Hi there! I come back with a new story. Please enjoy…
DISCLAIMER: I do not own POT.
Rate: K+
Characters: E. Ryoma and M. Takeshi
Genre: Humor and Friendship
Ryoma's Flying Bicycle
Drabble Summary: "Momo senpai…" "What is it?" Can you teach me how to ride a bicycle?" Momo thought hard. What is he thinking now?
Let's break out into a run, feelin' the sky!
We did our best, We did the impossible, isn't it great?
We won't stop, blowing in the sky!
Let's go and pass straight through tomorrow!
~Junko Minagawa feat. Masaya Onosaka – Flying Bicycle
He opened the door one Sunday morning just to see his kouhai standing in front of their door. The boy was pinning his hat down as he said a simple 'uissu' to announced his presence at their residence.
"Echizen? What's up? Why are you here?" he asked spontaneously.
"Momo-senpai…"
He blinked twice, "What is it?"
The boy kicked some stones in front of him before saying his purpose, "can you… teach me how to ride a bicycle?"
"Eh?" he moved backwards. Did he hear him right? "Are you serious?"
Ryoma stared at him but he didn't say anything. The dunk smasher just stared back at him. He saw the boy sighed and turned around, "its okay if you don't want it, I'll ask Kawamura-senpai or Kamio-san instead."
Momo quickly grabbed his neckline and turned him around to face him again, "Alright, alright, I'll teach you. Mataku…" He said as he went to their backyard where his bicycle was, "You are the one asking me so can you please be kind to me at least."
"Domo." Ryoma shortly replied as he touched the brim of his hat and bowed.
Momo took his bicycle near the street tennis where they can practice. He taught him the basics that even an elementary kid could understand. Seriously, Ryoma should know how to ride a bicycle long ago; it was not that hard to ride it anyway. But then again, it was odd for his kouhai to have asked him for teachings.
"Ne, Echizen, why do want to ride the bike?" He asked his curiosity as the boy was leaning towards the handle and testing if he could get on with it.
The boy pinned his hat down before saying his words, "I think… it is interesting."
"Interesting?..." then a hint suddenly popped into his mind, "ahh! Ryuzaki-chan said that, isn't she? Riding a bicycle is fun that she wanted to ride on it one day."
He hit the spot. He saw a slight blush that ran into his kouhai's cheek. A smirk was drawn to his face;
"So young, so young."
"Urusai! Momo-senpai! Just let me know how to ride this damn thing!"
"hai hai," Momo shook his head as he walked closer to him, "Now step on this pedal and when you are on it, hop on the other side of the pedal and sit here," He instructed him as he tapped that part of the bicyle. The boy followed his orders; he was able to hop on the other side.
"Then stay still for a while for the balance; once you start pedaling, be sure that your eyes are focused straight on the road."
"Momo-senpai…"
"What is it?"
"I can't…"
"What do you mean, you can't?"
He narrowed his eyes as he looked at such a distance like he instructed him to do, "do you need me to say that out loud?"
Momo stared at his position and he understood him, he couldn't reach the chair because of his height. The laugh that he tried to hide came out from the top of his lungs, "So much of being Ochibi."
Ryoma looked at him, "Are you going to teach me or not?"
"Okay! Okay!" he said trying to refrain from laughing again, "It's okay, once you start pedaling, you can reach it. Just look ahead and do not concentrate on the handle, concentrate on the road."
He nodded. He tried to pedal. His first attempt was a failure. He landed near the bushes, the second was failed as well, he fell down on the ground, and the third wasn't any different, and so as fourth and fifth and so on.
"Mou! Why does your bicycle have to be big?!" Ryoma retorted while sitting on the ground beside the fallen bicycle.
"Hey! You can try again," Momo sweat dropped. It was pretty weird for a tennis prodigy to become an amateur when it came to riding a bicycle. He wanted to laugh but he was refraining it, "Come on stand up."
Ryoma ignored him as he stand up. "Can't believe how hard it is."
"What? Are you giving up already?" he challenged him.
The boy looked at him wearing his signature smirk, "whose going to give up? I haven't even started yet."
"That's the spirit. Go Echizen, for Ryuzaki-chan!"
"Uissu!"
He tried again.
…And again.
…And again.
And after a several attempts he managed to pedal the bike.
"Senpai, I did it," he said looking at him for a while, "I can ride a bike now."
"Baka! Keep your eyes on the road."
"Hai…"
xxx
Ryoma gulped when they went some place… in an inclined place to be exact.
Momo smirked, "You are thinking the same thing, I know."
"Are you serious?" he looked at him.
"Of course, now hop on my bicycle already." He instructed him once again.
Ryoma hesitantly took the handle but he didn't hop to the other side, "I-I don't think that this is a good idea."
"Man, are you a chicken? This is not that bad. Let's see how good you are at my teachings. Make my bicycle fly into the sky." He said as he animatedly pointed the sky with his index finger.
Ryoma sweat dropped, "bicycles don't fly, senpai no baka."
"Hai, hai, now go on." He ordered him again.
He sighed hard as he hopped on the other side. But before he could pedal the bike forward, Momo hopped on his back. He looked behind him, "Geh! S-senpai? W-what are you doing?!"
"LET'S FLY, ECHIZEN!" he shouted as he pointed his index finger at the sky once again while his other hand was on his shoulder.
He was off guarded. The wheels suddenly moved without their attention. It rolled down the lane very fast, even Momo grabbed on his shoulder hard. They screamed panicky while the bicycle was running really fast.
"THE BREAK! THE BREAK, ECHIZEN! PULL IT!" Momo shouted.
"IT DOESN'T WORK!" he shouted back.
"AAAHHHH!" they both shouted.
xxx
Oishi and Eiji were off to buy some grip tapes for their rackets when they heard a scream;
"AAAHHHH!"
"Eh i-is that Momo-chan and Echibi?" Eiji uttered when the strong wind passed them.
Oishi was shocked, "O-on a bike? Echizen's riding a bike?"
The golden pair looked at each other.
Kaidoh was running when a strong wind passed him and a shout could be heard.
"AAAHHHH!"
The viper stared in wonder as he blinked twice.
"I must be imagining things."
He shrugged and then he continued running.
Fuji and Inui met on the way and decided to go shopping for racket designs.
"AAAHHHH!"
"That's…" Fuji looked at the speeding bicycle as he recognized them.
Inui took out his notebook and wrote something in it, "Ii data."
Tomoka and Sakuno were on their way home after the morning shopping;
"AAAHHHH!-GOOD MORNING GIRLS!"
"E-eh? I-isn't that Momo-senpai… a-and Ryoma-kun?!" Sakuno was surprised when she recognized them.
"Wow! Sakuno. It seems that Ryoma-sama heard our conversation yesterday. Ryoma was riding a bicycle for you." Tomoka cheered on her.
She blushed on her friend's words, "T-that's impossible. H-he wouldn't do that for me. I-it must be something else."
They continued opposing their words as they went to their destination.
"AAAHHHH!"
The speeding bicycle continued running to an endless road. The boys wore panicky look on their faces. Momo seen the road ahead, it was a steel bar blocking their way horizontally.
"E-ECHIZEN! WATCH OUT FOR THAT-"
CLANK!
CLASH!
RUSSLE, RUSSLE,
SWOOSH!
BLING! BLING!
TOINK!
THUD!
The bicycle flew from the top in a slow motion before it landed on the ground but the passengers were nowhere to be found…
At least not on the ground…
Momo was hanging-stuck from a branch of a tree. He was lying on his stomach. Ryoma was the same with the other branch of the big tree a bit higher than him. No one dared to move.
Momo smiled curiously and looked at Ryoma, "Who said that bicycles doesn't fly?"
Ryoma looked back at him and retorted, "This isn't flying! This is falling! Idiot senpai…"
Momo laughed this time, "Yeah, right! Falling with style."
"Che…" he narrowed his eyes and looked away from him.
I will never ask you to teach me again.
~Owari~
Done! I don't know if it is cliché. But oh well… please judge it.
Momo last words were inspired by Buzz Lightyear's lines. I do not own Disney's toy story as well. I also don't own the English translations of the lyrics which were sang by Junko and Masaya.
Total Word Count: (1,442 words)
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Thanks…
~MitsukiJunko