Ultra Violet Black
Old Fiat
Chapter 9- The Funny Farm (In both senses of the words)
Atobe lazily fanned himself. Damn Japanese summers. It was so hot and sticky, even in the well air-conditioned castle. Though, a castle didn't stick out much in 'The Funny Farm'.
'The Funny Farm' was the gated neighborhood. It was really called 'Oakwood housing area', but someone put up a sign beneath that that had 'The Funny Farm' written on it and the name caught on.
So there he sat in his ridiculously large room, all decorated with purple velvet and such, fanning himself and wishing he had a television in the purple… (I suppose you could call it a room). Then he could watch a movie or something. Not just lay around thinking about how hot it was, even though it was, he would rather not think about it if you please. He wished, also, that Kabaji was there to fan him. But Kabaji had gone vacation with his family (treacherous fiend) and wouldn't be back for another week, so Atobe was left here to mope.
There was a knock at the door. "Enter," he said, lazily.
One of the maids walked in, "Master Keigo the 2nd, Miss Elizabeth and Mr. Keigo the 1st would like to see you in Mr. Keigo the 1st's study."
"Really," he grinned. His father's study had better air-conditioning than the rest of the house. He walked slowly down, try to cover his (stupid) excitement. "Oto-san, Oka-san," he politely bowed to each. "Why did you call me here?"
"We've gotten an invite to Fuji's for their youngest son's birthday party," he held out the invitation. "Do you want to go? Your mother and I are both too busy."
Keigo paused reading over the invitation.
"Hurry up, damn it! You're wasting my time as we speak!"
Atobe scanned to pros and cons quickly in his mind;
Pro: The Fuji's come from German descent so there is a large chance there would be beer at the party.
Con: Putting up with Gerard Fuji for a whole evening.
Pro: A drunken Gerard might be interesting.
Con: Buying Shusuke's little brother (Yuta, was it?) a present.
Pro: Get blackmail on Fuji Shusuke.
Con: Some of 'Yuta' Fuji's friends might be there.
Pro: (Tezukas and Fujis are friends…)… TEZU-CHAN WILL BE THERE!
"I'll go!" he slapped it (the invitation) down on his father's desk and skipped out of the room.
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At that same moment also in The Funny Farm…
Eiji wondered around. He'd gone to Momo's house once before. The number was 43, he remembered that. He also remembered that it was very large. But when walking around all these other large houses it was like that one time his sister had asked him to grab her a pair of underwear from her room for jogging. They all looked to same. So confusing…
He walked up to a house with the numbers 27 on the gate and rang the buzzer.
"The Sakaki house. Who are you?"
Sakaki… the name sounded familiar, but Eiji was too scared to think about it. "Um… Kikumaru Eiji…?"
"What are you doing here?"
"I was wondering if you could tell me where the Momoshiro house is…"
He saw the doors beyond the gate open up a man in a nice suit walked over to the gate; He had wavy, blonde hair and sharp brown eyes.
Oh my God… It was the Hyotei coach. He and Eiji had not gotten off to the best start, especially because the first time they saw each other (when he was in 8th grade) Eiji had accidentally gotten chocolate ice-cream on his fine, white linen suit.
"Sakaki-san," he bowed. "Could you please—"
"The Momoshiro house is nine houses down- now go away," he hissed the last two words in such a way that sent Eiji scurrying away.
"Yes!"
He reached the Momoshiro house (finally) rang the buzzer and got let into the Momoshiro 'headquarters' as Takeshi himself called it.
"Can I see Momo?" he asked the butler.
"'Momo'?" he sniffed. "Don't you mean Young Master Takeshi?"
"Um… yeah."
"I will go see if he is available. Please go sit down in the parlor," Eiji heard him mutter as he walked up the staircase. "Impertinent brat."
He walked away.
Eiji sat down on one of the cushy armchairs. In was so much nicer in here than it was in his house. Eiji's father thought air-condition would be too expensive so it wasn't 'do or do without' at their house. It was just 'do without damn it'.
Momo walked in the parlor, a slightly confused expression on his face. Then he saw Eiji.
"Kikumaru-sempai," he bowed.
"Hey Momo," Eiji stood up. "I came to apologize for— HOLY KAPISH! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?"
Momo turned slightly pink. Was it that bad? "Nothing. I tripped."
"Yeah right, I didn't believe that with Echizen and I won't believe it with you."
"Well maybe I won't tell you what happened. What did you come here for?"
"I came to apologize for hitting you. Did it do that much damage?"
"I accept your apology, but I wouldn't count on you doing all this," he gave a strained smile.
"See you later Momo," Eiji got up. "Bye-bye."
"Is… that all you came for?"
Eiji raised an eyebrow and gave a giggle. "Why Momo! You gay!"
"I'm not gay!" Momo protested. "It's just usually every time you come to my house it's to use my video games or something."
"Well, maybe…"
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Kaido lay in the hospital bed. His breathing was strained but his insides were leaping with joy. His rib was starting to heal. Maybe soon they would let him walk around the hospital a bit. But he felt he was wasting the whole summer away in bed. He had had so many things planned, bread making, tennis and such. And all he could do was lay around in bed.
What confused him the most was the lack of visitors he had. Inui came twice and his little brother came almost every day, his father went when ever he could and his mother and baby sister always came with him. In was boring in the hospital. Boring, boring, boring.
Suddenly he heard a scratching.
The scratching continued until finally he looked towards the window.
There was a face by the window.
Its eyes were like little drops of blood, its skin looked bleached and there was a pretty pattern of scars on its face, pulling the skin in strange directions. Its mouth was twisted into a smile so you could see every one of its small, sharp teeth.
He blinked and it was gone.
Kaido put a hand to his heart and found his heart beat was wild.
He blinked again and it was leaning over him, opening its mouth enough to swallow him whole…
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"Doctor! You have to come. It's the patient in room 133."
The doctor stood up. "What is it?"
"He's having a seizure or something. He's screaming, and kicking and his heart beat is insane!"
"I'll be right there."
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Tee hee! Kaido has gone crazy!
Well, that bit was kind of based on an awesome (old) fanfic I read check it out here:
Trust me, it's wicked.
Where were the suggestions in my reviews? All I got was 'update soons'! Even though I love those and everything I love suggestions… (:
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-Old Fiat s. Italy
