a big rice cake adventure

︎(DISCLAIMER): THIS CHAPTER IS INSPIRED BY VICTORIOUS "ICE CREAM FOR KESHA" EPISODE!


after an island celebration, Josuke and friends return to the beach for a contest going on to find the letters that spell "MOCHI" inside a tasty snack!


on the ship

"that was so much fun with the islanders." Koichi said

"i know right! can't wait until we go back!" Kiwi said

"those people really love you Josuke." Okuyasu said

"yeah, you were like their king." Kyoko said

"ha! i know. i wasn't really expecting that to be honest." Josuke said

Kiwi pulls a star fruit from the basket.

"look at all this tropical exotic fruit they gave to us. they're so pretty."

"and smells good too."

Kyoko noticed Okuyasu eating a rice cake.

"you're eating another rice cake Okuyasu?"

"yep." Okuyasu answered

"this is your sixth one." Kiwi said

"i know." Okuyasu said

"i've never seen anyone eat as much as you do. you're lucky to stay the size that you are." Josuke said

"tell me about it. you would be big as a damn house by now." Kiwi said

Okuyasu takes a bite out another rice cake then looks at the letter.

"ah, dammit!" Okuyasu exclaimed

"what's wrong?" Koichi asked

"i got another stupid "M ." Okuyasu said

Rohan crossed his arms then chuckles "that's "M" for moron, right? haha!"

Okuyasu pierced his eyes at Rohan.

"wait, is it about that contest?" Koichi asked

"what contest?" Josuke asked

"well, after we left the Sanwakai Brawl, there's another contest that was going on containing rice cakes. there's a letter baked inside each rice cake." Koichi explained

"a letter?" Kiwi questioned

"yeah, you either get a "M", an "O", a "C", an "H", or an "I", and if you find the letters that spell "MOCHI", you win a private dinner at the WaterFront restaurant that's by the pier." Koichi explained

overlapping chattering excitement from the group.

"isn't that place expensive though?" Okuyasu questioned

"yeah, it is." Koichi said with a frown appeared on his face

"don't get down guys. lucky for us, i still got the 2,700 from Sabo." Josuke said

"oh yeah, i forgot about that." Kiwi said

"we can use it to go to the WaterFront when we win the contest!" Okuyasu said

"c'mon, let's go back to the beach and win this contest!" Josuke said

"yay!" the group cheered


at West Morioh beach Inn

moments later the group finally arrived back at their Inn Hotel.

"so where do you think the rice cakes are?" Kiwi asked

"Moizu said that we can get them from the rice cake store itself or we can get them from convenience stores." Josuke said

"why don't we get a wholesale full of them." Kyoko said

"yeah. that's better than running back and forth to the convenience stores." Okuyasu said

"let's do that then." Koichi said

"yeah!" the group cheered

minutes later, the group are currently looking through the large pile of rice cakes to see if they can find the four remaining letters.

Okuyasu ends up finding the letter "I".

"oh, yeah baby! i got it!" Okuyasu cheered

"ah, you got an "I". Kiwi cheers

"yeah, i did." Okuyasu smirked with his arms crossed

"good. so now we have "M" and "I". Koichi said

"yep, all we need is an O-C-H and the private dinner is ours!" Okuyasu said

"just need "OCH". Kiwi said

"we need "OCH" real bad." Okuyasu said

"let's not lose track here, we still gotta find the remaining letters to spell MOCHI." Josuke said

everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

the group continued to open the rice cake wrappers then started to pieced it apart to look for the remaining letters.

"ahh…'M'!" Koichi said

"M." Okuyasu said

"I." Kiwi said

"I." Kyoko said

"M." Josuke said

"okay, we're never gonna spell MOCHI." Rohan said with his arms crossed

"why are there so many M's and I's?" Koichi asked

"i don't know, but we can't give up. we gotta keep looking." Josuke said

"i'm sick of this. rice cakes reminds me of my childhood!" Rohan said with his arms crossed

"you didn't have a happy childhood?" Koichi asked

"my favorite toy was a knife. you finish the puzzle." Rohan smirked at Koichi

Koichi quietly whimpers to himself.

"you know, you don't have to help, Rohan?" Okuyasu said

"don't push me." Rohan angrily whispers

"let's focus here. we need to find those letters." Josuke said

the group search through the pile of rice cakes one by one. Kiwi finds the letter "C" in one of them.

"ah! 'C!'"

"i found 'C'!" Kiwi cheers

[all cheering]

"okay, let's put it on the board." Josuke said

Kiwi sticks the letter 'C' on the board.

"yay!" everyone cheers

Kyoko notices Okuyasu leaving while caring a large bag filled with rice cake pieces.

"where you going Okuyasu?" Kyoko asked

"i don't think we should waste all the rice cake pieces, so i'm gonna bake 'em, turn them into cookies and give it some little kids that are at the playground." Okuyasu explained

"uh, i don't think kid's mothers are gonna be too happy about a strange guy handing out rice—" Koichi said

"let him do it Koichi !" Rohan said

"Rohan! that's— you're a terrible influence." Koichi stammers

"just let him do it!" Rohan shouts

"good luck!" Koichi said

"okay, you guys. we need to find an "O" and an "H", and we've got ourselves a private dinner at the WaterFront." Josuke said

"woo!" the group cheered

"M." Josuke said

"uh, 'I'." Koichi said

"I." Kyoko said

"it's a "M." Rohan said

"I." Kiwi said

two hours laters, the group are still looking through the rice cake pile.

"M." Josuke said

"I." Koichi said

"C." Kyoko said

"okay, this is actually causing me pain and not the good kind." Rohan said with his arms crossed

"i'm out of rice cakes." Kiwi said

"same here." Kyoko adds

"Jotaro, will be back with more soon." Rohan said

minutes laters, Okuyasu comes in through the door lumping with his uniform jacket thorned and shreadded up. his face was battered and bruised.

everyone paused themselves as their eyes drew towards him.

"Okuyasu, what happened?" Koichi asked worriedly

"i went to the playground park, then yelled "hey kids! who wants free cookies?" then their vicious mothers chased me down an alleyway and beat my ass with bats and wooden planks!" Okuyasu explained

Rohan chuckles

"one big mom jumped and stepped on my back!" Okuyasu said

Rohan snickers then laughs

"it's not funny, Rohan. Okuyasu's really hurt!" Koichi said

"you gotta love big moms." Rohan chuckles

minutes later, Jotaro is back then he walks into the room.

"where's the rice cakes?" Josuke asked

"yeah, i thought you got some more." Kiwi said

"no. there's been an update in the contest. check your phones." Jotaro said

everybody pulled out their cellphones. Josuke starts reading the contest update.

" 'congratulations to the man in South Morioh, who found all the letters and spelled out MOCHI. thanks for playing.' "

Rohan crossed his arms. "that's just great. we've spend six hours rummaging through a pile of useless rice cakes all for nothing! just peachy."

"oh you're complaining. you didn't get stick beat by angry moms!" Okuyasu said

"what are we gonna do now?" Kiwi asked

"we might as well—" Josuke said

Kyoko looks at the contest update on her phone.

"Josuke! you guys! come see this!"

"what's up baby girl?" Josuke asked

"look! there's been an another update in the contest. " Kyoko said

"already?" Kiwi questioned

there's a video of Moizu the announcer from the Saboko crew.

"play the video." Josuke said

Kyoko clicked play on the video.

"so turns out the guy from South Morioh claimed he won the Rice Cake contest— he faked it. yeah, a straight pathetic loser. anyways, contest is back on." Moizu explained

overlapping cheering from the group.

"we can still win the contest!" Kiwi said

"we gotta get more rice cakes from the stores." Koichi said

"alright, let's get to it." Josuke said calmly while cracking his knuckles

the group continued to search through the rice cake pile.

"M." Koichi said

"C." Kyoko said

"I." Rohan said

"I." Kiwi said

"M." Josuke said

Okuyasu suddenly finds the letter "H".

"H."

"I." Koichi said

Josuke paused for a second. "wait, wait, wait! Okuyasu what'd you say?"

"huh?" Okuyasu questioned

"just a second ago?" Josuke said

"i said huh?" Okuyasu said

"no. before that?" Josuke said

"oh, i said "H." Okuyasu said

overlapping cheering and shouting from the group.

"yay!" Kyoko and Koichi cheered

"yay Oki pooh!" Kiwi cheered as she kissed her boyfriend's cheek

Josuke sticks the letter "H" on the board.

the group now has letters "M" , "C", "H" and "I"

everyone continued to cheer.

"okay, okay. we'll celebrate later. let's find the "O" before somebody else does." Josuke said

everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

"I" Josuke said

"M" Kyoko said

"M" Koichi said

"C" Kiwi said

one hour later, the group are still looking the pile of rice cakes.

"M." Rohan said

"I." Kyoko said

"I." Koichi said

Okuyasu starts digging through the pile aggressively while muttering angrily. he flings the rice cakes out one by one.

Josuke sees him then walks over to him.

"Okuyasu?"

"Okuyasu?"

"hey, uh Okuy-"

"what?! what? what? what?! we need to find that damn "O! " Okuyasu shouts

"why don't you take a break for a minute?" Josuke said calmly

"no. i gotta find that "O". this private dinner is a perfect make-up date for Kiwi and I."

Okuyasu grabs Josuke by his yellow tanktop then starts sobbing.

"where's…the "O" Josuke?! tell me where?"

"relax, Okuyasu. i don't know yet." Josuke said calmly

"hey everyone!" Rohan said

"what is it Rohan?" Kyoko asked

"the letters that we found the most of is "M" and "I" right?" Rohan asked

"yeah." Josuke answered

"and what rice cake flavors have we searched the most?" Rohan asked

Josuke reads off the list.

"uh, let's see. chocolate fudge, french vanilla and strawberry shortcake."

"ah, see there's our problem." Rohan said

"what is ?" Koichi questioned

"according to the rice cake company's website are their three most popular flavors." Rohan explained

"so if they put the easiest to find letters in the most popular flavor rice cakes." Kyoko said

"then they probably put the hardest to find letters in their least popular flavor." Josuke said

Okuyasu dashes to Rohan.

"tell me what's the least popular flavor?!"

"um, do not shout in my ear." Rohan said

Okuyasu growls at Rohan as he tries to punch him. Josuke and Koichi holds him back.

"just tell us what's the least popular flavor is?" Josuke said

"it's banana nut berry." Rohan answered

"banana nut berry?" Okuyasu questioned

"i've never heard of that one." Koichi said

"me either." Kiwi said

"it has to exist somewhere." Okuyasu said

"it does." Jotaro said

everyone turned around and looked at Jotaro.

"where do we find it?!" Okuyasu said

while holding onto Jotaro's jacket.

"we can get it at quickly's convenience store that's not to far from our inn and please, let go of my jacket." Jotaro said

"oh, sorry." Okuyasu said

"let's go!" Josuke said

"i'm driving."Kiwi said

"i'm going." Rohan said

"all right, let's do it!" Josuke said

Josuke and the others left the inn. while Kyoko, Koichi and Jotaro stayed behind.


at quickly's convenience store

moments later, Josuke and the others arrived at the Quickly's stores to find the rice cake. they rushed in the back where the snacks are.

overlapping shouting from the group as the search through the rice cakes.

"here it is! banana nut berry!" Okuyasu shouts

"yay!" Kiwi cheered

"i'll go pay for it!" Rohan said as he went to the counter

Okuyasu quickly opens the rice cake wrapper as he pieced it apart.

"oh, got it, got it!"

"is it an "O?"

Okuyasu looks at the letter then frowns.

"no."

"just another dumb "H."

"there has to be another one?" Josuke said

"no, there's not. that was the last one." Kiwi said while searching through the rice cakes.

Rohan comes back to the group. Okuyasu put his back against the wall then starts whimpering while slowly sliding down.

"Okuyasu!" Kiwi said

"Okuyasu, what are you? we're in public" Josuke asked

Rohan turns his head and spots Hayato eating a rice cake. he leans in towards Josuke.

"Josuke, look who's eating a rice cake." Rohan said softly

Josuke turns around and sees Hayato.

"ha! well what do you know."

the group walked over to Hayato. Hayato saw the teens coming their way.

"Hayato. long time, no see. hope you're staying out of trouble." Josuke said

"yeah, we haven't seen you since last year." Okuyasu said

"what are you talking about? i haven't been in any trouble." Hayato stammers

"you sure? hope you're not lying to us." Josuke said

"i'm not. i've been good." Hayato said

"ah, that's what i like to hear." Josuke said

"anyway, what are you doing over here? and why aren't you in school?" Okuyasu questioned

"oh, my grandpa live over here. so i go to school in West Morioh now." Hayato answered

"i see." Rohan said

"anyway, whatcha eating there?" Okuyasu asked

"a rice cake." Hayato answered

"oh!" the teens all said

"can we have it?" Okuyasu asked

"no." Hayato said

"why you look little shit—" Okuyasu shouts

Josuke covers Okuyasu's mouth.

"we'll give you 100 for it." Rohan said

Hayato thinks for a second. "okay."

overlapping cheering from the group

"now we can win the contest and go on our private dinner!" Okuyasu blurred out

"no!"

"shut up dammit!"

"what-ey?" Okuyasu said

"i wish i had some duct tape to keep your mouth shut!" Rohan said while his arms were crossed

Hayato holds up the letter "O"

"this is what you guys want?"

[all yelling in excitement]

"i'll give it to you…"

"yeah!" Okuyasu cheered

"if…"

"ugh!"

"what do you want ?" Josuke asked

"to come to the private dinner." Hayato said

"hell no—" Okuyasu said

"ow!"

Rohan kicks him from behind.

"don't screw this up for us, idiot!" Rohan whispers

"all right." Josuke said

"and…(looks at Kiwi and points) i wanna kiss that cutie ." Hayato said

"huh?!" all said

"you wanna kiss me?" Kiwi questions

"yeah." Hayato said

"fine." Kiwi said

"what?! are you crazy?! she's my girlfriend! hell no you're not kissing—" Okuyasu shouts

Rohan covers Okuyasu's mouth again.

"alright then, it's a deal." Josuke said


Josuke and crew won the contest and are off to their private dinner. wonder how this dinner will turn out?