Time of Sun and Rain
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Air Gear; I'm just using the characters
Chapter 7: A change in the weather
Saffir
Ikki wondered the halls of school before heading to the garden, over summer vacation, Kazu suggested the two of them could hang out in the garden to get away from people. Ikki always enjoyed the garden, but today was rather gloom due to the downpour of rain.
Ikki had taken the interior route to get to the garden so when he entered, Kazu was nowhere in sight. He looked around, walked to the courtyard, and saw Kazu dancing outside in the rain.
"Dude you're getting drenched." He called out but Kazu was in his own world
Kazu looked over "Rain is not the worst thing in the world Ikki, have you ever danced in it? Join me in the middle of this beautiful rain storm?"
Ikki just looked puzzled and completely lost. He walked out and joined his boyfriend. Ikki closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the rain falling, his heartbeat and just let himself go.
The two boys laughed and danced to the music of life, drenched and not caring. Spitfire, Ringo and Kanon stood on the second level of the inner garden and watched as the two danced in the rain. Spitfire took several pictures of the couple.
"Since when did you get into photography?" kanon asked
"Actually it's for Kazu; he's rarely in any of his pictures so I decided to get pictures of those two together when I could." He replied
"Hey Spitfire, what does Kazu do with all the photos he takes, cause I noticed his camera gets passed around our group a lot?" Ringo asked staring at the two still in the rain
"I believe he plans on making a slide show for this semesters Spring festival." He answered taking a candid of her and Kanon together.
"Hey guys you should come out here and dance with us." Kazu called out
"Yeah, you guys should join them" Spitfire remarked with a grin.
Ringo smiled at Kanon "come on" she pulled him down the stair case to join Kazu and Ikki
Spitfire smiled, he would have joined them if Simca was present, and someone could take pictures.
"You know you can join them" Mikan called from the lower courtyard standing next to Simca
"Come on babe" she said smiling "besides Mikan can take pictures"
Spitfire laughed 'Who said wishes can't come true?' he thought as he walked down to the two
Agito, Akito, Lind and Kururu had come up to the garden to find everyone else and saw everyone dancing in the rain. The twins looked at each other with devious looks and took off into the rain.
"Man, those two are crazy" Lind said wrapping his arm around Kururu
"Those two may be crazy, but then again so is our group of friends, let's dance" she dragged her boyfriend out to group their friends.
Mikan stood on the second level of the garden snapping pictures of everyone playing in the rain. She laughed to herself 'Sora I can believe you set up our group as a club your second year and got it approved.' She thought back to all that trouble Sora went through to get his group of friends certified as a performance club.
She remembered all the rehearsals they went through for the spring festivals; 'last year had to have been our largest group'
She snapped a few more pictures then pulled out her phone to text Sora telling him she was going to drop off Kazu's camera.
It was getting late when Ikki opened his eyes and saw that everyone had already left. The two of them were completely soaked; they had been dancing for about two hours now.
"Babe, we should be going" Ikki commented; "besides we're soaked. We should get home and dry off."
"Hmmm?" Kazu slowing opened his eyes, the two had been slow dancing and Kazu was just in his own world.
"Come on, let's go, my brothers are probably worried." Ikki held Kazu's hand and led him into the main building.
As they made their way to Ikki's car Ikki paused at the sight of his black Honda. The front driver-side tire was slashed and the passenger door was keyed.
Ikki started foaming and frothing, cursing up a storm, for a few seconds Kazu thought Ikki would attack him out of blind rage.
"Babe, let's change the tire go home." Kazu tried calming him down "how about I drive, when you're like this you're more than likely to get a ticket."
Ikki tossed his boyfriend the keys and hopped in his car muttering insults and curses.
Sora and Nike were in the lounge deep in homework when the front door slammed shut. The two looked up to see Ikki storm up the stairs without saying a word. Soon after Kazu walked through the door with a worried look on his face and took a seat in the lounge.
"Kaz, what's up with him?" Sora asked as he went back to his homework
"Someone fucked with the Honda." Kazu was ready for it this time as he was assaulted with a slew of incoherent questions, swears and raging fits of anger from the twins.
"When I find out who did this their ass is dead, NO ONE FUCKS WITH A MINAMI AND LIVES." Nike exclaimed
Kazu had a headache now and decided it would probably be best for him to go home tonight.
He headed upstairs to Ikki's room and knocked on the door. The silence in the room unnerved him so he walked in and saw Ikki passed out on his bed. He leaned over and kissed his sleeping love on the forehead. "I love you babe." He whispered as he left the room and headed back down stairs.
"Nike, I'm headed home tonight, you guys have my camera?" he asked peeking into the lounge
"Hey Kazu, here ya go." Kirik said handing him his camera "Don't worry about them, they'll be fine tomorrow, and don't worry about the car, Falco knows someone who can repaint the car."
Kazu nodded and left to go home.
Driving home, something bothered him, Kazu wasn't sure as to what exactly but that nagging feeling just wouldn't go away. Usually if he felt like this it was bad because it meant something was going to go very wrong.
Lind, Spitfire, and Kanon noticed how cold Ikki had been when he walked right passed them without saying a word. Simca and Kururu were shocked seeing how Ikki so quiet.
Kazu walked up and saw the confused looks on the guys face. "I guess Sora and Nike hadn't told you guys, but last week, someone slashed his tires and keyed his car."
Ringo grimaced; she remembered the last time Ikki was that upset, he was pissed and standoff-ish for days.
Mikan exhaled exasperated "Great it's going to be slightly awkward just like last time."
"I'll catch you guys at lunch in R231?" Kazu asked as he turned to catch up with Ikki
Lind nodded "see you then."
Nue walked up into the room with his lunch with a pissed off look on his face.
Mikan was getting ready to take a bit out of her sub sandwich when she saw Nue "Damn who took a shit in your lunch?"
Nue exploded "Some fucking new asshole who thinks he's god's gift to the fucking world. Had Professor Makagi not been there I would have kicked his bitch ass."
Kanon smirked; he hadn't seen Nue get worked up over anything, which meant this guy had to have really gotten under Nue's skin.
Kururu grimaced 'wow first Ikki, now Nue, I hope nothing else happens.'
Just then Spitfire and Simca walked in, both tense and fuming.
"I can't believe that fucking self absorbed prick."
"Babe had we met this guy on the street, I swear I would have killed him for that."
"Let me guess the new guy?" Kanon asked
"How did you know?" Spitfire asked
Ringo pointed over at Nue who was muttering swears and curses to himself.
Lind sipped his soda "so what's Forest Heights Academy's new resident asshole looks like?"
Nue replied "near six feet."
"Jet black hair medium length" Spitfire chimed
"Piercing blue eyes" Simca snidely remarked
"And he thinks he's the richest kid at this school with an ego to boot." The twins replied standing in the door way
Lind arched his eyebrow; he didn't like it when someone bothered his brothers to the point where they weren't themselves.
Ringo groaned, "Why do I get the feeling this is going to be a long year?"