Ugggghhhh... I updated the wrong file- sorry... The other one has some few things missing and all so... yeah... this chapter has all those missing edited parts... sorry... ughh... sorry...
Most of the content is the same, the lower part (Kido's POV), is the only real important thing added. If you decided to re-read it again, Thank you very much!
To those who gave reviews and decided to continue reading this story- Thank you very much! ( w ) Ughhh... The update's some filler or something 'cuz I got too busy to write- School stuffs like project and presentations... Anyway, I'll try to finish the next update faster-
Chapter Three: Prelude to the Drunken Party
Kido's POV:
Today's the third day of the one week agreement, actually it is also the second day we're living here again, back into this old house... After escaping from the mall, (Wait, why did we need to escape from the mall? Of course one of us gained too much attention by randomly running into a weird hobby store and got chased around by her fans.); Nee-san insisted that Kano and I should immediately move in or something because she misses us and all. Later on we plan to return to the base and get a few more things...
How's my Life?
Life has continued on comfortably. There are five of us in this old house now; Nee-san, Kano, Konoha, Hibiya and me. Nee-san's here because that's where she should really be; Konoha stays with us since he's lived here for the past two years and took good care of the house too; Hibiya's here because Hiyori invited him to spend his time here for the whole summer, and besides, if he returns to his folks now- he doesn't know if he won't get killed or something, and so he says.
Nee-san and I share the room just like when we were little- Kano can't join us anymore since he's a guy and not little, scratch that, he's still small not a kid anymore. Hibiya has a room for himself, and so does Konoha. There's some vacant room- basically that's where the shit dwells, two more fully-furnished guest rooms, Mom and Dad's room- The master bedroom, and lastly, the big laboratory which no one uses anymore.
The old base is still being used up until now. It houses three of the members of the Dan; Seto, Marry, and Ene. So basically, the Kisaragis stayed with their mom. Seto decided to be a working student and although we have a huge sum of money left by Dad, he wants to be independent and try to support himself and Marry, whom he already promised to marry.
He was able to propose in some way and he won't even tell! The next thing we knew, Marry had an engagement ring on her right hand and the two declared that they will tie the knot once Seto hits 20, that's still three years away... Ene stays there to make sure that nothing indecent happens between Seto and Marry andbefore the marriage itself occurs. Seto. Indecent? Those are two words that can never be together, heck, I never even thought that I'd end up using it in one sentence either! But, if it's Ene, there must be a reason why she combined the two in one sentence too, right?
"A male is a male, no matter how much you look at it- A guy will always have erotic thoughts and would want to do erotic things, no matter who they may be." She pointed as we were buying groceries for the Dan, or basically, everyone.
"C'mon Takane, it's SETO we're talking about!" Kano says with a smirk, as he added a few snacks to the cart which I immediately discarded, left alone the strawberry pudding. The shit grins.
"I know it is Seto and all... BUT- Seto is a G-U-Y." Ene replies, emphasizing that three-letter word...
"Mou, I have to agree with Takane-Sempai on this one..." Nee-san suddenly said, "Kousuke-kun is still a guy, of course he'll want Marry-chan...
"He even proposed long before he could ask her out on a date, for Pete's sake!" Ene adds, "-he just wants to do that!"
"Huh...?" Kano and I said at the same time, taking time to look at the two,
"Oh, c'mon! You two are already 17! You know what I mean!" Ene says with a pout,
"Yup!" Nee-san beams,
"What... do you mean, Takane? Nee-chan?" Kano asks hesitantly,
"It means what it means –Oh Konoha likes this, right?" Ene says as she lifted a pack of ready-to-eat kebabs, I shook my head and said that although he loves them, he kind of prefers the ones he sees being prepared or bought from the store already cooked and piping hot.
"Then we'll buy the ingredients and sticks! And later on find that old grill, and grill some kebabs ourselves!" Nee-san says ecstatically as she took a pack of barbeque sticks and various seasonings
"Eh? Why?"
"My despedita, or farewell party will be tomorrow or maybe even today- depending on what time and day Kousuke-kun will be available." She happily announced.
Shuuya pouts sadly and said, "Mou, it's like you've been here for only a three days-"
"She is-" I tried to cut in,
"Shush Kido- and now you're leaving us for real again?" Kano continues with a cheerless smile,
"Shuuya... not... that... cat-face..." Nee-san said as she covered her eyes dramatically with her favorite red scarf, and later on laughed, "C'mon, you guys know that I've already made this decision to start studying again... It was actually pretty nice of Dad to clear up my name before he really left..."
"We don't really know what he exactly did, especially that your... death got public and all, but... What's happened- happened. You should face the future and worry nothing at all 'cuz we're here to support your decision, ne, Kido?" Kano says, smiling widely,
"Of course- And it's for the best, right, Kano?" I say in agreement to him with a slight smile...
"Hm... I've been wondering, why is it that you two stopped calling each other by your first names?" Nee-san asks,
"Eh?" We both said in unison as we pondered over the question,
"'Cuz we sound cooler that way...?" Kano tries,
"E-VEN-SO! If it's around just us, I guess it's okay—righttttttt?" Nee-san points out,
"Yeah but-"
"Say it."
"But-"
"Say it." She demanded once again,
"Oh, c'mon-"
"It'll be just like when we were younger- Shuuya would always be like: Tsubomi-chwan~ and Tsubomi would always be like: Shuuya-kun!" Nee-san said as she reenacted not only our supposedly voice but even our supposedly facial expression.
"We didn't really use much honorifics to each other before." Kano and I deadpanned, to this Nee-san pouted much more.
"Mou! Fine then! Let's just hurry up and go to our base!" she says as she filled her basket with an angry load of meat and vegetables...
"Nee-chan, don't mix meat and veggies together, they'll smell bad..." Kano says as he separated the two.
Kano's POV:
"But, c'mon! It was so cute back then!" Nee-chan pleaded once more as we were walking the route to our old base. She was trying to persuade Kido to call me "Shuuya" again. I already raised my hands in defeat and started calling Kido 'Tsubomi' again, but Kido just won't bulge and call me 'Shuuya' once more! It's kind of disappointing, but; Oh weeeellll! It's kind of expected anyways~
To try and change the discussions, I tried raising another topic;
"Ne, Nee-chan, Tsubomi, Takane..." I say, adding a dramatical pause- as if to add some effect, "If we were to return and see Seto-kun and Marry-chan doing something indecent-"
"Kano. Don't you dare," Kido starts as she also gives me a warning glare, plus a calculating look!
"Eh?" I say, raising a brow, "Don't dare to do what? Tsubomi?" -challenging her. It gives off the desired effect; glinting eyes, twitching eyebrows, a forced smile, fumes coming out of the ears and an intimidating aura growing behind her! Pfft-
"Ma, ma- You Two!" Nee-chan intervenes with a pout, "And Shuuya! Stop making fun of Kousuke that way! Eh- the keys aren't here?" She says as she raises the the number '0', one of the numbers infront of the door in the middle of '1' and '7', some small compartment where we usually hide the keys,
"Ah! Seto and Marry must've returned already!" I say as I went infront of her and turned the knob, "See~ I wonder what they're doing~"
"Kano!"
"Shuuya!" Kido and Nee-chan said with a sigh and a forced smile respectively,
"Pfffffttt-" I act as if I was trying to muffle my laughs, showing that I'm amused with their expressions, and opened the door, revealing a Marry on top of a Seto on a couch. The door closed itself immediately before anything could settle up nicely and before the two individuals could notice our presence.
"K-KANO—YOU BASTARD!" Kido shouts as her fist dives into my stomach. The only thing I could do was express the pain I got from the impact. I haven't even slightly recovered when, Nee-chan says;
"Shuu-ya-kuuuuunnnnnn~" in a sing-song voice as she approaches me, "WHAT DID YOU DO?~" she says as she wraps her red scarf around my neck, strangling me without much effort-
"I-I... swear..." I tried saying, "...not... me..."
The only one in my companions who didn't react in a way that was so eager to kill me was, surprisingly- Takane. She was just looking at the door and doing nothing. Then she suddenly speaks,
"Is it just me or I hear Marry whimpering and calling out Seto's name...?" silence was our only answer to her question, "Goddamnit," she mutters barely under her breathe as she barges in the apartment.
"O-Oy!"
"Ah! Welcome back! Takane-san!" Seto greets Takane and us, Marry nods slightly and didn't dare to raise her head from her hands. She's clinging so much to Seto that it's so cute! But that's not what in hand today! They're still in such position...
"OI... What are you two doing, huh..." She says, approaching the two,
"S-s-s-s-s-s-s-stop!" Marry suddenly shrieks, "a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a... ...roch...ish der..." she whispers barely audibly,
"Huh? Marry- What are you... GYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! What the HECK! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFFF! GET IT FUCKING OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!" She suddenly started shouting and swiveling in a frantic motion,
"What happened...?" Konoha asks, suddenly appearing beside me,
"Eh? Konoha-kun?!" Nee-chan sputters, her eyes widening, suddenly she was beaming at her two sempais, Takane- clinging unto Konoha like crazy and Konoha keeping Takane steady... But, why is Takane trembling so much,
"Uhm... Ene, What's-" Kido starts,
She mumbles something impossible to hear,
"Hmm? Nani?" I ask cocking my head sideways,
"A-ahh..." Seto starts, "You see, there's this cockroach that's been bothering Marry for a while- it won't leave and I don't want to-"
"Kill it." Marry and Takane said at the same time,
"Eh...?" Seto states blankly
"Kill it before it lays eggs." Takane says with much... passion in her eyes, "GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she shrieks as the insect appeared from under her,
"Wakatta." Konoha says as he stomps his feet to the floor, missing the insect by an inch- it seems to have dodged!- and started flying... around... literally...
"Kyaaaaaaaaa!" Marry shouts, clinging much more to Seto when it flew to their direction,
"KILL IT! KILL IT!" Takane shouts hysterically, "KILL THAT BROWN 'FEELING BUTTERFLY' CREATURE NOWWWWWW!"
"Wakattemasu." Konoha says with more conviction and seriously did better in trying to kill the vermin,
"W-w-w-wait! I'll try asking the cockroach-san to leave politely-" Seto starts only to be cut by Marry,
"d-d-demo... you've been doing that ever since earlier!" Marry says as tears roll down to her cheeks,
"Kyaaaa!" Nee-chan shrieked when the frigging insect flew to our direction, for some reason my hand jolted to the lowest part of Kido's sleeves...
"srsly..." she mutters, "...still can't get over your fear for roaches..." and reenacts her famous facepalm as I gave her my trademark Cheshire grin...
Then the insect flew to us once more, this time exited the apartment- but Konoha still followed it. And with a smash of a newspaper-
-Kersplat.
Did he kill it? Lol, no, he missed the cockroach again by a millimeter and it somehow escaped...
Konoha turns to us and says, "I... created a crater on the concrete... again..."
"EHHH?!"
Kido's POV:
Later on we decided to gather everyone for-
"Eeeeeeehhhhhh?! Today's party is a farewell party?!" Momo exclaims, "But Ayano-chan! You just got here!"
"Well, that's because-"
"I know right, but she just won't listen!" Ene buts in, cutting off whatever Nee-san was trying to say,
"But I-" Nee-san tried explaining, but the two other girls kept agreeing that it was kind of unfair and that they were only able to be with Nee-san for a few matter of hours. The latter kept on gawking that the HikiNEET couldn't take it anymore and spoke,
"Ayano needs to learn everything she missed in two years with a time frame of only two months... It's probably for the best for her to use all of the free time she has to study before she enters her senior year... The least we could do is help her, you know..."
"Hai..." Momo and Ene says passively, Nee-san smiles and thanks Shintaro for covering her up. Then, she stands up,
"Yos! So that we could finally start eating- let's have a toast!" Nee-san says as she raises a fork... which pierces a... croissant.
"Nee-chan! You're doing it in the wrong way!" Kano says with a smirk as he took hold of the fork and removed the croissant, replacing it with some toasted bread,
"I stand by corrected." Nee-san with a nod.
"TO HELL WITH THIS! IT'S STILL WRONG! BAKA!" Shintaro shouts as he took the fork away from Nee-san. The others bursted into laughter.
"Eh... You don't need some toast when you invite everyone to 'have a toast'?! That's weird!" She exclaimed, surprised, as Shintaro crash-coursed her. And then she smiles, "Then is it okay for us to have a real one?"
"Huh?"
"Nee-chan~ I brought the wine~" Kano says as he returns, "You could've told me earlier about this! If you did- we won't need that diversion!"
"...Diversion?" I ask, dumbfounded. The others turned to Nee-san who's grinning just like the idiot.
"Let's have a toast!" She says, removing the cork casually and pouring the wine on some amazing pyramid of wine glasses that I failed to notice earlier on. Or maybe, that was that pyramid under some tarpaulin or cloth earlier on that Nee-san declared was a surprise,,,?
"That's nice- but the rest of us here are underage, genius." Ene snaps as Ayano started distributing the glasses to all of us,
"Does it matter? C'mon, it's just us- and we're just going to drink a little~" Nee-san says with a wink as she hands over Hibiya half a glass of wine. Hibiya, after being teased a little by Momo, gingerly took the cup and glared at it.
"Just... a little..." Shintaro says as he accepts the glass from Ayano, who beams happily as he did so. Makes me wonder if she placed anything in it- she probably didn't, right?
"Unless you beg for more~" Kano teases, making Shintaro flash an expression of disgustment. Nee-san gives Seto and Marry their own glasses, while Kano approaches me and motions to give me a glass,
"Would you rather drink half of it or are you gonna drink all of it?" He asks me, I simply shrugged and took the glass he was offering,
"I'll take it."
"Yos! Now- Let's have a toast in celebration for Seto and Marry's Engagement-" The aforesaid couple blushes a deep tad of red, making the party cheer for them, "-Momo-chan's album debut!" Momo smirked as we congratulate her and as Hibiya glowers at her. "-My return to this world and my return to school, and lastly-" She says stopping dramatically, winking at Shintaro's direction, making him realize what she's about to say and run towards her, "Shintaro and My Engagement Pwartttttyyyy-" Shintaro barely covered Nee-san's mouth when she dropped the bomb,
"Eh?"
"E-EHHHH?!" Momo, Hibiya and Ene exclaimed, Konoha was clapping along with Marry who was beaming happily, Seto looks dumfounded and later on smiles at the couple and joined the two in clapping, and I was smirking at the blushing couple who is now the center of the attraction.
Then I remembered, Kano. I immediately gazed to where he was a while ago, but he wasn't there anymore...
Suddenly there was confetti—everywhere,
"O-ME-DE-TOU!" Kano shouted as he continuously poured the confetti and strings and all from the highest peak of some ladder, he was smiling like crazy. The others laughed happily at his idiocy as I smiled...
'Smiled' I said... but really, it was forced...
What are... his true feelings about what just happened...?
Kano' POV:
I slowly sat up, feeling my head somehow rocking at the motion, that's when I noticed. I'm not 'me', I'm in Kido's body.
"Finally~ The sleeping Beauty awakens! Ne, ne, Tsubomi- are YOU having a hangover?" Kido says with a bow as she mocks my current state. My head hurts so bad that I scowled involuntarily.
"Stop acting like a princess Kano..." she whispers as she kissed my lips. I felt that tingling sensation again, this time longer and lingering. We immediately swapped bodies and before me was Kido's messed up image... My head still feels the same... So even I was having a hangover...
"Rubbing your temples will help reduce the feeling..." she suggests, I tried it and felt some relief, "Kano... do you remember anything that happened last night...?"
I pondered over the question for a little while, "I think we got drunk. That's all I can remember..." I answered,
"Ughh... Are you serious...?" she asks staring at me, she pinches my ear for a while, guess she can't punch since she feels unsteady.
"I am. Can't deceive you right now, my head hurts so much..."
"You're pretty honest today..." She says, releasing my poor ear, the pain helped in clearing my mind though, a little, "Ughhhh... too many shits are happening..." She says as she started rubbing her head too,
"Hmm... What happened...?" I say, relaxing on one of the chairs,
"First thing in the morning I woke up with a hangover and inside your body- after that I realized that we're sleeping in one room, my old room... I tried kissing you when you were still asleep, but we still didn't swap bodies... then you woke up and you know what happened..."
"Ahh... we must've kissed when we were drunk... So we can't swap bodies when the other person is asleep, huh..." I replied.
We must've kissed when we were drunk... We were sleeping side-by-side too... We swap bodies whenever we kiss... We got drunk and slept on the same bed and can't remember anything.
The realization seemed to have sunk into Kido as well. We checked ourselves and sighed with relief when we found out that we're fully clothed.
"Tsk. Takane must've taken advantage of us last night... and somehow got the two of us kiss..." I said scratching my head, making my bed head look worse.
"King's game. Most probably that game..." Kido says, glaring at the ceiling. I laugh a little and stopped when I realized... Kido has some marks on the area of her collar bone...
"What..." She asks groggily, looking down at herself, seeing what I'm seeing.
What the fuck happened last night...
"Ah! You guys are awake!" Marry says as she enters the room, Kido immediately zips up the track suit under her hoodie and muttered a greeting.
"Marry... do you remember what happened last night?" I ask slowly, Marry frowns and shakes her head,
"No one seems to remember!" she states, "But Ene-san was somehow able to record a video last night! She hid a camera and we've decided that once the two of you are awake, we'll watch! Ah! If you guys are okay now, let's go..." She lowers her head before she went away- but that isn't enough to cover the pint of pink in her face.
"What the fuck happened last night..."Kido wonders aloud as she covered her face with her two bare hands
"Why the fuck is there a video..."I brood over as I limped on the chair I'm sitting on...
# # # #
The Camera was no HIDDEN Camera... If anything, it was infront of the drunkards' plain sight and the whole video is being recorded by one.
"AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-" Hibiya laughs as he tumbles backward. Momo fainted earlier on because of laughing too hard... Shintaro desperately tried to hide his trembling figure behind a very small throw pillow. Takane can be said to be in a "similar" situation, except that she's trembling because she's laughing so much and because she's squeezing the content and cotton out of the poor pillow. Ayano was patting one of Shintaro's hands and had ridiculously wrapped her red muffler around her face- but, seriously, it was able to muffle her laughter from within the wrap. Konoha, as usual, wore a nonchalant expression but had a kebab dangling on his mouth. Kano had his mouth covered with duct tape and was strapped to a chair with a rope, but it is quite evident that he's laughing. Seto and Marry were laughing too, while Kido, is nowhere to be 'seen'.
In the screen, Shintaro and Kido were singing a duet. They were singing "Children Record"... they're good at it but... the way they're performing it is such out of character...
Shintaro, for some reason, looked so cool in the video- and damn, who would've thought that his shaky NEET voice could sound so good when he's singing? Also, his usual HikiNEET demeanor changed- as if he's possessed by some performer as he performs infront of the camera. Kido, as expected had a very cool voice, but unexpectedly, can act like an idol. She was winking, pointing her hand upwards, shaking her hips and all. Momo 'died' on that part.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH—OH MY GOD- OH MY GOD-" Takane covered her mouth as Konoha enters the scene. Everyone kept silent as Konoha in the video grabs a spoon and joined the two in singing. Everyone gaped at how good he was in singing. Though he still moves lazily as usual, his vocals aren't as lazy.
Kido disappears for a while and reappears after a few moments. With Kano.
"Eh?" Kano tuned in to the video more, and sat near Kido who finally reappeared in the living room too. The two both showed curiosity, knowing that it might explain something.
In the video, Kano looked really grumpy- glaring every now and then. He was pretty unrecognizable. Seems like liquor, like alcohol, could also bring that mask of his off.
"pfft-" Momo covered her lips before her laughter could fully escape.
With a groan Kano disappeared, or rather, left the camera's view. Kido pouted cutely and followed wherever he went.
"Pfft- that pout tho- Ack! sorry Kido..."
The next one to appear on the screen was Takane.
Color was drained from Takane's face, her laughter ceased, her mouth slowly curved into a small gape.
The Takane in the video was dancing like crazy and seriously, most of the others were not able to stop laughing. Basically Konoha was the only one still wearing a neutral expression. Later on Takane dragged the silent android infront of the camera and sang so off tune while Konoha just kept pumping his fist upward everytime Takane yells something like 'Yeah!' or whatever,
"Fuck-shit back-firing goddamn-" Takane muttered as she buried her face in her palm and s as the crowd off screen does the same too- laughing and cheering.
The so-so continued until Takane moved the camera's view- pointing it away from them, showing Ayano on Shintaro's lap kissing sloppily and passionately.
That caught a greater reaction from the crowd, Momo and Hibiya backed off from the screen with a huge exclamation point and question mark above them, Marry let out a fangirl shriek as Seto sat there with his mouth wide open, Takane was speechless, Konoha's kebabs finally reached the floor, Shintaro and Ayano were speechless and as red as the color red could be, Kano was quite silent and Kido went really red.
The pair finally took notice of the camera being pointed towards them. Ayano turned so red and quickly redrew herself from Shintaro. Shintaro groaned when Ayano moved away from him and glared at the camera pointed at them- Ignoring Ayano's protests, he pulled her into a deeper kiss- making everyone cheer wildly and louder.
"Pfffttt– Master– Aggressive aren't we~" Takane teases as she threw a pillow towards Shintaro, Shintaro was hit squarely in the face and wasn't even given enough screen time to react.
"King's Game! King's Game!" Two people shout from behind the camera- Hibiya and Momo...
"So we seriously did play that game..." Kido mutters nonchalantly as her palm reaches a spot in her forehead,
Someone else cheers, "Let's Play! Let's play! Let's Plaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" that someone was dragging someone too. Kano, who groans in pain.
Upon seeing Kido so lively, Ayano stood up– of course she's still under Shintaro's tight embrace and called everyone else to join. Kido dumps Kano beside her, Hibiya and Momo settles around the coffee table comfortably, Seto carries Marry in a bridal style to the center too, and after being able to set up the camera, Takane took a seat between Ayano and Konoha with a happy grin...
Kido's POV:
Before anything else could be seen, Ene turned off the TV set- making everyone growl-and then suddenly, everyone was moaning in pain...
Turns out that our hangover still hasn't ended... And god... It feels worse than how it felt earlier in the morning...
As I look around, I see that most of us are feeling it too. Kano has a neutral expression on, seems like his hangover is starting to affect him again. Hibiya was lying on the floor and agonizing on his headaches, I pity him because although he drank the least compared to all of us, he seems to be the one most affected by the hangover. Momo seemed somehow 'okay' but has a slight disgruntled expression on her face. Shintaro seems... a tad better than Hibiya. Nee-san was actually okay but was pretty worried about Shintaro, makes me want to wonder whether she really got drunk last night or not. Konoha was the only one who really is unaffected- but is 75% more passive than Takane, for the first time in her original form, seems to be the healthiest one in the room.
"...I anticipated something like this to happen..." Ene states with a facepalm, she mumbles things like; should've known, ugh- kids; people who don't know how to drink...
"But it's not like you know how to drink, right?" I deadpanned. Ene scowls at me- she doesn't scowl at me- And then I notice something else; I'm in Shintaro's body.
WHAT. THE FUCK. HAPPENED.
Yeah... sorry for my mistake... I didn't notice it until I read my copy again for some inspiration for the next chapter... I'm sorry... I was so sleepy that I went like 'Finally done. (project) What the heck- it's already 5 AM- Oh shit, my update- Oh fuck it I'm sleepy' and updated in a rush so that I could have some sleep...