The Izu spring festival was now here and everyone seemed excited. Stalls were lined up all over university and one belonged to Peek-a-Boo. Serving the okonomiyaki was both Kitahara brothers, Kohei and Chisa. It seemed to be going well. Iori and Kohei were cooking the okonomiyaki, whilst Koji and Chisa were taking care of the sales.
"I was happy…" Iori started.
"But it looks like we have to man the stall." Kohei finished.
"Thanks for waiting." Chisa handed over the food to a customer while Koji was counting the amount raised so far. That was when Kotobuki came up (without his shirt) with some drinks asking how things were.
"It would be better if there wasn't another okonomiyaki stand just down there." Koji stated his opinion.
"It seems like we have a competitor." Kohei said after taking a swig. Looking down the pavement, they saw the other stand selling okonomiyaki with a whole bunch of girls standing there.
"Oh, it's Tinkerbell."
"Tinkerbell. What kind of club are they?" Koji asked his senior.
"They're a tennis club with a lot of cute guys and the highest ratio of girls." Kotobuki informed the first years. Iori and Kohei started talking about what to throw at them like children.
"Hey! It's so hot." A female voice yelled out. The group looked out and saw Azusa walking their way, half-naked carrying her shirt. Iori and Kohei were wide-eyed like a couple of horn dogs, but the latter turned away covering his eyes. Chisa was just shocked and Koji…
"I ain't looking, cause I don't want to die." Ducking under the table fearing for what Chisa might do to him.
"You walked here?" Kotobuki asked nonchalant.
"I rode the bus part way." Chisa ran around carrying a fleece, begging for Azusa to put it on. However there was a problem. It didn't fit due to Azusa's bust size, making Iori stare and Chisa feel small in that region.
"Why don't you go look for a T-shirt?" Kotobuki asked. Getting a thumbs up from Koji still under the table.
"I'm fine with this."
"It's a bit much isn't it…" Iori mumbled.
"Fine, you're coming with me Iori." Azusa stated surprising the older Kitahara. He tried to argue. However Koji stole his apron and pushed towards Azusa.
"He'd be happy to tag along." Koji pushed his brother and Azusa away before breathing a sigh of relief. "Thank god." Koji started cooking okonomiyaki with Kohei as Kotobuki wandered off again. Everything was going okay with the food and sales. However Azusa soon came back saying she would swap shifts with Kohei for him to hang out with Iori. 'What the hell is going on?' Iori asked himself as now he, Chisa and Azusa worked the stand. "Hopefully nothing else is going to happen now." Mumbling to himself he didn't notice two guys walk up to the stand wearing the same shirt. Looking at them, Koji knew they were from Tinkerbell, the tennis club. "What many would you guys like?" Koji asked trying to be polite. However that went out window when the guys ignored him and tried to hit up the girls. "I'll ask again, how many?" Koji asked starting to get agitated, but it was nothing compared to his cousin.
"We'll tell these fine ladies." The blue haired guy told the skater. "So would you like to come over to our stand?"
"It's going to be fun?" The guy with glasses followed behind his buddy.
"I'm not really interested." Azusa said trying to play the guys off.
"He asked how many would you like to order?" Chisa asked trying her hardest not to smack each of these guys.
"I'll have five. Maybe you can tell me your line ID." Four eyes said which sent Koji over the edge.
"That's it. You two can get lost! Go on, get out of here." Koji shouted at the tennis club members shocking them. That was when back up arrived.. if you'd call it that to Koji.
"Hey." The boxer wearing duo of Iori and Kohei returned.
"You look like you having fun."
"Do you want to die?" Kohei asked rolling some marbles in between his fingers. After that the Tinkerbell club members soon left.
"Throw the salt!" Iori ordered his fellow… idiot.
"Be gone, demons!" Kohei started throwing salt around the stand.
Koji looked at the two and for once, was thankful. "Thanks for the assist. I was so... very close to wrapping my board around their heads. Ignorant pricks." Koji thanked his brother and the otaku. Soon after another shift swap, Iori was cooking with Chisa and Koji was back managing the money. They soon started talking about the pageants and how they worked.
"Shouldn't you start getting ready?" Iori asked Chisa.
"I was going to go like this." Chisa stated. However two people had other ideas.
"You can't do that Chisa." Azusa told Chisa. Actually spooking Koji as hadn't even noticed her or Nanaka sneak up.
"You're so cute, so we have to get a lot of people to notice you." Nanaka informed Chisa making her shiver a bit before she and Azusa pulled the younger Kotegawa away.
"I can't take any more of this." Koji said trying to calm down after what had happened during the day. Thankfully the stall was now closed as the guys were going to see how Chisa did at the pageant.
A lot of people were at the pageant waiting to see who would come out. All the guys sat at the top of the amphitheater. Waiting for Chisa to come out. Koji was filming everyone else just for a daily vlog and also for memories.
"Sure is a lot of people." Koji stated.
"This is the main event, along with the male pageant."
"We're going on stage in front of a large crowd." Kohei said to himself.
"At least you'll be dressed like a guy. I still don't understand why I have to enter?." Iori said not happy about his situation.
"It to please Chisa remember. Make sure you don't upset her." Koji joked around with his brother, getting the camera up close. However to try and uplift him. Tokita pointed towards the stage to what could only be described as… shocking. A girl wearing a Tinkerbell club uniform, and a lot of makeup. Iori, Kohei and Koji stiffened in horror and shock at what they were looking at. However for Koji it soon turned to laughter at thinking what his brother might look like. "I'll ask Azusa and Nanaka to try and get Iori some makeup tomorrow. That might be a good look for him." Koji said making Tokita and Kotobuki laugh.
"Great idea Koji." Kotobuki said giving a large smack pat. Making Koji nearly drop his camera.
"We'll talk to them later tonight." Tokita said with pride, proud of his club junior.
"NO YOU WON'T!" Iori screamed out. That was when Chisa came out in a dress. "She looks harsh right now."
"Is she mad?" Kohei asked any of the guys, only getting a shrug in response. Chisa introduced herself and what club she was a part of. Seeming like she really didn't want to be doing this.
"What do we do. If she doesn't loosen up, she lose the competition." Koji stated as everyone nodded in acknowledgement. Kohei starting coming up with ideas based off anime games he's played. "This isn't going to end well." Holding his head in his hands and putting his video camera away to save Chisa from further embarrassment, in case something accidently ended up on film. It only got worse and worse as the guys tried different tactics to get Chisa to lighten up. The last one though was… extreme. Seeing everyone around him with marbles, Koji decided to sneak off. Unfortunately Iori and Kohei kept a hold of him.
"You're staying as well Koji." Both of them said as Iori threw a marble and it in turn, lifted Chisa's dress making her blush in embarrassment as everyone in attendance started taking pictures… Nanaka especially. Iori kept throwing marbles until Chisa looked at him pissed, he was thankful that he wasn't alone this time… but turning around. The guys had distanced themselves from him apart from his brother being held hostage.
"I am not going to die because of you." Koji broke free and ran off, not wanting to die since he was with Iori.
Finally resting up after running, Koji grabbed his board and skated around. 'I hope to god that Chisa doesn't kill me. I didn't have even anything to do with that. Iori, you're going to pay for this.' The skateboarding Kitahara thought to himself pissed off, but soon something grabbed his attention. There was a large group people nearby, but looking closely. Koji saw something that made him smile like crazy, and he wanted in.
Iori managed to hide with Kohei from Chisa. Especially since she had a baseball bat, and wanted to cave her cousin's head in. Iori could only hope that his brother would get the same as well. Since it was him that convinced Chisa to enter. Whilst hiding, the Tinkerbell girl that they nicknamed "Cakey" asked Kohei out. It turned into another argument between the older Kitahara and 'former' otaku making "Cakey" storm off, but soon enough Tokita and Kotobuki found them. Walking to a mixer with another club, the four of them heard a commotion and went to have a look. Making their over to the crowd, the guys saw a bunch of people seemingly flying rather quickly down a set of blocks and smacks on the ground. Looking at the top they saw the next person coming in hot.
* Story Of The Year – And The Hero Will Drown * starts playing
"KOJI!" Iori and Kohei shouted out seeing him launch himself and skateboard down the block set. Spinning in the air, only to fall on his back. However he quickly grabbed his board and ran back up for another go, but not before another skater came flying down the block set doing a nollie kickflip and landing it. The crowd went mad as did Koji just making him more eager. Iori smiled at seeing how happy his younger brother was. A few more skaters came flying by, with some landing their tricks and others bailing. Koji quickly rolled up, ollied and spun 360 frontside and soon landed on the ground. Even though the landing was somewhat sketchy Koji was hyped as was the crowd of skaters and other people seeing Koji's frontside 360 ollie. Rolling away Koji saw his brother and the other guys from the club in the crowd and rolled up to them.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"We were going to a mixer with the rugby club, but we heard this. So we came for a look." Tokita explained to the skating Kitahara.
"That was very impressive Koji." Kotobuki complimented Koji.
"Thanks. I take it Chisa hasn't found you yet Iori."
"Yeah thankfully. Although she might still be out for you." Iori pointed out.
"Don't remind me. But that was only because of you doing what you did." Koji reminded his brother as they watched some of the other skaters. One dude came down with a nollie half cab flip and landed it somewhat clean. Still though, he landed it. "HOLY SHIT! I'll be right back." Koji said running off for another trick. Rolling up switch. Koji popped his board, flipped it and spun 180 doing a switch frontside flip and landing just the everyone go insane. The guy who was seemingly hosting the event went up to Koji and handed him 50,000 yen for the trick. "What a payday, haha!" Koji cheered out in front of the club members
*Story Of The Year – And The Hero Will Drown* ends playing
Once the contest was over, the judges gave Koji an extra 15,000 yen for having the best trick. Soon afterwards the guys went to the mixer. Koji sat in his own space away from the others due to his hatred of booze. He watched as Chisa made Iori drink a full two liter bottle of shochu in retribution of his actions. Chisa soon spotted the other brother sitting far away from the others.
"Oh crap." Koji whispered as Chisa sat directly in front of him. "C-Chisa. I didn't have anything to with what Iori did." Koji pleaded to Chisa. All he got in response was a six pack of beer cans slammed in front him. "You don't really want me to drink that do you?" Chisa only stared back at Koji like she did with Iori. Koji knew there was only way out whether he liked it or not. "I'll take my punishment… DAMMIT!" Koji stated chugging away, even though he hated beer. He figured to just get it over and done with. "I… hate you Iori." Koji ran off to the bathroom to throw up even quicker than he had chugged that despised beer down whilst Azusa came through.
Azusa told everyone that one of the tennis club members tried hitting on her. The guy was persistent but Azusa soon found a way out. She was able to convince the guy to enter the male pageant and said she'll watch him there before running off.
"Are you going to cheer for him?" Tokita asked stuffing his face with food.
"Of course not." Soon enough the rugby club joined the mixer but Iori and Kohei ran off. Unfortunately Koji was still throwing up but had heard the conversation from the bathroom. It did come to an end though thankfully for him though.
"Hey Koji. I'm sorry for making you drink that beer." Chisa apologized to the skater.
"D-Don't be. I'm the one that persuaded you to enter. So I guess I had it coming, but at least it wasn't what Iori had." Koji grabbed some water and chugged it to try and get rid of the taste of beer. "Much better. That stuff was horrible."
"AZUSA! WE NEED SOME SUPPLIES!" Iori and Kohei came in screaming for Azusa.
"Hmm. What for?" The guys explained what was going on and afterwards, sly grins appeared on their faces. "Follow me."
The male pageant had started and a lot of laughs and cheers were coming from the crowd. Different guys from many clubs came up trying to impress. Soon though a familiar guy from earlier in the day came out as Koji began recording. 'It's show time, bitch.' Koji evilly laughed to himself like Tom from "Tom and Jerry".
"I'm Kudo, the captain of the tennis club. Nice to meet you." Introducing himself making a large portion of girls squeal and cheer for him. That was when Kohei came out in the male school uniform.
"I'm Kohei Imamura from Peek-a-Boo." Kohei walked to the edge of the stage where a girl was standing before extending his hand out. "Azusa Hamaoka. Please go out with me, not captain Kudo from Tinkerbell!" The Peek-a-Boo club and Kudo couldn't believe that he just asked Azusa out.
"Imamura had just confessed his feelings.' The announcer yelled out.
'He stands out. How dare he use my name without asking." Kudo thought to himself before standing right next to Kohei. "No. Choose me instead."
"Captain Kudo has also confessed his feelings." The announcer followed his previous statement. Now it came down to Azusa. She stuck her hand out and grabbed Captain Kudo's. "Whoa it's Captain Kudo!"
"Sorry it turned out like it did. Everyone is at different levels. I bet there's a good match out there for you somewhere." Captain Kudo stated with a smug grin. However… that soon disappeared as Kohei started laughing lightly.
"A good match." Was all Kohei said as "Azusa" started laughing as well. Jumping on stage, purple hair flew as Kohei stood next to Iori laughing the asses off at Kudo who was shocked as Iori grabbed the microphone.
"Too bad! I'm a man!" Everyone started laughing as stuffed socks fell out of Iori's shirt, borrowed from Azusa. "Oh, really? I never imagined that I would be a good match for the captain of Tinkerbell."
"That's great, Kitahara. You guys are on the same level when you're dressed like a girl." Kohei stated.
"Iori Kitahara from Peek-a-Boo is entering the male pageant!" Announcing into the microphone. Koji was jumping like crazy, laughing as he caught it all on film.
"Yeah, Iori!"
"They did it." Kotobuki said grabbing a hold of Koji laughing just like the others. Kudo was trying to argue it… but it wasn't working and even worse for him. Some of the girls were starting to get angry at him. Iori and Kohei finished it off when Iori a small camera out of the handbag getting even more cheers as Kudo stormed off irate at what he just went through as Iori and Kohei stood in adulation of the audience for the amount of laughs.
"They did it." Azusa said to Chisa as Koji came over.
"And it's all on film. Dual angles as well." Koji stated with a smug grin wrapping an arm around Azusa as Chisa walked off. "If she's still pissed, then I'm probably going to be dead by the end of the night. Or it could be Iori."
The after party started as Koji hooked the cameras and the video played of Captain Kudo's demise. Everyone else was drinking when the cakey girl came in talking to Iori and Kohei. That night was filled with more booze and chaos, for most of the guys. The next day Chisa, Koji and Azusa manned the stall as a legion of guys tried hitting on Chisa. She couldn't rely on Iori and Kohei doing anything as they were still drunk, but Koji.
"BACK AWAY!" Koji ordered the men as Tokita and Kotobuki appeared out of nowhere.
"Do you have business with her?" Tokita asked having one person in a headlock.
"She looks unhappy." Kotobuki grabbed another's head with his massive hand and they were able to shoo away the legion of men trying to go after Chisa who looked like she was going to explode.
"Are you okay?" Azusa asked Chisa, maybe not wanting to get caught in any crossfire. Chisa nodded as she had to get ready for the women's pageant award ceremony. It turned out Chisa did win, but she wasn't happy but no one could blame her. That's if they had a sane head on them. However on stage with was a still drunk Iori leaning on an ice cooler.
"What's wrong?" Tokita asked.
"She looks mad." Kotobuki answered his friend's question.
"Well that makes sense." The two guys looked at Azusa. "She entered the pageant just for Iori and the others."
"It doesn't helped that I asked her as well." Koji stated trying to keep his distance from his cousin. Hoping that Iori would take the heat. However what she would say next would really screw Iori over.
"Who do you want to share this happiness with?" The announcer asked Chisa.
"Yes. Well… I'd like to share it with my boyfriend, who's passed out drunk over here." Chisa pointed to Iori surprising the others. The men in attendance were furious as Chisa smiled as it was a part of her plan.
"I see. She used Iori to repel the other guys away." Tokita said to himself.
"So they're a couple now." Kotobuki followed up as Koji was laughing his ass off.
"Like hell. This is Iori's eternal punishment from Chisa." Koji laughed as Azusa stared at the two.
"Come on, those two. What are they going to do?" Azusa asked herself.
A/N Author's Notes: Another chapter in the books. I'm quite surprised with myself that I made it as long as I did. I hope everyone likes it. Any songs or references I used in this, I don't own. I only put them in cause it made me laugh. I thinks it's important to make yourself happy with your work first before pleasing others, but it's just my opinion. Hope you guys like it. Once again, Positive and Constructive criticism only. No negativity and thanks for reading.
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