Chapter IIIa: Psycho, Pt. I
by Sakako
Awareness Factor: Zero
After the school bell had rang for the sixth time that day, Tomo once again asked: "Well, what are we going to do for fun today?"
Again Sakaki replied, "I think we should go to the pool. It is surprisingly hot today."
Tomo was simmering in her own devices. Today, it's going to happen. Today, it's going to happen. I'm gonna beat Sakaki at sports!
Kenji shouted through a megaphone: "You can't inside reference here!"
Tomo started boiling. Damn! Well, it's still going to happen. I'm gonna beat her!
Kagura rushed off to the pool, and called, "Beat this!"
Spectator Of A Sole
This was Tomo's dream. She always wanted to beat Sakaki, and this was her chance! Even before they reached the tiled change rooms, Tomo was already cheering for herself. She ran far ahead of the walking group, which encompassed Sakaki, Yomi, Osaka and Chiyo (Kaorin and Chihiro had gone off somewhere else), and got changed before anyone else came into the changerooms.
Sakaki walked in to the change room first, and was greeted by a grinning Tomo, who ran to the door and locked it before the rest of the group could come in.
"You know… you and I… we… uh…"
Sakaki was stunned. "Tomo, what are you doing? I'm sure the others would like to get changed in here, too… No cats to bite them in here…" She raised her right hand to her mouth and sucked her finger as if it were bleeding, and with her left she unlocked the door. It burst open almost immediately.
Yomi was a bit suss at this, and inquired of Tomo, "Hey, what the hell are you guys playing at… Not that I suspect anything, of course!" She blushed, and wished that she hadn't said anything at all.
All the time that the other girls were getting changed, under the guise of waiting for her friends, Tomo was watching that single girl with the flowing hair. The girl who was in Kagura's group. The girl named Sakaki.
Battling At Life
The girls walked out of the change rooms, to find Kagura sitting on a deckchair somewhere a ways past the deep end of the pool, reading a manga comic.
Yomi called out. "Hey, Kagura! Whatcha reading?"
"It's really rare, some cloaked guys gave it to me when I was running down the hallway. It's called 'The Next Adventures of Sakako and Kenji', it's 700 pages long and apparently it's out of print."
"I heard about that manga! There was only one copy ever made, and if you try and photocopy it, pictures of mysterious cloaked figures come out of the photocopier, and if you open the lid…" Yomi tilted her face upwards to create an eerie shadow. "The book is gone!"
Kagura laughed. "Anyway, it's the most popular manga in Japan right now. You guys have fun!"
Tomo dived right into the pool, and somehow started drowning.
Sakaki looked around. "Uh… Nyamo? Yukari? KAGURA!" She realised she had to do something herself. After jumping into the metre-deep water, she pulled Tomo out with godspeed. She really didn't want to do this, so she called out again. "Does anyone here know how to do CPR?" After getting no reply, and seeing Kagura's faced buried in The Next Adventures of Sakako and Kenji, she pinched Tomo's nose, and lowered her mouth.
In Short…
Sakaki blushed. Tomo spluttered. Yomi gasped. Osaka pondered. Chiyo blinked. Kagura read. Nyamo and Yukari came back from their afternoon piss-up with red faces.
A Detailed Version Of The Above
Sakako and Kenji apologised. "Sorry, but this feature is not currently available."
Realisation
Tomo, for one, awoke with a surprised look on her face. "Did Sakaki ever get into the pool? Did I win? That was a nice dream…" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "Sakaki?" Her lips… feel…
Sakaki, being able to see, pulled back from the now conscious girl. "Did I just do that? Did she really drown? That was a strange thing to happen…" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "Tomo?" Her lips… feel…
Yomi, seeing her lifelong friend like that, glared at Sakaki. "Did she just do that? Did she make that pass at my girl? That bitch!" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "Sakaki!" I'll kill her…
Osaka, wondering as usual, stared at completely nothing in particular. "Doesn't that cloud look like a cat? Doesn't the sun blind my eyes? What interesting questions…" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "Clouds?" Wonderful creatures…
Chiyo, being small and inexperienced, looked at the pair and wondered what was going on. "What are they doing? Is it right? I wonder…" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "CPR?" Hmm…
Kagura, pausing from her reading, looked up. "Hm? What just happened? Tomo, Sakaki…" Suddenly, she realised what had just occurred. "Shojou-ai?" Damn. Sakaki's mine. Ah well. Back to reading…
Yukari and Nyamo, of course, were too pissed to notice anything. Or care. "Having fun, girls?"
Some Kind Of… S&A?
Sakako complained when he found out the chapter wasn't finished. "Screw this guys, I'm going home." Kenji quickly followed, after muttering about some blatantly obvious canon reference. Something like that.
Kenji's note: I had nothing to do with this:P
By the way, listen to some Eastern Youth!