DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Gravitation and Prince of Tennis… not now…not ever…
5. Plane Trip
The trip on the plane was long and uneventful, but it certainly is interesting. The vocalists naturally grouped together…except Ryoma. He was content to sleep with Karupin on his lap.
"Yeah, by the way, why is Shu-chan so sad?" Eiji finally had the chance to ask.
"He misses Yuki," Ryuichi answered for Shuichi. He was too depressed to function.
"Yuki?"
"His lover," Ryuichi hugged Kumagoro tight as if to prove his point.
"L-Lover?" Eiji blinked his eyes at the odd choice of words.
"Hai, Yuki went to US to do some research, Yuki is a novelist you know…" Shuichi said in a dull voice. He left him for his work…for his book. Suddenly, Yuki's job didn't seem so great.
Eiji seem to think otherwise. "Whoa! That's so cool!" his eyes lit up in excitement. "Your Yuki must be really smart." Ryuichi nodded in agreement.
My Yuki? Shuichi pondered on that. Yuki was the love of his life, Yuki was his lover, Yuki was his! Yes! Shuichi's mood quickly lightened.
"Yeah, you know, Yuki is…" and he launched to the tale of their love story.
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Just like the vocalists, some force of nature caused the intellectuals to end up together…well, except Momoshiro.
Oishi and Fujisaki were exchanging outrageous stories about their bands.
"Once Shindou-san was in a slump, we stayed in the studio for a week." That was before the Tokyo Bay Music Fest.
"We run in the sunset for a week too, because of Inui's juice." Momoshiro shared.
"When Shindou-san lost his voice, Sakano-san hired sumo-wrestlers to force him to talk."
"Once our bass guitarist, Kaidoh got amnesia," Oishi recalled, in which Momoshiro laughed out loud. Kaidoh who was seating behind them, suddenly stood up.
"You're so noisy! Shut up, will you?!" he was red in the face.
"We were just talking here, you shut up!"
The Band of Prince members were used to this, so they didn't pay them any attention but Bad Luck and Nittle Grasper stared at them. Inui signaled for Kawamura to stop Momoshiro and Kaidoh, he handed him some drum sticks.
"Burning!!!" he waved his arm around. "Stop it! Both of you shut up! Now!!"
Tohma was amused at the ruckus the Band of Prince members were making. He smiled at them.
"Interesting members you have," he said to Fuji who was reading beside him.
"You too," Fuji smiled back. He was looking at Ryuichi who was showing Eiji and Shuichi, Kumagoro's attack moves.
"Should I say I am honored to be in the same tour as Tensai Fuji?" Tohma asked. The newspapers has been fond of calling him a prodigy.
"I should be the one saying that. You're band's practically a legend."
The two keyboardist exchanged smiles.
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Momoshiro decided to just stay away from Kaidoh, so he sat next to Hiroshi instead. The guy was checking his phone every few seconds.
"You expecting a call or something?" he asked. The guy looked up from his phone.
"Yeah, actually my girl told me she'd call but didn't tell me when," Hiro explained.
"Shimata!" Momoshiro clutched at his pocket, he produced his phone too. Ann told him exactly the same thing.
"What? You expecting a call too?" it was Hiro's turn to ask him.
"Yeah, my g-girl," he stuttered at the words. "…told me she'd call me too, although she's not really my girl…" his voice lowered, it was the first time he talked about this, he didn't know what made him open up to Hiro, but he did, since no one in the Band of Prince could give him any advice. But actually, Ann wasn't officially 'his' he knows that she still sees other guys beside him. Like that Taekwondo blackbelt Kizarasu Atsushi of St. Rudolphs, and that marathon runner from Fudomine, Akira Kamio.
"That's a real tough situation you got yourself into…"
"Yeah, tell me about it." He said. Hiro shared some of his problems with his girlfriend too.
Soon the two spent the rest of the trip trying to figure out girls and their mind games.
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Meanwhile, there was a girl on the plane who is up to her mind games right now. Noriko was seating beside Tezuka, fawning over him.
"So…what do you do on your free time?" she asked. She made her red fingernail trace the arm of the seat between them. Her eyes blinked flirtatiously.
"Practice…" he said, looking ahead.
Noriko wasn't able to get another word out of him after that.
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In New York, Yuki was just getting ready to go to Chicago. It was the second setting of his story.
It was where the protagonists would meet his partner.
Sorry it took so long.. and I wrote so little.. and they're still not in U.S. *whimper*
gomenasai! gomenasai! I'll update next week to make up for it! Promise!
