hasn't had a go, Enzan!" Netto lay his back onto a wall and put his hands behind his head.
"Grr... I'll get you!" Enzan thought again. "Dekao. Truth or dare."
"I guess I'll take truth." Dekao responded.
"Hmm... Would you pound Netto for some zenny?"
"Sure, why not?"
"I'll give 100 zenny to do it now."
Netto grinned nervously.
"That's... A joke, right?"
Enzan handed Dekao 100 zenny, then he pointed at Netto.
"Go kick his ass!" Enzan said angrily, then Dekao jumped up and headed for Netto.
"Oh cripes!" Netto jumped up and dashed out of the room, slowly followed by Dekao. "Dammit Dekao, you're such a cheapskate!"
Everyone looked at Enzan nervously, taking a mental note not to piss Enzan off, or face Dekao's hundred-pound wrath.
"W-Well..." Glyde broke in. "Let us continue. Yaito, truth or dare?"
"Um... Dare." She didn't think Glyde would give her anything too bad. She was wrong.
"I dare you to kiss Dekao on the cheek and say you think he's hot when he comes back."
Everyone sniggered. Yaito was pretty annoyed that her Navi would betray her like this.
"F-Fine then!" Yaito grumbled, then everyone waited for the two to return.
"Come on Dekao, quit it already!" yelled Netto as he ran down the hallway.
"Sorry man, I was paid! I gotta do it now!" Dekao ran behind him.
"I'll give you 200 zenny to stop chasing me then!"
Dekao stopped and thought about this. Netto stopped too.
"Hmm... Okay." Netto sighed at how cheap Dekao was, then handed him the cash. Then they made their way back to the suite.
"We're back." Dekao said as he walked in. Everyone was trying to hide their laughter when Yaito got up and walked up to Dekao.
"Dekao..."
"Yah?"
Yaito proceeded to pull Dekao's head to her height and kiss him on the cheek.
"You're looking pretty hot."
Dekao just stood there in shock as Yaito sat back down with a glowing, red face. The others were laughing, and Netto just looked around confused.
"Well, whatever." He shrugged it off and took a seat.
"Roll, truth or dare?" Yaito started.
"Truth!" Roll didn't want to do anything stupid.
Yaito smiled. "Who in this room do you adore the most?" Roll went bright pink.
"Duh! That's me, de gutsu!" Gutsman said to himself. No one was listening.
"The one I adore the most is... Rock!" She jumped up and hugged Rockman, who had a stunned look on his face. "He's the bravest, nicest Navi in the whole Net!" A lot of 'aww's were heard, and Rockman thanked Roll. Gutsman was seen sulking in the corner.
"That's so sweet of you Roll!" Meiru said. Roll looked at her smugly.
"I'm glad you think so! 'Cos I'm asking you truth or dare?" Roll grinned at Meiru, who was getting a bad feeling about this.
"Truth... No dare... No, truth!" She was getting a little dizzy from trying to choose, but finally settled with truth.
"Can you tell us what kind of guy you like?" Roll's grin was almost off her face.
"W-Well, the kind of guy I like is..." she thought for a moment. "Well for a start, he's lazy, loud, stupid, thick, overconfident, doesn't pay attention, sleeps too much, eats too much and can be really annoying." Everyone already knew who she was talking about. Except Netto, who thought she was talking about no one in particular, and Dekao, who thought she was talking about him.
"But he's... Well... Deep down, he's a really nice and caring person, and he's always helping me!" Meiru said happily, forgetting other people were there.
"I'll never know what you see in him." Enzan remarked. Dekao flared up.
"Hey, what's so bad about me?" He said angrily. Everyone just looked at him, then sighed at how stupid he was.
They began to grow bored of truth or dare, so they moved on to another game.
"What should we play now?" Netto asked.
"What about strip poker?" Protoman piped up. Everyone gave him a funny look. "What?"
No one bothered trying to answer, and tried to think of more games. They thought for a long time, but still had nothing. Soon all the thinking made them feel sleepy.
"Maybe we should just go to bed now." Rockman suggested. Everyone let out a half-assed groan. Then Yaito finally had an idea.
"Okay, we will, but let's do one more thing." She pulled out a bottle of sake from one of the bags she had brought upstairs. "Let's have a drink to celebrate the Navis' first day in the real world!" (In Japan, to my knowledge, minors can drink if they aren't caught. I'm sure many do)
"I dunno..." Rockman looked at the bottle. "What do you think, Netto?"
Netto was already half asleep. "Huh? Yeah, whatever." He wasn't paying attention anymore.
"Well, Netto agreed! So let's do it!" Everyone muttered 'yeah, why not' and they grabbed some glasses.
They had been drinking for twenty minutes, and they were feeling pretty drunk.
"This guy, this guy right here." Protoman sluggishly put his arm around Rockman. "This guy, is my good friend. He plays tennis with me, and we kick the ball around the pool!"
Rockman hiccupped and laughed at the same time.
"Meiru, baby, you know." Netto was talking to the bed. "You all mine, you know? I won't let no one take you from me." He proceeded to make out with the bed, before whacking his face into a bedpost and knocking himself out.
Enzan and Dekao were dancing around the room, doing the tango while singing some random lyrics. Meiru and Roll just sat on the bed giggling constantly. Yaito and Glyde were having a heated argument about nothing in particular.
"I'm telling you Slide!"
"Glyde!"
"Whatever! I'm telling you, the sausages are in the side of the kitchen!"
"And I'm saying that the sausage is the spoon's friend! HEEEE!!"
"HEEE!!"
They then felt really tired and fell asleep where they were.
Gutsman was busy getting emotional in the corner, writing poetry.
'Oh heart of mineAching for the love of ages
Flowing through the pink and blue
And not through...
The Guts'
He proceeded to cry himself to sleep at how beautiful his poem was.
Rockman was the first to wake the next morning, with a pulsing headache.
"Ow..." his vision was blurry, and he looked around the room. When his eyesight focused, he found Protoman sleeping on his lap. "OH GOD!" He kicked him off, leaving Protoman sprawled on the floor. He calmed down and looked around. Everyone had fallen asleep here, no doubt due to the sake.
Roll and Meiru were asleep on the bed, hugging each other lightly.
"How cute."
Gutsman was still in the corner, with a wet piece of paper in his lap.
"Okay..."
Yaito and Glyde were in the middle of the room still, asleep sitting, with their heads resting on one another.
"Riiight..."
Netto was by the bed on his stomach, his neck tilting up with his face planted on the bedpost.
"Well, that's a new sleep position for him."
Enzan and Dekao were on the floor, naked down to the underwear.
"I don't even want to know why."
Rockman yawned, still feeling the aftereffects of drinking. He lay back on the floor.
"I'm never drinking again..." he mumbled, then slowly drifted back to sleep.
END CHAPTER 5