Chapter 7 – The Beginning of the End

Author's Note

I have to be completely honest here, I'm more making this up as I go, I didn't really have much of a title nor a plot until I got done with the first chapter xD, this will also be a pretty short chapter.

10:30 AM Sunday, September 6th, 2009

I wake up and spring out of bed, but to my surprise, I find nobody in my room.
"Huh, this seems almost too good to be true." I say, filled with paranoia.

I shake off my paranoia and walk out to the kitchen, where I find nobody here.

"Just where is everyone?" I ask and sit down and make some breakfast for myself.

I eat my breakfast and walk over to the secret base to see if anyone is there.

Twenty minutes later I arrive at the Secret Base, to where I don't even find Cookie here.

"Okay… So there's nobody hear either." I say and walk out of the secret base. "Maybe old man Tesshin knows where they went."

I start walking over to the Kawakami Temple, where I think about where they might have gone.

"Hmm, they've never said anything recently on if they're going anywhere, so I'm starting to think that there is something else going on here." I think to myself. "I wouldn't doubt it if they were pulling a prank on me, they haven't pulled one on me in a while. If old man Tesshin doesn't know where they are, I'll just go to the Tama River banks and sleep for a while."

I arrive at the Kawakami Temple fifteen minutes later and see Tesshin and Lu in the courtyard.

"Hey, old man, you know where Nee-san and the others went?" I ask him.

"I told you to stop calling me old man! And no, I don't know where they went, they wouldn't tell me." He replies.

"I thought so; they're probably pulling a prank on me." I say and walk out of the Kawakami Temple and start walking to the Tama River banks.

I arrive at the Tama River banks ten minutes later and lay down by the Tama River and go to sleep.

Six Hours Later…

I wake up, seeing a world of darkness and suffocation.

"It must be Tatsuko again." I think to myself.

I push the figure off of me, and that it was indeed Tatsuko.

"Just what am I going to do with you?" I ask her, but she doesn't respond.

I hang my head and decide to do some more jogging to build up some endurance.

"First, let's run around the outskirts of Kawakami, and then do a bit of sprinting in the city." I say to myself, and start training.

After about ten minutes of training, I detect a presence that is following me, so I decide to slow down and take a break, to see whoever it is that's trying to follow me.

"The Presence is there, in that bush" I think to myself, and open the bush to find Angel from the Itagaki Siblings.

"Angel, what the hell are you doing following me?" I ask her.

"Shit, I've been discovered." She says.

"I can detect presences." I respond. "It was pretty easy to tell that someone was following me."

"Well, looks like I have to do this the old-fashioned way." She says and attacks me.

I dodge it and say "What the hell!? Why are you attacking me!?"

I detect Tatsuko's presence, and soon learn she's trying to sneak attack me, but I easily counter it and knock her to the ground, but she gets back up.

Tatsuko says "Don't take this personally; I still love you! It's just business!"

"Let's just stay as, well sleeping friends, I guess you could say." I reply. "And what the hell do you want with me!?"

"Can't tell you!" Angel exclaims. "Can't explain a client's business with outsiders!"

Angel performs a flying kick at me, but I slide under it and start running.

"Do you think you two can catch me?" I ask. "I've had all the girls from the Kazama Family and a German Military Officer chase after me all at once, and couldn't catch me!"

I start running to my favorite escape route: the Tama River Bridge.

I make it in seven minutes to the Tama River Bridge and wait for them to catch up, as I've left them in the dust with the recent training that I've been doing.

"Looks like all that running and endurance building really paid off." I say to myself.

When they get near, I decide to do a stylish jump off of the Tama River Bridge.

"Sorry, you guys just can't catch me!" I say and backflip off the guard rail, landing in the Tama River perfectly and unhurt, and start swimming underwater as fast as I can.

"Damn, he got away." Said Tatsuko. "Why can't my beloved Yamato just give up?"

"You should know by now he doesn't give up that easily, it'll probably take all of us Itagaki Siblings to catch him." Says Angel. "Let's go back home."

"Okay." Says Tatsuko, displeased. "I wanted to play with Yamato first though."

Angel sighs and asks "You just don't listen, do you?"

Two of the Itagaki Siblings walk away from the Tama River, while I'm still underwater.

As soon as they are out of sight, I re-surface for air.

"Whew, that was challenging for my lungs." I say to myself and swim to the banks of the Tama River and head back to the Dorm. "I need to be more careful from now on, as the Itagaki Siblings are after me for some reason."

I walk back to the Shimazu Dorm, to where I still find nobody here.

"That's really strange." I say to myself. "Just where is everyone?"

I look around the Shimazu Dorm and still find nobody here, as if it was deserted a long time ago.

"Well, whatever, I guess I'll just watch some TV then." I say and walk off to my room to watch some TV.

I open the door and find Nee-san asleep on the futon.

"What in the hell…" I say.

I lightly kick Nee-san and say "Come on, get off of my futon."

She turns in her sleep, clearly not wanting to get up.

I sigh and say "Oh whatever, I don't need my futon to watch TV."

I step over Nee-san and watch some TV while Nee-san sleeps.

Nee-san mutters in her sleep "Hey Yamato, want to play Live Action Creature Hunter?*"

"I feel sorry for myself in that dream." I remark.

"No, you don't want to play Live Action Creature Hunter? How about I try some new moves on you?" she asks the Yamato in her dreams.

"Man I REALLY feel sorry for myself in that dream." I remark again, and lightly chuckle.

After about 45 minutes, Nee-san finally wakes up.

"About time you got out of my futon." I remarked.

"Huh? Yamato? What are you doing in my room?" She asks and prepares to try some new torture moves on me.

"Actually, you're in MY room sleeping on MY futon." I say.

"Wait, I am?" she asks.

"Yeah, you can clearly see that Yadon and Karin are right there." I say while pointing toward the hermit crab tank.

"What was I doing in your room?" she asks herself, but I manage to hear it.

"Don't tell me you got drunk off Kawakami Water again and forgot what you did for the whole day." I say.

"No I didn't!" Nee-san exclaims. "Well, at least I don't remember that I did."

I sigh and say "Damnit Nee-san, I told you to stop drinking Kawakami Water."

"Yeah, and you tell me not to gamble either, and I do it anyway." She replies.

"Yeah, and that's why I don't loan you any more money and don't help you out with your debt anymore." I remark.

"Do you know where everyone else is?" I ask her.

"No, I can't remember anything about today." she replies.

I sigh and say "So you really were drunk off of Kawakami Water. Can you get off of my futon now?"

"No, you're futon is comfy." She replies. "I want to sleep here."

I sigh and say "Oh fine, I'll get my other futon."

"Wait, you have two futons?" she asks.

"Yeah, just in case the other one rips or something like this happens." I reply.

I lay down my other futon on the other side of the room and say "Well, while you were doing whatever you were doing today, I got attacked by the Itagaki Siblings."

Nee-san bolts up from the futon and exclaims "WHAT!?"

"Yeah, Tatsuko and Angel attacked me and tried to catch me, but they wouldn't tell me why, they said it was 'just business." I reply.

"Well, looks like we need to make sure you don't get captured then." She says.

"Don't worry about that," I reply. "If I can dodge you five and Margit for an entire day, the Itagaki Siblings won't be much of a problem, now I'm going to sleep."

I turn off the TV and lay down in my second futon, and fall asleep.

Nee-san sighs after I fall asleep and says "I really don't have a good feeling about this; I have a feeling Tatsuko wants to take Yamato for herself or something, because there really isn't anybody that will try to kidnap Yamato."

"This could very well be the Beginning of the End."

Nee-san goes back into her (My) futon and goes back to sleep.

End of Chapter 7

*VN Anime Reference, Momoyo basically pins Yamato to the ground while she unbuttons his shirt, which was kind of funny.