Glass 6: Sea activities and the return of 'Spring Water'
Rokkaku was at the beach collecting clams again.
"Oji, do you think this is enough?" Bane asked. He carried two buckets of clams over.
Saeki laughed because he, Ryo, and Davide also had two buckets each.
"You guys got too many again," Oji said slowly.
"Ah! That means we have to put them back right? That's gonna take a while…" Bane muttered.
"We're finding mussels using our muscles. Pfth!" Davide chuckled
Bane whacked him up side the head. "I'm sick of your lame jokes! You said that last time. What, are you running out of puns?"
"Usu."
"Why I outta- Wait what did you say?" Bane asked. He was confused.
"Usu," Davide replied.
"…Can I have some ice cream?" Davide asked incredulously
"Usu," Davide replied.
"Can I take over the world?"
"Usu."
"…Cool…" Bane said. His brain crashed and he stood there lifelessly, not that anyone noticed.
"Has anyone seen Itsuki and Kentaroh?" Ryou asked.
"Ne, why is the sky blue?" Itsuki asked. He had magically appeared behind Saeki causing him to jump. Wait… Since when does Saeki jump? Hmm… Bah, never mind.
"Umm, well… It's blue because of a combination of the sun's rays and the gases in the Earth's atmosphere, or something like that. Something about refraction and reflection that I can't really remember…" Saeki stated.
"Ehhh? It's just like Saeki to know something like that," Shudo Satoshi muttered.
The regulars all jumped a full meter into the air this time.
"W-who the heck are you?! Or better yet where'd you come from?" Bane roared angrily.
Shudo frowned, sat in the sand, and began doing whatever forgotten people do.
"Nya, look Fuji, it's the Rokkaku tennis team!" a cheerful voice shouted.
Saeki and the other whipped around to face the voice and stepped back in fear when they saw Inui carrying a cooler. They chilled out a bit when they saw the other Seigaku regulars and were about to frolic over to them, when they remembered that tennis player don't frolic. So instead they jogged over calmly and greeted the new comers cheerfully.
"How's it going Fuji? It's been a while," Saeki said pleasantly.
"Saa, Yuuta said he'd get here eventually so we can have a mini reunion type celebration. What were you guys doing earlier?" Fuji asked.
"We were trying to remember who Shudo Satoshi was. Then Itsuki asked why the sky was blue. So basically we weren't doing much," Saeki replied.
"I see… Well, since we're at the beach, we should have another beach volleyball tournament or do some random-but-fun sea activity," Fuji said as he got one of those looks in his eyes. You know…. The one where he's obviously trying to devise some really fun way to make other people smile.
"That'd be awesome! Say, where'd the rest of your team go?" Kentaroh interjected randomly ask he barged into the beach.
"Tezuka-bucho went hiking in Alaska with his family. Kawamura-senpai and Oishi-senpai went to climb up Fuji-san," Ryoma said grumpily.
"Wait what? They're climbing up to your house, Fuji-san?" Kentaroh asked stupidly.
"Huh? How would they do that? My house isn't in a place you can climb to reach." Fuji muttered with a quizzical expression on his face.
"Um… I don't know?" Kentaroh replied.
"Heh, did Kentaroh bump his head really hard on something, or did he forget that Fuji-san can refer to Mount Fuji?" Momo asked
"Nah, he's just weird like that. Maybe Inui-kun's drinks affected his brain. By the way, what happened to Kaidoh-kun?" Ryou asked.
"Oh, him? Mamushi said he was training and ran away from us before we could force him to come." Momo said cheerfully.
"He doesn't want to do some awesome sea activities?" Ryou questioned as if anyone who didn't like sea activities was insane, which is totally true!
"No, he likes them as much as the next person, but Inui-senpai was coming too, with his cooler." Momo replied.
Ryou nodded as if he understood. Then the two walked over to see what everyone else was doing. Fuji and Saeki were conversing about their families and stuff like that, Kikumaru was trying to escape Itsuki's questions, Ryoma and Oji were buying drinks, and Inui was trying to convince Kentaroh to make his team drink his Inui juice.
"So… Will this drink enhance our tennis abilities?" Kentaroh asked.
"Why of course it will." Inui said before coughing suspiciously.
"Will it… make my teammate to listen to me?" Kentaroh asked eagerly.
"I don't see why not. It makes my teammates listen to me." Inui said.
"What's it called? It's not that Iwashi Mizu stuff, is it?" Kentaroh asked.
"No, it's Akazu. And the other one I brought is Aozu. So which one will it be: the blue type or the red?" Inui replied. He was growing a little impatient with all these questions.
"Um…" Kentaroh scratched his head, unable to decide. Inui glared angrily, but not really because you can't see his eyes though those glasses of his.
"Hmm… The red one looks suspicious. So, I'll just go for the Aozu." Kentaroh stated cheerfully. Poor him, he'd forgotten what happened at the volleyball incident.
Isn't it great that everyone's so cheerful in this chapter? Just imagine the crash that is likely to take place in the next chapter and that ought to bring a smile to your face. No? That's too bad…
"You have chosen wisely. Perhaps, you have been watching random videos on youtube?" Inui said deviously. Kentaroh cowered in fear, in his mind, and shook his head vigorously.
"I see; then perhaps I need to find new vic- I mean test subjects." Inui muttered to himself as he walked away.
Kentaroh eyed his suspiciously, but soon forgot to be worried because Fuji had managed to set up teams for another beach volleyball tournament!
The afternoon was spent with a mini-tournament: Fuji-Kikumaru versus Saeki-Itsuki, followed by Ryoma-Kentaroh versus Davi-Bane, and finally Inui-Ryou versus Oji- Shudo Satoshi.
Fuji and Kikumaru managed to pull a victory off Saeki and Itsuki because Itsuki was bothered by Satoshi's presence. Inui and Ryou lost to Oji and Satoshi in a sum what surprising and unsettling victory, while Ryoma and Kentaroh also upset some of the older player by miraculously beating Davide and Bane.
Then the three pairs pulled straws to see who got the bye. Oji with his dumb luck and awesome elderly person skills pulled the shortest straw, while Fuji and Ryoma got those huge straws. They weren't looking when they pulled, obviously.
"Wait… Kentaroh, how did we beat Davide and Bane?" Ryoma asked as the two walked to some random place for their quick break.
"I used my awesome freshman skills!" Kentaroh shouted, attracting way more attention then Ryoma had intended.
Ryoma muttered something along the line of "you don't have any of those" and walked away. Kentaroh just grinned stupidly at some random girls and followed his 'friend'.
During round two of the volleyball contest Fuji-Kikumaru team literally smashed Ryoma and Kentaroh into the sand. Ryoma glared angrily at the two. They didn't have to spike the stupid ball so dang hard, but nooo… They smashed the ball as if the world would end if Kentaroh ad himself weren't ground into the sand.
The final match ended with Satoshi getting knocked out, which meant Fuji and Kikumaru won by default. While Fuji didn't seem very excited by winning like that the two celebrated for a bit bout it. Then the Rokkaku and Seigaku regulars buried the extra clams back into the sand, and left for the bus stop.
From there the Seigaku regulars present left for Tokyo, while the Rokkaku regulars walked home because their homes weren't take far from the beach.
破滅のロンドRondo towards destruction… In this case Rokkaku's destruction.
Sorry for taking more than my fair share of months to update this fanfic. I don't have a good excuse so I'll just say that I should be updating a little faster in the future. I've finally over come my writers block and have a general idea for what to do for the Rokkaku arc of this story. Expect a chapter a few weeks from now.