Iori, Kohei and the girls. Azusa, Chisa and Aina were walking around town looking for a certain place as Kotobuki was working there. Azusa wanted to show the others something about someone in the club. Along the way though, they ran into Koji and his somewhat bloody arm
"Hey guys. Where are you heading to?" Koji asked the group.
"I want to show these guys where Kotobuki works. Want to join us?" Azusa answered Koji's question.
"Sure, why not." Koji joined them not knowing where exactly they were heading to.
"What happened to you?" Aina asked slightly concerned Koji's well being.
"Skating. Pure and simple." Aina nodded her head, kind of understanding Koji's answer since he didn't give a full explanation. Walking throughout town a bit more, the group made to their destination. A bar to be more precise. "I am not going in there. Nope!" Koji protested it due to him not liking any form of alcohol.
"Don't worry about it Koji. They have other options that are none alcoholic as well." Azusa tried to reason with Koji.
Koji grumbled a bit before finally accepting it and walking in with Azusa and the others. Kotobuki was busy cleaning a glass when the doorbell went off signaling that someone came in. "Welcome!" When Kotobuki saw who it was. He was quite surprised seeing his other club members.
"Hey, we've come to hang out." Azusa playfully said to her fellow senior as the younger members looked around.
"So you're a bartender."
"So cool."
"I just work here sometimes, part-time." Kotobuki told the girls before looking at the guys. Koji sat down quickly whilst Iori and Kohei were probably imagining something really… stupid. Kohei knelt on the floor immediately apologizing and freaked everyone out.
"What kind of bar were they imagining?" Chisa asks herself.
"It's just a normal bar." Azusa handed over the drinks menu for the others to have a look. "They don't rip you off here. It's cheap."
"Everything's under 500 yen."
"The owner wants this place to be somewhere students can have fun." Kotobuki explained before the doorbell went off again and two more customers walked in. "Welcome!"
"Hey Kotobuki, you have drinks that aren't alcohol right? I can't find them on this menu." Koji asked the bigger man who handed him a smaller drinks menu for non-alcoholic beverages. "Oh thanks."
"The owner also wanted to make sure that was covered as well for people who don't drink alcohol." That was when someone came walking in with a big bouquet of roses.
"Welcome back. Azusa." The club looked to see an older man holding said flowers.
"Hello Mr. Manager" The manager introduced himself to the other and explained how popular of a worker Kotobuki was in his bar. They watched him talk and console with a young woman who was having crush issues. Of course, Iori and Kohei saw something wrong with this in their stupid ways.
"Maybe bartenders are just popular with girls." Iori whispered his opinion.
"Yeah. I think the job is just making him look good." Kohei shared his with Iori
"You think so?" Aina asked, although was it the duo or herself.
"I think it's because Bukki is pure and says nice things." Azusa stated her opinion while Chisa and Koji stayed out of it.
"The why don't you try it out?" The manager offered Iori and Kohei holding two bartender uniforms.
"And with that, I'm out of here. Catch you guys later." Koji said leaving quickly not wanting to deal with anything Iori and Kohei.
A few days later. Everyone in the club was at Grand Blue hanging out. Plates of food, bottles of drinks were laid on the big table as everyone was having a good time. Chisa and Aina were talking when Iori came over.
"Hey, you two. Would you like some?" Iori asked holding out a plate of food.
"Sashimi?" Aina asked.
"Are you the one who cut it?" Chisa asked.
"Yeah. Can you taste it for me?" The girls grabbed the chop sticks from Iori. However they noticed that they had numbers on them. 3 and 7. "Truth or Dare!" Iori shouted out throwing his shirt away. The others cheered whilst Chisa and Aina looked confused.
"Who's the king?" Everyone yelled about to reveal the answer.
"ALL RIGHT! STOP!" Aina screamed again being the mood killer.
"What's wrong, Cakey?"
"Why are you stopping us?"
"Don't call me Cakey!" Aina responded pissed off being called that again.
Both Azusa and Tokita grabbed a hold of Aina. "Knock it off, Aina."
"If you draw. You have to play." Tokita told the younger girl.
"But, he gave me this for the sashimi." Aina tried to argue.
"What do you mean?"
"Try remembering what Kitahara said just now." Kohei told Aina. Aina thought back to it realized she had walked right into it.
"The word "sashimi" was never said, right?" Iori and Kohei grinned as Aina grumbled. Nanaka helped Iori and Kohei the two to at least try and play. They reluctantly agreed and with that.
"Who's the king?" Everyone picked out the sticks and Azusa was the lucky one.
"It's me."
"Give us your orders." Kohei bowed before Azusa.
"Okay. Everyone except for me…" Aina and Chisa looked on in fear. "has to keep playing until the end."
"She got us." Chisa and Aina were crushed knowing they were fully trapped now. "Why do you want us to play so badly?" Aina asked Azusa.
That was when Koji saw the smug look on his brother's face, knowing he had something to do with this. "Iori. What did you say to them?"
"N-Nothing! Anyway, let's just play." Iori brushed off his brother. Everyone gathered round as they played again.
"Who's the king?" Once again Azusa drew the king.
"Oh, it's me."
"That's twice now!" Koji stated not believing Azusa's good luck.
"You're good."
"Well, then… I order numbers 1 through 8 to take something off." Azusa ordered giving a playful glance to Nanaka.
Most of the guys immediately threw off all the clothes, bar their boxers. Posing as well. "You guys strip too fast!" Aina cried out as Koji was contemplating what to get rid of.
"To hell with it." Koji pulled his shirt off but that was it. Aina wasn't happy with either.
"Not you as well."
"Come on, take it off, Nanaka." Azusa egged the older Kotegawa girl on. Nanaka began to take off her dress, much to the delight of Azusa, Iori and Kohei. Unfortunately…
"STOP!" Aina, simple enough.
"What's wrong, Aina?" Nanaka asked oblivious to just about anything. Aina only took her socks off.
"Taking a sock off is enough, right?" Aina asked, much to the disappointment of the idi-. Iori and Kohei.
"I'll let you off this time." Chisa followed suit taking her socks off.
"I see." instead removed her tights.
"No more dirty orders like that!" Aina told the others. Azusa, Iori and Kohei looked away in a huff.
"Who's the king?" Everyone drew sticks and this time, it was…
"It's me." Aina said holding the king sticks much to the dismay of Iori and Kohei, the dirty guys.
"What's your order?" Tokita asked the dark blue haired girl.
"Nothing too crazy, okay?" Kotobuki told Aina.
"Okay!" Numbers 1 through 8… Can't strip at the next party!" Aina demanded as king. The guys all had pained looks on their faces, except for Koji.
"We have to obey…" Tokita started.
"The king's orders." And Kotobuki finished. Koji grabbed his board and held it like a violin, pretending to play some sad music, making Nanaka and Azusa laugh. Iori and Kohei jumped up in protest.
"An order about wearing clothes? That's too crazy!" Iori stated his feelings.
"You should be ashamed." Kohei followed behind.
"Telling you to keep clothes on isn't crazy!"
"To be fair, Aina. With these guys. It kind of is."
"Don't you start, Koji!" Tokita and Kotobuki took it on the chin, whilst Iori and Kohei gave up on arguing as everyone sat down again.
"Who's the king?" Drawing the chopsticks this time. The title of king, was given to Koji.
"Okay, I guess it's me this time."
"What are you orders?" Tokita asked again.
It took Koji a moment to think about it. But then, he finally got it. "All right. Number 5 has to try and do a kickflip on my skateboard. Who has 5?" Koji stated his orders. Looking at their chopsticks. It was Azusa that had number 5.
"That's me!"
"Okay. I'll quickly show you how to do it." Koji got on his board and quickly kick flipped. He quickly broke down the necessary parts of a kickflip before giving his board to Azusa. "Try not to break yourself or my board okay. Good luck." Koji playfully said to Azusa.
The others looked on as Azusa readied herself. She jumped up, but didn't pop the board up or flick it. So when she came down, the board shot out from under her feet and she landed on hard on her ass. The guys and Nanaka laughed at Azusa. Chisa giggled a bit whilst Aina grimaced somewhat. Azusa rubbed her behind trying to ease pain as Koji came up to her. "You okay, Azusa?"
"I'm fine. Ow! That hurt." Azusa stood up and walked back to her seat.
"At least you actually tried it. Just didn't pop the tail hard enough and get the flick."
"Okay then let's get back to the game." Kotobuki said as the chopsticks were gathered again for another round.
"Who's the king?" Nanaka was the lucky one this time.
"It's me this time. Well, then… Number 3. Has to tell the person to their left that she loves their sister." Nanaka ordered.
Everyone looked at the numbers on their sticks. Iori, however jumped to conclusions a bit too early thinking it was Chisa. "Hey. Don't be embarrassed. Just say it." Putting his hand on Chisa's shoulder, she showed Iori her number.
"It's not me." Iori was nervous now, and it was justified. Number 3 belonged to Kotobuki. Iori cried in horror as Kotobuki said the statement ordered by Nanaka. Another game went on and it was the turn of Kohei to be king.
Iori's brother looked at the two of them and knew something was up. It was those two after all. 'This isn't going to end well. Now, it's just a case of who for.' Koji thought to himself.
"Okay. I order you to introduce us to your friends to the king at the next party." Kohei declared. However the idiot forgot to state which number.
"Which number?" Azusa asked.
"Well, that's…" Kohei glanced back at Iori holding his fingers up. One on his right hand, and three on his left. Hoping Kohei would pick either numbers 1 or 3. "Number 4!" Iori stood there in shock before lunging at Kohei for being so stupid.
"Why the hell did you pick 4, you idiot?" Iori asked wrestling with Kohei.
"You held up four fingers."
"I tried to say Chisa is number 1 or 3, idiot!"
"Of course, there was something going on with those two." Koji face palmed but soon separated the two of them for questioning. "So what were you up to anyway?"
"Our objective? Well…"
"It's a long story."
"Make it short?" Chisa asked Iori and Kohei.
"Money and Women!" Iori and Kohei said, pissing off Chisa and Aina.
"You guys are terrible." Chisa and Aina returned to the guys.
"You're mistaken. Some guys promised us money if we set up a mixer."
"This is a club activity to raise money for our trip. Well it failed anyway, so we'll have to try something else." Iori said.
"There's no time. We need to hurry." Kohei stated walking off with Iori.
"Wait you two." The guys turned back to Nanaka and the others.
"We have to carry out the king's order just now." Azusa stated. Iori and Kohei looked at Tokita as he had a sinister smile showing he was number 4.
"Have fun you two." Koji put his shirt back on, as Iori and Kohei were horrified.
"NO!"
A few days later. Iori, Kohei, Koji, Chisa and Aina were walking back to Grand Blue together. With Okinawa coming up, the guys were still trying to earn money for it. Koji had an advantage from his contest. Iori and Kohei were working part-time as event staff for a short term. They offered to help Chisa and Aina if they wanted it. They declined as did Koji.
Walking in they found Tokita and Kotobuki sitting at the table, whilst Nanaka and Azusa were at the counter. Iori overheard Azusa say something about radishes. So being as curious as he was, Iori decided to ask them about it.
"You need radishes?"
"I was wondering what to do."
"We were wanting one more. But it's over our budget." Nanaka told Iori.
"Then I'll go buy one." The girls looked at him unsure. "Don't worry about it."
"Well, you know…"
"You're right."
"They're pretty expensive." Nanaka and Azusa stated. Iori was confused and maybe insulted at how broke they thought he was.
"It's just one radish. I can afford it!" Iori stated. The girls soon realized he was talking about something else and not what they were talking about. Only problem was Iori didn't know about it.
"I'll chip in if you want." Koji said putting his hand on his brother's shoulder.
"Please don't insult me, like I'm completely broke." Iori grumbled.
"Take it easy!" Koji said backing off slightly.
"Iori, Koji…" Nanaka got cut off by Azusa as she looked to Chisa.
"Hey Chisa. What are you going to do if Iori buys a radish?" Azusa asked the younger Kotegawa girl. Chisa and Iori stared at each other awkwardly for a moment.
"Fifteen minutes…" Chisa whispered, hiding her face behind her book. "I'll treat you like a human for fifteen minutes."
"Hear that, Iori?" Azusa asked smirking.
"I wonder what she's been treating me like until now?" Iori said to himself. "But why do you want to buy a radish?"
"That's not it Iori. We were talking about di-com, not daikon." Nanaka finally told Iori as his brother listened in as well.
"Di-com?"
"Yeah. Dive Computers." Nanaka gave the full name for the tool in question.
"They cost around this much." Azusa pointed out the prices. They were around 30,000 yen to 100,000 yen. Both Iori and Koji grimaced.
"You were going to make me buy this?" Iori asked Chisa.
"I compromised as much as I could."
"I guess I can't complain since skate gear is kind of the same deal… I think." Koji said to himself.
"Now that we're all here, let's go." Tokita informed the others.
"Where are we going?" Iori asked Tokita.
"We're going to look at diving gear today!" Tokita told everyone.
A little bit later, everyone bar Nanaka was at the dive shop. Chisa was fidgeting with anticipation, whilst Iori, Koji, Kohei and Aina looked in awe.
"There's a lot of different gear." Iori noticed as Koji nodded in agreement.
"I don't know what to look for." Kohei said to himself.
The guys started to break down what they newcomers should look into buying first. A mask was heavily recommended since they're usually cheaper than most things, yet an important piece of equipment. There was also the opinion that the first purchase should be a dive computer. As they began to look around, Iori and Kohei some weird things to them.
"What's this?" Iori asked pointing out some kind of hook to Kotobuki.
"It's a reef hook. You use it by hooking it." Kotobuki told Iori.
Kohei then found a yellow object in a clear bag. "What's this?"
"It's a float. You put air into it and blow it up." Tokita informed Kohei.
Then the two idiots had stupid interpretations of what they were used for in their heads. Iori hooked Kohei by the nose underwater, screaming. "I'll save you!" Then Kohei began blowing up a float attached to Iori, with it soon blowing up, killing Iori supposedly.
"It's scary underwater." Iori and Kohei said together as Koji and Aina looked on at the two of them.
Everyone soon started to look at things by themselves. Chisa had found a strange object on its own. She seemed captivated by it as did Azusa. Koji found them looking at it. "What are you looking at?"
"It's some kind of camera." Azusa told Koji as he got a better look at it. Iori came over as well.
"Isn't it some kind 360 degree camera?" Koji asked wanting to be sure.
"Yes it is. It takes them like this." Chisa pointed at an example to prove it. She then found something else and rushed over like an excited puppy. "Iori. Koji. Come over, look at this." Chisa grabbed a weird tool. Apparently it was used for talking underwater. Iori and Koji were shocked. Chisa went into a full breakdown that would make her look like a good instructor in the future.
"Excuse me. I have a question." They looked over to find Aina.
"What's wrong?" Azusa asked.
"How do you choose a regulator?" Aina asked, slightly surprising Azusa and Chisa slightly. The boys were confused.
"You'll be fine with a rental." Chisa pointed out. That was when Aina started to get flustered and embarrassed for some reason."
"But. In…"
"In?" Chisa, Koji and Iori asked.
"It'll be an indirect kiss.!" Aina hid her face, embarrassed by the idea of sharing a regulator with someone else like Iori or Koji.
'And she hassles Iori and Kohei about their thought process. She's just as bad as them.' Koji thought to himself as he removed himself from the scene. He found himself looking at the fins, wondering what went into picking a good pair. "I should probably get some another time. Maybe I should ask Tokita and Kotobuki about it later." He could hear shouting and heard his brother's name. "He's stripped in the open again didn't he? I guess that Iori then."
"Hey Koji!" Koji looked at Iori.
"What is it?"
"I'm going to go find Kohei. Want to help?"
"Sure, why not."
Koji and Iori looked around the shop looking for the "former" otaku. They soon found him, kneeling before two unique wetsuits. "What're are you doing?" Iori asked.
"Kitahara! So you were led here too?"
"No, we were just looking for you. Anyway what were you…" Koji stopped as he saw what Kohei was kneeling before. The wetsuits in question were designed matching a certain anime. "OH GOD! Tell me you weren't planning on buying one of those?"
"I wasn't planning on buying one, but I want this one!" Kohei stated with a passion only an otaku could know.
"You're right. It's a pretty unique design." Iori stated, shocking Kohei and even Koji for his complete obliviousness. "What's gotten into you?"
"Kitahara, don't you know what anime this is from?"
"You can't try it on in that size." Iori noticed still oblivious as what Kohei was talking about.
"I don't have to be the one to wear it!" That was when Iori came up with an idea.
"We can ask someone who fits it how it feels." Iori told Kohei.
"Iori, don't do it unless you really want to die." Koji pleaded to his brother. But it didn't stop him.
"Hey!" Iori called out.
A little while later, Chisa and Aina came out of the changing rooms. Wearing those exact wetsuits.
"Yeah, it feels good." Aina stated as she stretched her arms a bit.
"It doesn't seem to have a zipper. So some people might not like that." Chisa pointed out feeling out the other suit.
"Hear that, Kohei?" Iori asked Kohei.
Falling to his knees at the sight before him. Kohei let out a mighty cry as some kind of weird aura surrounded him. He fell to the ground in tears of joy. "I'm going to call you my best friends just for today."
"What? That's creepy." Iori said not liking that.
The girls looked at them not understanding what they had just took part in. Chisa looked over at Koji, seeing he seemed a bit flustered or something.
"Is there something, Koji?"
"W-What! Nothing... Nothing at all." Koji waved his hands furiously trying to cover his eyes and possibly save himself from a beatdown.
Removing the wetsuits, the group of five soon went back to looking around. Although they were still questioning Kohei about his interests.
"Well, what are you going to do?" Iori asked.
"I can't buy it now, but someday…"
"That's a woman's wetsuit." Aina pointed out trying to sway Kohei, but to no avail.
"There is something seriously wrong with you." Koji said.
"How was it? Is there anything you want to get." Tokita asked them.
"There's a lot of stuff to think about." Iori said.
"I'm going to get a mask like you recommended." Kohei stated as Aina and Koji followed him up on that.
They soon went to the shelf of dive masks. There were so many styles to choose from and each one cost differently. Tokita and Kotobuki once more pointed out the important factors in choosing a mask. Making sure it was comfortable and that it had a good seal to the face. Iori and Koji were going through them together, hoping to try and help the other.
"Hey, Chisa. How do I choose a mask?" Iori asked but saw Chisa looking at a camera very keenly. Koji looked the same way as well.
"You think she'll buy that?" Koji asked his brother. As he shrugged his shoulders, Azusa came up behind them.
"Chisa is so cute! Youth. It's Youth!" Azusa proclaimed.
"What are you talking about?" Iori asked Azusa
"She's so cute looking at cameras."
"Maybe she just wants a picture to celebr-…" Iori got cut off by Koji.
"It's kind of like me in a sense. Wanting to film good times with the homies and remember it, share it with everyone. It just good to capture it." Koji said with Azusa agreeing with him.
"Well said, Koji. She's probably happy to have friends her age that she can go diving with." Azusa added on as the two brother smiled.
"She really loves diving, doesn't she?" Iori asked getting a yes from Koji and Azusa.
It was dark as everyone got back to Grand Blue after a surprisingly fun day at the dive shop. As they walked in, Nanaka was surprised to see how much stuff they had gotten.
"You guys bought a lot."
"Yeah. We bought masks." Iori stated pulling out his. As did Koji, Kohei and Aina.
"I bought a camera." Chisa told her sister showing it off.
"Wow, you guys worked hard." The group looked at Nanaka surprised hearing that.
"Worked hard?" Iori asked confused.
"We just went shopping." Kohei added on.
"That's not what I mean. Going to Okinawa is expensive. And you even bought new gear!" Nanaka reminded them. They realized how much they screwed up.
"Huh!"
A number of days later at the festival event. There was a booth set up with a bunch of girls handing out flyers in costumes. Only thing was that it was Chisa, Aina and Azusa. Azusa seemed to be enjoying it unlike Chisa and Aina as they tried to cover up from the photographers. Nanaka included. A few feet away, Iori, Koji and Kohei were directing people along and Kohei was complaining again.
"Hey, Kitahara. When do we go on break?"
"We just started a few minutes ago." Iori reminded Kohei.
"Hey, Kitahara…"
"Shut up. I'm going to kill you."
"Hey, Kitahara…"
"Kohei. Don't make me waste a board, wrapping it around your stupid skull!" Koji grumbled helping people along.
Back at Grand Blue later that day. Koji had collapsed on the couch. Iori and Kohei were drinking naked again. Chisa was mortified and Aina was crying about what just happened to her.
Everyone got ready for Okinawa in their own way, packing what they needed for the trip. The club Peek-a-Boo were excited to get to Okinawa. Finally after making sure everything was set and the flight there. The plane landed and they disembarked.
"Hey, you guys." Tokita started.
"We've arrived in Okinawa!" Kotobuki ended.
"YEAH!" Everyone jumped (or in Koji's case, ollied on his board) in excitement for what was to come.
A/N Author's notes: Finally have another chapter up and boy was it a mad thing to get up. I actually wanted to introduce the skate shop I mentioned in chapter 7 into this chapter. But thought it would be better as its own chapter. .Hopefully you will like this chapter. Positive and Constructive criticism only as always and I'll hopefully see you for the next one.
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