A/N: This was slightly easier to write seeing how it's largely just one scene. Writing crack with a 'kind of' plot is weird. I kinda miss my chick-lit-ish As Fate. Well, 2 more chapters to go. Do let me know what you think of this chapter though! It's different from the gloating in the previous chapter, so I'm not too sure how it went. In other words? Review! -iirse
Standard reminders are that this includes Irresistible, Dirty and Silver, as per the brat's demands. Don't like, don't read :P There is a little language and, plentiful OOC-ness and ridiculousness. Brain damage may occur? :D
Disclaimer: Original names, characters and places don't belong to me. I don't own anything except the general ridiculous plot-less plot and OC(s), if any. Yadablah.
True Colors of the Rainbow
From the Perspective of Hiyoshi Wakashi: A Week in Hyotei Gakuen
for: shattered. illusions. (very belated) Merry Christmas (09), chibi.
Day Five: A Protective Shishido Friday
Dear Diary,
I have to say that things such as "the calm before the storm" do exist. Here I thought everything was going to be easy and then I find a wrench thrown into my plans with my observations today. It wasn't deliberate observation, really. I did hold to my word of not actively pursuing my gekyukujo plans, but Choutarou dragged me along when he went to play mediator and I ended up with these discoveries that aren't too promising for my mission.
We were coming out of Japanese History when some non-Regular came up to Choutarou and started babbling. I tuned out, of course. Non-Regulars aren't worth much attention, seeing how they aren't anyone to gekyukujo. In fact, I didn't realize Choutarou was freaking out until he tugged on my arm.
"Come on, Hiyoshi!"
I blindly followed, wondering just what was agitating Choutarou so much. Rarely did he get so agitated. Shishido-senpai being vulgar and rude still sparked the obligatory reprimand, but it didn't get him this worked up. The yelling match we walked into in one of the many outdoor eating spots (I later learned it was a favorite of Mukahi-senpai's when he was alone) was spectacular.
Mukahi-senpai's expression was… petulant. "I don't care, Jiroh. It's Yuushi's fault and that's that. He can grovel, and I'll reconsider talking to him. But beyond that, I. Don't. Care."
He actually did some movement to emphasize that had Jiroh-senpai goggling at him. "K-pop, Gakuto?" Then he drew a breath and appeared to focus again. "Fine, I'll get him to come and grovel as you so nicely put it. After you tell me the whole story."
"Damn it, Jiroh! Will you listen to me?" Shishido-senpai yelled. I had noticed him trying to interrupt out of the corner of my eye for a while now. Blonde and redhead shut up at that. "You'll get hurt, getting into their mess, damn it!"
Jiroh-senpai merely dimpled at him. "Ryou, I'll be fine! Oshitari won't hurt a hair on my head if he knows what's good for him."
"Which he obviously doesn't, since Gakuto is demanding for him to grovel." Shishido-senpai deadpanned. I have to admit that he had a point. Doubles 2 worked best together; for all that Oshitari-senpai could play singles, a spectator could tell his heart wasn't really in it. And when his heart was in it… The memory of his last singles game still makes me shake my head. He was completely out of control and substandard.
"I'm merely returning the favor." Jiroh-senpai retorted. "Besides, Gaku-chan is miserable without Oshitari, and I can't stand it when my friends are miserable! You should know that, Ryou." He gave Shishido-senpai a pointed look before cutting his eyes to Choutarou.
Doubles 1 blushed as though on cue. I have yet to decipher what exactly caused that.
Choutarou would have intervened except that Mukahi-senpai decided to take it upon himself reinstate himself into the argument. "I'm not miserable without Y-Oshitari, damn it! He can rot in the pits of hell for all I care. You don't have to interfere then! And Ryou will shut up at last."
"See! He said you didn't have to!" Shishido-senpai crowed in triumph.
"Shut up, Ryou." Jiroh-senpai snapped, and then turned to Mukahi-senpai with softer tone. "Now, Gaku-chan. What did you say to me when I said that about Kei-chan?"
"Shut up." Mukahi-senpai swatted at Jiroh-senpai.
Shishido-senpai managed to block it, and rubbed the sore spot that resulted on his forearm. "Damn it, Gakuto! That hurt! See what I mean when I say you'll get hurt, Jiroh?"
"Gakuto has been swatting at us like flies since forever, Ryou." Jiroh-senpai looked faintly exasperated. "I highly doubt it would have hurt me anymore than it had in the past."
Shishido-senpai, on the other hand, seemed to be getting more and more frustrated. It showed, too. "Fine, we're used to Gakuto's mood swings like a girl on PMS." He dodged the swat coming at him without looking, proving just how used to it he was. "But that's Gakuto and his violence. Oshitari's another story. Gakuto's used to it, maybe. Atobe can take it, but I don't know how nasty he'll get with you, Jiroh."
Choutarou chose then to intervene, before they went into another cycle of a warped three-way fight. "Shishido-san, I'm sure Jiroh-senpai knows what he is doing."
"Like hell he does." Shishido-senpai muttered.
"Besides, even if Oshitari-senpai isn't deterred by societal conventions, I'm sure that the knowledge that Atobe-buchou would dice him to pieces should he hurt Jiroh-senpai would preempt any harmful behavior." Choutarou continued blithely, as though Shishido-senpai hadn't spoken. He lowered his voice so only Shishido-senpai who he had pulled aside towards us could hear. "And you know that Mukahi-senpai secretly wants Jiroh-senpai to go ahead and make Oshitari-senpai sort of grovel just so they can make up. Jiroh-senpai is right that Mukahi-senpai is miserable with Doubles 2 incomplete, and you know it."
Shishido-senpai looked at a loss for an argument, seeing how Choutarou had effectively summarized his entire three-way fight and beat down all his points. Unfortunately, it seemed like he found one. "I want Gakuto and Oshitari to make up. Kami-sama knows he's insufferable when he's moping, and it's pissing me off. But not at the risk of Jiroh getting caught in the crossfire."
It was then that it struck me, and I slipped off to work off my shock after a quick nod to Choutarou to tell him I was leaving, seeing how he had things well in hand.
My revelation? Both supposed 'weak points' to Atobe-buchou and Oshitari-senpai were fastidiously protected by Shishido-senpai – for all that he masked it as annoyance and whatnot. It is surprising, to say the least. Shishido-senpai is the last person I'd have expected to be on protection detail, seeing how nasty his personality can get on a regular basis.
But one does have to bear in mind that he, Jiroh-senpai and Mukahi-senpai have known each other since elementary school. Maybe even earlier, given how some families like having their children 'socialize' with others of the same class and age from the moment they were born.
This is the wrench in my plans.
With Shishido-senpai obviously on protection detail, I will have to bypass him to gekyukujo the weak links to Atobe-buchou and Oshitari-senpai. Not to mention that Choutarou would probably get offended, seeing how attached he is to Shishido-senpai. They are Doubles 1, after all.
Gekyukujo… It is more difficult than I thought, then. Yesterday was indeed the calm before the storm.
I must go. Hahaue is demanding to inspect this. I shall contemplate how to get around this glitch while she preaches to the choir once more.