AN: So it's been exactly A YEAR since I posted the first part of this fic. What on earth have I been doing? Nothing...
Anyway, it's Momo's birthday again so I thought I should finally continue this story since I had some of it written already.
I seriously hope I can write the last part soon, currently I'm planning to post it during this week. For the sake of Momo's birthday at least...
Enjoy! And happy birthday to Momo! And one more thing: I love his siblings but since I don't know their names, I didn't give them any. Sorry!
The internet was his saviour. All the information he needed was right there. How to go to the zoo, the admission, and even a map of the whole area. Just how long had it been since he had gone there? He couldn't remember anymore. It had definitely been years ago so it felt really good knowing he was going back there. After writing down all the needed information, the next thing was to check tomorrow's weather, just in case.
"Onii-san, what are you doing?" His little brother had sneakily shown up from nowhere.
"Nothing much," Momo replied clicking the mouse and staring at the screen full of different figures stating what the weather was going to be like on the following day in Tokyo.
"That's tomorrow's weather. Why are you looking at a site like that? And why on earth would you need to know about the weather?" His brother was peeking at the screen from behind him.
"Well..." But Momo didn't bother to finish. Everything should be fine. The next thing he would have to do was to check how much money he had. The admission was okay but when Kaidou had said "you'll pay" it could have meant other things, too. Like the train tickets and food and all that. At least Momo himself was interested in staying at the zoo for much longer than just an hour or two. Which meant he would certainly be eating at some point. So would he have to pay for Kaidou's share, too? He really should have expressed himself more accurately.
"Nii-san is up to something." Suddenly another voice came from behind him. Momo turned around to see his little sister standing right next to their brother.
"I think so too," the younger boy said nodding.
"Umh, no I'm not," Momo claimed even though it wasn't quite true.
"What was the other website you were looking at so closely just a while ago?" His sister's voice sounded rather demanding. Why were his little siblings so interested in what he was doing? Only a few moments ago they hadn't even been at home!
"Oh! Do you think onii-san has gone to look at the ecchi sites?" His brother pulled a shocked face turning to their sister.
"NO, I AM NOT!" Momo shouted trying to keep himself together. What was all this out of the blue? They never spoke about such things. And anyway, he wouldn't forgive anyone who thought he would be a pervert. Or such.
"So what was it then?" His sister wasn't giving up but looked at him suspiciously.
"Fine. Look. It's the zoo," Momo sighed clicking the tab on the browser making the website of the zoo appear on the screen.
"Now I get it!" She screamed so loud both of the brothers nearly jumped in the air.
"Get what?" Momo asked turning his head. Why did she have to sound so excited?
"Nii-san, nii-san, niiiiiiiiii-san! Nii-san has a date tomorrow!" The little girl frolicked grabbing her other brother by the hands and twirled around with him.
"HUH?" What the heck was that all about then, oi? The stupidest thing Momo had ever heard.
"Go for it, onii-san!" Even his brother went along with that foolish idea. And Momo could only watch them doing a silly dance right in front of him.
"I'm home! Oh children, what are you so happy about? What is happening?" Their mother shortly showed up in the living room.
"Nii-san has a date tomorrow, nii-san has a date, nii-san has a daaaaaaaaaaaaate!" The little girl's eyes glimmered as she shouted the same sentence over and over again. Oh why had it turned out like that? It was impossible for Momo to stop the nonsense anymore.
"Yeah, it seems onii-san has finally got the courage to ask a girl out!" And why was his brother so delighted about it, too? It was none of their business anyway! And it wasn't a girl... But he wasn't going to say that because the next thing was his mother coming to him after she had hugged her younger children.
"Takeshi, I'm so proud of you," she said and it looked a little like there were tears in the corners of her eyes even though she was smiling widely.
"Mom..." But he couldn't tell her the truth. Just looking at his mother and his siblings made him shut up. Nevertheless, there was still something he had to say about the situation. "It's not such a big deal anyway."
"But you're taking her to the zoo, nii-san!"
"Onii-san is pretty witty after all. Girls like that kind of stuff, ne?" The younger boy looked at their sister and she just nodded knowingly.
"You amaze me, Takeshi. A first date at the zoo... Makes me jealous." His mother pulled a sad face. "Not many guys would think of it as an option for a date. Sure, places like the cinema or the amusement park are okay, too, but the zoo!"
Okay. Now Momo had totally lost control of the situation. He had no idea of what was going on and why. Especially not the reason why his mother had gotten so sentimental. Had her first date been that bad or what? And on the other hand, it wasn't a date. Momo refused over and over again to think of it as a date. It was just two guys going to look at some animals and nothing more than that. Thus, quit the crap and the sooner the better. Please.
"But Takeshi!" It definitely wasn't good for Momo that people were shouting at him like that, nearly scaring him to death while he was trying to think about something seriously. If it was going to keep on going like that he wouldn't be able to go anywhere the next day. "Have you got... Well, of course you haven't. I know you well enough already. So wait a minute."
And what was his mother talking about now? She didn't say another word, but went to get her bag from where she had left it. Then she rummaged it until she managed to pick up her shabby wallet and eventually she put a note in Momo's hand.
"Mother," he sighed looking at the note totally dumbfounded by what had just happened.
"Treat her well. That should be enough for your first date." And she smiled so cheerfully it almost hurt Momo knowing it wasn't a real date. But at least now that "you'll pay" part was no longer a problem.
"Thanks," Momo managed to say folding the 10 thousand yen note in front of his siblings who had finally shut up as they were seemingly dumbstruck. Of course they all received their pocket-money but it was never that much at once.
"Will you give us money when we have our first date, too, mom?" the little boy asked before his sister could say a word.
Whatever they said and did after that didn't matter to Momo anymore. He was going to the zoo with Kaidou tomorrow and everything that was left to do was to call him.
Momo ascended the stairs and went to his own room to get at least some privacy. Their mother might be able to distract his siblings for a while so it was now or never. Momo sat on his bed and took his mobile phone from his pocket. When he looked for Kaidou's number, he wondered when was the last time he had even needed that number. But it must have been the right one even now, since it was for a landline phone. Back then Kaidou hadn't had a mobile and Momo wasn't certain if he had one now, either. Calling that number meant that any one of his family could answer. But they were in the same tennis team so they wouldn't think that something suspicious would be going on.
IT IS NOT A DATE, Momo yelled inwardly at himself trying push that ridiculous thought out of his mind.
Inhaling and exhaling a couple of times Momo pressed the button to dial the number. After a few beeps someone picked up the phone on the other end.
"Moshi moshi, Kaidou residence."
Ack! was the first word that Momo was about to blurt out but he managed to keep it to himself, and instead he said: "Hello, my name is Momoshiro and I'd like to talk to..."
For a fleeting moment he panicked but after a short pause he continued: "I wonder if Kaidou-kun is currently at home?"
"Ara. You must mean Kaoru then, am I right?" The female voice meant that it must have been Kaidou's mother.
"Yes," was everything Momo could say.
"He is at home. Wait a moment, I'll go and get him," the woman said and obviously left the receiver on a table.
A few moments passed by before the receiver was picked up and the familiar voice could be heard on the other end.
"What is it?"
"Hey, is that all you have to say, is that really all?" Momo complained sullenly.
"Hmph, I just want to know why you're calling me," Kaidou replied bluntly.
"Have you already forgotten?" Momo couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"So tell me then and stop beating around the bush already." It sounded very much like an order and Momo didn't like it at all. Why the hell did it have to be so hard to get along with that guy? Well, it was pretty obvious that Kaidou had hated his guts for quite a long time. But even so this wasn't about tennis or school or such things. This was about something they had decided to do together. Wasn't Kaidou able to accept his sincerity for once? Anyone else would have jumped for joy if Momo had taken them to the zoo and paid for everything, for fuck's sake!
"Fine," Momo said sharply trying to put away his anger and began to explain the plan he had made for the following day. On the other end he heard a grunt every now and then, so Kaidou must have been listening to what he was saying.
"And that's it." Eventually Momo finished his speech.
"You better make sure you wake up early," Kaidou said then as if to remind him about just how bad he was in the mornings.
"No problem," Momo said secretly knowing that his family just might take care of that part even if he couldn't. His mother wouldn't want him to be late and whatever his siblings were thinking...in fact he didn't even want to know. Nevertheless, he was still kind of excited about going to the zoo so he knew he would be able to whatever he needed to do. Even going there together with someone like Kaidou wouldn't bother him at all. What mattered the most was that he was going and he had someone to go with him. Period. And it honestly wasn't a date!
"Don't expect me to wait for you if you're too late," Kaidou warned him yet again.
"Won't you just quit it already?" Momo was getting even more annoyed by Kaidou's attitude. "Aren't you glad that you get to go where you want to go? Or are you really an ungrateful bastard all of a sudden, huh?"
"I wouldn't talk about gratefulness if I were you. You started this whole thing by yourself, idiot." It sounded pretty much like Kaidou was picking a fight with him on the phone. Had to have some nerve to do that.
"If you want to fight me so bad, let's do it tomorrow. But after we've been to the zoo," Momo announced and the little hiss on the other end must have meant that it had been accepted.
"Alright, that's all then. See you tomorrow morning, Mamushi," Momo said trying to end the call.
"Don't call me that, you moron," were the last words he heard before the sound of never-ending beeps. Well, it wouldn't have been Kaidou if he didn't have the nerve to hang up like that.
Anyway, now that it was all settled, it was about time to eat dinner, have a bath and hit the sack early enough that he could get at least some sleep before the painful awakening in the morning.
-to be continued-