Chapter 6: Road to Wasabi
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Nikki
You know you're really lonely and have like no friends when you plan your own surprise party. And that's exactly what Rudy did; he was nonstop reminding us for the past two weeks about the surprise party for himself. The dojo was covered in streamers and balloons and we were all helping set up.
"Hey, Jack you're here" I said as he walked into the dojo "I just wanted to talk to you before"
"You're late" Kim cut me off.
"Before everyone starts cutting me off, you know what never mind" I stormed off to go put up some streamers. If I kept getting cut off like that maybe I should just not bring it up. He obviously doesn't care enough to make time for it. Suddenly a hand crept out and turned off the lights. Oh boy here we go.
"He's coming" Rudy shouted.
I stood next to Jerry and Kim as Rudy walked out and turned on the lights "Surprise" We all said unenthusiastically
Rudy faked being surprise "How did you know it was my birthday? Are you guys trying to kill me?" he put on a cake hat "You'd better not have bought gifts. But if you did now would be the time to load me up"
Milton walked over to his locker and pulled out his gift and gave it to Rudy "This is from Jerry, Eddy, and me"
Rudy opened it "Joke a day toilet paper, get out. My cousin had this at his house. I literally laughed myself off the bowl. Thanks you guys. Now I don't want to turn this whole gift thing into a competition. But, Kim, it's time to top that gift"
Kim gave him her gift "I hope you like it Rudy"
Rudy opened it and gasped "A sign picture of bobby wasabi, my hero, my idol, the man I patterned my life after? 'To whom it may concern, Bobby Wasabi' that's me, I'm whom, I'm concerned" Rudy looked close to tears now. It was kind of awkward; he turned to me "What about you Nikki"
Jack whispered to me "Can I get in on your gift"
"It's not that type of gift" I whispered back, I smiled at Rudy "See I was totally going to go all out for your gift but then I realized" I pulled a 20 out of my pocket "Money would do just as well"
Rudy didn't look as happy as he did when he got the signed picture but, it was just as good "Sweet, now I can get a new seat cover for my toilet" He walked up to Jack after he shoved the money into his pocket. "All right, Jack. Rock my world"
"Yeah, Jack, I'm sure Rudy saved the best for last" Kim said sarcastically
"I mean it should be amazing if it's going to top yours" I said to Kim in the same tone.
"Well, you know, I was thinking everyone knows how much you love Bobby Wasabi. And I asked myself what could be better than a picture, right?"
"Only the man himself" Rudy answered, then he froze "Wait a minute. Are you saying what I think you're saying? You found a way to get Bobby Wasabi to come down here so I could meet him?"
"Yeah" Jack mouthed 'help me' as Rudy continued.
"The founder of this dojo, an international movie star, someone who hasn't been seen in public in 20 years is coming to see me" Rudy slowly sat down "I can't believe it."
I chuckled and shook her head "Neither can I Rudy, neither can I"
"Yeah, of course I got Bobby Wasabi to come see you Rudy" I mimicked Jack "What were you thinking" I sat down on the school's stairs as Jack paced back and forth.
"I don't know, the words just kept exploding out of me, it was like I had a bad case of liarrhea"
"Rudy's going to be devastated when he doesn't show, and you're never going to hear the end of it" I stood up in front of Jack.
"Bobby could show, my grandfather used to be his uncle, so I found his number and left him a message"
"And when he doesn't? Do you want a repeat of Rudy when he lost the name-the-baby-panda contest" I crossed my arms awaiting his answer.
"No, he pulled out his crying shoes. I know what I said was wrong. But who's crazy enough to believe that Bobby Wasabi is actually coming to our dojo"
Milton, Eddie, and Jerry came running down the steps with Jerry screaming "I can't believe Bobby Wasabi is actually coming to our dojo"
"Meet crazies 1, 2, and 3" I smiled sarcastically at jack before I turned to the others.
"Look, Jack, Bro, since bobby's coming for Rudy's birthday, we've" Jerry put his arms around Eddie and Milton's shoulder, "decided to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"
"We spent the whole night in Jerry's garage writing his comeback movie" Eddie said holding up the script.
I pulled Jack to the side away from them "You hear that Jerry, Milton, and Eddie spent all night in my garage writing a comeback movie for Bobby Wasabi, not to mention keeping me up all night"
"Look, sorry that it kept you up all night, but what's so bad about the movie? What if they wrote a really good movie?" Jack said walking back over.
"Oh, it's better than great. It's epic." Milton gloated "Bobby wasabi is the biggest Martial Arts action star in history."
"But now he'll battle with the most diabolical force he's faced" Eddie continued.
"It's half piranha. Half octopus" Milton unrolled the paper that had a picture of an octopus with piranha's on its tentacles. "It's pirhanapus!"
Jerry stood next to Jack and pulled me in; throwing an arm over my shoulder "8 tentacles" Jerry, Milton, and Eddie mimicked an octopus. "9 mouths" They pretended to eat something" he stopped suddenly and looked between Jack and me "And one bad attitude." Milton gave Jack the paper and he, Jerry and Eddie got in line and walked away pretending to be the pirhanapus.
"Now, you better hope Bobby comes" I told Jack before I walked to my next class.
Jack and I were walking around the hall, "So for the past week or so, you've been trying to tell me something"
"Yeah, but everyone keeps interrupting, anyways it doesn't matter anymore" I shrugged.
"Well, there's no one here so now's the perfect time" Jack said with a smile and stopped walking.
I took a deep breath and looked around "I just kiss thing when, Auther was here."
"Oh… that" Jack looked at the ground and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Yeah, it's just you'd get all jealous when he'd hit on me, and then you kissed me. What did it mean?"
"Listen the whole kiss thing it was spur of the moment you know-"
"But what did it mean?" I cut him off.
"And I really don't know what came over me, it was like I knew what was happening but it didn't register until afterwards"
"Jack!" I shouted. He stopped and looked at me and that's when I realized how close we were "What did it mean"
Jack looked at me for what seemed like forever before he closed the distance between us. But this kiss seemed different than the first it was longer and had a different feeling. "That's what it means" Jack said after he pulled away, he turned and kept walking away.
"Jack!" I called after him as I followed slowly
"What are you guys doing!?" Jack shouted and ran the other way without giving me a second glance.
When I reached them I heard Milton say "This Bobby Wasabi movie is tearing us apart"
I reluctantly walked over to Jack and pulled him aside "Jack, this is ridiculous you need t tell them the truth"
"yeah, you're right" he mumbled before he walked over to the guys "Guys, you remember how I said that Bobby Wasabi was coming down to our dojo" They all said yeah "Well the truth is-"
A guy came over to the table and took two of Jerry's falafel balls and kept walking, cutting off Jack. Jerry stood up "Hey, beef meats, who do you think you are"
The man stopped in front of the dojo and turned around; flipping his hair "I am…" he trailed off and flung a falafel ball onto the fork Jer was holding perfectly "Bobby Wasabi" he finished.
"No way" I mumbled as Bobby walked into the dojo.
I ran into the dojo following Jack and Jerry, "Rudy, Rudy, your birthday presents here" Jack shouted as we came into the dojo and over to Rudy. "It's Bobby Wasabi; you wanna know why he's here, because when I say I can deliver, what happens? Oh, yeah, that's right I deliver" he said the last part looking at me finally but, he quickly shifted so he was looking at Rudy.
"That's a great joke" Rudy laughed "You hire some big Betty to squeeze into a dress and wobble in saying he's Bobby Wasabi" By this point I was silently dying of laughter. "See, even Nikki's laughing"
"You don't think that I am Bobby Wasabi" Bobby mimicked the life size- give or take a few pounds- cut of himself.
"No, ma'am or sir I do not" now my laughs could be clearly heard, and Jack did as he always does and covered my mouth, while he mouthed for Rudy to stop.
"That's it" Bobby shouted causing me to stop laughing just enough to realize Jack was holding me; I quickly wriggled out of his grasp and took a few steps away. Bobby attacked Rudy, which he deflected easily and ended up flipping him.
"Rudy!" Jack shouted as we ran over "this is no joke that really is Bobby Wasabi"
Rudy stood there for a second before it finally clicked in his tiny little brain "Oh!" Jack, Rudy and I helped Bobby up "Mr. Wasabi I'm so sorry for the misunderstanding. Um, welcome to my dojo"
"This is not your dojo. This is my dojo. And you. Are. Fired" Bobby told Rudy emphasizing each word. Bobby flipped his hair and walked out.
"Say what?" I shrieked in a high pitch voice, looking at Rudy.
We were all walking down the hallway; we just got done telling Kim exactly what has happened not leaving out a single detail. And I swear I never would have told her if I'd known she wouldn't shut up about it.
"Nice birthday present, Jack. You got Rudy fired. Maybe next year you can give him a balloon and push him down the stairs"
I stopped and looked at Kim "Okay, how do I put this as nice as possible" I paused to pretend I was thinking "Shut up!" Kim stayed quiet and crossed her arms.
"The worst part is the Bobby Wasabi comeback movie is dead" Milton said and slumped down onto the bench "say goodbye to my Hollywood dream"
"What's going to happen to Rudy if he doesn't have a job" I asked leaning up against the lockers next to Jerry.
"He'll be fine. Guys like Rudy land on their feet. I wouldn't be surprised if he's already found a better job" Yeah, better than a karate sensei, I doubt that Jack.
After school we all went to go visit Rudy at his new job at… Reptile World, I fell so bad for him. Not only did he just get fired by his idol he has to work there of all places. We all came into the store, "Hey guys, what are you doing here?"
"We just came by to see how you're doing" Jack explained
"Yeah, don't worry about me I'm doing swell" he smiled but it dropped "Swell I tell ya" Rudy said before he ran out of the room crying, I think.
"Guys, this is my fault. Rudy's a third-degree black belt, and now he's scrubbing turtle butt. Bobby Wasabi took away his job and Bobby Wasabi is gonna give it back"
"You guys have fun doing that, I have to go do something" I lied as I walked out of Reptile world. And just like I expected but hoped I was wrong, Jack followed me out.
"Nikki, What are you doing. We have to get Rudy his job back" Jack grabbed my shoulder and stopped me.
"And I'm sure the 5 of you can do it without my help"
"But you have to come"
"Why. Why is it so important that I come" I turned to walk away when Jack didn't answer.
"Because" he grabbed my hand and turned me back to face him "I want you to come, I… need you to come"
"Jack, you can't keep doing this, you can't just say something really sweet and expect me to just do whatever you say. I'm not going to wait forever, so if you have something you want to say… say it"
Jack looked at me for a moment "I want you to come because… I like seeing you and hanging out with you. I like you"
I smiled "It is about time" I leaned in and gave him a short, sweet kiss "Now let's go get Rudy his job back.
That night we all went to Bobby's house, he ended up not answering and we had to sneak in thanks to Milton being smaller than a toothpick. When we first got into the actual house ninja's came and chased me, Jack and Kim t a really disturbing room. I really don't want to talk about it. Then they chased us into the main room where Bobby was with Jerry, Eddie and Milton. So I'm going to assume that they couldn't fight off one ninja. Bobby sent his ninja's to attack us, we ended up fighting off like a lot of ninjas, I was pretty badass if I do say so myself. Jack ended it by doing a flying dragon kick.
"That was attractive" I said smiling, Jack smirked at me but it went away when the ninjas got right back up and held us back.
'Wait, hold on. That was a perfect flying dragon kick" Bobby praised Jack and the ninja's let us go.
"My grandfather taught it to me"
"Well, I can't think that your grandfather would approve of you breaking into my house"
"No, but he would approve of me standing up for my sensei"
Bobby turned to Jack and raised an eyebrow "Your sensei called me a man lady"
"And it was hilarious" I chuckled. Bobby looked over his shoulder at me, I coughed "I mean bad"
"It was an honest mistake" Jack defended "You've got a ponytail and that thing you're wearing kinda looks like a dress"
Bobby walked away from Jack "It's a Kaftan. It's breathable, wrinkle-free, and great for those on the go days"
Jack eventually convinced Bobby to give Rudy his job back and he personally went to go see Rudy and tell him. It was kind of creepy because Bobby carried him in bridal style but nevertheless it was nice. We even helped with filming piranapus, and let's just things got a little out of hand.
A/N I know I said Jack and Nikki wouldn't get together until chapter 8 but I changed my mind. I thought this chapter turned out okay, near the end I didn't go into full detail. My mom was rushing me to get off the computer and I really needed to post this one cause I haven't in awhile. So yeah, Review tell me if you liked it.