Chapter 6: Oishi's Disheartening Poem
"Morning, senpai-tachi." Ryoma yawned as he entered the locker room. I really need to sleep earlier, he grumbled.
Fuji commented cheerfully on Ryoma's earliness with a slightly surprised smile. Ryoma shrugged nonchalantly, while muttering a grumpy reply.
Tezuka, on the other hand, glanced at the first year passively because he was cool like that…
Oishi decided that moment would be perfect to question Ryoma on Momo's current whereabouts.
"He called me at 6AM saying something similar to 'go ahead without me.' I think he might be sick or training with Kaidoh-senpai."
"Fsssssssssh… Did someone mention me?" Kaidoh hissed as he entered the locker rooms.
"Maa, there goes one of your theories, Echizen," Fuji chuckled, "He could have been struck with some inspiration for his poem and written it..."
"At six in the morning? I doubt it. Besides, does it really take that long to write a poem?" Ryoma said.
Inui, Fuji, Kikumaru, and Kaidoh all agreed that it shouldn't take more than thirty minutes to write a decent poem unless you're having trouble picking the right words.
"We should be getting ready for practice," Oishi said quietly while looking out the nearest window.
"Nya… Is there something wrong, Oishi?" Kikumaru said curiously. He quickly jumped up from the bench he was sitting on to lightly glomp Oishi.
"Eh? Nothings wrong, Eiji." Oishi replied in a completely unconvincing tone while sweat dropping.
Kikumaru muttered quietly something along the lines of "I doubt that." He decided glomping Ryoma would cheer him up, and glomped the said first year. Ryoma wasn't too pleased as he was still sore from the last time Kikumaru decided to glomp him, which was yesterday.
Meanwhile, Fuji declared that there was something wrong with Oishi and said, "All the non-regulars, including Inui, please leave the room, now. Inui don't give me that look. You're currently not a regular. You can stay… Um… Never mind, Momo's not here yet."
Tezuka frowned on the inside and muttered about how Fuji could have left the ordering to him, but he's not that mad. After all Fuji is his friend… So he would let it go this time. But heck, HE was the captain! And Fuji wasn't going to get off that easily.
As for Inui, he was rather upset. Some much for being a former regular… What had he done to make Fuji dislike him? Oh, yeah. Aozu. Right…
After the non-regular's left the locker room Fuji turned to Oishi smiling like his usual self. "What was I going to say? Oh, yes. Oishi, go ahead and tell us what's wrong. We can help… Sort of. We, including Tezuka of course."
Tezuka inwardly sighed. Why did he always get dragged into these kinds of situations without his consent?
"Ah, arigatou Fuji," Oishi said. He forced a smile and handed the nearest person a piece of paper, which obviously had a poem on it. Oishi doesn't give people blackmail info or that sort of thing. Anyway, the nearest person happened to be Tezuka, who grumpily handed the poem to Fuji.
Fuji had the honor of reading yet another poem aloud. Oishi's poem was:
My fish are fun to watch
I had one but Eiji gave me two
Ah! I see one, looks like it's having fun…
Hmm? I see two; this one is orange and blue.
There are three fish in my fish tank,
But where is the third?
Oh-on! It has died!
I would have cried,
If it weren't for the fact that I'm busy…
"Eh? Oishi-senpai, one of your fish died?" Kaidoh questioned.
"Yeah…" Oishi sighed. He glanced out the window dejected looking extremely dejected.
"Nya, what color was it?" Kikumaru asked, while trying to keep his hyper-ness at bay. He was oblivious to the fact that he shouldn't have asked. "Oh-no! What if it was Nemo?!"
"Eiji… You named them?" Oishi asked looking confused.
"Yep! The big blue one is Dori, the small orange one is Nemo, and the playful green and red one is John."
Oishi slowly let what Kikumaru said register.
"That means… Nemo died…" Oishi said slowly.
"Nya! I was right…!" Kikumaru gasped and almost ran away sobbing, but he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings and crashed into Taka-san. Oishi on the other hand ran straight out the door to his special thinking place… Wait… He has one of those?!
Fuji glanced from Kikumaru who fainted after running into Taka-san, to the other regulars, to Inui and Momo who had rushed in to see what had happened, back to the other regulars. "Saa, what just happened?"
"Um… You read a-" Ryoma started but he was cut off by Fuji's light glare.
"I'd like a short explanation."
"Fsssh… It looks like Oishi-senpai's fish, the one that Kikumaru-senpai named Nemo, died. Most likely both Oishi-senpai and Kikumaru-senpai were emotionally attached to Nemo…" Kaidoh explained. Fuji smiled in appreciation.
"Shouldn't we wake him up?" Inui suggested. He was pointing at Kikumaru.
"Right," everyone muttered.
Dang writer's block! I haven't updated in a really long time… Sorry everyone. –bows- I'm probably not going to do anymore poems. Meaning this fanfic is almost over! You, as the kind reader, must pick which poet you think is best.
This chapter was supposed to be longer. I'll upload the other half (probably more than half…) soon… Go ahead and start voting. And I need to stop staying up so late to type chapters. Anyway, vote and review… -falls asleep-