BP: Sorry for the late update. School has started and I was so busy with my schoolwork and CCA. Not even my weekends are spared.
The Echizen siblings were at home on Friday evening after dinner. It has been nearly a week since they gave the two seniors their answers. Nothing was said about the visit during tennis practice (Ryoma had to make Fuji-senpai keep quiet about it, since knowing Fuji, it will be out within the week. Ryoma thought he had scared him with his threats. Well, playing a protective big brother has its perks after all. It didn't help Fuji since Tezuka had actually backed him up, which he was thankful for), and life went on normally.
Alluka was playing with her favourite dollhouse, and Ryoma was watching TV nearby, occasionally flicking his eyes towards Alluka to watch her, monitoring her health status by her actions. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, she was arranging the miniature furniture (did it rhyme just now?) in various rooms of her dollhouse.
Just then, the phone at the hallway rang. The twins looked at each other, before Ryoma silently decided to get the phone, leaving Alluka to watch him leave the room curiously.
He picked up the phone.
"Hello?" he spoke into the phone.
"Echizen." said the voice on the other end.
Ryoma recognized the voice immediately. "Fuji-senpai? What do you want?" he frowned. Why would Fuji suddenly call him on a Friday night?
"I was wondering if you're free tomorrow, you see."
"Why? This had better be good." Ryoma sighed. "You're making me waste time talking to you instead of watching over my sister. If something happens to her and I can't reach her in time, I'm blaming you."
"Now, now, no need to be so grouchy." He could hear the amusement in his voice. "There's a new amusement park near the Tokyo District, and I was wondering if you would like to go with me?"
"And is anyone else going?" Ryoma asked evenly.
"Nope, just the two of us." Fuji replied.
Ryoma's heart skipped a beat. To go? With him? Just the two of them? He'd love to! He opened his mouth to say yes, but stopped. Who would take care of Alluka?
He hesitated before saying in his usual tone. "Sorry, I'm busy."
"Oh, you're free? That's great! I'll pick you up at 10!"
Wait, what? He said in clear Japanese that he's busy. Whatever made him think that he's free?
"Hey, I said-"
"Bye, Echizen! See you tomorrow!" With that, Fuji hung up the phone.
Ryoma stared at the phone long after Fuji hung up. What the heck? He sighed. It looked like he had no choice, and maybe Fuji had a plan to counter the problem of taking care of Alluka. Maybe. If worse comes to worst, he'll bring Alluka with him, whether Fuji-senpai likes it or not. Although a date with Fuji is something he may look forward to, leaving Alluka all alone and lonely in the house on weekends is not one thing he's going to do. It's already bad enough he left her alone at home when he's in school, but he'd be damned if he had to leave her alone on the weekends as well.
Alluka looked at him curiously when he returned from the hallway.
"Nobody important." Ryoma mumbled, sitting down and continued to watch TV.
Alluka simply nodded, before placing a miniature chair in one of the rooms of her dollhouse.
'Nobody important. Yeah right.' Alluka thought. 'He would just slam the phone if it's nobody important. I bet it's that Fuji guy that called him. Wonder what he wanted. Could it be…?' Alluka thought. She internally smirked before placing a bed in the dollhouse's bedroom. She clicked on the mini switch in the house, which turned on all the lights in the house. She sighed happily as she stared at the furniture she arranged all the rooms of her dollhouse, which is complete with a flower garden and swimming pool.
Just then, she heard laughter from the couch. She turned, frowning, to see what Ryoma was watching. It appeared he was watching Gaki No Tsukai, and apparently they have filmed the No Laughing High School batsu game already, and it appeared to be English class now, where they are watching the educational video to help them in their English. However, the reader that is supposed to teach them is not very good at English himself. The said guy in the video pronounced the word questions as "lotions", either accidentally or purposely. As the man complained on TV, watching himself participating in the game, "That is a completely different word!" he watched himself laugh, and get whacked by a bamboo sword. She got up, and sat down next to Ryoma, curious.
"Sunday….Sunday….can I just say the ones I know?" the man on the video asked.
"That's not how it works!" Ryoma commented.
Alluka shook her head as well.
"Do you know how to say Kayobi (Tuesday)?"
"Kayobi….kayo…ah….I never learnt it."
The Echizen twins looked at each other, half in disbelief, and half in amusement. What did he just say?
"I guess he's just trying to make them laugh. This is a No-Laughing game, after all."
Alluka nodded in agreement, as they settled down to watch the rest of the game.
Alluka paused, and pointed to the top part of the fridge, which is the freezer compartment
"You want to get some ice cream?" Ryoma enquired.
Alluka nodded.
"Chocolate or strawberry?"
Alluka thought for a while, frowning, before holding up three fingers. (Note: One finger for chocolate, two for strawberry and three for both)
"Both?" Alluka nodded.
While Ryoma got up to get the ice cream, Alluka slumped back down, sighing deeply.
'He really babies me too much.' Alluka thought grumpily. 'I'm not even sure if we are only 5 seconds apart.'
Ryoma later returned with two large bowls of ice cream, and handed one to Alluka. She noted he had decorated the ice cream with lots of sprinkles, chocolate chips, and chocolate syrup. She smiled and nodded her head, and they settled down to watch the rest of the No-Laughing Game.
They openly laughed at the farewell speech of the graduation ceremony. The "Pa Pe Pi Pu Po" speech and dance was especially hilarious, at least the participants get to enjoy the dance and laugh without any interruption, and only get whacked when the speech ended. However, one of the men was whacked three times (really hard too!), courtesy of the mastermind of the game, who is nicknamed the super sadist. The bamboo sword broke in the process.
"That was really funny." Ryoma chuckled, putting his empty bowl of ice cream on the table in front of them.
Alluka grinned, as she put down her spoon.
"We should get to bed. It's getting late." Ryoma said.
Alluka nodded, and they went up to their respective rooms to retire for the night.
The next day, Alluka woke Ryoma up, and brought him breakfast as usual after he has washed up. After that, she sent him up to change. Ryoma went in his room and realized Alluka has laid out clothes for him. Long-sleeved black shirt with beige coloured sleeves, and matching jeans. As he wore the clothes, he wondered why Alluka has laid out nice casual clothing today, until he doorbell rang. He heard Alluka open the door. Oh no! He recognized that voice. It's Fuji-senpai! He supressed a groan.
He heard someone coming up the stairs, and then a knock on his door. He assumed Alluka had come to get him, and opened the door, only to see the smiling face of Fuji.
"Hi, Echizen. Ready to go?" Fuji smiled.
"Y-You set this up!" Ryoma accused. "Now who the heck's gonna take care of Al-chan?"
"Now, now, calm down. That's why I had a Plan B." He indicated towards the living room, which Ryoma approached it warily, only to find Alluka and Tezuka sitting together chatting. Well, Tezuka is talking, Alluka is nodding and making gestures.
"I asked Tezuka to take care of her while you are out with me." Fuji explained.
"We'll be fine, Ryoma." Alluka smiled.
Ryoma thought for a moment, before saying, "Fine. Buchou, no matter how much I respect you, when I come back she better be alright, if I find that you insulted her in any way that hurt her, you'll be dead before you can say tennis." He glared at Tezuka, who gulped, before stalking out of the room, pausing to wave to Alluka, who waved happily at him. Fuji smiled as he followed Ryoma out of the house.
He sighed. This is like a double edged sword.
BP: Haha I had writer's block ever since I started school. Do review though, I know you guys are giving up on me, but of course I'm not discontinuing any of my stories and will update whenever I'm free.