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Chapter 6
What in the…!
Akiko kicked the stones along her path as she walked through the park. It seemed like she was in deep thoughts as she took her time walking at a very slow pace. After a while, she gave a deep, long sigh and with a determined look on her face along with a stamp of her right foot she exclaimed, "I must know his name, damn it!" She kicked another stone in frustration. She growled as she heard loud shrieks coming from a group of grade schoolers who were running past her. What's with them?
"Is there any problem that I could help you with little girl? Maybe you'd like to have tea with me?" a deep voice asked from behind her making Akiko jump.
"What the-? What the heck are you trying to do! Kill me!" Akiko yelled and turned around to face the owner of the voice. It turned to be a forty-something, creepy old man, wearing what seemed to be a monk's outfit.
The mysterious man shook his head. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. You should watch your language little girl. I am merely trying to-let's say…help people whose souls are in need of guidance." The man flashed her a smile.
"What are you talking about?" Akiko warily looked at the guy and gulped uncharacteristically.
"Also, please watch your language. Cute little girls like you shouldn't speak such vile things." He winked at her and Akiko visibly shuddered.
"Uh…I- Maybe I should go now. My parents m-must be…uh…worried sick about me." Akiko took a few steps backward.
"Alright then little girl! Run along. See you soon!" the man cheerfully waved at Akiko's retreating back.
She gagged and prayed, Please, I really, reallyhope not.
Oishi sighed. He couldn't stop Eiji from spying on Kumiko after all.
Inui cleared his throat. "Is everybody here already?"
"Hai!" the small group replied in chorus. The group, mainly the students of Seigaku's Tennis Club, consisted of Momoshiro, Ryoma, Sakuno, Tomoko, Fuji, Eiji, Oishi, Kawamura and Kaidoh.
"Maybe this isn't such a good idea…" Oishi suggested.
Everybody stared at him weirdly.
Oishi sweat dropped. "Ahaha-on second thought I think it's a great idea!"
The group then went on looking for the couple and Oishi let out an exasperated sigh. Sometimes I hate being me…
Akiko closed the door behind her and slowly removed her shoes. It had been a stressful day.
"Tadaima!" she called out as she went inside the kitchen.
"Okairi!" her mom greeted cheerfully in return. "Have you seen your sister around?" she asked.
Akiko shrugged as she opened the fridge and got out the milk carton. "She had a date with Tezuka-senpai." she replied nonchalantly and began drinking milk from the carton.
"Ooh! That's so sweet! And with Kunimitsu, too! Oh, how I want to take some pictures of that!" her mother gushed. "Don't you think so…ASAHARA AKIKO! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO DRINK MILK FROM THE CARTON!"
Akiko flinched at the high volume and immediately stopped drinking.
"Children these days…" Akiko heard her mother say. "Go on up and change your clothes, we'll have a visitor at dinner tonight. It's a friend of your father's." she smiled brightly.
"Hai." Akiko replied politely as she went up the stairs and entered her room. I wonder what Kumi's doing right now…
"Look Oishi! I even brought my handy-dandy camera with me!" Eiji waved his camera up and down in front of Oishi's face. Just in case Auntie would want a copy of Kumi-chan's date. Eiji grinned mischievously.
"I really don't think that's necessary, Eiji." Oishi sighed.
"Shush! There she is!" Momo pointed at a girl wearing a pink dress and flats animatedly talking alongside a disgruntled looking Tezuka.
"And there's Tezuka-senpai!" Horio gasped.
"Nya! This is a good blackmail material!" Eiji bounced happily.
The group looked at him weirdly.
"Hey Eiji-senpai, what really is your relationship with Kumiko-san?" Momo asked in narrowed-eyes.
"Ah…eto…ano sa…" Eiji scratched the back of his head.
The group went closer and looked at Eiji suspiciously.
"Ah…Kumi-chan's…Kumi-chan is my cousin…" Eiji said inaudibly.
"Eh? We couldn't hear you Eiji-senpai." Horio asked leaning closer to Eiji.
"Look, they're already turning around that corner! Let's follow them!" Tomoka pointed at the small alleyway beside the pastry shop.
"C'mon baby! Let's go! BUUUUUUUURNING!" Kawamura waved his tennis racket around.
"Who gave him his racket?" Kachiro muttered to Katsuo. They looked at Ryoma who was smirking and sweat dropped.
Eiji sighed in relief as the group began to follow the poor couple.
"Akiko, Dinner's ready!" Asahara Kazumi's voice rang from downstairs.
"Just a second, mom!" Akiko called out from her room.
Kazumi looked at the clock, 'Anytime now.'
"Tadaima!"
"Okairi! You're just in time for dinner, dear." Kazumi greeted her husband cheerfully as she helped him take his coat off.
"Ah! Nanjiro," Kentaro grinned as he began introducing Kazumi to his friend. "I'd like to introduce you to my beautiful wife, Kazumi." He looked at his wife proudly. "Kazumi I'd like you to meet a great friend of mine, Echizen Nanjiro." He grinned as he patted his friend on the back.
She blushed and pinched Kentaro on the arm then smiled warmly at the man beside her husband. "So you are the friend that my husband speaks so highly of. It's a pleasure to have met you at last." She bowed.
"Well, enough of the formalities." Kentaro chuckled. "I'm famished! Let's go eat dinner." He looked around. "Where are Kumiko and Akiko?" he asked his wife.
Kazumi giggled. "Oh, you'd never believe it! Our daughter Kumiko, is having a date!"
Kentaro's eyes widened. "EH! BUT SHE"S TOO YOUNG FOR DATES!" he exclaimed.
"What are you talking about, silly?" she poked him in the arm. "She can handle herself already! Besides, Kunimitsu's with her, so it'll be alright." Kazumi smiled happily.
"If you say so." Kentaro shrugged. Just then Akiko came running down the stairs.
"Akiko, dear. Please stop running down the stairs. You might slip and hurt yourself." Kazumi reminded.
"Sorry, mom." Akiko bowed her head and apologized. "I won't do it again."
"Apology accepted." Kazumi said cheerfully. "Now, come over here and meet your dad's friend. I think he plays tennis, too. Am I right, Nanjiro-san?" she looked questioningly at the man.
At that, Akiko snapped her head up and looked at the said man. The color drained from her cheeks when she saw who it was and she swore she could hear music from 'Twilight Zone' playing in the background as the man, who also seemed to recognize her from their encounter in the park before, flashed her one of his smiles.
"Oh, hello little girl…"
"Kuso! We've lost them!" Momoshiro punched a nearby wall in frustration.
"It's rare that my calculations go wrong, after all data doesn't lie." Inui muttered to himself while he held his notebook in his left hand, his right one holding his chin in a thoughtful gesture.
"It's impossible for them to disappear like that!" Kachiro said disbelievingly and Katsuo nodded beside him.
"What if…" Eiji gasped. "What if some kidnappers kidnapped them and planned to do bad things to them! And it so happened that some policemen happened to pass by and saw those kidnappers that were in reality wanted in all of Japan!" Eiji's eyes widened at the thought.
"And then a police chase will take place and Tezuka-buchou and Kumiko-san will be placed in lots of trouble!" Momoshiro piped in.
"There will be lots of shooting and fighting." Horio added while making some sound effects to emphasize his thought.
"And there will be a ransom!" Katsuo suggested.
"Then Tezuka-senpai will tell Kumiko-san how much he loves her and risk his life just to let her escape!" Tomoko finished as she sighed romantically at the thought.
Everybody sweat dropped.
"What! Can't a simple girl have her fantasies!" she snapped.
"Fwshh…This is stupid. I'm going home." Kaidoh said as he turned around and began to leave.
"I also have to go guys. My pop's going to kill me. I still have to help him in the restaurant." Kawamura smiled apologetically, as he too prepared to leave.
"I-I guess we will be leaving, too." Sakuno said softly.
"I'm going too." Ryoma muttered and he too left.
"Echizen! Wait for me!" Horio screeched as he too left.
Inui suddenly closed his notebook. "I'll have to gather more data. I'll go now. See you next practice." With that he also left.
"I guess I should be going now, too." Eiji stuck his tongue out in a sheepish manner.
"Well, I'll be going with him. See you later!" Oishi thanked all the gods that were with him that day. It seems like there won't be any confrontation after all. Oishi thought.
"Well, I've no choice but to go home." Momoshiro sighed.
"Momo-senpai look!" Kachiro pointed out.
"It's Kumiko-san and Tezuka-senpai!" Katsuo added.
The three Seigaku players looked at the place behind the trees where Kachiro and Katsuo pointed at. Surely enough, the two came out from behind the shadows. Both of them were ragged, sweaty, panting and red all over. They also were hastily rearranging their clothes in a way that seemed…suspicious.
"Oishi-senpai…did they…did we just…" Momoshiro stuttered.
Oishi gaped like a fish. "I-I…I don't really know…"
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