Hi everyone! Here's Chapter 5 for Just Be Freinds! Gao, I was in the writing mood and ended up writing Chapters 5-7...so here they are. Sorry if the srory feels slow. I think by chapter 7 it'll finally seem like it's going somewhere. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter!
Chapter 5: Art Room
"Ryo-chan!"Yuu happily called out to her friend as she ran to the tennis courts. As she got closer to the courts, she didn't notice a stray tennis ball and slipped on it, falling face-first onto the ground.
"Tsukiyomi! Are you alright? You're not hurt anywhere right?" asked Oishi, running up to the small girl and helping her up
"No worries Oishi-sempai. I'm fine. Thank you for your concern" Yuu said laughing at herself. Ryoma went up to her and lightly hit the top of her head with his tennis racket, showing his disapproval of her clumsy behavior.
"She gets hurt but she laughs. She's so strange, maybe she really is from the Moon" said Momoshiro, walking up to the girl and ruffling her hair.
"Looks like Eiji was right in calling her the Moon Child." Said Fuji walking over to where they were.
"Speaking of Kikumaru-sempai, where is he? Is he sick?" asked Yuu curiously, looking around the tennis courts
"Sorry Tsuki-chan, it's my fault." Said Kawamura looking sad
"Kawamura hit a ball a little too hard and it flew out of the courts into some room with an open window. When Kikumaru-sempai saw the ball flying, he chased after it." Explained Momo
"He's been gone for a long time though. He should've been back by now" said Inui, joining in on the conversation
"You're right. I'm getting kind of worried. What if something happened to him?" asked Oishi, going into his protective mode
"I can go look for him." Offered Yuu, wanting to be helpful
"No way. Knowing how you are, you'll just get lost and then we'll have two people missing. You'll just end up getting in the way, especially since you've been even more spacey than usual today." stated Ryoma
"But Ryo-chan, I want to help. It'd be too much trouble to send someone else from the tennis club since that would disrupt your practice. I'm not in the club, so it won't disrupt any of your activities." Reasoned Yuu, looking at the guys for approval
"She has a good point. Tezuka?" said Inui. Everyone turned their attention to Tezuka, awaiting his answer
"I see no harm." Was his response and Yuu immediately went to hug him, earning a lot of shocked reactions from the tennis team. Unlike the others, Tezuka still kept his stoic look and merely stood there as the girl hugged him
"Thank you Tezuka-sempai! " said Yuu, letting go of the boy and running out of the courts, tripping slightly as she ran off
"Judging by how the ball was hit, there's an 87% chance it landed in the art room" called out Inui, loud enough for the girl to hear him. Yuu ran into the building and started wandering the halls near the art room looking for Kikumaru and the tennis ball.
"Now what do I do? I can't just leave it like this, nya. But I'm not an artist. I couldn't fix it even if I wanted" came a familiar voice. Yuu followed the sound and found Kikumaru in the art room.
"What's wrong Kikumaru-sempai?" asked Yuu coming into the room. She saw a squished lump of clay and a tennis ball next to it where Kikumaru was standing.
"Moon Child, the tennis ball hit this clay vase and knocked it off the pedestal. Now it's ruined and I don't know what to do." Cried Kikumaru, going over to Yuu and clinging to her
"Well, we can always just apologize. It was an accident after all." said Yuu trying to calm the older boy
"No, you don't get it! Read the name that's engraved on the bottom of the vase" replied Kukimaru, pointing to the name
"Amano Yuuya…um…who's that?" asked Yuu reading the name
"Only the scariest guy in school! He's scarier than Tezuka! He's a really artistic freak and doesn't like it when people mess with his art. He's going to kill me if he sees this!" replied Kikumaru, once again clinging to Yuu.
"Well, it looks like the clay is still damp, so maybe we can still fix it." Said Yuu poking the clay vase
"What do you mean?" asked Kikumaru looking at the girl with a confused face
"Clay is a really good art medium since you can mess up as many times as you want and still be able to fix it as long as you haven't baked it. Plus the clay is still damp, so all we need to put the pieces back together is some water." Replied Yuu smiling at the boy. She went over to the sink and filled up a cup from a nearby cabinet with some water and walked back over to where the vase was. She started mending the pieces back together, making sure that the vase stayed smooth even with her repairs
"What are you two doing?" asked Ryoma from the open art room door. Behind him were the other regulars from the tennis club
"O'Chibi! What are you doing here?" asked Kikumaru, surprised to see everyone
"You two were taking too long. "replied Ryoma bluntly "Yuu, what are you doing?" he asked shifting his focus on the girl
"There's a 100% chance that the tennis ball hit the vase Tsukiyomi is working on and a 88% chance the vase belongs to Amano Yuuya. If the vase belongs to Amano, then we have a 100% chance of getting into trouble with him." Said Inui, writing stuff onto his notebook
"That's right, the ball hit Amano's vase and it got broken, but the little Moon Child is fixing it." Replied Kikumaru, explaining the situation
"It would've been better if you'd left it the way it was." Said Ryoma walking up to Yuu and getting a closer look at the vase she was working on "Are you sure this thing is a vase? It looks more like a clump of clay a five year old would make."
"It's definitely a vase! It's just not done yet" said Yuu defending her repairs
"It's a vase? It looks more like a hamburger" said Momoshiro, eyeing the clay
"Hamburger? Are you blind? It looks like a cat" said Kaidoh looking at the clay creation
"I thought it was a lumpy cactus" added Fuji with a bright smile
"If you squint it kind of looks like a dolphin" said Oishi squinting
"Looks like some sushi to me" Kawamura added quietly
"Judging by the shape and size, it looks more like a bird bath" said Inui inspecting the clay
"I see a turtle, nya" Kikumaru added happily
"It still looks like a clump of clay to me" said Ryoma
"What's going on here?" came a voice from outside the room. Everyone turned their attention to the source of the sound and saw a tall raven-haired boy with pale skin and dark grey eyes. He had medium-short hair which was parted to the left, with his bangs on the left side being longer than the ones on his right. He was carrying a stack of papers along with Ringo who was next to him.
"It's Amano!" yelled Kikumaru, hiding behind Oishi like a scared kitten
"I'm really sorry! I destroyed your vase, but I promise I'll fix it." Said Yuu bowing to the boy
"You destroyed my vase?" asked Amano walking over to the clay
"Yes. I'm really sorry" replied Yuu
"And you tried to fix it?" Amano asked, looking at what once was his vase
"Yes, I'm really sorry though. I think I might've ruined it more." Said Yuu sadly. At her comment, Amano started to laugh, which made everyone stare at his reaction
"Why are you laughing? The Moon Child tried really hard to fix your vase" said Kikumaru getting annoyed. Amano stopped laughing and glared at Kikumaru for a brief moment before returning his gaze to the clay
"Sorry, it's just that I wasn't feeling anything for that vase and was going to scrap it anyways. I'm impressed though. Anyone else would have just left it like that, but you actually tried fixing it. Though it kind of looks like a hamburger now" said Amano poking the clay
"Ha! Told you Mamushi!" smiled Momoshiro, pointing at Kaidoh who only have a low growl as a response
"Really? I don't see it" said Ringo coming closer to the clay.
"If you don't mind little Moon Child, I'd like to keep this and continue working on it" said Amano
"Of course you can! It's your vase after all…well it was a vase" said Yuu poking the clay
"Yay! Everything is settled!" yelled Kikumaru happily jumping for joy
"Not so fast Eiji, you still have tennis practice to make up" said Oishi, bursting his friend's happy thoughts
"Awww, but Oishi" whined Kikumaru giving his friend a sad look
"That's right, Kikumaru-sempai skipped practice so he needs to make it up" said Momo
"That' not fair! I didn't skip on purpose, I was getting the ball" said Kikumaru defending himself
"Eiji, I've made a new type of juice for a special occasion like this. How about you try it?" asked Inui holding a cup of some suspicious-looking, odd-colored liquid from who knows where
"No thanks! I'd rather run Tezuka's insane amount of laps" yelled the red-head
"Then how about 30 laps to make up the time you were gone, 20 laps for disturbing practice, 10 laps for getting Tsukiyomi-kun involved, 20 laps for making us come over to get you, and 20 laps that you owe me since last time" said Tezuka calmly
"That's too much buchou! Moon Child, help me" cried Kikumaru clinging to the small girl
"Mada mada dane" was all Ryoma said as he walked away from the scene before him
That's the end of chapter 5. I hope you liked it! Sorry if I bored anyone with this, it'll get better soon...I think.