Long time no read... I guess! Since last time, I got a BETA reader! So everyone should thank Snowpoppy! And hopefully, Grammar Nazi, you will never catch me again.
Warning: TEAZUKA! Even though he is not in the chapter.
Chapter 3:
"Sasuke!" Sanada suddenly shouted as he had turned off his phone and looked from Toshiyuki to a boy around…. some kind of age but definitely older than him… for now. Sasuke, for that was apparently his name, looked at them with bored eyes. "What is it, oji-san?" He asked and looked to Akaya. "And who is that brat?" Sanada and Akaya clenched their fists. "TARUNDORU! Don't call me that!" came at the same time as "I'm not a brat!". (Try guessing who shouted it.) "But I'm your nephew, remember?" Sasuke said with a teasing voice.
Apparently, Sanada did not like being called ojii-san, or uncle. Made him feel to old for his generous fourteen years of age, going on fifteen.
"Calm down Genichiro." Toshiyuki said, smiling, a little annoyed. Sanada sighed and sent a glare to his cousin. "Fuku…I mean, Sanada is an uncle? I knew he was old, but not that old!" Akaya shouted in mock surprise. Sanada raised his hand ready to slap the offender's face, to Akaya's horror. "...Okay, no slapping here." Toshiyuki said and for once acted like a older brother (which rarely happened).
"One last thing, Sasuke!" Toshiyuki said and smiled over at Sasuke. "No." Sasuke answered and turned to walk. "You haven't heard what I was going to ask you!" Toshiyuki shouted after him with a puppy desperate voice. "I won't do it anyway, it's probably just washing the dojo before the training starts." Sasuke shouted back, annoyed.
"Dojo?" Akaya asked and looked around, excited as he had never been in a dojo before.
"I just want you to look after Toto-chan, while Genichiro and I start the training. You know, since grandfather isn't here." Toshiyuki said pleading. "No."
"Come on."
"No."
"And I, who thought Sanada was weird." Akaya mumbled as he earned a glare from his senpai.
"Ok, I give up." Toshiyuki sighed, defeated. Sasuke smiled victoriously and decided to hurry out of there before a bomb exploded. (What?)
"But first I want to tell you a story." Toshiyuki said and made Sasuke stop. Sasuke looked at him in horror.
"Once, there was a little boy with the name Botenmaru…"
"I can't believe he tricked me…" Sasuke grumbled, annoyed as he sat outside a newly opened bake-shop with his newly assigned demon… I mean Akaya.
Maybe this is not as bad as I thought. Akaya smiled at the thought as he took a new spoon with delicious chocolate cake in his mouth. "How much are you going to eat? You are already eating your third piece of cake. I'm not that rich." Sasuke asked grumpily as he had only eaten one piece. He could already imagine all his hard-earned money flowing away from his wallet in a couple of minutes.
Akaya looked up and smiled. "You are my babysitter right? It's up to you." Akaya grinned and licked his upper lip clean from chocolate. Sasuke got a look in his eyes and took Akaya's plate. "That's mine!" Akaya shouted, annoyed as he shouldn't have said that last thing.
"I'm your babysitter, right? It's up to me, and I decide... no more cake for you!" Sasuke smiled at the face Akaya was making. "Give it back!" Akaya shouted and received some stares from the others in the shop.
"In your dreams."
"I can't believe you're broke, Jackal." Marui said as he and Jackal walked down the street that led to the hotel with the free buffets. "What do you use your money on, really?" Marui asked as he held a package with some just-made buns from the school economics room.
"What do you think?" Jackal asked, annoyed. "I don't know, you had all that money yesterday, when we went out with Niou and Akaya," Marui said innocently and had totally forgotten about the mountain of food he ate the previous day, which Jackal bought (as usual). "Hey, isn't that Niou?" Marui asked and pointed at the the familiar guy with a rat-tail who seemed like he was spying on someone (he didn't look like a stalker).
"Yo, Niou." Marui greeted and got a 'shhhhhhh' back. Marui and Jackal only looked confused.
"IF YOU TWO DON'T SHUT UP SOON, I WILL KICK YOU OUT FOR GOOD!" An angry voice shouted from inside the bake-shop.
"What is going on inside there?" Marui asked as the noises quieted down.
"There's some kids fighting, puri." Niou smirked and continued watching. Jackal sighed. How could they be so immature?
"Ahh, he looks familiar." Marui sat beside Niou in the next second said surprised. They looked through the window at a curly haired 5 year old who seemed to be be apologizing and another child at 10, who didn't want to apologize and only got the bake-shop owner angrier.
"Does Akaya have a little brother or something?" Marui asked as studied the younger one. "I don't believe so, he only has an older sister." Jackal said as he sat beside the two others. "That was I thought too, but now I'm a little confused... puri." Niou said and stifled a laugh as each of the two (Sasuke and Akaya) got a smack in the head. "Well it's only one way to find out and by the way, I'm hungry, Jackal, the last of your money." Marui said and stood up.
"So don't fight here again." The owner said angrily and turned to walk back to where he came from.
"It's not even my fault." Akaya pouted as he patted the spot he got smacked. (Awwww, so cute.) "Most of it is." Sasuke grumbled.
"The usual, please." An all too familiar voice that belonged to Marui said.
Marui-senpai! I have to hide! Akaya thought and jumped behind Sasuke. "Why are you hiding?" Sasuke asked, annoyed. "I'm not hiding… I just… I just don't like seeing red hair." Akaya whispered the worst excuse ever.
"Marui-kun, glad to see you again." The woman behind the desk smiled and took up a pink box. "I had some extra money." Marui chuckled and gave her Jackal's money. "You are really rich, Marui-kun, where did you get the money from? It's not like some classmate of yours that is dark skinned, Brazilian, and bald is giving you the money, right?" She started laughing.
"Where did you get that silly idea from?" Marui laughed and pretended to be surprised as he looked at the two boys standing beside him, one of whom was sweat-dropping nervously, amazed at the woman's accuracy. "You, curly hair? You can't be… a relative of Kirihara Akaya?" Marui asked as he probably got a thumbs up from the author.
"N…no, I'm Totoya Ittoki." Akaya said and looked up at his senpai.
That is so Akaya's voice! I have heard that there's at least 3 people in the world that look like you, but I don't believe it's the same with voices. He is kind of cute… Marui thought and seriously wanted to ruffle the 5 year-old's hair. What if it is Akaya? We don't know what happens in this time and age. He ran away from training today… maybe he ended up at Seigaku and met that friend of Yanagi. That's impossible. Well… I can try… Marui thought to himself and chuckled at the silly idea.
"You know, Akaya, I have two tickets to terminator 5 and I was wondering if you want to go with me?!" Marui lied and looked at the child who lighted up like a Christmas tree. "Really, Marui- senpai?" Akaya asked excited and pushed Sasuke away.
"Akaya? It's really you." Marui said and took a hand to ruffle the younger boy's hair, just to be sure. "You found me out!" Akaya said and cursed. "So my apprentice has gotten even smaller… this might be a problem." Niou, who somehow had gotten beside Marui, said thoughtfully.
"Niou-senpai!" Akaya stuttered, surprised, and looked from one of his senpai to the others. "How did you end up like this, bratling?" Niou asked and sat down to just stare at Akaya. "I...It's not my fault! It was that creepy glasses guy." Akaya said in defense of himself. "You mean Inui-san?" Jackal asked as he came up to them.
"It's kind of strange." Marui said and continued to ruffle Akaya's hair. "What is?" Akaya asked innocent and looked at them with is big green eyes. Niou smirked and took the chance and answered. "Because you are actually once-in-a-lifetime... adorable."
"I'm NOT adorable!" Akaya protested,even though he sort of knew he was. "Just accept it." Sasuke said, who pushed his way through. "But I'm not adorable!" Akaya shouted louder and earned some curious stares. "Just accept it brat, you're adorable- but it's okay if you just want to be cute." Niou said reasonably, his ice-blue eyes flashing.
"Stop teasing him, we don't want any more trouble." Jackal, who suddenly became a man, said and got everyone's attention. "Thanks for being on my side." Akaya said and smiled. (Wait, what is wrong with you Akaya!?)
"You're getting too soft, if this continues I'll have to take you to my place." Niou said with a grown-up voice, his eyes positively sparkling with malice in the room.
"Ok, I don't know why you are calling him Akaya but I think it's time to go home." Sasuke interrupted. "Ahh, you're no fun, it's not surprising that you're a Sanada." Akaya sighed and yawned, thinking about his eerily similar fukubuchou. "I'm tired..." Akaya mumbled and wiped away a sleepy tear.
"Aww." Some girls giggled as they walked past them. Niou grinned and formed an idea. "Bratlling? Sit on my back, puri." Niou said in more of a demanding way and crouched down. "Don't wanna." Akaya protested and yawned. "Don't make this hard." Marui said, who for some reason still had his hand in the child's hair. "Don't wanna." Akaya continued childishly. "Puri..." Niou mumbled annoyed. "What did I say? Jackal!" Marui said and gave a sign to Jackal who sighed. Why did he always have to do this?
After a lot of struggling, Akaya was sleeping on Niou's back and Jackal had gotten a scar he would have forever, as a memento from that beautiful day.
"Aww, he's sooo cute. Is he your brother?" A girl asked as she came up to them at the street on their way home. "I'm only looking after him for my aunt, do we look alike?" Niou asked as he smiled at the girl. "Not at all." Marui mumbled as he ate some of the food from the pink box.
"That's so nice, what is his name?" The girl continued. "Totoya Ittoki." Sasuke said as he jumped in. "Totoya, cute name, Well, I have to go, bye." The girl said and waved.
"That was the 5th one." Jackal said, a little surprised as he had never gotten so close to a girl before, even though he had stood 4 meters away from her.
"It's because of my good looks." Niou said. "As the genius I am, it's only because of Akaya." Marui protested.
"Good looks."
"Akaya."
"Good looks."
"Akaya."
"Puri."
"Akaya."
"Don't fight, you'll wake him up," Jackal said, as he had learned a lot from babysitting Akaya all the time.
There was an awkward silence as the teammates and Sasuke walked back to the Sanada residence.
"Impressive house." Marui said as they looked at the traditional house that belonged to the Sanada's. "Where should I..." Niou was cut off by a lot of shouting.
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"What was that?" Jackal asked, a little suspicious. "Oji-san and baa-san are having their usual kendo practice with the students since grandfather, mum and dad are out. Yeah, and you can only place Totoya at the doorstep- baa-san will pick him up before he dies. Now, excuse me. I'll go and watch Dragon Ball Z." Sasuke said blankly and just walked away, well-versed with the routine.
As the boys stood there, some odd noises reached their ears. They stood there for a while, not exactly sure what to do. "Let's check it out." Niou finally said and walked toward the noises. The next second, all four of them were sitting behind a bush and watched as they saw a lot of 20 year-old guys swinging with wooden swords.
"What's going on?" Akaya asked as he started waking up. "You're up." Marui said and turned to the small child. "What is all this terrible noise?" Akaya asked as he climbed down from Niou's back. "Hey Aka-chan, do you want a 1 week supply of free ice cream?" Niou asked as he had his eyes set on a stand in the corner at the other side of the training.
"Hai..." Akaya mumbled and yawned as this day had lasted forever.
This is going to end badly, Jackal thought as could already feel his senses protesting Niou's offer. "What am I going to do?" Akaya asked as he looked up at Niou. "Easy, just take a wooden sword from that basket over there, without getting noticed." Niou said and gave him a thumbs up. "Marui, aren't you going to say something?" Jackal asked. "Film it." Marui said and gave Jackal a camera.
Akaya smiled confidently as he stood, plastered to the wall beside the open door, which lead to the room where the training was. Akaya looked inside. He was totally wrong. This was bad! How could be get through them? He wasn't good at math but it was at least 30 stk. there. But he had to do this. He couldn't disappoint Niou, and of course it was for ice cream (ahh... the joy).
"The last 40 now!" Sanada shouted as he eyed all the students that were actually older than him. "Hai!"
"You are too harsh Genichiro." Toshiyuki said, who had stopped 300 swings ago, as he sat with his back to the wall and smiled. "This is necessary for them- no one here should lose." Sanada said determined.
"Maybe I should crawl..." Akaya mumbled to himself as he got down on all four. It was now or never! For ice cream...! Three cheers!
"He's actually doing it." Niou smirked to himself as they watched Akaya crawl across the floor. "And to think that it's going so smoothly." Marui said and kept his eye on the child.
"What's that?" One of the students asked as he got a glimpse of something curly in the corner of his eye. Wait!? Was that a child?
Hope no one sees me, Akaya begged silently as he stood up with the basket of swords. So many! The unknown child took a hold of one of them and tried to take it out. It was heavy, had he gotten weaker or something?
The man that had noticed him stopped. "Hey, you!" Sanada shouted, hardly at him. "Hai!" The man replied hurriedly and swung his sword as he had never done so in his entire life.
Akaya dragged all he could, but how weak was he? Maybe if he could lean the basket down? He took a hold of the top and pulled. Wait? Wasn't the basket a little too... 15 minutes past twelve. It was so heavy. Akaya widened his eyes as it got a little too heavy.
"Ahh!" He yelped as the basket fell over and nearly crushed him. The sword Akaya had somehow managed dragged out from the back and hit one person in the head. Everyone fell as if they were all dominoes, choreographed to neatly fall over in a straight line. Sanada and Toshiyuki only watched as their students fell over.
"AKAYA!" Sanada shouted as he eyed the child who lay on his back beside the basket. Akaya froze and sat up.
"Did you get that on tape?" Niou and Marui asked as they turned over to look at Jackal. He nodded, a picture of total obedience.
Niou and Marui cackled in unison.
Akaya winced in pain and sniffed. "Don't be so angry Genichiro, it was an accident." Toshiyuki said as he ran up to the child.
"An accident..." Sanada mumbled and gritted his teeth. "Niou, Marui, Jackal!" He shouted and got the three spies attention.
"Come out!"
Afterwards, 3 boys stood in front of their fukubuchou as all the other students was holding their laughs inside (barely). "I cannot tolerate this kind of act- 100, 0004 laps on Monday!"
"Why the extra four laps?" Marui asked, not paying attention to the number 100,000. Sanada ignored them and sighed. How could they act like that?
"Sanada-fukubuchou, I'm sorry." Akaya said as he turned away from Toshiyuki. Sanada looked down at those cute green eyes. Damn... What was it with those eyes? If Akaya had been himself, he would have slapped him and asked him to run 300 laps, but now... "It's alright." Sanada said and smiled. (Creepy!) "Ehhhhhhh!? How is this possible!" The author shouted...
