Passing Time
By: Riyuji

Disclaimer: I may not be doing this if I owned them. I don't own the songs either.

Author's Note: For Wielder, who taught me the joys of roleplaying Kakeru.

Prequel to Escape Artist by Wielder of Paperclips.

Boredom was defined as the feeling of being bored by something tedious. Therefore being bored meant when one is made to be weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious.

Due to that, Kakeru hated being bored. However, because of his duties as vice president of Kaibara High School's Student Council he had a reason to be bored.

Kakeru sighed inwardly as he dragged his feet against the platform in the gymnasium, tapping a finger on each microphone that he passed by. It wasn't long until his boredom reached a new level. This level involved his switching his discman on and leaving at least one of his earphones on as well.

He walked over to the second microphone on stage. "Testing, testing, one, two, three." Then he pointed at the floor. "Whaaa! Is that a cockroach!"

Some students who had volunteered to fix the chairs for the event jumped away from the direction the vice-president had pointed at. Screams and wails of "Kill it!" echoed throughout the near empty gym.

Kakeru snickered, seeming very pleased with himself, but his pleasure was short-lived. Soon enough he was bored again. He was almost tempted to run back into the main building to retrieve the bucket of frogs he had seen in the lab earlier that day, but decided against it. Yuki was talking to someone by the door, blocking the only exit Kakeru could use if he decided to push through with the plan

He yawned loudly as he checked if all the microphones were connected to their respective slots. The songs playing in his discman did very little to keep him awake. That is until he heard an instrumental song from Star Wars play. It was Vader's March.

He wondered how it would feel like if he had something like that. "Manabe's March. I kinda like the sound of that," he said, rubbing his chin at the idea. This idea, however, sparked a new one. A new, even better one.

The boy walked back to one of the microphones and unlatched it from its stand, bringing it towards the center. He removed his earphones tucking them in front of the microphone on center stage and switched it to pause. Clipping his discman onto his belt, he cleared his throat for his announcement.

It didn't take long until he spoke into the microphone. "Sound check. Sound Check." Looks like he was about ready. "Ladies and Gentlemen! I, Manabe Kakeru, vice-president of the Student Defense Corps, proudly present– " His voice trailed off as he switched the player back to play. The loud tune of Vader's March rang throughout the gymnasium. Kakeru chuckled evilly while the other occupants of the room either rushed to the gym door or covered their ears from the noise.

The sound system was cut off soon afterwards.

Kakeru stopped in mid-laugh. Wait, that's not supposed to happen.

"Kakeru, when will you ever learn?"

The accused turned his head to the voice. "Yo Yunyun! Why'd you pull the plug?"

Yuki stood not to far away from the culprit microphone socket in hand. "Because you were causing unnecessary noise. We don't know when the guests are arriving and I'm sure the school wouldn't want them running away by the mere sound of your insanity."

Kakeru made a face at Yuki's comment. "Does this mean… you didn't like it, Yunyun?"

Yuki quickly strode over to Kakeru, reaching out to pull the other boy's ear.

"WAAAAAAAH, YUNYUN! LEGGO! LEGGO! LEGGO!"

As soon as Yuki did, Kakeru nursed his possibly reddening ear. "Come on, Yunyun. It was just a joke."

Kakeru placed a hand on his waist and stood upright. "I just wanted to decide on what song sounded better. I gotta think about this you know. I need a theme song after all." He unhooked his earphones from the microphone and latched one onto Yuki's ear. "I need your opinion. What sounds better? Vader's March or something by Ramstein Mutter (1)?"

Ten minutes later, Kakeru found himself bored again. Bored, gagged, tied to a chair, and tossed into some random part of the school. I was just asking for an opinion, Yunyun! Is that so hard to ask?

He paused for a few seconds, pondering on how he ended up in that state.

Waitaminute. Since when could Yuki do karate like that?

Silence.

Waaaaaaaaah! Yunyun's evil! He's hiding the fact that he takes martial arts lessons from me! I thought he trusted me!

Little did Kakeru know how right he was.

At least he had a few things to keep him occupied while thinking of an escape plan.

-EnD-

Author's Note: Definition of boredom and being bored taken from Dictionary(dot)com

(1) Ramstein Mutter – I dunno if I spelled it correctly but it's a German band, I think.

Word Count: 765

First of a (soon to be) collection of Student Council Drabbles entitled The Misadventures of the Student Defense Corps! Next will be something about Kimi!