A/N: Its time to PART-EH! I had trouble writing this for some reason, but I'm not complaining...

Chapter 6

7 Minutes of Heaven (or Hell)

(BGM: Summer Nights, by Lil Rob)

"Dad! Have you seen my lucky shoes?" Takuya asked from his room. He searched everywhere in it and couldn't find it since his room was a shambling mess.

"Well for one, if you cleaned your room you'd find it quicker and second your mom was talking something about cleaning out your throw away bin." Mr. Kanabara towered over his son as he gave him a lecture.

"You mean..." he looked at his father as if he'd speak through his eyes, "No!" Takuya said as if him and his father were speaking telepathically.

He ran down stairs to see where his mom was. She was in the kitchen as usual.

"Mom, do you know where my lucky shoes are?" he asked again.

"Weeeell... now that I think of it..." she started to recall the day in her head, "I did empty out your throw-away bin, and I think I saw a pair of shoes in there."

Takuya's eyes widen with horror. "Don't tell me you threw away my favorite lucky shoes!"

"Alright then. I wont tell you..."

...

"Are you ready to get your groove on?" Kouji's father joked with his son as he drove him to the party at JP's house.

"Lets just get this thing over with, already." Kouji grunted. He stared out the window in the passengers seat as he remembered to place his seat belt on, right after they past a police officer.

...

"Zoe dear, are you alright?" Mrs. Orimoto asked before she and her daughter left out the door.

"Of course mom..." Zoe paused, "I'm fine." yet she wasn't really sure on the inside.

Hopefully this last get together would clear things up in her head. They then left out the door with purses in their hands.

...

Kouichi was busy helping his mom tidy up the house before they left.

"So you and your friends are hosting a party?" she asked as she placed some mats in a closet.

"Yep." Kouichi replied as he swept the floor.

"Do you mind if I come?" she joked, but Kouichi took her seriously.

"Your kidding, right?" he dropped the broom.

"Of course I'm kidding. You didn't really think I wanted to go to a party that I wouldn't fit in, did you." she reassured him.

Kouichi was relieved.

"Thank goodness... that was close one."

...

"Mom!" Tommy moaned as his mom rubbed something off his face.

"I'm just trying to get all that fudge off you face that you left from eating that chocolate bar."

"Oh."

Meanwhile, Mr. Himi came in ready to drive his son off to his friends party.

"Well lets hurry dad. We'll be late."

"Not so fast, kiddo..." Tommy halted right in front of the door and turned around to face his parents. "First your mom and I want to give you some guidelines to follow."

Tommy gulped as he heard his parents out.

"We just want you to be careful and to have fun. We trust you'll have good judgment along with your friends." and with that thought the parents took him to the door only to be stopped by Yutaka (him again).

"That's it? You let him off that easy? Alone? No watching over him? Not even from a distance or a bush, trash can or something?" Yutaka was upset at the fact that his parents were letting Tommy stay at a party all by himself, when if it were him they would have to spy on him.

"As long as he has his cell phone he should be fine." his mother pointed out.

"This isn't fair. How come I can't go to any party by myself?" Yutaka asked.

"Because... your grounded and plus you kept coming home late at 1:00... a.m.!" Mr. Himi explained.

"I told you... I had car problems..."

"109 times? Yes we counted." Mrs. Himi revealed with a smile on her face.

Yutaka quickly shat up and sunk back in his seat.

"Can we go now?" Tommy insisted. He couldn't wait. Not even for a brother with a stuck up attitude.

...

"Come on mom. They'll be here any minute!" JP was pacing back and forth in the kitchen as he looked out the window every now and then to see if anyone arrived.

"Hold your horses. This would go a lot faster if you would help me you know!" JP's mom was busy cooking some of the food they would be eating tonight.

"Alright..." JP walked over to the oven to see if the cookies were ready. He carefully brought them out with his mittens and placed them in a large, elegant flat plate. He started to take one but his mom stopped him with her motherly senses.

"We want there to be enough for the guests, now." she reminded him.

"Alright..." JP sighed, "Let me go check to see if anyone is coming." he suggested as he walked out the kitchen door. Along the way he passed a plate of brownies.

Without looking, his mom told him, "PUT IT BACK!" without watching him take the brownie.

JP was amazed of how she knew he took one without looking. Maybe she had eyes behind her head... but he wasn't going to stick around to find out.

He passed his dad as he watched him set up the entertainment center.

"This darn technology!" his dad cursed, "You'd think they'd make this easier for a guy like me."

JP chuckled at his dad's remark and opened the door. His friends were right on time.

...

Takuya, Zoe, Kouji, Kouichi, and Tommy came along with the other delinquents, Robby, Jack, Rose, and Bobby. Their parents dropped them off and wished them well for the rest of the evening.

Kouji came out of the car dressed in a white ed hardy shirt, with a navy light hoodie jacket, and jeans. He still wore that same ol' bandana on his head. Takuya came out of his dad's car with his silly signature cap on his head, and his well known goggles around his neck. He wore a red t shirt and faded jeans. He also wore some D&G sunglasses with his notorious red and orange shoes.

"What's with the glasses, Taki? This isn't Hollywood." Kouji provoked.

"Maybe I just wanted to show up in style. How about that Mr!" Takuya snapped back.

"C'mon guys we just got here!" Zoe reasoned with the two. She was wearing a lavender top with tight faded jeans.

Both Kouji and Takuya looked away from each other and folded their arms at the same time in disgust of each other.

"Hey, Takuya..." Kouichi pointed at Takuya's shoes, " What's with your shoes? They look a bit dingy."

Takuya cleared his throat to explain himself.

"Well you see, I had to go dumpster diving... Turns out my mom 'accidentally' threw my shoes away."

The gang started laughing at such a story.

"What? Its the truth." he confirmed

Tommy was laughing the hardest out of all of them in his plaid shirt and pants that matched.

"Let me guess. Your mom dressed you?" JP teased Tommy out of nowhere. Tommy scrunched his face at JP.

"You know, one of these days, Tommy is going to grow taller than you and smack you in the face." Robby defended Tommy.

"Yeah right! If he can reach-" Tommy kicked JP in his shin, "OW!"

Everyone started laughing again.

"Way to go Tommy!" Jack cheered

"Its a start." Takuya high fived Tommy.

"OK. Point taken. Can we get this party started already." Kouji was rushing things.

Everyone looked at him and faced back at their crippled host to carry on with the rest of the night.

...

"Where is everybody?" Bobby asked. The place was vacant as they walked in. No one showed up.

"Are they here? Oh!" JP's mom poked her head out of the kitchen only to find that only JP's friends showed up.

"I guess that's it guys. WHO WANTS FRUIT PUNCH!?" JP paced into the kitchen to get drinks.

"I don't believe it. I set this entertainment area for nuthin." JP's dad stressed with a bunch of cords wrapped around him.

"What's the matter Mr. Shibayama?" Tommy came up from behind him.

"OH nothing its not like you can help me."

"You mean setting up the entertainment area?"

"Yeah..."

"Let me at it. I have a way with electronics."

Mr. Shibayama stepped aside and let Tommy work his magic.

...

Pretty soon Tommy had Guitar Hero: World Tour up and running, while Takuya laid on the couch with legs kicked in the air. He was watching Tommy play while eating a bowl of Dorito chips, lazily. Robby, Jack, and Bobby were busy fighting over changing and choosing the music, while Kouichi and Kouji were standing on guard to see if anyone else would show up. Zoe and Rose were helping Mrs. Shibayama finish cooking in the kitchen.

"See, JP. You could learn a thing or two from Zoe and Rose, here. They're actually helping me."

"That's because they're girls, Mom."

Zoe, Rose, and JP's mom laughed at JP and his stereotypical remark.

Suddenly Kouji and Kouichi burst through the door with updating news

"Get ready guys cause there's going to be big crowd tonight!"

...

(BGM: Don't Trust Me, by 3OH!3)

"And so I said, 'That's not a dog that's my cousin!" JP was talking to group of kids his age

as they all laughed at his dry sense of humor.

The place was packed tight while everyone danced and gather around friends. There was so many activities to do in JP's big house. They would have to thank his parents for getting them to share there house for the night with a bunch of strangers.

As people dance to the beat of the songs that played in a huddle, Takuya was leaning on the wall as if he was holding it up from falling over.

Kouichi walked by and could tell what was wrong with Takuya.

"Lets see. You have a drink in your hand, you're holding up the wall from falling, and your staring at the crowd of people. I'd say you really need a special someone to dance with."

I guess to prove him wrong, Takuya smirked as he handed him his cup for dramatic effect and walked towards someone in the crowd.

As if in slow motion, he walked pass a bunch of kids who were dancing wildly without rhythm. He then passed by a group of flabbergasted kids that were getting whooped by Tommy's awesome score in Guitar Hero as he played the drums with expertise. Then he passed by JP who was standing in his way. He pushed him out of the way with one hand without thinking twice about it.

He could see Zoe sitting down along with Rose, talking about girl stuff. She slowly turned her head in Takuya's direction and smiled a little. He was right next to her now and it was now or never.

"Uhm... Zoe..." he was cut off by some rude blonde girl that may have been Zoe's friend.

"Like OMAGOSH, ZOE! This is some parti you gah heah! Like realleh Zoe!"

What hell language is this?! Takuya thought as he bared to listen to this girl talk. He couldn't take it anymore.

"Uhm excuse me.." Takuya tried to speak but..

"OMAGOSH, BOI! Can't zou see I'm taukin to ma friend, Zoe?"

"Uh... yeeeeah... Zoe is this your friend?"

Zoe shook her head. She didn't know who this random girl was.

"Of course ya knah me! We sit nest to each otha in fifth periahd"

Takuya gave up as he stood there for another fifteen minutes to listen and wait for this girl to finish, which wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

...

"And sooo I was like yea and you were like uh-huh and like.... Oh ma gosh! Hey Roxana!" and just like that, the random girl left Zoe alone. Too bad Takuya already left.

He was upset as he stood near the table were all the food was at. People walked by as they took what ever they pleased. Kouji came up to the table for refreshments.

"So are you guarding the food from the food burglars?" Kouji mocked Takuya as he grabbed a large spoon to serve him some fruit punch.

"Uh yeah... didn't you hear? JP told me to keep you away from the food." Takuya played along with Kouji's sarcasm.

"So why are you standing her all by yourself? That's my role." Kouji mentioned after he took a sip from his cup. "Ooo... I think JP put something in this thing."

Takuya ignored his remark as he answered his first question. "I don't know... it seems hard for me to talk to Zoe, ya know." he really didn't. "Its like I'm cursed or something."

"Hah! Cursed! That's a good one." Kouji nearly choked." Look, if you really want to talk to Zoe so badly, your going to have to fight for it." Kouji advised.

Fight for what? Takuya thought.

"In fact, she's right over there. GO talk to her. Go on now!"

"I don't know. It seems like every time I get near her, I choke up or get scared. OR something interrupts us."

Kouji took another long sip from his drink and meditated on Takuya's theory.

"Look, quit making excuses! One of these days she's not going to be 'around' and your going to wish you fixed things between you before that day! So if I were you-" But your not Takuya thought, "- I go over there and straighten things out." He took another long sip. He was really enjoying what he was drinking.

"I think something is in your drink. You've never given me positive and encouraging advise before." Takuya was being speculative as he studied Kouji to see if he would croak.

"Well I think your right about this drink, but I think its worth helping you out in any way I can."

Could it be? Kouji becoming soft. Was he actually growing a heart and becoming sympathetic for once?

"Wow Kouji. I guess its nice to know that I have a friend like you-" Takuya complimented. Kouji quickly stopped drinking and turned his neck towards him.(*scratch vinyl record*)

"Uuuhm,Takuya... were not friends! What made you think that we were?" Kouji was returning to his former self again.

Takuya narrowed his eyes. How could he have fell for Kouji turning "sentimental". Either way he was still going to take his advice and go straighten things out with Zoe... right after he took a cup of that amazing fruit punch.

...

"Quick, I need an idea to spice things up. People are getting bored!" JP was alarmed of the amount of people who were starting to leave.

"You could host a karaoke contest." Kouichi suggested.

"Ok...k-a-r-o-k-e con-test" JP wrote that down on a notepad.

"You know, you could add few interesting things like-" Robby raised an empty plastic bottle and Jack exalted it like he was a hostess on a game show, "spin the bottle anyone?

JP liked the sound of it with a grin of approval.

"Whats going on?" Tommy came out of nowhere.

"Uh... nothing!" JP admitted as him and the rest of the guys hid the bottle and walked off into another private room.

"He shouldn't be exposed this kinda stuff." JP whispered to the other guys in a huddle.

"Well we invited him, remember?" Kouichi whispered back.

"Are you guys talking about me?" Tommy popped out of nowhere again. He startled them, especially JP.

"Ah, don't do that!"

...

Meanwhile, back with Takuya, Kouji watched as Takuya walked over to Zoe, a second attempt (if anyone's counting).

Takuya kept walking slowly; he would eventually get to her. He tried to avoid the kid with the missing teeth or that same random girl earlier, but he couldn't avoid the large group of kids that started dancing in front of him. He tried to get out of their way, but they continued to block his view of Zoe.

"Oh C'mon!" Takuya threw his hands in the air as a sign of surrender. He didn't think things would have to get so drastic, but they did.

"Desperate calls call for desperate measures!" he muttered as he started pushing his way through the mob of kids. Of course the kids were groaning and moaning, but Takuya didn't care. He had to see Zoe. But when he finally got through, Zoe was gone...

...

"So we've got karaoke. We've got spin the bottle... but there's something missing..." JP tapped his chin in deep thought.

"How 'bout we designate a room for... Seven Minutes of Heaven!" Bobby considered as he rubbed his hands together with a mischievous look on his face.

"That's wicked, Bobby. Wicked, but I like it." JP liked the sound of that idea too while he rubbed his chin.

Now all I need is Zoe, he thought.

"What is this 'Seven Minutes of Heaven' y'all speak of?" Tommy was still nearby listening to their conversation.

"Gees, Tommy... can't you see we're busy talking?" JP moaned.

"Yeah bro, shouldn't you be out there having fun?" Jack added.

"But I want to know!" Tommy looked like he was about to have a temper tantrum.

"Alright! We'll tell ya..." JP gave up, " When you get older."

Tommy didn't buy it but he went along with it anyways as he sat back down on a chair.

"Now all we need is a piece of paper and a sharpie marker." JP waited as they gave him the items.

...

JP found a walk-in closet they could use for the game. He carefully wrote and placed a paper on the door that read "Seven Minutes of Heaven".

"That should do it!" Kouichi admitted from behind JP's shoulder. JP winced.

"Could you back up? Your breath is kicking." JP suggested as Kouichi backed up, checking his breath to see if it was that bad.

JP started contemplating how he was going to get Zoe alone in the Seven Minutes of Heaven.

All I have to do is mislead her to the room as the restroom and then I'll break the knob once I accidentally enter and.... JP's facial expression was beaming mirthfully as he day dreamed the whole scheme.

"JP! What's wrong? Your face. Its glazed over!" Kouichi was bringing him back to reality.

"Yeah, shouldn't we be finding victims?" Robby advised.

"Uuuuuh... yeah! Let me go get something first..." JP lied as he ran off looking for Zoe. But before he left, he loosened the inside handle to the closet.

...

"Dang it! Not again!" Takuya grunted as he approached the same spot Zoe was a few minutes ago. "Why does this keep happening? Where did she even go?" he looked all over the place for her but couldn't find her.

...

In the meantime, Zoe was walking around searching for a restroom to get something out of her eye.

"Gosh, where's the a stupid restroom when you need it?" she stressed just before she saw JP.

"Oh, JP! Just the guy I'm looking for." Zoe said.

JP became ecstatic on the inside. Did you hear that? She's been looking for me!

"Are you ok?" she noticed he was becoming dazed.

"Oh sorry... what was it you needed."

"Where's the restroom? I got something in my eye I need to get out."

JP smirked. Things were going as planned.

"Its just around the corner. You can't miss it." JP pointed around the corner.

"Thanks." she walked off to go find this restroom.

JP clasped his hand in jubilee. He almost felt like he was in heaven already.

...

At the same time, Takuya was looking for the restroom so he could fix his hair that was ruined by the stupid kids that were intervening with his serious mission.

"Stupid kids. You'd think they're out to mess up my life." He walked over to where he saw Kouichi was walking away from a door. Too bad he didn't get to see Zoe who passed just right behind him.

...

As Zoe approached the first door she saw she gave it a shove and walked in. She couldn't tell what room she was entering since she was busy getting something out of her eyes. Just as the door closed, the note that was folded on the door, unfolded and revealed the gold words, "Seven Minutes of Heaven".

...

(Keep in mind all of this is happening almost at the same time)

Just as Zoe entered the room, Takuya saw Kouichi nearby.

"Hey, Kouichi. Do you know where the restroom is?"

Kouichi reminisced on how Takuya was having girl troubles with Zoe and figured this was his perfect chance.

"Um its right this way..." Kouichi lead Takuya by the arm to the door as he distracted him from looking at the note on the door.

"Here it is. Enjoy your stay!" Kouichi was sounding suspicious as he hurriedly tried to get Takuya in the room.

"Wait a minute!" Takuya declared. Did he catch onto Kouichi's scheme? Was he that transparent he thought.

"You said you didn't like like dull colors." he randomly pointed out about Kouichi's outfit.

"Oh... I guess I lied then, hah!" Kouichi was sweating bullets or more like torpedoes, 'cause he just wanted Takuya to go into the room already.

"You tricky you..." Takuya joked as he entered the room and closed the door, still facing Kouichi without looking at the note.

Kouichi watched with content and wiped his forehead while he mumbled to himself, as Takuya closed the door, "Mission accomplished!"

A/N: Wheew! That was a long chapter, I'll say. So hows that for a cliff hanger. Don't worry I'll explain the rest in the next chapter. Well I hoped you liked it so far, cause if you did then I did my job. If you didn't... then sue me lol (I'm just kidding don't do that). We'll have to see what happens in the next chapter. (Note: I updated my profile with the link to my AMV that I finally found.)

Will JP still get a chance in the Seven Minutes of Heaven with Zoe? Or will Takuya beat him to the punch? Will Kouichi's plan work or not? And how about Robby, Jack, Bobby, and Rose? Will they play a role in this? Will Kouji have another spontaneous moment? Will Tommy even get a line to say? And where is JP's parents this whole time? So many questions that need to be answered. Tune in next time and what ever you do, don't touch that remote... I mean mouse! ... I mean it!