Sorry for the wait, I have been on vacation. Hope you enjoy! I wrote this a long time ago so I couldn't use your idea KyokoYukimi.
And that camping idea, I don't know anymore…
Chapter 7: Hyotei arc part 3
"What are we going to do now?" Akaya asked as he and Jiro walked down a random street. "I know, we can play tennis!" Akaya said and answered his own question.
"Don't worry," Jiro said as he suddenly became a more responsible boy. (They grow so fast… *wipes away a tear*). The two walked into a movie rental store.
"But I want to play tennis... you're probably not very strong, but that's okay," Akaya said with a pleading voice and tried to lure in Jiro with his biggest puppy eyes.
"No." Jiro said and ignored the puppy eyes.
Why doesn't it work on him? This is the first person ever that has denied my puppy eye power! I thought he was the weakest person on the Hyotei team…
"What do you have planned, then?" Akaya asked, feeling a little annoyed because his ultimate trump card had been defeated.
"We're going to watch a movie! I know an awesome one we can watch too!" Jiro said with excitement in his voice as he held up the cover for Akaya to see.
"Lucky, seriously? Only little kids watch that!" Akaya grumbled as he looked at the title.
"It's a sad story about a dog... I think, but I fell asleep last time," Jiro said thoughtfully and scratched the back of his head with an oh-well expression.
"That means the movie's boring. Why can't we watch… Terminator 2 or 4?" Akaya asked, his kiddie spirit kicking in.
"Those movies are scary…" Jiro mumbled and yawned.
"What about…" Akaya looked around in the rental store. What movie have I not seen... what movie has pretty girls in it?
"What about this one?" Jiro asked as held up a movie with the name Zombi no hoteru. Akaya jumped back at the sight of his worst nightmare.
"N…no, l…let's take… this!" Akaya said and picked a random one. The Notebook, it said in English. Whatever that meant…
"The Notebook… sure, I guess... but didn't Atobe fall asleep crying last time we watched it...?" Jiro mumbled, but nodded anyways.
From what Jiro could remember, the movie was full of hot chicks. But… what did he know? He had fallen asleep when they watched it a couple months ago.
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"I can feel my genius senses tingling," Marui declared to Niou as they stepped off the bus.
"Really," Niou said. "Just remember, you owe me for the bus fare so go withdraw some money from that ATM now."
"Evil..." Marui grumbled as he shuffled over to the ATM. He walked back to where Niou was standing and saw him staring at something.
"What's that?" Marui looked closer, and saw it was a movie rental place. Niou was staring at something inside...
Suddenly, both of them heard a very familiar voice.
"But… what does The Notebook mean?" It was definitely Akaya, saying an English word. What was going on? Something terrible must have happened since Akaya said an English word. Was doomsday near?
"Notobukku. Or ノート," Another voice that registered as Hyotei's Akutagawa, otherwise known as Marui's stalker.
"That's Akaya and the Hyotei kid," Niou mumbled and dragged Marui into a corner so they wouldn't be seen.
"They're going to watch The Notebook! We have to stop them before it's too late and Akaya gets scarred for life," Niou said with a worried and determined tone.
"What's so wrong with The Notebook?" Marui asked blankly. His cousin had told him about it and apparently she had loved it.
"You don't want to experience the pain I went through when my sister's friends forced me to watch it," Niou replied with a depressed expression.
"So how are we going to stop them?" Marui asked, reasonably convinced.
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Niou said and pointed at himself with a smug grin. Game on!
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"You have a wii?" Akaya asked with sparkling eyes. It was his most-wanted item at the moment; Akaya looked excitedly around Jiro's living room.
"A PS3, Xbox, and a gigantic flat screen TV?" Akaya asked incredulously as he floated upwards into heaven.
"Atobe gave it to me," Jiro said as he came into the living room carrying chips with dip and of course a fabulous array of sweets.
Akaya drooled for a moment before he realized that Jiro was talking about Atobe, saru no taishou.
"Atobe, that monkey… I mean, why did he buy this for you? Isn't he a spoiled assho... I mean, why did he buy all this stuff for you?" Akaya asked curiously. He wished that Sanada would give him all that too, but that wasn't about to come true (not yet).
"It was for my birthday last year. He gave me a signed portrait of Marui-sama too..." Jiro said with an adoring smile on his face as he set down the tray.
"But Marui-senpai never..." Akaya stopped in the middle of his sentence and started coughing violently.
"Are you okay?" Jiro asked concernedly as he ruffled the younger boy's hair, who in turn coughed even harder.
"What's in that dip?!" Akaya screamed as he recovered, pointing to the green stuff. "Wasabi," Jiro said bluntly.
"Wasabi?! Who uses wasabi as dip?" Akaya shouted and tried to get the taste out of his mouth by stuffing a couple million chips into his mouth.
Oh. That's right. Fuji uses wasabi as dip.
"Is this his house?" Niou asked as he looked through the bushes and squinted.
"Yeah, of course! Are you doubting my genius memory?" Marui asked, a little offended.
"Yes," Niou said. "I feel like I haven't said puri in a long time though... puri."
"We can find something else to eat, then." Jiro said and stood up. "I'm not trusting you anymore, so I'll choose," Akaya said and followed him out f the room.
"The door's open," Marui said and pointed at the glass door that faced them.
"And they have chocolate, chips, and dip," Niou mumbled as they snuck up to the wall beside the door like ninjas.
"They have already set the CD in the DVD player. We need to hurry," Niou said dead seriously, his eyes betraying no hint of mirth.
"I want that one!" The two froze as they heard Akaya's childish whine.
"But those are the cookies my little sis made, and if you eat them, she'll get mad. She's scary when she gets mad," Jiro said and whimpered slightly.
"What about that one?" Akaya's voice asked as Niou and Marui pressed themselves tightly against the wall.
"That's my brother's exclusive ice cream. He'll kill you if you touch it," Jiro said nonchalantly and yawned, something he hadn't done in a while.
"How about this? It helped my dad when my mom made him eat her famous pudding as punishment," Jiro said and held up a bottle with English written on it.
"Sure," Akaya said and took the bottle. He had no idea what the labels said, but it couldn't be poison, could it?
Niou mouthed to Marui: 'Save Akaya from Being Scarred for Life Plus a Little Bit of Cake Operation 1A'. Marui nodded, fist pumping silently.
The sound of voices getting closer startled both of them. Niou jumped out of the door, but stopped as Marui hadn't followed. He turned around and saw the red-haired boy dipping a chip into something green that was probably guacamole.
"What are you doing?" Niou hissed loud enough for Marui to hear. "I'm not leaving without a taste of this. I love chips and dip!" Marui hissed back.
"Well, a tiny bit can't hurt, can it?" Niou mumbled and tip-toed to the bowl of chips. He had a fondness for chips and guacamole as well; who didn't? (Probably Sanada.)
"What's this?" Akaya asked and held up the bottle of whatever it was as they walked down the hallway.
"I think it's called Solo, my mom bought it when she went to Norway on a business trip," Jiro said and yawned once again. He had only slept five times today... how troublesome...
"Norway? My mom went to Denmark once. Isn't that, like, right next to Africa or something?" Akaya mumbled as he looked at the yellow liquid inside the bottle. Suddenly, they heard a strangled scream from within the living room.
Jiro and Akaya looked at each other for a second and ran into the living room. Akaya instantly recognized the two figures.
"Marui-senpai? Niou-senpai? What are you two doing here?" Akaya shouted in surprise and completely overlooked the fact that the two people were writhing on the floor, convulsing painfully as they screamed for water.
"Aren't these flowers beautiful? Tokyo has some very nice specimens," Yukimura said to Sanada as they walked along the road.
Sanada nodded, pulling his cap down.
"Oh... those are some finely cultivated cacti... isn't this the Micropuntia species? Maybe I should tell Fuji about this..." Yukimura said with interest.
"We're nearing Akutagawa-san's house," Sanada noted, not paying attention to his best friend's monologue on cacti and their qualities.
"Bye, Akutagawa!" Marui said as they exited his house. "Please come again, Marui-sama, Akaya, ojii-san!" Jiro said and waved goodbye.
"What did he just call me?!" Niou snarled; all of a sudden he had the look of a murderer.
"I can't deny him; you look old with grey hair," Marui said and smirked.
"Stop acting like me, puri. And besides, my hair is silver. Silver. Not grey." Niou said between gritted teeth. If he hadn't had Bakaya on his back, sleeping away, he would've strangled Marui for calling his hair grey.
Atobe's hair was grey. His, however, was metallic silver.
"You know, the last three hours have a bit fuzzy. I don't seem to remember anything." Marui mumbled to himself. "Strange, I can't seem to remember either…" Niou added.
"TARUNDORU! Niou, Marui!" They heard a shout from further down the road. They froze as the familiar buchou and fukubuchou came into sight.
Sanada's eyes looked like lasers. Yukimura only tilted his head and smiled, a signal that they were about to die.
"They have ice-cream and chocolate smeared all over their faces," Yukimura whispered to Sanada who nodded and intensified his glare. Marui and Niou gulped.
The two soon-to-be-dead Rikkai players stood stock still. Only Akaya's innocent snores punctuated the lightning tension in the air as Sanada struggled to contain his fury (Yukimura's cacti monologue had annoyed him to death, so he was even more volatile at that moment).
"Did you hear that, nya?" Eiji asked as hit the ball back to Momoshiro. "Hear what?" Momoshiro asked as sent the ball back.
"Kikumaru Beam!" Eiji shouted as the ball passed by a distracted Momoshiro. "You heard it, right, Oishi?" Eiji turned to his doubles partner who sat watching them, drinking out of a water bottle.
"No, Eiji, I didn't hear a thing," Oishi answered, a little worried. "What was that?!" Momoshiro exclaimed as something also registered in his ears.
"Stupid peach head, something's obviously wrong with your ears and brain," Kaidoh muttered arrived onto the court.
"What did you say, mamushi? Obviously you have something wrong with your ears, since you didn't hear it!" Momoshiro shouted angrily.
"What was that, peach head? Wanna fight? Fssshhhh..." Kaidoh asked as he grabbed Momoshiro's collar. Momoshiro grinned evilly and did the same. They stared at each other, both insulting each other loudly.
"Don't fight, Momo, Kaidoh," Oishi said and tried separate them. He suddenly fell to the ground as it started shaking. "Earthquake?" Kawamura mumbled.
"Strange. According to my data, the epicenter should've been in Kanagawa. However, it is coming from Tokyo in the Hyotei area," Inui said and started to write in his notebook.
"I sense evil intentions in this earthquake," Fuji said and smiled serenely.
Hyotei arc end
