Besides the extra chapter, this has got to be my favorite. I'm a Golden Pair fan, so you will see why that is unless you can figure it out from the chapter title if you've seen the Dream Live. So, there is only chapters 10 and the extra chapter and then its over. I will upload the first chapter of the second story though, a long with the last two of this one.
A warning for those of you who will be reading the next one also. It's a little more… serious. It will have Mizuki and Yuuta in it and you know how Fuji feels about Mizuki. Let's just say that both Mizuki and Yuuta… snap. That one will also have a lot more sexual references courtesy of Fuji.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, nya!
"This font is for the concert."
"This font is for real life."
Ps. If any of you like the Dirty Pair (Oshitari/Gakuto) please read my story Sleepy Kisses. I'm thinking of making it a one-shot collection and I would love your input and opinions, nya!
Chapter Nine- The Picture of Embarrassment
Tezuka: Alright! Practice.
Eiji: We already practiced!
Tezuka: We're all here.
Kaidoh: We already practiced.
Momo: No, Echizen's not here!
Seigaku: Oh, right, right!
Echizen tugged his cap down over his face. "Che, you just realized that? Mada mada dane."
Eiji: Ochibi-chan!
Momo: Echizen!
Echizen ran on the stage.
Nanjiroh: Just wait a second. It's better if a little sock is showing, huh? And your hat is really important, isn't it? Alright, go for it.
Echizen: I'm leaving.
Nanjiroh: Wait, wait! Hold on! Ryoma, let's pull your shirt out a little.
Echizen: Leave it, oyaji!
Nanjiroh: Be good. Don't pick on him!
Momo: Who was that?
Oishi: Who were you just arguing with? Echizen, are you okay?
Echizen: Just fine.
Inui: Echizen, who was that just now?
Echizen:… Who knows…
"…baka…"
Oishi: Are you really okay?!
"Nya! Oishi is worried!" Eiji glared at Ryoma. "Ochibi! Don't worry my Oishi!"
Echizen smirked. "Your Oishi? When did he become your Oishi, Kikumaru-sempai."
"First year," Eiji stated, oblivious the redness of Oishi's cheeks and the muffled laughter and mumbling around him.
Eiji: Let's call the police.
Echizen: I'm okay.
Tezuka: Alright. It's time for the next segment. Inui, I leave it to you.
Eiji: Why'd you step up?
"Saa, Tezuka, do you have stage fright? I can cure that." Fuji wrapped his arms around his buchou and placed his head on Tezuka's should who stiffened slightly.
"A—Aa… I'm fine…"
Fuji pouted. "You sure about that?"
"H—hai,"
Momo: I don't understand why you came up.
Eiji: Why's that?
Inui: Alright, let's begin our next segment. In the time before this concert, I've gathered various data on you all.
"Fsssh, when haven't you gathered data on us, Inui-sempai?"
A glare hit his glasses as he pushed them up. "When indeed?"
Inui: Here it is! The Big One! Gulp! What Inui Saw! Seigaku Regulars' Private Photo Tournament!
"STALKER!"
Inui laughed inwardly.
The crowd went wild.
Momo: Wow, long title.
Eiji: Yay! Sounds like fun!
Fuji: It does sound fun.
Inui: Who should it begin with? To begin, Fuji! I'll start with you!
Fuji sat up and smiled. "These are sure to be good."
Inui: Everyone… Don't you all want to see Fuji's sleeping face?
"…What?"
Fuji took a step forward, looking nervous.
Momo and Eiji: Sleeping face?
Eiji: I do! I do!
Inui: Oh, you do? Alright, the sleeping face!
A picture of Fuji sleeping in his bed, a smile on his face (of course), popped up on the screen.
Fuji: I'm a little embarrassed.
Eiji: He's sleeping!
Kaidoh: Sleeping.
Taka: How did you take this picture?
Fuji opened his eyes and looked at Inui. "How did you anyways."
"… I have my ways…"
Inui: And, Fuji waking.
A picture of Fuji sitting up in his bed looking at the camera appeared on screen.
"Did he notice the camera, nya?"
"Saa,"
Inui: He noticed the camera.
Fuji: I realized Inui's presence.
Inui: I was discovered.
Fuji smiled. "You're still too early to win against me."
"I wasn't playing against you Fuji."
"Saa,"
Inui: And the third one.
A picture of Fuji talking to his beloved cactus appeared on screen.
"Eh?"
"Fuji, you talk to your cactus?"
"Hai, it helps that cactus grow, knowing that it's loved."
Tezuka decided not to say anything.
Not that anyone actually expected him to.
Fuji: I like my cactus.
Inui: Yes, I see.
Momo: Wait a second! Does Fuji-sempai really live in a home like that? I thought it'd be messier.
Momo and Fuji stared at each other, a sweat drop on Momo's head.
Fuji rushed towards Momo. Taka, Eiji and Kaidoh blocked Fuji.
Momo: Oh, I'm sorry! That was rude!
Inui: Fuji!
Momo: I said too much.
Inui: There certainly was a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff there. Alright, next. The next one is yours Momoshiro.
Momo: It's me? Bring it on.
"These'll be great, they will."
"Mada mada dane."
Inui: Momoshiro, why didn't you challenge a human?
Momo blinked. "Eh?"
Inui: Take a look at this picture.
In the picture Momo was raising a train!
…. And losing!
"Why are you doing that, nya?"
"I don't know! I haven't done it. I haven't!
"Fsssh, don't talk to a sempai like that, baka!"
"Eh?! Do you wanna fight?!"
Momo: Oh, you mean this! I was racing a train.
Inui: And then while racing!
A picture of a train with a bunch of people popped up.
Momo: You were all on the train?
Eiji: Even Inui too!
Inui: You must be mistaken. That could not be me. And the outcome.
Momo: I lost.
The picture was of the train passing him… of course.
"Che, of course you lost Momo-sempai."
"That's no way to talk to you're sempai, it isn't!"
"That hurts Momo-sempai."
Kaidoh: That's a loss.
Eiji: Yeah, that would be impossible.
Momo: I thought I could win! But I lost.
Inui: You can't win against a train. And then Momoshiro's pained face.
It showed a picture of Momo in pain of course!
Kaidoh: See, you definitely peddle too hard.
Momo glared as everyone else laughed at the reminder of that scene.
Fuji: There's no way he'd make that face. Nope, no way.
Momo: I guess that's my real face.
"And this one isn't?"
Inui: I see, you're real face. And the next is… Kawamura.
Taka: Me?
Inui: Yes, you.
Fuji: Taka-san!
Taka: Alright then.
Inui: You're helpful to your father, aren't you?
"Of course he is, nya!"
It showed a picture of Taka helping at the shop.
Momo: Serving a costumer.
Taka: I was serving tea.
Fuji: Good job.
"Arigato Fuji,"
"You're welcome Taka-san!"
Inui: And then, the second.
Eiji: Oh, you're father!
Taka: Yeah, that's Oyaji!
Eiji: That's your father.
Momo: Wait a second. Who is with your father?
Inui: He seems familiar.
Momo: Who is that?
Inui: I wonder who it could be. And now the third!
Momo: A smile!
"That's a nice smile, that is!"
Eiji: It looks like he noticed the camera too!
Inui: Three days ago I visited you to eat.
Taka: That's when you took the pictures?
Eiji: You were discovered, right?
Inui: So they're not really candid photos then, are they?
Taka: When you notice the camera.
Inui: And the next will be Kaidoh.
Kaidoh: Yes.
Inui: It's you. But… Helplessness really makes you unhappy, I see.
"Fsssh,"
Inui: This picture! Let me narrate them. This is Kaidoh who found an old man carrying something heavy. And the second. And so you helped him, right?
It was a picture of a man on Kaidoh's back with a box on his back!
"That's sweet Kaidoh, nya!"
"That really is nice Kaidoh."
"Saa, you're actually a softy aren't you, Kaidoh?"
"That is 91 percent true."
Eiji: Oh, you're so nice.
Inui: However! The result is the third one! He didn't say thanks, that old man.
"Mean old man! Mean!"
"…Fsssh…"
Inui: He immediately forgot that you exist. Do you understand? And then the fourth.
Seigaku: Unfortunate!
It was a picture of Kaidoh looking sad.
"I don't like that guy, nya!"
"I don't like him either, I don't."
Oishi: It's alright. People who see this recognize your effort.
Kaidoh nodded: Thank you.
Inui: The mood seems to have gotten chilly, so, Kikumaru-kun's shots shall warm us up.
"Unya! It's my turn Oishi! My turn!"
Oishi grinned at his hyper partner. "I'm sure they'll be great Eiji!"
Inui: And the first, here we go!
It was of Eiji's face being blocked by a big ice cream! Yum!
"That looks so good, nya!"
"Eiji sempai, come with me and Echizen to get ice cream later!" Momo grinned.
"Okay, nya!"
Echizen smirked. "Sempai's treat."
"Eh?!"
Inui: And the second.
Eiji taking a bit of ice cream! Eiji and ice cream, how awesome.
Fuji: How cute.
He grinned. "Very cute Eiji."
The redhead held up a "v" sign. "Of course, nya!"
Inui: The third is even cuter!
Eiji's puffed up face as he eats a spoonful of ice cream!
Oishi: Is this from that time?
"…"
"Hmm?"
Eiji grinned at his partner.
Inui: Oishi, what was "that time"?
Oishi: No, its nothing.
Eiji placed a finger over his lips.
Oishi: It's nothing.
"Ii data,"
Inui: Whatever. The fourth one.
A picture of Eiji grinning at something opposite him in a booth.
Inui: Kikumaru, why are there two parfaits?
Eiji and Oishi blushed.
Eiji laughed and looked over at Oishi who grinned and turned away.
The crowed cheered as Fuji walked a step forward to see them both.
Fuji smiled slyly. "Saa, I think I know why, don't you Tezuka?"
Tezuka looked at the shorter boy.
Eiji placed a finger over his lips again and looked at Oishi. The egghead did the same.
The redhead shooed people away from looking at him as he and his partner continued to grin.
Eiji breathed deeply, feeling his face flush, but he didn't let go of Oishi.
Inui: Well, the next is Oishi. Yours… Oishi, your eyes are particularly frightening. Look at this picture!
Oishi was grinning at his fish tank! He loves his fish.
Inui: Frightening. And the second!
The dark haired boy was looking oddly at something in the tank.
Inui: What did you discover?
The bespectacled boy's pen was poised over his notebook.
Oishi hesitated.
Oishi: I think that day, in the tank, I'd found a tiny Eiji.
Said teen blinked. "You found a tiny me! Sugoi! I hope you take good care of me, nya!"
Oishi flushed.
"Saa, those two are so kawai… and oblivious. They need a push."
The crowd went wild as Eiji got a shocked, but happy, look on his face.
Inui: I see, I see. And that would explain your facial expression in the third. It's this!
The audience went wild once more as they saw a picture of Oishi kissing the fish tank! I wonder what that's about. ;P
Everyone was silent as they stared at the two blushing, oblivious idiots in the middle of the floor.
Fuji—being the sadist he was—said, "Oishi, you must really like Eiji to kiss a fish tank like that. It's so kawai! Maybe you should just kiss Eiji though, I'm sure it would be more pleasant."
Both boys melted to a puddle.
Eiji was laughing as both of them blushed.
Inui: What sort of relationship do you two have?
Eiji covered his face.
Oishi: You can't hide anything from Inui.
Inui: I already have a very good idea.
Oishi: Inui,
Inui: What is it?
Oishi: You've been talking about us, but I've researched you're private life!
Eiji solidified. "Oishi! Don't you turn into a stalker too! Nya!"
"I won't Eiji." He smiled softly.
Fuji shook his head. Does this mean their embarrassment is gone?
Inui: What?
Oishi: Wanna see?
Everyone applauded.
"There is a 98 percent chance that I won't like this." Inui stated, pushing up his glasses.
Kaidoh looked confused. "Why 98 sempai?"
"It all depends on the photos."
Fuji smiled and leaned against Tezuka. "Saa, I hope that you won't like them then. I'm having fun with everyone being so embarrassed and everything." He turned to his buchou suddenly as everyone sweat dropped, hand resting on his upper arm. "Tezuka, I hope we get to see photos of you!"
"…"
Inwardly, he was praying that Inui hadn't gotten any pictures of.
Oishi: Alright then, Inui's most enjoyable moments.
Fuji: Yup, of course.
Nearly everyone fell over as a picture of Inui cutting something up appeared on screen!
"No! Not that! Anything but that!"
Inui's brow twitched. How many times was this?
Inui: Oh no.
Oishi: We already understand. You were making "that".
"That! No!"
Oishi: The second here!
The picture was of Inui peering down into his experiment! Oh the horrors of what is happening at that moment are unbearable!
More than one person whimpered.
Inui:… It seems I made a mistake.
Oishi laughed: Oh, a mistake?
Inui: Yes, a mistake.
Oishi: And the photo that scares us.
"What scares us? What scares us, nya?!"
Oishi: The third one, here!
Eiji: What's going in?
The redhead and the violet eyed boy fell to the ground dramatically, as Ryoma, Oishi, Taka, and Kaidoh twitched slightly.
The acrobat popped up and grabbed a hold of Inui. "What's going in? What are you putting in that drink? What poison are you concocting this time Inui?!"
Momo appeared next to his sempai. "It'll kill us! It will!"
Eiji swooned and fell on his partner who was looking mildly worried. "Oishi! I don't want to die! I'm too young to die! Save me Oishi!"
This time it was Inui's turn to sweat drop. "The chances of you overreacting now are 100 percent."
Fuji was just looking on in sick amusement as Tezuka shook his head, thinking he must have done something wrong in a past life to deserve to be the captain of such a team.
Fudomine must have had it easy; they didn't have anyone especially crazy on their team.
All at once every person on the Fudomine team sneezed.
Echizen: That's suspicious!
Oishi: At this point I had to run away. Inui, what you are adding, please explain.
Inui: Inside the blender… Inside the blender, is our audience's love.
"…"
"Is that possible?"
"Saa, I wonder Taka-san."
Inui: But please listen! The Dream Juice I made for today, Kaidoh didn't drink it.
"My guinea pig didn't drink my Dream Juice." Inui looked at said "guinea pig".
Momo: I am sorry.
Fuji: How mean…
Kaidoh: I'm sorry.
Momo: I'd wanna drink that!
Eiji: I wanna drink!
Inui grinned. "I never thought I'd see the day when my teammates would willingly want drink my juice. There was only a two percent chance of that happening."
No one said anything.
Kaidoh: There's none left. Really none left.
Inui: No, none.
Kaidoh: Yes, I'm sorry.
Inui: I swallowed the rest!
Kaidoh: My remaining part?
Oishi: Let's drink juice afterwards!
"What's the chance of us actually drinking?" Momo asked.
Before Inui could speak, Eiji answered, "Zero, nya."
"Ano… Fuji will probably drink it."
Fuji gave a sweet smile. "Taka-san is right Inui, I'll drink it! Tezuka too, right Tezuka?"
Tezuka fought slightly to cross his arms, but Fuji was stronger than he looked and wouldn't even budge in letting go of the buchou's arm. "… I probably have something to do afterwards."
Fuji frowned. "Saa,"
Fuji: Let's drink.
Oishi: And the fourth, here! It's flooding out of the top!
They whimpered again.
Inui: I'm sorry.
Eiji: Chemistry! Chemistry!
Inui: The love overflowed!
The regulars laughed.
"That's kind of sweet, nya!"
"It is! It is!"
Oishi chuckled: I see.
Inui: I'm sorry.
Eiji: Though it's only bubbles, right?
…
Inui: And the next one… Tezuka.
Said boy sighed. Inui did get photos on him…
He let his guard down.
The tensai clapped like a little kid getting an extra large lollipop. "Yay!" he exclaimed childishly. "I get to see my Tezuka's pictures!" He grabbed onto the fifteen year old very, very possessively.
No one was brave enough to comment directly to him.
Eiji leaned over to Oishi. "Did he just say 'my Tezuka', nya?"
Oishi stared at his best friend who was looking a little scared at the short boy clinging to him. "Uh…" he didn't know what to say to that.
Inui: I could not find enough data on you.
He adjusted his glasses. "As expected,"
Fuji pouted.
Inui: So I visited you're mother, Tezuka Ayana-san.
"Nani?!" Everyone looked at their buchou in surprise. That was so out of character.
Fuji paid no attention to that and immediately brightened up. "Even better."
Inui: And received these photos from her! Here!
Tezuka was standing in front of a brick wall, looking at the camera.
The real Tezuka groaned slightly.
Fuji cuddled closer to him, moving Tezuka's arm to wrap around his waist. He placed his face near Tezuka's so that they were only inches apart and grinned "innocently". "You're so kawai, Tezuka! You should allow me to take your picture, I would treasure them forever."
He just couldn't resist that supposedly innocent smile. "…Aa…"
The three and a half year old (well, he was born February 29th) smiled a real one this time.
Momo: You're so young!
Kaidoh: I don't think he's changed much.
Tezuka: Wait a second, Inui.
Inui continued to grin: And a full picture of Tezuka!
No one bothered muffling their laughter at the ridiculous looking picture of Tezuka standing in front of a brick wall next to a bike in a blue shirt, white shorts, and socks pulled up.
The stoic boy's face turned pink.
Fuji clapped him on the shoulder. "Don't mind, don't mind, we all still like you even if you are a dork Tezuka."
No one else bothered to agree, all still to busy laughing at the poor boy's misery.
Tezuka made a silent vow to make them all run two hundred laps around the school and drink a whole pitcher of Inui Juice.
Taka: The backpack too, it's so small!
Momo: Why's he off to the right?
Tezuka was rubbing the bridge of his nose.
Inui: He wanted to include the bike in the photo too.
Fuji: That's so adorable.
He nodded with himself. "It really is Tezuka."
The brunette wondered why he felt so happy at this. "Arigato gozimasu."
Inui: And the third!
The laughter started up again as a picture of Tezuka sitting down, legs crossed, and holding up a tennis ball appeared on screen.
… Tezuka was really going to kill Inui.
Inui: What's with that pose?
Eiji: He's got a tennis ball!
Tezuka: Inui!
Inui: What is it?
Tezuka: You're no longer a regular!
… Inui pushed up his glasses. This was not in his data.
Inui looked shocked.
Tezuka: The trainer's jersey is yours forever.
"Saa, Tezuka, you must be very embarrassed. I think pink suits you Tezuka."
Tezuka then turned red.
"Red too,"
Inui: Damn it, the fourth photo!
And the author really can't make out this photo really well so she's not going to say anything about it.
Eiji: He's huge!
Inui: What a lonely backward look! What a lonely backward look.
Momo: Cut it out.
Tezuka: We're definitely done for the day.
Eiji: That's it?
Inui: And then the final, Echizen.
"Che, these better be good and not mortifying Inui-sempai."
Inui: You're a real practice geek, aren't you? Here we go!
It was a picture of Echizen practicing at his house.
Momo moved to sit beside his kouhai.
"Echizen, can't you do anything more interesting the practicing tennis? That isn't embarrassing, it isn't."
"I should hope it isn't Momo-sempai." He said, eyeing the arm Momo had placed around him.
Momo: Wow!
Inui: And the second, here!
It was another picture of Echizen practicing.
…
BORING!
"…"
Fuji: At his home, eh? Good kid.
Inui: And the third.
Yet another picture of Echizen practicing, but I'm guessing most figured that out.
Everyone sighed and Momo shook his friend. "Echizen! Do something interesting for once! You're boring! You are!"
"Yada!" Ryoma pushed his sempai, making him fall to the floor. He smirked. "Mada mada dane!"
Momo couldn't help but think that was cute.
Aw, how sweet?
Momo: Is there anything you do besides practicing?
Echizen: Inui-sempai, why did you take only one kind of photo?
The audience laughed.
"Because that's all you do, nya!"
Ryoma tugged his cap lower. "Che,"
Eiji: Really.
Inui: Wait a moment. It's because you don't do anything but practice.
"Truer words were never spoken! They weren't!"
Echizen:… Sunmason.
Momo: What was that?
Oishi: Oh, Echizen, you wanted to try it?
"Saa, I think we're talking about Ibu."
The actor playing Echizen laughed and turned away. Fuji hid him.
Inui: Echizen, it's okay, okay. I see.
Oishi: Inui, can I say something?
Inui: What is it?
Oishi: We members are grouping on the left side of the stage. Why don't we spread out a little?
Oishi turned red and looked at his teammate.
"Oishi! That's mean, nya!" But even as Eiji said this, he laughed.
Fuji: Right. Right.
Inui: Echizen, thank you for the good data.
Echizen: Don't worry about it.
"…che…"
Inui: And for all of you, I've prepared this.
The author also doesn't know how to read Japanese but it's some type of order thing… she thinks…
Oishi: What's this? Alright guys. This year too, let's all work hard!
Tezuka: Hai!
It was time for another song.